Events!
The Reading Room Cafe is available to book for your Event!!
Drop us a line or give us a ring for details.
Reading!!
On Thursday December 17th at 7pm, the Reading Room Bookstore will be hosting a reading by:
Richard Mackie,
of his new book…Mountain Timber.
Mountain Timber
The Comox Logging Company in the Vancouver Island Mountains
On one level the story of loggers and their machines—cold deckers, skidders, geared locies and many more—Mountain Timber is also a dense and engrossing social history of central Island in the mid-20th century. The book’s nine chapters alternate revealingly between logging and social history: between working landscapes and the communities they supported. A stunning visual feast, this richly illustrated history contains 340 photographs of the men, women, families and communities supported by logging. Mackie has gathered most of the photos, many of them hitherto unpublished, from 60 private collections. Mountain Timber also contains 18 maps and diagrams of logging camps, methods and aspects of railway and highlead logging technology.
HISTORY • 8.5 x 11 • 320 pp
350+ b/w photos & maps
ISBN 13: 978-1-55039-171-8; 1-55039-171-2
Please do come out and join us for this entrtaining and educational event!!
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Sooke Lions Club
You are invited to join in the fun and the challenge
Of the:
3rd. Annual Great Chili Challenge
Sept. 12th. 2009
This is your official invitation to join in the fun as well as the challenge of this exciting event. Enter your company, team or club as a team and challenge others to do the same. This one-day family even was well received in its first two years and is now growing to become a entertaining way to spend a Saturday and raise money for a good cause. All proceeds raised at this event go directly into Sooke Lions Clubs charities as well as help the community of Sooke. Not only do you have the teams competing for the audience votes for their chili but for their votes for the teams antics cooking it. All the cooking is done in plain view of the audience who get to test these wild and sometimes interesting twists on a camping and picnic favorite as well as the perfect meal chili. There also is live music to help entertain the crowd and the cooks from the starting gong till the time of tasting. The crowd has the final say in who has done the best job of creating and cooking their chili as well as who did the best job decorating and showman ship while cooking it. Prizes and plaques as well as the Great Chili Challenge trophy are rewarded to the top three finalists for chili and booths. So come on out and compete or just watch the fun, in Sooke along side of the 93rd. Sooke Fall Fair, and the Third Annual Great Chili Challenge.
For more information please drop by our website @
http://www.sookelionsclub.org
or call
Greg Sadler @ 778-425-0301 or 250-889-0301
Dave Nash @ 250-642-4515
Don Mayo @ 250-642-4300
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