The Toronto Zoo Offers $5 Admission to Say Thank You To The Community!
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The Toronto Zoo is hosting a special community weekend on Saturday, November 24th and Sunday, November 25th and you and your family are invited! They are thanking the community for all their support over the past year with up to 75% savings on admissions, 20% off all purchases at the Zootique Gift Shop, special Membership offers, daily chances to win fabulous zoo prizes, up close animal encounters throughout the site, entertainment and more!
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*$10 parking fee applies. Special admission offer valid only on Saturday, November 24 and Sunday, November 25, 2012.
Jo-Anne Schneeweiss and Shelley Sefton have just launched a website to provide up-to-date information about their book, Creative IQ (TM): Giving Young Learners the Creative Edge in a Competitive World, at http://www.CreativeIQ.ca.
Sponsored Feature Our Kids, Canada’s trusted source to private schools and education, is hosting the Calgary Private School Expo on Sunday, September 30, 2012, and you’re invited.
· Meet with the best day and boarding schools
· Speak with education consultants and experts
· Save time and energy in your search
· Find the right school for your kids and teens
If you’re interested in attending, simply pre-register today to get your 50% off family tickets at ourkids.net/expo/register.php.
Should you have any questions, please give the hosts Our Kids a call at 877.272.1845.
In our continuing effort to bring (and we’ll just say it, us) comfort food recipes for the Fall, we are delighted to share one for Curried Butternut Squash and Pear Soup that was heartily approved of in our test kitchen. We all agreed that it would also work well for entertaining.
We obtained the recipe from Allrecipes.com, and ‘tweeked’ it to create our own version. We roasted the butternut squash (pre-chopped from the grocery store), together with chopped onion, garlic, ginger, salt and cubed pears, and an extra drizzle of olive oil, for the suggested time. Otherwise we followed the directions.
When the cold weather arrives, our thoughts start to turn to Fall produce, especially since we enjoy cooking and baking ‘locally’. In fact, our test kitchen has already started testing a batch of recipes for you, to help make the new season delicious.Our first find … Grandma Ople’s Apple Pie Recipe found at AllRecipes. It tastes and smells fabulous. We should note that we did make a couple of changes after reading the reviews. We substituted one tablespoon of water with a tablespoon of vanilla and added a teaspoon of cinnamon (both added while the mixture was simmering on the stove).
The link to the recipe is provided below. We would include a photograph, but sadly the pie disappeared too quickly.
Soulpepper announces a new production of Alligator Pie for fall season
Albert Schultz, Founding Artistic Director of Soulpepper Theatre Company
An original Soulpepper production, Alligator Pie brings the celebrated children’s poems of “Canada’s Father Goose” and Toronto’s first Poet Laureate, Dennis Lee, to vibrant theatrical life. Soulpepper’s creation ensemble of Ins Choi, Raquel Duffy, Ken MacKenzie, Gregory Prest and Mike Ross, fill the stage with music, invention and Lee’s classic poetry. Alligator Pie, and other familiar poems including Mulligan Stew, Bubblegum Delicious and Tricking, are told through movement and song with original music composed by the creation ensemble. Alligator Pie runs from October 26 to November 25 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. Opening night is November 6.”Watching this gifted crew dig into Alligator Pie is a treat. And sometimes, a revelation. They’re finding things I’d forgotten in the poems and things I didn’t even know were there. I can’t wait to see what they make of the whole shebang,” says Dennis Lee.
The fall season also includes Soulpepper’s celebrated production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and Samuel Beckett’s Endgame. The classic Miller memory play features Ins Choi, Ari Cohen, Raquel Duffy, Sarah Koehn, Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster, Michael Hanrahan, Nancy Palk, Gregory Prest, Mike Ross, William Webster and Daniel Williston, with Joseph Ziegler reprising his 2010 Dora Award-winning performance as Willy Loman. Albert Schultz directs. The show begins in previews on September 5, opens on September 8 and runs until October 6.
Beckett’s Endgame is directed by Daniel Brooks, and features Diego Matamoros, Eric Peterson, Maria Vacratsis and Joseph Ziegler. This is the first time in Soulpepper’s history that an award-winning production is being re-imagined. Brooks directed Endgame in 1999, earning Soulpepper’s first Dora Award for Best Production. Thirteen years on, Brooks returns with the original production team, and original cast member Matamoros, to re-examine a play counted amongst Beckett’s masterpieces. Endgame begins in previews on October 26, opens on October 31 and runs until November 17.
Soulpepper Theatre Company is located at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane, in the Distillery Historic District. Tickets for Alligator Pie will be available as of September 4: Single tickets will be $23 (plus service charge); A Family Four Pack will be $94 (inclusive). Tickets for Death of a Salesman and Endgame range from $22 -$68 (plus service charge). Tickets are available by calling the Young Centre box office at 416.866.8666 or by visiting soulpepper.ca. $22 tickets are available for 21-30 year-olds at stageplay.ca. StagePlay is sponsored by TD Bank Group.
Less than 6 days left to sign up for Burlington Fall KidsPlay Sports programs, plus GTA wide $99 Birthday Special…
Coach David is proud to announce his first official season of multi-sport programs focused on kids 2-10 years of age. This Fall/Winter parents and kids can enjoy parent and toddler programs, multi-sport classes as well as after school indoor soccer, basketball, parent vs. kids floor hockey and dodgeball! Classes start September 17th at Brant Hills and Tansley Woods so register here at www.kidsplaysports.ca.
GTA Wide Birthday Party Special Offer - Coach David charges $99 for the first hour at any venue of your choice. Rent out a facility or hold it in you backyard, basements or a nearby park! Coach David will help to customize the party around a theme (superheroes, starwars, etc) and any sports or games of your child’s choosing. Just let him know the date and any other questions you might have.
P.S. Enjoy a special FREE Open House session with Coach David for kids of all ages. Stay and mingle with other Moms and Dads or drop off you kids for an hour or two. Where? Tansley Woods Community Centre September 15th 10am-12noon. Please RSVP in advance here http://www.kidsplaysports.ca/open-house.php.    Â
Our Kids, Canada’s trusted source to private schools and education, is hosting the Montreal Private School Expo on Sunday, September 16, 2012, and you’re invited.Â
Meet with the best day and boarding schools
Speak with education consultants and experts
Save time and energy in your search
Find the right school for your kids and teens
If you’re interested in attending, simply pre-register today to get your 50% off family tickets.Â
Should you have any questions, please give the hosts Our Kids a call at 877.272.1845 x25. Â
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Montreal ExpoÂ
Sun, Sept 16, 2012
Hilton Montreal BonaventureÂ
Info Sessions
10:30 to 2:00Â
Meet the schools 12:00 to 4:00Â
Walk in tickets $20Â
Pre-registered tickets at 50% off
Koba Entertainment is pleased to present Max & Ruby in the Nutcracker Suite. Inspired by one of the greatest musical scores ever - Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite - join Max and Ruby as they take to the stage for their most magical performance yet. Buy your tickets before they go on-sale by using the code: ENCHANT. Presale begins on August 21st at 10AM and ends August 23rd at 10PM.
If you are looking for a fun activity to fill an hour, consider this …
Create a list of items for your chuld(ren) to find. Then hand over and review the list, supervise the search layng out your rules, and let the fun begin.
