[getsmart-l] Bob Hunter Memorial Park - Ecological Restoration May 24, 2008

[Gloria Boxen]

   jimrobb <jimrobb at frw.ca> wrote:                  Contacts:                                                                                                             Media Advisory
      Toyota: Amanda Ferguson 416&#8209;438&#8209;6320 ext. 2725
      FRW: Jim  Robb     647-891-9550
        
      Ecological Restoration of Bob Hunter Memorial Park 
      with help from Toyota Canada &     
      Friends of the Rouge Watershed (FR)
       Saturday     May 24, 2008,  10:00 am to 12:00  Noon 
      south side of 14th Avenue in Markham, east of Havelock rail line
      between the 9th Line and Reesor Road (Map attached) 
        
       Saturday  May 24, 2008, will mark the official start of the restoration of forest, wetland and wildland areas within the 500 acres of provincially-owned lands which Premier McGuinty dedicated to the memory of Bob Hunter in 2006.
      Bob Hunter Memorial Park is a special part of Rouge Park dedicated to an outstanding Canadian.  Bob Hunter helped co&#8209;found GreenPeace in 1971. He was a daring Eco warrior and an award winning author, newspaper columnist and reporter for Citytv. 
      Rouge Park is developing a Bob Hunter Memorial Park Plan to protect and restore its natural beauty and provide low impact public access and enjoyment.   On  May 24, 2008, two hundred Toyota Canada volunteers will team-up with Friends of the Rouge Watershed to plant 300 native trees and 1200 native wildflowers to help expand the environmentally significant Box Grove Forest in Bob Hunter Memorial Park by some 25,000 square metres.     
      Over the last decade, with the help of many federal, provincial, municipal, corporate, school and community partners, FRW has helped mother nature to restore more than 1.3 million square metres of Rouge Park to forests, wetlands and wildflower meadows by involving more than 30,000 volunteers in the planting of more than 300,000 native trees, shrubs and flowers.
      Special Guests:
      Bobbi Hunter, Bob Hunter’s widow and fellow environmental activist
      Derek Lee, MP Scarborough Rouge River
      Hon. Gerry Phillips, MPP Scarborough Agincourt 
      Helena Jaczek, MPP Oak Ridges&#8209;Markham, 
      Frank Scarpitti, Markham Mayor
      Alan Wells, Rouge Park Alliance Chairman
      Yoichi Tomihara, Toyota Canada Inc. President  
      Kevin O’Connor, President, Friends of the Rouge Watershed
  <>Ceremony:  <>11:25 to 11:45 am - <>Trribute to Bob Hunter, speeches, planting ceremony and photo opportunity     
     Reptile Exhibit:  11:45 to Noon
     Lunch will be served at Noon
     
     Over the last eight years, Toyota Canada Inc. has greatly assisted FRW's ecological restoration work in Rouge Park through funding, annual Toyota volunteer plantings and the provision of a great Toyota Truck to transport trees, wildflowers, shovels, mulch, planting supplies and FRW staff, co-op students and volunteers. 
 
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