Maple Leaf Cavan FC Soccer Club Receives Community Building Fund Grant
MLCFC is very happy to announce that we have been successful in obtaining a $50,000.00 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to support our programs over the next year. The grant is from the Community Building Fund and is intended to assist MLCFC’s efforts to restore the Club’s resilience and capacity as we return…
Millbrook Community Care Donation
Pictured is Millbrook Community Care Volunteer Kathy Lynn accepting a donation of $500 from President Diann Corfe of Millbrook Legion. Legion members sell 50/50 draw tickets at the Peterborough Speedway as a regular fundraising event and this year decided to donate 10% of their share of the proceeds to Community Care this year.
Christmas Comes to the Village on December 2nd
This much-loved event hosted by the Millbrook BIA is returning to the village this year, giving the community an early taste of the season, running from 5 to 9pm. While some events are not possible due to health restrictions, many of the evening’s favourite features will be back on the street. The horse-drawn wagon…
New Woodlot Group Formed in Manvers
In collaboration with the Kawartha Land Trust, and The Ontario Woodlot Association, a new initiative has been launched by our neighbours to the west. They have started a local Forestry Cooperative. Among the many motives for this move was to prevent their plantations from collapsing, position themselves to take advantage of carbon credits, transition…
Beauty, Mystery and Variety
My record-keeping isn’t as good as I’d like and so I don’t have proof that the leaves are late falling this year. But it sure seems like it! Of course, we all know it’s been much warmer than usual, with only two frosts to date. Oaks are always slow to colour and lose their…
Common Ground – November 2021
“Sit by the fireside with Sorrow” Shelley There was no frost here in the valley until late October. I can’t remember another year when the morning glories and other frost tender flowers were still going while the leaves were turning colour. Some of the usual fall garden jobs have been moved forward into November…