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Dec9Tue2025all-day Activities – Children & YouthActivities – Children & YouthDec 9 all-dayEarlyON Family Centre Programs: offered at the Old Millbrook School, 1 Dufferin St., Millbrook Mondays: Music and Movement from 10 am to 11 am on the 2ndfloor offering songs, dances and instruments to get youngsters moving. Open Gym at 12:30pm for infants up to 18months. Tuesdays and Thursdays: Stay and... Continue reading →8:30 am Coffee Club @ Royal Canadian Legion Branch 402 MillbrookCoffee Club @ Royal Canadian Legion Branch 402 MillbrookDec 9 @ 8:30 am – 10:30 amTuesdays from 8:30 to 10:30. Come and enjoy a morning of comradeship. Coffee, tea and muffins, $2. Everyone welcomeDec10Wed2025all-day Activities – Children & YouthActivities – Children & YouthDec 10 all-dayEarlyON Family Centre Programs: offered at the Old Millbrook School, 1 Dufferin St., Millbrook Mondays: Music and Movement from 10 am to 11 am on the 2ndfloor offering songs, dances and instruments to get youngsters moving. Open Gym at 12:30pm for infants up to 18months. Tuesdays and Thursdays: Stay and... Continue reading →1:00 pm Euchre @ Royal Canadian Legion Branch 402 MillbrookEuchre @ Royal Canadian Legion Branch 402 MillbrookDec 10 @ 1:00 pmWednesdays at 1pm beginning June 18th.
Author Archives: Karen Graham
Today’s Faith – Precious Moments
By Rev. Janet Stobie Thanksgiving weekend is fast approaching. What thoughts do I have to offer? Richard Wagamese, in “Embers,” his book of devotions, tells us that all we truly have are “moments,” precious moments given as gifts by the Creator God. Let’s think about that this Thanksgiving. What we… Continue reading
Fall Events at the CM Libraries
By Courtney Spence “Autumn is the season that teaches us that change can be beautiful.”–Unknown Whew! September seems to have flown by and now we are officially in autumn. We had a quiet September as the kids went back to school and families adjusted to their new routines. While the… Continue reading
Friendship Force
Trip to Prince Edward Island By Tina Mom and I took a trip to P.E.I. We flew on an airplane. We arrived there around 11:30 am. We were tired. My aunt and uncle picked us up from the airport. We went to Wendy’s for lunch and then we went to… Continue reading
Adult Learn to Curl Program Returns to Peterborough Curling Club
If you are looking for something to do this winter, why not try curling? Peterborough Curling Club, 2195 Lansdowne Street W, Peterborough, is offering Learn to Curl on either Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 8:00pm or Sunday afternoons from 1:00 to 2:30 pm. Cost of the program is $375 for… Continue reading
Open Studio Returns October 18-19th
By Jane Wilson On October 18-19 we are having our fifth fall Open Studio and you are invited to join us from 11-4 at 700 Carmel Line south of the village of Millbrook. There will be seven of us participating this year. We are happy to have Jane Zednik’s fantastical… Continue reading
Firefighter Graduation
Common Ground – October 2025
By Jill Williams “October is bright as a bittersweet berry.”– Hal Borland During this past summer’s impossibly hot and dry summer I kept reminding myself that we had one more season to look forward to. And now it’s here. Fall’s warm days and cool nights are the best weather of… Continue reading
Brook Trout are back in Millbrook’s Jail Creek!!
For over five years, the Millbrook Chapter of Freshwater Conservation Canada(FCC) has been conducting scientific data collection and carrying out maintenance and restoration projects along streams in the Baxter Creek watershed. Each year in late summer, biologists from FCC (formerly Trout Unlimited) make their base camp in the backyard of… Continue reading