Category: Calendar Events

Mark Your Calendars for the South Eglinton Davisville Residents’ Association In Person 2023 Annual General Meeting.

Date: Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Time: 6:30pm-9:00pm
Location: Church of the Transfiguration, Sanctuary, 111 Manor Rd East (at Redpath)

Everyone is welcome! Masks are recommended and physical distancing will be encouraged. The AGM will be a fully in person event.

Since 1965, South Eglinton Davisville Residents’ Association (SEDRA), (formerly SERRA or South Eglinton Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association) has been the community advocate for South Eglinton/Davisville residents. Their goal is to inform and engage members of the South Eglinton Davisville neighbourhood and to advocate for community benefits, green space, heritage enhancement, and be a voice for the community, with a “place at the table” during development projects. Members who have paid their 2023 Annual Membership fee of $25 will have voting privileges during the AGM. You can pay for your membership online (via PayPal) or pay by cheque, card or cash in person.

Invited Speakers:

• TDSB Trustee Shelley Laskin
• Chair of TDSB & Trustee Rachel Chernos Lin
• Councillor Jaye Robinson
• Representative from Councillor Josh Matlow’s Office

Regent Theatre rendering looking east towards proposed development (NORR/Hariri Pontarini Architects, 2023).

Terra Bruce Productions has invited the community to Manor Road United Church (240 Manor Road East) to learn about their proposed “Regent Revival”. They would like to share their vision for the building, new design and and plans for the historic Regent Theatre.

Thursday, April 13, 2023
Manor Road United Church
240 Manor Road East

If you can’t attend in person, you can join via Zoom. Send an email to info@regentrevival.com and they will confirm with a Zoom link.

The Annual George Turrell Memorial Food Drive for the TNO Food Bank in Thorncliffe Park will be held on Sunday, March 26th from Noon to 5:00 p.m. at the Leaside Memorial Community Gardens (1073 Millwood Road).

Leaside Memorial Community Gardens along with user groups, the Leaside Hockey Association, the Leaside Skating Club, the Toronto Leaside Girls Hockey Association, Edge Power Skating and Hockey Extreme are commemorating George Turrell the “King of Leaside” by hosting the 3rd Annual Food Drive in his honour. 70th Anniversary Cake and Beverages will be served from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. They look forward to the community’s enthusiastic participation. Visit www.leasidegardens.com for more info.

(City of Toronto News Release – March 8, 2023) Elementary and secondary schools take their annual March Break from Monday, March 13 to Friday, March 17, the City of Toronto offers students and families many free and affordable activities:

• City community centres offer free or low-cost programs for all ages, such as swimming, skating, basketball, volleyball, floor and ball hockey.
• Conservatories and greenhouses
• High Park animal display
• Riverdale Farm
• All indoor leisure skating programs, including caregiver and tot, family skate and shinny, are free for all ages. Hockey helmets approved by the Canadian Standards Association are mandatory for children under six years of age.
• Earl Bales Ski and Snowboard Centre
• City pools will offer free leisure swimming during March Break
• Toronto Island Park
• Toronto Zoo
• The Terra Lumina night walk experience
• Toronto Public Library programs, workshops, books and more at a local branch or online during March Break.
• Toronto History Museums
• Fort York National Historic Site
• Todmorden Mills
• Mackenzie House
• Scarborough Museum
• Montgomery’s Inn
• Spadina Museum
• Colborne Lodge
• Gibson House Museum
• Guild Park & Gardens and Clark Centre for the Arts
• Cedar Ridge Creative Centre

More information, prices and hours of operation can be found here: www.toronto.ca/news/city-of-toronto-offers-fun-and-affordable-march-break-activities

Leaside Garden Society will continue their Speaker Series with an on-line-virtual Zoom meeting on March 9, 2023. The special guest is Sean James. The topic is Proud of my Pruning. The meeting will commence at 7p.m.

Speaker Bio:

Gardening has been Sean James’ hobby and profession for almost 40 years. A graduate of Niagara Parks School of Horticulture, a Master Gardener, writer, and teacher, Sean focuses on eco-gardening techniques, which makes sense since he grew up surrounded by nature near Crawford Lake in Campbellville.

Sean has spoken from the Maritimes to Seattle, has landscaped from Nova Scotia to California, and has helped to create publications ranging from the ‘Grow me Instead Guide’ to the ‘Master Gardeners Reference Manual’. He has participated in chairing the Environmental Stewardship Committee for Landscape Ontario, the Environmental Committee for the Perennial Plant Association, in moderating the Master Gardeners of Ontario Facebook page, and judging the All-American Selections garden competition and Hamilton’s Monarch Awards. He has been the Ontario spokesperson for Garden Days Canada and has appeared on many radio shows and on television. Sean owns ‘Sean James Consulting & Design’ and instructs at Mohawk College.

Sean was named by Landscape Ontario as 2020 and 2021’s Garden Communicator of the Year, so we know we will be getting the best expert advice as he talks us through how to prune woody ornamentals – shrubs to trees – young and old, demonstrates how to make proper cuts and maintain aging shrubs and helps us identify diseases and how to deal with them.

Leaside Garden Society always welcomes Guests and New Members to join the Society for their meetings. Visit: www.leasidegardensociety.org for more info, or email: leaside@gardenontario.org.