Running Marafun for fun

By Abby Underhill Marafun is a running program that we do at NCPS on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings before school. The goal of the eight-week program is to run a marathon – which is 42 km – by the end of it.   We run 400-metre laps of the school field and for...

Canada Day Street Hockey

By Shawn Hughson As July 1 falls on a Tuesday this year, the Canada Day Street Hockey Fundraiser will take place the Saturday prior, on June 28. Creemore’s Elizabeth Street East will be shut down to Library Street to become 3-on-3 street hockey rinks complete with...

New Lowell News

By Sandra Bednarek There isn’t a nicer time of year when spring has sprung and is leading into summer. Take a walk around the village and you will see green luscious grass, lovely flowers and busy people out walking, riding or just visiting with neighbours. Oh, it is...

Beavers Leaders bid goodbye

With Creemore’s longtime volunteer Beavers Leaders retiring from the position, Scouts Canada is looking for new Leaders to run the group. Cathy Traverse (known to her Beavers as “Malick”) first got involved with Scouting Canada when her younger son, Tim, was five. He...

Avening church's last service

By Myrtle Carruthers The Avening Church has had a long and interesting history during the past 142 years. The Avening community was established in 1860. There was no church in the village at that time, so the children met for Sunday School under the Superintendent...

Tornado hits Angus

Essa Township declared a state of emergency on Tuesday evening after a tornado damaged about 100 houses in Angus. The Township of Angus was the worst hit by a series of storms throughout southern Ontario. At 5:20 pm, the tornado travelled east from Angus to Barrie for...