**Don’t forget the BIG Danforth East Garage Sale this Saturday!!**
Click here to register your sale – it’s never too late!
While you’re out shopping, swing by 93 Moberly – read on to learn why.
June 13 – Face 2 Face a Games Grand Opening Party (2077a Danforth, above Pizza Pizza)
“We’re inviting you to our Grand Opening! But wait, we’ve been open for nine months? Well we’ve been so busy meeting all of you that we haven’t been able to have a party.
What better time than Summer to have a big celebration? Join us on Saturday June 13th for our Grand Opening: a day of gaming, delicious food, and relaxation. We’ve got a ton of activities planned! In addition to the scheduled events we invite you to play any game we have or bring a game from home and drop in at any time.”
11am Exploding Kittens, Love Letter, and Dixit
12pm Family Games, Hanabi, and Tsuro
12pm Netrunner Table
1pm Machikoro, Smash up, King of new york
2pm Pandemic, Forbidden Island, Castle Panic
2pm Armada Demo
3pm X-wing Demo
3pm Dead of Winter, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Resistance
4pm Splendor Tournament: Entry Fee $5.00, Format: Double Elimination, Prizes: Based on Attendance
4pm Party Games, Snake oil
10pm Closing
Psst – the cafe at Face 2 Face is a true neighbourhood treasure. Fresh, delicious food, home made iced tea and lemonade – worth checking out!
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June 15 – Adopt a Street Tree Launch (this project comes west to Woodbine)
June 25 (Thursday) 9th Annual Last Day Music Festival (fundraiser)
If you didn’t make it out to the farmers market last week, don’t worry. It was pretty special, but this week it’s time to officially celebrate!
The Grand Opening Celebrationof the East Lynn Park Farmers’ Market is set for this Thursday, June 11th. Weather forecast… awesome! Sunny and 24C.
Bring your picnic blankets and take in the melodies from Lisa Olafson of the Dirty Dishes. She’ll be performing along side Sing Along Tim. Houla hoopers, stiltwalkers and balloon artisits will also making appearances.
Wellness Booth
Laura Belus & Nana Jokura of Accept Wellness will be offering free 10 minute consults on how you can improve your health with naturopathic medicine. Laura Belus is a naturopathic graduate with a special interest in heart health. The Accept Wellness Naturopathic Community Clinic offers compassionate rates & high quality care so that you can feel your best and get the most out of life.
We’d like to send out a huge thank you to some local business who stepped up to sponsor this event.
The East Lynn Farmers’ Market runs every Thursday from 3-7:00 p.m. between June 4 – October 15 at East Lynn Park, located on the south side of Danforth Ave, just west of Woodbine Ave. Stay up to date by visiting theEast Lynn Market Facebookpage or by following us on Twitter.
Mark your calendars for some great events coming up!
June 11 – East Lynn Park Farmers’ Market Grand Opening! 3-7pm (details are coming, but this is going to be AMAZING!!)
June 13 – #DanforthEast Garage Sale! 8am-2pm (see our earlier post for details and to sign up your own sale!)
Gledhill Breakfast Club Fundraiser – Wednesday, June 16
Come and help raise money for a new kitchen in the school yard (on the west side) on June 16 from 8:00-9:30 a.m.
The amazing volunteers will be serving up some of the favourite breakfast options that they serve during the week, including quesadillas, smoothies, scrambled eggs, fresh fruit and more.
Pay what you can, with all proceeds going to funds for a new kitchen.
Janet Davis’ Environment Day – Saturday, June 20
Join Councillor Janet Davis at her annual Community Environment Day, Saturday, June 20, 10:00am-2:00pm, at the East York Memorial Arena parking lot, 888 Cosburn Ave. Bring your recyclables, reusable, old electronics and more! Enjoy activities and information from green community groups. Paper shredding and BBQ onsite. www.janetdavis.ca
There is an art gallery on Danforth between Woodbine and Coxwell. Did you know it was there? The Dylan Ellis Exhibition Space is located at 1840 Danforth Avenue, and for one more week we can all go and see Philip Jessup’s exhibit called Imperiled Landscapes, which is part of the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival.
Two special events this week include:
Gallery talk – Thursday, June 11 from 6:30-8:00pm Closing party – Sunday, June 14 from 2:00-4:oopm
Admission is free!
Gallery is open: Mon–Wed, 9am–5pm, Thu–Fri, 9am–8pm, Sat–Sun, 10am–4pm
The photographer is in the gallery on weekends, noon – 4 PM for Q and A.
The exhibit closes on Sunday, June 14 at 5 PM.
Here’s a description of the exhibit:
Over the past eight years, Jessup has been photographing the potential effects of climate change on wilderness during travel related to his environmental career. As the earth warms up, wilderness areas will be especially at risk. In the Arctic, sea ice is disappearing while Inuit villages sink into muddy ground. Along coastlines, rising seas are inundating wetlands essential to bird migrations and seashore protection. Meanwhile, large rural watersheds are afflicted by recurrent droughts, threatening urban water supplies. Imperiled Landscapes surveys conditions in Pond Inlet on Baffin Island, Mai Po mangrove wetland in Hong Kong, and the Sugarloaf water supply catchment area in wilderness north of Melbourne. All are endangered by global warming. The exhibit offers a window into the wild beauty that we can save if we take action.
If optimism could be bottled and sold, Amanda Olsen would be a very wealthy woman, except she’d likely give it away for free. Her optimism is matched only by her generosity, and we all benefit.
Days after giving birth to her second son, when most of us would spend any spare second sleeping, Amanda was at the mic at our AGM convincing people to volunteer for the pop-up shop team (which she was leading at the time). She puts her hand up over and over and inspires others to follow.
We’re so grateful for Amanda, and, dear neighbours, you should be too. Read for yourself in her own words.
Amanda Olson takes her two sons to Grumbles Deli (290 Main St.) as a reward for surviving swimming lessons each week. Here is Amanda (middle, brown jacket) with her husband Lauris, sons Janis and Aksels, and Grumble’s owners Denise and Franzi.My name and age is…
Amanda Olson, aged 37 and 1/4 (Adrian Mole is one of my fave literary characters).
One thing people don’t know about me is…
By day, I help put books on your shelves. I work for a publisher, but sadly, I can in no way whatsoever help get your novel published. I moved to Danforth East ….
Four years ago this summer. I was determined to buy a house in Leslieville because I liked the restaurants and shops. On a whim, we decided to check out a place further east than I thought acceptable. We can’t get over our luck of landing in such an amazing neighbourhood.
One change I’ve seen over the years….
Everyone will say the more vibrant retail strip, so I’ll point out the increase in community involvement. We have a Visioning group the size of a small army; we see more people come out to the DECA meetings; the board is at full capacity. It’s a great time to live in Danforth East. And of course those gains on the retail strip have been a big part of the increases in the overall community cohesion!
My advice to new neighbors is.…
Get on the DECA Diaries blog mailing list. Sign up and you’ve just become part of a community in a single click. I’m forever grateful to my friend Janina for passing on this advice when I first moved here. The thing I love most about Danforth East is…
The local retailers. I love being able to go to the butcher to pick up dinner from Carmen, then wave hello to Houman, the owner of Bella Lite (1989 Danforth Ave, just east of East Lynn Park), and his daughter on my way home. Houman just installed the perfect chandelier in my dining room and now that he knows my style he’s on the look out for something for my hallway. If you haven’t been in yet, you really need to check it out next time you need lighting fixtures.
My biggest local pet peeve is.…
Storefronts that aren’t accessible. The places being used for non-commercial purposes drives me bananas. They make their neighbours’ attempts to attract customers that much harder.
My neighborhood secret is.…
Lunch at Grumbles Deli (290 Main St, south of Danforth) after an hour of torturing my boys with swimming lessons. Mother and daughter, Franzi and Denise, are lovely and the sauerkraut passes muster with my husband–he comes from Latvian stock and knows his pickled foods. Remember to go to the bank machine across the street, though, as it’s cash only. The thing I’ve done as a DECA board member that makes me most proud is….
I dabble in a bit of everything, but I do love being a @DECAdiaries tweeter and helping share the news about the hood. I’m also particularly proud of the Danforth East Dreams event I helped put together last spring. 400 neighbours came together to talk about what they wanted the neighbourhood to be and we could make those changes happen. Everyone was engaged and excited. The atmosphere was electric. And the map of the giant map of the hood plastered with hundreds (Yes, we recorded them all!) was the tangible proof.
This year, I hope to finally ….
Help our fearless Volunteer & Membership leader, Jane, get organized about emailing volunteers on a regular basis when people need help on projects, big or small. By year end, if the same 5 people don’t have to put up posters for every event, then I’ll bust out the good sparkling wine.
My final word….
Sign up for the #DanforthEast Garage Sale, June 13! It’s a blast and will just get better the more people participate. Last year I teamed up with a neighbour since neither of us had enough stuff to do a sale on our own. We played music, got to see our neighbours, spelled each other off to do some shopping. You can even donate your leftovers to charity. Email Bruce, deca.yard.sale@gmail.com, if you want to help out. The more, the merrier (see Goals answer). Sign up here: http://danfortheastcommunityassociation.com/yard-sale/
