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Town to work with high-school students The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s (CBHFM) class of 2025 will consist on Lind Park upgrades of six new inductees. Staff Contribution
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St. Marys council has approved a partnership between the town and the Avon Maitland District School Board’s specialist high skills major program that will see local high school students from St. Marys DCVI come up with design ideas for upgrades to Lind Park. After the town was unsuccessful with its application last fall for up to $30,000 in FedDev Ontario funding that would have seen the park at the corner of Jones Street East and Church Street South upgraded with landscaping, picnic tables, accessible pathways, benches and signage, creating a more vibrant and active downtown environment that balances historical significance with modern community needs, town staff recently met with school board staff to discuss the potential for a partnership on this project.
“Prior to the holidays, I did get a phone call from a representative within the high skills major program at Avon Maitland District School Board who proposed the idea of doing a partnership similar to something they did in another community with a park that was geared towards public art,” said St. Marys tourism and economic development manager Kelly Deeks-Johnson. “It was something that worked really well and was a great opportunity for their students. “So, she and I worked on what this would look like and basically, the high skills major program within the school board has various specialties – construction, manufacturing, engineering (and) they have an artsand-culture and environmental group – and they all work on the individual specialties. The proposed idea would be that we would collectively get together staff and the school board – the high skills major staff would put together the (student) groups – and we
Former Toronto Blue Jays slugger José Bautista will be inducted alongside ex-big-league left-hander Érik Bédard (Navan, Ont.) while Canadian Junior National Team head coach Greg Hamilton (Toronto, Ont.) will be inducted in the coaches/officials category. Longtime Women’s National Team star Amanda Asay (Prince George, B.C.) will also be inducted, posthumously. The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame’s Veterans Committee has also elected former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League legend Arleene Noga (Ogema, Sask.) and Gerry Snyder, the Montreal city councillor who played a crucial role in bringing Major League Baseball to Canada. Noga and Snyder will be inducted posthumously. The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2025 class will be honoured in a ceremony at the hall-of-fame grounds in St. Marys on June 7. “We are proud and excited to celebrate the outstanding careers of this year’s inductees in
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