waterfront trails, unusual for a municipality of just 4.9 square kilometers. Recent additions include a splash pad in Centennial Park and plans for a recreation lending library. The town’s amphitheater hosts the acclaimed St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival each summer, which has seen attendance grow 600 percent over twelve years and attracts thousands of visitors annually. Mayor Shankar highlights recent enhancements municipally owned, and we started about five years ago in replacing all of those docks and this will be our final year.” Looking ahead, he envisions expanded capacity. “We’d love to be able to start to increase the capacity of the overall recreation front, perhaps providing larger boats, transient slips, things like that.” The waterfront district extends well beyond the marina. Prescott boasts nearly two kilometers of 5 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 06, ISSUE 07 PRESCOTT, ON
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