Making the Town better - Here’s a
laundry list of ideas that I will file under the heading “People Potential”
Ice Cap Opportunity
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| The Clarenville Events Centre in all its splendor as Danny Williams, CEO of the Ice Caps, presents a cheque for $5000 to Clarenville Minor Hockey. |
The Highway Lookout
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| Where's Clarenville: The TCH lookout at Naked Man is getting grown in |
For anyone who has traveled the TCH towards Clarenville in
the dark, as you round the turn at Naked Man the lights of our town are pretty
darn impressive – and getting more impressive each year. The lookout on the highway there is a great
showcase area for Clarenville. But
notice that it is growing in. The view
is being obscured and the neglect is showing.
If we are going to harness the maximum potential of that lookout to
allow people to capture the impressive view, work needs to be done there to trim
the trees and clean the area up. Some
signage that describes Clarenville and invites
people in would certainly be a progressive move as well – Now there’s a
challenge for the Economic Development committee of Council.
The Age Friendly Park – an Opportunity Community sliding hill
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| The new Age Friendly park would be a great spot for a small family friendly sliding hill |
One of the things Clarenville does not have in the town is a
community sliding hill (there is however, a great sliding hill at White Hills,
just above the Lee Churchill Chalet).
The gentle (safe) slope that falls from the School Ball field to the new
Age Friendly park would make a great sliding spot is some of the trees were
removed in time for winter – it’s another opportunity to build community.
Duck House – Safer for Ducks and for People
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| A Duck house like this one in the inner harbour would attract ducks and help take them out of harms way |
This past year, Council has spent a lot of time talking
about the duck problem on the Shoal harbour Causeway. There has been lots of talk but nothing in
terms of tangible action. With the new
benches that have been installed on the trail, it may be an idea to build a
floating Duck House in the inner harbour that would attract the ducks, keep
them away from the main road and provide people with an opportunity and a
reason to sit on the new benches to feed the ducks.
Washington
As you may have seen or read, we were in Washington, DC last week at the SIFE World Cup. 9 of us went from Clarenville Campus, but we were not the only ones there from Clarenville. At least a couple of the Memorial SIFE team were from the greater Clarenville area. We were there to cheer them on as they had the job of representing Canada at this 38 country competition in which each student team presents on business projects that they completed that focused on the so-called “triple” bottom line – People – Profit – Planet. It was an opportunity to measure ourselves against the world and we were among the very best! Thanks Garry Gosse for all those Canadian Flags! See: http://www.clarenvillecampus.blogspot.ca/ for details
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