An occasional Newsletter from Preserved Stories.

Sample letter (deadline is early on Nov. 19, 2015) to C of A regarding 33 Forty Second St.

Update: The application has been deferred > [End of update]   A previous post regarding 33 Forty First St. is entitled: Re: File No. B30/15EYK, A259/15EYK, A260/15EYK – 33 Forty-Second Street Wherever you live in Toronto, and especially if you live in South Etobicoke, if you object to the severance of the lot at 33 […]

Re: File No. B30/15EYK, A259/15EYK, A260/15EYK – 33 Forty-Second Street

Update: The application has been deferred > [End of update]   City of Toronto Ward 6 Councillor Mark Grimes has circulated the following letter to the Committee of Adjustment: COA – DEFERRAL-33 – Forty-Second The message reads as follows: Councillor Mark Grimes Ward 6 416-397-9273 councillor_grimes@toronto.ca www.markgrimes.ca Chair and Committee Members Committee of Adjustment Etobicoke […]

Lynn (Kingdon) Barnes has posted a message at a post entitled: Ian Roach shares two great photos of his 1959-60 Grade 7 class at Cartierville School

Lynn (Kingdon) Barnes has posted a message at an earlier blog post, entitled: Ian Roach shares two great photos of his 1959-60 Grade 7 class at Cartierville School The photos on the right are from the latter post. Lynn’s massage, which I’ve posted as a separate post – the one you are now reading – as […]

Warning about drone looking into windows of buildings north of Long Branch Park – early on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015

Following message is from the Long Branch Neighbourhood Watch Facebook Group: “Warning: A guy was spotted early Friday morning in Long Branch Park using a drone to look into the windows of the buildings to the north. He carried a backpack and setup up at a picnic table.” Long Branch Park is at 245 Lake […]

Goodwin (2006), Bartra (2014), and Filion (2015) offer insights of relevance to community self-organizing

Anthropology of the Brain: Consciousness, Culture, and Free Will (2014) suggests our minds extend beyond our bodies

Monday, Nov. 30, 2015, 7:00 pm at Humber College Lakeshore Campus, L-Building: Join your neighbours and help create a Long Branch Neighbourhood Association

To access a PDF version of the poster below, click here: LBNA-Nov30-15-meeting-letterflyer For a closer view of the poster, click on the image; click again to enlarge it further    Notes regarding spellings and boundaries Humber College Lakeshore Campus is located at Lake Shore Blvd. West and Kipling Ave. in the Lakeshore community of New […]

Michael Drescher takes over as Director of Heritage Resources Centre when Robert Shipley retires

New era begins for Heritage Resources Centre at University of Waterloo Click here for previous posts regarding HRC > The following text and photos are from the November 2015 HRC Newsletter: Professor Michael Drescher is set to take over the Directorship of the HRC on the pending retirement of Professor Robert Shipley. Robert became Director […]

Meadowvale (Mississauga) Community Centre Revelopment – Public Art

The deadline for feedback concerning the short-listed pro[sals (see link below) from Mississauga residents is Nov. 24, 2015 You can access message concerning Meadowvale Community Centre Revelopment here> The text at the above-noted link reads as follows: Meadowvale Community Centre Revelopment – Public Art The City of Mississauga is undergoing a public art process in […]

Ontario’s Culture Strategy Program and built heritage

The following text, which I learned about from Geoff Kettel, is from the website of Architectural Conservancy Ontario: Culture Strategy for Ontario ACO stresses need to build heritage into the Culture Strategy Program November 4, 2015 In September the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport (MTCS) announced a new initiative, the development of a Culture […]