CELEBRATE HERE! Canada Day Here in Ward 10 Townhall on Break & Enters
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MISSISSAUGA WARD 10 March 2016 “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein Happy Easter! CELEBRATE HERE! Canada Day here in Ward 10 Townhall on Break & Enters If you’ve made plans for Canada Day this year, I hope they In response to a recent spate of robberies in the community, are with us right here in our community! Our Canada Day I am holding a very important and valuable Townhall Meet- Together Festival Steering Committee – made up of repre- ing on Property Crime Prevention in conjunction with Peel Break and Enter unit will party of the summer! Event de- present recent crime stats and offer tips on prevention mea- sentatives from five local organizationsUPCOMING – is planning EVENTS the Regional Police. Officers from the we do anticipate capping off the Mar. 30 — 7:00-8:30 p.m. - 11-hourtails are stillfestival being with confirmed a bang… but Townhall Meeting on bourhoodsures we can Watch take program to reduce and the Todd risk ofBethell being of targeted. State Farm Safe Crime Prevention City Mississauga will share about the benefits of its Neigh Watch future eNewsletters or my —Ruth Thompson MS property insurance. I also hope to have someone attend from websitea stunning for fireworks more information display! Insurance will speak briefly on issues related to home and July 1 — all day coming soon. Canada Day Together • Friday, July 1 – propertythe Home and Security our community. industry. Please make plans to attend this —Churchill Meadows Common 11 a.m. – 10 p.m. • sessionWednesday, that is sure March to be 30of benefit – 7 – 8:30 to you, p.m. your family, your • Churchill Meadows See website for latest events: • Ruth Thompson Middle School, Community Common, mississaugaWard10.ca 5605 Freshwater Drive (off Thomas Street) 3370 McDowell Drive ph: 905-896-5010 e: [email protected] w: www.MississaugaWard10.ca fb: /sueward10 t: @sue_ward10 March 2016 Community centre in building design phase Affordable housing strategy housing program for the city. The program is based on developmentPlans for the newdesign Community for Phase Centre1 of construction and Sports ofPark the in yet-to- creatingCity Council a supportive approved environment a work plan forfor anthe affordable development be-namedWard 10 continue recreational to move facility ahead at 5320at a steady Ninth pace.Line (nearThe final Erin of affordable housing. and innovative approaches to respond to the City’s af- Centre Boulevard) will include two lit artificial soccer fields, air The Affordable Housing Program will look for bold supported structure, temporary dog leash free zone, natural date and focus on actions to narrow the gap between andareas, pathways. measured The pathway community loop andcentre outdoor building fitness is estimated stations asat supplyfordable and housing demand, needs. with It an will emphasis expand onon workaffordable done to well as a City Parks storage bunker, parking, exterior lighting - rental and ownership housing. 65,000 square feet consisting of a 25-metre, six-lane pool, gym andnasia, vestibules. multipurpose Consultants’ spaces including Request For a teaching Proposal kitchen, for the change design Highlightsrental and of the ownership program housing include: and ofrooms, the building washrooms, was advertised common areas, on February lobby, office 24 with spaces, a contract storage to • Measures to increase the supply of affordable - • velopment,Ways to protect such the as theexisting Hurontario affordable Street housing corridor www.MississaugaWard10.ca/park459.html.be awarded in April. Construction is expected to begin in 2017. options, particularly in areas identified for rede - For more on this exciting project, please visit my website: novative strategies and implementation measures, along On-street parking allowed on holidays The program will also explore new partnerships, in levels of government. with opportunities to leverage existing legislation at all be established by the end of 2016. For more information The City of Mississauga amended its Traffic By-law to allow The City’s Affordable Housing Program is expected to parking beyond the three-hour limit for 10 statutory holidays. Cars can be parked between 8 a.m. to midnight on the following visit: holidays: Affordable Housing Program: Strategic Framework and - • New Year’s Day da.pdfWork Plan - http://www7.mississauga.ca/documents/ • Family Day agendas/committees/pdc/2016/02_01_16_-_PDC_Agen • Good Friday • Victoria Day Housing Choices - http://www.mississauga.ca/portal/ • Canada Day residents/housingchoices • Civic Holiday Nominate a volunteer for a Civic Award • Labour Day • Thanksgiving Day The City of Mississauga is now accepting nominations • Christmas Day for the 2016 Civic Awards of Recognition Program. The Cars• Boxing must Day be awards are open to Mississauga groups and individuals who have volunteered in the community for more than law and all applicable laws. The bylaw amendment comes into 10 years. Nominations are accepted until April 29, 2016 effectparked on in February compliance 24, with2016. the City of Mississauga’s Traffic By- - at 4:30 p.m. The nomination form and criteria can be Extended parking for other days can be requested 24/7 - foundThe on City’s the City’s Civic website: Awards ofmississauga.ca/portal/city Recognition have hon- using the City’s Temporary Parking Permit Online Service. This ouredhall/civicrecognitionprogram. residents annually since 1992. Other awards in the inonline a year service for each allows address requests can be to requestedbe made for where short-term there are park no prohibiteding on a residential signs. This street. permit Up isto not 14 short-termvalid on private parking property. permits Award of Merit and Civic Award of Philanthropy. - Theprogram awards include will be the presented Certificate at of a formalRecognition, ceremony the Civic at the sauga can also be requested directly from a smartphone using Mississauga Civic Centre on May 31, 2016. Due to limited PingstreetTemporary – parking a free mobile permits app for for residential the City. Thestreets Pingstreet in Missis mo- will be considered for this year’s event. seating capacity, only the first 100 nominations received bile app is available for download at the following stores: App Store, Google Play, BlackBerry World, and Windows Store. ph: 905-896-5010 e: [email protected] w: www.MississaugaWard10.ca fb: /sueward10 t: @sue_ward10 March 2016 Region begins curbside battery pick up Bylaw Corner Housewaste belongs in your own garbage The Region of Peel is launching its curbside battery collec- A municipal bylaw prohibits the dumping of private garbage household batteries between March 14-25, 2016. The second in public waste receptacles. Contravening this bylaw has sig- tion with the first of two collections this year of single-use collection will be November 7-18. This initiative will prevent isnificant budgeted. cost Pleaseto the cityrefrain who from must this deploy activity. resources If you seeto empty some- batteriesThe Region from going mailed to batterylandfill, collectionand help the bags Region to residents meet its the trash bins on street corners and in parks more often than 75% waste diversion target. receive yours, call 3-1-1). From March 14-25, residents can one dumping their waste like this, please report it to 3-1-1 as placein late their February single-use in time household for the first batteries collection in the (if bag,you didn’tseal it, quickly as possible. and place the bag on TOP of their closed green organics cart date.for their collection day during their recycling week. Residents can visitIf you peelregion.ca/waste miss this collection, to you check can theiralso drop battery single-use collection household batteries in any battery barrel at libraries, city halls and community centres across the Region. Also, all household batteries can be dropped at any of the Region’s Community Recycling Centres. Be a donor Have you registered to “be a donor” yet? Please do. Every organ donor can save up to eight lives! In Ontario, organ and maytissue be donation surprised is tocoordinated learn that theand opportunity managed by for Trillium organ Gift donationof Life Network. is rare, Thoughbecause everyone of the need is ato potential sustain adonor, patient you on a Consider adopting a park this spring ventilator. It’s important that Ontarians give serious thought to organ and tissue donation and register their consent to do- help save lives after death through organ and tissue donation. The Adopt-A-Park program is one way that groups, families Innate. doing By registering,so, you give youhope are to essentiallypatients waiting making for a adecision life-saving to or individuals can give back to their community in a real or life enhancing transplant and their families. promoteshands-on way.a positive By adopting image and a park, discourages you commit litter. to The cleaning City willit up support at least yourthree group times byper providing year. Keeping necessary the park garbage clean bags and garbage collection. The program involves a minimum In Ontario, only 29% of residents have registered as residentsan organ donor. in Peel In Region Peel Region, alone that the arenumber on the drops critical to 21%. waiting special sign will be erected in your adopted location featur- listAnd for in anMississauga, organ and only thousands 18% are more, on the deemed list. There not as are critical 206 two-year commitment. To recognize your groups’ efforts, a the Mayor will be presented to the group at the completion of circumstances that surround an untimely death, but what a eaching the two-year group’s term. name and a Certificate of Recognition from giftyet, youare alsocould waiting. leave for No someone one wants in toneed! think about the tragic license to give consent for organ donation. Now it’s much Five parks in Ward 10 are currently adopted: A while back, we used to sign the back- of our driver’s Trelawny Woods Park — Private individual ter online.