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ECHO 705-446-4539 Join Team Terry Friday, May 28, 2021 Vol EWING ROAD The Creemore INSIDE SINGHAMPTON Just under two acres Backs onto the Mad River OFFERED FOR $795K Vicki Bell, Broker 154 Mill St.Creemore ECHO 705-446-4539 Join Team Terry www.creemore.com Friday, May 28, 2021 Vol. 21 No. 22 Terry Fox Run seeks new organizer LOCATIONS ORTH PAGE 6 BROKERAGE PERSONAL I PROFESSIONAL I PROGRESSIVE News and views in and around Creemore Publications Mail Agreement # 40024973 REAL ESTATE SERVICES Creemore residents continues long-time Walk for Alzheimer's campaign Matthew Vorstermans is continuing his Alzheimer fundraising efforts and will be participating in the second-ever virtual broadcast on Sunday, May 30. He is hoping to collect $5,450 but just like last year, due to safety protocols, he will not be going around to collect donations in person. You can assist by either mailing him a cheque or following these easy steps to contribute online: Google Walk for Alzheimer’s 2021 Simcoe County; choose home-IG Wealth Management Walk for Alzheimer’s; click “sponsor a walker” at the top of the page; type in Matthew Vorstermans; click on where it’s highlighted and underlined, and you’ll be taken to his personal page. Liz Eakins photo Legion serves chicken James and Gray Bruer install a collage of artwork created by NCPS students at the Village Green. and rib take-out June 10 is the deadline to place an Students show vision for Village Green order for the Chicken & Rib Take-Out Dinner being prepared by Creemore by Trina Berlo they would like to see and do there. been posted on the NCPS Facebook, Legion on June 17 With construction paused at the Village “I enthusiastically agree that this Instagram and Twitter pages and The dinner includes chicken leg and Green site there was concern within would be a great initiative our school McCain said the feedback has been ribs, corn, baked potato, bun and butter, the Creemore Community Foundation would enjoy being involved in and I extremely positive. with strawberry rhubarb pie for dessert, that the project had lost visibility, said presented it to the staff and student body Mann said he is encouraged by all for $20 per person. member Bill Mann, who began looking as a school-wide art project for the month the excitement about the project, as Call 705-466-2330 to order and for ways to build enthusiasm through the of February,” said NCPS principal it hopefully indicated that the goal of schedule pick-up time between 4:30 winter and spring. Mark McCain… “I was immediately engaging both youth and their parents p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Bring exact change. Mann was tasked with coming up met with curiosity and excitement. Our has been achieved. Masks must be worn and social with outreach projects, in consultation students were very excited to create “The result was worth all the effort distancing is in effect. with others in the community. something that reminded the community that was put into it,” said Mann. “One of the things we concluded was that we were still here and working hard The pandemic has delayed Stayner Garden Club that people who were going to have during this unusual time.” construction of the new park space, the most use of the Village Green over With the whole school on board, 240 mainly due to delivery of goods and plant sale June 5 time will be the folks who are currently individual drawings were completed to services, said Creemore Community The Stayner Garden Club is holding children and we really hadn’t, as an form parts of a large installation. Foundation member Stuart Lazier. a Plant Sale in the parking lot at the organization, involved younger folks Each student was supplied an eight- He said everything is going well but it Stayner Arena on Saturday, June 5. in any of the deliberations around the by-eight inch piece of paper which, is taking longer and therefore timelines The club is promising a great selection Village Green,” said Mann. once completed, were then scanned and have changed, and costs are higher. of perennials. Hoping to tap into the imaginations printed on weather resistant material and The park will not be done in time for The sale is from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., or of local children, an invitation went out have since been artfully installed on the summer, but hopefully by late August until supplies last. to Nottawasaga and Creemore Public hoarding around the construction site or early September, said Lazier, which The Stayner Arena is located at 269 School (NCPS) to participate in an art by James Bruer, Liz Eakins and their means that Christmas is the earliest there Regina St. project challenging them to create a son Gray. The work is arranged in class may be planned events in the space and Covid-19 protocols will be in place, drawing or piece of artwork showing groupings to spell out ‘Creemore.’ that the grand opening is pushed back including masks and physical distancing. how they might use the park or what Examples of the artwork have to spring. Cash only please. Collingwood Fuels Ltd. 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Cette épreuve est utilisée à des fins de mise en page seulement.X THE CREEMORE ECHO • Friday, May 28, 2021 • 3 Health Unit supports back-to-school, re-opening by Trina Berlo of vaccine and with youth 12-17 about the vaccines and be involved in time remaining in the school year, An increase in the number of people recently given the go-ahead for the the decision making process in order saying that transmission was never who are eligible for COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine, that percentage is on to be able to give informed consent. very high within schools and that the vaccines and a steady reduction in the rise. “I would certainly encourage all benefits outweigh the risks. cases has helped Simcoe Muskoka As of Wednesday more than 2,000 people who are eligible to book “We feel ready and we feel it’s District Health Unit feel more of those youth had received their first and receive immunization,” said important that children need to return prepared for a re-opening of the jab, with an additional 9,000 having Gardner. “We’ve got excellent to school,” he said. economy and a return to school. booked an appointment. Gardner uptake. This certainly bodes well for For those who received AstraZeneca “We continue to move in the right said, as per provincial direction, there us, if it continues, to achieve herd as their first dose, there will be an direction,” said medical officer of is now a push to prioritize those youth immunity… to avoid a fourth wave.” opportunity to get a second dose, health Dr. Charles Gardner. and their adult family members who For these reasons, Gardner said tapping into existing provincial So far, 59 per cent of adults in have not been vaccinated. he supports a return to in-person supplies. Gardner said other options the region have received a first dose He encourages youth to be educated learning for the limited amount of for second doses may be forthcoming. Second dose appointments available for those immunized prior to March 17 Anyone who received their first prior to March 17 and did not have in the provincial booking system one, will need to wait until the single COVID-19 immunization at one of a second dose appointment. Those for community clinics, but either dose booking functionality has been the health unit’s community clinics who received their first dose after need to change their second dose added to the provincial booking prior to March 17 and does not have March 17 and don’t have a second appointment; were called in off system targeted to be available for a second dose appointment can now dose appointment need to wait until the standby list to receive their the end of May. book their second dose appointment the provincial system allows second dose earlier than their first dose For more information about on the Simcoe Muskoka District doses booking. If the system has not appointment and now need to re- COVID-19 and who is eligible for Health Unit website. been updated, SMDHU will email book their second dose appointment; an appointment, please visit our This system is only for those who those eligible with instructions. have cancelled their second dose COVID-19 pages at www.smdhu. received their first immunization Those who originally booked appointment and need to book a new org. G&M Hospital resumes non-urgent surgeries, procedures As new COVID cases, activities on April 12 in order to hospitalizations and ICU admissions preserve critical care and human have begun trending downward, resource capacity across the province.
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