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Cement pad Swinging the day away creating waves on waterfront ®
Rebecca Field rfield@metroland.com The Toronto Beaches Lions Club is making waves in Ashbridges Bay with the construction of a cement pad on the waterfront. The club leases the land from the Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation division, and installed the pad with Toronto WaveRunners back in May. After the club couldn’t receive a permit to sublet the cement landing pad to the WaveRunners from the city, as well as negative feedback from the community towards WaveRunners on Lake Ontario, they are now seeking approval to keep it in place. “I need you to fully understand that there’s no WaveRunners running out of Ashbridges Bay,” said Andy Buhot, secretary from the Beaches Lions Club. “Never was, never will be.” The club was planning to use the landing pad for a barge that would bring the WaveRunners out into the middle of the lake, instead of having them come directly into Ashbridges Bay. “From our perspective, we like the deck. We’re very happy that the deck is there,” said Buhot. “We’d like to keep the deck, and I think the city now is worried that with this deck, there is >>>PAD, page 6
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park push: June Kim pushes her granddaughter Naomi Dazai on a swing at Woodbine Park on Saturday.
Kingston Rd. reopens with Block Party rebecca field rfield@metroland.com Kingston Road Village is starting a clean slate with new sidewalks and paved roadways, and they’re inviting you to come cover it with chalk on Sunday.
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The neighbourhood is hosting a block party Aug. 18 from noon to 4 p.m. to celebrate the reopening of Kingston Road to local traffic, starting August 19, after ongoing construction to replace TTC tracks. “It seems that everybody
is feeling like they’ve been through the worst now,” said Katya Nosko from the Great Escape Bookstore on Kingston Road. “Now we want to have our party, we want to celebrate.” The street party will include buskers, local bands – Carlo
Berardinucci and his band, and the Kingston Road AllStars – as well as a tour of an old-fashioned fire truck and a paper-airplane zone. Residents and children are invited to draw all over the new streetcar tracks, >>>LACK, page 5
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