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The following is a list of upcoming health-related events at the Canton Senior/Community Center. For further information or to sign up, call the office at 860-693-5811.
Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2 p.m.: Nordic Walking Seminar — Jack Fila, certified “Nordic Walking” instructor, will hold a free seminar on the benefits of Nordic Walking. If there are enough interested participants, a class will run for four weeks in September.
Friday, Sept. 9, 12:30 p.m.: “Pertussis, DTap & Hi Dose Fluzone” Injections Presentation — Lori Hoover, RN, will talk about the new high-dose flu vaccine that is being made available to folks 65+ this year. Q&A to follow.
Wednesday, Sept 14, 1 p.m.: “Aging and the Eye” Presentation by Dr. Daniel Kessler — Many eye conditions and diseases such as cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy increase as a person grows older. Learn about these conditions, including how to prevent and treat them. Sign up in advance is requested. Q&A to follow.
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 1 p.m.: John Maisley of Patient Care will present a workshop on preventing falls, and what to do if you were to fall. After Q&A there will be a clinic to show folks how to properly use their canes and walkers. Sign-up is required for the workshop and the clinic at the Senior Center.
The following events also have been scheduled.
Wednesday, Sept. 7, Hawaiian Luau Brunch at Avon Senior Center. Pay $2 per person for brunch and live entertainment. Sign up at the Senior Center and pay by Sept. 2. This is a collaborative event between Canton and Avon senior centers. More details to come.
Monday, Sept. 12, 1-2 p.m.: Scrabble competition at Canton Senior Center sponsored by Cherry Brook Healthcare. Prizes and goodies. Sign up for a spot at 860-693-5811.
The Bus Drivers return to Mills Pond Park this evening, July 28, for an encore performance. You can expect a mix of classic rock, blues rock, southern rock and a little bit of country rock, according to the band’s website.
The event, the fourth in Canton’s six-week Summer Concert Series, runs from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Lions Club members will be on hand to sell food and beverages as the organization continues to raise money to help pay for renovation work at the Mills Pond Park pool house.
Click here for a look at The Bus Drivers performance in the park on July 15, 2010. Click here to check out The Bus Drivers’ website.
 Starting kindergarten is an exciting time for youngsters. To help these new students anticipate the challenges and emotions of their first school experience, the Canton Public Library will hold a special “Kindergarten: Welcome to School Story Time” on Tuesday, Aug. 23, at 10:30 a.m.
Yoga instructor Beth Griffin will host the event, which is designed to get children feeling happy and excited about going to kindergarten. It will feature stories about starting school, fun yoga poses designed to teach children how to deal with any emotions they may be feeling about entering kindergarten, and a great school bus craft.
Griffin is a certified yoga instructor who teaches yoga to children and families. She holds a bachelor’s degree in communication sciences from the University of Connecticut.
 "Overlooking East Beach In Watch Hill, R.I." / Art Chouinard Story time is free. Registration is required. Participants should dress in comfortable clothes they can stretch and move around in.
“Art Chouinard: Maritime Oil Paintings” continues through August in the Canton Public Library gallery.
Chouinard, a resident of Avon, is known for his realistic and detailed paintings, and has produced limited-edition prints of some of his originals. Chouinard sets up his easel at the library one day a month so patrons can watch him work. He will be at the library on Thursday, Aug. 18, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Maritime scenes are the primary focus of the ongoing show, but a few local and northeastern New England scenes are included. Chouinard’s paintings also are on display at Puffins in Watch Hill, R.I.
The library continues to celebrate its summer reading theme of “Monsters & Dragons & Aliens, Oh My!” for children and teens, 2 to 18.
The Summer Reading Program will end the week of Aug. 15. A pool party for school-age participants who earn their way in is set for Tuesday, Aug. 16, at Mills Pond Pool, and a preschool music party at the library with guest musicians Peter and Ellen Allard is set for Thursday, Aug. 18, at 11 a.m. The wrap party, which is a family concert, is for ages 2 and up. Free. No registration necessary. Continue reading Library Briefs, August
 Serenity in Marcia Marsted's "Garden of Whimsy." Photos: dotCANTON  A burst of blue, with a lion on the watch. Marcia Marsted nods in agreement when a visitor comments that her property looks different than it did the last time he was there, just before her September 2010 show as part of The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days Program.
Of course it does, she says, this is July, that was September.
“I (moved the date up) on purpose,” Marsted says. “If I do it again next year, it will be at the end of June (when, blooms being blooms, it will look different again).”
Marsted’s “Garden of Whimsy” at 125 Indian Hill Road in Canton will be open to the public this Sunday, July 24, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., once again in conjunction with The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days Program. It is a rain or shine event and no registration is required. Admission for a self-guided tour is $5 per person; children 12 and under are admitted free.
Marsted is continuing to recover from a devastating three-car crash on Avon Mountain that left her in critical condition less than three weeks after her Sept. 12, 2010, “Open Days” show. She has undergone multiple surgeries to repair injuries to her arms and legs, most recently on May 3. She says a metal plate needs to come out of her left arm in October.
The Avon Mountain crash occurred as Marsted was returning home from a fishing trip with her husband, Jeff, to Idaho and Wyoming. On Wednesday evening, July 20, Marcia and Jeff went fishing for the first time since the accident, testing their luck on the Farmington River in New Hartford.
Marcia, who lists fishing and photography among her passions, came up empty, but “Jeff caught (and released) a brown trout.” she says.
A two-time cancer survivor, Marsted published “About My Hair: A Journey to Recovery” in 2001, and in 2004 she established the Capelli d’Angeli Foundation, which is dedicated to helping women artists with cancer.
The Garden Conservancy is based in Cold Spring, N.Y. Its stated mission “is to preserve exceptional American gardens for the education and enjoyment of the public.”
The Open Days program runs from March 26 to early November and includes gardens from southern Maine to southern California. Click here to find out more about The Garden Conservancy.
For a sneak peek at Marcia Marsted’s “Garden of Whimsy,” click on any of the images in the gallery below and use the arrow left or arrow right button at the bottom of the larger image that pops up. To return to this page, click on the full image you are viewing.
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The Bossy Frog Band, which describes itself as “a fun and funky musical experience for children young and old” and comes with a large green frog in costume, will be performing this evening, Thursday, July 21, in Mills Pond Park.
The event, the third in Canton’s six-week Summer Concert Series, runs from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Lions Club members will be on hand to sell food and beverages as the organization continues to raise money to help pay for renovation work at the Mills Pond Park pool house.
Click here to check out The Bossy Frog Band’s website.
(Event date corrected 7/20)
In what’s being billed as the Collinsville Summer Cool-Down Bash, Downright Music & Art will team up with the Collinsville Congregational Church for a free outdoor concert on church grounds, 7 South St., on Sunday, Aug. 28, from 2:30 to 4:3o p.m.
Free balloons and gifts will be available, and visitors will be invited to make their own free Canton Creamery ice cream sundaes during the show.
The musicians will include Downright Music & Art co-owner Andrew Decker and a select group of Downright students and teachers. In addition, Jay North, who leads contemporary worship at the church twice a month, will be accompanied by his band to showcase a number of Christian contemporary music hits.
For additional information, contact Collinsville Congregational Church at 860-693-6333 or at collcong@sbcglobal.net, or contact Downright Music & Art at 860-693-6530.
 Steamy photos taken by dotCANTON.com at last year's Lobsterfest: lobsters ...  chowder ... It’s time to start talking and thinking lobsters, as in Lobsterfest and Lobster Loop.
The 31st annual Lobsterfest, a three-day bender of lobster, New England clam chowder and corn on the cob, begins five weeks from today on Friday evening, Aug. 19, at the Canton Volunteer Fire Company on Canton Springs Road.
The Friday evening eatin’ begins at 6 and runs to 9:30 p.m.
 and corn. You can do it all again on Saturday, Aug. 20, anytime from noon to 9:30 p.m., or on Sunday, Aug. 21, from noon to 4 p.m. (if the food lasts that long).
The price per meal is $18, and that gets you lobsta, chowda, corn and a beverage.
A year ago, Canton Voluntary Fire Company member Corey Russo told dotCANTON that Friday is always the busiest time at Lobsterfest, with about 1,800 dinners consumed between 6 and 9:30 p.m.
He said then that the company anticipated 2,200 more dinners would be ordered between noon and 9:30 p.m. on Day 2. Russo said 4,200 lobsters were purchased up front for last year’s event, and that more were obtainable if needed. He said the company purchased 4,500 ears of corn. A year ago, Russo guessed that 350 gallons of New England clam chowder would be consumed on Friday night alone.
This year, you might be looking for something to eat at noon on Sunday if you’ve spent the morning participating in the 20th annual Lobster Loop, a 5K road race and noncompetitive health walk that begins and ends at the Canton Town Green. Start time on Sunday, Aug. 21 is 8:30 a.m.
The nonrefundable entry fee is $20 if received on or before Aug. 17, and $25 on the day of the race. Event day registration opens at 7:30 a.m.
The Lobster Loop benefits the Canton Middle School PTO. Click here for a mail-in registration form and more information.
Click here for a dotCANTON report on last year’s Lobster Loop.
 The 2010 Lobster Loop: Looking back on a wet Sunday morning. Photo: dotCANTON – dotCANTON
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