keep Norton Elementary School open

The first public meeting will be MARCH 10 at 7pm at Norton Elementary School. Please attend and show your support for keeping our school open!

Movie Night at the Playground!

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This year's Canada Day theme in Norton will be AN OL' FASHION CANADIAN COUNTRY FAIR.


PARADE begins at 11am - Everyone is encouraged to place an entry in the parade. Decorate a bike or a wheel barrel - anything with wheels - or create a fun float, ride a horse, enter an antique car, or be a walker.  Line up starts at 10 am at Riverview Drive East. Judging will take place before the parade begins, so have everyone on your float by 10:45. For more information about the parade, please contact Sue at 434.0465.

EVENTS at the Norton Community Playground & Legacy Park
- Bouncy Castle for children is from 11am till 2pm.
- the Norton Rec Council will be fundraising by selling hot dogs, hamburgers, beverages, and popcorn as part of the community BBQ and potluck beginning at noon. Please bring a salad or desert to share with the community, as well as a picnic blanket or chairs.
- Children's Carnival Games from 12:45 till 1:30pm: admission is $2 and lets the children go to each station and earn points that can be traded in for prizes.
- Washer toss and Sack races open to all ages from 1:30-2:00pm.
- Pony rides.
 - Lego contest, photo contest, and baking contest: entries will be on display in the Norton Elementary School gym. All entries must be submitted on June 30th between 3-5pm at the Norton Elementary School and should include name, ages, and address.

COFFEE HOUSE & FIREWORKS - beginning at 8pm, everyone is invited back to the playground for a fun evening to celebrate our community and country. The Norton Village Council will be providing a cake for everyone to try and the Midland Baptist Church will be selling coffee and beverages to raise money for its Mad @ Poverty campaign. When it gets dark, the Norton Fire Department will amaze us all with a lovely fireworks display!

For more details and information, please also visit us on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/norton.recreation

Norton Rink hours of operation

Monday to Friday
2-4pm: public skate
6-8pm: public skate
8-10pm: hockey for ages 16 and up

Saturday & Sunday
10am-noon: public skate
2-4pm: public skate
4-6pm: hockey for ages 9-15
6-8pm: public skate
8-10pm: hockey for ages 16 and up

Please note that the rink building will be open for these hours as long as there are volunteers to be present. If there is no one at the building, these times still stand and the ice can still be used.

For the hours between these posted times, it is first come first serve.

If you would like to volunteer, please contact Sussanne or Joey Driscoll at 839-2931.

Also, please note that there are to be no pucks or sticks on the ice during scheduled public skate times unless and only if there is no one else there just to skate.

Christmas Tree Lighting & Visit from Santa Claus

Christmas Craft Expo - November 16

The Swings are Installed!

On Saturday (and again for a bit on Sunday) a group of dedicated volunteers worked in the hot sun to install the much-anticipated swings at the Norton Community Playground.

Thank You to Hall Bros. for letting us borrow a fork lift.

Another sand box was added and a lot of sand too.

Concrete was poured for the new flag pole.

And the concrete was poured for the swings.

And while we waited for the concrete to set, we weeded the gardens.

Next we installed the arm pieces for the swings.

We also had helpers spreading more of the nice rubber tire mulch.

Here it is: the first of the new swings.

A big thank you to all of the people who came out to help this past weekend. Way to go! The playground just keeps getting better and better.

SWINGS for the Playground - TREES for the Park

Tomorrow, Saturday, the tenth of August, there will be volunteers at the Norton Community Playground working on the installation of the swings that still need to be re-assembled. As well, there will be people planting trees around the Legacy Park. The work will begin around 8am and the volunteers have planned on returning on Sunday if necessary to complete whatever works remains unfinished at the end of the day on Saturday.

So if you are available and feel like helping out in the community, please feel free to drop by and offer a hand (even if just for as little as a half hour). Many hands make light work, so we would appreciate any help we can get! Thank you and have a lovely weekend.

Canada Day 2013

ahh the memories . . .

Norton outdoor rink

The outdoor rink in Norton is filled with snow. Lots of snow. It is much too big to be shoveled out by hand, so we are going to need some assistance. If anyone is capable of helping us blow the snow out of the rink, we will be very grateful. And we'll be able to start flooding it to get it ready for skating! If you are able to help us out, please contact Ian Sherwood at 839-2959 or 435-1905. Or just head on up to the rink and blow it out for us anonymously!

Drive Carefully

There is snow on the ground and I think the temperature is going to get mild so the snow will turn to rain and the roads could get quite messy out there. Please drive carefully if you need to go some place. If you have nowhere you need to be, stay inside, keep dry and warm and check out the new slideshow of pictures from Build Day in Norton in the PHOTOS section of our website.

Christmas Tree Lighting

The Village Of Norton, the Norton Rec Council, and the Norton Legion are all pleased to invite you to join us for a tree lighting ceremony this Friday, Nov. 30 at 7pm at the Municipal Building in Norton. There will also be carol singing, refreshments, and a visit from Santa.

As well, there will be a gingerbread house contest. There is a $2 entry fee and the winner takes all. So  go ahead and get creative and  make an awesome gingerbread house!

Christmas Craft Sale - November 17!!!

Haunted House in Norton

The Norton Recreation Council will be presenting frightful fun and ghoulish games this Friday evening from 6:30-9:00pm at the Sacred Heart Church Hall in Norton. There will be prizes, candy, games, and a witch's kitchen. And for the bravest of souls, they can venture down through the witch's lair if they dare. Everyone is welcome to attend (even parents) so come out and have some pre-Halloween fun.

If anyone is willing to be a character, corpse, or spooky spectre in our haunted house, or if you would rather help supervise some games or activities, please contact us at nortonreccouncil@gmail.com and let us know how you would like to help.
  

We Have A Sign!

I hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving weekend. In playground news, the new sign for the playground and park arrived last week. Here is a photo:

Welcome to our park and playground!

Thank you to Shaw Signs for making this for us!

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And the Norton Recreation Council is looking for volunteers to help with some rink repairs this upcoming Saturday, October 13 (if the weather is nice). If you are able to help, come on out on Saturday any time after 8:30am and lend a hand.

More Thanks

We have forgotten to mention a thank you to the welders who came and helped us prepare the site for the new playground equipment. So a big THANK YOU to Kings County Mechanical for all the welding.

And a thank you to the St. John Ambulance for being onsite during Build Day.

Enjoy the wet weather. Stay dry. Have fun.

National Tree Day

As of March 2, 2011 the Wednesday of National Forest Week is to be known as National Tree Day. So since this week is National Forest Week and today is Wednesday, that means today is National Tree Day. The purpose of the National Tree Day is for Canadians to celebrate the many benefits trees provide us, such as clean air, wildlife habitat, reducing energy demand, and connecting with nature.

At Norton Elementary School today, Landscape NB arranged for Stewart Duncan of Two Boys Lawn Care & Maintenance to plant a tree donated by Sun Nurseries in the new Legacy Park.

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Here are a few more companies and people we need to thank:

Sure Shot Line Painting - Bill Hudson

Mrs. Dunsters, The Norton Baptist Church, & Rothesay Superstore for providing food for our volunteers on Build Day

Build Day success!

Despite the wet weather conditions, we assembled our new playground pieces and begun many parts of the Legacy Park yesterday here in Norton. A little after 3pm local time Legion members of our community led the children from Wonderland Child Care down to the school where we unleashed them upon the new playground equipment. Not long after they began to play, the skies cleared and the sun began to shine! 

Have fun children! And for the teachers, school at Norton Elementary will be quite interesting on Monday!

Thank you once more to all the volunteers. It took a village to build a playground!

Members of the Royal Canadian Legion Norton Branch 76 led the children to the new playground.

The bulldozer.

The fire truck.

Down the new slide.

Climbing the camel climber.

Triple slide.

Children playing everywhere.

A teeter-tooter like you never seen.

It Took A Village

It took a village, but we did it! The new playground and park is officially open. The work will continue since we have more ideas and projects planned for the future as we continue this wonderful community building adventure we have been enjoying.

We want to THANK everyone who helped out today. It was such an amazingly awe-inspiring day. I feel kinda speechless right now. The energy in our community was absolutely contagious today. What a wonderful accomplishment we all achieved together!

We'll have pictures up on the website soon so those of you from away can see what we did today. For now, we ask everyone to relax and have an enjoyable weekend.

And of course, a big, big thank you to Let Them Be Kids!

From all of us here in Norton, may your days be as filled with as much excitement and good spirit as we experienced today!