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For those looking for fun close to home this March Break, Port Colborne has fun (and some free) activities planned for families.

Vale Health & Wellness Centre

  • The Port Colborne Optimist Club is sponsoring a FREE public skate on Wednesday, Mar. 16 from 1:30 to 3:30pm.
  • Get active with arena programming, including parents and tots and stick and puck, standard fees apply. For the full programming schedule, visit our website.
  • For more information about YMCA programs, including March Break camps, visit their website.

Port Colborne Public Library

  • Staring Monday, Mar. 14, free S.T.E.A.M. activity kits, Solve the Library Mystery, are available for kids ages 6-12.  Standing for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math, STEAM introduces kids to essential skills and concepts that are transferrable and useful across many aspects of life. Kits include 3 STEAM activities with instructions, as well as information about the STEAM subject. Kits are available while supplies last. No registration required.  
  • Beginning Monday, Mar. 14, anyone 11 and older is challenged try to escape a virtual escape room, Captain Colby’s Lost Treasure. Decipher the clues and find the lost treasure! Visit www.portcolbornelibrary.org for more details.
  • Beginning Monday, Mar. 14, take home a free fun craft kit for all ages. Available while supplies last with a limit of two crafts per child. Kids can make a Royal Frog, Silly Clown, Silly Chilly Penguin, Pirate Ship or Message in a Bottle. Visit www.portcolbornelibrary.org for more details.
  • Borrow a free Ontario Parks Day Pass. Your Port Colborne Public Library is excited to offer Free Ontario Parks Day Passes! These are single day-use passes that allow one vehicle entry into an Ontario Park for free. With more than 100 operating provincial parks to choose from, you can explore skiing and hiking trails and day-use beaches across our beautiful province. Borrow a Parks Day Pass with your Port Colborne Public Library card and enjoy free day parking in many Ontario Provincial Parks! For more details, call 905-834-6512 or visit our website. 
  • Visiting the Library during March Break to check out books? Don’t forget to also check out their Library of Things, puzzles, board games, DVDs and video games.

The library is open Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 905-834-6512, email library@portcolborne.ca, or visit our website.

 Port Colborne Historical & Marine Museum

  • Sign up to become a History Chaser. The Museum’s History Chasers Club is inviting you to go back in time with us! For each month of 2022, members of the History Chasers Club will receive a letter describing the history of 1911 for our residents. Our narrator, Jennes Johnston, the wife of a ship captain, will tell the story of Port Colborne that museum staff have uncovered through research of the museum’s collection, archival records, census data, and newspaper reports. Interested in joining the Museum’s History Chasers Club? Call 905-834-7604 or email museum@portcolborne.ca.
  • Did you miss our Humberstone Hunt GooseChase for Heritage Week? The museum still has paper copies available for pick up from their mailbox and families can work together to complete them.
  • Sign up as a family for your free museum membership, sponsored by Bell Marine. To complete the membership form, call 905-834-7604 or complete the form on our website.
  • Go for a walk through the museum’s heritage village.  

For more information about the museum, visit their website.

Explore the outdoors

  • Enjoy the outdoors at our parks, trails, or green spaces. To learn more, visit our website.

Get Freezin’ for a Reason

  • Partnering with Special Olypmics Ontario, we’re encouraging residents to PORTicipate virtually in the Polar Plunge, running until Mar. 21, 2022. To register, for information about fundraising, and for creative ways to take the plunge virtually like filling your bath tub with ice or running through a sprinkler, visit their website.  The city is encouraging Port Colborne residents who participate to share their plunge videos on social media by tagging the City of Port Colborne and using #plungeON. The city is not hosting an in-person plunge this year, but we look forward to 2023.

What safety measures can you expect when entering a city facility?

  • Before entering a city facility, visitors are to complete a self-screening assessment posted on the doors and are asked to stay home if feeling unwell.
  • Face covering requirements remain in effect.
  • Proof of vaccination is not required to enter any facility.