World Day of Prayer

Next week, women of Egypt will lead Dunedin in prayer. Friday, March 7 is World Day of Prayer, an international event that is led by Christians from a different country every year. This year, Christian women in Egypt have written a program called “Streams in the...

School wants your ideas on site closure

As the last young students leave the junior site of Creemore’s local public school for good at the end of this school year, Principal Heather Birchall wants to make sure memories of the 117-year-old building don’t get left behind. So, she and the School Council of...

The first log cabin

By Helen Blackburn The ability to work together and get things done has been a Creemore trait that began in the very early days and continues to this day. The story of the first log school comes from about 1850, some time before the school sections in Nottawasaga were...

Singhampton Hockey Tourney results

By Brad Bremner A Zambonied outdoor ice surface, coupled with the lure of “bragging rights,” are a great drawing card. That winter sports fact became obvious yet again on Friday, February 7 and Saturday, February 8, as Singhampton’s Park Committee and Station 5...

Baseball showcase in New Lowell

By Vince Trama This past Sunday, Smith Brothers Baseball Central in New Lowell hosted their first annual College, University and Major League Baseball showcase. There were 50 players in attendance to showcase their baseball talents in front of three Major League...

The Women's Institute

By Billie Power “What is the Women’s Institute?” I can tell you what it has been called. It’s been called “the world’s best-kept secret.” It was not always so. In its “glory days,” Ontario alone had 40,000 members. Simcoe West, of which Creemore was a part, had 18...