Pumpkin Festival
4th Annual Harbord Street Pumpkin Festival 2011
Photos above: Wendy Smith
Past pumpkin pleasures
Photo album 2010
Click here for Eleanor Levine's 2010 Pumpkin Fest photos.Photo slideshow 2009
Click here for our 2009 Pumpkin Festival photos
— a wonderful night to remember
A hearty thanks to the 50+ volunteers who donated their time to make our 4th Annual Harbord Street Pumpkin Festival a big success. Thanks too to the Harbord Street Business Improvement Association for their continued support.
Once again thousands of people came out on November 1st to view over 700 candle-lit pumpkins that festooned tables along 4 blocks of Harbord, west of Spadina.
During the Festival, the Harbord Bakery gave away Halloween cookies. The Boulevard Café provided free samples of a quinoa-pumpkin dessert. DT Bistro handed out cotton candy, and donated 300 cupcakes which HVRA distributed along with hot cider at our gathering place at 85 Harbord.
Meanwhile, bids were placed fast and furiously on dozens of silent auction items inside 85 Harbord in support of the Saturday afternoon community swims at Central Technical School. Along with warm Fall weather, it was a wonderful night to remember.
Tim Grant, HVRA Chair
Photos below by Robert Bell
Thank you Robert!
$2,200 Raised for Community Swims at the Pumpkin Festival SILENT AUCTION
Please join us in thanking the generous donors who enabled us to raise $2,200 to keep the Community Swims going for three more months!
Businesses: Wonder Works, Torreira Import Auto Service, Kidstuff, A Different Booklist, Trainers, Messis, MoMo’s, Hutoshi, Second Cup, Roti Palace, The Bathurst Street Theatre, Woodlot , BBQs, Shoeless Joes, Parent Books, Chabichou, The Boulevard Café, Harbord Room, Red Pegasus, Soundscapes, Bakka Phoenix Bookstore, Joe Fresh, Wieners Home Hardware, 93 Harbord, Metro, Risque, Harbord Bakery, Harbord Convenience, Kim Hoang Jewelry & Watches, Tangle Gallery, College Maple Leaf Home Hardware, Health Solutions, Jane Austen Dancing and Jodes Jewels.
Individuals: Kevin and Sara, the Porretta Family, Ingrid McKhool, Rosie Rodrigues, Jessy Kahn, Deanna Hendricks, Joy Brickell, Tali Douglas, Rosamund Palmer, Mona, the Kerman Family.
On November 1st, 2011, a silent auction was held during the annual Pumpkin Festival at 85 Harbord Street. The monies will enable us to keep the weekly Community Swims at going for at least the first three months of 2012. We are very grateful for the community businesses and individuals who generously donated to the silent auction, and to all those who purchased the donated items at the auction. Collectively, they have given community members more time to splash and swim on Saturday afternoons at Central Tech's beautiful pool.
Photo: Susan Purvis (Central Tech Community Swim)
at the silent auction.