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On Saturday I went to the Whitby Ajax Community Garden open house, here is a link to pictures I took. They had tours of the garden, some craft displays and Richard Cooke involved with Durham Lives was doing Geocaching demonstration, I won a small prize, you can find out about geocaching in Durham Region here. I had already put my camera in the car and was going to go home so when I decided to stay for a geocaching demo, I have no pics of Richard.

My son and I help out at the garden when we can in the communal garden area that benefits foodbanks.

This garden is a seven years old and is another example of what a successful community garden can be.

We are hoping that a garden in Ajax will come to be.

My Plan B location did not work out.

Please see this new page

If you want to be involved with this, helping to find space or helping with the building of it or helping with the maintaining of a garden once it is built please contact me through the blog.

In order for the garden to be sustained over the long run, it must be housed on public land - ideal is central in Ajax and close to transit.

I emailed the Town today and it is Saturday so they really don’t know my plan yet, I did speak to Pat Brown on the phone due to the fact the park in question is in her ward.

If this location is not going to be available then it is on to Plan B, that land is publically owned also.

I am working on some “misinformation” where I have I heard that term before??? I get the feeling that if residents know something Council/Staff does not — we are misinformed

Pavilion: Those are my tax dollars at work so I want to be able to access the area and not feel like an interloper but I don’t want to be where I am not welcome, please find a solution and work with the community.

Citizens of Ajax, there has been a few issues I have read about in the paper that have residents trying to be heard. The most important day to be heard is election day and we still get less then 30%, way less then that coming out to vote. Take those feelings and remember them in November 2010! Is it fair that about 23% are voting in the 7 people that are charting the course for this town???

No it is not. (more…)

In Ajax a citizen has only 5 minutes to address council as a citizen delegation.

Pickering offers 10 minutes to citizens. Pickering has a council meeting monthly and Ajax is by-weekly but the citizens do not seem to make a request to speak for 2 meetings in a row for 5 minutes. (more…)

News advertiser story.

“The City of Pickering has chosen not to appoint a closed meetings investigator, and will rely on the provincial ombudsman to field concerns regarding the issue. “ (more…)