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1. WHAT? WORLD19 IS BACK AGAIN... ALREADY?
After several months of silence, we finally sent out a newsletter a few days ago, indicating that world19's presence in this newsletter and our website would become pretty inactive for the foreseeable future.

Here we are just 2 days later with another newsletter. What's going on?

In that last newsletter, we included an update and comments about Don Jennison, one of our founding members who passed away last April. Well, it seems, Don will not let world19 "go gently into that good night". We immediately received a couple of updates to let us know that Don is still working to do good in the world, so his friends and partners here cannot disappear so easily.

We learned that the contributions made in his memory to Morningside-High Park Presbyterian Church have been funnelled to a fund called "Don's Coffee Pot". Through this, plans are being made to sell Fair Trade coffee through the church (and use it at all church functions). Proceeds will be used to build a schoolhouse in Africa in memory of Don. Although coffee sales haven't begun yet, over $4000 has already been raised towards the project.

We knew how strong Don's passion and committment for social and community involvment was when he was here, so we're not that surprised to see how strong it remains.

We will provide updates as this project develops, and information about how to buy Don's coffee.

2. BILLY BISHOP SUPPORTS DON'S FUND: Nov. 5
And following on the above introduction, the following note comes from Morningside-High Park Church.
This Saturday (Nov. 5). the church will be presenting an encore presentation of the award-winning musical, "Billy Bishop Goes to War" about Canada's World War One flying ace Billy Bishop, whose life on the ground and in the air was so remarkable it inspired this often funny, often sad theatrical piece, which won a Governor General's Award for drama. This particular production wowed audiences and sold out in 2003 so we are looking forward to another great evening.

The Grenadier Group, which operates the High Park concessions, Grenadier Café and Sunnyside Pavilion is embarking upon a five year renovation project with the ultimate goal of revitalizing the park's facilities. To assist in the process, the Grenadier Group has enlisted the services of the Office for Urbanism (OFU) - the planning and design firm that was central to the Bloor West Village visioning exercise, which wrapped up earlier this year.

Public 'open house' meetings are being organized by OFU in an effort to identify interested stakeholders and gather community input in these early days of the planning process. The first meeting was held at the Grenadier Café earlier in October. A second open house is being planned for this week:

Open House - High Park planning process (Office for Urbanism and Grenadier Group)
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 7:30 pm
Howard Public School (on Marmaduke at Sunnyside, just west of Roncesvalles)

Any questions? Contact Antonio Gomez-Palacio agp@officeforurbanism.com

4. CITY OF TORONTO ISSUES
A couple of issues of relevance to those concerned about how the City of Toronto will continue emerging from the double albatross of amalgamation and downloading.

The province remains committed to revising the status of Toronto through the new "City of Toronto Act", expected to be adopted in the near future. (We have some information on this from earlier in the year at http://www.toronto.world19.com).

Updates on the legislation, and an opportunity to comment or ask questions will be available at the following event:
a) City of Toronto Act Public Meeting - Nov. 29

Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 7:30 p.m., at Fern Avenue Public School, 128 Fern Avenue, in the General Purpose Room, Roncesvalles-Macdonell Residents' Association hosts an open meeting with Gerard Kennedy, MPP, and representatives from the City of Toronto to discuss the new City of Toronto Act. (Following this meeting a Ward 14 working group will be formed to follow the development of this important legislation and how it will affect us. If you are interested in taking part, contact thewestbend@sympatico.ca.)

b) City Governance Review
The City of Toronto is sponsoring a review on the structure of city governance that will best meet the demands of a more independent City. See http://toronto.ca/governingtoronto/index.htm for opportunities to comment, or to take an online survey.

5. HUMBER THEATRE SITE
No updates here on the progress of the development application, just a small comment on the newest major Bloor West Village property owners, the infamous Wynn Family Holdings.

At a public meeting in June, the owners' representative made a commitment to clean up the litter and garbage visible inside the premises. Since the temporary bookseller tenant vacated or disappeared almost a year ago, no-one seemed to have made the slightest effort to clean up (or even cover up) a bit of the mess in almost a year.

We're happy to report that progress has been made on this progress -- some brown paper has been taped to the windows to try to hide the mess. After just a few days, however, the obviously cheap tape has been peeling, and we're getting back to where the mess started.

We look forward to a long-term relationship with the Wynns as neighbours. No doubt they will bring their hard-earned reputation to the Village.