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The Mississauga Muse
Guest
Oh man it was beautiful I tell you!
Sun shining from a Corporate Blue sky, autumn trees so ABLAZE that they had to be supervised by the Studmuffins of the Mississauga Fire Department...
People were shuttled between GO-station parking lot and Riverwood by a Mississauga transit bus that worked in flawless there-and-back efficiency.
Members of the Mississauga Indians opened the ceremony with drums and chants.
There were several speeches and I even listened to some of them --the best part being how Mississauga was leaving much of the park to nature --obnoxious weeds, scratchy inpenetrable brambles and all.
Then they unveiled a plaque.
Then people were invited to create a painting --a "time capsule" painting of sorts --that would be stashed away and revealed again in 30 years!
Mayor McCallion took her turn painting something that looked like a blue city hall without the tower.
Then buckets of paint were splattered all over her design and over much of me too.
Then when people weren't looking, I grabbed a brush (and what was left of the paint in the red bucket) and wrote...
Then I made a swift get-away in my City of Mississauga transit bus and called it a day.
Might as well take the time to say KUDOS to any and all involved in this Crown-Jewel-Park at the geographic centre of Mississauga.
The thing I love best about it is there is just so much unfettered nature there --and that it will be preserved for the future in this safe haven. You know, "placemaking" that leaves a place a PLACE?
Oh. And that "time-capsule" painting that will be shown to the public 30 years from now?
I'm prepared to bet that Hazel McCallion will be there to unveil the thing in October 2036.
Signed,
The Mississauga Muse
Sun shining from a Corporate Blue sky, autumn trees so ABLAZE that they had to be supervised by the Studmuffins of the Mississauga Fire Department...
People were shuttled between GO-station parking lot and Riverwood by a Mississauga transit bus that worked in flawless there-and-back efficiency.
Members of the Mississauga Indians opened the ceremony with drums and chants.
There were several speeches and I even listened to some of them --the best part being how Mississauga was leaving much of the park to nature --obnoxious weeds, scratchy inpenetrable brambles and all.
Then they unveiled a plaque.
Then people were invited to create a painting --a "time capsule" painting of sorts --that would be stashed away and revealed again in 30 years!
Mayor McCallion took her turn painting something that looked like a blue city hall without the tower.
Then buckets of paint were splattered all over her design and over much of me too.
Then when people weren't looking, I grabbed a brush (and what was left of the paint in the red bucket) and wrote...
Then I made a swift get-away in my City of Mississauga transit bus and called it a day.
Might as well take the time to say KUDOS to any and all involved in this Crown-Jewel-Park at the geographic centre of Mississauga.
The thing I love best about it is there is just so much unfettered nature there --and that it will be preserved for the future in this safe haven. You know, "placemaking" that leaves a place a PLACE?
Oh. And that "time-capsule" painting that will be shown to the public 30 years from now?
I'm prepared to bet that Hazel McCallion will be there to unveil the thing in October 2036.
Signed,
The Mississauga Muse
