The Creemore INSIDE THE ECHO ECHO In Like Lambs Optimist Prime Friday, February 3, 2017 Vol. 17 No. 06 www.creemore.com The Writes of Spring concert added Young community leaders recognized PAGE 7 PAGE 12 News and views in and around Creemore Publications Mail Agreement # 40024973 Solidarity candlelight SCI wants larger attendance area vigil Sunday by Trina Berlo Shelburne and Primrose Pastoral Stayner Collegiate Institute Charge is organizing a candlelight vigil in (SCI) parents and staff voiced response to the recent violence in Quebec disappointment Tuesday night with City and the increase in xenophobia regard to the narrow scope of a throughout the world. current attendance area review. The Let There Be Peace candlelight Many of the people who participated vigil will be held at Trinity United in a pupil accommodation review, Church Sunday evening from 6 p.m. to either by attending public meetings 9 p.m., with short contemplative services or sitting on the committee, were at at the top of each hour. the Jan. 31 public meeting at SCI, Rev. Candice Bist has organized which was held to seek community the vigil as an act of solidarity with input on a proposal to make minor the Muslim community in response to changes to attendance boundaries for Sunday’s shooting at a Quebec City SCI feeder schools. mosque. The proposed changes, which have “We grieve the loss of life for the yet to be approved by Simcoe County Staff photo: Trina Berlo innocent Muslims at worship. But sorrow District School Board trustees, would Stayner Collegiate parents and staff urge school board to find a way to must also be the response we hold for not add significant numbers to SCI’s make the high school an appealing option for the wider community at a the student who found himself separated current student population. meeting Tuesday. from his own tenderness, drawn into an School board planner act of irrevocable cruelty,” said Bist. Andrew Keuken and superintendent students to Collingwood Collegiate from the same neighbourhoods can go She invites everyone to pray, think, Jackie Kavanagh outlined the Institute and give New Lowell to the same high school. sing, light a candle, feel connected, proposal to send all elementary students the choice of attending SCI The review was a recommendation consider how you might be more attentive students who attend Nottawasaga or Nottawasaga Pines Secondary of the ARC, which resulted in SCI to others and acknowledge that there is and Creemore Public School and School, in Angus. being extended to a Grade 7-12 another way. Clearview Meadows Elementary The goal, said Kavanagh, is to keep school and the eventual closure She said, “Here in Dufferin County, School to SCI, send all Nottawa peer groups together, so that students (See “Adding” on page 3) right here in our home territory, we begin. And we begin with a simple act of solidarity. We stand with our Muslim Leitch protestors neighbours to let them know they are valued, loved, and an important thread hang banner in the grand tapestry of life.” A banner bearing the names of the six victims killed in the Jan. 29 shooting Cybergirls host at a Quebec City mosque was hung from MP Kellie Leitch’s Collingwood robotic competition constituency office this week. The Cybergirls Robotics team will Wednesday morning commuters be hosting a VEX IQ competition at couldn’t miss the large banner draped the Creemore Legion Saturday, Feb. 4 from the building at the busy Highway from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 26 corner, where Hume Street meets Twenty-seven teams from across Pretty River Parkway. Ontario will be competing in the The sign calls for Leitch’s resignation 2016-2017 VEX IQ game, Crossover. and says, “Hate puts us all at risk.” Students work together in cooperative When asked for a comment, Leitch alliances of two robots to score as many replied, “Freedom of speech is a hex-balls into goals as they can in 60 Canadian value.” seconds. The banner includes the Not My MP Bonus points are gained by balancing hashtag but those associated with the the robots on a bridge at the end of the local sign campaign say they did not match. Spectators are welcome to hang the banner. attend the event. Due to overwhelming demand Taking care of buyers and sellers we have added a second show! in Mulmur and the Creemore hills for 40 years RCR Realty. Brokerage Ginny MacEachern B.A., Broker The Town & Country Agent with the City Connections 1-800-360-5821• 705-466-2607 • [email protected] Monday, May 1, 8 pm • aveninghall.com www.ginnymaceachern.com 2 • THE CREEMORE EcHO • Friday, February 3, 2017 Submit your community events [email protected] phone: 705-466-9906 COMMUNITY Calendar fax: 705-466-9908 This Weekend Thursday, February 2 to Thursday, Feb. 9 Saturday, February 4 Sunday, February 5 • Theatre Orangeville presents Wingfields Progress. • CyberGirls Robotics Team is hosting a VEX IQ • Church Services - see page 5. A comedy by Dan Needles, starring Rod Beattie. competition at Creemore Legion, 27 Wellington • Let There Be Peace Candlelight Vigil from 6 to 9 At the Opera House, 87 Broadway, Orangeville. Street West, Creemore from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 26 p.m. at Trinity United Church, 200 Owen Sound Call 519-942-3423 or 1-800-424-1295 for tickets teams are registered. Spectators welcome. Email Street, Shelburne. Short Contemplative Services or book on-line at www.theatreorangeville.ca. [email protected] for more at the top of each hour at 6 pm, 7 pm, 8 pm. In information. response to the recent violence in Quebec City Friday, February 3 to Sunday, February 5 • Stayner Kinsmen Comedy Night at the Stayner and the increase in xenophobia throughout the • Sunnidale Winterama. Bring the family and have Community Centre. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are world. Hosted by the Shelburne/Primrose Pastoral some family fun in New Lowell! This year we’re $20 each and include 3 comedians, DJ, dance and Charge. celebrating the 41st year of the “Greatest Little midnight buffet. Tickets available at L&S Repair, Show on Snow!” For festival details, visit: www. 7472 County Road 91, Stayner, or call 705-717-3895. sunnidalewinterama.com. Upcoming Events Tuesday, February 7 Saturday, February 11 & Sunday, Feb. 12 Friday, February 24 • Creemore Adult Skating Club skates Tuesday • Valentine’s Open House Tea Party at 21 Elizabeth • Dinner and Concert with Klaas van Graft at afternoons to March 28 from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Street East, Creemore (across from the medical Utopia Hall, 8396 6th Line, Utopia. Dinner Buffet at Creemore Arena. $2 at door per skater. Join centre) from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. A fundraiser at 7 p.m. Concert starts at 8 p.m. Advance Tickets the friendliest people in the area for a skate. Call to support kids attending Camp Mini-Yo-We. Tea & $25 (until Feb. 22) $30 after that. Call 1-877-499- Helen at 705-466-5195 for more details. scones $5, teddy bears & dolls available for purchase. HALL(4255) or visit www.utopiahall.ca for more Children welcome too. Presented by We ROCK information. Wednesday, February 8 (Raise Our Community’s Kindness). Call Barbara • Drop in for an Improv Class at Station on the LaFleshe at 905-544-9283 for more information. Saturday, February 25 Green. Improvisors will work to discover, explore • GNE Fair Dinner at Centennial United Church, and develop stories together in a fun and lively Monday, February 13 234 William Street, Stayner. Guest speaker is environment. Simple, honest, truthful, and hilarious. • Georgian Bay British Car Club meets at the Elizabeth Bzikot of Best Baa Dairy. Silent auction. No experience necessary. Everyone welcome. 7:30 Huron Club, Pine Street, Collingwood, at 7 p.m. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Dinner at 6:30 p.m. p.m. to 9 p.m. $10 fee. Contact Peter Madore at Visit www.gbbcc.com for more information. Tickets $25 available at Stayner Town & Country 705-994-3008 or [email protected]. or call Maureen at 705-466-5531. Tuesday, February 14 • Bored Creemorians present Grey Lands, a side Thursday, February 9 • Creemore Legion Ladies Auxiliary Annual project of Cuff The Duke’s frontman Wayne Petti, • The Georgian Bay Photography Club meets Valentine’s Day Take-out Dinner. Lasagna, at the Creemore Legion lounge. Tickets cost $10 at the Chartwell Georgian Traditions Retirement salad & dessert. $15. Pick up between 4:30 and in advance at The Creemore Echo and online at Residence (Theatre Room) at 57 Trott Blvd. at 5:30 p.m. Call 705-466-2432 or 705-466-2330 to ticketscene.ca. $15 at the door. Doors at 7:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Lenore Burton will present a slideshow RSVP before Feb. 10. Show starts around 8:30 p.m. on “Lines, Patterns and Textures”. Bring your • Charger Foods presents Zaagi’idiwin (Love in camera. For further information please go to www. Ojibway), An Indigenous Valentine Dinner at Monday, May 1 georgianbayphotographyclub.com. Station on the Green from 6 to 9 p.m. This three • The Writes of Spring – a night of music and course meal, created by Chef Charles Catchpole, conversation. Due to overwhelming demand, a Saturday, February 11 offers a trio of starters including a wild rice cake second show has been added. At Avening Hall at 8 • Monkey Toast, The Improvised Talk Show at the with brie and smoked paprika foam, three options p.m. Advance tickets $45 available at aveninghall.