Canada Day is always a very special day to celebrate in East Gwillimbury. We are fortunate to have activities at the beautiful historic site of the Sharon Temple and the Mount Albert Lions’ Park fireworks to enjoy!
Canada Day in East Gwillimbury
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The Magic of Lego Club in East Gwillimbury
In East Gwillimbury, there is a place where great minds meet. It’s the Lego Club at the East Gwillimbury Public Library.
Where a bin of lego is a portal into a world of imagination. For those who venture into this drop-in world, creativity soars, building endeavours are undertaken and friendships formed.
Don’t forget Lego Club. It’s one of the best, free-est things you can do in East Gwillimbury. See the Library’s website for times for both the Mount Albert and Holland Landing Branch.
The Coziest Place for a Pumpkin Spice Latte
Imagine the coziest town. Fall leaves floating down Main Street. You taking a sip of hot delicious pumpkin spice latte. Could this be just about the coziest moment ever? Yes.
That was the fortunate Hallmark Movie moment I found myself in this week at Kaylie’s Kafe in Mount Albert. Come see cute fall gifts at Kaylie’s Kottage, too (adjoining).
After visiting the store and cafe, you might want to take a book out of the library! Then curl up at home with a book. That sounds like cozy fall in EG!
Photo credits: CDeep, TDeep
Fall’s Rite of Passage: Visiting the Pumpkin Patch at Brooks Farms
Celebrities like to visit pumpkin patches at this time of year. Googling “celebrity” and “pumpkin patch” will yield dozens upon dozens of photos of celeb parents nimbly stepping through straw-filled fields of pumpkins with their adorable tykes. Now you can too.
The celebrity trend may have started with Kate Gosselin of Jon & Kate plus 8 fame. In Season One, Jon and Kate spend countless hours preparing their twins and sextuplets for a day at the pumpkin patch. The tykes are wearing adorable coordinating fuzzy hoodies (a modern take on the fall sweater so necessary for the experience). (In LA, due to climate, the celeb pumpkin-pickers generally wear T-shirts rather than sweaters). See Hollywood’s Cutest Pumpkin-Pickers for style tips.)
East Gwillimbury Shines was thrilled to have the chance to visit Brooks Farms in the lead-up to Fall Festival, courtesy of the Farms.
Brooks Farms (in Mount Albert) has everything you would want for the “full celeb pumpkin patch experience” —they do it up right. The Fall Fun Festival opened September 7 and runs weekends and Thanksgiving Monday until November 3, 2013. A special Halloween weekend for kids to participate in a “costume parade” is planned as well as other festivities. Pick your own pumpkins is available, complete with wagon ride. Pumpkin cannons, apple picking, pig races, sing-a-longs, and some zombie fun for older kids add a fall accent to the usual roster of fun (giant pillow, singing chickens, zip lining)…
Visitors should be aware that they are participating in full-on People Magazine-level “trend-setting” activity as they go about their business picking pumpkins and firing off their cob blaster at Brooks Farms! Move over Jessica Alba or Matthew McConaughey! However, more importantly, visitors will find that in the glow of the sunshine and in the beauty of creating a new tradition, they are simply having a really, really good time.
Photo credits: CDeep, casch52, Brandy Shaul, Ilovepics11, TedsBlog, Jippolito
Run for Fun: Mount Albert Sports Day 5km Run/Walk
Do it for yourself: for your mind, body, soul. Do it for the community.
The Mount Albert Sports Day 5km Run/Walk is almost here – June 1, 2013. It is in its eleventh year.
Participants can register here. Watch the Mount Albert Sports Day 5km video here.
An exciting feature of this year’s race is that “we are introducing technical t-shirts for the first time and the timing system is the same system used in Boston and Paris at those marathons!” notes Race Director Jen Mark (Dynamic Living). Also, many sponsors have stepped up this year with more money. Exciting prizes can be won. Proceeds from the race go towards Mount Albert (part of East Gwillimbury)’s parks and facilities.
Personal fitness trainer Annette Papa remarks, “Run (or walk) because it makes you feel free, because you love it. When this is the case it feels like less of a chore and more of a pleasure, and you’re more likely to actually do it.”
Participating in the Mount Albert Sports Day 5km can be exhilarating. Held amid the festivities of the Mount Albert Sports Day Fair, it’s always fun! A sponsor named Carole commented about her experience last year,”[ We] all agreed that the atmosphere was so fun and that everyone was watching out for everyone else and having a good time and everyone was mixing in, little kids, kids, families, and runners. In summary, [we] loved the community spirit in a country atmosphere. [We] want everyone in the team to know what a great experience [we] had!!” (Testimonials, Mount Albert Sports Day 5km)
The Mount Albert Sports Day 5km…what a great way to feel good about yourself and to give back to the community!
Photo Credit: Sangudo