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Maintenance (Main)

Dufferin Grove Park has 14 acres with several buildings, and many other structures. As you would expect, there are issues to deal with all the time. In these Maintenance pages we keep track of some of them. Recent issues are tracked in this website's Problems & Follow-up section.

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Welcome | Latest News | Vandalism | Maintenance Requests | Storylines

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Welcome to Maintenance

posted July 29, 2004

If you find a picnic table that's wobbly or a mess of trash in the gardens or a nail sticking up in the playground, please tell the park staff (in summer you'll usually find them at the playground or near the ovens, in winter at the rink). They want to keep things in good order and everyone's eyes can help. The same goes for destructive or scary behaviour. If it happens at night, leave a message on the park phone at 416 392-0913 and the staff or park friends will pay extra attention to that spot on the following nights.

The city can and will issue trespass letters to people who make trouble in the park, prohibiting those folks from returning until they've cleaned up their act.

May 2006

New sign for the rink house

2010 maintenance correspondence

Progress on park maintenance

Some 2010 Parks maintenance staff changes are starting to bear fruit in the Ward 18 parks. At Dufferin Grove Park, the sandpit water outlet has been made much better and the accumulated sand of ten years, in the laneway storm sewer, has been removed. Lots of work has been done on the gardens and more is planned, including removal of two of the beds along the Dufferin Street foot path to reduce the mud-run-off on the path (for more information, see dufferinpark.ca/gardens). Felisa Shizgal’s good old wildflower sign beside that path, which has lasted for 15 years, will come down now that it’s so weathered that the Garrison Creek map is unreadable. Meantime, there’s a plan for fixing picnic tables. Five better-condition tables were already delivered to the oven area to replace the ones that broke most recently.

At MacGregor Park, the field house renovations are almost done and a re-opening party is planned for the end of October -- more news at macgregorpark.ca. At Wallace-Emerson, the zamboni is finally getting a garage – a pre-fab that’s being erected in mid-October. It’s a new day for collaboration, with the new Parks staff – very heartening.

April 17, 2010

March 2010

From the April 2010 Newsletter:

SATURDAY APRIL 10, 10a.m. TO 12 noon: PARK CLEAN-UP

At the matzah bake in March, there was some talk about the amount of litter in city parks at the end of winter. The Mayor’s Cleanup Day is on April 24. But that’s a long time from now, and by then most of the Parks maintenance staff will have returned from lay-off, ready to start regular clean up. But what to do until then, especially in the playground? What to do?

Cameron Drew and Rebecca Ross spoke up and said they want to organize a park cleanup on Saturday April 10, rain or shine. They’ve arranged with the recreation staff to get a supply of bags and gloves – and park cookies, to keep up people’s strength as they clean the park for spring. The meeting place is the playground.

After that first clean-up, the students of Bishop Marrocco School have signed up to come twice a week until the city maintenance staff return. That should help.

Vandalism, how we deal with it

posted April 25, 2004

All parks are troubled by vandalism, and when we built our park outdoor ovens we had to get practical about dealing with it. The things that we found out about protecting the ovens will also work for other kinds of park vandalism.

Here are the rules of vandalism that we go by: Watch new structures more closely; Repair vandalism (including graffiti) right away; Give the vandals a few very easy targets; Supply alternative targets; Let the oven (or any other important park structure) make friends for itself; Take vandals to court if they're caught; If park staff, police, or the courts don't take vandalism seriously, community follow-up can help. Read more >>

Maintenance Requests and Followup

posted April 20, 2006

Monday Sept.18, 2006 by Dufferin Street - clean park!

This is a database of requests starting in April 2006 to make it easier for park staff, Parks, Forestry and Recreation personnel, and neighbours, to track maintenance issues at the park.

To post additional details about any of these park maintenance items, or to add new ones, email: maintenance@dufferinpark.ca.