CELEBRATE HERE! Canada Day Here in Ward 10 Townhall on Break & Enters

March 2016

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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. Don’t wait until it’s too late Forest Park — Grade 8 Team from Lisgar M.S. easier - it only takes 2 minutes to regis Churchill Meadows Park (north side) — St. Faustina School- terO’Harra Park — Private Individual secondand your counts. family Register does not now know at yourwww. Mississauga Meadowvale Rotary Park — ICNA Peel Chap- beadonor.ca.wishes. In moments like these, every For more on this program, visit: http://www.missis sauga.ca/portal/residents/adopt-a-street-or-park ph: 905-896-5010 e: [email protected] w: www.MississaugaWard10.ca fb: /sueward10 t: @sue_ward10 March 2016

Jobs available for census

andJoin startthe census dates vary.team Pleaseand make consult a lasting the details contribution for each to job Can typeada and before its people. submitting Job locations,an application. rates of pay, qualifications, Applications are now being accepted for the following

2016Supervisory Census jobs: and non-supervisory jobs in neighbour- • hoodsCensus and jobs communities across Canada in all urban and rural areas of the country (35,000 jobs).

Quebec• Census and Data Ottawa, Operations Ontario Centre (1,400 jobs). Data processing and Census Help Line jobs in Gatineau, application process than other census jobs. Miway Five Info Sessions Note: The Data Operations Centre positions have a separate

Join MiWay this May at one of many MiWay Five public open For more info and to apply: http://www.census.gc.ca/ houses scheduled throughout the City of Mississauga. This will Streetlightsccr16d/ccr16d_000-eng.html?bsf=web116 or park lights out? allow residents and MiWay customers to review and comment

These open houses are a great opportunity to learn more about to be replaced. Please note that repairs are handled by two on the future of MiWay’s transit network and service delivery. Occasionally streetlights and park lights burn out and need place from 2016 to 2020. MiWay Five – the five-year public transit plan that will be in In the fall of 2014, residents and MiWay customers had Parkdifferent lights: groups: the opportunity to share their ideas for transit improvement through a survey. MiWay has now reviewed input from the Call 3-1-1 or City of Mississauga Facilities and Property - ManagementBurnt out lights at 905-615-4999.in city parks are Please replaced provide by city the staff. pole improvepublic and quality from ofstakeholders service and and reliability completed will abe review displayed. of cur rent services. The findings of this proposed plan designed to Residents will have a chance to share their opinions. Streetlights:number so that the correct light can be identified. Who do you notify when your streetlight is burnt out? future of transit in Mississauga. Tell your friends, family, and Call Enersource Hydro Mississauga Services at 905-566- MiWay looks forward to meeting residents to discuss the - sit is part of everyone’s future. neighbours about MiWay’s open houses because excellent tran 2718 to report that the street light is not working. MiWay Open Houses this month (closest ones to Ward 10) RepairOr visit: Request” http://enersource.com/contact-form/street- form. lighting-repair-request/Enersource has established and complete service the levels “Street for replacing Lighting : street lights in good time. However, they have indicated they •Monday, March 7, noon to 3 p.m. are falling somewhat behind schedule with respect to their Mississauga CentralCivic Centre Library | Great |301 Hall Burnhamthorpe | 300 City CentreDr Rd. single light out service levels. Normally these are replaced •Monday, March 7, 5-8 p.m. South Common Centre Additional•Wednesday, Open March House 9, 5-8in May p.m. within 10 working days but are taking longer due to the •Tuesday, May 26, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. volumeSometimes of requests. streetlights Thank you are foron duringyour patience the day. as When repairs this | Cafeteria | are being attended to as quickly as possible. malfunction. This triggers the light to stay on (for safety) St. Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School untilhappens, the malfunction it is usually thecan resultbe corrected. of a network communication 2800 Erin Centre Boulevard •Thursday, May 28, 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Mississauga Civic Centre | Great Hall | 300 City Centre Dr Learn more information about MiWay Five: Visit miway.ca/miway5 ph: 905-896-5010 e: [email protected] w: www.MississaugaWard10.ca fb: /sueward10 t: @sue_ward10 March 2016

Will you be our youth poet laureate? Fool’s Night fund-raiser

The Rotary Club of Mississauga-Meadowvale is throwing a Laureate in 2016. As the City’s literary ambassador for casual, fun and foolish fund-raiser in support of a serious The City of Mississauga will recognize its first Youth Poet poetry, literary arts and young writers through the develop- Join me and my fellow Rotarians for a night of laughs at youth, the Youth Poet Laureate will elevate the status of ment of a community youth poetry event or project. This and much-needed local charity—Heart House Hospice. - and dancing, good ole comfort food (buffet style) and more fun…“Fool’s all Night”, for a great featuring cause. comedian Heart House Sandra Hospice Carusi, serves karaoke termi DJ- honorary position recognizes a young poet who writes excel nally ill patients and their families in Brampton and Missis- belent 25 poetry years orold spoken or younger word by and April has 1,written 2016 andon themes a resident that of Mississauga.are important to the citizens of Mississauga. Candidates must sauga. Tickets are $50 each or $475 for a table of ten. More in April and receives a $1,500.00 honorarium paid in 3 in- info: http://rotarymeadowvale.ca/Fools-Night-In-support- The Youth Poet Laureate serves for one year beginning stallments or 1 installment at the end of the term. Additional of-Heart-House-Hospice_c21.htm project. funding of $1000.00 supports a Youth Poet Laureate event or

To apply or nominate someone: https://culture.mississauga. Artsca/event/2016-inaugural-youth-poet-laureate festival for kids returns

The Living Arts Centre presents the 2nd annual Arts For Life

- Children’s Festival - a fun-filled weekend of entertainment, activities forand your opportunities 4 to 12 year for kids to express their creativ oldity. Thechildren. weekend features both ticketed and free events and

Hungry Ticketed Caterpillar, events Professor include Peter Rabbit Tales, The Very andWick’s an Incredibleoutdoor entertainment Magic Factory, stage. and more. Among the free activitiesThe Arts are nativefor Life storytelling, Children’s Festival creative runs arts Apriland crafts 29 zone through May 1 at The Living Arts Centre in downtown Mis- - sissauga. More info: http://www.livingartscentre.ca/cours Youngsterses-and-events/childrens-festival get noticed in local magazine

I’m so proud of the four boys from Ward 10 who participated in the First Lego League challenge, winning their Regional competition and fared well at the Provincials championships in Waterloo earlier this year. Their entrepreneurial idea was centred around reducing the amount of cigarette butts that local journalist wrote an inspiring article about them in Mod- ernlitter Mississauga our streets,. I’m parks, so proud plazas of and the building thought entrances.and effort thatA these young minds put forward and wish them all the best in Happy St. Patrick,s Day to all who are celebrating on March 17! their future endeavours. Read the article here: http://www. modernmississauga.com/main/2016/2/25/how-four-boys- want-to-keep-our-streets-cigarette-butt-free ph: 905-896-5010 e: [email protected] w: www.MississaugaWard10.ca fb: /sueward10 t: @sue_ward10