When I look at my site stats, I see that the most popular search terms landing people here over the past couple weeks have to do with the new skating path over in Sam Smith Park. I did a post about it while it was… Read More
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The Fence
The City has been building a fence at our local leash-free park at the R.L.Clark Filtration Plant. Some readers may recall the post I made on this subject some time ago on this blog. My position has been that the dog park is poorly located… Read More
Photos from the bird festival
Thanks to Finny’s Friend for sending these photos he took at the bird festival yesterday at Sam Smith Park. “It was a great day around Sam Smith park as the area bird enthusiasts and other naturalists met with the public for fun and to share… Read More
Bird is the word
We walked over to Sam Smith Park this morning to take part in a bird walk. Although most of the migratory birds have passed, the leader of the walk was able to identify quite a few species. I may not have recorded all of them,… Read More
New Interpretive Signs in Sam Smith Park
I just read about this over at Friends of Sam Smith Park. I have to say that I’m not a fan of this. To quote from the Friends of Sam Smith Park blog, “Anything that draws visitors’ attention to wildlife and habitat in the park… Read More
Welcome
The leash-free dog park at the R.L. Clark Filtration Plant has a new sign. It appeared today.
Infrastructure Upgrading
These photos arrived via email today from Finney’s Friend, a regular at the leash free park over at the RL Clark Filtration Plant, next to Sam Smith Park in beautiful Longbranch. Here’s what the email said: Dear friends of Sam Smith dog off leash area… Read More
Off-leash report card
After a couple public meetings and lots of discussion around the neighbourhood, the new off-leash area appeared early last month in a field belonging to the R.L. Clark water filtration facility, right next to Humber College and Colonel Sam Smith Park. I’ve been a supporter… Read More
Leash-free park update
So, off we go, Memphis and I, for our first visit to the official new leash-free dog park at the filtration plant lands next to Col. Sam Smith Park. We enter from the parking lot of the filtration plant and I don’t see any signs.… Read More
Coyotes
Several mornings ago, Tuffy P was taking Memphis for her morning constitutional, when she came across another dog owner in Sam Smith Park. This fellow owned a hound dog who had just tracked and rousted a coyote down by the yacht club. A couple evenings… Read More
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