by Kristi Green | Nov 28, 2013 | News
Some people find cooking Christmas dinner stressful. And then there is Jim Henderson. This year, Henderson will be cooking Creemore’s 12th Annual Community Christmas dinner for the first time for approximately 150 guests. “I’ve cooked dinner for 1,000 people before,”...
by Kristi Green | Nov 28, 2013 | News
A new radio station is about to make waves – from Creemore. Clearview Community Radio will launch in January from Ray’s Place Youth Resource Centre. At first, it will be available online. Eventually, it will become a full-fledged on-air station that the audience can...
by Kristi Green | Nov 21, 2013 | News
It’s a cold and windy November day, but inside Leisureworld on Mary Street in Creemore, 32-year-old Matthew Vorstermans is sitting on a big sofa in a warm room, reading from The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery in a clear voice. The elderly residents sit quietly...
by Kristi Green | Nov 21, 2013 | News
For Captain Micheline Hardy, this is the “busiest and best” time of year. Hardy is the Corps Officer of the Ontario Central – East Division of The Salvation Army at the Hope Acres Community Church in Glencairn. For the last few years, she has run a food and toy...
by Kristi Green | Nov 21, 2013 | News
A Creemore native has been given a glimpse into the enduring strength of another culture after finding herself stranded on an island in the Philippines by Typhoon Haiyan. Melissa Striegl, 28,was staying on the island of Coron in the South China Sea when she began...
by Kristi Green | Nov 21, 2013 | News
The Creemore Medical Centre is about to embark on a $796,000 expansion, the result of five years of planning in which the Board exceeded its one-year fundraising goal of $350,000 by $150,000. “People were very interested in this project,” said Bill Mann, Chairman of...