What’s Up Milton #23

🎖️ Remembrance Day at Evergreen
📅 Events: Wed and Thu (Beaty Branch, The Cottage, and more)
🏒 Menace at King tomorrow
🧥 Good to know: fire update, Magical Lights, HDSB applications, coat drive
🌤️ Weather and a gas check
🎄 Coming up: Santa Claus Parade
💛 Milton Kindness

Evergreen Cemetery service
Today, Wednesday, Nov. 11 · 230 Ontario St. S.

The parade forms at Evergreen Cemetery and marches to the Cairn at 10:45am, with the service at 11am, hosted by Royal Canadian Legion Branch 136. A veterans luncheon follows at the Legion: doors at 12pm, lunch at 1pm, $15 a person while tickets last. Call the Legion at 905-878-9005 for tickets or more information. All Milton Public Library branches will also observe a moment of silence at 11am.

Watching from home
yourTV Halton · Cogeco channel 700

If you’re marking the day at home, yourTV Halton is airing Remembrance coverage from 9am to 1pm, including Milton’s Victoria Park ceremony, with repeats at 1pm and 7pm on Cogeco channel 700.

Remembrance Day is today. The parade and service at Evergreen Cemetery are in the lead section above.

🚶 Walking Group around the Mill Pond
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 8:30 to 10am · Mill Pond

A morning walk before the Remembrance service.
via Experience Milton

📚 Beaty Branch reopens
Wednesday, Nov. 11 · 945 Fourth Line · limited services

After a two-week closure for renovations, Beaty Branch is open again today. You’ll have customer service, the collection, computers, Wi-Fi, printing, and some study space. Programs, the quiet and group study rooms, and the children’s activity area stay closed while work continues. Returns and holds are back on at Beaty too.
via Milton Public Library

🏒 Menace at King
Thursday, Nov. 12, 1pm · King

The Menace visit the King Rebellion in an afternoon road game. More in Local sports below.
via Omni Hockey

☕ Caregiver Cafe
Thursday, Nov. 12, 5:30 to 7pm · Main Library · free tickets

A gathering for caregivers of kids and youth with autism, run with ROCK. Book a free ticket for each person attending.
via Milton Public Library

🎭 The Cottage
Thursday, Nov. 12, 8pm · FirstOntario Arts Centre Milton, MinMaxx Hall · $32

The Milton Players’ 1920s farce is back on stage Thursday, then again Friday at 8pm and Saturday at 2pm and 8pm. Tickets from the Arts Centre.
via FirstOntario Arts Centre Milton

🏒 Menace visit King
Thursday, Nov. 12, 1pm · at King

Fresh off Sunday’s 6-1 win over Collingwood, the Menace are 18-3-1-0 with 37 points, level with King in the OJHL West. Thursday’s 1pm road game is a chance to take a step in the standings. The latest CJHL Top-20, published Nov. 9, has the Menace fifth among Junior A teams in the country, up from seventh the week before. They’re in Mississauga on Saturday at 7pm, then home Sunday at 6pm against Niagara Falls.
via Omni Hockey · CJHL Top-20

🔥 Official update on Sunday’s Main Street fire
Former Habitat for Humanity ReStore · 700 Main St.

The Town says Milton Fire contained a major fire at the vacant former ReStore building, with no occupants inside and no injuries reported. Crews were called around 6:24pm Sunday. Forty-eight firefighters, including command staff, responded, and the fire was under control by about 1:25am Monday. Nearby residents were evacuated, sheltered with help from Milton Transit buses and a warming centre at Memorial Arena, and later allowed home after the smoke was cleared. The Town says the cause is under investigation.
via Town of Milton

✨ Magical Lights of Milton
Opens Saturday, Nov. 28 · 876 Willow Ave.

The neighbourhood light display is back, raising money for the Milton District Hospital Foundation. Opening night starts at 6pm, with free Springridge Farm cider. The show then runs through Sunday, Jan. 3.
via MiltonNow

📝 HDSB specialized programs
Applications open through Nov. 30 at 11:59pm

The Halton District School Board is accepting applications for Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, I-STEM, and the new APEX sports program, which starts in September 2027. Apply on the HDSB website. Successful applicants are due to hear by Dec. 4.
via Halton District School Board

🧥 Southside winter coat drive
200 Main St. · drop-off Saturday 10am to 2pm, or leave items outside anytime

Southside Community Closet is looking for winter coats and clothing for men, women and kids. The closet, along with the church’s Food for Life program, serves about 100 local families a week.

🌤️ Midweek weather
Wednesday and Thursday

Wednesday’s high is 10 with a 30 percent chance of showers late this afternoon. Thursday is mainly cloudy with a high of 7, a 40 percent chance of morning and early-afternoon showers, and northeast winds gusting to 40. Thursday night dips to -3 with a chance of rain or flurries.
via Environment Canada

Most Milton stations are around $1.579/L this morning, but a few spots are well under $1.50. Petro-Canada at 591 Ontario St. S. is at $1.439, and Petro-Canada at 5 Main St. E. is $1.467. Prices can change fast, so the cheaper ones may not last. Prices via GasBuddy, checked around 6:53am.

🎅 Santa Claus Parade
Sunday, Nov. 15, 1:30pm · Whitmer St. down Main to the GO station

The 93rd annual parade is Sunday, with the theme “Your Favourite Christmas Stories.” We’ll have the full details in Friday’s issue.

🎁 Grant’s Gourmet giveaway
Draw this weekend, Nov. 14 to 15

A quick reminder: every What’s Up Milton subscriber is already entered automatically for the $80 Grant’s Gourmet gift card.

After Sunday’s fire on Main Street, neighbours in a nearby building took a moment to thank the firefighters and police who kept everyone safe and got people home. That’s Milton.