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Important Follow-up Information Regarding Last Week’s Storm – Councillor Milczyn’s Office
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillFollowing information is from Councillor Peter Milczyn’s Office: TORONTO’S SPECIAL GARBAGE COLLECTION COMPLETED The City of Toronto has completed the special garbage collection for materials damaged by flooding following the intense rainfall on July 8. Solid Waste Management Services collected approximately 4,100 tonnes of flood-damaged material across the city. Regularly scheduled garbage, Blue Bin […]
E-News update from Heritage Toronto
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillBelow is a text-only version of a recent E-News update from Heritage Toronto. [You can subscribe to the newsletter at the Heritage Toronto website.] HERITAGE TORONTO E- NEWS July 11, 2013 Hello there. We hope everyone survived the storm on Monday relatively unscathed. There are reports that this was as much, if not more rain […]
Bethel Green Seniors Residence, 645 Millwood Road, Toronto is a church conversion featuring mixed form and function
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillIn their article about church reconversions in Toronto, Jason Hackwork and Erin Gullikson (2013) describe the Bethel Green Seniors Residence as a church conversion involving mixed function and form. In such a form of church redevelopment, a building is constructed around all of part of a congregation’s initial place of worship, and a new church, or […]
Wesley Mimico United Church community forum on April 8, 2013 described the church’s redevelopment plans
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillThe most recent Wesley Mimico United Church community forum took place on April 8, 2013. The next one is on June 24, 2013. Background about the Wesley Mimico redevelopment project – and related topics, of which there are many – can be found at the Wesley Mimico United Church Category. The April 8 report is […]
Giving new meaning to religious conversion – Jason Hackworth and Erin Gullikson (2013)
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillUpdates: The following July 8, 2013 post focuses upon the Wesley Mimico redevelopment, which features a church/congregation in the role of developer of a heritage-listed property: The outcome of the Wesley Mimico redevelopment story will depend upon negotiations related to the Ontario Heritage Act Two more recent posts discuss details of the Hackworth and Gullikson […]
Next steps for Main Street Unionville, Ontario
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillI have an interest in Unionville following a visit to the town a year of two ago. I was interested to learn of its history, and what has been done to preserve heritage buildings. After that visit, I subscribed to an email newsletter from the Unionville BIA. The following information is from the newsletter. I […]
Pecha Kucha – 20 slides x 20 seconds = 6 minutes 40 seconds (Long Branch Jane’s Walk talk)
/0 Comments/in Jane's Walk, Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillPecha Kucha is a presentations format in which 20 slides are screened at the rate of 20 second per slide. I like this format because it keeps presentations brief and to the point. When I began to work on a recent Pecha Kucha presentation for a Jane’s Walk event, I calculated that I’m looking at […]