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each Metro News and Community Centre 55 will host an all-candidates meeting for those running in the upcoming provincial election for Beaches-East York. The meeting will take place on Thursday, May 10, at St. John’s Norway Anglican Church, 470 Woodbine Ave., at 7 p.m.
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Candidates will be given the opportunity to make statements but written questions from the audience will also be accepted. If you have a question for the candidates, you can submit it at the start of the evening, or you may send it in advance to editor@ beachmetro.com.
May 1, 2018
A CROWD of family, friends, community members and well wishers of Beach legend Gene Domagala gathered on April 21 to celebrate the naming of a laneway in his honour. The lane runs between Enderby and Norwood, south of Gerrard. While Domagala is well known as a fountain of knowledge on local history, he has also been active in lending a hand to many organizations ranging from the Toronto Star Christmas Boxes (he is their longest serving volunteer) to local groups such as Beach Metro, the Interfaith Lunch Program, the Beach Rec Centre and Community Centre 55 to name just a few. Modest as ever, Gene took the time during the unveiling ceremony to mention a number of area residents who were important community builders but who have now passed on. Congratulations, Gene. Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon, right, and MPP Arthur Potts, left, were on hand to celebrate the opening of Gene Domagala Lane. PHOTO: ALEX WRIGHT
Residents want Greenwood Station exit on Danforth By Josh Sherman
A WORKING group made up of community volunteers has chosen 1416 Danforth Ave. as its preferred site for a secondary exit/entrance for the TTC’s Greenwood Station, but the transit authority’s board will have the last word. “The TTC has not put forward, accepted, or yet approved any of the locations that the Local Working Group submitted,” said an email statement attributed to David Nagler, manager of community relations for the TTC. The Danforth site is currently home to a Money Mart, and at one time it housed a bank. The original bank structure remains, and at least one area resident would like to see the structure at least partially maintained if it does become a
new subway exit. “That’s the main thing that I am interested in pushing for,” said Geoff Olynyk, who lives near the station. “One of the things I’m trying to organize for is to retrofit the existing building,” he explained, suggesting others in the neighbourhood support the idea. The TTC said layouts presented to the working group “assumed a new building structure” and that “extensive structural investigations have not been completed for any of the locations at this stage of the process.” While Olynyk doesn’t want to see the column-fronted old bank demolished, he does say the location is the best one for a secondary exit. “It’s right on the main road,” he said. However, he notes the
projection of the higher cost for the option due to the length of tunnel that will be required is a “trade off.” The working group selected the Danforth option over 138/140 Monarch Park Ave. at a meeting on April 11. The two options had been the highest ranked among 12 based on a number of criteria the group was working with. Moving forward, the TTC said its project team is going to review the working group’s recommended site. In the first quarter of 2019, TTC staff will report to the transit authority’s board, which will decide the entrance/exit location. “The review will take time and we anticipate having an update meeting in the fall,” said the TTC’s Nagler in the statement.
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