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Dufferin Rink lockout information

Will the Dufferin Rink compressors be turned off if the City locks out CUPE Local 416 (including zamboni drivers) on February 5? At the market this Thursday - have your hot chocolate at the campfire and swap ideas with skaters and market goers about the labour disruption. See market campfire pamphlet here For more information, see the Dufferin Rink pages on cityrinks.ca.

 

DUFFERIN GROVE ORGANIC FARMERS' MARKET

The Weekly Market Notes for Thursday February 2nd(3:00pm - 7:00pm) are on-line. We're open this week and every week, all year long. It's Skate & Shop time at the market again! Read more>>

The Farmers' Market continues all year round, every Thursday. You'll find it on the rinkpad for fall. Read more >>

Women of Winter Shinny Hockey Tournament at Dufferin Rink

The 7th annual The Women of Winter Outdoor Shinny Tournament will be held on Friday February 3 and Saturday February 4, 2012 at Dufferin-Grove Park Rink.

For more information go to The women of winter.

Registration starts at 6:00 pm on Friday.

FRIDAY NIGHT SUPPER

SUPPER HAS STARTED AGAIN, ALONG WITH THE RINK SEASON. Good food and skating go well together. In winter, supper is on from 6 to 7.30. There is always soup, a vegetarian or vegan entrée, a meat entrée, a side dish, a salad, and dessert. Most of the groceries are bought at the organic farmers’ market on Thursday, and most of the cooking is done in the outdoor wood-fired bake-ovens. The food is tasty, and conforms largely to the 100-mile “locavore” boundary. There’s a suggested donation, all of which goes back into the park, and to pay for the groceries. But if you can’t spare the cash, donate at some other time – nobody goes away hungry! (Of course, if you feel like donating more than the suggested amount, that’s fine too.)

Click here for this Friday's menu.

If we are not locked out:

February 5 'Shinny Bonanza' at Campbell Rink

February 3 and 4 Women of Winter 7th annual Shinny Hockey Tournament.

February 11th 12pm-3pm Skating Party with Andrew Cash (MP) and Jonah Schein (MPP)

February 17 different shinny schedule to accommodate school's PA day

February 18, 6pm-11pm The annual bike couriers' ice race

February 20 Family Day

Dufferin Grove Park is in trouble again

City management says it's run the WRONG WAY.
How did Dufferin Grove Park develop into a park that gets in so much trouble?

Summer Story

Chapter One,Chapter Two, Chapter Three, Chapter Four, Chapter Five, Chapter Six, Chapter Seven, and Chapter Eight are now online.

Beginning Sept.1: Fall Story

Chapter Nine, Chapter Ten, Chapter Eleven, Chapter Twelve, Chapter Thirteen, Chapter Fourteen, Chapter Fifteen, Chapter Sixteen, Chapter Seventeen, and Chapter Eighteen, are now online.

Beginning Nov.24: Winter Story

Chapter Nineteen, Chapter Twenty, Chapter Twenty-One, Chapter Twenty-two, Chapter Twenty-three, Chapter Twenty-four, Chapter Twenty-five and Chapter Twenty-six are now online.

Read more >>

Solitary bee research comes to Dufferin Grove Park

Beginning this year, Dufferin Grove Park will be participating in a research monitoring study carried out by Scott MacIvor, a PhD Student at York University. The four-year project will examine the effects of urban land use and complexity on the diversity and foraging of wild, cavity-nesting solitary bees. The principle objective is to better integrating biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships into all scales of city planning and design initiatives.

Over 200 sites all over Toronto are participating, and these include public and private gardens, parks, green roofs, and semi-naturalized areas. Read more >>

Dufferin Grove Park has been sent to Civics class: The park and the bureaucracy: read more

Regular activities:

CAMPFIRES

For the winter, there are three small-group campfire locations – centre path, south path, and beside the rink. The centre path fire circle is in the middle of the park, and the south path fire circle is beside the cob courtyard. The park’s recreation staff book the cooking fire times. They also give fire safety training and are available to help start/end your fire. You can reach them at 416-392-0913 or email staff@dufferinpark.ca, Read more >>

Pizza Day details: 2010

Public PIZZA DAYS: Sundays, 1 pm to 3 pm, and Wednesdays 12 to 2 pm. (weather permitting) $2.50 per pizza is the requested donation. You get a lump of dough, some tomato sauce, and cheese, and you can pick toppings from the park gardens when they’re growing there. If you plan to bring a big group (more than 12 people altogether) please call ahead to warn the staff 416-392-0913 or email staff@dufferinpark.ca.”

Birthday parties with pizza: You can book an hour on Sundays before or after the public pizza times (i.e. birthday party bookings are at 12pm or 3 pm on Sundays). Program costs are $60, plus the regular $2.50 per pizza. If you can’t afford that, park staff will work out a trade with you. To book: contact staff at 416-392-0913 or staff@dufferinpark.ca

In the Neighbourhood

Local service providers

If a pipe bursts in your basement or your roof leaks, where do you turn? Find out your neighbours' favourite fixers, where your neighbours like to go out to eat, who they go to for piano lessons, and more. This list Local Service Providers is a compendium of listserv posts from four local lists

'''In Neighbourhood Section, there is a repository of information, stories, and notices from around the neighbourhood. It includes Community News And Notices , Local Artists and Performers