The 2014 Copper Kettle Fest in Pictures
A place of honour at WWI centenary
Patrons of the Terra Nova Public House will be familiar with the portrait of a World War I soldier that hangs in a place of honour by the pub’s entrance. Anna Muth, who owns the establishment, was lucky to spend a great deal of the first seven years of her life with the soldier in […]
Inaugural Cook Off to honour local cuisine
This year’s Copper Kettle Festival will feature a new event, one aimed at embracing the spirit of rural cuisine. The Copper Kettle Cook Off is being organized by Miriam Streiman of Maple Valley’s Mad Maple Country Inn, and will take place in the parking lot of the Creemore Kitchen, across from the brewery, from 1 […]
At long last, a mobile vending bylaw
Clearview Council passed its licensing bylaw Monday night, giving the Creemore BIA veto power over any applications from mobile vendors looking to set up in an area bounded by Collingwood Street, Wellington Street, Library Street and the Mad River. That provision was one of several amendments to the proposed bylaw negotiated by Council members during […]
Bookstore ready for resale
Two years after saving the venerable Curiosity House bookstore from an uncertain future, owner Ralph Hicks has announced it’s time for him to move on. In an email sent out to friends and supporters this week, Hicks said he had accomplished his objectives of relocating the bookstore, keeping it alive and “building it into a […]
Trans Canada Glass
By Helen Blackburn Creemore holds the distinction for having the first church built when there wasn’t another for miles and miles, not even in Collingwood which was nothing much more than an idea. That was in 1854. How three of its stained glass windows found their way to Revelstoke, British Columbia, is an interesting tale. […]
New editor for the Echo
The Creemore Echo is pleased to welcome Trina Berlo as its new editor beginning the second week of September. Berlo, 39, graduated from Ryerson University in 1998 with a degree in photo arts and segued into the newspaper business the following year while working as photo editor at the University of Guelph newspaper, the Ontarion. […]
Celebrating an amazing African adventure
Part-time Dunedin resident Lynn Connell’s African story has been well-documented over the years in the Creemore Echo, and for good reason – what Connell and a dedicated group of fellow volunteers have accomplished with the Majengo Children’s Home in Mto Wa Mbu, Tanzania has been nothing short of miraculous, and very little of it could […]
“Intolerable” author helps My Friend’s House
Collingwood women’s shelter My Friend’s House will hold its second annual Creemore fundraiser at the Station on the Green on Saturday, September 14. While last year’s inaugural event featured local playwright Dan Needles as the keynote speaker, this year the spotlight will be on Kamal Al-Solaylee, a Canadian journalist who published Intolerable: A Memoir of […]
What a Copper Kettle Festival!
Last Saturday’s Copper Kettle Festival was a great end-of-summer party, with the usual march by the Beinn Gorm Highlanders kicking things off. This year featured more classic cars than ever, with over 400 automobiles arranged throughout the town. The day’s beautiful weather also meant that the Re/Max hot air balloon could be part of the […]