Making Connections at Monthly Lunches
By: Andy Harjula On the first Wednesday of each month, St. Johns Anglican Church hosts an outreach luncheon they call Rural Connections. The lunches often feature a speaker.
Family Centre Opens For Spring Saturdays
While the weather wasn’t very spring-like, the first ‘Spring Saturday’ of 2014 was great fun at the Old Millbrook School Family Centre with 18 children and many parents and caregivers attending.
Grace Glass Advocates for Radical Change in Roadside Management
Local citizen Grace Glass addressed Cavan Monaghan Council on March 25 to ask for a radical change in how ditching and brushing are accomplished along municipal roads. She called the current practice of scraping roadside ditches clean of all vegetation and cutting back large trees no longer acceptable, and stated, “Expediency and economics should…
Farms at Work… Chan Speaks Up For Native Bees
By: Karen Graham Susan Chan the Native Pollinator Program Manager for the Farms at Work organization was at the Old Millbrook School last Wednesday evening to offer her broad expertise to local landowners on how to enhance the attractiveness of their properties to native bee pollinators. As an executive member of the Central Ontario…
Loons Support Local Economy
By: Karen Graham Last Sunday afternoon, Transition Town Peterborough hosted a Buy Local, Live Local Expo at the Trentwinds International Centre. Over 20 local vendors had booths demonstrating the variety of products and services available from small businesses in the area who are encouraging the local economy, including The Chocolate Castle, 4th Line Theatre,…