The Creemore
Echo
Friday, June 24, 2011 Vol. 11 No. 25
Inside the ECHO
That’s Entertainment
NCPS puts on show at Legion.
News and views in and around Creemore
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New Panel Raffle
Station on the Green promises big bucks. PAGE 10
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DUNTROON SCHOOL TO CLOSE IN JUNE 2012 by Brad Holden In the end, it was anticlimactic. In front of many ARC members and Duntroon community members, and despite a heroic pitch by local Trustee Caroline Smith to give the school enough reprieve to see if other measures – a repatriation of Clearview students from Wasaga Beach schools and the implementation of a Clearviewbased full-time French program – could bring student enrolment back up, School Board Trustees voted 9-3 to close Duntroon Central Public School in June 2012. While Smith argued that there was no great cost to the School Board to wait until June 2013 to find out if those two measures could bring DCPS’s population from the current 97 back up to 121, the school’s on-the-ground capacity, Trustee Donna Armstrong (Innisfil) pointed out that such a way forward would only place the school in limbo for a few more years. And Trustee Robert North (Adjala, Tosorontio and Essa), who made the motion to close the school next year as per Board staff recommendation, stated that even with 121 students, Duntroon would have a hard time delivering programming equal to schools in other areas of the County. Should the school close in 2012 (and as Clearview Councillor and ARC member Thom Paterson points out on page 3, the battle is not over quite yet), the new attendance areas would be as shown at right.
The numbers in the red arrows represent where current enrolment at Duntroon would end up if the school were to close today. June 2012 numbers may be slightly different.
Echo Briefs
A Weekend of Strawberries
Strawberries will return to the Avening Community Centre this Saturday, June 25, with the Avening United Church’s new Strawberry Social Event from 1 to 4 pm. Church members will be serving fresh strawberries as well as homemade cakes and pies. A free will offering will be accepted. And if you want to double up on your berry intake, the Farmers’ Market will be holding their annual Strawberry Fest that morning, featuring strawberry crepes and Belgian waffles to raise funds for the Walk to End Women’s Cancers.
Talent Contest Tryouts this Week
Photo Fred Mills
AND THEY’RE OFF The annual Tour de Creemore bike race, which raises money for the Trails Youth Initiative, was quite a sight last Sunday morning as the riders headed up Mill Street at the start of a 100-kilometre ride.
Any young people between the ages of 5 to 15 hoping to show off their talents in the Creemore Children’s Festival Talent Contest (being held in the Station on the Green at 6 pm on Saturday, July 16) should remember that the first of two opening rounds takes place this Sunday, June 26 from 2 to 4 pm at St. Luke’s Anglican Church. The event is being organized by Laura LaChappelle and Wasaga Beach Community Theatre. The second tryout will take place on Wednesday, June 29 at 6 pm.
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