Volume
42 No. 6 June 2005
As members of the Markland Homes Association, you are
cordially invited to attend this year’s Annual
General Meeting June
6th, 7:30 sharp Location:
Etobicoke Civic Centre, Main Boardroom AGENDA 1.
Review
& Approval of Agenda
7:30
p.m. 2.
Approval
of 2004 AGM Minutes
7:33 p.m. 3.
President’s
Report: Highlights
of the Year in Review
7:35
p.m. 4. Presentation: “Toronto’s Air Quality”
7:40 p.m.
Guest Speaker: Dr. David McKeown
MDCM, MHSc, FRCPC Medical Officer of Health for City of Toronto Question
and Answer Period
8:05 p.m. 5.
Special Items:
8:35
p.m. Positively
Promoting Markland Committee
(15 Min.) Review
of year and process Unveiling
of Logo BREAK
8:50 p.m.
Special Items: Continued…
9:00 p.m. a)
Website Launch Presentation – Tom Napier (15 Min.) b)
Amendment & Ratification of MHA Constitution – P. Clifford (5 Min.) c)
Nomination / Confirmation of Executive and d)
Director members for 2005-2006 Term – All (5 Min.) e)
Review of Finances – Gerard Betsch
(10 Min.)
f)
Anticipated Revenue & Expenses for 05/06 Term g)
Setting of Annual Dues for coming year h)
Call for Taskforce On Neighbourhood Watch – P. Clifford (5 Min.) Standing
Items:
Any other business to discuss including, but not
9:40 p.m
limited to, scholarships, advertising, plaza, etc.
7.
Adjournment
10:00 p.m
Editor’s
note: In recent years, too few members have taken the time to attend this
meeting. As directors we really appreciate your presence at this time. It
validates the work we do throughout the year on your behalf! Come out. Watch
your directors smile. President’s
Update Greetings! Our
Annual General Meeting is on Monday, June 6th, at the Etobicoke
Civic Centre, in the main boardroom at 7:30 p.m. We will be reviewing the past
year, taking care of some Board business and featuring a guest speaker. See
the front cover for the Agenda for this meeting. This
year, we are pleased to have Dr. David McKeown, MDCM, MHSc, FRCPC, who is the
Medical Officer of Health for the City of Toronto, and a fellow Marklander. He
will speak on Toronto’s Air Quality and focus on two recent reports. One is
a 2004 report entitled Air Pollution Burden of Illness in Toronto which can be
accessed at http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/health/hphe/pdf/air_and_health_burden_illness.pdf
; The other is a study
commissioned by the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA), which was
finalized last year and can be found at http://www.gtaa.com/Index.aspx?Sid=Node6/Node6.2/Node6.2.1&Tpl=1 This
latter report is closer to home, as it focused on areas surrounding the
airport. Dr. McKeown’s presentation will be followed by a question and
answer period and you are more than welcome to participate. It should be a
very informative hour. This
past year has been one of significant accomplishments for the Markland Homes
Association (MHA). This has been due in no small part to the number of new
directors who came on board and have taken a very active part. Together with
our veteran directors, this re-energized board reinforced the use of
committees and formed some new ones. A couple of these accomplishments will be
unveiled at the Annual General Meeting on June 6th. One
is the launch of our new website for Markland Wood. [See From Tom’s Desk further on for details]. We are excited to finally
have an electronic means to interact with the community at large. We see this
as a more immediate way to keep the community informed and allow you to access
information for dates of events important within the community. It is
ultimately your website and we encourage you to refer to it from time to time
as the current events section will be continually updated. For those of you
who do not access a computer regularly, it is not meant to replace this
publication, the Marklander, but
instead to be an additional resource for the community to keep each other
informed. A presentation of the website will be part of our AGM on June 6th. Another
accomplishment to be unveiled at the AGM is our new logo for Markland Wood,
worked on by the Positively Promoting Markland Committee (PPM) this year. You
will begin to see more of this logo in the coming months. The committee will
also be making a brief presentation at the AGM. There
have been a couple more incidents reported to me over the past month involving
either vandalism or bullying/assaults involving teenagers/young adults. I
believe the time has come to be more proactive in this area and, whether you
have teenagers in your household or not, we all have a stake in this as
homeowners in the community. I am going to briefly address this at the AGM and
suggest a taskforce be formed by September, involving some MHA Board members,
representatives of the local schools, and those of you from the community at
large, who are concerned about this subject. This is just one example of where
the website can play a part in helping to organize efforts like this and in
keeping people informed. Ending
the year on a positive note, the Annual Garage Sale was a big success from all
accounts and we hope it served your purposes, whether as a seller or a buyer.
For those of us with children, this period of time seems like the month before
Christmas. Busy. End-of-the-year music recitals, dance recitals, concerts,
playoffs, beginning of baseball, soccer, graduations, etc. Enjoy it, because
just like December, it passes quickly. Have
a safe and enjoyable summer. Best
regards, Patrick
Clifford President Markland
Homes Association 2004-2005
Board of Directors EXECUTIVE: PRESIDENT:
Patrick Clifford, 8 The Green Pines VICE-PRESIDENT:
Tom Napier, 1 Markland Dr.
SECRETARY:
Diane Mcleod, 15 Aymarn Crt. TREASURER:
Gerard Betsch, 14 Winsdale Road
DIRECTORS Richard Boehnke, 67 Markland Dr. Brian Brennand, 2 Markland Dr. Paul Cavanagh, 1 Mountain Ash
Crt. Bev
Evans, 8 Winsdale Rd. Michael Georgopoulos, 21 Cosway Crt. Bo Lawrentiw, 110 Mill Rd. Paul Marano, 12 Markland
Drive Don Matheson, 30 Markwood Cr. Graham Maguire, 2 Broadfield Dr. Greg Rohn, 102 Mill Rd. Anna Schaefer, 33 Cherry Post Cr. Peter Sgro, 24 Arbroath Cr. Romeo Sinopoli, 95 Mill Rd. Associate Directors Stephen Blimkie, Helen
Boehnke, Bob Cooke, Tamara Greene, Mary Lordan, Ian Sillars, Irene Sillars,
Donna Sokic, MP (Pierina) Stokes, Anne-Marie Stoneburgh and Patti Thorne.
2005 "Champagne Social" Mark your calendars
now - you don't want to miss this fall's Champagne Social! Each fall, your
Markland Homeowner's Association puts on the annual "Champagne
Social." This has become a
signature event of the MHA, thanks to the hard work of the talented ladies on
the Social Committee. This year's event
promises to be one of the best yet, as we feature live music by the band,
"Bullet." This popular local band can “play anything,” and does
a great job keeping the evening fun and the dance floor full! Tickets are $40
each and include a light evening buffet. Please mark the following dates on
your calendars NOW to avoid disappointment later - this event always sells out
quickly! Ticket sales -
Wednesday Sept 21st.at 6:30 p.m. at Ernie & Patti Thorne, 15 Fieldstone. Event date - Friday
Sept. 30th at 7 pm. Bev Evans &
Diane McLeod Co-Chairs, MHA
Social Committee 2005 Markland Wood Scholarship Awards….reminder
of deadline
July 31: student’s letter of acceptance and
enrolment in an accredited Canadian University or Community College. All completed submissions should be forwarded to: The Markland Homes Association, PO Box 11, Station “A” Etobicoke, Ontario Attn: The Blinder for the Award Committee CONGRATULATIONS
MARKLANDERS!!!!! MARKLAND
WOOD HAS A NEW SLOGAN AND LOGO Thanks
to all who responded to our call for ideas for a logo and a slogan that
captures what our special neighbourhood is all about. Due
to your inspired input, we have a winning logo design, a composite of the many
ideas sent in. Our new slogan will be incorporated into the logo itself. To
see the grand unveiling of these exciting new symbols of Markland Wood, come
to the Annual General Meeting this June 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the Etobicoke Civic
Centre. See
you there!!! From
Tom’s Desk Calling all Marklander residents!
Your website (http://www.MarklandWood.org)
is finally here. Please attend the Markland Homes Association Annual General
Meeting to see the website launch presentation. I will walk through the
website to show all of the features. The
MHA Website Committee has been busy over the past few months getting the
website ready for our June launch. I am sure you will like it, as it has
interesting and informative items for the residents of Markland Wood. The
website is really easy to navigate. We have added a variety of pages, with
many photographs taken at recent events. Being a work-in-process, we need to
load items such as the back issues of the Marklander newsletter and historical
data. This website is for you, so please send us your recommendations. We
are collecting historical memorabilia to add to the history page, so please
send us any photographs and other documents showing the early days of Markland
Wood. They will be returned to you immediately after we scan them. The
new website has been a dream of mine for over three years and now I am so
happy it is a reality. You may remember reading one of my first articles that
suggested Markland Wood should get connected via the web. I am really excited
about the launch, as I could never describe in words the response I get from
people that navigate it for the first time. I would like to thank the website
committee members for their input. Bob Cooke deserves special recognition for
his efforts compiling the “History” page. If you read it, I am sure you
will be amazed. So bookmark, http://www.MarklandWood.org
into your web browser and start surfing your website. Kudos
to Molly Sutherland on Markland Drive for her efforts to bring traffic calming
to this busy residential street. She took it upon herself to gather the
materials for a petition to present to Dominic Gulli, West Toronto Traffic
Manager and Councillor Doug Holyday. Traffic, speeding and collisions have
been a concern of mine for many years now. The speed limit in Markland Wood is
seldom obeyed during the rush hour periods and sometimes during off peak
times. I know that speed humps can slow down emergency vehicles, but some form
of traffic calming needs to be implemented or a tragic event may occur. I have
asked Mr. Gulli to present his traffic study results for the Markland Wood
area at the September MHA meeting. As
time goes by, the need and desire to move on becomes a strong motivational
force. I have held the position as Vice President of the Markland Homes
Association (VP-MHA) for the past three years. It is now time for me to step
down. The role of VP-MHA has been exciting and very rewarding. Unfortunately,
I just don’t have the spare time to dedicate to this position. I will
maintain my position on the Markland Homes Association Board of Directors, and
periodically contribute to the Marklander Newsletter and the MarklandWood.org
website. I would like to thank Patrick Clifford, the MHA board and Marklanders
for your support over my term in this position. I
hope you have a safe and great summer! We’ll see you in September 2005. Cheers
& Thanks, Tom
Napier Email:
tlcnapier1@rogers.com Environmental
Committee Activity Mandate of the committee: "The committee will
aim to educate Markland Wood in matters environmental,
toward developing an awareness of
macro-environmental problems, with the specific community focus on
opportunities for local involvement in environmental improvement issues." Concepts
under consideration for Markland Wood 1. Tree Survey and Maintenance a cooperative community-wide One Tonne Reduction
goal a tree survey a non-pesticide lawn project a “good” car award project to recognize
engines under 4 litres with little “The kids of Markland Wood thank you for
their future breathing" lawn signs, etc developing a car pool serving Markland Wood participation in City downspout and other
water-use reduction programmes, aside from the One Tonne initiative an annual MHA toxic/hazardous waste pick-up truck
tour of Markland Wood, with delivery to a City-approved collection point More advanced activism might be: joining the Sierra Club taking part in letter-writing with David Suzuki working with TPH in environmental initiatives on a
municipal basis might also be considered as alternatives joining urban tree planting programs developing Markland groups of regular hikers to
walk the neighbourhood as well as eventually taking advantage of the many
hiking trails in Ontario. While any of these can be practiced by
individuals, the challenge is to get a broad-based community thing going. 4. MHA Annual General Meeting (June 6, 2005) -
Toronto Public Health - Air Quality Review 6. Green Toronto Awards School News Millwood Junior School With the end of
school arriving, May always promises to be a very hectic month. The major
happenings in the school this month were: 2 field trips (to the Toronto
Symphony and to the Gardiner Museum), preparation for the dance-a-thon and the
grade 4 & 5's presentation of “Travel Back in Time”, a look into the ancient civilizations of Mayan,
Greece, Roman and Medieval times.
Early in the month all the grades ones, twos and threes went to the
symphony for an exciting musical performance. This took place at Roy Thompson
Hall, which is located downtown. All the grades that went to Roy Thompson were
very excited about going. The children arrived at school all dressed-up and
headed off for a wonderful musical experience.
According to reliable sources (my brother) the main song of the performance
was about a boy and a fox, each character was taken on by a musical
instrument, such as a flute. I'm almost positive they had a joyful afternoon.
That same day Ms. McWilliam and Mrs. Baker's classes headed to the
Gardiner Museum. There they made pots and statues out of clay. The children in
Ms. McWilliam's class made Mayan statues out of clay. (In case you're
wondering the Mayans are an ancient civilization that once, and still do
inhabit the southern region of North America.) These statues had a pot or drum
between their knees and were sitting down. A few were even accompanied by
animal(s). Mrs. Baker's class made clay pots. They tried to make these pots
look like ancient Greeks made them. I haven't seen them yet, but I'm sure they
look very good.
This month has also been occupied by the preparation for the upcoming dance-a-thon. As
you probably already know, the dance-a-thon is where people dance, dance and
that's right. . . DANCE! This year we have 12 dances. These dances keep
students moving in a fun way that everyone enjoys. At the end we also get a
frozen treat such as ice-cream or freezies.
The “Travel Back in Time” allows Mme Carapet’s, Mrs. Baker’s
and Ms. McWilliam’s classes to set up in the gym. During the day each class
and parents come to the gym and explore the past such as the ancient Mayans or
Ancient Greece. It's really exciting to see this, because all the children
participating are in costume. That's All For Now, By Tiffany Eng (Grade 5 Student) A GOOD PUN IS ITS OWN REWORD Some of these are unusually clever; some
are inpunitrable. OK, sorry! Energizer Bunny arrested - charged with
battery. A man's home is his castle, in a manor
of speaking. A pessimist's blood type is always
b-negative. My wife really likes to make pottery,
but to me it's just kiln time. Dijon vu - the same mustard as before. Practice safe eating - always use
condiments. I fired my masseuse today. She just
rubbed me the wrong way. A Freudian slip is when you say one
thing but mean your mother. Shotgun wedding: A case of wife or
death. I used to work in a blanket factory, but
it folded. If electricity comes from electrons does
that mean that morality comes from morons? A man needs a mistress just to break the
monogamy. Marriage is the mourning after the knot
before. A hangover is the wrath of grapes. Corduroy pillows are making headlines. Is a book on voyeurism a peeping tome? Dancing cheek-to-cheek is really a form
of floor play. Banning the bra was a big flop. Sea captains don't like crew cuts. Does the name Pavlov ring a bell? A successful diet is the triumph of mind
over platter. A gossip is someone with a great sense
of rumor. When you dream in color, it's a pigment
of your imagination. Reading whilst sunbathing makes you
well-red. When two egotists meet, it's an I for an
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