What’s Up Milton #10

🍂 Still on today: parks, Springridge and trivia
🏒 Menace go for six straight in North York Tuesday
📚 Library programs and Tuesday trivia
💛 NEW: Overheard Milton acts of kindness
🏘️ Milton Then & Now: the Foster family streets

☀️ Warm Thanksgiving, showers Tuesday
Monday–Tuesday · Milton forecast

Today is a gift: fog patches clear this morning, then it’s a mix of sun and cloud with a high of 23 (humidex 27) and southwest gusts to 40 around noon. Tonight is partly cloudy and mild with a low of 17. Tuesday is cloudy and even warmer, with a high of 24, a 60% chance of showers and a risk of a thunderstorm, so keep an umbrella handy. No weather alerts are in effect.
via Environment Canada

🗓️ Quick holiday reminder
Monday, Oct. 12

Town Hall, libraries, community centres, Milton Mall and most big grocery stores are closed today, Milton Transit isn’t running, and garbage pickup runs a day late all week.
via Town of Milton and INsauga

🍂 Still on today
Monday, Oct. 12

Conservation Halton parks are open (Kelso, Rattlesnake Point, Crawford Lake, Hilton Falls and more) · Springridge Farm’s market and bakery are open 9am–5pm at 7256 Bell School Line · Free trivia at Keenan’s Irish Pub, 51 James Snow Pkwy. N., 7:30–9pm (call 905-693-0030 to book a table).
via Springridge Farm

🏒 Menace go for six straight in North York
Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2:30pm · at North York Rangers

Fresh off Friday’s 5–2 win over Caledon, the Menace (11–2) take a five-game winning streak on the road to North York for a Tuesday afternoon game. They’re back home at Memorial Arena on Friday, Oct. 16 against Buffalo.
via Milton Menace

🥗 Eat Well, Stay Well: Food Safety at Home
Tuesday, Oct. 13, 1–2pm · Beaty Branch, 945 Fourth Line · Free, registration required

Two Halton Region public health inspectors share practical tips on storing, preparing, cooking and serving food safely at home, which is good timing with a fridge full of turkey leftovers. It’s for adults and seniors.
via Milton Public Library

🏠 Fostering and volunteering info session
Tuesday, Oct. 13, 6–8pm · Main Library, 1010 Main St. E. (Teal Room) · Free drop-in

Ever wondered about fostering, or volunteering with kids and families? Halton Children’s Aid Society is hosting a drop-in information session at the Main Library. Come by any time and ask questions.
via Milton Public Library

🔥 Campfire storytime at Beaty
Tuesday, Oct. 13, 6:30–7:15pm · Beaty Branch Medicine Learning Garden · Ages 6–12 · Waitlist only

Stories, songs and stars in the garden for families with kids 6 to 12. It’s full right now, but there’s a waiting list, so it’s worth adding your name. Dress for the weather, as it’s outdoors.
via Milton Public Library

🧠 Tuesday trivia at Shoeless Joe’s
Tuesday, Oct. 13, 7:30–9pm · Shoeless Joe’s, 800 Main St. E. · Free

Weekly ruby PUB TRIVIA is free to play with prizes. Bring a charged phone for digital scoring, and call 905-864-9779 to reserve a table.
via Experience Milton

👛 A wallet, returned before it was missed

A couple out for a walk spotted a wallet lying on the sidewalk. They returned it to its owner, a dad living at a local retirement residence, themselves. The best part? He hadn’t even noticed it was gone yet.

💍 One parent, 22 playgrounds and a lot of rings

While their kid plays, one Milton parent sweeps the playground woodchips with a metal detector. Over the past year that’s meant about 80 sharp objects pulled out of roughly 22 Milton parks, before little hands could find them. Along the way they’ve found quite a few rings and would love to get them back to their owners. Lost a ring at a Milton playground? Reply to this email, if you are able to describe it and which park it went missing at, and we’ll put you in touch.

🥫 A food bank that fed 47 families on Thanksgiving Saturday

A volunteer-run community food bank in town handed out food packages to 47 families on Thanksgiving Saturday. This week it urgently needs 5 lb bags of white flour and cooking oil. If you can help, the donation bins at No Frills, 6520 Derry Rd. W., take donations anytime the store is open. Please make sure everything is new and unexpired.

🏘️ How Hugh Foster put his family on the map
Hugh, Sarah, Thomas and Mary Streets · Old Milton

Remember Hugh Foster, who donated the land for the old courthouse in our castle story last week? As a developer in early Milton, he also named several downtown streets after the people closest to him. Hugh Street is his own name, Sarah Street honours his second wife, Thomas Street is for his eldest son and Mary Street is for his daughter. So next time you’re heading down Mary Street to Town Hall, you’re walking through Hugh Foster’s family tree.
via Milton Now