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INVESTORS TAKE NOTE INSIDE 151 MILL ST. The Creemore AKA CREEMORE MEAT MARKET PLUS APARTMENT BUILDING MLS#40018368 Vicki Bell, Broker 154 Mill St.Creemore ECHO 705-446-4539 Trimming the Fat Friday, January 22, 2021 Vol. 21 No. 04 www.creemore.com Trail sports popular during pandemic LOCATIONS ORTH PAGE 7 BROKERAGE PERSONAL I PROFESSIONAL I PROGRESSIVE News and views in and around Creemore Publications Mail Agreement # 40024973 REAL ESTATE SERVICES Mother-daughter baking team take over Affairs by Trina Berlo were looking for a new business Norma Panzine knew it was time to cut venture having moved to Collingwood the apron strings but she was holding in September. out for just the right person to take over Carriere, a pastry chef, and Robbins, her bakery and café on Creemore’e a nutritionist, describe their first main street. exploratory trip into the village. Affairs Catering Bakery and Café “We were coming down into has evolved over several iterations Creemore and it was magical,” said into the quaint and cozy landmark Robbins. “We fell in love with the café that it is today. Affairs got its start bakery and discovered it was for sale.” at the Creemore Farmers’ Market in Both are outdoorsy and say they are 2002, the year after Panzine moved to all about experiences so they intend to Creemore. She started off by selling foster an environment of atmosphere bread, muffins and butter tarts – the tart and charm. selection would eventually include so They plan to serve the good, many flavours that there was cause for wholesome food that they love, made an annual bonanza. Staff photo: Trina Berlo with quality ingredients, to create a The first shop was located behind Jody Carriere (from left) and daughter Cortlin Robbins are taking over great overall experience to compliment Foodland, opening in 2003, and she Affairs Catering Bakery and Café fromNorma Panzine. They will be keeping Creemore’s existing charm. moved to Mill Street in 2006. Specialties some things the same and making changes to the business with the new With a Ukrainian and Polish grew to include coffee, sandwiches, name of Creemore Bakery. background, they do plan to include salads, and Friday night fish and chips. babka and other hand rolled pastries It has become a destination for in perspective,” she said. interesting offers on the business, but on the menu, in addition to the classics cyclists and other tourists, as well as a Luckily her husband is feeling better she was looking for someone who like New York black and white cookies, local favourite. but that was the impetus for the sale. wanted to carry on as a bakery. cheesecake and macarons. They are also When asked why she has decided to “It’s bittersweet,” said Panzine. She said after building a business for bouncing around ideas for specialty sell Panzine says she is getting close “Because I love what I do.” She said so long and putting her heart and soul workshops (such as gingerbread to 70 and when her husband fell ill last she will miss the interaction with the into it, it was important to her to find houses), high teas and game nights. winter, she decided it was time to make customers and mostly her wonderful a buyer who would provide a similar The name will be changing to a change. She started to get the business staff. service to the community. Creemore Bakery and Carriere and in order, preparing for the sale thinking “I really believe if it weren’t for the A match was found in mother- Robbins are hoping to reopen mid- that she may need to free up time to take staff I wouldn’t have been successful,” daughter duo Jody Carriere and February, but in what capacity will be on the role of caregiver for her husband. she said. Cortlin Robbins. dictated by public health measures. “Something like that really puts life Panzine said she received some Both say they are avid bakers and Affairs will close its doors on Jan. 23. Community halls included in future budget talks by Trina Berlo pay approximately an additional $53 in renovations to the halls, rather than Brentwood and Dunedin – depending Clearview council held a final workshop taxes this year. wait until in-person meetings will be on the level of accessibility, including on Jan. 13 to take one last look at the Clearview retains .51 cents of every permitted. fees for architectural, engineering, 2021 budget. dollar collected with the balance going Council will have to decide how to and project management, as well as The $42.6 million budget includes to the County of Simcoe, OPP, NVCA approach the costly renovations needed kitchen upgrades to become fire code $19.7 million in operating expenses and education. to render the halls compliant with compliant. and $22.9 million in capital expenses. No funds were added to the budget the Accessibility for Ontarians with Since then Clearview’s Accessibility With all the final growth numbers during the final workshop but council Disabilities Act. Should the halls be Advisory Committee has recommended incorporated, the net tax increase will did discuss the merits of future long- renovated? Should they be sold? an update to the Facility Accessibility be 1.59 per cent overall, and 3.3 per term budgeting. Council received an updated Design Standards (FADs) document cent for the Clearview portion alone. The discussion came around to engineer’s report in March estimating it and consider a phased in approach That means that someone with a home community halls. Council has decided would cost between $5.1 million and $8 when appraising the long-term plans assessed at $307,000 (the average to go ahead with virtual meetings million to renovate six halls – Avening, regarding hall renovations. The MPAC assessment for Clearview) will to plan for possible accessibility Sunnidale Corners, Nottawa, Duntroon, (See “Hall” on page 3) Collingwood Fuels Ltd. PROPANE FUEL DELIVERY • residential • furnace oil • commercial • diesel fuel • farm • gasoline CYLINDER REFILLS OIL FURNACE SALES & SERVICE 705-445-4430 • 1-800-553-5571 15 Stewart Road, P.O. Box 321, Collingwood, ON L9Y 3Z7 2 • THE CREEMORE ECHO • Friday, January 22, 2021 THE VILLAGE GREEN History in the Making space to retaining the building as commercial property. Later, a volunteer team consisting of community members engaged PFS On a blustery day in January 2018, a hundred fifty locals braved a Studio, landscape architects to transform the lands into a public, blizzard to crowd around tables at the Station on the Green and active, green space known as the Village Green. In late 2019, the consider the future of a piece of land in the heart of Creemore. Dancing Children sculpture and Horticultural Society’s garden plants were removed to temporary quarters. In January 2020, the A year earlier, the TD Bank announced it would be closing its bank building came down and, in June, construction began. Creemore branch. Naturally, villagers were dismayed at the news. But two area residents had an idea: to turn an empty A key consideration expressed at the four public meetings bank into a village treasure. Tony Arrell and Stuart Lazier lobbied over the past two years was that the Village Green honour the TD to donate the property to the village. Then they formed the history and culture of Creemore. As construction continues Creemore Community Foundation to realize their vision of a behind the Mill Street hoardings, the Foundation offers this public space that would benefit locals and attract visitors. preview of the ways the Village Green will be an enduring expression of Creemore’s past. In the words of Stuart Lazier: “You On that wintery day, the public considered options ranging spoke. And we listened.” from demolishing the building and expanding the current park The Sign One of the first things visitors and residents will see as they drive along Mill Street this summer is a sixteen-foot-high column topped with a replica of a locomotive’s green engine lamp. Designed by Shane Durnford, whose signs grace several Creemore businesses, the Village Green sign will be an invitation to visit Creemore’s newest public space. The column, with its Victorian ironwork, looks back to the 1850s and the role of the railroad in the village’s past. “I wanted” says Durnford, “to connect the past to the present.” Creemore Village Green Creemore Village Green Creemore Village creemore The Main Line history A central walkway—the Main Line—will run on a diagonal from the park’s entrance to the Station on the Green, representing the path of railway tracks that once bisected the village. Embedded in the stone promenade are nine black granite paving stones, spaced to mimic railway ties, each inscribed with a detail of Creemore’s chronology from the Ice Age to the present. Conceived by a group of village elders, these stones create a walk through history, honouring Indigenous creemore people and early settlers and noting recent events such as the amalgamation of Creemore into history Clearview Township in 1993 and the construction of the Station on the Green in 2002. The Cenotaph Walk On the park’s south side, a second diagonal walkway will lead from the centre of the Village Green and point to the Cenotaph and, beyond it, to the library, the Log Cabin, and North America’s smallest jail. Along this path, a wooden bench with a view of the Caroline Street cenotaph will invite visitors to sit and contemplate the village’s fallen soldiers. The bench will bear this verse, written by Creemore’s poet laureate, Tim Armour: Look you upon our cenotaph As on this bench you pause, And say a prayer on their behalf Who gave all for our cause.

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