Thursday, April 26th 2012 Monarch Park Collegiate, in co-operation with Artex Environmental, is holding a special e-waste recycling day. That day bring all your old electronics to Monarch Park Collegiate for proper disposal and recycling.
What: E-Waste Recycling Event Where: Monarch Park Collegiate, 1 Hanson St. (S. of Danforth, W. of Coxwell) When: Thursday, April 26th 2012. 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Consider honouring a City of Toronto resident or organization for making a significant contribution to improving human rights in Toronto.
The deadline for submitting nominations is Monday, May 7, 2012. Nomination forms are on the website at www.toronto.ca/civicawards.
The AEHR Awards are presented in five categories:
I would like to share with you news from City Hall and the most recent City Council meeting. Here are some key developments:
From Joanna Lavoie of Inside Toronto:
Plans to recycle contaminated soil from Toronto's 2,000-acre waterfront at a site in the port lands are moving steadily along.Earlier this week, Waterfront Toronto announced it has received a $350,000 cash infusion from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' (FCM) Green Municipal Fund, which offers funding and resources to large, small, urban and rural initiatives that address sustainable community development needs of municipal governments. This grant covers the investment the tripartite waterfront redevelopment agency made to evaluate the treatment and recycling of contaminated soil in the port lands from the city's 2,000-acre waterfront.
From the Toronto Star:
Users of perpetually endangered swimming pools in Toronto schools are being thrown a five-year lifeline.City of Toronto staff and the Toronto District School Board have negotiated a fee agreement that would see students and other residents splash in all 33 of the board’s city-funded pools until at least 2017.
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Fletcher was ecstatic Tuesday but warned “it’s not a slam dunk.” The city’s budget committee chair, Councillor Mike Del Grande, is expected to argue Toronto taxpayers can’t afford all the pools.
The Ralph Thornton Centre is seeking energetic individuals who want to help improve our community to stand for election to the board of management or to participate as committee members. Here are the details on who they are looking for:
The Ralph Thornton Centre (RTC) is an inclusive community centre affiliated with the City of Toronto that is dedicated to community development & capacity building in South Riverdale. RTC works collaboratively to create a healthy, inclusive and vibrant community, offers a variety of programs that engage & assist residents, and provides space and support for a wide range of community groups & activities.
Social Fabric is a Community Quilt – a unified whole made of patches created by businesses, community groups & families in the Gerrard East neighbourhood.
Here are some details assembled by the creators of this project:
What is the Purpose? Social Fabric symbolically, emotionally and socially brings together the various groups in our community. Social Fabric will bring positive press to our neighbourhood. Social Fabric will be an example to our youth of how society can work together to create beauty and positive change.
Over the past six weeks I and other Councillors have been working with sports field users to solve the problem of the unexpected new sports fees. Working together we were able to hit the ball out of the park and get a unanimous backing by City Council to waive the sports field fees for 2012.
All Councillors sincerely appreciate the thousands of volunteers hours community members put in to make sure that Toronto's children and youth have great sports programs. Many of us have learned the intricacies of the operation of recreational sports leagues in our city and other key issues that concern the leagues and clubs. Thank you!
Explore our city and celebrate the legacy of Jane Jacobs. On Jane's Walk weekend there will be exciting and interesting walks across Ward 30. Here are the walks organized in our area:
A Fresh Look at Social Housing Guided by Joy Connelly Sunday, May 6, 2012, 2:00 pm
Meeting place: The courtyard, 1555 Queen Street East at Craven End location: Project Amik, 419 Coxwell Avenue
From Dylan Reid of Spacing:
Walking down Carlaw after I moved to the east end not long ago, I noticed something very strange - just south of Gerrard St. East and Carlaw, you pass ANOTHER Gerrard St. East, this one a little residential road....
But, according to a letter from local Councillor Paula Fletcher (PDF) to Toronto and East York Community Council considered this month, it still causes confusion as drivers going north on Carlaw turn onto the wrong Gerrard St. E. and find themselves trapped, having to circle around the residential neighbourhood to get out again. TEYCC agreed to ask staff to look into the matter.
