Recycled Sweaters Find New Life as Stylish, Environmentally-Friendly Mittens
It’s not glamourous but it is commendable; Amanda Benns creates beautiful, hand-made mittens using items destined for the second hand store or even the dump. She scoops up used, unloved and untrendy sweaters and diverts them from their looming, ignoble end, using them as raw materials for her beautiful and practical creations. With the…
The EarlyOn Centre’s Christmas Events
The Old Millbrook School EarlyON Child and Family Centre will be at Christmas in the Village selling popcorn and helping to spread holiday cheer, with a crafty table for the children! Stop by and see us! The following week the centre will host a Holiday Potluck Event on Tuesday December 11th from 10:30am to…
Cavan Art’s Valerie Kent Promotes Art for Everyone
Like the little engine that could, Valerie Kent just keeps on chugging. Recent knee surgery slowed her down a bit, but she’s back at it, hosting painting workshops, private painting parties, writing for art journals, and organizing two more painting trips to France this summer, all while running her Art Gallery in Cavan. A…
Centennial Places Hosts the Last Garden Club Meeting of the Year
The Millbrook & Area Garden Club is wrapping up the year on Wednesday December 5th at 7:30 pm with an interesting and fun social evening entitled “The Agony and The Ecstasy of Gardening” – a discussion of the ups and downs of the past gardening season in some of our member’s gardens accompanied with…
VON Fitness Program Energizes Local Seniors
June is a volunteer who enjoys leading an active group of seniors in a weekly fitness class held in the church hall at St. John’s Ida Anglican Church on Thursday mornings. Using minimal equipment such as therabands and weighted balls, she leads the group of twelve to eighteen participants as they work their way…
New Dental Clinic Under Construction in Former TD Building
Two young dentists are preparing to launch their own dental clinic in the former TD Bank building in Millbrook. The transformation of the building is well underway, with expectations that the doors will open for business in the spring. Dave Bryant and Cathy Hong worked together in a practice in Bowmanville a few years…