[All] Record Letter to Editor re Hidden Valley

[Lori Strothard]

agreed - great idea!  Lori Strothard
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Robert J. Fleming (Apple Creek) 
  To: 'Susan Koswan' ; all at gren.ca 
  Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 11:45 AM
  Subject: Re: [All] Record Letter to Editor re Hidden Valley


  Impressive, inspiring, motivational letter, Susan. 

   

  Cheers,

   

  Robert J. Fleming 

   

  robert at applecreekbuilding.com

   

   

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  From: all-bounces at gren.ca [mailto:all-bounces at gren.ca] On Behalf Of Susan Koswan
  Sent: February 17, 2012 11:25 AM
  To: all at gren.ca
  Subject: [All] Record Letter to Editor re Hidden Valley

   

  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-park

   



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