You are all invited to Rosewood’s Spring General Meeting taking place this week:
Thursday, June 4, 2026 at Calvary Logos Baptist Church 241 Alexmuir Blvd, Scarborough, ON M1V 2W6 (basement, use parking lot doors on the west side of the building) If you require a wheelchair accessible entrance, please contact us at scarboroughrosewood@gmail.com to make arrangements.
Please join us for:
6:30pm to 7:00pm – A meet & greet with Mayor of Toronto Olivia Chow and Councillor Jamaal Myers
7:00pm to 9:00pm – our regularly scheduled Rosewood Spring General Meeting which will include:
Rosewood Pollinator Garden update and container gardening demo
Toronto Fire Services Safety Presentation
Rosewood Updates
Light refreshments
Also, we will have the 2026-2027 membership cards available for Rosewood residents. Please bring $5 if you wish to collect your new membership today!
Rosewood, this should have arrived printed on yellow paper in your mailbox at your home in the last week or so. In case you missed it, feel free to download a copy here.
On Wednesday, the grade 1&2 class completed their pollinator garden collage! Using the textured paper they made a couple days earlier, together they created: – 9 distinct native, pollinator-friendly flowers- june grass- a red oak tree- and many, many bees, butterflies and birds to inhabit the garden.
To the final collage we also added the names of each plant, and dried flower stalks, seed pods and grasses from our gardens so the students could see and compare what the real plants looked like. Here’s the final artwork, displayed on the wall outside their classroom, right next to the front entrance of the school!
Rosewood residents are invited to our annual Fall General Meeting. This year a member of 42 Division will be coming to speak on frauds and scams and a little on cyber safety. Please join us to meet your neighbours and learn a little together.
Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2025 Time: 7 to 9pm Place: Calvary Logos Baptist Church (basement, please use west-side doors off the parking lot) at 241 Alexmuir Blvd. We are grateful for the generosity of the church in allowing us to use their space again. If you require a wheelchair accessible entrance, please contact us ahead of the meeting so we can make arrangements for you.
Some other tentative dates to keep in your calendars:
February 21, 2026 – Rosewood partnered with the Alexmuir International Languages Program to bring back our neighbourhood Lunar New Year event April 25, 2026 – Spring Community Clean Up April 29, 2026 – Spring General Meeting
It was a very hot day in June when a class of excited primary students were finally able to plant their seedlings (lovingly started in the winter! and cared for for many many months) into the ground at the Rosewood Pollinator Garden.
They planted sunflowers, swamp milk weed, Anise hysop, and butterfly milkweed. The students had sprouted these in the winter/spring this year. Thank you to our dedicated volunteers for your help!
Our book club resumed in April and we covered three books. It was quite a session and since May is busy for several of our members we will resume in June.
Here goes:
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
This novel gave us a peek at life in South Africa during apartheid. We saw the hardships Trevor Noah and his mother endured during and after apartheid. Laws were changing but many of the people’s attitudes towards non-white did not.
Trevor’s mother had strong religious faith and on Sundays their day was spent attending three churches. Many times they did not have a vehicle so they would have to take public transportation. In these situations they encountered unsavoury characters in which his mother would have to think quick on her feet to keep them safe. Her faith gave her the strength to deal with all the obstacles that arose, including coming close to her death.
Born a Crime was an eye-opening novel. We know Trevor Noah, the successful celebrity of today. It gave us renewed respect for him and what he had to endure through childhood to where he is today.
Why the title Born a Crime? Who is his father? What happened during his childhood? What happened to his mom? Read the novel to find the answers to these questions and many more you might have.
Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder by Joanne Fluke
From the title we thought this would be an interesting read. We enjoy a good mystery and triple chocolate cheesecake! But to our surprise the book was written more like a play for lack of better description. There are constant conversations between the characters and recipes throughout the novel. We almost lost sight that there was a murder we were trying to solve. Yes, there was a murder…read the novel if you want to know who was murdered or enjoy baking and would like to add to your recipe collection.
Just in case after reading the title you are feeling like baking a chocolate cheesecake, here is a link to a recipe I tried and it did not crack in the middle. Enjoy
In this novel, we are welcomed to a fine boutique hotel with an interesting staff. The assumption has been made that it takes place in Toronto but never indicated in the novel. Molly the maid, at first appears quite plain and takes things literally. But not everything is as it appears, especially Molly. Everyone underestimates her, especially when she is accused of murdering a hotel guest.
Would you like to meet the staff and find out what they are hiding? Who was the murdered guest? Did Molly, the maid do it? Read the novel and find out the answers to these and many more questions you probably have.
Several of us enjoyed this novel that it inspired us to read her next book, The Mystery Guest. You learn more about Molly and several of the other staff members while solving another murder.
Our next read will be in June and it is The Serviceberry by Robin Kimmerer.
We hope you can join us for Rosewood’s annual community cleanup!
Date: Saturday, April 26
Time: 10:30am-12:30pm
Location: Meet in front of Alexmuir Junior Public School, 95 Alexmuir Blvd.
Additional Notes:Bags and gloves will be supplied, but bring your own if you have extra.Students who need volunteer hours, please let us know you need us to sign for them when you arrive.Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.The cleanup runs rain or shine, but so far it looks like only a slight chance of rain on Saturday!
All former staff, students, and their parents are invited to attend Alexmuir Junior Public School’s 50th Anniversary Celebration on Saturday, May 24th, 2025.
This is a drop-in event from 10 AM – 2 PM with speeches and singing scheduled from 11 -11:30am. The rest of the time is for you to connect with old classmates and colleagues and to wander and look at photographs and trivia set up by decade in our Decade Rooms, as well as enjoy the Themed PhotosAcross the Years highlighting events such as going to Kearney, the Terry Fox walk, Concerts and Sports Teams.
We look forward to seeing you there! Note that this is NOT the long weekend!
Scarborough Rosewood Community Association 