Author Archive for: Jaan Pill
Entries by Jaan Pill
September 12, 2012 Healthy Dose of Green forum: Final Report
Sept. 12, 2012 Healthy Dose of Green forum In an earlier blog post, I shared background about the Trees for Life project. On September 12, 2012 I had the good fortune to attend a Healthy Dose of Green forum described below: Health Forum Report Final Following the September 2012, meeting, a small group was convened to […]
Ward 6, City budget information meeting, Jan. 9, 2013 at 7:00 pm. Speaker is Councillor Shelley Carroll
Following message is from Michael Craig of Sixth Street Dear Friends of Social, Recreational and HUMAN Services in South Etobicoke, Because we love our city and south Etobicoke, we must take action collectively to convince City Council, and Councillor Grimes in particular, NOT to balance the city budget on the backs of our most vulnerable […]
Etobicoke-Lakeshore MPP Laurel Broten’s New Year’s Levee invitation – Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013 – 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Message from the Office of Etobicoke-Lakeshore MPP Laurel Broten The Levee will take place on Sunday, January 6th from 2:00 – 4:00 pm at the Royal Canadian Legion Hall Branch 210 – 110 Jutland Road. This is a community event that is open to everyone, and Laurel is hoping to see many Etobicoke-Lakeshore residents […]
Gore Park strip in Hamilton, Ontario, could be cleared for demolition as soon as Jan. 9, 2013
Dec. 20, 2012 CBC article concerning Gore Park strip in Hamilton, Ontario. The opening sentence reads: “A row of historic buildings lining the south side of Gore Park could come down as early as January — radically changing the landscape of downtown Hamilton — unless council moves to protect them.” The facelift and the wrecking […]
1909 postcard on the radials through Long Branch (Jane Fairburn); 1909 Middle Road Bridge (Dave Cook)
Along the Shore (2013) Jane Fairburn, author of Along the Shore, focusing on the waterfront communities of Toronto, has posted a vintage postcard on the radials through Long Branch on the Along the Shore Facebook page. Here’s the text accompanying the photo, on Jane Fairburn’s Facebook page: “In the late nineteenth century, as the middle […]
J.A.D. McCurdy induction: An aviation announcement from Hon. Col. Gerald Haddon
An Aviation Announcement We are pleased to share with you the following notice from Honorary Colonel Gerald P. J. Haddon, Royal Canadian Air Force, Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Technology and Engineering, Borden, Ontario: In a moving ceremony which took place at the Canada Science and Technology Museum on November 21, 2012, in Ottawa, Honorary Air Commodore, The Honourable […]