Get your free compost on Queens Quay Saturday (reminder)

Tomorrow, bright and early, bring your buckets and kitchen gloves cause the city is giving away free compost at Little Norway Park (at Bathurst and Queens Quay. )

Okay, okay, you may ask, what the hell am I going to plant in condo land? Well, may we suggest that you, like this good writer, invest in some balcony planters. Nothing like growing some basil or chives that you can snip while you're cooking and add to your culinary creations. You can pick up planters up at the Canadian Tire at Eaton Centre, the Loblaws on Queens Quay or, well, other random places. The outside Saturday market at St. Lawrence Market sells herbs you can plant and the Loblaws has a good collection of flowers and other plants you can buy closer to Victoria Day weekend.

In the meantime, happy planting.

April 25, 8:30am
Little Norway Park
Queen’s Quay West and Bathurst Street
Bathurst Quay area

Heard around the Hood: Queens Quay in the news

A few items in the news recently about Queens Quay

The Bulletin on the off-leash park at Little Norway. "Little Norway Park at Bathurst & Queens Quay was designated off-leash on April 15th with no community consultation other than with the dog owners' association. At the community information session held last week it was already a done deal."

The National Post on lessons for New York from Toronto It references Waterfront Toronto's study on the Gardiner.

At the Toronto Sun, new Queens Quay resident Mike Strobel is beginning to beat the dead horse with his Scarborough-Queens Quay comparisons. This time on exercising on the waterfront: "It's way different downtown, I'm discovering, as the crocuses and chihuahuas bloom along Queens Quay. Two months ago, I fled the east end and landed in a wee condo at the bottom of York St."

Little Norway Park unleashed?

Just got this notice about an application to make room at Little Norway Park, that park at the southwest corner of Queens Quay and Bathurst, for a off-leash area. We went by the park today and it was filled with people playing football, we think. Coronation Park is to the west, just past the Tip Top condos where the baseball diamonds are.

Proposed Off-Leash Area in Little Norway Park and Coronation Park

 

Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Time: 7 – 9 p.m.
Location: Harbourfront Community Centre, 627 Queens Quay, Medium Assembly Room

 

In accordance with the City of Toronto People, Dogs and Parks policy, an application to create an off-leash area in Little Norway Park and Coronation Park has been received by the Parks, Forestry and Recreation division. City staff have conducted their assessments for these parks and are hosting this public information update.

 

The purpose of this meeting is to review City policies related to Dogs Off-Leash, review the off-leash area that has been approved by Parks, Forestry and Recreation, and to finalize the ‘Conditions of Use’ agreement.

 

More information about the City policy is available at: http://www.toronto.ca/parks/dogs.htm

 

For further information, please contact Mark Emslie, Parks Supervisor, 416-392-1759, or Peter Leiss, Parks Supervisor, 416-392-7945.