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SpringwaterDISPOSAL News • June BIN 25, RENTALS 2020 • Edition • 705-733-BINS 576 • 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! Take out and delivery 705 322 2249 • [email protected] PATIOS are OPEN Front & Back 23 Queen St. W. Elmvale 705 322 2652 Detached homes in www.SpringwaterNews.ca Detachedthe heart Customer # 0003684814 / Publication/Admail # 0040027838 homesof Elmvale. in the heart of REGISTERElmvale. Your Locally Owned Community Newspaper REGISTERONLINE ONLINENOW NOW Edition 576 - June 25, 2020 Next Issue July 9 • Deadline is Mon. July 6 greenmeadowselmvale.comgreenmeadowselmvale.com Elmvale & District Food Bank Receives a Grant from Lieutenant Governor’s Canada Day message the Huronia Community Foundation Happy Canada Day, Ontario! Today is a day worthy of celebration, even as, in common with citizens around the globe, we continue to face a crisis virtually unknown to living generations. The world has been turned on its head. My first thoughts are with those who have succumbed to COVID-19, and their families. The stories of the last few months tell of hardship and inequality. They have exposed weaknesses in the economic and social systems upon which we rely, and have confirmed our interdependence with those beyond our neighbourhoods and our country. We grieve collectively. But in equal measure, we are witnessing empathy, collaboration, creativity, and courage. Deserving of special gratitude are the many frontline workers who are bravely leading us through this crisis, and also the millions of people across Ontario, especially seniors, who are, at great personal cost, doing the right thing and staying home to prevent the spread of the virus. Scott Warnock, Executive Director of the Huronia Community Foundation presents We see all orders of government working in common cause, making evidence-based a cheque to Jan Drinkill, Chair of the Elmvale & District Food Bank Board of decisions; businesses and industries demonstrating ingenuity as they retool; civil society Directors. empowered by digital tools to nurture cohesive communities; scientists and researchers The Elmvale & District Food Bank received a grant from the Huronia Community racing with single focus to develop a vaccine; and arts and cultural organizations, in Foundation (HCF) for the purchase of a computer and printer for the Food Bank’s solidarity and kindness, bringing moments of awe and wonder into our homes. new home that is currently under construction on Yonge Street North in Elmvale. There is an unmistakable hunger for normalcy. As we all do our part in the coming The HCF provides grants to local charities based on the needs of the community. months to envision what a “better normal” could be, let us dare to dream of a world that This year the granting process focused on the vulnerable population that have been works for everyone. Perhaps the first step is to listen to those who are hurting and to engage impacted by Covid-19. “We applied for a grant to purchase a computer and printer in thoughtful and respectful conversations about what we have learned and what needs to that will be used to assist with the processing of our clients” said Jan Drinkill, change. Chair of the Food Bank. “We will be purchasing the computer and printer locally As Her Majesty The Queen’s representative in Ontario, I pay tribute to Indigenous people at G&S Computers. We were so happy to receive the grant and thank the Huronia who have stewarded these lands for thousands of years and countless generations. There is Community Foundation for their generosity”. inspiration in the special relationship between First Peoples and the Crown. May we also pay attention to people from all walks of life, including those marginalized and impoverished, Midhurst Carson Road who continue to raise their voices in support of social and economic justice. We all deserve Since the plan for the Midhurst Carson Road development was first proposed in to live with dignity. 2007 it has been refined, modified and improved. The subdivision plans were Throughout this journey, I have been reassured and inspired by you, the people of Ontario. first approved by the Ontario Municipal Board in 2014 by settlement with the Together you have demonstrated uncommon generosity of spirit and an exceptional drive Township of Springwater, the County of Simcoe, Nottawasaga Valley Conservation for resilience. Authority and all Provincial agencies. Ours is a caring nation. It is together that we will save lives and livelihoods. This is a On June 17th, 2020, Springwater Council granted permission for site alteration to once-in-a-generation opportunity. And that is why, in the midst of adversity, we celebrate begin. This site alteration stage commences as a next step in preparing the site the promise of Canada. for development. This phase includes the stripping of topsoil, and earthworks cut Elmvale Lions Complete their Food for Frontline Workers Program With the funds made available to the District through an emergency grant by Lions Club International Foundation in support of front line health care workers, local fundraising and support from Carol and Mark Treating You Like Family Since 1983 at MacDonald’s Restaurant Elmvale, Lions have been able Call for Professional Advice to deliver snacks of appreciation Barrie: 705-726-2551 Orillia: 705-326-5664 Colin Marshall [email protected] to the front line workers at the Sara Vista Nursing Home in Elmvale over the last few months. Thanks go out to the Automobile Residential Business Farm Recreational community and to the Front Line Workers for their dedication www.wmib.ca during these extraordinarily challenging times. Page 2 Springwater News • June 25, 2020 • Edition 576 • E-mail: [email protected] • www.springwaternews.ca I started recording the predicted weather just to see how accurate the forecasters are. I used the weather.com app Jordan Carson that I have on my phone. I actually had three apps that did Master Electrician the same thing (predicted the weather) but I deleted two because I was wasting time comparing one to another. Springwater News On Friday, June 12, the long range for Sunday, June 21st 1087 Rainbow Valley Road 9 Glenview Avenue (summer) was a predicted high of 22 and low of 12. Phelpston, ON L0L 2K0 On June 13 it had increased to 24 and 12 Elmvale ON L0L 1P0 [email protected] On June 15 it had increased to 27 and 17. Publisher/Editor/Owner: Michael and Margaret Ann Jacobs On June 17 it was 29 and 17. 705.717.8767 Tel: 705 322-2249 • Cell: 705 321-BOLD (2653) On June 18, it was to be 31 and 16. e-mail: [email protected] On the day of June 21, it was predicted to be 30 and 17. ECRA/ESA # 7011405 The actual weather that day was 33 and 17. www.springwaternews.ca Issuu.com/springwaternews Most every day, it predicted clouds and lightning. We Articles can be dropped off, mailed Editor’s Musings ended the day after having experienced sun, clouds, and/or e-mailed to the above address or left in the Margaret Ann and moi have at least five reasons (son, lightning and almost 15 mm of rain. Elmvale Library ‘Drop Box’ 24 hours a day. daughter-in-law and three very wonderful grand-children) Monday, as I write this, the first prediction was for 22 and THE NEXT PAPER will be on July 9, 2020. 13, then as the week progressed it was predicted to be as Publications Mail Contract No. 1443739. to go back to Hamillville. (If you have never been there, Unaddressed Admail No. 3684814. the old steel bridge is still standing although the contract much as 28 and today, it predicts 27 high and 18. I wonder if the weather.com app is hooked to some The paper is printed by McLaren Press in Bracebridge said it is to be gone by June 30th.) When heading back Springwater News is published every two weeks and delivered home, we often saw the signs about Lemonade and ice computer program which calculates what might happen. Within hours, the prediction for Tuesday went from 26 to 27 by Canada Post and available at newsstands throughout the areas cream and wondered where it was. Then one day, we were mentioned below. The opinions expressed in articles contributed and then to 25. (It is now Tuesday - high predicted of 23.) driving on the 12th concession of Sunnidale (the west end by interested parties and through the ‘Letters to the Editor’ do of Flos Road 4 West) when we saw the signs and there on Canada Day is predicted to be 29 and 18 with a little not necessarily reflect the opinion of this newspaper and/or the the south side of the road (3829) a couple of kilometers cloud and sun...let’s see what it really turns out to be. editor. The editor reserves the right to edit all submitted articles west of Hamillville we saw the little red stand. or letters for clarity and space or to avoid obscenity, libel or Last Friday, we stopped. The government passed a law (Bill 156) which said that invasion of privacy. All contributions must have the writer’s full Initially, it was to be for a soft ice cream cone $2 and a no one could trespass on your farm - and some people are name, address and telephone number for verification. Copyrights lemonade $2 and by the time we left, we had two cones, upset about it. are claimed on all original articles.