Fundraising

We have reached our goal for the installation of Phase 2 of Willow Square, thanks to many generous donations. However, funds are still needed for trees, shrubs and other plants for the new beds, as well as for benches. Thank you for your continued support.

THE WILLOW SQUARE: THANK YOU!

The Pebble Mosaic / Willow Square Project was made possible through the countless volunteer hours of over 100 Islanders and friends, as well as through their continuing monetary donations.

Thank you to all of you – it’s been an amazing achievement.

Corporate Sponsors

Island Public School Lighthouse Foundation  

Landing Stage Restoration Fund/Fulton family

Loblaw’s Greening Our Communities

Nikita Films
Rectory Café

Toronto Island Café

Toronto Island Garden Fund

Ward’s Island Recreational Association

And thanks also for the in-kind donations and discounts from:

Abcan Construction/Lloyd Hodder

Artscape Gibraltar Point

Church of St. Andrew-by-the-Lake

City of Toronto, Parks, Forestry and Recreation

Connon, Humber, Putzer’s and Sheridan nurseries

Stone-Link paving stones

TradeWinds International Sales/ Caroline de Vries

A very special thanks to Maggy Howarth of Cobblestone Designs, England, for her inspiration, guidance, and teaching of the art of pebble mosaics, as well as for the two weeks 
working with us to help create the willow mosaic.

Donors

Anonymous (3)

Mary Anderson & Bruce Rosensweet    

Dean Arthur & Cheryl Degras

Mary & Michael Bain

Barnett family

Julie Bates

Paul Bennett & Catherine Olsen

Jim Belisle & Sheila Murray-Belisle

Bob & Mary Buck

Olivia Chow

Mary Margaret Crapper

Enid Cridland
Cube Jazz
 Lynne Cunningham 

Jennifer Dales

Danard

Jean & Ted Danniels

Don Darroch & Sandy Wood

Michael Davey

Jane Davidson-Neville

Kathleen deBruyne & David Lippett

Anne Deluce

Barbara Dresner

Catherine Farley

Alec Farquhar & Kathleen McDonnell
Lorraine Filyer

Jane Foster

Bill Freeman

Peter Freeman & Maura McIntyre

Lorraine Fry

Ian Fyfe

Brooke Gibson

Nupur Gogia

Inta Gravlejs

Daina Green

Marjorie Haney

Mary-Ann Haney

Morris Hill

Nancy Jackson

Zsuzsu Keleman

Bill Kime & Laura Shepherd

Anne Kotyk
Gail & Jack Labonte-Smith
Penny Lawler

Alison Lawler-Dean

Alex MacFarlane & Linda Dolar

Jacquey Malcolm

Ron & Pam Mazza

Liz McClelland

McGuire family

Andrew McHaffie & Alison Sterry

Marilyn McHugh

Alix McLaughlin

Sarah Miller

Eliza Moore

Peter Newman 
Peter Noy

Joe & Lucie Pal

Jeannie Parker     

Mary Partridge

Doryne & Andy Peace

David & Tery Pellettier
Jennifer Pernfuss

Emilio Rodriguez-Marin

Jana Roerick
Susan Roy

Marion Soloway

Sandbar Sisters

David Stearn & Carol Tait

Bill Roede

Rick Simon

Paul & Sharon Stephens

Bob & Dalia Tanner

Andrea Thomas

Caroline Underwood

Annette VanLeeuwen      

Bill Ward

Bruce Weber

Meg Wilson

Volunteers

Project Coordinators

Kathleen Doody

Jerry Englar

Penny Lawler

Board of Directors/Fund Raising Group

Mary Anderson

Lorraine Filyer

Mary-Ann Haney

April Hickox

Gaye Jackson

Pam Mazza

Liz McClelland

Marie Metcalfe

Susan Roy

Sylvia Sweeney

Blogger extraordinaire

Allyson Woodrooffe

Uber Pebblers/Workshop Leaders

Maggy Howarth (Pebbler Maven)

Kathleen Doody (Advanced Pebbler)

Penny Lawler (Underpebbler)

Sylvia Tulloch (Queen of Cement Mixing)

Pebblers

Anne Barber

Anne Bourne

Yuula Benivolski

Dawn Brennan

Betsy Canfield

Manuel Cappel

Robin Christmas

Michael Christmas

Marci Crist

Lisa Cristinzo

Charlotte deHeinrich

Alastair Dickson

Barb Dresner

Leida Englar

Catherine Farley

Faye and Russell Fenton (the littlest pebblers)

Mitch Fenton

Lorraine Filyer

Fran Ford

Joey Gladding

Tanya Golden

Mary-Ann Haney

Janet Heisey

April Hickox

Jacqueline Holger

Nancy Jackson

Cindy Jones

Barbara Klunder

Ann Lacey

David Lippett

Jacquey Malcolm

Pam Mazza

Liz McClelland

Kathleen McDonnell

Martha Farquhar McDonnell

Karen McKinnell

Kiloran McRae

Marie Metcalfe

Karen Morch

Sheila Murray-Belisle

Linda Rosenbaum

Susan Roy

Shelagh Saunders

Kate Shepherd

Laura Shepherd

Trish Small

Carol Tait

Judy Temporale

Aina Tilups

Kate Tucker

Annette VanLeeuven

Ella Webber

Allyson Woodrooffe    

Head Gardeners

Jerry Englar (#1 Planner & Gardener)
 Grahame Beakhust

Leida Englar

Sheila Murray-Belisle

Iain Robertson

Assistant Gardeners

Dean Arthur

Bella Beazur

Dwight Chalmers

Peter Dean

Alastair Dickson

Peter Freeman

Lorraine Fry

Halyna Godzyk
Risto Hartikainen
Alex Heit (#1 waterer)

Roman Heit
John Jackman

Ann Lacey

Barry Lipton

Maura McIntyre 

Luisa Milan

David Pellettier

Madeleine Ray

James Smith

Sylvia Sweeney
Carol Tait 

Bulb Planters

Sheila Murray-Belisle (Bulb Maven)

Bella Beazer

Jim Belisle

Anne Bourne

Barbara Dresner

Jerry & Leida Englar

Frannie Ford

Peter Freeman

Maeve Freeman-McIntyre

Zorah Freeman-McIntyre

Tyler Ganton

Barbara Klunder

Karen McKinnell

Nina Nakajima

Paul Nelson

Doryne Peace

Lynn Purves
Madeleine Ray

Linda Rosenbaum

Laura Shepherd

Laurel Smith
Carol Tait
Judie Temporale
Allyson Woodrooffe

Landing Stage
Frank Horn
Bruce Smith

Videography and Photography

Jim Belisle

Kathleen Doody
Julia Pepler

Vivian Pitcher

Sean Tamblyn
Sylvia Tulloch
Carey West

Sandy Wood

Allyson Woodrooffe

These lists are ongoing - if your name was missed please let us know where it should go!

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In order to make this project a reality we need to raise a lot of money.

The 12' diameter, community-created pebble mosaic and the smaller mosaics done in the schools are part of a larger creation. They will be surrounded by a piazza encompassing both the area in front of the Ward's Island clubhouse as well as the space now covered by asphalt on the other side of the sidewalk to the beach. The site needs to be surveyed, excavated, filled and covered with paving stones. There will be new seating, landscaping, and a drinking fountain. The historic landing stage that formerly welcomed visitors to the island on the Eastern Gap will be rebuilt and installed in this new piazza.

We will need approximately $50,000 for the entire project. We are continuing to apply for funding and grants from government and arts agencies and are looking for corporate donors. There are also various other initiatives, including the sale of prints of the site and the mosaic. A small fundraising committee has been established to spearhead these efforts.

There was money raised ten years ago for the landing stage renewal that was never used and has been made available to us from Emily Fulton, and the Shepherd/Kimes have generously donated proceeds from their recent yard sale. We are very fortunate to have an in-kind donation from the Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts of studio space over the winter for making the mosaics.

If anyone has any ideas for further fundraising or donations please let us know.

Thanks to total donation from the Shepherd Kimes, we were able to make a few purchases:
• fantastic grey and white speckled granite pebbles from a stone yard in Bolton
• a pressurized water sprayer for soaking the pieces prior to casting them
• a used wet saw, excellent for cutting both the patio stones for the piazza and slate for the pebble mosaic

We need to purchase pebbles to give us a variety of colours and shapes that are not available on the Island. It is much more economical to purchase them by the ton, and we will need to get a quantity of black, white, warm reds and yellows as well as more of the speckled granites.

We have applied to the Trillium Foundation for financial assistance for the whole project, as well as to the Ontario Arts Council for funding for the workshops in the Montessori and Island Public Schools. We won't hear if we are successful until later in the fall, meanwhile we need to order the pebbles soon, as there is an eight-week wait for delivery after the order is placed. We'd like to begin the workshops in October or November in the schools, and December at Gibraltar Point.

UPDATE, OCT 2010:
Unfortunately, we were not successful in our Trillium Foundation application. That grant request included costs for not only designing and making the 12' diameter pebble mosaic which will be the centrepiece, but also for excavation, filling and paving the site, restoration of the historic landing stage as well as seating and landscaping. So now we're scrambling for funds.

We need $10,000 to $15,000 to proceed with the pebble mosaic itself. The WIA has budgeted $2000 for the project which will allow us to begin to purchase some pebbles. With the $500 from Laura Shepherd and Bill Kime we bought a used wet saw, some lovely speckled granite pebbles, and various smaller pieces of necessary equipment.

We have the studio space at Gibraltar Point this winter and I would like to make good use of this. If anyone has any access to funding, or knows where we might apply, please let me know as soon as possible. Meanwhile, keep collecting pebbles from our beaches. We'll get together soon to talk about plans for the workshops.