On November 27th the Downtown Business Improvement Area (DBIA) hosted a Milton HolidayFest with the participation of local businesses. The event featured vendors, artisans, live musical performances, patios as well as road hockey games by the Milton Winterhawks.
This Christmas David Geall of the Magical Lights of Milton is pairing up with Councillor Rick Di Lorenzo’s family who is creating a Milton Winter Wonderland to create the all new MDHF (Milton District Hospital Foundation) Christmas House Tour.
Adding Christmas magic to the town of Milton for over a decade, the Magical Lights Of Milton is a residential display located at 876 Willow Ave with over 40,000 lights synchronized individually to music. Stay in the warmth of your vehicle while the music comes through your FM radio at 99.7FM. The display runs until January 2nd.
On Saturday November 13th the Milton Community Resource Centre (MCRC) held it’s 7th annual Marketplace fundraiser in support of their free Empowerment Porgrams; The Infant Food Back, Period Poverty Initiative and the She Can! Girls Programs.
The #milltonstrong facebook group has created a new Milton local restaurants Dinner Club to help support the local Milton food industry. The group is setup to get together once a month and try a new restaurant and also serve as a meet and greet for the Milton community.
“My goal was to be able to offer support to local owned restaurants and also give us a chance to taste secret menu items and at the same time give us a chance to socialize with the people we have been interacting with over Facebook!” said group co-founder Jeffrey Pereira.
It’s that time of year again when families begin to think about the upcoming holiday season. There are many families within the Halton Region that are less fortunate and struggle to provide their children with an enjoyable Christmas, and some who are simply not able to buy their children a toy. This year the Tiger Jeet Singh Foundation (TJSF) believe the struggle could be even greater for more families.
With Christmas fast approaching, we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped keep our store open for the last nineteen months. This has been such a difficult time for retailers and Donna and I are very grateful to all of you who have continued to come in to shop with us.
It’s that time of the year where we pause to reflect on the sacrifices made by our veterans and never forget what they did for us and future generations.
Milton’s Remembrance Day ceremony at Evergreen Cemetery on November 11th was a limited audience event due to covid19. This didn’t stop the low key ceremony from being respectful and serene with Royal Canadian Legion Branch # 136 – Milton, veterans, family and limited invitations being in attendance.
The Milton Sports Hall of Fame (MSHoF) celebrated their 2020 inductees at the Milton Sports Centre on October 30th. The MSHoF recognizes and honours the sports accomplishments and contributions of our community while inspiring the youth of Milton. You can find more information about MSHoFand their volunteer-driven organization at miltonsportshof.com
On October 23rd & 24th Milton held it’s first every Drive-Thru Ribfest to raise money for Touwnsend Smith Foundation. $4 of every rib order went to the Townsend Smith Foundation as well as people leaving donations as the drove in or out of the event.
Milton Tim Horton’s owners stood by our local community again in organizing the local Smile Cookies campaign with sales going towards Darling Home For Kids. The campaign raised $41,906 which was presented to Darling in a recent cheque ceremony. The campaign ran from September 13 to 19th and 100% of proceeds from every Smile Cookie went to the charity.