Communities in Bloom judges arriving Monday

Final preparations underway in Alberton

Town of Alberton employees, from left, Tyson Gavin, Elon Wilkie and Garth Davey, tend a flowerbed in an alley connecting Main Street to the town’s rear parking lot. Preparations are in full swing for Monday’s arrival of Communities in Bloom judges. - Eric McCarthy

ALBERTON

The Town of Alberton is encouraging businesses and residents to give their properties a little extra attention this weekend as they prepare for the arrival Monday of Communities in Bloom judges.

The town has enrolled in the non-competitive category of the national Communities in Bloom program this year. Communities in Bloom is a Canadian non-profit organization committed to fostering civic pride, environmental responsibility, beautification and to improving quality of life through community participation.

Judges Lucy Chang from Ottawa and Anne-Marie Parent from Beaconsfield Quebec, will be evaluating the town on Tuesday, July 24.

A crew from Preston Murphy Trucking lays down a new walking track on a plot of land along Alberton’s Albion Street which is being turned into a community park.

Garth Davey, the town’s special events coordinator, and his staff have also been busy with preparation, weeding, watering, planting and tidying up municipal properties. As well, on Friday an Alberton committee got a start on a new community park as a paving crew laid down a new walking track beside Albion Street. The committee received New Horizons funding to develop the park.