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.