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Port Perry Snowmobiling Club

Farewell to the Tin Mill

The Tin Mill restaurant and bar is closing its doors in mid-January 2020, after 13 years. This local favourite, housed in a renovated turn-of-the-century flour mill in downtown Uxbridge, offered an innovative and creative menu including home-baked desserts and local craft beers on tap.

But don’t fear, proprietors Don Andrews & Conrad Lepine will be serving up a new culinary venture in 2020. It will have a new name, new location, and a new menu, with the same great dining experience you’ve come to know and love. You can stay in the loop and follow their journey to the new restaurant on their Facebook and Instagram pages.

Watch for the new restaurant’s website in the coming months. They can’t wait to show you what they’ll be bringing to the table!

Business Profile: Buster Rhino's Southern BBQ

The accolades keep pouring in. Top five poutine joints in Oshawa, best ribs in Toronto, best jerky, and most recently a 2019 Platinum Award for the best pulled pork in Ontario’s Finest Meat Competition. Is your mouth watering yet? Then make Buster Rhino’s Southern BBQ your next stop. They’ve been serving up great southern BBQ favourites both to devoted locals, and fans from near and far (Hong Kong and Australia), for more than a decade. In addition to a solidly delicious menu, Buster Rhino’s has a line-up of high-quality Southern BBQ products, including signature BBQ sauces, spices, rubs, meat products and tasty snacks, made fresh in-house with no additives or preservatives.

From the innovative award-winning flavoured pig candy to Carolina style slaw alongside your beef brisket sandwich, visitors can taste the pride Buster Rhino’s puts into every one of their products. You’ll also feel the local love at Buster’s, as the restaurant sources their meat from local butchers, including Herrington’s Quality Butchers in Port Perry (whom was just awarded Ontario's Finest Butcher) and Halenda’s- The Meat People. Stop by for lunch or dinner, or pick up some treats to take home. 

Bidding on the 2022 Ontario Summer Games

In the spring, building on the success of the 2019 Ontario Parasport Games, Sport Durham collaborated with stakeholders and partners across the Region to develop and submit a bid to host the 2022 Ontario Summer Games. This event would have featured competition in 20 sports and welcomed 3,500 participants, as well as family members and friends to the Region. 

We were overwhelmed by the support of many valued partners, some existing and some new. They contributed to the preparation of a strong bid, including providing financial and other means of support, participated in a video and assisted with planning and hosting a site visit for the Bid Review Committee in July. Thank you to those of you who were part of this process!

Although we were not selected, we again demonstrated our capacity and our community’s enthusiasm for hosting multi-sport games. We learned from the bid process, and we look forward to collaborating on future multi-sport event bidding and hosting opportunities. 

Durham Region 2019 Parasport Games

Legacy Fund Celebration



We’re proud of how our region embraced the 2019 Durham Region Parasport Games, and its athletes, earlier this year. From the economic impact to the region and the province, to being the roar that cheered on these amazing athletes, and from the countless hours put in by volunteers, to the overwhelming support of partners from the region and beyond, the Games were a great success! We shared with and showed athletes, coaches, officials and visitors, all the things that make Durham such a great place to play and explore!

 

See the infographic below for an overview of the Games results.

 

The “paramazing” experience now continues through the Games Legacy Fund, which will fund initiatives that support the nurturing and growth of parasport in the region. Early on, the fund surpassed its initial goal, and $111,900 will be distributed across five legacy initiatives:

 

1.     Grants to support youth participation in Parasports through Their Opportunity.

2.     A two-year Parasport Grow It Program for schools.

3.     The development of a Parasport Festival.

4.     Sledge hockey accessibility upgrades for the Town of Whitby’s Iroquois Park Sports Centre Arena 3.

5.     Initiatives of the Durham Adaptive Sport Collective, which was created to support the growth of opportunities for people with disabilities to enjoy the benefits of participation in sport.

 

These results and legacy initiatives were shared during a Games Legacy Announcement Celebration at the Abilities Centre on December 12, which included remarks from:

Medals were presented to the Games Co-Chairs and Abilities Centre in recognition of their tremendous contributions to the Games.   

 

Thank you for your support! We look forward to sharing updates on adaptive sport initiatives and events in the months ahead.