A date for your calendar!
Event: 15th Annual 43 Division Community Open House & Picnic – June 3, 2023
Event: Annual Spring Park Cleanup
Spring is here! The snow is melting and our park needs some TLC as sunnier weeks approach (no one likes to lie back in the sun during an idyllic picnic to find their head resting on a rusty Coke can!).
Come out, stretch your legs, get some exercise, and meet your neighbours! Bring old or rubber gloves, shoes that can get a bit muddy, garbage grabbers, and a couple of garbage bags, if you have them handy. We’ll have some extras available if they’re needed.
Event: Spring / Easter Craft, Bake Sale, and Tea Room (with Kids’ Easter Egg Hunt!)
Join us for this year’s Spring/Easter Craft, Bake Sale, and Tea Room (with Kids’ Easter Egg Hunt!): Saturday, April 1st, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Note, the kids’ Easter Egg Hunt begins outside the community centre at 11:00 a.m.!
Event: Earth Hour Potluck Dessert
Join us for the 2023 Earth Hour Potluck Dessert: March 25, 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Bring a flashlight or battery-powered lamp (no candles/flames, folks!) and of course your favourite dessert to share. Play board games, have a mug of cocoa, chat with a neighbour as we enjoy an evening of “lights out”.
Spring Garden Talk with Sheridan Nurseries
Join us on March 6th, 7-9pm, for this year’s Spring Garden Talk with Sheridan Nurseries. Come with questions and queries for Dorothy, our Sheridan Nurseries expert in all things gardening.
- Professional gardening advice
- Door prizes
- Refreshments
- Community!
With Glowing Hearts
When the COVID virus hit our city and elsewhere with such impact causing so much sickness, fear and death and seclusion as people stayed home from work and school and kept away from socializing, it put the health care people and industry under terrible pressure, and also did so much damage to the many services that connect us with others. It did not take long before people were drawing hearts, the international symbol of love and caring, and putting them in their windows to show their support for others.
Seeing all these handmade hearts in people’s windows gave Jeff Moss an idea to put his resources to work. He was a small business entrepreneur, whose company supplied neon lights for the film and entertainment industry and his business was rather quiet during the lockdown. So he set up a production team to build these plug-in neon LED coloured hearts which fit in windows and their sales supported healthcare as well as several other good causes. These hearts made in our area of Ontario are produced in a variety of colours and a portion of each heart sold supports a certain organization. The colour of each heart — red, cyan, green, orange, white, pink, and magenta, rainbow, represents the organization it supports.
Many home windows in different Toronto neighbourhoods, especially around the Michael Garron Hospital in East York and Leslieville and Riverdale are glowing with these coloured hearts and their message is spreading. You might see one in downtown properties and elsewhere now too.
The message that shines in the windows is a simple one: that we are thinking about you and wish all people nothing but love and hope for brighter days ahead. It is a glowing symbol with thanks to our healthcare heroes, workers, friends and neighbours and those who are struggling in this new changed world.
I had seen and admired them in windows around our families’ homes in east Toronto and was so pleased when one appeared as our Christmas gift from one of our children’s family.
To read more about about Our Glowing Hearts or to order one for yourself, the website is ourglowinghearts.ca