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Transit town hall set for Scarborough Politicians, including Mayor John Tory and Scarborough MPs, are coming this Saturday to answer questions about transit projects in the area. A t ow n h a l l m e e t i n g , including a presentation on the upcoming plans, will be at Scarborough Civic Centre, 150 Borough Dr., from 2 to 4 p.m. “ Tra n s i t i s c o m i n g t o Scarborough and we want to hear from you,” says a social media invitation to the event from Scarborough-Rouge Park MP Gary Anandasangaree, who’s acting as its host. Anandasangaree’s office didn’t say much more about
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Ontario Minister of Energy Bob Chiarelli, centre without hardhat, digs in during the groundbreaking ceremony held Tuesday for the Zooshare biogas plant to be built adjacent to the Toronto Zoo on Meadowvale Road.
ZooShare breaks ground on biogas plant MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Morning sun. A dumptruck. A pile of poo. The moment when ZooShare stuck shovels in that pile this week, signifying the start of work on its Scarborough biogas plant, was six years in the making. Delayed by the dozens of required permits and assorted
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red tape, members of the cooperative stuck to their dream and raised more than $3 million. Finally, ZooShare gets their 500-kilowatt plant at the Toronto Zoo, a pioneering idea which will stop 10,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas a year from escaping to the atmosphere. By early 2017, it should be turning 3,000 tonnes of zoo animal manure and 14,000
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tonnes of unwanted grocery store produce into power and fertilizer. “It was an easy dream to grab hold of,” Paul Ungerman, ZooShare’s board chairperson, told an audience Tuesday, April 19, in a tent pitched on one of the zoo’s overflow parking lots. He saw the co-op’s membership grow from six to 600, as >>>ZOO, page 37
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the event, other than to promise other MPs will be there, as well as city councillors. The federal government is contributing funds to the “optimized” Bloor-Danforth subway extension now proposed as a one-stop run from Kennedy station to Scarborough Town Centre. Tory and councillors recently agreed to simplify the extension – previously, it had three stations and continued north to Sheppard Avenue – freeing up money to spend on a lightrail line, the Crosstown East, that would run east and then north from Kennedy station >>>CROSSTOWN, page 18
Private donation helps Centennial establish $1.2 million endowment A $1.2 million endowment has been established to provide scholarships for technology students at Centennial College, thanks to a record $600,000 donation from Paul and Gerri Charette. The donation, which was matched by Centennial, is the largest ever made to the college by individuals. It establishes the Paul and Gerri Charette Full-Tuition Scholarship, which will be awarded to students in Centennial’s School of Engineering Technology and Applied Science’s architectural technology and environment
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