Bakelaar discusses maintaining Listowel’s clock tower, time change

March 12, 2026 @ 7:53 amListowel Banner, News

Bradley Schmidt and Tim Bakelaar are pictured at the top of the Listowel Clock Tower with the original 1910 clock mechanism, which runs the clock today. (Kelsey Bent photos)

LISTOWEL – While the Province of British Columbia (BC) made their last biannual time change on Sunday, March 8, Tim Bakelaar, owner of Bakelaar Jewellers, climbed four storeys, by ladder, to the top of the Listowel clock tower once again, with no end in sight for his work winding and maintaining the community clock. Bakelaar…

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Kelsey Bent is a Local Journalism Initiative Reporter with Midwestern Newspapers.