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by Trina Berlo New Lowell United Church will celebrate its 150th anniversary this month with a community dinner and commemorative service. Organizers say the events will be a great time to remember and reminisce. “It is a honour for our current congregation to continue to walk in the steps of the faithful people that started a church in the community of New Lowell in 1873,” said Rose Cambourne, chair of the board of stewards. “From its humble beginnings of a small wooden structure, to surviving a devastating fire in 1909, and then the re-building of the brick building to our accessible renovations in 2016, we are striving to be faithful servants of Jesus Christ in our part of the world.” The church’s history begins in the early 1870s when Mary Hay, wife of Robert Hay, who co-founded Jacques and Hay, a Toronto furniture manufacturer (1835-1872) that accessed timber at New Lowell, began championing the construction of a Presbyterian Church. Mary Hay died in childbirth before construction, but the church was named the Mary Kirk in her honour, with kirk
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The congregation at New Lowell United Church (photographed a few years ago) is welcoming the community to join in the 150th anniversary celebrations. being the Scots word for church. According to Sunnidale Looks at Yesterday, A History of Sunnidale Township, the church was first officially dedicated on July 5, 1874. “The event was cause for celebration In New Lowell,” it reads. “Robert Hay chartered
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a special railway car from Toronto and filled it with friends who generously donated to the church. In fact the church received enough money, including a $1,000 endowment from Robert Hay, that it was left with no worries.” (See “New Lowell” on page 3)
A large police presence on Highway 26 near Wasaga Beach last week was the result of an investigation after human remains were located in the area. On May 24, at approximately 3:30 p.m., members of Huronia West OPP received information that suspected human remains were located by members of a land surveying company who were working in the area off Highway 26, in the Town of Wasaga Beach. The investigation is being conducted by the Huronia West OPP Crime Unit, with assistance from the OPP Forensic Identification Services, the Office of the Chief Coroner, and a Forensic Anthropologist. The remains have since been confirmed to be human remains. A postmortem examination will be conducted to identify the remains and determine a cause of death. Investigators believe there is no threat to public safety.
Dancing, Madison Violet at solstice event by Trina Berlo The annual Summer Solstice party is coming up, celebrating the longest day of the year with dancing, music, food and drink on Creemore’s main street. The festivities begin on Friday, June 16 with line dancing from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The community is invited to come for an intro to line dancing with instructor Hope Bell Young, who has been leading a group that has been meeting Fridays at Station on the Green since January. Summer Solstice committee co-chair Linda deWinter, of Creemore 100 Mile Store, said the session is not a demonstration or a performance and that
participation is highly encouraged. The caller will teach participants the steps each dance, which are then repeated as the whole group changes direction. After the line dancing ends at 6:30 p.m. there will be a performance by the Creemore Drumming Collective. At 7:30 p.m. headliners Madison Violet will take to the stage at Creemore Village Green for a free concert. DeWinter said she saw Madison Violet perform a few times in Europe and was pleasantly surprised to learn they are Canadian and thought they'd be a great fit for the Solstice party. Madison Violet – the Juno nominated duo, with Lisa MacIsaac and Brenley
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MacEachern – has released more than 10 albums, with their latest, Eleven being considered their most candid album to date, filled with deeply personal stories of love and loss. “The pair, who grew up on rural Cape Breton Island, came together musically in the late 1990s, over many evenings in Brenley’s grandmother’s kitchen, which was always bursting with food, family, friends, and instruments,” states their website. “Influenced by their maritime heritage, the east coast musicians began creating music together that had roots firmly planted in their past, but with contemporary and modern elements generously overlaid. Categorizing
Madison Violet’s music is an impossible task, in that one can hear elements of folk, singer-songwriter, pop, indie, bluegrass, and country flawlessly interwoven throughout.” On June 16, the community is invited to bring a picnic or purchase food in town and partake in a community picnic on the green and at picnic tables set up on the closed portion of the road between Caroline Street and the park. There will be a cash bar selling wine, Creemore Springs beer, cider from Duntroon Cyder House, Lost Meadows mead and pre-mixed cocktails. The event is hosted by Creemore BIA and Creemore Village Green.
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