The Creemore
Echo
Friday, July 31, 2015
Vol. 15 No. 31
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Creemore is all about kids this Saturday
By Trina Berlo Downtown Creemore will be all about kids August 1 during the Creemore Children’s Festival. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. the streets will be overrun with reptiles, artists, vendors, princesses, everything and anything to do with children. The festival was first conceived by Laurie Copeland, owner of Cardboard Castles Children’s Emporium, on Creemore’s main street. A committee of organizers is bringing in some high caliber entertainers for the main stage, including Puppet Tamer Tim Holland. Primarily a ventriloquist, Holland also performs on a high unicycle, juggles fire batons and does hilarious thing with stilts and costumes, making himself very fat and very slim. Also on the roster is Miss T The Bubble Queen and her team of bubbleologists who will put on a Bubbleology Show, astounding people with the science and art of bubbles, manipulating them into impossible shapes including bubble carousels, bubble volcanoes, bubble chains, 3D square bubbles and a friendship bubble arch. They can even put a person inside a bubble and blow bubbles out of a bubble while standing in a bubble. Using the show to bring in a bit of education, bubbleologists talk about how bubbles are related to the physical laws of the natural world. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is coming to the festival’s main stage. The To Be Determined Theatre Company production is based on the popular children’s book by Judith Viorst. There will be a children’s marketplace from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. where customers can pick up products made by young entrepreneurs. Reptiles, facepainting, balloons, music, magic, science and crafts are also planned. For full details, visit creemorechildrensfestival.com.
Staff photo: Trina Berlo
Helen Smart is surrounded by her neighbours Dresdon Dupuis, Anson Dupuis, Lukas Hayward and Jakob Hayward, some of the boys who came to her rescue when she needed them most.
Heroes come in all sizes By Trina Berlo Helen Smart sure was happy to see the neighbourhood children coming down the street the day she got herself into a bit of trouble. Smart had gone out to lunch with a friend. She had been quite ill and was recovering after a medical procedure and a lengthy stay in hospital. The Creemore resident was lunching at O’Shea’s, not far from her home on Jardine Crescent. While walking back home, using a walker, one wheel got caught on the gravel driveway and Smart toppled over into the ditch.
“I was sitting there in the ditch and all the kids were coming home from school and I thought it was kind of funny,” Smart told The Echo. “I couldn’t help but laugh.” Luckily she wasn’t injured, except for a small cut on her hand, but she couldn’t get herself upright. It was the end of June and all the neighbourhood children were walking down the street, on their way home from school when they came across Smart lying on the ground. “By the looks of it, a rock hit her wheel and she fell into the ditch,” said Jokob Hayward, 9.
Anson Dupuis, 10, said the children were able to pull Smart up and help her get back on her feet. The whole rescue went so well, they didn’t call for help. “That was the one thing we forgot to do, was get an adult,” said Dupuis. The boys made sure Smart was home safe and sound. “She gave us treats for helping,” said Hayward. Sabrina Stamp-Dupuis said she was very proud of her boys. “You know you have good parents when you have good kids,” said Smart. “They sure were a help.”
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