Parks Archive

Sparks Take a Stand

The 11th Markham Sparks took up some gloves and garbage bags earned their environment badge by cleaning up the school grounds on April 18th. The 5-6 year old girls filled 18 bags of garbage with help from their troup leaders. The girls were amazed at how much garbage was on and around the grounds. There is still more to do.

The CRPA is also doing a clean up later in May and the students of Cornell Village will also participate in their own pick up day. We would encourage all residents to do the same around their yards and streets. Lets all take the lead of the Sparks and pitch in to clean up Cornell.

Fall Cleanup

The CRPA Board members turned out on Thursday, October 26th, 2006 to cleanup the newly adopted Benjamin Marr Park. Six bags of garbage were picked up and then we proceeded to plant for the first time, tulips in two of the beds closest to the playground.

Continuing with the Colour Your Corner project from the summer and looking forward to the spring, bulbs were planted in the six beds at the western entrances to the community. White’s Hill Avenue, Cornell Park and Settlement Park  Avenue at Ninth Line.

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.


CRPA Garden Festival: Adopt-A-Park 2005

June 2005 – The first annual CRPA Garden Festival: Adopt-A-Park 2005 was held on June 19th, 2005 at the Mews Park. Organized and run by the Cornell Garden Comittee (comprised of local residents and the CRPA). Thank you to all the volunteers, vendors, and entertainers that made this another great community event!  We would also like to recognize the time that has been contributed by the ongoing gardeners – thank you for watering and maintaining the garden for this summer season and coming fall.

We are happy to hear that this inaugural project has inspired several residents into wanting to adopt different parks throughout existing and upcoming Cornell neighbourhoods!

Proceeds from this event were proudly donated to Cornell Village Public School’s library for quality fiction and non-fiction books.

Images in the above photo album are courtesy of Penny Green and Linda Irvine – thank you ladies!

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