Tag: local events
It Takes a Community to Celebrate Christmas in the Village
On December 5th, 2019, a community came together in the heart of our town to celebrate. Christmas in the Village was a great success thanks to a wide variety of people and businesses…
Christmas Calm Reflects on Absence and Healing
In the excitement and anticipation surrounding Christmas preparations, it is hard to find a time and place where it is safe to let longing and loss settle. A ‘Christmas Calm’ service is just such…
Pumpkin Fest 2019 🎃
The crowds poured into the Veggie Patch to get a taste of country last month at the Pumpkin Fest which featured gator rides and a petting zoo where Daphne the Alpaca enjoyed the attention.…
Registration for Christmas Hamper Program Begins
Millbrook and District Food Share volunteers are getting organized for this year’s Christmas Hamper program. Each year this organization prepares and distributes approximately 80 Christmas Hampers for local families. These customized boxes of goodies…
Zucchini Festival Boat Decorating Contest
These young artists are focused on creating masterpieces, thanks to a handful of volunteers who used their own creativity to build a popular community event celebrating an underappreciated vegetable. There are plenty of opportunities…
CMCC Grand Opening
Children enjoy the new park outside the new community centre while inside, the Peterborough Petes offer a $1000 donation towards the project as gesture of thanks for allowing them to hold an exhibition game…
Zucchini Festival Returns!
After a year’s hiatus due to the dam reconstruction, the popular Zucchini Festival returned to Millpond last month, bringing out the creative as well as the competing spirit in participants. Zucchini specimens were transformed…
Volunteers Plant Trees along Millpond Through TD Tree Days Program
On the morning if Saturday, September 14th, while many were attending the Grand Opening celebrations at the new Cavan Monaghan Community Centre, a group of more than fifty volunteers were down the hill participating…
Children Play Games from 1819 at St. John’s Ida Event
Participating in a sack race on Sunday, September 8th, this was one of the many children who participated in races that were popular 200 years ago. The purpose of the children’s race day was…