The Creemore
Echo
Friday, May 21, 2010
Vol. 10 No. 21
News and views in and around Creemore
EMERGENCY HUB IS A GO by Brad Holden Clearview Township will go ahead with plans to build a joint Emergency Hub in Stayner in spite of lone objections by Councillor Thom Paterson that such a move might be premature given that the growth needed to pay for it has not yet arrived. Mayor Ken Ferguson, however, argued that the time has come for Clearview to offer a higher level of emergency service to its residents, and suggested that the Hub would help foster growth. He also expressed disappointment that Paterson prevented
the vote from being unanimous; the Hub issue has long been close to Ferguson’s heart and several times he’s made it clear he was hoping for Council’s full support when the time came to move forward with the project. Part of the reason why the rest of Council was so clearly on Ferguson’s side was the fact that the lowest tender bid for the Township’s portion of the project came in at $3.6 million, more than $400,000 less than expected. In total, with contributions from Simcoe County for the ambulance portion of (See “Emergency” on page 3)
HELPING HANDS For most people, the hospital emergency room
is not the most pleasant place to visit. It’s easy to complain about long waits, especially when you’re not feeling well to begin with. But Collingwood resident Glen McTaggart (above) was tended to quickly and professionally, as were many other patients when the Echo visited the Collingwood General and Marine Hospital ER this week. For a rare behind-the-scenes look at our local emergency room, see pages 8 to 11.
Inside the Echo BIKE RAFFLE FOR CANCER Creemore resident Vicki Dunleavy (in the blue)
has begun training in earnest for September’s Sears National Kids Cancer Ride, during which she and 42 other cyclists will spend 15 days riding 7,000 kilometres from Vancouver to Halifax. The Echo will have a feature story on Vicki’s plans in the near future, but in the meantime, starting this weekend she will be selling raffle tickets for two extremely nice bikes, donated to Vicki’s cause by Murray Lackie of MSPEC Group and Kamikaze Bikes in Collingwood. The bikes are on display at Cardboard Castles (where Laurie Copeland and Corey Finkelsten helped Vicki string them up on Wednesday) and tickets can be purchased at Cardboard Castles, the Creemore Echo, the Bank Cafe and Patrick Prime’s Royal LePage office. For more about Vicki’s ride, visit http://vickidunleavy.snkcr.com.
On Butterflies and Life
The Boys of Summer
Echo contributor launches book at Market. PAGE 12
Braves return with two wins and a loss. PAGE 14
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