26th Annual Wetland Conservation Dinner and Charity Auction
Doors open: 5:30pm
Dinner: 7:00pm
Tickets are $50
– For more information, visit https://www.ducks.ca/how-to-help/events/?id=ON07592020001

13th Haliburton International Film Festival 2019
“Together, A Community through Film”

VIP Passes – $60 for all 7 films and wrap party.
Individual tickets – $10 at the door, as available, one hour before show time.

Special guest this year, from Vancouver, is writer and director Richard Bell of Brotherhood. On stage, also, will be several of the lads from the movie. Based on a 1926 canoe incident on Balsam Lake, this will be a memorable evening.
Due to the considerable interest in this film, an encore screening will be held Sunday at 2 pm. Tickets for this screening and for VIP Passes are available at brownpapertickets.com.

Friday
6:00 pm Menteur 111’
8:30 pm Woman at War 101’

Saturday
10 am Honeyland 87’
1:30 pm Antigone 109’
4 pm The Guilty 85’
7:30 pm Brotherhood 96’

Sunday
10 am Haliburton Productions 45’
11 am And The Birds Rained Down 127’
Wrap Party
2 pm ENCORE: Brotherhood 96’

Menteur ~ Compulsive Liar- comedy, French Canadian, subtitles, 111 minutes, G
Simon is a compulsive liar. His family and colleagues organize an intervention but it turns into a confrontation and Simon denies everything. The next day, he wakes up in a reality where all his lies are proven facts. “A two-hour, over-the-top laugh fest that you will be thinking of long after the credits roll.”

Woman At War – Suspense-comedy, Iceland, subtitles, 101 minutes
Halla, a fifty-year-old independent woman, known as “The Woman of the Mountain,” secretly wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminum industry. As her actions grow bolder, from petty vandalism to outright industrial sabotage, she succeeds in pausing the negotiations between the Icelandic government and the corporation building a new smelter. But right as she begins planning her biggest and boldest operation yet, she receives an unexpected letter that changes everything. “Unlike anything you’ve seen before,” Woman At War “exudes a puckish sense of humor even as it deals with dire matters.”

Honeyland – documentary, Macedonia/Turkey, subtitles, 87 minutes
A triple Sundance award-winner, Honeyland offers up a visual feast and a poignant lesson in human misbehaviour. Haditze Muratova is the last of the Macedonian wild beekeepers and lives alone with her ailing mother on a farm. She survives by selling small-batch honey in a Skopje market, a mere four-hour walk away. Her peace is happily broken with the arrival of new neighbours, their herd of cattle and seven kids. She optimistically shares her one golden rule with the interlopers: take half the honey for yourself, but leave half for the bees. Sumptuously filmed over three years, this extraordinary debut fable imparts a timeworn message about humankind’s true place in the natural order. “Stunningly beautiful and quietly powerful.”

Antigone, drama, French Canadian, subtitles, 109 minutes
Winner of Best Canadian film at TIFF and Canada’s entry for Oscars’ best international feature film category, previously known as best foreign language film. Antigone is a modern-day re-imagining of the Greek tragedy that jolts viewers out of complacency. Writer/Director, Sophie Deraspe, transposes Sophocles’s classic to contemporary Montreal, and makes its principal characters a family of immigrants trying to start anew after their parents’ murder. Relative newcomer Nahéma Ricci plays the young hero determined to do whatever she must to keep her family from falling apart. “Deraspe’s loose adaptation retains a fascination with the ties and responsibilities of family, but also develops into a timely reflection on the refugee experience.”

The Guilty, suspense, Denmark, subtitles, 85 minutes, R (for language)
This sleek, well-acted, and intelligently crafted, high-concept thriller is about police officer, Asger Holm, who is demoted to desk work. He expects a sleepy beat as an emergency dispatcher, but that all changes when he answers a panicked phone call from a kidnapped woman who then disconnects abruptly. “The Guilty” is a nerve-wracking exercise in tension that also manages to reveal itself in layers, leaving assumptions dashed on the floor.”
Brotherhood, drama, English Canadian, 96 minutes
Based on a true story of a 1926 tragedy on Balsam Lake. Fifteen boys and two directors (both First World War veterans) set out in a 30-foot war canoe to gather supplies in Coboconk. When their canoe capsizes in a freak summer storm, their holiday descends into a soul-shuddering fight for survival and tests their brotherhood. Writer/Director Richard Bell will be present to discuss the film answer questions. “Emotional, heart-felt movie! Amazing story!

Il Pleuvait des Oiseaux ~ And The Birds Rained Down, drama, French Canadian, 127 minutes
Three elderly hermits live deep in the woods, cut off from the rest of the world. While wildfires threaten the region, their quiet life is about to be shaken by the arrival of two women. A poignant meditation on the possibilities of living outside modernity, the film is a tribute to the need to live independently and on one’s own terms — and to those courageous enough to pursue this. “And The Birds Rained Down is the story of intertwined destinies, where love can happen at any age and new life emerges in unexpected places.”

For more information, contact:
Thoseothermovieshaliburton@gmail.com

THE LOCHLIN COMMUNITY CENTRE IS HOSTING A SPAGHETTI DINNER

 Spaghetti with homemade meat & vegetable sauce  served with caesar salad, fresh rolls and a variety of desserts

Adults – $15
Kids (12 & under) – $8
Children 5 and under – FREE

***Take out available***

Bring the kids, your friends, and neighbours and enjoy the evening and support YOUR Community Centre!

For reservations call  Nancy at 705-286-3339 or Linda at 705-286-3438 – seating available for 5 pm or 6:30 pm

You won’t want to miss the incredible voice, energy and presence of singer-songwriter Irish Mythen!

“I had no idea what to expect when this five foot nothing lady took the stage, all smiles and twinkling eyes and guitar. Then, she opened her mouth and out flew a voice that came straight from the Heavens with all the power and the glory and the truth of someone destined to be a singer. I’ve been blessed with seeing and hearing a lot of talented musicians in my life, but I have never experienced anyone quite like Irish Mythen. She is a force of nature and a gift from Almighty Herself.”
~ Lisa Schwartz, Philadelphia Folk Festival

Irish Mythen was born in Ireland and now resides in Charlottetown Prince Edward Island Canada. She has award nominations and wins from Music PEI, East Coast Music Association, Folk Alliance International and SOCAN.

HALIBURTON LEGION:
Remembrance Day Service at 10 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 11 in the Legion Main Hall. Wreath Ceremony at 10:45 a.m. at the cenotaph on Highland Street. Remembrance Day lunch at noon in the Legion Club Room. Remembrance Day dinner in the Main Hall. Doors open at 5 p.m./dinner at 6 p.m. – tickets $20 per person. Anyone wishing to lay a wreath at the ceremony
in remembrance of a loved one, can contact the branch at 705-457-2571.

MINDEN LEGION:
Remembrance Day Service at the Village Green next to the CIBC on Monday, Nov. 11, starting at 10:40 a.m. After the service, a light lunch will be available at the Minden branch. Those who would like to lay a wreath
can contact the branch at 705-286-4541.

WILBERFORCE LEGION:
Douglas C. Hatch, Branch 624 of the Royal Canadian Legion, Wilberforce will be holding their Remembrance Day Service at the cenotaph next to the Lloyd Watson Centre at 10:45 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 11. After that, a lunch put on by the Ladies Auxiliary will follow at the branch – by donation.

GOODERHAM:
Service at the cenotaph in Gooderham on Monday, Nov. 11 at 2 p.m.

Historian Ted Barris once asked his father Alex Barris, “What did you do in the War?” What the WWII Army medic told his son is the thrust of Barris’s latest literary journey.

Not only has Ted retraced his father’s wartime experience, in his new book, but he has also drawn from his library of interviews and research of military medical personnel – stretcher bearers, medics, nurses, surgeons, orderlies, dentists, and ambulance drivers – to show stories of those who chose go to where wounded soldiers lay – to rush to danger!

Not a comprehensive history of military medicine, Rush to Danger offers a powerful anecdotal account of how the science of saving lives in battle evolved, where breakthroughs occurred, who proved to be the heroes in these roles, and how such acts of courage played out in individual lives and in military history as a whole. Barris’s canvas encompasses not just WWII (in which his father served as medic), but goes as far back as the U.S. Civil War, the 1885 North West Resistance, through the Boer War, the Great War, both World Wars, Korea and the 21st century wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Not a soldier, but the soldier’s storyteller, not a veteran, but recognized by vets as keeper of the flame, Ted Barris has published 18 non-fiction books, half of them wartime histories. For 40 years he has worked as a broadcaster on electronic media in Canada and the U.S. He taught journalism at Toronto’s Centennial College for 18 years. His book The Great Escape: A Canadian Story won the 2014 Libris Award, as Best Non-Fiction Book in Canada. And his last book Dam Busters: Canadian Airmen in the Secret Raid Against Nazi Germany won the 2018 RCAF Association NORAD Trophy.