Pavilion Location

The pavilion site is accessed from Springbank at 681 Blair Road. You can check it out on google maps (however, the location is a bit farther east along Blair Road than shown). Look for a sign for "Springbank", a stone house and a gravel parking lot to the south of the Blair Road. Park, and walk up the cart track at the left edge of the lot, which winds behind the stone house, and up past the community gardens to the pavilion site.

Here is a location map that will help you find your way to the pavilion site. (It is the wee rectangle marked "proposed education pavilion".)

Wednesday, May 18: first volunteer meeting

We held our first volunteer meeting at Springbank on Wednesday, May 18th. After some discussion and introductions indoors, we went out to survey the building site. Here is the crew clustered inside the building footprint.



The image above is a view across the building site, with the building footprint superimposed on the ground...



... and here are a couple of pans, showing the views one will see from the two open ends of the building: one view is enclosed by hedgerows, the other opens up over valley.



The fields and hedgerows around the Springbank property were alive with wildlife (and more interesting creatures than the ubiquitous urban squirrels and sparrows). There were a couple of bright orange orioles in the hedgerows, and lots of toads, including this one, who was trying to hide from the camera in the deeply-plowed furrows of the field alongside the community garden.