Marie Stevens Opens Your Eyes with Makeup Techniques

Marie has always had style.  Tall and striking, she can slip her hair into a pony tail, don a pair of big sunglasses and a sun hat and look like she belongs on a fashion cover.  Now she is building a home business using her skills to make others look… Continue reading

Millbrook & Area Garden Club’s October Meeting

With the copious spring and summer’s rains all kinds of interesting fungi have appeared in area gardens and woodlands. Come and learn more about this often overlooked fantastic world from Irka Dyczok who is passionate and knowledgeable on this subject on Wednesday October 6th, 2017 at St. Thomas Anglican Church,… Continue reading

Paul Zammit Informs and Entertains at the Garden Club’s 25th Anniversary

The Millbrook and District Garden Club celebrated their 25th anniversary with a celebrity speaker who offered an informative and entertaining presentation based on his philosophy of healthy garden dynamics.  Zammit is the enthusiastic director of the Toronto Botanical Garden (TBG) who makes regular appearances on television, radio and at garden… Continue reading

Building a Different Kind of Bank for the Future

  You might call it an occupational hazard, but these days everywhere she looks, Melissa Spearing sees seeds.  The obsession has been known to have her stop at the side of the road to take samples or photographs.  Her interests don’t stop at seeds, either.  She has even stopped at… Continue reading

Road Closure Clarification

The second road closure in as many years on King Street is the cause of some traffic concerns which will persist at best case until mid-December.  The closure is necessary to allow the replacement of watermains, water lines, storm sewers, curbs, gutters and pavements to the area stretching from Cavan… Continue reading

Come Celebrate 150 Years of Floating Zucchinis Down Baxter Creek

Excitement is building for the 150th Annual Zucchini Festival, to be held Sunday, September 10 in downtown Millbrook, next to the mill on the sunny shores of Baxter Creek. Festivities begin at 12:30 and run until 4:00 p.m., or until the last zucchini has been launched from the Giant Zucchini… Continue reading

Local Business Offers Small Businesses Administrative Services

Entrepreneurs are known to have a passion for their business, exhibiting creativity and commitment to pursuing their dreams and building their brand.  This passion rarely extends to bookkeeping and other administrative tasks, which can be the antithesis of exciting and creative, but are the key to a long term success…. Continue reading