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Local helping opportunity

The Holiday Hamper Program is a yearly program organized by Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services (Barrington site), for low income and new Canadian families. This program helps families to have a memorable holiday, with good nutritious meals, gifts and other items so that they can truly enjoy the holiday season as a family.

You can adopt a family to buy for or make cash or in-kind donations.

For more info contact: Keisha Cooke at kcooke@accessalliance.ca or 416-698-1626, ext. 204

Last year, the Holiday Hamper Program assisted 105 families, thanks to the generosity of donors and volunteers. These contributions help to support 190 children and 144 adults. Can you help this year?

www.accessalliance.ca

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Act Now! Final Danforth Garage Master Plan Community Meeting

CreateTO and City of Toronto are holding the final community meeting to present the Master Plan for the Danforth Garage Site on Thursday, December 13, 2018 at Monarch Park Collegiate (1 Hanson Street) from 6-9pm.

The final meeting for the Master Plan for the Danforth Garage Site will illustrate the selected locations for the 3 anchor tenants: the TTC, the Police and the Toronto Public Library. It will determine access through the site, locations for public spaces and areas for new construction.

To make your voice heard and contribute to the discussion, head over to the meeting to participate!

This development, if done well, has the potential to bring vibrancy to the Danforth, provide the community with well designed public spaces and accommodate much needed community amenities.

Hope to see you there!

 

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December 1st!

Jeepers! Although we had record-breaking gloominess and cold in November, how is it all of a sudden December??

There are a few cool things to do tomorrow (December 1) so here they are!

And don’t forget to move your car if your parking changes the first of the month. Oh, and get out and shop this amazing neighbourhood.

10:30am

12 noon

Did you know? John’s Hobbies (2188 Danforth, near Woodbine), located for over 60 years in the #DanforthEast community, is hosting their second annual Santa “Crawl” parade of decorated radio control vehicles! 🚁🚙🚜

The parade sets out at 12pm from the shop this Saturday December 1st. And they are asking attending community members and participants to bring an item for donation to the Toronto Holiday Toy and Food Drive.

6:00pm

Old’s Cool Solstice Tree Lighting!

Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/362546907832176/?ti=icl

From Zahra & Mariko:

Come One, Come All!

Help us invite the light and greet the holiday season with community cheer and togetherness. This years annual solstice tree lighting event comes a bit early but we figured everyone could use a little bit of extra light right about now.

As per usual, we will have a sing-along, food (samosas and sweet treats), cider and hot chocolate, and giveaways. This year we will have lots of local celebrities to meet and greet including Rima Berns-McGown (our Ontario MPP), Nathaniel Erskine-Smith (our MP), and our new city Councillor Brad Bradford. The sing-along will be led by local dog-walker, Earth Mother Goddess and Ruby’s mom: Rachel! Song sheets will be handed out.

This is our favourite event every year because we get to see all of our neighbours together in one place. Can’t wait to see you!

7:00pm

Ends Dec 1

https://videodrunk.com (Dawes & Danforth)

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Festival of Lights STILL ON TONIGHT!

It may be soggy out there, but we are still 100% on for this evening’s 7th Annual DECA Festival of Lights! Bring your umbrellas and join us TONIGHT 5-6 pm in East Lynn Park for dancing, circus performers, cookies & other fun handouts, Santa’s village, and a sing-along before we light up the park. It’s all FREE! Please remember your food or cash donations for Centre 55’s holiday food drive so you can be entered into the draw for an amazing prize and help our less fortunate neighbours.

See you tonight!

FoL poster

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DECA Annual General Meeting and Community Party, Nov 26 7-9pm

Here are the highlights of what’s in store, in no particular order:

  • Food
  • Live music
  • Positive energy
  • Chance to meet nice neighbours
  • Cash bar
  • Learns about DECA
  • A few brief remarks from the Board
  • Board election (only paid members can vote)

Don’t miss it! See you on Monday evening.

Come to DECA’s Annual General Meeting and Community Party! Eat some delicious Ethiopian food (on us), enjoy live music, meet your neighbours and learn all about what DECA does (and how to get involved!). Bring $10 to join or renew your annual household membership (you don’t have to, but we’re grateful if you do).

There will be brief remarks and the exciting Board election, and lots of time for mixing, mingling, and celebrating another year of community-building in Danforth East!

See you on Monday!

(And we’ll hopefully also see you on Saturday at the Festival of Lights!)

 

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DECA’s Festival of Lights – November 24 from 5-6pm

 

THIS SATURDAY! Join us for the 7th annual DECA Festival of Lights in East Lynn Park on Saturday, Nov. 24, from 5-6 pm.

We have a stellar line up of entertainment planned:

…all leading up to the grand finale: turning on the lights in the park! We hear that Santa himself will be making another appearance this year for the little folks who’d like to visit the big man in red.

As always, this event is free.  If you can, please bring a non-perishable food item or a donation to Community Centre 55‘s holiday food drive. To add to the good feels, your donation will also qualify you for entry into our prize raffle! 

Thank you to our lead sponsor The Danny: Danforth Mosaic BIA. and to our other generous donors –  MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, Juliette Fergus, Broker, Trust Realty, The Workaround, BMO Bank of Montreal (Woodbine & Danforth), and Celena’s Bakery! Shout out to Angela Wagner from umlaut design for the gorgeous poster.

This event is 100% volunteer-run, so thanks so much to everyone who has helped a lot or a little because it adds up to a whole lot of amazingness.

See you on Saturday!

The Danforth East Community Association (DECA) is a group of neighbours working together to make our neighbourhood better since we formed in 2007. Our events and initiatives are 100% volunteer-run and open to everyone. For more information, visit our website deca.to. We are always looking for volunteers and new ideas! Membership is $10/household, which helps to support our efforts.

PS – Our AGM and Community Party is next Monday, November 26 from 7-9 at Hirut. Stay tuned for details but save the date!<