Past Events

The Annual Fall Festival of Colors is Thanksgiving Weekend, Saturday and Sunday at Ski Wentworth. Ride the chairlift for a beautiful view of Wentworth Valley. Hike back down the mountain. Chair runs 10-4. Other activities include a jumpy castle, petting zoo, Haystack Playground, pony rides, BBQ & more!

Wentworth 2nd Annual Holistic Health and Wellness Show is Saturday October 7 10-4 at the Wentworth Learning Centre Hwy #4. You will find Crystals, art, natural products, jewelry, spiritual wellness, energy medicine, and psychics and more, and you could win prizes through the day. Admission is a donation at the door, proceeds for the Learning Centre. For information call April Wilson-Dares 902 890 0747

The Amherst Fire Department presents Rocktoberfest, Saturday at 7 at the Amherst Fire Hall. There will be two bands, The Divorcees for the county fans and Old School for the rock and roll fans. Trider Beer will be available. Tickets are $20 and will be available Sept 5 at A&W in Amherst. Rocktoberfest is sponsored by Archway Insurance.

Cumberland Adult Network for Upgrading, CANU, offers a free GED study program. If you need to upgrade your reading, writing, social studies, science or math skills, you will get instruction and support. The GED is free to write. You write one subject at a time, and don’t re-write tests you have passed. You get to choose your first subject too. To register, call CANU at 902-661-0153 or go to canu-ns.ca

The Sackville Curling Club will be holding registration nights Tuesday Oct 10 and Thursday Oct 19 from 6:30-8:30 at the club on Landsdowne Street. The club will be offering a $129 discount for the entire season for new curlers and those who would like to return after an absence of 5 years or more. For more information, call 506-536-0485 or 506-364-7508.

Coats for Cumberland is back. You can drop off gently used winter outerwear at Sobeys, the Amherst Stadium and NSCC in Amherst. At the Coop in Parrsboro, Oxford Town Hall and NSCC in Springhill. The Amherst Store will be at the Amherst Centre Mall November 17th,  the Parrsboro Store will be at St.George's Anglican Church November 10th and the Springhill Store will be at the NSCC Springhill Site November 23rd. There will also be stores in Pugwash, Wentworth and Oxford.

The Cumberland County Seniors Safety Program and the Amherst Town Police are presenting another Free Police and Seniors Safety Academy. Furlong Jones Funeral Services will be hosting the 6 week information sessions Wednesdays beginning October 11.  Among the topics to be covered, are winter driving tips, medication safety tips, computer and internet safety, self-defense, YMCA programs for seniors and protecting your funeral plans. For more information, or to register call Ray at 902-667-7484

It’s Classic Movie Night at the Springhiil Library, Wed Oct 11 starting at 7. They will be showing the 1962 thriller Wait Until Dark, with Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin.