Apologies From Villages Beautiful

Frontenac News Staff | Apr 03, 2014

A spokesman for the Villages Beautiful committee today revealed that our extended winter was due, at least in part, to the fact that winter decorations had not been removed from the Sharbot Lake causeway in a timely fashion. A recent study by Horticulture Canada has shown that ornamental evergreen left on display tends to delay the advent of spring. This can be extremely severe if the evergreen is enhanced by Christmas ornamentation and is allowed to go completely brown.

On Monday morning, a public spirited individual, Mr. Garnet England, played a leading role in correcting the situation. The browned out planters were removed and put into compost. On returning from photographing the activity, this reporter noted the first robin of the season at the corner of Elizabeth Street and Road 38. Mr. England confessed to a personal motive for the activity. Sap started running in earnest within hours of the planters being taken down.