Apple TV+’s ‘Schmigadoon!’: TV Review Daniel Fienberg
My grandmother loved musicals. She loved seeing them and singing along with them, and she loved announcing, when a song came on the radio or came up in conversation, “I wrote that one!”
See, my grandmother also loved writing musical parodies. Whether she was reconceiving the classics for friends and family at the Wapaska Lodge on Muskoka Bay, or as part of talent shows or fundraisers for the New Mount Sinai Hospital Women’s Auxiliary, it was the rare musical classic that she hadn’t already given her own spin like the indelible “Fanny Get Your BB Gun,” with “BB” standing, of course, for “B’nai B’rith.”
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The Town of Gravenhurst has reopened a portion of Muskoka Beach Park along with all other public beaches, and some amenities.
The reopening comes three weeks earlier than the usual summer season, and is in response to the reopening plan announced by the Ontario government last week.
Muskoka Beach Park will have a designated swim area to accommodate the ongoing construction on the beach’s shoreline walls and picnic area.
Beach construction is required to adhere to a small window of time in the summer to follow federal and provincial guidelines on fish habitat protection.
GRAVENHURST, ONT. The Ontario government pulled the emergency brake putting the province in a shutdown effective Saturday after surging COVID cases - a move that sent a shockwave through the business community in Muskoka. Retailers say mixed messages from the province make matters worse. We constantly hearing the words lockdown and shutdown, and yet the framework has changed and retailers, like myself, are open at 25 per cent capacity, says Judy Terry, Muskoka Bay Clothing. While plans are underway for the tourism season, the president of Muskoka Steamships says one of the region s most iconic tourist attractions, the Segwun, will stay parked. It s just too hard to predict what s going to happen this summer with the restrictions and with occupancy and distancing required, John Miller says. The Segwun just doesn t become viable once we reduce her passenger counts.
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Everybody has a story, everybody has things they ve done, Harvey Fraser insisted as he sat down to talk to a reporter about why he was one of four people to receive this year s City of Kamloops Distinguished Service Award. I was surprised they chose me, he said during an interview inside the Heffley Creek house he built in 1972, with its wooden beams and fir floor inlaid with mahogany and walnut.
Yeah, but no one has told Fraser s story, and although he s shy about it, it s a story worth telling.
Fraser was born in 1930 in Gravenhurst, Ont., in the District of Muskoka, which is the area s cottage country. The town of 1,200 would swell up with a few thousand tourists in the summer, tripling or even quadrupling in population.