friends of dufferin grove park
Newsletter Archives Index

2006

April

  • Events in April
  • Friends at other parks
  • Park garden news
  • End of rink season
  • Farmers market news
  • Park money
  • Councillor support
  • Cob courtyard news
  • Justice system visits

February-March

  • Bikes on ice
  • Photo show
  • DJ ice skating
  • Puppet rink guards
  • A community lab
  • Cheap good parks
  • Community board

January-February

  • Rink news
  • Food in the park
  • A clash of philosophies
  • Cob courtyard vandalism
  • Idling tow trucks
  • CELOS Citizens' audit
  • Your cookie money at work

2005

December

  • Rink opens Dec.3
  • Hand-made Gift Sale
  • Who runs the park?
  • Shinny hockey schedule
  • Zamboni café food prices
  • Lobby for all city rinks
  • Big old tree splits

November

  • City calls park meeting, November 7
  • Good works
  • Garden news
  • Fire permits
  • Rink news
  • The mob in us all
  • Tree Portraits

October

  • The 6th “Night of Dread”
  • City Secrets clean-out
  • Fall campfires
  • Good rink news
  • Bad rink news (Call the City!)
  • Tribute to Arie

September

  • Events in September
  • City secrets: cleaning out the cupboard
  • Cob courtyard celebration
  • Permit improvements
  • By-law officer returns
  • Tree planting

August

  • Cob courtyard
  • Coming events
  • Open letter to Park head
  • Food, sports, games
  • We lose information appeal
  • Crisis creation
  • Playground mysteries
  • Water for trees

July

  • Arts Events in July
  • The Cob Courtyard
  • City Secrets: shhh
  • Parks revolution
  • Police need reality check
  • Summer in the park
  • Campfires, picnics

June

  • Events in June
  • Media watche
  • Trash police
  • Food in the park
  • Soccer permits
  • City Secrets Hearing

May

  • Coming events
  • City snakes and ladders game
  • Pizza days, campfires, suppers
  • Lost souls in the park
  • Garden parties
  • Cob courtyard news
  • Soccer, cricket, ultimate frisbee

April

  • April park events
  • Playground rules
  • Active park friends
  • Dover Square meeting
  • Farmers' market
  • Emergency plans
  • Neighbourhood music

March

  • March skating
  • NHL visitors, maybe
  • Park heroes
  • Events in March
  • Sneak preview of summer
  • City secrets 2
  • Media watch
  • Human rights law

February

  • Yellow skates
  • Playground cob structure
  • How the park works
  • Conflicts as property
  • Puppets on Ice Feb.27
  • Rink schedule
  • Friday night suppers change

January

  • A gift from the NHLPA
  • Local food at our market
  • Skating schedule
  • Penalties for bad language
  • Stuck in the snow
  • Ben Figuereido: in memoriam
  • City Secrets: follow-up

2004

December

  • Skating schedule
  • No more midnight hockey
  • Friday Night Supper
  • Farmers’ market news
  • Buy a city secret (Part 2)
  • Playground inspectors

November

  • Rink opening Nov.27
  • Playground business
  • Buy a City secret
  • Rink schedule
  • Neighbourhood web pages
  • Skating lessons
  • Dover Square Development

October

  • The Night of Dread Parade
  • Ten years of cooking fires
  • Police catch marshmallow roast
  • A pow wow story
  • City Hall secrets
  • New Residents’ Association

September

  • Park debt is paid off
  • Special events in September
  • Farmers’ market news
  • Samba at 90 Croatia Street
  • The bigger park picture
  • Picnics and parties

August

  • We’re in the hole
  • Paint a picnic table
  • The Counterfeit Marquise"
  • "Lilith" returns Aug.20-22
  • Raku in the park
  • Park gardens
  • The $803,000 list
  • Coming events

July

  • Circle games for families
  • Summer clubs
  • Summerfest July 25
  • Park rules of conduct
  • Rink Mystery
  • Please complain

June

  • Bike festival
  • Theatre festival
  • Dance festival
  • Rink cracks no problem
  • Law lesson
  • Research group

May

  • Sundays in the park in May
  • Birthday parties
  • In memoriam
  • Playground petition
  • Baking classes
  • Rink Crack-up
  • Our "Follow-up group"
  • Friday night music jam
  • Rivoli fundraiser for our festival

April

  • April 18 Community park cleanup day
  • Spring Arts & Crafts Festival May 2
  • The mystery of the rink leak
  • Food in the park
  • Zamboni kitchen
  • Coming events
  • Summer clubs for kids

March

  • Rink season extended
  • Coming events
  • Soccer registration
  • Zamboni kitchen funds park
  • Tooker Gomberg: in memoriam
  • Park heroes this month
  • Spring and summer prospects

February

  • Inspector sequel
  • Zamboni Valentine, Feb.14
  • Web site now a 'zine
  • Monthly recipe
  • Do-it-yourself ice maintenance
  • Good deeds by park friends
  • Rink schedule to Feb.29
  • Farmer's Market

January

  • Inspectors visit our rink
  • Rink crisis follow-up
  • Lawyers get to work
  • Rink Schedule
  • Hockey tourists
  • Homeless man gets shelter
  • Little and big gifts to the park
  • P.S. Late breaking news and info

2003

December

  • Rink news
  • Rink Schedule
  • Rinkhouse suppers
  • December story: Mary and Joe and the baby
  • Parks and Rec revolution put on hold
  • A surprise from the homeless man
  • Farmers' Market news
  • First-ever Christmas outdoor local crafts market: Dec. 18

November

  • Skating lessons
  • Thieves
  • Alexandra rink
  • Farmers' market
  • City elections
  • Firewood for the hot stove
  • In memoriam: Ryva Novick

October

  • Big parade
  • Landmark court case
  • Food in the park
  • Skating news
  • Bike tie-up rings
  • Boy scouts/ girl scouts

September

  • Nine September events
  • Loud music - solutions
  • Neighbourhood Fair
  • Troubles at Cawthra Park
  • Farmers’ market news

August

  • Hydro Blackout!
  • Blackout Aftermath
  • Kyla and the Bike Rings
  • Dave the Dog Walker
  • August Events and Programs
  • September Events
  • Kitchen Update
  • Friday Night Supper
  • Racial Profiling Follow-up

July

  • Water in the Park
  • The Dufferin Park Farmers' Market
  • Special Events This Month
  • Summer-long Events
  • Dufferin Park Youth Works
  • Racial Profiling Follow-up
  • Pit Bull Attack

June

  • Best-ever summer camp
  • Park Events and June 21: "Day of De Light"
  • Dufferin Park Youth Works
  • Arsenic news
  • Race and police
  • Dufferin Street Highway
  • A new park kitchen
  • Park fix-it inventory

April/May

  • Arsenic in the playground?
  • Grants for the park
  • Neighbourhood artists and performers
  • Kids’ soccer, neighbourhood soccer
  • Park war vigil
  • Wal-mart security comes over
  • Coming events
  • Homeless in the park with a dog
  • Good works by park friends
  • Our new web site

January/February

  • The trouble with crowds
  • Arsenic playgrounds
  • Rink Safety
  • Park Friends
  • Rink Schedule or Fun With Snow Shovels
  • City-Wide Rink Survey
  • Organic Farmer's Market
  • Friday Night Supper
  • Homeless in the park
  • Puppets on Ice

2002

Fall

  • Fall events schedule
  • Web site changes
  • Arie seeks a room for rent
  • Police and teenagers: editorial
  • Parks management keeps their word

June/July

  • Summer schedule/ special events
  • Legacy benches celebration
  • Dusk Dances Launch
  • Performances of Gold
  • "Fate of the Park II" meeting report
  • June 18: meet the park managers

May

  • The yurt is coming
  • Food in the Park
  • Citizens’ Hall "Fate of the Park II" meeting, May 30
  • Waving the flag of truce
  • Parks Dept. cancels newsletter printing
  • Arie and his water cannon
  • Heroes of trash, heroes of wood
  • Help create a public art park bench

April

  • Summer kid stuff
  • Strange new permit rules
  • Fifth annual matzo-baking
  • Coming events
  • Meeting in May

March

  • A warm bed for Mimo
  • Food in the park
  • Gardening news
  • Hockey stories
  • Progress for Citizen's Hall
  • The death of John Menga

February

  • Citizens’ Hall: maybe a meeting
  • Dogs’ Valentine campfire
  • It's a small world
  • Car thieves
  • Food at the park
  • Turkeys, part 2

January

  • Rink Schedule
  • No budget figures again
  • Free turkey story
  • Winter soup at the rink
  • Mimo in the Winter
  • Almost a visit...
  • Dangerous cars, part 2
  • Events

2001

December

  • First weekend of rink opening
  • Playground equipment
  • Food in the winter park
  • Citizens' Hall Meeting: Budget mystery
  • Ice rink schedule
  • Loblaws comes to the Park
  • Grazing on the Commons Conference
  • Mimo’s good luck
  • Dangerous drivers
  • Dufferin Race Track

November

  • "Citizens’ Hall" meeting
  • Mimo: Why he has not starved to death
  • Report on events that happened in October
  • Garden news
  • Traffic concerns
  • Ideas that Matter: grazing on the commons
  • The Rink: Success. December 1 is opening day after all
  • Food in the park

October

  • The big parade
  • Mimo needs a good suit
  • Rink alarm
  • New uses for the bake-oven
  • Sports in the Park
  • Arts in the Park
  • St. Mary's
  • Gardener's News
  • Special Thanks

September

  • Poetic Licence
  • Events for September
  • Police Issues
  • Rink Alarm
  • An Award for the Park
  • Food at the Park

August

  • If you love trees
  • Police Cruisers
  • Tasty dinners at the park
  • July/ August events

July

  • Dog troubles
  • June events
  • Lamb's quarters curry
  • Portuguese parade
  • Garden news
  • Rink Letter

May

  • Visitors from Inter-Church Kenyan Working Group
  • Forestry Department: our heroes
  • Mimo is back
  • Stand-off with the Parks Department maintenance crew

April

  • Technical Standards and Safety Authority Meeting
  • Very successful dog walkers’ park cleanup
  • Time for gardening
  • Good news from the Parks Director

January

  • Parks-related court case
  • Funding for the park
  • What is a rink?
  • Bread baking
  • Twelfth Night

2000

September

  • Theatre and dance in the park
  • Celebrations
  • Gardens
  • Food
  • School visits and child-related programs
  • Park Safety
  • Community service orders and court follow-up
  • A research centre at the park