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
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. Store clerks are first on my list. Last week, I was in Peterborough’s “Independent” grocery store, mainly for the fresh…
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 four sites in the Cavan Monaghan/Kawartha Lakes region. These sites will be home to the creation of an abbreviated, North…