Thanks to Debbie Levo
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Sunday June 22nd, 1:30 PM at the Anchor Garden, North End Beach Boulevard
In the fall of 1995 the Hamilton Beach Garden Club was formed. One of its founding members will be honored on Sunday the 22nd of June with a memorial plaque installed in the Anchor Garden at the north entrance of the Beach Strip. Elisabeth Nebesny was a long time resident of the Hamilton Beach Community, living and raising four children on Grafton Avenue. She was active in the Hamilton Beach Preservation Committee, the Beach Canal Lighthouse Group, HIEA and Hamilton Clean Air. She passed away in October of 2006 and will always be remembered here as a strong force behind the beautification of Hamilton’s Beach Strip. She along with founding club members Ann Hanson and Alice Selby as well as others worked tirelessly and were responsible for the flower filled traffic island south of the boulevard, the Memorial Garden at the South Entrance and the Anchor Garden at the North end and the six historic display boards along the now Waterfront Trail. Since 1997 these Community gardens came to life after the club raised many thousands of dollars through Industries, the City of Hamilton, The
Hamilton Industrial Environmental Association, the Port Authority, and local residents.
They welcome visitors to the Beach Strip and say, “welcome home” to all of us that live here each time we pass by.
The Beach Bloomer Awards were established in 2000 and given each year to residents for their beautiful front gardens until 2004.
Elisabeth was once quoted as saying “if you don’t dream, you don’t get anywhere”. She and her fellow club members dreamed of a more beautiful and vibrant community and we will be able to honour her Sunday with her own Bloomer Award, along with her family members and representatives from the Associations she worked with.
This is but a small description of Elisabeths’ good works for her Community and the Hamilton Beach Community Council invites all of her past friends to pay her tribute.
Photos from 2002, thanks to Ann Hanson.
#1- Councillor Collins and Elisabeth.
#2- Garden Club.
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Sunday June 22nd, 1:30 PM at the Anchor Garden, North End Beach Boulevard
In the fall of 1995 the Hamilton Beach Garden Club was formed. One of its founding members will be honored on Sunday the 22nd of June with a memorial plaque installed in the Anchor Garden at the north entrance of the Beach Strip. Elisabeth Nebesny was a long time resident of the Hamilton Beach Community, living and raising four children on Grafton Avenue. She was active in the Hamilton Beach Preservation Committee, the Beach Canal Lighthouse Group, HIEA and Hamilton Clean Air. She passed away in October of 2006 and will always be remembered here as a strong force behind the beautification of Hamilton’s Beach Strip. She along with founding club members Ann Hanson and Alice Selby as well as others worked tirelessly and were responsible for the flower filled traffic island south of the boulevard, the Memorial Garden at the South Entrance and the Anchor Garden at the North end and the six historic display boards along the now Waterfront Trail. Since 1997 these Community gardens came to life after the club raised many thousands of dollars through Industries, the City of Hamilton, The
Hamilton Industrial Environmental Association, the Port Authority, and local residents.
They welcome visitors to the Beach Strip and say, “welcome home” to all of us that live here each time we pass by.
The Beach Bloomer Awards were established in 2000 and given each year to residents for their beautiful front gardens until 2004.
Elisabeth was once quoted as saying “if you don’t dream, you don’t get anywhere”. She and her fellow club members dreamed of a more beautiful and vibrant community and we will be able to honour her Sunday with her own Bloomer Award, along with her family members and representatives from the Associations she worked with.
This is but a small description of Elisabeths’ good works for her Community and the Hamilton Beach Community Council invites all of her past friends to pay her tribute.
Photos from 2002, thanks to Ann Hanson.
#1- Councillor Collins and Elisabeth.
#2- Garden Club.