- Featured: Riverside Eats & Beats 2018 is Live; Riverside Visits Les Clefs D’Or; Blog Series – Get the Dirt on Gardening in Riverside
- BIA Notices/Reminders: Crime Prevention – Beware of Fake Bills; Upcoming Repairs along Queen St E; CONTACT Photography Exhibits In/Around Riverside; Riverside Community Garden; Spaces for Lease in Riverside
- Upcoming Riverside BIA Member Happenings
- Neighbourhood News: Unilever Precinct Planning Study Meeting on May 15th; You’re Invited: East End ‘Bridges to Art’ Project Visioning
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| Riverside Eats & Beats Schedule is Live
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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 ArtWalk. This year’s festival has an amazing roster of activities and events:
Pls share widely!!!
Reminder for Riverside BIA member businesses:
- If you need any change to your information online just email us at marketing@riverside-to.com
- BIA staff will be coming to you with copies of the festival poster and the printed Event Guide next week!
- 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).
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| Riverside Visits Les Clefs D’Or
Riverside BIA Chair Mitch Korman and Executive Director Jennifer Lay
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This week, the Riverside BIA’s Chair Mtich Korman, Executive Director Jennifer Lay, and local resident and Marketing Committee member Lynne Patterson, presented to Les Clefs D’Or Concierges of Ontario at their meeting at the Soho Metropolitan. We had a warm welcome as we delivered an update on all the exciting changes in our great ‘hood since our last visit with them in 2014 – how time flies!
Who Are Les Clefs D’Or?
Les Clefs d’Or is a society of Hotel Concierge whose aim as an organization is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between our members and to provide mutual assistance in order to better serve our valued guests.
Speaking to Les Clefs D’Or is a great opportunity for Riverside to showcase what our neighbourhood has to offer and for hotel concierges to recommend our restaurants, shops, festivals, walks (and more) to their clients!
Next, we look forward to bringing Les Clefs D’Or to Riverside for a great experience!
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| Blog Series – Get the Dirt on Gardening in Riverside
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The Riverside Blog series is back with a fresh news, just in time for gardening season. Get great tips from local resident and blogger, photographer and writer, Karen Lloyd of k-media:Gardening season is coming upon us like a vigorous clematis and Toronto’s Riverside neighbourhood along Queen Street East is full of green-piration!
Whether you’re looking for perennials, shrubs, veggies, medicinal herbs, stylish and whimsical decor to spruce up your outdoor living space, or gardening gloves, be sure to check out our roundup of where to shop in Riverside for all your growing needs, and outdoor living dreams….
Read the full article f/t Quince Flowers, Queen Garden Centre, Arts Market and more on the Riverside Blog
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Our 2018 calendar shows an overview of what’s happening this year! Email marketing@riverside-to.com anytime with you questions/ 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 |
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| Crime Prevention – Beware of Fake Bills
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A couple Riverside businesses have gotten fake bills in the past week.
The photo shows a real versus a fake $50 where you can see clear differences, once you know, with the fake bill: colours are more vibrant than usual, and the holograms are opaque or incorrect. People provide fake bills as part of a scam where the ‘customer’ waits for staff to be busy and distracted, and then ‘customer’ may be pushy and impatient – putting the pressure on staff even more.
Training all staff to spot fake bills (usually $50s or $100s) and ‘customer scam’ techniques like this, and saying NO to accepting the bill or making change for the bill, are good ways to help prevent this crime. |
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| Upcoming Repairs on Queen St East in Riverside
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Note from City of Toronto:
The City is planning to repair sections of roadway and sidewalks along Queen St E between the DVP and Greenwood Ave, and we wish to reach out to you for awareness.
Our 2018 Utility Cut Repairs Program includes some work along Queen St E, concentrating on sections of sidewalks and roadway damaged by utility companies. Our contractor is planning to start shortly, and may take approximately three weeks to complete.
Construction notices will be distributed to all businesses and residents at least 48 hours prior to construction starting. The TTC will also be notified.
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| CONTACT Photography Exhibits In/Around Riverside
Isolation
Jack Gilbert
Wonder
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This year, the annual CONTACT Photography Festival is Getting Bigger in Toronto’s East End, with exhibits in and around Riverside – highlighted exhibits include:
Isolation @ Artists’ Network Gallery
630 Queen St East (Gallery inside Dark Horse), May 1-27 (Reception May 4, 6pm-9pm), Isolation Talks: May 10, 7pm & May 19, 1pm, Details
Jack Gilbert Exhibition @ IX Gallery
11 Davies Ave, Unit 101, A Sick Kids Hospital Foundation Fundraiser, May 1–31 (Reception May 17, 6:30pm–9:30pm), Details
Wonder by Laird Kay @ Former Weston Bread Factory
462 Eastern Ave, Open Saturday & Sunday May 12 & 13 and May 19 & 20, 10am-4pm each day, Details |
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| Riverside Community Garden
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Did you know….
The Riverside Community Garden is an amazing garden space right here in Riverside’s Joel Weeks Park. The garden is open to membership for anyone who lives, works or plays in the Riverside neighbourhood.
The garden operates on a communal models (shred space, no plots) during gardening season from May – October to grow fresh vegetables and herbs. Membership is just $25-35 per season.
Want to learn more or become a member for 2018? Contact riversidegreeninitiative@gmail.com |
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| Commercial Spaces for Lease in Riverside
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Prime Spaces for Lease along Riverside’s Queen St East:
Available Aug 1, 2018:
733 Queen Street East, 550 sq feet with Basement and Loft
Contact 416-466-0313 x 2 or email athena@theoperahousetoronto.com
Available Fall 2018:
777 Queen St East, front section of Elbers Antique store (1,100 sq ft)
Ideal tenant in clothing, retail, office business (no food/hospitality)
Inquiries: Ron at 416-466-3938 or ronelbers@rogers.com |
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Unilever Precinct Planning Study Meeting on May 15
On May 15, please join City Planning staff to learn about the outcomes of the Study and the review of First Gulf’s East Harbour applications. The meeting notice for this event may be viewed directly here.
Date: May 15, 2018
Time: 6:15-8:30pm
Brief presentation by the City at 7:00pm, Drop-in Open House 6:15-8:30pm
Place: Queen Alexandra Middle School, 181 Broadview Avenue, Gymnasium |
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You’re Invited: East End ‘Bridges to Art’ Project Visioning
A lot more public art will be coming to ‘hoods in Ward 30 with the East End Bridges to Art Project: 9 underpass projects including a new mural in the underpass bridge at De Grassi St in Riverside. Thanks to Councillor Paula Fletcher for championing this amazing project.
Get involved and share your vision at upcoming workshops on May 14 & 15 and/or fill out their online survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/EastEndBridgestoArt
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