Spring is finally sticking around. This week we've got one of the best Italian spots in Bruce County, a 92-acre Icelandic sheep farm you can actually visit, and a karaoke night in Chesley with your name on the sign-up sheet. Let's get into it.
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Top 3 this week
Here are our 3 favourite events happening this week
Chesley Ag Society Spring Karaoke — Friday, April 17 | 8 PM-Midnight | Chesley Community Centre
The Chesley Ag Society is throwing a karaoke night with Wyatt Sweiger running the mic. Grab a drink, pick your song, and give the stage the Don't Stop Believin' it deserves. Low stakes, lots of fun, and a good excuse to get out.
Comic Book Crime: Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre — Saturday, April 18 | 6 PM-10 PM | Normanby Arena Hall, Ayton
Dinner and a whodunit in one night. Follow the clues, eyeball the suspects, and figure out who did it before dessert hits the table. The kind of night you'll still be replaying at work on Monday.
Lion's Head Farmers' Market — Spring Market — Sunday, April 19 | 10 AM-2 PM | BPDS School (55 Moore St.), Lion's Head
Market season is officially back on the Peninsula. Local vendors, fresh finds, and a room full of makers who've been waiting all winter to show
up. First market of the year always has the best energy. Worth the drive.
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Calendar Girls — Bijou Theatre, Chesley
The Chesley Community Players are staging Calendar Girls, and this one's worth making plans for.
It's the British comedy-drama (based on a true story) about a group of middle-aged women in the Women's Institute who pose for a nude calendar to raise money for leukemia research. Funny, heartfelt, and a proven crowd-pleaser wherever it's been staged.
Running at the Bijou Theatre in downtown Chesley. Evening shows May 1, 2, 8, and 9 at 7:30pm (doors at 7). Matinees May 3 and 10 at 2pm (doors at 1:30). A portion of the proceeds go to local hospices in Owen Sound and Walkerton.
Tickets are available at Team Tedford ReMax in Chesley (10am-4pm), on Eventbrite, or at the door on show days.
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Foodie Flash
Ristorante Rosina — Port Elgin
If you've driven Goderich Street in Port Elgin, you've probably passed Rosina a hundred times without stopping in. That's a mistake.
It's a modern Italian spot run by Steven and Barb Harris, with Chef Kean Sagloski heading up the kitchen. Everything is made in-house, and the
menu is stacked with local ingredients. Down North Garlic. New Life Farms. Hoof'n It Butcher. The real kind of farm-to-table, not the buzzword
kind.
The menu is also fun. Mini arancini stuffed with bison ragu, bison chilli cheese wontons, and a 12oz dry-aged ribeye sit next to pizzas like the
Potato (smoked duck breast, gorgonzola, rosemary truffle honey) and the Spicy Dill Pickle (cup-and-char pepperoni, Calabrese salami, dill aioli,
fresh dill). The ricotta gnocchi gets a crab dip cheese sauce with butter-poached bay scallops. Italian with a twist, and the twists actually work.
Open Tuesday to Saturday, dinner service starts at 5pm. Friday lunch 12:30 to 2. Reservations recommended, especially on a weekend. 698 Goderich Street.
Hidden Gem of the week
Kimber Valley Farms — Kimberley
There's a 92-acre Icelandic sheep farm tucked into the Beaver Valley just north of Kimberley. They do tours. And you should go.
Kimber Valley Farms runs tours most Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 11am. You walk the pastures, meet the flock (all named, all loved), and
try your hand at skirting and carding fresh fleece.
The headliner is a ewe called Hullabaloo who greets every visitor like she's known them for years. Shasta the donkey is on the welcome committee too. Adults are $38, kids 5 to 12 are $25, under 5 free. Runs about an hour.
The farm shop is worth a stop on its own (open most Saturdays 11-4 or by appt). Yarn, roving, knitwear, and home goods all made from their own wool, which comes in the natural colours Icelandic sheep are known for.
If you want to go deeper, they run fibre workshops in felting, spinning, and knitting, and rent two off-grid cabins on the property called Kimberview and Creekside Loft.
Mark Saturday, May 2 on the calendar too. Their Spring Farmers & Makers Market runs 11am to 4pm. Great excuse to make a first trip out.
236087 Beaver Valley Road. Book tours online at least 24 hours ahead.
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