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In today’s Mom Scoop:
🍁 Sweetwater Harvest Festival @ Wye Marsh
🤖 First Robotics Competition @ Georgian College
🎴 Simcoe Sports Card Summit @ Allandale Rec Centre
🍽 Recipe Of The Week: Homemade Butterfly Cake
🗞 Local Good News Stories
🌆 What’s Happenin’
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🍁 Sweetwater Harvest Festival @ Wye Marsh
The Sweetwater Harvest Festival is a 2-day festival located in the Heart of Georgian Bay, celebrating the long standing tradition of harvesting and processing maple sap. Attendees will be treated to a full day's worth of memorable mapley experiences and sweet treats as they journey across two unique sites in both the Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre and neighbouring Sainte Marie Among the Hurons.
Beginning at Sainte Marie Among the Hurons, take home a local treasure at the Artisan Market, relive history through story-telling and reenactments, and experience sap (or 'sweetwater') as it was used here throughout history.
At the Wye Marsh, immerse yourself in nature and wildlife with a tour of the sugar bush. See sap become syrup in the sugar shack, get hands-on through a range of family-fun activities, and enjoy talented live musicians and entertainers.
Cap off your experience by satisfying your sweet tooth at any one of our vendors offering maple-inspired food.
📆 Saturday March 28th and Sunday March 29th - 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
🎟 Mom Scoop readers can use coupon code SWSCOOP26 to save 15% off the cost of admission when tickets are booked online.
📍 Wye March. 16160 Highway 12 East, Midland, ON
🤖 First Robotics Competition @ Georgian College
A FIRST Robotics Competition event feels like a high intensity sporting event powered by student innovation. Robots race across the field completing complex tasks while drive teams make split second strategic decisions that can shift an entire match.
In the pits, teams repair, rebuild and upgrade their machines under pressure while scouts collect real match data to support alliance strategy. Across the venue, judges meet with teams as they prepare for awards including the prestigious Impact Award.
From cheering crowds to fast paced technical problem solving, every moment shows what students learn through FIRST including teamwork, creativity, resilience and leadership.
📆 Saturday March 28th & Sunday March 29th - schedule varies.
📍 Athletics Centre Gym, Georgian College - 1 Georgian Drive. Barrie
🎴 Simcoe Sports Card (& Pokemon) Summit @ Allandale Recreation Centre
The next card show is almost here! $5 Entry or Free with a non-perishable food item donated to The Barrie Food Bank.
FREE GIVEAWAYS AND PACKS FOR KIDS! 40+ Vendors with Sports Cards & Pokémon/TCG. A Variety of High-End cards all the way down to Bargain Bins!
📆 Saturday March 28th - 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
📍 Allandale Recreation Centre. Barrie.
👩🍳 Recipe of the Week: Homemade Butterfly Cake
Impress guests (and your kids!) with an adorable and delicious cake that is actually easy to put together.
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🗞 Local Good News Stories
🎭 Theatre by the Bay unveils 2026 Signature Season lineup. Read more.
💚 Greenbelt coalition to host World Water Day-inspired trivia night. Read more.
🐶 Proposed ban on unnecessary pet surgeries ‘a long time coming’. Read more.
🐰 Family-friendly Easter activities hopping into Friday Harbour. Read more.
🖌 Local painter to be featured at Artist Project 2026 in Toronto. Read more.
🚍 ‘Business as usual’: Barrie transit workers ratify deal, avert strike. Read more.
🦉 Injured owl found walking in Innisfil neighbourhood rescued. Read more.
👩🎓 Georgian’s Campus Gallery showcasing work by graduating students. Read more.
🏌 Fundraiser deemed swinging success for Bridget’s Bunnies. Read more.
🛩 Barrie Airshow will see Snowbirds return along with new twilight spectacle. Read more.
🧑🌾 Elmvale-area farmers gathering to grow efforts to fight global hunger. Read more.
🌆 What’s Happenin’
Friday
🧸 Rise & Shine Playtime @ the Barrie Library Holly Branch - 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.
👑 Kings and Queens Of The Underground @ The Queens Hotel - 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Learn more.
🎥 Friday Flicks @ The Barrie Library Painswick Branch - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Learn more.
🥁 Battle of the Bands @ The Ranch Barrie - 7 p.m. to 11:30 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.
🌳 The Great Canadian Outdoor Show @ Bradford Greenhouses Barrie - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free Entry. Learn more.
Sunday
🧸 Rise & Shine Playtime @ the Barrie Library - Holly Branch - 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.
🌳 The Great Canadian Outdoor Show @ Bradford Greenhouses Barrie - 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free Entry. Learn more.
🍜 Soup’s On! Fundraiser for Alzheimers @ The Barrie Legion - 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Learn more.
❄ Family Fun: Dodgeball @ Friday Harbour - 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Learn more.
👪 Family Sundays @ MacLaren Art Centre - 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. or 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Book tickets.
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