Author: The Millbrook Times
Celebrate the Season at the Fall Festival
The Millbrook Business Improvement Area committee has plans to help us welcome the new season with another Fall Festival schedule for Saturday, October 5th running from noon until 6pm in the village with activities…
Bill Slavin’s Graphic Novel Earns Awards
Secrets of Jarrow, first book in the Mordecai Crow Trilogy written and illustrated by Millbrook’s Bill Slavin, won three of the four categories it was nominated in at the Alberta Publishing Awards last week:…
Jess’s Kitchen Offers Authentic Indian Cuisine
Jess Pinto has been sharing her mother’s flavours for years at farmers’ markets in the region including Peterborough, Lakefield, Port Hope and now Millbrook. She prepares a variety of Indo-Canadian dishes from finger food,…
Zucchini Festival – 2024
Competitors in the Zucchini boat races at last month’s Zucchini festival found new ways to increase the speed and buoyancy of their submissions as illustrated by the balloon attached to this young girl’s boat.…
Let’s Learn a New Habit – It will be fun
This year as Thanksgiving approaches, I am thinking about giving thanks for people beyond my family and friends. An entire web of people surrounds me, some paid, many volunteers, who make my life easier.…
Wutai Shan Buddhist Garden Welcomes Visitors Once Again
The Wutain Shan Buddhist Garden project is already thirty-four years in the making, with many decades to go before its completion. In 1990, The Buddhist Association of Canada Cham Shan Temple acquired 1,350 acres on…
Millbrook Library Hosts Local Fibre Art Show
The textile pieces in the upcoming show at the Millbrook branch of the CM Libraries bear no resemblance to your great aunt’s handiwork that you may have stashed somewhere in your attic. These are…
Local Weight Loss Group Hosts Weight Loss Queen
Darlene Gauweiler understands the frustration of those struggling to lose those last ten or fifteen pounds. She shed 144 pounds over two years, but it took another entire year to lose those last ten…
Common Ground – October 2024
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” F. Scott Fitzgerald We haven’t had a lot of crispness yet as I write this towards the end of September. There were…