Friday, June 16, 2017

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The Creemore

Echo

Friday, June 16, 2017 Vol. 17

No. 25

www.creemore.com

News and views in and around Creemore

Inside the Echo

Cycle For Sight

Good Sports

SCI honours top athletes

Cyclists take on the hills of Creemore

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Farms for Change raises more than $100,000 by Trina Berlo The New Farm has combined the best in cuisine and live music, nourishing over the years an annual event that satisfies both the foodie and the music fan. The hot-ticket Farms for Change event promises a chance to taste some of the best food around, served at stations set up on the organic farm located near Dunedin. Hosts Gillian Flies and Brent Preston welcomed close to 900 guests to The New Farm June 10 for the ninth annual concert in the barn, this year with Joel Plaskett and his band The Emergency. Great food and live music in a beautiful rural setting (maybe even a celebrity sighting) gives Farms for Change its cachet and every year people hustle for tickets. The event has evolved out of Grow For The Stop, which started as a fundraiser to supply produce to The Stop Community Food Centre in Toronto, and has become just as much

Staff photo: Trina Berlo

Guests lounge at The New Farm's Farms for Change fundraiser June 10. about food as it is about music, if not more. This year’s event raised more than $100,000. Last year, the event was rebranded

Farms for Change to reflect an expanding effort to connect other food centres with organic farm produce. Preston and Flies in partnership with

Community Food Centres Canada and with the support of dozens of volunteers, have expanded the effort to make good local organic food available for everyone. On one of the hottest days this summer, it is only logical to start with a cold drink. The bar was well stocked with Creemore Springs beer, Dillon’s Distillery cocktails, Duntroon Cyder House cider and Sap Sucker maple water. Then itʼs off to sample food from some of the trendiest restaurants in Toronto – Momofuku, Café Boulud, The Broadview Hotel, Montecito, Epic at Fairmount Royal York, Drake Hotel, Harvest Kitchen, Planta, Gladstone – and those closer to home – Azzurra, The Pottery. Diners plan their strategy, scoping out which restaurants are offering what, before committing to a line-up. Food stations are serving chickpea crepes with lamb, chicken curry, cassoulet and ceviche, to name (See “Tastes” on page 7)

Firefighters fundraising to restore antique fire truck by Trina Berlo Creemore firefighters are fundraising to refurbish the village’s first fire truck so it can be put back into service (on special occasions that is). Until a few years ago, the 1941 International Harvester fire truck was used in parades and available for birthday parties or when a local team won a championship, but recently it has been taken off the road. Clearview Fire Station 4 Captain Ed Van Severen said it will cost about $10,000 to repair the body and have the paint job redone. Unit 41, a pumper, was the first motorized self-propelled fire truck purchased in Creemore and held 400 gallons of water. The truck remained in service until 1989. It is now owned by the Creemore

Firefighters’ Association. Unit 41 was purchased from the RCAF in 1958. It had been used by the RCAF fire brigade in March of that year to fight the fire at the 13x ammunitions depot explosion at Base Borden. Three Creemore area residents were counted among the seven people who died in the explosion, still one of the worst peacetime ammunition explosions in Canadian history. In the fall of 1958, Creemore ratepayers expressed mixed emotions about council’s proposal to purchase the truck from the RCAF at a cost of $2,100 (about $17,800 today) but they did vote in favour of the purchase. In August of 1959, with rising tension over the purchase of the fire truck within the Creemore Fire Brigade, (See “1941” on page 3)

Celebrate Canada Day in Creemore Activities • History Tour • BBQ Street Hockey • Fireworks Schedule on Page 6

Unit 41, photographed during a Santa Claus Parade in Stayner.

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