Volunteers Spring into Action to Clean Up Park Vista

A determined group of more than 20 Park Vista volunteers offered up their time, energy and muscle power to collect litter and debris around our buildings and on the banks of Taylor Creek Park for the April 23 Community Cleanup.

Our neighbourhood is now more tidy, beautiful and welcoming because of their efforts. Councillor Janet Davis dropped by to thank volunteers and handed out City of Toronto pins as a token of appreciation. She also gave the group a shoutout on Twitter. 

A big thanks to the following waste warriors:

Carole & Paul Ward; Grace & Paul St. John; Edyta & Bogdan Bil; Toby; Roy Routledge; Susan Wilson; Susan Phillips; Maureen Ballentine & Kevin Carey; Elly Baptie; Jenny Link & Zeus; Audrey Mathews; Carol Brown; James McArthur; Maureen Read; Colleen LeBlanc; Larry Gillespie; Patricia Steward & Gordon Cherry; Maverick and Hayley.

Thanks also go to Pat Miller of CAPREIT for agreeing to provide supplies and refreshments, John Kerr for spending much of his Saturday coordinating the supplies, offering up coffee and getting equipment back in its place and Jessica Falcon for helping with the set up. 

In a separate cleanup, about 100 area community volunteers gathered in Taylor Creek Park to clean up areas of the park farther away from Park Vista. 

Below are some photos from the Park Vista event. 

Councillor Janet Davis gives a shout out on Twitter to the clean up crew.

Paul Ward, Paul St. John, Roy Routledge, Susan Wilson, Grace St. John and Carole Ward pose with bags of stray litter plucked from the area around 2 Park Vista.

Grace St. John goes out on a limb to get to litter.

Edyta poses with one of the many bags of trash.

Carole Ward stays stylish despite the messy task.

Park Vista Community Cleanup Event - Sat. April 23, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Spring is a time of change and renewal. To help celebrate the new season and mark Earth Day, groups across the city arrange community cleanups to spruce up their neighbourhoods by removing litter and debris.

We hope you'll join your neighbours on April 23 as we try to tidy up the area around our street. 

Garbage bags and disposable gloves will be provided. Wear comfortable shoes and long sleeves. 

Spring Hope Food Drive - Tues. April 12, 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

To support the 2016 Annual Spring Hope Food Drive, volunteers will join CAPREIT staff on a door-to-door canvass of Park Vista tenants between 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12, 2016.

Here's how you can help those in need:

• Make an online donation at www.springhopefooddrive.ca
• Bring food down to your superintendent or site office ahead of the food drive
• Donate when building staff and volunteers canvass door-to-door on April 12
• Leave your donations in a bag outside your door on the evening of April 12

The  most needed food items are:

• Canned vegetables
• pasta & pasta sauce
• canned fruit
• 100% fruit juice
• rice
• high fibre/low sugar cereal
• oatmeal
• flour
• granola bars
• canned meat 
• canned fish (tuna in water)
• dried or canned beans
• peanut butter
• baby food (vegetables and fruit)/ baby cereal/ baby formula