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posted on March 20, 2011
Priority area Thorncliffe Park to get fresh hope in form of cricket field
By: DAVE McGINN
Published: Mar. 18, 2011
Source: The Globe and MailOn any given day, stand at the corner of Overlea Boulevard and Don Mills Road at 3 p.m. and watch the flood.
Twelve hundred kids will come streaming out of Valley Park Middle School, which sits on the intersection’s northwest corner, just south of the Ontario Science Centre. Across the street, another 2,000 kids emerge from Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute and another 2,000 from Thorncliffe Park Public School. About 700 walk out of Gateway Public School, and between 600 and 700 pass through the doors of Grenoble Public School.
“You’ve got a good-sized town of kids leaving school at 3 o’clock, just kids, not their parents,” says Jason Hayter, vice principal at Valley Park Middle School. He asks, “Where do they all go?,” although he already knows the answer.
posted on July 27, 2010
The car is not an option, expert says Advisor criticizes political inaction
By: TIM FORAN
Published: July 22, 2010
Source: Inside Toronto'When a person on a $40 bike is as important as someone in a $40,000 car, then things start to change' - Gil Peñalosa
Toronto's decision to remove a playground from R.V Burgess Park, which serves the 30,000 strong immigrant neighbourhood of Thorncliffe Park with no plans to replace it for a decade is a failure of the city's bureaucracy and political structure, argued Gil Peñalosa during a recent presentation at Valley Park Middle School.
Peñalosa, the executive director of the liveable city advocacy organization 8-80 Cities, pointed out the city removed the playground from Burgess Park in the middle years of this decade. The city's capital plan envisions replacing it in 2015.
posted on July 19, 2010
The miracle of R.V. Burgess Park
By: Catherine Porter
Published: July 14, 2010
Source: The StarWant to know what a difference six women can make?
Go to R.V. Burgess Park this Friday night.
It’s in the heart of Thorncliffe Park, the city’s version of Hong Kong — all apartment buildings crowded with new immigrants, where elevator service makes the subway seem roomy and punctual.
During the day, the park looks like a bad hangover — a scrap of scrubby grass strewn with garbage, a few lonely trees, some concrete and rusting metal, all bandaged up with fences. You have to sneak down an alley to get there.
By early evening every Friday, the place is transformed. If you arrived blindfolded, you’d think you’d landed in small Karachi bazaar.
posted on July 27, 2010
Porter: Playground politics are unfair
By: Catherine Porter
Published: July 10, 2010
Source: The StarThorncliffe Park has more little kids than any other neighbourhood in the city. Its elementary school is bursting with six times the students enrolled at most junior schools. A whole wing is dedicated to kindergarten kids — 600 in total.
So you'd think the neighbourhood's main park would be flush with jungle gyms, slides, sand pits — things little kids love to play on, while their sleep-deprived parents sip coffee on nearby benches and gaze foggily into the middle distance.
I call them mental health machines.
Not so.