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Upcoming fall family events across Peterborough County

Millbrook Fall Festival will see the village’s main street closed Saturday

BRENDAN BURKE LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER BRENDAN BURKE IS A STAFF REPORTER AT THE EXAMINER, BASED IN PETERBOROUGH. HIS REPORTING IS FUNDED BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT THROUGH ITS LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE.

There’s lots of autumn events and activities happening in Peterborough County for families this weekend and then on the Thanksgiving long weekend and later in October.

The Downtown Millbrook Fall Festival will see the village’s main street closed Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. for a kids’ zone, farmers market, food truck giveaways, raffles, live entertainment, adult garden area and craft vendors.

After a two-year hiatus brought on by the pandemic, the 102nd annual Peterborough County Plowing Match, hosted by the Peterborough County Plowmen’s Association, will take place at the MacFarlane Farm at Mathers Corner, just west of Keene in OtonabeeSouth Monaghan Township, on Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The match is free for spectators. Applefest — a celebration of apples and the harvest — is happening at Lang Pioneer Village Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be horse-drawn wagon rides, a scavenger hunt, an antique clock display, and demonstrations of cider-making, threshing, natural dyeing, spinning, rug hooking, chair caning, and more.

Back for its fourth year, the Asphodel-Norwood Scarecrow Roadshow will take place Saturday and Sunday. Sightseers can take to the roads to see decorated scarecrow displays on participating homeowners’ properties.

A tour map was released Friday on the Asphodel-Norwood Township website.

Hiawatha First Nation is hosting a Fall Harvest Market at Serpent Mounds Park with vendor tables, raffle prizes and guided tours of the park Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Buckhorn Community Centre is the site of a Harvest Craft Show Oct. 8 to 10 with pottery, knitting, decor and Christmas gift ideas.

It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving weekend without the Norwood Fall Fair Oct. 8, 9 and 10 from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. This year’s theme is Autumn Treasures. The fair began in 1868.

Calendars and other gifts created by artists will be sold at the Thanksgiving Art Show at the Whetung Ojibwa Centre in Curve Lake on Oct. 8 and 9 from 1 to 4 p.m. Artists will be on site and visitors can meet them and watch them create.

Dress up your favourite fur baby in a Halloween costume and go trick-or-treating at Lakefield’s participating businesses in the first Way’O’Ween Oct. 15 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Donations can be made along the way for the Lakefield Animal Welfare Society. Pick up your map at the Cheesy Fromage at 25 Queen St., Lakefield, and get a pet photo. Pets must be leashed.

Oct. 10 is the final day of the season that the Petroglyphs Provincial Park in North Kawartha Township is open to the public.

The Buckhorn Community Centre is the site of a Harvest Craft Show Oct. 8 to 10

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