Awards

Anne Gloger is a 2007 recipient of the City of Toronto William P Hubbard Race Relations Award.

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Events

The Amazing Place is a collaboration between "Planning Action", "Residents Rising", "Neighbourhood Action" and many other several community organizations and businesses in the Kingston Galloway- Orton Park community. The Amazing Place is a project aimed at building a positive sense of place and cultivates local citizenship in the Kingston-Galloway-Orton Park community. The event was launched in 2007 and highlighted significant local people, places and events, and celebrated efforts to build greater equity, justice and environmental sustainability in South East Scarborough. The one-day scavenger hunt took place on June 16, 2007 and was attended by 117 participants from a diversity of generational, linguistic, social and ethno-racial groups that comprise the wider community; it was particularly well attended by youth. In teams of six, participants visited a series of sites of local significance on the TTC and on foot (please see attached walking and bus guidebooks). Volunteers were present at the sites with historical information, interactive learning activities, and refreshments. Team members were each given identifying t-shirts as well as cameras and journals with which to document their experience. Youth volunteers filmed the day’s events, and we are currently editing the footage for use in a short documentary film to be distributed to local schools, community centres, and libraries. The scavenger hunt was followed by a free community dinner and awards ceremony.

In 2008 the collaboration is looking to turn the "Amazing Place" into a permanent walking tour of the community...stay tuned for further developments.