Monday Special Blend
Monday August 31st, 2026 with Nathanael Newton & Maria Hawkins
Pride parade, naloxone training, Ukrainian Festival in Carleton Place
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| Pride parade video
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| Fly at night Bill henderson - - The james Taylor show 
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| Magic wand Taylor James - |
| Killeagh Kingfishr -
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| Wise woman Mallory Johnson and twin Kennedy -
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| Carleton Place, Ontario — 30 August 2026
For the first time, a 160-metre embroidered European record leaves Europe — for Carleton Place CARLETON PLACE, ON — An embroidered cloth 160.5 metres long, stitched by communities across more than a dozen European countries, will be shown outside Europe for the first time on Sunday, September 13, at UA FEST in Riverside Park. It is made of 89+ separate panels, each contributed by a different family, church, school, or organization supporting Ukraine and Ukrainians abroad — some naming two places: a hometown in Ukraine, and wherever that family ended up. On May 15 this year, in Tallinn, the Book of World Records certified the cloth as a European Record. Canada is its 15th country, and Carleton Place is the first stop on this continent. Two rushnyky, one idea In 2013–2014, Andrii Yatsenko — then Director of the Department of Education and Science, Youth and Sports of the Kherson Regional State Administration — led an embroidery initiative across the Kherson region. Children, alongside their parents and teachers, stitched a rushnyk in schools, kindergartens and universities. University and college students, together with cadets from the Kherson State Maritime Academy and the Kherson Maritime School, carried the finished cloth — more than 700 metres long — across the Antonivskyi Bridge, joining both banks of the Dnipro to symbolize the unity of the Ukrainian nation. The Ukrainian Book of Records certified it as a national record. In 2022, russian forces looted the Kherson museum where the cloth was being kept. Museum staff got it out. It survived the occupation, and remains in Kherson today, in a local museum. A second, separate rushnyk carries the idea forward, uniting Ukrainians and people of good will outside of Ukraine. Launched once again by Andrii Yatsenko in October 2024 in Tallinn, Rushnyk of Unity – Rushnyk of Victory has grown panel by panel through Ukrainian communities in Estonia, Portugal, Germany, France, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Italy, Austria, Ireland, Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom. This is the rushnyk now travelling the world, and the one arriving in Carleton Place. Lanark County has stitched its own panel Every community that hosts the cloth is invited to embroider its own section — 50 cm wide, 1.5 to 2 metres long, white linen or cotton, any technique. UA FEST ran open stitching circles through the summer so that local residents, Ukrainian or not, could work on it. On September 13 the Lanark County panel gets sewn onto the rushnyk on the main stage. It will name Carleton Place, alongside the towns in Ukraine that people here came from. The festival UA FEST (Ukrainian Fest Lanark County) runs Sunday, September 13, 2026, 12:00–18:00, at Riverside Park, Lake Ave W, Carleton Place. Admission is free. It began in the spring of 2023, when Carleton Place resident Gloria Bradley held a garage sale to help Ukrainian families who had arrived in the county. The money paid for the first festival on November 5, 2023; about 1,000 people came. Last year it was more than 4,000. The organizers are aiming for 5,000 this year. There has never been a paid member of staff. The day runs zone by zone: a main stage of live Ukrainian music and dance; Ukrainian kitchens serving borscht, varenyky, sausage and sweets, with a varenyky-eating contest; a Ukrainian tavern; a market of handmade embroidery, jewellery and goods from Ukrainian makers; hands-on workshops in motanka doll-making, petrykivka painting and straw weaving; a heritage exhibition; a children's zone; and a business-networking forum connecting Ukrainian entrepreneurs with Lanark County companies. The Unity Ride & Drive convoy finishes at the festival gates as the day opens at noon. Part of each year's proceeds goes to a charity working with children affected by the war — Rotary for Kids of Heroes in 2023, Save Ukraine in 2024, Kids of Ukraine in 2025–2026. |
| Woman Laura Lucas -
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| Hina Na Ho (Celebration) Susan Aglukark -
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| Today is International Overdose Awareness Day. Unseen Ottawa is hosting a free public event at Dundonald Park on Somerset Street West, from five until nine tonight. There is free naloxone training, free take home kits, and local support services on site. Everyone is welcome and it is free to attend. |
| Holding Out for a Hero Bonnie Tyler - |
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8:27 AM, August 31st, 2026