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Thursday, March 29, 2018 Vol. 18 No. 13 www.creemore.com News and views in and around Creemore
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Feeling Cornered
More houses, more traffic: Residents PAGE 3
Hospital Injection
Hospital builds get county funding PAGE 6
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Terry Dowdall wins Conservative nomination
by Trina Berlo Conservatives have chosen Terry Dowdall as their candidate for SimcoeGrey in the next federal election. Dowdall, Essa Township mayor and deputy warden for the County of Simcoe, beat out Gillian Yeates, Marc Biss and Tim Bulmer for the win. Hundreds of party members came out to the Simcoe-Grey Conservative Electoral District Association nomination meeting at Stayner Collegiate Institute March 24. The day opened with speeches at 10 a.m. and voting using a ranked ballot continued through the day until the candidate was announced at 6 p.m. At that time, MP Kellie Leitch made remarks thanking the nominees for their participation. Leitch announced in January that she would not seek re-election. That was after Dowdall and Yeates were approved to challenge the nomination but before Biss and Bulmer joined the race. A couple days before the nomination meeting Leitch came out in support of Biss and Bulmer calling them the “only real Conservatives” in the race. Dowdall said he has spent the first few days of his candidacy responding to messages before heading to Ottawa this week, at Leitch’s invitation, to
Staff photo: Trina Berlo
MP Kellie Leitch (from right) congratulates Essa mayor Terry Dowdall on his nomination as federal conservative candidate for Simcoe-Grey, while opponent Gillian Yeates looks on. meet some of the party people. He said he hopes the focus now turns toward next year’s federal election and that everyone works toward a Conservative win.
“I worked hard right until the end and you hope people recognize it but I was certainly excited because there were a lot of good candidates running. It certainly wasn’t a gimme,” said
Dowdall. “Through it all the best news is we sold lots of memberships and got more people and I think it’s going to help in 2019. Every candidate has said (See “Federal” on page 11)
Two Clearview teens charged for making threats on social media
Staff photo: Trina Berlo
Nova Scotia songstress Jenn Grant performed at one of two sold out shows at Avening Hall on the weekend. See page 8-9 for more photos.
Two Clearview Township teenagers have been charged in relation to threats that were posted online. Hu ro n ia Wes t O P P r eceiv ed information about threats posted on a social media platform involving an area school. The investigation led officers to charge a 14-year-old and an 18-yearold with uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm and uttering threats to damage property. They are to appear at the Ontario
Court of Justice in Collingwood on May 3. “Social media platforms provide an individual an audience to express personal opinion which can often generate online conversation. When comments of a threatening nature are conveyed, online or otherwise, and the police learn about them, in the interest of public safety, investigations are launched and involved persons are held accountable,” said police spokesperson Martin Hachey.
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