Jun 26

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6/26/2012 12:31 PM 

Pictured above left to right are: Dufferin County Niagara Escarpment Commissioner Ken McGhee, Niagara Escarpment Achievement Award recipients Allen Clarke and Jacqueline Tilford, Mulmur Township Mayor Paul Mills, and NEC Chair Don Scott.

Long standing Dufferin County Museum & Archives (DCMA) supporter, donor and volunteer Allen Clarke, (who regularly can be seen tending to the DCMA’s heritage apple orchard) and Jacqueline Tilford both recently received the Niagara Escarpment Commission’s Achievement Awards.

The DCMA is proud of our supporters who continually support us as well as, show such outstanding commitment to the community. Release issued through the NEC is below.

Dufferin County residents Allen Clarke and Jacqueline Tilford have been honoured with a Niagara Escarpment Achievement Award for the outstanding stewardship of their Mulmur Township property.

At the June 21 award presentation, Niagara Escarpment Commission Chair Don Scott acknowledged the couple for their contribution to the Niagara Escarpment Plan Area, noting the efforts they have made to maintain and enhance the Escarpment’s natural landscape.

Clarke and Tilford developed a residential and landscaping design for their property that blends seamlessly into the scenic agricultural environment of the Mulmur hills. Maintaining a beautiful 75-variety Ontario heritage apple orchard, they have also planted two hundred Sugar Maples and have undertaken riparian planting along the streams that cross their 80 acre property, enhancing the streams’ species habitats.

“The Niagara Escarpment Plan speaks to maintaining and enhancing the quality and character of natural streams and water supplies, and the open landscape character of the Niagara Escarpment,” said NEC Chair Don Scott. “Your efforts support these goals, and you have set a wonderful example of how residents of the Niagara Escarpment can be stewards of our World Biosphere Reserve in their own backyards.”

The Niagara Escarpment Commission’s Achievement Awards recognize individuals and groups for outstanding accomplishments, including exceptional building design and site landscaping, environmental restorations, and lifetime achievement for outstanding contributions to the conservation and stewardship values embodied in the Niagara Escarpment Plan.

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