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Volume 51 No. 3
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April 5, 2022
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Disc golf course expansion to be removed from beach THE NINE-HOLE expansion of the Beaches Disc Golf Course located at the west end of Woodbine Beach has been removed as of late last week. The course’s location was a source of controversy as many in the environmental and bird-watching community said the site should have been left a natural area for migrating birds, other wildlife and plants. It also set off disagreements between those who said the City of Toronto needs to provide more spaces for recreational opportunities in its parks, and those who wanted the area to be deemed natural and protected from any uses. The disc golf course expansion opened in November of 2021, and was an addition to the existing nine-hole Beaches Disc Golf Course already located in the north end of Ashbridges Bay Park. The location of the course expansion was decided upon by the City
of Toronto last year, but once the course opened on the west end of Woodbine Beach there were numerous complaints about the site since it was being used by migrating birds. Beaches-East York Councillor Brad Bradford said those concerns had been heard and the course expansion was being paused for the spring migration season. He said the parks department and the Toronto Regional Conservation Authority (TRCA) will monitor the area this spring and summer. The baskets on metal poles that disc golfers use as targets have been removed from the site and players will not be there. “At this time, removing the baskets is a temporary measure, and staff are continuing to analyze the area and look into all options for reinstallation or re-location options for all-season use,” said Bradford. For more reaction to the decision, please see Page 7.
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Cindy Cass, of the Pleasantville Neighbourhood Watch, and Const. Jonathan Little, Crime Prevention Officer with 55 Division, in front of the police station on Coxwell Avenue.
Forming a Neighbourhood Watch helps increase community safety By Jesse Gault
Beaches Easter parade set for Sunday, April 17 THE 2022 version of the Beaches Lions Easter Parade will take place on Easter Sunday (April 17) along Queen Street East in the Beach starting at 2 p.m. The parade did not take place in 2020 or 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so there is great excitement to have it return this year. The route of the parade is along Queen Street East, starting at
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The Neighbourhood Watch moderator becomes the contact person with police and city departments such as bylaw and parking enforcement. The moderator reports the problems, offers community input and also possible solutions. Cass said putting a Neighbourhood Watch together involves the following steps: • Identifying the location of the area to be covered by the Neighbourhood Watch. • Setting up a structure, including a moderator as well as street captains. • Setting up a private social media page, such as on Facebook, and allowing people in the neighbourhood to join. • Street captains talk to the community about and take note of problems that need to be resolved. These issues are relayed by the street captains to the moderator. • The moderator informs a reContinued on Page 2
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Munro Park Avenue in the east and making its way westbound to Woodbine Avenue. It will take approximately two hours for it to pass any one point. It is the largest Easter Parade in North America and has been taking place since 1967. Along with the parade, Easter celebrations in the Beach this April will include a digital Easter Egg Hunt on Good Friday (April 15). For more info on the Egg Hunt and how it will work, please go to www. beacheseasterparade.ca/digitaleaster-egg-hunt For more info on the Toronto Beaches Lions Easter Parade, including how to register your float or group’s participation, please go to www.beacheseasterparade.ca
RESIDENTS IN East Toronto can help to increase community safety by forming a Neighbourhood Watch program. That has been the experience for those living in the Beach community known as ‘Pleasantville’, said resident and local Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinator Cindy Cass. She said the Neighbourhood Watch has drastically reduced criminal behaviour in the area which is bounded by Woodbine Park to the west, Woodbine Avenue to the east, Queen Street East to the north, and Lake Shore Boulevard East to the south. “It really prevented a lot that was going on,” said Cass. The Pleasantville Neighbourhood Watch has connected residents to become a unified group, working together to deal with problematic behaviour in the area that has included large, out-of-con-
trol gatherings in Woodbine Park and some violent, dangerous and destructive late-night behaviour by huge crowds partying in the Woodbine Beach area last summer The Neighbourhood Watch was able to organize online community meetings with the local councillor and 55 Division police representatives which helped deal with those situations and other concerns related mostly to the large crowds, late-night parties in the park and illegal parking. Building on that success, Cass who is now a member of the 55 Division Community Police Liaison Committee (CPLC), wants to help other residents within the division form their own Neighbourhood Watch programs. A Neighbourhood Watch program allows community residents to work together with police to identify problems, spread awareness regarding crimes and develop specific solutions.
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