Mount Dennis 5k Fun Run Returns!

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Come out to Caplan’s Appliances parking lot at 1111 Weston Rd. on Sunday, September 24 at 9 a.m. to cheer on the participants of the Mount Dennis 5K Fun Run! Free snacks and coffee for all runners by supercoffee in case you need an incentive to sign up! For more information or to register, please contact Nelson Rodrigues at [email protected]. [...]

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Mount Dennis Celebrates Ballroom Expressions’s Grand Opening

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On Sunday, September 10, the Mount Dennis BIA was delighted to help celebrate the grand opening of Ballroom Expressions in the old Shilla Restaurant building at 1161 Weston Rd. (2nd floor). Vice-chair of the BIA, Cassandra Nicolaou presented them with a certificate of welcome from Councillor Frances Nunziata, supercoffee served free coffee and drinks, and Ballroom Expressions offered free classes. Ballroom Expressions is a premier dance studio that specializes in ballroom and latin dance programs for children and adults of [...]

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Mount Dennis BIA Instagram Contest celebrates “The Last Day of Work”

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The Mount Dennis BIA would like to share a huge thank you to everyone who entered our Instagram “#TRANSITioningMountDennis contest”. To celebrate Robert Burley’s (@burleyrobert) Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival (@contactphoto) exhibit “The Last Day of Work” installed on the outside of Toronto Public Library’s Mount Dennis Branch, the BIA was pleased to hold our photo contest. To enter the contest, Instagram users had to like our post on Instagram, follow @mountdennisbia, share a photo of, or a selfie with, Robert Burley’s Scotiabank Contact [...]

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LORINC: Local communities to help build Metrolinx projects

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Steve Shallhorn, chair of the Toronto Community Benefits Network, says the group in the past several months has held a series of four engagement/recruitment meetings in parts of the city with high unemployment levels (Mount Dennis, Malvern, Flemingdon Park). Working with labour and community organizers, the TCBN sought to identify candidates for apprenticeship programs that will produce trained workers who can be recruited from hiring halls by the winning consortia. [...]

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The past and the future of Mount Dennis

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Last weekend's Jane's Walk featured many worthy destinations, but I was compelled to join the walk in Mount Dennis, focused on the Eglinton LRT line that will have its west end terminus there, once the two massive tunnel boring machines being built there finally emerge at the eastern end of this massive - and long overdue - project. [...]

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