Your opportunity to buy and sell:  garage/home items, promote your business, baked goods and handmade wares, show of your unique talents and Tibetan performers.  There will be a kids’ zone with a bouncy castle and free popcorn.

Elm  Grove Avenue closes off from Melbourne Ave. north to Milky Way to traffic from
9 AM to 6:30 PM.

Panel discussion on LGBTQ  Newcomer and Refugee Human Rights with Anu Radha Verma, El-Farouk Khaki, Soraya Hoggart and Aamer Esmail – local and global perspectives.

For more information, please call Connie at 416-537-0275  x232

Thursday, June 19th, 2014
3:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Parkdale Community Health Centre
1229 Queen St. W. (at Dufferin)

Invitation to attend an Exhibition Place Liaison Committee Meeting to hear community views. AGENDA:

• BMO Field Expansion – Update
• BMO Field Season – Update
• Scotia CHIN Picnic
• CNE Association
• Honda Indy
• Scotiabank Caribbean Festival
• CEO/Exhibition Place – Updates
• Other Business (community concerns)

COMMUNITY CONCERNS:

• Loss of public parkland to MUZIK Nightclub
• MUZIK Nightclub fencing in public art
• Public drinking water fountains (none working)
• Archeological dig in Bandshell Park area
• Baseball diamond no community access

Please join local residents for this public meeting on
Thursday, June 19th from 6:30-8:00 pm,
FOUNTAINBLU (formerly Fountain Dining Room)
Queen Elizabeth Building – Exhibition Place
RSVP to 416-263-3618 (or just show up)

Cowan Avenue closes off from King St. south to Springhurst Ave. to traffic from 8 AM to 3 PM so people can stroll the sidewalks and avenue for this annual Parkdale street sale of goods used, new, antique, vintage, household, yard, and whatchamacallits.

Sunday, June 1st is the rain date!!!

The Horticultural Societies of Parkdale and Toronto are holding their annual Plant Fair event.
For beginning and sophisticated gardeners: choice plants, the “Green Elephant” sale, herbs and hard-to-get perennials from select GTA nurseries and member’s own gardens—all at the best prices in town! Bring your questions, they’ll have the experts!
Volunteers are needed – plantfair@parkdaletorontohort.com,

Saturday, May 31st, 2014
10: 30 AM – 1:30 PM

Parkdale Public School and Community Centre
78 Seaforth Avenue (in the gyms)

Urban Forestry Services plants trees on City owned street allowances fronting residential properties for free.  Periodically, Urban Forestry Services will canvass neighbourhoods for tree planting opportunities.

To order your free tree click here to download their residential street tree planting brochure or call 311

INTERESTED IN A FREE TREE FOR YOUR BACKYARD?

Contact LEAF (Local Enhancement and Appreciation of Forests) which is a local non-profit group dedicated to improving Toronto’s urban forest.  They offer Toronto residents subsidized backyard tree planting.

The service includes on-site advice on appropriate species and planting location, a 1.2 to 1.8m tall native tree, and the planting service.  Native shrubs are also available.

Contact LEAF at 416-413-9244 or on the web click here.

Police Week open house will be held on Saturday, May 10th, 2014 from 10:00 PM – 2:00 PM in the visitors’ parking lot and the front lobby of the station. Station tours will be available throughout the day.

11 Division
2054 Davenport Road (at Osler Street)

Some of the units and friends of 11 Division that will be present at the event include:
•    BBQ by the Police Community Partnership of 11 and 12 Division with live music
•    Police Dog Services
•    Marine Unit
•    Mounted Unit
•    Traffic Services
•    Emergency Task Force
•    Court Services
•    St. John’s Ambulance Therapy dogs
•    Crime Stoppers
•    Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD)
•    Canadian Automobile Association (CAA)
•    Terradyne Armored Vehicles Inc.