The Creemore
Echo
Friday, September 22, 2017 Vol. 17 No. 39 www.creemore.com News and views in and around Creemore
Inside the Echo
Marching On
Hope Acres celebrates 50th anniversary PAGE 5
Foiled Again
Salon re-opens under new ownership PAGE 7
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Stages set for Small Halls Festival weekend by Trina Berlo Small Halls Festival is coming up next weekend, beginning Thursday, Sept. 28 with a book launch for Dan Needles’ new publication, True Confessions from the Ninth Concession, a compilation of stories from his beloved column published monthly in area magazines. Needles will be speaking but the really great thing, he says, is that his wife Heath is laying out a dessert table. “Even if they don’t like the book, they will love the desserts,” he said. “This is home turf for these stories, this is where they came from so I like talking to my home audience,” said Needles. He said he has chosen to include about 80 columns written over the past 20 years. “I picked out the ones I liked and they tell a story of a family making its way in the countryside over a period of great change,” said Needles, “the party line gives way to the internet and small farms turn to agribusiness.” Events continue throughout the weekend with Terry O’Reilly, also at Duntroon Hall on the Sunday, and country singer Dan Davidson headlining at Brentwood Hall on Saturday night. Former member of rock band Tupelo Honey, Davidson is fairly new to the country music scene. Nominated for two Canadian Country Music Awards, Found was the top selling Canadian
Staff photo: Trina Berlo
Steve Lucas (from right) is directing actors Heidi Lynch and Alex Crowther in One Good Marriage Sept. 30 at Dunedin Hall during Small Halls Festival. country song in Canada for several weeks last summer and was the eighth highest charting Canadian song in the country. Avening Hall is hosting back-toback concerts with the Jeremy Fisher
Trio on Friday and NQ Arbuckle and Carolyn Mark on Saturday. Fisher, a three-time Juno award nominee, released his sixth studio The Lemon Squeeze in 2014, including the hit Uh-Oh featuring Serena Ryder.
He is set to release a ten-year anniversary vinyl edition of Goodbye Blue Monday, produced by Avening Hall regular Hawksley Workman. “I’m going to do a short tour in (See “Festival” on page 3)
Fountain won't flow until water quality solved by Trina Berlo The fountain restoration is complete, except for a few minor touchups. Volunteers put in many hours cleaning the landmark fountain sculpture before the bronze could be re-patinated. Station on the Green volunteers, who look after the sculpture, have decided not to turn the fountain back on until the water issue is solved.
“There are a few options available to us so we are looking into that, both in terms of treatment and equipment,” “It all has to be discussed and resolved,” said Bill McDougall. “We will not run the fountain until we have decided on a protocol to control the quality of the water we use in the fountain.” McDougall said it would normally be turned off for the winter after the
Thanksgiving farmers’ market. “There is potential for damage by young people climbing on the sculpture,” said McDougall. The fountain water leaves calcium deposits on the sculpture The Creemore Children’s Dress-up Dance sculpture by Ralph Hicks was in the news recently when the sculptor threatened litigation if the sculpture
was not refurbished in the near future even though plans were already in place to do the work. Fundraising is still underway. To support the restoration project, donation cheques can be made out to Creemore Station on the Green and can be dropped off at The Echo or mailed to 10 Caroline St. East, Creemore Ont., L0M 1G0.
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