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Reaching by direct mail 9,000 homes and businesses in North Grenville and Merrickville/Wolford Vol. 5, No.23
The Voice of North Grenville
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June 7, 2017
Terry Butler: A Champion of North Grenville
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Terry celebrates the opening of Anniversary Park, one of his favourite projects. Terry Butler died last week in his 75th year. In January, Terry sat down and talked to the Times about his life and career in North Grenville, a place he loved and served for so many years. He wanted to leave behind a record of how he felt and how he remembered North Grenville. It is good to hear him speak in his own words. He spoke with such pride about the people he knew and worked with over those years, and how he came to be here: “I kicked around in retail all my life and I managed the K-Mart at Meadowlands and
Merivale Road. I interviewed with Gordon Reid at Giant Tiger and he said he had a store in Eastern Ontario that he was going to open and that would be right for me. It was Kemptville, so he said: “Go see Keith Beveridge”. I did and Gord asked me later if I’d seen Keith, and I said, yeah, we’re going ahead. He asked if I had any contracts, or anything, and I said no. But I had asked Keith about that and he’d said “I shook your hand, didn’t I?” And that was it, but it just about drove Gord nuts, because that was it. Eventually, the lawyers got
at it, and there were contracts. But to Keith, the handshake was what mattered. He shook my hand and looked me in the eye, so I’m digging a hole and putting a store in it! There were great people I met like that: Keith Beveridge, Harry Pratt. The day after I opened the store, Harry Pratt came in and called me to the front desk. Harry had this big smile on his face. “So, you’re the guy that opened this store?”, and I said “Yes, Sir. I think I can be an asset”. And Harry said, “well, we’re known as the area with a heart, always first in dona-
tions for cancer and all that, so I’ll be watching you to see you play a role in that”. And I told him I’d do my best. And he’d be in every week: “Lions Club is selling peanuts this week. How many cases do you want?” Coming from Toronto, it was just unbelievable. I’d never seen such a respect for a town that some of these people showed. Such dedication and such passion. Terry McEvoy and his two children developed that 150 Trail System. They rode continued on page 2