Magical Lights Walking Tour
This self guided tour will take you on a fascinating tour of Cabbagetown South where you will about this historic area.
On your walk you will learn interesting historic information about the homes and laneways you pass.
Bundle-up. Download guide here http://cabbagetowner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/magical-lights-walking-tour.doc
Please click here to read the latest letter to the Cabbagetown community from the Farm Coalition.
As you may know, the Toronto District School Board is making a decision on Wednesday, November 16th about Ward 14 schools. This includes Winchester Public school and Sprucecourt Public school.
The current recommendation is to turn Winchester into a French Immersion hub from SK-Grade 8 and make Sprucecourt into a JK-8 school. It would also change the catchment areas for your neighbourhood school. There has been a degree of debate about what may happen to Winchester if it becomes a French Immersion hub and what would happen to the JK programme currently in place. You can visit the TDSB website at http://www.tdsb.on.ca/_site/ViewItem.asp?siteid=10118&menuid=32817&pageid=27935 to see slides from past presentations. The Schools Portfolio of the CRA has been working hard on this issue, so please send any questions our way at info@cabbagetowner.com
Two petitions have been created around this issue.
1) Keep JK at Winchester
The TDSB has proposed eliminating the Junior Kindergarten (JK) program at Winchester Public School and is about to make a final decision on the proposal. The difficulties associated with this proposed change include:
a. parents with children already attending Winchester and a younger child entering JK will need to figure out how to manage two school drop-offs and pick-ups at the same time every day.
b. for children affected it will mean adjusting to a new school, its schedule, and students in JK and then again when they transition into SK at Winchester. We believe this change introduces difficult transitions for young children entering the school system, hardship on parents caught juggling children in two separate schools, or children having to miss the opportunity of Junior Kindergarten.
We are asking the TDSB to keep the Junior Kindergarten program at Winchester and have created a petition to send a message of support for JK at Winchester from our community. Please support this cause. To sign the petition go to: http://www.petitiononlinecanada.com/petition/please-keep-junior-kindergarten-at-winchester-ps/491
2) Keep Winchester as a Dual Track (French/English) school
We, the community members of Ward 14 in the TDSB, want to express our dissent regarding the proposed changes to our school, Winchester Jr. and Sr. PS,that have been recommended by the Pupil Accommodation Review Committee (PARC) in Ward 14. They have proposed changing Winchester PS from a dual-track, Community School to a central French Immersion and eliminating JK from Winchester PS and relocating it to Sprucecourt Jr. PS. During the public consultation process of the Pupil Accommodation Review for Ward 14, the community was told by the PARC that keeping Winchester Jr. and Sr. PS as status quo was not a viable option.
We are strongly urging you to please keep Winchester PS the dual-track, JK-8, Community school that so many community members have dedicated time and resources to create. We ask you to withhold any further decisions about changing Winchester for at least another 2 years. There is tremendous support in our community to keep the English track at Winchester PS and make it viable and strong.
PARC has based their decision on current and projected enrollment numbers. The projected number, however, is based upon reducing Winchester’s catchment area and a projected decreased enrollment in the English stream. With active community involvement, the projected numbers need not become a reality. In the past, the community has banded together to save the once-troubled (now flourishing) French Program and can do the same for the English Program, if given the chance.
Winchester Jr. and Sr. PS has a very unique position as a central, community school that serves a neighbourhood that is among the most ethnically, religiously, and economically diverse in the entire TDSB. Winchester’s very existence as a successful Community school is a tangible positive reminder of what makes this city, its communities, and its children so great. To sign the petition go to: http://www.petitiononlinecanada.com/petition/keep-winchester-jr-and-sr-ps-a-dualtrack-community-school/552
Neighbours, The TDSB has proposed eliminating the Junior Kindergarten (JK) program at Winchester Public School and is about to make a final decision on the proposal. The difficulties associated with this proposed change include:
1. parents with children already attending Winchester and a younger child entering JK will need to figure out how to manage two school drop-offs and pick-ups at the same time every day.
2. for children affected it will mean adjusting to a new school, its schedule, and students in JK and then again when they transition into SK at Winchester. We believe this change introduces difficult transitions for young children entering the school system, hardship on parents caught juggling children in two separate schools, or children having to miss the opportunity of Junior Kindergarten.
We are asking the TDSB to keep the Junior Kindergarten program at Winchester and have created a petition to send a message of support for JK at Winchester from our community. Please support this cause. To sign the petition go to: http://www.petitiononlinecanada.com/petition/please-keep-junior-kindergarten-at-winchester-ps/491
The next TDSB meeting is on November 9th, 7pm at 5050 Yonge St.
Toronto Dance Theatre presents a dynamic new version of Pteros Tactics.
A “grand master at being an agent provocateur” (The Globe and Mail), Christopher House and his ten dancers animate “the instant of desire” with risky grace, in the intimacy of the Winchester Street Theatre.
When: October 28-29 and November 2-5 (8pm), October 30 (2pm-PWYC)
Where: Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester St
Special: $20 tickets for CRA members!
Quote the “CRA Rate” when you book tickets by phone at 416-967-1365 or in person.
For more information, and to watch the Pteros Trailer, visit www.tdt.org
Rivers
A major new work by Christopher House to Ann Southam’s Rivers, played live by Christina Petrowska Quilico. Designed by Michael Levine.
April 25-28 (8pm) and April 28 (2pm)
Fleck Dance Theatre
Click here to purchase tickets or call 416-967-1365 ext. 28
We would like to thank all of the volunteers who helped out this past weekend at the Art Around the Park festival. We would also like to thank Jay’s Garden (360 Gerrard St. E.) for donating the flower arrangements that we raffled off to the new members.
The weather was excellent, the kids enjoyed balloons and face painting, and the Artisans enjoyed a successful weekend.
See you next year!
The Don Vale Cabbagetown Residents Association
The Riverdale Farm Advisory Council has made a sign that says “Save Riverdale Farm”. The idea is for the signs to be on display in your front yard during the Cabbagetown Festival to demonstrate the neighbourhood’s support for the Farm. If you are interested, a self-serve kiosk has been set up at 66 Salisbury Ave (a member of the Riverdale Farm Advisory Council). Please drop $4 in the mail slot to cover the cost of the sign.
Send in those resumes! Famelia restaurant, opening in September, is hiring for all positions.
Interested candidates are asked to please email resumes to Todd at info@famelia.com
Good luck!
Hello,
The following is an update regarding the Gerrard – Elm – D’Arcy – River Street Watermain Replacement project provided by the Public Consultation Unit of the City of Toronto.
“Please be aware, awarding of the Gerrard – Elm – D’Arcy – River Street Watermain Replacement construction contract has been postponed in order to align with the required budgets. A Staff Report related to this award will be presented to Public Works & Infrastructure Committee on September 7, 2011. If then approved by City Council, construction activity could potentially start in January of 2012.
Contractors will contact property owners near shaft sites weeks prior to start. Staging of construction (e.g. which shaft sites will start first) has yet to be finalized.
Further notice will be distributed once the contract is approved and an initial construction schedule is set.
For more information about this project, please visit:
http://www.toronto.ca/involved/projects/spadina-darcy/index.htm