What’s Up Milton #22

🏒 Menace 6-1 over Collingwood, plus OFSAA thanks
🍛 Meet Grant’s Gourmet (and an $80 giveaway)
🔥 Main Street fire (official update)
🎨 Crock A Doodle on Ontario St. S. (and jobs)
🚗 40 km/h neighbourhoods
📅 Events: Mon and Tue (trivia, library, Arts Centre and more)
📜 This week in Milton history
💛 Milton Kindness

🏒 Menace flatten first-place Collingwood
Sunday, Nov. 8 · Menace 6, Collingwood 1 · Milton Memorial Arena

Easton Lynds scored a hat trick as the Menace rolled past the previously top-ranked Blues. Austin McKillop made 38 saves on 39 shots. Milton is now 18-3-1-0 with five straight wins and sits second in the OJHL West. Next up: Thursday, Nov. 12 at 1pm in King, Saturday, Nov. 14 at 7pm in Mississauga, and home Sunday, Nov. 15 at 6pm against Niagara Falls.
via Omni Hockey

🏑 Thanks for hosting, Milton
OFSAA girls’ field hockey · Nov. 5 to 7

Ontario’s high school girls’ field hockey championship wrapped up in Milton over the weekend. Westdale took gold, South Huron silver, Bluevale bronze and Holy Cross antique bronze. Host Bishop Reding opened the doors and fields for teams from across the province. Nice work, Milton.
via OFSAA

Denese and her husband Clive launched Grant’s Gourmet about 15 years ago. It’s a gourmet Caribbean caterer that also bottles jerk seasonings and sauces (including Jamaican Style Jerk BBQ Sauce, Brownstew and Jerk Seasoning Mild) that you can find at retail and at the Milton Farmers’ Market, where they’re a regular.

It started with family gatherings and friends over. People loved the food and the sauces, so they scaled it up to leave a legacy for their kids and do something they enjoy. “Having the business centered in Milton is so important to us,” Denese says. “This is where we live, this is where our family is, our kids go to school here.” The market, she adds, helped them grow their love of the community and the support Milton gives small businesses: “I’ve done it enough where I’ve seen customers that were pregnant at one point, I now see their kids.”

Grant’s Gourmet also sponsored the $100 gift card in our Spookiest House in Milton vote. Watch the interview (about 1:25)

🎁 Subscriber giveaway this weekend: to say thanks for supporting What’s Up Milton and local business, we’re giving away an $80 Grant’s Gourmet gift card. Every subscriber is entered automatically for the draw this coming weekend (Nov. 14 to 15). No extra steps.

🔥 Fire at the former Habitat ReStore on Main Street
Sunday evening · Main St. E. at Wilson

A large fire broke out Sunday evening at the vacant former Habitat ReStore (and earlier RONA) building near Main Street East and Wilson Drive. Milton Fire said crews ran a defensive operation at the abandoned building, evacuated a nearby building because of smoke, and opened a warming shelter at Memorial Arena for residents affected by the evacuation. Fire Chief Peter Gatto later told CP24 the fire had been knocked down and that no injuries were reported. Halton Regional Police also confirmed the building was abandoned and said the fire appeared to be under control. The cause has not been confirmed.

🚗 40 km/h neighbourhoods
Town of Milton Neighbourhood Area Speed Limit Project

Milton has been rolling out 40 km/h limits across whole neighbourhoods, marked by signs at the entrances and exits. Local and minor-collector streets in those zones drop to 40; major collectors stay at 50. Implementation wraps up through 2026.
via Town of Milton

🎨 Crock A Doodle opens on Ontario Street South
55 Ontario St. S. · paint-your-own pottery

Milton’s new Crock A Doodle studio is open for drop-ins, birthday parties, paint nights and team events. Franchisee Lubna Sohrab welcomes all ages; reservations are recommended, and drop-ins are fine too. Hours run about 10am to 7pm Sunday to Tuesday and later into the evening midweek and Saturday.
via Crock A Doodle Milton

Looking for work? The studio is hiring part-time Facilitators of Fun / Studio Assistants (evenings and weekends required). Apply on their job opportunities page.

💃 Traditional Chinese Dance Class
Monday, Nov. 9, 10:45am to 12:45pm · Sherwood Branch · adults 18+ · registration required

An adult / seniors class at the library. Seats still available.
via Milton Public Library

💛 SOCIAL KINDNESS meetup
Monday, Nov. 9, 5:30 to 8:30pm · Ned Devine’s Irish Pub, 575 Ontario St. S.

A Social Media Kindness Day gathering for local creators and businesses, with canned-food and cash donations for FeedHalton.
via Experience Milton

🧠 Monday Night Trivia
Monday, Nov. 9, 7:30 to 9pm · Keenan’s Irish Pub, 51 James Snow Pkwy N. · free

Hosted by ruby PUB TRIVIA (visual trivia on the TVs). Call Keenan’s at 905-693-0030 to reserve a table.
via Experience Milton

🎨 Art Hive @ Sherwood
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 4 to 6pm · Sherwood Branch foyer · ages 18+ · registration for reminders

Drop-in create session with supplies provided, run with Art as Therapy.
via Milton Public Library

🎭 O Christmas Tea: A British Comedy
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 7:30pm · FirstOntario Arts Centre Milton (Mattamy Theatre)

A wordplay-packed British comedy from London’s Impresario Award-winning duo. Tickets from the Arts Centre.
via FirstOntario Arts Centre Milton

On Nov. 12, 1895, Grace Anglican Church on Main Street opened. The Earl of Aberdeen, then Governor General of Canada, had come to Milton by special train to lay its first stone. The older Grace Church from the 1850s still stands behind it as the parish hall.
Source: Downtown Milton BIA

After Halloween, one neighbour’s candy bowl sat empty on the porch. A couple of kids walking by refilled it with treats from their own haul so the next little ones wouldn’t find it empty. That’s Milton.