In Search of a Park

• 1990-92 - Club searching for Town Park to put on Rotary Name

• 1993 – presentation at a President’s Club Meeting

. Crombie Royal Commission / established in 1988

. Waterfront Regeneration Trust for Lake Ontario / est in 1992

• 1993 – Pickering and Ajax Clubs partnered and arranged a dinner
  meeting with David Crombie

• 1993-1995 – 2 Rotary Clubs, Towns of Pickering and Ajax, MTRCA,
  and other groups worked to develop Waterfront Trail
  through Pickering and Ajax

• 1996 – Bridge built over Duffin’s Creek

. Our contribution $ 15,000

• 1996-1998 – Club remained involved with Towns and MTRCA as partners

• 1998 – Final Task Force report to the Town of Pickering

• 1999– Rotary Park established at Council Meeting

. Our contribution $ 100,000 in goods and services

• 2001 - June 25th : Town Bylaw 5859/01

. Name “ Rotary Frenchman’s Bay West Park “

. Park to blend with the theme of the Lake Ontario Waterfront Trail

. Environmentally sensitive areas will remain in their natural state

• 2001 - October 13th : Official Opening with unveiling of the sign

• 2000-2005 – other Waterfront Milestones

. Millennium Square at the foot of Liverpool Road

. Petticoat Creek Bridge at the end of Marksbury across to

Petticoat Creek Conservation

• 2006 – August 26 Unveiling of Trailhead Sign

• 2007-2010 – Park, Sign, and Garden

. ongoing upkeep

• 2011 – 10th Anniversary, October 13, 2011

We have a continued commitment !

Plan for re-juvenation

Pursue further development ?