Archive for June, 2010

What would you like to see in Meadowbrook Park?

As the fight to save Meadowbrook from development continues, we’d like for you – our loyal supporters – to tell us what you’d like to see in a future Meadowbrook Park? For example:

* Picnic tables?
* Cross-country skiing in the winter?
* A small organic farm?
* A bird sanctuary?

Continue to keep the dream of Meadowbrook Park alive by leaving a comment about what you’d like to see in this future nature park open and accessible to all citizens of the Island of Montreal.

A trail through Meadowbrook

BY AL HAYEK

There are strawberry fields on the east slope of the hill in the northern portion of Meadowbrook. I can imagine the nature park with a trail going by the hill: school children seeing real strawberries growing wild on the vine.

Nearby is a small marsh with reeds and the songs of red-winged blackbirds. Our trail should go by here also. Everyone should have the thrill of listening to a red-winged blackbird singing in its native marsh.

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