The South Bruce Peninsular

The South Bruce Peninsular

Mar 19 / 1:45pm

This is where we work and play

well who really knows if it can work or not, or whether it is just a message in a web bottle cast out randomly on the waves the the net, but the final installment of the virtual tour of our property for sale is now posted and while there hasn't be a huge response to our agent, there has been a surprising number of inquiries; hard to say whether it was from the website viral spread of people passing the URL or as likely the old-fashioned business of real estate brokers just working their old-school channels. All I can really say is there's been 60 unique host computers visit these pages in the two weeks since I started (some will be searchbots) and the page read counts keep going up.

From what I hear, tho, the old-tech MLS listing was very effective in grabbing some attention, so effective that we had to file for a stay on that until we could get the place into some sort of showable form! Which it now is, the first round of buyers are lined up for this weekend and we'll just have to see what happens from there.

Filed under  //  homes   marketing   real estate   sauble beach  

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Feb 26 / 7:08am

March Break Activities in South Bruce Peninsula

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Posted today by @TSBPrecreation

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Feb 23 / 8:17am

YouTube playlist: "Today's Special" - Short films about Sauble Beach

teledyn has shared a video playlist with you on YouTube.

For those who may have missed them, here's a youtube playlist compiling my earlier postings of Sauble and Owen Sound mini-documentaries.
Short and hastily edited cinéma vérité from special events in Ontario, mostly in and around Sauble Beach and Owen Sound. See http://sbp.teledyn.com for more about life on the edge of the Bruce bio-reserve.
click the side-tabs in the video frame to select between the films in the collection

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Feb 21 / 6:19am

Sauble Beach Winterfest 2010 at the XC Ski Trails

A short film of the wonderful winterfest party hosted by the Sauble Beach Cross-Country Ski AND Snowshoe Trails featured hotdogs, marshmallows, hot apple cider and the opening of their brand new snowshoe trails with snowshoes graciously provided by Suntrail Adventures. Sauble boasts the best classic Nordic ski trails in South Western Ontario; I don't know about that, but they certainly DO host the best community party in town, always welcoming, and a great time had by all.

For more on the official opening of the snowshoe trail, check out my earlier film of the ribbon cutting ceremony.

Filed under  //  applecider   cheesetrays   crosscountry   hotdogs   kids   nature   politics   saublebeach   skiing   snow   snowshoeing   suntrails   trails   winter   winterfest  

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Feb 15 / 11:47am

sauble beach - it's saturday night

As a salve from the Winter weather out there today, a bit of a summer weather blast from the past johnhowardbtfd just posted to YouTube ...

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Feb 15 / 11:43am

New Webservice Finds Local Business Permits and Licences

A new one-stop, online service, BizPal helps local businesses start up or grow by providing access to information on business permits and license requirements from all three levels of government. The main goal of BizPal is to make it faster and easier for entrepreneurs to get started by simplifying the time consuming document research process. BizPal is the result of a collaborative effort of the City of Owen Sound, Service Ontario, and Industry Canada.

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Feb 14 / 9:00am

How to Run A Really Big Festival: Tips from Burning Man

No commerce is allowed at Burning Man.  It’s one of the most unusual economic structures in the world–a ‘gift economy’.  Making Contact producer Andrew Stelzer’s been there, and sat down with Larry Harvey, the festival’s founder, to find out how it all works.

Burning Man is an annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada. The event is described as an experiment in community, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance, however, as organizers have noted, "Trying to explain what Burning Man is to someone who has never been to the event is a bit like trying to explain what a particular color looks like to someone who is blind." Burning Man is organized by Black Rock City, LLC. In 2008, 49,599 people participated in Burning Man

Filed under  //  economics   festivals  

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Feb 10 / 9:18pm

We've been GoogleMapped!

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Feb 9 / 7:21am

Family Day Freebies in the SBP

FAMILY DAY FEBRUARY 15 FREE FUN for KIDS of ALL AGES!
Bring family, friends, neighbors!

LAZER RUNNER 8:45 am  12:00 pm Kids must be over 3ft. tall to play.
Adventure! Bus leaves Propellor Club for Owen Sound 2 games of laser tag. Adult must accompany
children. Leaders NOT provided. Bus Returns to the Propeller Club @ 12:30pm

Wiarton Fit Family Funday 10:00 am  12:00 pm
Come out and use the gym, the equipment and play at Peninsula Shores School. Children must be
accompanied by an adult, supervision will not be provided.

Saugeen Shore Swimming 1:00 pm pickup
Bus leaves from Propeller Club/Meeting Place for an hour of swimming at the Saugeen Shores
Centennial Pool in Port Elgin. Adult must accompany children. Leaders NOT provided.
Bus returns to the Propeller Club at 4:00 pm

Bruce Peninsula Sportsman's Club Drop-in BBQ and Archery Demonstration 12:00 pm  3:00pm
Drop by the Bruce Peninsula Sportsmen's Club (off County Rd. #13 between Wiarton and Oliphant)
for instruction, hatchery tour and hot dogs.

Sauble Beach Fit Family Funday 1:00 pm  3:00 pm
 Come out and use the gym, the equipment and play at the Amabel Sauble School. Children must be
accompanied by an adult, supervision will not be provided.

Interested in driving yourself and your child to swimming & LaZer Runner? Call Mike Squier by 4:30
pm February 10th at 519 534 1400 x 132 to let us know you are going. If you do not let us know you
are coming we can't guarantee you will be able to participate.

Dinner & Movies at the Propeller Club
A Little Taste of Italy 5:00 pm - 6:30pm
Come out to the Propeller Club in Wiarton for a great spaghetti dinner served with a roll, Caesar salad
and frozen yogurt donated by Chapman's Ice Cream!

Movie Time Double Feature

The Fantastic Mr. Fox 6:45 pm  George Clooney, Meryl Streep & Bill Murray star in this stop motion
adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic children's novel. The Fantastic Mr. Fox is an enjoyable movie for
the entire family. (Family)

The Invention of Lying 8:00 pm  Ricky Gervais, Rob Lowe, Tina Fey and Jennifer Garner star in this
hilarious comedy set in a world that cannot lie, that is until Mark Bellison (Ricky Gervais) makes a
startling discovery and invents the LIE. (PG)

Adult must accompany children under 14. Teens and adults welcome.


For more information call Mike Squier at 519 534 1400 ext 132

(translated and reposted from the original opaque Town site PDF source page)

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Feb 2 / 6:13am

Six more weeks?

It was a late night with band practice, so the chances of the boys and I making a 6am call to head out to the Meeting Place was already pretty slim, the little guy was most disappointed. No problem says Dad, we'll just tune him in on the Internet when it gets to be time!
I don't like wiarton billie on Internet sez he (he calls him Billie, maybe to avoid copyright, I don't know, he's a local boy so I figure he knows)
8:00: showtime! We fire up mom's computer and head to wiartonwillie.org for the link to the live feed and guess what we find! ...

久しぶりのお弁当でした。

私は専業主婦なんで、昼食をきちんと食べる事自体が少ないのですが、家族が休みの時にはきちんと作って食べさせています。大体は、うどんとか、冷蔵庫の中の物で簡単に作れるものでお昼ご飯。と言うのが定番なんですが、今日はちょっと体調がいまいちだったので、久しぶりにお弁当にしました。お弁当と言っても、いつも自分で作って旦那さんに持たせる手作り弁当ではなく、お惣菜コーナーの物です。毎日自分の作った物しか食べないんで、こういう機会じゃないと人の作ってくれたものは食べられないんですよね。昔のお惣菜のイメージはまずいのに栄養バランス最低。と言う感じでしたが、今のお惣菜は美味しくて、しかも、お弁当は栄養バランスの考えられた物が多いんですね。今日は、その栄養士さんが考えたバランス弁当と言うのを買ってきてもらって、お昼にしました。たまには、こういうお昼もいいものですね。

Yah, ok ... looks like someone dropped a domain ball there somewhere! Ok, <tt>southbrucepeninsula.com</tt??  There's a willie page, but the photos are old and the news is as old, no links to feeds or media partners.  Time running out, we quickly head to google and type in Live Feed and what do we get? 2008. Hmmm ... ok ...

Last resort, we check in on CFOS in hopes for a live remote. What we get is some dimwit who is showing the dimness of his wit by trying to impress us with his 'ability' to invent gobbledegook groundhog names on the fly. He's not good at it, but we do learn he's not remote, and, yeah, well, he does give us the three-word summary of what went down on the mound this morning:

Wiarton Billie says: Six more weeks of winter!

Ok ... time for breakfast.

 

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