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The Community Summer Social held on August 12th had the good fortune of receiving coverage in the Mississauga News that day. A sort of media advertisment that I think we can credit for the arrival of over 200 people during the course of the evening. |
| Tree ribbons
first appeared
to welcome neighbours to the Community Summer Social at the Gordon House. |
The picture that accompanied the story shows myself, Alex Hafner and Alex's
son Sven. We look like a happy family making strawberry shortcake.
Media can be misleading. Ed and Carl, my husband and youngest son
were out at the time making copies of the flyer we would deliver to invite
people out, my son Mike held the light for the photograph. Bridget,
Alex's wife and I have joked about our shared husband.
Don Barber as a representative of Friends of the Cawthra Bush, Members of The Goose Defenders, and Lee Ann Mallett of Earth Roots set up display booths. We had the pleasure of having True Foods, an organic food store from Port Credit setting up a table and giving out wonderful samples of organic watermelon and old fashioned beefsteak tomatoes. Members of South Peel Naturalists Club and the Mississauga South Historical Society attended but did not set up an information table. Gingham clothed tables and chairs dotted the front lawn of the Gordon House, Ed and Andy played folk music, neighbours brought their favourite dishes for a pot luck and we gave tours of the house to people who had only seen it from the outside. We met several people who had received their marriage licenses in the front room of the house, where Ed now had his desk set up. We gathered the names and phone numbers of people interested in forming a community group, or community groups to support the preservation of the Gordon House and to promote the adoption of a tree protection by-law in the city of Mississauga. After the guests left, as we cleaned up, we lamented that the tradition of the Summer Social had faded away. |