Weekly Roundup: February 29 – March 4

Monday, February 29

Board Game Networking – Join us for a fun way to end your day, networking with other business owners while playing one or more board games. Develop your strategic thinking skills and enjoy casual conversations that may be easier to have around a gaming table when the focus is on something else, than at a more formal networking event. Stay for as short as half an hour or as long as two and a half. You don’t have to know how to play the games before you come. 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. @ The Learning Initiative Business School – 124 Cedar Street

Minecraft Club – Come along to our bi-weekly Minecraft club, meet other like-minded gamers and swap tips and tricks and play in a safe environment. Please bring your own device (laptop, iPad, iPod, Android, etc).  4:00 p.m. @ Greater Sudbury Public Library – 74 Mackenzie Street

R-Word Campaign: Take the Pledge – Best Buddies will be hosting the “R” Word Campaign. This campaign asks people to pledge to stop using the R-word (retarded) as a starting point toward creating more accepting attitudes and communities for all people. This campaign will express the impact and effects language has on our community. We would like to help our students understand the impacts and inform them of other words they can use in place of. 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. @ Laurentian Univeristy in the Great Hall Foyer 

ARC Leap Day Time Capsule – Have some photos of your first climbs at ARC, news snippets of your climbing heroes, a mix CD of your climbing tunes, souvenirs of your climbing trips, memories of your favourite ARC events, or anything else you’d like to contribute? We’ll stash it all away in a time capsule for ARC patrons (maybe you!) to open at our NEXT leap day celebration four years from now! 7:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. @ ARC – 1981 Old Burwash Road

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Tuesday, March 1

Sudbury Trivia Night Double Digest – 3 rounds of 15 questions, and one bonus question per round. Pages are marked a-la grade 5 math class by passing them to a friend. Points scored for being awesome and promoting awesome things! Find a funny answer on someone’s card, even if its not the right answer you can still nominate them for an awesome star. We also reward jokers and pranksters and all those who don’t cheat! Winner takes home bragging rights and some awesome prizes. Did we mention that the overall highest score takes home half the pot? 8:00 p.m. @ Fromagerie Elgin – 80 Elgin Street

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Wednesday, March 2

Celebrity Server for Northern Ontario Families of Children with Cancer – Meet the Miss Northern Ontario 2015 Contestants as they support the Northern Ontario Families of Children with Cancer. This is a great local organization, and you can support them just by coming out for dinner! And you can meet a great group of ladies! 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. @ Boston Pizza – 120 Donna Drive

Prioritizing Low Costs vs. Fair Trade and/or Organic Food – This is a members discussion surrounding our product policies. Questions for our members: Should we have a varied offering of food that is low cost for budget-conscious members? Should we maintain our local & organic product priorities over what could be lower cost products? 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. @ reThink Green – 176 Larch Street Suite 305

Evening Owl Prowl – Come over to the dark side and meet those amazing birds that exist by moonlight! Spend the evening with Chris Blomme and Greg Blomme, from the Sudbury Ornithological Society, who will introduce you to the fascinating lives of our local species of owls. Then take a quiet night hike, where we will try to call in some wild owls. Warm up with hot chocolate in the Nature Chalet afterwards. 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. @ Lake Laurentian Conservation Area – 2309 South Bay Road.

NCRD Fresh Meat Training – Get your skates and gear ready!
NCRD Nickel City Roller Derby is getting ready to train the next group of new and excited derby GIRLS and GUYS and JUNIORS! Dont know how to roller skate? Never seen a roller derby bout? No worries! We teach you how through our Fresh Meat Training program. From basic skills in falling and stopping, to intermediate juking and hitting in a step by step 3 month training course. 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. @ Sudbury Events Centre – 19 Regent Street

Workers Night Out – An evening of music and discussion with Charlie Angus MP, the Sudbury Workers’ Education and Advocacy Centre (SWEAC), and the Angels Local NO. 23. (A preclude to the Charlie Angus guest lecture at Dr. Jennifer Keck Series at Laurentian University.) Tickets or donation at door $10 – 7.00 p.m. – 10.00 p.m. @ The Laughing Buddha – 194 Elgin St.

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Thursday, March 3

Dinner & An Album Release with Corin Raymond – Corin Raymond, is returning to Sudbury for the official release date of his much-anticipated new album, Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams. Tickets: $50.00 (dinner  & show) | $19 (show only) – 6:00 p.m. @ Motley Kitchen – 70 Young St.

Painting Party! – Enjoy an evening out with friends while Mary-Ann LeClair from Connect & Create Mobile Painting Parties walks you step-by-step through the creation of your own unique piece of canvas art. Cost: $45 and $15 will be donated to R. L Beattie – 6:10 p.m. – 10:10 p.m. @ Taphouse Northern Grill + Pub – 1500 Regent Street

Ivory Hours, The Honest Heart Collective, Odyssey – A white-hot pop/rock show with two of Canada’s buzziest up and coming indie bands! Cost: $10 – 10:00 p.m. @ The Townehouse Tavern – 206 Elgin Street

GHETTOSOCKS w/ Dan Doesn’t Sleep & Pretty Boi K.O. presented by SYNERGY-SGP & Cage Call – Cost: $10 – 10:00 p.m. @ Peddler’s Pub – 63 Cedar Street

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Friday, March 4

Free Nordic Skiing – The event will be located at the stadium chalet of the Nordic skiing club. It is located on the far side of the track and field stadium. When traveling to the Ben Avery building you will take a right just before the fence starts for the track and field stadium and continue on that road until you can take a left into a small parking lot. The chalet is located just behind the parking lot. 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. @ Laurentian Nordic Ski Club 

SCC Porketta Bingo – Porketta Bingo at the Beef Friday night in support of St. Charles College Athletics! 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. @ Beef N’ Bird – 923 Lorne Street

White Cowbell Oklahoma – Tonight’s special is a Sawdust City Tap Takeover. The night before the Northern Ontario MicroBrew Festival hits Sudbury, we are pleased to host Sawdust City Brewing with one of Canada’s greatest Rock and Roll Parties… White Cowbell Oklahoma. Tickets: $15 – 10:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m. @ The Townehouse Tavern – 206 Elgin Street

Country Night with Mechanical Bull – Join us for our Semi-Annual Country Night at Cousin Vinny’s! Event features DJ MC Marx, Mechanical Bull & cash prizes for longest bull times for best female and male riders. Tickets: $5 advance | $10 at the door – 10:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m. @ Cousin Vinny’s Restaurant & Bar – 5085 Hwy 69 North