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Volume 44 No. 8

June 16, 2015

The one “no one ever does in a park” By Andrew Hudson

TO BE, or not to be? That wasn’t much of a question once actors in the local Bard in the Park troupe got the idea of staging Hamlet. But it was a crazy pitch. “Let’s do the one that no one ever does in a park!” is how actor and producer Andrew Patterson remembers it. Hamlet is among Shakespeare’s best-known plays, complete with a brooding Danish prince, a murder most foul, and more murders after that. But with a four-hour runtime, hardly anyone dares perform it for an audience sitting on a lawn. Still, the all-volunteer Bard in the Park is nothing if not up for a challenge. And given that they make their own costumes, several are expert with scissors. This spring, Patterson and director Keith Williams managed to snip Shakespeare’s original Hamlet down to a park-friendly two hours. Actor James Soares-Correia, who played the villain Iago in last year’s Othello, was willing to take on the daunting title role. As it happens, the Stratford Festival got the same idea and made Hamlet its feature play. “Every year we forget to consult with Stratford,” joked Williams, who doubles as Guildenstern in the play. “No, they forget to consult with us,” said Patterson, who happens to play Guildenstern’s best friend, Rosencrantz. Melissa Beveridge, who plays Gertrude, led the effort to re-tailor last year’s flashy Othello costumes to better suit Hamlet’s darker mood. Speaking during an early dress rehearsal, Beveridge was interrupted by actor Caedmon Ricker-Wilson, who walked out from behind a bedsheet dressed in Laertes’ outfit – a black, fur-lined cloak and a dark jacket studded with silvery, star-like buttons. “They’re not precisely Dark Ages Denmark,” said Williamson. “They’re more like Value Village Toronto,” said Patterson. “But made wonderful by Melissa.” Cont’d. on Page 3

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Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? At centre, prince Hamlet, played by James Soares-Correia, shares a laugh with backstabbing friends Guildenstern, played by director Keith Williams, left, and Rosencrantz, played by producer Andrew Patterson, right, during Bard in the Park’s opening show at Norwood Park on June 4.

Employment questions as Lowe’s eyes Shoppers World By Andrew Hudson

ANOTHER BIG retailer is looking to fill the void that Target left at Shoppers World Danforth. But even so, the Target layoffs have rallied community groups to aim beyond retail in the search for better local jobs. Home improvement chain Lowe’s has agreed to lease the 134,000 square foot space that Target held in the Danforth and Victoria Park shopping plaza until it closed all of its Canadian stores in April. The deal depends on some legal approvals related to Target’s insolvency, but they should be decided by the end of June. Up to 200 people lost their jobs when Target shut down its Shoppers World location, and many are hoping to find new jobs at Lowe’s. It’s a familiar cycle, says Nasima Akter, executive director of the local Bangladeshi-Canadian Community Services (BCS). Akter has met several ex-Target staff who previously worked for Zellers when it was in the same spot. “It’s disappointing that every time a business comes here, they’re closing, shutting down,” said Akter, listing a suit shop, dollar store, coffee shop, and girls’ clothing store that recently failed in the plaza. After Target closed, local MP Mat-

thew Kellway called a meeting for community groups involved in employment services, including BCS, WoodGreen Community Services, the Neighbourhood Centre, and Action for Neighbourhood Change. Kellway had two big questions: what could they do with the Target space if it sat empty, and could they try to improve the local economy? “There’s a need in this community for more jobs, for better jobs, and better workplaces,” he said, noting that census data show poverty has been increasing in the adjacent Crescent Town and Oakridge neighbourhoods since 1980. In 2011, local unemployment sat at 16 per cent, nearly double the city average. “If we’re going to knock the unemployment levels down, it’s going to take all of us working in concert, with a very purposeful, deliberate approach to bring work here and make that kind of change.” The roundtable group has only had a few meetings so far. It doesn’t even have a name yet. But the effort is welcomed by people like Claire Barcik, director of the Neighbourhood Centre, which runs youth, family, and seniors programs in Crescent Town, Oakridge, and Woodbine-Lumsden. It started with Target, said Barcik, but the discussion expanded to bigger issues: unemployment, under-

employment, and precarious jobs. She said many finance, IT, and healthcare professionals settle in the area after immigrating to Canada, but can’t find work in their fields. “Do we want people with those skills working in the retail sector?” she asked. “Short-term, sure, maybe as they improve their language skills. But long-term, what a loss to the economy.” After a recent meeting, Barcik, Akter and others were asked to come back with some proven strategies for economic development that aren’t already at work in the area. Barcik highlighted two recent studies, one in Toronto and one in New York City, of six- to 12-month internships that provide newly arrived professionals with on-the-job mentorships. “Actually getting in the door and getting some on-the-job coaching – those models really seem to have worked,” she said. Akter suggested a program for small entrepreneurs, noting that the neighbourhood already has many home-based businesses that could expand and command fairer prices if they had more support, and affordable office space. Working together, with a clear plan for how they share funding, staff, and other resources, Akter said it would be great if the group

could secure space in a commercial building. Even with what is available in existing community hubs, such as AccessPoint on the Danforth, Akter said groups like BCS often have to book rooms outside the area. “We need more space than we can get,” she said.

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our work and seemed to inspire others – one of the reasons that the Award exists.” To nominate your 2015 local hero, visit centre55.com to fill out the online form, mail your nomination to ‘Citizen of the Year,’ Community Centre 55, 97 Main St., Toronto, ON, M4E 2V6, fax to 416-691-8269, or email to nancy@centre55.com. Include as much information about the nominee as possible, including why you feel they should be recognized as Citizen of the Year. Deadline for submissions is Friday, Aug. 7, at 5 p.m. Winners will be honoured at a ceremony in Millennium Garden in September.

Correction TWO CONDO projects at Kingston Road and Main Street will have a combined total of 95 parking spaces for 107 units. An article in our June 2 edition [Parking concerns at Kingston condo] misstated the amount of units in the proposed projects.

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Malvern boys take silver at Ontario championship By Andrew Hudson

THEY CAME in as a dark horse, but the senior boys team at Malvern Collegiate finished Ontario’s rugby championship with a flash of silver. Undefeated in Toronto, the Black Knights knew they would face another level of competition when the OFSAA rugby finals kicked off in Hamilton on June 5. Reaching the final game against Saltfleet Secondary two days later was a first in Malvern history – and to get there, the Knights had to power past schools that held the Ontario title in 2013 and 2014. The last time Malvern even made it to OFSAA was six years ago. “It’s kind of surreal that we made history at a 100 year-old school,” says Alexander Mathers, the team captain. “Last week, we were unranked, and now we were fighting for first in this province.” Rugby has strong roots at Malvern. About a third of this year’s senior team plays with the Balmy Beach Rugby Club, and most graduating players have played for Malvern since Grade 9, Mathers included. Still, he said, no one was expecting a record season. As the only school in the top four without any fifth-year players, Malvern had no size advantage, either. “We had people playing positions opposite guys 100 pounds heavier

than them, stepping up and making some game-changing tackles.” What Malvern did have was a strong knowledge of the game, said head coach Doug Underwood, who coaches alongside assistant coach Paul Myers. “We can play the game in a lot of different ways, and I think that’s what surprised people at OFSAA,” he said. Malvern’s first big surprise came in game two, when they eliminated Bill Crothers Secondary 10-6. While it’s difficult to rank teams provincially, Crothers entered OFSAA as the number-two seed. Malvern was tenth. “I don’t think anyone said it out loud, but I don’t think any of us had too high hopes,” said Mathers. Malvern drove hard from the first whistle – an aggressive start played a big role in their opening 20-12 win over Banting Memorial. They seemed to catch Crothers off-guard, but Crothers fought back. It wasn’t until the last five minutes of the game that Malvern’s Dylan Young managed to make a down-field charge that secured their second victory. “I think after that win, we realized, ‘We just knocked off the number-two team – this is happening, this is possible,” said Mathers. “We were flying when we came out against Brantford.” Malvern actually played Brant-

ford Collegiate on the same day as the Crothers game, late in the afternoon. A big thunderstorm struck just before, soaking the field. It was in the early minutes of that semi-final that Malvern showed some of the game smarts Underwood talked about. Hunter Knifton made a couple of surprise kicks – “heady plays,” said Underwood – kicking the ball into empty space and trusting his teammates could recover it. Thanks in part to the soaked field, Brantford had trouble corralling the ball. Malvern found it, scored, and by the first half they had a 10-0 lead. But just as Crothers had done, Brantford came back fighting. And unlike Crothers, Brantford tied it. Normally, the 10-10 tie would have been settled in overtime. But under OFSAA rules, teams can only play two full games in a single day. So, the ref said, the semi-final would be decided on kicks. “When he said ‘kicks’ the anxiety built up for all of us,” said Mathers. “We just put faith in Dylan.” Dylan Young was Malvern’s best kicker, but he had missed some earlier in the championship. Young made all three of his kicks. Brantford made two. “Ice-water veins,” is how his coach put it. It was a squeeze, but Malvern had made the OFSAA final against

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Malvern’s Dylan Silver runs to stop an advance by Unionville’s Bill Crothers Secondary School’s rugby team in OFSAA action in Hamilton on June 5. Malvern won the second-round match 10-6. Saltfleet Secondary. “We’d heard the whole tournament that Saltfleet was a superpower,” said Young. “They hadn’t lost, and almost no one had scored on them.” For the first half, it looked like Saltfleet would make it all the way to OFSAA gold without a single try scored against them. Malvern missed a good chance early on, which sapped some momentum, and Saltfleet opened up a 15-3 lead.

Beach swimmer will run with Pan Am torch By Jon Muldoon

SHE TRAINS in the Pan Am pool with the Scarborough Swim Club, and has tickets to watch swimming with her family during the upcoming Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games. So you can imagine how thrilled Lily McDonald was to be chosen as one of the 3,000-plus torchbearers taking part in the 41-day Pan Am Games torch relay. Lily’s mother, Denise, told her about the application to run with the torch after finding out about the open call through the swim club. “She told me a few days later, then told me I was accepted,” said Lily. “I was so surprised, and excited at the same time.” Lily will run her 200-metre section on the second-last day of the relay, carrying the 1.5 kg aluminum torch past Queen’s Park downtown. The relay will end day 40, Thursday, July 9, in a public celebration at Nathan Phillips Square. Before Lily carries her torch – which her parents have chosen to buy as a memento of the relay – it will have been carried about 5,000km, flown more than 15,000km from its kickoff ceremony in Teotihuacan, Mexico in May, and trav-

elled by more than 60 modes of transportation. While that makes Lily a bit nervous, she’s looking forward to running her stretch with the support of many of her friends. “They’re all really excited for me,” she said. Lily’s connection to the games through her swim club makes the experience extra special for her. During the games she’ll get to see some of the fastest swimmers in the world racing in the same water she trains in. “It’s so cool to think that we’re there in the same spot the athletes will be competing,” she said. The 13 year-old swam on her school swim team at Glen Ames Senior Public School, and served on student council. She will be attending Malvern Collegiate Institute in the fall, and back in the pool six times a week as the Scarborough Swim Club picks up again after its summer break. For now, though, Lily is looking forward to her moment in the spotlight on July 9. She believes it’s a rare chance to take part in something she’ll remember for the rest of her life. “It’s once in a lifetime. I’ll look back on it and I think I’ll be really proud.”

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Lily McDonald, 13, is one of about 3,000 people chosen to run during the Pan Am Games torch relay. She will run the flame past Queen’s Park on Thursday, July 9.

Hamlet, cont’d. from Page 1 For his part, Soares-Correia said every actor knows in the back of his mind that he might one day “shake hands with Hamlet,” and try to give him life. Many are daunted by the intensity of the role, and by its length – Hamlet has more lines than any other character in Shakespeare’s three dozen plays. But Soares-Correia welcomed the challenge, noting that Shakespeare also gives the young prince plenty of fuel for drama. “That first scene, watching my uncle schmoozing with my mother and everyone hanging on him hand and foot – that definitely fuels Hamlet’s first monologue,” he said. “‘Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt,’” he said, quoting the play. “What a way to start.” Bard in the Park will perform Hamlet at the Alex Christie band shell in Kew Gardens at 7 p.m. every night from June 16 to June 20, with 2 p.m. matinee shows on Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21.

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“The guys never gave up,” Young said, which showed when Malvern finally landed a try on Saltfleet in the second half. In the end, Saltfleet took the game 32-8. But Malvern had left their mark. “We’ve had some good years previously, and my expectation almost every year is to win the Toronto championship,” said Underwood. “But these guys really went above and beyond when we got to OFSAA. It was really satisfying to see that.”

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A BYLAW against curb-side basketball nets has one Upper Beach family feeling hooped. On May 28, Celia Johnstone came home to find a bylaw violation notice hanging on the free-standing basketball net that her sons set up on the edge of their front lawn along Glen Davis Crescent. “It’s a joke really, because all my kids have grown up here and we’ve had one there for years,” said Johnstone. “Nobody’s ever made any fuss about it.” The notice gave the family two weeks to move the net away from the road because it stands in the city’s right-of-way, which Johnstone said goes three-quarters of the way up her yard. Except for plants, walkways and short fences or retaining walls, a City of Toronto bylaw prohibits anything in such right-of-

ways – from hockey nets to public art – that might block sight lines, driveways, or otherwise pose a traffic hazard. But Johnstone said her sons have been shooting hoops in the same spot for five years already, and there are two more curbside hoops just down the street. “It’s random,” she said, noting that a city worker wouldn’t say if they got a complaint or not, only that it is not an offence that bylaw officers go looking for. Breaking from a round of pick-up with his brother Wil and their neighbour Liam, Johnstone’s son Jack said he understands safety or noise could be issues, but Glen Davis is a quiet street, and they never play at night. “Kids want to be out and active,” he said. “If we’re not doing this, we’re going to go play Xbox, we’re going to play PS4. Would you rather have people out shooting hoops and having a good time, or sitting inside?”

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False alarm on lead levels By Andrew Hudson

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DRINKING FOUNTAINS are spouting once again at Duke of Connaught. Two recent tests show the school’s tap water is safe to drink, suggesting human error was behind an earlier test that registered a high level of lead. For the two weeks before June 10, staff and students at the kindergarten to Grade 8 school had to drink bottled water as a precaution. Anna Caputo, a communications officer for the Toronto District School Board, said tests done on May 28 and June 5 show the school’s water meets Ontario guidelines, which call for lead levels no higher than 0.010 milli-

grams per litre. Caputo said staff take two water samples for every test – one after the water has been standing in the pipes for several hours, the other after the pipes are flushed. “Normally, the standing results are much higher than the flushed results,” she said. But strangely, Caputo said a test taken on May 27 showed the opposite, suggesting that the person who took the samples mixed them up by mistake. “Even if it is human error, it’s flagged with the ministry, so we have to follow-up and do further testing,” she said. Asked about the school’s plumbing system, Caputo said the pipes at Duke of Connaught are made of copper, not lead.

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

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Police Beat A TORONTO man arrested by Montreal police for first-degree murder after his mother was found dead in her home near Danforth and Woodbine Avenues is in custody in Toronto. Police arrested 25-year-old Justin Scott in a west-end neighbourhood of Montreal on Thursday, June 4. Toronto homicide officers transported Scott back to Toronto on Tuesday, June 9. In Toronto, police were called to a home near Danforth and Woodbine just after noon on Tuesday, June 2. Officers found the 65-year-old victim, Linda Scott, the suspect’s mother, dead in her apartment. Justin Scott is now facing a charge of firstdegree murder. He made his first Toronto court appearance on June 10. Investigators are hoping for information on the whereabouts of Scott between Sunday, May 30 and Thursday, June 4, while in Toronto and Montreal. They believe he was renting an apartment or hotel room. Anyone with any information should call Toronto homicide detective Robert Choe at 416-808-7400. Leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at 222tips. com, or text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637). TWO YOUNG men are facing multiple charges after a series of street robberies in the East End. Police allege the two suspects stalked victims on foot in various locations including Crescent Town, and took gold necklaces from victims’ necks. One alleged victim is only five years old, and in another case a knife was used to threaten the victim. On May 27, Aekwon Murray, 18, and a 17 year-old boy were arrested and face a combined total of 26 robbery, weapons, and drug charges. Police believe there may be more victims. Anyone with any information should call police at 416-808-5400 or 416-808-4100

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In My Opinion

Gardiner debate brings back unpleasant memories THE DEBATE rages on! Tear it down! Fix it! Build a hybrid!?! Make an eight-lane boulevard … with six … no, four stoplights for pedestrians. What to do with the east end portion of the old Gardiner Expressway? We Beachers can remember back to the 1990s when the debate was raging about tearing down the elevated section that came out to Leslie (it was supposed to connect the Gardiner to the Scarborough Expressway … and we all know what happened to that, eh?!). Now it seems these same people – or perhaps their children – are lobbying to continue tearing the elevated section down until it is out of the Beach and the East End altogether. Our new mayor John ‘Tory’ Tory, in the spirit of compromise, wants to build a hybrid version of the Gardiner, which really means

he wants to leave it as it is but call it something different. Bandying about all manner of statistics, Tory’s trying to make himself less obstinate than his predecessor, Lord Ford, who made no bones about leaving the darn thing alone. There’s not much I can add to the debate that will sway politicians. The Gardiner has been studied to death. All I can say is that there are some precedents to this discussion that can be considered. A recent article in Maclean’s magazine about the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor made reference to the fact that the bridge was never connected directly to the 401, but rather emptied onto a major Windsor roadway. Truckers who sail along on expressways all the way from Miami come down off the bridge and have to crawl their way through 18 stop-

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is an irascible long-time Beacher who remembers when the Beach was different than it is now lights on the 12 km stretch of Huron Church Road between the bridge and the 401. Sure, the proposed boulevard replacing the Gardiner won’t be 12 km long, and some councillors have asked that the proposed six stoplights be reduced to four in order to keep things moving. But no matter how many stoplights you install, it will slow things down. If that’s the point, then fine, go for it. Let’s put boulevards all along the Gardiner to slow things down. In fact, let’s consider putting them along the 401, DVP and 427 as well. Bloody trucks go too fast anyway! Thinking of boulevards, the one

that replaced the elevated section of the Gardiner to Leslie seemed to accommodate Beach traffic quite nicely … until it was decided to put the new TTC barns SOUTH of Lakeshore, requiring massive construction and re-routing, and the closure of Leslie south of Queen. Once development starts on either side of the new boulevard, how would that affect traffic? Then there’s the idea of burying the whole thing. It’ll only cost $2.5 billion (I’m sure Queen’s Park and the feds will be happy to kick in on it). It would certainly make for a better lakeshore experience. But … wait a minute … what about the GO and VIA train tracks? Shall we bury those as well? Shouldn’t we consider putting some form of mass-transit, say, an LRT down there too? And what makes anyone think for a minute that the elevat-

ed section would be replaced by a boulevard, or even parkland? I can see it now: a strip of green snaking its way between 40-storey condo buildings all the way from Jarvis to Kipling. You’d need artificial turf because there’d be no sunlight getting through. And let’s face it, is the push to tear the Gardiner down really about its crumbling condition? Or is it being pushed by developers who want to throw up their own 40-storey condo buildings? Does it sound like I’m for the status quo? Really, I don’t care one way or another. I don’t do a lot of driving anymore. But whatever they do, I know it will take a long time, there’ll be traffic chaos during the construction/deconstruction, and it will cost way more than ever conceived in the proposed budget – as usual.

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Online group a haven for cyberbullies “THE BEACHES, Toronto” is a Facebook group dedicated to the Beach community. As of June 3, it had 7,969 members and growing. The description for the group states that it is a “discussion group” and is not for the “faint of heart” and those who take online comments seriously. Not a very welcoming message for someone who would just want to be more connected with their community. Community Facebook groups are generally for small business promotion, spreading word of community events, buy/sell posts, and any other important information

that members of the community need to know. There’s no doubt this group was created with good intentions to bring the community closer together via social media. Unfortunately, the group has turned into a battle royale with Beachers arguing and insulting each other daily, if not hourly. We all know that the internet is full of arguments fought cowardly behind computer screens. The result? Cyberbullying. Cyberbullying has become an epidemic and has caused serious trauma especially in young people. It is a new and deadly form of bully-

ing that can cause extreme mental health issues that will follow a child for the rest of their lives. The Beaches group is full of parents and other adults who likely have a relation to a child or teen in their lives. Ninety per cent of parents are familiar with cyberbullying, Stop A Bully Canada reports. As a young person who recently graduated high school, cyber bullying is very real and affects more people than the average person would think. Stop A Bully Canada reports that nearly four in 10 social network users have been cyberbullied. The comments made in the

Beaches group are perfect examples of cyberbullying, setting an absolutely disgusting example for the younger generation. Any level-headed person reading the most heated threads on the group would be shocked and appalled at some of the wildly offensive things that have been said. Insults about age, mental stability, parenting, intelligence, parking, dog leash laws … The threads eventually turn into a personal argument between five to 10 people, completely steering away from the actual post itself. It’s concerning that these posts aren’t shut down immediately, as the ar-

guments almost always spiral out of control. The Beaches Facebook group has turned into a toxic adult cyberbullying frenzy. It is hypocritical in the sense that adults are bullying each other – something that is considered an offence in their own children’s schools. A discussion group not for the faint of heart. A discussion group not for people who take internet comments too seriously. How about telling that to parents who lost a child to suicide as a result of cyberbullying? D.C.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

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BRIAN GRAFF is a life-long Torontonian who chose to move to the Beach six years ago. It has been his favourite part of the city since first visiting the area in the early 1970s. Brian has been active in local politics and ran for City Council last year because he cares deeply about the community. He was also very active as a volunteer in urban planning matters including the Lick’s and Shell Station condo fights, and in the Queen Street planning studies. He is a believer that physical changes to the community need to be appropriate and should protect and preserve what is best about what we already have. Brian has degrees in architecture and environmental studies. He believes his MBA in Finance and experience in business should be invaluable to the board overseeing the management of the paper. Vice president

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Beach Arts Scene By Jon Muldoon

Two Perspectives by Rick Shea, left, and Jocelyn Mann

Deserted by Vince Boyko

Judith Meeks

YELLOW HOUSE Gallery presents Before and After, running from June 18 until July 25. The show gathers four Toronto artists exhibiting work without human subjects. Questions about whether the story is beginning or ending are raised by the work, including paintings and photography. Artists in Before and After are Vince Boyko (boykogallery.

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com), David Brandy (lhicreative.com), Musa Musa (artbymusa.org), and Felicity Somerset (felicitysomersetphotography.com). An opening reception with the artists will be held on the evening of Thursday, June 18. To RSVP email christina@yellowhousegallery.ca. For more information on the gallery see yellowhousegallery.ca. Yellow House is at 921 Kingston Rd.

PHOTOGRAPHER RICK Shea and watercolour painter Jocelyn Mann have mounted a show featuring their local green oasis in the city, Monarch Park. Monarch Park – Two Perspectives runs for the month of June at the Pape/Danforth Library, 701 Pape Ave. The branch is open 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, and 1:30 to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

• JUDITH MEEKS’ show, Collected Works, is up at Gerrard Art Space until Sunday, June 21. Michelle Ward’s The Ghost of You will open on June 24, running until July 12. Her photographs and mixed media works explore – quite literally – forgotten spaces and objects in rural areas. Abandoned houses and barns in southwestern Ontario are featured alongside found photos including family portraits, many in obsolete formats like tin types and daguerreotypes, and other found objects. Ward will be at the gallery for an opening reception on Saturday, June 27 from 2 to 5 p.m. See theghostofyou.com for more on her work. Gerrard Art Space (gerrardartspace.com) is at 1475 Gerrard St. E., and is open from 2 to 7 p.m., Wednesday to Sunday.

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Community Calendar JUNE 16-21: Hamlet in Kew Gardens, Queen St. E. at Lee, Tuesday-Saturday 7 p.m., Saturday & Sunday 2 p.m. Presented by Bard in the Park and Community Centre 55. (8) JUNE 20: Kingston Road Village Art Walk & Street Fest from Hannaford St. to Victoria Park Ave., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Art, food, sales, fun for kids, and music! (8) JUNE 20: Bluffs Gates Open Home and Garden Tour starting at Cornell Campbell House, 3620 Kingston Rd., 10 a.m.-4 p.m., featuring the homes and gardens along the Scarborough Bluffs. Stroll through the magnificent gardens and be inspired by the beautifully appointed interiors. Info and tickets $30, available at www.bluffsgatesopen.com (8) JUNE 20: Yard Sale & BBQ at Waverley Road Baptist Church, 129 Waverley Rd., 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Proceeds to Kids Camp, to be held at Waverley Road in July. Info: www. waverleyroadbaptist.ca (8) JUNE 20-26: 50% off entire store at Pegasus Thrift Shop! Pegasus is a not-for-profit store with all proceeds supporting programs for adults with disabilities. JUNE 21: Beach Summer Solstice Festival at Prana Fitness, 2245 Queen St. E., 6-8 p.m., followed by a procession to the beach. Celebrate the genesis of a new community event with an enchanting evening of entertainment. Info: facebook. com/BeachSolsticeFestival (8) JUNE 24: Pegasus Community Project — Makers’ Meet-up, at 929 Kingston Rd., 2nd floor, 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. A drop-in for all makers and creators of handmade things, and all who are interested in Pegasus and the Pegasus Store. Find out how you can meet new people and create together in support of persons with disabilities. Come see our new community space and help Pegasus to move into its next 20 years in our community. (8) JUNE 24: Beaches-East York Federal Liberal Association Meet & Greet with Liberal candidate Nathaniel Erskine-Smith at 56 Lyall Ave., 7 p.m. Everyone is welcome. (8) JUNE 25: Free Seniors’ Movie – “Far From the Madding Crowd” at The Fox Theatre, 2236 Queen St. E. Doors open 10 a.m., movie starts at 10:30 a.m. Presented by Rotary Club of Toronto Beach. (8) JULY 1: Community Day at Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 11, 9 Dawes Rd., noon-4 p.m. Free hot dogs & hamburgers, dunk tank, bouncy castle. Fun for all. Everyone welcome. Info: 416-699-1353 (9) JULY 3-5: Toronto Leadership Conference at Toronto New Covenant Cathedral, 255 Blantyre Ave. Theme: Shape the Future Now by Connecting the Generations. A time of sharing, discovering and equipping. Info: torontonewcovenant.ca (9) JULY 16-19: Beaches International Karate Daigaku hosts World Cup at Kerr Hall Gymnasium, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria St., Thursday & Friday 1:30-6 p.m., Saturday & Sunday noon-6 p.m. Participants range from ages 6-60. Tickets range from $10-$50. Support your local team! Info: www. internationalkaratedaigaku.com (9) JULY 17-27: Beaches Jazz Festival. Info: beachesjazz.com (10) MONDAYS: FRENCH CONVERSATION GROUP for adults, 7-9 p.m. This is a

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group of about 10 people at the intermediate level and above. If you are highly motivated and interested in joining, please call (leave your number if the answering machine responds) 416-699-4681 (r) TUESDAYS: BEACHES MENTAL WELLNESS GROUP at Community Centre 55, 97 Main St., 7-8 p.m. Peers helping peers with issues affecting mental health. Summer meetings will be held on Thursdays from July 2 to Sept. 3, returning to regular Tuesday meetings on Sept. 8. Info: www. beachesmentalwellness.com (r) SECOND TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH: Amnesty International, in the Beach, meets at St. John’s Norway Church (Woodbine Ave. at Kingston Rd.), 7 p.m., to support Amnesty’s Human Rights work, through letter-writing actions and through organized public events to generate awareness of Human Rights actions worldwide. New members are most welcome. Info: beachamnesty@gmail.com (fr) WEDNESDAYS: GRASP (Grief Recovery After Substance Passing) Support Group at St. Bonaventure Church, 1300 Leslie St. (south of Lawrence Ave.), 7-9 p.m. A peer-to-peer community support group for parents and families who have lost a loved one due to substance abuse and addiction. Comfort and empathy is available from others with the same loss. Info: call/ text 647-274-3224, email grasptoronto@ gmail.com, visit grasphelp.org (fr) THURSDAYS: WALKING GROUP at East End Community Health Centre, 1619 Queen St. E., 10-11 a.m. Want to get moving and improve your health? Come join the East End Walking Group for a stroll around the neighbourhood, followed by some light stretching. For more programs, check the Centre’s program calendar at www.eastendchc.on.ca. To participate in the walking group, call Zari 416-778-5805 ext. 222 (fr) FRIDAYS: FRIENDLY FRENCH CONVERSATION Group at Calvary Baptist Church, 74 Main St. (rear entrance, lower level), 9:30-11:30 a.m. All levels welcome. Don’t use it you’ll lose it. Info: Diana 416-698-6537 (fr) BEACHES LIBRARY, 2161 Queen St. E. •Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies, 2 p.m. Cinematic classics, new releases, foreign films and documentaries. •June 18: Exoplanets and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Biology, 7 p.m. Amaury Triaud will discuss techniques that will soon tell us whether life forms have arisen on planets outside our solar system. Info: 416-393-7703 (7) GERRARD ASHDALE LIBRARY, 1432 Gerrard St. E. •June 17: Kids Book Club (ages 8-12), 4-5 p.m. June selection: ‘From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler’ by E. L. Konigsburg. •June 25: Book Club, 7-8 p.m. June selection: ‘Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand’ by Helen Simonson. •June 26: Youth Advisory Group (YAG), 4-5 p.m. •June 26: Summer Reading Club registration begins Info: 416393-7717, ashdaleevents@gmail.ca, www.torontopubliclibrary.ca. Library is wheelchair accessible. (8) ST. JOHN’S CATHOLIC CHURCH CHOIR welcomes new members. We practise Thursdays 7:30-9 p.m. and perform Sundays at 11 a.m. at 794 Kingston Rd. (3 blocks east of Main St.). You don’t have to have musical training to sing with us, but you do have to like singing and want to be with oth-

ers to make the whole greater than the sum of the parts. We are friendly and welcoming and our leader is a wonderful music teacher. Info: Paul Williams 416-699-2518 (r) ROTARY CLUB OF TORONTO BEACH holds a breakfast meeting every Tuesday, 7 a.m., at the Balmy Beach Club. For information please visit www.torontobeachrotary.org or call Nancy L’Estrange 416- 686-2906 (r) BEACHES LIONS CLUB meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at their Clubhouse, 10 Ashbridges Bay Park Rd. Interested in serving your community? Call Andy Buhot 416-690-3324. Info: www.beacheslions.com (r) HAVE FUN THIS SUMMER! Enjoy a game of lawn bowls or croquet at Kew Beach Club, foot of Lee Ave. Info: Fay 461-466-6598 (r) A SPECIAL PUBLIC MASS featuring Native symbolism will be held on Sunday, June 28, at 3:00 p.m. in St. John Catholic Church in recognition of Aboriginal Day, Feathers of Hope and the federal Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Following the service there will be Native displays set up in the Hall and refreshments. Note the Hall is stair access only. The church is at 794 Kinston Rd – 2 blocks east of Main St. Parking is available. Info: Maryse 416-699-4237 or maryse.ristuccia@gmail.com (8) ST. AIDAN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH, Queen St. E. at Silver Birch Ave. •Sunday Services are 8:30 & 10:30 a.m. (Church School & Nursery at 10:30). •Midweek service - Wednesdays 10:30 a.m. •Christian Meditation – Wednesdays in June 7:30 p.m. •Summer Service – Sundays 9:30 a.m. beginning June 28 and throughout July and August. All welcome. Info: 416-691-2222, staidansinthebeach.com (8) BEACH UNITED CHURCH, 140 Wineva Ave. •Sunday Worship Service, 10:30 a.m. Nursery care & children’s activity time available. •Crafts, Thursdays 9:30-11:30 a.m. Info: 416691-8082, www.beachunitedchurch. com. We are on facebook and twitter @NewBeachUnited (7) BEACHES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 65 Glen Manor Dr. (S of Queen) in the heart of the Beach. Worship in a family-friendly, relaxed environment. Sunday School and Nursery available. Coffee and new friendships are Free! LGTB friendly. Sundays 10:30 a.m. Info: www.beacheschurch.org, 416-699-5871 (r) KINGSTON ROAD UNITED CHURCH, 975 Kingston Rd. (3 blocks W of Victoria Pk. Ave.). Join us each Sunday for Worship, Church School and Nursery, 10:30 a.m. Our services are filled with beautiful music and thoughtful sermons, and are shared amidst a caring community with true neighbourly spirit. Come in and get a faith lift. Info: www.kruc.ca. 416-699-6091 (r) ST. JOHN’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, 794 Kingston Rd. (3 blocks E of Main St.) •Masses: Saturday 4:30 p.m. (Contemporary Music), Sunday 9 a.m. (Children’s Liturgy), 11 a.m. (Choir) •Weekday Masses: Tuesday to Friday 8:15 a.m. •Reconciliation: Saturday 3:45-4 p.m. •Pray the Rosary each morning Tuesday to Friday, 20 min. before Mass. All welcome. Info: 416-698-1105, www.stjohnsrc.ca, stjohnschurch@bellnet.ca (r) FALLINGBROOK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 35 Wood Glen Road (corner of Kingston Road and Wood Glen). Join us Sundays 10:30 a.m. for a dynamic,

spiritually relevant service accompanied by excellent music. Families are always welcome and we offer a Sunday school program. Info: www. fallingbrookpresbyterian.com (r) NEIGHBOURHOOD UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION, 79 Hiawatha Rd. (S of Gerrard, W of Coxwell). Sundays, 10:30 a.m. Special children’s programs. Spirited choir. Are you searching for a community where people honour each other’s beliefs? Let us have the honour of supporting you on your spiritual path as you discover Unitarian Universalism. We are an openminded inclusive congregation. Info: www.nuuc.ca, 416-686-6809 (6) CORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH, 16 Lockwood Rd. •Masses: Tuesday-Friday 9 a.m., Saturday Vigil 5 p.m., Sunday 9:30 a.m. & 11 a.m. with children’s liturgy. Info: 416-694-0382, corpuschristi@bellnet.ca (r) TORONTO UNITED MENNONITE CHURCH, 1774 Queen St. E. We warmly welcome you to join us for our worship service each Sunday with Christian education and nursery, 10 a.m.-12:35 p.m. Info: 416-699-6631, www.tumc.ca (r) CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH, 72 Main St. (between Gerrard & Kingston). Know you are welcome at our neighbourhood church. Visit with us to worship & experience our caring, extended family. Sunday 10:30 a.m. Nursery, Sunday School & twice monthly Youth. Wheelchair accessible. Parking lot off Benlamond. Info: 416-691-4721, calvaryonmain@bellnet.ca, www. calvary-baptist-church.ca (r) ST. NICHOLAS’ ANGLICAN CHURCH, 1512 Kingston Rd. (one block east of Warden). Taking time to remember, celebrate and grow in the love of God at work in our world and in our lives, is a vital aspect of our spiritual faith journey. We gather together in worship, and for special events, which seek to develop and build our relationship with God and one another. Sunday Services: 8:30 a.m. Said Service of Holy Eucharist, 10:30 a.m. Sung Eucharist Service with contemporary and traditional music, and Sunday School. Mid-week Service Wednesday, 10 a.m. All welcome. WAVERLEY ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH, 129 Waverley Rd. (just north of Queen St.). Sundays, 11 a.m. You are invited! Our services feature contemporary music and interesting messages to help you to know God better. Info: www.waverleyroadbaptist.ca DANFORTH MENNONITE CHURCH, 2174 Danforth Ave. (just east of Woodbine), welcomes you to worship, sing and meet your neighbours, Sundays, 11 a.m. Nursery care available and Christian education for all ages. The congregational life features frequent potlucks. Info: 416-422-2406, www. danforthmennonitechurch.ca BIRCHCLIFF BLUFFS UNITED CHURCH, 33 East Rd. (Kingston Rd. & Warden Ave.). •Sunday Worship Services, 10:30 a.m. Info: www.birchcliffbluffsuc.org ST. SAVIOUR’S ANGLICAN CHURCH, 43 Kimberley Ave. (at Swanwick Ave.). Info: 416-699-6512, www.stsaviours.ca

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NEI GHBOURHOOD Everyone has a Story to Tell

Passing on the story of food By Jon Muldoon

ONE STORY Erin Spencer hopes to pass on to her children is the story of food. Spencer’s journey from new homeowner to backyard urban garden success story is chronicled in a web series on YouTube called Dirty Girl. In it, a film crew follows her from expanding her Woodbine and Danforth area home’s garden, through the process of planting, maintaining, harvesting, and finally, enjoying the literal fruits of her gardening labour. Carly Spencer and Marc Simard from Killer Coyote Flicks found Spencer online, where she had been posting recipes and food articles on her blog and Facebook. When they pitched the concept of starring in a web series it didn’t initially appeal to Spencer. She has worked as everything from an indie band manager (she met her husband, the manager for the Sam Roberts Band, on tour with the band she was working with) to a prop stylist and set designer. “I said, ‘What are you, crazy? I don’t want to film a freaking gardening show,’” she said with a laugh. “I’ve never been on the other side of the camera before.” But when producers said the whole thing could actually be filmed in her backyard, she relented. “I decided if we’re going to do this, then let’s do it my way,” she said.

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Erin Spencer, host and star of the food gardening web series Dirty Girl, with garlic harvested from her East Danforth area garden. Below left, beets, carrots, eggplant, and more, harvested from her typical East End backyard.

“I thought the idea of growing in an urban environment was an interesting idea.” Spencer decided to learn as much as she could from organic farmers, hobby gardeners, chefs, neighbourhood grandmothers with local tips passed down generation to generation, even local artists and musicians with practical tips picked up through observation and getting their hands dirty. That shared knowledge is passed on in each webisode on the ‘Dirty

Girl Web Series’ YouTube channel. The combination of trial and error and the advice she gathered from experts resulted in a bumper crop of produce, including – but certainly not limited to – radishes, chard, beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, raspberries, herbs, carrots, garlic, and more. So what has Spencer found does well in the East Danforth area? When asked, she answers with no hesitation: tomatoes. “They’re my favourite, and the most successful.” Zucchini and beans also do well here, she said. Her raspberries also produce a large yield – so it’s great that her three and a half year-old, Griffin, is showing signs of having green thumbs despite his young age. “He’s already a huge helper in the garden,” said Spencer. In a few years, her weeks-old newborn will be joining his older brother helping out in the backyard. Of course not everything always works out perfectly, even for those whose gardens are covered by a film crew for a whole growing season. Cont’d. on Page 31

News Briefs THE BEACH Village BIA is cosponsoring the Q107 Canada Day Picnic at Woodbine Park on July 1. The massive patriotic party features live music, a Kids Fun Zone, and fireworks. The event starts at noon and runs until 10 p.m. Anyone heading to the park should consider transit, bikes, or walking, as parking will be tight with an expected attendance of 100,000. As an alternative, consider the 58th East York Canada Day event. A parade beginning at Dieppe Park, 455 Cosburn Ave., at 10 a.m. will travel through East York to Stan Wadlow Park at Woodbine and Cosburn. Events and live entertainment will take place in the park with fireworks finishing off the day at about 10:15 p.m. THE INAUGURAL Summer Solstice Festival is set for the evening of Sunday, June 21. Celebrating the longest day of the year, the event will include entertainment, followed by a procession to the beach, a drum circle, and a bonfire. Proceedings get underway at 6 p.m. at Prana Fitness, 2245 Queen St. E., followed by the trip to the waterfront at 8 p.m. Find SummerSolsticeFestivalTheBeach on Facebook. A GROUP of residents near Blantyre Park are rallying to have a splash pad installed. When Jodi Harper saw a city crew at work in the park she thought the time had come, only to discover the new project was a gazebo. She has started a petition in support of a splash pad, which at press time had 345 signatures. Search ‘Blantyre splash pad’ at thepetitionsite.com. IN RECOGNITION of Aboriginal Day, Feathers of Hope and the federal Truth and Reconciliation Commission, St. John

Catholic Church will hold a special public mass featuring Native symbolism on Sunday, June 28, at 3 p.m. Native displays will be set up in the Parish Hall and refreshments will be available after the service. The church is located at 794 Kingston Rd., two blocks east of Main Street. Parking is available. Please note the Hall is stair access only.

BEACHES LODGE freemasons are hosting their ninth annual sandcastle building competition as part of International Sandcastle Day. Teams and individuals are welcome to join in the fun starting any time on Sunday, June 28 just east of the Woodbine bathing station on the beach. The Beaches Cup will be awarded to the best design at 3 p.m. Families, students, and local businesses have all taken part in the free event in past years. The contest runs rain or shine. Organizers anticipate a future run for the Guinness record for most sandcastles built on a beach in one day. THE BEACH and East Toronto Historical Society will hold its annual general meeting on Tuesday, June 23 at the Beaches branch of the Toronto Public Library, 2161 Queen St. E. at Lee Avenue. Registration starts at 6:30 p.m., with the meeting set to run from 7 to 8:15 p.m. The annual report, constitution, and bylaws will be presented, and the new BETHS website will be officially launched. New members are always welcome. THE FIRST outdoor Leslieville Flea of the season is set for Saturday, June 21 at the Ashbridge Estate, 1444 Queen St. E. Vendors offer handcrafted furniture, vintage clothing, antiques, crafts, and more, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Find out more at leslievilleflea.com.

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Neil McNeil’s Anthony Fera throws a pitch during the sixth inning of an Ontario championships game against the Prince Edward Collegiate Panthers on June 3. Neil McNeil won the game 10-5, a victory that capped the school’s best baseball season in recent memory, and represented a giant leap for long-time players who only moved up to the TCDSB’s Tier 1 league earlier this year.

Neil McNeil earns OFSAA spot on the mound, borrowing a line from former head coach Al Baigent. “Victory is forever.” FOR A school that just made the big leagues While Rivera will spend his next baseball in high school baseball, Neil McNeil is a sur- season pitching for a college prep team in prise hit. Puerto Rico, most of his teammates will be After stepping up to Tier 1 this season – looking for another record-setting season the only East End Catholic school to do so next spring. – the varsity boys team edged past rivals Warming up for his third game of the day, Michael Power to land a spot in the Ontario Anthony Fera said lots of Tier 1 players play championships. ball in Toronto’s Midget It’s the best baseball seaElite League, and Neil Mcson that anyone at Neil McNeil is guaranteed to face Neil can remember. top league competition from The Maroons finally met Bishop Allen and St. Mike’s, their match in game three, both of which made it to the which Aurora’s St. Maximilprovincial semis. ian Kolbe won 5-2, but not beStill, after relieving Rivera fore they outran the Prince in the 10-5 win against Prince Edward Panthers with a Edward Collegiate, Fera commanding 10-5 win. sounded confident. “Especially after being Asked what kind of pitcher – Oliver Rivera Tier 2 our whole high school he was, he replied, “Strikelife until this year, and then out pitcher!” making OFSAA – it’s aweBesides fresh jerseys from some,” said catcher Mason Debassige, a the school, head coach Tony Granato said fourth-year player who is one of just two this year’s team started their first Tier 1 season with a new level of dedication, running Grade 12s on the team. Pitcher Oliver Rivera, the other Grade 12, drills months before their first game and perspoke to Beach Metro News between games severing in a largely West End league where with a burger in one hand and an ice pack in all their games had to be doubleheaders. “It’s nice to get a win at OFSAA,” Granato the other. Rivera threw seven strike-outs in the first said. “We’ve got a good core of players, younger five innings against the Panthers, several of them after taking a hard line-drive to his calf. players as well, so we should have a good re“Pain is temporary,” he told his coaches turning team next year.” By Andrew Hudson

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BEACH RESIDENTS Jillian Rees-Brown and Jorie Morrow met during a theatre production and became fast friends, bonding over shared experiences dealing with family caregivers. Rees-Brown, a professional actor whose credits include the Toronto Mirvish and US International tour productions of Billy Elliot the Musical, is taking care of her mother who lives in a nursing home. Morrow, a George Brown theatre graduate and veteran Fringe performer, is a social worker who often interacts with families dealing with dementia. The two decided the best way to share the story of the often-forgotten caregiver was through theatre. Thus was born Hey! Good Lookin’, the duo’s show that will run as part of this year’s Fringe Festival. Community Workshop Hey! Good Lookin’ begins for a Key Development within with two estranged sisters the South of Eastern Employment District DISCUSSION TOPIC: Infrastructure meeting in an intensive care Tuesday June 23, 2015 unit waiting room for the 7PM–9PM first time in a long time, afRalph Thornton Centre (765 Queen St East) ter their 85 year-old mother is admitted. The play is dequestions? contact Julia Bubrin Hardy Stevenson & Associates Ltd. scribed as “an absurd family P: 416.944.8444 ext. 224 story told with love, joy, sad-

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Entertainment Beat THE IAN White Band will bring its folk sounds to Hirut Restaurant, 2050 Danforth Ave. just west of Woodbine, on Friday, June 19, from 8 to 10 p.m. This is the band’s second appearance at the East Danforth establishment. Former Beach Metro News staffer Bill MacLean covers bass and backup vocal duties in the band. See ianwhite.org for more information. •

RELISH, 2152 Danforth Ave. just east of Woodbine, offers live entertainment almost every night. The venue will take part in the Toronto Jazz Festival offering small-stage jazz performances (different styles where noted) from June 18 until June 28. On Thursday, June 18 Liane Fainsinger will play at 7 p.m. The Pearl Motel offers rock and jazz at 9:30 p.m. on Friday, June 19. Saturday, June 20 will see the Evan Deslaunier Trio perform at 7 p.m., with Red Brick playing R n’ B at 9:30 p.m. The Brickhouse Trio will play for brunch at 11 a.m. on Sunday, June 21. The Mediterranean Stars will play Gypsy jazz at 8 p.m. on Monday, June 22, as will Jazz Moustache the following night at 7:30 p.m. The BTBs play at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 24. Thursday, June 25 will see Joanne Morra on stage at 7 p.m., followed by the usual karaoke at 10 p.m. The Lilly Mason Trio will play jazz and R n’ B on Friday, June 26, followed by Sam Taylor and the East End Love at 9:30 p.m. with a mix of jazz, rock, and blues. Monica Chapman hits the stage at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 27, followed by Bentroots playing “N’awlins blues” at 9:30 p.m. Every Sunday night the stage is open for the weekly Stir It Up open mic, kicking off at 9 p.m. The Jazz Festival has also adopted some other longstanding East End gigs. Jazzy Sundays at Morgans on the Danforth, 1282 Danforth Ave., continue on Sunday, June 21 with Carin Redman, Mark Kieswetter, and Jordan O’Connor, who will be joined by special guests Yvette Tollar and Thyron Lee Whyte.

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On Sunday, June 28 Lisa Particelli’s ‘Girls Night Out’ jazz jam (“where gentlemen are welcome too!”) takes over the stage. Jazzy Sundays run from 2 to 5 p.m. with no cover. A later show has been added after Jazzy Sundays on June 21. Bill McBirnie and Stephen Gardner will perform at 6:30 p.m., with no cover. McBirnie (extremeflute.com) is a well-regarded flutist, teacher, and writer. Gardner (stephengardner. ca) is a pianist capable of covering everything from classical to jazz to rock. Joining these two venues are two more East Danforth Jazz Festival Club Series spots: Sauce and the Linsmore. The Russ Macklem Quartet Jam Session (russmacklem. com) will play at the Linsmore Tavern, 1298 Danforth Ave., at 8 p.m. on Thursday, June 18, Wednesday, June 24, and Thursday, June 25. Joining trumpet player Macklem will be Dave Restivo, piano, Brian Chahley, bass, and Norbert Botos, drums. There is no cover and musicians are invited to bring along an instrument and sit in. Sauce on the Danforth, 1376 Danforth Ave., will host Matt Morgan at 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 20. The Out of Towners (theoutoftowners.net) will play at 9 p.m. on Monday, June 22, followed on Tuesday, June 23 by Julian Fauth (julianfauth. com) at 6 p.m. Ewen Farncombe rounds out Jazz Fest shows in the East End at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 24. All shows at Sauce are no cover. •

DRUMMER GREG Pilo’s weekly Tuesday evening jazz jams continue at the Salty Dog, 1980 Queen St. E., from 7 to 10 p.m. with no cover. Tonight, Tuesday, June 16, Pilo will be joined by flautist Bill McBirnie, guitarist Reg Schwager, and bassist Neil Swanson. On Tuesday, June 23, Steve Wallace will be on bass duties while Bernie Senensky will tickle the ivories. On Tuesday, June 30, Pat LaBarbera will play sax, Ted Quinlan will be on guitar, and George Koller will complete the rhythm section on bass.

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From left, Sherry Sheng, Michelle Mayers, Keith Loch, Tricia Quintal, Kim Dunlop, Elaine MacSween, Timothy Dawson and Renuka Jeng show their love of books and music at the Taylor Memorial Library, one of four local libraries that will host book discussions about this year’s Beaches Reads book. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers’ acclaimed novel about a deaf man living in 1930s Georgia, which she wrote at age 23, is the book interested readers and music lovers should read over the summer. Bohemians in Brooklyn is a cabaret written and performed by CBC’s Tom Allen and a trio of other musicians. It’s based on stories about the February House, a home where poet WH Auden, playwright Benjamin Britten, novelist McCullers and Gypsy Rose Lee all lived in wartime Brooklyn. Bohemians in Brooklyn is being presented to accompany the Beaches Reads book, and will take place in November. The book discussions will run from mid-October until early November, so there’s plenty of time to pick up a copy and participate.

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ABOUT A month before the new apartments in the old Naaz Theatre were finally cued to open, owner Gurnam Multani was upstairs moving Whirlpools. Not hot tubs, he said, but dishwashers, good ones, for the 25 two- and three-bedroom suites he plans to start renting in July. With plaster dust on his pin-striped pants, and a cell phone that never quit, Multani walked downstairs and across the granite-tiled ground floor where

the Angela Beauty Parlour will go and agreed to sit a while and share his take on the first star of Little India. “Everybody came to the Naaz Theatre,” he said, smiling. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the Gerrard-Ashdale Library on Gerrard Street East, the Naaz Theatre got its name from Gian Naz. A mechanical engineer who loved movies, Naz moved to Toronto in 1968 and found nowhere to watch South Asian films. So he began screening them himself, at first using a 16 mm projector that he set up in school gyms. At a time when VHS was still a faraway and secret project by another two engineers in Japan, Naz’ screenings were popular enough that by 1972 he started renting theatres to show full 35 mm prints. The empty Eastwood Theatre on Gerrard became the favourite, and in two years, he had the $10,000 to buy the building, and rename it Naaz. “I was here every day,” said Multani, who started running the Skylark restaurant across the street in 1979. Besides the 750-seat theatre, the Naaz housed a meeting hall that

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Gurnam Multani, at left, has owned several properties in the Gerrard India Bazaar since he started began running the Skylark restaurant in 1979. Multani bought the former Naaz Theatre in 2009 after it had been vacant for several years, and spent six years renovating it into new apartments and commercial spaces that are expected to open in July. The theatre is shown above in 1981, at left, and on June 14, at right. “Gerrard gave me everything,” Multani said. “I’m sitting in a good place, the best place in the world.” Gurjit Chadha and his daughter Neelu Sabharwal, bottom left, stand behind the counter of MotiMahal, which Chadha and his wife opened in 1975. “There’s a lot more diversity here now,” said Sabharwal. “You don’t see just Indian people – it’s a full mix of cultures, which is the best feeling.”

eighties when there was a lot of theft and vandalism, and people were afraid to walk the street alone at night. Racism plagued the street too, to the point that in 1977 a South Asian antiracist group started a 24-hour hotline for reporting racist attacks. Today, said Multani, the police know everyone on the street. Some speak Hindi, Urdu, and other South Asian languages. But it wasn’t always that way, Multani said, and some South Asian owners felt their concerns about crime were ignored at the time. Another low was the first end of the Naaz Theatre, which sold in 1985 as home video finally hit the market and Bollywood films became more widespread. After an attempted revival in the 1990s, the lower floors were converted into a small mall called India Centre.

Last fall, a short piece in the New York Times travel section highlighted a new burst of commercial life in Little India – Gerrard Art Space, Tea N Bannock, The Swag Sisters toy shop, and Lazy Daisy’s Café, together with a dusk photo of the brightly coloured Flying Pony cafe and art gallery. A dozen more shops and galleries could make the list. “My feeling is there will be big growth in the next few years,” said Chand Kapoor, an accountant and chair of the Gerrard India Bazaar BIA. With a vibrant cultural mix and both downtown Toronto and the Beach close at hand, Kapoor said the street is an obvious draw for people who enjoy city living. After the former Naaz Theatre renovation, Multani hopes to build a new condo a block east, and a set of low-rise condos is already going up just west of

Highfield Road. “It’ll be quite a big change for Gerrard India Bazaar,” said Kapoor. But a minute later, when asked why even the newest stores on the street are still mom-and-pops, Kapoor pointed out the remarkable continuity that goes with the change – families who have held the same property and run the same business for 40 or 50 years. Getting up to take a look at the new front on what was once the Naaz Theatre, Gurnam Multani sounds like someone who has seen it all, and still sees what’s coming. Six years after he bought the old theatre that he used to see every day from his restaurant across the street, it is finally due for a new name – Multani Village. “Times change,” he said, smiling. “Time never waits for anybody.”

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Trashion show recycles for fashion Simron Puri shows an outfit she made from recycled T-shirts, plastic bags, and CD shards during a June 8 “Trashion Show” put on by students the Grade 11 fashion course at Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute. Puri won second place for her outfit, which she submitted along with two accessories. Other winners include Madison McKnight, who won first prize in clothing for a black dress she made using garbage bags; Cindy Kung, who made a rose-shaped necklace from melted plastic spoons; and Vanessa Ray, who made a hair clip out of recycled popcan tabs. PHOTO: BRIAN HILL

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retreat into our private leaves or wood chips. It back garden oases. helps suppress weeds, artina owley Whether you are an retain moisture, insulate is an environmental avid or budding garthe soil, and reduce soil communicator. dener, there are some erosion. martina@beachbusinesshub.ca things to keep in mind 647-208-1810 Lawns for an environmentally sound garden – one If you’re tired of that is organic, native, draught-resistant, watering and mowing your lawn all the time, and toxin-free. there is a solution other than replacing it with a wooden deck or a hard landscape. Soil Eco Lawn is a hybrid of seven types of grass The ground beneath our feet is not simply seeds. It produces a deeper root system, ‘dirt’ – it grows our foods and plants and is making it more drought-tolerant, requiring home to billions of living organisms. From less watering and fertilizing, and it can be worms and arachnids to fungi and bacteria, left to grow longer (less mowing!) to produce a carpet of fine grass. It’s sold at Home the soil is teeming with life that keeps it Hardware, Evergreen Garden Market, Bill’s aerated and nutrient-rich. Threats to soil Garden Centre and some nurseries. are contamination, salinization (high salt You can also just keep the grass longer – content from calcium, magnesium, sodium that gives it a better chance to fight ‘sunand sulfate), erosion, and compaction, all of burn’ – and give it only weekly deep soaks which can compromise or destroy the tiny to encourage deeper root growth for better organisms’ habitat. When soil biodiversity drought resistance. declines, both in quantity and variety, so does its health. And when the soil suffers, Plants the plants suffer. Better than lawn, a garden that includes To keep your plants happy, add organic flower beds provides a habitat and food nutrients to the soil. Turn in some compost (decomposed organic matter like your sources for more creatures. You can choose kitchen scraps and lawn clippings, full of from a plethora of flowering plants, shrubs, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium), and blossoming trees. compost tea (the ‘juice’ from the bottom of Native plants are best. They have adapted your compost bin or a brew you can make to local climate and temperatures, light with fully decomposed compost) or manure and soil conditions, and our short growing (high in nitrogen, sold under my favourite seasons, making them more resilient to moniker “moo poo” or sheep poo). drought, poor soil, and native pests. Many Any kind of compost works well for flowflowers and blooms are even edible, like ers and shrubs, whereas for a food garden pansies, passion flower, rose petals, lavender, and lamb’s ears, and look and taste good or vegetable container growing you may in salads or as decoration. want to go organic, as anything made from Consult a garden centre, the Beach animal waste can contain contaminants, Garden and Horticultural Society, or weblike hormones, antibiotics, or E. coli (note sites like the North American Native Plant compost from Toronto’s non-organic green Society for details on what to plant and how bins is allowed to contain meat scraps, dog to care for it. poop, diapers, and more). To protect your soil, apply a layer of Cont’d. on Page 26 mulch on top, made from straw, shredded

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Five-year-old carpenter Jude, centre, holds a cedar board in place as volunteers with the Friends of the Beach Parks build raised garden beds for the Beach Community Edible Garden on May 30. With garden beds that will provide fresh produce for a food bank and a youth cooking class run by the Beaches Rec Centre, the community garden will also include veggies for public snacking and plants for bees, butterflies and other pollinators.

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ur beaches are full of fascinating things – swans, cygnets, ducks, ducklings, sweet-scented pineapple weed underfoot, four-leaf clovers. And the latest addition: the Beach Community Edible Garden. It’s been in the works for months, as you may have heard, and now it’s really putting down roots. Unlike other community gardens, this one isn’t there just for the gardeners’ benefit. Most of the veggies they’re tending will be going to the Glen Rhodes United Church food bank. Some will be used by the kids at the cooking camp run by the Beaches Recreation Centre in August, and some will be available to visitors for on-thespot snacking. From tiny seeds… The project came about as an offshoot of Friends of the Beach Parks. (The same nice people who brought us the winter fire pit near the skating rink.) “We were looking for ways to animate our waterfront,” says Alex Rochon Terry, leader of the garden gang. “We have a lot of green space in our parks to use.” With help from parks supervisor Stuart Slessor and councillor Mary Margaret McMahon, Alex and friends were given a good-sized chunk of sunny ground on the southwest side of Ashbridges Bay. An IndieGoGo campaign on the Web helped raise money for garden basics like boards to make raised beds, seeds and a giant mound of lovely, rich soil. …Great things grow After much measuring, nailing, digging and seeding, the garden now has eight big rectangular raised beds: six for produce for

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the food bank, one for the culinary camp and one for public snacking. “We wanted to grow nutrient-dense plants,” Alex told me, so the beds contain beans, heirloom tomatoes, beets, cabbage, lettuce, kale and other leafy greens. Marigolds help protect the green goodies from insect pests. Five large, round containers also hold plants of special interest: one for medicinal herbs, one for the First Nations’ “three sisters” – squash, corn and beans – and three for pollinator plants. Call for gardeners So far, the garden’s steering committee has been the main force behind the garden. Besides Alex, members include Adele Gendron, Adam Smith, Joyce Mclean, Tom Sinclair, Fran Battaglia and Skye Vandenberg, who’s an urban agriculture assistant at Evergreen Brickworks. Now they’re looking for additional volunteers: • Gardeners, especially people with some experience in organic vegetable gardening, who can put in one hour a week on daily jobs like watering, weeding, thinning, planting, etc. • Steering committee members who can commit to two hours a week planning and directing garden activities such as organizing volunteers, creating events and fundraising.

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• Food bank distributors who can set aside at least two hours a week, on Wednesday mornings, to harvest and deliver produce to the food bank. Looking ahead Later in the year, the steering committee hopes to hold workshops in the garden on topics like seed starting, composting, pollinators and more. They’d like to hear from anyone who has gardening knowhow to share. And if you just want to come around from time to time to get your hands dirty, drop by Monday evenings between 6 and 8 p.m. to join the regulars. The habit might, ahem, grow on you. For more on the Beach Community Edible Garden, see beachcommunitygarden.wix.com or check out their Facebook page.

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Beach Memories Pan Am Games bring past games to mind

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his column is dedicated to the late Glenn Cochrane, who grew up in Hamilton, but was a Beacher by choice with his wife Jean, and a great Canadian. I learned a lot from Glenn about Hamilton sports in a national context. I recently had a discussion about the Pan Am Games, which someone said was the first great major international sporting event in Ontario. I took umbrage at this remark, and replied that I thought there were other sports events of national and international calibre connected to this area. The reply was, “Why don’t you name just one if you can?” “The British Empire Games,” I said. After this sports discussion I decided to write about the British Empire Games – later known as the Commonwealth Games – one of the first major athletic events in Ontario. The international competition was held in Hamilton in the summer of 1930. Our athletes came from across Canada, but there was a Beach connection, with a local athlete and a training park. Hamilton in 1930 was a city of only 150,000 people, but they were determined to make their mark on the athletic world stage, and did so almost entirely on their own. Those in charge of the current Pan Am Games should take note of these financial facts as this year’s games pass the $2.5 billion mark. In 1930 Hamilton had a small amount of funding from the federal and provincial governments, but this proud city decided to “get the games” and finance them in their own way. It is true that there were not as many athletes or countries participating in the BEG as in the upcoming Pan Am Games, but the city of Hamilton emphasized quality over quantity. The city paid for and built athletic facilities: a new Olympic swimming pool, a new stadium, stands, etc. The city guaranteed the BEG against loss. Competitors and officials were the guests of the city during their stay, and arrangements were made for their comfort and entertainment during the entire games. A total of 1,800 people, including officials, competitors, etc., were in the city and surrounding areas for athletics, wrestling, swimming, boxing, rowing, and lawn bowling. (Yes, there was lawn bowling. You lawn bowlers at Kew Beach and Balmy Beach, are you surprised?) The BEG were started just after the 1928 Olympic Games. Many of those Olympic athletes competed in the BEG in Hamilton. After months of deliberation the choice was between Vancouver and Hamilton, the final choice. The Commonwealth nations included England, Scotland, Wales, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand,

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Bermuda, British Guiana, Australia, and Newfoundland. There was one solid week of competition, from Aug. 16 to 23. They came by boat, train, and even by airplane. Those were the days of little pay but great glory for the athletes and the countries they represented. You must understand that the games were designed on the Olympic model, both in general organization and in the stern definition of amateur. The aspect of amateur competition is nearly lost today, but in the past it was different. All eyes around the empire were on Hamilton to see how their athletes had done. Of course there were some minor setbacks, but this was Hamilton’s great moment: the finest racing track in North America for the athletes, the wonderful Olympic Stadium, the best swimming pool in Canada, and of course Hamilton Bay where the paddling sports were held.

You might ask what the Toronto connection is. Here in Toronto we had a special place in the Beach. This training area is now known as Pantry Park, south of Queen Street between Kippendavie and Kenilworth Avenues. It has been known as Raine’s Pond, the Kenilworth Avenue Skating Rink, the Beaches Athletic Field, and other names. Myrtle Cook McGowan trained here with other athletes, and represented Canada in the 1928 Olympics and at the 1930 BEG. Myrtle set national and international records, and won the 60m and 100m races at the BEG. How did the different countries fare in the 1930 British Empire Games? England finished first, with Canada in second and South Africa in third.

I will be leading a walk on Saturday, June 20 at 1 p.m., starting at the Beaches branch of the Toronto Public Library and proceeding west to Corpus Christi Church. One of the highlights will be Pantry Park, the place where a lot of the athletic trials of Myrtle Cook were held.

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Being really seen and heard By Marilyn Zehr

he Truth and Reconciliation Commission held its closing events in Ottawa from May 31 to June 3. In a completely unrelated event five years earlier, May 31, 2010, performance artist Marina Abramovic closed out her powerful exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, called Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present. Why place these seemingly unrelated events side by side? Because Marina accomplished in her exhibition what the TRC has hoped to do. Every day the gallery was open between March 14 and May 31, 2010, Marina sat silently in a circle and gazed into the eyes of any visitor who sat opposite her. For seven hours a day, six days a week, Marina committed herself to be fully present to whoever chose to sit silently across from her, for as long as they chose to sit there. Over that time she looked into 1,563 pairs of eyes. Photographs of every one of those faces can be seen at moma.org/interactives/ exhibitions/2010/marinaabramovic. These photographs reveal that some people are bemused and some are curious, but many weep at the pure, simple, and yet profoundly healing power of being seen, really seen, by one other person. Biblical scriptures remind us of the power of really seeing and really hearing and the

importance of those two things for healing. In Isaiah 6, God tells the prophet Isaiah that most people will not truly see or truly hear and turn towards God to be healed. In Matthew 13:16, 17, Jesus says to his disciples, “blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. Truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.” The TRC has given us an opportunity to really see and really hear what we need to see and hear in order for healing to take place in this country. Aboriginal residents of Canada weep to be seen and heard when for so long their culture, language and lives have been oppressed and denied. Most who have listened have also wept. Not many would be capable of doing what Marina Abramovic did and gaze into so many eyes, but that’s not what is actually required. What if instead those who are not aboriginal commit to really see and really hear at least one aboriginal person and their story? By God’s grace, if we really see and really hear we may yet turn and be healed. If this happens again and again and again in the coming months and years across this great land then the TRC’s work will begin to have the impact that so many hope and pray that it will have.

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Beach Arts Scene, cont’d. from Page 9

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Call Ashleigh Lyall 416-358-3313 Portraits of Fish by Donna Devlin ARTISANS AT Work is hosting “Pop” Art this month, a show in honour of dads of all stripes. The show features affordable father’s day gifts “for the man who has everything.” The featured artist for the month is Donna Devlin and her Portraits of Fish series. Artisans At Work is at 2071 Danforth Ave., just west of Woodbine. The shop, gallery, and communal art space is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. For more information see aawgallery.com. •

F8, THE Focus of Eight Photographers Collective, will mount its Water = Life show at the Wychwood Bards, 601 Christie St., on Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21. The photographers ask, via their work, how does water affect our lives: how does water travel, and how do we travel with it, how do we live by water and interact with it, how are we challenged by water, confront and shape it to our purposes, and how does water inspire our art and cultural behaviour? Margit Koivisto, Maureen Littlewood, Catherine MacKinnon, Natalia Shields, Felicity Somerset, David Sweeney, Rod

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John Wallace, F8 Trider, and John Wallace formed F8 as an offshoot of the Beach Photo Club. The show runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. •

THE ANNUAL Art Walk and Street Fest is returning to Kingston Road on Saturday, June 20. Organized by the Kingston Road Village Business Community, local businesses, galleries, and community centres in Kingston Road Village will open their doors to highlight more than 20 local artists. There will also be family activities and sales. The Art Walk runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Venues for artists include Cobalt and Yellow House Galleries, the East Toronto YMCA, the Beaches Bakeshop, Close to the Bone, Pegasus, Threads Lifestyle, Great Escape Bookstore, Kingston Road United Church, Madhus Café, Collected Joy, and Royal LePage.

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Rare 4 bedroom semi with parking in Prime Beach, close to Williamson Rd. and Glen Ames public schools. Bright open-concept with walkout to a large yard. Finished basement, fireplace and many more upgrades.

Beach Metro News annual general meeting, cont’d. from Page 8 He has been a volunteer on the Board of Directors at the Beach Metro News since 2013, currently serving as Secretary. Doug grew up in the West Island of Montreal and graduated from Carleton University School of Architecture. He has lived in the Beach for the last 23 years, but also relishes relaxing (and renovating) at his cottage in the Haliburton Highlands. Doug enjoyed six years as volunteer Treasurer for the St. John Catholic School Advisory Council (parent/ teacher org.). He coached in the Beaches Community Soccer League for three years, as well as one year in the East Toronto Baseball Association (Rookieball). Doug has been a long-time blood donor and recently reached the 100 mark. Doug’s son lives and works in London, while his daughter attends Brock University in St. Catharines. The family beagle ensured that Doug got to personally see every lawn, shrub, hydro pole and hydrant in the east end of the Beach, usually twice a day. ABUL AZAD: no bio provided. Treasurer

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Debbie has served on the Toronto East General Hospital board. Her current volunteer duties include treasurer of a dog rescue organization, and president of her residents’ association. FATIMA KHATUN: no bio provided. Secretary

JASON BALGOPAL was raised in Scarborough, but bought his first house in the Upper Beach in 2000. He and his wife of 17 years have renovated four houses and have decided to stay in their current home of eight years with their golden retriever Piper. Jason is a lawyer who works for the provincial government. Jason is the volunteer chair of the board of management at Community Centre 55. He led this active local service organization through the process of hiring a new executive director after the retirement of a well-liked and longserving predecessor. Jason is also the vice-chair of the board of directors of The Neighbourhood Group. He participated in the creation of this new service organization, an amalgamation of the long-standing Neighbourhood Link Support Service and Central Neighbourhood House. He is the president and founding member of the Friends of Norwood Park, whose purpose is to improve the physical and social aspects of the park. In the last five years the park has received more than $100,000 in improvements and more than 40 new replacement trees. In the summer there are a variety of activities, including a Shakespeare play produced by Bard in the Park and a movie night. In the winter an active group of “Ice Masters” has ensured a skating rink is available. Jason is the president and founding member of the East Toronto Neighbourhood Association, that aims to improve the physical and social aspects of the Old Village of East Toronto. This new organization has already organized a local community clean-up day and host-

ed a Family Day event He is also the founder and a member of the Beaches Mental Wellness peerto-peer support group, an organization to help those dealing with mental health challenges improve their lives through interactions with similarly situated peers. SHAMSUL MUKTADIR has a bachelor of arts and a masters degree in social sciences (international relations). He has additional diplomas, and is working towards a tourism management-travel industry services diploma at Humber College. Shamsul has served on numerous non-profit boards before, including as a director on the Humber College Students’ Federation. He has studied political and social development, elections and governance, political parties, media, development aid, immigration and human rights. He has written a number of research papers, presentations and reports, mainly on topics of foreign affairs, terrorism, aid programs and international investment. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Venice in Italy. Shamsul’s professional experience includes the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT, Canada) and being a political and economic adviser to the High Commission of Canada in Dhaka. He was CEO of the Chittagong Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He completed the UNESCO/Keizo Obuchi Research Fellowship (and submitted a report to UNESCO) on international conflict management and finding ways of improving cooperation between nations. He was also an official delegate to the 34th General Conference of UNESCO in Paris, France. Shamsul’s wife is a professional teacher. They have two children (one is finishing high school at East York Collegiate Institute this month). His hobbies include reading and travelling.

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they started out with. They are old-time varieties, open-pollinated (instead of hybrids like the Eco Lawn seeds mentioned earlier), saved from each year’s harvest, and can be passed down through generations. Some say heirloom fruits and vegetables are far more flavourful, and I would have to agree. A word on fertilizers and pesticides Nobody likes spider mites, nematodes or slugs ruining the fruits of their garden labour. These pesky creatures can stunt or destroy backyard harvests and blooms, and are hard to get rid of. Equally pesky (but edible!) are dandelions, and other weeds that spoil your immaculate lawn. Cosmetic pesticides were banned by the Government of Ontario in 2009 because of their high toxicity not only to the pests but also to yourself, your pets, birds, and butterflies. Organic alternatives, such as insecticidal soap, garlic or vinegar spray are not always effective, as evidenced by the carpets of dande-

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lions now over-running city parks, and yet they are the right way to go. For plants and vegetables, companion planting helps manage many insect pests. Certain plants and flowers emit scents that little critters just hate. Just like squirrels don’t touch daffodils, insects cannot stand marigolds, so plant those beside tomatoes. Tomatoes and celery repel cabbage worms, chives deter aphids, and Japanese beetles, garlic or garlic oil spray deters onion flies, aphids, and some moths. If after all these do’s and dont’s your head is about to explode, go and enjoy one of Toronto’s annual garden tours. These self-guided tours allow a glimpse into gorgeous small and large private gardens. Look up gardenontario.org for details on the annual Hidden Gardens and Private Spaces in Cabbagetown (unfortunately just passed on June 7), The Magical Gardens of Leaside (June 20), and others in the GTA. Now I know what I’m doing the June 20 weekend!

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

BEACH METRO NEWS

PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY WELLNESS

HEALTH

Beatriz Mendez B.A. B.Ed. M.A. DipTIRP

Psychotherapist

Clinical Member, Ontario Society of Psychotherapists

DR. KARIN RUMMELL & ASSOCIATES

Personal Training

OPTOMETRISTS

Achieve your fitness goals today! Andrew Walmsley B.P.E. Leslieville Personal Fitness

1914 Queen St. E. (E. of Woodbine) Mon.- Sat. by appointment

Private fully-equipped studio Qualified and experienced

20 Leslie St. (free parking)

416-709-6654 www.leslievillefitness.com

416-691-5757 BEACHES OPTOMETRY CLINIC Dr. Linda Chan Optometrist

951 Kingston Rd. (West of Victoria Park)

416-691-1991

Evening & weekend appointments available

DR. DAVID JEONG DENTIST 2107 Danforth Ave. (at Woodbine Subway) New patients welcome. Open Saturdays.

missfit.ca in-home personal trainer 416 888 6465 michelle@missfit.ca

Norm Spence Personal Trainer & Pilates Instructor

intelligent exercise ~ profound results®

416 716 2367 normspence@bell.net www.NormSpence.ca

416-696-1800

Studio at Victoria Park & Kingston Rd.

BALSAM DENTAL

VETERINARIANS

416-691-8555

CHRISTINE KATO, B.Sc., D.V.M.

KATO ANIMAL HOSPITAL

Psychologist

2830 Danforth Ave. (East of Dawes Rd.)

416-690-2112

Consultations • Therapy Individuals • Couples Over 20 years experience. Located at Queen & Wheeler

Dogs, cats, pocket pets. Housecalls available.

HOUGHTON VETERINARY HOUSECALL SERVICES

416-691-1071

Vaccines, examinations, diagnostics, palliative care, and home euthanasia provided for your pets in the comfort of your own home.

Dr. Linda Iny Lempert Psychologist & Psychoanalyst

Individuals & Couples Services disponibles en français Insurance Coverage 47 Main Street (at Lyall Ave)

Dr. Barbara Houghton 647-221-5516

416-694-4380

VET ON WHEELS

www.drlempert.ca

Dr. Jody Levenbach Psychologist

Children and Young Adolescents Assessment • CBT Social Skills • Parent Coaching

Gerrard Mobile Veterinary Services

Dr. Ahmad Badri, DVM 416-284-4610 abadri@rogers.com

jdlevenbach@gmail.com 647-891-2603

BEACH EYE CARE CENTRE

2128 Queen St. E. (Hammersmith & Queen)

OPTOMETRIST

Dr. Neil Carvalho, OD

PSYCHOTHERAPY

Spiritual Psychotherapist

416 698 0054 crystalbeachoptical.com

Past Life Regression

Dr. Andrea Snider Psychologist

Reiki Master

416-693-5611

Children and Adolescents Assessment~CBT~Parent Consults evening and weekend appointments

Nancy Christie, M.T.C.

DR. A. LYNNE BEAL

416-691-3768

416-737-4325 Psychologist

Reaching your achievement potential For children, adolescents & adults

9 Fernwood Park Ave. www.dr-a-lynne-beal.ca

Mindfullness Psychotherapy • depression • trauma • anxiety • relationship • creativity • free initial consultation

www.mindfullnesstraumatherapy.ca

Catherine Allon, BSc, MEd Psychotherapist, since 1998 Heart Centered Coaching Life & Relationship Issues

416-433-9726

416-694-0232

PHYSIOTHERAPY PHYSIOTHERAPY @ Beaches Health Group Yvette Sedgewick 2212 Queen St. E. 416-690-2076

KEW GARDENS HEALTH GROUP

www.energyawakening.com

Judy Gould, Ph.D. Experienced Psychotherapist

Relationship Difficulties • Anxiety Depression • Body Image Concerns Physical Illness • Free Consultation 816 Pape Ave. (near Pape/Danforth)

416-465-4225 www.judygould.com

Carol Henderson, MA Counselling Psych.

2181 Queen St. E., Suite 305

Psychotherapy for indidviduals and couples. Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Anger Management Insurance clients welcome. Evening and weekend sessions avail.

416-907-0103

Massage Therapy • Physiotherapy Osteopathy • Naturopathic Medicine (at Lee)

www.kewgardenshealth.com

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Pauline Coogan, MEd, RP

Registered Psychotherapist Respectful, Mindful, Compassionate 32 Berwick Avenue, 2nd Floor (Yonge & Eglinton)

416-721-5928 pauline@paulinecoogan.com www.paulinecoogan.com

Silvia Mocanu, MSc, Certified Integral Healing Psychotherapist Body-Oriented Therapy • Energy Healing Mindfulness Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Chronic Pain, Stress Management, Trauma/Addiction

Free Initial Consultation • Leslieville (Queen/Pape)

416-524-0404 www.silviamtherapy.com

ACCOUNTING

Complete financial services for the business owner, manager, entrepreneur & self-employed Corporate and Personal Income Tax Services Bus: 416-270-9898 98 Scarboro Beach Blvd.

William F. Deneault

Chartered Accountant • Corporate & Personal Tax • Specializing in small to medium business • Financial advice 21 St. Clair Avenue East, Suite 502

Tel: (416) 962-2186

Kriens LaRose, LLP

Chartered Professional Accountants • Accounting services for owner-managed businesses. • Personal and corporation income tax preparation. • Audit and consulting services for not-for-profit organizations

www.krienslarose.com

416-690-6800

Melani Norman

CPA, CMA Accounting Issues and Systems, Bookkeeping, Personal and Corporate Taxes

Call 416-471-0337

Abina Murphy, R.I.H.R.

Accepting new patients Friday, Saturday

416-690-2417

www.East-Toronto-Therapy.com mendez.smith@sympatico.ca

Bert van Delft

www.balsamdental.com

DR. LINDA WINTER

Danforth Avenue at Main Street

CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT

Family Dentistry * Open 6 days a week * * Evening hours available * New patients always welcome 2200 Queen St. East (at Balsam)

Low Fee - High Value Therapy

CARL A. BRAND BARRISTER & SOLICITOR NOTARY

961 Kingston Rd. Toronto, Canada M4E 1S8

Tel: 416-699-5100 Fax: 416-690-8738 brandlaw@live.ca

GARRY M. CASS

BARRISTER & SOLICITOR Estate Planning/Real Estate/Business House Calls

416-767-CASS (2277) x 207 416-795-4899 (cell) 416-491-0273 (fax) garrycass@sympatico.ca

Glover & Associates Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries

Real Estate, Family, Litigation Wills & Estates, Corporate

416-691-3700

Queen and Hammersmith

690-0000

O’Reilly, Moll & Mian

Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Public

416-694-4090

DEGEN’S HEALTH GROUP Dr. Wade Whitten, D.C. Dr. Tanja Degen, D.C., CPT Dr. Christina Carreau N.D. 1092 Kingston Rd.

www.advanced approachesmassage.com

416-699-5320 • Free Parking

416-694-6767

Beaches Wellness Centre

THERAPY LOUNGE

Chiropractor

2130 Queen Street East

KATHRYN WRIGHT

URBAN CALM THERAPEUTICS

Barrister & Solicitor

Family Law & Mediation 416-699-8848

Dr. Emily Howell Jackie Leesun Chiropractic, Acupuncture, Orthotics Registered Massage Therapy

2239 Queen Street East www.kathrynwrightlaw.com kathrynwrightlaw@gmail.com

1522 Queen St. E. 416-465-5575

Paul J. Cahill

OMEGA HEALTH + FITNESS

Car accidents, Slips and Falls, Disability Claims 220 Bay Street, Suite 1400 416-643-3857 pcahill@willdavidson.ca

www.omegahealthandfitness.com

Personal Injury Lawyer

Linda Bronicheski, Lawyer Beaches Family Law Effective Resolution of Family Law Matters 47 Main Street, Toronto 416-763-6884 Linda@BeachesFamilyLaw.com

Susan T. Dixon

416-693-2733

Dr. Tyrrell Ashcroft Dr. Thien Dang-Tan

ART, Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Graston 1089 Kingston Rd. (at Victoria Park)

647-317-6017

Dr. Scott Dunham Chiropractor

Kew Gardens Health Group 2181 Queen St. East, Suite 305 (at Lee)

416-907-0103

www.kewgardenshealth.com

Dr. Kristin Varik

Certified Animal Chiropractor Varikanimalchiro.com Drvarik@gmail.com 416-970-6212

www.dixonslaw.ca

Dr. Mark T. Garbutt D.C.

Shellyann Pereira

Coxwell Chiropractic Centre

(Licensed Paralegal) Small Claims, Provincial/Municipal Offences, Landlord & Tenant/other Tribunals, Letters, Mediation etc. Call for a Free 30 min. Consult

Hills, Salah LLP

Family Law & Estate Planning We Collaborate, Negotiate & Litigate.

Shelley C. Quinn LL.B. 1749 Danforth Avenue Toronto, ON M4C 1J1 t. (416) 551-1025 www.QuinnFamilyLaw.ca

KAMRUL HAFIZ AHMED REAL ESTATE LAWYER 416 690 1855 [P 416 690 1866 [F 2972 DANFORTH AVE.

ARCHITECTURE/DESIGN Stephen G. King, Architect B. Arch. OAA, MRAIC “Serving the Beach since 1987” Residential, Restorations, Home Inspections, Commercial, Interiors, Landscapes COMPLETE PROJECT SERVICES FROM DESIGN THROUGH CONSTRUCTION

(416) 694-8181 www.stephenkingarchitect.com

Member Ontario Association of Architects

W. MORRIS DESIGN ARCHITECTURAL AND INTERIOR DESIGN CONSULTANTS DESIGN CONCEPTS AND PERMIT DRAWINGS WESLEY MORRIS, ARIDO, IDC, AATO

Renovations & Additions Structural Design • Building Permit

416-423-2289

Local • Affordable 416-200-6300

COUNSELLING

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Drafting + Design

Gifted/ADHD Support & Coaching School/Workplace Performance Children/Adults Mary Lynn Trotter, MSW, RSW 416-875-9474 marylynntrotter@rogers.com www.adhdtreatmenttoronto.com Ask about insurance coverage

Gail Kendall ACPC ACC Professional Life Coach & Facilitator Live a more balance & fulfilling life!

• Life Coaching for individuals & small groups • Vision Board Workshops For a 30 minute complimentary consultation:

Call: 416-819-5311 Students welcome kendallcoachingandconsulting.com

Nancy Leach, M. Sc., BMCP from the author of

The Body Means Well

Support for chronic or life-threatening illness through Counselling, Body Therapy, and Meditation

647-838-1849

Versatech

Architectural Design Permit Drawings Project Management Commercial, Residential

416-694-9531 • 416-816-1630

Tonia Vuolo Interior Designer

416-522-5903 toniavuolo@me.com www.toniavuolodesigns.com NO JOB IS TOO SMALL OR TOO BIG

studio tangent architects contemporary new construction, additions, renovations open-minded 3D design process www.studiotangentarchitects.com info@studiotangentarchitects.com

416.420.4544

www.mindfulwayconsulting.com

Advanced Therapeutics

Open Saturdays

416-690-6257

Serving the Beach & East York for 30+ yrs

Dr. Janet D’Arcy

416-690-6195

Neville Park Health Group 2455A Queen St. East

PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES

DENISE M. F. BADLEYCOSTELLO

416-690-6257

Jen Goddard, R.M.T.

1004 Coxwell Ave @ O’Connor

Tara Shannon

Chiropractor Neville Park Health Group 2455A Queen St. East

416-698-3157

416-261-9679

647-693-6221

579 Kingston Rd., #110, Toronto

Stephanie Gage, RMT Cami Rahman, RMT Caitlin McAulay, RMT 1789 Queen St. East, Unit 6

Chiropractor & Cert. Animal Chiropractor

MASSAGE THERAPY

416 698-6960 tara@tarashannon.ca

www.therapylounge.ca

ASHBRIDGE’S HEALTH CENTRE

carolannehenderson@gmail.com 416.219.2671

Psychotherapy for Individuals and Couples Insurance clients welcome Evening & weekend sessions available 579 Kingston Rd (corner Main), Suite 118

927 Kingston Rd. (W. of Vic Pk)

• Hours incl. evenings & Saturdays •

Voted “#1 Spa in Toronto” - Trip Advisor

CHIROPRACTORS

Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Family, Real Estate, Wills Business, Immigration, Small Claims Court 2069 Danforth Ave (Woodbine)

Su Willson, B.MUS, R.M.T. & ASSOC.

(at Victoria Park beside Manchester Arms)

300 Main Street 416-690-3324

M.Ed. Counselling Psychology

2455A Queen St. E. (e. of Silver Birch)

416-916-7122

QUINN Family Law

Tel: 416-699-0424 Fax: 416-699-0285 Email: info@sdlegal.ca

416-694-2868

bestcriminallawyer.ca

Geoffrey J. Dashwood

Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries. 978 Kingston Road, Toronto, Ont., M4E 1S9

Book online at essencetherapy.com

416-698-7070

416-752-8128 www.hillssalah.com

Snider & DiGregorio

Chiropractor

1906 Queen St. E. (1 block east of Woodbine)

Massage Therapy • Reflexology 2245 Queen St. East • 2nd floor • Open 7 days per week •

Dashwood & Dashwood

961 Kingston Rd. Tel. 416-690-7222 Toronto, M4E 1S8 Fax. 416-690-8738

• Essence • Dolores Wootton, R.M.T. John Barnet, R.M.T., D.O.M.P.

NEW LOCATION

Peter J. Salah

Barristers & Solicitors

John H.

BJARNASON, D.C.

CRIMINAL LAWYER

2120 Queen Street East (@ Hammersmith)

LAWYERS/LEGAL

416-690-5185

Megan Evans, RMT, CRHP & Associates

• Bookkeeping • Personal and corporate tax services • Accounting services for small businesses and t he self-employed Call: 416-693-2274 emily@eclarimercga.com www.eclarimercga.com

ACCOUNTANTS & TAX CONSULTANTS HOME CALLS & PICK UP SERVICES AVAIL E-FILE PERSONAL & BUSINESS TAXES SPECIALISTS IN CDN & US TAXES CASH REFUNDS 416 699 6641 abstax_2000@yahoo.com 161 Main St., Toronto, ON, M4E 2V9 Serving the Community for Over 30 Years

416-698-5861

Zabiullah Khaliqi, RMT

2212 Queen St. E. (at Spruce Hill)

Dr. Johanna Carlo

Family Law Lawyer

ABSTAX

Chiropractic Acupuncture A.R.T. / Laser 2212 Queen St. E.

BEACHES MASSAGE CENTRE

David Faed

Emily C. Larimer CPA, CGA

Dr. Kelly Robazza Dr. William Chan

(Since 1989)

Kevin Oates, R.M.T. & Assoc. Voted “Best Massage Therapist” - NOW Magazine

1398 Queen St. E. (east of Greenwood Ave.)

416-469-3879 (open 7 days) www.advancedtherapeutics.ca

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Up Down In Out It’s In The Fit!

YOUR FABRIC DREAM BROUGHT TO LIFE!

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CADENCE CAMP A CAPELLA

Juno-nominated vocal group Cadence offers a fun and interactive program for young and old! July 8-11 at the Beach United Church: performances, vocal percussion, instrumental imitation, stage presence, games, circle songs & more! For info & registration:

info@cadence-unplugged.com or call Carl at 416-738-8128 $300 + HST Ages 14+ (8)

Volunteers Needed to deliver BEACH METRO NEWS

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OFFICE MANAGER

Seeking office manager for a clinic with 5 Family doctors at 521 Victoria Park Ave. Required: Medical clinic experience and computer skills. Email your resume to:

vhcsharon@hotmail.com

Volunteers

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$22 per tape Call Eugene at 647-922-0686 eugene@homevideo2dvd.ca

Social/Events

is looking for an employer as a caregiver. Please call Joe at 647-428-4800

OFFICE SPACE McArthur & Son Business Centre Air conditioning, boardroom, kitchen area, copier, etc. Individual offices from $425/mth. 577-579 Kingston Rd. @ Main St.

Paul McArthur 416-821-3910

416-690-2880

Also RENTAL facilities available (r)

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INDUSTRIAL SPACE TO SHARE

1562 Queen St. E.

Fully equipped woodworking shop to share 1730 sq ft Warden & Comstock Call Vince Shop 416-285-9895 Cell 416-399-2342 (8)

Perms for short hair - $28 Pensioner’s Special Wednesdays only 10:30 am to 3:30 pm

Apartment/ Home for Rent

Personal Care Chalet Beauty Bar (near Coxwell)

416-466-3766

WILKINSON

BARBER SHOP & HAIRSTYLING Men’s Haircuts $13 • Children & Senior $10 1048 Kingston Rd. (at Victoria Park Ave.)

Te l : 6 4 7- 3 4 9 - 4 0 1 5

647 980 4973

Call now 416-699-9714

x8 www.hardingandking.com

Circle of One

416 320 8524 diane@circleofonehealing.com

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Magnificent

SELWOOD AVE HUGE STREET SALE (s. of Queen betw McLean & Glen Manor)

Saturday, July 4 • 9 am - 2 pm (rain date Sunday, July 5) Antiques, Artwork, Books, Collectibles, Clothing, Furniture

650 Woodbine

Dazzling, completely renovated suites. Kitchens with granite counters & stainless steel appliances. Modern washrooms, darkstained hardwood floors, beautiful window treatment. MUST BE SEEN!

1 Bdrm $1,150

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Wanted We buy! - We pay cash!

Single items or complete estates Wanted: Old furniture, china, silverware, pictures, lamps, figurines, glass, curiosities, etc. Fair market prices guaranteed! Call Terence: 416 466 1404 (r)

Books wanted: art, photography, literature, aviation, military, poetry, sports, music, Canadiana, etc. Inno Dubelaar Books, 53 Dixon Ave. 416-694-1329 or 416-878-4319 inno.dubelaar@gmail.com

Office Services

416-759-2219 (r)

Sales -- Repairs -- Toners

CLOSING OUT SALE 50-80% OFF!

Many other domestic items & electronics

2442 Danforth Ave. 647-889-4114 • Open 6 Days, 12-7

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Moving Sale

1. Good quality light colored, matching book cases (36”w x $25 ea/2 for $45 12” d x 6’h) 2. Upholstered rocking chair from the 20’s. Very good condition. $25

Kate 416-778-5053

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Garage / Moving sale Sat. June 20 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Rain date Sunday

Saturday, June 20th • 8:00 a.m. Lynndale, Anndale & Woodglen furniture, collectibles, books & toys Rain date June 21st

-printers, fax, copiers, typewriters

Great Prices Dominion Business Machines 416-364-2978 (9)

WRITING & EDITING SERVICES No time to write your blog, update your web pages, finish your newsletter or get that press release written. I can help. Call Ginette at 416-686-7001 (mobile 416-435-2258) www.gwdandassociates.com (9)

HOME OFFICE: Computer repair In-home/office, established professional, support service Serving Beach businesses since 1994 Service plans available

KSTS Computer Support (VISA/MC)

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?NEED HELP? PC/MAC SUPPORT

647.281.3084 (8..)

HOME COMPUTER CARE Toronto’s Top Level In-home Computer Support & Service Freeware, Testimonials, Honesty. Home Consultations $30

416-357-1467

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EXACT TAX SERVICES TIM O’MEARA TAX ACCOUNTANT

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TECHNICAL SUPPORT Home office & Small business Hardware and software support networking, servers, PC & Mac Proudly serving the Beach community

ORIOTECH SOLUTIONS INC. 416-450-9626 info@oriotech.com (14)

CALL GLEN Affordable Certified IT Serving the beach for over 10 yrs

www.computer-assist.ca 416-801-6921 (9)

647-899-9074

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SLIP-ON SLIPCOVERS & Soft Furnishings Slipons.ca Cynthia Lovat-Fraser 416-575-6113

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FURNITURE REFINISHING + REPAIR Classic Restoration & Woodworking

416-691-7556

Personal • Small Business Corporate • Back Filing (8)

35 Years experience

416 759-8878

www.classicrestoration.ca (8)

Expert Bookkeeping, Small business specialists, Strong on QuickBooks, Simply Accounting, “cloud computing”. A la carte services. Affordable rates. Antonella 416-464-2766 (8r)

General Services

Hudson’s Bookkeeping Services: Bookkeeping, GST/PST, Payroll & Year End. Contact Daphne at 416-616-4593 or www.hudsonsbookkeeping.com (13)

RUBBISH REMOVAL

•Fast friendly service for 30 years •CESA certified Repairs to fridges, stoves, washers, dryers, dishwashers

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- COMPLETE RECYCLING - DEMOLITION SPECIALISTS

HALF FAST PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

WE CLEAN OUT YOUR JUNK NOT YOUR WALLET CALL MARY OR JOHN

416 690 0117 • 416 569 3236 (r) SPECIALISTS Fast, Friendly, Reliable Service MOE licensed, Fully Insured WSIB certificates avail. upon request 4-40 yrd Roll-off container service 11 yd pick-up truck service Excavation & Bobcat Service

OVER 20 YRS. EXPERIENCE PROMPT & COURTEOUS

416-463-6330

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SCARBOROUGH DISPOSAL LTD. WASTE REMOVAL & EXCAVATION

ROSS APPLIANCE SERVICE (8!)

416-265-7979

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MR. FIX-IT

JIM’S APPLIANCE SERVICE

PROFESSIONAL, MATURE, RELIABLE RENOVATIONS AND REPAIRS

Repairs to all major appliances, vacuums, and microwaves. Fast, friendly service. Good rates.

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KLEEN WINDOWS

10+ years experience Plumbing, Electrical, Carpentry, Painting, and Handy Work. Randall 416-450-0599 MRFIXIT@rogers.com

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CLEVER DISPOSAL

Cleaning specialists •Windows •Eavestroughs •Decks •Siding (r)

BEACH LAWN CARE

- property clean ups - weekly/biweekly cut, trim, blow - starting at $15/week

Kevin 416-691-8503

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BUDGET APPLIANCE REPAIR SALES, SERVICE & INSTALLATION Free estimates. No service charges.

416-690-8673

WAYNE’S 416-264-1495 CELL 416-567-4019

416-706-7130 905-706-7130 www.kleenwindows.ca

416-HOME-126 (416-466-3126)

http://homecomputercare.ca

BOOKKEEPING/OFFICE ADMIN/+MORE

Call 416-648-4410

Computer Services

needhelp_pc_mac@hotmail.com

For estimate call

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www.regsappliance.com

For Sale

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Drapes, Blinds, Valances Also Duvet Covers, Shams, etc.

416-694-6241

Debra 416-693-6111

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Custom Window Coverings

416-691-6893

g o o d o n p a per Kevin Lundbohm, Manager

2358 Kingston Rd.

BLIND AMBITION

REG’S APPLIANCE

We m a k e yo u look

Vienna Upholstery 416-698-9000

Household Services

THE PRINTING HOUSE

Home Decor

(w. of Midland)

Experienced, eclectic Beach resident offering a variety of affordable, flexible and practical support services to entrepreneurs and small business. QuickBooks training also available short or long term.

OFFICE EQUIPMENT NOT WORKING?

ANNUAL MULTI STREET YARD SALE

Beach Suites

416-827-8095

Business & Personal Income Tax Computer Bookkeeping & Accounting HELLARRA SERVICES INC. 1232 Kingston Rd., Suite 5 Toronto, ON M1N 1P3

1537 O’Connor Drive

103 Edgewood Ave.

New professionally installed kitchens. Brand new elevator. Quiet private park setting. Very close to beach, shopping, public transit, all amenities.

helping you to feel better Reiki • LPIT Axiational Alignment Akashic Readings

Suite Lovat

Garage Sale

1 Bedroom, newly reno’d suites from $1,399 incl. utils.

416-856-4774

One way street runs north between Lyall Ave & Gerrard St. No rain date

Saturday, June 27th 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon

urban loft with full ensuite TV, wireless, kitchenette, parking $85 nightly 416-575-6113 www.bbcanada.com/suite lovat

Patio Set: Part or all of 12 piece patio set. Too large for verandah. For more information, phone 416-699-8739 (8)

@ 191 Kenilworth

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Financial Services

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R.E. Services Inc. Brokerage We make owning real estate & being a Landlord painless, easy & profitable.

Harding & King

BEST IN THE BEACH

Laundry • Cleaning • Shopping Bed change • House sitting Yard Work 35 yrs exp • References For Seniors at home

416-691-0924

Hardware & Software Support Network & Security setup PC/Mac Support, Web Site Design Cloud Services

OSBORNE AVE STREET SALE

Buying: National Geographic magazines, soft cover Readers Digest and Archie Comics. 647-428-4800. If no answer, please leave message

LANDLORDS For Peace of Mind Call

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Senior Assist The services of Steven Picton

416-438-6360 www.atlasnetwork.com

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Vintage Neon Sign. Depicts a vintage TTC streetcar and the words “The Loop”. 43”w x 34”h. Multi-coloured. Hung in “The Loop” cafe at 2318 Queen St. E. @ N/W corner of Kingswood. Professionally restored. Meets all current safety and electrical standards. Good for 100 years. Beautiful! A piece of “the Beach” history and a very rare find. $950. Pictures of sign and it hanging in the window of “The Loop” Cafe, upon request at: hgarner@rogers.com or 905-987-4397 (8)

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The

KINGSTON /SCARBOROUGH RD. 2 BDRM APT ABOVE STATIONARY STORE. SPACIOUS LIVING AREA ROOF TOP DECK WASHER/DRYER, TTC $1600 + UTILITY

Largest Books, Records, Movies & Music Store

Ideal for medical professionals, lawyers or accountants

We welcome everyone to weekly FREE Saturday night entertainment/dancing

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Bed & Breakfast

UPPER BEACHES OFFICE SPACE

R.C. Legion Br. 11 9 Dawes Rd 416-699-1353

416-693-4378

A registered nurse in the Philippines

paulmcarthur@rogers.blackberry.net www.mcarthurbusinesscentre.com (r)

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Renovated bungalow located Beaches area: Two + one bedrooms, washer/ dryer, stainless appliances, gas fireplace, private yard, garage parking for two vehicles, steps to schools, restaurants and shops. Easy commute to downtown. Available July 15 or Aug 1. No smoking. $2800 + Utils.

Employment Wanted

Commercial Space for Rent

Convert VIDEO to DVD

$2800 / 2br - 2+1 Suit Professional Couple/Small Family

Henley Gardens - Beaches condo 1 br; spacious, stunning wooden floors, amenities. Available from Nov 1, 2015 to April 2016. For info : (8) info@translationpage.com

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Photo/Art

Further details a must at

www.upperbeachrental.com (8) 416-690-3501

elizabethkroeker@sympatico.ca

Are you 18 years old or over? Do you have experience working with children? Creative and energetic and available Monday - Friday in July and August? Also seeking PT 3-6 September Email resume to:

kewbeachdaycare@bellnet.ca

Scandinavian, vintage and antique furniture, designer lamps, ceramics, fine art, books and good household finds...

Short Term Rental

Summer Opportunity

• Expert Alterations/Repairs • Refresh old Favourites • Re-line Coats, Jackets • Roman Blinds, Small Draperies, Cushions, etc.

Beautiful 1 Bedroom. Utilities Included. Separate & Private entrance from lower level to beautiful garden with Patio and Koi Pond. Laundry. Pot lights, open plan. 10 Mins. Beach. 3 Mins TTC.

4 bdr Beach home with parking from July 7-29, ideal for Pan Am Games. ALSO Aug 4-15, ideal for Parapan Am Games. Elizabeth 416-691-8588

Employment Opportunities

Announcements

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$950 Upper BEACH Sublet

* include self-addressed envelope for receipt * classified ads also appear on our website at beachmetro.com

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Spacious One Bedroom Bsmt Apt

(1.5” wide by 1” deep)

(includes HST) For 20 words or less 35¢ each extra word

COMPUTER SERVICES

81 Elmer Avenue Saturday, June 27 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

485 Kingston Rd.

Ads are available in two sizes: Word ad

GARAGE SALE

Luxurious Beach Suites

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CERTIFIED

CHIMNEY SWEEP

• W.E.T.T.- Certified • Cleaning / Inspection • Stainless Steel Liners Code Compliance • Masonry Repair nighthawkchimney.ca 416-892-5263 (11)

www.beachmetro.com

Specializing in: Residential Demolition, Rubbish Removal, Garage, Basement & Yard Cleanups Driveway Friendly Rental Bins Available FULLY INSURED

416-624-3837

(r)

“Always on Time and on Budget” • Junk and Rubbish Removal • Hazardous Waste Pick-up • Small and Big Moves • All Kinds of Delivery Services incl. cottage country

Call Hakan: 416 899-3980

(20/16)

MAN WITH PICK-UP TRUCK For light moves/deliveries, cleanups, etc. • FIREWOOD Efficient. Best rates. Call Max

416-820-1527

HOME ORGANIZING Need more space and less stress? Space Logix Residential Organizing will help you sort through your stuff to rediscover your time, space and freedom in an organized home.

647-546-3555 spacelogixca@gmail.com

RUBBISH REMOVAL

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EXPRESS JUNK REMOVAL 24 HRS 16’ Cube Van & Pick up Truck Service Best Prices/Free Estimates

647-235-6690

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BEACH WINDOW CLEANING & EAVESTROUGHS

416-691-8503

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

GALBRAITH CONSTRUCTION AND DISPOSAL LTD.

EXCAVATION: BOBCAT, MINI EXCAVATOR SERVICE DISPOSAL BINS: 6 YARDS - 40 YARDS FOR CLEAN FILL, GARBAGE & BLOCK WATERPROOFING

Experienced, over 35 years in business CALL 416-265-0200 (9)

WHO HAS TIME ANYMORE? 647 886 8303

PAWS SIT STAY

Weekly • Bi-weekly • One time cleaning Reliable & efficient

CAT CARE SERVICE Veterinary Technician with 20 yrs experience provides excellent care - Home visits - Boarding in my home - Experienced in giving oral, I.V. and sub-Q medications - Nail trims, grooming matted fur - References

Call Candy at 416 691-3170

Contact Irena

Pet Minding by Zak’s Mom Cat or dog visits or sitting Dog boarding 416 691-8222 pet_minding@yahoo.ca references

Houses, Apartments, Offices

416 931 8222

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- Providing loving care to beach pets since 2003 - Flexible scheduling - Dog walking, pet sitting, in home boarding - Bonded & Insured

www.beachpuppylove.com

Extra-ordinary & exceptional Weekly and biweekly $15/hr Call Sherry at

416-405-8301

Private walks available

marleydogwalkers@hotmail.com or call 416-432-9551 for rates (8)

Donna the Dogwalker Living in and serving the Beach since 2001 - extensive experience Reasonable Rates on Boarding & Walking Everybody knows Donna!

416 930 1448

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Cleaning Services ULTRA

STEAM CLEANING LTD.

EAVES CLEANING

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NEIGHBOURHOOD CLEANER Serving for 20 years Houses • Apts • Condos Moving in • Moving out

Barbara 416 389-8120 416 690-0433

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Music

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HEALTHY HOME

CARPET & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING

• Bio-degradable, non-allergenic products used • Drying time 3-4 hours • Bonded, insured, certified Free At Home Estimates!

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Bach to ROCK We teach it all!

416-699-8333

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PIANO TEACHER Susan Kohlhepp 416-690-2289

Same day service guarantee Open from Mon. to Fri. 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. CALL FOR A FREE ESTIMATE

sjkohlhepp@gmail.com

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416-729-2077 cell

WWW.EUROPEANCLEAN.COM (12r)

RILEYS’ WINDOW CLEANING A family business since 1956

Window & Eaves Cleaning Gutter Filter Installation rileyswindowcleaning.com

APPRAISALS

416-699-3772

416 421-5758

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BEACH PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

-Spring Property Clean-ups -Lawn Cutting/Aeration/ Overseeding/Fertilization 416-414-5883 info@blpm.ca (8)

EUROPEAN CLEANING LADIES

offer complete and thorough cleaning service for your house • office • condo Call Ilona 416-427-3815 (9)

Math Gr 4 to 12, Social Studies, Essays, Study Skills, University Preparation. Successful Experience with Learning and Behaviour Challenges. Your home or mine.

Call Peter 647-472-1942

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Child Care Available

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Piano & Voice Instruction by Ruth Finlay

Adults & Children Welcome torontomusicteachers.com ruthfinlay@gmail.com singyoursoulsongworkshop.com It’s time to live your dream... (9)

Tutoring HELP WITH MATH & ENGLISH call ALBERTO 416 690 9389 for • final exam catch-up • • in-depth homework/test help • • essay-writing + study skills • • numeracy + literacy support • INDIV/GRP TUITION IN YOUR HOME QUALIFIED + EXPERIENCED TEACHER, K-12 PROVEN SUCCESS - REFS AVAILABLE (13)

Garden & Tree

ABBEY ROAD

Painters

416-690-2476

Larry’s Painting & Repairs

LANDSCAPING

BEACH PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

“Rocking the Beach for over 15 years”

-Lawn Cutting/Aeration/ Overseeding/Fertilization -Spring Property Clean-ups -Hedge Trimming -Eavestrough Cleaning

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LAWN IN ORDER

416-414-5883 info@blpm.ca

(8)

BEACH PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

LAWN CUTTING *(weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, and one time visits available) 416-414-5883 info@blpm.ca

(8)

CARE-ADVICE-COACHING Specialist in low maintenance, eco friendly & native gardens consultation - cleanups pruning - planting - containers maintenance - readied for sale Allison 416-693-7214 naturescapeconsult@yahoo.ca (9)

Victoria Gardening

10 yrs serving the Beach and Leslieville. Complete outdoor property maintenance taking on a limited number of new contracts this season.

416-690-8846 paul.kinney@rogers.com

(8)

Scotstone

Landscaping solutions to customize your space.

www.scotstonecontracting.com Call Scott 416.858.2452 (9)

STONESCAPE 25 yrs experience

Interlocking Stone • Planters Retaining Walls • Steps • Fences Decks • Sodding

416-821-4065

rickscape@hotmail.com

Hedge Trimming Clean Up Mulch, Sod, etc.

Design Installation

LeRoux Froebel

FOR YOUR GARDEN

•18 months to 12 years •Preschool daycare & after school program 72 Main St.

ALL LAWN AND GARDEN

Call Deanna at 416-931-8222

416-698-1923

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BALMY BEACH COMMUNITY DAY CARE We provide a positive, encouraging environment for children 2 1/2 yrs to 12 yrs in a licensed, non-profit, parent-board day care. Info. or to register

BUTTERFLY & DROUGHT RESISTANT GARDENS, MONARCH MILKWEED. ECO-FRIENDLY.

Greg 416-693-8678 www.carbontip-toe.com

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Neighborhood Gardening Unbelievably Affordable

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DAY CARE CONNECTION LICENSED, NON-PROFIT HOME CHILD CARE

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25 years Experience High Quality • On Schedule One-of-a-Kind Outdoor Living Spaces

416-288-1499

www.greenapple.ca

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Front yard parking pads Drawings • Permits • Build 416-288-1499

416-690-0102

Welcome to my Home!

Call/text Judy 416-550-4412

STONEHENGE LANDSCAPE • DESIGN & BUILD

416-467-6059 www.stonehengedesignbuild.com

Peek-A-Bears Childcare

KIM PRICE Landscape Design

416-993-5143 Creating Award Winning Gardens • Design and Construction •

www.kimpricelandscapedesign.com

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Home Daycare Loving, caring, reliable, close to Library, Parks - Drop-in centre, Beach Rec Centre, daily outings, reading, crafts. Over 20 years experience. Excellent references. 416-693-5272 (11) AUGUST DAY CAMP

BEACHES / BIRCHCLIFF AREA OCT qualified teacher who adores children Over 10 yrs child care exp $230/wk • 4-12 yr olds 2 off site trips a week plus daily local outings. Very limited space! Register for 1-4 weeks by July 10th Nicole Windsor 416-700-2360 nicolemcjohnson@gmail.com (8)

Before - After School Care from Balmy Beach School in my home. 20 years experience, great references, receipts. (11) Adrianne 647-289-7776 Hands in the Earth Home Childcare. Nurturing home child care devoted to the magic of childhood. With preschool program that values child development. Flexible hours and competitive rates. Handsintheearthpreschool@ (8) gmail.com 647-637-6724

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Serving the Beach For 20 Years! • Specializing in Interlock, Retaining Walls • All Natural Stone Work, Decks, Fences • Sodding, Planting,Water Features, Lighting, Etc.

416-699-8575

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BEACH PROPERTY MAINTENANCE *(weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, & one time visits available) (8)

IN THE BEACH LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE SPECIALISTS • Weekly & Bi-Weekly Lawn Cutting • Spring Clean-ups • Flower Bed Maintenance • Fertilization & Aeration • Hedge Trimming & Pruning • Seeding & Sodding

647-210-LAWN (5296)

416-690-1356 (11)

MAN WITH CARGO VAN

Accurate work & reasonable rates

416-999-MOVE (6683) Watch our videos at

STUDIO 1

CARTAGE & STORAGE 2 Men + Truck $49/hr Office • Apt. Deliveries 416-830-8183

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$29 / hr. & up + 1 hr. One,Two, or Three Men 7 Days a Week Call Delivery Dan 647-763-5257 (15r)

Next Deadline June 22nd

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STEVE’S PAINTING & REPAIRS For strength, durability and finish, it’s all about the prep. Have it done right, the first time. References, free estimates. Beach Resident

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We stand by our contracts, big or small. Also do Drywall and Plaster Repairs and more (21/16)

- Free Estimates - Interior/Exterior Painting, Staining, Metallic Surfaces - Fully Trained/Insured - 3 Year Written Guarantee - Committed to the Beaches 416-888-1647 Ref Available Check us out on HomeStars!

(8r)

PROFESSIONAL PAINTER Richard Durocher Interior & Exterior Small to Mid-size jobs

The

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FUSSY! Painter

Colouring the Beach Since 1996!, Interior & Exterior. First Rate Team Works Cleanly, Quickly and on Budget Special Attention to Prep, Repairs, Help with Colour, No Job Too Small, Written Quotes.

Call John (416) 698-2302 or (416) 670-2639 fraser_j@bell.net

(9)

The Passionate Painter

Specializing in residential painting. Minor drywall/plaster repairs. 416-997-8908 www.thepassionatepainter.com

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NEW BRIGHT PAINTING

SEAN AT 416-985-8639

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WE MOVE FOR LESS!

Licensed & Insured

Call Franz 416-690-8722

NO MESS, NO FUSS, JUST SUPERIOR WORKMANSHIP, Fully Insured Member BBB • Beach Resident

- will do small moving jobs - local or long distance - removal & pick up of various items

*MOVE MEN*

LAWN CUTTING (416) 414-5883 info@blpm.ca

Local. Taking care of your possessions. All Season Movers

Experienced. Reliable. Professional Work Guaranteed. Drywall Repairs. Competitive Rates. Beach Resident.

647 401 7970

www.BestWayToMove.com (11r)

GREENSTONE LANDSCAPES

HARRY

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• Small and Big Moves • All Kinds of Delivery Services incl. cottage country • Junk and Rubbish Removal

Call Andre 416-422-4864

(r)

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We have a beautiful space located just east of Gerrard and Woodbine. Excellent programming and organic lunches are served! Servicing children from toddler to 5 yrs. For more information please call

Have two certified garden designers coach you and propose new ideas to transform your garden from ordinary to stunning.

REASONABLE RATES

(r)

Experienced loving mom who enjoys teaching children through music, has ONE OPENING AVAILABLE. Our days include age appropriate learning activities, circle/story times, introduction to French, monthly learning themes, crafts, outdoor play and cuddles. Healthy organic meals, CPR certified and great references. NUMBER CORRECTION

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A.S.M. MOVERS (r)

FRANZ’S PAINTING

PAINTING

Call Hakan: 416

www.greenapple.ca

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RYLAN HARVEY

www.thegoodmoves.com 899-3980 (20/16)

• PLAYROOM • CHILDCARE REGISTRY • • LIBRARY • DROP-IN BABY TIME IS TUES & THURS AT 1:30 PM WORKSHOPS EVERY 2ND THURSDAY

Free Estimates & References Available

Dianne 416 699 5070

LAWN MAINTENANCE COMPLETE LANDSCAPING • CLEANUPS SPRING & FALL • FULLY LICENSED AND INSURED • DISCOUNT FOR SENIORS

“Always on Time and on Budget”

Award Winning Design & Build

FOR ADULTS WITH CHILDREN

B I R T H TO S I X Y E A R S

IDEAL

LANDSCAPING

Movers

Green Apple Landscaping

FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

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647-999-8617

Landscapers

Interior • Exterior Residential • Commercial Plastering • Drywall

*** Free Estimates ***

Gardens

647-828-2468

A licensed non-profit child care ser ving the Upper Beach for 28 years. w w w. E a s t To ro n to V i l l a g e . c o m THE BEST THERE IS!

deannaforyourgarden@gmail.com

416-439-6639

PROWAY

‘As Promised’ Painting

Ideas Designs Results

Contact: Tim Conway

(r)

See our ad on page 19

Seasonal yard cleanup, Planting, pruning, fertilizing Woodland garden design Any reasonable request Security Approved

(r)

PAINTING & DECORATING

Cell# 647-853-6420

Maintenance

Pruning, planting, lawn seeding, mowing, yard clean-ups, interlock levelling & basic carpentry repairs (decks, fences).

416-690-3890

larryspainting@gmail.com www.larryspaintingtoronto.com

INTERIOR • EXTERIOR WORK

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Bilingual School

Family owned & operated 26 years in business

416.797.6731

Traditional stone walls, steps, interlocking paths, patios & decks.

647 766 7875 John

Eloise at 416.691.5799

PIANO TUNING REPAIRS AND

Elementary, Secondary, University Teaching Experience

Ted Reeve Arena

(21/16)

THE HOUSE AND APARTMENT CLEANING COMPANY

Serving the Beach for over 15 years (9)

184 MAIN ST. across from

Kingston Rd/Vic Park

EUROPEAN CLEAN

Neil Bennett B.Ed./OCT Sally Vickers B.Ed./OCT

EAST TORONTO VILLAGE

Scarboro Music

*Insured*

416-272-9589

CHILDREN’S CENTRE

Call us for details.

TO SERVE AND RESPECT

Specialized summer programs available One on One Tutoring Grades 3-12 Conveniently located in the Vic Park South Rehab Clinic/Henley Gardens

Call 416-698-0750 daycareconnection.net

Your Dirty Laundry (and we won’t gossip!) PrettyNeat® expands to offer Boutique Wash’n Fold, pick-up & delivery from Beach Solar Laundromat! Excellent Service, door to door!

BEST JOB & PRICE GUARANTEED

Contact: Marion @ 647-406-4681 or: marionklein@hotmail.ca (8)

Nurturing, supportive care, flexible hours. Early Childhood Education Specialists to answer your questions.

Special for first-time clients. For your home/condo/office. Reliable, trustworthy, efficient cleaning service. For more info, call Beata at 416.233.6462

647-992-NEAT (6328)

All Welcome

• SERVING THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1976 •

All Day Cleaning

Wanted!

OCT certified teacher, over 20 years experience, highly qualified (former dept head in a Senior highschool for Fr. Imm.)

Marlene 416-698-5668

Free Estimate

cleancomfortservices.com

TUTORING

www.lerouxfroebel.com

Call Gary 647-829-5965

CARPET, UPHOLSTERY RUG CLEANING

416-567-3205

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WINDOWS CLEANING

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Marley’s Dog Walking Services in the Beach

*Bonded*

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Cleaning Lady

BEACH PUPPY LOVE

Call 416-783-3434

(9r)

DEANNA CLEANS

d.cleans@yahoo.ca

1226 Kingston Road 416-690-6116 www.thestudystudio.com Specialized programs for grades 3-12 and beyond in all subjects. Jennifer Wilson B.Ed. (19) Kim Rauch B.Ed.

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Everyone Has a Story to Tell, cont’d. from Page 11 First, there’s the bane of Toronto gardeners: raccoons. Slightly less destructive but still a pain to deal with are squirrels. Chicken-wire cages help protect some of the more tempting plants from hungry critters, and Spencer has discovered an added benefit to composting in the backyard. “The raccoons stay away from my nice tomatoes, they seem to prefer the scraps,” she said. Some plants just don’t seem to do well, even if the animals leave them be. “Every year I try something new,” she said. “Okra? Total fail.”

Broccoli also hasn’t delivered, at least in Spencer’s yard, and it took up quite a bit of space in the meantime. Parsnips, on the other hand, were a surprising success, though their proliferation spurred a sudden search to figure out what, exactly, to do with them. A visit with a chef friend resulted in a number of new recipe ideas for the root vegetable (who knew parsnips made great fries?). While growing your own food can help save a bit of money and the health benefits are myriad, there’s an even better reason Spencer has for teaching her kids about growing their own food.

“The best part of having a backyard garden, or any kind of garden, is the taste,” she said. Now that the series is airing online, Spencer is happy to have a document of her efforts to share with her children as they grow up. “I just want my kids to know where their food comes from,” she said. “It teaches them respect for food.” Dirty Girl airs on the Dirty Girl Web Series YouTube channel. So far five of 18 episodes have been uploaded, with new instalments added every Tuesday. Find out more at facebook.com/dirtygirltoronto.

Veteran to launch Paddling with PTSD from Balmy Beach By Andrew Hudson

WIND CHIMES were ringing the day Trevor Petersen first tested his paddleboard at Balmy Beach. The east wind pushed against the military veteran as he stood and paddled for Bluffer’s Park – stop one on what would be a month-long trek to Ottawa. But Petersen is no stranger to a headwind. Diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder in 2007 after he served in Afghanistan, Petersen spent years in a sometimes deadly struggle to recover a normal life. Today, his Paddling with PTSD campaign is helping others – military and civilian – who face the same challenge. “When I was sick, I didn’t see anybody out there who said, ‘I’ve got PTSD, and this is the road I’ve been down,’” he said, standing on the sand at Balmy Beach. “Straight up, it’s got to be said – it’s hard work to get there. But if you put in the effort, it’s very rewarding.” Born in Edmonton and raised in a military

family, Petersen enlisted in 1993 and later served in Bosnia with the Princess Patricia Light Infantry. He worked on CF-18 fighter jets in Alberta and, by the time he was first deployed to Afghanistan in 2006, on unmanned aerial vehicles. Petersen says there is no single event that triggered his disorder. In Afghanistan, he was on-call 24 hours a day, the only tradesman in his field, says his mother, Marie-Paul. The base would come under rocket fire. Several of his friends were killed. By January 2007, Petersen knew something was wrong, but he didn’t return to Canada until the end of March. His first suicide attempt came just two days later. Marie-Paul took him to the base in Edmonton, and Petersen began to see a psychiatrist. But things got worse before they got better. Frustrated by his inability to work, he got hooked on gyms, lifting weights until he got sick. He started binge drinking and spending wildly, blowing $30,000 in a single weekend. Rock bottom was a violent spell when Peters-

en found himself punching up his apartment, losing control again at the military hospital. Released from the military in 2010, Petersen finally started making headway at Homewood, a health centre in Guelph, Ontario that has one of the country’s only inpatient programs for people with PTSD. At Homewood and elsewhere, a lot of counsellors spoke to Petersen about practising mindfulness – “being in the moment” – to calm his anxiety. But it never really clicked until he happened to try a stand-up paddleboard. Pushing through the water, he said, the background noise of his PTSD just slipped away. Last summer, Petersen launched Paddling with PTSD with a trek down an old fur-trade route from Edmonton to Winnipeg, supporting the veterans’ charity Wounded Warriors. Now, as he paddles across Lake Ontario and up the Rideau to Ottawa, Petersen is broadening that support by raising funds for the Canadian Mental Health Association. Marie-Paul will be piloting a motor home

just ahead of him, heading to the legion halls and beaches where she has organized meetups in towns from Cobourg to Kingston. “Honestly, I’ve got the easy job,” said Petersen. “I stand on the board and paddle.” He and Marie-Paul are a mother-and-son team joined by more than a common cause. After years of struggling to help her son, and twice averting his suicide, Marie-Paul developed the same disorder. “There isn’t anything pretty about it,” she said. Caregivers need to mind their own health as they try to help their family. After watching her son paddle off from Balmy Beach and out of sight, Marie-Paul picked up the family dog and got set to drive ahead and meet Trevor at the next beach. The wind was still blowing, but the sun was out and the seagulls calling – a scene that, just a short time ago, she could not imagine the two of them would ever enjoy. “I’ve seen such improvements in him,” she said. “I tell him as soon as I see something that’s really developed – ‘I’m proud of you.’”

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