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Developer submits plans for school condo project by Trina Berlo The Township of Clearview has received an application to amend the zoning of the old school annex building on Caroline Street West to allow for a residential development. The proposal by Fennelwood Corp principal James Massie is to convert the existing school building into 11 condominium units and create four single-detached residential lots on the 1.8 acre property. The purpose of the application is to amend the zoning from an institutional zone to allow for lowand high-density residential, including exceptions relating to setbacks. The school opened in 1917 and housed Creemore Public School on the ground floor and Creemore Continuation School (high school) on the second floor. When it closed in 2014 it was used as the junior site for Nottawasaga and Creemore Public School (NCPS). Grades JK-8 now attend one site just up the road. According to planning documents filed with the township by planner Celeste Phillips, the majority of the

An artist’s rendering showing the vision for the conversion of the old school at 35 Caroline Street West to condominium dwellings. front wall of the existing two-storey building will be preserved. The bell tower will also remain as part of the

neighbourhood’s character (although the bell has been moved to NCPS.) The front yard of the building will

become landscaped open space and parking would be located at the back, with two parking spaces for each unit. Driveway access would be on the east side of the building. The height of the one-storey addition on the west side of the building will be increased to two storeys and major restoration of the interior of the school building will be required due to asbestos removal, reports Phillips. The condo units will range in size from about 700-2,800 square feet, and will have one to three bedrooms, and the building will be fully accessible. As a result of flood mapping adjustments, supporting documents appear to satisfy criteria for safe access and egress in the “flood fringe” as defined by the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority, which has indicated it is in acceptance of the updated floodway and flood fringe delineation. A date for a public meeting has not yet been scheduled. Attempts to contact the developer and the planner continue to go unanswered.

Peace Naturals announces plant closure by Trina Berlo Cronos Group announced Tuesday that it will be pulling out of its Stayner manufacturing facility by the end of 2022 as part of its “strategic and operational realignment initiatives.” “There will be a change to the size of our organization, but we will not know the full impacts until human resources has spoken with everyone. We are committed to treating our employees the right way and do not have any additional details on the number of impacted employees at this time,” said Cronos Group spokesperson Emily Whalen. In 2017, local dignitaries and investors joined in a gold shovel ceremony and champagne toast to announce a 315,000 square foot

expansion to the facility on Concession 12 Sunnidale. The expansion included a state-of-the-art 286,000 square foot production facility, a 28,000 square foot greenhouse and a 1,200 square foot extraction laboratory. The new facility was expected to result in 100 jobs. The expansion took residents by surprise. Because it complied with the existing agricultural zone on the property, no public process was required under the township’s bylaws. Some analysts have said that having more than 800 licensed producers in Canada, has led to an oversupply of certain products in the legal market. In a fourth quarter report, Cronos Group announced a 59 per cent increase in revenue in 2021 over the previous year, primarily driven by continued

growth in the adult-use market in Canada and increased sales in the Israeli medical market. Cronos Group is opting to improve profitability by sourcing product through joint ventures with large-scale Canadian greenhouse operators and a network of third-party producers. “…In line with our focus on enhancing agility and fostering longterm growth, we have made the decision to exit our Peace Naturals Campus in Stayner, Ontario,” said Cronos Group president and CEO Kurt Schmidt in a news release. “As we continue to execute our asset-light approach and focus on brands and R&D, we will continue to leverage our joint venture with Cronos GrowCo and other contract manufacturing partnerships

moving forward. We are grateful to our Stayner associates for their hard work and the contributions they have made to Cronos Group, and appreciate their ongoing support in helping to provide a seamless transition out of the facility throughout 2022.” As a result of the Company’s planned exit from the Peace Naturals Campus, Cronos Group reported to investors it has incurred a $119.9 million noncash impairment charge on long-lived assets in the fourth quarter of 2021. In addition, the company expects to incur charges of approximately $4.5 million in connection with the planned exit. These charges include employeerelated costs, such as severance, relocation and other termination (See “Agripharm” on page 4)

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Did you know that the Clearview Public Library works in partnership with libraries in Essa, Barrie, Ramara, Innisfil, Collingwood, S p r i n g w a t e r, Wa s a g a Beach, New Tecumseth and Michele Penetanguishene to present McKENZIE the Simcoe Author Talk Series? Staff member Helena Hayward and Ella Hayward (2021 summer student and a happy holder of a CPL library card for 13 years) were proud to present Stephen Colwell (an author who resides in New Lowell) who spoke and read from Flying with the Dragons last week. This memoir is an entertaining and heartfelt story of one man’s journey on the road to enlightenment from the psychedelic sixties to the present. This book also includes daily practices and exercises based on ancient spiritual wisdom to help the soul’s progress on one’s own unique journey and is available for check-out at the Clearview Public Library. The next virtual installment of the Simcoe Author Talk Series will take place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 29, when Robert Hough will speak about The Marriage of rose Camilleri. Please register on EventKeeper at www.clearview.library.on.ca to reserve your free virtual seat. Saturday, March 5 is the annual Paper Bag Princess Day. This popular children’s book by Robert Munsch will be celebrated this year with the giveaway of very special activity kits courtesy of Annick Press. Please drop by the Creemore, New Lowell or Stayner branches to pick up a complimentary fun pack. Take note too that our Mega March 2022 Spring Kitswill be dispersed on a first come, first served basis. These kits have been designed for Grades K-12 and the family-friendly drawing challenge is a contest for ages 0-99 years. These kits will magically appear in the branches at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 12. Catch them while you can! May March come in like a lion so it can go out like a lamb, in all aspects of life.

Mother-daughter library team Helena Hayward and Ella Hayward.

With YF Patissier and Chocolatier abuzz at 134 Mill Street, Paul Vorstermans thought it would be fun to remind the community what the building looked like in 1977, as photographed by John Wiggins.

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beside the office rang my number at 6 a.m. I heard the ring but I was tired and refused to be disturbed. Anyway, I said to myself, our call was two long and three short so it wasn’t meant for me. At last the clerk came up and pounded at the door. He said to me, “Why didn’t you answer your Helen phone call?” How stupid he must have BLACKBURN thought me when I told him it wasn’t the right signal. I managed to catch the train but had no When telephone service became general in rural time for breakfast. homes, everyone listened in, no matter whose Continuing in a humorous vein I pulled a joke number was called. There were 12 or more homes on my father about 1919. I was sowing grain with a serviced on the same circuit. Accordingly there had to skittish team of horses hitched to the seed drill. I was be quite a few phone calls. Our circuit number was 36 about finished sowing the field when I discovered I and our particular ring was two long and three short. was going to need a full pail more of seed grain. At We, of course, memorized every other number on our the same time I noticed the late R.J. Bryce up a pole circuit. The two long and three short were definitely at the roadway where I was working and I heard him established in my head so that I would spring to talking to the office. Saluting Mr. Bryce I asked him attention if these rings came on our equipment and if he could call our house. In a moment I had my I was within hearing distance. father on the line. Without any preliminaries I told The following experienced happened to me him to bring me a pail full of seed grain. Mr. Bryce about 1912. I was in Toronto probably attending the was in a hurry and jumped into the car and was gone. Winter Fair. It was urgent that I return home on the Father arrived with the seed grain and as there was morning train which left Union Station at 7 a.m. I no telephone within half a mile he wanted to know took a room at the Walker House near the station how I had called him at the house. He evidently was and asked the clerk at the desk to call me at 6 a.m. baffled so I decided to keep the information to myself I was quite green and expected I would be roused for a while. Instead of answering his question directly by someone knocking at my door. The hotel had I said, “Haven’t you been reading about wireless?” It become modern and the rooms all had telephones. was a conversation piece for the rest of that evening. This is what happened. The switchboard girl down

The following amusing anecdotes were written by C. B. (Bert) Smith who was owner and editor of the Creemore Star for many years (1924-1954). For several years after he sold the paper to Reg Westbrooke he wrote a regular column, his topics mainly of a local history nature. Here are his stories:

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New alliance aims to protect natural corridors The Escarpment Corridor Alliance, a new advocacy group, officially launched Tuesday with the goal of protecting key outdoor destinations along the escarpment from development and forming natural corridors. The group hopes to lobby government and persuade developers to protect certain swaths of land to create corridors from Devil’s Glen through Blue Mountain to Georgian Peaks and from Beaver Valley to Castle Glen. Their key focus is on Talisman and Castle Glen, due to the timely nature of developments, but their vision includes escarpment areas of Duntroon and Singhampton. The Alliance says protecting Talisman and Castle Glen is critical to creating a corridor network that would expand on the existing 100+ kms of trails, connecting them with other existing networked publicly accessible trails to create a “legacy loop” to help protect sensitive and threatened Escarpment ecosystems in five critical watersheds: the Mad River, Pretty River, Silver Creek, Beaver River and Batteaux.

Escarpment Corridor Alliance president Bruce Harbinson (clockwise from top left), chairperson Stephen Griggs, Mike Robbins, and Tom Eisenhauer during a launch webinar on Tuesday. The Alliance includes the Bruce Trail Conservancy, Blue Mountain Watershed Trust and Save 91 in its list of partners. Tom Eisenhauer, The CEO of the organization

that led the buyout of the “Mega Quarry” lands in Dufferin County is in charge of developer relations and he said the goal is to not make the issues about NIMBYism but “to have this area and its ecology really recognized for what it is, as a provincially, in not nationally significant environment.” President Bruce Harbinson the project is not just about human use. “We believe very, very strongly that the natural corridors for the biodiversity in this area are absolutely critical and that’s why when you take a contiguous corridor like the brow of the escarpment and you sever off 1,530 acres like at Castle Glen that makes no sense to us given what we know today about the importance of the ecosystems and how they work,” he said. About 150 participants joined the virtual launch, and the group has raised more than $45,000. The alliance will meet next on March 22. There are volunteer opportunities available. Visit myescarpment.ca.

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Then it took the burlap swaddling of the baby in its teeth. And it tossed him, with no coddling, to get what was underneath. Young P.G.D.’ s trajectory described a graceful arc. One needed no directory to see just where he’d park. Now Pont had tried to warn Babs off. Perhaps she should have listened, But babe plopped in the water trough. Thus P.G.D. was Christened. Babs plucked him out with movement deft. She clutched him to her bosom. The midwife cried “He’s in the cleft. For Gods’ sake Babs, don’t lose him.” But P.G.D. had found his niche with Maude and Em as neighbours. As happy as an egg in quiche, he thanked Mom for her labours.

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Creemore Curling Club standings Daytime Team win-loss-tie Walker 6-3-0 Martens 6-3-0 Bell 5-3-1 Coulter 4-4-1 Loranger 3-6-0 McDougall 2-7-0 From the Hack: Final games for Session 2 were held on Monday. In the morning, Team Walker managed an easy win over Team Coulter, to go to the top of the standings. Team Loranger completed the session with a win over Team McDougall, propelling them out of the basement! In the afternoon, Team Bell needed a victory against Team Martens to secure the trophy, but fell well short of that goal, due to the superb shot-making from Gail, Karen, Marty and Bill. Both Walker and Martens finished with six wins, so the tie was broken by their head-to-head results. Congratulations go out to Joan, Colin, Al and Heather of Team Walker for winning the trophy! Good curling everyone!

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Culture and Sports Hall of Fame nominations open

Nominations for Clearview Township’s Culture and Sports Hall of Fame Awards are now open. “This is a great opportunity to highlight the hard work and dedication of our residents and community members for their excellence and achievements within culture and sports” explained Mayor Doug Measures. “It will be great to celebrate the positive impact that their involvement and influence has had on the Clearview

Township community”. The awards were created to honour individuals and groups who have made a positive impact on the sports and cultural community throughout the Township. The Hall of Fame Awards are divided into eight categories: Athlete, Builder, Team, Artist, Festival/Event, Community Volunteer, Young Leader (Culture) and Young Leader (Sport). CAO John Ferguson is pleased to

see the tradition continue after being shut down the past two years due to the pandemic, “The 2022 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place on Tuesday, June 14 at the Stayner Community Centre and will include the first time showing off the new location in the renovated Community Centre, a bright, modern and welcoming place to hang plaques and allow our residents and visitors to learn about the sports and culture organizations, individuals

and leaders that have been recognized in our community.” Nominations will be accepted until March 31. Nomination forms are available online at www.discoverclearview.ca/ hall-of-fame. Forms are also available at both the Creemore and Stayner Arenas, the Clearview Youth Centre, Clearview Public Library Branches, and the Clearview Administration Centre.

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ECHO Classifieds

THE CREEMORE ECHO • Friday,March 4, 2022 •

FOR SALE

THANK YOU

Submit your classified ad by 5 p.m. Tuesday call 705-466-9906, fax 705-466-9908, email info@ creemore.com, $17 + hst for 25 words or less

DEATH NOTICE

CREEMORE HILLS WINERY Wine for sale by appointment only. Pick-up or delivery. Call/Text 647-5888931, cmorrissey0708@icloud.com.

HELP WANTED

Northridge Metal Fab, in New Lowell is looking for SKILLED PRODUCTION MIG WELDERS & GENERAL LABOURERS, WET SPRAY PAINTERS for day shift and afternoon shift. Please email: dgroves@northridgemetal.com or dlangman@northridgemetal.com.

FOR RENT

Super cute APARTMENT in Creemore. Fully furnished, brand new and bright! One parking spot, heat and hydro included. One, three and six month rentals available starting April 1. No kids, no pets, First and last plus references required. Text 705-721-3646.

FOUND

One Reiker SHOE - black sandal found on Caroline St. W. Contact the Echo 705-466-9906. PORTABLE SPEAKER. Claim at Echo office.

SERVICES

ELLIOTT PAINTING AND DECORATING, over 30 years experience with excellent references. Interior and exterior painting and wallpapering. Call for free estimate at 705-466-2356. CONTRACTOR REPAIRS, restores, dismantles and jacks up farm buildings, homes, and cottages. Also roofing, siding, doors, windows, beams, posts, foundations, peers, cement work, fencing, eaves troughing, decks, docks installed, repaired, replaced. Contact Brian McCurdy, at 519-986-1781 or 519375-0958.

Thank you ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ The Family of Donald Wilson wish to thank everyone for their support with phone calls, emails, sympathy cards, beautiful floral arrangements, comfort foods and the many donations to the Collingwood General & Marine Hospital Foundation in Don's memory. Our Family would also like to acknowledge Don's brother's of the Manito Lodge #90, past and present co-workers of L.O.F Glass (Pilkington) and his many friends at Sunset Suites for their expressions of condolences. A special thank you to the emergency department staff, Dr. Richard Cornell & the Medical floor nurses for their care and kindness in our loss of a loving Husband, Father, Grandfather, Great Grandfather, Father-in-Law, Brother-in-Law & Uncle. Thank You to Andrew, Michael, Danielle & Jim of Fawcett Funeral Home for their professional care and guidance at a difficult time. Elsa, Paul, Linda, Donna, Robert & Families

EVENTS

Creemore Legion CORNED BEEF AND CABBAGE TAKE-OUT DINNER. Thursday, March 24. Menu: corned beef, cabbage, carrots potatoes, coleslaw, bun/butter, pie. $20 per person. Call 705-466-2330 to order and schedule pick up time between 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Order before March 17. Masks, social distancing, and exact change, please! The Legion thanks you for your support!

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WEATHERALL, Ada Marjorie (nee Metheral) passed away at the Owen Sound Hospital on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022 at the age of 78, after VEINOT, Mercedes Edith (nee a brave battle with cancer. The family Wentzell) February 13, 1944 - March would like to thank her healthcare 1, 2022. It is with heavy hearts we professionals for their dedicated, announce the passing of Mercedes empathetic support, including Dr. on Tuesday March 1, 2022, at Sandhu (Oncologist), Dr. Gibb (GP), Collingwood General and Marine Dr. Chapman (Palliative), and the Hospital. Beloved wife to Roy for VON. Ada was born in Creemore an amazing 57 years. Loving mother and raised in Dunedin, Ontario. to Darlene Trott (Edward) and She married in 1965 and raised two predeceased by her son Blair Roy children. Ada was known for her Veinot. Mercedes’s grandchildren quick laugh, loving spirit and strong meant the world to her. Brad, Lacie, will, as well as her unwavering CREEMORE ECHO • Friday, February Madeline, 1, 2008 • Courtney and Troy will dedication to family and friends. She treasure her love and kindness held a special place in her heart for always. Her “Greats” Olivia, Tyler, children and animals. Ada served as Mercedeys, Stella and lil Roy were Office Manager at Saugeen Shores truly the most amazing gifts of Police Service for over 22 years. everlasting love. Mercedes will be Some of her favourite pastimes were fondly remembered by her brother gardening, quilting, baking, crossMylon (Rose), her sister-in-law country skiing, biking and travel. Florence, nieces and nephews and her Ada was active in the community, good friend Monique. volunteering with Meals on Wheels The family would like to send special and serving as an elder and member thanks to Dr. Houston, Dr. Engell and of the Tolmie Presbyterian Church Dr. Pearce for your compassionate Women’s (PCW) group. Beloved wife and excellent care. Also, many thanks of Thomas Wayne Weatherall. Loving to the Creemore Medical staff for all mother to Sandra (Keith) Whitham your support. and Bradley (Michelle) Weatherall. A graveside service will be held in the Proud Nana of Matthew, Adam, and spring at Creemore Union Cemetery. Kadin. Remembered by her sisters, If desired memorial donations Jacquline (the late Stanley) Ritchie to CGMH or the Canadian Liver and Marilyn (Allan) Buie, and by her foundation would be appreciated. nieces and nephews. Predeceased by Friends may visit Mercedes’ her parents Sherlock and Marjorie online Book of Memories at www. Metheral. Cremation has taken place. fawcettfuneralhomes.com. A Graveside Service will be held 5 7 1 at a later date at Creemore Union 8 1 6 3 Cemetery followed by a Celebration of Life. If desired, memorial donations 7 may be made to the Canadian Cancer 2 7 Society or Tolmie Presbyterian 7 4 8 9 Church. Arrangements entrusted 6 5 to the Eagleson Funeral Home, Southampton. 3

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The team from All Peaceful St. Luke’s ( combining All Saints, Collingwood, Prince of Peace, Wasaga Beach, and St. Luke’s, Creemore) participated in the Coldest Night of the Year on Saturday raising almost $2,000 for Home Horizon in support of at-risk youth in Southern Georgian Bay. Tim Armour did them the honour of piping walkers down the main street to start their walk. Participants are Chris and Pat Raible (from left), Sandra Lackie, Lorna May, Maryann Stumpf and Rev. Sharon Johnstone, with Sheila Koss behind the camera.

Creedan Valley seeks humanitarian aid items for Ukraine

Across the province, more workers are joining the skilled trades as resources and industries in the north become part of the future of clean steel and electric vehicles. More jobs are being created by building new bridges and highways, expanding public transit and constructing new homes— all for a growing province. Home-grown businesses are manufacturing more of the things we rely on.

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Ontario is getting stronger

Creedan Valley Care Community staff is accepting donations of specific items in support of humanitarian aid in Ukraine in response to a call from the OLTCA (Ontario Long Term Care Association). The first round of donations will be delivered to the Ivan Franko Home in Mississauga on Sunday, where they will be packaged by volunteers and flown directly to the Ukraine. All donations will make a difference and the community’s support is appreciated. For more information, contact executive director Anna Urbanowicz

MARCH BREAK FUN

at La Cucina

CHEF KIDS

ALPINE FONDUE

March 14, 15 & 16, 3-5 pm $75 each or $190 for all three. Ages 7 to 12.

March 12 & 19, 6:30 pm $89 per person Panzanella, cheese fondue, steak & shrimp, dessert.

Experience

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Client/Brand: Ministry of Finance/Covid Recovery

705-466-3437. Items needed include: blankets; non-perishable food; medical supplies: syringes, gloves, gauze, masks etc.; protective military gear: tactical gloves and backpacks, helmets, bulletproof vests, knee pads; Celox medical products; warm socks, clothes, and footwear for men; thermal underwear; First Aid items and kits (no alcohol); cold medication; tapes and gauze; tents, sleeping bags and mats; candles and flashlights; AA and AAA batteries; tablets with cellular capability (used or any); water purification tablets.

Date: 2-9-2022 4:49 PM

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