The Creemore
EchO
Friday, October 26, 2018
Vol. 18 No. 43
www.creemore.com
News and views in and around Creemore
inside the echo
Bone-Chilling
Monkey Business
Main Street Trick or Treat
Stolen Elmvale Zoo animal found
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Doug Measures elected mayor by Trina Berlo Doug Measures was victorious in his run for mayor of Clearview Township. Measures won with 2,565 votes, beating out Christopher Vanderkruys, who got 1,967 votes. “I’m feeling very good. I think that it was a very good campaign. I am very grateful to supporters who helped me but mostly I am very grateful to the voters across all of Clearview Township who stepped up and recognized the message that I was bringing and showed their support by voting for me,” said Measures. The three-term Ward 1 council rep ran for mayor on a platform of open communication with the hope of increasing public participation and idea sharing between residents and politicians. “The wait was quite nerve-wracking considering what was happening in our neighbouring municipalities and their electoral process,” said Measures, referring to problems with the Dominion Voting System, which caused Collingwood to declare an emergency extension of the voting
Airport Road crash
Staff photo: Trina Berlo
Clearview mayor-elect Doug Measures is congratulated by residents, including Ward 3 candidate Maqsood Dogar (left) on Election Day. period by one day “due to high load volumes”. “It was a little unnerving to know whether there was an issue with ours or
not and as it turns out there was not,” said Measures. “Overall I am very happy with the way the whole thing (See “Thom” on page 3)
MNR attempts to trap Mulmur bear by Trina Berlo Debbie Gray said she had heard through the grapevine that there was a bear in the area but didn’t think too much of it until the bear destroyed beekeeping equipment and broke into a chicken coop. She and husband Jeff Chalmers operate Heritage Bee Company at their Mulmur property. “We had just moved all of our honey [boxes] outside for storage which is standard protocol in Ontario and the one stack was knocked over,” said Gray. She suspected it might be a bear so they set up a trail camera. “The next night we heard the most
The bear, caught on a trail cam, tearing apart bee boxes. horrific sounds coming from the chicken coop,” she said. “We ran out. It was awful.” Gray describes the scene as carnage, with chickens killed and eaten and their
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rooster being so badly injured that it had to be put down. The bear had ripped through the chicken coop, which Gray describes as iron clad. It is built like a home with insulation and cement pad, to get to the chickens. “The bear managed to rip one of the wall sections off anchors in concrete,” she said. It was all caught on the trail cam. The bear had torn apart beehive frames. They have footage of the bear coming right up on the porch and came to the door. Gray contacted the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) and at first they said they (See “Multiple” on page 5)
The driver of a motorcycle was airlifted to a Toronto hospital on Oct. 19 after sustaining life threatening injuries from a crash with a minivan at the corner of Airport Road and County Road 21 in Mulmur. Police say a preliminary investigation revealed that the minivan was travelling eastbound on Dufferin Road 21 and failed to stop at a stop sign, colliding with the northbound motorcycle at about 1 p.m. Dufferin EMS responded and called for Ornge Air Ambulance to transport the injured man to hospital. The driver of minivan sustained minor injuries. Airport Road was closed for several hours to allow for the investigation, which is ongoing. Dufferin OPP Const. Paul Nancekivell said police are waiting for the motorcyclist to recover enough to be interviewed by police and as of yet no charges had been laid.
Theft from vehicles
Several Creemore residents are reporting that their vehicles have been ransacked in the night. Would-be thieves are targeting unlocked vehicles in the village but locked vehicles have also been broken into. In some cases only small amounts of money or items of little value have been stolen but police warn unlocked vehicles can also put people at risk of identity theft. Wallets and purses are sometimes left behind and vehicle ownerships and insurance cards also contain personal information
Halloween Haunt Stayner Collegiate Institute is hosting its annual Halloween Haunt on Friday, Oct. 26. This year, the school will be transformed into a creepy insane asylum, open from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Admission costs $2 per person or $5 a family of four.
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