Allison Park Spring Cleaning Begins

Its time to head outside folks and enjoy this great weather!

Its also time to head out and start to clean up!

Its amazing the garbage that collects over the winter, so check around your house, and even your sidewalk and portion of the street in front of your house, every little bit helps!

In the coming week the snow will be all gone so we will be able to do a large scale cleaning of the park and fence lines.

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Allison Parks Yard Sale For The Cure

On May 31 2008 from 8 a.m. till 12 Noon., I will be hosting our 2nd Annual Yard Sale for the Cure to raise money for Breast Cancer research in Allison Park.

Last year we had a small but great start and I am pleased to support this great cause once again.

Details to follow in due course, but to learn more visit Rachels website at

http://www.yardsaleforthecure.com/

Spring Cleaning in Allison Park

Usually we dont have snow on the ground for Easter Egg hunt and I have my annual spring clean up of the park before the Easter Egg hunt and clean up all the dog droppings before the children get into the park.

This year obviuosly we could not do that, so I will be having our annual spring cleaning of the park in a week or so, please keep an eye out here and on the mail boxes for a flyer announcing the same.

It only takes an hour, and then the park will be spic and span for the little ones.

Many thanks for any volunteers that would like to help out:)

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Allison Park Easter Egg Hunt a HUGE Success

Just a hare over 20,000 chocolate Easter Eggs, where collected in 5 minutes by an estimated 3-500 children yesterday at my local park Allison Park.It was a bright and sunny day, chilly and windy, but that did not deter people from coming out and enjoying the festivities.Lots of Hamiltonians attended the event from all over the City, welcome to Allison Park!It was definetly a challenge this year, hopefully the weather will be better for next year and we can get back to the usual activities that I have.Councilor Duval had a previous committment and sent his regrets, but many thanks for Councilor Whitehead and family for coming out.Many thanks to my longtime right hand man in the neighbourhood Paul, whom has worked behind the scenes and helped me make these and other events I host in the park great success's that they are, Paul has never said no to me and for the last 9 years has always been there to help me out, many thanks Paul!And also many thanks to my driver Dave, whom put a lot of hours into getting the park ready and distributing the eggs.Many thanks to all of you for coming out, have a great Easter weekend, enjoy the family drive safe and give thanks!

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Final Preparations for my Easter Egg Hunt

Well we surveyed the park today, it will be a slippery and wet hunt tomorrow, so please make sure the little ones have their rubber boots on and are dressed warmly.The good thing is that it will be a nice sunny day!We shoveled some more snow off the paths, broke up a lot of ice, and dumped 2 large bags of salt down, and will pour a couple more tomorrow also.See you in the morning!

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Looking for a Easter Egg Hunt in Hamilton?

If you are looking for a Easter Egg Hunt in Hamilton, then bring the little ones out to Allison Park tomorrow, at 10 a.m. SHARP.

Allison Park is located at the end of Upper Wellington, just over Rymal Road ( Hwy 53), the street curves around and the park is right there.

I have just a hare ( all pun intended) over 20,000 chocolate eggs for the kiddies, its a free event and all are welcome:)

Hop to see you are there tomorrow!!

Hop to it!

Chris ( Easter Bunny ) Ecklund

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Hamilton's Largest Easter Egg Hunt

This Saturday March 22 2008 at 10:00 a.m., Chris Ecklund will be hosting his annual Easter Egg Hunt in Allison Park.

This year he will help the Easter Bunny distribute just over 20,000 chocolate Easter eggs for the little ones to find.

The weather will be good, so bring the little ones out, its free of charge as usual!

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Snow Removal in Allison Park

Well the snow is gone, 1 snowblower died along the way, but we should be good to go for my annual Allison Park Easter Egg Hunt Saturday March 22 2008 at 10:00 a.m.



The City came by with their BIG blower ( Thank-you) and removed the snow around the park so we will now have room for lots of cars to park.



Their was at least 1-2 feet of snow removed in the park, and now with the warm temps coming this should melt away the base snow and ice and expose the grass for the Easter Bunny.



All is a go for next weekend!



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The Clean Up Begins in Allison Park

Well the HUGE City snowblower came by and cleaned up around the park, which is great, we should have lots of room for parking now, and today I have 2 snowblowers going in the park to remove as much snow as possible and get the paths cleared, and hopefully remove a foot of snow to get down as close as possible to the grass.

With the warmup now here, hopefully that will melt the base ice once exposed so the Easter Bunny can deposit her eggs for the little ones.

Rumour has it the easter Bunny will be bringing over 20,000 chocolate eggs this year.....

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Allison Park Easter Egg Hunt 2008

Well,........with Easter being 3 weeks earlier this year, and all this snow, we are going to have a tough time on our hands this year if I am going to pull this off or not.

Before we got all this snow I walked the park and saw we had 3 inches of solid ice over the grass.

Now we have 4 feet of snow.

We have a big melt down coming starting today, cross your fingers that it gets rid of a lot of the snow.

What I will do is bring in a snow removing crew and get rid of as much snow as possible in the park, to expose all the base ice, and then hopefully with the warmer temps, it will melt the base ice away.

The safety of our children is very important, not to mention, how do they expect to see a tiny egg in 4 feet of snow!!!

Ah, challenges I like!

So for those around the park, if you hear a lot of equipment in the next few days, this is what I will be doing.

As long as we can have some exposed grass, then we should be okay!

Bye for now!

Chris ( Easter Bunny ) Ecklund

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