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We Need Your Memberships. Please Join CCRA Today! Organization Have a great summer! Voice of the Community since 1949 June 2017 Vol. 02, No 6 The next issue of the Centennial News Centennial News will be out in September. A publication of the Centennial Community and Recreation Association www.ccranews.ca Mowat throws a party for Canada’s Lois and Hal have 150th birthday been members of By Madison Wong n honour of our country’s 150th the CCRA for almost anniversary, Sir Oliver Mowat C.I. threw Canada a celebra- 40 years. You can Ition outdoors in our courtyard on May 10 for students, faculty and join them. community members to enjoy. This year, MECO – Mowat’s environmental club – campaigned to Lois and Hal Stuart sharing their happy stories about living in the Centennial area. Photos: Courtesy Denise Bacon raise money in support of Canadian soldiers and the Highway of Heroes We need your memberships. Please join CCRA today! organization. This initiative was also known as the Toonies for Trees By Denise Bacon is asking for your help to keep it that way. Membership campaign. The money went toward in the association is only $15 per family each year. This supporting the organization as e live in a beautiful part of Toronto here in fee helps to fund community events like Winterfest, the well as for the city to plant a tree the Centennial community. Going for walks Spring Social, Earth Day and the Port Union Waterfront along Highway 401 for every fallen around our quiet neighbourhood, often on Festival. Also, CCRA represents the interests of the Canadian soldier. tree-canopiedW streets, really brings home how lucky we are. community on issues like the Highland Creek Treatment After working hard on this A neighbour who has lived here for more than 50 Plant, Port Union Road widening, transit and the Rouge campaign, MECO announced that years shared her delight about this lovely area, which National Urban Park. Mowat was one of three TDSB has changed before her eyes. Forests, farms and cottages, Very importantly, too, membership in CCRA gives our schools that were rewarded with ditches and dirt roads have given way to family homes, community a strong voice when politicians are making 150 special Dutch tulips. Students, neighbourhoods, schools and parks. decisions that affect us. The greater the number of parents and faculty came together Sheila and Wilfred Foster shared their stories of members, the stronger our voice. A strong voice will result to plant them at the front of the moving from an apartment more than 40 years ago to in better decisions and services for all of us. school and in the courtyard, adding a eventually settle into their neighbourhood right in the The CCRA is a membership-based association that beautiful touch to the springtime and middle of the Centennial community. Sheila enjoys is made up of volunteers who work tirelessly on your showcasing the success Mowat had in walks along the lake with friends from the neighbour- behalf. This newspaper is another example of what the supporting the organization. hood. Wilfred enjoys a quiet, relaxed life, which is well- CCRA does. You can read articles on community events, Canada’s birthday celebration was deserved at his young 90 years of age! planning, transportation and other interesting topics, and a fun-filled experience for everyone. Lois and Hal Stuart have been delivering the CCRA it’s all written and delivered by volunteers 10 times a year. The courtyard was transformed into newsletter to their neighbours for many years and have So please join the CCRA! There’s a membership form a lovely space where people could been members of the CCRA for most of their 40 years on the back page and all you have to do is fill it in, write enjoy refreshments, a photo booth living in the area. Our safe community with easy access to a cheque and either mail it to us or drop it off at the with Canadian-themed props and shopping, medical care, schools and community programs CCRA mailbox in the Port Union Recreation Centre. live music from Mowat students. keeps them very happy here. You can also pay online at www.ccranews.ca using Paypal. The MECO team received positive Doug Russell, 19, took a break from shooting bas- Volunteers may come knocking on your door during our feedback for the time and effort they ketballs to talk about what he loves about living in this membership drive later this summer, so please welcome put into the celebration and environ- neighbourhood. “I’ve walked home pretty late after a them. We really need your help to continue making this mental initiatives. night out with my friends and I feel completely safe!” a great community to live in. MECO co-president Shreya Jadhav Yes, this is a wonderful community and the CCRA shared a few words on behalf of the club: “I am incredibly happy with all the success MECO has achieved this year... The participation I have seen from the school is incredible. Everyone loved our 150th celebration and many students donated more than expected to the Toonies for Trees campaign. I hope Mowat continues to achieve different environmental initia- tives in the years to come!” 2 CCRA CENTENNIAL NEWS - JUNE 2017 Vol 02, No. 6 CCRA Centennial News CCRA Executive Team Publishing Policy Advertising Rates - * NEW sizes available April 2016 President – Jennifer McKelvie 416.931.0960 CCRA Centennial News invites submissions of articles, Size Per Issue Prepaid Vice-President/Secretary – Kathy Rowe 416.283.9987 signed letters, art and photography from Centennial 10 issues Past President – Jeff Forsyth 416.282.8346 community members and all elected representatives. Treasurer – Michael Quinlan We will consider all submissions for publication that Business Card 50.00 475.00 Distribution – Wanda Wierzbicki 416-282-2951 are information-based and relevant to the community. Eighth (formerly 1/4 Page) 75.00 712.50 Not-for-profit and community groups are also invited Communications – Kathryn Stocks 416.281.0436 Quarter (formerly 1/2 Page) 125.00 1,187.50 to submit event listings to be published free of charge, Community Events – Heather Lemieux 416.284.4751 space permitting. CCRA Centennial News reserves Three-eights 185.00 1,757.50 Police Liaison – Marilyn Hodge 416.284.9984 the right to decline material considered to be unpaid Half Page (formerly Full Page) 220.00 2,090.00 Planning – Rob Elbertsen 416-282-2951 advertising, politically partisan or likely to offend. Half Page Inside Cover 250.00 2,375.00 Transportation – Gerry Divaris 416.540.9569 CCRA reserves the right to edit all submitted material. Full Page 400.00 3,800.00 Membership – Denise Bacon 416-282-3561 The opinions expressed in CCRA Centennial News do not represent the views of the CCRA Executive. Conservation – Jennifer McKelvie 416.931.0960 Front Page Banner 200.00 N.A. All submissions will be considered for both print and Inside Page Banner 100.00 950.00 Fundraising – John Sinclair 647.462.3046 online publication unless otherwise instructed by the Youth Representative – Lakshmi Anandaraj author. CCRA will notify all authors prior to publication. Notice to Advertisers Member at Large – Jake Forsyth 416.282.8116 Advertising copy must reach the CCRA no later than the Newspaper & Web Team To be published in CCRA Centennial News, articles must reach the Communications team by the 15th day of 10th day of the preceding month for publication. Files the preceding month. To submit an article or suggest a should be in high resolution PDF, TIF, EPS or JPG format for best results. Please e-mail your advertisement to Advertising – Kelsey Dorval 416.724.8693 story, please contact any member of the Executive by phone, or by e-mail to [email protected]. Kelsey Dorval at [email protected]. Cheques Editor – Kathryn Stocks 416-738-4848 in the correct amount are to be addressed to “CCRA” and [email protected] Mailing address: deposited in the CCRA mailbox at 5450 Lawrence Ave. Editor – Janice Bennink 416.283.2200 Centennial Community & Recreation Association East, in the Port Union Recreation Centre, opposite the centre’s main office. For more about advertising, visit Design and Production – Don Lawrence 5450 Lawrence Ave. East, Scarborough ON M1C 3B2 www.ccranews.com/advertising.html Correction In the article “Past and present views from Lawson Road” (May 2017, pg. 6), Centennial News misspelled the name of local resident Gayle Gibson. The article also stated in error that June Gibson is one of six sisters. The corrected version now reads: “June’s mother came from a closely-knit family, and five of her six sisters built homes and cottages on the proper- ties which had no municipal water or sewers.” The corrected article can be read on the CCRA website at ccranews.com. Centennial News Letter to the editor Seniors’ housing missing in Centennial area Re: “I don’t want to move, “ the article in the May issue of the CCRA Centennial News by Lillian McMullin on the lack of housing in the area for seniors. “I must say I agree 100 per cent with her article. I moved to the Centennial neighbourhood in 1970 and want to remain here. Unfor- tunately, there will come a time when I must move and there is no appropriate alternative in the area to which I can move.” Regards, Tony and Chris McGran www.ccranews.ca Voice of the Community since 1949 3 President’s Message Join us at some of our community events this summer By Jennifer McKelvie Community Centre collecting old electronics, batteries, scrap metal, Remembering Ron Moeser clothing and many more items for their recycling fundraiser.
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