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A go-to list of family activities and events in Kitchener Waterloo Region in June.

You can cast a line and reel in that big catch at Ontario Provincial Parks. However, please obey any fishing location restrictions in the park as well as all public health guidelines on group sizes and physical distancing.

Enjoy License Free Fishing on June 19 20, 2021. Fishing regulations and other rules still apply during license-free days and National Park fishing license is required to fish in Canadian National Parks.

What do you get when you bring together 5 esteemed musicians from Canada who also happen to be Eagles aficionados, who revere & feel privileged to perform the timeless music of the Eagles & Don Henley? You get EPIC EAGLES Canadas Definitive Eagles Tribute Band, bringing you back to the golden days of the legendary band the Eagles all the way through to the present. Details

Monday, June 14, 2021 | 8:00 PM

Bingemans Drive-in Amphitheatre, Kitchener at the Camping Resort Entrance

$44.24

Tired of staying at home? Head out for a small walk. Check out some of the green spaces in the Kitchener-Waterloo Region where you can enjoy a walk.

Do not travel to other regions and restrict your travel to nearer to you due to Covid-19.

Join a virtual tour as artist Esmaa Mohamoud and curator Matthew Kyba present the works in To Play in the Face of Certain Defeat. Taking inspiration from the African American writer Ralph Ellison, artist Esmaa Mohamoud explores the ways in which Black bodies at once appearand yet are rendered metaphorically invisiblewithin the spaces they navigate. Details

Various dates

Online

Free

Annual FCLMA Classical, Jazz & World Music Awards Gala.

Ft performances by: Mark Swan Music Quartet Marque W. A. Smith Tony Deluca Anthony Borek Magisterra Soloists Rant Maggie Rant Kings University College Chamber Choir Rachelle Courtney Jazz Vocalist Nevin Campbell Erich Knapp Camila Montefusco Matthew Bermudez Michael Vanhevel And a special performance by the Middlesex-London Health Unit #Allstars. Details

June 6, 2021

Facebook livestream

Presented by Unifor Canada with performances by Lost in Japan, Thunder Queens, Typo & King Cruff, Leanne Mayer, CJ Lee, and Patrick James Clark. Details

June 12, 2021

Facebook livestream

Shop groceries or weekend meals, including meat, produce, dairy, and specialty items from the Farmers Market. Details

Saturdays | 7:00 AM 2:00 PM

300 King St E, Kitchener

Enjoy a taste of Bingemans at home with turkey dinner, southern BBQ or a brunch. Details

Sunday Night Turkey Dinner | June 13, 2021 Fathers Day Southern BBQ | June 20, 2021 Extreme Brunch | June 27, 2021

Pick-up at Bingemans Commisary Kitchen, 40 Shirley Avenue

$44 $56; Add-ons available

View original work in print from members of the printmaking community at this Annual Juried Exhibition. Details

May 1 June 4, 2021

Online

Cycling is a great way to excercise and also to explore new places and well trod plaths. So wheel out your bicycle and check out the bike paths and lanes in your neighbourhood.

Do not travel to other regions and restrict your travel to nearer to you due to Covid-19.

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June 20th marks the 23rd Annual walk/run for prostate cancer. This signature event is one of Prostate Cancer Foundation BC (PCFBC) largest fundraisers which allows us to continue to promote awareness, assist support groups, and support research. Details

Sunday, June 20, 2021

Wherever You Are, Canada

Free to $35

On June 27, 2021, join the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada for live-streamed opening ceremonies and gather a group of family and friends to #EndBrainTumours.

The Brain Tumour Walk Program raises money to fund brain tumour research, support services, trusted information, and advocacy to help brain tumour patients and survivors live longer, better, and with hope. Details

June 27, 2021

Wherever you are

Fundraiser

Spend the day at Laurel Creek Conservation Area. Their 4.5 km groomed and tracked pine forest trail network is ideal for hiking, and bird watching. Details

Daily | 8:00 AM 5:30 PM

Laurel Creek, 625 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo

Admission fee when an attendant is on duty: $2.65 $6.64; Automatic Gate admission (attendant off duty) $13.27/vehicle

Get to know your city and explore new spaces near you. There are many fabulous birding locations in Ontario to visit,download a bird ID app, and try to name all the birds that you can spot. Details

Only visit places nearer to you due to Covid-19.

Join the Kitchener Market and Chef Rob from the comfort of your own home as we present our virtual cooking class series.

June 2 to 18

Fried Chicken Sandwich | Wednesday, June 2, 2021 | 6:30 PM 7:00 PM Art of Sous Vide Part 1 | Friday, June 11, 2021 | 6:30 PM 7:00 PM One Pan Shrimp and Chorizo Skillet | Wednesday, June 16, 2021 | 6:30 PM 7:00 PM Art of Sous Vide Part 2 | Friday, June 18, 2021 | 6:30 PM 7:00 PM

City of Kitcheners Facebook page

Explore 35 films from Indigenous artists and filmmakers from around the world. Find animated films, documentaries, short films, feature lengths films, and music videos, among others. Details

May 31 June 7, 2021

Online

$25

Enjoy a day out with family or bubble friends at Victoria Park! Pack a picnic with goodies and treats from your favourite restaurant and enjoy the beautiful surroundings. Enjoy a family time or just spend the day relaxing with a book from the Waterloo Public Library.

Learn more about this historic part of town with the free self-guided walking tour available from the city of Kitchener.

Join the Kitchener Market for a private virtual cooking class complete with ingredients, with Chef Rob and TWB Brewing in the comfort of your own home!

June 9 to 26, 2021

Pasta Family Meal | Wednesday, June 9, 2021 | 6:30 PM 8:30 PM Date Night with Chef Rob | Saturday, June 12, 2021 | 6:30 PM 8:30 PM Summer Solstice with Chef Rob | Monday, June 21, 2021 | 6:30 PM 8:30 PM Date Night with Chef Rob | Saturday, June 26, 2021 | 6:30 PM 8:30 PM

City of Kitcheners Facebook page

Virtual Kids in The Kitchen is an online version of our popular cooking classes that can be enjoyed by the whole family, right in your own home. Chef Nicole welcomes you into her kitchen every Saturday to make wonderful dishes. Details

Saturdays, June 5, 12, 19, 26, 2021 | 10:00 AM 11:00 AM

City of Kitcheners Facebook page

You might like: Chef D Tours the Farmers Market on Thursday, June 3, 2021 | 6:30 PM 7:30 PM

Enjoy a virtual tour of Resolution: A Century of Photographic Art with narration by curator Cassandra Getty. This exhibition has something for everyone including Micheal Lambeths early social realism, Suzy Lakes feminist portraits, the Indigenous voices of Shelley Niro and Greg Staats, and Osheen Harruthoonyans fantasy photographs. Details

Ontario provincial parks are open to visitors. Be it to enjoy a walk or just relax in the outdoors, fish or enjoy boating, provincial parks are great places to spend your time.

Did you know that Ontario Provincial Parks are Free to Visit Four Days a Week this Summer. You can also get permits in advance.

You can now visit Ontario parks for free by borrowing day-use permits from participating Ontario libraries.

Explore the manygeocaches located throughout the city. If you though geocaching is challenging, try geocaching in winter! This family-friendly activity uses a mobile app or a GPS device. Check out the trails where you can enjoy Geocaching Trails.

All outdoor courts and recreational areas like Baseball diamonds, Batting cages, Soccer, football and sports fields, tennis, platform tennis, table tennis and pickleball courts, basketball courts, BMX parks, skate parks, cycling tracks and bike trails, horse riding facilities, shooting ranges, including those operated by rod and gun clubs, playgrounds, portions of parks or recreational areas containing outdoor fitness equipment, arche1y ranges, lawn game courts, including lawn bowling, bocce and croquet courts are open.

Waterloo Park is open daily to enjoy. Have a picnic or enjoy a quiet walk. Do maintain physical distancing. Details

Daily | 6:00 AM 11:00 PM

Waterloo Park, 50 Young Street West, Waterloo Free vehicle parking is available from the Young Street West and Westmount Road North entrances to the park. Follow roads into the park and watch for signage. There is also free three-hour street parking along Father David Bauer Drive.

Come meet Chef Rob at the Kitchener Market to pick up a special Fathers Day BBQ Kit! This deluxe kit has everything you need for a BBQ dinner at home while supporting local KW businesses! Each kit includes steaks & chops from Charles Quality Meats, charcuterie supplies from Finest Meats and Sausage, Seafood from Caudles Catch, Bast Cheese, and Mickey McGuires Cheese, salads from Almadina Cuisine and Naranj Blossom, grilling potatoes from Gmach Gardens, mushrooms from Shrooms, and a fathers day beer and gift pack from TWB Brewing. Each kit has ingredients for a family of four to cook together. Details

Pick up on Saturday, June 19 | between 11:00 AM 1:00 PM

Marketplace on the upper level of the Kitchener Market, 300 King St E, Kitchener

$125; Registration is limited.

Get creative this weekend with virtual paint nite. Browse through the many pictures, select the one that strikes your fancy, get your supplies and start! Details

Various dates

Online

$15

It is now the time for planning your summer vacation in Ontario. Gather your family and plan what you are going to do this summer.

Plan to go camping either in provincial parks or national parks (reservations open) and plan your Ontario adventure.

For more, see Explore Ontario

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CHICAGO (CBS) Thanks to the coronavirus vaccine, one block in the Auburn Gresham community is looking a lot different this year than it did last Memorial Day.

As CBS 2s Jim Williams reported, fellowship resumed up close in the 8700 block of South Elizabeth Street on Monday. Burgers were back on the grill for all to enjoy, and people were dancing again together.

It is so good to be out here today, said DJ Quenton Lee. A year later, we got our friends and our families here.

Lee supplied the music for his family and for his neighbors who watched him grow up in the area.

The neighbors are like moms and dads to us, Lee said.

One year ago on Memorial Day, CBS 2 was at the same site when Quenton hand-delivered invitations.

You are welcome to sit on your porch and enjoy some relaxing music, they read.

The invitation stood even if COVID-19 kept them on the front porch.

I thought it would be a great idea because our seniors have been in the house for so long, Lee said last year.

A year later, up and down the block, residents been vaccinated. Lees dad, Elton, got his shot in February and has persuaded others to get the vaccine.

I have talked to several, many, and encouraged them to do, said Elton Lee. Got to do it. Got to do. Theres no getting around it.

Michelle Lewis-McCanns social circle is much larger today.

Now having my shot, Im able to enjoy, family, friends, and neighbors wasnt able to do that last year at all, she said.

By Memorial Day last year, nearly 100,000 Americans had died of COVID. More than 400,000 Americans would die after Memorial Day.

Eula Hartney survived the coronavirus last year, but she was very sick.

Yes, I was actually hospitalized for about three days, and I was on oxygen, Hartney said.

Today, shes vaccinated and enjoying her neighbors and Quenton Lees dance party.

Its so great to be back out here doing what I love to do making people happy making people laugh, Lee said.

And he is doing just that off the porch and in the street.

Neighbors said theyre especially grateful that they havent lost anyone on the block to COVID.

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In 2021, art is no longer confined to a blank wall surrounded by motion detectors and ominous guards. At Superblue, art exists in the form of flowers hanging from the ceiling, clouds sticking to clothes, and mirrored, climbable staircases that resemble lungs. Here, visitors are encouraged to touch and stand inside various massive installations that allow art and visitors to coexist and create a symbiotic meaning.

As Superblue likes to say to visitors, You complete the art. It truly is an immersive experience in every sense of the word, resulting in something memorable, individualized, and powerful.

Rather than display a multitude of artists, Superblue focuses on only three, attesting to the company's care and desire to celebrate artists. The former can be seen in Superblue's decision to pay featured artists a percentage of ticket revenue a move that's unheard of in a traditional museum or gallery setting.

Appropriately for an inaugural program, "Every Wall Is a Door" highlights the foundation, future, and experimental aspects of the experiential art movement. The program debuts a new immersive environment by Es Devlin, a transcendent digital experience by TeamLab, and an enveloping light-based Ganzfeld work by James Turrell.

As president and CEO of Pace Gallery, Marc Glimcher has worked with experiential artists for years and created Superblue as a response to his experience in the industry. Traditionally, galleries and museums have a restricted space that confines experiential artists and limits their ability to truly bring their ideas to life. The 50,000-square-foot industrial building in Allapattah, then, is an ideal choice for Superblues mission of creating an immersive art experience.

TeamLabs "Massless Clouds Between Sculpture and Life"

Photo courtesy of Pace Gallery

Before entering the installations of Superblue Miami, visitors are met by Amsterdam-based Studio Drift's kinetic installation, "Meadow." Looking almost supernatural, the upturnedflowers hang from the ceiling while opening and closing, giving visitors a brief introduction of the ingenuity to come. Visitors are then asked to don shoe covers as a way to protect the art; those who paid extra for TeamLabs "Massless Clouds Between Sculpture and Life" are also provided with a rain jacket and goggles.

The real magic begins asvisitors enter the first experiential space. The walls and floors display images of flowers that reflect the seasons, shifting through each season in the span of an hour. In response to human touch, the flowers wilt and fall, suggesting humanitys impact on nature.

With the idea of nature and environment in mind, visitors are invited into the clouds with TeamLab. Relaxing music fills the cube-shaped area as masses of soap-made clouds envelop the room. The unsettling feeling forces the viewer to consider their existence in the space.

The ominous fear is exciting and a part of what the experiences are about, notes Shantelle Rodriguez, Superblue's director of experiential art centers.

TeamLab's "Universe of Water Particles, Transcending Boundaries"

Photo courtesy of Pace Gallery

Afterward, visitors enter James Turrell's light-based Ganzfeld work. This six-minute experience is intended as a moment of reflection and meditation. As the viewer stares into the light that reflects off the back wall, dimensions are blurred and minutes feel like seconds.

Finally, Es Devlins "Forest of Us" uses the immersive art movement as a call to action. The artist invites viewers to consider humanitys impact on the environment and how human bodies, particularly the lungs, resemble nature. At the end, a glowing red wall serves as a reminder of climate change and invites the viewer to take action.

Superblue opened in Miami on May 20 as the flagship location for the brands first experiential art center, a new term employed to avoid the stigma associated with the word "museum."

"We that think in the future, itll be museums, galleries, and experiential art centers,"Rodriguez says.

Unlike some other immersive art experiences in Miami right now, Superblue intends to stay, with plans to showcase more than 25 different artists in coming years.

Superblue. 1101 NW 23rd St., Miami; superblue.com/miami. Tickets cost $32 to $36 via showclix.com.Sunday through Wednesday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Thursday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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Face masks are always a favourite. Just the thought of an ice-cold glass of lemonade on a scorching summer's day is enough to cool you down a bit. Now, imagine these cool face masks with the infusion of soothing ingredients like aloe vera, cucumber, green tea and other refreshing combinations that will give your summer skin an absolute chill time. The scorching summer is knocking at the door! Our skin needs extra care during summer and cooling face masks are the best way to keep our skin healthy, hydrated and beautiful in difficult summer weather. The best part about these face masks is that they are easy to use and bring refreshment to your face. No matter your skin type or concern, there are plenty of cooling mask options to try to make your "at home" sessions cool and chill.

Celebrate life with the Berry Bang face mask as it will leave you with skin that embodies all the qualities this natural face mask boasts of. Formulated with berries and other fruit extracts that work best with one another to provide an all-around beauty treatment. This mask tackles dullness, sensitive skin, combats congestion and revives youthfulness.

This is a coffee clay face pack that delivers a spa-like experience in the comfort of your home, to the tune of your own schedule. Put on some relaxing music, feel the world slip away, and wake up with the hydrating skin of your dreams. Harnessing the phenomenal powers of cocoa the mask hydrates and brightens for a more hydrated, clarified and radiant look.

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Reiki may sound new age to some, but its anything but new. In fact, its a form of energy healing with roots in ancient cultures. Reiki uses whats known as universal life force energyki or qito improve peoples lives and ailments.

The term reiki comes from the Japanese words rei, meaning universal, and ki, which means vital life force energy that flows through all living things. Some practitioners describe reiki as acupuncture without the needles.

Reiki is a complementary health approach in which practitioners place their hands on or just above different areas of the body. Its based on an Eastern medicine belief that living beings have energy fields that support their health and vitality.

Energy blocks, on the other hand, impede innate flow of energy, causing not only health problems, but also negative life circumstances like financial troubles or relationship problems, according to belief. Energy blocks of any living being can be treated, according to belief, which is why some practitioners also work on animals and plants. Reiki practitioners focus on sensing energy blocks and moving the energy for the greatest good of the client.

There are at least 30 slightly different branches of reiki, but Usui is by far the most popular form. Usui is the method practiced and taught in Japan as early as the 1900s by Makao Usui, who is credited as the founder of modern reiki.

Usui reiki came to the West via Hawaii in the 1930s thanks to a Japanese-American woman named Hawayo Takata. She traveled back to her native Japan to seek healing for her own physical and mental ailments, including a lung condition, asthma and a nervous breakdown after the death of her husband. One of Makao Usuis students, Dr. Chujiro Hayashi, taught reiki to Takata. Her healing experience was so profound that Takata returned to Hawaii and became the first person to teach reiki in the West.

However, due to the abundance of anti-Japanese and anti-Asian sentiments in the United States around World War II, Takata shied away from using the name reiki and instead referred to her establishment on the island of Kauai as a healing studio, according to researcher Nat Newton, Ph.D., a Usui reiki master in Orange County, California.

Takata modified some of the teachings for her English-speaking students and ended up training 22 students in reiki as we know it today, says Newton. Today, thousands of people worldwide are trained in Usui and similar reiki methods.

While reiki can easily be done in just about any setting, a typical reiki session takes place in a relaxing environment or treatment room, akin to massage therapy. Newton holds some of her reiki sessions in well-ventilated outdoor spaces. Meanwhile, many reiki practitioners do remote healing where they arent even in the same building as the client.

In a typical treatment room setting with a reiki practitioner and a client, the client begins face up and fully clothed. They might briefly discuss their ailment or situation they hope to heal. The session might begin with a brief meditation, and then the practitioner uses various hand movements to lightly touch or hover over various parts of the clients body while they are face up and face down. Throughout the session, the practitioner focuses specifically on their intent for healing.

We usually think about activating whatever is in the highest good for the client, says Newton. Sometimes well visualize the client as healed. But always well set a positive intention for whatever they need at the moment that would serve their highest good. We dont know what that is and dont presume to know. We let reiki do what it needs to do.

A typical session lasts 30 minutes to an hour, and a client-practitioner discussion uses a good amount of that time, according to Newton. After the session, I always spend time talking to my clients about what came up for them and perhaps also what I intuited, she says.

The most well-documented benefits of reiki revolve around the relaxation response, which practitioners say invokes the bodys natural healing process.

Dr. Rachel Lampert, M.D., a professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine, and her colleagues studied 37 patients after having a heart attack. The patients were randomized into three groups: patients who simply rested, those who received a single session of reiki treatment from a nurse trained in reiki and those who listened to relaxing music. The researchers measured activity of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), which regulates heart rate, breathing, blood pressure and digestion.

Lamperts team zoomed in on heart rate variability (HRV), a measure of the pattern of heartbeats thats controlled by the ANS. The higher the HRV after a heart attack, the better the outlook for the patient, explains Lampert.

In the Yale study, patients who received reiki had a higher HRV and improved emotional state. Our study was a very nice demonstration that doing things that are relaxing has benefits, says Lampert. We showed increased activity of the healthy arm of the nervous system.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School followed 99 patients at multiple sites to determine the effects of a single reiki session. The studya single arm effectiveness study published in 2019 in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicinefound statistically significant improvements in anxiety and depression symptoms, as well as pain and nausea.

Additional research suggests reiki helps with depression and insomnia. A 2012 study in the Indian Journal of Positive Psychology looked at 40 women who suffered from depression and anxiety. Half of the group received a reiki treatment twice a week for 10 weeks and the other half received no treatment. The women who received reiki saw significant improvements in both their depression symptoms and sleep quality.

A range of studies address reikis role in pain alleviation after knee surgery, the restoration of range of motion in injured shoulders, post-cesarean section recovery, hypertension management and the improvement of quality of life for patients with rheumatoid arthritis or patients undergoing various cancer treatments.

Portuguese researcher Zilda Alarcao and her colleagues looked at the impact of reiki treatment versus sham or fake reiki in two groups of patients with blood cancer. Each group contained 58 patients who received an hour-long treatment once a week for four weekseither someone trained to administer reiki worked on them or someone pretending to do reiki (sham reiki) spent an hour with them.

The researchers found the patients who received real reiki showed significantly more improvements than the other group in general, physical, environmental and social dimensions of quality of life using the Portuguese version of the World Health Organizations Quality of Life survey (WHOQoL-Bref), a well-regarded research tool that measures pain and other quality of life issues after undergoing an intervention. They published their results in 2016 in the European Journal of Integrative Medicine.

Multiple studies report no adverse effects of reiki, likely because its a noninvasive treatment. Practitioners note clients usually report feeling relaxed after a session, but some feel energized. Depending on the nature of the problem, Newton says some clients also may feel more emotional or have other intense feelings in the days or weeks following a session.

While there is a professional code of ethics that governs reiki practitioners, there are no licensing boards like there are for doctors, nurses or even hair stylists. Reiki master is the highest level of training, but theres a wide range of training and expertise among practitioners. To ensure the best result, practitioners advise clients to do their homeworkask a practitioner about their training and credentials, but also find someone you connect with and trust.

One potential risk is that clients can misunderstand the role reiki should play in a treatment plan. The code of ethics of the Reiki Alliance, a professional reiki association, clearly states that reiki practitioners work as a complementnot a replacementto the medical care a patient receives. Reiki is also not a practice intended to instill doubt in other medical treatments and interventions. Clients are strongly discouraged from viewing reiki as a substitute for medical doctors, surgery, therapy or prescribed medications.

Clients should also be aware that while reikilike yoga or meditationmay have roots in spiritual practices from long ago, modern reiki is not a religion. Practitioners and clients come from all walks of life and belief systems. Receiving reiki is not intended to interfere with or change a clients spiritual or religious beliefs.

According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, reiki has been studied for a variety of conditions, including pain, anxiety, and depression, but most of the research has not been of high quality, and the results have been inconsistent.

Naturally, scientists who study reiki beg to differ with that assessment. They say institutions simply need to catch up with the rapidly evolving science. At this point, there are probably 60 or more published studies that I can point to that show reikis benefit, and yet theres still this persistent myth that no credible science backs reiki, says neuroscientist Natalie Dyer, Ph.D, president of the Center for Reiki Research, a nonprofit that aims to advance the scientific knowledge and study of reiki.

Dyer acknowledges, however, that some studies have lacked rigor and some have not found statistically significant benefits with reiki. She calls for more high-quality research to understand the practice, how it works and its limitations.

In the Yale study of reiki following a heart attack, researchers note that its unknown whether the beneficial effects of reiki treatment over music stem from the presence of another person, the presence of a person with healing intention, the light touch technique, or a combination of factors.

Like any intervention, reiki practitioners warn it isnt a cure-all and shouldnt be viewed as such. But its deemed safe and potentially effective enough that a considerable number15% and growingof U.S. hospitals offer reiki healing specifically. Leading institutes like Yale, Harvard, the University of Minnesota, the University of Arizona, UCLA and others offer reiki as a complement to medical interventions.

Costs for reiki sessions vary nationwide, but expect to pay about what youd pay for a massage. In a major metropolitan area, you might pay $80 to $150 for a one-hour reiki session.

Professional associations are a great way to locate reiki practitioners and teachers who take the practices and training seriously. The Reiki Alliance, the International Reiki Association and the International Association of Reiki Practitioners all offer online tools for locating a practitioner in your area.

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Clockwise from top left: It's not even a competition that these are best chips; the bridge to nowhere; Mark Bickley; the beautiful Flinders Ranges. Photo - Shutterstock.

Mr Rissole intimated the title could be a 'good tourism opportunity' for Port Pirie as many of the Facebook page followers have vowed to visit the town.

Although after visiting Port Pirie or even living here, you'll begin to realise how great this small tight-knit community is.

One of the greatest things about this place is that everything you need is less than a five-minute drive away - unless its peak hour or the Christmas season then its less than a seven-minute drive.

Seriously, we have one traffic light.

There are so many beautiful hikes in the Flinders where you can find yourself adventuring through for hours.

After spending a day in the wilderness you can fill your stomach up on the world-famous Happy Birds chips. This takeaway is unique to our town and no one else has chips quite like it.

Get yourself some of the best chips or a Port Pirie cheeseburger (yes, we're the only place that has a squash dog as a cheeseburger) and head on over the Bridge to 'no-where' and enjoy the tranquillity.

That's right, we have a bridge that leads to nothing of any importance, and its amazing.

Head over the bridge at night, park the car, put on some relaxing music and look up at the thousands of stars you can see.

Did you know AC/DC played in Pirie before they were huge?

There are so many individuals to be proud of in this town that when you see them you think, "hey, they're from Port Pirie."

Our very own Mark Bickley captained the Adelaide Crows to two consecutive premierships.

C'mon we can't be the s***test town if we're raising sporting icons like him.

We are proud to have raised Keith Michell, who won a primetime Emmy award for his role as King Henry VIII in the movie, Six Wives of Henry VIIII.

He's that good we even named our theatre after him.

Actor, John Noble who played Denethor in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, was born in Port Pirie so Mr Rissole wasn't completely wrong when he labelled us the 'Bogan Eye of Sauron'.

But overall, it's the friendly community who makes us proud to be from Port Pirie.

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The retail and restaurant complex is trying to position itself for success amid the coronavirus pandemic and the rise of online shopping.

Bill DiPaolo | Special to The Palm Beach Post

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The president ofDiscover The Palm Beaches said the county is reaping the reward from marketing campaigns that were mindful of health and safety worries.

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PALM BEACH GARDENS DowntownPalm Beach Gardens,the outdoor shopping mall known for its spinning carousel and weekend entertainment, expects to complete its latest renovation this summer.

As we navigate through this pandemic, we continue to look for ways to make the property more inviting, relaxing and safe for ourshoppers, Nina Rogers, vice president of leasing and specialty centers for ShopCore Properties, its parent company.

Improvements include:

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With the economy rebounding and northern Palm Beach County growing,Downtownis a valuable asset to continued expansion, said Noel Martinez, president and chief executiveof the Palm Beach North Chamber of Commerce.

"We need more dining options. We need more jobs.Downtownwill be a partner is all this,Martinez said.

But challenges remain for the mall, which was built in 2006 with about 50 stores on 49 acres off Kyoto Gardens Drive.

Shopping malls, with the pandemic and customers opting out of in-person shopping, have seen their sales consistently drop since their heyday in the 1980s. Back then, more than half of retail sales took place in shopping malls.

Retail experts figure about one-fourth of shopping malls open today will close in the next five years. To survive, todays malls must reinvent themselves.

Downtownalso faces competition.

The Gardens Mall, Legacy Place, PGA Commons and the Outlet Mall in West Palm Beach are just a short ride away.

The renovations should helpDowntownsurvive the completion, said Erin Devlin, regional marketing manager forShopCore Properties. The Chicago-based company leases and manages more than 50 shopping centers with a total of more than 21 million square feet in 15 states.

Now more than ever, customers are preferring to shop, dine and socialize in outdoor shopping centers and tenants are prioritizing open-air locations when looking to expand or launch a brand, he said via email.

For the 450,000-square-footDowntown, this is the second major renovation. By comparison, The Gardens Mall is 1.4 million square feet.

When Berman Enterprises boughtDowntownthrough foreclosurein 2009, company leaders told The Palm Beach Post their mission was to turn the slumbering shopper into a lifestyle center. About a third of the stores were vacant.

The new owners spent about $1.8 million in improvements.

Outdoor teak tables with red and yellow umbrellas, twin outdoor escalators, lush landscaping, bubbling fountains and music lilting from outdoor speakers were installed.

The exclamation point for the new mall was a $600,000 carousel featuring 27 handmade wooden animals such as horses, manatees, seahorses, panthers and flamingos that visitors could ride on the 32-foot-wide attraction.

The carousel is considered the public art that the city requires for all major commercial projects.

The carousel was taken apart in August for refurbishing. The animal menagerie is scheduled to return this summer at a new location on the lake on the east side of property.

Downtowns CMX movie theater, restaurants such as Yardhouse and stores such as West Elm Furniture remain open during the construction. This years summer Friday night concert series is planned to start June 4 and run through August.

Several visitors toDowntownon a recent rainy afternoon said they missed the outdoor weekend activities on the site's outdoor plaza.

Others want changes.

We used to come all the time for the concerts. If you got here early enough, you could snag a table and enjoy the show. We made lots of new friends, said Jupiter resident Karen Morrison, 27, seated with a dish of coconut storm in one of the green plastic chairs at Sloans Ice Cream.

The new parking garage is a smart idea, said Royal Palm Beach resident Jack Lombardi.

We had to park far away. That was no fun in this rain, said Lombardi, 56, as he stood in line at CMX with his two young sons to see "Godzilla vs. King Kong."

Others want more signs to tell them where and what stores are open.

Those concerns are being addressed, said Devlin.

Our tenant visibility is a primary focus to ensure the community can easily navigate the center, he said.

New Tenants

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Downtown Palm Beach Gardens reinvents itself with latest makeover of stores, grounds - Palm Beach Post

As I start to wind down my 40-plus years of training salespeople, one thing still stands out as I look back at this amazing journey, while having the privilege of working with more than 700,000 people that are in the field of sales.

A properly trained salesperson will never be unemployed.

Yes, this is a profession where you can literally go your entire life never being unemployed or as they say looking for work.

There are always sales jobs available, and ones where you can make a decent amount of money. Sure, it might not be in the industry you were hoping for, but bottom line you are still employed and being compensated, and even paid more for a job well done.

Here are two examples.

I have worked over the years in many different industries. I have had the fortune to form some great relationships with owners in the automotive industry and CEOs of large distributors in the field of technology from business equipment to information technology.

In almost every case, these business executives told me of the issues that they had with their sales force. It didnt matter what the company was or what products or services they sold, but they all had the same dilemma.

As an average, 20% of their salespeople did very well and were self-sufficient without too much administration of strict sales management procedures. The rest were either just average, a bit below average or ready to be let go and soon as they could find someone to replace them.

Lets use the example of a new car dealership. We all know how difficult it can be to buy a new car and the hoops we have to jump through on a substantially large purchase.

In most car dealerships, we see salespeople come and go, and they might go to another car dealership or leave the industry entirely. Either way, ask any owner on how many great salespeople they have had over the years and the answer might surprise you.

I will give you a hint, not too many.

The same goes for with my next example of salespeople working at a technology company selling copiers or related products or software. The great ones are not the norm, but the few.

In both industries, more salespeople can be great if they just had:

The desire

The love of what they were selling

The proper sales training, not just product training

High empathy to help the customer and not just sell them

Great sales managers to guide them properly

The point I am trying to make is fairly basic. If the salesperson upped their own game by learning their profession by either:

Reading books on selling

Taking a sales class or going to a seminar on professional selling

Going online (YouTube, etc) for selling techniques by the worlds best sales trainers

Listening to podcasts by leading authorities

Studying their own industry to become incredibly knowledgeable

By spending time to develop their own set of skills, this will raise their ability to perform at a higher level which means that they can go from average to well above average or even being great at what they do. This way, the world opens up to them and they can look at what they might want to sell rather than staying in the same industry, since they are stuck at being average or below.

Think about it, what company does not want to hire a top performer or a proven great salesperson?

It is easy to never be unemployed as a professional salesperson, especially if you work on the one word, which is professional.

Hal Becker is a nationally known speaker on sales and customer service. He is the author of numerous business books including two national best sellers, Can I Have 5 Minutes Of Your Time? and Lip Service. Hals newest book on sales is titled Ultimate Sales Book. He can be reached at Halbecker.com.

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TORRANCE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--California Manufacturing Technology Consulting (CMTC) engaged with Action Duct two years ago to help them develop a formal sales training program. Since then, continuous strategic discussions and collaborative efforts between CMTC and Action Duct have led to a series of human resources, sales, business strategy, and digital marketing engagements, resulting in substantial business growth for Action Duct.

Action Duct was founded in 1978 with the purpose of providing duct cleaning and kitchen exhaust cleaning services to restaurants and other businesses. Now, Action Ducts services have expanded from duct cleaning to a full spectrum of offerings, including COVID-19 cleaning and disinfecting, silo cleaning, industrial oven cleaning, Aeroseal duct sealing, pressure and power washing services, and more.

When Action Ducts sales efforts failed to produce the desired revenue and turnover on the sales team began to increase, Action Duct turned to CMTC to help them develop a structured, strategic process and tools to power new-hire and selling success. The approach included recruitment consulting, assessment and selection of a psychometric/personality testing tool to help screen potential employees, and harassment avoidance training for all Action Duct employees. This project led to the hiring of a Service Manager, stronger hiring practices, and a stronger company culture. Once the hiring practices were formalized and new employees started coming onboard, CMTC and Action Duct developed templates and tools for both employee onboarding and sales training which are still used by the company today for new-hires and ongoing instruction.

Action Duct then re-engaged CMTC to help them increase inbound leads to their website. CMTC conducted a digital marketing audit and identified key opportunities to help Action Duct by using a phased approach to increase SEO and Google rankings for Action Ducts site and ultimately optimize their digital marketing efforts. From there, another opportunity was quickly recognized create new content to promote specific services and reformat the website to further increase targeted website traffic and customer acquisition for all Action Duct locations.

Action Ducts Director of Sales & Marketing, Jessica Rivas, recalls when the impact of CMTCs marketing assistance dramatically took flight: From Sunday night to Monday morning, we received 92 leads from our website. We thought it was a mistake, but it wasnt!

As a result of CMTCs assistance, Action Duct estimates a 65% increase in high-quality internet leads. The comprehensive nature of the work CMTC has done with Action Duct has also resulted in an estimated $500,000 increase in sales and $500,000 in retained sales. Action Duct attributes some of their job retention to CMTCs marketing, training, and human resources consulting services, and forecasts job increases over the next several months. Finally, Action Duct estimates cost avoidance and cost savings of $250,000 based on CMTCs contributions.

For more information about CMTCs business services, contact Rachel Miller at rmiller@cmtc.com or 310-984-0096.

About California Manufacturing Technology Consulting (CMTC)

Established in 1992, California Manufacturing Technology Consulting (CMTC) is a private non-profit organization that provides technical assistance, workforce development, and consulting services to small and medium-sized manufacturers throughout the state of California. CMTC operates as part of a National Network through a cooperative agreement between the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the U.S. Department of Commerce for the State of California.

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