The Creemore
Echo
Friday, July 9, 2010
Vol. 10 No. 28
News and views in and around Creemore
Inside the Echo
Old-Fashioned Garden Party
Al Fresco Art
Big turnout for Log Cabin fundraiser.
Gallery Crawl draws crowds.
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WIND ARRIVES AS BIG ISSUE
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A BANG-UP JOB Last Thursday’s Canada Day festivities at the Legion once again climaxed with a spectacular
fireworks show, as always provided by Jeff Clarmo, Creemore’s own pyrotechnics expert. Jeff’s company, Northstar Fireworks, operates across Ontario and Quebec, and every year, he donates half the cost of Creemore’s display and works with Canada Day organizers to make sure his hometown show is one to remember. If you see him in the street, be sure to thank him for his generosity!
Echo Briefs GNE Garden Tour
The 5th Annual Collingwood Agricultural Society’s GNE Floral Reflections Garden Tour will be held on Saturday, July 10 from 9:30 am to 4 pm. Tickets are $10 at the Creemore Village Pharmacy. For more information, call (705) 444-2895 or visit www. greatnorthernex.com.
A Picnic in the Park
The Creemore Horticultural Society will host a Picnic in Mad River Park from noon to 2:30 pm on Saturday, July 10. Enjoy an old-fashioned box lunch and discover the importance of the river to the village of Creemore from local historian Helen Blackburn. Tickets are $10 each, available at the Creemore Echo, Curiosity House and the Creemore Farmers’ Market.
by Brad Holden After a spring spent monitoring antiwind-power activity across the province, a local application for eight wind turbines and a controversial vote at Clearview Council has caused Clearview WAIT to mobilize locally once again. On Monday, July 12, members of the group will attend Council en masse to press elected representatives on a couple of fronts. Firstly, WAIT is unhappy with a motion passed by Council last week, proclaiming that Township staff will not comment on renewable energy applications under the Green Energy Act. While the province has requested that local municipalities make comment on things like infrastructure, emergency procedures and heritage issues, there is no method of cost-recovery for municipalities to pay for this work. With the Green Energy Act removing any ultimate decision-making power from municipalities, Council voted to remove itself completely from the process. (See “Wind” on page 3)
Monument to the past erected in cemetery It’s often forgotten that the original Creemore settlement was on the south side of the Mad River, but a new monument in the cemetery will serve to remind us. From 1855 to 1889, the original St. Luke’s Anglican Church was situated on a hill in the north part of the cemetery. Cemetery Board member Gord Miller (left) and monumentmaker Dave Ferguson (right) recently unveiled a memorial stone on the site of the old church. The stone was donated by Ferguson, who wanted to thank the village of Creemore for its business over the years. For a picture of the original church, which was replaced by the Caroline Street St. Luke’s in 1887, see the “Way We Were” section on page 4.
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