Allison Park Receives Award from the City of Hamilton

It was a great honour to receive a plaque from the City of Hamilton during our Yard Sale for the Cure event for our efforts in support of Recreation and Parks month this year.

Yard Sale a Great Success

Wow, what a day, and a long day at that!

I woke up at an incredibly early time of the day for me, and woke to sounds of diesel trucks driving by the house, I recognized the sound of the engines as a Hino diesel, so I thought jeez, dont tell me that 1-800-GOT-JUNK is already in the neighbourhood?

Sure enough, there was Tony and his crew with 2 trucks roaming the neighbourhood looking for people whom needed help in hauling their goods to the park.

I cant thank Tony enough for all his help, his staff where incredible, they also bought a booth and sold their goods, and also made the largest donation of monies raised!

We had 14 vendors in total and hundreds of people showed up and brought their money with them.

In total we raised over $ 700.00 for breast cancer research.

It was a great first time event for us, and is a foundation for us to build on.

Thank-you to everyone whom came out, I will be posting a full-report with pictures on a new section on our website along with pictures this week.

Allison Park Yard Sale Signs Go Up

These signs where donated by our sponsor Mr.Chris Ecklund

Splash Pad Construction Continues in Allison Park

Here are some pictures that I took yesterday, the underground wiring has been fed through, and will hook up with the City services which are conveniently buried underground from the park. Chris the Electrician is also hooking up the Electrical panel that will feed the splashpad.

Further work will be the completion of the pad itself, which will take place within the next few weeks.

All will be completed and pad will be opened by our Canada day Long Weekend festivities.

Want to visit the best neighbourhood in Hamilton?

Come on over to Allison Park, we are located just south of the intersection at Upper Wellington and Rymal Road East.

Our website is http://www.allisonpark.org

Rachael Smith and Chris Ecklund

Here we are after the interview on K-Lite FM, it was a priviledge and honour to meet Rachael Smith the founder of " Yard Sale for the Cure" whom came in from Toronto that morning to be on the Sunni and Hayes morning drive radio show.

We had a 4 minute time frame to get the message out about the event, my thanks go out to K-Lite FM for allowing us the air time, and also in being such a huge and great Corporate sponsor of this event, and also all my other events that I host in the City.

We look forward to also seeing the K-Lite FM Community crusier at the event , which is being held in Allison Park Saturday May 26, 2007 from 8 a.m., till 12 noon.

For further details or to sign up send an e-mail to our webmaster, or call 905-517-9940

The Allison Park web site is located at http://www.allisonpark.org

Sunni and Hays Interview on K-Lite FM

Tommorow morning on the Sunni & Hays I will be interviewed about the upcoming " Yard Sale for the cure " event that I am holding in our park on Saturday May 26 2006 from 8 a.m. till 12 Noon.

Please listen in they are at 102.9 on the FM dial.

The show will have Rachael Smith whom founded the event.

K-Lite has signed aboard as a corporate sponsor of this event, and I thank them for their support.

More info can be found at Allison Park supports Breast Cancer Research

Tulips Have Sprung in Allison Park

The tulips have sprung!!!

Last year you will recall that our local children planted the tulips that where donated by Sherri Duvall wife of councilor Duvall of ward 7 on behalf of Avon Canada's breast cancer awareness drive.

The children planted 250 of them around our trees, and it is great to see that they have come up!

Dont forget our " Yard Sale for the Cure" event this May 26 in our park, if you want to support Breast Cancer research and have some stuff you want to get rid of, sign up today for a spot.

1-800-GOT JUNK will even be donating 3 trucks to help get the stuff to the park for you.

Visit our website for more details, send us an e-mail if you want to sign up.

Allison Park

Allison Park Update

This week I met with a City Staff Person in charge of the parks, and we went over where our park stands in relation to maintenance issues, outstanding problems and our splash pad.

Items that where discussed were the addition of more chips to the playground, sinking benches, a missing picnic table, uneven grass areas, and fixing the perimeter of the park that was not completed by the developer.

I also had that " hidden" spike removed from the grass area that a resident told me about. I personally removed the other two posts last week myself.

Over the next month you may see City Staff in the park fixing these items.

Our splash pad has still not been completed and turned over to the City, there might not be enough time to complete it in time for our planned opening on May 26th, details will follow as they become available.

In the City of Hamilton there are neighbourhoods and there is ours, come by and see what makes us so special, visit us at The best neighbourhood in Hamilton, Ontario Canada.

Globespan Airlines Launches in Hamilton

Today was a great day for Hamiltonians with the launch of Globespan Airlines out of Hamilton International Airport.

The airline is flying 757-200ER Boeings pictured here outfitted with Rolls-Royce engines at 43,000lbs of thrust per side.

As a pilot and long time supporter of Hamilton Airport, this airline should have a long successful run here in Hamilton.

Today I talked to 6 people who already booked flights on them!

Welcome to Hamilton!

Aliison Park Residents love to fly out of Hamilton Airport, that us waving to you when you are on short final for 24!

Visit the greatest little neighbourhood in Hamilton at ALLISON PARK RESIDENTS LOVE TO FLY OUT OF HAMILTON AIRPORT