Leslieville/Riverside News: #RiversideTO BIA Weekly Update

• Featured: Wild Plant Walk is back; Thanks + Photos: Clean Riverside Together
• BIA Notices/Reminders: FREE Digital Main Street Forum – 2019; Business Sidewalk Signs
• Riverside BIA 2019 Event Calendar
• Upcoming Riverside BIA Member Happenings 
• Neighbourhood News: Toronto Public Library Strategic Plan; SRCPC Stroller-A-Thon and Bake Sale

Submit YOUR Riverside news/events via office@riverside-to.com

If you would like to learn to identify local plants that are good for food, medicine and pollinators – come out and enjoy this Riverside Walk! Enjoy springtime walk through the Riverside neighbourhood with our local herbalist Danette Steele. She will share stories about the history and the medicinal + nutritional benefits of the plants that we find along the way. During this gently paced walk, we will wander through laneways, parks and gardens.
You will gain new insights into the green world that surrounds us in the city after you meet some wild plant friends –like Dandelion, Motherwort, Plantain and Goosefoot. Bring your travel mug as herbal teas are provided a few minutes before the walk!
Let us know you’re coming: https://www.facebook.com/events/294097084842421/

Riverside residents, businesses, and volunteers from George Brown College School of ESL teamed up to clean in and around Joel Weeks Park, Carroll St, Thompson St, Davies Ave, Munro St, and Hamilton St. The Ralph Thornton Community Centre also organized a clean up of McClearly Playground and surrounding streets and spaces on Friday afternoon!

Thanks to everyone who supported the annual Riverside Clean Up and thanks for your efforts day to day to keep our community beautiful!
Check our blog to see photos!!

The Digital Main Street Forum aims to assist main street businesses in embracing digital technologies to build and grow their operations – from online marketing and leveraging data to better engage your clients, to adopting e-commerce to reach a broader customer base.
PLUS: For the first time ever, attendees can sit down with Digital Service Squad one on one during our ‘open forum’ session in the afternoon. This is a great opportunity to ask more pointed questions and receive one-on-one support.
 
Fri, May 10, 2019 from 9am – 4pm
Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St. West, Council Chamber
Register here for FREE!

• Every business displaying a portable sign (e.g. A-Frame) must first obtain a permit to do so (693-21)
• Your permitted sign must be located on the public property (e.g. the sidewalk) adjacent to your business
• Your sign must allow for an unobstructed pedestrian clearway of a minimum of 2.1m
• No more than one portable sign can be displayed for a business
• Your sign can only be displayed during your business operating hours
• Sign size must be between 0.5m and 1m in height, and no wider than 0.6 m

This reminder is being sent as the Riverside BIA and Councillor’s office have received complaints from local residents related to business signs obstructing sidewalks. While anyone can file a complaint with the City’s Municipal Licensing and Standards office, it is important for businesses and residents to work together in efforts to resolve disputes prior to involving authorities.

Having great business-community relations is what makes Riverside a great place to live, work and play, so please be respectful of the rules and please work with residents and each other when these issues arise. Thank you!

Temporary Sign Permit Application form available here.

Our 2019 calendar shows an overview of what’s happening this year! Email marketing@riverside-to.com anytime with your questions and to get involved.  
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