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Reminder: HVRA Fall Fair THIS Sunday, 9 Sept., Margaret Fairley Park
By now I’m sure you’ve seen the posters and heard neighbours talking about what’s coming this weekend, but we wanted to add our reminder that the Fall Fair is happening this Sunday, September 9, from noon-6pm in Margaret Fairley Park (Brunswick & Ulster).
As always, there will be lots of music, lots of room on the dance floor to shake a leg, lots of food, lots of neighbours to meet, lots of homemade jellies and jams to buy and lots of fabulous items on the Silent Auction table waiting for your bid. See more details on the HVRA website.
Here’s just a sampling from the Silent Auction:
Gift Certificates for Her Father’s Cider Bar, Rasa, and Piano Piano and many more
Passes to AGO, Tarragon Theatre, Fringe, Factory Theatre,
Royal Conservatory of Music, and a TFC game to name a few!!
Gift cards for Fiesta Gardens, Sanagans Meats, Rexall, Wiener Home Hardware, and a membership to the Miles Nadal Centre.
… and we still have this week to add even more!
There’s also still time to volunteer. Folks are needed to help set up on Sunday morning — not too early — and to clean up afterwards. Get in touch with Gus Sinclair to find out more.
See you on Sunday and may the rains hold off until Monday.
Bloor Borden Market Wed., Sept., 5
Doug, the Honey Man, has been busy harvesting this year’s honey and will be back this week with a fresh crop. Doug says that when he harvests his honey, he always leaves behind enough for the bees to feed themselves over winter. Evidently, bees, like many of us, are happiest eating their own food.
It’s the last week for Jenna, the balloon lady, and her wonderful balloon animals. She’ll be giving away free balloon animals for the last time this season.Jenna will be at the market from 4-5:30pm.
A Call for Nominations for HVRA Community Builder Awards
Twice a year, HVRA solicits nominations for Community Builder Awards, which are presented at the Spring Meeting and the AGM in October. If you know someone who in your opinion has made Harbord Village a better place to live, then please put that person’s name forward. Just write a short paragraph on why you think this person is worthy of the award. There are numerous ways that a person makes a neighbourhood better. They might keep a beautiful garden or spend time helping another neighbour in need. Perhaps, they have volunteered on community projects, or been responsive in some other way to the needs of the community. Your nominee could be a resident or a business operator or a person who has some other attachment to HV. We’re sure you know someone who has done something that makes life in HV better.
Submit your nominations to chair@harbordvillage.com. Nominations will be considered by a Board Committee consisting of Gail Misra, Gus Sinclair and Sue Dexter. The honourees will be announced at the Spring Meeting and at the AGM in October.
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Open House, Sat., Sept. 15, 4 pm
As part of their 40th anniversary celebrations this season, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra is holding a kind of open house concert they are calling their “Fall Social” on Sept 15 at 4pm. Tickets are just $5 and include a 45 minute concert followed by lemonade and snacks in the garden of Trinity-St. Paul’s after the concert. The idea is to welcome people from the community, including those who may not come to the regular, more formal and expensive concerts. Families and children are most welcome. For the program and tickets go to Tafelmusik webpage.
Lighting Up Another Laneway, Sept. 16, 4:30 pm
Just like the Harbord Village mural-painting project last year in the laneway behind the Tranzac Club, this year 30 very talented mural artists will be beautifying the Euclid/Palmerston laneway (running north-south between College and Dundas). It’s a great way to bring colour and light into that laneway too. We’re all welcome to the community celebration of the new murals on Sunday, September 16 at 4 pm.
Annex Tour of Houses and Cultural Organizations, Sun., Sept. 23, 12-4:30 pm
The Annual Annex Tour of Houses and Cultural Organizations will be taking place on Sunday, September 23 from noon-4:30 pm. The tour is a fundraiser for the Annex Residents’ Association. This year’s tour focuses on the most historic part of The Annex east of Bedford Road (and a short stretch to the west as well) with a selection of new heritage houses and three cultural landmarks: the Women’s Art Association of Canada, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, and the Quakers’ Friends House. The guided street tours will be conducted by popular architectural historian Marta O’Brien.
Early-bird $17 single tickets are available until September 10. After September 10, the price is $25 single tickets; two for $40. Cash only the day of the event.
For further information and to buy tickets go to https://theara.org/news/5040873. Online ticket sales close before midnight on Saturday, September 22. Cash only at the door (Women's Art Association of Canada, 23 Prince Arthur Avenue.)
News from TTC
Once again — will it ever end? — the TTC will be doing some “rehabilitation” work on the bus roadway at Bathurst Station. The bus roadway is scheduled to be closed from September 7 to mid-November for the first phase of construction. Other improvements, including lighting upgrades and repaving sections of the sidewalk in front of Bathurst Station, will continue until end of 2018.
Here’s what to expect during construction:
511 Bathurst route
Starting September 2, streetcar service will be temporarily replaced with buses
7 Bathurst route
Starting September 7, customers will board/exit buses at the streetcar platform
Wheel-Trans
Wheel-Trans customers will board/exit on Bathurst Street in front of the station
Garden of the Week
This week’s "garden" of the week is one of my favourite fall flowers:
 "Rudbeckia or Black-Eyed Susan a classic Fall flower as seen on one of the weekly garden strolls. The strolls continue each Tuesday in September, starting at 6:30pm from the southeast corner of Margaret Fairley Park."
Message Prepared by Ann Eyerman
If you have any items for the blast, please send them to eblast@harbordvillage.com at least two weeks before the event. Inclusion is at the discretion of HVRA.
For more information and detailed stories about HVRA, visit the HVRA website
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