How cold is it?

By Al Clarke How cold is it? It’s colder than a pig’s butt in a sleet storm out there, or so it seems, and a lot of the evidence is pointing to this becoming the new normal. Winnipeg is having the coldest winter in 35 years, Saskatoon in 18 years, Windsor in 35 years,...

Kids experience winter at its best

By Drew Gulyas We spent our March Break outside. From March 10 to 14, winter was at her best. The sun shone, the snow squalled, the campfires crackled and the kids explored. During the 2014 March Break, Camp Mansfield partnered with the Dufferin Arts Council to run a...

Memory: A horse with no name

By Bev Machesney I grew up in Creemore, a small Ontario village of about 600 people in the 1940s. My dad, Orr Machesney, owned a grocery store in the main business block of Mill Street from 1939 until the summer of 1972, when he retired. From the time I could see over...

A modern-day barn raising

The times may have changed, but it still takes a community to build a barn. That’s what artist Peter Mitchell learned as he spent the winter constructing a barn on the Mulmur property he purchased with his family last year. After pricing out how much it would cost to...

Tree Society gets growing

By Thom Paterson The 2014 Home and Garden Show is coming to the Creemore Community Arena on Saturday, April 26 from 10 am to 5 pm, and on Sunday, April 27 from 10 am to 4 pm. Each year the Home and Garden Show features over 100 exhibitor booths, a seminar stage,...

Meet the MacIntyres: New pharmacy owners

Until recently, the community did not know the reasons for Jennifer and Brian MacIntyre’s mysterious December move into Creemore with their two children, Griffin, 6 and Logan, 3. The MacIntyres were living in Durham where Jennifer worked as a pharmacist and Brian was...