Kate’s 5 enjoyable issues to do in and round Waterloo area: Sept. 12 to 14

A heat September weekend is forward of us with a number of occasions happening all through Waterloo area and surrounding space.

The Cambridge Fire Department is holding an open house Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There can be an opportunity to fulfill employees, tour the hearth vehicles, take part in junior firefighter video games and watch a stay hearth demonstration.

The Hunger No More Food Festival and Fundraiser can be held at Tiny Home Takeout at St. Mary’s Church in downtown Kitchener on Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. More than 20 native cooks and eating places can be providing free samples of their dishes, there can be stay music, a children zone and an artisan market. There are not any tickets for this occasion and as a substitute it is donate what you possibly can.

There’s a paranormal night at the Fire Hall Museum in Cambridge on Saturday night. The Ontario Paranormal Society can be exploring our 127-year-old constructing for paranormal exercise. Tickets are required.

It’s additionally the monarch tagging weekend on the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory. This occasion is included in common admission and there can be hands-on actions for all ages.

Bestival takes place Friday and Saturday in Kitchener’s Belmont Village. The two days have a lot of music and leisure, there’s an artwork workshop and a children space with a lot of hands-on actions. 

Guelph Jazz Festival

Friday 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday 11:15 a.m. to 11 p.m., Sunday 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Downtown Guelph and different areas

All occasions at this 12 months’s Guelph Jazz Festival are free or pay-what-you-can and there is a lot of music with live shows in St. George’s Square, at Royal City Mission and at Silence.

There’s additionally Jazz Around Town the place native eating places could have musicians performing all through the weekend.

Okay-W Knitters’ Fair

Saturday 9:30 a.m. to three:30 p.m.

Kitchener Memorial Auditorium

All belongings you want for knitting and needle crafts can be at this occasion. Find inspiration in some new yard, try the assorted distributors who can be there and benefit from the trend present.

Art Fair and CreekFest

Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Homer Watson House and Gallery, 1754 Old Mill Rd., Kitchener

This is 2 free occasions rolled into one. The artwork truthful will characteristic items that embody acrylic work, images, sculptures and textiles.

CreekFest is an artwork and surroundings competition that may embody a block occasion, operating a neighborhood mural undertaking within the park, dance performances and music.

Fall Fairs

It’s fall truthful season and listed below are those in or close to Waterloo area:

• The New Hamburg Fall Fair runs all weekend and has the standard truthful expertise with livestock reveals, reveals and competitions, a halfway, demolition derby, rest room seat races, leisure for kids and stay music.
• Fergus Fall Fair runs all weekend and consists of livestock reveals, workshops and demonstrations, stay music, truck and tractor pulls, a canine present, automobile present and halfway rides and video games.
• Harriston-Minto Fall Fair is “kinda korny” this 12 months and this truthful runs till Sunday. It additionally has livestock reveals, reveals and competitions, a parade, cleaning soap field derby, children space and a bubble occasion. 

Guelph Comics Jam

Saturday 10 a.m. to six p.m.

Old Quebec Street Shoppes, downtown Guelph

This occasion will characteristic Canadian comedian artwork and native artists and writers you can meet and speak to about their craft. There’s additionally a maker market, video games and merchandise from the Jam company.

Bonus: Terry Fox Run

On Sunday, you will note folks strolling and operating in giant teams as a part of the Terry Fox Run.

Held every year to honour the legacy of Terry Fox and his 1980 Marathon of Hope, the place he had a objective of operating throughout Canada to lift cash and consciousness for most cancers analysis, there are runs in most native communities.

Find your native run on the Terry Fox Foundation web site.

WATCH | This 7-year-old misplaced his eye to most cancers. Now he desires others to hitch him on the Terry Fox Run:

This 7-year-old misplaced his eye to most cancers. Now he desires others to hitch him on the Terry Fox Run

Seven-year-old Mateo Alfaro of Waterloo misplaced his proper eye to most cancers after he was recognized with most cancers at seven months previous. Now, he desires folks to hitch this 12 months’s Waterloo Terry Fox Run to lift funds for most cancers analysis in hopes of in the future having the ability to eliminate the illness for good.

Double Bonus: Local hockey motion 

Players are hitting the ice this weekend in native hockey motion:

• The Cambridge RedHawks open their common season Saturday at 7 p.m. on the Galt Arena Gardens once they tackle St. Catharines. There’s a tail gate occasion earlier than the sport from 2 p.m. to six p.m. in Soper Park subsequent to the sector the place there can be a children enjoyable zone space, axe throwing, inflatables, participant autographs, plus a free used hockey tools giveaway.
• The home opener for Waterloo Siskins is Sunday at 1:30 p.m. When they tackle the London Nationals on the Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex.
• The Ayr Centennials are in Brantford on Saturday afternoon, then head to Welland on Sunday.
• The Kitchener Rangers host the Oshawa Generals Friday night time at 7 p.m. in pre-season motion. Then they’re going to head to Windsor to tackle the Spitfires Saturday night time.
• The Guelph Storm are in Brantford Friday night time to face the Bulldogs.