Soho Community Association Archived Newsletters

 < http://www.sohovillage.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/garage- sale.jpg> Come on down to the third annual Soho Community Garage sale, on Saturday, June 8th. Join your neighbours for this fun day of bargain hunting at the Royal Canadian Legion on 499 Hill street, beginning at 8am. It’ll be a great day of buying, selling and meeting the fine folks of SoHo! Continue reading → Soho Community Association 3rd Annual Soho Garage Sale – Coming Soon! < http://www.sohovillage.ca/wp- content/uploads/2013/04/20130420_ SoHo residents pitched in on Saturday morning to help clean up the banks of the Thames River It was a cold Saturday morning, but 14 SoHo residents bundled up, donned work gloves, and got to work cleaning up a 1 Km stretch of the Thames riverbank for the annual Thames River Cleanup. Welcome to our new website! We hope you find it easy to navigate. A big thank you to Mark Woodward for his upkeep of the old website, and his assistance on building the new one. Thank you Jamie E

 < http://www.sohovillage.ca/wp- content/uploads/2012/12/JL31.jpg> This archival photo shows John Law’s cottage at 121 Clarence Street as it was during his lifetime. His brass foundry, smelter and chimney can be seen on the right hand side of the photograph. Photo: UWO Archives. For $132,900, someone with a passion for history can purchase one of the treasures of SoHo’s past. That treasure is the aluminum-sided cottage at 121 Clarence Street, the long-time home of John Law. Law, a pioneer plumber, gas fitter, brass and bell founder and inventor, operated one of SoHo’s more interesting businesses. His final foundry was located right behind his home, at the end of Hill Street beside the river. That factory eventually became the Canadian Smelting and Refining Works – operating at least into the 1950s. Continue reading → On a summer’s day in 1919, Tommy Wilson of 231 Horton Street miraculously survived one very great adventure. That adventure was falling 50 feet off the London &

 The roundhouse/old Great West Beef building on Horton street finally has a tenant. Just last week, rtraction < http://www.rtraction.com/> (a leading local web design firm) and ATMOS marketing < http://www.atmosmarketing.com/> announced that they will be restoring this historic building and relocating their offices there. SoHo is excited to welcome these two companies to the neighbourhood, this will certainly give the area a boost and help to further rejuvenate Horton st. You can follow the project at http://londonroundhouse.com/ < http://londonroundhouse.com/> It’s time for our SoHo Community Picnic! NEXT SUNDAY! Aug. 25 11am-3pm Soho Community Association SoHo Welcomes rtraction and Atmos Marketing to the neighbourhood! SOHO Community Picnic! Sun Aug 25 11am-3pm Richard B. Harrison Park! Free Lunch! Catered by Edgar and Joes < http://edgarandjoes.ca/> ! Free Drinks! Free cake! Free Music! (Scott Shpak Band) Arts! Dancing! and Drumming! from the ladies at The H

 Category Archives: Community Projects An invitation from Theresa to join Meredith Park Orchard work bee on Tuesday evening: Location: Meredith Park When: Tuesday, August 27, 5 PM onwards Please bring a garden fork, spade, buckets, a wheel barrel, family members and or neighbours. There will be tools available for sharing. We will do some minor weeding and application of ... Continue reading → Soho Community Association Meredith Park Orchard Work Bee — come one and all! As you know, the Alice Saddy Association has adopted the rain gardens on Waterloo Street. The group invites everyone who is interested to join them for a weeding blitz on Monday, August 12. Please drop-in anytime between 10 AM and 2 PM. Picnic lunch will be provided. Email bethanyv@alicesaddy.com or call 519-433-2801 if you are ... Continue reading → Love to Garden? Join the neighbourhood for a summer party at Meredith Park — food truck, games, music, and more! August 25, 2019, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM Meredith Park (Nelson S

 Page | 1 Minutes of the SoHo Community Association Meeting Continue reading → There is no London neighbourhood more tied to the city’s black community than Soho. It’s fitting to recall that part of our community’s history in February, which is officially designated as Black History Month. Editor’s Note: This article is originally published in 2010 and has been retained for archival purposes. Continue reading → The homeowner living on the northeast corner of Simcoe and Henry Streets has started what we hope will become a trend in Soho. Hanging on the home’s front porch is an intriguing sign reading: 1876 James Southcott Grocer Continue reading → Soho Community Association 2010 04 21 Minutes Soho Celebrates Black History Month SoHo House Signs < http://www.sohovillage.ca/wp- content/uploads/2012/12/aberdeen.jpg> Soda water, soda water Ginger ale and pop Aberdeen, Aberdeen Always on the top! In February 1883, a new, four-room school opened on Grey Street – although the front door o

 Soho Community Association SoHo Park Benches < http://www.sohovillage.ca/wp- content/uploads/2012/12/bench.jp g> Look for these distinctive park benches, hand painted by local SoHo artists, at Meredith Park and at the Thames River falls behind the Labatt Brewery SoHo Community Garden < http://www.sohovillage.ca/wp- content/uploads/2012/12/garden .jpg> In Spring of 2008 the SoHo Community Garden was started adjacent to Meredith Park in SoHo. Sponsored by the City of London and coordinated by the London Community Resource Centre, the community garden is a shared piece of land where people rent garden plots and grow vegetables, fruits and herbs of their choice. Plots are 100% organic and can be rented on a geared-to-income basis, which allows them to be affordable to all. Per season price ranges from $15 to $40 for a 400-square feet plot. If you are interested in becoming a Community Gardener please click here to visit the LCRC website. < http://lcrc.on.ca/services/garden-

 Category Archives: Community Projects Soho Community Association Let’s talk about access to food in SoHo What are the most important food access needs in the SOHO neighbourhood? We hope to better understand our community’s needs around access to food. Please take 3 minutes to complete this online survey. The information we gather from you will be shared with a committee that is developing food access programs for the neighbourhood. The ... Continue reading → Community artists are “looking for 60-100 participants to take a 13 weeks visual-storytelling journey in the co-creation of a story archive which will culminate in the production of 10 to 13 digital mural paintings which will be printed and installed in the Richmond Underpass between Horton and York.” Download poster as PDF To register as ... Belonging: Richmond Underpass Community Mural Continue reading → Do you need assistance or have assistance to offer? Please leave a comment in the comment area below if you require or can pro

 Category Archives: Community Projects Mark your calendars! The Alice Saddy Association is organizing a Clean and Green Community Clean-up Day at Meredith Park on Saturday, April 25, 2020, 10 AM – 12 PM. The association is also donating pizza for the Soho Community Association London Clean and Green at Meredith Park event. (Are you planning on hosting a London Clean and Green clean up in the Soho neighbourhood? Let ... Continue reading → An Opinion Piece by Teresa Rutten We are in changing times. No longer can we expect inexpensive & easily accessible energy sources. This is why supporting LOCAL is incredibly important. We are witnessing conflict across & between nations competing for non-renewable resources. As well as the avoidable consequences in polluting our air, land & waterways ... Continue reading → Have You Joined the LOCAL Movement? Join us for Clean Up at Meredith Park! Saturday, October 12, at Noon Pizza provided by a donation from California Convenience. Hosted

Category Archives: Community Projects Interested in helping with the Meredith Park Orchard? Planting started in 2014 and species currently include: sweet and sour cherries, plum, pear, apple, persimmon, paw paw, jubjube, mulberry, hascap, currant, strawberry, raspberry, hazelnut, heartnut, pecan and chestnut. Orchard organizers are seeking passionate individuals, who would like to nurture existing plants, so as to maximize the ... Continue reading → Soho Community Association Meredith Park Orchard Seeks Volunteers Alongside the Alice Saddy clean up of Meredith Park on Saturday, April 27, the following activities will be occurring onsite as well... be sure to come over and pick up a free fruit tree for your property! On Sat. April 27th SOHO continues to put the FOOD into our Forest City! Please join us. Schedule: ... Continue reading → London’s Free Fruit Project: Free Tree Give-Away on April 27 We will be gathering at Richard B. Harrison Park for a friendly, neighbourly spring clean up

 It is a time for transition for the SoHo Community Association. James Shelley, who has been serving as the president of the community association since February 21, 2019, is moving out of the neighbourhood and therefore stepping down from the board. Upon his resignation, Jessica Justrabo, who was elected Vice-President on February 21, 2019, has assumed the role of Acting President, effective June 23, 2021. Soho Community Association Board Transitions Jessica will continue to work with Laurie Bursch (Treasurer) and Leia Beland (Secretary) as acting president until such a time as pandemic restrictions allow for community elections to be held safely in order to appoint a new president. Jessica can be reached at info@soholondon.ca. The Vision SoHo Alliance is holding a virtual public meeting to share information about the 650-unit mixed-rent apartment community planned for the Old Victoria Hospital Grounds II. You are invited to learn more about the project, ask questions, and share you f

 Soho Community Association 2010 04 21 Minutes Soho Celebrates Black History Month SoHo House Signs < http://www.sohovillage.ca/wp- content/uploads/2012/12/aberdeen.jpg> Soda water, soda water Ginger ale and pop Aberdeen, Aberdeen Always on the top! In February 1883, a new, four-room school opened on Grey Street – although the front door of the school actually faced Hamilton Road. This school replaced an earlier public school on Colborne Street. Continue reading → At 2 a.m. on May 25, 1905, one of London’s most spectacular fires lit up the skies of downtown London. That fire was at Dyment-Baker Lumber, on the northeast corner of Bathurst and Wellington Streets. Before the fire was contained, some 10 hours later, it also damaged much of the London Machine Tool Company; lumber at the nearby Tambling and Jones yard, and six Michigan Central Railroad freight cars. Three of those cars were filled with agricultural implements valued at several thousand dollars. Sadly, sparks from the f

Soho Community Association   Heroic SoHo Woman Wins Battle with Rampaging Bull   This story could be included in a book titled Folk Tales of London’s SoHo District. The heroine is Jane Prior of 87 Wellington Street who apparently exuded such a sense of calm that she stopped a raging bull in its tracks. Continue reading →  Association News – Upcoming Election for President Resignation of Cheri McLeod  With a heavy heart, we would like to announce that Cheri McLeod has decided to step down as President of the association. Cheri has been with us since November, and although her tenure has been short, it has definitely had a tangible impact upon our neighbourhood.  Cheri’s resignation will be effective pending the appointment of a replacement. She will remain in London for a period of time to help ease the transition and will then be returning to Collingwood to be with her family.  If you would like to help see Cheri off, please join us at the Victoria Tavern on Thursday, February 18th a