Celebrating restoration of Thompson Creek Park & Wetland this weekend

To The Haldimand Press

DUNNVILLE—In 1993, a group of conservation-minded volunteers from the Dunnville Bio Region Association (DBA) hosted a workshop to create a sustainable development plan – related to social, economic, and environmental concerns – for Dunnville. One of the action items proposed was to build an outdoor education facility by restoring Thompson Creek, the wetland, and tallgrass prairie, and by planting a Carolinian Arboretum.

While that goal wasn’t entirely realized at that time due to changing resources and partners, on Wednesday, September 25, 2019 the new project partners – Dunnville Horticultural Society, Ducks Unlimited Canada, and Haldimand County – will celebrate the completion of the vision with the opening of an Eco-Centre at Dunnville Thompson Creek Park.

“We are so excited to have been able to help re-start this project and get it done,” says Dunnville Horticultural Society (DHS) Past-President Debbie Thomas, who co-chaired the project with volunteer Dan McKay, the original President of the DBA and now a DHS member. “This was a wonderful project when it was started more than 20 years ago and, although it stalled somewhat due to unforeseen circumstances, we are so happy to have been able to work with the volunteer who had a lot to do with the original vision, Dan McKay, and build on it with our Ducks Unlimited Canada and Haldimand County partners.”