The old curling rink is the Town's property

Ideas on what to do to attract more people that wish to live in Bruderheim

By Walter Schneider

Cleaning up around the old curling rink

For us to be able to attract more families — families with children or planning to have children — to come to Bruderheim and settle here, a little extra is required.  As good as Bruderheim looks, it must and can be made to look better. 

Grass cutting and weed control are necessary, but so are paint jobs and other maintenance work.

Some people expressed concern that by pointing out neglected things in need of paint or a bit of other attention our taxes will go up because more work needs to be done.  Well, the hard and cold reality is that, for instance, the old curling rink is here to stay whether there are only a thousand taxpayers in town or whether we attract another thousand that will help pay for the arena's upkeep.  However, if we don't keep things tidy and in good state of repair, we will not attract the people that can help all of us share our basic and more or less fixed tax load.   The reality of that is that the fewer people we attract, and the more people leave town, the higher each of the individual shares of the tax load will go, and the more dilapidated the town properties that we all own will become.

The lawn mower went by and cut some of the grass in front of the Bruderheim Board Room (west of the old curling rink), but that didn't help very much.  The mower of course couldn't get in between the planters that still contain the dead flowers (or are they left-over weeds) from last year.  In consequence, the dandelions have a ball.  Being on the south-side of a brick wall and in front of a large window that reflects the sun so nicely, they went to seed already without anything at all bothering them.  That's a whole passel of bylaw violations (3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.6, and 3.5.7) right there, if anyone could throw the book at the Town.  Does that leave a good impression on visitors or even with residents?

Are there any volunteers that would like to pitch in and launch this year's beautification of our nice town by sprucing up the eye-sore in front of the Bruderheim Board room?  Anyone?
   I suggest a flower bed.  Now is the time.  I'll supply labour, pitch in for the material for a planter, help to pick it up, and will even supply a few gladiola bulbs that have already been started and a few geranium plants (a little small yet, but they will grow).  It may be a good idea to spray the few blades of grass that will be left over after the planter or flower bed has been set up — and right there we will have a good start for a publicity campaign to boot.  What do you think of that? (Call Walter at 796-2306)

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Many thanks to Les Boyd, member of the Town Council.  He pitched in on the morning of June 2nd, by bringing out his lawn mower and a weed trimmer and by cutting and trimming the grass and weeds at the south- and east-side of the old curling rink.  It made quite a difference.

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Posted May 21, 2005
Updates:
2005 06 11 (This page is a portion of a previously larger page.  It got partitioned off to reduce loading time.)
2005 06 14 (Corrected the spelling of the name of Les Boyd)
2006 10 29 (reformated)