Newspaper Club – April 2019
Do You Like Basketball? Then Listen Up! By Newspaper club member Ryan P. and Meghan N. This Friday March 29the, Millbrook South Cavan public school will be holding our 3rd annual March Madness Free Throw Competition. The top 2 boys and top 2 girls from each division will win a gift card of some…
Ontario Farmers: File Your Fuel Charge Exemption Certificate by April 1st
The new federal fuel surcharge comes into effect in Ontario next week. Also known as the “carbon tax”, it stems from the 2018 federal Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act that established a standard for reducing pollution for provinces and territories that didn’t have their own polluting pricing system. The new fuel charge stemming will…
Curious about Curios, Keen on Collectibles
There are those who can’t resist a live auction! Almost all of us own “collectibles”, and a few of us have valuable collections. The Historical Society invites you to bring one or two of your favourite “keepers” for a show and tell evening at the Fireside Lounge, Centennial Place in Millbrook on Thursday, April…
Compass Early Learning Hosts Benefit Dance for Rebecca DeWaard
When a serious car accident left a single young Millbrook mother in difficulty, staff at Compass Early Learning where her son spends his days in childcare felt they should do more than support the child–they wanted to support the family. They have organized a benefit dance scheduled for the evening of Saturday, April 13th…
Get Out! Spring returns
I have been writing this column since 2013 and I thought it might be worthwhile to re-publish some of the earlier columns from time to time. However, you may well remember that the publishing schedule was somewhat different several years ago. When The Millbrook Times was a weekly publication my column usually appeared in…