Toronto Park Summit this coming Saturday May 12th, the junctioneer blog will be posting updates from the event all day

Organized by Park People, on Saturday, May 12 at the Brickworks, starting at 1 p.m. Keynote speaker is Robert Hammond, co-founder of the famed High Line elevated park in Manhattan.

You can attend - Registration is free (and/or PWYC) but space is limited.

Click here to register







Pls remember to uses www.junctioneer.ca to visit this blog.

Wonderful park furniture

 

...really there are no words need to describe how perfect this work is , the piece becomes  a self contained shelter and community place in this setting.

 

[caption id="attachment_9372" align="aligncenter" width="490" caption="Constructed from thick folded steel drawn, shaped and fabricated with painstaking accuracy, this bold red structure is an enigmatic resting and conversation point - Design: sixteen*(makers) at The Bartlett UCL"][/caption]

Skate park for Vine Ave Parkette?

As talk about a skatepark at the parkette continues...

Here our some snaps of the current Skateboard Park at Coxwell Ave and Lake-shore Blvd east. In addition to the skateboarders you can see a non skate boarding couple walking though.

UPDATE: had commenter go all heated in the posts just after posting this - urging me to talk to the skaters. (read his comments in the comments sections) Although I wonder why he got so mad at my posting of an exciting skate boarding event.  Although seems he didn't have the time to care to go to the event and support these skaters. Note: if you have trouble with a post on thus blog, before yelling at me put your mind to action and feet to ground.



for world class small park skate yards...see

http://www.rhino-ramps.com/2004/uk/index.php?sub=about_outside



 

 

Vine Ave parkette baseball diamond coming down.. if the crew returns Wednesday the 18th it will be completely gone.

[caption id="attachment_7693" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="The west fence wall"][/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_7694" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="note the chain link fencing material missing from the structure"][/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_7696" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="a last night for the probably 1972 installed diamond, it replaced 6 Sur Gain grain silos"][/caption]



UPDATED

The blog has  a image of what was planned, although I do not what changes have been made since this image was distributed.

A commenter's stated he had spoken to the  parks personal dismantling the diamond and was told it was to be a new play structure.

So I thought I would post the image

I know the Junction Residents Association held info sessions about this, which I was unable to attend and they may (probably) had more up to date plans. The  City of  Toronto has narrowly defined suppliers and type list for playground structures. This limited choice is probably and risk management  driven plan, rather than a disengagement of the the parks designers with what Toronto communities what.

 

the image...

[caption id="attachment_7720" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Toronto Parks Image"][/caption]

 

New York Pork on St Clair West comes down

A really long time after the fire.

 

 

 

 

 


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Approved - the naming of the park situated at 85 Birdstone Crescent as "Upper Junction Park”

....italics city text

Etobicoke York Community Council:

1.             Approved the naming of the park situated at 85 Birdstone Crescent as "Upper Junction Park”. Quote are  marks used by the city in their report


Why the quotation marks? -  well this author believes although the council approved the name, in their hearts they must have known they were participating in culture destruction. (see orange text below detailing the use of the marks)

Dictionary:quotation mark

n.
Either of a pair of punctuation marks used primarily to mark the beginning and end of a passage attributed to another and repeated word for word, but also to indicate meanings or glosses and to indicate the unusual or dubious status of a word. They appear in the form of double quotation marks (" ") and single quotation marks (' '). Single quotation marks are usually reserved for setting off a quotation within another quotation.

The Parks, Forestry, and Recreation Division is recommending that the park located at 85 BirdstoneCrescent be officially named “ Upper Junction Park” in recognition of  the important role the Upper Junction played in the City’s history.

Background Information

December 15, 2009 staff report (http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2010/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-25681.pdf) EY29.37 Extract (http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2010/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-25684.pdf)

Upper Junction park as a name up for consideration at city council tomorrow

[caption id="attachment_5777" align="aligncenter" width="483" caption="Orange arrows point to histroical STOCKYARDS activity in the area"][/caption]

You can start grieving the lost of some Junction cultural history right now as the blog predicts the council accepts the simply wrong name for this park.

Long live The Stockyards District

Staff action report City document august 7th 2009