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Thorncliffe Park Drive is a largely Muslim area with lots of immigrant families who have lots of children. In fact, with a whopping 600 in the kindergarten class alone, this area has more of our youngins than any other part of Toronto. 

In 2006, the local playground was labeled unsafe and removed. It’s scheduled date for replacement? 2015.  In the meantime, kids have been using the school playground, but this is not permissible during school hours. The local parks supervisor Roger Macklin -who was not present at the removal of the other playground- says it was probably done prematurely, before there was a replacement playground available. The issue now is that they’re already in line, behind other neighbourhoods (probably more affluent, definitely with fewer kids) and so they have to wait their turn to get materials. 

The Women’s Committee (who we’ll call the Superwomen’s committee coz they’re a bunch of concerned mothers <3) made enough noise over the issue and so, in the next 6 weeks, the community will receive secondhand playground equipment from Leaside Park. Three cheers for moms!

 

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Comments

Fareedah

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 5:44:37 pm

hip hip, hooray!

 

Fares

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:29:02 am

Aren't they building a huge 300mil Islamic Museum there?

 

anas

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 1:01:15 am

The Aga Khan Islamic Museum will be built around that locality but not within it.

 

fares

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:37:25 am

can't the community ask him for a play ground?

 

anas

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 1:12:18 am

It is a public park owned and operated by the City of Toronto so I don't know the technicality of such a request and whether that request would be fulfilled.

 



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