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Old Posted Oct 15, 2010, 5:19 PM
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We need to keep things in perspective.

All that is happening is the replacement of an overgrown hedge. Over the years the hedges planted around the park fountain fell into neglect and were allowed to grow far too tall for its location. This has led to the hedge wall being used to shield acts of vandalism and drug dealing.

The Gage Park Master Plan is addressing the issue by removing the overgrown hedges and replanting them. Proper grooming of the hedges will prevent them from growing high enough to act as a screen while maintaining the heritage elements of the park's fountain garden.

The simple long term solution is to ensure the hedges are maintained properly. As citizens we can do our bit by being vigilant over the park and ensuring its groundskeepers maintain the park in a manner where neglect cannot be repeated.
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Old Posted Oct 15, 2010, 6:48 PM
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We need to keep things in perspective.

All that is happening is the replacement of an overgrown hedge. Over the years the hedges planted around the park fountain fell into neglect and were allowed to grow far too tall for its location. This has led to the hedge wall being used to shield acts of vandalism and drug dealing.

The Gage Park Master Plan is addressing the issue by removing the overgrown hedges and replanting them. Proper grooming of the hedges will prevent them from growing high enough to act as a screen while maintaining the heritage elements of the park's fountain garden.

The simple long term solution is to ensure the hedges are maintained properly. As citizens we can do our bit by being vigilant over the park and ensuring its groundskeepers maintain the park in a manner where neglect cannot be repeated.
Hedges get pruned not killed though
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Old Posted Oct 15, 2010, 7:30 PM
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You cannot prune a Beech hedge to 1/3 its current size. When it is that overgrown, it needs to be removed. Sad but true. Mark it down as lesson learned and make sure the park is kept up in the future so the mistake is not repeated.
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Hedges get pruned not killed though
It was fifteen feet high. You can't trim that down to something waist-high.
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Old Posted Oct 18, 2010, 1:17 PM
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If anybody still feels passionately against this move, I suggest going to the park and actualy looking at the work. You'll then see exactly what a non-event this is and how the people quoted from Environment Hamilton (who also haven't seen the cut trees btw) are manipulating your emotions.
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Sun setting on Gage Park greenhouses

http://www.thespec.com/news/local/ar...rk-greenhouses

A half-century-old piece of Hamilton history is scheduled for demolition next week as a first step in a major plan to modernize Gage Park.

Seven decrepit greenhouses that were built during the 1950s will be knocked down, part of a $2.2-million project that will see all of the city-run plant-growing facilities massed under one roof.

“The old greenhouses are coming down and the new one is being put in. Those greenhouses were around when I was a kid,” said Councillor Bernie Morelli.

The Gage greenhouses, located in a city works yard on the eastern side of the park, had been used to grow flowers — including petunias, begonias and geraniums — to be transplanted on city-owned properties such as City Hall and traffic islands, as well as for use in the popular fall Mum Show.

Last year more than 240,000 plants were grown. This year, because of the impending demolition and construction, a greenhouse facility on the escarpment toward Grimsby has been rented by the city so that flower production would not be affected.

The new greenhouse is scheduled for completion this summer and will be used for the Mum Show.

“It is going to make things a lot easier. It is going to be more efficient and allow us to grow more flowers,” says Mike McNamara, manager of forestry and horticulture for the city’s public works department.

“One of the big problems is the boilers were over 50 years old and on their last legs. They were being held together with Band-Aids,” he said.

When the dust clears, the city will end up with 17,000 square feet of greenhouse space compared to the 15,000 there now.

There is also a tropical greenhouse in the city yard. But that will not be affected by the construction this year.

The Gage Park Master Plan calls for the tropical greenhouse to be eventually replaced as part of a central hub complex that will include an aviary (moved from Churchill Park) and a new children’s museum that will be relocated from its current address closer to Main Street. Costing and funding for those projects still has to be worked out.

“The idea is to maintain that which is good and revitalize it for contemporary times,” said Morelli, adding that redoing the fountain and sprucing up the bandshell are also part of long-term plans for the park.

Gage Park fast facts

• Was created on land that had previously been used for vegetable gardening and as an apple and pear orchard.

• Was named for its previous owner Robert Russell Gage (1840-1918), a prominent lawyer whose family was a major land owner in east Hamilton.

• The park covers 28.8 hectares (71 acres) and is seen by some to be Hamilton’s Central Park — as in Central Park, Manhattan — because it offers a large green space in the middle of urban sprawl.

• Gage Park is the second-largest park in lower Hamilton next to Confederation Park.

• The land was sold to the city for $320,000 in 1918, the equivalent of nearly $4 million in current dollars. The land formally became a park on Jan. 23, 1922.

• The Gage Park fountain was designed by architect John Lyle and completed in 1927.

• The current children’s museum was previously the Gage family home that was acquired by the city and made into the museum.

• The bandshell was constructed in 1947 and named in memory of Lieutenant George R. Robinson (1840-1917), a former bandmaster of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Regiment.

• In 1958, the public works yard and the greenhouse complex were added.
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It's Your Festival! Thu, Jun 30 - Sun, Jul 3

It's Your Festival is going down at Gage Park this weekend as well!
Thornley, Big Wreck, Junkhouse's Tom Wilson, and Big Sugar amongst the Canadian talent.

More Info: http://www.hamiltonfolkarts.org/itsyourfestival.htm#
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Old Posted Jul 8, 2011, 6:37 AM
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Work underway on the new buildings:


photo by me today



New Entrance:





And what's up with these? Real or precast?





if they're real.. r they from an old Hamilton building?
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ArtsFest, Aug 6-7

FoF replacement?


photo by me


..Ooooh! Shania Twin! LMAO
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Festival of Friends is returning to Gage Park

https://twitter.com/FestofFriends/st...66021544751104
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Festival of Friends returning to Gage Park

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/69...-to-gage-park/

The Festival of Friends is coming home.

The Festival announced Tuesday through a short video on Twitter that it will return to Gage Park after being staged for six years in the Ancaster Fairgrounds.

"In 2011, the Festival of Friends was forced to move for a myriad of reasons including unresponsive leadership at city hall," the twitter feed says to the accompaniment of Skylar Grey's singing "I'm Coming Home."

"In the past few months, changes have made it possible for the Festival of Friends to negotiate solutions to many of the concerns that necessitated our exit."

Festival general manager Loren Lieberman confirmed in an interview that the festival, which is entering its 41st year, will be held next August in Gage Park.

Lieberman said Councillors Jason Farr and Matthew Green were instrumental smoothing the way for the festival's return to east Hamilton.

"The landscape has changed," Lieberman said. "City hall has changed."

The festival moved to Ancaster in 2011, with Lieberman saying at the time that it had outgrown Gage Park. Lieberman said recent landscaping changes made to the park made it more amenable to the large crowds of people the free three-day festival draws.
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New renderings of the Gage Park Greenhouse...


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Wow - that's some serious work going on there...
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