He pitched the idea, which has the unanimous approval of the Branch 560 executive, to other veterans groups and service organizations yesterday. To me it is more important than anything to remember veterans. They also agreed that improvements should be made to the muddy and heavily pot-holed road, but they felt it did not necessarily require paving. The idea of moving the cenotaph, built in 1925 by the Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire, was put off until several questions about it can be answered. Ford also suggested the city could offset the cost of the work by selling Boucher Park on Clarence Street and moving the monuments in it to City Park.
Nobody goes there.
Not even dogs go in there to pay their respects. Questions were raised about some of the proposals, in part because of the fierce community opposition they were sure to spark. Joan Hansen of the Sydenham Tenants and Ratepayers Association, a group that has fought changes to the park in the past, warned that even changing the name of the park was sure to generate vigorous opposition. My ratepayers are probably not going to be in favour of renaming this park. A Hospice Kingston proposal for a low-lying monument in the northeast corner of the park caused controversy last year, she reminded the group, and the city recently denied a request to bury a millennium time capsule in the park, saying it was already too cluttered.