The Millbrook Times


  • A Fire Safety Concern – Effects of Winter On Your Chimney

    Winter weather, especially a wet winter with ice, rain and snow, can take its toll on your chimney. Under mild, damp weather conditions, fireplaces do not burn not as hot and clean as they do in cold dry weather, resulting in faster creosote build-up inside a chimney which creates a fire hazard. This highly…

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  • A Fire Safety Concern – Effects of Winter On Your Chimney

    Winter weather, especially a wet winter with ice, rain and snow, can take its toll on your chimney. Under mild, damp weather conditions, fireplaces do not burn not as hot and clean as they do in cold dry weather, resulting in faster creosote build-up inside a chimney which creates a fire hazard. This highly…

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  • Centreville Presbyterian Church Plan Youth Mission Trip to Guatemala

    Carolyn and Dave Brackenridge have been running the youth group at Centreville Presbyterian Church for five years now, and all but two of the original members are now in post-secondary school.  Two years ago, a woman came to Squirrel Creek Farm with Easter Eggs she was selling on behalf of a missionary group headed…

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  • Belize Trip

    The dinner and auction at St. John’s Ida Anglican Church raised $3700 for Andy Harjula’s annual Belize mission trip. About 50 people enjoyed a spaghetti dinner prepared by the St. John’s Anglican Church women on Saturday.  The event was part of the fundraising activities by a group of Anglican Church members led by Andy…

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  • Belize Trip

    The dinner and auction at St. John’s Ida Anglican Church raised $3700 for Andy Harjula’s annual Belize mission trip. About 50 people enjoyed a spaghetti dinner prepared by the St. John’s Anglican Church women on Saturday.  The event was part of the fundraising activities by a group of Anglican Church members led by Andy…

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  • Common Ground

    I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. John Muir In darkest February I have no trouble taking my cue from Scottish American naturalist John Muir (1838-1914). Walking in the cold and snowy winter landscape near my house I…

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