The Creemore
Echo
Friday, November 25, 2011
Vol. 11 No. 47
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News and views in and around Creemore
INSIDE THE ECHO
The Cabin’s Last Resident.
Gifted on Guitar
CLASSICAL CONCERTS FOR CREEMORE FEATURING
NO STRINGSat ATTACHED Award winner St. Luke’s
Ken has coffee with Marlyn Shaw
Woodwind Quintet Sunday, Nov 20 - 3:00 p.m - $15.
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Special Delivery
Dunedin residents Lilly Martin and Kelly Metheral hand-delivered medical materials and $3950 in cash to Haiti all to be used to help with maternal care and health initiative.
Echo Briefs Food and Gift Drive The Creemore Echo, as is tradition is accepting non-perishable food items, toys, books and new clothing for The Annual Christmas Drive. This year the items will be going to the Stayner Clearview Food Bank who will distribute the them throughout the community. In order to get gifts out in time for the holidays it is appreciated if unwrapped toys and such are dropped off by December 15. Food will be accepted until The Echo shuts down for Christmas Break on Friday, December 23 at noon. Hope Acres, who has been the recipient of Echo readers’ generosity in the past, is still seeking help through their Angel Program in which families of varying sizes are provided for by a donor (see ad on page 6).
by Brad Holden Dunedin resident and Nottawasaga Midwives staff member Lilly Martin expected that working as a midwife in Haiti would be hard. She just didn’t quite realize what hard meant. Or that it could be so satisfying. “I’ve travelled to impoverished countries before, but I’ve always kind of felt like an observer, or even a voyeur,” said Martin, in an interview meant to update all of those who generously gave to the trip she took last month with Kelly Metheral. “The experience in Haiti was intense, but it also felt so great to be actually participating in something.” Metheral wasn’t able to sit in on our interview last week, but as Martin pointed out, her experience as a nonmidwife was much different and deserves a story of its own. She did tell us though, of the pair’s first arrival at the hospital that Midwives for Haiti do their work out of. The nurse who greeted them had a woman in labour in the delivery room, and in that instant was glad to have the sudden assistance of “two midwives!”
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Minutes later, and with Martin making sure the situation merited it, Metheral had the chance to catch a baby for the first time in her life. “She was a little pale, but she did a great job,” said Martin, laughing. Later on in the trip, when Martin was doing her required night shift on the hospital floor, things weren’t so frivolous. The electricity was on but dim, and Martin did her work with a headlamp on. The three wards – one for prenatal, one for postpartum and one for post op, all of them with several beds and little in the way of curtains – were busy, and in the delivery area, also boasting several beds but this time at least with curtains, several women gave birth. Not all were without complications, either. People almost universally suffer from anemia in Haiti, and so many pregnant women are put on bedrest for complications early in their terms. High-risk births tend to follow. Every time Lilly heard a car pull up during the night, she felt a hint of dread, wondering what complication might be (See “light” on page 10) CREEMORE BIA CREEMORE SPRINGS PURPLE HILLS ARTS AND HERITAGE SOCIETY
ONE MONTH until Christmas
It is just one month before Christmas day but the little elves in Creemore are all busy preparing to turn the Village into a holiday wonderland. For details on the upcoming events for Christmas in the Valley see page 12.
Hanging of the Green
All Dunedinites are invited to the Annual Hanging of the Green this Saturday. Starting at 10 am the Hall will be full of friends and neighbours working together to make the village festive. Hot chocolate will be served.
Share your Memories
Do you have a picture or story that sums up the holidays for you? Would you would like to share it with the community? If so,The Creemore Echo would love to hear for you. A selection of submitted pictures and stories will be printed in next week’s paper.
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A HEARTFELT TRIBUTE The Creemore Tree Society honoured Diane and Brian McKay last Friday. For more than 20 years the McKays have shown complete dedication to the greening up of Creemore. Diane personally oversaw the replanting of Mill Street and, with the help of her committee, was responsible for the addition or replacement of about 450 trees throughout the village. Serving Mulmur & The Creemore Hills for 35 years
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