Mountain Bike Setup (Part 2)
In last month’s column, three points of contact were discussed – feet, seat, and hands. We covered the feet and the seat but never quite made it to the hands. A rider’s hands are required to steer, brake, shift gears and change seatpost height, all while supporting a third to half of their body…
Singer/Songwriter Melissa Payne Launches Acting Debut in 4th Line Theatre’s Carmel
August marks the world premiere of the 4th Line Theatre’s new play, “Carmel”, written by Ian McLachlan and Robert Winslow. Set in 1937, in the hamlet of Carmel just south of Millbrook, the play is the third in the Barnardo children play series and follows the struggles of the White family as the try…
Feature Film Shoots Scenes in Downtown Millbrook
Cavan-Monaghan is a film-friendly township, as demonstrated by the string of film crews through town. Last week, Netflix was in town filming scenes for its upcoming film, “Tiny Dancer”, and Tuesday they closed Foodland for the day to film inside the store. Next week Netflix is back filming “Jupiter’s Legacy”. Is the novelty of…
Local, Luxurious Handcrafted Ladies’ Line Appeals to all the Senses
Some of you may remember Anna Luckai as a music teacher at Millbrook South Cavan Public School about ten years ago. She continues to teach but now educates high school students in Port Perry about careers during the fall semester and spends the remaining eight months of the year on her new business designing…
High Summer
Many of us thought the summer would never come. Were we ever wrong! And in both the garden and in wild areas plants seem to have caught up after the very slow spring. Now we are definitely in high summer. However, already the days are getting noticeably shorter in the evenings. No, I’m not…
Wylde Folk Farm and Apothecary
Gillian di Petta is one of this year’s new Millbrook Market vendors. Her cottage industry is called Wylde Folk, where she creates and sells natural, ecofriendly, small batch products designed to address scrapes and scratches encountered in everyday life. Her salves and balms soothe bruises, bug bites, sun burn, and oh yes, that pervasive…