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Oct26Sun2025all-day Activities – Children & YouthActivities – Children & YouthOct 26 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 →Oct27Mon2025all-day Activities – Children & YouthActivities – Children & YouthOct 27 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 →7:00 pm Millbrook Community Choir @ Centreville-Harmony ChurchMillbrook Community Choir @ Centreville-Harmony ChurchOct 27 @ 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.Oct28Tue2025all-day Activities – Children & YouthActivities – Children & YouthOct 28 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 28 @ 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 28 @ 10:00 amTuesdays at 10 am, pre-registration required – call 705-932-2011.
South Monaghan Public School Parade Float
Joanne Rowland Returns from Kenyan village
By Celia Hunter Joanne Rowland, in her words officially a senior citizen and still working on contract as a physiotherapist in the Emergency Department at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre, has just returned from her annual visit to Ndanai in northwestern Kenya. This is the seventh year Joanne has travelled… Continue reading
Sylvia’s Family Restaurant Changes Hands
Area Businesses join in the Spirit of Giving
As the decorations go up, area businesses are also bringing out boxes, barrels and bins to collect unwrapped toys and non-perishable food items to make Christmas merry and brighter for some local families and individuals. At Clarke’s Service Centre and Jule’s Kitchen on Tupper Street in Millbrook, there is a… Continue reading
Mount Pleasant’s Women’s Institute Celebrates Renovated Hall Kitchen
By Andy Harjula On Saturday, November 16, a large crowd gathered at the Women’s Institute Hall in Mount Pleasant to celebrate the official opening of the new kitchen. The renovations and upgrades were made possible with the support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation and a Community Funding Grant through the… Continue reading
November’s Nuances
By Glen Spurrell November’s Nuances This “in-between” season–not really fall any longer and certainly not winter yet–often gets treated as simply something to be endured or waited out. This is a great shame because there are many subtle delights; and as climate change rears more and more its ugly face… Continue reading
4th Line Invites Youth to talk about bullying
4th Line Theatre is hosting a Sounding on issues facing young people and cyber bullying, messaging and harassment. Soundings and community reminiscences are an important part of 4th Line Theatre’s New Play Development Program and its ongoing historical research. 4th Line Theatre is hosting this Sounding on Saturday, November… Continue reading
No Time for TV for this Crestwood Student
Excerpt from report by Jordan Pind The past two and a half months have been quite possibly the best months of my life and they have flown by. My first host family has been perhaps the best host family any exchange student could ever have asked for. They truly treat… Continue reading