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SpringwaterDISPOSAL News • BIN May RENTALS 14, 2020 • • Edition 705-733-BINS 573 • Phone (2467) 705 .322.2249 • www.clarksonbins.com Cell: 705.321.2653 Location of my desk: 44.5864°N - 79.8659°W • Altitude: 224 meters! 4944 kms to Equator • 14,894 kms to South Pole • 5110 kms to North Pole Open 7 Days a Week! [email protected] Take out and delivery 705 322 2249 • NOW AVAILABLE! 23 Queen St. W. Elmvale 705 322 2652 Shop Elmvale www.SpringwaterNews.ca Customer # 0003684814 / Publication/Admail # 0040027838 Your Locally Owned Community Newspaper 2236 Cty Rd 92/Crossland Rd. We deliver if within 12 min 705 322 0502 Edition 573 - May 14, 2020 Next Issue May 28 • Deadline is Mon. May 25. [email protected] World Famous Dock Lunch Restaurant shows Elmvale District Lions Club News GBGH their Business Cares! Club House Improvements Continue As we move through these difficult times, your Lions club has been quite active. Above is a photo of our clubhouse with a new roof. This comes courtesy of George Begley of the Elmvale Home Building Center. George is a stalwart supporter of our club and we are truly grateful for all his continued support. With the additions of our gateway pillars supplied by Kevin Faye of Hardship Acres Landscaping, another great supporter of Lions, we are now modernized both inside and out. When the fog of COVID lifts we urge the public to come out for a drive to take a look and certainly to consider renting From left: Cindy Robitaille, Danielle Mestre, Johnny, Meaghan Sykes and Nick our venue for various celebrations. There are horseshoe pits, Boudouris from The World Famous Dock Lunch Restaurant. swing sets and a nature pond all on 10 groomed acres so th On Friday, April 24 , the World Famous Dock Lunch restaurant in Penetanguishene there is something of every one. hosted Front-Line Friday to honour healthcare workers and raise funds for Georgian With the support of Lions International, MacDonald’s Bay General Hospital. Through the sale of special meal deals, restaurant owners Restaurant Elmvale and our own fundraising we have Nick & Marina Boudouris donated $1,000 to the GBGH Foundation. been able to deliver snacks of appreciation to the front line “We are happy to be able to give back in some way during these uncertain times,” workers at the Sara Vista Nursing Home in Elmvale for 16 says Nick. “Our hospital is a vital part of the community, especially during a global days over a five week period. Our volunteers pick these up pandemic, and we want to do our part to make sure they have what they need to care at predetermined times and take them over. Thanks to Lion for everyone who comes through their doors. There are so many local businesses Jennifer Reibidoux for her organizational skills as well as stepping up to help the hospital, and it really makes us feel like we are all in this the members who deliver them especially the 6:15 AM ones! together.” The club would also like to recognize the efforts of This is not the first time GBGH has benefitted from the Boudouris Family’s Lion Eileen Cooke for her mask making endeavours. With generosity. In December, the GBGH Foundation’s Giving Tuesday campaign raised support of materials from Image Dental Labs and Hummingbird Sewing Center who kept $26,500 to purchase patient slings, in part thanks to a $10,000 matching gift from her machine in working order, Eileen has raised $1000 through sales of these masks and the Nick & Marina Boudouris. proceeds will be forwarded to the Elmvale Food Bank. Way to go Eileen! “Nick & Marina are an amazing example of a Business Cares Partner for the To the left is a photo of Foundation,” says Nicole Kraftscik, executive director, GBGH Foundation. “They our Truck Draw Ticket are always looking for ways to give back, and support our hospital in whatever way for 2020. As you all will they can. Even though their business has changed with all the physical distancing acknowledge it’s going to requirements, they are still finding ways to honour our hospital.” be a particularly difficult Fifty new patient slings, purchased through the Giving Tuesday campaign, arrived year for many folks. In th at GBGH on April 9 . Various types and sizes of slings will provide patients recent years we have throughout the hospital with the ability to get out of bed to take a bath or shower, realized approximately move into a wheelchair so they can become mobile again, or help a stroke patient $60,000 from this initiative begin to take the first steps toward recovery. which has been invested in a broad range of financial support for local improvements, individuals as well as groups and clubs. You will have seen and us out and about with the truck at various events and locations. Due to COVID, we are severely hampered this year. These activities represented a very large percentage of our total tickets sales. But fear not! You need not miss out on an opportunity, or two, to get your tickets. Apart from helping others, there is a chance to win a shiny new Ford F150 Pickup supplied by Bourgeois Motors. These make great greeting card stuffers as well so please help us help others and get a ticket on line at www.elmvalelions.ca or from any Lion Member. Respectfully, Lion Rick Webster Supporting Springwater Frontline Workers Treating You Like Family Since 1983 Crystal Sands Catering with the support of Snow Valley Ski Resort is stepping up to provide lunches to support frontline workers in Springwater Township. Their goal is to create Call for Professional Advice and have ‘safe delivery’ of meals for those who continue to work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Barrie: 705-726-2551 Orillia: 705-326-5664 Residents can show their support and say thank you by making a $15 donation, which will help provide a delicious meal for a frontline or essential worker. Owned and operated by Peter and Lisa Hanney, Crystal Sands Catering has been operating Colin Marshall [email protected] in Springwater for 30 years. “We love this community, we love the people in it and we want to do what we can to give back during this challenging time,” says Peter. “When we thought about what we might be able to do to help, we turned to our passion which is preparing delicious meals. The people who are on the frontlines working day in and day out to ensure the safety of everyone in our community, from the firefighters to the caregivers at Sara Vista Long Term Care, to the Automobile Residential Business Farm Recreational grocery clerks at Foodland and the volunteers at the Elmvale Food Bank, everyone is pulling together to help out. This is one way that we can all give back and say thank you!” For anyone that wishes to donate, Peter and Lisa would love for you to include a message www.wmib.ca of encouragement for frontline workers. For additional information or to make a donation online visit: www.crystalsandscatering.com Page 2 Springwater News • AMay 14, 2020 • Edition 573 • E-mail: [email protected] • www.springwaternews.ca as the Executive Producer, he never appears in it or speaks through out the show. I would think the name Michael Jordan Carson Moore who has a net worth of over $50 million is used Master Electrician just to draw people’s attention much the same as names like Bill Gates and other rich celebrities are used just to Springwater News attract your attention. 1087 Rainbow Valley Road 9 Glenview Avenue Planet of the Humans is 100 minutes long. It is free on Phelpston, ON L0L 2K0 YouTube until May 22nd https://www.youtube.com/ Elmvale ON L0L 1P0 [email protected] watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE. It is about green energy and Publisher/Editor/Owner: Michael and Margaret Ann Jacobs takes significant pokes at renewables and some prominent 705.717.8767 Tel: 705 322-2249 • Cell: 705 321-BOLD (2653) environmentalists. e-mail: [email protected] The director Jeff Gibbs calls himself a tree hugger but ECRA/ESA # 7011405 exposes the hypocrisy of some of the participants. An www.springwaternews.ca Issuu.com/springwaternews example is were they released an electric car. The power Articles can be dropped off, mailed Editor’s Musings came from the grid that was 95% charged thru coal and/or e-mailed to the above address or left in the I received information about the COVID 19 assessment burning. He showed a football field of solar panels that Elmvale Library ‘Drop Box’ 24 hours a day. THE NEXT PAPER will be on May 28, 2020. centre in Barrie. would supply only 10 homes. He showed the clear cutting of trees to make way for wind energy. Publications Mail Contract No. 1443739. 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