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Food Drive+

After the generous showing of our community at the Clothing and Small Appliance Drive on Saturday, we are back with a few asks for donations at the market this week.

Community Fridges TO will be on hand to collect donations of market foods, non perishables, and personal care items to stock the fridges and personal care banks in our neighborhood. Learn more about them here: https://communityfridgesto.org/

Kennedy House Youth Shelter is collecting flashlights and batteries to give to people living in encampments – it’s one of their most requested items. If you are able to donate, please leave your flashlights in the box in the DECA tent.

All the music

The Lane School of Music will be at the kids’ tent with their “Instrument Petting Zoo” for budding musicians of all ages to play!

Holly Clausius will be back in the busker tent with her catchy and fun tunes. You can learn more about her here: https://www.hollyclausius.com

Also this week, the Princess Lily series is back painting fairy doors 4-6pm in the kids tent as well!

Strawberries and more!

This week we welcome back Son-in-Law produce with strawberries and asparagus! On our rotating vendors list we have Red Tape Brewery, Queensdale Flowers, and Bata Farms maple syrup and beef. You can see a complete list of vendors and upcoming events at https://deca.to/market

See you Thursday!

With 209 sales on the map and so much happening in the area, it was an all-round beautiful day in the neighbourhood on Saturday!

Big thanks are owed to our volunteers for the work behind the scenes creating and updating the map, organizing the sales and keeping that social media fresh! Our yard sale committee consisted of Jenn Scott, Mark Rullo, Raktim Mitra, Audrey Kvedaras, Jenn Macdonald, Julia Hennessy and Rebecca Green. We are very grateful for their time and efforts!

The community really showed up with donations for Kennedy House Youth Shelter. By the end of the day, we had 4 loads of quality small appliances and clothing for Kennedy House, and an (extremely full) carload of clothes for New Circles. We would not have been able to achieve this without the stellar, energetic work of neighbourhood volunteers!

Finally, we are also grateful to Kimbourne United Church! While DECA rented the space, Daniel and Megan went far above and beyond in hosting the multi-seller sale.

Market volunteers wanted

Don’t worry, the yard sale wasn’t your last opportunity to volunteer with DECA! We are very much in need of folks to set up the farmers market Thursday afternoons and also for people to help with the kids activities. Sign up at the link below:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A4FAEAB28A4FA7-east2

The DECA Yard Sale has over 100 sales on the map right now and we have 10 (and counting) people signed up for our multi-seller sale at Kimbourne Park United Church. It’s not too late to sign up — go to www.DECA.to/yardsale

If you (or maybe a teenager you know) has any time on Saturday, we could really use a hand at Kimbourne to help with the sale and the clothing/small appliance collection. You can sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A4FAEAB28A4FA7-danforth

Here are the shifts we are looking to fill:

730-830 am: set up tables, help sellers set up

1130-230: Set up tables to receive donations; vet and sort donations as they come in (lunch included)

200-430 Help sellers take down tables, vet and sort items for donation

Let us know if you have any questions! Email info@deca.to

A big thank you to all those that came out to Hirut for our volunteer orientation dinner on Monday night. We had a good turnout, an amazing meal, and some truly great conversations.

Market time!

This Thursday, June 1 is the first farmers’ market of the season. We are in East Lynn Park from 3 til 7, rain or shine. Here’s what’s happening:

Community Booth

In our weekly community booth, 32 Spokes will be on hand to do light tuneups on your bikes.

Kids’ Activities

As mentioned in an earlier post, we will be painting wooden fairy doors with the author of the Princess Lily series  , starting at 4pm.

Glitter tattoos, sponsored by Karina Sadu at Homelife Realty, will also be happening in the kids’ tent!

Rotating vendors

In addition to our usual slate of amazing vendors (see the list here) we are welcoming Queensdale Flowers and Bata Maple Syrup to the market this week! Queensdale Flowers will have local, sustainably grown cut flower products: fresh bouquets, everlasting (dried) bouquets, wreaths, pins. Bata Maple Syrup will have maple syrup and grass-fed beef from their farm just east of Toronto. And our first brewery of the season will be Left Field.

See you at the market!