The Creemore
Echo
Friday, May 28, 2010
Vol. 10 No. 22
News and views in and around Creemore
CROSS-COUNTRY FOR CANCER by Brad Holden Vicki Dunleavy has been riding away from the cancer she survived as a child for 35 years. This September, she’ll turn her bike around and ride back toward the disease, in an attempt to raise some serious money to help other afflicted children and to finally come to terms with her own experience. In the process, she’ll also see Canada, from one coast to the other, from the saddle of her bike, as one of 43 riders participating in the Sears National Kids Cancer Ride. For 15 days, from September 9 to 23, Dunleavy and her fellow riders will travel the 7,000 kilometres between Vancouver and Halifax, leapfrogging each other to make sure every kilometre of road gets the message that childhood cancer is a different kind of disease, one that usually comes without explanation, places our youngest and weakest in positions of peril and often leaves its survivors with physical and emotional scars that last a lifetime. In 1975, Dunleavy was diagnosed
Echo Briefs
Motorcycle Ride for Dad
Be on the watch for motorcycles on Saturday, May 29 when the annual Huronia Ride for Dad comes through town. The prostate cancer fundraiser draws between 700 to 800 motorcycles each year and all of them arrive in Creemore around noon for a Legionprepared lunch. Bike aficionados are advised to check out the parking lots of the Legion and the Arena at lunchtime... the number and variety of motorcyles is staggering!
Celebrate Trails Day
Clearview Township will once again celebrate International Trails Day On Saturday, June 5 at Station Park in Stayner. Activities include a 26 kilometre trail ride (leaving the park at 8:30 am), live entertainment, family games, an OPP Bike Rodeo, an interpretive trail walk and a sidewalk art demonstration. Watch next week’s Echo for more information.
Vicki Dunleavy with Rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and often deadly type of cancer that attaches to muscle tissue in children. She was eight at the time, and partly because of the cancer culture at the time and partly because of her own family’s dynamic, the (See “From Vancouver” on page 10)
A Walk Into Our Past
The Purple Hills Arts & Heritage Society invites everyone to join them on a guided walking tour of heritage sites of historical interest around Creemore. “Pathways to the Past” will leave from Station on the Green at 1 pm on Sunday, June 6. Chris Raible will provide an overview before the walk begins; there will then be five stops on the tour, each with its own feature speaker. Topics will include the Petun people and Samuel de Champlain’s visit to the area; the first permanent settlement and mills; life in the early village; the coming of the railway and Creemore’s development in the 20th century. Each stop will be approximately six to eight minutes in length. Tea and cookies will be served after the walk back to the station. Tickets for the walk, at $10 each or $25 per family, are available at Curiosity House or the Creemore Echo.
SUNNY SIDE UP AT THE MARKET Alan Dick (right) was a grateful customer at the Teddy Bear’s Picnic breakfast sandwich booth at last Saturday’s opening day of the Creemore Farmers’ Market. Shannon Hatherley (left), the daycare centre’s director, spent the morning making sure market-goers were well-fed. For more pictures from the Market’s opening day, see page 7.
Inside the Echo
A 90th Birthday
Carm celebrates with family and friends. PAGE 3
Restoring Tradition
Local artists help bring a painting back to life. PAGE 6
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