Easter Egg Hunt in Hamilton at Allison Park

Hamiltons largest Easter Egg Hunt is just around the corner folks!!!

This year it will be Saturday April 3rd 2010 at 12 Noon at Allison Park.

Bring the kids, I have over 23,000 eggs this year, it will be a blast!!!!

Chris Ecklund

http://www.allisonpark.org

Good Friday Waterfall Walk in Hamilton

A long standing Hamilton tradition is to gather up the family and friends and head out for a Good Friday Walk.

This seems to be a Hamilton thing, people from other Cities have never heard of this before.....

If you are looking for a walk and would like to see some of our waterfalls come and join in on the fun!!

This Good Friday we will tour Albion, Buttermilk, and also see the 3 new waterfalls just discovered as well. ( though they might be dried up at that point)

We will also hike a section of the rail trail, and also the original Mountain Brow Road from 100 years ago!!

Follow this link to our City of Waterfalls website!!

http://www.cityofwaterfalls.ca

Allison Park is now on Facebook

I have just opened a group for us, so if you are on facebook head on over and check out the pictures and videos I have from over the last 10 years or so!!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13358248908#/group.php?gid=75386867395&ref=mf

I will dig up some old stuff and upload it as well!!

If you have anything please add it!!!

http://www.allisonpark.org/

Allison Park's Annual Easter Egg Hunt

Hey folks!!

This just in, I have gotten word that the Easter Bunny and all his helpers will be coming to Hamilton's Best Neighbourhood, Allison Park, where they will be hiding just a " hare " over 20,000 chocolate eggs again this year!!!

This years event will be Saturday April 11, 2009 at 12 Noon, SHARP!!!!!

Please keep the little ones on the sidewalks and pathways, and keep them off the grass as the Easter Bunny has hidden all the chocolate eggs there.

All of the construction materials have been removed, and I will be doing a last minute cleanup at the end of the week as well.

It looks like we will finally be having some good weather this year, WOW what a difference a year can make!!

One of my waterfall cars will be there as well, so come on out bring the kids and family, and lets have some fun!

This is a free event, no cost, just bring a smile that's your admission :)

Chris ( Easter Bunny ) Ecklund

http://www.allisonpark.org/

Tulips are popping up in Allison Park

While cleaning up today, I noticed that our pink tulips are starting to pop up, which is another sign of spring!!!

This year I will also add some new flowers in the park and around our trees in the park and also at the entrance way into our neighbourhood as well.

http://www.allisonpark.org

Allison Park Spring Clean Up

Today was the start of my annual clean up throughout the neighbourhood, you may have seen myself and my associate out and about cleaning, raking, and picking up garbage.

This is all to get ready for my annual Easter Egg Hunt, which will take place in a couple of weeks.

The park is going to be a challenge this year, I am going to fix the fencing the day before the hunt, but parents are going to have to keep an eye on their children this year to make sure they do not venture into the construction areas.

I will do my best to make it as safe as possible, we are going to be doing a park sweep through again the day beforehand.

There is some broken glass, and we have been cleaning that up today, but if there is anything you notice please let me know, I don't want the little ones cutting there hands.

One thing I noticed this year was small shards of sliced up pop can that the grass cutter did last year.

Everyone can help in this regard, if you see pop cans and glass bottles, please pick them up and put in your recycle bin.

There are also a few neighbours that pitch in and have helped clean the park, to them my back says THANK YOU!!!!!!

The clean up will continue over the weeks to come, whenever the weather co-operates we will be out cleaning up.

Thank you again to everyone that helps out, we can all do our own little bit, by picking up garbage around our houses, on the street in front of our house, or in the park if you are there.

The City also came by with their new truck, which is really neat, thanks guys for picking up the garbage!

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Happy New Year Allison Park Residents

I just wanted to quickly wish everyone a Happy New Year, lets hope to a short winter!

Please keep the fire hydrants clear of snow, and during the melts, if you have a sewer please shovel it out so the water can run in.

We had a major delay in finishing the park before the winter hit, but look for it to be finished in the spring time.

All the best for 2009!

Chris Ecklund

www.allisonpark.org

Our new sunshelter in Allison Park

Well construction has resumed again in our park, and the sunshelter is coming along nicely.

All construction will be done and ready for you to enjoy with your children and friends for next year!

http://www.allisonpark.org/

100th blog

Wow, 100 blogs here already!!!

Thanks for stopping by and reading them!!

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Sidewalks on Rymal Road

The installation of sidewalks on Rymal Road ( Hwy 53 for us old timers), is being completed to make ready for the new expanded road.

There is a special treat for you all with the sidewalk, when it is completed go take a walk on it and see if you can figure it out!

This will no doubt make it easier and safer for you and the kids to get to the new YMCA.

The first one with the right answer gets an Allison Park T-Shirt:)

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Sun Shelter in Allison Park

The sun shelter is still being built, we are just waiting for it to be delivered.

It is coming from the States and should be here within 2 weeks.

It will then be completed!

http://www.allisonpark.org

Allison Park Gets its long awaited advanced green light

It all started a couple years back, I noticed people making u-turns on Upper Wellington by Sedona Crt.

I thought really nothing of it, heck people get lost I thought.

But, I kept seeing it, and one time I saw 4 cars doing it all at one time!

I talked to a few neighbours and they confirmed it has been happening for years, turns out people where getting tired of waiting for the light to turn left on Upper Wellington so they would come and use our street instead to head right through and not have to wait.

This just added to the ongoing traffic situation that we have here and what was getting worse.

If you remember back years ago I did a traffic survey and found that something like 80% of the traffic on Jacqueline was using us as a through street from other surveys!

This then led to the elimination of the left turn signs on Rymal and that helped out.

Now with all the new surveys we are starting to get a lot more traffic once again.

I asked Councilor Duvall if he could talk to the traffic department and see what we could do about a advance green light that would hopefully eliminate this problem.

The new light was just installed, they are putting in new sensors and it should be operational soon.

Many thanks to Councilor Scott Duvall for getting this done!

http://www.allisonpark.org/

Allison Park gets it long awaited sun shelter

Fellow residents of Allison Park!

Today was the start of our long awaited sunshelter!!

This will take a month to complete if all goes well and at the same time hopefully the new parts I ordered in for the splashpad will arrive as well:)

There have been a few changes in the master plan, I will share some pictures with you later!

Bye for now

Chris Ecklund

http://www.allisonpark.org

New Trees for Allison Park

Good news and Bad news.

The 4 broken trees have been replaced.

Bad news is as many of you have noticed and complained about is that the hired contractors from the City also placed several new trees right smack dab in the only remaining green space for the kids to play in, not to mention where the gazeebo is going.

Not to worry, I will see what we can do about this.

http://www.allisonpark.org

Allison Park Splashpad is now open

There is good news and bad news.

Good news is that the splashpad is open.

Bad news is that it needs some major repairs.

Hopefully it will be okay for the rest of the weekend, today I was talking with Chris Davies Playground Supervisor who has been working around the clock to get the pad fixed, many thanks to Chris who was even at our park at midnight on Friday trying to get it fixed for us to use this holiday weekend.

What is even more impressive is that Chris is on holidays right now but he has taken the time out of his plans to get our pad open, thanks Chris your dedication and efforts are truly appreciated by myself and all the children in our neighbourhood!

http://www.allisonpark.org/

Splash Pad is broken

We have a few items that broke over the winter, so new parts are being ordered.

Hopefully it will be good to go for July 1st long weekend:)

http://www.allisonpark.org

Yard Sale for the cure is this weekend

The signs are up the flyers are out, all we need now is you!

My annual Yard Sale for The Cure is this weekend, so sign up and lets raise some money for Breast Cancer research!!

My little Helpers in Allison Park

Yesterday I started to clean up the park, and I wanted to extend a big thank you to my little helpers in the park that helped me yesterday.

I wish I could remember their names, but they where a great help, together we collected 2 bags of garbage accumulated from over the winter!

The park survived the winter okay, I am having some City crews come in and repair some sod damage, and to remove and replace some benches also that where broken.

The graffiti on the park equipment also will be removed shortly.

All in all a great day yesterday, get out and enjoy this great weather we are having, it will be in the 60's and even 70's this week!

http://www.allisonpark.org

Mail Box Graffiti

Almost every mailbox in the city seems to have some sort of graffiti on it, and we have a few mailboxes also that got tagged.

I have acquired a cleaner that the City uses with great success, its called " Goof Off" and I will be attempting to clean the boxes in a few days from now.

http://www.allisonpark.org

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.

http://www.allisonpark.org