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Community groups finding collaboration a great way to strengthen neighbourhoods

Toronto neighbourhood associations are finding rewards in reaching across borders with the common purpose of solving urban issues.

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Gathering on the West Toronto Rail Path, from left, Bruce Gavin Ward, Liz Sutherland, Donna Cowan and Suhail Barot got together to develop a road safety program.

By: Laura Armstrong Staff Reporter, Published on Wed Jan 21 2015

Donna Cowan was appalled at the anger in the streets she witnessed when she started commuting on her electric bicycle a couple of summers ago.

“It wasn’t car against bike only, it was car against car, bike against bike, walker against bike, everywhere,” she said.

So Cowan did what she’s grown accustomed to doing since the neighbourhood association she leads, DIGIN, launched a little more than a decade ago: she reached out to other local groups.

More and more neighbourhood associations like DIGIN — which is committed to the cultural, social, environmental and economic vitalization of the Bloor Street West neighbourhood around Bloordale — are breaking down boundaries and working together to strengthen their areas, Cowan said. She believes collaboration is a must if neighbourhood associations want to get anything done.

“Your community doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Just because you have a border to your group doesn’t mean you cross the street and nothing’s happening,” she said.

On Sunday, Cowan, representing DIGIN, met Liz Sutherland of Ward 15 Cycle Toronto; her Ward 18 counterpart, Suhail Barot; and Bruce Gavin Ward, from Friends of West Toronto Rail Path, to work on a street safety initiative aimed at boosting civility and respect among all people who use the road.

People need to come together to improve an area, she said.

DIGIN has had its successes. It was the group’s idea to launch the BIG on Bloor Festival, a bi-annual street festival aimed at getting people in the neighbourhood talking about how to develop their stretch of Bloor.

“It brought together not only community residents’ associations but also social service agencies, the Bloordale Village BIA (Business Improvement Area), the Bloorcourt BIA, councillors, provincial and federal elected officials. From it, people are still talking; other collaborations are still going on. It was quite fruitful,” she said.

Many community groups that neighbour DIGIN subscribe to her group’s email list to keep up to date, Cowan said.

Ontario Trails News - Trailwise

Weekly E-Bulletin of the Ontario Trails Council. The provincial trails association in Ontario. Week of October 9, 2014 Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.

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Ontario Trails News Trails Education News We have completed the complete program curriculum for the Algonquin College supported Ontario Trails Council Trail Skills and Education Program. Over the summer we have added the three final modules: Budgeting and Planning for Trails Trail Tourism Trail Risk Management These three modules have been added to the already comprehensive program of Trail Planning, Trail Stewardship, and Trail Management. NEXT COURSE - Oct. 2014 Be sure to sign up for one of these stimulating and challenging courses. Whether a staff or a volunteer you'll be surprised at what you learn, and how your trail knowledge will be enhanced.

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Weekly E-Bulletin of the Ontario Trails Council. The provincial trails association in Ontario. Week of September 4, 2014 Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.

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Ontario Trails Council AGM Hamilton is host to the OTC 2014 OTC AGM. We wish to thank McMaster University for acting as host. Trails Education News We have completed the complete program curriculum for the Algonquin College supported Ontario Trails Council Trail Skills and Education Program. Over the summer we have added the three final modules: Budgeting and Planning for Trails Trail Tourism Trail Risk Management These three modules have been added to the already comprehensive program of Trail Planning, Trail Stewardship, and Trail Management. NEXT COURSE - Sept. 2014 Oct. 2014 Be sure to sign up for one of these stimulating and challenging courses. Whether a staff or a volunteer you'll be surprised at what you learn, and how your trail knowledge will be enhanced. Projects Updates - National Trails Coalition (ON) This program was announced at the end of June. In total the OTC had 93 enquiries for funding. Snowmobile had 89 projects come forward and ORV 19, for a total of 201 expressions of interest. This led to 59 applications being received by non-motorized. 13 of these are mixed use, either non-motorized/snowmobile, snowmobile/ORV, non-motorized/ORV, or all 3. The total value of work on these 59 projects (without single snowmobile, or single ORV) is over $21,000,000. The project costs alone are $17,600,000. The dollars raised by the communities applying is over $10,000,000 of this and the NTC contribution is of course maxed at $2.1 million. The Ontario Review Committee has met on one occasion to reconcile receipt and acknowledgements. We are working towards September approvals and communications. The NTC also hired a National Program Facilitator - his name is Roger Pelletier. He can be reached by email at: rogpel@videotron.ca In the same time frame as we are working on all this we got an acknowledgement that the Ontario Government is not going to support the OTC.

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http://www.summerfunguide.ca/

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http://www.summerfunguide.ca/

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