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The Morrisburg and District Cooperative Pre-School is trying to help themselves and the environment with a new fund raising endeavor.

They are collecting used inkjet cartridges, which they will have recycled. 

The recycling company has a program for charitable non-profit organizations like the pre-school whereby they pay a small amount of money to the organization for each cartridge collected.

“Every bit helps, so the more support we get from the community, the better,” said Heather Stirling, president of the Morrisburg and District Cooperative Preschool.

For parents of children attending the preschool, a drop box is available there. 

For the community, drop boxes are already available at Iroquois Foodland and Riley’s Valumart in Morrisburg. Others will be added to new locations in the future.

Funds raised through this ongoing collection will be directed towards programming, supplies and upgrading toys for the pre-school.

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Over 30,000 people visited Upper Canada Village last year for Pumpkinferno, and area business organizations are hoping that their promotion of “A 2013 Season Of Pumpkin People”, will bring some of those visitors outside of Upper Canada Village, into more of South Dundas.

Various “A Season of Pumpkin People” activities took place in late September and will continue throughout the month of October.

The committee is encouraging everyone, including businesses and individuals, to use their creativity to build and display their own pumpkin people in front of their homes and businesses.

The idea is to promote the community, to attract more visitors and to foster community spirit within South Dundas.

Committee members encourage everyone to take up the challenge and to get involved.

Spooky tales for the little ones, along with activities are scheduled to take place Saturday afternoons, October 5, 19 at 26 in the Morrisburg Plaza and Iroquois Shopping Centre.

A Great Pumpkin Recipe challenge is being issued to the community. All recipes submitted to the contest must contain pumpkin, either canned or fresh as an ingredient. Judging will take place October 12, noon, at the tent in the Morrisburg Plaza.

Saturday, October 26 pumpkin carving events will take place in the Iroquois and Morrisburg plazas, for the Light the Way display. The plan is to carve pumpkins and to place the lighted pumpkins along the route to Upper Canada Village from Iroquois, Morrisburg, Williamsburg and Riverside Heights.

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 The $4.8 million Iroquois waterfront plan was unveiled at the June 2, South Dundas council meeting.

The estimated price tag for the bulk of the plan is $3.8 million, but a proposed re-alignment of Adair Road adds a million dollars.

The presentation was delivered to council by Jim Wilson, chair of the Iroquois Waterfront Committee, and Mark Brandt and David Lashley of MTBA, project consultants.

“The concept is meant to reflect community interests and focus on enhancement rather than development, while respecting the town’s history,” said Wilson. 

“Maintaining views was an important aspect of the plan,” said Lashley. 

Calling it Iroquois Commons Waterfront Park, the consultants explained that this enhancement plan is intended to evoke an understanding that this special place is for all residents and visitors connecting the village’s resources – the village and the river – together in a common place that honours the past while providing for present activity.

The design team’s efforts focused on renewing and enhancing the existing waterfront, beach, campground and arrival sequences to create an attractive, refreshed place that complements and reflects Iroquois’ history.

The area of the plan called, ‘The meadows’ is intended to use plantings of seed mixes with wildflowers to delineate the former village streets. “It creates a really pleasant area, and it’s a really important element because it’s such a large area,” said Brandt.

They suggested iconic elements such as a stone wall to connect the Forward House area to the Carman House area to create an historical area. 

The Iroquois Beach area, has been identified as a priority area for this design. The consultant proposed changes to the existing beach building to make it look like, “a beach pavilion rather than a beach bunker.”

With a waterside expansion to the existing building, it could be given new life, making way for a café and deck area. “With a modest café, this would be a delightful spot,” said Brandt.

They have proposed doubling the size of the beach and doubling the size of the swimming area.

Boardwalk, and finger docks reaching out into the water and kayak/canoe rentals, are all part of the proposal. 

“These are all modest, gentle, evolutionary enhancements that reinforce the value that’s already there,” said Brandt.

“There are substantial costs involved with this plan, and it’s easy to see that as a roadblock,” said Wilson, but he is positive about the plan that the community now has at its disposal.

Like the Morrisburg Waterfront Plan, this plan was designed such that projects can be done, piece by piece, as funds are available. Many portions of the plan could be accomplished through community driven efforts.

“I am impressed,” commented South Dundas mayor Evonne Delegarde. “This plan reflects the wishes and desires of the people, particularly in Iroquois.”

“Our challenge now is to determine what we can put aside annually to see that these two plans are implemeted,” said South Dundas deputy mayor Jim Locke. “I don’t think these two concepts will ever be outdated, which is a good thing. It’s taken us 50 years to get these plans.”

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