The Creemore
Echo
Friday, May 31, 2013 Vol. 13 No. 22
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CELEBRATING TRAILS by Brad Holden For the fourth year in a row, Clearview Township will celebrate International Trails Day, and for the first time, the festivities will take place in Creemore, this Saturday, June 1. As the “Clearview Trail Link,” the municipality’s own network of recreation trails, gradually becomes reality, previous celebrations have taken place in Stayner and New Lowell. This year, the trailbuilding effort will focus on connecting New Lowell to Creemore, so it seemed like the right time to bring the party to Creemore. A joint effort of the Township Trails Committee, the Creemore BIA and the Creemore Farmers’ Market, the event will have a home base on Caroline Street East in front of the Station on the Green. In addition to mainstage entertainment from the likes of Zero Gravity Circus, the Danceroom and the Clearview Community Theatre (taking place between 9 am and 12:30 pm), there will be a healthy breakfast, a Kids’ Penny Carnival courtesy of Cardboard Castles, a downtown scavenger hunt hosted by the Clearview Library, the Clearview Fire Department dunk tank, an OPP bike rodeo, face painting and much more. The main event, of course, will be a three-kilometre run, walk and wheel event, leaving the library at 10 am. Participants will head down Mary Street to George Street and onward to the Clearview 6/7 Sideroad before turning
around and heading back. At 6/7 Sideroad, people will get a good look at the most recent addition to the Clearview Trail Link, a trail that follows the back way out of town from Creemore to the Simcoe County Forest on the other side of Airport Road. While still a work in progress – the section awaits final grading – the trail will eventually take walkers and bikers to where the bulk of this summer’s trail work will take place. With the help of some federal grant money, the Township will be building a trail through the County Forest. Eventually, once some property issues are worked out, this trail will meet up with an already completed section just west of New Lowell. The eventual goal of the Clearview Trails Committee, which includes chairperson Alex Hargrave, Peggy Hargrave, Ruth McArthur, Marie Leroux and Clearview Community, Culture, Recreation Co-ordinator Shane Sargent, is to link up all of the municipality’s settlement areas with each other and with neighbouring communities. Stayner and Collingwood were joined initially using the old rail bed, and an extension from Stayner to New Lowell is in the planning stage. Combine those two rail trails with the work being done now between New Lowell and Creemore, and the full picture starts to become clear. “This is all about fitness, recreation and safety,” said Hargrave.“We’re pretty charged up about it.”
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MEDALS GALORE The Base Borden gymnastics team, coached by Creemore resident Michelle Pothier and featuring a roster of Creemore and Dunedin girls, brought home some serious hardware from last weekend’s seasonending meet in Orangeville. From left to right above are Eve Clements (first on Vault, second All Around), Ella Preston (first on Bars and Floor, second on Vault, second All Around), Lucy Pothier Bogoslowski (second on Floor, fifth All Around), Sadie Finkelstein (Gold score on Vault, Bars and All Around) and Roxy McDonald (first on Bars and Floor, second on Vault, First All Around).
Canada Day Plans
The Creemore Legion is busy preparing to host the village’s Canada Day celebrations, which will again be a twopart event: a daytime brunch, barbecue and variety of “old time” children’s games from 11 to 3 pm (including the Harold Crawford Memorial Kids Bike Parade at 12:15 pm) and an evening party starting at 6 pm, including the Firefighters Barbecue, the “Lady and Man of the Year” awards, the Baker Magic Show and the fireworks display. To donate money to help pay for fireworks, please call Norm Nordstrom at 705-466-6748.
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