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In today’s Mom Scoop:
🍎 Start 2026 Healthy With Eat Impact
🪢 Wilderness Survival Skills @ Tiffin Conservation Centre
💦 Slime Making Workshop for autistic children and their families @ Code Ninjas
🍽 Recipe Of The Week: White Bean & Smoked Sausage Skillet
🗞 Local Good News Stories
🌆 What’s Happenin’
Let’s get to it!
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🪢 Wilderness Survival Skills @ Tiffin Conservation Centre
Introduces families to basic survival and life skills, including preparation for outdoor adventures, preventing getting lost, and responding effectively if lost. Skills learned include:
Proper dress and layering for outdoor conditions
Shelter construction – materials will be determined by weather
Orienteering scavenger hunt with map and compass (several map options available and geared to skill levels)
Work together as a team to find your way, making these important skills even more memorable.
📆 Sunday January 11th - 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
📍 Tiffin Conservation Centre.
💦 Slime Making Workshop for autistic children and their families @ Code Ninjas
Let's Make Slime! Join in on a fun and interactive slime-making workshop with Code Ninjas. You'll work together to mix, measure, and make a batch of slime.
This event is for autistic children and their siblings. Max 2 children per family.
Cost: $5.00/person. Parent/Caregiver supervision is required. This is not a transfer of care event. The parent/caregiver is required to remain onsite.
📆 Saturday January 10th - 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
📍 Code Ninjas - 350 Big Bay Point Rd. Barrie.
🎆 Recipe of the Week: One Pot Butternut Squash Curry
Nourishing one pot butternut squash curry filled with warming flavors from ginger, curry powder, turmeric, and creamy coconut milk. This veggie-packed butternut squash curry is the perfect vegan dinner with plenty of protein from chickpeas. Enjoy it on its own or with rice or naan!
🗞 Local Good News Stories
🪲 From itch to pitch: Barrie’s Lice Squad founder on Dragons’ Den. Read more.
♠ Kiwanis Club of Barrie hosting euchre tourney for children’s literacy. Read more.
⛄ Snowfall dominates early winter, but climatologist promises warmer days. Read more.
🛋 Furniture store embraces ‘buy Canadian,’ other retail pivots. Read more.
🎷 Glowing Hearts Charity opens registration for youth music programs. Read more.
🎸 ‘Bringing inspiration home’: Barrie to host inaugural Simcoe Guitar Festival. Read more.
🏒 Kraft Hockeyville ‘fired up’ to be returning with new format. Read more.
🥯 ‘Love in the family’: New bagel shop brings handmade tradition to Barrie. Read more.
🧑🎨 Half-century of Barrie artist’s favourites on display in Thornbury. Read more.
🌆 What’s Happenin’
Friday
🧸 Rise & Shine Playtime @ the Barrie Library Holly Branch - 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.
🎸 Genevieve Cyr-Martinez @ The Rec Room Barrie - 6 p.m. Learn more.
🎥 Friday Flicks @ The Barrie Library Painswick Branch - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Learn more.
⛄ Moonlit Snowshoe @ Horseshoe Valley - 7 p.m. Learn more.
Saturday
🧸 Rise & Shine Playtime @ the Barrie Library Downtown and Painswick Branches - 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.
🇲🇽 Cafecito Social @ The Mexican House Downtown - 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Learn more.
🎅 Campfire & S’mores @ Friday Harbour - 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Learn more.
🏒 Barrie Colts vs. Brampton Steelheads @ Sadlon Arena - 7:30 p.m. Get tickets.
❄ Self-Guided Torchlit Hike @ Snow Valley - 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Learn more.
🎸 Bianca Rollo @ The Rec Room Barrie - 6 p.m. Learn more.
⛄ Moonlit Snowshoe @ Horseshoe Valley - 7 p.m. Learn more.
Sunday
🧸 Rise & Shine Playtime @ the Barrie Library Holly Branch - 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.
⚽ Snowshoe Soccer @ Friday Harbour Outdoor Adventure Centre - 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Learn more.
🪄 Harry Potter Trivia @ Donaleigh’s Irish Public House - 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Learn more.
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