The Creemore
Echo
Friday, October 14, 2011 Vol. 11 No. 41
Inside the ECHO
Solar Gold
These are the Judges
Station confident that panels mean dollars.
Who do you think had the best pie?
News and views in and around Creemore
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ST. JOHN’S UNITED CELEBRATES 125 YEARS THIS SUNDAY
St. John’s celebratory service will take place at 11 am and will feature special guest Rev. David Sherwin. For more about the church’s history, see page 4.
HORSES AND HOUNDS With the Apple Pie Contest and the closing of the Farmers’ Market last weekend, Creemore was rife with autumn traditions, but as always the most spectacular was the Toronto & North York Hunt Club’s annual running of the hounds down Mill Street.
Ray’s Place to offer scholarship
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LOOK WHO PAID US A VISIT We hope everyone had their grass cut and their gardens looking nice last Friday when this interesting visitor took a tour of town. The Google Maps Street View car uses that round camera on top of the vehicle to take 360-degree photos while driving, so that our streets (and houses!) are visible online.
by Brad Holden The primary goal of Tony Fry, who has been the driving force behind first Rent-a-Youth and then Ray’s Place, has always been to keep kids in school for as long as possible. While teenagers are performing odd jobs around town with Rent-a-Youth, they are also being mentored by folks who can tell them first-hand about the benefit of finishing high school and going on to some form of postsecondary education. And with Ray’s Place (named after Rent-a-Youth, of course), high school students are able to drop in, study together, use the centre’s computers for homework and again be in the presence of an adult able to counsel them on the benefits of being
educated. This week, Ray’s Place board members Fry and Laurie Copeland announced that the organization will now take a huge step towards completing that original goal. Through a generous donation from a community member, Ray’s Place will offer its first scholarship for the start of the 2011/2012 school year. The award will be available to a student living in Clearview Township and entering first year college or university in Canada, who is or will be a graduate from a high school in Simcoe County. The scholarship has a potential value of $15,000 or $20,000, payable over a three or four year course of study at $5,000 a year. (See “Ray’s Place” on page 3)
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