Letter to the Editor – August 2024
Oh what a Night! My soul bubbles with pride as I send out thanks to the Ladies Night 2024 Planning Committee, Cavan Monaghan Parks & Facilities staff and workers, Cavan Monaghan Community Police, our fabulous MCs, Mother Nature and costumed attendees for the excellent event held Downtown Millbrook on July 25th. Kathie Lycett, Chair,…
More Privatization Will Not Make Our Health Care System Better
OPINION This was the subject of a presentation by Andrew Longhurst at the Mount Community Centre one evening in June. Longhurst is a health policy researcher, political economist, and PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. The event was sponsored by the Peterborough Health Coalition. In November…
Cavan-Monaghan Receives First Quarter OLG Payment
Last month, the township received the first quarter (April 1 – June 30) OLG payment totaling $87,728 for hosting Shorelines Slots at Kawartha Downs. The City of Peterborough’s payment for the same period was $734,414. Since the gaming site opened in November 1999, Cavan Monaghan has received $61,786,063 and since the Peterborough Shorelines Casino…
What’s in a Name?
Place names in many ways reflect the history of a landscape. A road may be named after a prominent family or political figure, or a town in memory of the lands that settlers originated from. It may simply describe a prominent feature of the area. The names given to our local landscape by the…
Millbrook Mobile Detailing Cleans Your Ride – or Boat or House
Tanya Borg started her first mobile detailing business in Courtice during the Covid pandemic. There was a great demand for clean vehicles, sanitized ones, in fact. Tanya could deliver. Customers included young families looking to keep their youngsters safe and elderly people worried about germs. Then there were contracts with fleet owners including cab…