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posted April 8, 2006
PARK SUPPORT FROM CITY COUNCILLOR ADAM GIAMBRONE
When Councillor Giambrone heard that Parks and Recreation management wanted to cut back park staffing, he promised to protect what has been built up there. He asked for a list of what the staff do when working in the park. After the staff and some park friends went through the park log books (and the archived newsletters on the park web site), the Councillor got a list that ran to eight pages.
Jutta Mason bound it into a booklet, along with some relevant newsletter excerpts, numbers, and front and back cover picture-collages of the park. The booklet is available at the rink house for anyone interested, and it will be useful for people visiting from elsewhere, curious to find out how a neighborhood park such as Dufferin Grove works. There is certainly an interest – from Germany, Britain, South Africa, the U.S., other parts of Canada, and six other neighborhoods across town (in the past year). (lots!),
In early March the park’s research group (CELOS) applied to the Ontario Trillium Foundation for a small grant to put on a conference at the park in September, to be called "Cheap Parks/ community centres without walls." It’s meant to be an occasion when interested people in Toronto can swap experiences and come up with some good, practical, ready-to-do solutions to their own park problems.
Park friends who approve of Councillor Giambrone’s support for Dufferin Grove might want to let him know – it’s always nice to find out people like what you’re doing – his phone number at City Hall is 416 392-7012.