Opinion

Editor: Having just caught up on some back issues of The Echo, I was glad to see letters about the importance of saving farmlands. It made me think of an anecdote to share: A local farmer said to me, “My grandfather nearly broke his back clearing those fields. Now some guy from the city has [...]

This month I want to talk about something that I am seeing a lot as a dominant patient concern now that we are one year into the pandemic… COVID weight gain. Some patients are complaining of a few pounds while others are joking that they have gained 19 pounds for COVID-19. The body is [...]

Before I end this series I want to describe to some degree, business, and living conditions in the 1940s in and around Creemore. Eighty years ago most people’s, lifestyle was very different from today. The automobile had been around for about 25 years, but was still very primitive, [...]

Well folks, it’s been a long, strange trip from last January, when we started this challenge, to this month. Never in a million years did we expect a pandemic to unfold in real time as we took on this project, and we’re hoping that we are seeing the tail end of COVID-19 as we wrap […]

Spectacular is the best word to describe the floods in and around Creemore in the early days of the 20th Century. In those days no one was blaming global warming but the cause of the devastating rush of water was linked to an ecological problem. When the early settlers arrived on the land it [...]

Editor: I am a young local fourth generation farmer who is very proud to call this area home and am part of the ever shrinking agricultural community. Throughout my life I have seen many farms purchased by people from urban areas for weekend getaways. I completely understand this as I could not [...]

Editor: In February 2020, there were rumblings of a virus called COVID-19. Since it was in China, it didn’t seem to concern us. Little did we know. My sister Christa and I had planned our vacation to Naples, Florida and we were going. So, on March 6, we flew south. The first week was sun […]

From 1979 to 2007, at the end of each episode of the Price is Right, Bob Barker notoriously encouraged his viewers to “help control the pet population” by having pets spayed or neutered. His successor, Drew Carey, is carrying on Bob’s legacy by asking the same of his audience. Isn’t it [...]

Moving south down Mill Street was a garage operated by a Leonard Hill, who had a Pontiac franchise and sold a lot of 1939 Pontiacs. The building was rather dilapidated, having been built originally by Jack Laurence when he sold model T Fords. It was replaced by Nelson Corby in the 1950s but is [...]

Editor: Many thanks to Laura Walton for writing the great article on the importance of planting native plants. It really is the case of “If you plant it, they will come.” To quote Dr. Jane Goodall, “Each one of us makes a difference. We cannot live through a single day without making an impact [...]