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Franki and Harper: Two Old Souls, One Eternal Bond. By Kavitha Jappy, @jadorecreemore While a lot of friends are kept apart by Covid, Franki Korthals and Harper Bracken centred their Covid bubble around their friendship. Franki is well known in the Creemore community, Harper is new. Franki splits her time between her mum’s home in the Village and her dad’s home in Lavender. Harper lives with her mum in Dunedin, and spends her weekends with her dad in Beaver Valley. Both atten...Continue reading

Here’s my #creemoreartchallenge - a community profile! Izzy Mitchell: Ice Hockey Goalie Meet 12 year old Izzy Mitchell, goalie for Collingwood Girls Hockey Asso...ciation . Izzy has been playing hockey for 5 years. She is fiercely dedicated to her teammates and shows up for games and practices ready to work hard and support her team. Why did you become a goalie? It’s hard to remember why, because I was pretty young when I started playing. But my dad is a goalie and I remember that every time he came home from a hockey game he was so happy. I remember wanting to be that kind of happy. Q: What do you love about being a goalie? A: I love that my teammates have my back. Even if I let a goal in or we lose I feel that my teammates and everyone in the building, except the opposing team, has my back. It also feels really good when I make an amazing save and the crowd cheers. That’s something that I don’t think I can live without anymore. Q: Who taught you the most about playing your position? A: Well there are 2 people. When I first started in net our team lost almost every game. It was hard to lose game after game, but my dad was always there for me. In every practice he pushed me so hard. He shot the puck at me, probably harder than he should have, and sometimes I complained but I knew he was making me better. I knew I could get really good working with him. Alessandro Lupo taught me so many things about hockey that I can’t name them all. But most importantly, he taught me how to be bigger, bigger than I am, in the net- to cut off as many of the shooters’ options as possible. Q: Who is your favourite goalie and why? A: Manon Reaume and Shannon Szabados. They’re both women who fought to be the best and that’s really inspiring to me. Q: I know that you play chess competitively, are there any similarities between playing hockey and chess? A: Well I know that chess sounds really nerdy but it’s not. Everyone who is in chess competitions is eager to win. That competition is like hockey. Q: Tell me about one of your favourite hockey memories. A: I’ve always loved this story, even though it’s technically not my memory. I used to play on a team with only one other girl and most teams we faced had no girls at all. Once I was having a really good game in Essa and my dad overheard 2 men arguing in the stands about whether or not I was a girl. Wow, that goalie is amazing and she is a girl, said one of the men. No way is that goalie a girl, he’s too good, said the other. I don’t know why I like that story so much, it’s pretty sexist. But that one guy was right, I am a girl, and I can play as well as a boy. That just stuck with me. Thank you Purple Hills Arts & Heritage Society and Rina Barone for this fun challenge!

Found object sculptures by Sue Auld @sueauld21 #creemoreartchallenge #purplehillsarts

Interview by Helen Blackburn Creemore Star April 15, 1935 Miss Webster Home From New York... Miss Alice Webster, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.E. Webster who have a farm west of Creemore, has returned from nine years in the nursing profession in New York City. What made you decide to find work in New York? I had trained as a dietician but after receiving my qualifications I could not find work. I did find that working in a hospital kitchen in the heat of summer very difficult. My cousin sent me an advertisement for nurse training in New York and it sounded like a good idea to me. How did you arrange for this new adventure? I applied for the training at Sea View Hospital on Staten Island, was accepted and received papers for working in the U.S. I packed my trunk, took the overnight train to New York and found myself at Grand Central Station in the morning. I was tired and terrified but managed to find my way to the hospital. Did you always work at Sea View? After I did my training which involved twelve hour shifts six and a half days a week I was able to find work at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn. When the depression came in 1929 I was let go from the hospital because I was considered a foreigner taking work from Americans. A friend and I put our names at an agency that found work for nurses. We found ourselves a room to rent. We would go out to private homes for sometimes a day or for sometimes longer. Some people were good to us and others were not. At one place I had to sleep with the patient. At another I'm sure it was a Mafia home by the looks of the men in the living room. I looked after the old mother. They were very good to me. You must have had some unique experiences living in the big city. Yes, I did. About once a month my friend and I managed to save enough money to go to Broadway shows, sitting in the cheap seats, of course. Occasionally we went to a night club although it was Prohibition. Unlike Creemore there were many immigrants,mainly Jewish, Italian and Irish..I also became acquainted with the Blacks who had come from the South. I found that these immigrants were just like all of us; some good apples and some bad. I vow that when I have children I will teach them to respect and value people of all races or somehow different from the rest of us. I understand you plan to be married soon and will live near Creemore. Yes. Congratulations Thank you. The interviewer is Bert Smith, editor of the Creemore Star and Miss Webster is my mother. The words are mine from my imagination but the experiences are taken from letters, diaries and stories my sister and I were told when we were young.

Posted @withregram @curiosityhousebooks It was a lot of fun to create this week’s 8th Creemore Art Challenge for @purplehillsarts You can see it in this week’s @creemoreecho I’d love to see your profiles. ... Don’t forget to tag #creemoreartchallenge and #purplehillsarts And send me a message if you have a question or would like me to look at it. Here’s my mini profile on Neal Connolly @100milestore Thanks Neal!! I am not, nor have I ever been a farmer. At most, I've been a good farm-hand. Plaid shirts and a worn baseball cap (my usual outfit) - do not a farmer make. I respect farmers, who bank their livelihood on working the land well. Meet Neal. You may know him as ‘Neal from the 100 Mile’, a shop he’s managed for the past 3 years, or as a member of your book club, or as that friendly guy who says hi to you on the street. Always smiling, lending a hand, or offering up great food advice, this former science teacher is a friend to many and a true community citizen. Did you grow up on a farm? In the ‘70's my parents were part of the back-to-the-land movement and had a mixed farm in Eastern Ontario between Smith's Falls and Brockville. I spent just enough of my formative years on the farm to form some romantic notions that have taken years to dis-abuse. The land I'm on now in Mulmur has a farm name on the mailbox, a kitchen garden, several horses and house pets. The way I figure, gardening for household use and farming to sell a crop are different, but no less valid ways of growing. How did you go from teaching high school science and biology in Windsor, ON to managing a local food store in Creemore? Burn-out, then years of therapeutic farm work as a recovering academic while looking after my mother who had leukemia. Then meeting someone and wanting to start a family. Knowing farm work wasn't going to be a financially rewarding, life-long profession - as much as I liked the work itself - I kept an eye out for something else. Why is food so important to you? More in the comments

Watch this this video for tips on how to write your very own profile with Rina Barone! #creemoreartchallenge #purplehillsarts

From the Ross Family! #creemoreartchallenge #Purple Hills Arts & Heritage Society. Here is our art! Thank you Peter Mitchell for the inspiration! So fun!

From the Tamlin family! Here’s our #creemoreartchallenge with #purplehillsart. We’re making it a yearly tradition, starting now. Inside we are going to write what we’re thankful for this year and on Christmas morning we’ll open them up and read them aloud!

Posted @withregram @sara_sniderhan Mine and @izzy_mitchell_1 ‘s #creemoreartchallenge cards.

A beautiful #creemoreartchallenge by Darci Que! #purplehillsarts

Posted @withregram @wcooper314 Thanks for the great inspiration for River’s teacher holiday cards @purplehillsarts and @peterzmitchell and the supplies @creemore_newsstand

Posted @withregram @elisebeauregard Thank you @purplehillsarts & @peterzmitchell for this #creemoreartchallenge What a fun project! . . . .... #creemoreartchallenge #creemoreontario #creemore See more