TREPA

TREPA first made a proposal for and provided a conceptual plan to the Town of Yarmouth for a Broad Brook Greenway in 2004. Over the years since we have had continual involvement in trying to get a full link completed between Argyle Street and Starrs Road.

We are pleased to announce that the Town has scheduled a Broad Brook Wetland Park Grand Opening for June 27th, 2013 at 4:00 p.m. This is a section of the Greenway on Town property between Southeast and Forest Streets and  allows connection to the already established Argyle to Southeast Street link. The Wetland Park was funded by the Wal-Mart settlement for its destruction of wetlands north of Starrs Road.

The link between Parade Street and Starrs Road is already established through the cemetery and is used by high school students on a regular basis. The only section now without a link is between Forest and Parade Streets. Most of the land needed to complete this link is connected to the high school so is public land. A right of passage, a path and a few steps would finish this connection and provide a wonderful greenway walk for exercise, teaching, and tourism attraction.

Frank Grant will be Master of Ceremonies. Elizabeth Kennedy of Stantec (the firm with the Wal-Mart contract) will be taking us through a guided tour of the facility following the ceremonies.

Hope many TREPA members can attend. Please feel free to pass this invitation on to anyone that you feel may be interested.

The updated Municipal Planning Strategy for Yarmouth Municipality is ready for citizen review and comment. Click on the logo below to get to the municipal site then follow the path:

“Public Notices” then “Revised MPS and LUB”

You will find a lot of pdf files with the detailed information.

Public Information Meetings: at Rotary Centre Hebron Recreation Complex on Tuesday June 18 and Thursday June 20 from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm.

You may have been out of touch with our Southwest Nova Biosphere designation, what it means to us, and what is happening with the Association. Now we can all stay in touch and informed through the newly updated web site. Click on the illustration to get to the site itself.

The following is a list of Monsanto Companies. It is good illustration of how much of the food supply we take for granted is controlled by Monsanto and other big conglomerates. Much of this food is highly processed and contains unlabelled GMO ingredients, which, if that is what you want gives you a good shopping cart list. If that is not what you want you might consider local alternatives.

Read your labels. You will not find out about GMO ingredients but you will find out about corn by-products that are mostly GMO already and sugar/sodium content that you would like to control. For now, that is about the best we can do.