Blackburn Hamlet’s Spring Clean-up 2001 was a great success! Blackburn residents scoured roadsides and ditches, forests and parks and the community gardens and streams. In all over 100 bags of litter were collected by more than 70 volunteers on the morning of April 28. In
Published in The BANAR June 2001 by Gail Kajiura If you’ve noticed a flurry of gardening activity in the Hamlet it’s not all just due to the yearly spring planting ritual. Thirteen of our gardeners are transplanting, dividing, weeding, edging and tidying to get their
Published in The BANAR April 2001 by Paul Graham A very successful outdoor ice rink season has come to an end. The volunteers of the local Parks and Recreation Board selected the City of Gloucester to make the ice and provide snow clearing. The City
Published in The BANAR February 2001 A third Blackburn sign has been installed at the eastern entrance of Blackburn Hamlet. The three signs were designed by the architectural firm of Corush, Sunderland and Wright. The firm also won an award this past year for the
Published in The BANAR November 2000 The Blackburn Recreation and Parks Board and Blackburn Community Association recently received a submission from Lois Kemp suggesting changes to the names of some parks in the Hamlet. Ms Kemp would like to see parks named to recognize those
Published in The BANAR September 2000 In spite of the downpour Saturday night and Sunday morning the 3rd Annual Blackburn Hamlet garden tour once again showcased a magical and exciting variety of gardens after the storm passed by around noon. Approximately one hundred people visited