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Up Front .<strong>32</strong><br />
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11/ Roncesvalles Avenue and Dundas<br />
Street intersection during construction<br />
IMAGE/ Corinne Meadows<br />
12/ Seat wall under construction<br />
IMAGE/<br />
Corinne Meadows<br />
13/ Some pavers were engraved by a First<br />
Nations artist and some by local children.<br />
IMAGE/<br />
Corinne Meadows<br />
14/ The curved bench, under construction,<br />
will raise the standard of street furniture in<br />
the neighbourhood.<br />
IMAGE/<br />
Corinne Meadows<br />
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of the Starbucks. Some of these pavers have<br />
been engraved by school children, others<br />
by an artist from the First Nations community.<br />
Two straight benches, carefully sited to<br />
take advantage of view corridors of the<br />
neighbouring streets, Bousted Street and<br />
Dundas Avenue, will provide seating while still<br />
ensuring a sense of prospect and refuge.<br />
The community has been behind the<br />
Dundas Roncesvalles Peace Garden since<br />
the beginning. And when local residents or<br />
visitors pause in the garden, either to sip a<br />
coffee while sitting on a bench or to meet<br />
a friend under the limbs of a stately tree,<br />
they’ll do so in a community space that has<br />
become much more than a desolate and<br />
overlooked intersection.<br />
Text by Corinne Meadows, BLA, who received her<br />
certificate in professional communication from<br />
the University of Toronto, and recently launched<br />
her writing business (www.thewordbistro.com).<br />
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