Anybody care to comment on the happenings? I did not hear about it until it was over. I understand the meeting time was miscommunicated. I hear Jack Wiaduck was there.
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Olmsted Society Meeting Last Night
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Posted Saturday Jan 20, 2007 08:21 #
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There was an amazing lecture with slides of all the work the RB Ecology Club, in conjunction with John Kolar (FLOS) and the Cook County Forest Preserve have done in Zoo Woods and Waubansee 'prairie.' Unbelievable what can be accomplished by volunteers. The prairie is actually coming back in those areas now. Rare prairie plants that had all but disappeared are making a comeback thanks to them!
There will be tours in the Spring, I can't wait.
On that note, FLOS does so much for this community. People should join. http://www.olmstedsociety.org/
So many trees donated, time, chemical to fight Dutch Elm, Library irrigation (not the pad, obviously.) It is an incredible group. Their work helps keep Riverside special, they protect everything that is beautiful about it. How could someone not support that?exhibit A.
FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED SOCIETY
LANDSCAPE WORKDAY*****REMINDER*****
Please join Master Stewart & Olmsted Society member John Kolar, along with the Riverside-Brookfield High School Ecology Club for a brush-pile burn at Waubansee Woods!
Sunday, January 21, 2007
12-3:30 pm
Waubansee Woods
Waubansee Woods is located two blocks south of Forest Ave. and ½-block west of First Ave. (Enter Waubansee St. from First Ave. & park on the south side of the street)
Posted Saturday Jan 20, 2007 08:42 # -
Yes, after this experience, I will join. Tell me Kim, why were the old flowering trees at the library cut down? I was then disappointed to see that FLOS had helped with the replanting, although I assume you were attempting to cover a bad scar. The cutting down of those trees really broke my heart, and I oould not go by the library for months after that, it made me that sick.
Some of you folks will know my sister from the Cook County Forest Preserve. She has donated native plants she nursed in the past, and is usually at the burns.
Posted Saturday Jan 20, 2007 08:49 # -
Catherine,
I believe the landscape plan and plants were a gift from the Garden Club. I have no idea why those trees were removed, sad I agree. FLOS donated $5,000 for the irrigation system. I agree, this summer the library was so terrible looking. I am hopeful that it all comes together this summer.
Sure wish someone would force the village to yank the cement circle. Another example of why $20 Million should not be entrusted to this government. They can't even enforce a permit issue in the front yard of their neighbor.Posted Saturday Jan 20, 2007 08:58 # -
Well, the removal of the trees was certainly no gift. I cannot seem to get to the bottom of this. I don't understand why they needed an irrigation system. Can you explain to me?
Ye gads, when I saw that circle, together with the trees being gone, it reminded me of a chorus to an Irish tune: Oh my God what have they done, to the town I have loved so well? I also have seen the town of my childhood ruined. It still breaks my heart to think about it then and today. Developers and the government: dumb and dumber. The citizens who support it: beyond all understanding.
Posted Saturday Jan 20, 2007 09:14 # -
Catherine - I like "Royal Canal" better. "And in the women's prison, there's seventy women... and with them I would dwell." I too liked those flowering trees, and I tried to get Ms. Rush and those bozos at the Building Department to enforce their own rules re the circle, but the Village lawyer trumped that action. I think Mike Collins put in a lot of stuff that will look good, and with the watering system in place they won't have any excuse for not caring for it, so let's give it six months - a growing season - and see what happens.
Posted Saturday Jan 20, 2007 14:35 # -
"The chief advantages which a suburb can posess over a town on the one hand, and over a wilderness on the other, will consist in those which favor open-air recreation beyond the limits which economy and convenience prescribe for private grounds and gardns. The main artificial requirements of a suburb then, are good roads and walks, pleasant to th eye within themselves, and having at intervals pleasant openings and outlooks. with suggestions of refined domestic life, secluded, but not far removed from the life of the community."
"It appears to us, on the whole, as the result of our survey, that no essential naturl requirement of an attractive and healthy suburb is here wanting." FLO
Let's try and save what we have left.
Posted Saturday Jan 20, 2007 22:53 #
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