Attached are several photos I took circa Wednesday noon. The photos display the much longer term damage done to Victoria Park by the Rotary-sponsored Ribfest. Today nothing remains of the "damage" done by outside visitors. The damage is dead grass all over the park, and several places where grease, oil, and other grunge toxic to vegetation remain to leave scars for many more days or weeks to come.
Just as visitors to the park should be expected to leave the park as they found it, so should the sponsors of Ribfest, the Rotary Club.
It was they who brought all of the elements together to profit their private business on public property. Those elements left the park scarred with the residue of their operations. The Rotary Club also made a lot of money for their precious causes.
This Town Council should insist that local organizations who corral great swaths of the park for their cause, pay restitution for any and all damage caused by their sponsored event instead of dumping the damage on Cobourg taxpayers. In this instance the Rotary Club was just as negligently piggish as many of the out-of-town visitors.
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