August 9, 2008 9AM – 4:30PM
starts at Beausejour Daylily Gardens
1st St. N. Beausejour - 30 min. N.E. of Winnipeg

Tour Map/Derby Hands are $10 each or 3/$20. Buy your hands now – you can win even if you can’t be present! Info or derby hands? E-mail: pokerderby @ efree.mb.ca Phone: (204) 268-3950

Hosted by the Friends of the Beausejour Daylily Gardens

Registration:

• Beausejour Daylily Gardens: a 2-acre American Hemerocallis Society Display Garden with thousands of daylilies, peonies, iris, lilies, prairie hardy fruit trees, and picnic site. Self guided tours.

Checkpoints:

1. Train Whistle Park: restored caboose, huge boulders from Lake Agassiz basin. Picnic site.
2. St. Mary R.C. Church & Our Lady of La Salette Shrine: Leo Mol, world-renowned sculptor, painted the ceiling of St. Mary in 1951. Pathway along Stations of the Cross to shrine. Picnic site.
3. Manitoba Glass Works Historical Site: the first glass container factory in Western Canada. and Chryplywy Nature Trails: enjoy native flowers and wildlife from 2 km. of paved trails (62 acre site).
4. Pioneer Village Museum:
   18 buildings, including the childhood home of former Governor General, Edward Schreyer, 1000s of artifacts of pioneers from Galicia, Volhynia and other countries. Self guided tours.
5. SunGro Art Show:
   Paintings, pottery, photography, literature & textile creations by exceptional Manitoba artists

Bonus Prizes:

• 2 x 9 holes at Beausejour Golf Course
• day pass to Great Woods Blues/Rock/Roots Aug. 7 - 10
• day pass to Pioneer Village Heritage Day Aug. 10
• day pass to Double B Rodeo at CPTC Sept. 5 - 7

Beausejour – home of the only AHS Display Garden on the Canadian Prairies

4 categories:

1. Lilies & daylilies
2. Winter in the garden (snow/frost) (any garden)
3. The Colour Purple in the garden (any garden)
4. Photos taken in the Beausejour Daylily Gardens

Entries will be accepted between July 1st and August 31st

Photographs can be sent to:

Photo Contest
Box 20 GRP 112 RR1
Beausejour, MB
R0E 0C0

If there are any questions, call Melanie at (204) 266-1322. Contestants should include their name, address and telephone number with their photographs. Maximum 1 entry per category. Photographs will not be returned unless envelope with return postage is included. Judging will take place in September. Prizes will be awarded to the top photo in each category, and the winning photos will be featured in the local newspapers.

In March of 2005 the Council of the Town of Beausejour, as part of its 2005-2006 Municipal Financial Plan, presented to its citizens a Community Municipal Infrastructure Renewal Project entitled the “Park Avenue/P.R. 215 Reconstruction Project”.

The following documents describe the options available for Park Avenue reconstruction. Please note these documents are large, and may take time to download.

Park Avenue Public Information Booklet

On the last page of the first document (Park Avenue Public Information Booklet), there is a comment sheet where you are invited fill out and return. There is also a link to an online form you may use to submit comments at the end of this article.

Park Avenue Public Information Booklet

The following are architectural drawings showing the Park Avenue reconstructions as discussed in the information booklet.

The Pedestrian Oriented Transportation Corridor

Pedestrian Oriented Transportation Corridor & Cross Section

The Traffic Oriented Transportation Corridor

Traffic Oriented Transportation Corridor & Cross Section

Steinbach Model Cross Section

Steinbach Model Cross Section

Give us your Comments

After reviewing the above information, we invite you to send us your comments. You may fill out the form at the end of the Information Booklet, or you may submit your comments online using this special comments submission form.

If you have difficulty reading any of the downloadable documents, it’s likely you require version 7 or newer of Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is freely available here.

Get your set of Hasty Notes that use 6 pictures from the Daylily Gardens. Sets are on sale at the Town Office, Superior Inn, and Bergie’s.

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You may download these documents to your computer.

• Financial Plan Presentation
• 2007/08 Financial Plan