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PERSONAL I PROFESSIONAL I PROGRESSIVE News and views in and around Creemore Publications Mail Agreement # 40024973 REAL ESTATE SERVICES New CAO terminated from county job in Nova Scotia by Trina Berlo for a community that had a mixture of statutory responsibilities but I also have Clearview Township has hired the rural and urban, and that’s exactly what the perspective of a councillor and what highly Googleable John Ferguson I feel Clearview is like.” the community expects of councillors.” as its new chief administrative officer He has been working in government He said it helps him to see both sides (CAO). since taking his first job with his home of the process of bringing community Ferguson was terminated as CAO of city of Saint John in 1990, after a one- ideas to the table and allowing the Annapolis County in Nova Scotia in and-a-half-year stint on the teacher administration to move forward with December following the fall election. supply list. Ferguson said he was the initiatives that council approves. A quick search turns up dozens of then recruited by the province to be a “The vividness that a councillor articles relating to a number of contract municipal recreation consultant for the experiences is often far more vivid than disputes, developments and court Fundy region. the administration because they get the proceedings past and present. Ferguson went on to serve as CAO immediate either praise or negative Ferguson told The Echo that the for the Town of St. Stephen in New feedback, from whatever may occur.” termination was discussed openly Brunswick before going to Annapolis he said. “Often matters are much more during the hiring process with Clearview County. of an urgent nature to a councillor and council, but declined to comment to He also served a four-year term as a I felt that when I was a councillor so I media due to ongoing legal proceedings. council member in Saint John, where understand it and it allows me, I think, He said he could not discuss the John Ferguson in 2012, Ferguson was in the news to work well with councillors.” conditions of his termination, except to when he won a five-year legal battle Ferguson said he has done a lot of say it was without cause. with the Saint John pension board community development work during A hiring announcement issued thorough and results driven.” which had accused him of defamation his career, working with not-for-profits, by Clearview Township said, “the Council delegated the recruitment for criticizing the management of the sport and recreation governing bodies recruitment committee was consistently process to an outside firm that presented city’s pension fund during his time on and individuals. impressed with his strategic thinking, a shortlist of candidates for in-person council. “You deal with a lot of different creativity and understanding of interviews at the Stayner arena on Feb. When asked about his experience people and, no matter what you are the role... John brings a breadth of 25. on both sides of the council table, dealing with, there’s always a little bit experience and has demonstrated a When asked, “Why Clearview?” Ferguson said, “I have the perspective of politics involved. It’s interesting leadership style that is collaborative, Ferguson told The Echo, “I was looking of administration as it relates to all the (See “Annapolis” on page 2) Request to sever surplus lot draw support from farmers by Trina Berlo Working on behalf of the Pattons landlords and it allows for the dwelling this isn’t allowed to happen because A proposed change to land use rules planner Jamie Robinson, of MHBC to be maintained,” said Robinson. you take that house off of the farm and in Clearview Township would allow Planning, said the amendment would The Pattons have severed a surplus you are going to make money off of it farmers to sever a surplus dwelling facilitate a consent application to allow dwelling in Essa Township and are tax-wise as a residence,” she said. even if they don’t own abutting lands. for a surplus dwelling application. working on one in Adjala-Tosorontio. Brian Dunlop, of Dunlogon Farms, A public meeting was held March He said Clearview’s Official Plan, “If this wasn’t allowed, you can wrote in support of the application. 8 for an Official Plan amendment and was approved in 2002 and since then, imagine, we would have a collection of “Farmers typically do not want to zoning bylaw amendment application there have been significant changes to houses,” Martha told The Echo. “Yes, be landlords of residential housing,” filed byJim and Martha Patton. provincial policy, which are reflected we don’t want to be landlords. You can wrote Dunlop. “Because we have not The Pattons operate an Everett-based in the County of Simcoe Official Plan, appreciate how a rented house is treated been able to sever I have demolished broiler chicken breeding and cash crop approved in 2018. Both support surplus versus an owned property so we don’t three houses in Clearview Township operation, and own or rent farmland farm dwelling severances, as long as no want to see these houses go to waste or since 2008. These houses all could in four area townships, including future residential uses are permitted on be destroyed.” have been severed, all could have Clearview where they own five parcels. the retained parcel of farmland. She said they do have homes that they had improvements, all would have The topic prompted area farmers to What happens is that as farmers rent and have had good experiences generated tax dollars for the township.” comment, mostly in favour, of allowing expand and purchase parcels of land, with tenants but even then, it is a lot Dunlop said currently, the only for the severance of surplus dwelling they may include existing dwellings. of work to manage and not an integral other option really is to rent, because lots with a habitable farmhouse, that “These applications are also designed part of their large farming operation. insurance companies frown upon a could then be sold off. so that farmers don’t need to be “To us, it doesn’t make sense that (See “Goal” 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, March 19, 2021 Annapolis County bogged down in expensive litigation (Continued from page 1) how it unfolds and how do you get people working together with competing interests in order to move the community forward,” he said. According to Nova Scotia news reports, Annapolis County has been mired in several controversies in recent years relating to the construction of a waste transfer station and a related contract with a regional waste management provider. The county is facing charges from the Department of Environment in connection with the construction of a waste transfer station. Other costly controversies relate to an internet project contract and the construction of a prestigious private school. CBC News reported in January that Annapolis’ outgoing council met three times after the Oct. 17 municipal election, when the warden and half of the council were ousted, and passed a motion regarding lands for the development of the Gordonstoun School before the new councillors were sworn in on Nov. 10. The current council is looking to the courts to rescind The current Annapolis County council voted to take a vote made in the final week's of the outgoing that motion. council's term, involving a lease agreement and the conveyance of Nova Scotia property for the Council had purchased property for “the sole development of the Gordonstoun private school, to the Supreme Court in order to have it rescinded. purpose of developing the Gordonstoun Nova Scotia project” and had advanced the developer $1.8 million. He said they started asking questions and filing live within the municipality. Ferguson and the municipality's solicitor were both freedom of information requests but could not get any “On behalf of council, staff, and the residents of terminated by December. answers or find a paper trail about decisions made in Clearview, I would like to congratulate John Ferguson A 1,000-member group going by the name camera, which was often. on his appointment as the Township of Clearview’s Annapolis Concerned Citizens formed two years ago to “There was deals being made that the public wasn’t new chief administrative officer,” said Mayor Doug call on county staff and council to be more transparent consulted on, that was definitely not on the up-and-up,” Measures in a news release, “John has a wealth of about deals that were taking place behind closed doors. said Sabean. “Our county was so covered by litigation municipal experience and knowledge and will bring “We saw things happening, financially, with our in the last two to three years, it just got out of control.” a consistent, forward-thinking leadership style to county that we were not onboard with,” said president Ferguson is relocating from Nova Scotia in time to this role. Council is excited to work with him on Adam Sabean. “We would voice our opinions to our start his new job on March 31. He said he isn’t sure advancing the Township’s priorities and building on council and we would definitely get no answers back.” where his family will settle, but he said he hopes to our successes.”

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Call today for a quote or appointment 705-466-9950 [email protected] | www.AutoSolve.ca 4 • THE CREEMORE ECHO • Friday, March 19, 2021 Feedback and old photos welcome [email protected] call 705-466-9906 OPINION &Feedback fax 705-466-9908 COLUMN THE WAY WE WERE Creemore in the 1940s: Part 7 by Gerry Blackburn Moving south down Mill Street was a garage operated by a Leonard Hill, who had a Pontiac franchise and sold a lot of 1939 Pontiacs. The building was rather dilapidated, having been built originally by Jack Laurence when he sold model T Fords. It was replaced by Nelson Corby in the 1950s but is now vacant. South of that was an empty lot. The Bank of Montreal was in the north half of the next building but closed in the 1940s and it was empty for some years. The south half was the Post Office for many years before moving to 176 Mill Street. The entire building is now occupied by Victorian Values. To the south, at 122 Mill St. the present Curiosity House Books, has been used for, many things, Creemore House of Stitches, an egg grading station, a doughnut shop, a private dwelling, and probably more. There still is a vacant lot between it and the corner. Across Edward Street, the present Mitchell Apartments originally was a wagon and buggy manufacturing business but by the early 1940s was an automobile repair garage and later a machine shop operated by Charles Joyce. The small building at the end of the street was a blacksmith shop built and operated by Raymond Parry, but closed in the Creemore Continuation School, 1936. Photo submitted by Lynne Egerdee. late 1940s. Having covered the retail businesses in Creemore we should now look at the manufacturing businesses. The first that comes to mind was Peter LETTER Thomson & Sons Planing Mill. It was located on the south side of Francis Street, were the mini-mall is If you plant it, It today. They produced pine sash, windows, and doors, mainly for use in local homes and Base Borden during This is my attempt to the 1940s. They also made baseball bats. They were they will come recreate a poem that was Creemore’s largest employer at that time, with at least Editor: written for my grandmother 12 employees, and was managed by Greg Thomson. Many thanks to Laura Walton for writing the great Baba’s 70th birthday by This mill burned in 1957 and was replaced with a article on the importance of planting native plants. It her great horseback riding concrete block building, which was used by several really is the case of “If you plant it, they will come.” pal and drinking buddy owners, but was demolished to make way for Foodland. To quote Dr. Jane Goodall, “Each one of us makes Maggie Grant. Maggie was Jim Jackson also had a sawmill on Francis street west a difference. We cannot live through a single day a journalist and editor of the Tim POET LAUREATE POET ARMOUR of Collingwood Street. It was driven by a steam traction without making an impact on the world around us - “women’s section” of the engine, but there are private dwellings there today. The and we have a choice as to what sort of difference we Globe and Mail in the 1950s other large enterprise, was H.P. Shepherds and Son, make.” Once the weather warms up, take a moment and 1960s. She also covered the Toronto society news a grain elevator and feed mill managed by George to observe what is taking place in your own personal before Zina Cherry’s time there. Shepherd. It was a thriving business also selling coal outdoor space. The spirit of the poem and the last line are Maggie and farm machinery. It was later sold to W.A. Gordon If there isn’t much visitation from critters other Grant’s, the rest I recreated as best I could, as the & Sons and unfortunately, it was all burned in October than hornets and honeybees, there is certainly an original copy has been lost. 1970, except the office, and was never rebuilt as an opportunity to increase the insect and bird biodiversity elevator. Another elevator and mill in Creemore was by planting native plants and creating favourable When I was young and in my prime, originally built by the Montgomery family to process habitat. And hey, guess what? The vast majority of I used to do it all the time. alfalfa, for horse feed. It was located south-east of Ontario’s native bees don’t even have stingers! But as I age I must confess, the station, and is all gone today. At the south end of Happy Spring Everyone! These days I do it less and less. Mill Street, in what is now the little park, there was a Viki Reynolds and Ian Payne And at this point I reminisce, building, no longer there called the Evaporator. In the Not So Hollow Farm, Mulmur On bygone thrills and youthful bliss. fall a man from Collingwood, bought apples from local Those sights and sounds, and scents so dear, farmers. He hired women to run peeling and coring In coming years may disappear. machines, somehow drying the apples and shipping Send letters to the editor to editor@creemore. The plunging stops and lunging starts, them as far away as England. com. All letters must be signed with the writer's So punishing to private parts… full name and include a phone number (which will Don’t get me wrong. I speak, of course, Gerry Blackburn is the author of Creemore, as not be printed.) Deadline is 5 p.m. on Tuesdays. Of all those years I rode a horse. Remembered by Gerry Blackburn, available at The Creemore Echo Newsstand.

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3 Caroline St. W., Box 1219 • Creemore, ON L0M 1G0 • Tel: 705-466-9906 • Fax: 705-466-9908 • [email protected] THE CREEMORE ECHO • Friday, March 19, 2021 • 5 Financing adult children Dear Money Lady, with no costs, My adult daughter and her husband free rent and just moved back home to save money a full fridge. and pay off their debt. I was then Be careful blind-sided when they told me they parents! were both quitting their jobs to go At some back to school. I don’t know what to point you do here – some of my friends also have will need to Christine their adult kids still living at home. tighten up the LADY MONEY THE IBBOTSON Help Make a Difference Suggestions? spending and this should not be at Grace C. the end when the day-to-day finances becomes unsustainable. I feel for you Grace – as do many Adult children must realize that to Healthcare in Your other parents like you. they can no longer rely on the Unfortunately, we have done this to financial support of their parents due ourselves. Parents of millennials are to the inevitable limited resources and Community still not able to stop the “helicopter amount of time left for parents in their parent syndrome” even for their adult working years. Apply to join the CGMH children. Sometimes whether it is forced, Canadian parents are struggling to planned or necessary, young adults save and stay on track to becoming need to experience things that allow Board of Trustees financially comfortable, but then them to handle challenges. This will are sidetracked with worry about help them build life skills and become their children. Many believe their more resilient in ways that financial adult children are not going to attain support alone cannot provide. the same level of comfort on their Why not create a long-term strategy, Collingwood General & Marine Hospital is seeking community own resources alone and will need or at least have a frank discussion members to join its Board of Trustees and Board Committees. continuous assistance. about financial circumstances on both Obviously, the demands now on sides? Board members will reflect the diversity of our community and parents are dramatically different than To your children, they may support the hospital’s vision of Outstanding Care – For Life. they were in the 60s and 70s. Our believe that you should support parents would never have dreamed of them financially forever, and that CGMH has long been seen as a community hospital that is a doing what todays parents do for their you as their parents, are well set Centre of Excellence providing innovative healthcare to the children. Many are willing to sacrifice for the future. Remind them of your all – to financially support their adult goals and also get them to create residents and visitors of South Georgian Bay. The Board of children in what is believed to be an some goals of their own. Create Trustees will work collaboratively to encourage innovation, economic environment where young realistic timelines, budgets and let support its dedicated employees, physicians and volunteers and adults face higher unemployment your children know you want them to build upon community and healthcare partnerships. rates, high housing costs and large get a good foothold on life – but that student debt. doesn’t mean subsidizing their current In addition to the core skills and experience for a Trustee, Millennials today are now the adult lifestyle. As parents, we need to smartest and most technically be independent and retire with dignity, the CGMH Board is prioritizing the following experience and advanced generation of all time, and that means we need money. Do expertise in potential candidates: yet feel they have more uncertainty, not give what you cannot afford to more stress and have more anxiety be without later, when you retire. • Knowledge of our local community and depression than their parents Remember, love is not something • Deep appreciation for our rural community context ever did. This may indeed be true and you buy. could account for some of the reasons Good Luck & Best Wishes, • Experience with social media and strategic communications why so many parents are putting their Christine Ibbotson • Knowledge from and experience within the legal sector retirement plans on hold. • Knowledge from and experience within the financial sector While helping our children is Written by Christine Ibbotson, • Governance experience from previous volunteer activity something we expect to do as parents, Author of four finance books and the at least until they are financially Canadian Best-Selling Book “How If you can help our hospital be the best it can be for our independent, it is important to realize to Retire Debt Free & Wealthy” the long-term cost this can have on our www.askthemoneylady.ca or send a community, we want to hear from you. own futures. Many parents still have question to info@askthemoneylady. their adult children living at home ca. The hospital is accepting applications until 4:00pm April 16. To apply, please visit cgmh.on.ca to download, review, and complete the Board Application package.

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Creemore.com INCLUSIVE CARING ACCOUNTABLE RESPECTFUL EXCELLENCE ADAPTABLE TEAMWORK 6 • THE CREEMORE ECHO • Friday, March 19, 2021 Let’s put the GREEN in OUR Village Green

The Creemore Community Foundation is proud to honour our commitment to the HELP FILL IN THE GARDEN You are invited to participate in the acquisition of these new plant materials community to keep the “green” in the by donating to The Creemore Community Foundation. Village Green. The redesigned Creemore Horticultural Society gardens combined with additional newly landscaped areas will be larger than the gardens in the old Donate a Tree-$150+ Donate Bulbs-$35 Horticultural Park. 35 new trees including: Bags and bags of bulbs including: • Service Berry - $500 • Spring bulbs Nearly 600 plants, shrubs, and trees from the • Red Maple - $750 • Summer bulbs Horticultural Gardens have been lovingly • Crabapple - $600 • Scilla maintained by Creemore Horticultural • Black Cedar - $150 Society volunteers after being carefully • Standard Lilac - $100 relocated in 2019 to purpose-built new beds behind the Library. However, besides Donate a Shrub-$40 Donate a Plant-$25 having more space to beautify, new 57 new shrubs including: Hundreds of perennials including: garden designs require plant materials best • Hydrangea • Itoh Peony suited to the new context of the redesigned • Daphne • Herbacious Peony (Six varieties) park—and that means many new plants, • Hemlock • Hellebores (Four varieties) shrubs, and trees need to be acquired. A • New Jersey Tea • Brunnera list of plant materials needed for both the • Fothergilla Gardenii • Geranium Hort gardens and other landscaped areas • Beautybush • Boneset is shown with approximate pricing to give • Ninebark • Bleeding Heart an idea of the quantity and variety of the • Weigelia • Echinacea materials. • Arctic Fire Dogwood • Maiden Grass

If you wish to pay by credit card, please press the Donate Now button on the Foundation’s website home page at www.creemorecommunityfoundation.ca. Donations can be made by cheques to the Creemore Community Foundation Plant Fund and mailed to the Creemore Community Foundation, P.O. Box 2013, Creemore L0M 1G0.

Donations over $25 or more will receive tax receipts. All contributions will be used for plant purchases only but cannot be applied to specific plants by request. If contributions exceed the actual costs, the excess will be retained for future plant purchases.

www.creemorecommunityfoundation.ca THE CREEMORE ECHO • Friday, March 19, 2021 • 7 Pandemic allows Canadian to spend quality time at home by Trina Berlo of customer service from the Canadian Given the opportunity, actor Doug government. He had several phone calls Chapman left New York City and and e-mails from agents who checked came home to a place he loves. in and made sure he was following the A complete change to the way he rules. lives and works has afforded Chapman He said some of the calls were from the ability to relocate to the family farm real people, who were very professional in Clearview, where he is making the and courteous. best of a bad situation and supporting “The last one, eight or nine days into his family during a difficult period of the quarantine, was a person calling isolation. from the government, and they wanted He has been impressed by the gentle, to know, did I have everything that I yet thorough process of follow ups from needed?” the government to make sure he was Chapman said it felt like a very following the rules. sincere question. Chapman recalls one year ago when “So, I felt very supported,” he said, the bustling New York City went into although he did have everything he lockdown. needed. “The tone of the call was not He said it was like, a descending punitive, it was supportive. Which cloud of concern and worry about an Doug Chapman I was surprised by only because it’s unknown enemy that was invisible. a government service and you don’t “It was shocking,” said Chapman. company that does historical tours of air travel, and minimize contact expect emotional support.” “People were living in fear and the city. At once, all of the classes and with people as much as possible, in In contrast, when crossing the border without a lot of information or a real programming were shifting online. preparation for the journey home in back into the United States back in understanding of the virus.” “It’s been interesting, just trying to July. He returned to New York in the October, Chapman said he wasn’t asked Subways were empty and Times create valuable learning experiences fall and then came back to Canada late a single question about any of it, which Square abandoned, at the same time for these acting students online. It’s December. he found surprising. theatres and restaurants were closing. working, but it hasn’t been the easiest To make sure it was safe to make the All in all, Chapman said he is grateful At that point, Chapman became thing to do,” said Chapman. trip both times, Chapman said he took for the time he has been able to spend very busy with work, and had little He was also getting requests from extreme precautions. He quarantined in the area, a time to see family when time to worry about anything other people looking for coaching on how to at home, got tested for COVID-19 and family seems like a really important than keeping up with the increased present well in their new online meeting quarantined again on this side of the thing to focus on. workload. platforms, and doing auditions online. border. “I’ll remember this time for the Chapman teaches voice and speech As a Canadian, living and working Chapman said the experience was rest of my life,” said Chapman. “It’s a at the American Academy of Dramatic in New York, Chapman was able to very positive. At border patrol, they time of great suffering, there’s no two Arts in Manhattan and Creative return home to ride out long stretches wanted to know where he was going ways to experience that, but I am very Thinking at Montclair State University of the pandemic. and made sure he had a quarantine plan. grateful that I was able to be in this in New Jersey but he also works for a Last summer he got a car to avoid Chapman was impressed at the level place that means so much to me.” Joyeuses Pâques Chef Winston’s Easter Offerings Family meals available Saturday and Sunday Call to order 705-466-3331 Vendredi Saint Poisson Porchetta Feature Holy Fish Friday Serves 4 to 6 adults $210 Salmon Coulibiac $48 Carrot and ginger soup or Mixed greens Tender Salmon filletresting Juicy tender Porchetta roast on rice, spinach and sautéed Fig Balsamic cream mushrooms, wrapped in puffed Vegetable bundles pastry served with dill cream. Caramelized root vegetables Roast or mashed potatoes Carmelita cake or Turkey Feature Spring raspberry lemon cake Serves 4 to 6 adults $185 Carrot and ginger soup or Mixed greens Lamb Features Sliced turkey breast and Rack of lamb $60 Tender dark meat Marinated in honey Dijon and Apple sauce stuffing crusted with pumpkin seeds, Vegetable bundles cashews and almonds, served Caramelized root vegetables with your choice of potato and Roast or mashed potatoes vegetable bundle. Baguette Cranberry orange sauce Braised lamb shank $60 Turkey gravy Served with ratatoulille puree, Carmelita cake or chive risotto Spring raspberry lemon cake and vegetable bundle.

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www.chezmichel.ca 8 • THE CREEMORE ECHO • Friday, March 19, 2021 Provincial vaccine booking system open to priority groups by Trina Berlo The provincial booking system for COVID-19 This week's highlights: COVID-19 vaccines is now live, • As of presstime, 260 local cases usurping the Simcoe Muskoka system, vaccination pre- have been tested positive for the for anyone 80 and older, the adult COVID-19 variant of concern UK Indigenous community and other health registration system B.1.1.7 (UK), seven cases have tested care priority groups. positive for the P.1 variant of concern “We have a great opportunity opens for those (Brazil), one has tested positive for right now with immunization to be the B.1.351 variant of concern (South able to proceed with vaccinating the Pre-registration for select eligible Africa) and an additional 618 cases population,” said medical officer of groups as per the province’s phase have screened positive (awaiting health Dr. Charles Gardner. “We’ve one roll out plan is now open on the confirmatory testing) made an excellent start in protecting Simcoe Muskoka District Health • Over 61,000 doses of the Pfizer- those most vulnerable in our long-term Unit’s website. BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine care facilities so that outbreaks in the Information Line at 1-888-999-6488, Eligible groups who can pre- have been administered in Simcoe long-term care facilities and retirement Monday to Sunday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. register include highest, very high Muskoka. This includes over 16,500 homes are way down and mortality, People 80 years of age and over can and high priority frontline health individuals who have received both though it continues, is greatly reduced now book online at www.ontario.ca/ care workers in accordance with of the required doses of the vaccine. compared with the past.” bookvaccine or by telephone at 1-888- the Ministry of Health’s Guidance on In addition, over 3,000 (or 94 per Health partners are proceeding with 999-6488. Eligible first phase groups Health Care Worker Prioritization; cent) long-term care residents and immunizing the entire adult population also include adult recipients of chronic essential caregivers of residents over 3,400 (or 95 per cent) retirement over the weeks and months to come, home care, essential caregivers of in long-term care and retirement home residents have received their working in sequence through the priority residents in LTC or retirement homes, homes; all Indigenous adults and first dose. Over 1,300 doses of groups identified by the province. high-priority health care workers and their household members; and adult AstraZeneca vaccine have also been “We’re at a point now where we want Indigenous adults. recipients of chronic home care. To administered to adults 60-64 years by to get ahead of the pandemic and not First and second vaccination pre-register, or for more information four Family Health Teams in Simcoe have it swell into another wave while appointments will be arranged at the about COVID-19 and the vaccine roll Muskoka. we achieve protection for everybody same time. out visit www.smdhu.org. • There have been 116 new cases through immunization and bring us to “Please be patient when trying to Pre-registration helps the health reported to the health unit for the a much better place late in the spring book an appointment,” said Simcoe- unit collect information about current week. There were 297 new and into the summer,” said Gardner in Grey MPP Jim Wilson. “It can take appointments quickly and easily as cases reported to the health unit last his weekly press briefing. time to access the system. Only those vaccine supply becomes available. week, which was approximately 40 There were some glitches when the who are eligible, or helping somebody Once a person has pre-registered on per cent higher than the 213 cases booking system launched, which caused who is, should be making appointments the SMDHU website, they will be reported for the week of Feb. 28. some confusion for people. in this first phase.” placed in the queue to receive a vaccine • There were 32 COVID-19 related Not all the regional clinics were People eligible to book appointments appointment. When an appointment is deaths in February, which is the initially uploaded to the system, but that will be asked to provide their provincial available, the person will be sent an second highest number of deaths in has been rectified, and 10 people were health card details, birth date, postal email invitation from the province a single month since the start of the booked into a Bracebridge clinic that code and email address or phone with a booking code to book their pandemic. In March, three Simcoe wasn’t even scheduled. number. appointment on the provincial booking Muskoka residents have died from Gardner reported that Simcoe Until vaccines are widely available system. Note that this does not happen COVID-19. Muskoka has received its first shipment and enough people have been fully immediately and may take days or • The vast majority of COVID-19 of the Moderna vaccine, which is easier vaccinated to stop the spread of the weeks depending on vaccine supply cases in Simcoe Muskoka have to handle, and is being administered virus, people are asked to: and demand for appointments. All recovered from the infection. Most through mobile clinics at seniors • continue to follow local public appointment booking in Simcoe COVID-19 cases in Simcoe Muskoka congregate settings. health advice and restrictions Muskoka will be done through the are from the Barrie and South Simcoe The health unit is also participating • practise physical distancing online provincial system. areas. Click here to view the epidemic in an AstraZeneca pilot program. Nine • use masks or face coverings Please note that adults 80 years of curve by municipality. family health teams are participating and • stay home as much as possible and age and older (born anytime in 1941 Seniors 80 years of age and older will be contacting people aged 60-64 only go out for necessities or prior) are also eligible at this time; had the highest rate of infection who fit into priority groups. (Residents The next phase of Ontario’s however, they cannot pre-register via in January, with over 90 per cent are asked not to contact their family vaccination roll-out for people in other SMDHU’s website. They will be able of these cases associated with an doctor.) age groups is expected to begin in April. to book immunization appointments institutional outbreak. Young adults For information about Ontario’s Depending on supply, Ontario has the directly via the online provincial (18-34 years) had the highest rate of vaccine booking system, please see resources to administer 4.8 million booking system or by telephone to the infection in February and continue to Ontario.ca, or call the Provincial Vaccine vaccines per month. Provincial Vaccine Information Line. have the highest rates so far in March. Health Unit launches follow-up COVID-19 impact survey

The Simcoe Muskoka District Health residents’ ability to get appropriate • Income, stress, mental and physical of situations, especially those who Unit is launching a second local impact services,” said Dr. Charles Gardner, health are often less likely to participate in survey to gain more insight into how Simcoe Muskoka’s medical officer of • Access to health care services surveys including males, residents individuals and families have been health. • Parenting, children’s behaviours whose first language is not English and affected by the pandemic. “Learning about the impacts of the and mental health people living with low income. The online survey is a follow up pandemic on the residents of Simcoe • Following public health Municipal, community partner and to the first survey conducted last fall. Muskoka provides opportunities for recommendations service providers are urged to share the Results collected from that survey are organizations to improve programs and • How the health unit has responded survey link and encourage their clients still being analyzed and are expected to provide enhanced support to those who to the pandemic to have their say. be shared in April. Results will be used need it most. Sharing this information • Alcohol use, smoking, non-medical Survey results, along with the to inform communities, services and with community partners and to the use of prescription drugs. findings of the Mitigating Harms of programs about the adversities residents political decision makers will also The survey, available at www.smdhu. Public Health Measures Situational have faced during the pandemic. help to ensure we can coordinate and org/impactsurvey, can be completed by Assessment completed in 2020 will “As the pandemic continues, so too cooperate as needed.” local residents who are 18 years of provide valuable information on what does the impact on our residents and Residents of Simcoe County and the age and older. Identifying information pandemic impacts Simcoe Muskoka communities. While we have learned District of Muskoka are encouraged to is not collected from participants and residents are experiencing and how to adapt in some ways, the prolonged provide feedback on their experiences, privacy is maintained. The aim is to organizations could enhance supports nature of the restrictions are directly behaviours and opinions related to: get feedback from as many residents for residents. affecting mental and physical health, • Ability to get healthy food, or as possible, and from those from all More information about COVID-19 livelihoods, the economy and our maintain living arrangements walks of life and living in a variety can be found at www.smdhu.org. THE CREEMORE ECHO • Friday, March 19, 2021 • 9 Long-term care homes seeking donations to support virtual programming and engagement

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced staff in long- protect our vulnerable seniors, staff have embraced also read the news, watch movies, or enjoy games, or term care and seniors services to reinvent how they technology, including smart TVs and tablets, as a way take part in spiritual services, and volunteer programs connect, and provide programming and support to to continue to connect with residents, both one-on- from the comfort and safety of their own rooms, residents and families. one and in small groups and also to connect residents helping to keep them connected even when we can’t To assist with these changes, County of Simcoe with the world. Many volunteers have continued to all be together.” Long-term Care and Seniors Services homes are engage with residents, taking them along for virtual The county’s homes are seeking donations of smart seeking donations from the community to support dog walks, cooking classes or sing-alongs. TVs (preferably 40” or greater to assist with visual with virtual programming and engagement for “With the enhancements in technology, smartTVs challenges) and tablets. The homes will also gladly residents. and tablets allow residents to engage with the world accept radios with AM/FM (large font), or old iPods Just a year ago, community groups and volunteers beyond our doors,” said Jane Sinclair, General or MP3 players that can be used as part of their Mind would come into the homes to provide various services Manager, Health and Emergency Services. “By using and Melody Program. such as entertainment, spiritual programming, and video chat applications like Skype and FaceTime, For more information or to make a donation directly social interactions. residents can see and speak with a family member to Sunset Manor in Collingwood, contact Jenn With the enhanced safety measures put in place to across the world or a friend in the next room. They can Baulke at 705-445-4499.

Correction Part With Your Art Charity Auction a new home and bringing awareness to new and talented artists. Selling or buying, show your The contact for Creemore Senior AA Hockey The BMFA is launching its second annual, Part support! Club is Tom Macham, 705-435-8469 or email with Your Art charity online art auction! Call for Submissions is now open online on the [email protected]. We apologize Our exclusive online art auction will raise BMFA website www.bmfa.on.ca. for the error. funds for the BMFA while giving your artwork Auction will take place in May.

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10 • THE CREEMORE ECHO • Friday, March 19, 2021 Dufferin adopts Climate Action Plan ECHO Calendar UPCOMING EVENTS On March 11, Dufferin County Council adopted the Dufferin WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24 Climate Action Plan, a strategy for 100 Women Who Care South the community to reach net-zero Georgian Triangle. Join 100+ women making a difference in our community greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and through the work of local charities build resilience to the current and future from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Visit website for impacts of climate change. more info. New members welcome! “A net-zero target is ambitious, www.100womensouthgeorgiantriang reflecting not only the urgency of le.com virtual - link is on the website. the climate crisis, but also Dufferin County’s commitment to act as a leader Social Finance: Ethical, on climate change in the community,” Environmental & Everyone said Warden Darren White. “This Webinar/Online Event The Fair target means that by 2050 Dufferin Finance Fund from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Social Finance: Ethical, County will have reduced community Environmental & Everyone is back to greenhouse gas emissions to as close share innovations in impact investing to zero as possible while removing and social finance worldwide. Each any unavoidable emissions from week, experts in impact investing, the atmosphere through natural or social finance, social entrepreneurship technological solutions.” Action Plan is anticipated to generate Dufferin residents can expect to and innovations in finance from The 2050 target is in alignment with many social, cultural, environmental, see the acceleration of initiatives in around the world will join us to share the Paris Agreement, an international and economic benefits in the County. alignment with these priorities. The their work. Discussions will include agreement to keep global temperature Input provided by the Dufferin County installation of public electric vehicle new models of investing for social rise this century to well below two Climate Change Collaborative and (EV) charging stations to create a purpose, projects on the forefront of social and environmental change, degrees Celsius above pre-industrial Dufferin residents, who participated network to support the transition to stories from the field and best practices levels and to pursue efforts to limit the in a series of engagement initiatives EVs, opportunities to participate in for the future of food, people and the temperature increase even further to throughout 2020, informed the creation energy saving programs with the planet. Contact: communications@ 1.5 degrees Celsius. Interim targets of of the plan and its guiding vision. County and local utility companies, fairfinancefund.org. 10 per cent below 2016 levels by 2030 “This is not just a plan for the and enhancements to the natural and 40 per cent below 2016 levels by climate. It is also a plan for people,” environment through both urban and FRIDAY, MARCH 26 2040 have been set by the county to says Orangeville Mayor Sandy Brown rural tree planting projects serve as a GTLLI - SPRING POTPOURRI guide progress. and member of the Global Covenant of few examples of what implementation 2021 Six Lectures live streamed to In addition to reducing greenhouse Mayors for Climate and Energy. of the Dufferin Climate Action Plan your home on Fridays at 10 a.m. gas emissions, the Dufferin Climate “Each action in the plan can be will look like in the community. to 12 p.m. from March 26 to Apr 30. Free videos of each lecture are Action Plan also focuses on actions to identified with at least one direct With the adoption of the Dufferin available until June 30. The cost is build resilience in the face of a changing benefit for the community. For Climate Action Plan, the County moves $50 for the six lectures. To purchase climate. “Local climate projections instance, improved energy efficiency through Milestone 3 of the Partner’s for or information: www.gtlli.ca. show that Dufferin can expect to means reduced energy bills, higher Climate Protection Program, as part experience rising temperatures, re-sale values, cleaner air, and more of a network of 350+ municipalities changes in precipitation patterns, and comfortable homes for residents.” across Canada. Moving ahead to an increasing number of severe weather The Dufferin Climate Action Plan implementation, Dufferin County will events,” said Town of Mono Mayor, highlights five priority actions to be establish regular five-year Plan updates, Laura Ryan. “This Plan is a critical completed over the next five years in addition to an annual report card, to step in ensuring that Dufferin remains around energy efficiency and fuel reflect on progress, set next steps, and a healthy and thriving community switching, low-carbon transportation, ensure that climate planning continues for current and future generations to community empowerment, climate to align with community priorities. come.” resiliency for natural and agricultural Learn more about the Dufferin Designed with community well-being systems, and green development Climate Action Plan at dufferincounty. at the forefront, the Dufferin Climate standards. ca/climatechange.

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12 • THE CREEMORE ECHO •T:5" Friday, March 19, 2021 SCDSB to hold first-ever student census The SCDSB is committed to review of the census questions (based identifying and removing barriers on the draft version of the census); and within our system that impact discussion regarding potential barriers equity, achievement and well-being to participation. of students, and to ensuring that Between April 1-30, students in all students are offered supportive, Grades 7-12 and parents/guardians inclusive and respectful learning of students in Kindergarten to Grade environments. To support these efforts, 6 will be invited to participate in the we must learn more about our students. SCDSB Student Census 2020-2021. In April 2021, the SCDSB will Students in Grades 7-12 will be hold its first student census. The emailed a secure link inviting them confidential SCDSB Student Census to complete their census. For students 2020-2021 is an important tool that in Kindergarten to Grade 6, parents/ will be used to collect identity-based guardians will complete the student student data so that systemic barriers census on behalf of their child(ren). can be identified. The results will guide Parents/guardians of these students our focus on programs, supports and will receive an email invitation resources to address inequities within which includes a secure link to their our system. To support the delivery of child(ren)’s student census. The email the SCDSB student census in April, used for parents/guardians will be the the SCDSB is hosting information primary contact email on file at their sessions. child’s school. More information The sessions are being held via regarding the information sessions Zoom in mid-March and will include and the student census is available the following information: why we on our website at www.scdsb.on.ca/ are conducting a student census; a studentcensus.

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PROJECT INFORMATION Project Number: 2021-012-SP Project Applicant: Xplornet Communications Inc. Lands Subject to Application: 6319 Highway 26 Clearview, Ontario Commenting Period Ends: April 19, 2021 Proponent Contact Information: Cyrus Ghassabeh, Forbes Bros Ltd. Suite 130, 482 South Service Rd E Oakville, Ontario, L6J 2X6 Tel: (905) 808.0073 Fax: (888) 622-4939 E m a il: [email protected] Wear a mask, wash your hands PLEASE DIRECT ALL COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS TO: and physically distance to stop Nick Ainley, Community Planner Township of Clearview Administration Centre the spread of COVID-19. Box 200, 217 Gideon Street Learn more at ontario.ca/covid-19 Stayner, Ontario L0M 1S0 E m a il: [email protected]

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