The Creemore
Echo
Friday, August 25, 2017 Vol. 17 No. 35
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News and views in and around Creemore
Inside the Echo
Cathedral of Trees
Out with the Old
Cemetery stewards celebrate
Gowan Park pavilion to be replaced
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RAY’s Place awards three scholarships
Staff photo: Trina Berlo
Ron Coulter (from left), Linda Coulter, Lana Bryant and Jeremy Ray clean calcium build-up off the sculpture at the Creemore Hort Park fountain to get it ready for re-bronzing.
Deferral reroutes stop sign installation by Trina Berlo Clearview council is holding off on a bylaw that would have given final approval to the installation of new stop signs in Creemore. Councillor Thom Paterson made a motion to defer two bylaws Monday night pending the receipt of a staff report on the matter, saying council should hear from staff before installing stop signs. He wants to make the streets safer, not just do something out of frustration, he told The Echo. Last month, council approved the installation of eight stop signs to create four-way stops at the intersections of Mary and George, Mary and Edward Street East, Library and Elizabeth and a three-way stop at Mary and Francis. Community safety zones were approved for Mill Street and George
Street and the words ‘slow down’ were to be painted on the pavement at three entranceways to the village. The decision was in response to concerns voiced by a group of Creemore residents who are concerned about speeding and pedestrian safety in the village’s east end. At the council table, the initiative has been spearheaded by Deputy Mayor Barry Burton, also a Creemore resident, but he was absent Monday. “I have always wanted traffic calming in the village in general but in particular on George and Mary Street,” said Paterson. I know that, traditionally, stop signs are not recommended either in the traffic manual or any other studies that have been done recently… You can’t control speed by having stop signs. You have to have lower speeds posted,
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that’s what works.” He said a combined approach, using stop signs, reduced speed, community safety zones, better enforcement and education, promoting Creemore as a pedestrian-friendly village are needed. “A sidewalk on George Street adjacent to the park has been a high priority for years and that would immediately solve the conflict between pedestrians and drivers,” said Paterson. He said the process to which they reached the bylaw was problematic and staff hasn’t been involved in the decision. “The action taken by council to present and ultimately pass the resolution was in itself problematic in that it did not include a staff recommendation and further that (See “Sidewalks” on page 3)
T h a n k s t o t h e R AY ’s P l a c e Scholarship program and the generosity of two Clearview and Mumur donors, three area students will receive academic scholarships for their planned studies at university. Vincent Halis will receive $5,000 each year for four years and Rosalyn Martin and Joe Sammon will each receive $2,500 each year for four years. In awarding the scholarships, RAY’s Place Scholarship Selection Committee Chair James McSherry said that the committee was again faced with the challenge of selecting the scholarship recipients from a strong field of candidates. “The applicants not only demonstrated academic excellence, but they also provided leadership in their schools and in their communities. We expect they will all excel in their post-secondary education programs,” he said. For most of his life, Vince Halis has been interested in the mechanics of moving things. “What I find fascinating,” he says, “Is a mechanism that is simplistically elegant yet mathematically complicated at the same time.” So it was a clear choice for him to choose to study mechanical engineering and he was thrilled to be accepted into the program at Queen’s University. A Mulmur resident, Halis graduated from Central Dufferin District High School where, in addition to earning top marks, he was a member and then a leader of the Centre Dufferin robotics team. To enter in the First Robotics competition, the team had six weeks to conceive and then create a robot. Halis also found time to develop a lunchtime, (See “Scholarships” on page 3)
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