WALLACEBURG ARTS: Summer concerts scheduled in the region

A local column from the Wallaceburg area highlights community summer plans tied to regional arts programming and recent personal updates from the writer’s travels. The author describes a trip of about 10 days visiting their niece and nephew, Laura and Joel, living just outside Ottawa in Quebec, and notes time spent on small jobs around their property. During that visit, they watched a beaver family build a lodge next door, including adults and two babies swimming in the bay along the edge of the property. The column also refers to the beavers using the area under a dock, creating issues for neighbors. The piece then shifts to radio coverage: on June 9, exactly one year before BandTogether, the author called CKXS in Wallaceburg to connect with Chatham Concert Band Maestro Vaughn Pugh, who has led the ensemble for more than 40 years.