One of my favorite pine trees was brought down overnight in Cambridge Ontario in Mount View Cemetery.
Winds of upwards of 80 kilometers an hour blew through my West Galt neighborhood and took down this grand old pine tree in Mount View Cemetery
The cemetery opened in 1869 and is home to dozens and dozens of grand old trees.
All-way stop signs are coming to Blair Road and Bismark Drive in West Galt, six months after all-way stop signs were installed nearby at Blair Road and Grant Street.
According to signs posted at the intersection, the Blair-Bismark all-way stop signs installation is set for May 6, 2024.
And residents of the Salisbury Avenue and Hardcastle Drive area may also get the all-way stop they want at that intersection, too.
There, people have been asking the City of Cambridge for traffic safety changes since 2020.
Cambridge City Council unanimously voted to spend $1,200 to install more stop signs at the Blair-Bismark intersection on February 27, 2024. The work included new pavement markings.
It’s a busy route for students walking to nearby St. Augustine Catholic Elementary and Blair Road Public schools along Bismark. The schools are located to the west and east sides of the intersection.
The all-way stop was installed at Blair-Bismark due to concerns raised by area residents, says a staff report to City council on February 27, 2024.
In November 2023, the city installed all-way stop signs at the Blair-Grant intersection near Mount View Cemetery.
That’s about a kilometre south of Blair-Grant. That’s at the start of the one-way section of Blair Road towards downtown.
Halloween is history and it’s time to start thinking about the city’s rake-to-the-curb leaf collection, set to start Nov. 8 and continue through Dec. 6, 2023 in Cambridge.
City crews will collect the leaves for composting, once section of the city at a time. Look for an interactive online map at this link, under the “Cambridge Leaf Collection Program” drop-down section.
Here’s what West Galt residents need to know about leaf collection:
The city encourages property owners to leave leaves in place over the winter, providing habitat for pollinator like bees and butterflies.
Cambridge is designated a Canadian Bee City, for local efforts to protect pollinator habitat.
Or you can rake, mulch and compost, to keep the nutrients on your property for your 2024 growing season.
Region of Waterloo curbside yard waste collection continues for two more weeks in 2023: Nov. 6 and Nov. 20.
You may also take your bagged leaves and yard waste to the Cambridge Waste Management Centre, 201 Savage Dr., Monday to Saturday between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. Fees may apply.
Here’s the city’s leaf collection tips video:
It looks like the reconstruction of the Dickson Park grandstand will be done by winter 2023.
Work involves a top-to-bottom restoration of the 104-year-old historically designated structure.
Work started in late July 2023 on the nearly $1.3 million project, funded by the City of Cambridge and Ottawa.
Work involves repairs to the flat roof, replacing the wooden bench seating and concrete foundation, and new access step repairs.
To passersby, reconstruction of the Dickson Park grandstand looks like the time winter weather will do it arrives in December 2023.
On Sat., Nov. 4, 2023, painters worked in the unseasonably warm 9 C weather, working under the roof from a cherry picker lift.
Dickson Park was created in 1871 when William Dickson Jr. donated 21 acres of land to the Town of Galt.
The original grandstand was built in 1891 or 1892, says Jim Quantrell, in his history book Time Frames, from the City of Cambridge Archives.
The grandstand was doubled in size around 1904, as the Galt Horse Show was a big annual event in Dickson Park at the time.
On Jan. 8, 1916, the grandstand burned to the ground. Three boys later admitted to setting the fire.
Today’s grandstand in Dickson Park was built in 1919. Today, it is a historically designated structure under the Ontario Heritage Act.
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