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Beach Hill neighbours want to make area ‘pop’ DANIELLE MILLEY bsrm@insidetoronto.com When Kate Tennier started posting flyers in her neighbourhood in an attempt to start a neighbourhood association, she had no idea what would become of those efforts less than a year later.

As the chair of the Beach Hill Neighbourhood Association (BHNA), Tennier led the group’s first annual general meeting Tuesday at the Naval Club on Gerrard Street. There were close to 50 residents in attendance.

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nation of a year of organizing, socializing and hard work by Tennier, the seven-person steering committee and the wider community. Tennier said she was at a loss for words thinking back to the idea she had less than a year ago and seeing what it has blossomed into so quickly.

“It’s just great,” she said. “We intend to keep that dynamic going.”

The first gathering of residents happened at the same location last March 29 where Tennier expected just a handful >>>making, page 12

Farmers’ market wanted in Fairmount Park?

Tara Hatherly thatherly@insidetoronto.com An online survey is currently underway to gauge resident interest in a Fairmount Park farmers’ market.

“Right now we’re really at the point of just hearing from the community and getting to better understand how this would fit into their vision of what should be happening at Fairmount Park,” said resident Kim Antonius, who is spearheading the initiative, stressing it’s just an idea at this point.

“We’re going through the process of figuring out whether it will work,” she said. “I started

chatting with some friends in the neighbourhood about the idea, and it sounded like it had a good response... so we decided to put out a survey to the community to see if others felt as excited about this idea as we did.”

Posted last week, the survey received almost 150 responses in the first two days, with 93 per cent of respondents in support of the idea, and some raising concerns about traffic and parking.

The sur vey is available online until March 22 from the Fairmount Park Community Centre Facebook page at http:// on.fb.me/XR2rVh >>resident, page 7

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CANADIAN BASEBALL: Chris Clovis pitches for the Dragons during the 19th annual Sno-Pitch tournament at Glen Ames Public School Saturday afternoon. See more photos on page 3.

Forum explores health through involvement Learn how community involvement can improve personal health during a community forum and discussion at South Riverdale Community Health Centre. At the event, guest speak-

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in their own communities. The meeting is Thursday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at 955 Queen St. E.

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Beach United Church enters final stage of reconstruction DANIELLE MILLEY bsrm@insidetoronto.com The work on a new community space in the heart of the Beach is moving along and expected to be complete by summer.

The reconstruction of Beach United Church, which began last February, is entering its final stage and when it’s complete the congregation will not only have a new place to worship, but the community will also have a newly renovated space available to them.

Karen Watson, the project lead, said the project was designed to not just host weekly church services.

“We’re making this space multi-purpose,” she said.

“When you look at the sanctuary, it’s a room that can be used for more than worship once a week.”

The sanctuary won’t have fixed seating so it can be arranged to suit a variety of needs and the meeting space downstairs will have flexible walls that can be moved to accommodate different uses.

This is one of the aspects the congregation is most looking forward to with the completion of the project, said Abigail Johnson, one of the church’s ministers.

“The principal thing is the excitement about what this building can provide to the Beach community at large,” she said.

The reconstruction is the first major project of the amalgamated Beach United Church congregation, which was formed after Kew Beach United and Bellefair United came together about five years ago. While the two congregations have been together since before work began on the reconstruction project, it’s a nice opportunity for the amalgamated congregation to build a space that is truly theirs, said Watson.

Originally, the project was to be completed by Easter, but as often happens with construction, the usual delays means the congregation should be back on Wineva Avenue sometime this summer.

“We’re getting close,” Watson said. “We expect we’ll be in the building after the end of June.”

Since November 2011, the congregation has been meeting in a space at St. Aidan’s Anglican Church on Silverbirch Avenue.

The reconstruction project has seen the southern extension – built to accommodate a growing Sunday school population in the 1950s – removed.

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When you look at the sanctuary, it’s a room that can be used for more than worship once a week.

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Karen Watson, project lead on the Beach United Reconstruction project, is excited to see the construction work moving along. The work on the Wineva Avenue church is scheduled to be complete by summer.

This allows the original 1917 structure to be more visible from Queen Street, including its four large windows (a fifth has been added during construction) that will allow light to flood the sanctuary.

There isn’t yet a plan for the vacant lot that now stands to the south of the church, but rumours of it being sold for a condo development are not true. Watson said they want to get through with the reconstruction project before they move on to something else.

Another noticeable change

of the reconstruction is the hill that made the church appear perched above Wineva Avenue has been levelled and the front entrance will now be located on street level, which makes the church both esthetically more welcoming and more physically accessible.

The removal of the large addition reduces the footprint of the church, both physically and environmentally – a deliberate decision on the part of the eco-conscious congregation.

“Part of our thinking and

part of our belief is that we need to protect the earth and the environment,” Watson said.

The new windows, new systems and metal roof were also environmental choices; the roof will allow for the installation of solar panels in the future. The main floor will also feature a new commercial grade kitchen that can be used to enhance the work the church does in the community.

“A lot of the work we do and want to do in the community is around food,”

Watson said.

She is one of a group of volunteers who have worked for three years to bring this project to fruition.

“If it weren’t for people like Karen and all the volunteers, a project like this wouldn’t be possible,” Johnson said.

Watson, Johnson, and everyone in the congregation are looking forward to coming home.

“It’s really satisfying to feel we’re so close to the end,” Watson said.

The plan is to hold a celebration in fall to officially mark the end of the reconstruction. For now, construction continues and the church is looking to partner with groups and organizations in the community that might be interested in using the space.

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Sno-Pitch tourney is a hit at glen ames Swing batter: Left, Chris Clovis bats for the Dragons during the 19th annual Sno-Pitch tournament at Glen Ames Public School Saturday afternoon. Below, Kevin Summerville makes a catch for the Master Batters during the tournament. Right, Denise Baker pitches for the Master Batters.

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he city’s Chief Planner, Jennifer Keesmaat, hosted the first in a series of roundtables Feb. 26 where residents could speak to her, and 12 city building experts, about the city’s future. What a brilliant idea, our view especially when City Hall often feels like a place where residents More locations are not heard.

The city is facing many chalwell worth the lenges – chief among them, transit. However, there are many additional cost others on the horizon as we move toward building a truly world-class city with an ever-increasing population. Those very challenges should be seen as great opportunities, and Keesmaat’s roundtables will, hopefully, help harness them.

The first roundtable discussed the concept of designing and creating public spaces, in the hope of enhancing the public realm. The roundtable discussed partnerships between the city and its agencies, private developers, and BIAs. On Tuesday, the topic was ‘The Resilient City’ – a discussion on how to achieve a vibrant, strong and resilient city. As things change – demographics, environment degradation, income, access to healthy food, infrastructure, etc. – how does a city stay resilient?

All praise aside, there is a glaring issue: these roundtables take place at City Hall between 9 a.m. and noon – which limits this process from the get-go. Most people work during those hours. If the city is truly interested in public engagement, the roundtables should be open to more Torontonians by having one session during the day, another one at night – and perhaps across the city.

It is this point that is most important when considering the April 2 topic: ‘The Next Generation Suburbs’. Discussing the suburbs during the day at City Hall seems short-sighted. And, the idea of calling anywhere outside the old city of Toronto a ‘suburb’ also breeds a disconnect across the city. It definitely doesn’t ‘build’ a common direction.

Every neighbourhood has its own unique needs.

The needs of the Beach, Riverdale or East York are not the same as those in north Etobicoke, central North York or south Scarborough – each neighbourhood, across the city, is distinct.

We realize opening the roundtables may be more costly, but this is a cost well worth absorbing in order to engage the entire city – especially if the promise of these roundtables is to produce, according to the city’s website, a “series of actions that will identify immediate steps and set the stage for future initiatives.”

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Telefilm on Layton packs emotional punch Lottery can fund transit david nickle

In a few days, those of us so inclined will have an opportunity to relive the summer of 2011 – when Jack Layton, the first New Democrat federal Opposition leader and almost prototypical progressive Toronto politician, succumbed to cancer.

It was emotionally wrenching then; and watching the new telefilm Jack, it is nearly as wrenching now.

The film, which was screened for the family, supporters and some media earlier this week, airs Sunday night, March 10, on CBC. Jack is far from perfect — it paints an at-points absurdly sunny picture of the very political life that Jack Layton and Olivia Chow led together, and for a biopic offers frustratingly few clues about the things that contributed to Layton’s politics and political drive.

As my companion at the screening pointed out, there’s no “rosebud” moment in Jack.

With that said: The telefilm packs an emotional punch.

Much of that can be credited

the city to the eerily-accurate impersonations by Rick Roberts as Layton, and Sook-Yin Lee as Olivia Chow.

For those of us who’ve spent time with Layton and Chow, watching the couple’s last months and earlier days re-enacted so uncannily is extraordinarily and unexpectedly moving.

It will be curious to see how the film is received by viewers outside the bubble of Toronto, and national politics. Because like it or not — Jack is more than a film about a politician.

Coming less than two years after Layton’s death, when Layton’s successor Thomas Mulcair is aiming to be prime minister in 2015, and Olivia Chow is likely considering a run for mayor in Toronto a year earlier, Jack is something of a rallying call for progressively-inclined voters.

This, of course, is an extension of what Layton clearly

intended when he handed off his death-bed letter to Chow, and the rest of the country, with that stirring call toward optimism and love and kindness. It is also an extension of his detailed instructions, delivered earlier in that same letter, telling his party how best to mobilize in the months following his death. Layton was a politician to the core – even in his final moments.

It’s tempting to be cynical on that basis and dismiss Jack as nothing more than an exercise in publicly-funded NDP propaganda. It would be easier to do that if the sometimes hokey idealism depicted in the film weren’t so accurate a reflection of how it manifested in the real lives of Layton and Chow; if the story of a generally decent, earnest and publicly-motivated political couple who finally won and then lost again, weren’t the story we’d all lived through just two years past.

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Dave Nickle is the Mirror’s city hall reporter. His column runs every Thursday.

Re: ‘Smarter commuting could save TTC money,’ Special Report, Feb. 28.

I have enjoyed all the articles on transit. I have one suggestion for funding that I haven’t heard anyone talk about before.

In order to help fund the development of the initial infrastructure and construction, why not develop a special lottery.

If there is money to win, then people will buy tickets. It might be a good way to raise some funds instead of always relying on raising taxes, fees and road tolls.

I also support the Toronto casino bid as another way to fund transit, but I do not have faith that our council will vote for it. They are too worried amount a slight increase in gambling addiction that will be so insignificant in the scheme of things.

Rick Jackson

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Breakfast with the Easter Bunny WHEN: 8 to 9:30 a.m. WHERE: Community Centre 55, 97 Main St. CONTACT: Evonne, 416-691-1113 COST: Free Community Centre 55 brings you Breakfast with the Easter Bunny with breakfast, crafts and an egg hunt. First seating goes from 8 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. with a second seating from 8:45 to 9:30 a.m. Call Evonne at 416-691-1113 to reserve.

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Community garden logo designs needed WHERE: Leslieville Grove Community Garden, Queen and Jones CONTACT: lesliegrovecommunitygarden@gmail.com COST: Free The Leslie Grove Community Garden will be starting this spring in Leslie Grove Park at Queen and Jones. The garden will be open for all community members to participate in planting, caring for and harvesting organic produce. The group is looking for submissions of an official logo to be used in all garden communication include flyers, posters, and digital media. Entries can be submitted to lesliegrovecommunitygarden@gmail.com by March 31.

How community involvement affects your health: a forum and discussion WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: South Riverdale Community Health Centre, 955 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Susan Bender, 416461-1925 COST: Free Call for details.

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Paws Canada fundraiser WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Arts Market, 1114 Queen St. E. The Arts Market is hosting a Paws Canada fundraiser with music, literature, trivia, a silent auction, food and drinks. Tickets are $20, which includes food and a beverage. Visit www. pawscanada.org

w Wednesday, March 20

Riverdale Arts and Letters Club WHERE: Riverdale library, 370 Broadview Ave. WHEN: 6 p.m.

Join the Riverdale Arts and Letters Club to hear a presentation on managing a feral cat colony. Donation of canned cat food welcome.

Thyroid therapy free health talk WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Main Street Library, 137 Main St. CONTACT: Kate Whimster, 416-393-7700 COST: Free Free health talk on thyroid therapy. Call the library at 416-393-7700 to reserve.

Safe Kids WHEN: 11 a.m. to noon WHERE: Community Centre 55, 97 Main St. CONTACT: Lainey Anderson, 416-691-1113 COST: Free Community Centre 55 hosts Safe Kids.

w Tuesday, March 26

Riverdale Historical Society WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Riverdale library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: www. riverdalehistoricalsociety.com Riverdale Historical Society presents A Stinking Industry - 19th Century Rendering in Riverdale. Free for members and $5 for non-members.

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Helping our Babies Grow Fridays, Applegrove Community Complex, 60 Woodfield Rd., offers a free weekly drop-in session for pregnant women from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Call Farzana at 416-778-5805, ext.

212 East Toronto Climate Action Group East Toronto Climate Action Group are citizens who are concerned about smog, climate change and other environmental issues as they impact the city and particularly east Toronto. The group meets monthly and welcomes your involvement and support.

Visit www.etcag.org St. John’s Catholic Church Choir St. John’s Catholic Church Choir welcomes new members. The group practises Thursdays from 7:30 to 9 p.m. and perform Sundays at 11 a.m. at 794 Kingston Rd. Call Paul Williams at 416-699-2518 Breakfast meeting Rotary Club of Toronto Beach holds a breakfast meeting Tuesdays at 7 a.m. at the Balmy Beach Club. Visit www.torontobeachrotary.org or call Roger Cecchetto 416-4155000 ext. 6078 Senior Lunch Bunch Senior Lunch Bunch meets at St. Aidan’s Memorial Hall, 70 Silver Birch Ave., every other Wednesday for a program from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., lunch until 1:30 p.m.

Cost, $5. Transport to lunches available for a small fee. Call 416-691-7407.

The Joy of Writing The Joy of Writing, a weekly workshop where writers gather Tuesdays from 7 to 9 p.m., at the Queen-Saulter Library, 765 Queen St. E. Call Lucille at 416-392-6810.

Lactation help La Leche League Canada, Riverdale chapter, meets 7 p.m. every third Wednesday, 715B Danforth Ave. Call Diane at 416-463-4502 for details.

Newcomer help Newcomer Outreach Program by Toronto police helps new immigrants learn about the role police play in Canadian society and services provided by police. Call 416-8087070.

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Resident sees more than fruit, vegetables for Fairmount Park

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“There’s no end to some creative ideas, and we haven’t done a lot of specific planning yet, because we want to hear back from the community first,” she said. “This is very preliminary brainstorming, these aren’t set ideas, nothing’s in stone.”

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“We want it to be a community supported and led initiative,” she said. “It would be a way to bring together the community around the park itself, the community centre, and Bowmore school, with the common goal of sharing local, Ontario, farm-fresh food.”

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>>>from page 1 The idea has also garnered support from area businesses, farmers and community organizations, as well as Ward 32 Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon.

Antonius envisions more than just a run-of-the-mill farmers’ market for Fairmount Park. With the community centre and Bowmore Public School on site, she noted a farmers’ market could provide opportunities for youth stewardship programs, while space from the buildings could allow farmers to offer workshops on food, healthy eating and gardening.

Other ideas include a naan oven, rotating food trucks and delivery bikes.

“I know traffic is a consideration for the immediate neighbours of the park,” Antonius said. “Delivery bikes, if we could find a grant or funding for that, people could get their goods delivered to their home via bike after they’re done shopping.”

She added a farmers’ market could also provide volunteer opportunities for community members, includ-

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Parts of subway line to be closed this weekend Parts of the Yonge-University-Spadina subway line will be closed on weekends for the next three weeks as work continues on the TTC’s signaling system upgrades.

On the weekends of March 9, 16 and 23 there will be no train service between St. George and Union stations.

To compensate, the TTC will run shuttle buses and more streetcar service on the Dundas 505 line. The work is part of the TTC’s switch to an automatic train control system set to debut around 2016.

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Not-for-profit group Summerhill Impact is looking for Toronto participants for its vehicle measurement program and is hoping free gas is an incentive to sign up.

Shuttle is a one-month program where people have their driving patterns monitored for the first two weeks. Following that, they are given an additional two weeks to reduce their driving amount by 10 per cent. Everyone who completes the program gets a free gas card. For details, contact www.summerhillimpact.ca

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ZONING BYLAW HEARING SET FOR TOMORROW Artwork will soon adorn a retaining wall near the temporary Strachan Avenue realignment.

Strachan Illustrated: A Showcase of Community Art will showcase work by artists on the temporary wall lining the venue. Contributors include students from Niagara Street Junior Public School, Liberty Village BIA and Strachan House.

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TTC WINS AWARD FOR VICTORIA PARK RENO

The TTC announced it has received the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ 2013 Sustainable Communities Award for its ecofriendly renovation work at Victoria Park station, which was completed in 2011. The station now has a new bus bay, a green roof and more windows creating opportunities for natural lighting. Chair Karen Stintz accepted the award at the TTC’s board meeting last week.

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Davenport MPP Jonah Schein, who had been seeking clarification from the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, said he received confirmation contraflow lanes are a go.

The lanes allow cyclists to travel in both directions on some one-way streets.

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TRANSIT PLANNING IN CRITICAL STAGE: URBAN PLANNER

Toronto will descend into a future of nightmarish gridlock and crippling congestion if it cannot address its transit problems, urban planner Larry Beasley Monday.

“When you get behind on planning and investment for transportation, Moscow (Russia) shows, it’s a vicious cycle,” said Beasley, who recently completed a planning study on the Russian city. “You get more and more behind and it gets harder to catch up.” Read the full story at insidetoronto.com Rahul Gupta is the Mirror’s transit reporter. His column runs every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @ TOinTRANSIT

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TTC to meet with Gerrard India Bazaar RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com

The city’s Economic Development Committee directed the TTC to meet with two east-end BIAs to settle a long-standing dispute regarding past fees paid to divert streetcar service during special events.

On Tuesday morning, the city’s Economic Development Committee voted to convene the currently unscheduled meeting between the TTC, the Gerrard India Bazaar and Cabbagetown BIAs and councillors Paula Fletcher, Mary-Margaret McMahon and Pam McConnell to discuss the issue.

Fletcher said the charges created a heavy burden particularly on the Gerrard India Bazaar BIA, which was billed tens of thousands by the TTC over several years to pay for the annual establishment of a temporary bus route replacing the 506 Carlton streetcar service along Gerrard Street between Coxwell Avenue and Parliament Street during the Festival of South Asia.

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the BIA, which represents Little India businesses, was charged $33,000 in 2008 alone for the diversion, an exorbitant amount, said Fletcher.

“The BIA was just about crushed by this,” said Fletcher, who wrote a letter to economic development chair Michael Thompson requesting the meeting.

In 2012, TTC CEO Andy Byford acknowledged the special event rates were excessive and instituted a new policy where the TTC would only seek to recover employee wages as well as a fuel surcharge, a rate which works out to just under $100 per hour compared to the $345 hourly charter rate.

Subbu Chintaluri, the Gerrard India Bazaar manager, said the group has not determined whether it will ask the TTC to retroactively reimburse fees, which were charged at the charter rate between 2003 and 2008. “We’re looking to see what the TTC says. We have been paying a big amount for a long time.”

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Supporters and naysayers at Leslieville BIAs first meeting DANIELA PITEO bsrm@insidetoronto.com A largely enthusiastic membership didn’t deter several skeptics from voicing their dismay at the inaugural Leslieville BIA meeting.

Mike Major, a manager with the City of Toronto’s BIA office, chaired the first annual general meeting Feb. 28, which was hosted at Joy Bistro. The second floor of the bistro was crowded with business owners and tenants both eager and concerned with the newly formed committee, the city’s 74th BIA. According to Major, implementing a BIA in Leslieville was met with overwhelming support, a 90 per cent affirma-

tive vote in the area.

However, Victoria Dinnick from the vintage store Gadabout, scoffed at those numbers.

“There are 220 eligible businesses in Leslieville, but only 35 per cent voted,” Dinnick said. In other words, only 77 business owners and/or tenants participated in the vote.

The numbers, Major said, are adequate.

“A BIA can be formed with a minimum response rate of 33 per cent,” he said.

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made by respective owners and tenants. Currently, the annual levy is set at about $300 per business, allocating the BIA with a proposed budget of $110,000.

Andrew Sherbin, a financial advisor at Edward Jones and a part of the BIA steering committee, noted the budget is on the low end compared to other Toronto neighborhoods.

“We didn’t want to set the

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But not all members were eager to approve the proposed budget.

“Don’t ask me to approve a budget blindly,” said John Rait, owner at Pentimento Fine Art Gallery. “Why are we discussing money when we have no plan?”

Rait questioned the efficacy of a BIA in Leslieville, particularly since the mandated levy could hurt smaller businesses already suffering from a stagnant economy.

“What are we doing that will separate us from the other BIAs in the city?” Rait

said. “Riverside has had a BIA for six years and people still think they’re Leslieville.”

CREATING EXCITEMENT Major assured Rait and other naysayers a BIA is beneficial and offers nonmonetary advantages.

“A BIA can speak collectively to city hall,” Major said. “You’ll have a louder voice.”

Kelly Freeman of Damzels In This Dress agreed with Major and wholly supports the BIA. “We’re a vibrant and exciting neighborhood,” Freeman said. Freeman said Leslieville has accomplished a lot, like

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Trying to smooth out speed bumps in Tommy Thompson Park DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher wants to smooth out some bumps along the road in Tommy Thompson Park that are throwing cyclists off their ride.

The bumps were installed last year on the paved roadway near the lighthouse at Tommy Thompson Park.

Spanning the road and relatively high, Fletcher said she’s been getting complaints from cyclists that the humps are a hazard.

“Naming them speed bumps is pretty generous,” Fletcher said. “They’re a small, sneaky bar across the

road that has caused spills for numerous cyclists. I’ve had people send pictures of their injuries – broken wrists, black eyes. Because you’re going pretty quickly when you come up on this.”

Fletcher persuaded To r o n t o’s P a r k s a n d Environment Committee to request a report looking at ways to remove the speed bumps, to come back in June.

But coming up with an alternative to the matter could be a trick. Ralph Toninger, who manages the park, said the speed bumps were installed in response to the growing use of the park’s wide, carfree roads by high-speed cyclists.

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Wanderlust and is excited to see where the neighbourhood can go with the help of a BIA. Sherbin, who will meet with the newly appointed board of directors in March, will determine a meeting schedule for the committee.

“Leslieville is a fantastic neighbourhood with passionate people,” Sherbin said. “I’m looking forward to seeing what the BIA (can do).”

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