Some of you may remember Anna Luckai as a music teacher at Millbrook South Cavan Public School about ten years ago. She continues to teach but now educates high school students in Port Perry about careers during the fall semester and spends the remaining eight months of the year on… Continue reading
Gillian di Petta is one of this year’s new Millbrook Market vendors. Her cottage industry is called Wylde Folk, where she creates and sells natural, ecofriendly, small batch products designed to address scrapes and scratches encountered in everyday life. Her salves and balms soothe bruises, bug bites, sun burn, and… Continue reading
At last Sunday’s market, the line-up for Guilty Pleasures (aka doughnut heaven) began forming at 10:00am sharp. Next door, market shoppers sampled sustainably harvested smoked trout. A few stalls over, organic rotisserie chicken was on offer, next to naturally raised beef and lamb. Across the way, stalls were filled with… Continue reading
The Millbrook and District Lions Club hosted their Annual Antique and Classic Car Show on Saturday July 6th. The Business Improvement Area supports the Lions’ Club in this event every year by assisting them with signage and advertising, making the job a lot easier. With an 8 am start time,… Continue reading
The Millbrook and Cavan Historical Society will be at the August Millbrook Farmers’ Market on Sunday, August 25 with some of the “tools of our trade” so that the public, and especially our newer residents, can get a sense of what the Historical Society does in our community. Following August’s… Continue reading
Why not come for a tour with the Millbrook & Area Garden Club on Wednesday, August 7th at 6:30 p.m. when they will visit “GROW WILD! NATIVE PLANT NURSERY & ECOLOGICAL CONSULTING SERVICES” at #3784 Hwy 7 in Omemee. Grow Wild! Nursery specializes in growing native trees and shrubs as… Continue reading
Photos Karen Graham. With the park area below the pond open to the public again, Canada Day celebrations last month saw a return of the annual Rubber Duck Race hosted by the Millbrook Legion. Participants pay $5 to place a duck in the race, and after a few prizes and… Continue reading
In all the excitement of the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing, we often forget that humans were not the first life force to arrive on (never mind colonize!) the lunar surface. Prior to sending humans to the lunar surface, and even before poor Laika’s famous but ill-fated journey to… Continue reading
