The Creemore
ECHO
Friday, October 25, 2019 Vol. 19 No. 43 www.creemore.com News and views in and around Creemore
INSIDE THE ECHO
Moving On
Gram's Gift
Last of the long-term residents
Legacy lives on in butter tarts
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Terry Dowdall, new MP
Webpage aims to reduce red tape for small business
by Trina Berlo Simcoe-Grey will be represented on Parliament Hill by Conservative Terry Dowdall. N a t i o n a l l y, Canadians voted in a Liberal minority government but remained true blue locally. “I am honoured to represent Simcoe-Grey and I look forward to working for those Terry Dowdall who voted for me and gaining the trust of the ones that didn’t in this election,” said Dowdall. “At the end of the day we need to work together to make sure the concerns of all the people in Simcoe-Grey will be represented and that’s what I’m looking forward to doing.” Dowdall received 43.7 per cent of the vote, getting 9,072 more votes than Liberal candidate Lorne Kenney. The Green Party’s Sherri Jackson had (See “My” on page 3)
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Having had success with his first patch of giant pumpkins, Dunedin resident Jason Spilchen enlisted the help of Gillian Findlay, Jim Leithead and Pete Taylor to carve and assemble these Jack-o-lantern skeletons weighing more than 600 pounds.
The Ontario government has launched a new website intended to help make the province open for business and jobs by inviting businesses to submit their ideas on modernizing regulations and reducing red tape. Prabmeet Sarkaria, Associate Minister of Small Business and Red Tape Reduction, officially launched the new webpage Oct. 23 at the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters Annual Manufacturing Conference. The site will provide a way for businesses to contact the government with their regulatory concerns. “We want businesses to tell us directly how we can continue to reduce their regulatory burden, and make Ontario work smarter for them, in order to help make them be more competitive and support greater investment in Ontario,” said Associate Minister Sarkaria. “The regulatory knot that was stifling business wasn’t tied overnight. Untying it carefully and effectively will take time and persistence, and we will get the job done.” Visit ontario.ca/page/cutting-redtape.
No charges for officer involved in Avening collision There will be no charges against a police officer involved in a collision in Avening last November, says the Special Investigations Unit (SIU). SIU is a civilian law enforcement agency that investigates incidents involving police officers where there has been death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault. They were called to investigate because two civilians were injured in the crash. A two-vehicle collision “basically head-on collision between a traffic
cruiser and a civilian car” occurred at 6 p.m. on Nov. 25, 2018, on County Road 42, involving a Ford police cruiser driven by an officer with the Wellington OPP detachment and a civilian vehicle with three occupants. All four involved parties were taken to the hospital and treated for minor injuries. The driver of the civilian vehicle, a 2008 Pontiac G5, had a passenger in the front seat and a child in the backseat. The officer was travelling northbound when the southbound Pontiac turned left into the path of the cruiser. The
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right front corner of the Pontiac struck the front of the Ford, as the Pontiac was turning left in front of the Ford. On Dec. 17, the OPP were advised that the driver and backseat passenger suffered fractures to ribs and breast bones. SIU reported, “There is a heavy onus on drivers to ensure that they embark on left-hand turns only when it is safe to do so. Clearly, the evidence indicates that the Complainant fell short in that duty. In the circumstances, the lion’s share of the responsibility for the
collision lies with the Complainant. This is not to suggest, however, that the SO was entirely faultless.” SIU determined the police officer was travelling 98 km/h in the area that the speed limit decreased from 80 km/h to 60 km/h. Last week, SIU released its report concluding, the officer’s conduct did not amount to a marked departure from a level of care that a reasonable person would have observed, there are no grounds to proceed with charges in this case.
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