Today, we remember the deaths of Bill and Helene Regier in their home one year ago. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of these community leaders, who are dearly missed.

CaseyLessard posted a photo: Kettle Point, Ontario - Kettle Point Pow Wow 2008.

CaseyLessard posted a photo: Kettle Point, Ontario - Kettle Point Pow Wow 2008.

CaseyLessard posted a photo: Kettle Point, Ontario - Kettle Point Pow Wow 2008.

CaseyLessard posted a photo: Kettle Point, Ontario - Kettle Point Pow Wow 2008.

CaseyLessard posted a photo: Grand Bend, Ontario - Grand Bend Horticultural Society's Home and Garden Tour - home of Denis Shackel and Mary Lynn Fluter.

No one can deny the fact that the arts are an important part of our community. All you have to do is look at this issue of the Grand Bend Strip to see the creativity of the people who live in our community.

Bob Putherbough of the Grand Bend and Area Horticultural Society wrote us to tell us of the Home & Garden Tour’s outstanding success, which far exceeded anyone’s expectations.

Local musician and music teacher Pedro Quintana was raised in Cuba and moved to Grand Bend after meeting his wife, Marcy Walker, at the resort where he played piano.

“We’ve been talking about it for ten years,” Grand Bend artist Teresa Marie says of the newly launched Grand Bend Art Centre. “I just got tired of listening to my own voice.”

Every Friday at noon, Jimmy Henry and Craig Coltman meet for lunch at the Pine View Trailer Park clubhouse to have lunch and watch a movie.

You really have to pay attention to labels and commercials. Sometimes they don’t make a heck of a lot of sense. I’ve been told, if you can’t pronounce the ingredients, the product more than likely isn’t good for you.

During the years I worked (mostly part-time) as a waiter and bartender at the Club Albatross in Huron Park, there always seemed be someone ready to cause some kind of annoyance.

Ask your kids if they would like to spend time this summer with other area kids, taking day trips and playing outside, and they’ll likely agree that the Grand Bend Youth Centre is a good place to spend the summer. Here’s what’s coming up this summer at the centre.

If ticket sales in St. Jacobs are any indication, you should likely get your tickets for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels once you’ve read this. “It’s been a sellout in St. Jacobs,” says director Alex Mustakas, who is also Drayton Entertainment’s artistic director.

If you’ve ever been single or married, you’ll be able to relate to I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, playing until August 31 at the Huron Country Playhouse. The musical comedy revue deals with the comic aspects of dating, marriage, having kids, and getting older and still dating.

Each day as I head to the back of our property, I hear the piercing ‘meow’ call of the gray catbird. If I meow at him, I always get an answer of some sort back. This handsome member of the thrasher family bears the scientific name Dumetella carolinensis.

There is a new low cost video camera now available in Canada that makes sharing video a whole lot easier. It is called “The Flip” and it is manufactured by Pure Digital. It is a small, compact device that runs on two AA batteries and records up to 60 minutes of video to its built-in flash drive.

Tuesday, July 15 to 17 Grand Bend Youth Centre Animal Adventures. Includes trip to Toronto Zoo! Call 519-238-1155 to register or for more details.

9 a.m. to 2 p.m. - Yard Sale 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. - Pie Sale – Community Living South Huron 10 a.m. Come visit the White Squirrel 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Activities and Crafts – bubble pool, boat pond, princess tiaras, airplanes, colouring pages, paper masks and more.