The Creemore
Echo
Friday, September 18, 2015
Vol. 15 No. 38
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News and views in and around Creemore
Inside the Echo
Solar objections
On the record
Residents protest solar projects
CKAW records first council meeting
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Avening Hall adds show The Avening Hall has several concerts lined up this fall. On the first weekend in October, during the Small Halls Festival, Skydiggers will perform on Friday, Oct. 2 and Elliott Brood will play the next night on Saturday, Oct. 3 but the second show is already sold out. For ACC North’s younger audience, children’s entertainers Rockgarden Party has been added to the Small Halls line-up. An interactive, rock operetta about saving the environment will be on stage the morning of Sunday, Oct. 4. Admission is free but registration is appreciated. And just announced, Avening Hall has been added to Hawksley Workman’s Winter Bird Tour on Saturday, Nov. 21. For showtimes and tickets, visit aveninghall.com or call The Creemore Echo at 705-466-9906.
Festival of the Arts
Staff photo: Trina Berlo
Shirley and John McGillivray, Heidi Sterrenburg and baby Blythe embrace their country roots, dressing the part to promote the events taking place at Brentwood Hall during the Small Halls Festival Oct. 1-4, including an all day country carnival under the big top tent on the Saturday. Representatives from all of the nine venues involved in the festival outlined plans for the weekend’s activities at the Small Halls Ball media launch in Creemore Wednesday. For more photos, see page 7.
Township launches online cemetery database by Trina Berlo Clearview Township has launched a new online directory for all of its municipally owned cemeteries. The cemetery database is part of a new website developed for the clerk’s department. It includes a bylaw index, a meeting calendar, a blog and cemetery listings for Batteaux Hill Cemetery, Bethel Union Cemetery, Duntroon Pioneer Cemetery, Lavender Cemetery, Old Sunnidale Presbyterian Cemetery, Second Line Nottawasaga Cemetery and Stayner Union Cemetery. “These are things that we have been wanting to do for a long time so that’s why it’s so exciting,” said Clearview Township clerk Pamela Fettes. The cemetery registry is public record and until now searches have been conducted at town hall or over
the phone. “We get a lot of calls every summer from people who are trying to do their family tree and they are looking for different people who are buried in the cemeteries so we thought why not, once we gather all this information, put it in a place where people can access it,” said Fettes. “It’s about making data available to the public.” Summer students mapped 3,236 cemetery plots and inputted all of the data, which is now searchable on an interactive map. “…You not only get to read the inscription on the tombstone but you also get to see a picture of it. It kind of touches you in a way because you have been searching for this relative and to actually see the place where the tombstone is also significant to a lot of
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people,” said Fettes. The online directory will save staff time and may even entice people to come to Clearview to visit their ancestors' graves. “We’re hoping that people will be inspired to want to come to Clearview and actually see where their ancestors are buried in person. We wanted to make sure people would know exactly where Clearview is located so they could drive here to see us,” said Fettes. The Creemore Union Cemetery is not owned by the municipality so it is not included. Fettes said there are no plans to include the other cemeteries at this time and to do so would have to be a council directive. Vi s i t t h e n e w w e b s i t e a t clearviewclerk.ca.
The work of more than 60 artists will be on shown during the Creemore Festival of the Arts Oct. 3 and 4. Artists will be on location both days from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Event guides are available at The Creemore Echo. There will also be exhibits at the Station on the Green and the Creemore Log Cabin. Visit phahs.ca for more information.
Brevet comes through Creemore The Growling Beaver Brevet is rolling through Creemore on Oct. 3. Riders tackling the 200-kilometre route during the non-competitive cycling event will be coming through Creemore that day, where Affairs Bakery is a designated stop on the tour. Garnet Siddall, president and CEO of Side Launch Brewing Company, which is an event sponsor, is amongst the organizers. Siddall said her husband was diagnosed with early Parkinson’s disease and the event is a fundraiser for the Davis Phinney Foundation and ParkinGo Wellness Society. The event is sold out and organizers are close to the $100,000 fundraising goal. To donate, visit raceroster.com/ events/2015/5719/the-growlingbeaver.
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