The Creemore
Echo
Friday, April 21, 2017 Vol. 17
No. 17
www.creemore.com
News and views in and around Creemore
Inside the Echo
Smart Seniors
Living off the Land A decade on The New Farm
Fitness helps seniors stay independent
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Creemore.com wins top prize
Staff photo: Trina Berlo
The Mad and Noisy Quilters are preparing for the 16th annual Dessert Tea. This year’s show Our Canada, Our Home is in celebration of Canada 150, with a number of Canada themed quilts. The 45 members will also be showing the results of the year’s panel challenge, applique seminar and mystery quilts. The community is invited to see the latest creations and sample desserts made by members of the quilting group. The event will be held at the Creemore Legion on Wednesday, May 3, beginning at 7 p.m. Pictured is Laura Earles, Marg Palujanskas, Dawn Craven, Linda Cockton, Marilyn Steed, Lorraine Burton and Cheryl Robertson.
Creemore author builds on life of treasured national heroine Cecily Ross will discuss the fact and fiction of Susanna Moodie with historian Michael Peterman at April 30 Tea and History
by Trina Berlo A longtime fascination with Susanna Moodie has inspired Creemore author Cecily Ross to write her imagined life, filling in the gaps of the Canadian pioneer’s writing. Susanna Moodie is the author of several books, some about her life in
Upper Canada, beginning in 1832. The most famous of her works is Roughing It in the Bush, published in 1852. Ross read the book while at university and later, while living in a rented farmhouse with her two young daughters, they discovered across the road a plaque declaring the site the first homestead of John and Susanne Moodie after they arrived in Canada. Ross said she and her daughters climbed a fence to find a pile of rubble, which they imagined was the remains of the small cowshed that housed the new immigrants, freshly removed from English society. They found a
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copy of Roughing It in the Bush in the house and read it together, which was memorable for all three. But Susanna’s writing wasn’t personal and Ross said it left the reader wondering what she was really like. “Because you couldn’t tell by her writing,” said Ross. “If you could, I probably wouldn’t have written this.” In her debut novel, The Lost Diaries of Susanne Moodie , Ross finds a convincing voice for a woman of strong opinion and intelligence, who struggles under the responsibility of providing for six children and supporting a (See “Ross” on page 3)
The Creemore Echo is proud to announce its website has won first place at this month’s Ontario Community Newspaper Awards gala. Creemore.com placed first in the best community website/web portal (circulation under 9,000) category. “Loved the look and functionality of this website. The overall impression was that this is a quality website with easily accessible (and quick loading) information,” said judge Angie Hampshire, publisher of Bonnyville Nouvelle and Lakeland Regional in Bonnyville, Alberta. The Echo also received an honourable mention in the in-house promotion category for a subscription drive ad campaign. “Use of the illustrations with all the blank space around made this advertisement by Sara Hershoff jump off the page. A very simple message made this newspaper promotion stand out. Good job,” said judge Joyce Webster of East Central Alberta Review.
Steer OMB hearing wraps after two days The Ontario Municipal Board hearing for the Steer Enterprises development proposed at Cashtown Corners wrapped up Thursday. The two-day hearing was held at town hall in Stayner. Last Tuesday, lawyers for Clearview Township, Steer and the current landowner, presented evidence in support of the development that would enable Steer to relocate from its current location in Glen Huron. A rezoning approved by Clearview council was appealed by Creemore residents John and Marnie Hillier, who were representing themselves at the hearing. They called an expert planner last Wednesday to present evidence that the rezoning should not be allowed. The Hilliers last week said they would reserve comment until a ruling has been made.
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