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In today’s Mom Scoop:
🌎 City Nature Challenge @ Varying Barrie Locations
💚 Clean and Green Barrie Community Cleanup
🖐 Share your feedback on Barrie’s new waterfront plan
🍽 Recipe Of The Week: Pasta Primavera
🗞 Local Good News Stories
🌆 What’s Happenin’
Let’s get to it!
🌎 City Nature Challenge @ Varying Barrie Locations
The City Nature Challenge Barrie Kickoff invites everyone to step outside, explore nearby green spaces, and start documenting local wildlife. Aimed for families, participants get a quick intro to the Challenge, simple tips for spotting and photographing species, and guidance on using iNaturalist to upload observations that help our city’s biodiversity count grow. Play a few games along the way while we capture wild species in the park.
Open for all ages and abilities. Pre-registration is required.
📍 Sunnidale Park - Friday April 24th - 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Register.
📍 Allandale Station Park - Saturday April 25th - 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Register.
💚 Clean and Green Barrie - DIY Community Cleanup
Clean and Green Barrie is a community-wide initiative that inspires residents, community organizations and businesses to take pride in the places where they live, work, and play by joining together to keep our beautiful city litter-free.
Community groups, sports teams, neighbourhood associations, families, and individuals are invited to clean public spaces across Barrie such as a neighbourhood park, ravine or trail. Businesses can register to clean up local parks, trails, or ravines near their workplaces. By registering, you will receive special collection bags and the garbage will be collected at pre-determined designated drop-off areas.
📆 Wednesday April 22nd until Sunday, April 26th.
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🖐 Share Your Feedback: “Dance, Dine, Play: A New Vision for Barrie’s Central Waterfront”
The Centennial Park Food and Activity Hub will introduce new food experiences, gathering spaces, and activity areas organized around three zones: Dance, Dine, and Play.
Centennial Park is the heart of Barrie's waterfront — a beloved gathering place where the city comes to celebrate, unwind, and connect with Lake Simcoe. The Food and Activity Hub builds on that foundation, imagining a new kind of destination at the water's edge: one that draws people in throughout the season, creates real economic opportunity for local food producers and entrepreneurs, and deepens the park's role as a place where everyday life and community celebration happen side by side. This project is about more than amenities — it's about strengthening what makes Barrie's waterfront worth coming back to.
Community Feedback Pop-ups:
Learn more about the project and share your feedback at one of the following in-person community pop-ups:
Saturday, April 25, from 3 to 5 pm at Peggy Hill Team Community Centre (171 Mapleton Avenue)
Saturday, April 25 from 9 am to 1 pm at the Barrie Farmers' Market (inside the City Hall Rotunda at 70 Collier Street)
Review the plans and share your feedback online here.
👩🍳 Recipe of the Week: Pasta Primavera
This pasta primavera recipe is light, fresh, and simple to make. Packed with colorful veggies, it's the perfect easy dinner for spring or summer night.
🗞 Local Good News Stories
🏥 RVH learning centre brings simulation labs, VR training to Barrie. Read more.
👩🍼 Flora’s Walk returns to raise money for perinatal mental health. Read more.
💌 ‘True heart’ of the community: Barrie organizations celebrate volunteers. Read more.
🧑🌾 Barrie Farmers’ Market marks 180 years with outdoor season set to return. Read more.
🌦 Third Age Barrie welcomes ‘Canada’s favourite climatologist’. Read more.
🌲 What started small in Barrie grows into ‘real, tangible impact’. Read more.
🏒 Colts advance to Eastern Conference Final with 4-1 win over Ottawa. Read more.
👮♀ Province funds Barrie police-led push for early youth crime intervention. Read more.
🧑💼 City of Barrie, workers, ratify three-year collective agreement. Read more.
⏳ City offering self-serve sandbags to Barrie residents at risk of property flooding. Read more.
📞 County’s 911 Awards highlight importance of behind the scenes response staff. Read more.
🏠 Barrie bridge housing program launching next week in national pilot program. Read more.
🌆 What’s Happenin’
Friday
🧸 Rise & Shine Playtime @ the Barrie Library - Holly Branch - 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.
🎨 Messy! @ the Barrie Library - Painswick Branch - 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.
🖍 Creative Crayons - PA Day @ the Barrie Library - Painswick Branch & Downtown - 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Learn more.
🖐 Volunteer Information Session for Teens @ the Barrie Library - Downtown Branch - 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.
🖐 Volunteer Information Session for Teens @ the Barrie Library - Painswick Branch - 12 p.m. to 11 p.m. Learn more.
🎥 Friday Flicks @ the Barrie Library - Downtown Branch - 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Learn more.
🎥 Friday Flicks @ the Barrie Library - Painswick Branch - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Learn more.
🔮 2 Mediums. 1 Night. @ Bloom Bistro - 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Learn more.
Saturday
🧑🌾 Barrie Farmer’s Market @ City Hall - 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Learn more.
🧸 Rise & Shine Playtime @ the Barrie Library - various branches - 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.
🤖 Robots, Robots, Robots @ the Barrie Library - Holly Branch - 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Learn more.
Sunday
🛶 Spring Paddle in Minesing @ Willow Creek Canoe Corral - 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Learn more.
🧸 Rise & Shine Playtime @ the Barrie Library - Holly Branch - 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.
🏖 Family Fun: Beach Lawn Games - Friday Harbour Beach - 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Learn more.
💇♀ Pints and Ponytails @ Donaleigh’s Irish Public House - 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Learn more.
🎨 CommUNITY: Special Family Sunday Workshops @ MacLaren Art Centre, Pie Education Centre - 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Register here.
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