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- noun Canada A small
urban park
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Examples
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Prior to the Local Parkette clean-up by residence the City also has large numbers of Worker scour the parkette and get over-time pay while leaving a few scraps for the Public, BUT…..the City makes the Public leave any garbage in special bag to be picked up later by Union workers as a Special trip and not on garbage day when a truck is there anyway.
Striking Union Gets Angry When Windsor Residents Clean Up The Mess « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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Here are Clyde and Puppy watching squirrels in the nearby parkette.
pup story, part 3 2006
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Here are Clyde and Puppy watching squirrels in the nearby parkette.
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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"Parkette" by Bob Snider: "There was no ball playing and no crayfishing/And they called it a parkette after a politician."
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Those two branches come together a short distance north of Richmond Street, where it is proposed to lay out a small parkette for ornamental purposes; then proceed at a width of 100 feet to Queen Street, crossing Queen Street, and proceed north by west, forming the easterly flank of St. Julien Place.
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Earlier this month, a parkette near Dupont St. and Avenue Rd. was renamed for Ryan.
Thestar.com - Home Page Madhavi Acharya-Tom Yew 2011
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It will begin at the Spinnaker Circle parkette, near where her body was found, with a speech and moment of silence before a short walk to the school.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed CARYS MILLS 2011
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A candlelight vigil was held on Sunday night for Nijjar at a parkette in Mississauga, with a small tree becoming a makeshift memorial as a cluster of teens dressed in black mourned together.
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Peel Regional Police said Sunday charges are pending against a 16-year-old boy after a teenaged girl was found dead in a Mississauga parkette Friday.
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Earlier this month, a parkette near Dupont St. and Avenue Rd. was renamed for Ryan.
Thestar.com - Home Page Madhavi Acharya-Tom Yew 2011
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