Soccer Equipment Collection
Pictured is Dr. Jim Leeson, a chiropractor practicing at the Peterborough Power Zone Center with a small sample of shoes he and massage Therapist Sara Sutherland have collected. The shoes will be distributed to the children in Belize in February by the volunteers at the annual visit to that country. Soccer shoes for the…
Millbrook Ladies’ Night 2019
A picture-perfect evening provided a welcome backdrop to this year’s Ladies’ Night event hosted by the Millbrook BIA, featuring shopping, food, live entertainment and camaraderie.
Telecare Distress Centre of Peterborough Seeking Volunteers
Telecare Peterborough is looking for empathetic individuals ready to join the fight against loneliness and isolation. Training for New Volunteers begins September 25th 2019, at 7:00 pm, Trinity United Church, 360 Reid St., Peterborough. Training is 50 hours and costs $50. (Subsidies are available.) Listening skills and awareness of social, emotional and psychological needs…
Hand-crafted, Tasteful Food and Gifts Offer a Nod to the Past at Millbrook Mercantile
The wait continues for the much-anticipated opening of the new business in the former antique shop called Millbrook Mercantile, now scheduled for September. Owners Bernadette MacNeil and Lance Nachoff are feeling it, too, but they’ve been waiting even longer. The dream of opening a business in the food industry has been a percolating for…
ZimArt Celebrates 20 Years
Pictured is a sculpture entitled “In Harmony”, created by this year’s ZimArt’s Artist-in-Residence Wimbai Ngoma. The Gallery located at 855 2nd Line, Bailieboro is open for the season, with a 20th Anniversary kick-off party that was held Saturday, Aug. 3. The gallery will be open from 11 am to 6pm daily until Sept. 1st.…
TAG – We’re It – Millbrook Invited to Join Toronto-Algonquin Greenway Project
Early last month, Toronto-Algonquin Greenway (TAG) Coordinator Pamela Marsales made a pitch to the Millbrook Business Improvement Association (BIA) executive to encourage Millbrook to join communities along a series of routes connecting Pearson International Airport with Algonquin Park to draw environmentally-friendly tourist traffic to the area. Greenway is a term describing routes, trails or…