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More public input for Ramsden Park upgrade JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Residents in the area around Ramsden Park had a chance to chime in on the park’s future at a public meeting held at Belmont House on Monday. The meeting, hosted by councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam and facilitated by community organizer and park advocate Jane Farrow, featured a presen-

tation by Fung Lee and Leslie Morton of PMA Landscape Architects. Lee and Morton offered a comprehensive overview of suggestions for the park, with those in attendance offering mostly positive feedback along with some concerns and disagreements with the plan. Wong-Tam noted the $4-million plan to upgrade the park was needed.

“There’s no doubt in my mind Ramsden Park is a very heavilyused recreational park,” she said. “At this point in time, we’re going to enhance the amenities that we have.” To start the presentation, Lee discussed the possibility of the Yonge Street entrance to the park. Currently delineated with nothing more than a City of Toronto sign, feedback gleaned from residents throughout the

ongoing consultation process suggested more was in order. “What we’ve heard is that Yonge Street should reflect the Ramsden Park identity,” Lee said. “It should (feature) landmark urban landscape that introduces the park as well.” To that end, PMA is suggesting what the firm calls a “linear plaza.” The park entrance would feature signage harkening back >>>fourth, page 10

Former Toronto diversity officer and longtime Ward 20 activist Ceta Ramkhalawansingh is the new city councillor for Trinity-Spadina, following a second-ballot win at Toronto council’s special meeting to fill that vacant seat and one other on Monday. Ramkhalawansingh received 22 votes on the second ballot over former Edmonton police chief Robert Lunney, who finished with 18 votes. “I am relieved after a long morning of balloting and listening to everybody’s speeches,” said Ramkhalawansingh, who was among 29 hopefuls for the job of interim councillor in Ward 20. The seat was vacated by Adam Vaughan last month to run – successfully – in the June 30 Trinity-Spadina byelection. Ramkhalawansingh is a 43-year resident of the ward, having come to Canada in 1967 along with her family. Until four years ago, she was the city’s diversity manager of community engagement, and since then she’s been doing volunteer work on municipal issues and on ward matters. She came to the council meeting with endorsements from various community leaders, and >>>endorsed, page 2

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