Action urgently needed to Save Our Pools!

Please circulate to your community:

1. Decide which people in your group/area are doing a deputation on April 10th TDSB meeting and get in by or before Monday morning April 7th. All you need to do to submit the deputation request with title of your deputation and address it to Board Communications and Call David Tomczak at 416 3973288 or email david.tomczak@tdsb.on.ca or fax: 416 393-9969. To ensure we get as many people heard as possible, please ensure your speech is brief and to the point (I’d try and limit it to 1 minute – time yourself).
2. Please come at 6 pm to 5050 Yonge Street on Thursday April 10th to rally outside and to ensure we are all inside the meeting before 6:30 pm when it starts.
3. Every school needs to be involved where you have a pool at risk or not because its about a bigger funding issue - FUNDING FORMULA MUST ADDRESS UNIQUE EDUCATION CONDITIONS OF THE GTA. Every school is affected. All students and all parents, please please please come!!! Rally your school to come now! As well, all other special groups like TSC and the Masters program need to come out so we can demonstrate the health and fitness and sport issues demonstrating the fact that the pools are being used by the community outside of the school.
4. Please come out to the Mock Funeral at Malvern Collegiate on Tuesday April 8that 4 pm. We will have CTV there. The kids are getting the drama department involved and I think it will be out of this world amazing. The more people we have there from other communities the better. It is so important to show that this is a City issue and that we all support each other because we careabout our education system and physical activity and sports. The address is 55 Malvern Avenue (416 393 1480 – ask for Molly or Cori and say its re Mock Funeral). Malvern runs north from Kingston Road just east of Main (west of Victoria Park). There is lots of parking in the lot and around on thestreets. If you are coming on TTC, go to Main Subway Station on the East Line, take the bus south to Kingston Road and then either walk east toMalvern or take the street car (I’d recommend walking as its not that far). Its really easy to get to and if you are not from the beach area, please make an evening of it and go for a walk on the Boardwalk after and perhaps have a bite to eat. If it’s a nice day, it’s a nice getaway in the city.
5. Please keep on sending emails and calls and visits to your Liberal MPPs (constantly). Please continue to get media involved. Please keep getting the message out there. AS A UNITED TEAM OF CONCERNED CITIZENS WE WILL BE SUCCESSFUL.

Jessica Monk

EAST LYNN FARMER'S MARKET: Information session Monday, 21 April at 7:00 p.m. at Earl Haig PS Library

The Danforth East Community Association (DECA) has been organizing a Farmer's Market in East Lynn park that will run every Thursday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., June 5th to Oct. 30th. Our community, local businesses, Councillor Sandra Bussin and the parks supervisor have offered support. DECA has been working with an established group that organizes markets all over Ontario.

While waiting for final approval from the city, DECA would like to plan events and co-ordinate volunteers so that all is ready to go once that final hurdle is crossed.
PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS and plan on attending the East Lynn farmers' market information session and volunteer sign-up on MONDAY, 21 APRIL at 7:00 p.m. at EARL HAIG PUBLIC SCHOOL library (just south of Danforth on Coxwell).

PLEASE encourage your friends and neighbours to attend and find out more about how we can all be a part of making this market happen. If you cannot attend but would like to be a part of the market committee, email DECA or visit http://www.eastlynnpark.com/

or email eastlynnpark (at)rogers.com.

Thanks!

EBSAC

Your help is needed to save our Pools!

From the Save Keele Pool blog:

A new development in the fight to save our pool:
The city was scheduled to begin decommissioning up to 35 neighbourhood swimming pools this June. However, it was recently revealed that Beaches-East York Councillor Janet Davis was able to find alternative funding to save two pools in her ward at G.A. Brown and S.H. Armstrong public schools.

The question:
What does Councillor Davis know that our own Councillor Bill Saundercook doesn't?
And why isn't he out there finding out?
What can you do?

Toronto City Council is meeting next Monday, March 31st. On the agenda is a Budget Committee recommendation to Executive and Council to have the 2008 Budget include funding for G.A. Brown and S.H. Armstrong pools.

Your help is needed to write letters, faxes or emails to urge Councillor Saundercook to follow Councillor Davis' lead and save our pool as she is with those in her ward. In fact, this does not apply to just our ward. If you're elsewhere in the city where there's a pool slated to close due to lack of city funding, use the below table to find your councillor and write to them as well.

What to write:
To make it easy, two sample letters are available as guides. You can copy them verbatim (personalized with your information) or just use them as reference for your own letter. However, it's important that this be done before this Friday.

See the link below for more information and sample letters:
http://www.savekeelepool.ca/member_alert_03-25-08.html

Eco Team Meeting March 26, 2008

The Eco Team had a special meeting -- and a special guest -- in honour of World Water Day last Saturday, March 22nd.

Karen O'Krafka from the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority brought her "Watershed on Wheels" (WOW) program for an evening of fun, interactive games & activities focusing on water conservation.

We learned about protecting our water supply and the wetland habitats of the animals and aquatic creatures in our watershed.

Did you know that:

• 70% of the earth's surface is covered in water
• accessible fresh water makes up just 1% of all the water on Earth
• today's water molecules have been travelling around the Earth for 4.5 billion years?
  
• water molecules are endlessly recycled through processes like evaporation & precipitation. Water that ends up being part of us may once have been part of a glacier, a distant ocean, a wild animal -- even a dinosaur!
• we need to conserve water by turning off taps while brushing our teeth and having short showers
• water that flows down the storm drains in our streets flows untreated into Lake Ontario!
• we need to keep our lakewater clean by washing our cars at public car-washing stations and by disposing of chemicals such as fertilizers and oil properly -- keeping them out of the storm drains

We were very pleased to have a few honorary Eco Team members for the evening -- please come back any time!

Click here to see more pics from this exciting event!

Our next Eco Team Meeting will take place on Thursday, April 17, from 6 – 8pm in the lunchroom.

To join the Eco Team or subscribe to our mailing list, please write to me at:
taranimator (at) hotmail.com

Community Conservation Fair: Thurs, March 27th, 7-9 pm, Beach United Church and Auditorium, ‏ 140 Wineva Avenue at Queen Street

The East Toronto Climate Action Group invites you to this eco-friendly event:

Do you want to find out how to save money on energy bills, install a solar panel, cut down on your driving, eat local or vegetarian, or just plant a tree in your yard? Then plan to attend the Beach Conservation Fair.

Free Expert Advice/Speed Presentations:
-Solar Electricity and Getting off the Grid
-Low Impact Electricity Purchase Options

-Getting Heat from the Ground
-On Demand Hot Water Subsidy
-Home Energy Audit Rebates
-Hot Water from the Sun
-Boosting Insulation
-Car Sharing

Earl Beatty PS Dialogue

Please note that the second meeting has been cancelled due to the success of the first meeting.
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We would like to invite you to engage in an:
EARL BEATTY P.S. DAILOGUE

When:

WED, MARCH 26, 2008

Time:

5:45 – 7:45 p.m.

Where:

Earl Beatty - Library

Kathy Cowan, Superintendent of Education would like to invite parents of Earl Beatty to attend both of these two evenings. Our purpose is:

· To comply with the Board’s mandate for yearly updated school administrative profiles.
· To understand the leadership skills.
· To participate in creating an administrative (Principal/Vice-Principal) profile for Earl Beatty.
Pizza and child care will be provided.

My School Review Quadrant Meeting: Tuesday, March 25th at D.A.Morrison Public School, 271 Gledhill Avenue

Please plan on attending the MSR Quadrant Meeting on Tuesday, 25 March 2008 at D.A. Morrison Public School. The meeting will commence at 6:45 p.m. and will be led by our Trustee, Sheila Carey-Meagher. The purpose of the meeting is to give us all a snapshot of the dreams and desires of the other schools in our quadrant, namely Parkside, D.A. Morrison, Gledhill, Secord, and Crescent Town. Let's compare our similarities, see what other ideas have surfaced, and find out how we can work together to make Earl Beatty an even better learning environment for our children.

Click the image above for more information.
EBSAC

*Here is the work-in-progress document outlining our My School Review discussions at Earl Beatty.