Response to Costanza Allevato’s question, “what happens at Dufferin Grove Park?” – intermittent census of activities on Sunday May 16, 10 and 11 am, 12 noon, 1, 3, 6, 8, and 10 pm :
10 am: 97 people
32 in clubhouse for clothing swap, 2 volunteers
6 little kids playing ball hockey
2 staff setting up snack bar
2 Norwegians setting up Constitution Day event
3 mothers and 4 kids on grass by children's garden
7 people sitting on park benches
31 in playground
7 in sandpit
7 strolling around
11 am: 168 people
1 staff lighting pizza day fire
8 Norwegians setting up Viking area (small odd-shaped canvas tent)
51 in clubhouse at clothing swap
5 outside clubhouse front door talking
23 in sandpit
43 in playground
18 in snack bar area
19 strolling around
12 noon: 259 people
9 people by field house -- Clay and Paper Theatre musicians, practising *national anthem for Norwegian parade
5 people plus 1 dog playing frisbee in soccer field
2 basketball players
10 people setting up birthday party near oven
10 people in clubhouse at clothing swap
2 skateboarders on rink pad
2 sitting in main campfire circle
2 sitting on bio-toilet bench
6 people at Filipino picnic area near Dufferin St
4 practising double-dutch (skipping) by cob couch circle
27 in sandpit
34 in playground
7 at wading pool with tricycles
18 in snack bar area (including 1 picnic)
91 Norwegians gathering and talking -- about 50% kids, running and playing *tag, all dressed up
32 people strolling around
1 pm: 324 people
22 in clubhouse at clothing swap
10 at pizza oven for public pizza day
18 at birthday party near bake oven
2 skateboarders
2 basketball players
10 setting up in circus area (ie. west of main fire circle -- they contact each other through Facebook message)
7 people sitting on bio-toilet bench
129 Norwegians, listening to royal proclamation from Oslo being read out, and singing
Norwegian and Canadian national anthem
7 at birthday picnic near cob courtyard
19 in snack bar area
45 in playground
13 in sandpit
5 picnicking north of playground
5 picnicking NW of playground
30-ish people strolling around
3 pm: 297 people
8 people sunbathing near soccer field
5 playing touch football in north soccer field
4 playing frisbee west of tree nursery
14 playing basketball on court, 2 more using the rink pad basketball hoops
10 setting up BBQ beside bake oven (families of basketball players)
3 sitting at fire circle
8 having picnic beside tree nursery
5 playing tetherball
23 people in circus group (all in little sub-groups, some just sitting *watching, some upside-
down using silks)
5 people sitting at cob couch circle
31 in cob courtyard/snack bar area, eating or playing board games
11 lined up for food at cob cafe (2 staff, one runner)
12 using wading pool surface to play, ride bikes
58 in playground
23 in sandpit
3 picnicking N of sandpit
6 BBQ in Filipino picnic area near Dufferin St.
68 strolling people
3 hour gap in survey….
6 pm: 186 people
13 soccer players, 8 watching
16 BBQ (basketball families)
1 ball hockey player
6 Brazilian soccer players on rink
13 picnicking and lying in the grass near tree nursery
5 sitting at fire circle (no campfire)
6 practising hula hoop in circus area
7 picnicking at Filipino area near Dufferin
19 having various picnics beside playground
5 packing up a birthday party near playground
10 in cob courtyard area
4 using wading pool surface to play soccer
40 in playground
15 at sandpit
26 strolling
8 pm: 85 people
2 people plus 2 dogs on soccer field
7 playing soccer on rink
12 on basketball court (just after an argument when they told some other guys to leave. One basketball player said they were "kids", i.e. 18 - 21 years old "who think they're so big now, they think they can just talk bad to everybody, one of them hit a younger guy, so we told them to leave, and they left.")
18 at the BBQ beside the bake oven (basketball families) including one guy who just got out of jail a week ago, was in Penetang superjail for two years. Known to us, a mixed-up guy who needs support and watching.
3 playing tetherball
2 people plus a dog at the cob couch circle
1 homeless man on a bench near Dufferin Street
15 at playground
5 at sandpit
4 skateboarders
12 people strolling
10 pm: 25 people
3 people talking by the storage shed
8 playing basketball
8 at BBQ (basketball families)
2 dog walkers on soccer field
2 women using the rink house washrooms, then I locked up (field house *washrooms are still closed for the season).
2 people strolling
[Survey done by Jutta Mason]
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