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THE OSSINGTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION WEBSITE IS HERE.


Please direct inquiries to Ossington Community Association Corresponding Secretary Benj Hellie

SMART GROWTH FOR OSSINGTON SAYS GOODBYE

Thanks an enormous amount to all of the fantastic work done by so many of you under the SGO umbrella. SGO got the community through the first stage of this process with dramatic and smashing success. The time has come to regularize operations, and so today SGO will wind its activities down, freeze this group, and transfer its intellectual property to the Ossington Community Association.

Again, thanks enormously to each and every one of you. You helped set the stage for the next phase, and it could not have happened without you.

OSSINGTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION SAYS HELLO

The Ossington Community Association warmly invites each and every one of you to join with it. We are on the web at ossingtoncommunity.ca. We have an open Facebook Group, and I hope to see there in the near future all those who have taken an interest in the project of SGO.

The object of the OCA is to promote the flourishing of the neighbourhood -- from Crawford to Dovercourt, above Queen up to Harrison -- and its commercial zones: the Ossington Strip and the Dundas Bend within the neighbourhood.

The OCA is fully inclusive: any resident of the neighbourhood may become a member; we welcome local storefronts to our membership; and we extend a hand also to friends of the neighbourhood.

The OCA is working toward operation under a fully Robert's Rules-compliant organizational structure. The OCA was chartered on 3 July 2012 and is operating for its initial phase under provisional bylaws.

Over the coming months, the OCA has two principal projects. The first is to roll out a membership drive. Once a sufficient membership base has been attracted, the OCA will hold a fully general meeting and begin progress toward an election of officers in full compliance with Robert's Rules.

The second project is to represent the neighbourhood and its commercial zones in regard to pending development issues. The OCA has inherited the intellectual property of Smart Growth for Ossington, which has wound down its operations.

To maintain operational continuity, the charter meeting elected a provisional Executive Board: President Jessica Wilson, VP JP Manoux, Treasurer Rob Corkum, Corresponding Secretary (aka Communications Director) Benj Hellie, and Recording Secretary Scot Blythe, as well as Directors Jamie Angell (from the business community) and Daphne Ballon (as friend of the neighbourhood). Two Directorates remain open, as does the VVP position, as do 21 seats on the Steering Committee.

The OCA extends a warm welcome to all residents and storefronts in the neighbourhood and its commercial zones and to all friends of the Ossington Community.

Let's keep talking about Ossington.

Write city officials about 109OZ: Mike Layton, Councillor; Francis Kwashie, City Planner
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Friday, May 25, 2012

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Smart Growth for Ossington wants you! To get involved, write oz@smartgrowthforossington.ca. Let us know:
  • Your name 
  • Your neighbourhood
  • Whatever contact details you would like to provide: email, phone, home address
  • The level of involvement with the group you would like: for instance
    1. Keep me posted on important community information 
    2. I'd also like to attend very occasional important hearings
    3. I'd also like to attend occasional group meetings
    4. I'd also like to do 'leg-work' (distributing flyers, staffing phone-trees)
    5. I'd also like to be closely involved in the workings of the group
  • Whether you have distinctive expertise, experience, or qualifications of value for our mission: bilingual in English and Portuguese/Chinese/Vietnamese; a lawyer; a veteran of other community organizations in Toronto or elsewhere; an accountant; a member of the press; involvement with real estate development from the inside; a planning degree or education as a planner; a history with municipal or provincial government; an architect; and so forth
  • Any inside scoops, things you have figured out, wild speculations ...
  • Aspects of your vision for the neighbourhood or for the group
  • Anything else: Smart Growth for Ossington wants your ideas!