Greetings all. As the Winter drags on, what better way to respond than to gather your neighbours and go to a community meeting! Here are five upcoming events for your consideration.............

1) HVRA's TREEING THE VILLAGE committee meeting: Tuesday, March 2nd, 7pm, 90 Borden Street.

With many ambitious projects completed, the committee will consider new projects, and how to spend remaining "backyard tree" grant monies, along with other tree-planting monies raised locally. Here are some of their initial ideas:

a) Canopy Care: planting projects, watering support, use of website information, fruit tree harvesting, presentations/workshops topics of interest, other 'green' planting interests; harvesting local fruit trees, roof gardens, kitchen gardens....arborist services...support for local research projects; U of T science project collecting insects; U of T geography project on contradiction of shade (trees) vs direct sun (garden) in backyards...

Greetings all. Here are four ways to beat the mid-Winter blues.........

1) Visit HVRA's revitalized website at www.harbordvillage.com.

If you haven’t visited HVRA’s Web site recently, please take a look (go to www.harbordvillage.com). Thanks to the efforts of our new webmaster, Harbord Village resident Wendy Smith, the site has been transformed. The new site is easier to navigate but the big improvements are in the content and the layout. Much of what is at the site has been updated. Our intention is to keep things there as current as possible and as useful as possible to HVRA members.

Greetings all. Here's an opportunity to chase away the Winter blues this Saturday night.

Trinity-St. Pauls United Church is hosting their second contra dance on Saturday night, January 16th, at 427 Bloor Street. It is “souped-up” square dancing steps, with a caller guiding us, and live music with a fiddle band playing Celtic, Queceboise, and Southern reels and jigs. The dance is beginner-friendly, family-friendly, queer-friendly, and single-persons friendly. Children over 7 pick it up easily. Wear loose and comfortable casual clothing- or dress-up. Bring dance-friendly shoes to change into from your winter boots. Starts at 7:30.m. and goes until 10:30. Alcohol, drugs and fragrance-free zone .

Here's an opportunity to chase away those Winter blues!

Trinity-St. Pauls United Church is hosting their second contra dance on Saturday night, January 16th, at 427 Bloor Street. It is “souped-up” square dancing steps, with a caller guiding us, and live music with a fiddle band playing Celtic, Queceboise, and Southern reels and jigs. The dance is beginner-friendly, family-friendly, queer-friendly, and single-persons friendly. Children over 7 pick it up easily. Wear loose and comfortable casual clothing- or dress-up. Bring dance-friendly shoes to change into from your winter boots. Starts at 7:00.m. and goes until 10:30. Alcohol, drugs and fragrance-free zone . Cost: $7 per person or $10 a family.

Greetings all. Here are 3 items that I hope are of interest to you amidst this holiday season:

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1) HVRA's Home Energy Retrofit Programme (HERO) has been extended to the end of January, 2010.

That means you still have time to do as 115 of your neighbours have done: sign up for a HERO energy audit with Carson Dunlop. And once you've had the audit, and undertaken improvements big or small to improve the energy efficiency of your home - you will become eligible for provincial and federal rebates of up to $10,000. Those rebates are due to expire early in 2011, so don't wait too long.

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Please bring your family and friends to Harbord on Sunday evening, November 1st from 5:30pm to 9pm to enjoy our 2nd annual Harbord Street Pumpkin Festival. Just like last year, you will find several hundred candle-lit pumpkins - many skillfully carved, resting on sidewalk tables. Think of it as one big community art celebration.

Speaking of art, our first Pumpkin Festival Art Show will take place inside the former Miss Emma's storefront at 85 Harbord, where you will see displayed the works of 7 local artists. In the same storefront, HVRA will be giving away free hot cider and hosting a silent auction, thanks to the donations of meals and other gifts from generous merchants on College, Bloor and Harbord streets. The silent auction and the Festival as a whole are co-sponsored by the Harbord Business Improvement Association. Some of the proceeds will go to the Hospital for Sick Kids and the remainder to HVRA to support our many community projects.