EVENTS
Annual Seedy Saturday And Green Fair. Learn how to live more sustainably, exchange seeds with other seed savers, buy heirloom and organic seeds or join a workshop on sprouting, soil and composting and more. Then stop by one of our local garden clubs’ tables and ask an expert!
This day promises to be fun for everyone. Over 40 tables will include heirloom seed vendors, green exhibits, bee products, worm composting, backyard gardening, garden associations and regional organizations such as LEAF, the TRCA and Rouge Park.
Be a steward and bring in your used electronics for recycling! And there will be kids events too.
The Fair is hosted by the Stewards of the Earth at St. Agatha Catholic School, the Treehuggers at Blessed Cardinal Newman Catholic High School, and Seeds of Diversity.
Our meeting on Thursday, June 4, 7:15 to 8:15pm is at the Albert Campbell Library auditorium (to the left off the downstairs lobby). The library is located at 496 Birchmount Road, just north of Danforth Road.
Special guest: Dusha Sritharan of the Toronto Environmental Alliance
Dusha will be on hand to discuss the great work this organization does to safeguard and improve Toronto’s environment.
Also on the agenda, a few brief reports by one of our very active members, Richard Hennick, on some of the recent meetings he has attended:
* NO-Jets which is fighting the proposed Toronto Island Airport expansion
* Studio Y workshop on how to get Youth actively involved in politics
* The future of the Greenbelt – so vital to the health of our city. (Dusha was also there at that one.)
We are also preparing for the coming federal election, and hope to see a number of our prospective candidates at the meeting.
This will be the Green Party of Canada – Scarborough Southwest Nomination Meeting to select our candidate in the upcoming federal election of 2015
The nominees are:
Lindsay Thompson
Richard Hennick
Tommy Taylor
Special Guest : Jim Harris – Well known speaker on Business, Innovation and the Environment, leader of the Green Party of Canada from 2003 to 2006.
When: Tuesday, July 21, 7pm to 8:30pm
Where: Oakridge Community Recreation Centre, 63 Pharmacy Avenue
Craft Room at Northwest corner (turn left as you enter through the main entrance)
Directions:
* about a 2 minute walk north along Pharmacy Avenue from Danforth Avenue – take either 113 Danforth or 20 Cliffside buses OR
* about a 5 minute walk from the Victoria Park subway station east along Denton Ave OR
* you can take the 67 Pharmacy bus from the station and get off at the second stop OR
* you can drive – there’s lots of parking
To be eligible to vote you must be a member and have joined at least 30 days prior to the meeting and live in the riding of Scarborough Southwest.
Lapsed members can renew their membership up until the Nomination Meeting.
Kindly RSVP to help us organize better.
This is our announcement of a second Green Party of Canada – Scarborough Southwest Nomination Meeting to select our candidate in the upcoming federal election of 2015. As the nomination meeting of July 21 failed to select a candidate, due to a tie vote, we will be holding a new nomination meeting with the three original nominees:
Lindsay Thompson, Richard Hennick, and Tommy Taylor
Where:
Taylor Memorial Pubic Library
Meeting Room ( straight ahead from the main entrance to the north side of the building. )
1440 Kingston Road ( at the northwest corner of Kingston Road and Warden Ave. )
Directions:
Take either 68A Warden South bus or 68B Warden South via Birchmount from Warden Station, or the 12A, B or C Kingston Road bus from Victoria Park Station.
To be eligible to vote you must have been a member at least 30 days prior to the meeting and live in the riding of Scarborough Southwest.
Lapsed members can renew their membership up until the Nomination Meeting.
* We will start registering voters at 6:25pm and call the meeting to order at 6:35pm. We hope to have our candidate selected by about 7:45pm, and end the meeting shortly thereafter. In the unlikely event that there is another tie vote, we will allow more questions from the membership, and hold a second ballot, in which case the meeting may extend up to 8:15pm.