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Family Day Hikes and Scavenger Hunt 2022

Enjoy all The Bluffs has to offer!

This year when we were planning Fire & Ice for Family Day, Omicron closed everything down. We weren’t sure if we’d be able to book permits and decided to revisit out Family Day Hike and Scavenger hunt as a way to explore our community, and spend time with your family!

We have a number of beautiful areas to hike in and hopefully you’ll find something new!

Some hikes are easy and accessible, others are a bit more challenging. You may chose to enter the scavenger hunt as well. We’ll have a random draw for prizes for those that send in photos/videos.

Scavenger Hunt and Hike rules

  • Choose a hike (all will be found within Birch Cliff, Cliffside or Cliffcrest)
  • Explore at your own convenience – it doesn’t have to be Family Day itself
  • Be careful as some trails and pathways may be slippery, muddy or steep
  • Please only stick to the path and obey all signs
  • Send your photos at events@sbca.ca by the end of day Feb 22 to be entered in our random draw (prizes to be announced soon)
  • Take photos of interesting things and have fun! 
  • BONUS – if you have one of our toques, caps or hoodies – make sure you wear your swag!
  • To be considered for an entry in our draw, we can only accept email submissions. We may post submissions under a #SBCAFamilyDay2022 post on Instagram or Facebook.
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New Year and New Faces

The Scarborough Bluffs Community Association (SBCA) has recently entered its 5th year. With help from you – our community, partners and sponsors, we have had tremendous success with our vision: By the community, for the community, for a stronger community.

With this new year, we have some significant changes in our Board Executive. Hector Catre, Co-founder and Chair has retired from his position.While you may still see him occasionally volunteering at SBCA events, his day-to-day involvement with the SBCA has ended. We would like to thank Hector for his dedication, leadership, hard work, and guidance on engaging our community to come together in unity.

The SBCA is thrilled to welcome Julie Torani as our new Chair of our Board! Julie has been with the SBCA since 2019, and brings with her a passion for community building and engagement.

Looking Forward

The SBCA is currently recruiting dedicated, creative, and enthusiastic community members to be a part of our Board for 2022. We are a fresh and dynamic group of like-minded community members, with a passion for event planning, building community, and enhancing the neighbourhoods of Birchcliff, Cliffside and Cliffcrest in the Scarborough Bluffs.

This year we are looking for 2-3 people with a “can do” attitude, strong communication skills, ability to problem solve, and a fun-loving spirit to join our Board. Time commitment for Board Members is between 5-10 hours per month.

Please note that you will be expected to participate in and/or lead community events. We invite people from all backgrounds to send us an email, along with their resume or a letter with related skills defined, expressing interest for joining the Board at: join.us@sbca.ca

If you’re not interested in joining the Board, we’re always looking for volunteers. We are currently planning 2022 events, and will be hosting our AGM next month (stay tuned).

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Join us for our Annual Pumpkin Parade!

Sandown Park comes alive with pumpkins on Nov 1st

We are allowed to host our annual event in person this year! Bring out your pumpkins, and light up Sandown Park. We request that you keep yourselves appropriately distanced when viewing the pumpkins.

This year we will be doing a random draw for one of these prize packs. It’s open to anyone who drops off a pumpkin at our parade! See a member of the SBCA to learn how to enter!


We will also be featuring Hallowe’en short films (only if the weather holds)

Why do we host a Pumpkin Parade? It’s a chance for us to meet the community in a community-built event. It’s about sharing and admiring people’s creations, seeing kids play with new and old friends and sometimes we’re lucky enough to see a second go-round of costumes! The founder of Toronto’s Pumpkin Parade feels the same way. See her interview here.

We look forward to seeing you November 1st!

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Bluffscapes 2021

Join us for our Third Annual Front Garden Contest

The Scarborough Bluffs Community Association has partnered with the Birchcliff Garden Club again this year to bring the community “Bluffscapes” – a “Fun and Friendly” Garden Contest. Open to all residents of Birchcliff, Cliffside and Cliffcrest, the Bluffscapes Residential Front Garden Contest showcases beautiful front gardens that are visible from the road. 

This is a wonderful opportunity to share your gardening enthusiasm with our Southwest Scarborough community. By doing so, we encourage others to beautify their own little piece of our neighbourhood. 

Your garden could be simply green or a plethora of magical colours! You don’t need to be an expert to enter – all levels of experience are welcomed!

This year features NEW categories: Pollinator Gardens and Container Gardens

If your garden is dedicated to helping the pollinators please submit under this category. If you have small spaces and/or are balcony gardening and your gardens are not “roadside” visible – please submit under container gardening – we will ask that you provide photos of your containers closer to the judging date.

Vegetable gardens are excluded from this contest.

Judging will be held in early Septembter.

Judges consist of Birchcliff Garden Club members and Board member of the Scarborough Bluffs Community Association. 

Prizes!

First Prize: European Planter ($100 value) from Canadiana Flowers 

Second Prize: One year membership to Toronto Botanical Gardens ($50 value) from Bibbcon Landscape Construction Inc.

Third Prize: One year membership to Birchcliff Garden Club ($20 value)

Join us again for Bluffscapes Garden Contest. Open to any resident of Birch Cliff, Cliffside or Cliffcrest who have visible roadside front gardens, pollinator gardens, or container gardens. Deadline to submit – August 10th, 2021

For full contest details and to register, click here.

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Annual General Meeting

The Scarborough Bluffs Community Association’s Board of Directors invite you and/or your representative to join us for our 2021 Annual General Meeting.

We will introduce our 2021 Board, share our successes from 2020, and showcase our schedule of events for 2021.

We are also be accepting applications for 2 open Board positions and event committee volunteers. Time commitment varies during the year. If you are interested in joining us, please send a short CV of your community work, skills that you feel would be an asset to our Association and why you’d like to join!

EVERYONE IS WELCOME.
Share in this opportunity to get to know us along with fellow community members and volunteers.

Please RSVP by February 15th, 2021 to valerie@sbca.ca

VIRTUAL LINK WILL BE SENT TWO DAYS BEFORE THE EVENT.

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Family Day Hikes and Scavenger Hunt

We can’t gather, but we can enjoy all The Bluffs has to offer!

This year, we won’t be able to host Fire & Ice for Family Day, so we’ve set up a new way to explore our community, and spend time with your family!

We’ve chosen a handful of areas to hike in and hopefully you’ll find something new!

Some hikes are easy and accessible, others are a bit more challenging. You may chose to enter the scavenger hunt as well. We’ll have a random draw for prizes for those that send in photos.

Scavenger Hunt and Hike rules

  • Choose a hike (all will be found within Birch Cliff, Cliffside or Cliffcrest)
  • Explore at your own convenience – it doesn’t have to be Family Day itself
  • Be careful as some trails and pathways may be slippery, muddy or steep
  • Please only stick to the path and obey all signs
  • Send your photos at events@sbca.ca by the end of day Feb 15 to be entered in our random draw (prizes to be announced soon)
  • Take photos of interesting things and have fun! 
  • BONUS – if you have one of our new toques or hoodies – make sure you wear your swag!
  • To be considered for an entry in our draw, we can only accept email submissions. We may post submissions under a #SBCAFamilyDay post on Instagram or Facebook.
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Light Up The Bluffs with your Holiday Spirit event!

Join us for our visual event featuring – YOU!

Participants can e-mail holiday-themed photos and videos to holidays@sbca.ca. Not only will you help spread holiday cheer, but you’ll also be entered in our giveaway for some great local prizes – $25 gift cards to:

What can you submit? Holiday themes photos such as: awesome decorations, trees & lights, mouth-watering treats, ugly sweaters, or precious moments spent with your loved ones – times that made you smile and laugh!

We’ll air the video of holiday cheer by the 24th, but please submit before December 20th.

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Virtual Pumpkin Parade 2020

In this year of social Distancing, the families of the Scarborough Bluffs did not forget to celebrate and have fun on Halloween. All of these 130+ photos were submitted by the families of our area. We have to admit, the creativity and resourcefulness of the community really shows!

Enjoy the video. We’re looking forward to seeing you next year!

We had so many great submissions, we will be announcing winners in the next few days.

Music: https://www.bensound.com

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Give your Jack o’Lantern a second chance to shine … online!

This year, we’re unable to gather in person to admire the community’s pumpkin creations, so we’re taking the parade online in the form of a Virtual Pumpkin Parade video.

Email your Halloween photos (pumpkins or decorations) by Oct 30th to halloween@sbca.ca and we’ll share them via our video parade that will air on Nov 1st! The best submissions will win a PRIZE (gift cards from a selection of local businesses in our Community) See our Facebook page for more information.

Please submit parade photos by Oct 30 to be featured.

Videos will be shared on social media.

UPDATE:

We will be giving away $25 gift cards to these great Bluffs Community businesses – PLUS a Scarborough Bluffs hoodie for costume (kid-size only)!

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Bluffscapes 2020 results!

Winners announced!

The SBCA and the Birchcliff Garden Club, are delighted to announce this year’s 2020 Winners of our “fun and friendly” Bluffscapes Front Yard Garden Contest. The contest was open to all residents of Birchcliff, Cliffside and Cliffcrest, showcasing beautiful front gardens that are roadside visible.

We encouraged the community to beautify their own little pieces of our neighbourhood. This wonderful opportunity allowed participants to showcase their front gardens and the hard work they’ve been putting in during the pandemic to keep themselves busy during lockdown! 

Judges consisted of members of the Birchcliff Garden Club and the Scarborough Bluffs Community Association. Judging took place in early September and the submitted garden entries were simply wonderful!

Our winners:

First place: 101 South Edgely Ave.
Second Place: 26 Springbank Road
Third Place: 56 North Bonnington Ave

“I am proud of my front garden and tend to it regularly because I enjoy people walking by to admire it and see what is new that is blooming. During this pandemic time I have met a lot of new neighbours who are making a point of coming by on their walks.”  
–Our first place winner!  

The SBCA would like to thank ALL the participants who entered gardens in the contest.  Without the participation of our community we would not be able to bring community together to celebrate our own little pocket of the City.  We are proud to be able to offer these events in Southwest Scarborough and look forward to hosting more when we are able to come together again!

The SBCA and the Birchcliff Garden Club would like to give a shout out to and thank our awesome Community and Prize sponsors for continuing to support our community events: 

Prize Sponsors:  Canadiana Flowers; Bibbcon Landscape Construction Inc.; and the Birchcliff Garden Club

SBCA Community Sponsors: Drape Master; Bibbcon Landscape Construction Inc.; Bluffs Chiropractic Dr.GTA; Tony & Jennifer Mauro Real Estate; Victorian Monkey Kitchen and Social Club; La Scogliera Italian Cuisine; LCH Developments