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On Mississauga Rd.
Residents flocked to the garden party |
| Hundreds of
locals wandered
the beribboned front yard of the former Gordon house at 29 Mississauga Road N. |
A
Port Credit community party held to discuss possible means of saving
the 86 year old Gordon home on Mississauga Rd. from development attracted
more than 200 people last Wednesday. The party was held after a North York
developer which owns the land, chopped down several trees on the home's
one acre lot at 29 Mississauga Road N. earlier in the summer.
Trees and House Realizing that the trees - two of them Maples estimated at more than 200 years in age - couldn't be saved, those concerned switched their attention instead to the home. The couple who is currently renting the home from the developer has tried to get the structure designated as an historic building and has found a groundswell of support. Steady flow "The people started coming at 4 p.m. and it was a steady flow right up to past 9 p.m.," said Laurie Kallis, who with her husband Ed Troscianczuk, rent the former Gordon Family home. "We served 200 slices of cake as people wandered around the property. A Port Credit health food store, True Food, brought up watermelon and these big beefsteak tomatoes, set up a table and were giving them out." Upcoming plans Kallis said there was also lots of discussion about what to do next. "There was a split on whether we should have a heritage group and an environmental group look at a tree bylaw or just put the two together and see what would happen," she said. "We took down a lot of names and the next thing is to contact the people and discuss their ideas with them." Anyone wishing to get involved with the group can call Kallis at 271-6375. |