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April 15, 2024

Do you:

  • Serve on a municipal committee;

  • Coach kids soccer;

  • Organize Puppets Up, Almonte Celtfest, or the North Lanark Highland Games;

  • Raise money for Light Up the Night;

  • Help serve breakfast at A Meal for All;

  • Make sandwiches at the Friendship luncheon;

  • Plant flower boxes around the villages;

  • Run dances at Clayton Community Centre;

  • Bake scones for the Union Hall Blueberry Tea;

  • Grow a row for the food bank;

  • Work at the Blakeney Project;

  • Phone someone who might be feeling lonely;

  • Drive neighbours to medical appointments;

  • Lead 4H clubs;

  • Teach the bagpipes at the  Almonte Legion;

  • Preserve our history at the North Lanark Regional Museum, Mississippi Valley Textile Museum or the Mill of Kintail museum;

  • Organize bird-watching expeditions with the Mississippi Valley Field Naturalists;

  • Inspire new thought through Learning Again in Almonte;

  • Sit on the Almonte General Hospital Board or Foundation;

  • Provide home visits with Home Hospice North Lanark;

  • Pick up garbage along our roadways or parks;

  • Take a senior for a Trio bike ride;

  • Deliver the Frost Festival with Pakenham & District Civitan;

  • Sort clothes at the Hub;

  • Call the numbers at Car Bingo for the Almonte Fair;

  • Hull strawberries for the Friends of Cedar Hill Schoolhouse strawberry social;

  • Flip burgers with the Almonte Civitan Club;

  • Protect High Lonesome with Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust;

  • Build birdfeeders with the Naismith Men's Shed; or

  • Give your time and talent another way to ours community? 

If so, THANK YOU! 

I would like to personally thank each and every one of the volunteers in our community for sharing their time and talents. Every one of these actions is a gift to our community. Whether you devote a few minutes, an hour or many days each month volunteering, all contributions are truly invaluable.  

Mississippi Mills Council has unanimously proclaimed April 14-20 as Volunteer Week. To celebrate, The Municipality, Almonte Civitan and The Hub are co-hosting a Volunteer Appreciation Reception.

Please join us and enjoy a decadent dessert buffet to honour our community volunteers. The reception will take place tomorrow (Tuesday, April 16) at the Almonte Civitan Club from 6:30–8:00 p.m. 

If you volunteer, love volunteers, or would like to start volunteering, we want to celebrate with you! 

See you tomorrow night!

Sincerely,

Mayor Christa Lowry

Municipality of Mississippi Mills