Recreation Director Graeme Ivory reported to elected representatives (November 27th) about cosmetic improvements undertaken in various Town Parks over the summer and fall.
In addition to playground upgrades at two sites in the community, a total of 1.014 million dollars was spent on trail redevelopment as the first initiative under the Town’s Waterfront Master Plan.
JP2G Consulting did both design work and contract oversight, while Nepean’s Goldie Mohr carried out construction.
The Rec Director says amenities included new benches- five of standard description and five third-arm models, as well as eleven waste receptacles; and new paved pathways will benefit so many.
Ivory says new lighting not only makes the area safer, it illuminates both natural and man-made attractions.
No sooner had Council accepted Ivory’s report, than the meeting agenda moved on to a couple of naming requests from representative Dan Lynch- who had wanted to call the pathway the “Voyageur Trail”, but Town research had discovered the trail had already been named at the turn of the century, by the municipal Millennium Ad-Hoc Committee as the “Gillies Trail”… and so be it.
By Rick Stow
