Clinton News Record, 2016-09-14, Page 88 News Record • Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Potential dog park for Auburn
Justine Alkema
Clinton News Record
One resident and dog
owner in Auburn is looking
to make the village a more
dog friendly space; Jacqui
Empson-Laporte wants to
start a dog park for Auburn's
canines.
Empson-Laporte has lived
in Auburn for eight years
and is the proud owner of a
lab -mastiff and lab -border
collie. She says there are at
least 45-50 other dogs in the
village as well, and there are
no public, completely fenced
in places for all these dogs to
run.
"I live on a pretty busy cor-
ner, and whenever I see peo-
ple walking with a dog, I go
and tell them what I'm trying
to do; people are like yeah,
that's a great idea," said
Empson-Laporte.
She is looking at two loca-
tions, both in the park on the
south east corner of town by
the community hall and
baseball diamond. The first
location is directly behind
left field; it would use the
fence that is already there as
one side of the dog park
fence. The other spot is
beside that diagonal to the
diamond.
There is playground
equipment at the park as
well. Right now, people tie
up their dogs while their
children use the playground
equipment. This way, people
can instead have their dogs
in the park.
Empson-Laporte
approached Central Huron
council with the idea at their
meeting on September 6.
She said that she was hoping
to pay for the materials if
they were willing to pay for
the labour to install the park.
They generally responded
positively to the idea, but
said they would want to
share the costs with Ash-
field-Colborne-Wawanosh
and North Huron as Auburn
is by all three municipalities.
Empson-Laporte is prepared
to talk with these other
municipalities soon.
Central Huron council
also said they will first need
a report from Roads Man-
ager Tom Sinclair. Councillor
Westerhout asked about the
noise, which Empson-
Laporte said is a good ques-
tion, though she is not sure it
will create any more noise
than the dogs in the village
already do.
There will be signs
instructing that dogs must
be neutered or spayed,
though it won't be enforced.
Also, part of the park will be
fenced off for small dogs,
and the other part will be
fenced off for larger dogs. It
will be clear that the park
must be used at the owner's
own risk.
After approaching the
Auburn Co-op for quotes,
the estimated costs for the
materials is around $3000.
Already raised is $200 from
the playground committee
and $1500 in private dona-
tions from members of the
village, a sign that people
from the community want
this facility.
To raise the rest, Empson-
Laporte is throwing around a
few ideas. One of these ideas
is to "adopt a post" which is a
chance to have the name of a
pet past or present engraved
on a post in the park
"I had priced out a fence
for my own property, but
then I thought, wouldn't it
Photo taken from gis.huroncounty.ca
An aerial map of the location for the park. It will likely either be
right behind left field (labelled "B") or diagonal to the field (labelled
"A").
be nicer if this was a com-
munity thing where other
people could bring their
dogs?"
Empson-Laporte brought
up that they are always trying
to get people to come use the
community facitlies, so this is
adding another reason for
people to come to the park
Justine Alkema Clinton News Record
Pine Lake Campground on Orchard Line hosted their second craft and bake
sale on September 10. Vendors are campers at the park, and the funds they
pay for table space goes to local charities.
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