May 11, 2018

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The Creemore

Echo

Friday, May 11, 2018 Vol. 18 No. 19

www.creemore.com

inside the echo

Chew on This

Happy Trails

Art explores issues of the north

Mulmur CAO set to retire

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News and views in and around Creemore

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Clearview eyes airport

Staff photo: Trina Berlo

Turas Mor and the Creemore Vintage Festival will be taking over the streets of Creemore May 26. The complementary events celebrate all things retro. Creemore vintage dealers Laurie Severn of Heirloom 142, Denise Kacarevich of Seasons, Travis Bell of Miller Island Co., along with Heather Harding of Creemore Springs Brewery are part of the team that is pulling the whole thing together.

Creemore gets blast from the past by Trina Berlo Local vintage dealers are working together to organize this year ’s Creemore Vintage Festival on May 26. The festival was conceived by Sandra Green who ran it for the first two year and now the Creemore BIA has taken it on. The organizing committee is made up of shopowners who carry vintage treasures and collectables – Heirloom 142, Eastwood Vintage, Miller Island Co., Seasons, Mumba and Feathered Fawn, along with Creemore Springs Brewery, who is hosting Turas Mor on the same day. “Everything is coming together really well,” said Laurie Severn, proprietor of Heirloom 142. She said local businesses have been working together to build a destination for vintage enthusiasts. The festival has received tourism

related funding for social media marketing in an attempt to attract a wider audience and bring tourists to the village, specifically for the event. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. there will be a vendor market on Caroline Street West, photobooth, an upcycling station and strolling entertainers. The VW Glamper Grls will be on scene with their decked out Volkswagen campers and visitors will also be able to tour a custom made vintage Gypsy caravan. The Creemore Vintage Festival is happening the same day as Turas Mor, a cycling event hosted by Creemore Springs Brewery that encourages people to dress up in retro gear and ride bikes made before 1987. More than 200 people are already registered for the non-competitive ride, coming from as far away as Montreal and Thunder Bay.

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A portion of Mill Street will be closed to accommodate both events, and a portion of Caroline Street West will be closed for the Vintage Vendor Market. Local food and beverage providers will be set up on the street and many local shops will be doing something special to support the festival. For instance, Affairs will be setting up an old fashioned soda and sundae bar, making ice cream sodas and milkshakes with Miller’s Dairy chocolate milk. Bank Café will have cinnamon buns available. To complement the Vintage Festival, Creemore Log Cabin is mounting a display of tools that belonged to the Scarrow family, the original inhabitants of the cabin. The show at the log cabin, located beside the Creemore library, will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

After an in-camera meeting Monday Clearview council passed a resolution to submit a Request for Proposal (RFP) to purchase the Collingwood Regional Airport. The terms of the offer have not been disclosed, including the price. The motion reads: Whereas, the Collingwood Regional Airport is located within the municipal boundaries of Clearview Township and Clearview Township views the Collingwood Regional Airport as an economic driver, not only for Clearview Township, but the whole southern Georgian Bay area and Simcoe County… Further, that the confidential items and conditions remain confidential until such time that information contained within the Clearview RFP submission be made public by the Town of Collingwood or their agents. Collingwood council decided late last year to put the airport up for sale and has requested interested parties to participate in a RFP process.

Race is on

The writ dropped Wednesday initiating a 28-day provincial election. In Simcoe-Grey we have incumbent Jim Wilson running for the Progressive Conservatives (PC), Dan Hambly standing for the Liberals, David Mathews for NDP and Jesseca Perry for the Greens. John Wright is the Libertarian candidate. In Dufferin-Caledon incumbent Sylvia Jones is running for the PCs, Bob Gordanier is running for the Liberals, Andrea Mullarkey is the NDP candidate. Laura Campbell is running for the Greens, Jeff Harris is the Libertarian candidate, Andrew Nowell is with the Trillium Party and Stephen McKendrick is independent. Voters go to the polls on June 7.

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