Looking for a friendly spot to warm up in the mid day Sunday of the Groundhog festival weekend? Songwriters Karen Holgate and May Ip say pack up a few songs, stories, poems or whatever, grab that old guitar and drop by the Wiarton Lions Sunday pub for their Home Made Jam:

Through the years of its becoming more and more a commercial tourism event, the festival has moved away from the grassroot. We hope to create something like the Wake Up Willie parties in the old days.

The jamming is happening in the upstairs multi-purpose room of Wiarton Arena from 2 to 4pm. Join in the singing, watch the hockey from the press-box view, meetup with your friends or just hang around and keep warm. Admission is "a song" and there is a cash bar; all proceeds from the bar go to support local Lions projects.

[ Source: Just Us: Home made jam ]