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Oct20Mon2025all-day Activities – Children & YouthActivities – Children & YouthOct 20 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 20 @ 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.Oct21Tue2025all-day Activities – Children & YouthActivities – Children & YouthOct 21 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 21 @ 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 21 @ 10:00 amTuesdays at 10 am, pre-registration required – call 705-932-2011.Oct22Wed2025all-day Activities – Children & YouthActivities – Children & YouthOct 22 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 →
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Nexicom’s New Owner has Big Plans for Increased Connectivity
Very early on, Clayton Zekelman knew he was headed for a career in telecommunications. He liked to tinker with phone equipment, taking it apart and then reassembling it. The process was fun because when he was finished the item still worked and there were no parts left over. At… Continue reading
Doreen is Retiring!
Twenty years ago, Doreen Payne came into the hardware store in Millbrook to help her brother Ron Hewitt put the retail outlet together having just purchased the Pro Hardware from the Olan family. She will be leaving next week, having stayed on seven years longer than her brother. At first… Continue reading
WWII Vet Travelled with Bomb in his Pocket
In 1940, Ab Sinyard was approaching eighteen years of age in his home town of Deere Lake just outside Cornerbrook, Nfld. His mother ran the local hotel and times were tight, so as soon as he was eligible, he enlisted with the Royal Air Force. At the time, Newfoundland was… Continue reading
Spontaneous Decision Prompted Bellinger’s Enlistment in WWII
For the late Cavan veteran Clarence Munro, joining the Armed Forces in Halifax in 1939 was the best option available. At sixteen years of age, he had lost his parents and was supporting himself with the occasional casual work paying $1 for a ten-hour shift. The Canadian Armed Forces were… Continue reading
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From the Sock Drawer to the Shelves of Chapters: Catherine Cerveny Writes
It takes a lifetime to write your first book and six months to write the second, so the story goes. For Catherine Cerveny, that will also be true for her third. A self-professed nerd, Catherine has been writing all her life, and has a sock drawer full of unfinished stories… Continue reading