Your “Pay What You Can” Annual Danforth East Community Membership enables our team of volunteers to administer a variety of community events such as:
Visit deca.to/become-a-member to join or renew your membership.
Pack up your small bills and food bank donations in your tote bag and head out to the neighbourhood! We’ve got over 200 sales listed on the yard sale map here:
https://yardsale.azurewebsites.net/app/home
Look for the yellow bins (yellow pins on the map) to see where to drop your donation for the Daily Bread Food Bank. Remember, their most needed items are canned fish, canned tomatoes, canned fruit and veggies, oatmeal, and nut butters.
We’d love to see your finds– tag them #DanforthEastYardSale on social media to share!
Look for the yellow Daily Bread Food Bank Donation Bins during this year’s DECA Yard Sale!
On June 11th, the DECA Yard Sale and Danny BIA Street Sale will be back! We are delighted to see so many people in our community sign up for this year’s yard sale. It’s going to be a great day to wander our neighbourhood, find new treasures and support our local businesses.
This year, during the yard sale, DECA will be hosting donation bins for the Daily Bread Food Bank. The Daily Bread Food Bank supports 189 food programs distributing fresh and non-perishable food items as well as prepared meals. Last year they recorded the highest numbers of visitors in Toronto’s history, with close to 1.45 million visitors. That’s a 47% increase with 61% of visitors identified as new clients. Help support the Daily Bread Food Bank by donating non-perishable food items https://www.dailybread.ca.
We are still looking for more volunteers to host donation bins at your yard sale. The bin can hold approximately 200-250 lbs of food and are 2’x2’ and 4’ high. They would be delivered to you collapsed; with the task of taping the bottom as the only assembly required. The Daily Bread Food Bank will start picking up the bins promptly after the yard sale ends at 2pm. Please consider hosting a bin along with your yard sale and getting your neighbours involved to help fill your bin, give back and support those in need.
Some donation bins will be located at East Lynn Park and hosted by the DECA board members. There will also be bins spread throughout the yard sale map. You can’t miss them. The bins are bright yellow, and you can find them marked with yellow pins on the yard sale map.
If you are interested in hosting a Daily Bread Food Bank bin at your yard sale or have any questions, please visit https://deca.to/yardsale or email yardsale@deca.to.
Thank you for your questions, Danforth East and Monarch Park Collegiate! We edited down the many questions we had to five key ones for the candidates:
QUESTIONS FROM DECA SOCIALS:
My question as a tenant in DECA is, will our candidates pledge their support for vacancy control?
What will you do to help small businesses get back on their feet?
What are you going to do for low-income seniors?
QUESTIONS FROM GRADE 9 + 10 STUDENTS IN A MONARCH PARK COLLEGIATE CIVICS CLASS:
How will you tackle Gen Z’s problem with mental health and stress? One in four Gen Z feel emotionally distressed.
Currently, our world is being killed by greenhouse gases. How do you plan on reaching net zero emissions?
THE ANSWERS:
In this post, we share the full answers from Beaches East York NDP candidate Kate Dupuis and Liberal candidate Mary-Margaret McMahon. We will share responses from other candidates as we receive them.
NDP Responses: NDP Responses to DECA questions.docx
Liberal Responses: Liberal Responses to DECA Questions
DECA is so excited to announce the return of the East Lynn Market this Thursday, June 2! We have a number of farmers and prepared food vendors committed to being there this week (see full list below), and more as the growing season progresses. You can find us back on the concrete path through East Lynn. Our first week will feature live music, garden advice, bike repairs, and kids’ activities.
Our live music this week features a very special guest. We are thrilled to welcome back Dirty Dishes alum Alison Porter as one part of the duo The Rosy Ramblers, a Leslieville mother/daughter fiddle duo composed of Porter (Mom) and Hazel Evans (daughter). They play traditional fiddle music, and classical pieces in 2 part harmony. Local songstress and CBC darling Nancy White called their act “magical”.
We will also have a kids’ activity at 4pm, with the delightful Em! She will do a circle time for kids 0-6y+ featuring sing alongs and readings of fun inclusive stories! Circle Times with Em is a program for children and their parents/caregivers in East Toronto (as well as performing at local children’s events and birthdays around the city.) See her on instagram @emilia_bender and register for her other classes here:
Storytime with Em
This week the Master Gardeners will be on hand to offer garden advice and teach us about invasive vs. native species. We will also have free bike tune-ups with 32 Spokes!
Our vendor list for June 2:
5th Town Cheese
The Back 40 -flowers
Cedar Hedge -veggies and plants
Dundas Park Kitchen -pies and other baked goods
Fisher’s Field -garlic scapes
Flat Rock -wine
Greener Grazing -beef
Hooked -fish
Jiggy Popz -popsicles
Left Field -beer
Mad Mexican -salsas and tortillas
Nepali Momo -dumplings
Oy’s Joys -danishes and cookies
Stock in Trade -sandwiches
We are always looking for more volunteers for the market. You can sign up here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4faeab28a4fa7-east1
See you Thursday!
