The Children's StorefrontA Meeting Place for Parents and Children

On Sunday, August 8th, we will be emptying out the garbage from the new space from 1pm to 3pm. It will be dirty sweaty work since most of it is old construction waste that had been “stored” in the basement, i.e. crammed into a nook. We will have to carry it up a flight of stairs to the parking pad. We will either have a bin there or will arrange to pay someone to take it all away before the following Saturday’s fair.

Bring work gloves, brooms and shovels.

Also, August 14th is the Bloorcourt BIA Sidewalk Sale and Festival in our new neighbourhood. The Children’s Storefront will have tables set up for a garage sale, bake sale, airbrush tattoos, balloons, and lots more. We need volunteers to help out at the tables and are accepting donations for the garage sale. Please drop off any donations on August 14th at 1:00 PM at 826 Bloor Street West. Come by and see the new location and stick around to lend a hand!

Please email Suzanne Landriault, our volunteer coordinator, if you are available in any capacity for either of these two events:

suzannelandriault@bell.net

Thank you for your continued support.

Our new location will be at 826 Bloor Street West (the north-east corner of Shaw and Bloor).

We want to thank everyone for all of the support that you have provided since our fire on October 31. We are still here and able to plan a future because of the tremendous support of our community.

We have had design assistance from Adam Thom, a wonderful architect who came forward to get us up and running again after the fire. Thanks to Adam, we have some great designs for our new site.

We know that many people in the community have expressed interest in helping in some additional ways and we asked everyone to wait until there was a new Storefront to build. Well, that day has finally arrived and we need your help.

We need help with all areas of construction – from sweeping, meal preparation, drywall, painting and building on- and off-site. We welcome skilled volunteers and eager volunteers to make our new home a reality.

We took possession of the building on the 7^th of May and we hope to start work soon. There is a process of permit applications and other tasks that will need to happen before the actual building can begin, but we are getting close!

I am asking everyone to take a moment and think of some areas that you are able to help with, the time you are able to commit and the things you are most interest in helping us do.  If you have friends or family members that might be interested, please include them too!

Suzanne Landriault is our volunteer coordinator and is waiting to hear from all of you.  I know that many of you have already given so much but we still need your help. We need your to help rebuild The Children’s Storefront back into the wonderful home that it was for our community.

If you need any additional information or have any questions please feel free to contact us at childrensstorefront@gmail.com

With much appreciation,

Roona Maloney

Executive Director,

Children’s Storefront