Car ownership is something many Canadians are fortunate to have but many have never been taught the basics of car care. With The Car Lady, our dealership partners to host an informative and comfortable session for a range of car owners. For those who know a little about cars and those who would consider themselves to know nothing about cars. We will help de-mystify what is under the hood of your car and help you not only take better care of your current car to help assist with resale value, but help you stay prepared for when an event on the side of the road does occur.

No need to feel lost when your car makes strange noises or lights pop up on the dashboard. Let us help you feel more empowered moving forward. Plus, enjoy some pizza and drinks while getting a fun and interactive lesson on cars!

Join us for our INAUGURAL BUNNY HOP - a stroll through the Carolinian forest with wine pairings and spring treats. 

When: Saturday, April 19th from 12-5pm

Where: Burning Kiln Winery, 1709 Front Road, St Williams

What: A 2.8km hike along the One for the Vine trail surrounding the winery with food and wine pairing stations along the way. Post hike, enjoy a delicious soup provided by The Back Kitchen. Wine and beer by the glass will also be available for purchase after the hike. It takes approximately 1 hour to complete the hike with the tastings. Learn more about the trails here. 

Included in your ticket:

• 3 wine and snack pairings

• Bowl of soup (meat and veg available)

• 1 Bottle of Harvest Party Red or Harvest Party White to take home with you

How to purchase: Choose your preferred timeslot for you and your wine tasting pals from the options below and add your tickets to your cart. Complete your purchase, download your tickets and voila, you're ready to join us for a wine filled hike! Please note that timeslots cannot be changed after ticket purchase has been completed. You can begin your hike any time within the hour timeslot you purchased. 

Please note: This is a 19+ ticketed event. Children are welcome to participate on the hike and food and non-alcoholic drink options will be available for purchase.

Book your Easter Egg Hunting time! 
Call 519-428-0882
Or book online: 
https://www.ckfarmmarket.com/product/easter-egg-hunt/1449...

Join us for an evening of Easter cookie decorating at Front Road Cellars. Led by our talented friend The Cookie Momster, Taryn McDowell you'll learn the basics of sugar cookies, practice piping + chat about tips and tricks to design photo-worthy cookies (no baking or mixing required!) Just bring yourself + your crew to enjoy this unique experience before the holiday begins.

Each ticket includes:

• 6 undecorated cookies (3 designs, 2 cookies in each style)

• 3 bags of icing in Easter themed colours

• a bag of sprinkles

• a themed take home box

• your choice of glass of wine, cocktail or mocktail

Beginners are welcome and encouraged. Everyone can make these cookies! $35 – includes all supplies, instruction, drink + tax/gratuity.

Hop into the Easter spirit with our delightful Dot-Painting Workshop! Join us for a creative and relaxing session where you can choose your 4" rock with the bunny design or a spring flower design inspired by Easter colours- perfect for adding a festive touch to your home or garden.

What to Expect:
- Guided Instruction: Step-by-Step instructions so that you can feel the benefits of how therapeutic dot-painting is. The host will be there for support and guidance when required.
- All Materials Provided: No need to bring anything! We provide all the necessary supplies during the workshop (tools and paint not to keep)
- Relaxing Atmosphere: Enjoy a cozy and welcoming environment, perfect for unwinding and letting your creativity flow.
- Take Home Your Creation: Leave with a unique piece of art that you can proudly display.

Who Can Join?
This workshop is perfect for art lovers of all skill levels, whether you're a seasoned painter or trying dot art for the first time. Adults and children ages 9 and up.

When & Where:
- Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm
- Location: The Blue Elephant-96 Norfolk Street South, Simcoe ON N3Y 2W2

-Price: $40 + HST

How to Register:

Spaces are limited, so be sure to book early!

Come celebrate Easter with creativity and color. We can't wait to see you there!

No refunds unless organizer cancels

Join us for a hands-on Floral Workshop with Ronda Nix! Learn how to plant and create a stunning spring arrangement just in time for Easter. No experience needed! Seated Serenity to relax yourself into a spring-like afternoon followed by step-by-step instruction, all materials included, and all skill levels welcome. Take home a fun piece of Easter decor! $45 + HST per person, 2-hour workshop. Limited spots, secure yours today! April 13, 2025 | 1-3 PM 10 Park Rd, Simcoe On. Sign up online or contact us for more information.

We're thrilled to announce that we're back with our exciting Touch-A-Truck fundraising event for a third year!

What is a Touch-A-Truck event?

It's a fantastic opportunity for everyone in the community to get up close and personal with some incredible pieces of equipment generously donated by local businesses and families. Imagine being able to touch, feel, take pictures, and ask questions about these unique vehicles and machinery!

What's in store for you?

Raffles: Get a chance to win some fantastic prizes!

Bouncy Castles: Let the kids bounce away to their heart's content!

Face Painting: Transform into your favorite characters or animals with our talented artists!

Food Trucks: Indulge in delicious treats from a variety of food trucks offering something for everyone!

AND MUCH MORE!

Admission: $5 per person

FREE for children under one year old! So, bring the whole family along for an unforgettable day of fun, learning, and community spirit.

Spread the word and invite your friends and family. We can't wait to see you there!

Join us this spring for a hands-on Build Your Own Herb Garden Workshop with floral expert Fleurs de Lise! Learn how to plant and care for your own fresh herbs.

Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned gardener, Lisa will guide you through planting your herbs so you can leave with your own starter garden and the confidence to grow fresh flavours at home.

Waterford Lions Pumpkinfest is hosting a Quarter Auction Fundraiser on April 10, 2025– and you don’t want to miss it!

Never been to a quarter auction before? Here’s how it works:
Bring a roll of quarters (or a few!)
Bid on fantastic prizes from local businesses—each bid costs just **$0.25, $0.50, or $0.75!**
If your paddle number is called, you WIN that item for just a few quarters!

It’s a fun, fast-paced night of bidding, laughter, and amazing deals—all while raising funds to support our community! Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more details.

Email treasurer@pumpkinfest.com for more information!!

Want to start a garden this year but don’t know where to start? Let us help you get started with a beginner’s class in gardening. You will learn the basics to get started, what produce is best for you to grow and learn that no matter what space you have you can plant your own produce.  We will show you the many different ways we garden and tricks on keeping weeds away naturally. Class taught by our very own Farmer Heidi from Generations Marketplace.
The class fee is $25.00 + tax (totaling $28.25). Kindly ensure the full payment is made within 24 hours to help streamline the process on our end. When submitting your payment, please include your name and the class you're paying for in the comments section.

If you’re unable to attend the class, please refer to our FAQs for refund details.

Payments can be completed in-store during business hours or via e-transfer to generationsmarketplacepayment@gmail.com.

Thank you for your prompt payment!

2 Sittings: 10am & 11:30am Serving Pancakes, Sausages, Norfolk County Maple Syrup and Apple Sauce

Tickets available at Stoney’s Home Hardware and Port Dover Maple Leaf Office or call 519-427-4246 to reserve tickets at the door. $15/ticket, Kids 10 and under $5/ticket

Join us for a fun, hands-on class where we’ll meet some adorable baby farm animals up close and enjoy educational activities. Recommended for ages 2-6 years old. Parents/guardians are welcome to stay with their child or drop them off and enjoy an hour of free time.

Pricing:

• First child: $15 + tax ($16.95)

• Each additional child: $10 + tax ($11.30)

  You can complete your payment in store during business hours or by e-transfer to generationsmarketplacepayment@gmail.com with your name and the class you’ve registered for. 

Norfolk County’s most anticipated spring event, Eat & Drink Norfolk is coming up April 3-5, 2025! Featuring local restaurants, food producers, wineries, breweries and live musical entertainment all under one roof! Come see why we are one of the Top 100 Festivals & Events in Ontario! This event is presented by CIBC Private Wealth.

This course is designed for recreational boaters, including operators and crew, who have completed the mandatory Pleasure Craft Operator Card course (Boaters Card). It aims to provide more knowledge, skills, and confidence to ensure safe boating in different situations before setting out and while on the water.

The course not only covers collision avoidance rules, docking and anchoring techniques, and other seamanship skills, but also provides a unique focus on traditional navigation techniques.

Boat Handling

You will better understand your responsibilities as an operator and crew, including safety checks and planning your departure. You will better understand your responsibilities as a boater, collision avoidance, operating rules, and basic boat- handling skills.

What’s included?

Your responsibilities before you leave the dock and when on the water
How to avoid collisions: A Practical Approach
Understanding charts and Aids to Navigation (ATONs)
Confidence when docking and undocking
Techniques for anchoring securely
Knots and Line Handling: How to tie the knots you need to know
Understanding and sourcing weather and marine forecasts
Reading tide and current tables

Basic Navigation

Our Marine Navigation course is designed to equip you with comprehensive navigation essentials. By uniquely combining traditional navigation (plotting and charting) and electronic navigation techniques, you can plan and set out safe routes and stay on course while underway, leaving no stone unturned in your preparation for navigating on the waterways.

What's included?

Reading and interpreting charts nautical charts
Understanding landmarks and navigation aids (buoys, daymarks, lights, etc.)
Plotting courses and determining direction and distance
Reading a compass and converting between true and magnetic bearings
Pre-planning courses and entering it into the e-nav device
Using an electronic navigation device – reading primary displays and interpreting information provided, setting up waypoints and routes, staying on a course and reaching your destination.
Monitoring progress and determining position by both electronic and traditional techniques

Join ME, Cindy Vanderstar as we -TOGETHER - walk through the various ways to tie & wear a scarf. Includes FREE scarf, instruction sheet plus sips & nibbles, a complimentary loot bag, discounts & sales. Space is limited & will sell out quickly. Held at Cashmere & Cobwebs store. Pop in & sign up, email us, message us or click on the link to buy online. ONLY $25pp.
Join us for the evening class as well (April 15th 5-7pm)

Join us for Becca's Book Club, happening on the last Monday of every month, starting at 6pm!

Get together with fellow book lovers once a month to discuss the book provided in the discussion on this page, drink delicious wine & get together with a great group of people!

Free admission, 6pm March 31
Book of the month: The Spy and The Traitor by Ben Macintyre

Please note, each individual is responsible for purchasing & retrieving their book. Visit Beach Reads Bookshop located in Port Dover for 20% off your book!

The paintbrushes are ready for an afternoon of creative fun at the Soroptimist International of Haldimand Norfolk's hottest paint party. Just a few spots left! Grab your gal pals and come on out. $40/person

2 hours of Zumba in Delhi at the Norfolk Soccer Club! $25 to donate@tumainimeanshope.org with your name and Zumba in the comments holds your ticket at the door. For more information please contact sharon@tumainimeanshope.org
Help us raise money for vulnerable and needy children in Tanzania!

It's time to Frisky Mingle! March 28th, enjoy an evening filled with delicious wine, munchies & live music! Engage in new interactions, meet new people and have a great time!

This is a 19+ ticketed event, $10 per person in advance Ticket includes a 5oz glass of wine or Crappy Beer, munchies throughout the night, a name tag & social bingo! Of course our tasting bar will be open!

Do you dream of having vibrant, fresh flowers to brighten your kitchen table or to share with friends? Join Hilary & her husband Nick, seasoned experts with years of experience in both professional cut flower greenhouses and home gardening, for an informative session on cultivating beautiful cut flowers
 Hilary and her husband Nick have been growing cut flowers professionally for 15 years in a greenhouse and outdoors. They own Canada's largest dahlia farm right outside of Delhi and distribute wholesale & retail.
The class fee is $25.00 + tax (totaling $28.25). Kindly ensure the full payment is made within 24 hours to help streamline the process on our end. When submitting your payment, please include your name and the class you're paying for in the comments section.

If you’re unable to attend the class, please refer to our FAQs for refund details.

Payments can be completed in-store during business hours or via e-transfer to generationsmarketplacepayment@gmail.com.

Thank you for your prompt payment!

Join us & learn about kombucha from Sarah Judd of Meadow Lynn Market Garden. We will learn what kombucha is and how it can benefit your health as well as how to take care of your SCOBY*, how to brew your own kombucha at home, continuous brewing for easy drinking and more!  You will be able to try different drinks and snacks that you can make with kombucha, receive a brewing instructions booklet and take home your very own starter kit.

*A SCOBY, or "Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast," is the living culture used to ferment tea into kombucha. The SCOBY forms a rubbery, pancake-like layer on top of the tea during fermentation, feeding on sugar and transforming the tea into a probiotic-rich, tangy drink. SCOBYs are essential to the fermentation process, as they house beneficial bacteria and yeast that produce the acids, vitamins, and carbonation kombucha is known for. SCOBYs can be reused across multiple batches of kombucha, and each brew typically grows a new SCOBY layer, which can be shared, stored, or used to make new batches.

The class fee is $35.00+tax per person ($39.55). Kindly ensure the full payment is made within 24 hours to help streamline the process on our end. When submitting your payment, please include your name and the class you're paying for in the comments section.

If you’re unable to attend the class, please refer to our FAQs for refund details.

Payments can be completed in-store during business hours or via e-transfer to generationsmarketplacepayment@gmail.com.

Thank you for your prompt payment!

Though grief is a natural part of loss it can also be one of the most difficult experiences of our lives. Grieving is a process and how we grieve is unique to each person. Yet it doesn’t mean we need to experience it alone. If you are living through the death of a loved one, we are here to help guide and support you.

Join us for our 8 week Support Group starting March 24.

Registration is REQUIRED. Call our office at 519-410-0881 and speak with Jenn for more information.

Please join us as we unveil the artwork of artist JC Lee that will hang in the box office gallery for the 2025 season at Lighthouse Festival Theatre in Port Dover. Champagne and light refreshments will be served and JC's artwork will be for sale. This is a free event and open to the public.

**Our First Home Bout of 2025 is here**

Come watch your NCRD Knockouts take on the TRD Toxins in this match you don't want to miss! 

�March 22nd 
�4:30pm game start
�Simcoe Recreation Centre 
�$10 tickets, cash or debit! 

**NSO and Ref sign up here: https://forms.gle/SmGMNLGGNh7Jaecu8

Make sure to come early to grab a seat for this action-packed fun! 

The next All-You-Can-Eat Buffet at The Delhi Hungarian Hall is FRIDAY, March 21st
Serving our famous cabbage rolls, schnitzel, mashed potatoes and gravy, coleslaw, buns, coffee and tea.

Date: FRIDAY, March 21st
Time: 5pm – 7pm
Cost: $30
Children under 12: $12
Children 5 and under: FREE
Location: Delhi Hungarian Hall
71 King Street, Delhi, Norfolk County N4B 1X7
RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED

Soup Art Bowls is a fun, casual social event. For a $30 ticket, guests receive a pottery bowl of their choice, handmade by a member of the Norfolk Potters’ Guild, and the opportunity to sample as many gourmet soups as they would like, prepared and served by local restaurants. Soup can be enjoyed at tables with friends, or while guests are on the move in between serving stations.

There are also express passes available for the first time this year. For $40, a ticket holder can skip the line to get into the event faster. This premium ticket is being tested this year to accommodate people who want to attend the event but have to get in and out quickly. There are only 50 express passes available.

So far, the Erie Beach Hotel, Trish's Gluten Free Bakery, Urban Parisian, Barrel Restaurant, Neighbourhood Food Emporium, Fisherman's Catch, Clonmel Castle, and My Pantree have confirmed they will return. For the first time, Tim Hortons and St. Paul's Anglican Church will join us. We'll post updates whenever a new partner comes on board.

Tickets are on-sale now at:

Port Dover Jewellery and Gifts, 343 Main Street
Dover Cheese Shop, 307 Main Street

Norfolk Potters' Guild members also have tickets.

There are no online tickets available for this event. Last year we had a couple scam victims. Please do not buy tickets online. If someone is attempting to re-sell tickets online please be cautious about their authenticity.

The Port Dover Senior Centre is a community-run, not-for-profit organization operating within the Port Dover Lions Community Centre. The centre offers fitness, creativity, information, and social engagement programs weekly to 450 members.

The Norfolk Potters' Guild & Studio operates a co-operative studio in facilities at 60 First Ave. West in Simcoe. Adult classes are offered to the public and members enjoy a variety of workshops. Studio members have 24/7 access to the Studio to come in and work as they please.

 Experience a Day of Local Elegance 

Welcome spring with a fabulous artisan shopping experience at the beautiful Monthill Golf & Country Club! Stroll through our upscale venue and discover the incredible talent of local artists and makers. 

Highlights of the Event: 

- Talented Vendors: Browse unique, handcrafted items from a variety of local artisans. Find the perfect gift or treat yourself to something special! 
- Chef-Curated Menu: Indulge in delicious, chef-inspired dishes from our bistro. 
- Cash Bar: Enjoy coffee, wine, or a refreshing cocktail as you shop. 
- Grand Prize Draw: Attendees will have a chance to win an exciting grand prize! 
- Upscale Atmosphere: A curated market experience in a stunning venue.

 Support Local. Celebrate Community. Love Artisan Craftsmanship.

Bring your friends and family to shop, sip, and savor while supporting local businesses. Whether you're hunting for unique treasures or simply looking for a wonderful day out, this event promises something for everyone. 

Mark your calendars and join us for a truly unforgettable day! 

 Don’t forget to RSVP and share this event with your friends! 
We can’t wait to see you there.

VENDORS APPLY: linktr.ee/loveoflocalmarkets

Join Dave Jensen and his band for a night of Celtic favourites as we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day!

Dave Jensen, an ambassador of Newfoundland traditions from Screechins to squeezebox tunes is putting together an evening of entertainment with his friends, John Harris, Doug Welland, and others yet to be confirmed.

Dave hails from the once outport of Belleoram and has been entertaining folks in the area for over 40 years.

Tickets $25. Pre-registration is required.

It’s CHOCOLATE BAR BINGO for the kids!
Free admission for the children and admission comes with 1 BINGO card.
Instead of cash prizes, the kids win chocolate bars.
Pizza, Chips and Drinks will be available for purchase.

March Break Fun for the Whole Family!

Looking for some giggles and good times this March Break? Dufflebag Theatre brings their hilarious, interactive shows Sleeping Beauty and Robin Hood to Lighthouse Festival! Watch as these classic tales get a fresh twist—with unexpected laughs, family-friendly fun, and a little help from the audience. That’s right, YOU could be the star of the show!

Catch Sleeping Beauty or Robin Hood in Port Dover on March 11th and 12th or Sleeping Beauty in Port Colborne on March 13th. Perfect for kids, parents, grandparents and everyone in between.