The Creemore
Echo
Friday, May 20, 2011 Vol. 11 No. 20
News and views in and around Creemore
REUNION WEEKEND IN CLEARVIEW TOWNSHIP With 700 people registered for Stayner Collegiate Institute’s 50th Reunion this weekend – including people from all over Canada, six different states in the US, Belgium and England), Clearview Township is sure to be a hopping place over the next few days. From 7 pm Friday until 4 pm Saturday, several rooms at the school will be decorated to match the various decades during which the school has operated, complete with yearbook shots and memorabilia. There will also be a breakfast at 9 am Saturday in the library, a lunchtime barbecue, a car show in the parking lot, a memorial tree planting at 12 noon, a ladies’ volleyball challenge at 1 pm, a showcase rugby game at 1:30
pm and a basketball game between the alumni men and the SCI Senior Boys at 2:15 pm. While the Saturday night dinner at the Stayner Community Centre is sold out, alumni can still register for weekend events and the Saturday night dance (also at the Community Centre at 8:30 pm) at the school on Friday night or Saturday. Three restaurants, the Sovereign in Creemore, the Beacon in Wasaga Beach and the Fud Grill at the Edenvale Airport are offering alumni specials on Friday night. And don’t forget the Avening Reunion, with events happening throughout Sunday. For more information on that event (plus a bit of history), see page 6.
A TRIFECTA OF AWARDS The Echo is proud to report that we picked up
a few awards last Friday at the Ontario Community Newspaper Awards in Niagara Falls: a First Place in the In House Promotion category for our subscription drive ad last year (it featured miniature versions of all 52 front pages from the previous year); a Second Place in the Best Creative Ad Series category for our ads for last year’s events at the New Farm; and a Third Place in the Best Editorial (Circulation under 9,999) category for our editorial that fact-checked some of the claims made by the defeated deputy mayoral candidate during last year’s municipal election. This is the first time the Echo has earned more than one nod at the OCNA awards, so we took the whole crew down to the Falls. Pictured here are Echo assistant Fred Mills, Echo publisher Sara Hershoff, OCNA president Don MacLeod, Echo editor Brad Holden and Echo manager Georgi Denison.
SCI Art Show curators Gray Bruer, Josh Kraan and Steve Kennedy show off a “better mousetrap,” built by Katie Hare and Brandon Wilson.
MEET THE FUTURE by Brad Holden Mousetraps for people, a ceiling covered in balloons that communicate, and a 24-hour video of an eye that blinks only once – near the very end, at the point that corresponds to the ratio between the history of the planet and the amount of time that humans have existed. These are the kinds of fantastic things that you’ll see for a brief few days when the Stayner Collegiate Art Department takes over the Mad & Noisy Gallery from Thursday, May 26 to Sunday, May 29. The show, which has taken place three out of the past four years, is always a glimpse into the brave creativity of youth. And on Saturday,
May 28, during afternoon and evening receptions (from 2 to 4 pm and 7 to 10 pm), visitors will be able to meet and chat with most of the artists. With a new multidisciplinary Grade 12 art class at SCI, exhibits will be far reaching in their scope, from canvas on the wall to musical performances, from performance art to high-concept instillations. All of that makes a pretty good party, says graduating student Gray Bruer, who is curating the show along with Josh Kraan, Steve Kennedy, Ethan Snow and Kelsey Cripps. “Everyone’s welcome, and really shouldn’t miss it,” said Bruer, before going back to perfect his eye-blink to human ratio.
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