Donations for Belize
Pictured is Bev Hilditch receiving a gift of a crock pot from Nancy Britton, representing the Millbrook Home Hardware store. Bev expressed her appreciation for the contribution to the Annual Belize Auction. The auction was held on January 26th at St John’s Anglican Church in Ida. St. John’s has been very supportive of the…
Letter to the Editor – February 2019
Letter to the Editor On behalf of the Millbrook and Area Garden Club, thank you for your article in the last edition (Find Local Expertise at the Millbrook Garden Club, January 2019). Your help in getting our name out to the gardening public is much appreciated. One correction though: our admission price went up…
Comment – February 2019
Budget time is when elected representatives feel the pressure of reconciling the public wants against the fiscal realities. Very few funding requests they receive are fundamentally unreasonable; but when put into the context of financial reality, the demands conflict, making some decisions feel arbitrary. Cavan Monaghan Council members received some direction regarding their role…
Soccer Equipment for Belize
Pictured are Bev Hilditch who is volunteering in Belize this year and Angela Penello representing the Maple Leaf Cavan FC standing in front of a vehicle full of donated soccer equipment destined for Belize. This is the third time the local soccer club has cleaned out their cupboards of socks, chin pads, shirts, shoes…
Open For Business? Not So Fast!
The mantra of modern day community planning is Live, Work and Play. Loosely translated, community development should include a balance of residential, recreational and employment land uses, a goal which is reflected in the Official Plans of communities across Ontario. The model is good in theory but has proved challenging in practice as communities…
Public Health Offers Cannabis Advice
Not everyone is celebrating the legalization of cannabis for recreational use. Peterborough Public Health is presenting their concerns to the areas they serve to ensure elected representatives are equipped with the facts from a public health perspective. The presentation led by Sarah Cullingham, Health Promoter from Public Health, began with the warning that like…