Junction Triangle

Event info from The Stop's website:

The Good Food for All Festival is back and bigger than ever! Join us on Sat., Sept. 17 for a fun-filled—and entirely free!— day of entertainment, kids' activities, music and, of course, lots and lots of delicious food. The day will feature a community cook-off (you be the judge); our Good Food Market; samples from The Stop kitchen; a bike-repair clinic; and much more. Kids will enjoy live animals, food competitions (with cookie rewards!) and music by Samba Elegua. Join us for what is always a wonderful day celebrating our neighbourhood and healthy and delicious food. Please note: We'll kick off this year's festival with a community march that will leave from in front of the Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre (1900 Davenport Rd.) at 11:30. Join us and our intrepid marching band as we make some noise about election issues!

When: Saturday, Sept 17, 2011. Community March: 11:30 to noon. Festival: Noon til 3 pm.

Where: 1884 Davenport (at Symington)

How much: Entirely free!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
JOEL RICHARDSON BEGINS DUPONT STREET MURAL

Joel Richardson has begun to paint his new mural on Dupont Street West of Lansdowne. You can follow the whole process on his blog @ joelrichardson.com/blog as the artist, dressed in a tuxedo, paints a replacement to his mural erased by the City of Toronto earlier this year. The current mural was unanimously endorsed at a community meeting in August.

The artist will be keeping bankers hours at the wall for the next three weeks. Please feel free to drop by and see the progress.

Please Contact: Joel Richardson - joel@joelricahrdson.com

Here's another opportunity to see local filmmaker Jeff Winch's documentary about the diesel train expansion around our neighbourhood.

Green 13 hosts - Bending the Rails
Sponsored by the Annette Library
Located at: 145 Annette Street
Date: Monday, September 19, 2011
Time: 6:30 pm
Running time: 45 minutes
Q & A with filmmaker Jeff Winch after the screening

Sadly Hilary Bell died a few days ago due to cancer. Hilary was known in many circles for her tireless community work and advocacy for improving communities. She was involved in creating Railpath, the natural garden along Dundas, the murals under the Wallace Bridge to name but a few. She was a fair but formidable foe to developers, Metrolinx, and politicians when she needed to be but never lost her sense of humour and the desire for a hearty bike ride. This obit is provided by the family and there will be more news to follow.

Sept. 24 BLOORDALE Toronto joins 400 cities representing 95 countries in the largest poetry reading in history.

Over 500 events are scheduled to take place simultaneously on September 24th, 2011 to promote environmental, social, political, economic, and cultural change.

Bloordale venues:

• House of Lancaster: 1215 Bloor Street West, Poetry Breakfast, 10:30-12:30
• Lansdowne Bus Shelter: TTC Shelter, Lansdowne Ave. at Paton Road
• Bloordale Store Windows: Poetry posters, cards and stickers
• Bloor Street Poetry Lights: Blue Streetlights Poetry Tags
• Libraries: Poetry display at Perth/Dupont and Gladstone/Bloor

INFORMATION UPDATES
www.100tpc.org
www.poetrylookout.com

Join us on Facebook:
100000 Poets For Change Toronto

It's also worth noting that the breakfast event at the House of Lancaster is partially a fundraiser for our local Junction Triangle library, the Perth/Dupont branch:

"100 TAFC, House of Lancaster Poetry Breakfast is a pay-what-you-can fund-raising event with proceeds divided between local Savards Woman Shelter on Bloor Street, neighbourhood Perth/Dupont library and the performing poets. This event is encouraged by BIG: Bloor Improvement Group and the Bloordale BIA"

Saturday September 10th
June Harlowe Foods (1627 Dupont St. at Edwin Ave.)

Buy a $5 sticker or a $20 drawing to help support the new Dupont mural.

* Joel will screen his new Fairytale Documentary The Suit man and The Stencil

BlogTO takes a look at some of the interesting spaces and businesses along Sterling Road. I am sure this story just scratches the surface.( And they left off my fave: http://www.coltpaper.com/ ).

http://www.blogto.com/city/2011/08/get_to_know_a_street_sterling_road/

Photo by Martin Reis, in the Junction Triangle Flickr Pool

Sometime during the night of August 16-17, the brand new mural under the Wallace Ave. Footbridge was severely vandalized. It's not the first time that this mural was tagged, including while it was still a work in progress. Artist Richard Mongiat has fixed it each time.

Personally, as much as I actually enjoy good street art and graffiti, simple vandalism of other peoples' work is extremely disrespectful. And it makes me enjoy other street art less.

Today, Torontoist has published A Spotter's Guide to Endangered Library Branches, highlighting some of the Toronto Public Library branches that are in danger of being cut by City Council. The first branch they feature is our very own Perth/Dupont Branch.

A few quotes from the article:

On page 152 of KPMG's core service review report—which identifies City services that could be cut or reduced for cost savings—is a column marked "Key Opportunities" that contains a single bullet point. "Some library branches could be closed," it says.

Specific proposals for cuts are still a long way off. Thursday night's (and Friday morning's) marathon executive committee meeting was only the prelude to a longer fight that will culminate next year, when it comes time to approve 2012's budget. But if library branches are to be closed, it seems likely that the most vulnerable ones will be those that do the least business.

Proposed 362 Wallace Ave. Development - Aerial View

The following notes from the July 26th 2011 public meeting regarding redevelopment of the 362 Wallace Ave. lands are from Shona Kennedy, a resident of Macauley Ave. Edited by me for web formatting. Photos of the display boards were provided by Joanna.

Please note that all drawings and plans are preliminary, and not finalized! Discussions between the developer, City, and local residents will bring about many changes.

Preliminary Meeting – 362 Wallace Proposed Development

IN ATTENDANCE:

• Councilor Ana Bailao
• Owners/Developers – Fred Ruth (Somerset Homes) Nick & Conrad (Torbel Group)
• Architect – Kregg Fordyce
• Members of the community