The Creemore
Ech
Friday, February 9, 2018 Vol. 18 No.6
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News and views in and around Creemore
inside the echo
Election Year
Candidates will see changes in process PAGE 3
Night Vision
Skiing after dark, in memory of Larry PAGE 7
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Simcoe County paramedics conduct a patient transfer to an Ornge airplane waiting at Collingwood Regional Airport last Friday, when eight people were seriously injured in a Highway 26 collision involving a bus and a van.
Eight people injured in severe head-on crash by Trina Berlo Eight people were seriously injured last Friday in a gruesome head-on crash on Highway 26 in Stayner. Former Clearview Township firefighter Mike Payne was early on the scene of the afternoon crash involving a van and a coach bus that sent two adults and six children – two 10-year-olds, two four-year-olds, one
eight-year-old and one 15-year-old to hospital with serious injuries. One 10-year-old was in critical condition, according to OPP spokesperson Const. Peter Leon. All were passengers in a van, said to have Texas licence plates, that collided with a coach bus carrying 45 people, mostly students from St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School in
Hamilton, returning home from a ski trip. Payne, a Stayner resident and Simcoe County District School Board employee en route between high schools in Stayner and Collingwood, stopped to offer assistance. He arrived to what he describes as a frantic and graphic scene. Payne said he took direction from
the paramedic in charge of the scene and worked with an officer to get one of the children out of the van. “And then we just started going through, seeing how many people were in the van and picking the worst ones, trying to get them out first,” he said. They were able to get three people out and by then enough firefighters (See “Clearview” on page 3) The New Lowell community held its annual winter carnival, Sunnidale Winterama, Feb. 2-4, kicking off the festivities with a Burning of the Green on the Friday night. On Saturday, Station 4 firefighters won the bed race and the Girl Guides won the prize for the best parade float. They were dressed as Ghostbusters, in conjunction with the weekends 80s theme. For more photos, visit the Creemore Echo on Facebook.
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