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Kinsmen Club of Brandon member Dave Perkins installed flamingos onto a lawn on Memorial Crescent in Brandon on Tuesday morning the club’s 100th such flocking. (Tyler Clarke/The Brandon Sun)
Cheerful for 7:15 a.m., Dave Perkins enthusiastically installed several flamingos onto a lawn on Memorial Crescent in Brandon on Tuesday.
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Cheerful for 7:15 a.m., Dave Perkins enthusiastically installed several flamingos onto a lawn on Memorial Crescent in Brandon on Tuesday.
It was the Kinsmen Club of Brandon’s 100th flocking, in which volunteers have helped people mark special occasions with flamingo ornaments on their lawns.
Councillors said they were flooded with calls and emails from people lining up on both sides of the issue. The initial proposal from Thomas Soulliere, director of parks, recreation and facilities, recommended permanently closing the loop to cars and creating a parking lot next to it with 17 spaces, including four accessible stalls and a larger drop-off and pick-up zone. That would have resulted in a loss of about 73 parking spaces in the 4.2 hectare park. One of the new options in a report going to council on Thursday is a variation on Soulliere’s original proposal but with additional parking for people with disabilities.