☀️🍂Your Manitoulin weekend guide: 150th Manitowaning Fall Fair, Sheshegwaning Powwow, and more!

🗓️ Weekend Events

🍂 Harvest Glory Days

It’s Harvest Glory Days time again! So start planning to decorate your corner of beautiful Manitoulin in the Harvest Glory Days theme. Last year’s winners Aundeck Omni Kaning (Community Spirit-Small community) and Gore Bay (Community Spirit-Large Community) will be defending their titles. on Page 20 of this week’s edition of The Expositor for details and an entry form.

🍁 Fall Fair

The 150^th Annual Manitowaning Fall Fair, presented by the Manitowaning Agricultural Society, takes place . This year’s theme is “Looking Into the Future and Back to Our Roots.” To help celebrate the occasion of the 150^th anniversary, admission is free. See the story on Page 3 and in this week’s edition of The Expositor for details.

🎶 Powwow

The Annual Sheshegwaning Powwow takes place . Host drum is Chi-Geezis, with second host drum River Wild. Head dancers are Tracy and Wes Cleland, with youth head dances Daynara Cyr and Tayton Mianskum. Head veteran is Jimmy Atkinson and master of ceremonies Joey Laford. .

🥞 Pancake

Start the fall fair off right with a pancake breakfast at Knox United Church in Manitowaning on . Adults: $15, ages six and up $7.50 and under five free.

🚗 Junk in the Trunk

A Junk in the Trunk sale gets underway at Little Current United Church on . Proceeds to benefit the church.

🐟 Fish Feast

The annual Manitoulin Snowdusters’ fish supper will be held at the Rockville Hall on . $25 per person, $10 for children 10 and under. .

🎵 Singing

Voices North is back! The popular choral ensemble will be performing at the Mindemoya Community Hall on . The performance runs from 7 pm to 8:30 pm. The ensemble offers classical, jazz, folk and more, with special guest cellist David MacDonald. Tickets are $25 (see the QR code on Page 11 in this week’s edition of The Expositor). For more information call 705-282-4955. .

💡 Don't forget

Mountain bike enthusiast looking for a great summer diversion? . No bike, no worries. They also have hardtail Norco rentals ready for your ride.
Don’t forget to make sure you are on the voters’ list for the upcoming municipal elections in your community. RegistertoVoteON.ca.
Seeking a new career or just starting out in the workforce? Check out our Job Board and our Help Wanted section in the newspaper.
Looking for a new Island home? Island realtors fill the back pages of The Expositor with a host of great offerings.
If you are looking for a great Island-themed autumn read, you should to check out our bookstore. Dan Manitowabi’s two books are now available.
For an up-to-date listing of an Island event check out our Events page.
The new crisis line at the Manitoulin Family Resources Haven House women’s shelter is 705-968-0499—this number can also accept text messages and is answered 24/7.

✍️ What we're working on

Manitoulin is a blastomycosis hotspot. The Expositor has reached out to Islanders who have been battling the disease, veterinarians and health officials to learn what the disease is like and how prevalent it actually is.
A celebration of life for the late Doug Smith, founder of Manitoulin Transport, takes place in Gore Bay this weekend.
A new integrity bill is entering its final commentary phase and is slated to come into effect in November, following the municipal elections. The Expositor looks into the challenges presented by the current patchwork system and what it has cost ratepayers.

☀️ Weather

The heavens shine down on The Swing Bridge. —photo by Sean S.

According to Environment Canada Friday will see a daytime high of 21°C under sunny skies with temperatures dropping to a low of 14°C overnight under clear skies.

Saturday will see a 40 percent chance of showers and a daytime high of 21°C. Temperatures drop to 12°C overnight accompanied by a 60 percent chance of showers.

Sunday is expected to continue to be dampish as the chance of showers is 40 percent, and the daytime high only 17°C. Temperatures will drop to a low of 9°C Sunday night with the chance of showers also dropping to 30 percent.

🤔 In case you missed it

A ceremony dedicating the Manitoulin swing bridge to the memory of fallen OPP Constable Marc Hovingh was held at the Manitoulin Hotel and Conference Centre. The event was attended by many dignitaries, members of the Hovingh family, friends and a host of emergency services members, who packed the hall to overflowing.
Two fires over the course of three days, one in Billings and the other in Wiikwemkoong, each caused a fatality. The names of the victims have not been officially released and the fires are currently under investigation.
The Expositor has reached out to the new owner of the Neverlanding, a barge-like vessel that has been marooned in the Goat Island Channel for months. The new owner has committed to moving the vessel south and has launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise gas money for the trip.