Erin Meadows Community Centre and Library Grand Opening Celebration on Saturday, September 15, I Library Board
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Web site:www.ward9.ca August 2001 E-mail:[email protected] Message from Your Meadows underway. Lisgar together to get the job done for to the City or Region, we will Councillor and Central Erin Mills are you as fast and as efficiently as make sure you are directed to the nearing completion. New we can. right person at any other level of Welcome to the fall, 2001 Ward 9 businesses continue to open My office is here to help you government. Please feel free to Report. I have tried to cover as in the Meadowvale Business contact me at any time. many topics as possible that may with any City or Region of Peel Park providing jobs for the issues. If your issue isn’t related be of interest to you. If you have community. Ward 9 is the second a question or concern on these or largest Ward in the city with Recycling and Garbage Collection any other issues, please contact more than 85,000 residents, me at any time. and still growing. Blue and Grey Box Recycling is • Phase Three - September 2002 - I have moved the Ward 9 Web collected weekly A nominal fee will be charged for tags My office continues to be very for excess bags site to its own domain at busy with hundreds of daily A three bag limit for garbage began in www.ward9.ca and will 2001 with a phased in approach: • Three 'Amnesty Weeks' will be requests. I do try to view every provided per year: first week of • Phase One - June 2001 compliance update it with information letter, e-mail or call and respond January,, thethe weekweek afterafter Victoria Day in education phase - Complimentary relevant to the Ward so check May and the week after Labour Day in directly wherever possible. In garbage tags must be placed on bags September it often. I also send out regular order to expedite your issues as or containers in excess of three e-mail newsletters to those Furniture, bulky items, large appliances quickly as possible, my assistant • Phase Two - February 2002 • Phase Two - February 2002 and large metal items are not subscribed to the Ward 9 Garbage bags in excess of three Brenda Luckhurst is available to Garbage bags in excess of three considered part of the Three Bag Limit newsletter. Visit my Web site for take your call and ensure it is without the mandatory complimentary information on how to join. directed to the correct staff. She tag will be left behind Ward 9 continues to grow with will call you back with an answer For more information contact: WASTELINE at 905-791-9499. the new community of Churchill as soon as possible. We work Erin Meadows Community Centre and Library Grand Opening Celebration On Saturday, September 15, I Library Board. The facility recreational programs. It is also hard work and dedication of the have the pleasure of hosting the features a 22,000 square foot home to the 214,000 square foot staff at the City of Mississauga Official Opening Celebration for library, a 25 metre, 6 lane St. Aloysius Gonzaga Catholic and the Dufferin-Peel Separate Ward 9’s newest facility - the swimming pool and tot learning Secondary School. School Board. Also very integral Erin Meadows Community pool, multi-purpose rooms, and This unique facility could not to the realization of this Centre and Library – and I hope active living space for dance and have been achieved without the partnership were the community you will join me. Activities begin representatives on the initial at 10 a.m. and continue until steering committee – Mike 4 p.m. with the formal ceremony Harwood and Mark starting at 11 a.m. Hollingsworth. These residents Erin Meadows opened its doors attended numerous meetings with to our community on July 3, me and the steering committee 2001 and hundreds of residents and provided valuable input from have already enjoyed recreational the community’s perspective. swimming, the library and a When we started planning the sampling of future library, complex, I insisted on the recreation and active living formation of a Community programs. This multi-use facility Advisory Committee to work is the first of its kind in with the community centre, Mississauga and I am extremely library and school staff on an pleased residents of Ward 9 ongoing basis. This committee, will be able to enjoy its Names Needed for Erin Meadows Rooms which includes myself, local many benefits. representatives and the separate The rooms at the Erin Central Erin Mills. Names board trustee, will meet regularly Erin Meadows is located at to ensure that staff are aware of 2800 Erin Centre Boulevard, Meadows Community Centre can be historical or of need names and I am inviting other significance. Please any community concerns and to opposite the Erin Mills Town make programming suggestions. Centre. It represents a unique the community to make send your ideas to me at partnership between the City of suggestions. Names are [email protected]. For more for information, Mississauga, the Dufferin-Peel needed for the multi-purpose on.ca or fax to me please call Erin Meadows Catholic District School Board and meeting rooms and should at 905-896-5463 or Community Centre and and the Mississauga Public reflect the community of call 905-896-5900. Library at 905-569-9100. Page 2 What You Should Know About Our Natural Areas Whether it’s hiking, bird- damage caused by people watching, fishing or just simply who innocently take part in enjoying the scenery, many activities that threaten these There are many innocent acts that have resulted in residents make good use of our fragile areas. More important costly damage to our naturalized areas: city’s natural areas. You don’t than dollars, it is impossible • Cutting natural grasses causes the infiltration of problem have to travel very far from most to quantify the costs associated neighbourhoods to experience with irreparable damage caused seeds such as burdock and poison ivy. nature in Mississauga. to our natural ecosystem. The • Backwashing pool water into natural lands causes bank In Ward 9, we are fortunate to City of Mississauga is working deterioration, erosion, and deposits chemicals into the have such preserved areas as the hard to preserve our natural areas ecosystem. but we will only be successful Lisgar Meadow Brook trail and • Dumping grass clippings and brush may lead to rat with your help. Mullet Creek trail. These areas infestations, which are extremely difficult to remove were designated to be preserved In Lisgar, the Lisgar Residents’ once they become established. in a natural state many years ago Association (LRA) has played a when the initial concept plans for vital role in the preservation of • Failing to pick up dog droppings makes areas unsightly the communities were developed. the Lisgar Meadow Brook trail as and unsafe for children. The natural beauty of these areas a natural area. For the past 10 • Encroaching on natural areas for personal use such as is for all to enjoy but with that years, under the LRA’s landscaping, adding structures such as stairs or play enjoyment comes the organization, residents have equipment and removing the forest undergrowth upsets responsibility of stewardship. In helped plant thousands of the natural ecosystem. order to preserve these lands we wildflowers, trees and shrubs within the natural floodplain • Introducing invasive species to the area may out-compete must understand their fragility. In and push-out native plants. many cases, residents unwittingly lands. Students of West Credit take part in activities that threaten Secondary School have joined the delicate balance that exists with staff of CIBA Specialty Chemicals to adopt the Mullet between the natural areas I hope you will appreciate the For more information about and our urban environment. Creek area and have spent many hours doing clean-ups and importance of becoming a our natural areas, please It is costly for taxpayers when planting in this area. steward of our natural areas and contact Eugene Furgiuele City staff must restore the help preserve them for present at 905-615-3736. and future generations. Lisgar Residents numerous issues. For want skateboard users to provide Road Works information, contact Neil Evans input into how these parks will be Association at 905-824-2991 or by built. Have your say; visit the Eglinton Avenue was closed from June 30 for reconstruction This very active residents e-mail at: [email protected] City of Mississauga’s Web site at www.city.mississauga.on.ca/rec between Winston Churchill and association serves the community Ninth Line. of Lisgar bounded by Britannia Skateboard Park &parks/skateboard.htm Road, Ninth Line, Tenth Line and In 2002, new full right turn lanes Derry Road. The LRA reviews Survey will be constructed at Derry Road and comments on development The City has been working for and Winston Churchill applications in the community, some time towards the Boulevard. Derry Road will organises the annual tree planting development of skateboard parks. have an additional eastbound and picnic each May in Lisgar The Skateboard committee, curb lane from Millcreek Drive Meadow Brook Park and which includes myself, to Argentia Road. represents the community on Councillor Dale and City staff, Page 3 Development Updates for Ward 9 Meadowvale Police that money now spent on youth Boulevard – long-term care Argentia Road and Winston Station Expands programs would go to the facility to accommodate Churchill Boulevard. mall for rent. 180 beds and scheduled to After four years in its present The Dam board and staff along open winter 2002/2003. Meadowvale Library location, the Meadowvale News Reporting Centre will be with many members of the Southwest corner Erin Centre expanding to become a full community are working towards Boulevard and Plantation Place – With all of the planned Community Police Station.