July 28 - Planning is underway for the 3rd annual Cheering Section for the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon running on Sunday September 26th.  We are busily organizing some great entertainment and will  offer food and refreshments and lots of fun as we cheer on the racers during the early morning!  This event is a great community builder and raises money for 4 Swansea Community Groups;  The Swansea Community Recreation Center, The Swansea Town Hall , The Swansea Area Ratepayers’ Association and the Swansea Royal Canadian Legion Branch 46.  Last year we raised in excess of $6000, split evenly among these 4 groups, and this year we are trying to beat that record!  Scotiabank awards prizes to the BEST cheering sections along the route and last year we got an honourable mention and $1000 prize!  This year we are aiming for FIRST PRIZE and, to do this, WE NEED YOUR HELP!! 

Please come down to the Lakeshore at Windermere at 6:30 a.m. on Sunday September 26th.  PLEASE bring colourful flags, noisemakers and wear colourful clothes!  We will provide you with food AND great entertainment!  Have fun and help us show the racers what a great community Swansea is....we know how to CHEER!!

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February 23 - The Swansea Town Hall Association and the Swansea Town Hall held their Annual General Meeting on a snowy Tuesday evening. Members of the community who came out were able to ask questions of Fiona Crean the Ombudsman for the City of Toronto, after she spoke on "Fairness: our rights and responsibilities". To find out more about the office of the Ombudsman visit her website at www.ombudstoronto.ca

December 21 - The Staff and Board of Management at the Swansea Town Hall would like to wish you a Happy Hanukkah, a Very Merry Christmas, and Habari Gani for Kwanzaa. Hope to see you in 2010.

Our Christmas Cactus

November 11 - The Swansea Town Hall and the Swansea Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion held our annual Remembrance Day Service. We were joined by members of the community, M.P. Gerard Kennedy, Charles Smith representing M.P.P. Cheri DiNovo, City Councillor Bill Saundercook, Rosa Pinto Manager and Lisa Moran Library Service Manager of the Swansea Memorial Library.

September 27 - The Swansea Town Hall for the second year joined with the Swansea Area Ratepayers Association, The Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 46 and the Swansea Recreational Centre Advisory Committee to host the Swansea Cheering and Entertainment Centre during the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon on the median at Lakeshore and Windermere on Sunday September 27th. We are very grateful to our sponsors; Essence of Life, Swansea Brew Club, Corona, Manion Wilkins & Associates Ltd., MacKenzies High Park, Cheese Boutique, Superkul Architect Inc., Adamson Architects Associates, Pivot Sport Medicine and Orthopedics, Dundas Price Chopper, Danier, Cobs Bread, Swansea Hockey Association, Bloor West Village Real Estate Ltd., Davids Tea, Cheri DiNovo M.P.P., Toronto Olympic Club, My Place and Royal LePage. We must also thank Starbucks for their donation of coffee.

A very special thank you to our four champions who participated in the marathon, Greg Bohuslawsky, John Meijer, Michael Slaughter and Sybil Wilkinson. Below you will see some of the activities we had on the day. Thank you to the wonderful performers Zumba Fitness, At Ease and Just Us who kept us entertainment as the marathon runners went past our location. the Colour Guard provided by the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 46 who stayed all morning to cheer. Cheese Boutique and Davids Tea provided amazing refreshments. Thanks to our student volunteers who came out at 6:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning.

May 27 - Members of the Swansea Neighbourhood Cheering and Entertainment Centre went to Nathan Philips Square for the official media launch of the 10th Annual Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon. The Swansea Royal Canadian Legion Colour Guard joined Mayor David Miller for the kick off.

This year's marathon takes place on Sunday, September 27th. Our Neighbourhood Cheering and Entertainment Centre will be located at Lakeshore and Windermere from 6:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Everyone is welcome to come and join us to cheer on the 18,000 runners!

May 27 - The Swansea Town Hall would like to welcome the grade 7 & 8 students from Swansea Public School to our blog. The blog allows us to post photos and write about anything that goes on in and around Swansea not just in the Town Hall. Thank you for letting me come and speak to you during your Career Conference at Swansea School today.

Sarah

May 23 and 24 - The Swansea Town Hall was very proud to be a part of the Doors Open together with the Swansea Memorial Library. The building was open to the public who could look in on all regular programs going on in the building, explore the Lucy Maud Montgomery exhibit, listen to readings from authors, actors, and wine experts, participate in a scavenger hunt, watch the Scottish Dancers perform, go back in time with our 1959 Flash Back to the year our building opened and visit the Swansea Historical Achieves. We had almost 500 people come and experience this exciting event with us.

The Royal Scottish Country Dancers and The Johnson Academy of Irish Dance

Marilyn Lightstone read from Anne of Green Gables and Sharon Jennings read from Franklin

Lucy Maud Montgomery Museum from Norval

Dress on loan by Joan McCool of The Antique Shoppe

March 29 - The Swansea Town Hall held its 6th Annual Indoor Garage Sale. Despite the rain we had many excited customers who left the building carrying bags full of new treasures.

March 16-20 - The Swansea Town Hall had some great March Break programs this year.

Sewing with Susan ran half day classes through out the week. Many of the students had never sewn before but left the classes smiling and carrying the neat items that they had made.

The Swansea Memorial Library arranged for Ken Whiteley to come and entertain the children. They were on their feet singing, dancing and playing all kinds of instruments.

December 12 - The Staff and Board of Management at the Swansea Town Hall would like to wish you a Happy Hanukkah, a Very Merry Christmas, and Habari Gani for Kwanzaa. Hope to see you in 2009.

November 25 - Several members of the Swansea Scotiabank Marathon Committee attended an award ceremony where we were presented with a plaque for our Honourable Mention from the Judges. The award came with the prize of $1,000 which will be divided between four Swansea Groups which are The Swansea Town Hall, Swansea Area Ratepayer's Association, Swansea Royal Canadian Legion and the Swansea Community Rec. Centre.

November 11 - The Swansea Town Hall together with the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 46 held our annual Remembrance Day service. We were overwhelmed by the 300+ members of the community who came out to join us along with M.P. Gerard Kennedy, M.P.P. Cheri DiNovo, City COuncillor Bill Saundercook and Rosa Pinto Manager of the Swansea Memorial Library. The service was followed by the unveiling and dedication of the Swansea mural painted by volunteers from the York Artist Guild under the watchful eye of coordinator Mary-Catherine O'Brien. The 22 crosses across the upper part of the mural are in memory of the Swansea men who died in WWI. A map of Swansea fills the lower part of the wall with many recognizable buildings and local animals. Below you can see part of the wall so come and see for yourself this amazing piece of art work, and while you are here borrow and book from the Swansea Memorial Library.

September 28 - The Swansea Town Hall joined with the Swansea Area Ratepayers Association, The Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 46 and the Swansea Recreational Centre Advisory Committee to host the Swansea Cheering and Entertainment Centre during the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon on the median at Lakeshore and Windermere on Sunday September 28th. We are very grateful to our sponsors; Eva Ballentine of Royal LePage, Bloor West Village Real Estate Ltd., Cecil Ward & Sons, Cheese Boutique, Corona, Children's Technology Workshop, Essence of Life, Joshua Damdar of Sutton Group, The Grenadier Group, RPM Studio and Swansea Brew Club. We must also thank Starbucks and McDonald's for their donation of refreshments.

A very special thank you to our four champions who all participated in the half marathon, Louis Gris, John Meijer, Michael Slaughter and Sybil Wilkinson. To the wonderful performers who kept us entertainment as the marathon runners went past our location. Below you will see some of the activities we had on the day: our guests, Cheri DiNovo M.P.P., Councillor Saundercook our M.C. for the day, Peggy Nash M.P. and the Colour Guard provided by the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 46 who stayed all morning to cheer. Cheese Boutique provided amazing refreshments, Fit2dance and Zumba gave us a great workout, circlesing entertained us with some songs, the Rangers helped us decorate the site with 300 balloons then stayed to cheer on every runner, Johnson Academy of Irish Dance and Royal Scottish Dancers gave great dance performances, Doug Zimmerman played some golden oldies and Trilogy Martial Arts put on an amazing display of their skills.

July 9 - The Swansea Town Hall is always conscious of the environment and always looks for new opportunities to green the Town Hall inside and out.

This year in our garden we have been very successful in growing Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) upon which the Monarch Butterfly lays her eggs. We are thrilled to announce the arrival of a monarch caterpillar that tripled in size over a period of a few days. We have also received many complements on the pleasant scent produced by the very attractive flowers.

On June 20 and 21 - The Swansea Town Hall set up a booth outside the Bank of Montreal for the annual Bloor West Village Sidewalk Sale. Several of the Town Hall, Community Groups and clients joined us to promote their programs. Others provided us with their brochures which interested passersby could pick up. Thank you to everyone who stopped by.        

May 7 - Spring has sprung and the front of the Town Hall looks exquisite with a variety of flowers. The Service Berry Trees planted a few years ago have delicate white flowers, encircling their trucks are a ring of daffodils; the red leaves of the Japanese Maples are beginning to open, while interspersed amongst the rocks are various tulips. Surrounding the base of the Swansea Memorial Library sign are the 170 Remembrance Tulips planted to honour the men and women who served in WWI. 155 yellow tulips represent those who returned home and the 22 red the Swansea residents who were lost. Near to our native plant hillside garden our very own highbred variety of Viola Tricolors from the various pansies that have brought colour to our entrance way over the last few years are springing up.

March 19 - Spreading the word about Going green was never easier. On Wednesday, March 19th. The Swansea Town Hall along with The Conservation Council of Ontario hosted a Community Conservation Fair. Presenters from several businesses including Auto share, Greentree, Bullfrog Power, Citizens Bank of Canada, Green Garage, LEAF, High Park Initiatives and Villager Technologies Ltd., were on hand to answer questions from the audience. Guest speakers were Peter Love, Ontario's Chief Energy Conservation Officer and Chris Winter, Executive Director of The Conservation Council of Ontario www.weconserve.ca/toronto. Sarah from the Town Hall also spoke of the initiatives taken by the Town Hall over the last few year to be more energy efficient and environmentally friend.

March 6 - The Swansea Town Hall Association held its Annual General Meeting at the Town Hall on Tuesday, February 26th. The Association reelected B. Futz, G. Gogal and M. Sides for a further two year term and elected for the first time our advisor B. Slean to a two year term as a director. Glenn Crouter V.P. Media & Community Relations of Woodbine Entertainment made a presentation on the work and activities of the Woodbine Entertainment Group. He then introduced Sandy Hawley the famous Canadian Jockey. Sandy has won 6,449 races with purse earnings of over $90 million.

Considering the weather we had a good turnout and everyone was entertained. We look forward to seeing all the membership at the next years AGM.

February 24 - The Swansea Town Hall was proud to support and promote the Inorganic Market that took place in the No Frills parking lot on Bloor Street near Runnymede. This was the second event of this type that the Town Hall has supported. The turn out of Bloor West Village residents was so over whelming that the organizers had to arrange for a second truck to carry all the donated electronic items away, clearly a success! A portion of the revenue that comes from recycling these electronic items will be donated to the Swansea Town Hall. You can visit Inorganic Market web site at www.inorganicmarket.ca to learn more about this amazing program and other drop off locations that they are arranging.

December 11- We wish you a Happy Hanukkah,a Very Merry Christmas, and Habari Gani for Kwanzaa, from all the staff at the Swansea Town Hall.