With Gratitude for our Educators Past, Present and Future
It has been almost six years since I began my journey with The Old Millbrook School Family Centre. In those years I have had the chance to work with about a half dozen amazing Registered Early Childhood Educators. Our programs have been made so much better because of our amazing Educators. They have created…
Local Syrup Producer Takes Visitors into the Woods to Tap for Syrup
Jeremy Poulin of Red Mill Maple Syrup, is offering to give visitors an experience at their farm at 1232 Deyell Line south of Millbrook this month. February is usually the month when temperatures climb to the levels that allow for the collection of pure maple sap, and Jeremy is inviting visitors to join the…
Local Lions Club Continue a Legacy of Community Service
Are you looking for a way to meet your neighbours and make a contribution to your community? The Lions club is a good place to start. This paper often includes photos of members of the Millbrook and District Lions Club doing good things for our community. In this edition they are seen donating to…
Bill Slavin Takes us Beyond the Secrets of Jarrow
“It’s as good as it gets right now.” Bill Slavin might like to contemplate life in the middle ages or during the Napoleonic era, but he certainly doesn’t want to be transported back to that time. The Historical Society was treated to conversation, tea, and cookies by Bill Slavin and Esperanca Melo in late…
Common Ground – February 2024
“I entrench myself in my books, equally against sorrow and the weather.” Leigh Hunt My wish in the month of February is that it will whizz by like the calendar pages in old movies. Alas, this never seems to happen. So I turn to books, both old favourites that hold up to rereading and…