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THURSDAY, JULY 2 oe THE NEW TANNER Acton public garden ploughed under By FRANCES NIBLOCK The New Tanner A public garden planted to raise community pride four years ago in Acton has been ploughed under be- cause no one is able or willing to care for it. Town recreation and parks crews stripped the garden, on Ministry of Transportation land located on Main Street North be- tween Highway 7 and the railway tracks, on Friday. Many of the plants and grasses had already been moved by the Acton Hor- ticultural Society to its other project sites includ- ing the Memory Garden by the library and the entrance off Main Street into Rotary Park. The garden project was spearheaded by the Acton Horticultural Society as a Communities in Bloom project, a national compe- tition designed to encourage beautification. The Acton BIA and Town also put money into the garden, where initially, local officials hoped to lo- cate Acton's gateway sign, recently installed at the Acton arena. The site did not meet MTO guidelines and the plan was dropped and interest in the garden waned. Warren Harris, the Town's manager of parks and cemeteries, said when the Horticultural Society said earlier this year that it could no longer look after the site, the decision was made to dig it up and re- seed it. "It (site maintenance) is also really beyond what the Town is able to care for," Harris said when asked if the Town consid- ered taking over weeding the garden. Acton Horticultural So- ciety (temporarily retired) president Max MacSween said he was "disappointed" | GARDEN GONE: Town recreation and parks staff rips up plants and weeds at a former Communities in Bloom community pride garden on Main Street North at Highway 7. The garden was abandoned and ploughed under when the Acton Horticultural Society determined it could not maintain it this summer. -- Frances Niblock photo the garden was being aban- doned. He estimates $2,500 and "lots" of vol- unteer hours went into planting and maintaining the site to date. "No one ever really agreed to care for it (the garden), although the BIA wanted it for the Acton sign location," MacSween said on Friday, adding if he hadn't been ill recently, he would have continued to tend to the garden. "It was 'just starting to get mature -- it's too bad because it was filling in nicely," MacSween said, adding there is "no incen- tive to keep the little corners" of Acton pretty because the Town has dropped out of the Com- munities in Bloom program that had an annual Town budget of approxi- mately $50,000. MacSween said horticul- tural society members moved a lot of the plants and grasses from the site before the Town ploughed it under, adding some of NEW 0 the Thompson Wellness Centre 25 Main St. N. Acton |< request HAROLD K. ARNOLD Hearing Aids Limited #104-77 Westmount Rd., Guelph, Ontario N1H 5J1 Tel. (519) 836-8111 Alternate Wednesdays . 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