Soho Community Association Archived Newsletters

 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. Ho...

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 y...

 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 t...

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...