<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 16, 2020, at 12:20 PM, Debra Huron via CANUFNET <canufnet@list.web.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">The City of Toronto wants to buy a piece of private property where a beautiful red oak tree has been growing for a century or more, and to turn the property into a park, open to all.<br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">The fundraising effort for this began in 2019 but slowed considerably when the invisible virus appeared back in March 2020.<br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Now, the City of Toronto is urging people to help make its fundraising effort successful. If you donate to the tree's preservation, you can give your donation as a holiday gift to loved ones and friends...no carbon footprint is associated with such a purchase. In fact, you acquire a karmic carbon bonus by doing your part to keep this massive tree safe from human predation. <br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Learn more here <a href="https://www.toronto.ca/business-economy/partnerships-sponsorships-donations/donate/heritage-red-oak-tree/" class="">https://www.toronto.ca/business-economy/partnerships-sponsorships-donations/donate/heritage-red-oak-tree/</a><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(230, 230, 250);"></span><br class=""></div><div id="sig66169632" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div type="cite" id="fastmail-quoted" class="signature"><div id="fastmail-quoted-sig66169632" class=""><pre class="fastmail-quoted-signature" style="font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b class=""><span class="size" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="font" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif, sans-serif;"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(0, 255, 0);"><span class="highlight" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 224);">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></span></span></span></b><br class=""></pre><div class="fastmail-quoted-signature"><b class=""><span class="font" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif, sans-serif;"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Debra Isabel Huron</span></span></b><br class=""></div><div class="fastmail-quoted-signature"><br class=""></div></div></div><div class="signature"><span style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""><span class="font" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="size" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><span class="highlight" style="background-color: rgb(175, 238, 238);"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">If the unbearable were not weightless,</span></span></b></span></span></span><span class="highlight" style="background-color: rgb(175, 238, 238);"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"></span></span><br class=""></div><div class="signature"><span style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""><span class="font" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="size" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><span class="highlight" style="background-color: rgb(175, 238, 238);"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">we might yet buckle under the grief</span></span></b></span></span></span><span class="highlight" style="background-color: rgb(175, 238, 238);"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"></span></span><br class=""></div><div class="signature"><span style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""><span class="font" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="size" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><span class="highlight" style="background-color: rgb(175, 238, 238);"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">of what hasn't changed yet.</span></span></b></span></span></span><br class=""></div><div class="signature"><span style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""><span class="font" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="size" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><span class="highlight" style="background-color: rgb(230, 230, 250);"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(75, 0, 130);"><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jane-hirshfield" class="">--Jane Hirshfield<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a></span></span></b></span></span></span><br class=""></div><div type="cite" id="fastmail-quoted" class="signature"><div id="fastmail-quoted-sig66169632" class=""><div class="fastmail-quoted-signature"><br class=""></div><div class="fastmail-quoted-signature"><b class=""><span class="font" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif, sans-serif;"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Phone: 613 859-8049<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></b><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><span class="size" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="font" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif, sans-serif;"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(0, 255, 0);"><span class="highlight" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 224);">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></span></span></span></b></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>