Marlboro Court receives new playground equipment
By Mark Schadenberg
The Woodstock Recreation Advisory Committee (WRAC) keeps
me busy. Lots of items reach our agenda – sometimes as an update and sometimes to
truly offer our opinion to city staff or city council.
While I am the current chair of WRAC, our group includes
10 local volunteers (local tax paying / home owners can apply to volunteer),
two from city council (Bill Bes and Paul Plant currently), and three from city
staff including parks and recreation director Brian Connors.
WRAC is currently a positive influence in the development
of a recreational complex on the 95 acres of city-owned land with Devonshire
frontage known as the Woodall Woods Farm. Phase One would (could) include 5
baseball (slo-pitch and/or fastball) diamonds.
Annually, during city budget time, our committee does
receive a look at where dollars will be spent or could be spent in the future.
Our committee was the group which nominated the name for a new city park on
Lakeview Drive in the Sally Creek subdivision.
Marlboro park
My writings today may sound like a pat on the back, but
it depicts the fact that there are no small projects and that everything is on
a checklist somewhere. One of my comments to parks chief Chris Kern was to
assess the condition of a tiny park on Marlboro Court (Street starts beside my
Royal LePage real estate office at 757 Dundas).
This week – as I sit behind my keyboard – this small
parkette is receiving brand new playground equipment. It might just be the
city’s smallest community / neighbourhood recreation destination? The structure
that was there included a swing set and other old (very old) children’s play
centre equipment, like an ancient teeter-totter. If you had seen this see-saw
yourself, you would have wanted to saw it down and seen a way to replace it
yourself.
Counting on ABC
This week the ABC company (www.abcrecreation.com) based in
nearby Paris is installing a brand new slide-and-climbing apparatus (see
photo). ABC is a good group to work with because they’re local, built the
full-inclusive structure in Southside Park, and also specialize in other park
accessories including outdoor shelters and furniture.
As a parent of two children under eight, I tour the City
to check out various parks and my family has discovered many good destinations.
Every park is geared to a specific neighbourhood and demographics are considered, but at the end of the day each park is owned by
everyone on the list of those who dole out dollars to the 500 Dundas tax
department.
I’m always thinking about Woodstock.
Keep that in mind
when you’re thinking
about buying a home in Woodstock
Mark
Schadenberg, Sales
Representative
Royal
LePage Triland Realty
757 Dundas
St, Woodstock
www.wesellwoodstock.com
(519) 537-1553,
cell or text
Email:
mschadenberg@rogers.com
Twitter:
markroyallepage
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