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Upcoming Events
Oct6Mon2025all-day Activities – Children & YouthActivities – Children & YouthOct 6 all-dayEarlyON Family Centre Programs: offered at the Old Millbrook School, 1 Dufferin St., Millbrook Mondays: Music and Movement from 10 am to 11 am on the 2ndfloor offering songs, dances and instruments to get youngsters moving. Open Gym at 12:30pm for infants up to 18months. Tuesdays and Thursdays: Stay and... Continue reading →9:00 am New To You Clothing Store @ New to You Clothing StoreNew To You Clothing Store @ New to You Clothing StoreOct 6 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pmOpen 9am to 3pm every Monday to Friday. Please consider donating good quality used clothing. Funds received from the sale of these items support local programs and services.7:00 pm Millbrook Community Choir @ Centreville-Harmony ChurchMillbrook Community Choir @ Centreville-Harmony ChurchOct 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pmPractices every Monday evening, 7:00-9:00, at Centreville-Harmony Church, one concession south of the roundabout, County Rd. 28 at Zion Line. If you love to sing, come! For information, contact Annette, fallisa@hotmail.com or Beryl, bcablewilliams@gmail.com.Oct7Tue2025all-day Activities – Children & YouthActivities – Children & YouthOct 7 all-dayEarlyON Family Centre Programs: offered at the Old Millbrook School, 1 Dufferin St., Millbrook Mondays: Music and Movement from 10 am to 11 am on the 2ndfloor offering songs, dances and instruments to get youngsters moving. Open Gym at 12:30pm for infants up to 18months. Tuesdays and Thursdays: Stay and... Continue reading →8:30 am Coffee Club @ Royal Canadian Legion Branch 402 MillbrookCoffee Club @ Royal Canadian Legion Branch 402 MillbrookOct 7 @ 8:30 am – 10:30 amTuesdays from 8:30 to 10:30. Come and enjoy a morning of comradeship. Coffee, tea and muffins, $2. Everyone welcome10:00 am Line Dancing @ St Thomas’ Anglican ChurchLine Dancing @ St Thomas’ Anglican ChurchOct 7 @ 10:00 amTuesdays at 10 am, pre-registration required – call 705-932-2011.
Neal Cathcart to Run in North Monaghan
Speed Skaters Bring Home the Medals
Step Right Up, Win a Bruce Lepper Carving
New Gallery Has Stories to Tell
Zooming In… For The Bests, Community Matters
by: Celia Hunter Last Friday evening, Roy and Irene Best found themselves once again at the Mount Pleasant Women’s Institute Hall. Roy was MC for the first of what is hoped will be a series of Coffee Houses featuring music by local artists. Irene was on hand as President of… Continue reading
Doodling… Dandy Performance Enhancer For The Brain?
by: Karen Graham I’m a teacher, so I admit up front that when I see a student doodling in my class, I am offended. Am I not entertaining enough? (It’s a rhetorical question.) Like most of my colleagues, I assume that when someone is doodling, they are not listening to… Continue reading
A Champion in Our Midst… Bruce Lepper Loves Details
by: Celia Hunter Bruce Lepper was on the “whenever and all the time” schedule of a graphic artist in advertising and an art director at various agencies in Toronto, while trying to paint. It was too busy a life. It seems both Bruce and his wife Lyn were ready for… Continue reading
Community Spirit… Pat Barr Does It All For Fun
by: Celia Hunter Pat Barr and her husband Dave moved to the area just 10 years ago, and one of the first things on Pat’s to-do list was to turn up at a Community Choir practice, to sign up. She was welcomed with some surprise: no one had brought her… Continue reading