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UPCOMING MEETINGS THIS WEEK:
a) Taxes:
Monday, Feb 5, 7:00pm, City Hall Council Chambers
Committee for Fair City Taxes, with John Sewell. Councillor Olivia Chow & MPP
Mike Colle will also speak.
For more information: http://www.faircitytaxes.org
email info@faircitytaxes.org or phone
416-977-7947.
Information on taxes, and related news stories are also on
our website, http://www.world19.com or http://webhome.idirect.com/~jleeson/city_tax2001.htm.
See also this week's editorial in eye magazine making many of the points in the Fair City
Taxes newsletter. http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_02.01.01/news/editorial.html
NOTE: City Councillors now have
assessment information on all properties in their wards. To get information about
assessments in your neighbourhood, contact your Councillor. In Ward 13, call David
Miller's constituency office, 416 516-1440.
b) Rocket Riders meet the TTC Chair
Tuesday, Feb. 6, 6pm City Hall, Committee Room 2
The Rocket Riders, a transit advocacy group will have the new TTC Chair Brian
Ashton at their next meeting. The more TTC riders come to this meeting, the more
credibility we will have at City Hall. Rocket Riders is already a name that councillors
have heard of, now is the time to get them working with us on behalf of better transit. http://www.rocketriders.org info@rocketriders.org 416-596-0660
c) Swansea Historical Society
Wednesday, Feb. 7, 7:30pm Swansea Town Hall "Fugitive Slaves in York
County" http://webhome.idirect.com/~jleeson/swansea_historical.htm
d) Stelco Development
Wednesday, Feb. 7 7:30pm Swansea Town Hall
REON & Councillor David Miller host another public consultation meeting on the
proposed development of the Stelco lands. Information & minutes of previous meetings
are on our website, as well as a link to the PowerPoint presentation made by REON at the
November 30 public meeting. REON submitted its application to the City in December, and
the preliminary report will be on the agenda of the February 13th meeting of the Southwest
Community Council. http://webhome.idirect.com/~jleeson/stelco_feb7_notice.htm
e) And more
... See also our new Events page http://webhome.idirect.com/~jleeson/events.htm
HOUSING & HOMELESSNESS - Community Response
The following important notice is being sent to the community by a world19 reader,
Ian Sloan of Windermer United Church.
public meeting Tuesday, February 27th at 7:30 pm
windermere united church 356 Windermere Ave.
Context and Purpose:
The neighbourhood - particularly Swansea - has become a partner with the City of
Toronto through the City's Let's Build program and with the Fred Victor Centre in the
important effort to alleviate absolute homelessness. The City and Fred Victor Centre plan
42 units of permanent housing in a building at the corner of Lakeshore and Windermere for
single adults (the Olco station site). There is a widespread perception that the
neighbourhood has not been fully considered a partner in this undertaking - a sense that
it has been "done to" rather than worked with. This widespread perception
signals a variety of vital and important interests at play in the neighbourhood which the
Let's Build! Fred Victor proposal has served as a catalyst to bring to the surface.
The shortage in our neighbourhood of affordable housing is a
long term problem and coupled with rising prices in Swansea and the Bloor West area, will
make it harder and harder for low income neighbours and family members to live in our
community. Do we need to start now to envision a way to introduce and sustain more
affordable housing in the neighbourhood's residential mix?
Date: Shrove Tuesday, February 27th, 7:30 pm in the
Parlour, Windermere United Church. Shrove Tuesday -- Come to Windermere United Church for
a pancake supper that begins at 5:30 pm -- $5.00/person, then join the meeting!
Proposed Outcome:a formal partnership among
interested groups, organizations, institutions and individuals to apply for grants from
the City and from the United Church of Canada for a capacity building project focusing on
affordable housing in our neighbourhood. Come with your interest or your group's interest
in mind. plan to attend!
Sponsored by the Outreach and Social Action Committee,
Windermere United Church and The Four Villages Health Centre.
For more information, contact Ian Sloan isloan@interlog.com at Windermere United Church
phone 416 769-5611
GLEANER ARTICLE- Bloor West Community Partnership
world19 has submitted an opinion piece to the Village Gleaner. The issue should be
published within the next few days. In it, we discuss how the "Save the Village"
campaign has led us to work with other groups in the community to try to build a broad
partnership of community groups and associations. More on this effort in the very near
future.
MEOW: Still hopping?
A world19 readers, prowling the Internet for community information found the
following information from a night club website (links below)
"July 20th - Meow is going nowhere. I just had dinner with someone
directly nvolved (one of the owners) and they guaran damn teed that without a hadow of a
doubt, Meow will get on the good side of the Metro councillor looking to string them.thus
insuring by September all this riff raff will be settled.... thanx to Jungle Mafia for the
nuggett.
August 9th - Apparently Meow Saturdays have gotten
really bad since DJ Walter Rosati left. The Fridays are still doing well with Mark Oliver
and Peter Ivals. the Greek owners have sold their shares in Meow Nightclub to the same
owner of XIT and are moving on to bring you a new nightclub.
January 15th - While it is being reported on other
websites that Meow is R>I>P, Torontonightclub.com has the inside info that Meow will
be open and business as usual, Friday January 26th."
http://www.torontonightclub.com/news.htm and http://www.torontonightclub.com/meow.htm
NEW & UPDATED ON OUR WEBSITE (Besides
the information in this newsletter:
Site Map: Because the size of our website keeps growing, we are now
building a "site map". It's not complete yet, but should be soon.
Events Page For upcoming events that don't fit in elsewhere, a somewhat
haphazard listing of events that may be of interest to world19 readers & Village
members. Please send us news of events you think we should post.
Police helicopters - more information on the campaign to "Stop the
Choppers", including a presentation to the Police Services Board, and a study on the
effectiveness of police helicopters.
Bloor West Eco-Village - their brochure is now posted.
City finances & taxes - updated info & news links
Stelco - REON's presentation from the Nov. 30th meeting, and more relevant
news links
... and more...
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John Leeson
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