With the generous donations received over the past several months we have begun full development of the park!
Wow! Huge, Huge thanks to everyone involved and to the generous donation of Material and equipment from Scansa Construction and a very handy 40ft shipping container from Viking Air!
Donations have rolled in as well at an impressive speed.
So before the photo’s lets pay some over due respect:
To Date the Friends of North Saanich Society has received:
$5000 from the Victoria Foundation
$3000 from Victorian Epicure
$5000 from Dave Smith Professional Components
$2000 from Judy & Fraser Smith of the Smith Maneuver
$1000 from the Bevan Ave Dental Clinic
$500 from Cedar Grove Yachts
Along with $1000 worth of fuel from CO-OP GAS
And there is not enough room to even name all of the equipment we have been leant including experienced operators from
Martman Excavating / G&E Equipment
John Plant Excavating – Bike parks neighbor too!
Dave Aylard of Brackenhurst Farms – Bulldozing guru!
Jim Dunlop – for lending us his bobcat for phase 1!
Classic Towing for dropping off our toys / machines!
Other business's have donated incalculable man hours in never ending efforts to have this day come!
http://www.blogger.com/www.straitlinecomponents.com Huge thanks to Denis Paquette, the man who keeps this all on track!
North Saanich Municipality Overly cooperative and supportive of this park for the community. Huge thanks for all the help from Cliff Halliday and Peter Chandler who have been there meeting after meeting year after year.
The entire committee of Friends of North Saanich will be listed shortly in a following post as we are still organizing and seeking some smart people to fill spots on the board of directors. Main goal at the moment is ironically a Volunteer Coordinator is needed!
Any interest please do contact Denis Paquette 812-3262
Now the fun part! Randoms from the past week focusing on the beginner and intermediate sections formed and shaped by Kyle Michell and Mark Mathews! !
So.. first thing we did was scrape the field and form our berms for the kid sections!
Ps. still looking for a Volunteer Coordinator!
We do need a new fence in the park but it would be for keeping kids out during construction! These deer are fearless and calm around us as we dig!
As I filmed this two wild rabbits were playing at my feet, oddly peaceful for an area so urban.
Michel Excavating brought in their big machine to reform the old Pro Ramp into a cool new dual slalom feature!
Kyle Michell rarely needs to leave his machine!
Mathews forming a hip jump!
Massive 40 ft container from Viking!
Final inspection on the new Pro Line location by local residents!
