Orange Shirt Day
Date: Tuesday September 30th, 2025 1-3pm
Location: Lockwood Park, Westport.
Orange Shirt Day was inspired by Phyllis Webstad, a residential school survivor, whose new orange shirt was taken away on her first day of residential school. This story has become a powerful symbol of the experience of many Indigenous children. Residential schools, run by Government and Churches, intended to break communities by taking children from their homes and instilling colonial beliefs whilst forbidding the children to speak their language or continue their cultural practices. The last school closed in the 1990's, and today, children's graves are being discovered in their grounds.
Westport Pocket Forests
Saturday, October 18th 2025 10am until finished. The Cove parking lot.
plant native shrubs, forbs and grasses for biodiversity, shoreline health, shade and soil improvement
learn about pocket forests
plan more pocket forests
move your body and meet new people.
Better Together Circle and the Frontenac Arch Biosphere presented
For the Love of Trees
author Diana Beresford-Kroeger and her new book "Our Green Heart"
Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a botanist, biochemist, biologist and poet of the global forest. She delivers a challenge to us all to dig deeper into the lives of trees and forests and into the ways they will save us from climate breakdown—and then do our part to plant and protect them.
This event was filled to capacity and the audience was captivated by her message and her insights.
Westport United Church was the perfect setting for the presentation being both beautiful and acoustic.
We are thrilled to begin developing networks and partnerships in this beautiful landscape. Do you like what we are doing, then perhaps you want to help in some way.
Our heartfelt thanks for the generous support of the Young Petty Stones and the Cove Inn family, Westport,
and to the community who came out to join the warm summer vibes and who supported the Better Together Circle in what we do. Young Petty Stones perform again June 21st and July 19th and both concerts some of the proceeds will go towards our work at Better Together Circle.
EcoFest 2025
May 24, 2025
10am - 3pm @ WTC Community Arena
Address: 31 Spring St. Westport Ont
Speakers in the Arena
10 Robert Dick, Astronomer and Dark Sky advocate. Shoreline lighting.
11 Mireille LaPointe, Grandmother, Community Helper. 2-Eyed Seeing.
Noon Britt and Alister; Dehydrating Your Harvest.
1pm EVCO; Mike Banks; Electric Vehicles 101 and 10 common myths busted.
2pm Claire Beach. Wild Edge Nature. The Power of Eco Therapy: Easing Stress Naturally
Performers at the Bandshell
Noon Darien Smith. Poet. Original works.
1pm Rideau Canal Cloggers. Amazing percussive feet!
2pm Rob Rainer and Mary Lou Carroll. Folk, bluegrass, light classic rock, jazz, and bossa nova tunes.
Voyageur canoes
Launch at the ramp by the Cove on the hour.
Walking tour
Through the Village of Westport. See our business community's green initiatives and sample their delights.
Our sponsors
We gratefully acknowledge our sponsors.
The Better Together Circle acknowledges that we are on the land that has been inhabited by Indigenous Peoples from the beginning. As settlers, we're grateful for the opportunity to meet, work and play here, and we thank all the generations of people stretching back in time who have taken care of this land. In particular, we gratefully acknowledge the Algonquin (Omàmìwininìwag) Anishnaabeg whose unceded territory this is. BTC is dedicated to taking action towards reconciliation and a harmonious relationship with the land.
"What we do to the land, we do to ourselves." Chief Seattle.
