Welcome to the spooky October newsletter from Canary District Neighbourhood Association. In this issue, we talk about:
Visit businesses and buildings between 6:00 PM and 7:30 PM on Thursday, October 31. Kids in costumes will receive treats: usually small wrapped candies, sometimes other goodies like stickers. Participating businesses will be clearly marked with a sign, and a map will also be available, just reply to this email.
Well then head straight to Corktown Common (maybe detour at Zendog for a treat) for Dogs of Corktown's annual Howloween, starting around 6pm in the centre lawn (or thereabouts).
Did you know that our Corktown Common is much, much more than "just" a park? It's also flood protection, a haven for native plants and pollinators, and a site with a rich industrial history. It boasts a series of interconnected outdoor environments that humans, animals, birds and insects can enjoy.
Come see Corktown Common with new eyes on an informal walking tour of this beautiful park.
This summer CDNA volunteers checked the health of all 500+ trees in our neighbourhood streets. The result: although they were planted only a decade ago, just 63% of them are still healthy: 16% have died and the rest are not doing well.
Toronto Urban Forestry officials have advised us to report each individual unhealthy or dead tree via the City's 311 system to get them into the work queue.
Are you willing to help? You'll be assigned a block and given a map of all the non-health trees. You'll take photos of each and report them through the 311 system.
Thanks to neighbourhood activists Metrolinx have made some changes to the night-time construction noise levels — unfortunately it has not been enough.
Maple House residents living next to the site have been experiencing respiratory problems as a result of the copious dust being thrown up.
If you have not already, please sign our petition asking them to stop overnight construction. We are a small neighbourhood and they think that means we don't matter; let's show them we will not back down.
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Here's what's happening this month:
September is always a crazy month as everyone gets busy after summer vacation.
Where did the summer go? We're squeezing everything we can out of the last few weeks of the season.