The following is a detailed listing of live music events over the July 30-Aug. 8 Centennial Homecoming Week in Dryden. Acts may be subject to change

Friday July 30

Dryden Youth Centre Dance

7:00 – 10:00 at Dryden High School

Friday July 30

Dance to Sensational Hot Rods

Dryden Arena 9:00 PM to 1:00 AM

Cost $10.

Saturday July 31

Centennial Parade

1:00 PM Start Moose Hall – Finish Rec Centre

3:30 PM Fort Frances Highlands Pipe Band and Scots Dancers

Cooper Park Admission free

Bring a Lawn Chair

Saturday July 31

Dance to Shades of Blue

Dryden Arena 9:00 PM to 1:00 AM

Cost $20.

Sunday Aug 1

Air Command Band

The Centre 3:00 PM

Tickets $10 Lotto One, Walter’s Auto Body & at the Door

Monday Aug. 2

Rockin’ the River Live at the Lodge

Riverview Lodge.

11:00 AM start

Tent on the riverside lawn.

11:00 AM to 4:00 PM Live Local Musicians Performing

Free Admission

Musicians / Bands:

Never Legends

Laura Cortens

Shannyn Peters

Alex Lugli

Loud as Rock

Dave Darling and Chris Marchand

Erik Bleich

Paul Hampton

Bootleg Vinyl

Monday Aug. 2

Stompin’ Tom with Tim Hus

8:00 PM at The Centre

Tuesday Aug. 3rd

Civic Pride Day

Live Entertainment

Van Horne Ave between King & Princess

4:00 PM – 7:00 PM

4:30 – 5:00 Hand Drummers from

Dryden Native Friendship Centre

5:30 – 6:00  Women’s Centennial Choir

6:00 – 6:30 Paul Hampton

6:30 – 7:00 TBA

Throughout Day: Buskers around downtown

Other Events starting 11:00 AM  see:                                                                                                        www.dryden2010.com <http://www.dryden2010.com/>

Information: Allyson Euler 223-1432

Tuesday Aug 3rd

MINI COME TOGETHER

Cooper Park 7:00 to 9:00 PM

7:00           Teflons (Bruce Siciliano, Vince Kastrukoff and Doug Jordens)

8:00           Shannyn Peters

8:30 – 9:00  Kori Kameda

Wednesday Aug. 4

Downtown Street Fair – Buskers

Wednesday Aug. 4

MINI KICKIN’ COUNTRY

Cooper Park 7:00 to 9:00 PM

7:00           Kitch’n Pickers (Lorne Nelson, Kara & Mike Bange)

7:30           Louie Haukeness

8:00 – 9:00  Borderline (Ken & Jeannette Denby, Charles Terris, Tom Stratton.

Paul Hampton and Lorraine Malyk)

Thursday Aug. 5

ERIK BLEICH CD RELEASE CONCERT

at The Centre 8:00 PM

Opening Act Laura Cortens

Cover $5.00 – CD “invisible vehicles” available $10:00

Friday Aug 6th

Family Fish Dinner & Dance

Dryden Fairgrounds

Music: Alex Parenteau & Borderline. Hosts:

Dryden Trapper’s Council and D.D. Ag. Society

Dinner & Dance $25. (Children 10 & under free)

Bar opens @ 4:30 pm; Dinner 5:00 p.m. – 7:00p.m

Dance 8:00 – 12 midnight

Information:  Dwaine @ 227-2823 or Ruth @ 223-5866

Friday Aug 6th

Music in the Park… and it might get loud

Cooper Park 7:00 – 10:00 PM

Saturday Aug 7th

Children’s Street Party

Local musicians starts at 11:00 AM

Children’s Resource Centre & The Centre lawn on Albert Street

Saturday Aug 7

Canadian Masters Windsurfing Championship

Local Musicians

starting 12:00 PM Sandy Beach

This is the order they are playing from 12 – 8 PM

Nicki Gigolyk

Preston Robinson

Becki Robb

In Progress

Bootleg Vinyl

Amanda Misula

Ricci Band

Bootleg Vinyl- 3 to 4 PM

Ricci Band - 6 to 8 PM

Dance to Pass the Pineapple

9:00 PM in Curling Club

Huge Surfer Dance

Theme: ”no shirt, no shoes, no problem”

Dryden’s own Shawn ‘Hump’ Reid greets wrestling fans at last week’s presentation of Canada’s Wrestling Elite’s Bad Karma Tour.

More images from the event can be found in this week’s edition of The Dryden Observer.  Photo by Chris Marchand

DRHC adjusts to loss of both general surgeons

By Chris MarchandThe Dryden Regional Health Centre (DRHC) is searching for new general surgeons after Dr. Peter Dawes recently announced his intention to leave the community.Dr. Peter Dawes will leaving his practice at the Dryden Regional Health Centre effective Sept. 30, to begin a position with Prince County Hospital in Summerside, Prince Edward Island.Dawes closely follows DRHC’s only other general surgeon, Dr. Bahram Shahi who announced his intention to leave the community in May.DRHC CEO Wade Petranik says that general surgeries account for approximately one-quarter of the hospital’s surgical activity — the remainder is occupied by specialist procedures like orthopaedic, gynecology, ear, nose and throat as well as a new reconstructive element.Petranik adds that 80 per cent of general surgeries are endoscopic in nature, such as colonoscopies and don’t often require general anesthetic.“In terms of impact in the short term, we’re looking at providing some locum services — we’re speaking right now with surgeons who regularly go from community to community, spending three or four days,” said Petranik. “Overall, we don’t feel that the service will be impacted to a huge degree.”Addressing emergency situations, Petranik says emergency general surgery is reasonably rare in Dryden.“You might have a major trauma from a traffic accident where the general surgeon can help stabilize the patient, but generally we ship them out anyway,” he said. “The most common emergency surgery is an appendectomy. We do have surgeons on call in the region that we can access, if no one else is available to do the surgery. They would be sent to the nearest regional surgeon.”Dr. Kerri Wilson will continue to perform caesarean section births at DRHC.In the long term, Petranik says DRHC has some promising prospects for recruitment.“We’ve had a lot of interest already from doctors who’ve wanted to take a look,” he said. “We had a site visit this week with a potential candidate, so we’re excited about that and Chuck (Schmitt) is getting lots of inquiries. We’re optimistic that in the longer term we’ll have an onsite service like we had before, but there are no guarantees. We really have to find the best fit for the community and the surgeon’s interests — between what they like to do and what kind of practice they’d like to have.”Dr. Dawes says he has enjoyed working with the operating room staff at the Dryden Regional Health Centre for the past eight years. “The operating room staff at the Hospital are terrific.  It has been one of the best surgical teams that I have had the pleasure of working with throughout my surgical career. I will miss all of them tremendously. However at this point in my career, the position in Prince Edward Island is the best option for me and my family, says Dr. Dawes.”  Until Sept. 30, Dr. Dawes will be working to accommodate those patients currently booked for consultations and surgery.New cases are expected to be handled through locum visits or referred outside of the community.

By Chris Marchand