The Wendat name Ethennonnhawahstihnen’ (pronounced Etta-nonna wasti-nuh) translates to “where they had a good, beautiful life.”—a fitting name and vision for the City of Toronto’s latest Community Centre and Library, which hopes to add joy and happiness to the lives of those who use it. “It’s an aspiration of the new community centre and library is to help the community to have a good and beautiful life for many years to come,” says Mario Pecchia, Program Manager, Capital Projects Design and Delivery from Parks, Forestry and Recreation at the City of Toronto.” Indeed, the new facility will meet the needs of approximately 10,000 to 12,000 residents living in the surrounding community. The facility is slated to open this July for recreation programming and will offer summer CampTO programs – and spaces are still available. The official City of Toronto ribbon cutting ceremony will take place later this year. To say the local community is excited is an understatement. The facility will replace former distribution and warehouse site and bring in a multi-use Community Recreation Centre with an Aquatic Centre, Child Care Centre and a Toronto Public Library branch—with much needed services and programs that will contribute to the wellbeing of the community now and for future generations. “The project was advanced in order to respond to the high level of population growth and increased density, resulting from the redevelopment of a in this area of Toronto,” says Pecchia. “The official plan framework for the redevelopment of the lands was set out in the Sheppard East Secondary Plan.” The site is adjacent to a significant Huron-Wendat (L-R) (Eastern Construction Team) Mick Sullivan, Gillian Kozsurek, Tina Malek, Paulina Boudreau, (City of Toronto Project Management Team) Douglas Giles, Mario Pecchia, (MJMA Architecture & Design Team) Woosuk An, Viktors Jaunkalns, Brad Vokey, Arnav Grande 3 2
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