A STORY OF SERVICE

WHERE DID MURRAY'S MOUNTAIN COME FROM?

The originator of the concept of assembling land for the school, the Sports Complex and a college was High School Board Chairman J.B. Dods (a Rotarian) in the early 1950's.

After the Sports Complex, the Day Care Centre and the Education Centre were built, there was still about three acres of "wet waste land" which the Board of Education considered selling for houses. (A stream ran through it!) Lion Murray Young proposed that the Lions Club develop the land as LIONS PARK. Over several years the area was a dumping ground for fill from housing, swimming pool and road construction. When the Bromount Place was built, all the fill from the basement garage became available. There was more than needed for a level playground so Murray's Mountain was created, quickly, from the surplus fill.

The topsoil came from the Hydro Substation on the 3rd line of Amaranth. Stone picking involved many Lions. Seeding was done by Lion Murray Young Sr. with help from Lions Terry Sullivan and Jack Hutchison and Young's antique Ford 8N tractor.

Murray's Mountain was nearly lost when the Town wanted to put a road from College to Fead Street. Objections prevailed and Murray's Mountain survives, to the joy of many young people.