Volume 71, Issue 11 | November 2017
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Giving Tuesday
Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday, a global movement for giving and volunteering which takes place each year after Black Friday. The event marks the “opening day of the giving season,” and is a time when charities, companies and individuals join together and rally for favourite causes.

Across Canada and around the world, Giving Tuesday unites communities by sharing our capacity to care for and empower one another.

You can make a difference this Giving Tuesday by making a donation to Ontario District's two official charitable projects: Harmonize for Speech, which aims to provide funds for numerous speech-related projects and equipment at hospitals, clinics and treatment centres throughout Ontario; and Sing Canada Harmony, which aims to provide financial assistance for educational and training opportunities in vocal music in Canada.
"Backseat Drivers" Celebrate Fifty Years
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Oshawa Chapter held a celebratory banquet this month to mark their 50th anniversary as an organization. " The Backseat Drivers", named by Harry Mckew, originally formed from wives of chapter members to support Oshawa's Horseless Carriagemen Chorus in hosting the 1968 District Convention.

"It's the holiday season..."
Send in photos of your Christmas concerts, holiday sing-outs, and other seasonal barbershop events to trillium@ontariosings.com be included in the December issue of The Trillium.
Video of the Month
Baldwin Blend received some more great news following their Mixed Chorus Champion title last month. The chorus, along with Ontario District Mixed Quartet Champions Ripple Effect, have been invited to the World Mixed contest in Germany next April.

Enjoy their winning performance on YouTube.

Harbourtown Sound and Rotary Club Raise $130,000+ for Polio Research
By Brad Burt

Twenty-one local Rotary Clubs recently joined with the Harbourtown Sound in a special Christmas concert to add to the global initiative to eradicate polio. Their efforts raised more than $130,000 for the cause in one afternoon.

Looking Back - 1966 - Part I
By  Waldo Redekop  - Ontario District Historian
1966: Part I

On page 2 of the 1966 District Directory is an In Memoriam of our past president, Harry Holle (1931-1965), who passed away in June of 1965. The Ontario District established a Barbershopper of the Year award. It was named the Harry B. Holle Memorial Trophy. The first winner of the Harry B. Holle Memorial Trophy, given to the Barbershopper of the Year for the year 1965, was George Shields.

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Upcoming Dates
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