Millstone Profiles
Santa Claus
Knowing what is on the minds of Mississippi Mills and Carleton Place children at this time of year, the Millstone made a special trip to the North Pole to interview…
J.C. (Jack) Carson Smithson
by Edith Cody-Rice Choose many, trust few, Always paddle your own canoe. Such was the motto that Jack Smithson’s mother Lucinda (Brisco) Smithson passed on to him when he was a…
Don Wiles
by Edith Cody-RIce Nuclear chemist, Professor Don Wiles, recognized early in his career that he could teach and loved it, and that has led to a happy 53 year career at Carleton University.…
Mississippi Mills Chief Librarian Peter Nelson
The man in charge of Mississippi Mills’ libraries has had a serendipitous life. His great opportunities happened by lucky chance, one of the remarkable ones being his coming to the…
Gord Pike
by Noreen Young Gord Pike is extremely pleased with the way things are going right now. He just opened the last store in his renovated Heritage Court and now this…
Shirley Deugo
by Noreen Young Shirley Deugo has a sweet life. Not only is this upbeat, vivacious and enterprising woman the owner and overall Manager of Fulton’s Pancake House and Sugar Bush,…
Major General Lewis MacKenzie
Major General Lewis MacKenzie has a passion for life. That was evident from the first warm greeting and the confident gait as he strode out to greet lawyer Bill Chapman…
The Mills Community Support Corporation
The Mills sponsors and administers seventeen support programs and owns and operates 130 units of public housing with a mix of market level and geared to income rents. It also…
Baker Bob Graff
By Noreen Young Just like the Coneheads on the old Saturday Night Live shows, Baker Bob is from France. “I grew up a military brat. My family bounced around the…
Cynthia (Cindy) Halcrow
by Edith Cody-Rice Cindy Halcrow, Mississippi Mills' town clerk is a self-made woman who loves her work. Interviewed this week before she leaves for her new post of Clerk-Administrator for…
John H. Kerry
John Hawley Kerry (born August 5, 1929) first arrived in Almonte on October 28, 1954. At that time, John and his father-in-law, Clarence V. ("C.V.") Colley, bought the funeral business…