Leaside Life Issue 10 September 2012

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MP gets complaints over new flight paths MP John Carmichael will meet Oct. 9 with residents of Leaside and nearby areas who are complaining about increased noise this year from overhead aircraft traffic.

Representatives have been invited from Nav Can and GTAA (Greater Toronto Airport Authority) as well as MPP Kathleen Wynne, Councillors John Parker and Jaye Robinson.

There will be public representatives from Leaside, Lawrence Park, Davisville and Forest Hill.

The increase in traffic started in February this year when Nav Can changed flight paths for Toronto.

Greg Russell, president of the South Eglinton Ratepayers and Residents Association (SERRA), who has been involved in the flight path issue since 2008 when he moved to Davisville Village, which is in flight paths, from East York, where there were none, says in an email that earlier this year “Nav Canada implemented an airspace re-design for efficiency of operations, and this was part of a larger program to redesign the Windsor to Quebec traffic corridor. There was no public dialogue/consultation with the affected residents - no meetings held to discuss these changes or an environmental assessment.”

This past spring Renee Jacoby, of Parkhurst Blvd., who previously had worked for former councillor Jane Pitfield, was approached by Leaside residents about the noise.

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JENNIFER WALKER enjoys a warm day at her home at Glenvale and Laird

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She herself had noticed it and thought “my neighbours were moving their garbage bins because of the raccoons, or it’s thunderstorms.

“Saturday nights are the worst for noise, so much so that it is unpleasant to sit in the backyard,” she says.

Some Leasiders complain the noise starts as early at 5:30 a.m. and goes late into the night.

One resident of Davisville Village said planes fly over his house every 30 seconds to two minutes seven days a week, and it’s worse at night.

Jacoby spoke to Carmichael in the summer. She says a July “fact finding” meeting had to be cancelled and was rescheduled for this month.

“There are three tones of noise,” says Jacoby. “The first is where you cannot see the plane but can hear it, second a distant noise where the plane may be two blocks away and finally the loudest noise where the plane is on top of your house.”

Ron Singer, media relations for Nav Can, said in an email,

“The airspace and route structure in the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal corridor was largely designed in the 1980s.”

The flight plans were changed because “passenger and air traffic volumes have almost doubled and there have been significant advancements in air traffic control and aircraft navigational technologies.

“Note that the changes, which affected Montreal, Ottawa as well as Toronto, followed a three-year study.

“Note the significant environmental and fuel-saving benefits including: reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 14,300 metric tons – a reduction equivalent to the annual emissions from 2,800 passenger cars, reduce aircraft fuel burn by 5.4 million litres annually, resulting in an annual savings of approximately $4.3 million in avoided fuel costs, reduce cumulative flight time by over 10 hours daily based on current traffic volumes.” n

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Our old town hall is for sale – again Saving old Leaside frame building that preceded St. Cuthbert’s Church) so the first town council meeting was held there.

Later the municipal offices were located (along with the police department) in the basement of Leaside Public School (now known as Bessborough school), which was opened in January 1924.

Leaside grew only slowly in the 1920s and in the Depression years of the 1930s, and this accommodation was adequate. However, by 1942 Leaside had 600-700 homes and a population of 9,000 so council under Mayor Henry Howard Talbot began planning for the building of a municipal office, fire hall and police station at McRae and Randolph.

The town hall and fire hall was completed in 1949 at an estimated cost (in 1947) of $124,775. The building served as municipal offices until March 1967, a few months after the Town of Leaside amalgamated with

the Township of East York to form the Borough of East York.

The former municipal building has been used as offices by Kelly, McTernan, Lavoie, an interior design consultancy firm, for the last several years. Prior to that it was owned and occupied by the Junior Academy, a private school.

In the early 2000s the Junior Academy wanted to expand by adding a two-storey addition at the east side of the building and a three-storey addition above the existing building. The Committee of Adjustment turned down the expansion, and the Junior Academy appealed the decision to the Ontario Municipal Board.

The Leaside Property Owners’ Association and several members of the community supported the city at the OMB. In 2004 the Ontario Municipal Board upheld the Committee of Adjustment decision, and the Academy moved out when they failed to get the expansion.

The OMB turned down the application largely on the grounds of the height and massing, and also that as OUR TOWN HALL, Page 7

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The former municipal building for the Town of Leaside, at 235 McRae Dr., is for sale for $4.43 million.

A review of the building’s history and its predecessors reveals an interesting story of municipal governance, planning, heritage protection and community engagement in Leaside.

The former town hall (with the adjoining fire hall) is located on a landmark site at the junction of Randolph and McRae and is architecturally notable as a good example of Modern Classicism, designed by Toronto architects Hanks and Irwin.

The T-shaped plan aligns in a striking way with the acute angle formed by the joining of the two streets. The principal (north-east) façade has detailing like the frontispiece with a parapet and keystone.

The Town of Leaside coat of arms is engraved on the face also.

You aren’t a real town without a town hall, and Leaside’s municipal building was only built in 1949, 36 years after its incorporation in 1913.

However, at the time of incorporation, the only suitable building in which to hold a meeting was St. Cuthbert’s Mission (a 19th century

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But what isn’t seen behind the front-yard urban forest and the 14inch thick walls are the ingenious little features that have kept the one-and-a-half storey reno halving heating bills for three decades.

So who put this once cookie-cutter bungalow among the vanguard of green? Architects? Engineers? “Envirofreaks,� says Marilyn Freeman, one half of the original doit-yourself renovation team.

Armed with a couple months off and a how-to course, the young couple reimagined their home through the principles of passive solar design.

Some of the technologies they used have only this year been widely accepted by the green building community.

In two phases, they stripped out what insulation there was and wrapped the exterior walls about three-times thicker, they excavated the basement, and they topped it with an R60-insulated roof, made of long-lasting steel. “It was very much a weird form of community development,� says

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Marilyn Freeman and her husband made the house green – and blue

Freeman, now a resident of Kingston, who was 32 when she and her late husband began in 1982. “Not that the community was involved, but oh my god we had a lot of sidewalk supervisors. We got to meet everybody that way.�

The idea of passive solar is to regulate the home’s temperature using its relationship with the outside environment.

In the Blue House, elements like “heat sinks� absorb, store and slowly release warmth. Airtight walls and ultra-thick insulation keep the cold out. Cathedral windows and enhanced airflow keep the house comfortable in all but the most excruciating days of summer, with no air conditioning.

The attention to detail goes even deeper. Thick coniferous spruce at the front rebuff the prevailing winter winds, while, at the back, a tall deciduous honey locust allows summer shade and cold-season sunlight.

The light goes through one of several sunroofs to the mud room,

sitting off the open-concept family area. There they hit the heat sinks: a black slate floor and a double layer of drywall.

While it’s long been known that the gypsum in drywall has heatabsorption properties, the commercial application of that know-how is a different story. “(It’s) a concept that only today, I mean in the last six months, has been developed as a thermal mass technology,� says green-homes expert Peter Goulimis, explaining how the new product packs a double-load of gypsum in a piece of drywall.

A construction manager for more than 20 years and a green-technology specialist for eight, the owner of Goulimis Construction is also a Leasider.

Though the craft of energy-efficient homebuilding has come a long way in recent years, he said, it’s remarkable to see a three-decade-old home built like this – not to mention how its hot water furnace keeps the annual gas bill under $800.

You have to take a holistic view, he says, when looking at a home’s energy efficiency. Many things can improve a home’s ability to store heat, easing its hunger for gas, but it BLUE HOUSE, Page 6

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all boils down to how much energy it needs and how much it wastes.

“If you’re losing it through the wall, you’re only ever as good as your weakest link,” Goulimis said.

“They made such practical choices,” says Jennifer Walker, who now lives there with her husband Rich and their young son. “We’ve been able to benefit a lot from it.”

And all that blue?

“It’s a house that comes with an identity,” she says.

For that identity, she can thank Marilyn Freeman’s finger.

It was 1991, it was autumn, and Freeman and her family were living in the basement during the renovation’s second phase. They had no roof. Winter was soon. Big problem.

When she learned the Hunter Green roof they had ordered couldn’t come for another six months, Freeman decided another colour would have to do. Whatever it was, they’d just paint the house to match.

She took the palette across the street, faced her then-brown home, and closed her eyes.

“It was all by luck of the finger,” she says with a laugh. n

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The Leaside Business Park Association will oppose recently announced plans to develop office and warehouse condominums in the industrial park, says Dag Enhorning, president of the LBPA. “There is unanimous agreement that this appears to be a retail project,” he said following a board meeting last month.

The developers, Rockport Group, want to build seven two-storey buildings in two phases with a mix of condo and rental offices, warehouses and showrooms on 9.5 acres of recently purchased lands at 195-209 Wicksteed Ave. The development, called Wicksteed Business Park, is on the eastern section of the industrial lands close to the Don Valley.

“This is industrial employment land. Everybody is supposed to be industrial. The reality is that this proposal is retail,” said Enhorning.

The M1 zoning in the industrial

park, he added, allows businesses to have up to 30 per cent of square footage for retail operations.

“But once the businesses are in there, who polices them?” he asked.

Rockport officials say they have done their due diligence with the city and will file their plans this fall. n

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It was one of two or three notable Ontario Municipal Board fights in Leaside that the community has won and demonstrates that the Ontario Municipal Board is not always the ogre that it is made out to be. n

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Amsterdam brew pub moving here While Leaside Village has started filling up with stores and lots of cars shopping at the new Longo’s grocery, the Amsterdam Brewery is also busy getting ready to relocate its brew pub into the Leaside Business Park.

It will be at 45 Esandar, near the Village, and open by the end of the month.

An Amsterdam press release says: “The new site will offer a leading edge retail shopping experience complete with a 40 x 10 foot glass wall to allow for a clear view directly into the brew house. Customers will be encouraged to tour the facility and sample from over 10 of the “made fresh daily� beers that will be on tap. “In addition to this, there will be a 2,000 square foot hospitality space that will play host to events such as beer dinners, Brew Master seminars, weekly casking events and corporate bookings. Friends of Amsterdam can look forward to a full calendar of events.� n

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In this band you need play only 3 notes

By BETH PARKER When Leaside musician Cynda Fleming agreed to lead a community jazz band to give kids an opportunity to play music together, she didn't realize how difficult it would be to find music that fit all skill levels.

As a result, “I write every part for every kid,� she says. “It means that every student can be successful, and that things will work well on a musical level.�

There's no cost to the kids, and although paid an honorarium by Leaside United Church for her work, Fleming gladly contributes many extra hours because of the results. “I often rewrite parts between rehearsals if they need tweaking. The students really appreciate being part of the compositional process.�

Fleming remembered keeping one young flute player’s part to three notes for the entire year: “I tried to increase it to five, but she just wasn’t ready.�

That gives the band, C-flats, a unique sound with interesting rhythms.

Now in its 11th year, the church’s outreach program has helped dozens of pre-teens and teens "connect through music� and build confidence.

Fleming, who teaches private trumpet and piano lessons in Leaside, took on the job as leader while finishing her Master of Music degree at the University of Toronto. Her trumpet professor, Jeff Reynolds, had received an email from a mother at Leaside United looking for a suitable leader for the group.

Fleming has lived in Leaside for 12 years,with her husband and two kids. With deep Leaside connections (her grandmother, Mabel Mist, taught at Bessborough), the community holds a special connection for her.

Although the main purpose of the group is to make music together, the C-flats are also expected to “give back� by performing four to five

times a year at special occasions.

Many of the kids also volunteer at events through the year. “There is absolutely no pressure about church, “says Fleming. “The group is open to anyone, of any religion, who wants to make music.�

She adds that some have started attending the local youth group as a result and the band certainly introduces kids into the church community regardless of their background.

Now that fall has begun, C-flats is gearing up for a new season, beginning this month. The group is nonauditioned and ideally suited for kids from grades 8 to 12. New members are welcome as long as they like music and commit to showing up.

Some are in bands at school, but for others it’s their only chance to play an instrument in a group.

Rehearsals are Thursdays 5:15–6 p.m. at the church from October to December and March to May. www.trumpetstudio.ca/. n

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By BETH More tasty treats on Bayview. Yeh! Frozen Yogurt opened this summer at 1617 Bayview. That makes four ‘ice cream’ shops on Bayview between Belsize and Manor Rd.-Fleming: Baskin and Robbins at the south corner of the west side and Hollywood Gelato on the north corner, The Mad Italian just south of Yeh! There also a Yogurty’s in Sunnybrook Plaza. Yeh! was originally a Montreal business started by JeanDaniel Nadeau and Grace Yeh. Yeh first heard about the concept when she was a student at McGill. After opening the Montreal location, the couple decided to bring the idea to Toronto. All the yogurt is made in an on-site kitchen fresh daily, with self-serve stations and an array of toppings.

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Here’s a Leaside mom who knows what kids and parents need! Heart Learning 4Kids (previously Golden Goose) was opened this fall at St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church by Jen Avveduto. The centre offers afterschool daily tutoring, French, math, drama and dance for ages 5-11. Direc-

tor of the Leaside location, Avveduto, who has three children, moved here almost six years ago. “After I had my kids.” she says, “I thought I might go back to work but asked where do I put my kids? Most daycares have a waiting list and I wanted something more that just activity after school. We're kind of a one-stop-shop.”

Look for the yellow balloons. Local artists display their work: paintings, pottery, jewellery, photography, glass work, fibre arts and print making at the 2012 Annual Bayview Art Tour and Sale, October 13-14, noon to 5 p.m. Free admission.

Leaside mosaic artist Cristina Delago has reason to be proud these days. Arts for Children and Youth (AFCY) recently unveiled a stunning 80-foot mosaic mural at Toronto’s Ferry Docks. Under Cristina’s professional artistic guidance, emerging artists from across Toronto’s priority neighbourhoods were hired for three weeks to create the mural. Cristina teaches the fine art of tile making, mosaics and sculptural ceramics and is the senior mosaic artist chosen to work with these communities.

Everyone in the community is invited to drop by Leaside United Church on

Sunday, October 28 at 10 a.m. to have a coffee, find out about the various groups and programs at the church, and meet friends and neighbours in an informal relaxed format. The event, Celebrate the Future, concludes with a free community lunch at noon.

In spite of torrential rains and dropping temperatures, a loyal movie crowd turned up to watch Grease on an outdoor screen at Trace Manes Park on Sept. 8. Some were even spotted dancing to the tune of Hopelessly Devoted to You. The event was hosted

by Ward 26 Councillor John Parker and provided by Toronto Civic Employees Local 416.

Congratulations to Shelley Moffat of Bessborough Dr. who was presented with the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Achievement Award on Sept. 12 in Ottawa personally by Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. She is a third-year student at Waterloo taking a degree in Environment Studies.

Lots of Halloween treats during the fourth annual Ghoulish Giveaway Oct. 13 outside Valu-mart, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., thanks to Tremblett’s, Chestnut Park’s Charlene Kalia, Pure Fitness and RBC. Free BBQ and family portraits too. n

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If you live in Leaside or Bennington Heights, you know that your federal riding is Don Valley West.

If the recommendations made by the 2012 Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Ontario under Chair Mr. Justice George Valin are put into place, after public hearings scheduled for October and November, those of you living in Bennington Heights will be included in the new riding of Mount Pleasant and Leaside residents will be part of Toronto North.

The riding of Don Valley West will disappear.

The new Toronto North includes most of Thorncliffe Park and then heads up to the 401.

In the past, municipal wards have recently each been half of a federal riding.

In our case, Councillor John Parker’s Ward 26 now includes Leaside, Thorncliffe Park, Bennington Heights, Wynford/Concorde and Flemingdon Park. In the new version, if the pattern were to be followed, a municipal ward that included Leaside would probably include most of Thorncliffe Park but none of the others. The rest of the ward would be north and to the west. n

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The geese came over to visit me

By MARTHA JOHNSON I was driving home one night through the Brentcliffe / Eglinton industrial area when a gray wolf ran across the road and into the ravine on the other side without breaking stride.

This is my Leaside, I thought, full of wildlife coming from the close-by remarkable ecosystem of the Don River. Over the years I have spotted wild animals and birds you don’t expect to see in a large city .

I am an artist and for 10 years my studio was on Commercial Rd. next to the Home Depot. At that time the Leaside Busisness Park's original industrial buildings were being torn down to make way for the current retail developments.

From the windows of my workspace I became aware of the migration patterns of the Canada geese in spring and fall. Each season they find some small turf patches to land on as part of their flight path. I do not know how long they have been stopping by as part-time Leaside residents. They are smart birds and likely are following the route of the green Don Ravine.

I started photographing the geese as a way of making sketches.

As well, I talked to them.

It was for me an honour one afternoon when a pair of parent birds walked their adolescent geese across Commercial Rd. to meet with me.

I had clearly established voice recognition with this family.

I cannot forget the proximity and intent look from the closest parent, perhaps two to three feet away, entirely trusting and aware.

Was I reading too much from this encounter? I don’t think so. These notoriously protective creatures that can be aggressive with their territory when their young are concerned made clear to me that we co-exist well in our very urban neighbourhood.

After years of photographing and then painting these birds, and reading the books of the naturalist, Ernest Thompson Seton (nearby E. T. Seton

MARTHA JOHNSON with her cat and the gray wolf she painted.

Park's namesake), I began to truly comprehend that these generous birds share their back-forty with us.

Seton chronicled the flora and fauna of the Don River basin and the surrounding lands west of the valley.

A prolific writer and illustrator (Wild Animals I Have Known) Seton's storytelling characterized the animals’ lives and habitats in the early part of the 20th century.

For me the geese are lovely subjects to paint: perfect lines, intricate colour and fine curving feathers.

Part of Seton's legacy, they have now become a major body of my own work, Survey the Valley.

Seton was most concerned with the effect Toronto's growing population was having on the life-sustaining Don River.

Perhaps he worried too much.

The avian population of Leaside is legion.

Red-tailed hawks are breeding in our ravines and green spaces. The hawk population has migrated to urban surroundings and our neighbourhood partly as a result of the heat generated along highways (for example, the Don Valley Parkway).

It's a short step to Mt. Pleasant Cemetery where these raptors are breeding.

Look up and you may see them

circling in the air-currents above our homes.

I have had a number of intimate encounters with these birds too, easily recognized by their red tail feathers.

There has also been an increase in the owl and falcon population as well as red fox and white-tailed deer.

The colour and beauty brought by the astonishing number of wild species moving with caution, precision and stealth amongst us, is for me, truly a gift.

I walk and ride my bike more. I drive less.

I watch for their footprints in the snow in wintertime.

They show me how to move with a more neutral footprint.

And I am grateful, as are some others, that we share our neighbourhood with so many creatures that most of us may not recognize as part of the population of Leaside.

And I am grateful too that interest in birds has been growing, so much so that Toronto Botanical Gardens has asked me to teach a bird painting workshop for six weeks in October and November.

Our Leaside may be changing rapidly, but many great things remain. n

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tions to the application. I convened a meeting involving the leadership of Leaside Unite, the Leaside Property Owners’ Association and City of Toronto planning staff.

We had what I thought was a productive discussion concerning the salient elements of the application, the applicable policies, and the most sensible approach to take in response to the challenges and opportunities arising from it.

In June, Leaside Unite and the LPOA held a public meeting concerning the application. Featured on the panel were two veteran politicians whose bottom line message was “just say no”. The meeting got front page treatment in this publication.

Let me summarize that evening by noting that at the end of it the leader of Leaside Unite and I spoke privately with one another and agreed that the event had produced more

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I am confident that things have now been put back on a more productive footing. I convened another meeting that brought together the same parties as before plus city transportation services staff. (Parts of this meeting were described in September’s Leaside Life.)

I have told staff that I am committed to working with the residents group that has now emerged, and that I want staff to cooperate with that process.

So where do I stand regarding the application itself? What are my goals where it is concerned?

I have no wish to see further big box development in Leaside. But the Official Plan – adopted by council before I arrived there – allows it. Paradoxically, it also prohibits small scale retail development in the Leaside industrial area, killing the recommendation that many residents bring to me that I reduce the scale of the proposed retail spaces to something akin to the small shops that we find on our section of Bayview.

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Hands up everyone who wants a new department store at 70 Wicksteed.

No one?

Good. So we are all agreed that it was not our idea to invite the development proposal that has featured prominently in recent issues of this publication.

So why can’t we just make it go away?

Because these things are governed by rules, policies and procedures that bind all of us. And there is recourse to the OMB if the applicant believes it has development rights that were denied by the public process.

I brought the proposal to the attention of the Leaside community last fall. In March I convened a formal public meeting at which the applicant presented its proposal and city staff and I discussed the underlying policies and procedures. I also outlined my own approach to the application.

I repeated an invitation I had put on record previously for members of the community to form a working group to join with me in addressing it.

Shortly thereafter Leaside Unite emerged, expressing strong objec-

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We have now hired our lawyer Leaside is a desirable place to live. Attractive streetscapes, good schools, excellent recreational facllities, a strong sense of community and heritage, an enviable shopping district on Bayview, a central location with access to transit as well as the DVP/401.

Unfortunately, many of these features also appeal to developers whose proposed changes would alter the community in significant ways.

So it is important for Leasiders to work together to protect what we value about where we live.

This does not mean opposing all change: it means encouraging positive change but rejecting destructive change. It means looking at potential developments not just one at a time, but in a community context.

It means identifying, measuring, and mitigating the impacts of each proposed change: increased through traffic, less safe residential streets, congestion and speed along Eglinton and Bayview. It means preserving the scale and density of building, both residential and commercial.

This is why the Leaside Property Owners’ Association gets involved in issues both major (the proposed SmartCentre North mega-mall at Laird/Wicksteed, or the proposed too-big condominium on the Leaside Post Office site at Malcolm/ Millwood) and minor (such as individual Committee of Adjustment applications). We encourage Leasiders to bring local concerns to us, for advice or action.

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the building of the SmartCentre North, to join and work with us.

As I previously reported, LPOA and Leaside Unite met on July 10 with city staff and Councillor Parker to comment on SmartCentre North’s consultants’ reports, and to ask additional questions. We are still awaiting answers regarding the technical studies filed by the applicant, and have requested the city do a thorough retail and economic impact assessment of the proposal.

There must be much more careful examination of the traffic impact, not only on the closest streets, but also throughout North and South Leaside. This development affects our entire community.

To oppose the SmartCentre North application, LPOA-Leaside Unite has retained an excellent lawyer, and will be hiring other expert advice as needed to present a strong case at City Council, and the Ontario Municipal Board if necessary.

We should treat both the SmartCentre North application and the Malcolm/Millwood condo application as opportunities to consult widely with Leasiders and the city.

Solutions to the traffic problems we already have (and would have more of, if the applications were allowed) can be found. Through-traffic numbers, congestion, speed, and spreading traffic patterns already pose a threat to our quality of life and safety.

A fundraising campaign is being planned. Your contributions will be what makes the difference, as they did in our successful Talbot fight.

It is not too late to prevent real harm, but once it’s gone, you can’t recreate that small town cohesive neighbourhood quality we all value. Leaside is worth fighting for.

Please contact us (lpoa.ca, or leasideunite.com) or LPOA, Sunnybrook Postal Outlet, 660 Eglinton East, PO Box 50055, Toronto M4G 4G1. n

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We need our ratepayer associations When communities such as ours have been faced with the threat of redevelopment or with local but nevertheless important neighbourhood problems, the residents have frequently banded together to establish a ratepayer association.

These organizations have provided an effective method of expressing community concerns.

Over the years Leaside has been well served by its ratepayer organizations. But usually they are established because of a particular local issue. Once the issue disappears the association often disappears also.

One such association was organized in the early 1940s by homeowners living north of Eglinton to oppose the building of a multi-family apartment at the northeast corner of Donlea and Sutherland. The battle was won but a year later the association was dissolved.

Another example of a ratepayers group formed to fight a specific issue is the Leaside-Bennington Heights Association. lt was organized in 1966 by residents of Bennington Heights and South Leaside to oppose the building of a high rise apartment complex on Mallory Cres.

Starting as a small committee but growing quickly to a membership of several hundred, it successfully defeated the proposal at the Ontario Municipal Board. But the Leaside-Bennington Heights Association has been inactive since the Mallory Cres. battle was won.

On the other hand the Leaside Property Owners’ Association (LPOA) has been very active for years, providing a vehicle for residents to express community concerns about many different neighbourhood problems. lt was established in 1948 by residents of North Leaside to fight a bus route along the residential streets of Sutherland and Broadway REDWAY, Page 20

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Opposition to the line sparked the organization of a provisional committee followed by a packed meeting at Northlea School, which led to the formation of a North Leaside property owners association.

The bus line is not operating but the association is still going strong. ln 1954 the North Leaside property association expanded its activities to cover the entire former Town of Leaside, changing its name to the LPOA. Today the directors of the LPOA meet at 7:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month from September to June in the Centennial Building at Trace Manes Park.

Since it was formed the LPOA has been involved in virtually every local issue. ln the past it has supported resident concerns on such matters as the establishment of Serena Gundy Park, opposing the Craig Cres. apartment, the Mallory Cres. development, the hotel suggested for the corner of Southvale and Millwood, and residential and commercial development proposals in the Leaside industrial area.

More recently it led the successful opposition to the Talbot apartment redevelopment proposal. In addition the LPOA has undertaken a number of major traffic studies and supported individual residents’ specific concerns at the Committee of Adjustment and Community Council.

We live in a fine community.

The men and women of our ratepayer organizations have helped to make it and keep it that way. They deserve our support because some day soon we may need their help. n

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John Lea and his wife Mary were the first of the Lea generations in this part of what was the Township of York. In 1820 they purchased a farm with a log house at what is now Laird Dr. and Lea Ave. They came with their son William.

Their son John Lea Jr. was born on this farm. It was son William who first named the Village of Leaside in the 1850s and built a fashionable octagonal house near where the Leaside Memorial Community Gardens is now.

He also called the house Leaside.

The Lea name certainly stuck – Lea Ave., Leacrest Rd., Leadale Ave. are all streets in Leaside and Leaside Park Dr. is in Thorncliffe Park. And of course, there is the Town of Leaside incorporated in 1913.

It is strange that the street name that should most directly honour the Lea family, Lea Ave., is only three blocks long and has no houses fronting onto it.

The most people living in buildings with a Leaside name? That would hands down be the hundreds of people who live in 85 and 95 Thorncliffe Park Dr., the two tall buildings aka

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Leaside Towers. Also in Thorncliffe is the outdoor Leaside Pool on, what else, Leaside Park Dr.? And adjacent to that pool is Leaside Park. This is all from the time before the 1967 amalgamation when Thorncliffe Park was part of the Town of Leaside.

If you want to do something using minimal brain power, count the number of businesses or shopping areas that start with the name Leaside.

Some of them are even around here, but all of them presumably are looking for our custom.

Someone, when asked where he lived, answered, “Leaside”. When asked where specifically, it turned out to be on the other side of the Leaside Bridge around where Pape and Donlands split. I guess that was South, South Leaside.

I also remember being surprised a few years ago to see a London bus circling Trafalgar Square with the name Leaside on it. Really should

have hopped on to see where it was going.

Sometimes you need to read all the words in a description. When we first moved to Leaside, I saw an announcement about a Remembrance Day service at a Memorial Garden.

We live not far from Leaside Memorial Community Gardens, and I knew there was some sort of monument there, so I was quite happy to walk over there for the service. Of course, surprise, there was no service there – it was at the Memorial Gardens at Coxwell and Mortimer, and the monument I had noticed was honouring Leaside, the octagonal house.

One place we don’t often see Leaside anymore is in postal addresses. We are all now part of the City of Toronto, so our most correct postal address would use that. But it amazes me to see how many people continue to use Willowdale, Don Mills, Rexdale and Weston as just a few examples when asked to give their mailing address.

Are any of you using Leaside on a mailing label? I must admit that I have a fondness for using East York, having been indoctrinated when the Borough of East York still existed. n

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