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THE NEW TANNERTHURSDAY, MAY 13, 2010 3Gengs donation makes a big splash$75,000 for splash padBy Frances Niblockthe support weve re-ceived over the years, A 12-foot-long leap-Joe Geng said.ing fish and fishing He said the donation pole will greet visitors marks the companys to Actons new splash 100th anniversary in Ac-pad in Prospect Park, ton, and it allows them thanks in part, to the to memorialize that a generosity of the Geng little bit. And, (we) also family, owners of Su-we just thought it would perior Glove.be something that is real-Brothers Joe and ly good for Acton Tony Geng, the first Geng said outside the corporate donors to council chambers.the $540,000 project, Mayor Rick Bonnette and their department thanked the Geng family heads delivered a large for their continued gen-ceremonial cheque for erosity they made a $75,000 to the Town donation to the Dufferin during Tuesdays coun-Rural Heritage Centre. cil meeting.He said the splash pad, When we fi rst heard which is 60 per cent about the splash pad complete, should be project we thought it open by July.would be something It will have 13 fea-that would really bene-tures, multiple jets and fi t the citizens of Acton, a water recirculation and it is a great way system.SPLASH PAD DONATION: The owners and department heads of Actons Superior Glove presented the for us to be able to say Town with a cheque for $75,000 for the new splash pad now under construction in Prospect Park. On hand thank you to everyone were: back, from left: Roy Bishop, Todd Schonnop, Councillor Mike OLeary, Superior owners Tony Geng in Halton Hills, and par-and Joe Geng, Mayor Rick Bonnette, Councillor Clark Somerville, Jill Whalen, Councillor Jon Hurst and ticularly Acton, for all Dan Miller. Front left: Lynda Rolfe. Submitted photoFairy Lake is really a wetlandBy Frances NiblockAlong with the moves reducing upstream contam-signage should include in-that era, but the shift they to preserve the existing inants. formation about a catch and now have to promote to Fairy Lake is not a lake, aquatic community and While some of the pro-release fi sh policy.the public is that dredging after all.reduce bacteria, Harris posals to improve the waterimpacts native plants and Mayor Rick Bonnette, It is a clear, shallow said the message is also quality can be done with-who noted that the lake was fi sh a total destruction A set of ecosite a small ecosystem that they have to appreci-out cost, or within existing created in 1840 to provide and creates more hurdles attractive, that is more appropri-ate that Fairy Lake was a Townto preserve a provincially- programs and water for the Beardmore quality ately considered to be a wetland in the beginning budgets, the cost of some tannery, asked if the bottom signifi cant wetland.wetland community than a and is making moves on its broader watershed issues dredging done in the mid-The Fairy Lake Water dentures lake and should be man-own to become that again, wont be addressed until 1960s was a good thing.Quality Study is available skilfully aged accordingly as part of so how can we best work a Black Creek Subwater-Harris said the dredg-at the Towns libraries and the larger watershed that with that.shed Study is completed by ing was commonplace in on the Towns website.crafted to provides the ground water The waterfowl man-Credit Valley Conservation. your mouth Treatment for:that makes up 90 per cent agement plan includes Other projects totalling will make of the lake.continuing an egg oiling $250 V ( K D T Q O [ C N I K C,500 will be debated A guiding document for program, creating a fi ve to during the Towns 2011 V % J T Q P K E 2 C K Pa positive future uses and on-going 10-metre shoreline buffer, budget talks. V 5 V T G U Uimpact on management plans for the promoting public shoreline Acton Councillor Jon V * G C F C E J G Ulake/wetland, the Fairy naturalization and a public Hurst, who called Fairy your life style C P F O W E J O Q T G Lake Water Quality Study education program to get Lake a unique beauti-was endorsed by Town people to stop feeding the Naomi Bedellful asset, questioned the Call for ancouncillors on Tuesday. waterfowl.long-term results of the Registered MassageappointmentThe study looked at long-That will be a chal-egg-oiling plan that pre-Therapyterm stewardship strategies lenge Harris said because vents eggs from hatching. to discussDeanna Wilsonto improve water quality, for some people, feeding Harris said the four-year- / K N N 5 V your customBSc. DCh.manage weeds, control the ducks and geese is old oiling program, under # E V Q P 1 0Chiropodistdenture waterfowl and develop part of an enjoyable visit the guidance of the Ministry 519-853-8557Foot Specialista public communication to Prospect Park. He said of natural resources, said needsstrategy. they also need to com-any responsible program 519-853-8557In his report to Council, municate the donts of to control the waterfowl Warren Harris, the Towns disposing of dog feces in populations had to include 65 Mill St. E. Manager of Parks and catch basins, a practice he egg oiling. Acton, ON Open Space, identifi ed the fi nds puzzling but com-Hurst also suggested that L7J 1H4main water quality issues monplace.the name Fairy Wetland as nutrient enrichment, The water quality action would not catch on. Foot/Nail Care130 Mill Street E.,from things like lawn fer-plan includes public educa-Noting the presence of Diabetic Footcare#103, Actontilizers, and high bacteria tion on lake ecosystems, a Killifish in the lake a contamination because of watershed-wide Stoop and positive finding Acton Custom Orthotics519-853-0079dog and waterfowl feces Scoop policy, eliminating/Councillor Clark Somer- Home visitsand street runoff.reducing fertilizer use and ville suggested that the new