What’s Up Milton #21

🐰 This weekend: concerts, The Cottage and rabbits
🎖️ Indigenous Veterans Day and Remembrance services
🏒 Menace, OFSAA and Mustangs basketball
🌤️ Weather and good to know
📜 Did you know?
💛 Milton Kindness

🎸 DESTROYER Canada: An Evening of Full-On KISS!
Tonight, Friday, Nov. 6 · doors 7pm, show 7:30pm · FirstOntario Arts Centre Milton, 1010 Main St. E.

A ’70s live KISS concert experience from Canada’s DESTROYER tribute. Tickets

🎭 The Cottage opens tonight
Tonight through Nov. 14 · FirstOntario Arts Centre Milton

The Milton Players open their season with a 1920s farce. Shows run Nov. 6 and 7 at 8pm, Nov. 8 at 2pm, Nov. 12 and 13 at 8pm, and Nov. 14 at 2 and 8pm.
via MiltonToday

🐰 Superhero rabbits need homes this weekend
Sat. Nov. 7, 10am to 5pm and Sun. Nov. 8, 11am to 4pm · Humane Society of Oakville, Milton & Halton, 445 Cornwall Rd, Oakville

Some of the shelter’s longest-waiting rabbits (many have been there 200 days or more) have been given superhero identities for the weekend: Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Doctor Doom, Spider-Man and the Hulk among them. Same-day adoptions are available both days.
Adopt a small animal

♻️ Eco-Chic Retro Revival
Saturday, Nov. 7, 7:30pm · Woodbine Mohawk Park

A retro night out supporting the MCRC Infant Food Bank.
via MCRC

🎸 Live Wire at The Ivy Arms
Saturday, Nov. 7 · music around 9:45pm · 201 Main St. E.

Classic rock covering the ’60s to today, downtown at The Ivy Arms.

🎖️ Indigenous Veterans Day ceremony
Today, Friday, Nov. 6, 10:00 to 11:15am · FirstOntario Arts Centre Milton (Mattamy Theatre)

Preserving the Path: Honouring Indigenous Veterans. Free ceremony with smudge, ceremonial dance, commemorative artwork (including Bruce Trail Public School students) and wreath laying. Registration required.

🎖️ Remembrance services
Sunday, Nov. 8, 1:30pm · Victoria Park Cenotaph
Wednesday, Nov. 11, about 11am · Evergreen Cemetery

Two chances to honour Milton’s veterans this week.

🏒 Menace home tonight
Tonight, Friday, Nov. 6, 7:30pm · Milton Memorial Arena

After five games on the road, the 16-3-1-0 Menace finally skate in front of the home crowd, hosting the Toronto Patriots. They’re back again Sunday, Nov. 8 at 6pm against the Collingwood Blues. Both games are on FloHockey.
via Milton Menace

🏑 OFSAA girls’ field hockey wraps up Saturday
Through Saturday, Nov. 7 · hosted in Milton

Host Bishop Reding went 0-2 on Day 1, falling 2-0 to Medway and 3-2 to Holy Cross in a one-goal game. The Royals play Ridley College today at 11am on 16 Mile Field 1. Pool play and the quarter-finals continue through Saturday at Bishop Reding, St. Kateri Tekakwitha and Oakville’s Sixteen Mile Sports Complex.
via OFSAA

🏀 Mustangs juniors roll into the Halton finals
Milton District High School

The junior girls basketball team finished the regular season undefeated at 12-0 and advances to the Tier 2 Halton Finals on Friday, Nov. 13 at 2:30pm at Alton Village Community Centre in Burlington.
via Milton District High School

📝 Share your thoughts on the 2027 budget
Phone survey through Nov. 27 · online through Jan. 15, 2027

Milton is collecting resident feedback for next year’s budget. You may get a short, voluntary phone survey from Forum Research through Nov. 27, or you can share priorities anytime on Let’s Talk Milton until Jan. 15, 2027.
via Town of Milton

🌤️ Weekend weather
Friday to Sunday

Friday is cloudy with a high near 12. Saturday cools to about 9 with a chance of light drizzle, and Sunday climbs back to around 13. Overnight lows dip to about 2 to 5.
via Open-Meteo forecast

🏠 Halton homelessness down 9%
Halton Housing Stability Project

Fourteen months into an 18-month project, Halton is reporting a 9% drop in homelessness, one of five Canadian communities seeing measurable reductions so far.
via Milton Now

🚧 CN overnight work starts Monday
Monday, Nov. 9 to Friday, Dec. 4 · Britannia Rd and Tremaine Rd area

Overnight asphalt, track and signal work south toward Lower Base Line. Nearby residents may notice some noise and lighting.

🚧 Cedar Hedge Road closed near Laurier
Between Laurier Ave. and Croft Dr.

Cedar Hedge Road is closed in that stretch while new townhouses go up. It isn’t a through route right now, including if you’re headed to the dog park or over toward the highway, so plan a different way around.

The field gun beside the cenotaph in Victoria Park isn’t Canadian. It’s a German 77 mm gun captured by the 3rd Canadian Infantry Battalion on Sept. 27, 1918, during Canada’s Hundred Days, and allotted to Milton as a war trophy.
Source: Historical Marker Database

BR Equestrian on Guelph Line has started an after-school pony social for kids ages 6 to 16. Riders get time with the ponies, plus horsemanship and crafts, in an inclusive group that runs in three 8-week sessions through the spring. A quiet place where kids and animals look out for each other.

And a quick contest update: our Spookiest House plaque is headed to Sunnyvale Crescent, and the $100 Grant’s Gourmet gift card has been delivered to the draw winner. Thanks again to everyone who voted!