Last Friday evening residents of Islington 2000/2010 gathered poolside to celebrate the end of summer with a Fall Festival. This included a delicious meal, live music and entertainment, dancing, conversation and laughter – all around our beautiful pool deck. The temperature was a little lower than we had hoped, but we bundled up and warmed the evening with fun and friendship.

Thank you to the Social Committee for getting it right again – you are truly amazing. Enjoy some scenes from this special evening.

Our amazing Social Committee has planned its second event for 2022, a Fall Festival to be celebrated on Friday September 16th from 5 pm.

This event will include a full meal plus music for dancing around the pool deck. In case of bad weather this will move indoors, but keep all fingers crossed!

There is still time to sign up in the Recreation Centre.   Make your payment to committee members who will be on hand in the art activity room on Tuesdays, afternoons from 2 to 3 pm and evenings from 7 to 8 pm.

A small group of residents at Islington 2000/2010 is working at a grassroots level to make our community more connected.

The Islington Vertical Village is part of the “Naturally Occuring Retirement Community” movement that has gaining popularity in the face of our aging populations. The NORC idea is to leverage the experience, skills and wisdom of  older residents  into making buildings like ours into local hubs for all the support residents will need to thrive as they age.

Islington Vertical Village asked residents to indicate what they would like to see happening at Islington 2000/2010 going forward. This word cloud indicates what jumped out as the most important.

Next the group will meet with interested residents to get a sense of who is ready to step up and advance some of these things.  This will happen in the party room on August, 16th from 2 to 4 pm and again from 7 to 9 pm. Remember to wear a mask.

For some time our Bistro was a favorite fixture at Islington 2002/2010. It was situated in the party room, where you could go each afternoon to find a little companionship and conversation  along with some tasty single serve coffee, tea or hot chocolate.

The Bistro was forced to close in March 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.  As the pandemic went on and on, and the recreation centre stayed closed, it became necessary to return our specialty coffee machine and put all traces of our Bistro away.

When restrictions were lifted, we looked to replace our coffee machine and open our Bistro again, but we were caught up in the supply chain crisis. Finally though, a coffee machine has been located and installed in the party room again. It is a little different from the original machine, but we believe it to be pretty foolproof to use.

Our primary hours of operation at 2 pm to 4 pm though you are invited to come for a coffee any time. All drinks are $2, with proceeds going to the Daily Bread Food Bank. For the sake of the environment, and to minimize any contamination you must bring your own mug, and take it home to be washed.

Sadly we have to remind you that the pandemic is not over. Please wear a mask and follow COVID-19 mitigation protocols.

You may find this short video helpful to famiarize yourself with new machine.