EVENTS CALENDAR

MONTHLY EVENTS

Wednesday 1.9.2021

Wednesday Social @ Station Square, 5:30pm

Thursday 2.9.2021 Last Scott Downhill Race Series – Youth and

Adults @ Fernie Alpine Resort

Friday 3.9.2021

11 Year Anniversary Sale @ Gear Hub Sports, 9am-6pm with 20-80% off storewide

Sunday 5.9.2021

Last Fernie Mountain Market @ Rotary Park, 10am-2pm

46th Annual Fernie Lions Demolition

Derby @ Railway Ave, accessed behind TJs Autobody and starting at 12pm

Monday 6.9.2021 Labour Day

Last day of Operation @ Fernie Alpine Resort

Tuesday 7.9.2021

First Day of School @ BC Schools

Tuesday 7.9.2021 – Wednesday 8.9.2021

Singletrack 6 Mountain Bike Race @ Fernie Trails, cheer on riders as they ride the first two days of this epic event on our trail network! Day one in town, day two at FAR and the provincial park.

Friday 10.9.2021 International Suicide Awareness

Day Event @ Annex Park, 6pm @ ElkValleySuicideTaskForce

Friday 10.9.2021 – Sunday 12.9.2021 6th Annual Chautauqua Festival and Fall Fair

@ Fernie Museum and City Hall grounds

Saturday 11.9.2021

Junior Tennis Tournament @ Fernie Tennis Coaching, James White Park 9:30am-3:30pm Dirt Diggler DH Mountain Bike Race @ Fernie Mountain Bike Club, bikefernie.ca

Sunday 12.9.2021

East Kootenay Shine and Skate @ Cranbrook Skate Park, 9am-5pm. Paint ‘N Sip @ Cirque Restaurant, 1-3pm

Wednesday 15.9.2021

Group Show: Recalibrate Opening @ H Squared Gallery with Topo Pots potter Janet Ng Q&A, 7pm

Thursday 16.9.2021

Fernie and District Arts Council AGM @ The Fernie Arts Station, 6pm

Friday 17.9.2021 – Sunday 19.9.2021

Fernie Gravel Grind @ ferniegravelgrind.com

Saturday 18.9.2021

Topo Pots Demonstration @ H Squared Gallery, surface decoration on clay from 11:30am to 3:30pm Last Day of Operations @ Island Lake Lodge

Tuesday 21.9.2021

EVSTF Grief Support Group Starts @ Fernie Fox Hotel, 6:30pm-8pm. Bi-monthly.

Thursday 23.9.2021 to Sunday 26.9.2021

Fifth Annual Elk Valley Pride Festival @ Fernie Pride Society, ferniepride.ca

Friday 24.9.2021

Drag Queen Story Time @ Fernie Heritage Library, 11am Tea and Talk @ Fernie Heritage Library, 1:30pm

Rainbow Reads with Jane Byers: Small Courage: A Queer Memoir, A Story of Finding

Love and Conceiving Family @ The Fernie Heritage Library, 7pm

Saturday 25.9.2021 Third Annual Lone Wolf Trail Running Race

@ Elk Valley Nordic Centre, stagleaprunning. com

Monday 27.9.2021

Fall GoByBike Weeks @ GoByBikeFernie, register online at logmyride.gobybikebc.ca

Thursday 30.9.2021 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

Make sure to stay up to date by visiting FernieFix.com/events. Send your events to krista@clarismedia.com for inclusion!

WEEKLY EVENTS

Mondays

Parent-tot Funtimes @ Facebook Page Les Tiguidous @ AFRosFernie, outdoor activities with songs, stories in French ages 0-5. 10:15am Club All Play – Fernie Pickeleball @ Max Turyk Courts, 8:30-10:30am Le Club Baguette Junior @ Rotary Park, outdoor activities and games in French ages 7-12, 3:30pm Date Night @ Island Lake Lodge

Tuesdays

Storytime (ages 3-5) @ Fernie Heritage Library Live Instagram and Facebook Fernie Youth Art Collective @ The Arts Station, 6pm Ladies’ League @ Fernie Golf Club

Fernie Options for Sexual Health Clinic

Open @ Elk Valley Hospital, 6:30-8:30pm by appointment Parent-tot Funtimes @ Facebook Page Burger and Beer Night @ The Northern Wing Night @ The Pub

Wednesdays

Club All Play – Fernie Pickeleball @ Max Turyk Courts, 8:30-10:30am Curbside Craft @ Fernie Heritage Library, pick up between 12-4pm, Tuesday through Friday Toddlertime (Ages 0-2 years) @ Fernie Heritage Library Live Instagram and Facebook Team Trivia @ The Fernie Men’s League @ Fernie Golf Club Women on Wheels Ride @ Fernie Bike Park, 6:30pm Wine Tasting Wednesday @ Island Lake Lodge

Thursdays

Bellies to Babies @ Zoom, 2pm Seniors’ League @ Fernie Golf Club

Club Baguette Adultes - Practice Speaking

French @ AFRos Fernie via Zoom, 7pm Pub Team Trivia @ The Pub

Scott Downhill Race Series: Adults and Masters Race presented by Fox and Legends

@ Fernie Alpine Resort, 6:30pm Fernie Trails Alliance Work Party @ Fernie Bike Park Art in the Eve @ The Arts Station, 7pm

Fridays

Club All Play – Fernie Pickeleball @ Max Turyk Courts, 8:30-10:30am Storytime (ages 0-5) @ Fernie Heritage Library Live Instagram and Facebook Women on Wheels Ride @ Fernie Bike Park, 9:30am Fish and Chips @ The Pub Fish and Chips Take Away @ Fernie Hotel, 4pm Meat Draw @ The Fernie Club Cre8 @ The Arts Station

Saturdays

Saturdays in September @ Fernie Heritage Library Garden games, scavenger hunts and crafting from 1-3pm Shawarma Take Out @ Fernie Hotel, 4pm Meat Draw @ The Legion

MIND CONTROL by Sadie Rosgen and SUPPORT OTHERS by Nikolas Sombrowski

It’s not every day that I discover a collaborator like Niki Sombrowski. I first met Niki as a high school senior, working hard on his education, playing Junior B hockey for the Fernie Ghostriders. Once his season was over, he was looking forward to playing elsewhere. Like many of us, as the global pandemic spiraled out of control, our lives were put on hold. Niki came home to Fernie only to write his S.A.T.s that he hoped would land him at an American university and lend a hand to the various businesses his family owns and operates. When we connected about writing together, he was running the cash at I.G.S. He and I made some plans but as he got the call to play in Cranbrook for the BCHL pod season, we had to make other plans. Eventually we got together on my veranda in the heat of summer to write Italian sonnets (his suggestion, I might add). I have known a great deal writers and hockey players in my 38 years but never have I met one person that does them both with such joy and attention to detail. Perhaps he’s a renaissance man, or simply a young man who is as unique as the land he comes from.

MIND CONTROL by Sadie Rosgen

Overwhelmed in every sense, the information highway is a vast and submissive playground. Often confused, internet trolls lurking in the background, teaming with impressive graphics and distraction, fascinating and dense. But behold, my cautionary tale for herein lies the observation of control; before you click, ingest, and are told, be aware that your mind can be bought and sold. Designed to radicalize, never meant to console. So massive and unrelenting, still, I am free to think. Therefore, do not police the contents of my mind, I vow to keep inventing. I compose the moments that push my imagination to the brink. For when I bargain for the time, peace and pleasure are what I find.

SUPPORT OTHERS by Nikolas Sombrowski

Blinded by the absence of abundant noise, loneliness has stability, and the quiet has peace. Being alone is rational, never failing to cease. The unknown is terrible and almost certainly destroys. Like a wolf, abandoned by his pack, and although he is capable alone; unconsciously spitted. For is there ever a realization of being farsighted? If never lead directly along a track, though what purpose serves adventure if set by oneself? We find strength in a greater number, and tranquility when invited. So when others free you from yourself, you will never have to encumber. For experience is absolute, if it is never recited.

Enola Holmes

by ANDREW VALLANCE

Sherlock Holmes is one of England’s most famous cultural exports. This genius detective was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British medical doctor and writer. Doyle was a prolific writer whose works included fantasy and science fiction stories, plays and historic novels. He created the character of Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Sherlock Holmes is a perfect representation of the way in which upper middle-class Victorian men wished to be seen by society. He is calm, rational, scientifically minded and, most important, a gentleman. But in his stories Doyle never gave many details about Holmes’ family. He mentioned Mycroft, Holmes’ older brother, but said nothing about his mother, father or other siblings.

Enola Holmes is a film that remedies the situation by dealing with the adventures of Sherlock’s younger sister. The story deals with Enola’s attempt to find her missing suffragette mother, save a young nobleman from being killed by a mysterious hitman, and challenge the deeply entrenched British class system. The film is an adaptation of a young adult series of detective novels written by American author Nancy Springer, two books of which were nominated for the Edgar Awards for Best Juvenile Mystery.

Enola is portrayed by Millie Bobby Brown, who at the age of twelve gained recognition for playing Eleven in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things (2016). She made her feature film debut in 2019, in Godzilla: King of the Monsters. In this film, Enola is the 14-year-old sister of an already famous Sherlock Holmes who is twenty years her senior. When their mother disappears, the brothers attempt to send Enola to a finishing school, but she runs away to London where she establishes a clandestine detective agency specializing in missing persons investigations. The mother is portrayed expertly by Helena Bonham Carter, an actress known for her roles in both small independent films and large-scale blockbusters, which earned her a string of acting accolades including Academy, Emmy and Golden Globe awards. She has not shied away from playing quirky women including roles in films directed by Tim Burton such as Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), and Dark Shadows (2012). The role of the suffragette mother in this film suites Bonham Carter to a “t.”

The movie also features Henry Cavill (Man of Steel) as a decidedly feminist Sherlock Holmes and Sam Clafflin (Snow White and the Huntsmen) who plays a decidedly traditionalist and stuffy Mycroft .

“This is a good movie, and an effective introduction to the concepts behind feminism.”

Fiona Shaw (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) makes an appearance as the matriarch of a well-respected aristocratic family, and Adeel Akhtar (The Big Sick, Four Lions) plays the bumbling Inspector Lestrade.

This is a good movie, and an effective introduction to the concepts behind feminism. Enola is self-possessed, forthright and resourceful, a feminist hero indeed. It is action-packed, funny and heartwarming. It is currently available on Netflix.

I liked this one quite a lot. Two thumbs way, way up. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.