Unwilling Witness: Memoir Provides Evidence of Cultural Genocide
Last month, Ron Gosbee’s memoir about his experience as a student at St. Anne’s Residential School in northern Ontario was finally published, entitled No Escape: Witness to a Canadian Genocide. Writing this book as proved to be a difficult task for the author and took almost ten years to complete. To get the story…
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 for all of the family. This event is about bringing family and friends together to celebrate the fall season with…
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: Best graphic novel, Best Illustrated book and Best mystery and thriller. This book and its sequel, Quid Pro Crow, are…
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, dips and snacks to meals to go, including her popular vegetable and meat samosas. Many of her products are gluten…
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. KG