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Hello there you great people
Ain't the weather jes grand!!

Some news for you all with some things to do: some voting, some nominating, some meetings to go to-- So here goes

1: Our annual Spring Meeting will be Tuesday May 26 - 7-9 pm at the KHC 25 Brunswick Avenue. Special topics are: The New Garbage/Recycling Bins: Good & Bad plus Getting the Lead out of your Water.
Where you come in is that we have a tradition of recognizing people who have done something special for Harbord Village-- We call them "Community Builders" and it could be for: a great renovation, a special garden, making peace amongst neighbours, took charge of a street project, -- you know, fought the good fight and made us all proud.
Please respond to me at rory.sinclair@rogers.com if you think you know someone who should carry the title "Community Builder" for a year.

2: This Sunday HVRA will participate in a special Eco-Event at Trinity St. Paul's
It is called Greening our Neighbourhoods EcoFestival
Sunday May 3, 10:30 am to 5 pm 427 Bloor Street West
Greening our Neighbourhoods is a day-long festival focused on our common community cause,
greening our neighbourhoods and the Earth.

Please join us for a special service of worship at 10:30 am followed by an afternoon of workshops, music, displays, food and neighbourhood walks, celebrating our planet, our commitment to greening the city, and the arts.

Featured events and performers:
10:30 am: Special Eco-Worship Service
1:00 pm: Juno-nominated children’s entertainer Chris McKhool presents “Earth, Air and Seas”
2:15 pm: Sick of Hot Air: A Forum for Real Action on Climate Change
featuring David Hallman, Advisor to theWorld Council of Churches on Climate
Change; Lauryn Drainie, International Youth Delegation to UNFCC climate talks in
Poznan, December 2008; Lynn McDonald, JustEarth
Throughout the afternoon from 12 noon – 5 pm:
• Green business and ecological education fair featuring goods and services from local businesses
and environmental organizations.
• Recycling for Kids and Greening our Apartments (Toronto Environmental Alliance)
• Protecting and Growing the Urban Forest (Local Enhancement and Appreciation of Forests)
• How to do your own Lighting Audit (Greening Sacred Spaces)
• The Secret Life ofWater in the Annex (Lost Rivers)
• The Lorax by Dr. Seuss (a dramatic reading)
• How to Organize the Greening of your Neighbourhood (Green Neighbours 21 & Live Green
Toronto & Harbord Village Residents Association)
• Guerilla Gardening
• STEP to Action (Students of Toronto for Environmental Progress)
• Ontario's Electricity Future - Nuclear or Renewables? (Ontario Clean Air Alliance)
Free Admission to all events and displays. Lunch for sale by the Viva Youth Singers. Nursery
care provided.
For more information contact John Bell (416) 922-8435 x 21; email: tsp@trinitystpauls.ca;
website: www.trinitystpauls.ca

3: Finally, Richard Longley, a very active member of the community and former member of the HVRA Board has done much work to see that the well known Hollywood star Walter Huston who used to live at 11 Major Street, gets some recognition in the City of his birth.. To that end, Richard suggests that we assist in this by voting to see his star placed on Toronto's Walk of Fame.. Here is the information

Thursday, April 30 is the closing date for selecting those who will be admitted this year to Canada’s Walk of Fame.

Please vote for Walter Huston, who was born near Kensington Market and spent part of his childhood in Harbord Village (when he attended Lord Lansdowne Public School.)

To vote, go to: http://www.canadaswalkoffame.com/nomination

Or: Google ‘Canada’s Walk of Fame’, click on ‘Nominations’, scroll down to the list of nominees then Click on 'Walter Huston', identify yourself as required and provide your reasons for voting for him. In case you have no idea why you should do that, rent DVDs of Walter Huston‘s movies – they are wonderful - or add some version of this brief argument on his behalf:

Walter Huston, 1884-1950, actor, father of actor/director/writer John Huston, grandfather of actress Anjelica Huston, was born in Toronto on April 6, 1884. He left Canada in 1902, at the age of 18, for the United States where, after two decades of performing in vaudeville, he became, with the help and guidance of his sister Margaret, a star of stage and screen. Walter Huston appeared in 53 movies, including Dodsworth, The Maltese Falcon, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Abraham Lincoln, The Furies and his Oscar-winning appearance in Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

For more information contact:

Richard Longley
Harbord Village Heritage Conservation District
68 Brunswick Avenue
t: 416-961-2766
email: