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LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com They look like ‘pay-and-display’ parking metres, however vehicles are not permitted at the High Park Zoo. Instead, the two “metres” have been coined ‘donation stations’ and have been erected in not only the beloved zoo, but also at Riverdale Farm and the Toronto Botanical Gardens, as yet another way to collect funding. Together with the Toronto Parks and Trees Foundation, a charitable public foundation

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dedicated to enhancing the city’s parks; PrecisePark Link, the Canadian company behind the Pay and Display parking machines; the Toronto Parking Authority, City Parks Forestry and Recreation; City Partnership and the Friends of High Park Zoo, the two donation stations were unveiled during a special event last Thursday. One station has been installed outside the llama pen at the zoo and the other near the Grenadier Restaurant and Cafe parking lot. Since June 18, more than >>>boxes, page 15

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NICE TOSS: Madison tries her hand at the bean bag toss at The Dovercourt Boys and Girls Club’s barbecue Saturday at Perth Square Park. See more photos on 6.

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On June 3, Jacqueline White, acting director of transportation services for the Toronto and East York district, found out the Dufferin Bridge had to be closed and had until June 12 to reroute traffic in the entire west end of downtown Toronto.

“We set records with this one,” White said. Traffic ser vices had to adjust the timing on lights and change-turning rules in areas like Liberty Street and Dufferin Street. She admits it was a perfect storm of scenarios that has been wreaking traffic havoc in Parkdale and trickled >>>police, page 16


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