The following message was received from TOPCA -- the Town of Port Credit Association -- and is forwarded for your information.

"Hello fellow TOPCA member!

Thanks for your support of the community-building work of the Town of Port Credit Association (TOPCA) through your $5 annual membership!

Now we'd like to invite you to forward this email to encourage your friends, family members, neighbors and local business colleagues to join TOPCA too!

As you know, TOPCA is a volunteer, not for profit residents' association, affiliated and recognized by the City of Mississauga. We work together to keep each other informed and to ensure that residents' views are heard on issues that affect village life from cultural activities to development.

TOPCA volunteers have been involved in our community many ways:
- painting, planting and watering the familiar bicycle planters around the village
- coordinating all-candidates' meetings during elections
- conducting community conversations, e.g. the 'Ramping up the Vision' public meeting this past March
- collaborating with other local cultural, business and special interest groups and festivals
- promoting the numerous events in the village (phew!)
- participating actively in development issues that affect the evolution of our village

And we aim to keep TOPCA's website and weekly e-mail newsletters a comprehensive source of information about Port Credit and a resource for all residents: www.topca.net

Your $5 membership helps make all these great things happen and ensures that the voices of the people who live and work in Port Credit are heard by our elected representatives on many important issues in this active community.

Any adult who lives or works in Port Credit can be a TOPCA member. Employees and owners of a number of local businesses including Port Credit BIA members have joined TOPCA too. Please take a minute now to forward this message and encourage your friends, family members and neighbors to join on-line today!

It's easy and secure to join or make a donation! (link to our Membership webpage) and hey, at $5 it's the best bargain in town!

Feel free to contact us if you have questions or comments. Thanks again for your participation in village life and we'll see you around town!

Deb Greenfield & Jim Danahy
Co-presidents
Town of Port Credit Association (TOPCA)
www.TOPCA.net"

There are two Port Credit community meetings scheduled for this week.

The first, tonight (June 21) at 7pm at Clarke Hall, is a 'Community Information Fair' hosted by Ward 1 Councillor Jim Tovey.  According to the invitation, it is an opportunity for the community to express any concerns and for the Councillor to solicit the community's advice on current and upcoming issues and initiatives.

Then Wednesday (June 22) at 7pm Tiffany Developers is hosting the first of four Community Meetings in regards to their proposed Lakeshore Rd. W. / Benson Ave. / High St. development in the western end of Port Credit.  The site is 2.9 acres in size and located immediately to the west of Credit Landing Plaza.  The meeting is to provide interested parties with the "opportunity to make comments, identify issues and provide additional information" relative to the proposal.

This meeting will take place in the Credit Room North in the recently renovated Port Credit Memorial Arena.  Three more sessions are scheduled for July and August.

More information on both events is linked from their calendar listings.

The Lakeview Linear Heritage Corridor was developed by a team of five students from the Planning program at the University of Toronto. The design is the culmination of a 14-week collaborative process with U of T faculty and Jim Tovey, president of the Lakeview Ratepayer’s Association, in addition to primary and secondary research undertaken during the fall of 2009. The Design Brief is meant as a guiding document to the potential redesign of the Lakeview Corridor in Mississauga.

There will be a public meeting on Wednesday, February 24th at Clarke Hall in Port Credit (Google Map) at which the plans are to be presented with discussion to follow.

The following video was produced by C4CA (The Citizens for Clean Air), a coalition of concerned citizens in Oakville and Mississauga that are very concerned about the impacts that will come from the proposed gas-fired power plant near homes and schools in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. C4CA is a non-profit organization.