Preparations Begin for Millbrook/South Cavan School Expansion

Last week, students housed in portables at Millbrook/South Cavan School packed up their belongings in preparation for the relocation of their portable classrooms to accommodate a significant construction project at their school.   On Sunday, the current portables were pushed back from their previous location to make room for the construction… Continue reading

Upcoming Memoir To Document Unique Perspective on a Troubling Part of Canadian History

  We’ve heard about residential schools but find it hard to understand how the system transformed into one of widespread institutional abuse.  At the turn of the century, the federal government decided that aboriginal children in Canada’s north children should receive a public school education.  Because the population in that… Continue reading

Ride a Rottenworm in to See Funfolk’s The Princess and the Plumber!

Everything is going according to plan for Funfolk’s rendition of The Princess and the Plumber, premiering March 13th at the Millbrook Legion. Costumes are ready – including a very creative worm sewn together around humps of foam and pool noodles – and lines have been memorized! Children from Lakefield, Peterborough… Continue reading

Country Kids in the City for the Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies Convention

  In my role as Senior Millbrook Fair Ambassador, I represented our Agricultural Society last week in Toronto at the 2016 Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies (OAAS) which was held at the Fairmont Royal York hotel in downtown Toronto. It was a gorgeous hotel, and it felt like the country… Continue reading

Basketball Pro Visits South Cavan School

  Peterborough’s basketball star Jesse Young visited South Cavan school last week to shoot hoops with students. Young played all day through student gym periods, often being prompted to show off his dunking skills, before coaching the boys and girls basket ball team for a joint practice after school. They… Continue reading