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Our Local Weather |
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to the online version of CCRA
news. A place where you can share news and views with other members of
the Centennial Community. |
President's Report
May is membership month. Membership chairs Tony Sibley and Betty Karsh
have been busy organizing this year’s campaign. This is our major fund
raising event for the year so when the volunteer canvasser calls, please
support your community association and purchase your annual membership...Read President's report
Jeff
Forsyth
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Lots of events going on:
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Friday May 9-
Preteen Youth dances at the West rouge Comm. Centre
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Saturday May 24-
Spring Flea Market at the Port Union Comm. Ctr.
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Saturday May 31- Yard
and plant sale at the Leisureworld Altamont Caregiving Centre, 92 Island
Rd.
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Sunday June1-
Sing & Swing into spring at St. Dunstan Church
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Friday June 13-Preteen
Youth dances at the West rouge Comm. Center.
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Saturday June 14-
Heritage Day Parade / Highland Creek Village.
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Saturday June 21-
Waterfront Event / Ron Moeser.
For more details...
Click here
Advertise community
events for free...Click
here
Membership
Once again
our volunteer canvassers are out collecting your membership for this year.
Please welcome them and renew your commitment to the community you have
chosen to live in. If a canvasser does not contact you, please make use of
the mail in, drop off, or on line facilities detailed in every
newsletter...Read more. |
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| Reports from our
Elected Representatives |
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>Hon. Dan McTeague-Federal
MP, Pickering east Posted May.08
>Wayne
Arthurs-M.P.P.
Pickering-Scarborough East
Posted Mar.08
>Ron
Moeser
Councillor Ward 44
Posted May.2008 |
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Highland Creek Community
Stewardship Program
The season to
get outdoors and take action in your community is approaching! To welcome
the weather, the Highland Creek Community Stewardship Program (HCCSP) has
been busy organizing exciting new activities and events for Scarborough
residents and homeowners...
Workshops are
free, however registration may be required...
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East Point
Park Shoreline Clean Up- April 19th
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Roof top to
Garden –Rain barrel Workshop- May 6th
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Environmental
Focus – Nature Photography Workshop for Youth- May 3,10,24 th
Click here for more details
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Port Union
Seniors
Spring Flea
Market &
Plant Sale
Saturday,
May 24, 2008
9 a.m. to 1
p.m.
Port Union
C.R.C.
5450
Lawrence Avenue East
(416)
396-4034
Books, CDs,
Bake Table,
White
Elephant & More
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Centennial Youth Raises
$4,500 for Lupus Research
Bill
Bryan an 18yr old Centennial community resident of the 1st
Highland Creek Rover crew at St Dunstan’s Church recently decided to
organize the TORONTO TIRECRAFT GRANPRIX as a fundraiser for Lupus
Research. He discovered that one of his fellow track marshals at
Mosport International Raceway had lupus. Bill also wanted a quest for
his Rover Crew Investiture...Read
more
Jake
Forsyth
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Highland Creek Women's Institute Celebrates 100 Years
The
Highland Creek Branch of the Federated Women’s Institutes of
Ontario celebrated its 100th Anniversary on March 2, 2008.
The Institute invites the
community to join them in celebrating this milestone at and afternoon tea.
For further information
about the event or the organization contact
Lois
McAuley
at:
416-284-4179,
E-mail
tlmc@rogers.com
Anniversary Tea
Wednesday, May 7th- 2:00 to 4:00
P.M.
St. Dunstan’s Anglican Church
56 Lawson Rd.
Around Our Neighbourhood
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The Evening—Journey of the
Senses—was a tremendous success.
Putting on an evening like
this takes lots of work and support from many people— we (Lynn Sheppard
& myself, - Heather Lemieux) would like to take this
opportunity to thank everyone who helped & supported this evening...Read
more
Heather Lemieux
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Division News
Have you ever
wondered what the police officers are doing when they are at the station?
At the March CPLC meeting Crime Analyst, PC John Fulton, gave us the
answers....
The 3rd
Annual Community Picnic and Open House will be held at 43 Division on
Saturday, May 10th from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Look for
more information in future newsletters....Read
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The CCRA is made up of people like you. Meet
your neighbours, volunteer today. Click here
to find out how. |
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In an effort to keep
this site up to date some material, that may still be of interest, has
been archived, click here to find out what.. |
CCRA Approaches a Milestone
In 2009, the CCRA will be
celebrating its 60th year of service to the community...
To celebrate our Diamond
Anniversary, next year the Association will be sponsoring a number of
special activities and will be looking for volunteers to help make them
happen... Read
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As part of the
celebration, we are also inviting our readers to participate by
contributing articles to the newsletter of historical interest about the
community and what living in Centennial has meant to them. We will be
featuring these in up coming editions of the newsletter...Click
here or email the
webmaster. |
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Port
Union Go Station circa 1856
The Grand
Truck Railroad opened in 1856 and this is their station at Port Union.
The Station Agent lived in the attached house which you may be able to see
just below the ladder shown on the roof on the upper right.
Source:
Fact& Folklore, 2nd edition 1998; J.R. Spilsbury |
Scouting is on the move
As mentioned
in previous CCRA newsletters the Scouting youth of the 2nd Highland Creek
Venturer Scouts are planning a Centennial Scouting Service Project in
Africa in August this year in the Northern Ghana region near the city
of Tamale.
As I write
this the promise of melting snow is in the air – as you read this I hope
the process is in full swing and with the spring weather we’ll be bringing
our Fund Raising endeavors back online...More
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