By Staff
BURLINGTON, ON. June 24, 2013. If you were out and about on the weekend – and who wasn’t – you were at a BBQ with friends and family or perhaps at one of the events in the city.
The kids were “knocking themselves out” at the Norton Skateboard Park; Ward 6 Councillor Blair Lancaster was not exactly serving tea – but she was on the street meeting and greeting her constituents while the Friends of Freeman Station were proudly showing a model of the Freeman to anyone who passed by their booth set up in the Burlington Mall.
Just hanging out on the street with the girls – a lazy summer afternoon in Alton Village.
The Terry Fox Run to Cure Cancer people were out trying to attract and involve people from the Alton Village to take part in the event in September,
The stage certainly wasn’t city issue – shows what you can do with a couple of 2×4’s and a sheet on canvas if you have to keep the sun off you. Music was OK.
Lancaster hosted the first of the Car Free Sunday’s held in the northern part of the city – and the turnout was better than the first such event held on Appleby Line last year. Despite close to blistering heat people turned out. The Rotary was on hand with plenty of cold bottled water.
It was a chance for people to get out and mingle, take in some of the events and just enjoy themselves – and see a street with nary a car on it.
Did he make it? If you were one of many at the Norton Skateboard Park on Saturday you would have seen some impressive acrobatics going on.
On Saturday the younger set were out at the skateboard park showing us what they can do when they fly around on those boards with wheels on them. My generation used orange crates mounted on a plank that had old roller skates screwed onto the bottoms.
The Saturday event was frenetic, the Sunday event was paced and easy-going.
Bob Chambers points to a detail of the Freeman Station model he built in his kitchen in a short 4 1/2 months. The model got its first public viewing at the Burlington Mall on Sunday.
For those at the Burlington Mall is was cool inside. The Friends of Freeman Station (FoFS) were proudly showing off the new model of their project built by Bob Chambers, a former photographer with the Spectator. Bob’s wife Grace who paints with water colours was quite pleased to see the model out of her kitchen and on its way to its first public viewing. It took a very short 4 ½ months to complete the model which has a lot of detailing. The shingles put on the roof of the model came in at more than the cost of the shingles on the original station. It is a very attractive model built to scale. Worth looking at.
As for the station itself – it still sits on steel girders waiting for the move to the new location. The FoFS now have their building permit which they proudly display to anyone who asks. Don’t ask for details on how long it took to get the document – sad story.
