Carla, I have cut and pasted the posting. I think it said more then murder?? See below.
June 17, 2010 - 7:59am — Jack (not verified)
Congrats for setting up the meeting
Congrats, For all those who helped organize the meeting in July. I also spoke to the Superintendent and Trustee and encouraged them both to organize a meeting with parents. Only realizing when speaking to the Superintendent that we had worked on a event together along with other staff and parents of Parkdale School on the memorial for Kaitlynn Sampson, the young girl who was murdered by her caregiver, small world. However I agree with Jen C. I hope that a letter will go out to all present and future parents in the JT. We have a lot a young families who have moved on or are planning to move into the neighbourhood. Both Virginia and I have a new next door neighbour, who have moved in less then 3 months ago. They also might be interested in hearing this information. JF
I'm not sure why you are bringing up this topic of murder and I don't want to know. It is not really fitting for this forum & I say this because at today's festival, I heard about it from parents.
A meeting was set up because "we" requested to have one to clarify all the misinformation and there were numerous phone calls made to myself and the principal from parents without children that did nothing but waste people's valuable busy time.
THE GOOD NEWS IS, we are moving forward and , if you would like to assist this group in accomplishing what they need to, you can print off the flyer and give it to your next door neighbor and anyone else that you feel should be informed. Spread the word. Not everyone comes onto this site.
Everyone truly is doing their part to help this issue along! We couldn't have gone this far without so many people contacting the TDSB and spreading the word via email and verbal.
It's a good question, about Early Immersion or Middle Immersion. I think at this stage ANY TYPE of Immersion on the TDSB radar is good. We can ask Maria R. at the public meeting what she thinks is most feasible. My two cents, Early Immersion at Perth would be great!
Just saw your message on Facebook. Unfortunately, I don't have access at work. I will help you distribute at the Festival today, and I will give copies to Perth Daycare. I will be at the Festival around 4:30pm. Look for me, I will be the one with the crazy twins!!!!!!!!!!
I was talking about distributing the letter from Maria. I will print the letter and distribute to parents I know with young children.
Jen
Also, will we be pushing for Early Immersion (SK) or Middle Immersion (Grade 4). I would be happy with Early Immersion, but if Middle Immersion is all we can get, that would be good too. Better than no Immersion.
Congrats, For all those who helped organize the meeting in July. I also spoke to the Superintendent and Trustee and encouraged them both to organize a meeting with parents. Only realizing when speaking to the Superintendent that we had worked on a event together along with other staff and parents of Parkdale School on the memorial for Kaitlynn Sampson, the young girl who was murdered by her caregiver, small world. However I agree with Jen C. I hope that a letter will go out to all present and future parents in the JT. We have a lot a young families who have moved on or are planning to move into the neighbourhood. Both Virginia and I have a new next door neighbour, who have moved in less then 3 months ago. They also might be interested in hearing this information. JF
Will the letter be distributed to other parents in the neighbourhood? I could help with distributing them. We may be missing many parents with very young children, who are not aware of this website, and initiative. This could help bring up our numbers. Just an idea.
Maria Rodrigues has sent a letter to the JT community. The attachment is available for download just beneath the introductory paragraph of this web page.
Both issues are important, but according to Carla, from what she can gather, when speaking with Manon Gardner, FI is more complicated to implement than grades 7/8.
This morning, Maria Rodrigues has forwarded a letter to the JT community. Just below the introduction paragraph, there is a download of Maria Rodrigues' letter, for anyone to download.
Those are good questions, Ken. I do wish that the first two issues were addressed from a provincial and federal level though. At least from the cost perspective.
And you're absolutely right about pedestrian issues often being overlooked. I don't think I've heard any of the mayoral candidates speak up about it yet.
This is a result of a Masters project by Phil Orr, an Environmental Studies-Urban Planning student at York University. The website covers many of aspects of the proposed line: Why it's needed, proposed routing, maps, stagin, costs, and much more.
The proposed design in this case adds a Downtown Relief Line stop at Dundas West station during Phase 2 of construction, and a "Junction" stop near Dupont and Dundas.
It's not like the DRL will happen any time soon, but it seems like a good idea (as opposed to extending other subways into empty suburban fields). I'm glad people are thinking of it and doing the research. Would be interesting to hear what our mayoral and ward 18 candidates think of this.
"It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit." -- Unknown
If we ever manage to form a Residents' Association, we should use that as our motto.
Signing in as anonymous for this one....
I am not alone working on this project. There are lots of other people in our area who find this issue important. A big thank you to Carla, for setting up the meeting; Janice, the school Principal in her support; Ranajit, Kristen, Vic, Jennifer, Terri, Sharon, Scott and of course you too. (Edited to add: A thank you also goes out to Ann and Carmen at the library, as they are always supportive of community initiatives. They have been helping with the petition and giving out flyers and the pre-written form letters.)
A big thank you to all the parents who have thus far contacted the TDSB. We are all doing what we can. A huge back slap to us all!
BUT we still have a long way to go, our work is still not done until we know for sure that there will be a FI program at Perth PS. We need to continue promoting our campaign and contacting the TDSB so as not to be forgotten over the summer holidays.
"It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit." -- Unknown
What a great initiative Irmina! Your efforts to rally the neighbourhood and get people to contact the the appropriate authorities about French Immersion is clearly making headway. The meeting is another step forward. Nicely done. I'll be there for sure.
A public meeting has been set up with Maria Rodrigues to discuss acquiring grades 7/8 and French Immersion at Perth PS.
When: Monday, 5 July, 2010
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Where: Perth Avenue Junior Public School
It is important that as many parents as possible attend this meeting. It's your chance to ask questions and tell our school Trustee the importance adding grades 7/8 and French Immersion at our local school.
Please spread the word about this meeting to as many people as possible.
I don't think that remembering what signs are posted on the lawn of somebody who lives a block away is spooky especially when that person is somewhat infamous in the community. What I do find spooky is threatening unsigned posters plastered all over the community in a cowardly fashion every time one or two malcontents wants to stop something . That's spooky, just like the unsigned threats last year at Perth Public. With the Police paying more attention people who post unsigned posters are the ones that should be spooked.
In terms of the Green Party that would be the Green Party whose leader worked for Brian Mulroney? That be the same Green Party who previous leader hired Mike Harris cronies to run the party? I dont want to get too off topic but the Green Party of Canada leadership currently is Libertarian which is on the right of the spectrum. We will see how long that lasts as the grassroots is very unhappy with this shift. There are countless stories and editorials online about this seeming contradiction.
Before I clarify Jeffs posting regarding my signs. I want to say how spooky it is for someone to not only remember someone's else signs from 3 yrs ago, but for someone that's does not live close by. I don't even remember my next door neighbours. Anyhow, I spoke with Wayne Scott from the Green Party who ran for MP for Davenport. He is also well known in the community. He also spent 6 years at City Hall as the longest serving member of the TORONTO PEDESTRIAN COMMITTEE.
Wayne wrote the Following.
"I will be happy to tell any and all concerned that I did, in fact, erect a GREEN Party sign during the last federal campaign at YOUR request, in front of YOUR house at 105 Symington Ave. I will also be happy to tell them that I am about as far away from the "Harper Party" in my thinking, as anyone could possibly be"
Wayne Scott
DavenportGPC Candidate
Really interesting pictures Vic. Amazing just how industrial this part of the City was a century ago.
Carla, I have cut and pasted the posting. I think it said more then murder?? See below.
June 17, 2010 - 7:59am — Jack (not verified)
Congrats for setting up the meeting
Congrats, For all those who helped organize the meeting in July. I also spoke to the Superintendent and Trustee and encouraged them both to organize a meeting with parents. Only realizing when speaking to the Superintendent that we had worked on a event together along with other staff and parents of Parkdale School on the memorial for Kaitlynn Sampson, the young girl who was murdered by her caregiver, small world. However I agree with Jen C. I hope that a letter will go out to all present and future parents in the JT. We have a lot a young families who have moved on or are planning to move into the neighbourhood. Both Virginia and I have a new next door neighbour, who have moved in less then 3 months ago. They also might be interested in hearing this information. JF
Jack,
I'm not sure why you are bringing up this topic of murder and I don't want to know. It is not really fitting for this forum & I say this because at today's festival, I heard about it from parents.
A meeting was set up because "we" requested to have one to clarify all the misinformation and there were numerous phone calls made to myself and the principal from parents without children that did nothing but waste people's valuable busy time.
THE GOOD NEWS IS, we are moving forward and , if you would like to assist this group in accomplishing what they need to, you can print off the flyer and give it to your next door neighbor and anyone else that you feel should be informed. Spread the word. Not everyone comes onto this site.
Go Teamwork!
Carla
Hi Scott,
Meant to reply to this earlier but just thought about it again right now...better late than never :) Here are the links related to what you posted:
Hey Jennifer,
Everyone truly is doing their part to help this issue along! We couldn't have gone this far without so many people contacting the TDSB and spreading the word via email and verbal.
It's a good question, about Early Immersion or Middle Immersion. I think at this stage ANY TYPE of Immersion on the TDSB radar is good. We can ask Maria R. at the public meeting what she thinks is most feasible. My two cents, Early Immersion at Perth would be great!
See you at the festival later!
Just saw your message on Facebook. Unfortunately, I don't have access at work. I will help you distribute at the Festival today, and I will give copies to Perth Daycare. I will be at the Festival around 4:30pm. Look for me, I will be the one with the crazy twins!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Irmina,
Thank you for all your work.
I was talking about distributing the letter from Maria. I will print the letter and distribute to parents I know with young children.
Jen
Also, will we be pushing for Early Immersion (SK) or Middle Immersion (Grade 4). I would be happy with Early Immersion, but if Middle Immersion is all we can get, that would be good too. Better than no Immersion.
Congrats, For all those who helped organize the meeting in July. I also spoke to the Superintendent and Trustee and encouraged them both to organize a meeting with parents. Only realizing when speaking to the Superintendent that we had worked on a event together along with other staff and parents of Parkdale School on the memorial for Kaitlynn Sampson, the young girl who was murdered by her caregiver, small world. However I agree with Jen C. I hope that a letter will go out to all present and future parents in the JT. We have a lot a young families who have moved on or are planning to move into the neighbourhood. Both Virginia and I have a new next door neighbour, who have moved in less then 3 months ago. They also might be interested in hearing this information. JF
Hi Jennifer,
Which letter are we talking about? The pre-written form letter or the letter from Maria Rodrigues?
Will the letter be distributed to other parents in the neighbourhood? I could help with distributing them. We may be missing many parents with very young children, who are not aware of this website, and initiative. This could help bring up our numbers. Just an idea.
Maria Rodrigues has sent a letter to the JT community. The attachment is available for download just beneath the introductory paragraph of this web page.
Both issues are important, but according to Carla, from what she can gather, when speaking with Manon Gardner, FI is more complicated to implement than grades 7/8.
This morning, Maria Rodrigues has forwarded a letter to the JT community. Just below the introduction paragraph, there is a download of Maria Rodrigues' letter, for anyone to download.
Grades 7/8: Are we still pushing for this? Will it be discussed? or is it taking a back seat.
Im all for FI, but......
Remember: Kent is closing down in less then 2 years. We don't have much choice for grades 7 and 8.
Those are good questions, Ken. I do wish that the first two issues were addressed from a provincial and federal level though. At least from the cost perspective.
And you're absolutely right about pedestrian issues often being overlooked. I don't think I've heard any of the mayoral candidates speak up about it yet.
An excellent website about the Downtown Relief Line:
http://www.drlnow.ca/
This is a result of a Masters project by Phil Orr, an Environmental Studies-Urban Planning student at York University. The website covers many of aspects of the proposed line: Why it's needed, proposed routing, maps, stagin, costs, and much more.
The proposed design in this case adds a Downtown Relief Line stop at Dundas West station during Phase 2 of construction, and a "Junction" stop near Dupont and Dundas.
It's not like the DRL will happen any time soon, but it seems like a good idea (as opposed to extending other subways into empty suburban fields). I'm glad people are thinking of it and doing the research. Would be interesting to hear what our mayoral and ward 18 candidates think of this.
"It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit." -- Unknown
If we ever manage to form a Residents' Association, we should use that as our motto.
Signing in as anonymous for this one....
I am not alone working on this project. There are lots of other people in our area who find this issue important. A big thank you to Carla, for setting up the meeting; Janice, the school Principal in her support; Ranajit, Kristen, Vic, Jennifer, Terri, Sharon, Scott and of course you too. (Edited to add: A thank you also goes out to Ann and Carmen at the library, as they are always supportive of community initiatives. They have been helping with the petition and giving out flyers and the pre-written form letters.)
A big thank you to all the parents who have thus far contacted the TDSB. We are all doing what we can. A huge back slap to us all!
BUT we still have a long way to go, our work is still not done until we know for sure that there will be a FI program at Perth PS. We need to continue promoting our campaign and contacting the TDSB so as not to be forgotten over the summer holidays.
"It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit." -- Unknown
What a great initiative Irmina! Your efforts to rally the neighbourhood and get people to contact the the appropriate authorities about French Immersion is clearly making headway. The meeting is another step forward. Nicely done. I'll be there for sure.
A public meeting has been set up with Maria Rodrigues to discuss acquiring grades 7/8 and French Immersion at Perth PS.
When: Monday, 5 July, 2010
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Where: Perth Avenue Junior Public School
It is important that as many parents as possible attend this meeting. It's your chance to ask questions and tell our school Trustee the importance adding grades 7/8 and French Immersion at our local school.
Please spread the word about this meeting to as many people as possible.
Here's the Google Streetview Link for the section of Symington Ave. Playground where the proposed dog park might go:
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Perth+Ave.,+T...
I don't think that remembering what signs are posted on the lawn of somebody who lives a block away is spooky especially when that person is somewhat infamous in the community. What I do find spooky is threatening unsigned posters plastered all over the community in a cowardly fashion every time one or two malcontents wants to stop something . That's spooky, just like the unsigned threats last year at Perth Public. With the Police paying more attention people who post unsigned posters are the ones that should be spooked.
In terms of the Green Party that would be the Green Party whose leader worked for Brian Mulroney? That be the same Green Party who previous leader hired Mike Harris cronies to run the party? I dont want to get too off topic but the Green Party of Canada leadership currently is Libertarian which is on the right of the spectrum. We will see how long that lasts as the grassroots is very unhappy with this shift. There are countless stories and editorials online about this seeming contradiction.
Before I clarify Jeffs posting regarding my signs. I want to say how spooky it is for someone to not only remember someone's else signs from 3 yrs ago, but for someone that's does not live close by. I don't even remember my next door neighbours. Anyhow, I spoke with Wayne Scott from the Green Party who ran for MP for Davenport. He is also well known in the community. He also spent 6 years at City Hall as the longest serving member of the TORONTO PEDESTRIAN COMMITTEE.
Wayne wrote the Following.
"I will be happy to tell any and all concerned that I did, in fact, erect a GREEN Party sign during the last federal campaign at YOUR request, in front of YOUR house at 105 Symington Ave. I will also be happy to tell them that I am about as far away from the "Harper Party" in my thinking, as anyone could possibly be"
Wayne Scott
DavenportGPC Candidate
Ouch. : )
There is only one organizer and he has no list.
There was no Green Party sign. Theresa R came in a distant third.