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Upcoming Events
Dec2Tue2025all-day Activities – Children & YouthActivities – Children & YouthDec 2 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 MillbrookDec 2 @ 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 ChurchDec 2 @ 10:00 amTuesdays at 10 am, pre-registration required – call 705-932-2011.Dec3Wed2025all-day Activities – Children & YouthActivities – Children & YouthDec 3 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 →
ZimArt’s Rice Lake Gallery Prepares for its Final Season
After 23 years operating a unique gallery Fran Fearnley has made the difficult decision that this year will be the last for ZimArt’s Rice Lake Gallery. The gallery opened in 2000 and features selected pieces from more than 50 Zimbabwean stone sculptors on a rural property overlooking Rice Lake. The… Continue reading
Partners Offer Help for Healthy Hearing
Audiologist Judy Keith and her partner Stephen Ward operate two EarSense locations where they help their customers keep connected by supporting their hearing health. The original location is in East City, and last fall they opened a location at 999 Landsdowne St. West at the Parkway. Both are easily accessible… Continue reading
Aunt Laura’s Tea Room
Kathy Morton, the proprietor of Aunt Laura’s Tea Room hosted a Coronation celebration to mark the coronation of King Charles III to the throne of the United Kingdom. The high tea began with singing of God Save the King. Followed by the introduction of the guests and discussion of how… Continue reading
Common Ground – June 2023
“Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.” Walt Whitman A passing walker asked me if I wasn’t depressed to be deadheading the last of spring’s daffodils. I replied that this has been the best daffodil year in decades so no sadness this year. It’s only sad… Continue reading
What Is Wisdom?
There is a story in the Bible (Matthew 1:16) often titled, “Workers in the Vineyard.” A vineyard owner needs to hire help for harvest. He had to return repeatedly to the town square all day for more workers, Even an hour before the day’s end, he hired and sent more… Continue reading
Millbrook Community Care Volunteers Treated to Breakfast
Art Auction for Belize School Lunch Program Results
An on-line auction was held from the hall of St. John’s Church, Ida on the evening of Friday, April 14. As reported in the April edition of the Millbrook Times, the paintings are the work of local artist, Murray Hofstetter, a retired art teacher who taught at McLaughlin Collegiate in… Continue reading
Planning Starts Now for Blocks and Blooms
Distinctive gardens, heritage properties and the Airing of the Quilts is a triple-threat treat that, in 2018, brought hundreds of visitors to the area for a day of spectacular colour and beauty, and it is time we did it again. A team with the Millbrook & Cavan Historical Society is… Continue reading