The Creemore
Echo
Friday, July 3, 2015
Vol. 15 No. 27
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News and views in and around Creemore
Inside the Echo
Saying goodbye
Community mourns Paul Millsap PAGE 3
Bright futures
RAY's Place gives out three scholarships PAGE 5
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RAY's Place awards three scholarships
Logan MacIntyre, 4, barrels down Mill Street Wednesday during the annual Children's bike parade, a highlight of Canada Day celebrations in Creemore. For more photos of Canada Day activities and events, see page 6 and 7 and visit www.TheCreemoreEcho.com.
by Trina Berlo Thanks to some very generous donors, RAY’s Place is able to give out three academic scholarships this year. Jordan Charles and Mikaela Bacon will each receive $5,000 each year for four years and Josh Swift will receive a one-year $5,000 scholarship. The three successful candidates were chosen out of 43 applicants, more than ever before received during the annual intake process. RAY’s Place scholarship selection committee chair Anna Hobbs said all three are well-rounded students with marks averaging in the 90s. They are athletic, they volunteer and show leadership qualities with high recommendations from educators. They were scored based an academic achievement, financial need and community involvement, among other things. “Each one comes from a single parent family and each one credited their mother with urging them on, supporting them over the years, sacrificing for them and the mothers came with them to meet the sponsors, it almost brought tears to your eyes, it was so meaningful,” said Hobbs. The students have had an opportunity to meet their sponsors and they are encouraged to keep in touch during their time at university. Jordan Charles graduated from Collingwood Collegiate Institute with a 92 per cent average. Charles, a Duntroon resident who recently moved to Shelburne, is going to Brock University in St. Catharines this fall to begin working toward a BA in child and youth studies. Charles, 17, was inspired to pursue a career in the field by her own family’s struggle to get help for her older sister, who has Asperger’s Syndrome. She saw (See “Students” on page 5)
Taking care of buyers and sellers in Mulmur and the Creemore hills for 39 years
RCR Realty. Brokerage
Ginny MacEachern
(705) 444-1414 10230 Highway 26 East, Collingwood E-mail info@collingwood.toyota.ca
B.A., Broker
The Town & Country Agent with the City Connections 1-800-360-5821• 705-466-2607 • maceachern.ginny@gmail.com www.ginnymaceachern.com