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world19News This e-mail is going to people on the mailing list for world19. If you don't want to receive further notices, please reply to this e-mail with "remove" in the subject. Let us know if you prefer to receive this in "plain text" format. Please forward this to anyone you think may be interested. In this issue: 1. PROPERTY ASSESSMENT Property owners have all received new assessment notices, and in a couple of months, the city will set its 2004 tax rates. Despite its likely mill rate increase of around 3%, residential property owners in this area will inevitably -- as usual -- receive a much larger increase because of MPAC's new assessments. Our correspondent has sent out new information about how (and
why) to appeal property assessments. Visit our website http://www.world19.com
for links to all this information. 2. BLOOR WEST RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION 3. FEDERAL ELECTION NOTES: The other potential challenger we'd reported, Borys Wrzesnewskyj, owner of Future Bakery, is contesting the Liberal nomination in Etobicoke Centre (Alan Rock's current riding).. Meanwhile, the NDP is holding its nomination meeting Feb. 12. The two candidates -- both are world19 subscribers -- are Greg Hamara (http://www.hamara.ca) and Peggy Nash (http://www.peggynash.ca). We've had no world of a Conservative candidate. (The new Conservative riding association just held its first meeting very recently). 4. MEETINGS OF INTEREST a) Swansea Historical Society -
David Crombie b) Gerard Kennedy 5. COMMUNITY GARAGE SALE I am interested in organizing a community garage sale in the Bloor West Village. Now, I am not thinking your typical street sale. I am thinking more in the range of hundreds of garage sales taking place on the same day. I have been to such an event in Ottawa, called the Great Glebe Garage Sale. (enter this in any search engine for details of their sale). I would like to use their model as a template. The boundaries for such a sale would range from, say, Jane to Glendonwynne, and from Annette to Morningside. Such a sale would be successful only with your interest and participation. I am hoping local community papers would be supportive of this, and offer free space in there papers. Another option would be to collect say $2 from every participant during the sale, and put $1 to the following years marketing costs, and donate the other dollar to a charity. This Village Pillage garage sale idea is still very much in its infancy, but I am hoping to get the (first annual?) sale up and running this spring, perhaps late May or early June. But again, I cannot do this without your help. So if there is anyone that finds this idea at all interesting, or can help in the organization of such an event, please reply to this forum, or email me at villagepillage@yahoo.ca. Looking forward to your feedback
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