⛱️ Head downtown for Kempenfest this weekend!

Kempenfest is Barrie Ontario’s signature festival event, celebrating 53 years Aug 1-4, 2025, located across two-kilometers of Barrie’s beautiful waterfront.

The annual event is one of Ontario’s largest waterfront festivals, featuring 300 arts & crafts vendors, a midway, youth village, antiques, face painters, buskers, great food, a poutine village, and two stages of live music!

The long-weekend event offers free entry for all-ages, to all areas of the festival, with the exception of the MainStage concerts being ticketed events between 4pm-10pm on Friday-Sunday, and 12pm-6pm on the long-weekend Monday.

📆 August 1st to 4th.

📍 Kempenfelt Beach, Barrie.

🦓 Take a trip to the Elmvale Jungle Zoo

Discover an exciting and educational outdoor adventure at the Elmvale Jungle Zoo. Walk along shaded and winding trails. View majestic white lions and tigers. Delight in the playful antics of monkeys and lemurs. Watch the mischievious baby animals play. Admire the beauty of rare and exotic birds and other wildlife in the natural surroundings of the zoo's 30 acres.

📆 Summer Hours: daily from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Children 3-12 are $18.95, Adults 13-59 are $25.95 and Seniors 60+ are $23.95.

Children 2 years and under are free.

📍 14191 Simcoe County Rd 27, Phelpston.

🪩 Glow in the Dark Mini Put @ Horseshoe

Mini golf gets a glow‑up at Horseshoe Valley Resort every Saturday night this summer! From 8 PM to 11 PM, the 18‑hole Ridgetop Mini Golf course is transformed with neon lights and glowing features for a fun nighttime putting experience.

No tee times required: just buy online or in person, show your receipt at the Mini Putt Hut, grab your glow gear and go. It's laid‑back, playful, and luminous under the summer sky.

📆 Summer Weekends : Saturday from 8 to 11 p.m.

Tickets are $15, kids under 3 are free, group ticket for 4 is $50.

📍 101 Horseshoe Valley Rd W, Barrie.

🥘 Recipe of the Week: Peanut Chicken Protein Bowls

The beauty of grain bowls? They're infinitely adaptable. You can roast just about any veggie, use any number of toppings, and highlight any protein, and it'll just work combined in a grain bowl. With a homemade peanut dressing, sliced chicken, sweet potato, spinach, and avocado, this healthy dinner is one we love to meal prep at the beginning of the week, then assemble and feast on all week long.

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🗞️ Local Good News Stories

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🏴‍☠️ Swashbuckling fun returns to Discovery Harbour with Pirates of the Bay. Read More.

📕 Fantasy novel inspired by bedtime stories, Cree grandmother. Read more.

👩 Vulva Forest Walk returns with important message about women’s health. Read more.

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🚣 Two teens rescued after strong wind blows them out into Kempenfelt Bay. Read more.

 🌆 What’s Happenin’

Friday

🏠️ Escape Room: Bad Guys ticketed event @ Barrie Library Holly Branch - 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Learn more.

👩‍🌾 Oro-Medonte Farmers Market @ Chappell Farms - 12 p.nm. to 6 p.m. Learn more.

🎬️ Friday Flicks @ The Barrie Library Painswick Branch - 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Learn more.

🎬️ Friday Flicks @ The Barrie Library Painswick Branch - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Learn more.

🎹 DJ & Live Music at CIBC Pier @ Friday Harbour - 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Learn more.

Saturday

👩‍🌾 Barrie Farmers’ Market @ City Hall - 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Learn more.

🛍️ The Market @ Friday Harbour - 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Learn more.

🌻 Sunflower Experience @ Rounds Ranch - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Learn More.

🏴‍☠️ Pirates of the bay @ Discovery Harbour - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Learn More.

🎹 DJ & Live Music at CIBC Pier @ Friday Harbour - 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Learn more.

🪩 Glow in the Dark Mini Putt @ Horseshoe Valley Resort - 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Learn More.

Sunday 

🧘‍♀️ Sunday Morning Yoga @ Horseshoe Valley Resort - 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

🛍️ The Market @ Friday Harbour - 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Learn more.

🎥 Once Upon a Time Movies @ Barrie Library Downtown - 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Learn more.

♟️ Checkmates & Boardgames @ Barrie Library Downtown - 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Learn More.

☀️ Barrie Weekend Weather

Friday 23° 🌡️ 12° l ☀️ l 0 mm💧 l 23 - 35 kmh 🌬️ 

Saturday 30° 🌡️ 16° l 🌤️ l 0 mm💧 l 22 - 33 kmh 🌬️ 

Sunday 32° 🌡️ 15° l ☀️ l 0 mm 💧 l 16 - 24 kmh 🌬️ 

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