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Colouring Cornell’s Corners

The CRPA is proud to announce that local residents and businesses have adopted the western entrances of the community through the Colour Your Corner Town program. Colour Your Corner enables people to adopt and plant a corner in their neighbourhood making it more attractive. The town will match $175.00 put in by the adopting groups to buy plant material to enhance the selected corners and the town also digs and prepares the beds.

CRPA submitted plans of the beds for approval (designed with Cornell shades of red and gold). Once the beds were dug we picked up and arranged for the shrubs and flowers to be planted. A group of CRPA board members and residents had alot of fun artistically planting the 4 adopted beds along Ninth Line at Whiteshill, and at Cornell Park Ave. We plan to add many bulbs into the beds in the fall for a beautiful flower display next year.

After planting CRPA took garbage bags and did a clean-up along Ninth Line and at Benjamin Marr Park. We were pleased to see it took less bags to clean up the area then last year .

We would like to thank the following groups for their participation in adopting the corners and helping make our entrance look more appealing. The beds at Settlement Park will be dug and planted in the upcoming weeks.

Please take some time to clean up areas near you, it makes such a difference to the neighbourhood. We hope you all enjoy the new corners at our entrances. Check back soon for photos from our planting and have a wonderful summer season!

More Information about Colour Your Corner:
> www.markham.ca/.../getinvolved_colourcorner.htm

Please send any questions about this project to Elaine Cato, crpa parks director at parks@mycornell.ca.

Residents Adopt Christian Reesor Park

August, 2005 – On August 14th, Christian Reesor Park was adopted through the Town of Markham's beautification program. Thanks to the organizing efforts of Vivien Page and the gardening help of residents on Christian Reesor Park Ave., the group planted what they hope will be the start of an ongoing beautification of the park. Next year's money may go into oak barrel planters along the park, or another little garden at its east end.

Christian Reesor Park is the second park to be adopted in Cornell by local residents. The Mews Park at the corner of Cornell Park and Country Glen Road was the first to be adopted in June of 2005 by the CRPA.

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