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THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2012

SERVING EAST YORK, LEASIDE AND RIVERDALE

East York Paralympian Victoria Nolan ready to row at London Games 3 >>> Taking a walk with nature through Taylor Creek Park 6

Parent resource centre seeks new location

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BASEBALL CAMP: Instructor Stephen Edwards, left, tags Alex Blanchet during a drill at the Leaside Baseball Camp Tuesday morning at Talbot Park. For more photos from the camp, please see page 3.

Residents invited to help celebrate Riverdale’s heritage An afternoon celebrating the heritage of Riverdale is set for this Saturday. Hosted by Heritage Toronto and the Riverdale Historical Society

(RHS), the day will begin at 1:30 p.m. with the free “Riverdale and the Railway” walking tour. Hosted by Gerald Whyte of the Riverdale Historical Society, the

tour will explore the advent of the railway in the city’s east end starting with the opening of the Grand Truck Railway’s Queen East Station in 1896.

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The walk will also explore why this station was moved, how the railway shaped the landscape of the community as well as the historic >>>RIVERDALE, page 14

A long-standing child/parent dropin centre housed in the former Riverdale United Church at Gerrard and Leslie streets is facing an uncertain future and has reached out to the community for help. The Parent Resources Drop-In Centre, which has served east-end residents since 1977 and has called the basement of the former church home since 1996, could be left homeless by the end of the year. Just over two years ago, the United Church of Canada made the decision to close the church after years of declining attendance and rising costs to maintain the circa-1912 property. “The congregation held on until about 2008 or 2009, but it just wasn’t sustainable for the United Church to have a church in the community,” explained Jim McKibbin, a mission developer with the Toronto Southeast Presbytery of the United Church of Canada. “We’ve had similar experiences in the Beach and across Canada. We’re a victim of changing times.” McKibbin, who has been involved in considering the future of the church for the past year or so, said Riverdale United’s remaining congregation members had “high regard” for their two long-term tenants (The Parent Resources Drop-In Centre and the Chinese Evangelic Church) and wanted to ensure both groups had enough time to come up with alternate plans in the event the decision was made to sell the >>>SALE, page 14

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