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South Wellington Heritage Day Sep. 18th 2016

South Wellington Heritage Day

Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016, Noon – 4 p.m.

At the South Wellington Community Hall 1555 Morden Road 

All past and present residents are cordially invited

A time for former residents to get reacquainted.  Bring along any memorabilia, snapshots, etc. to share for the day.  Enjoy an afternoon of reminiscing at our biennial gathering.  For new residents it’s a great chance to learn about your community, visit with your neighbours and enjoy all of the historical displays.

Light refreshments will be served.

We would be very grateful if you could help us by passing our invitation along to the rest of your family or your neighbours in the event that they have not been included in our mailing list.

** New events this year including:  historical bus tour of the South Wellington area & kids activities.**

South Wellington Stories from the Past on sale by The South Wellington Historical Committee
Sponsored by the South Wellington Heritage Committee: Susan Toth, Gary Hein, Larry Rintala, Barb Ehmig, Doug Catley, Judy Blazina, Lynette TilleyFor additional information contact Lynette Tilley, Phone: 250 755 7884 or email lktilley@hotmail.com

Events, Society News

2016 Raffle Winners

Following are the winners of our 2016 raffle. We would like to thank all the prize donors, the community at large for supporting this fund-raising event, those that sold tickets in their place of business and our volunteers.

1st prize      Tom Millard                     Ticket #894

2nd prize     Bill Verchere                   Ticket #803

3rd prize     Dave Lamontagne        Ticket #462

4th prize     Bonnie Peerens              Ticket #923

5th prize    Julia Armstrong               Ticket # 41

 

Events, People, Society News

Sad to Report

The Ladysmith & District HIstorical Society is sad to announce that it lost two volunteer members in the Society, both on July 23

Long time member Ruth Weeks passed away suddenly at home joining her husband Ken. Both were active members in the Society.

Museum volunteer Taher Rampuri never recovered from the surgery he wanted in order to feel better and stronger according to his wife, Shamin who is also a volunteer at the museum.

LDHS wishes to extend the sympathy of all members to the families of Ruth and Taher.

 

Events, Website Additions

Home Town Tourist History

Amongst the many happenings taking place this weekend (June 18 & 19), for the Home Town Tourist campaign sponsored by Take 5 magazine, history buffs will be especially interested in the following two events.

The museum is located at 721 First Avenue and the Legion is at 621 First Avenue so they are only a block apart.

Museum-Participant

waterfront-participant

Events, Website Additions

March additions to website

  • Added a link to the Cobble Hill Historical Society under Historical links on the left side of the page. An interesting and well done historical website. Check out the map section which includes a 1925 map of the south Cowichan area as well as their pioneer landowner map which shows the holdings of the areas pioneers usually acquired by pre-emption. Click on the link below to go there directly:

cobblehillhistory.org/maps

  • Added a gallery on this website of the 1911/14 fire maps for the Town of Ladysmith. Click on any of the maps on the gallery page to bring up a larger version of that map. You can then use the zoom feature to enlarge the map further. Click on the link below to go there directly.

https://www.ladysmithhistoricalsociety.ca/maps-media/mapping/early-fire-maps/

Events

South Wellington Heritage Day Invitation

Due to the fire which occurred in the South Wellington Community Hall on November 3, 2014 this year’s South Wellington  Heritage Day event will not be scheduled in May as in previous years past.

This years event will take place on Sunday, September 18, 2016  from Noon to 4 p.m. allowing time for necessary repairs to the fire damage in the hall.

All past and present residents are cordially invited

A time for former residents to get acquainted. Bring along any memorabilia, snapshots, etc. to share for the day. Enjoy an afternoon of reminiscing at the biennial gathering. For new residents it’s a great chance to learn about your community, visit with your neighbours and enjoy all of the historical displays.

Light refreshments will be served.

Events

Community waterfront event planning meeting

PLEASE JOIN US

For a Planning Meeting for a Marine Garage Sale and Lunch Event

When: Sunday, March 6, 2016 2:30 PM
Where: LMS Welcome Centre, Oyster Café
Contact: Shirley Blackstaff 250-245-3075 email vimarmot@shaw.ca

Purpose:  To have a waterfront community Garage Sale & Lunch event to promote friendship, family fun, societal collaboration and an awareness of the heritage park preservation project.

  • LMS members have come up with the idea of a Marine focused Garage Sale & Lunch event to promote friendship, family fun, societal collaboration and an awareness of the heritage park preservation project.
  • LDHS – Heritage Preservation committee is keen to share a current Heritage Preservation project in the waterfront park where community volunteers will be restoring the large outside forest industry historical artifacts like the Steam Locomotive #11, the Humdirgen, Steam Tube Tumbler; enhancing the park and refurbishing the Locomotive Shop and First Aid Shed. This group may have a table to sell a few items and encourage participation in the heritage project.
  • Rotary may be interested in setting up their tent and barbeques and putting on a Lunch.
  • Other individuals or groups may join us to contribute to the fun with ideas like a craft for children, games for teens, etc.

The purpose of the planning meeting on March 6 is to:

  • Set up a working committee
  • Fill in a Contact Sheet
  • Pick a date (tentatively APRIL 30, SATURDAY. 9 AM – 4 PM?)
  • Decide who will look after Advertising, Promotion, Food
  • Letter to Town of Ladysmith
  • Decide on Financial matters
  • Setting up the Site
  • Clean up after the event
  • Other ideas or suggestions

Thanks Mary Dolan & Shirley Blackstaff