The Creemore
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Friday, January 27, 2017 Vol. 17
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Local women march on Washington by Trina Berlo Amidst the million or so people to join the Women’s March on Washington this past weekend were a number women from Creemore and Mulmur. They all say they were struck by the jovial tone of the demonstration and felt very welcome. “After the election, I was pretty distraught as so many people were,” said Barb Halsall, who was among those who spent two nights on a bus and a full day marching in Washington to show opposition to US President Donald Trump on the day after his inauguration. She said she lived in the United States for a few years during the 1960s when there was a lot of prejudice, discrimination and inequality. “I just had this huge fear that we were going back to those times and you look at Trump’s inflammatory comments – racist, homophobic, xenophobic – they were all very prevalent back then… It’s a fear of history repeating and I had to do something,” said Halsall. She said Trump has emboldened some politicians to behave like bullies but he has also emboldened ordinary people to stand up and say that’s not acceptable. She went looking for a way to get to the March on Washington and a seat on the Soulomobile out of Toronto, organized by the women behind
Bob Ransier's truck stolen
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Marci Lipman, Carolyn Chapman, Sandra Lackie and Barb Halsall took a whirlwind trip to take part in the Women's March on Washington Jan. 21. Soulotheatre. When Sandra Lackie learned of a bus trip from Halsall, she was determined to go. Marci Lipman and Carolyn Chapman were also on the same bus, part of the 53 women who met at Union Station Friday night to travel in a caravan of busses through the night. In addition to being prepped on the legalities of protesting and crossing the border, those on the Soulomobile wrote about their experiences and were interviewed by journalists.
While at Union Station, they met up briefly with Mulmur resident Alessandra Schlums, 20, and her friend Brandy Davis, a 19-year-old Mono resident, who were taking one of the other busses. Lipman said the Soulomobile parked with the other 1,200 busses and started marching toward the National Mall. Chapman said she too was feeling quite low after the election. “I thought, I could feel like this (See “Marchers” on page 3)
Bob Ransier is back behind the wheel of his truck after it was stolen on the weekend, but it is a little worse for wear. The Dodge truck with his name emblazoned on it was gone when he woke up Saturday morning. He said the truck was locked at the time. “They had to have a slim jim to get in and I had the keys hidden under the seat,” said Ransier. “It’s a well known truck, you don’t just take trucks like that,” he said. “All the chrome and glitter on it, you don’t drive a truck like that without getting caught.” He said people were phoning him to report sightings. “Tim Wilson told me he heard it go by his house at 4:30 Saturday morning. Then they saw it down in Lisle at about 6:45 in the morning,” said Ransier. “The police found it at about 1 p.m. up at the Fourth Line.” When they found it, the back end was smashed but nothing was missing from the truck. The truck was locked but the keys are missing. He has been searching for the keys that have a key chain, a blue flashlight with his name on it. “I was up in Alaska a few years ago and I got this good luck charm. I put that on there a few months ago. I guess it wasn’t so lucky, was it?”
Fireworks, comedy, dancing part of Sunnidale Winterama New Lowell’s annual winter carnival, Sunnidale Winterama, takes place Feb. 3-5. The weekend kicks off with the annual spaghetti supper at the New Lowell Legion Friday from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. (children five and under eat for free; ages 6-12, $5; 13 and up, $10), followed by the Burning of the Green, skating and fireworks at the park. Cap off the night with Yuk Yuk’s comedy night at the Legion with comedians Sandra Battaglini, Rob
Pue, Jeff Elliot and New Lowell’s own Rich Gill. Doors open at 8:30 p.m. Admission costs $10 at the door. Fill up with a pancake breakfast, prepared by New Lowell United Church members, to start the day Saturday at the Legion from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. (Children five and under eat for free; ages 6-12, $4; 13 and up, $5). The opening ceremonies are at 11:30 a.m. at New Lowell Recreation Park but there are events all day beginning with a sno-pitch tournament at 9 a.m.,
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beer garden, silent auction at the fire hall, parade at 10:30 a.m., including the bed races, children’s games, an explosives demonstration by the OPP at 12:30 p.m. There is a craft show at the church and the library from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., a Soup-off at the fire hall from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., a euchre tournament at the Legion from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday night there is a dance at the Legion with the live music of Full Circle. Tickets cost $10 in advance
and $15 at the door and are available at town hall in Stayner, at the Legion and online at ticketscene.ca. There is another big breakfast at the Legion on Sunday from 9 a.m. to noon, for $7 per person. Register for the Taylor Morgan Memorial Snowmobile Fun Run at the Legion from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. Admission to many of the events is included in the $2 event button. Vi s i t w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m / sunnidalewinterama.
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