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Teeswater Kinsmen to Create Memory Park
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In an ambitious project, the Teeswater Kinsmen have embarked on creating a Memory Park to honour and keep alive the memory of past and present community members, as well as preserving a significant part of Culross-Teeswater history!
Recently the Kinsmen purchased the former Teeswater News Office property and already work is well underway with ground leveling and seeding completed before the snow fell. When driving through town look for the large sign on mainstreet showing the location of the park as well as progress of the project to date.
Like any large project, the Kinsmen are looking to the rest of our community for help to make it a reality. One of the fund-raisers that will be instrumental in creating the park will be special commemorative bricks that will be laid in the park’s walkways. What a great Christmas present (not to mention anniversaries, birthdays or other special occasions)!
The bricks will be 12 inches by 6 inches by 2 inches, large enough to allow up to a 3 line message or commemoration in 1 inch high letters (maximum of 16 letters or spaces per line). And once installed in the walkways you, your loved ones and friends can stroll along the pathways of the new park reading all the names and events in the bricks!
Due to the amount of time needed to complete your message on the bricks, you will need to order by February 1st, 2008 in order that the brick be installed in time for the International Plowing Match in September 2008.
If you have not already received a letter and order form from the Kinsmen in your mailbox or if you have any further questions please call Jamie Leslie at 519-851-0750 or Steve Tiffin at 519-392-8939.
What a great project to not only honour our present and past citizens, but also beautify our downtown core!
Written by Mark W. Law
Mark W. Law has been a writing and journalism fanatic since he was first tagged to write a 3 act ’shadow play’ – in Grade 2! Originally from the wee hamlet of Oyster Bay, BC, Mark has worked in many parts of the world, including almost all of the Canadian provinces, the United States, Europe and even a sand-filled radio station in North Africa. During that time he has written for military and local newspapers, served as editor for a number of online magazines as well as publishing his own popular ezine for new writers and artists – The ThinWire Journal. Mark has also penned more than 100 poems and essays and is an internationally known digital artist. And for anyone who lived in Northern BC during the 1980’s and 1990’s, Mark was the ‘morning weatherman’ on CBC Radio. Opinions expressed in ‘the View’ are his own and do not necessarily reflect Teeswater or Teeswater.Ca.
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