An Ice Cream Maker’s Latest Recipe: Saving the Local School
Like many people in Markdale, she said the idea of closing it was "ridiculous"
and "devastating." "I just think it would end up as a ghost town starting with the school," she said.
Fraser Murray said that It’s not like living in Toronto where, O.K., they close a school but two blocks away there’s another,
6, 2017
MARKDALE, Ontario — Like hundreds of small towns in Ontario, Markdale got the bad news from the provincial
government last year: Its elementary school would have to close, a victim of cost-cutting.
"It’s more rural, it’s a little bit quieter, some people would say a little less progressive." While
Markdale has lost some employers in recent years, Chapman’s is the stuff of small town dreams.
Then an unlikely savior came through: Chapman’s Ice Cream, a homegrown business
that offered two million Canadian dollars to keep the town’s children in the local Beavercrest Community School rather than on buses to other places.
" Mr. Chapman said in his office at the rebuilt plant. that This town made us who we are,
Ron Motz said that It’s still a little bit of old Ontario,