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Read the minutes of the
May 2009 Board meeting.
Click here for the March 2009
Voice
of the
Annex
Next
Board Meeting
Check back
here for the date of the next
ARA Board meeting at the
Annex
Retirement Residence
123 Spadina
Road
7:30 p.m.
- All Welcome
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Jane's Walk
Sandra Shaul (right) and Bobbi Speck
Jane's Walk entitled The Annex and Community Activism
on May 2 & 3 2009 was a smashing success!
Over 50 people joined
Sandra Shaul, chair of the Annex Residents’ Association Heritage
Committee, for a walk through a special part of the East Annex and visited
the places and met the people that contribute to the character of this
neighbourhood
The Annex neighbourhood of Toronto originated in the late 1880s as the
City’s first planned urban suburb. It is home to a unique architectural
style, small urban parks that are maintained by local residents, and
neighbourhood pubs, restaurants and other small businesses that are
popular with residents throughout the city. It is also home to Toronto’s
oldest and one of city’s most active residents’ associations. .
Read Bobbi Speck's
story, the Annex leader of the fight against the Spadina Expressway,
who organized our efforts with Jane Jacobs and many others. The group
walked along Madison Avenue, the other
potential victim of the proposed expressway, to see its unique
architecture, and learned how it has been so well preserved through
adaptive re-use. While touring the streets, the group met
Ecology Park volunteers, during their spring clean up, and learned about
the origins of the park, an Annex Residents’ Association project.
The last stretch of the tour was along Bloor to see the contrasting
architecture of our past and present, including the site of One Bedford (Bloor and
Bedford), the condo tower development, which once again raised questions
about how planning is carried out in our city. The tour
concluded by heading north on Bedford to see Taddle Creek Park, another Annex
Residents’ Association project, and then headed east along Prince Arthur,
to numbers 10 and 14, where activism in the Annex began, and is focused
again. Participants then had the perfect
opportunity to have lunch in the neighbourhood and to visit the ROM,
Gardiner Museum, and Bata Shoe Museum.
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Projects
to preserve the distinctive character of our neighbourhood the ARA
is undertaking and participating in are:
- A
Bloor-Corridor
Visioning study for the area bounded by Avenue Road, Dupont,
Bathurst and Bloor and the areas immediately south of Bloor, in
cooperation with our fellow residents’ and business associations
and cultural and educational institutions. The study will look
at assets such as parks, schools, public transit, parking, and
built form so that our heritage can be recognized and
intensification in our area can be rationally planned; For more
information, please email
Robert Brown.
- an Annex-wide Heritage
Conservation District study of our most important continuous
streetscapes;
- upgrading our limited
parks and producing an open space and parks study and strategy
Join us
to learn what we have done, what we want to do, and how you can play
a role
All are
welcome (owners, residents’ tenants, students, and business
operators).
News and Updates
Residents can now
track the progress of major development applications on the City’s
website at
www.toronto.ca/planning/developmentapplications
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Ecology
Park
Come and join the Ecology Park gardening team for cleaning up,
cutting the grass and watering on Saturday mornings,
9:30 -
11:30 a.m.
Discover the "Three Sisters" garden
You can
find Ecology Park on Madison
Avenue, west side just north of Bloor.
Ecology Park
map.
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Community Alert
Residential Break and Enters
Unfortunately there has been a number of break and enters in
homes recently where the windows and doors have been left
unlocked/insecure within 14 Division
more...
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Mapping the Annex and the Ward
A
Ward 20 Planning Initiative to improve how planning is done
throughout the community.
By use of electronic mapping
showing the current conditions throughout the ward, and
allowing values of community members to be expressed.
View the maps and the
community check list
at
http://adamvaughan.ca/neighbourhoods_detail.php?neighbourhood=annex
For further information, please contact:
Andrew Everton at
everto@gmail.com
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Walmer Road/Lowther Construction
started
November 28, 2008.
Click
here
for information and details
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Canadian Urban
Institute Events Calendar
click on
the link below for their upcoming events:
http://www.canurb.com/events/event_list.php?status=12&highlight=1&event_type=0#168
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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
The ARA is in the process of establishing a Heritage
Conservation District for Madison Avenue.
Want to help?
Contact Sandra Shaul at
heritage@theara.org for more
details.
Volunteers with specialized skills needed for:
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Fundraising
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Data entry
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Web
development
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Gardening
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Archival Research
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Event Planning
Are you interested?
Please contact the Membership Chair
Nellie Bannayan
membership@theara.org
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