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Following message is from Pamela Gough’s Office: Good Morning, Please see below and attached the announcement about community consultation regarding the TDSB budget for the 2013-14 school year: TDSB Media Release – April 30 2013 The Budget Consultation will take place at Sir Adam Beck JS (544 Horner Ave.) on Thursday May 16 from 7 […]
I’m pleased to share the following information, which I learned of on the basic of email correspondence between Carol Walker Gayle of the City of Toronto and a Long Branch resident: In 2005 the City decided to increase its tree canopy from 17/20% to 30 to 40%. It is now at 20%. In Rosedale-Moore Park it […]
I learned of the severance proposal for 33 Forty First Street just recently. Hearing Date: Thursday, April 25 , 2013 1:00 p.m. Council Chambers – 399 The West Mall, Etobicoke Civic Centre I’ve been focused upon other projects including the upcoming Long Branch Jane’s Walk on May 4 and May 5, 2013, starting on each […]
In a webpage devoted to Cultural Attractions, TOLive with Culture describes The Assembly Hall at 1 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive. Major renovation has preserved building’s historic charm, blended with modern updates The text at the website notes: The Assembly Hall is located on the scenic Lakeshore Grounds in South Etobicoke. This century-old building has undergone […]
Following message is from Trustee Gough’s Office: Good Afternoon, There are Parent Engagement Workshops being held at various locations during April, May and June of 2013. If you are able to attend any of these workshops, could you please advise Trustee Gough’s office at Debbie.Wagdin@tdsb.on.ca. We would be interested in hearing your feedback on the […]
As Eric Hobsbawm has remarked in a classic study, The invention of tradition (1983), traditions don’t spring out of nowhere. They have to be invented. The same can be said of nation states, which Benedict Arnold famously spoke of as imagined communities. As a March 28, 2013 Globe and Mail article indicates, sometimes these imagined communities have a limited impact on […]
Following news report by Catherine Nasmith is from Built Heritage News – Issue No. 209 – March 26, 2013: To access the most recent issue of the full newsletter, click here. CRB decision on Bala Falls released Catherine Nasmith The town dock, Lake Muskoka, Bala, Ontario Right at the top I should say I was the […]
Please note the Community Council meeting is April 9 not April 6 as previously indicated. The following March 26, 2013 message is from Michael Harrison: Good Morning: I am pleased to let you know that the city staff report to declare the city’s intent to designate the Ormsby/Franceschini (Mimico Estates) estate under the Ontario Heritage […]
This blog post describes how I developed an interest in the unfolding story involving the redevelopment of the Wesley Mimico United Church located at 2 Station Road in Mimico. I live in Long Branch, not Mimico. I’m not a member of the United Church. Yet the story of the church is of much interest to […]