The Creemore
Echo
Friday, September 23, 2011 Vol. 11 No. 38
Inside the ECHO
More Duntroon Truck Trouble This time on 124 south of town.
News and views in and around Creemore
New 4H Club
Mechanic group readies for GNE PAGE 12
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DOUBLESHOT WEEKEND The Purple Hills Studio Tour and the Great Northern Exhibition: two fall traditions in this neck of the woods
As is always the case, the GNE and the Studio Tour will have people scrambling this weekend, providing all kinds of opportunities to spend the first weekend of fall outdoors and in the community. The Great Northern Exhibition, known affectionately as the “Collingwood Fair” though these days it takes place at the top of Fairgrounds Road in Clearview Township, is showing off its “Country Roots and Cowboy Boots” this year. Traditionally a three-day fair but with Friday dedicated to 4-H exhibitions and school field trips, this year will be a bit different, with Friday now a PA day in Simcoe County. In order to maintain the fair’s successful education program, adults who bring up to six children with them on Friday morning will receive free admission and will be able to make the rounds usually available to school groups. Beyond that, the fair opens at 9 am daily on Friday, September 23, Saturday, September 24 and Sunday, September 24 and will close at 10 pm on Friday and Saturday and 5 pm on Sunday. The midway will start on Friday at 4 pm, (See “Studio Tour” on page 3)
OUT IN FRONT These were the first two riders who flew through town last Sunday during the 2nd
annual Centurion 100-mile cycling race; behind them were about 941 others. The 100 was the only race that came through Creemore, but the event also saw 1,300 race a 50-miler and 800 race a 25. The winner of the 100 finished in 4 hours, 27 minutes. Our own Aiken Scherberger finished in 5 hours flat, placing him 4th out of 62 riders in the 55-59 men’s age class.
PROVINCIAL CANDIDATES ON LOCAL ISSUES With the October 6 Ontario Election fast approaching, the Creemore Echo has sent all four Simcoe-Grey candidates a list of questions about what we feel are the most contentious provincial issues this area is dealing with. We begin alphabetically this week with Liberal candidate Donna Kenwell and NDP candidate David Matthews. Green candidate Mike Schreiner and Conservative candidate Jim Wilson will follow next week. The biographies that precede the questions are taken from each contender’s campaign website. For those wanting to hear more about each party’s platform, there is a final all-candidates debate scheduled for Tuesday, September 27 at 7 pm at the Nottawasaga Community Centre in Duntroon.
Donna Kenwell, Liberal
David Matthews, NDP
Donna Kenwell was born in Penetanguishene and moved to Parry Sound, then Listowel, where she graduated high school. Donna was part of the final graduating class from Waterloo Lutheran University (now Wilfrid Laurier), receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree. The following year she attended Althouse College of Education at the University of Western Ontario. She later completed her Master of Library Science degree from U.W.O. She worked 34 years as a teacher-librarian for both the Middlesex County and Brant County Boards of Education as well as the Simcoe County District School Board. She retired in 2007. (See “Kenwell” on page 7)
David Matthews was born in Toronto and lived in the city for 45 years. He has lived in Wasaga Beach since 1996. David served as President of the William Punnett Housing Co-op for five years, working to provide affordable housing for lower income families. He was also a founding member of the Organization for Quality Education – a lobby group fighting for improvements in education. As an active community volunteer, David was on the Board of Directors of the Etobicoke Hockey Association and the Queensway Canadians Hockey Association, helping to give as many children from low-income (See “Matthews” on page 7)
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