Saturday, 4 October 2014

Theatre Woodstock tackling a play with sports theme

October production is not about football or rugby
'Shorthanded' is written by Michael Grant of Elmira

By Mark Schadenberg
If you want to attract a sports fan to live local theatre, plan on incorporating golf, football, baseball or hockey to the storyline.
Right?
Why not.
Theatre Woodstock is doing just that with it's current production, which in 2012 saw the author recognized with the Best New Comedy award by Playwrights Canada.
So, does the production feature baseball, golf or hockey?
Shorthanded is a play penned by the Elmira-based and Humber College grad Michael Grant, and features a hockey theme.
Grant has written other full-length plays, according to his bio, including Bare Bear Bones and Hamish. Again, I have not seen any specific details such as a script, but also intriguing (I'm sure) would be his short play The Highway -- a tribute to Canadian troops.
It's interesting that Grant calls Elmira home as the town's Sugar Kings junior hockey team won the all-Ontario Junior B title – the Sutherland Cup – in 2011.
In the plotline for Shorthanded, a group of aging athletes are attempting to re-live their former teenager prowess in Junior B many many years later by challenging to earn an oldtimers league championship.
I haven't seen the play, but it would appear to depict a fun premise for a stage production of dressing room chatter and camaraderie, good-natured ribbing, sarcasm, pursuit of a dream, redemption and soul searching.
The key here is that in the story for Shorthanded, it appears to be the last opportunity for glory for these skaters as years earlier they had lost their junior finals.
It's easy to discover summaries of scripts online so I wouldn't expect any secrets are being revealed here.
 
 
Shorthanded does sound like a smart combination of sports lending itself to acting – like Norm Foster's well-known witty look at golf, called The Foursome.
Also, since it's a hockey story, which is part of the Canadian fabric, everyone should relate to Shorthanded. The Woodstock show will run Oct. 17-25 and is directed by Joanna Sweete.
Since this is the October production of Theatre Woodstock it also marks the beginning of a new (hockey) season, which will also include the musical South Pacific (Nov 27 – Dec 6). Then - timely for Valentine's – will be Norm Foster's Old Love (Feb 6 – 14), and later a show by Ken Cameron called Harvest in April.
The Children's CAST company will spend the winter preparing its rendition of Aida, as created by Elton John and Time Rice.
 
 
Also, as Theatre Woodstock is a non-profit charity organization of amateur theatre, their website includes information on donating to the association or even volunteering. Originally called Woodstock Little Theatre, the group has been in existence for more than 60 years.
The Market Centre theatre in Woodstock is in a great location in Downtown Woodstock as its directly behind City Hall and across the street from the Oxford County admin building. Just a short walk away is both the museum and art gallery. The theatre's building itself dates back to the late 1890's when it was the city's central farm market.

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www.michaelgrantplaywright.com
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Friday, 3 October 2014

Gracepoint newest acting project for Kevin Zegers

Woodstock actor has impressive list of movie and TV roles
It's been twenty years since grade-school basketball Air Bud flick
By Mark Schadenberg

He certainly has grown up and is far beyond the past days of playing basketball on-screen with a Golden Lab.
Yesterday – before the debut of the new Kevin Zegers TV show Gracepoint on FOX and Global – I uttered a few spoilers on Facebook. These plotline revealing moments were not about the new intriguing who-done-it 60-minute series, but rather Kevin's 2013 movie The Colony.
In The Colony, Kevin plays one of the presumed last remaining citizens of Earth, which is a group of people living under ground and rationing any food (They have seeds to maintain a greenhouse) they have and sadly disposing of fellow colony members at they get sick as they don't want disease to spread. The premise also includes the fact the world has become absolutely frozen. There's a lot more to the movie and you can rent it for free at the Woodstock Public Library. As the storyline progresses we learn there is another group of living humans in a separate below-ground cavern a few miles away, and a journey over a bridge to visit this society is obviously integral to the story as Zegers, Bill Paxton (Twister, Titanic, Simple Plan and Spy Kids) and Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix, Hoodlum and TV's CSI) make the sojourn through blinding snow. I won't include the spoilers again.
The previous blog I wrote about Kevin Zegers was in April of 2013 (One can scroll back to find it easily) with the release of The Colony.
Why do I write about him? Simple. I promote everything Woodstock and in the day-and-age of reality TV shows flooding the airwaves, it's remarkable that the Woodstock actor continues to earn many good roles in both TV and movies.
Zegers is now 30 years old – having celebrated a birthday recently on Sept. 19.
Last night (Thursday, Oct 2), his new show Gracepoint debuted on Fox and it plans on being an intriguing week-to-week developing of a murder mystery as a 12-year-old boy is found dead on the beach – below a cliff – in a small California town somewhere between San Francisco and the Oregon border. Zegers plays a reporter at the local newspaper who (somewhat) inadvertently reveals the name of the deceased on his Twitter account after the boy's sister is seen on the beach dropping off a stuffed toy as a memorial. The show appears to have many layers, including an investigating female cop being overlooked for a promotion when the town hires a more-experienced law enforcer. The female cop has a son the same age as the dead boy – and the two were best friends. The cop's son certainly knows something about what happened, but others could hypothetically be involved.
The show – as you will see by reading the link below – is a re-make of a British program.
As for Zegers, his TV credits go way back to about 1993 and an episode of Street Legal.
 
Kevin's movie characters begin around that same time with a Michael J Fox picture called Life With Mikey (Also with the interesting ensemble of Nathan Lane, Victor Garber and Cyndi Lauper) so he's been busy memorizing lines and developing his acting craft for more than 20 years.
Everyone knows Zegers from the Air Bud movies and his character Josh Framm. It's truly hard to believe it's the same person as Kevin has grew up in the public's eyes. Kevin is no longer playing basketball, soccer or baseball with a Golden Lab, or the Steven Westover hockey player who skated with a monkey in Most Valuable Primate (MVP).
The long list of movies now include Virginia's Run, Treasure Island, Dawn Of The Dead, Wrong Turn, It's a Boy Girl Thing, The Jane Austen Book Club, Transamerica, and at least a dozen more. At the Cannes Film Festival, he won an acting award in the break-through category for the 2005 release Transamerica (He certainly was NOT an acting rookie, so that award is puzzling), while the other co-star Felicity Huffman won a Golden Globe for best actress.
A future release is a thriller called The Curse Of Downers Grove where he will star along with Tom Arnold and Helen Slater.
Gaining his countless small TV parts accounts for un-ending applications, casting calls, resumes, rehearsals, readings, and lots of hustling by both the actor and agent, but Kevin has had many network TV appearances.
I think many in Woodstock still recall the TV show The X-Files back in 1995 (Wow! 19 years ago) where Zegers played a 12-year-old boy with a strange bleeding palm or a stigmata. I wasn't a regular viewer of the series but Scully and Mulder were certainly perplexed by the possible religious connotations.
Zegers had a featured role on the short-lived Aaron Spelling NBC show Titans (Yasmine Bleeth and Jack Wagner; a poorly written night-time soap serial), Gossip Girl, Smallville and Titanic: Blood & Steel, plus anciently on Canadian fare Street Legal, Traders and Avonlea.
Here's my big congratulations to Kevin Zegers and my admiration for him and his continued determination to carve out a career as an actor. Kevin – you are making everyone in Woodstock very proud.
I do include some links below which delve more into Kevin's personal life, including his marriage to agent Jaime Feld, and an interview he does on the CBC show George. I could discuss excerpts from the interview, but you can discover (likely re-discover as it's been reported previously) them with a quick watch.


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Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Debate for Woodstock election is Oct. 6

What are some of the key issues in the 2014 vote?

By Mark Schadenberg

Social media rules the day in 2014, but who will be the Group Of Seven that will earn a chance to rule Woodstock for the next four years.
I will make no suggestions on who to vote for, but just comment on how terrific it was to see that a Facebook group could organize a successful meet-and-greet social gathering held yesterday at the Woodstock Fairgrounds. Terrific idea as the mainstream media promoted the informal meeting as well.
The actual debate for the 3 different positions available will be Monday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. at Goff Hall at the community complex. If you want a seat, get there early. If you want a seat at the city council horseshoe, be prepared – do your homework.
I'm baffled as to why the date for this debate only became public last week. With a fixed election date, the formal debate should have been scheduled several months ago.
Three candidates are vying for the position of mayor and all 3 know the in-and-outs of campaigning. Door knocking and getting inside the foyer of people's homes (face-to-face contact) to ask about and discuss the issues and concerns.
The trio hoping to chair city council meetings for the next term are incumbant Pat Sobeski, former mayor Michael Harding, and the 2006 runner-up (to Harding) in the polls Trevor Birtch. Should be an interesting result to track.
There are also 6 running for just 2 city-county seats – Deb Tait and Sandra Talbot hope to return, Bill Bes and Paul Plant hope to move up from city-only, Dave Nadalin desires to return to a position on council, and Christina Atkinson is the only new name.
For city-only representation there are 11 competing for 4 jobs. Jim Northcott and Ron Fraser have earned the right to be labelled incumbents, while Connie Lauder and Ross Gerrie are campaigning to return to city hall after losing in the last election. The 7 new names of hopefuls are (alphabetically): Jerry Acchione, Jonnathan Brownlee, Owen Farrell, Laurie Fraser, Steven Gilbert, Todd Poetter and Shawn Shapton.


I love our Woodstock system, by the way, where you can vote for as many as 7 people.
I dislike the London format, for example, where you can vote for mayor and for 1 person in the ward you reside in. Even if a ward system were mandated by the provincial government's 'municipal act' (and it's not) it's silly as there are simply way too many wards in London. Perhaps their numbering mathematics should be to vote for up to 4 people and have just 4 wards (defined districts with their specific needs and concerns). I want a more complete say in who is operating my city and that can not happen when you are only resposible for just 2 of 15 seats.
In Woodstock, the math can work the opposite way though. After reading the brochures and watching the debate, if you can only create a top 3 list for the 4 city-only seats – only vote for 3 people. Remember there is no weighting system for your vote as your top priority person receives the same vote as the 4th person you might be voting for just because you are permitted that number of 'X' marks. Further, if there is simply 1 person you truly like on the long list of 11 – vote for only that person.
The same can be said for the 2 city-county perches. It's quite a group of a half dozen vying for just 2 seats, so to properly assist your best choice, maybe vote for just that particular person.
Here's one more thought on the math using a hypothetical case.
I know of one ward in the townships of Oxford in particular where 3 are combating 2 spots. If your desire is to truly promote Candidate-A, why would you then also vote for either of the other 2 also?
I was going to include in this post, the final results from both 2006 and 2010 elections but instead did not want to sway any thoughts due to what happened in 'ancient-and-medievel' history. People change and issues change as the sand runs through the hourglass.

 
The Woodstock issues are numerous – selling the hydro utility, full public disclosure and a need for public meetings on topics such as selling the hydro utility, Woodall Farm park (the proposed ball diamond complex is a must, and yes I do add that in many blogs), current structure of the fire department, the cost of the police force, public transit is always debated, promoting the Downtown core, (maximizing the dollars and ideas in the) divesting of brownfield properties including the old Thomas Bus location, approving new subdivisions and their character without deviating from the Provincial Policy Statement about intensification, and the annexation of more lands to expand boundaries and industrial inventory property and the costs associated with same. Also, there is a recreational needs assessment study underway with consultants talking to citizens and user groups about facilities and trends, covering a pool (or an uncovered new outdoor pool) to replace Lions, along with more trails, splash pads, basketball courts, and the long-term vision of (Erastus) Burgess Park.
How will the new Group of Seven deal with the arts and other similar venues – gallery, museum, market theatre, and library?
The pendulum is always swaying when a municipality applies for upper-tier grants (and funding) for anything from bridges and roads, possible public housing projects (geared-to-income and retirement homes), a new arena (to replace Civic Centre), or possibly the arrival of the University of Ottawa or an expanded Fanshawe College.
 
In the next 4 years, has the time now arrived to shuffle some of the county duties versus the city responsibilities, with matters including road maintenance of streets inside Woodstock which are deemed to be county thoroughfares (i.e.: Parkinson and Devonshire)? Does Woodstock pay too much into the county coffers? One method of reducing household taxes in Woodstock is to lower the city's contribution to the county.
The county – in theory – competes with free entreprise as Oxford operates retirement homes. How does the Woodingford system work in all areas from management, to staffing, to landscaping ? Can all 3 be sold?
The list goes on and on.
Be sure to vote on Oct. 27

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Monday, 29 September 2014

Woodstock trails and (Central Park) parks (PART ONE)


Pittock lands controlled by UTRCA or Woodstock? What is best ?
By Mark Schadenberg

PART ONE
Every city – Woodstock most certainly included naturally – needs an abundance of green spaces for parks and trails and for nature.
Keep in mind, like all municipal services parks cost money as trails need to be maintained, grass must be cut, and playground equipment needs to be upgraded and replaced.
The city parks department under the helm of Chris Kern and recreation department boss Brian Connors have done a terrific job building new playgrounds for children and improving others.

TRAILING
Woodstock already can brag about its immense system of trails weaving from the west (Standard Tube and Millennium) to Innerkip Road along the Thames River, and beyond to 'The Pines'. City employees such as Leon Tryon deserve a hug as there are fewer vegetation (trees) to hug with the Ash trees gone. Folks like Bill Bes, John Duffy, James Holdsworth, and Jeff Skevington are all long-time environmentalists who know nature, species of birds, flora and fauna, and are friends of Pittock (See many links below).

The City of Woodstock is again knocking on the door of the London (Ont) palace of the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority (UTRCA) to earn more control of the acreage which wraps around Pittock Lake (Thames River widening reservoir named after Gordon Pittock) at the north end of the city. The parks and recreation department would propose purchasing some of the property and leasing some terra-ferma as well. Sounds like a great long-term (over the next 20 years) venture to connect all trails and create some more parkland for new subdivisions on the north of Pittock pond such as Havelock Corners. You can recall, that the Havelock homestead developed by Senators Homes will number over 600 houses when completed.

The UTRCA is the watchdog – often a mean biting mutt and only sometimes a docile aging golden lab. The UTRCA along with the City is writing a master plan (We have too many master plan and feasibility studies, but they keep consultants employed) to cover the next two decades for the Thames River watershed meandering through Woodstock, which includes the Cedar Creek as it trickles through Southside Park and desperately needs a dredging (I've penned about this several times).
Be sure to read a posting of mine from about one week ago where I praise the UTRCA on its Beachville-to-Woodstock watershed works, but the City will most certainly have frustration long-term negotiating and discussing ideas (in my opinion) with the governing water body when pondering and pandering occurs to Woodstock gaining some more control of the green spaces on the north side of Pittock, plus some already trail lines on the south shore, which at times are poorly maintained by the UTRCA or the City of Woodstock or both. 
There would never be an intention to close the conservation area and its 'day use' and 'camping' and 'membership' provisions. Bill Bes and his sailing club would boil (I'm guessing as I have never asked Bes and his sailors their thoughts on this one) if plans were afloat to scuttle the campground. The City, does however, want to create a formal defined loop trail around the lake.
One city council member at the last meeting described this waterway and its accompanying nature, as the future Central Park of Woodstock.
A long term project that will cost money, but an adventure worth tackling. Since minor soccer and hockey and other recreational committees and associations require a ton of volunteers, some of this future trail maintenance will have to be conducted by volunteers, such as an expanded Oxford County trails council. As I have always said, when riding my bike on the trails I always wear a helmet for safety, but I also don the headgear so I don't have to duck for all the branches. In other words, trail maintenance would require only modest pruning of over-hanging branches and the like, but the trail can not grow over either.
Take consideration quickly to the wonderful system of pathways through The Pines cycling trails east of County Rd 4. That 'park' is maintained by the Woodstock Cycling Club, which has a very dedicated axle, spokes and wheels group wielding the rakes and clippers necessary in expanding and nurturing that treasure.


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Woodstock's parks and trails (Part Two)


Armstrong park, pickle ball courts and playground equipment
By Mark Schadenberg

PART TWO:
Every city – Woodstock most certainly included naturally – needs an abundance of green spaces for parks and trails and for nature.
Keep in mind, like all municipal services parks cost money as trails need to be maintained, grass must be cut, and playground equipment needs to be upgraded and replaced.
The city parks department under the helm of Chris Kern and recreation department boss Brian Connors (pictured) have done a terrific job building new playgrounds for children and improving others.

A drive around the Friendly City will see sparkling new (replacing olde) play sets at Armstrong Park, Eastdale School (City paid for senior elementary equipment, while school fundraiser built primary area), Les Cook Park, the tiny neighbourhood park on Marlboro Court, and elsewhere.
As the city grows and expands brand new parks are popping up, including the David Lowes Memorial Park on Lakeview Drive on the west side of Highway 59. As chair of the recreation advisory committee (WRAC), I wrote the report to city council to have the park named after the prominent local businessman and volunteer who passed away a few years ago. With a hearty thanks to the Rotary Club and its massive donation, that playground set might be among the top three in Woodstock.
Playground equipment is not cheap, and when you factor in the installation, landscaping, walkways, and many safety features, a brand new impressive playground set could easily cost north of $150,000. This is where my tax dollar question would apply. If everyone is mobile (car and bicycles) and assuming (we should never assume, I realize) families will and can travel a relatively short distance to an impressive array of climbers, slides and swings, should we or should we not expect a gigantic park project every 10 blocks or so? Sometimes, parks do become too much of a good thing due to the 'dollar signs' attached. At Armstrong Park (pictured), an ancient swing and teeter totter were replaced with quite an expansive and impressive structure.

Less than two municipal blocks north is Park Row park, which has also enjoyed a transformation as ancient tennis courts have been converted to pickle ball courts and an adjoining basketball court has been refurbished. The pickle ball venue (pictured) will be a destination-by-car court space as only demand will demand getting more built.
 
 

I'm not running for city council (not this term anyway), and I do wear both my Realtor's hat, which wants to promote all neighbourhoods, plus my WRAC toque when I suggested a few massive budget items are not far away, including the Woodall Farm park (About 96 acres fronting on Devonshire Avenue and east of Ecole Marguerite Bourgeoys) which must happen. That park will require another set of modern monkey bars, sway features and pretend climbing walls. That park will also require a 'free community' splash pad feature and another pool to replace Lion's Pool on VanSittart. The main focus there must remain a minimum of four correct-dimensions ball diamonds as its absolute top priority.

  
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Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Leafs need a shootout to down the Flyers

Wearing two hats, but no helmet
At Monday's Leafs versus Flyers NHL preseason game I wore two hats – broadcasting with Rogers and Leafs TV as game host, and writing for Canadian Press.
If actors can be a triple threat by singing, dancing and acting, and baseball players can have three tools (bat, glove, and speed), I would like to think I have dual strengths.
Leafs won 3-2 in a shootout. Here's my pre-edited game story, and below a few links to where the story appeared.
As a quick note, a full contingent of reporters were at London's Budweiser Gardens from TSN (Mark Masters), Sportsnet (Chris Johnston), Toronto Star (Kevin McGran), Toronto Sun (Rob Longley) and points in between.
JAKE MUZZIN
Also posted below are the two links to the Jake Muzzin: In Focus show I participated in for Rogers TV in Woodstock along with cameraman / producer / editor John Payne. 

 

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Leafs defeat Flyers 3-2 in a shootout
First exhibition games for both NHL clubs
By Mark Schadenberg

For: THE CANADIAN PRESS

LONDON, Ont -- Familiar surroundings for Nazem Kadri.
Starting the NHL preseason in London -- Kadri's hometown and the arena where he starred with the OHL's London Knights, the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 in a shootout on Monday night.
Matt Read and Michael Raffl built a 2-0 lead for the Flyers, who were the home team in this contest for line changes, but Kadri would ignite the turn around with a late second-period marker and then set up Tom Nilsson for the equalizer 1:39 into the third period. Kadri was able to send a cross-ice pass to defenceman Nilsson breaking off the point and a one-timer beat Flyers goalie Anthony Stolarz, who last year played for the Knights and is a second round selection of the Flyers in 2012.
In the shootout, David Booth was the only scorer. Booth, who had nine goals and 19 points with Vancouver last season, joined the Leafs in the off-season on a one-year pact signed in July.
Kadri talked about playing in front of family and friends, and wanting to start the exhibition season on a positive note after netting 20 goals and 50 points last year for a Toronto team which missed the playoffs.
“I'm from here and I just don't want to disappoint, I guess,” said Kadri. “Production will be hugely important for me this year. I'm an offensive player. My goal is also to become a player who is the whole package. I think I was better on the draws today and working coming back in my own end.”
Stolarz stopped 29 of 31 shots over 65 minutes.
For Toronto, starter Christopher Gibson stopped 11 of 12 in 31 minutes, while Cal Heeter allowed a goal early in his second-half duty but recovered to be the winning goalie with 11 saves also on a dozen shots, plus three more saves in the shootout.
“I think I came in a little cold. I was pretty flat-footed on that first goal (by Raffl)," admitted Heeter, who ironically played in the Flyers system last year, including one appearance with Philadelphia and 44 more with the AHL Phantoms.
“Ì competed and battled well,” continued Heeter, who wore Flyers pads.”Ìt wasn`t the smoothest or best game I`ve played. I was a little choppy at times with my movement and on some rebounds.”
It would appear Heeter, Gibson, Antoine Bibeau and Garret Sparks will battle for the two positions with the Toronto Marlies, while Jonathan Bernier and James Reimer own the Leafs crease.
For the Leafs, it's another preseason match-up Tuesday versus the same Flyers, with a 7:30 p.m. start at Air Canada Centre.
With 11 goals and 29 points with the AHL Phantoms last year, Nick Cousins is working to earning a full-time promotion as he contributed assists on both Philadelphia goals.
For Leafs coach Randy Carlyle the contest was an early assessment on a busy exhibition schedule as Toronto not only plays Tuesday at home but also twice on Wednesday -- two split squad games versus Ottawa.
“It`s all about how well we did on working on the three things we are asking our players to concentrate on,” said Carlyle. “We`re working on defensive zone coverage, fore-checking systems, and play in the neutral zone.
“We really are not doing a lot of things drastically different, but we are working on some ideas with our new group of coaches here,” commented Carlyle, referring to new assistants Steve Spott, who was head coach with the Marlies last year, plus Peter Horachek added to the bench.
Interesting sidebar for the Flyers, is the fact the club in London was a split squad as Philadelphia actually played two home games Monday, also edging the Washington Capitals, 5-4.
Both clubs open the regular season on Oct 8 -- Toronto hosting Montreal and the Leafs start with four of five on home ice. Meanwhile, the Flyers will start in Boston.

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Sunday, 21 September 2014

Bring your venture to versatile village commercial property

Modern Embro office / retail location abounds in possibilities
Over 2300 square feet and vacant now for your ideas

By Mark Schadenberg

123 Huron Street, Embro

MLS: 74296 & 74297

Asking: $285,000 (New Price !)

Zoning: Village (V)
 
EMBRO – It could be your home, or your office, or a work-at-home commercial venture, or an income property.
This 2,300 square foot fully-modern building in a very visible location, would be ideal for an rural-like office for an accountant, lawyer or physio-therapist, would be terrific for a bakery, dance studio or artist residence, or could be sub-divided into two separate offices.
With its accessible ramp entrance, there are so many possibilities.
The building is also vacant now for your immediate possession.
As a previous vet clinic, the layout includes a dozen rooms, but if you remove a few walls, a very open concept could be the result. 
For the right buyer, a wonderful Embro commercial opportunity exists in purchasing this one-level (there is also almost a full unfinished basement with a rough-in for a bathroom if residential space was part of your consideration) office building at the important hub corner of Huron (County Rd 6) and Commissioners streets. I think it's a significant location for this village for prominence and visibility because Commissioners street is the road running west to the community centre and arena, including the home of the Highland Games on July 1.


About half the building is an addition in 1996 (with full basement).  Steel I-beams create open (unfinished currently) space in the lower level.
There are essentially 12 rooms, but two showrooms (One is approximately 25' x 23', while the other is 22' x 20'), along with 5 examining rooms, 2 offices and a kitchen.

The versatile village commercial zoning could permit a work-at-home office-type setting or purchase for your own professional use and maybe lease out a portion to another business (With the lab area, you could say there is already 2 kitchens). The current owner would obviously prefer a vet clinic not be operated from the location as Embro Veterinary Services amalgamated its Embro-area clients to nearby locations in Hickson, Tavistock and Dorchester.


The vinyl-sided building (several pictures posted here too) with a newer roof and modern mechanicals, includes a forced air gas furnace, air-exchange system, breaker panel box, and security system.
There's lots of parking too – with 12 spots on site.
Interested buyers can ask about the on-going debenture payment to Zorra township for the previous sewer installation, along with a thorough list of possible inclusions and exclusions.
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