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PARK IMPROVEMENTS
Park Commission Means Business-Work to be Gone on With at Once-Improvements Outlined
[Welland Tribune, 26 April 1910]
Welland’s new park commission are an energetic body.
They organized on Friday night, and on Saturday they were all out on the park site, looking it over and discussing as to the best action to be taken.
If the park is to become one in reality this summer, Mr. Plumb of Brown’s Nurseries says the trees and shrubs must be planted within two weeks.
The commissioners on Saturday found there was considerable yet to do in getting the site ready.
Mr. Beatty, who had looked the site over previously, pointed out the defects.
The southeastern portion of the site in front of Magistrate Burgar’s residence is too low and will have to be filled in, and then there are considerable hog’s backs which will have to be taken off the centre. There is a lot of earth away up at the far south end of the site, which, with what is scraped off the centre, will about do this, and the cost will run about $250 to $300.
The council will be asked to extend the sidewalk on the west side of Muir street all along the park, and the Bell Telephone company will be requested to remove a number of poles which are in the way.
The planting will cost three or four hundred dollars, and altogether the park commission may require a thousand or twelve hundred dollars this year.
The result will be an oasis right in the heart of busy Welland, and as nice a park as one could want.
Some other spots about town, such as the foot of Hellems avenue on the river, will be looked into by the commissioners.
Watch Welland grow beautiful.
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