The hall is still selling rhubarb – $3/lb. or $3.50/lb. if chopped. Best to order ahead so it can be picked fresh for you! 902-566-3154 or miltoncommunityhall@gmail.com.
Miltonvale Community Park – Kate and Eilidh are planning to staff the Community Park at 413 Sleepy Hollow Road from Monday-Friday 9am-5pm. Next week the drop-in school age program focuses on Science: July 25-29 •Egg drop challenge •Creating slime •Invent something •Chemical reactions
A reminder that the disk golf baskets and disks and toys/games/equipment in the baby barn can be accessed when the park staff are working. Contact the park at 902-368-7587 or miltonvalepark.staff@gmail.com.
Coffee –Get to know your neighbors each Monday and Friday from 10 -11a.m. at the Milton Community Hall. Coffee, tea, and snacks are available by donation of coin or treats. Coffee will likely be upstairs on this Monday as we get ready for the fancy tea on the main floor.
TOPS meets at the Milton Community Hall on Tuesdays at 6:15. For more information contact Joyce at 902-368-2055.
July 30 is the hall’s next 50-50 twice-monthly draw. You can buy tickets at the hall -or send an e-transfer to miltoncommunityhall@gmail.com. $3 each or 2/$5. Congratulations to Miriam Hooper who won $62.50 in the July 15th draw.
Card Parties – The hall is holding summer card parties (Auction) on Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m. until the end of September. Admission -$4.
Fascinating Ladies – Saturday, July 23 at 7:30 p.m. Join the Young at Heart Musical Theatre for their lively show at the Milton Community Hall. This show will highlight some of the great music from the 1920’s to the 1970’s, and celebrates artists like the Boswell Sisters, Andrews Sisters, Dolly Parton, Teresa Brewer, the Maguire sisters and more. Performers are Olivia Barnes, Marlene Handrahan and Kaitlyn Post. Tickets are $17 advance and $20 at the door and includes a delicious strawberry shortcake snack! It promises to be a lively show. Currently there aren’t many tickets sold – so there should be lots of room for physical distancing.
Platinum Jubilee Teas -The Milton Community Hall received funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage and is planning to hold three Platinum Jubilee Teas on Monday July 25 at 6:30 p.m., Sunday, August 7 at 2:00 p.m. and Saturday, September 17 at 2:00 p.m. Admission is free and dress is “summer garden party”.
We are pleased to welcome the Honourable Antoinette Perry, Lieutenant Governor of PEI to the first tea on July 25. Call 902-566-3154 or email miltoncommunityhall@gmail.com, to reserve a seat at your preferred tea. The deadline to reserve for Monday’s tea is NOON Saturday, July 23. If you are a royal fan, and would like to be involved with a display, photos related to the royal family, or information you may have acquired to help us celebrate the Queen’s 70 years on the throne, please contact the hall.
Thursday, July 28 at 1:00 p.m. Join home economist Margaret Prouse as she demonstrates food and shares recipes from British Columbia. Year of Canada. Please pre-register with 902-368-3090 or admin@miltonvalepark.com.
There will be an Open House on Saturday, July 30 from 2-4 p.m. at the Milton Community Hall to celebrate the 90th birthday of Ebenezer resident Reta MacDonald. Best wishes only.
Miltonvale Park is hosting a book club for the Year of Canada seniors project. In June we celebrated Alberta – and picked Return of the Wild Goose, written by Jane Ledwell, who grew up in Miltonvale Park. Return of the Wild Goose is a short book of poetry that explores the life of writer and activist Katherine Hughes. Set against the intimate relief of a PEI landscape, these poems are inspired by what is known–and unknown–about her contradictory life as a Catholic teacher in Mohawk territory; a journalist working alongside Canada’s first-wave feminists and suffragettes; the first public archivist of Alberta; and finally, as a zealous Irish nationalist. This (auto) biographical dialogue between Jane Ledwell and Katherine Hughes offers the reader a fierce remembrance of a PEI radical. The book is available through the PEI library system. The four that the hall purchased are all reserved or out on loan at the moment. Author Jane Ledwell will be at the Milton Community Hall on Monday, August 1 at 7:00 p.m. to discuss the book and answer questions. Email miltonvaleparkengage@gmail.com to let us know if you’re interested in borrowing a book or attending the event in person or on Zoom.
On Wednesday, August 3rd at 7 p.m. come try rock climbing at the Red Rock Climbing wall in Stratford. Free for Miltonvale Park residents 55+. This is a great way to have some youthful fun! Miltonvaleparkengage@gmail.com or (902) 368 3090 to register. Space is limited and priority will be for Miltonvale Park seniors. If space is available, the cost would be $5 for other folks 55+.
In August, our Year of Canada seniors project celebrates Newfoundland -and activities related to that province. On Friday, August 12th, Miltonvale Park has booked a private charter at 1:00 p.m. aboard Joey’s Deep Sea Fishing. Miltonvale Park residents who are 55+ can attend for just $10. Email miltonvaleparkengage@gmail.com or call (902) 368-3090 to register. Space is limited. Priority will be given to Miltonvale Park seniors, as this is a part of the Year of Canada Project, funded through the Government of Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Project.
Wednesday August 10 at 1:00 p.m. Join home economist Margaret Prouse as she demonstrates food and shares recipes from Newfoundland and Labrador. Year of Canada. Please pre-register with 902-368-3090 or admin@miltonvalepark.com.
Sunday August 21 at 7:30 p.m. – ANNE ~ A Green Gables Memoir – Writer and performer Maja Bannerman and musician Rusty McCarthy bring their storytelling/conversational style performance as Anne Shirley Blythe, in her 60s, looking back on her life to the Milton Community Hall. Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door.
The Milton Community Hall has Covid rapid tests (through the Red Cross Safe at Home Program) which can be picked up in the lobby at the hall (or we can run them out to your car if necessary!). We also have some KN95 masks and quite a few medical masks for folks who need them.