RE: GRADING OUR GREENSPACE, Fall 2021

Thank you for the recent edition and in particular the area park reviews conducted by your writer Madeline Smart, I really loved the coverage of our parks.

I do wonder, however, why Paul Martel Park has such a bad rating? Have you been there recently? It is just wonderful. The indigenous community has been given a grant to add native plantings and they have done a wonderful job creating a very harmonious space and to top it all off a gorgeous mural has just been added to the entire rear wall of the park. The mural is stunningly beautiful. 

Perhaps the park review was complete prior to these improvements? Please take another look and thank you again for the Gleaner.

—Carole Alexander, Annex resident 

(summarized from a voicemail message with permission)