[All] Record Letter to Editor re Hidden Valley

[Susan Koswan]

Happy to see they published my letter today! Yvonne - can you share this
with the rest of Kitchener council?

Thanks.

Susan K

Grand centennial park 

Re: Buying Hidden Valley a priority - Feb. 7

The City of Kitchener is currently appealing to citizens for ways to
celebrate the city's centennial this year. I think local eco-heroes Gord and
Daphne Nicholls have come up with a very exciting idea: buy Hidden Valley to
create a signature park and heritage bike/hike trail from the Freeport flood
plain to the Pioneer Tower following the Grand River.

This centennial park would create a legacy that protects and connects us to
natural and social heritage features such as the Carolinian forest, bald
eagles, the Homer Watson House, Doon Heritage Crossroads, the new Waterloo
Region Museum and the Grand River itself.

Funding sources could include reallocated Environmental Action Funds and
monies already allocated for the Walter Bean Grand River Trail and to
celebrate the city's centennial. I also suspect that a project like this
would have little trouble generating donations from the public.

My family frequently bikes the Cambridge-to-Paris rails-to-trails path and
Kitchener's and Waterloo's off-road trail system. We've also biked along the
Canal du Midi in France with its barges, locks, cacophonous cicadas, plane
trees and delightful village stops along the way. The possibility of saving
travel expenses, hopping on the light rail transit with our bikes and then
riding for hours along our beautiful heritage river would indeed be grand.

Susan Koswan

Kitchener

http://www.therecord.com/opinion/letters/article/672516--grand-centennial-pa
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