DECA Cocktail Party/AGM and Pumpkin Parade round-up

Your invited to the DECA Cocktail Party/AGM (Yes, our AGM is a cocktail party – we’re THOSE people) on Monday, November 12 – see below:

While we like to focus on the cocktail party aspect of the evening, the AGM part does require a teeny tiny sliver of time in order to get our new Board elected.  Unless an unexpected coup takes place, the business portion of the evening shouldn’t take longer than 10 minutes or so.  For real!

The AGM is also a great chance for you to register/renew your DECA membership. For the low, low price of $10 per household, you can feel like a good citizen, and you will be filled with pride when we take your $10 and turn it into pop-up shops, the annual Arts Fair, the weekly Farmers’ Market, kids’ stuff sale, pub crawls, and so much more. Plus, you get to vote at our AGM and you can throw your clout all around town, for 365 glorious days. If you can’t make it next week, you can pay via PayPal be clicking on ‘subscribe’ at the bottom of our membership page.  Alternatively, you can drop off cash or a cheque at 48 Glebemount Avenue.

Once again, our boarders are Main St to Mortimer/Lumsden to Monarch Park, down to the train tracks.

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Pumpkin Parade Round-up

A message from our Chief Pumpkineer, Heather Bean.  DECA can’t thank you enough, Heather, for inspiring and organizing our most magical event of the year!

It was a bit drizzly and a bit windy, but his year’s pumpkin parade was still a delight. Kids big and small racing around the park in the dark; parents telling their little ones, “We can’t take pictures of ALL of them!”; couples wandering through, oohing and aahing; later, little clutches of teens pointing out their favourites. We had classic triangle-eyed pumpkins, scary pumpkins, a pumpkin snowman, Angry Birds and Dora the Explorer, Frankenweenie, John Lennon, and an enormous pumpkin, mercifully placed right next to the compost bin. (Thanks!) A special shout-out to Miss Curran’s Grade Ones and Twos, for their pumpkin-studded pumpkin.
A big thank you to our board members, especially Anita, Sheri and Shelley, for giving advice, handling pre-parade logistics and postering the town.
And especially, thank you to our Pumpkin Parade volunteers! Johanne Von Zuben has lit our pumpkins for two of the past three walks, cheerfully braving the cold. Our cleanup crew included Steve Wickens, Jeff Colley, Kathleen Peak and her mighty wagon, and Paul Haines and his cleanup crew of Matt, Jevon and Phil. We had that bin filled in record time.
See you again next year!

0 Replies to “DECA Cocktail Party/AGM and Pumpkin Parade round-up”

  1. Another fabulous parade! An wondering if next year we should have the pumpkins in two rows on one side of the path at a bit of a distance? Might make for easier viewing….

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