Category: Announcements
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Prologue Lifestyle’s Prologue Party coming this Wednesday!
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Our friends at Prologue Lifestyle, Corktown’s newest boutique spa, are inviting all neighbours to join them for a Prologue Party this Wednesday, September 18. It’s an opportunity to celebrate both the end of construction in front of their storefront and to learn about Prologue and welcome them to Corktown! The details: Prologue Lifestyle 322 King…
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Corktown Walking Tour this Sunday, September 15
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Our friends at the Ontario Heritage Trust have asked that we pass on word about their Corktown walking tour taking place this Sunday, September 15 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The tour will meet at the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse. Tickets are $10, or $8 for Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundation members. Call 416-327-6997 to reserve…
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News & Events: Extension Room workshops, island airport consultations, Realspace Theatre’s DINE HER debuts
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SHE’S A RAINBOW: A triptych of the lights of Underpass Park. They’re colourful. Photo by Rick Harris. Corktown News for the week of September 9, 2013 Urban Toronto took another look last week at construction progress of the Pan Am Athletes Village in the West Don Lands area of Corktown. They note that “it looks like…
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Author Thelma Wheatley’s “And Neither Have I Wings to Fly” reveals some of Corktown’s history
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Corktowner Sandra Schneider has passed along a book recommendation that I think a lot of us will be interested in. Thelma Wheatley’s And Neither Have I Wings to Fly looks at the “shocking true story of the institutionalization and abuse of children and adults with intellectual and physical handicaps in Canada’s oldest provincial institution…
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CRBA makes request for sidewalk installation on Richmond Street between Power & St. Paul
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On behalf of the CRBA Board and the community, board member Arthur Sinclair, P. Eng, submitted a letter to Councillor Pam McConnell’s office on August 21, 2013, requesting that the city consider adding a sidewalk on the north side of Richmond Street East between St. Paul Street and Power Street. It’s the CRBA’s view…
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504 King streetcar diversion until November for Queen bridge repair work
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The TTC has informed us that, starting Monday, September 9, the 504 King streetcar (and the 503 Downtown tripper) will again be running on a diverted route to allow for structural repairs to the Queen Street bridge. This work is expected to wrap up in November 2013. This means that there will be no…