The Creemore
EchO
Friday, September 28, 2018
Vol. 18 No. 39
www.creemore.com
News and views in and around Creemore
inside the echo
Take A Hike
Fall Fair
Hi-Landers head to Splitrock
163 years of fun at the GNE
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Festival features shrunken village by Trina Berlo Visitors to the Creemore Festival of the Arts this weekend will have a chance to stroll through a town within a town. Imagine feeling like a giant as you walk amongst miniature models of Mill Street buildings constructed at a 1:32 scale. The main street buildings have been carefully recreated by stop motion animator and set designer Amber Harloff using little tiny bricks and shingles. Hairpins and paper clips have been repurposed as metal railings and sign brackets. She even called upon Shane Durnford, the maker of the signs in Creemore’s downtown, for a tutorial in sign making. The whole thing will be pieced together as part of Purple Hills Arts and Heritage Society’s two-day arts festival. Harloff’s The Little Village With a Big Heart: Tiny Edition is one of three featured exhibits in addition to more than 30 artists and artisans who will be showing and selling their work at 20 locations in the village. Harloff said the idea for the project came to her eight years ago. She just loved the buildings on the main street and wanted to pull generations together to learn about the history of the village. So she enlisted the help of students Anna Dinsmore and Sadie Finkelstein to do some research and went to talk to
Residents of Clearview and Mulmur, along with all municipalities in Ontario, go to the polls in October. Online and telephone voting opens at 10 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 12 and closes at 8 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 22. There are a number of candidate meetings planned in the coming weeks:
Mulmur The Mono Mulmur Citizens’ Coalition (MC2) will be holding an all-candidates meeting at the Mulmur Township Office Building, beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 29. The meeting will provide an opportunity for candidates to introduce themselves and their ideas about the future of the township. There will be an opportunity for questions from the public.
Nottawa Staff photo: Trina Berlo
Amber Harloff places teeny bricks on a scale model of Creemore Home Hardware while working on her Creemore Festival of the Arts installation at her Nottawa studio. Gerry Blackburn, about the origins of the buildings. She isn’t able to include every single building but most of downtown will be represented. Harloff said she was inspired to recreate the street with extreme detail.
Every miniature brick has been made using a tiny mould and Harloff has cut tiny cedar shingles from full size ones. Working full time on the project since May, Harloff said she has gone through (See “Dozens” on page 3)
Chaplain called to tornado ravaged area by Trina Berlo Creemore resident Shirley Ferris is in Ottawa this week as a chaplain with a rapid response team. She is one of four crisis-trained volunteer chaplains from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association of Canada (BGEAC) now in OttawaGatineau to offer spiritual and emotional aid to residents, first responders and anyone else traumatized by the tornadoes that hit the area Sept. 21. The Echo reached Ferris by phone
on Wednesday. She was working with a crew of volunteers with Samaritan’s Purse Canada who were using chainsaws to clear trees felled by the storms. “We are in a residential area and it is surrounded by beautiful old, old evergreen trees and these evergreen trees have just snapped. The whole root system on some of these trees has been pulled up,” said Ferris. Her team was walking the Arlington Woods neighbourhood, one of the most
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A candidates’ meeting for Clearview’s mayoral candidates and those running for Ward 1 is being organized by Concerned Citizens of Nottawa. The meeting will be held at Nottawa Hall from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 4.
New Lowell The Stayner Chamber of Commerce will be hosting an all-candidates meeting on Tuesday, October 9 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the New Lowell Legion. Candidates will be given time to speak and the public will have an opportunity to ask questions but it is not a debate.
Creemore A candidates’ meeting in Creemore is being hosted by Creemore Area Residents’ Association (CARA), from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 14 at Station on the Green. Mayoral candidates and those running for council seats in Ward 2 and 5 have been invited to attend.
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