Red Dress Day began in 2010 as the REDress project, initiated by Métis artist Jamie Black. The project brings awareness to the ongoing tragedy of race-based violence across Canada and the United States, which has resulted in thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people.

The REDress Project has since evolved into a national movement. Now, every year on May 5, red dresses are hung in public spaces around the country as a call for justice for the victims and their loved ones. The empty dresses are a visual representation of the pain and loss felt by the families of victims and act as stand-ins for the staggering number of people who have been murdered or go missing each year.

88.5 The Lake calls upon our community to support the Grimsby and Niagara Food Banks during their time of need.

 Please check out Feed Niagara and see how your family or place of work can help support the food banks in Niagara!

The 88.5 The Lake Events Cruiser is always accepting donations as well! Find Tyler on the weekends to make a donation. 

Join us in celebrating 25 years of supporting women in Niagara with a night of trivia, prizes, silent auction, raffles and fun!

Doors open @ 6pm, game starts @ 7pm

Cost: $30/person or $200 for a table of 8

Price includes pizza and snacks

Cash bar

The Seed Savers Club meets on the second Thursday of each month. Club members collect, grow and share heirloom seeds and plants. We share gardening knowledge and experience. We help to stock the seed libraries at the West Lincoln branches and promote seed diversity in the community. The club also helps with the year-round care and maintenance of the Wellandport Indigenous Healing Garden.

Examples of activities:

• Presentations and discussions on various topics related to gardening, plants and seeds
• Seed collection, sorting, storage and packaging
• Craft and gardening projects
• Garden clean-up and seed harvest
• Helping with library Seedy Saturday events

Drop-ins are welcome

Join us as Kerry Royer of the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority guides us through mindful gardening ideas - native plants, shrubs, trees, pollinator gardens and wildlife.  Just in time for the planting season.  There will be a question and answer period, too.  Kerry also guest speaks at the NOTL Horticultural Society, so we're very honoured to have her for an evening in Port.  Doors open at 6:30 p.m.  Tickets are $5 at the door.  Proceeds go to the preservation and restoration of this historical building. 

Join us for the May GHS Speaker Series as we welcome Dr. Faisal Arain, President of the Willowbank School of Restoration Arts".

Willowbank is a unique college in Canada and has been on the vanguard of heritage conservation and the adaptive resuse of existing buildings since 2006.  The presentation will discuss how Willowbank contributes to the restoration sector.

Dr. Faisal Arain is an experienced academic leader with an earned Ph.D. in construction project management from National University of Singapore and a postgraduate certificate in Leadership Development from Harvard University. He has consulted, researched and published widely with over 120 research publications and books to his credit.

Dr. Arain is also an expert member of the World Association for Sustainable Development, UK.