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City’s first rail deck park to open in Weston Added green space paving the way for reopening of St. John school Dominik kurek dkurek@thetopic.ca Torontonians may get to enjoy community green space atop train tracks sometime soon after all.

The proposed 21-acre rail deck park in the city’s downtown is still years away, but an approximately one-tenth scale

model could possibly open in Weston next year, Metrolinx said.

“It may be a staged opening,” said Gord Troughton, director of Metrolinx’s Kitchener Corridor Infrastructure Capital Projects Group.

Metrolinx has built a 1,000foot long deck atop a tunnel covering the Georgetown

South rail tracks just north of Lawrence Avenue. The tunnel is about 80 feet wide, and with additional land on either side the deck is approximately 100 feet wide.

The deck is part of a Metrolinx transit investment in Weston that also includes the John Street pedestrian bridge, which opened last week.

Metrolinx’s portion of construction is complete, the provincial transit agency said, and grass is growing on it.

The remainder is up to the City of Toronto and the Toronto Catholic District School Board.

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Control centre relies on camera feeds, automated software to improve traffic flow

RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Inside a control room, located in a nondescript East York office building, a small team watches the city’s traffic unfold.

The group of traffic watchers, called operators, monitors feeds from dozens of cameras posted at the city’s busiest intersections, logging major traffic incidents 24/7.

The team also coordinates emergency road closures, dispatches maintenance crews and communicates advisories to the commuting public.

On a gloomy October morning, traffic surprisingly moves well during the heart of rush hour. But even during this unusually calm period, the traffic control team logs 12 major incidents between 7 and 10 a.m., which is normally one of the busiest parts of the day, according to head controller Linda Lee. “That’s just part of living in a city that’s booming,” said Lee Thursday, Oct. 20, during a tour of the traffic control centre. “When we look at our downtown cameras, it’s not just automobiles but lots of cyclists and pedestrians.”

Cameras capture traffic at expected hotspots like the Gardiner Expressway and the Don Valley Parkway. Feeds are also centred on Allen Road, Eglinton Avenue - more than 190 in all, capturing action in real-time.

The operators, contractors to the city, not only monitor traffic but also learn how to dispatch service. They undergo three months of training, learning how to operate the cameras, and familiarizing themselves with

various locations. Each feed can be accessed by punching a four-digit code. Feeds starting with ‘8’, for example, reference expressway locations.

“It used to be we could ask an operator to bring up a (feed) and it was simple, but it’s a little more difficult because we’ve got so many cameras now,” she said. “Now it’s hard to remember them all.”

From the control room, operators can also make traffic signal-timing changes to improve flow. The process can also be automated, with the system making predictive changes based on detectors measuring the level of traffic.

Operators can also favour traffic signals at certain routes at the expense of others to even out traffic flow. Over 300 current signals have the adaptive technology, according to Lee, with more to come.

to turn green while others turn much faster.

“There are a lot of factors which can impact signal coordination,” she said.

A major intersection with multiple left-turn lanes, for example, will drive up the amount of time before the light changes. And for the signals to be coordinated, they all have to have the same “cycle length”. The spacing between lights is another factor, not to mention whether there are transit signals for TTC vehicles on the route. Sometimes, the detectors can be damaged

through construction, causing the traffic signals to cycle without any apparent rhyme or reason.

The team monitors the communications of the traffic signals and dispatches a maintenance crew in case anything is off. In some cases there is daily monitoring, but in less busy areas that drops to weekly.

Lee says the value of the program comes from being able to easily coordinate a response to an incident. For example a disabled vehicle creating a massive traffic pileup can be more quickly

diffused and authorities dispatched if it appears on a camera feed. Lee also gets tips from police, sometimes even media outlets advising of a traffic scenario.

THE FUTURE The control centre also tracks response times and reviews with the pertinent authorities how to improve them.

Analysis of traffic patterns also takes place, although Lee admits without the proper software, it’s not possible for a deep-dive into the informa-

tion just yet. She’s hopeful new software ordered for the control centre will be able to provide automated suggestions to deal with a specific incident.

“Right now if an incident happens, our operators need to find the camera feed and then determine if messages have to be changed on an electronic road sign,” she said.

“The advanced system on the way will provide suggestions on what to post and where to post it based on where the closure. It makes the process more efficient.”

RE-TIMING TRAFFIC SIGNALS The city has also undertaken re-timing its traffic signals, something which started back in 2012. Lee says a review has been undertaken of signal times at major arterials to improve the timing of traffic off-sets, so that there’s minimal waittimes between a succession of signals. All of the city’s 2,300 signals are scheduled for retiming, with 939 completed at major routes. But re-timing is expensive, with one installation costing as much as $160,000 and regular maintenance $15,000 a year.

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The City of Toronto’s Traffic Control Centre on Don Mills Road is a hub of activity during the morning rush hour, as operators keep close watch on traffic flow.

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t has been just a little over two years since John Tory became Toronto’s fourth mayor, and there are certainly reasons to celebrate.

Tory was, after all, elected in 2014 as an antidote to the awful toxicity of Toronto City Hall under the stewardship of his predecessor, the late Rob Ford.

And he has filled that role admirably and well – rising well above what was frankly a very low bar for civility and professionalism set by Ford.

Having reached the halfway point of his first term, Tory can be satisfied in the fact that he has brokered an effective peace, or at least détente among Toronto OuR ViEW Council’s often warring factions, forging a strong voting Tory’s support bloc of centrist and conservaof infrastructure tive members of council. has forsaken many of projects meant theHeless savoury dog-whistle rhetorical positions that have to keep peace blurred council debates in the past (anyone remember the “war on the car?”) and shown a willingness to compromise in a way that occasionally crosses the ideological divide with council’s left wing.

That has generated much good will. But good will comes at a cost, and over the remainder of the term and beyond, Torontonians will be paying that cost.

To make peace in the city’s east end, Tory has stubbornly maintained solidarity with the ruinously expensive single-stop Scarborough subway plan. To please the north and the west, he backed another gold-plated infrastructure project, to maintain an elevated highway at the east end of the Gardiner Expressway against the good advice of city planners but according to the wishes of suburban motorists and their representatives.

He and council largely avoided making hard choices in the term’s first two budgets and may well be headed toward a cliff on the third in 2017 - again, in the interest of peace and compromise.

In all this, Tory has shown himself to be a goodnatured and collegial Torontonian with the city’s best interests at heart. It’s a good thing that he has the remainder of the term to demonstrate the ability to manage the peace that he’s forged.

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Transit financing deal before council next month could be too much for taxpayers Is it possible that it’s all too much, this suddenly tiny transit expansion plan?

That is certainly an impression that one might take reading City Manager Peter Wallace’s report on a costly deal with the provincial government for building and managing the vestiges of Mayor John Tory’s SmartTrack heavy rail and former Mayor David Miller’s Transit City light rail plans.

To begin with, the plans are tiny compared with their visions. Tory’s SmartTrack heavy rail plan now drops from 22 stations promised in the election to just six stations, and crucially is to be delivered by 2026, not as he promised within seven years.

The old Miller light rail plan has been diminished for some time, resurrected as it was after the late Mayor Rob Ford “killed” it in 2010. But now the lines on Eglinton, Finch and Sheppard Avenue which were originally understood to be

david nickle the city operated and maintained by Metrolinx will be run by the city-owned Toronto Transit Commission.

The Eglinton Crosstown LRT will cost $80 million; Sheppard will cost $38.1 million; Finch West, $51.5 million. SmartTrack is expected to cost another $40.5 million to operate.

Which is peanuts, compared to the capital spending the city will have to do to cover the costs of the SmartTrack expansion. The city will need to finance debt to the tune of $2.01 billion of the $3.72 billion cost (which includes the cost of the Eglinton West LRT). The city can finance that through a mix of tax increment financing, development charges, and eventually, the equivalent of a property tax increase as high as three per cent.

And in case one thought that might be all – Toronto will, under the agreement, begin contributing $20 million a year over three years to GO Transit’s own capital expansion program.

That’s a lot to digest. And it doesn’t include the cost of building the one-stop extension of Line 2 to the Scarborough Town Centre, which will add another $3 billion to the city’s debt, or the eventual cost of the downtown relief subway line – identified by the TTC as essential to deal with growing congestion on the Yonge subway Line 1, which could cost in the neighbourhood of $7 billion.

Toronto Council will have to make a call on the deal next week at its November meeting, and it’s an unenviable task.

Toronto does need better transit, and has for years, and this costly plan seems to be the only route to actually creating it.

The trouble is that some

of the biggest spends in this expensive list don’t match that well with the most urgently needed transit infrastructure in the city. SmartTrack might be Mayor John Tory’s political priority; it is not, really, Toronto’s.

And even the elements that do address priorities – the light rail lines through suburban North York and Scarborough – come with a surprising and politically unpalatable cost.

Council probably can’t say no, in spite of those costs and misapplied priorities; if they do, it’s tantamount to giving up on city building, at least as far as partnering with the province is concerned.

But councillors and the mayor will have a hard time convincing attentive voters that they’ve brought home anything like a win.

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Mark Remembrance Day Group hopes to have enough gifts donated for 40 to 50 kids with service in York It’s nearly Remembrance Day and anyone wishing to mark the occasion has a few places to do that in Toronto’s York community.

SUNDAY, NOV. 6: ■ Mount Dennis Legion (Branch 31) hosts its service at 1050 Weston Rd. at 3 p.m.

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■ Fairbank Legion (Branch 75) hosts a Remembrance Day church service at St. Hilda’s Anglican Church, 2339 Dufferin St., at 10:30 a.m. All are welcome.

FRIDAY, NOV. 11: ■ The City of Toronto’s annual Remembrance Day Service at 10:45 a.m. happens in the auditorium of York Memorial Collegiate Institute, 2690 Eglinton Ave. W. – honour those who have served our country and those who continue to serve.

■ Westlake Brothers Memorial Service at 3 p.m. happens at Westlake Memorial Park, 86 Jasper Ave. – honour the memory of the three Westlake brothers, former Mount Dennis men, who all perished within

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Frederick referred to the recent homicide inside a Pizza Pizza shop about 200 metres from the Frontlines building along with other recent and nearby gun violence incidents, adding that two of its occasional young program users are currently dealing with grief.

“We want to do big, but we also have a realistic target of being able to support 30 families in recognition of our 30 years,” she said.

Frontlines celebrates its 30th anniversary next year.

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Anyone interested in becoming a gift donor should call Frontlines to learn what specific gift they can get that will be given to a particular child.

This way, the gifts will be age and gender appropriate, Frederick said. Financial donations will also be accepted.

DONATE UNTIL DEC. 1 The toy drive continues until Dec. 1. The presents will be given out at Frontlines annual holiday dinner happening Dec. 16.

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“There’s a lot of negativity in the area. We just want to make it a good holiday season for the children in the community.”

Frontlines, which provides a number of programs at 1844 Weston Rd., including a children’s after-school dropin and homework support, has handed out gifts to kids in its programs before, but it was a casual occurrence.

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Without the rail deck, t h e s c h o o l c o u l d h a ve been forced to move permanently.

“Without this tunnel lid, we wouldn’t be beside our church,” said Dave Bennett, incoming chair of the school’s parent council and an executive member on the Weston Village Residents’ Association’s board.

“We’ve been at that site for 160 years. We’ve been

there longer than the railroad.”

The school board will operate the middle 650-foot section of the rail deck. That area will be fenced off from the city-run north and south sides.

Bennett said the existing school property was only about two acres in size, not enough for the intended school expansion. With the land made available by the rail deck, plus by obtaining some property from St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church and the acquisition of several homes, the school property is larger than four acres.

“Getting this done is huge for us to move back,” said Bennett, noting the student population has been temporarily housed for multiple years in other unused

TCDSB schools.

“This is a win-win. We’ve never had a green space at our school for over four decades. It’s always been asphalt. That hurts soccer clubs, that hurts everybody,” he said.

A drainage ditch runs along the length of the rail deck, which the school board will cover to make the land flat. The east side of the deck has a wall separating it from CP tracks.

The two city-operated portions of the rail deck will be accessed from King Street to the south and Church Street to the north.

The city’s park designs must still be finalized, but the municipality could open its portions before St. John the Evangelist opens in 2018, Troughton said.

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Santa Claus parade volunteers wanted Organizers of the Weston Santa Claus parade on Sunday, Nov. 27 are reaching out to the community for volunteers, particularly people who can help manage road closures.

Approximately 50 entries of bands, floats and more are expected at this year’s event, which will include the big guy himself.

The parade starts at 2 p.m. at Weston Road and Church Street.

It continues south on Weston Road and ends at Sidney Belsey Crescent.

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The hub is expected to open in 2018 at King Street near Weston Road, built in conjunction with a new residential tower.

Work on the hub started this past summer.

Artscape officials will provide information on: n the design of the hub – the types of spaces and facilities that the hub might offer; n types of activities and programs that may take place

at the hub; n the proposed visual identity – wayfinding and signage for the project; n and next steps in the hub development and tenanting process.

For more information, email weston@artscape.ca a brew to support west park wHave

You can try out a few brews at The Distillery District and help support York’s West Park Healthcare Centre.

Uncork Untap Unwind is happening at Airship 37, 37 Parliament St., Thursday, Nov. 17 at 6:30 p.m.

Funds raised at the event

will support vital programs at West Park, which provides specialized rehabilitation for patients recovering from life-altering accidents, lung disease, amputation and spasticity - a debilitating symptom of stroke, cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis.

Craft beer, wine, whiskey, culinary creations by The McEwan Group, live entertainment and a silent auction are on tap for the event.

Chopped Canada host and former Bachelor Canada Brad Smith will be the evening’s host. For tickets and more information, visit www.westparkuncork.ca

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Brain Injury and Advocacy WHEN: 9 a.m. to noon WHERE: Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre, 1900 Davenport Rd. (at Symington) CONTACT: Meri Perra, 416-830-1485, www.bist.ca/advocacy, info@bist.ca COST: Free Three-hour workshop will offer keynote presentations from a provincial advocate specialist and legal expert with experience in brain injury.

Bazaar WHEN: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Church of St. Mary and St. Martha, 1149 Weston Rd. CONTACT: Shirley Radley, rustyangel1212@yahoo.ca COST: Free A variety of baking and deli items, crafts, silent auction, box draw, treasures, gifts and collectibles, books, gently loved items, topped with a delicious lunch.

◗ Monday, Nov. 7

Dancing for People with Parkinson 55+ WHEN: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Road CONTACT: Danna McBride, 416-245-4395 Ext.223, danna@ywalc.ca COST: $3 per class Dancing with Parkinson’s disease

and other neurological ailments offers specialized dance classes that empower people with the disease to explore movement and music in ways that are stimulating and creative.

Choir Practice 59+ WHEN: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: St. Matthew’s Bracondale House, 707 St Clair Ave. West CONTACT: 416656-2669, smbh.ca, COST: Free Come raise your voice and sing your heart out as part of our fun, relaxed seniors’ choir. Hymns, musical soundtracks, and classic pop songs make up our repertoire.

◗ Managing Your Finances in

Retirement WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416394-1000 COST: Free Part of the workshop will include learning how to balance your budget, being aware of different sources of income and stretching these sources. This program is in partnership with the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada.

Call to register.

◗ Weston Village Residents’ Association AGM WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Weston

Memorial JPS, 200 John St. CONTACT: www.welcometoweston.ca COST: Free Weston Village Residents’ Association hosts its annual general meeting with keynote speaker Royson James, Toronto Star columnist.

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Healthy Mind, Healthy Bodies WHEN: 12 to 1:30 p.m. WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Rd. CONTACT: Danna McBride, 416-245-4395 ext. 223, danna@ywalc.ca COST: Cost: $21 for 14 weeks A short meditation and share the challenges of maturity. Topics may include: Grown children issues; maintaining a home as you age; giving up a home/transitions; memory difficulties. grief and loss.

Sessions will be led by Deborah Stewart-Finestone.

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WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: Valeriya, 416-394-1006, COST: Free Join in after school, every Tuesday, for fun at Evelyn Gregory Library.

Show off your skills with the weekly Lego challenges. Or just chill out with some board games, chess, colouring and music. Drop-in, no

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Citizenship Education Circle WHEN: 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: Richard, 416-394-1006, COST: Free Assistance for landed immigrants, convention refugees, and live-in caregivers. Join the weekly group for help with your Citizenship Test.

Improve knowledge of reading and speaking English. Children are welcome. Registration required.

◗ Teen Gaming Tournament WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: , 416-394-1006, , COST: Free Drop in to the library for a chance to win prizes and get on the Gaming Wall of Fame. ◗ Thursday, Nov. 10

Yarn Lovers Wanted WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Arlene, quanah1@gmail.com COST: Free Join the group Thursday evenings for knitting, crocheting, and company. Bring your project or supplies.

Yarn nor needles provided.

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Insurance. $60/hr 2140 Kipling Ave, 3B., (Kipling/ 401). Etobicoke 647-430-7238.

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OUR AODA COMMITMENT Metroland is committed to accessibility in employment and to ensuring equal access to employment opportunities for candidates, including persons with disabilities. In compliance with AODA, Metroland will endeavour to provide accommodation to persons with disabilities in the recruitment process upon request. If you are selected for an interview and you require accommodation due to a disability during the recruitment process, please notify the hiring manager upon scheduling your interview.

Needed for Full and Part-time hours, Monday - Friday: 4 - 9 p.m.

Saturdays: 9 - 3 p.m.

Excellent phone skills.

We pay $14-$18/hour + commission.

DENTURE CLINIC

Mortgages/Loans

Call Cyril to book your appointment!

B A S E M E N T L E A K I N G ?

Crack repairs. Filling inside and out.

All work guaranteed.

Free Estimates.

905-615-8349 or 416-666-2010

416-740-3221 or 416-835-4161

FALL GARDEN clean-up and snow removal.

One time or seasonal con-tract. Call Paul at 647-898-2461

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Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5pm • Toll Free Phone 1-800-263-6480 • Toll Free Fax 1-866-299-1499 Email classifieds@metroland.com • For delivery questions, please contact 1-855-853-5613

Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5pm • Toll Free Phone 1-800-263-6480 • Toll Free Fax 1-866-299-1499 Email classifieds@metroland.com • For delivery questions, please contact 1-855-853-5613

Gottarent.com Condos for Rent

Houses for Rent

CONDO FOR lease in 5 BEDROOM Bungalow Don Mills and Eglinton for Rent in Prime area. 1 Bed plus Den Etobicoke (Scarlett & Condo aprox 800 sq ft Lawrence) - Humber Don Mills and Eglinton River Ravine lot huge in 195 Wynford. Heat, backyard (PETS Hydro, Water, CAC and ALLOWED), 2 full one Parking all included. washrooms, oversized 416-265-5565 garage, 6 car parking, washer, dryer, dishwasher, 2 fridges, cold cellar. 5 minute walk to Go Station, 5 minute drive to hwys 400, 401, 427. $2600/month + utilities Contact Angela, 647-525-1789.

Astrology/Psychics

Astrology/Psychics

Farms for Rent/Wanted

Industrial/Commercial for Rent/Wanted

FARMLAND WANTED

DUAL ZONE commercial unit, 700 sq. ft. on 2nd floor. WiFi available.

Close to all amenities.

Kipling/ Rexdale. Free parking. $700/mth +utilities. Must See. Call Carol 416-785-9669

TO RENT. Top price paid for land of 30 - 100 acres for hay production.

Schomberg, Nobleton, Tottenham, Beeton area. Please call 416-892-0664.

Shows & Bazaars

Etobicoke

Etobicoke

Moving Sale Sat., Nov. 5th, 8 am - 2 pm 7D & 5C Brussels St.

Shows & Bazaars

Come and see our amazing vendors and buy one of a kind gifts that you can either keep for yourself or give as presents to your friends and loved ones for the upcoming Holiday Season.

FALL SALE Saturday, November 5th 9 am - 12 pm 16 Baby Point Rd.

Start your Christmas shopping early with new and gently used gifts (including toys and games), books, Christmas decorations, hand-made items, home baking and preserves.

Plumbing

Plumbing

RAY PLUMBING SERVICE Repairs & Replacement, Faucets, Sinks, Toilets, Drains, Main Valve, Leaky Pipes, Drain Cleaning.

Licensed & Insured. 24/7.

Vehicles Wanted/Wrecking

Vehicles Wanted/Wrecking

$100-$10,000

Cars

Cash 4

Dead or alive Same day Fast FREE Towing 647-642-6187

Bring your friends and family and enjoy home made tasty Armenian dishes and delicious desserts. You will want to have seconds, guaranteed!

Our vendors will be selling clothing, jewelry, pastries, shoes and purses, shoes for children, yoga wear and tights, Beautiful toys and clothing from Armenia, home scents, Coffee cups and dishes with beautiful Armenian designs, Candies, hand made jewelry, T-shirt printing, skincare, chocolates, optometrist services, Armenian Heritage Cruise, RESP sales consultant and much much more...

Pet Supplies/ Boarding/Service

Pet Supplies/ Boarding/Service

HANDYMAN, FALL Cleanups, Eavestrough cleaning, shrubs and gardens winter ready, debris clean-up, Any Small Job. Reasonable Rates. Call Dave 416-255-0369

STUD WANTED for female Labrador retriever, (same breed required).

Terms to be arranged.

Kippling/ Queensway.

Please Call Dave 416-255-0369

Home Renovations

Home Renovations

416-876-6679

GLASS REPLACEMENT

Local Plumbing Service

Repair and Service for Windows and Doors.

Quality Work 20 Years Experience Call Tom 647-531-7570

Faucets, Sinks, Toilets, Showers, Laundry, Main Valve, Leaky Pipes, Plugged Drains. Licensed & Insured.

24/7. Senior Discount!

416-661-2002

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Articles Wanted

Articles Wanted

SEND ME YOUR YARN!!!

I am knitting scarves for donation as the cold winter is coming, but I need your help!

I am looking for yarn you do not want.

Please drop off at 83 Fortieth Street donationsofyarn@gmail.com Thank you for your help!

Notices (Public)

$150 - $6000 Cash on the Spot 4 Scrap Cars Free tow in 2 hrs.

647-403-8542 Engaged?

Recently married?

Let friends & family share in the details!

Call

1-800-743-3353

Flooring & Carpeting

Appliance Repairs/ Installation

Appliance Repairs/ Installation

ALL CITI APPLIANCES. Appliances repaired professionally.

35 years experience.

Fridges, coolers, washers, dryers, stoves.

Central Air Conditioning and Heating.

(416) 281-3030

Notices (Public)

Waste Removal

PETER’S DEPENDABLE JUNK REMOVAL

From home or business, including furniture/ appliances, construction waste. Quick & careful!

416-677-3818 Rock Bottom Rates!

JUNK REMOVAL AND DEMOLITION Furniture, appliances and construction waste.

Professional service and fully insured. Free estimates.

Frank @ Central 416-991-9967

Landscaping, Lawn Care, Supplies FALL CLEANUP. Great rates and service. Seniors discount. Call Greg at 647-763-0082 GARDENING, CUTTING grass, weeding, gutter/leaf clean-up. Indoors cleaning floors & windows, also cleaning finish construction house and building, maintaining cleanliness commercial/ industrial buildings.

416-821-0359

Check Out: Appliance Repairs/ Installation

Appliance Repairs/ Installation

Professional Repairs

OF ALL BRANDS OF: Refrigeration, Stoves, Dishwashers, Washer, Dryers, Air Conditioning & Heating.

Free Estimates. Warranty.

Credit cards accepted. Seniors discount.

416-616-0388

Notices (Public)

Applications to Provincial Parliament - Private Bills

Take out food and desserts are available.

Heritage Antique Market Cloverdale Mall Dundas St. at Hwy 427 Sunday, November 6th, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Free Appraisals 416-483-6471

(The Queensway and Grand) Bedroom, livingroom, diningroom, office furniture, TVs accessories, dishes, paintings, and much more. Rain or Shine

Humbercrest United Church’s annual Fall Sale offers amazing bargains on quality clothing, footwear and accessories.

TORONTO

Shows & Bazaars

Garage Sales

One block west of the Baby Point Gates at Jane & Annette.

ANNUAL CHRISTMAS BAZAAR ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY’S Sat., Nov. 5th ~ 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Sun., Nov. 6th ~ 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

45 Hallcrown Place (401 and Victoria Park area)

Shows & Bazaars

Waste Removal

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on behalf of Jeffrey Mason and Janice Mason that an application will be made to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario for an Act to revive 830442 Ontario Limited in order to deal with certain property that was held in the corporation’s name at the time of the dissolution.

The application will be considered by the Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills. Any person who has an interest in the application and who wishes to make submissions, for or against the application, to the Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills should notify, in writing, the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly, Legislative Building, Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, M7A lA2.

BUILD YOUR

DREAM TEAM

Dated this 20th day of October, 2016.

S. Steve Popoff, Solicitor for 830442 Ontario Limited

Flooring & Carpeting

HARDWOOD FLOOR SANDING. Specializing in stain/ refinishing.

Call for Free Estimate! Reasonable rates.

Paul 416-564-8410

NESO FLOORING Carpet installation starting from $1.19/ sq.ft. Hardwood, laminate at low prices. 27 yrs experience.

Free Estimates. Best Price!

647-400-8198

HARDWOOD FLOOR CRAFTSMAN

Everything relating to wood floors and stairs. Serving Etobicoke since 1981.

“Integrity before profit” Call Manuel 416-727-1900

PARK IT!

Leave your car at home for a day, week or a month!

Try walking or biking.

If work is too far away to walk carpool.

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Etobicoke York Community – 2016 Mechanical Leaf Collection

Transportation Services has once again scheduled mechanical leaf collection service in the areas outlined on the attached map.

Mechanical Leaf Collection will take place from: Monday, November 7th to Saturday, December 3rd, 2016 A total of 43,300 notices, with the program collection dates, will be delivered to all households in the program area.

Only those residents who are scheduled to receive mechanical leaf pick-up will receive notification, two weeks prior to the scheduled pick-up dates of the first week of collection. (Those that do not receive a notice are not eligible for the program).

In order to receive this service:

A day or two before the first Monday of your collection week, rake leaves to the edge of the roadway, but not onto the travelled portion of the roadway Do not place leaves in ditches, on top of catch basins or in any way as to obstruct water flow. City by-law officers will be enforcing the City of Toronto by-law Chapter #743 that relates to the use of streets and sidewalks. Raking leaves onto the roadway is a by-law offence and could result in charges being laid. In addition, raking, blowing, placing or dumping leaves onto the sidewalk, ditches or roadway can create dangerous conditions for pedestrians, cyclists motorists, create flooding conditions on the road way and could delay emergency services.

Please note the following:

If the leaf collection program is suspended due to an early snow fall, we will not resume leaf collection and any remaining leaves will have to be bagged for pick-up during your regular waste collection day.

The City suggests that, whenever possible, composting is still the best solution for managing your leaves.

For information on composting, please visit: www.toronto.ca/compost. If you do not receive mechanical leaf collection, place your yard waste in reusable, rigid, open-top containers or kraft paper bags on your regular yard waste collection day for pick-up. Check your local collection calendar for your yard waste collection schedule and more helpful tips. If you have any questions about the service, call 311 or visit the website at: www.toronto.ca/transportation/leaf_pickup