What’s Up Milton #8

In this issue

🏒 Menace sweep the Showcase, home Friday vs. Caledon
📚 The Beaty library is getting a makerspace
🎗️ Winterhawks Vs. Cancer: how to help
🍎 Apple pickers help Food for Life
🎃 Pumpkins After Dark and comedy on Thursday
🔥 Campfire stories, Skelebration and a benefit rock show on Friday
🏰 Milton Then & Now: the $1 castle

🌦️ Showers possible today, sunshine Friday
Thursday–Friday · Milton forecast

Today is a mix of sun and cloud with a high of 17, but there’s a 40% chance of showers this afternoon with a risk of a thunderstorm, and northwest winds of 30 km/h gusting to 50. A shower or two is possible early this evening before it clears overnight to a low of 6. Friday is sunny, clouding over late in the morning, with northwest gusts to 50 in the morning and a high of 18. Friday night is clear with a low of 8, which is nice timing for campfire stories and Skelebration.
via Environment Canada

🦃 Planning ahead for Thanksgiving Monday
Monday, Oct. 12 · Around town

Monday is Thanksgiving, so a few things take the day off: Milton Transit won’t run, and town hall, libraries, community centres, pools, arenas and Milton Mall are closed. Waste collection runs one day later than usual, while Conservation Halton parks like Kelso and Rattlesnake Point stay open.
via INsauga

🎃 Discount Thursday at Pumpkins After Dark
Thursday, Oct. 8 and Friday, Oct. 9 · Entry times 7–9:15pm · Country Heritage Park, 8560 Tremaine Rd. · Timed tickets online

Thursday is Discount Thursday at Pumpkins After Dark, the walk-through trail of hand-carved, illuminated jack-o’-lanterns at Country Heritage Park. This year’s World Tour theme has displays by continent, plus Dracula’s Haunted Castle (ages 13+), a new Bee Hive Maze, live pumpkin carving and a Pumpkinhead Ed scavenger hunt. Entry is by timed ticket, with slots every 15 minutes from 7 to 9:15pm on both Thursday and Friday. Onsite parking is free, and it runs rain or shine.
via Pumpkins After Dark and tickets

😂 Frank & Cos Live in Your Neighbourhood
Thursday, Oct. 8, 8pm · FirstOntario Arts Centre Milton, 1010 Main St. E. · $60

Social media favourites Frank Spadone and Cosimo Tucci bring their sketch comedy to the stage, with characters like “Frank and Franca” and “The Son and Neighborhood,” all about the funny side of living in, or next door to, an immigrant family. Tickets are $60 including fees and tax, everyone entering the theatre needs a ticket, and the show isn’t suitable for infants.
via Experience Milton

🍽️ The Thursday Fixe at Marquee
Thursday, Oct. 8, 5–10:30pm · Marquee Steakhouse & Piano Lounge, 204 Main St. E. · $78 per person

Looking for a date night downtown? Marquee’s weekly Thursday dinner is a seasonal three-course menu (your choice of appetizer, entrée and dessert) built around local ingredients, with an optional $50 wine pairing. Book your table ahead.
via Experience Milton

🏒 Menace sweep the Governors Showcase, home Friday vs. Caledon
Tue., Oct. 6: Menace 6, Lindsay 2 · Fri., Oct. 9, 7:30pm vs. Caledon Admirals · Milton Memorial Arena, 77 Thompson Rd. · $12 adults

Two games, two wins in Niagara Falls. On Tuesday the Menace beat the Lindsay Muskies 6–2 at the Gale Centre, scoring twice in the first 2:09. Cam Lang had two goals and two assists for his fourth straight multi-point game, Josh Currie also scored twice, Jason Zhou and Don William Bristol added the others, and Austin McKillop stopped 26 of 28 shots. That’s a 2–0 Showcase, four straight wins, a 10–2 record and second place in the OJHL West Conference. They’re back home Friday night against the Caledon Admirals. Tickets are at the door: $12 adults, $10 students, $5 seniors and kids 6 to 12, and free for kids under 5 and for youth wearing their current Winterhawks or Twisters jersey.
via OJHL game report and Milton Menace

🔥 Spooky Stories by the Campfire
Friday, Oct. 9, 6:30–8pm · Kelso Conservation Area, 5234 Kelso Rd. (campsite 002) · Registration required

Milton Public Library is hosting an evening of singing, s’mores and spooky stories with Joel Sutherland, author of the Haunted Canada series. It’s for families with kids 6 and up, Kelso admission is free for registered families, and folding chairs are a good idea. If the weather turns, it moves indoors to the Beaty Branch at 945 Fourth Line.
via Milton Public Library and Experience Milton

💀 Halloween Skelebration at Mountsberg
Friday, Oct. 9, 4:30–10pm · Mountsberg Conservation Area, 2259 Milburough Line, Campbellville · $23 adults, $19 kids 5–14 and seniors (non-members)

Conservation Halton’s family-friendly Skelebration runs Friday evening at Mountsberg, with an illuminated Night Walk trail, the Haunted Barn, guest appearances from the resident raptors and snakes, farm animals, campfires and a new Junior Eco Guardian scavenger hunt. There are no jump scares, costumes are encouraged and kids 4 and under are free. Tickets have to be booked online ahead of time (no walk-ins), and a flashlight helps.
via Conservation Halton

🎸 Foreign Journey: The Best of Foreigner and Journey
Friday, Oct. 9, 8pm · FirstOntario Arts Centre Milton, 1010 Main St. E. · $56

Arena-rock night for a good cause. This high-energy tribute to Foreigner and Journey supports MCRC’s Infant Food Bank, which provides diapers, formula and other essentials to local families. Tickets are $56 including fees and taxes, and bringing a donation is encouraged.
via Experience Milton

📚 The Beaty library is getting a makerspace
Beaty Branch, 945 Fourth Line · Innovation Hive soft-opens March 2027

Big news for makers, creators and families: Milton Public Library’s Beaty Branch is getting the Innovation Hive, a dedicated makerspace with 3D printing, a laser cutter, sewing and embroidery machines, a vinyl printer and cutter, an audio sound booth, Mac computers with editing software and a large-format printer. The children’s area is getting a refresh too, with new flooring, more room for books and new activity stations. A few dates to know: the current children’s area closes after Saturday, Oct. 17, the branch is fully closed Oct. 27 to Nov. 10, and it reopens with limited services on Nov. 11. The new children’s area opens Feb. 3, and the Hive soft-opens in March 2027. In the meantime, the Main Library (1010 Main St. E.) and Sherwood Branch (6355 Main St. W.) have you covered.
via Milton Public Library, MiltonToday and Milton Now

🎗️ Winterhawks Vs. Cancer: Milton rallies in Zach Gibson’s memory
Sunday, Oct. 18, 3–7pm · Milton Sports Centre, 605 Santa Maria Blvd. · Free entry, donations welcome

Milton’s minor hockey community is rallying for Winterhawks Vs. Cancer, a fundraiser for Childhood Cancer Canada in memory of Zach Gibson, a former Winterhawks player who died last year at 14. His mom, Julie Kolmer, is leading the effort and says it’s been heartwarming to see the community, including strangers, step up to help. The afternoon lines up with house-league hockey’s opening weekend and features a 4:15pm game between the Winterhawks’ top fundraising team and Halton police (Zach was once an honorary police chief), then a $5 Skate for Cancer Research, live music, food trucks, vendors and a silent auction. A close friend of Zach’s has written a song in his memory that will be sold on the day, with proceeds going to Childhood Cancer Canada. Scotiabank is matching day-of donations up to $5,000, and the goal is $15,000. Can’t make it? You can donate online through Childhood Cancer Canada.
via MiltonToday and Eventbrite

🍎 Apple pickers help Food for Life
Applevale Orchards, Derry Rd. · Monday, Oct. 5

A nice Thanksgiving-week story: staff from Burlington accounting firm Bateman MacKay closed up early on Monday afternoon and headed to Applevale Orchards on Derry Road in Milton to pick apples for Food for Life, which shares them with agencies across Halton and Hamilton. Fresh local fruit for neighbours who need it is a pretty good use of a Monday afternoon.
via MiltonToday

💻 Milton.ca got a makeover
Launched Wednesday, Oct. 7

The Town of Milton launched a redesigned milton.ca on Wednesday, with simpler menus, easier-to-find contact info, plain-language pages, “What’s on this page” quick links and more accessibility options like contrast and text-size controls. Some old links from search engines may point to moved pages for a little while, so use the site search if you hit a dead end.
via Town of Milton

🏰 Milton’s $1 castle
Town Hall, 150 Mary St. · Built 1855

Milton’s Town Hall started life as the Halton County Court House, finished in 1855 on four acres donated by developer Hugh Foster and built from rough-faced stone from the nearby Niagara Escarpment. It was one of only three castle-style courthouses built in Ontario. When the courts moved to a new building on Steeles Avenue, the Town bought the old courthouse and Victoria Park from Halton Region for just $1, and after a major restoration it reopened as Town Hall in 1985. Next time you walk past those towers, you’re looking at the best dollar Milton ever spent.
via Milton Historical Society and HistoricPlaces.ca