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| City Councillor Sheds Light on Solar Power |
| 10/14/2009 |
| Councillor Joe Mihevc welcomed the press into his home on Wednesday, October 14, in order to show off his new solar hot water heater and discuss the future of solar energy in Toronto with neighbours and the press. | +read more |
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| City launches new home renovation grant program |
| 10/14/2009 |
| The City of Toronto today launched Home Energy Assistance Toronto (HEAT), a new incentive program offering residents up to $1,000 when they upgrade their home insulation. HEAT is open to residents of low-rise residential properties, such as detached and semi-detached houses, and townhomes, and is designed to encourage Torontonians to undertake improvements to increase their home’s energy efficiency and reduce associated greenhouse gas emissions. | +read more |
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| Fundraiser exceeds expectations |
| 02/11/2009 |
| (Posted Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009)
Group set out to raise $50,000 for new playground and ended up with $75,000
By Kris Scheuer
CLIMBING HIGHER: Parents Paul Mandel, left, and Lee Grunberg helped to raise $25,000 more than they originally targeted to help rebuild the playground in Glen Cedar Park.
Cedarvale kids will soon have a new $175,000 playground thanks to the city and local community.
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| LEAF Celebrates Toronto Trees |
| 02/06/2009 |
 With snow-covered yards and leaves yet to bud, this isn't the time of year most of us turn our attention to the trees, but for LEAF, that's exactly what they did Wednesday night at the Gladstone. | +read more |
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| Industrial Chic |
| 01/09/2009 |
| The Wychwood streetcar repair barns were once a major hub of the Toronto Civic Railway, the forerunner of the TTC. The site of the five attached brick structures — between Wychwood Avenue and Christie Street in what was then the city's north end — also became a sort of mini Union Station in the decades after the buildings were completed in 1921.
According to Joe Mihevc, city councillor and current vice-chairman of the Toronto Transit Commission, local lore has it that on weekends and holidays, residents carrying picnic baskets took a tram to the Wychwood stop to catch streetcars to greener places.
Today, the barns are again a hub of activity — but of a different sort. They have been reincarnated as the Artscape Wychwood Barns, an impressive 60,000-square-foot complex incorporating rental housing and studios for artists, a covered street, a greenhouse, outdoor bake oven, theatre space and offices.
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