- Featured: Riverside Wine & Craft Beer Fest EXPO is Apr 7!; Will You Take Part in Riverside Eats & Beats June 2nd? Let Us know by April 13
- BIA Notices/Reminders: New Riverside Banners Are Up; Digital Main Street Support in Riverside Extended to May 4 – Book Your Time!; Free Electronic E-Waste Recycling Service for Businesses; Clean Toronto Together
- Upcoming Riverside BIA Member Happenings
- Neighbourhood News: Vacant Unit Tax Rebate Program Ends July 1; Ralph Thornton Centre Seeking Board Members
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| Riverside Wine & Craft Beer Fest EXPO is April 7th!
Wineries & brewries offering tastings!
Craft Beer & Cheese Pairing Talk and tasting!
Live Music…and more!
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The festival’s end of week signature celebration is the FREE community EXPO hosted at the Ralph Thornton Community Centre (765 Queen Street East, 2nd & 3rd floor) on Saturday, April 7th from 2pm to 5pm:
- Experience complimentary tastings
- Enjoy Cooking Demos
- Get Educated with Talks
- Enjoy Live music
- Bid on Silent Auction items
- Get tasty $5 bites from local Riverside vendors
- Check out original art works
The EXPO is your chance to taste and order select Ontario wines straight from award winning PEC (Prince Edward County) and NWR (Niagara Wine Region) wineries, plus meet & greet with and get a taste of local Riverside breweries! But there’s so much more to see and do at the EXPO…Read our blog for all the details, then come join the fun! |
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| Will You Take Part in Riverside Eats & Beats 2018? Let Us know by April 13th!
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Pls email us by APRIL 13 to get into the printed Event Guide
Riverside’s annual Eats & Beats Streetfest is coming Saturday, June 2nd (1-6pm). The festivities that you know and love will be happening on the first Saturday of June within the Riverside BIA along Queen E from the DVP to Empire Avenue, alongside the Riverdale Art Walk.
As always, all local businesses and organizations are invited to open their doors and host specials, tasters, music, sidewalk sales, and/or other activities during the festival!
To be included in our printed Event Guide which goes out to 10,000 residents & businesses, let us know what you have planned for June 2nd by April 13th.* Please see last year’s event guide for examples of activities to help you develop your description (or if you took part last year and are doing a repeat just email us with REPEAT).
Sat, June 2, 1-6pm
- Your Activity Name:
- Timing of Your Activity:
- Your Address:
- Description of Your Activity (1 short sentence):
Important Considerations:
- Using Your Sidewalk Space: The Riverside BIA has applied for a Sidewalk Sale permit to enable businesses and other vendors to animate the sidewalk space along Queen Street East, from the DVP to Empire Avenue. You must maintain a minimum clearance of 2.13 m from the face of the curb for the unimpeded passage of pedestrian traffic, or to a greater distance as may be directed by staff from Transportation Services.
- *Outdoor Food Tasters: If providing food/drink outdoors you must complete and abide by Toronto Public Health Form pg 2-5 (pls email completed form to marketing@riverside-to.com by MAY 18th and we will submit).
- Hosting Live Music: The BIA has applied for a Noise Exemption permit for the hours of 1pm to 6pm on June 2nd. You can host your own live music (or DJ’d music) from your storefront or on your sidewalk space (abiding by the Sidewalk Permit rules above).
- Street Closures: The BIA has applied for partial street closure permits for: Munro (north of Queen), Broadview (South of Queen to the laneway), Saulter (south of Queen to the laneway), and McGee (south of Queen to the laneway); NOTE: Queen Street East will remain open to vehicle traffic throughout the festival.
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Our 2018 calendar shows an overview of what’s in store this year! Stay tuned for details of how Riverside BIA members can get involved, or email marketing@riverside-to.com anytime with you questions.
(p.s. Check out our detailed Riverside Online Events Calendar which showcases BIA member and community events – to get your event posted, submit anytime to marketing@riverside-to.com) |
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| New Riverside Banners Are Up
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| The new Riverside banners (pictured) are up!! Installed this past weekend these vibrant new banners depict the area’s everyday life and times in eye-catching style. A big improvement with these banners is the addition of a bottom metal arm to the hydro poles to securely lock each banner in place, ensuring they will be safe in high winds (such as those experienced this week!), while looking great for longer. Due to the addition of the metal arm some hydro poles which previously had banners could no longer be accommodated due to Hydro-owned equipment on the poles which did not allow enough space for addition of this extra hardware; however, other poles were used and the BIA still maintains 23 vibrant banners, and we are looking to expand that in future through requests to Hydro.
If you have any questions or ever see any issues with a banner pls contact office@riverside-to.com |
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| Digital Main Street Support in Riverside -Extended to May 4th – Book Your Time!
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| Based on great success working with Riverside BIA businesses this year, Digital Main Street is extending Ricardo’s time with us until May 4th!! He will be in Riverside the week of April 16-20 and April 30-4. As a member, you can receive support on website, social media, SEO, Google My Business, enhanced Google 360 photos and more. Ricardo will be providing up to 10 hrs of 1:1 support to Riverside BIA members on a first come first served basis.
To Book Your Time with Ricardo visit https://dmsriverside.youcanbook.me |
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| Free Electronic E-Waste Services for Businesses
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The Electronic Recycling Association is a Not for Profit dedicated to reducing electronic waste. They provide free pickup service of old IT equipment for recycling and if items are salvageable and reusable they refurbish and donate them as part of their donations program. When working with E.R.A. you can expect certificated:
- Pickups of old unwanted electronic equipment you don`t need any more
- Removal of company`s data according to NAID standards (hard drive wiping and hard drive shredding service)
- Refurbishing of reusable and salvageable items to donate them to local charities in need
- Recycling of the equipment that cannot be reused.
Contact: Nina Sehovic, 416.477.0736 x 1077 nina@era.ca |
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| Clean Toronto Together: April 20th-22nd
Rivertowne/Riverside Clean Up 2016
Riverside/Rivertowne Clean Up 2015
Riverside/Rivertowne Clean Up 2013
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Join over 200,000 residents, students, businesses, organizations and community groups as we come together for the 15th annual city-wide cleanup of public spaces.
- Community Cleanup Days: Saturday, April 21 and Sunday, April 22
- Corporate 20-Minute Makeover: Friday, April 20
- School Cleanup Day: Friday, April 20
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Riverside Green Initiative has registered a clean up for Sunday, April 22nd 10AM to 12PM of Joel Weeks Park and the surrounding streets and laneways in Riverside, including north to Dundas, west to Davies, Carroll St, Munro, Thompson, and laneways south of Thompson and east to Broadview Ave. Help is needed!! If you’d like to join, pls email riversidegreeninitiative@gmail.com
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You can also register your own event which helps ensures that multiple groups do not gather to clean up the same location, and to get access to supplies from the City like litter and recycling bags and special litter collection, subject to approval. |
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Vacant Unit Tax Rebate Program Ends July 1
The Vacancy Unity Tax Rebate Program was available for commercial and industrial properties that were either partially or completely vacant for 90 or more consecutive days. In 2017, Toronto City Council approved changes to phase out the program and is fully discontinuing the program as of July 1, 2018. Learn more |
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Ralph Thornton Centre Seeking Board Members
The Ralph Thornton Community Centre is recruiting volunteer members for the RTCC Board of Management – a time commitment of roughly ten hours a month, for a two year term of office. For more information on this opportunity, go to https://www.ralphthornton.org/new-board-of-management-members-needed/, or contact RTCC Executive Director John Campey atjohnc@ralphthornton.org.
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