A Busy Day at the Park! Check Out These Events on September 24!

Saturday September 24 will be a busy day at Withrow Park!

Start the day by celebrating the 5th anniversary of the Withrow Park Farmers Market.  The market is a lively part of our park community.  Come visit our table to say hello and take a few moments to check out the harvest festival and yummy food available every Saturday morning at the market. The market runs from 9 am to 1 pm rain or shine.  Visit http://www.withrowpark.ca/ for details.  

The afternoon will be filled with family fun at the park with the  Kaleidoscope Kids Festival- a family fundraising event for the Broadview Community Youth Group.  The festival will run from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and will feature art and entertainment put on for kids and by kids, including workshops, live entertainment, activities, vendors and food.  There will be performances by kids followed by a headline performance by The Monkey Bunch.

See you at the Withrow Park! 

Adopt a Tree!

Adopt Tree in Withrow Park

You may have noticed that we have a whole lot of new trees in the park.  Once the last instalment of the planting is done in the spring the park will have received about 100 new trees!  As you likely know, new trees need some tender loving care and water.  The trees are being looked after for the remainder of this season but in the spring we will be looking for volunteers to adopt a tree(s) to take care of and make sure it survives and thrives.  If you are interested in adopting a tree(s) please contact us at withrowtrees@sympatico.ca and we will add you to our growing list of tree adopters.  As we get closer to the spring we will be assigning trees and we will give you basic instructions for tree care.

Thanks!
Jen and Charlotte

A Big Thank You to Bret and Rockwell Stoneworks!

Have you walked by our new campfire pit yet?  We were lucky enough to have our campfire pit donated and built by Bret of Rockwellstoneworks (rockwellstoneworks@gmail.com).  A big thank you to Bret for  taking the time to build this campfire pit over the long weekend and donating all of the materials.  We will be sure to enjoy it!

WHAT A GREAT CAMPFIRE!

What a fun evening at our park!  We have a beautiful new campfire pit (thanks to the help of our dedicated recreationist, Ronda Murphy) and the weather held off so that we could celebrate this new addition to our park.  Marshmallows, bannock and campfire songs (thanks to Pepper who led the singing)...it was a great way to celebrate Labour Day weekend and begin our Withrow Park campfire tradition.

We plan to have more campfires in the near future.  Stay tuned...

Join us for a campfire on Sunday September 4!

Join us for the first Withrow Park cooking campfire on Sunday September 4 from 6 pm to 8 pm.  We will cook some snack goodies on the campfire near the main pathway running from Hogarth to Strathcona.
 
Bring a picnic and join us for a fun evening by the fire!

Cooking Campfires at Withrow Park! First Campfire Sunday September 4! We Need Volunteers!

We are going to have cooking campfires at Withrow Park!  Our first planned campfire is on the Sunday of Labour Day weekend (September 4).  The plan is to invite everyone to bring their own food to the park for a picnic but we will try to cook some extra treats to share from our campfire.  I will circulate more information about this event (and future campfires) shortly.

In order to have cooking campfires at Withrow Park we need to have volunteers who have safety training from the City.  If you can help out with the Labour Day Weekend (September 4) campfire or if you have an interest in particpating in future campfires please email me at friendsofwithrowpark@live.com so that you can receive the necessary training.  I will be setting up a training session shortly (it apparently takes about half an hour).

Please also let me know if you can volunteer at the Labour Day Weekend (September 4) campfire.  We need 6 volunteers who have received the City safety training.  It would also be great if we could have a musician (or more than one) for music at the campfire and/or people who might help organize some camp crafts. 

Let's make cooking campfires a Withrow Park tradition!

The sad tale of the tetherball and park security

The good news was that we finally obtained a tetherball from the City.  It was hooked up a couple of weeks ago and it quickly became a popular feature in the park.  And then it disappeared....

The next bit of good news was that people in the community cared enough to track down the missing tetherball and it magically reappeared about a week later.  Again it was very popular.  And then it disappeared on Saturday night....

Only to reappear on Sunday night.  I have no clue what happened the the tetherball in the interim. 

Unfortunately, today the tetherball was damaged in the late afternoon by a group of people who thought it was more fun to destroy the tetherball (and the pin affixing it to the pole) than to play with it.  So now I have a broken tetherball and that will be the end of that saga until I can find another one.

The sad fate of the tetherball is one example of mischief in the park.  Recently there has been word of two much more serious occurrences involving swarmings or muggings.  There will be a community safety meeting on Wednesday July 6 at 8:00 pm at the Withrow Club House.  The meeting, organized by Councillor Fletcher, is to bring together police, park staff and residents to do a safety walk around the park.  Please make an effort to show up to this important meeting.