Beach Metro News May 3, 2016

Helping Kenyan children be children

By Anna Killen

Volume 45 No. 5

May 3, 2016

PLAY IS a child’s work – it’s how they explore the world they are in.

This well-worn tenet is often cited in the context of early education – Maria Montessori popularized the phrase, although it has early philosophical origins – but the value play provides children goes well beyond the classroom.

Just ask Beacher Morgan Livingstone, a child life specialist whose life’s work has focused on improving the lives of children here in Toronto and also abroad.

She’s currently working with another Beacher and

child life specialist, Carolynn Darrell Cheng, to fund raise money for educational, durable toys that can be used as part of a budding child life program at a large public hospital in Kenya (generosity.com/medicalfundraising/help-bring-toys-to-child-life-program-inkenya).

Livingstone has spent the better part of the last decade building child life programming in Africa – particularly at the Sally Test Pediatric Centre in Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya.

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Notre Dame dance crew finishes top in Dance-off Aliza Dela Reyna of Notre Dame High School’s dance crew Avidity performs during the 10th annual Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) Dance-off at Notre Dame on April 22. The competition saw 14 schools from across the city show off their dance skills. Avidity finished in first place, while Mary Ward’s Adrenalyn finished second and Chaminade’s Vivacious finished third. Dela Reyna was also awarded this year’s dance shcolarship from the TCDSB. This year’s judges included dancer/ actor Ofilio Sinbadinho, dancer Diana “Fly Lady” Reyes, and choreographer Apolonia Velasquez.

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Residents, developers butt heads over ravine condo proposal

By Anna Killen

A SKEPTICAL and at times vocal crowd packed Beach United Church on April 25 to hear plans for a proposed seven-storey development that would face Kingston Road at Beech Avenue, backing onto the Glen Stewart Ravine.

Before the meeting even began, opposition to the 29-unit development was building, with a petition created by Friends of Glen Stewart Ravine in circulation and online discussion taking place several days prior to the meeting.

Ward 32 councillor Mary-Marga-

ret McMahon said as she opened the meeting, “Glen Stewart Ravine is near and dear to many of our hearts. As a big environmentalist I’m very anxious to hear what Toronto Region and Conservation Authority (TRCA) has to say about the application. In this case, we’re lucky we have another eco-layer of protection to this area, in addition to forestry, and we don’t always have that with our areas.”

City planner Leontine Major said that the city has had the developer’s rezoning application since June of last year and it has been circulating through city departments, as well

as TRCA. When TRCA reviewed the initial submission, they said they would not recommend the development as it was submitted. The city would not generally proceed with an application TRCA objects to, explained Major afterwards, because the developer would require a permit from TRCA, obtained at the time of a building permit.

Since last year the applicant, Martin Rendl Associates on behalf of owner Gabriele Homes Ltd., owned by Frank and Rick Gabriele, has been working with TRCA as well as city ravines staff to change their proposal to make it more com-

pliant with city standards and best practices with regards to environments like the Glen Stewart Ravine. Major said that while TRCA and ravine staff have not submitted formal comments yet, they are encouraged by the changes made to the proposal and call them a significant improvement over the initial submission. Their formal comments will be included once the developer incorporates further feedback, including comments from the April 25 community consultation, and submits their next proposal.

As presented by the developer’s

architecture firm Alliance Architects at the meeting, the development features ground floor retail and six floors of various-sized residential units on top, with a green roof and levels of balconies and rooftop spaces. Two floors of underground parking – 29 spaces – would be accessed using a car elevator. Landscaping developed in accordance with the conservation authority, preserving a large oak tree, would make up the back slope of the property that backs onto the ravine.

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Public access to the ravine from Beech ity to the ravine and the portion designated would still be available as those portions of a heritage site, others because it is at odds land belong to the city. with the property’s bylaws.

Project architect Rob Cadeau said that folThe property falls under the city’s ‘neighlowing consultations bourhood’ zoning with the city and category, meaning TRCA, plans have buildings can have been scaled back a maximum height from the initial proof four storeys, alposal, with the buildthough city staff ing now proposed pointed out that the for only the area of properties directly the property where across are designated ‘mixed-use’, meanhouses already exist – there are four ing taller heights and bungalows on the site greater density are currently. permitted.

– Beach resident Debra Hayes The developer is Major explained also now proposing that the lots where giving part of the the development is plot at the rear of the proposed are private property back to the city for the expansion of property and the developer has a right under the ravine. provincial planning rules to request a bylaw Cadeau noted they have hired the same exemption – and the city is bound by law to geotechnical engineering firm to study the consider that proposal. site that was hired by the city when it rebuilt To comments expressing frustration that the base of the ravine, to make sure the build- the city has conducted a comprehensive ing wouldn’t impact the slope of the ravine. study of Kingston Road as a whole in order “In their opinion, the proposed building to consider the impacts of the various developments together and come up with guidewill not destabilize the ravine.”

Many of the nearly 100 people who attend- lines, Major suggested that residents should ed the meeting expressed astonishment that be careful what they wish for. the proposal would be considered by the city.

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“The study might say that this scale of development is appropriate throughout Kingston Road, and the question is, do we want to go there, or do we want to deal with these development applications on an individual basis?”

One audience member said that her property backs onto the ravine and that if she wants to do anything to her property it is nearly impossible to get official permission.

“If I want to do anything to my lot, the loopholes I have to jump through are intense and most of the time they get turned down,” she said. “It sounds like you’re about to allow a seven-storey building to set a precedent for this ravine and we’re just going to have a corridor all the way down the ravine.”

The back and forth between audience members, Major and Cadeau touched on a number of subjects, including protecting the local bird population, parking, a right-of-way that would be used to access the parking garage off Beech Ave., the importance of the ravine as unimpeded green space in the city, pressure on city services like water, and Toronto’s growing population and densification plan.

The final speaker, Debra Hayes, a renter in the neighbourhood who said this was the first time she had been to a community consultation meeting, said she appreciated the thought that went into the developer’s proposal, but she doesn’t think the ravine is the right spot for the building.

“I actually live at the corner of Queen and Kingston Road in a low-rise condo building. I don’t have a garden, I don’t have a balcony,” said Hayes. “I treasure places like the ravine. That’s where I go to find my solace, my mental health. To me, this project is going to be great for the 29 people who might end up living there, but for the community, the extended community and the impacts environmentally, it’s not a good thing.”

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Pegasus Project founder Perrotta hands over the reins

By Anna Killen

AFTER 21 years guiding the growth of Pegasus, the East End program for adults with special needs, founder Marie Perrotta is handing over the reins.

Last week was her first official week of retirement, and the first week in many years she didn’t work out of her office above the program’s thrift store on Kingston Road.

The new director, Paula Murphy, started last week, and Perrotta is taking some time to ponder her next steps. Those steps will likely include more hikes, time with friends, travel with her husband, who also recently retired, continued community involvement, consultation, and maybe some teaching.

“I think I’ll do the usual things.

I’ll still volunteer, whether it’s here or elsewhere, there are a couple of things that I’m interested in, social issues that I’m interested in,” said Perrotta. “I’ve always been interested in literacy, and I’m interested in the arts.”

Perrotta’s impact on the Beach and greater Toronto community, through Pegasus and the various channels and opportunities that program opened up, cannot be understated. A program that started in her dining room and one community centre has blossomed into numerous centres and partnerships, as well as a social enterprise store. When she was named Beach Citizen of the Year in 2004, Bob Murdoch, then-executive director of Community Centre 55, said “she

has taken the great left-outs of society and brought them into the life of the community. She has shown us the miracle of integration. The litmus test is the impact she has on this community.”

But she’ll be the first to tell you that Pegasus’ success was born out of the work and help of “hundreds of people” over the years and that it would not have become what it is today without the support of the community – and a lot of luck.

“We were so lucky,” she said. “Everybody embraced it. People that you knew and people that you didn’t know. This whole agency is really about a community response, it really is. And when I say community I mean levels of government, people who live in the neighbourhood … I think the participants and the staff have been the most satisfying part of the whole organization. It’s really been an experience in how many great people there are in the world.”

The idea for Pegasus came to Perrotta in 1993 when she and other parents of children with special needs were searching for programming for their adult kids who were no longer in school, and found their options lacking. Perrotta saw a need and decided to fill it, pulling together numerous experiences and ideas she’d had kicking around about special needs programming and inclusive community spaces to make the idea a reality.

She knew the first thing she needed was a space to hold the program, and after considering some churches and other larger spaces,

PHOTO: ANNA KILLEN

Marie Perrotta, right, shares a smile with Pegasus Phoenix participant Sarah at the Beaches Rec Centre April 26. Perrotta is retiring after over 20 years with Pegasus, the community service group she helped found.

she remembered the lifts at the parks and recreation centres.

“I decided to go to the parks and rec centres because of those elevators,” she said. “That’s what made me do it.”

The Beaches Rec Centre (which now hosts programming) was full when she first approached them – but they were encouraging in their response. She then approached Pape (now Matty Eckler), which not only said they had room, but pointed out a $3,000 grant she could apply for.

That presented the next challenge – finding a board, a require-

ment for applying for the grant.

With her two-year-old on her hip, and thanks to the prodding of a city worker, Perrotta approached three people she knew in the community – the fourth board member, Margaret Ewing, who still remains on the board now, being a parent she knew – and they all said yes.

Perrotta said she remembers the first board meeting well. One of the board members went white, she said, at the daunting task ahead of them. But Perrotta said they had nothing to lose. The organization came together, her family and friends embraced a life where

Pegasus was at the centre, and the response was overwhelmingly positive.

So positive, that Perrotta counts the organization’s managing of its growth as a major accomplishment.

“If you don’t manage growth, you’ll lose your mission, you won’t be able to provide the quality that you’re after, and we were always after quality,” she said. “That was what drove everything, really. Every decision we made was based on whether it would fit in with what we had set out to do. We try to find out what people want and then we try to provide it. We try to be the organization that helps people get what suits them.”

Perrotta endorses the next generation of leadership at Pegasus and is looking forward to seeing what comes next for the organization that’s been so close to her heart for so many years.

“It’s been so rewarding,” she said. “I’ve never had to ask myself whether my work was worth it.

I’ve never had that question, not even once. It’s a gift, really. That’s the gift that Pegasus gave me – I worked hard and it worked, what more could you ask for?”

And true to form, a clarification comes next: “And when I say I worked, I mean lots of people worked hard … there were so many people involved in this.”

Celebrate Marie Perrotta this Friday, May 6 at the Matty Eckler Centre at 953 Gerrard St. E from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. There will be food and fun, and everyone is invited.

Kenyan children, continued from Page 1 That program, which began in 2006 under the Daisy Eye Foundation – now called World Eye Cancer Hope – has grown to include seven child life health workers, teaching staff, infant staff, a librarian, and a seamstress. All of the staff are Kenyan – Livingstone aims to create a sustainable local program that ultimately she can step away from and allow to grow on its own.

The Sally Test Pediatric Centre “is a great place to incubate this brand new profession in Kenya, because we needed to do it the right way, and we needed to do it a sustainable way so that it was local staff and local support.”

Local sustainability is important in global health for a number of reasons, said Livingstone, noting that she learned early on that economically, it makes more sense to set up programs in the patients’ countries that can help a number of children rather than supporting one child’s trip to Canada for treatment.

Livingstone and her team have been offering professional exams in Kenya, with two team members now certified so that they can offer local internships. Research is set to be a part of the program, and the project has an aim to have materials and toys built in Kenya.

That’s where Livingstone and Darrell Cheng’s toy fundraising drive comes in.

When a new pediatric facility was built on the campus, the hospital layout changed.

Instead of the former single playroom where all the children would congregate, there are now six separate playrooms, specific to each ward.

“” “We want to provide play for catharsis, play for coping, play for distraction, play for normalization” – Morgan Livingstone

It’s a positive development – but challenging in that the team now has to outfit each playroom with similar toys. The toys need to be educational, durable, easy to clean with disinfectant.

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little,” she said.

“Someone would much rather buy a piece of equipment like a new CT scan which costs thousands and thousands of dollars … than provide someone like a child life specialist, who can actually teach the child how to go through that CT scan successfully, quickly, in order to make sure that more people get seen by the CT scan. It’s a challenge.”

But the team is prepared to rise to the challenge and is encouraged by the growth they’ve already experienced.

The hope is that toys created in Canada can be used as prototypes for Kenyan-specific toys.

“I’m really hoping that with these high quality toys that Carolynn and our donors are offering that we’ll be able to get some ideas for the local artisans and local craftsmen to help us,” she said.

“One of the toys is a wonderful cutout of the human body. It’s a layered puzzle where each level has a different part of the body – so the outside is the skin and the hair and the clothes, the next one is the muscles, the next one is the bones, the next one is the organs.

It’s a great concept that I know we could do there, but we just need to be able to show them. I can only imagine how beautiful the paintings will be in Kenya.”

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portant, because the children are often doing medical play to help put their hospital stay in context.

“In a setting like a hospital, play offers so many different benefits. We want to provide play for catharsis, play for coping, play for distraction, play for normalization,” she said.

“Treatments that tend to be shorter [in Canada] can take a little bit longer there, so these kids are hospitalized a little bit longer than we’d hope. So the provision of child life helps them cope better, being able to play helps them with stress and manage their overall hospital experience and they go home sooner,” she said, noting that in Kenya, children can often wait longer than anticipated for surgery because an adult VIP can be admitted while the child is waiting and take their spot.

“No child can eat before a surgery, so usually for about 12 hours before they aren’t allowed to eat or drink,” she said. “So if you extend [that waiting time] because some VIP comes in, it can be very difficult for little guys.”

Livingstone said it can also sometimes be difficult to sell donors on the need for toys and child life workers.

“Our program is so grassroots, I’m functioning on a teeny tiny budget with very

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Strumming a song on a Sunday Brian Passmore performs as part of Grinder on Main’s Acoustic Afternoons series on Sunday, April 24. A singer of mostly sad songs – “I hope I didn’t bum you out,” he told the crowd at the end of his set – Passmore’s soulful, Americana-esque stories struck a chord on a quiet Sunday. Grinder’s series continues with Raven Shields on May 15, Beth Moore on May 22, and Zak Miller on June 5.

Police Beat A PROVINCE-WIDE investigation into child pornography has netted 80 arrests, including a Cliffside man.

On April 13, members of the Sex Crimes Child Exploitation Section made a search near Kingston Road and Danforth Avenue.

Police allege that a man shared child pornography over the internet, and was in possession of child pornography.

William Torres, 36, of Toronto, is charged with possession of child pornography, making child pornography available, and accessing child pornography. He is scheduled to appear in court at Old City Hall court on June 7.

Anyone with any information should call Toronto Police at 416-808-8500, or contact Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at 222tips.com, or text TOR and a message to CRIMES (274637). Canada’s national tip line for sexual exploitation of children can be found at cybertip.ca.

THE SISTER of a Danforth homicide victim spoke on behalf of his family at a press conference on April 21. Toronto Police also released video footage of a suspect vehicle.

Abdullah Farah was murdered in a driveby shooting on Danforth Avenue near Coxwell Avenue at 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 17.

Farah’s sister, Ifrah Farah, read a statement to media at the conference on behalf of the family, first thanking friends and neighbours for support.

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during this rough time,” said Ifrah.

Ifrah said her family believes her brother did nothing to deserve having his life taken.

“Our brother was killed by a bullet, and we don’t want his character assassinated as well.”

Video shows the suspect vehicle drove twice past the Cloud 9 Café, a hookah lounge that has since been shut down, before returning a third time, when shots were fired and Abdullah was hit. The vehicle then ran a red light and sped north on Coxwell.

Cloud 9 Café, in the same location as the previous Rotana Café. In May 2015, 21-year-old Abdiweli Mohamed Yusuf was shot and killed there, and Beach resident and Markham firefighter Dominic Parker was stabbed and killed at the same location in 2013.

Abdullah attended the café with two other people, but he was denied entry to Cloud 9.

He also spoke with a third person on the sidewalk outside just before gunfire erupted, according to police.

Dunkley said that the shooting was likely targeted, but he could not confirm whether Abdullah was the only intended target, and said Abdullah was not known to police.

“It appears that he was targeted. We have to keep in mind that he was also in the company of three other individuals,” he said.

“Abdullah has no criminal records, he was not before the courts with us, and he has no gang affiliation that we know of,” he said.

Anyone who was driving the area at the time with a dash cam is asked to call police at 416-808-7400, or contact Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at 222tips.com, or text TOR and a message to CRIMES (274637).

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In My Opinion

Looking back at the history of Queen Street bylaws Tom Jakobek Project Management Consultant Former Ward 32 Councillor

IT IS hard for me to believe that it was 31 years ago when I introduced the toughest legislation in the province regarding restaurants.

If you really want to know why the legislation was necessary, you need only read Beach Metro News articles from 1985 to understand.

The Beach had become very popular – and therefore very profitable – to land owners and developers.

Much like today.

Several historically significant buildings were torn down, a number of beautiful large oaks that lined Queen Street had been cut down, and block after block seemed to be targeted for re-development.

Rumour had it that a McDonald’s drive-through and at least one large bar chain wanted to open in our part of Queen Street East.

Restaurants capable of paying higher rent were driving out local, smaller retail operators like the former Crosswalk Variety store and others.

As a life-long Beach resident, I did not need to ask what people wanted as much as know what they did not want.

After a few tough meetings it was clear that we all shared the same vision. We wanted our neighborhood to be more like Niagara-onthe-Lake than Queen Street West.

For that reason I fought for a series of new legislative rules, known then as the ‘Queen Street bylaws,’ not just a restaurant bylaw. These new rules included: A design study to guide new de-

velopment to have the charm and ambiance of a historic town and to avoid modern, square box buildings that we were seeing built.

A height restriction of four storeys with the fourth floor stepped back. This neighbourhood has resisted high rises from the beginning, because we did not want to change the character of the neighbourhood.

A limit on the size of restaurants as well as a minimum parking requirement for restaurants was done to stop big chains and protect the wider retail variety we were losing to bars and coffee shops.

Why limit the number of restaurants? Because restaurants could pay more rent and, as I have pointed out, they were driving other retailers out.

Over the years, restaurants have come and gone – Summers, The

Palm, The Balmy Arms, Karas, Pepino’s-on-the-Beach, Spiaggia, Licks, Lido’s – the list goes on and on. I liked them all and frequented them often, but if you asked those former owners, they would tell you how local residents did not support them.

Some things have changed and some have not. I think it very prudent that our councillor, the Business Improvement Area and local residents review the bylaw and learn from its successes and failures.

Some in an article in the April 5 issue [Queen Street restaurant rules get first look in possible review] appeared to lay some blame on the restaurant bylaw for the closed storefronts we see today.

I am a consumer and not a retail expert but if you want to know my opinion on what drives out small

business on Queen Street, there are three things: A lack of parking and a ridiculous enforcement regime that borders on absurd!

Higher rents because properties have been granted more density and more height – therefore more value, and higher taxes, leading to higher rents.

A lack of general support from people who live in the Beach.

I can say this because I still spend considerable time on Queen and, yes, Kingston Road too. My family and I love the variety and quality the Beach has to offer. But I am not part of the majority. Most Beach business owners will tell you today that not enough local residents shop locally.

Good luck, and proceed cautiously on your review. Remember, for every action there is a reaction.

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The award will be bestowed upon an individual who has helped make a positive improvement, through a project or initiative, to an outdoor public space.

The deadline for nominations is Friday, May 20, at 4:30 p.m.

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THE TORONTO Beach Rotary Club will once again award a $5,000 competitive grant to an inspiring local youth project.

This annual endowment is given to organizations that work with youth, or manage projects that affect children and families or at-risk youth, in the Beach.

Volunteer Corner To be considered, applications must be received by Friday, May 27. Forms, along with more information, are available at torontobeachrotary.com •

‘REFUGEE VOICES: Stories of Struggle and Success’ is the topic of a presentation hosted by the East End Refugee Committee on Monday, May 16, at Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd. Four former refugees who have resettled in Canada will share their personal stories of challenge and triumph.

There is no admission fee, but donations will be gratefully accepted and receipts will be issued for donations of $20 or more.

Refugee Voices runs from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and includes a question and answer period.

The EERC is a group of churches that has been sponsoring refuges since 1995.

Current members are KRUC, St. John’s Norway Anglican Church, Beach United Church, Calvary Baptist Church, Eastminster United Church, Fallingbrook Presbyterian Church, Neighbourhood Universalist Unitarian Congregation, St. Aidan’s Anglican Church, and St. Saviour’s Anglican Church.

TRUE DAVIDSON Acres long-term care facility at 200 Dawes Road is looking for volunteers to assist with resident activities such as feeding, visiting, and participating in activities. Training will be provided. A volunteer gift store convenor is also needed. This position is suitable for a retired professionally-minded individual who can make a commitment to run the gift store for a few hours a week.

Please contact Carly at cwolf@toronto.ca or 416-397-0364 for more information or to sign up for an orientation date.

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THE GTA Rollergirls will roll out their 2016 season on Saturday, May 7, when they play a double header at Ted Reeve Arena.

The G-sTARs will take on the RDD Striking Vikings, while the Debs battle the RDD Bombshell Battalion. Ted Reeve is at the corner of Main and Gerrard streets.

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Earth Day at Notre Dame Notre Dame Grade 10 students Marie Joy and Mungaba Ng’uni were two of a number of their school’s earth ambassadors on April 22 for Earth Day. They were on hand over lunch to help educate others on how to rethink some of the products we use every day. Earth Day activities happened all over the East End, with a number of clean-ups taking place over the weekend.

PHOTO: ANNA KILLEN

Jane’s Walks cover story of East End

By Melinda Drake

PUT SOME spring in your step by taking part in one or more of this weekend’s Jane’s Walks.

This annual event celebrates the life and legacy of Jane Jacobs, an urban activist and community builder who encouraged residents to get involved in the communities in which they lived. Jacobs died in 2006 but her vision of walkable neighbourhoods lives on in this perennial favourite springtime festival.

From Friday, May 6, to Sunday, May 8, community-led walks offer something for everyone.

Here are a few of the walks taking place in the East End: Little Free Libraries: An Impromptu Reading Walk with Neighbours Saturday, May 7, 4 p.m. These diminutive front-lawn ‘libraries’ look like miniature post boxes. Neighbours are encouraged to take a book, leave a book, and share the love of reading. The chapter for this walk, led by the Global Director of Jane’s Walk, Denise Pinto, opens at Coxwell station and is expected to take one-and-a-half hours.

KXN: Literary and Photo Walk in the Beaches

Saturday, May 7, 11:30 a.m. Led by photographer Elle Buetow and writer Catherine Graham, this literary photo walk will give participants an opportunity to explore the neighbourhood through both words and pictures. Bring phones, DSLR, or even disposable cameras as these will play an integral role.

The tour begins at the Beaches Branch library, 2161 Queen St. E. and will last an hour.

Public Art in the Beach Sunday, May 8, 3 p.m. The Beach Village is home to murals and street art adorning the walls of buildings and construction sites, and this will be an opportunity to meet the artists who create these colourful works. Led by Adam Smith, the one-hour tour will start at Neville Park and continue along Queen Street East to Lee Avenue, visiting art installations along the way.

Erie Terrace to Craven Road: Tiny Houses, Tall Tales and a 100-Year Fence Saturday, May 7, 1 p.m. Local historian Joanne Doucette and Craven Road blogger Alison Humphrey will share some quirky facts about why houses were built on only one side of the street while the city’s longest wooden fence

lines the other, and that some of the street’s home were built from scraps and others from mail-order kits. This three-hour tour begins at Jonathan Ashbridge Park at the corner of Woodward Avenue and Queen Street and ends at Danforth Avenue.

The Upper Beaches: A Duel, Graves and Golf, Forgotten Waters and ‘Moderately-Priced’ Homes Sunday, May 8, 2 p.m. Meet on the northwest corner of Kingston Road and Woodbine Avenue and proceed through the residential neighbourhood that has only been called the Upper Beach for approximately 15 years. Tour guide Michael Hume will impart some interesting facts about the history of the area, including a duel, a long-gone pond, and a graveyard. This walk is scheduled to take two hours.

This is just a sampling of what is on offer locally.

Other tours include a culinary tasting tour along Danforth Avenue, a return to the roots of ‘the Danny’ to when it was called the Danforth Plank Road, and a meander along Main Street in the former Village of East Toronto.

For more information on these and other walks happening across the city, visit janeswalk.org.

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Beach Metro News annual general meeting THE ANNUAL general meeting of Ward 9 Community News Inc., publisher of Beach Metro Community News, will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 9 at 2196 Gerrard St. E. Officers for 2016-2017 will be elected. Officers act as unpaid trustees for the community, overseeing the newspaper’s general operation but are not involved in daily activities, news coverage or production.

All positions for officers may be contested, though current board members are eligible to continue at the newspaper’s helm and look forward to doing so.

Nominations for officers must be received in writing, addressed to the newspaper’s secretary, Jason Balgopal, at least 14 days before the annual meeting (by May 26). Nominations should include a description of the nominee’s background with the organization and the general community, as well as

signatures of the nominee and nominator.

Names and bios of those seeking office will be published in the May 31 issue.

A membership is required to attend the AGM. Any resident in the distribution area who supports the aims and objectives of the organization can buy a membership for $2. Members in good standing can vote at the AGM. No memberships are sold within seven days of the AGM (after June 1).

All members of the distribution team with at least six months service are given an automatic membership for the current year. Minors’ memberships are in the name of the parent or guardian, and only one free membership is given per family.

Email Beach Metro News general manager Phil Lameira at phil@beachmetro.com with any questions.

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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Community Calendar MAY 3-7: Mother’s Day Sale at Pegasus Thrift Shop, 931 Kingston Rd. All Moms get 20 per cent off regular price items. Buy One Get One 50 per cent off continues on clothes, shoes, books and household items. All proceeds go to funding Pegasus Programs for adults with disabilities. Thank you for your generous donations and shopping with us.

MAY 4: Support Group for those preparing for the arrival of a Syrian refugee family, or who are currently supporting a Syrian refugee family, at East End Community Health Centre, 1619 Queen St. E., 6-7:30 p.m. Connect with other sponsorship groups and share ideas and advice about health resources. Registration and info: Farzana 416-778-5858 ext 212 MAY 5: Beach Photo Club at Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave., 7:15 p.m. Topic: The Welland Canal with Natalia Shields. Group meets 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. Everyone from the novice to the experienced is welcome. Info: www.beachphotoclub.com MAY 7: Jazz and Reflections at Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave. (near Queen), 4:30 - 5:15 p.m. The popular Downtown Jazz Band is returning to entertain us again with “Southern Charm”. Enjoy Music for the Soul with your community, and free coffee. Freewill offering.

MAY 11: Yorkshire Rose Quilters’ Guild of Toronto Mini Quilt Silent Auction at 2174 Danforth Ave. (east of Woodbine), 7-9 p.m.

A mini quilt is a small quilt, less than 100 inches all around. Some are as small as a paperback book, some are framed works of art, and many are wall hangings filled with colour and delight. The fundraising event

by Yorkshire Rose is held every three years to raise money for community causes. All proceeds are in support of the 416 Community Support for Women. Info: yorkshirerosequiltersguildoftoronto.blogspot.com (5) MAY 12: Open House at Balmy Beach Lawn Bowling Club, foot of Beech Ave., 6:45 p.m. Everyone is welcome to come down and try their hand at this very entertaining sport. Free instruction. Come alone or bring a friend. Info: Tom Marley tammarley@gmail.com, 416-699-3706 MAY 13: “Music on Main” at Calvary Baptist Church, 72 Main St. (south of Gerrard at Benlamond), 7:30 p.m., followed by yummy desserts. A variety of music to suit all tastes featuring the talents of local musicians and singers on piano, guitar, organ, vocals and trumpet. Admission $10 at the door. Wheelchair accessible. Info: 416-691-4721 MAY 14: Springfest at Birchcliff Bluffs United Church, 33 East Rd. (Kingston Rd. & Warden Ave.), 9 a.m.-1 p.m. New this year – collection of e-waste (TV, computers, etc.) and metal (batteries, aluminum-like pop cans, brass, copper, stainless steel, cable, etc.) for recycling. Draws for great products, haircut and beard trim, baked goods, breakfast and BBQ lunch, gently-used clothing and items, plants, books, ice cream and more! Please bring your own bags. (5) MAY 14: Spring Fling at True Davidson Acres, 200 Dawes Rd., 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

BBQ, tea room, raffle, sale of handmade crafts and lightly-used goods, bake table and so much more! All proceeds go to support the work of the volunteers and benefit the residents. Info: 416-397-0400 MAY 14: ‘Addicted’ – a play written and performed by Raven Dauda, at St. Luke’s Church, 904 Coxwell Ave. (at Cosburn), 7 p.m., refreshments on sale from 6 p.m.

Dauda is a Dora award-winning actress.

Tickets $20 at the door or for online tickets visit addicted.brownpapertickets.com. Info: 416-421-6878 ext 21 (5) MAY 15: Street Festival on Main St. between Gerrard St. & Swanwick Ave., noon-4 p.m. Meet local businesses and see what they have to offer. There will be food, drinks, crafts, live music, trial fitness classes, visits with RMT’s, Reiki, Botox/Filler consultations, local retail vendors, and more!

MAY 16: Refugee Voices – Stories of Struggle and Success at Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd., 7 p.m.

Hear stories of challenges and triumphs

from new Canadians who have settled in Canada over the last two decades. Sponsored by East End Refugee Committee (EERC). Donations accepted. Receipts will be issued for donations over $20.

MAY 16: Scarborough Osteoporosis Support and Information Group at Scarborough Village Recreation Centre, 3600 Kingston Rd. (at Markham Rd.), 10 a.m.noon. Topic: updates in nutrition. Admission and parking free. Info: 416-396-4051 MAY 17: 100 Women Who Care meeting at St. Louis Bar and Grill (upstairs), 1963 Queen St. E., 7:30 p.m. In just one hour, we raise thousands of dollars for local charities. A different charity is chosen at each meeting, and each member donates $100. Info: www.100womenwhocaretorontoeast.com MAY 19: Community Environment Day with Ward 32 councillor McMahon at Ted Reeve Arena parking lot (enter off Ted Reeve Dr., north of Gerrard St. E.), 4-8 p.m. Info: toronto.ca/ environment_days, 416-392-1376 MAY 26: Last day for submitting nominations for officers of Ward 9 Community News Inc., publisher of Beach Metro Community News.

MAY 26: Free Seniors’ Movie – “Batman vs Superman” 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. (6) MAY 27, 28, 29: Small Paintings for Small Spaces – Spring 2016, at the Gardener’s Cottage, Lee Ave. (south of Queen St. E.), Friday 3-8 p.m., Saturday/Sunday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Over 40 of the Beach Guild of Fine Art artists will be delighted to talk with you about their work. Note cards, and raffle tickets for lucky draw.

Info: www.BeachGuildOfFineArt.com, facebook.com/BeachGuildofFineArt MAY 28: Historical Walk with Gene Domagala, 1 p.m. Meet at the southwest corner of Main and Gerrard Streets, and take a stroll through this leafy Upper Beach neighbourhood, visiting some historical homes along the way.

MAY 28: Spring Fair at Fairmount Public School, 31 Sloley Rd. (Kingston & McCowan), 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Bouncy castle, dual lane slide, scavenger hunt, dunk tank, kids raffle room, vendor tables, pizza, popcorn and cotton candy, yummy food, tea room, silent auction, games, and lots more! Family fun and community spirit! Info: 416-396-6240, fairmountpublicschool@gmail.com (6) MAY 30, JUNE 27: Older Women’s Group Drop-in at Birchmount Bluffs Neighbourhood Centre (BBNC), 93 Birchmount Rd. (at Kingston Rd.), 1-3 p.m. We meet one Monday per month in an informal setting to connect in a mutually supportive atmosphere. Pursue opportunities for social interaction, networking, learning and creativity, sharing experiences and resources. First meeting free, but membership is required for continued attendance.

JUNE 7: Community Centre 55 Annual General Meeting at 97 Main St., 7 p.m., for the purpose of considering and taking action with respect to the following: to approve the financial statements of Community Centre 55 for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015; to receive our Program report; and to fill three vacancies on the Board of Management. For additional information please contact Debbie Visconti, Executive Director Community Centre 55 at 416-691-1113 ext 225 JUNE 8: Glen Stewart Ravine Hike, 7-8:30 p.m. Join the Friends of Glen Stewart Ravine and TRCA on a guided walk through the ravine. We will walk rain or shine so please dress for the weather and wear closed toe, sturdy footwear. Do not forget to bring plenty of water. We will meet at the Beech Ave. trail entrance, south of Kingston Rd. TUESDAYS: BEACHES MENTAL WELLNESS GROUP at Community Centre 55, 97 Main St., 7-8 p.m. Peers helping peers with issues affecting mental health. Info: www.beachesmentalwellness.com (r) SECOND TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH: Amnesty International, in the Beach, meets

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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: CONTEMPLATIVE AND MINDFUL MEDITATION Practice at the Centre for Spiritual Living Toronto, 1311 Queen St. E., 6 p.m. Info: 416-778-5433 (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) BEACH INTERFAITH OUTREACH LUNCH and Fellowship for Adults, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. •Mondays – no lunches currently •Tuesdays at St. Aidan’s Anglican Church (70 Silver Birch Ave.) May 10, and at St. Nicholas Anglican Church (1512 Kingston Rd.) May 3 & 17 •Wednesdays at Beach Hebrew Institute (109 Kenilworth Ave.). •Thursdays at Beach United Church (140 Wineva Ave.) •Fridays at Kingston Road United Church (975 Kingston Rd.) first 3 Fridays of each month, and at St. Aidan’s Anglican Church the 4th Friday of each month. Program ends Friday, May 20. Info: 416-691-6869 (r) LIBRARIES MAIN STREET LIBRARY, 137 Main St. •June 29: Join us for a presentation of some new and interesting books, along with some tea and refreshments. There will be opportunities to share titles that you have recently enjoyed. Come and fill up your list of future reads! Info: 416-393-7700 TAYLOR LIBRARY, 1440 Kingston Rd. •May 17: Music of Newfoundland, 2 p.m. Original and traditional Celticstyle music with John Christopher accompanied by James McKie on fiddle and mandolin. Info: 416-396-8940 GERRARD ASHDALE LIBRARY, 1432 Gerrard St. E. •May 7: Tibetan musician Dorjee Tsering in Concert, 2-3 p.m.; Stories of Southern India with Sharada Eswar, 3:304:30 p.m. •May 11: Sun Safety for Babies and Toddlers, 11-11:30 a.m. •May 17: University of Toronto Sci-Chats – Vaccines Revealed, 7-8 p.m. •May 26: Book Club, 7 p.m.

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Info: 416-393-7717, ashdaleevents@gmail.ca, www.torontopubliclibrary.ca. Library is wheelchair accessible.

BEACHES LIBRARY, 2161 Queen St. E. •Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies, 2 p.m. Cinematic classics, new releases, foreign films and documentaries. May 4 – Boyhood (2014); May 11 – Badlands (1973); May 18 – The Swimmer (1968); May 25 – Goldfinger (1964) •May 4: The Eh List – Alissa York, author of ‘The Naturalist,’ 7-8 p.m. •May 6: Ask an Expert – Pollinator Gardens, 7-8 p.m., with a representative from Toronto Master Gardeners. •May 12: Across Canada by Story – A Coast-to-Coast Literary Adventure, 7-8 p.m., with author, Douglas Gibson. • May 18: The Eh List – Edward Riche, author of ‘Today I Learned It Was You,’ 7-8 p.m. •June 16: Tim Falconer, author of ‘Bad Singer – The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music,’ 7-8 p.m. Info: 416-393-7703 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. (three 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 others 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) CLOTHING DONATIONS, new and gently-used, needed by local, low-income seniors and persons with disabilities.

Jeans, cords, pants, tops, shorts, running shoes, socks, jackets, coats, etc. Male and female. Small, medium, and large. All contributions are greatly appreciated. For drop-off info, please call 416-690-5650. (6) BARD IN THE PARK celebrates its 12th season with performances of “Love’s Labour’s Lost”, a play about love, loyalty and empowered women, set in the 1970s.

•June 2 & 3: Norwood Park, 7 p.m. •June1319: Kew Gardens, Monday to Saturday at 7 p.m., Saturday & Sunday at 2 p.m.

ST. AIDAN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH, Queen St. E. at Silver Birch Ave. •Sunday Services are at 8:30 & 10:30 a.m.

(Children’s Program & Nursery at 10:30) •Mid-week service, Wednesdays 10:30 a.m. •Bible Study, Wednesdays 7:30 p.m. All welcome. Info: 416-6912222, staidansinthebeach.com (5) BEACH UNITED CHURCH. Come and join us at 140 Wineva Ave. All are welcome!

•Sunday Worship Service: 10:30am. Nursery care & children’s activity time available. •May 7: The Knitting Group will meet to decorate the main hall with the many pneumonia vests they have produced over the past year, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. •May 7: Jazz & Reflection “Southern Charm” with the Downtown Jazz Band, 4:30-5:15 p.m. •May 8: Baptism and Blessing of the Pneumonia vests, 10:30 a.m. •May 15: Lunch & Learn on Homelessness and Affordable Housing - with speakers Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon and Developer, Martin Blake, Vice President of the Daniels Corporation, 11:30 a.m. •May 18: Speaker’s Series – “Poles Apart”. Author Terry Fallis tells the riotous tale of a male feminist who creates a stir when he becomes the country’s hottest blogger, 7:30 p.m. •June 4: Knitting Group, 10 a.m. Info: 416-691-8082, www. beachunitedchurch.com. We are on Facebook and Twitter @NewBeachUnited (5) KINGSTON ROAD UNITED CHURCH, 975 Kingston Rd. (3 blocks W of Victoria Pk. Ave.). Join us each Sunday for Worship and Church School, 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) BEACHES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 65 Glen Manor Dr. (S of Queen) in the heart of the Beach. Worship in a familyfriendly, relaxed environment. Sunday School and Nursery available. Coffee and new friendships are Free! LGTB friendly. Sundays 10 a.m. Info: www. beacheschurch.org, 416-699-5871 (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) 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 and experience our caring, extended family Sundays 10:30 a.m. (r)

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Everyone Has a Story to Tell

Kavanaghs find comfort in community

By Anna Killen One Sunday in the fall of 2014, bornand-raised Beachers Matt and Christine Kavanagh invited their neighbours over for a dinner party. At their house on a quiet street just southeast of Gerrard and Victoria Park, Matt made martinis, smoked brisket and pulled pork, and the neighbours – some of whom had lived on the street for over 50 years and hadn’t once attended a neighbourly BBQ – had an opportunity to get to know each other, a value that’s always been important to Matt.

Early the next evening, while at the kitchen sink washing the martini glasses from the night before, Christine answered the phone to devastating news.

Her husband had suffered a seizure.

She rushed to the hospital, leaving her young daughter, the eldest of three, with her father.

Matt, an ambitious man on track to become a pillar of the community through his work as a coach, mentor and burgeoning leader in the education system, was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour. Shortly before Christmas, he underwent a craniotomy to try to remove as much of the tumour as possible. He went into the surgery knowing that there could be any number of complications – the tumour is in a particularly difficult spot in his brain – and when he woke up, the family learned that the surgery had left him with a brain injury, a rare neurological condition called Gerstmann’s Syndrome.

“They did their best to remove what they could, and essentially some good brain material was scooped out (along with portions of the tumour),” said Matt. “Aside from the tumour itself, which will continue to grow and cause problems in the future, immediately I was left with a suite of problems that affects all sorts of things.”

Matt, a high school science and history teacher, is adept at explaining the nuances of his condition. His short-term memory is affected, as is his balance, spatial relations, depth perception. He struggles with right-left confusion and proper application of force – when he shakes someone’s hand, he has to think about what hand is the correct hand, and then how much force to use.

“One of the reasons that I’m still tired and fatigued is constantly living in this hyper state of consciousness,” he said.

He’s always been a very patient person with a gift for reading people, said Christine, but that part of his personality has been affected by the brain injury – irritability and anger are new issues he is working on in therapy, and he is involved in clinical trials.

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“There’s a lot of internal, a lot of stuff you can’t see,” said Christine, noting that to a passerby Matt looks fine – he’s developed a variety of compensation strategies.

“The past year-and-a-half has largely been focused on just getting me to where I am now, which is reasonably stable,” said Matt. “There’s still a ways to go but at the end of the day I’m walking, I’m talking, I’m functioning more independently. I hope to be released back out into the wild come the fall.”

Now, the family has started having conversations about what the immediate future – and long-term future – might look like. Top of mind is the family home, a space that was fine for the family of five before Matt’s condition, but now is cramped and dangerous for Matt when he works in the kitchen – he’s always taken care of the cooking.

What started as a conversation about opening up the kitchen and renovating it to make it more safe has now turned into a much larger conversation, one about how to ready the home for palliative care needs down the road. Part of those discussions were sparked by the family’s experience at Gilda’s Club, a therapy and support network in downtown Toronto.

“They do some really special things,” said Christine, noting that the children’s program uses art therapy and drama to help children work through learning about cancer and what it means.

At first, only the Kavanagh’s eldest daughter attended Gilda’s Club, but now the whole family attends. In her group, Christine met a woman whose husband was at the end of 10 years with the same brain tumour as Matt.

“He was in palliative care at the

home, dying, and every week she would talk about his decline and his needs,” she said. “It really got me thinking, our house is not ready for that... I don’t want him in a hospice. We want him home. And yet we don’t want to move.

We’d lose our support system.”

It’s important to the Kavanaghs that Matt have independent space, for his own needs and to provide some normalcy for their children.

“For me, they are the primary concern – and Matt’s independence and dignity,” said Christine. “If Matt’s gone, he’s gone, but the kids will always live with his brain tumour for the rest of his life. They’re going to be young – unless something happens, they’ve broken the blood barrier at Sunnybrook, so that’s hopeful, there’s always new stuff coming out, but realistically as of today that’s what we’re facing and if things change, great, then he still has the proper space.”

That’s where Christine and Matt’s support system comes into play. Believers in being open, they asked their community for help, and very quickly a plan was born: designers, builders, an occupational therapist, and others came on board to help the Kavanaghs with their wish list – a bedroom and ensuite on the main floor, an open concept – and organize a benefit fundraiser to help pay for the renovations.

“They’re community people,” said Matt, of the friends he’s collected along the way who have rallied around him.

“You’re well loved,” said Christine.

The Matt Kavanagh Benefit Fundraiser Party is this Friday, May 6, at the Balmy Beach Club. Find out more by searching Facebook for “Matt Kavanagh Benefit Fundraiser Party”.

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Complaint filed against local publication THE PUBLISHER and editor-in-chief of Your Ward News have likely been revelling in the free publicity garnered from a recent Human Rights Commission of Canada complaint filed by an Ottawa lawyer.

Richard Warman filed an official complaint to the commission about Canada Post and its role in distributing the free publication throughout the City of Toronto (the Your Ward News website claims a circulation of 300,000).

In his complaint, Warman asserts that Canada Post has refused to stop distributing what he calls hate propaganda.

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Canada have repeatedly refused to stop distributing material they know is misogynist, racist, anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim, and homophobic hate propaganda,” he wrote in the complaint, posted to his website.

“By knowingly distributing hate propaganda and profiting from it, they have engaged in discriminatory conduct.”

Warman claims Canada Post and, by extension, the Canadian government, has violated sections 5, 7, 12, and 14 of the Canadian Human Rights Act by delivering Your Ward News to people’s front doors.

Beaches-East York MPP Arthur Potts was set to introduce a petition in the

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“CityTV did a report a few days ago on us. You’d have to pay a publicist 10, 20, 30 grand to get you that type of publicity. It’s free publicity,” he said in the video.

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By Phil Lameira

THEY MAY have made the playoffs for the first time in 10 years last season. Their coaches may have taken home the Jim Bishop Memorial Award for outstanding coaching staff. But the Toronto Beaches Jr. A Lacrosse squad has a challenging year ahead of them.

Many of the fifth-year players from last season have moved on, leaving head coach Glenn Clark with a new group this year.

“I think we’re going to be a fairly young team this year and that presents challenges in itself,” said Clark at a pre-season practice on April 20 at the Stephen Leacock Arena in Scarborough.

“We’ve got some good skill at our younger ages, but they’re going to need some time to mature.”

Clark hopes achieving the right balance between veterans and younger players will turn into positive results on the floor. He admits it will take some time for these players to excel and doesn’t want to set the expectation so high for the team that the players feel too pressured.

The team has also benefited from an addition to the coaching staff. Dilan Graham, of London, has joined the Toronto Beaches as

an assistant coach. Graham played for the Toronto Beaches for four seasons and was captain in his last year.

“He has a really good mind for the defence end of the game and we’re really lucky to have him,” said Clark.

James Tessier, assistant general manager, is calling on fans in the community to once again show strong support.

He said the organization understands that wins are the best way to attract a crowd as they realized last year.

“It really makes the atmosphere much more exciting. The players enjoy it, the fans enjoy it,” said Tessier, adding that fans can expect to see some new activities at the home games to make for a fun-filled game experience.

Matt Duncan, a second round draft pick and offensive player, is looking forward to his debut in Jr. A. “[I want to] learn as much as I can playing with these guys, and have some fun … get a few wins,” said Duncan, adding that he hopes not only to score goals but to get many assists as well.

Toronto Beaches opens their season at Ted Reeve Arena on May 6 against the Barrie Lakeshores.

Local hockey players drafted to OHL THREE HOCKEY players who spent countless hours at Ted Reeve Arena working with notable Beach coach Bob Acton have been called to the OHL in its recent draft.

Peter Muzyka was chosen by the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds in the fourth round and 70th overall selection in the April 9 OHL Priority Selection. A big, powerful defenseman, Muzyka currently plays for the Toronto Ti-

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Centre Jack McBain, currently with the Don Mills Flyers, got the nod from the Barrie Colts in the first round, with the 20th overall selection.

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SING!, CANADA’S premier a cappella festival, is back for a fifth year, running from May 4 to 15 at downtown venues.

Managed by Beacher Pat Silver, a past Beach Citizen of the Year, and her son John-Michael Erlendson, co-founder of a cappella group Countermeasure, the festival highlights the best in Canadian and international vocal music over the course of 12 days, with concerts and workshops.

Groups with East End members taking part in the festival include FreePlay Duo, Countermeasure, Ruach Singers, The Watch, Retrocity, Cadence and Hampton Avenue.

The highlight of this year’s festival is the final Toronto touring appearance of Canadian a cappella legends The Nylons, happening May 14 at Jane Mallett Theatre in the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. After 35 years of taking their songs around the globe, the group is on its farewell tour.

Other performers scheduled to strut their vocal prowess include Naturally 7, Peterpot, Main Street Quartet, The O’Pears, Beatsync, and more.

For the full schedule of workshops and ticketed and free concerts, see singtoronto.com.

Applegrove Older Adults (55+) on the Go! Applegrove offers opportunities to get connected to your community, participate in hobbies, learn or experience something new and volunteer to contribute your skills.

Program examples include: •Nordic Pole Walking •Spanish •Lunch ‘n’ Learn •Bingo •Euchre •Outings •Computer Basics •Autobiography Writing •Crafts and more!

THE FINAL instalment of the latest series of Beach Jazz and Reflection will take place on Saturday, May 7 at Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave. Perennial Beaches Jazz Festival streetfest favourites the Downtown Dixieland Jazz Band will perform, accompanied by singer Myrna and Nick and the regulars. ‘Southern Charm’ is the theme for the afternoon.

The concert runs from 4:30 to 5:15 p.m.

There is no admission cost, but a freewill offering will be collected.

ACOUSTIC HARVEST presents Shari Ulrich (shariulrich.com) on Saturday, May 7.

The two-time Juno winner and BC Entertainment Hall of Fame inductee made her name playing with the Pied Pumkin Trio and as part of Valdy’s Hometown Band. She is one third of the UHF trio with Bill Henderson and Roy Forbes, a third of the BTU trio with Barney Bentall and Tom Taylor, and a member of bluegrass band High Bar Gang.

Ulrich has also released eight solo albums, including Everywhere I Go, her most recent with Toronto-based Borealis Records. She is or has been involved with a number of television productions, produces the Bluebird North concert series, and has taught songwriting at Humber and UBC. In short, she may just know what she’s doing.

The show gets underway at 7:30 p.m. at Robinson Hall at St. Nicholas Anglican Church, 1512 Kingston Rd. just east of Warden Avenue. Tickets are $25 at the door or $22 in advance, available at acousticharvest.ca.

SMOOTH JAZZ piano maestro Jim Clayton is marking the release of his most recent album with a concert to benefit the East End Music Project (eemp.ca).

Clayton (jimclaytonjazz.com) will perform tunes from Lenny Jumps In, his most recent album, named for his five-year-old daughter. She also inspired Clayton’s previous recording, Songs My Daughter Knows, released in 2013.

The inspiration for the concert came from Lenny’s involvement in the EEMP choir, run out of Lenny’s school, Secord Elementary, near Main Street and Danforth Avenue.

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TARRAGON THEATRE, Scarborough Arts and three Scarborough schools are joining forces for #TheDonnellyProject, bill as “an extraordinary collaborative theatre event” that will take place outdoors at Scarborough Arts on May 14.

The play is an adaptation of James Reaney’s Sticks and Stones: The Donnellys Part I, first presented at Tarragon in 1973. #TheDonnellyProject is adapted and directed by Kat Sandler.

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Beach Arts Scene

By Jon Muldoon

MAY IS the month Toronto celebrates photography, and this year’s Contact Photography Festival features some Beach and East End connections.

Two Kingston Road shows were highlighted in the last issue: The Art of Junk

by Lisa Robertson and John Davidson, at Cobalt Gallery, and Hard Labour by Larry Williamson in a semi-secret space behind Great Escape Bookstore.

Beach resident, photographer and former principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada Aleksandar Antonijevic will be featured at Berenson Fine Art, 212 Avenue Rd. Voyage into a Sacred Harbour features 20 photographs of a dozen current National Ballet dancers. The series is his third body of work, and the first he’s produced since retiring after a 23-year dancing career.

The photographs capture dramatically lit intimate moments highlighting “the meticulously trained body in its purest and most vulnerable form.”

As a dancer himself, Antonijevic understands better than anyone what his subjects go through in their quest to attain an ideal physical state.

“I know that these artists torture themselves trying to achieve perfection and rarely think their bodies are good enough. I hope to have captured this moment in time and to show them what I can now see having stepped out of the spotlight,” he writes.

Antonijevic’s first photo exhibition was during the 2013 Contact festival. For Voyage into a Sacred Harbour he shot 15,000 images, from which 20 have been

chosen, each printed in an edition of five.

The show runs from May 5 to June 9 at Berenson Fine Art, 212 Avenue Rd. a few blocks north of Davenport Road. An opening reception will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, May 5. For more on the photographer see aleksandarantonijevic.com. For gallery details check berensonart.com.

Back in the East End, Dylan Ellis Gallery is hosting Ancient Splendour by photographer Monica Glitz.

The show consists of images of UNESCO World Heritage sites from around the globe, shot over the past 20 years. Glitz, who ‘Voyage into a Sacred Harbour no. 13’ graduated from York

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Both shows are period dramas set in the early 1900s with the costumes, vehicles, manners and issues of the day. Will women ever get the vote? Will the automobile replace the horse and carriage? Is it the Beach or Beaches?

Detective William Murdoch solves intriguing cases through reason while Constable Crabtree looks for otherworldly evils. One of the amusing conceits of Murdoch is that famous people like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain and Thomas Edison get involved in Toronto murders. Who can resist a “Houdini Whodunit” (2009)?

Like Murdoch, master illusionist Harry Houdini and Sherlock Holmes author Doyle are brilliant men ahead of their time. This was an era where the worlds of science and spiritualism collided. Oddly enough, it is Doyle, the creator of the famous deductive sleuth, who is the true believer in the unseen, while magical Houdini is the skeptic who says, “Never believe what you don’t see with your own eyes.”

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Ryerson grad Rebecca Liddiard plays pioneering London policewoman Adelaide Stratton in ‘Houdini and Doyle.’

Harry Houdini, left, played by Michael Weston, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, played by Stephen Mangan, in a promotional shot from the new television series ‘Houdini and Doyle.’

X-Files – with a sense of humour.”

These two geniuses team up to help New Scotland Yard solve bizarre murders with the aid of London’s first policewoman Adelaide Stratton (Ryerson grad Rebecca Liddiard). The first eight episodes are set in England, but then the action shifts to Toronto as Houdini and Doyle investigate a homicidal poltergeist along with Thomas Edison (played by Peter Outerbridge, who was the original Murdoch). St. John’s Norway Cemetery was a filming location for this ninth of 10 episodes.

Hoselton admits that “history is fudged in favour of story” and promises “ghosts, vampires and other beasts that go bump in the night.” Oh my! Gene Domagala better be careful when he leads his spooky night walks through St. John’s!

Houdini & Doyle is “inspired by a real-life friendship,” though the mismatched duo didn’t actually meet until 1920. Harry Houdini (1874-1926) and Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) were unlikely friends, but had a falling out over Houdini’s debunking of spiritualist mediums. The legendary, death-defying escape artist thought there was no escaping death, but, “Sir Arthur believes. In his great mind there is no doubt.”

St. John’s Norway Cemetery may not harbour any demons, but it’s been the setting for Hollywood film funerals with stars like Tom Cruise (Cocktail), Nicole Kidman (To Die For), Kathleen Turner (The Virgin Suicides), Jennifer Lopez (Angel Eyes), Mark Wahlberg

(Four Brothers) and Dan Aykroyd (Blues Brothers 2000).

In 1922 Houdini performed a stunt over Niagara Falls for the movie The Man From Beyond. The next year Doyle wrote, “My dear Houdini, for goodness sake take care of those dangerous stunts of yours … Is it worth it?”

In his books Doyle brought his famous creation Sherlock Holmes back to life after certain death at Reichenbach Falls, but Doyle couldn’t save his friend Houdini who died on Halloween in 1926.

Houdini’s widow, Bess, tried to “contact” her late husband in yearly séances on Halloween, but gave up after 1936 declaring, “Ten years is long enough to wait for any man.”

“Death isn’t the end” – TV’s Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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I go out in the morning, peer hopefully for something new coming up, then disgustedly go back inside to fuss over the houseplants … again.

Lately, though, I’ve found something new to do in the garden: fuss over my many outdoor containers. I know when warm weather hits, it’s going to hit hard, so I want to be ready to get out there and PLANT. The basics If you’re new to container planting, here’s a quick overview. (If you’re an old hand at potting things, you can skip this section.)

Picking your pot Look for containers with one or more holes in the bottom for drainage.

You may be able to get away with a layer of gravel in a pot with no drainage, but most gardeners say that just creates a stinky swamp below the soil.

Get the right size, not too big and not too little. Too big, and all that excess soil will harden and be wasted. Too small, and your poor plant will have to undergo another traumatic move within a month or two.

Choose plastic, terra cotta, stone, ceramic – whatever suits your taste and growing conditions. Remember that plastic holds moisture better than most other materials. Ceramic is lovely, but chips easily.

How to plant it One basic design follows the ‘thriller, filler, spiller’ pattern. The thriller is your ‘wow’ plant – an ornamental grass, a tall tropical, perennial or annual.

Fillers are shorter plants that bridge the gap between the thriller and the edge of the container. They can be soft and fluffy to contrast with a spiky thriller. Their colour can contrast or coordinate with the thriller lead player (also sometimes known as the diva).

They can be a combination of plants or all one kind. Group them together before you buy and see what you like.

Spillers are easy – the ones planted so they tumble over the edge of the planter. Stick to one type of plant in one colour; green, grey or burgundy are popular spiller shades.

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Try matching the container colour and plants to colours nearby in the garden when planting in pots.

Beyond petunias I spent some time recently with one of the big names in the garden world, Dan Heims of Terra Nova Nurseries in Oregon. You may not recognize his name, but he’s the guy who’s developed all those heucheras with yummy names like Peach Flambe, Lime Rickey and Chocolate Ruffles. And he’s a master of container gardening ideas.

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• Instead of grouping plants together in one big pot, “use individual pots because you’ll appreciate them more.”

Dan also pointed out that you don’t have to restrict containers to a porch or patio; go ahead and add them to garden beds and borders. If you’ve got a fabulous container, like a giant, unused fountain, let it stand by itself in the middle of a patch of plants set in the ground. Think classic grey stone fountain surrounded by silver and grey herbs. In a twist on this idea, let the container borrow colours from the plants within and around it. A pale yellow ceramic pot holding green and gold foliage and flowers would be a showstopper set near a border using lime, burgundy and yellow.

Be adventurous A self-confessed “hortaholic,” Dan has stacks of photos of wonderful container plantings he’s seen all around the world. “This is a huge trend and it’s evolving,” he said.

Cast-iron Victorian urns are big in Britain, while the clean lines of hip Euro-style containers are in favour on the continent. Japan prefers subdued natural stone, but the small, rustic villages of Mexico are using primitive wooden planters that suit the hot, dry climate there.

In our own gardens, he rattles off a list of unusual things to plant in: tin boxes, old wooden crates, a green wall of succulents (maybe held in place by chicken wire), dish gardens of small tropicals and even a muffin tin with different succulent in each section.

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Regular Chardonnay for the most part tastes pretty much the same, whether it’s produced in a cool or warm climate.

Notes of apple, pear, flint, white peach and mineral are common and, if oak treated, then additional elements of vanilla, butterscotch, fig, nuts and smoke are added.

The Musqué clone is different. Sure it is typically reminiscent of the grape, but it takes on an added perfumey, musky note that is indigenous to the Muscat grape – thus its name!

This mutation smacks of tropical fruit, honeysuckle, orange blossom and spice. More often than not, off-dry in sweetness and medium-bodied, this version of Chard is a crowd pleaser indeed. Apparently discovered by a French farmer by accident a couple hundred years ago, it began being propagated separately from the rest of the Chardonnay.

This clone tends to work best in cool climates where the aromatic character of the grape is maintained and intensified. Warmer climates like California, Australia, Chile and Argentina, for example, would simply cook these elements away. That’s why cool viticultural regions of the world like northern and eastern US, Canada, and some northern European countries can produce decent examples. Some wineries blend this clone with other varietals like Pinot Gris, Riesling, Viognier and Gewürztraminer.

Most Chardonnay works well with or without oak treatment. However, I believe this clone shows better without oak, as it tends to detract or mask its muskiness. Because of Musqué’s floral, perfumey nuances, food matches for it are slightly different. To a lesser degree, it can be treated somewhat like other aromatic varietals such as Gewürztraminer, Muscat and even Riesling. It makes a great aperitif before a meal or a delightful digestive afterwards. Check it out with less sweet, fruit-based desserts; nuts and cheeses like Gruyere and Brie; milder exotic cuisine such as Indian, Thai, and Mexican or even lightly spicy dishes like chili and ceviche. It’s also yummy with melon and prosciutto, fish and seafood entrees such as fried mackerel and crab cakes or lentils adorned with lemon and fresh herbs.

Then there’s “Caberlot.” This is a rare black grape, believed to be a natural crossing of Cabernet Franc and Merlot. One would think that a crossing of two popular red grape varieties would be widely propagated, but this is not the case. It is grown exclusively at Podere Il Carnasciale in Tuscany. It was first identified in an abandoned vineyard in the late 1960s in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy.

Only about 3,000 bottles of this wine, wearing the IGT denomination (table wine with a geographical description), are produced yearly.

In some vintages, the Cabernet character seems to shine, while in others, the Merlot dominates. Occasionally, it is Rhone-like. Usually an intensely coloured red wine, and oak treated, it delivers dark fruit, pepper, tobacco, coffee, earth and roasted notes and can age decently. Although unknown to most people, it’s a very sought-after wine and available in 27 countries worldwide. Great with grilled/roasted red meats, seasoned cheeses, stews/casseroles and, of course, Italian fare, it’s well worth a try, if you can get hold of some.

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IT WAS pure luck that led to Quarry Dental Group celebrating three decades at their Quarry Plaza location at Gerrard Street East and Clonmore Drive.

Dr. Allan Katchky, who runs the office alongside his “partner in life and in business,” Dr. Cindy Greenspoon, first came to the East End in 1983 when he landed his first placement after graduation with Dr. Sheldon Rose on Kingston Road.

The sense of community kept him in the area when the time came to establish an independent practice.

“This area has changed a lot less than most areas … I kind of fell in love with the area and the people,” said Katchky.

Greenspoon points out that some of those clients are so much like fam-

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Eye on Business A CHANCE reconnection between two old friends has culminated in a new art and craft studio in the Upper Beach.

Unlimited Arts Studio opened in late April at 152 Main St., just south of Gerrard, and offers a variety of classes and workshops for children and adults, from experts to complete beginners.

“This is something I’ve always wanted to do … have a space where people can come and just be creative,” said founder Fiona Bramzell.

Bramzell and her 1990s partner-incrime during Queen Street West’s heyday, DeAnn deGruijter, reconnected several years ago when they ended up using the same daycare provider. With a career in theatre, deGruijter offered to run some related workshops or classes at the studio.

“I come to it with a theatre background,” she said.

Soon enough, Bramzell realized the two were still on the same wavelength, and deGruijter came on board as a cofounder and creative director.

“I realized we both had pretty much the same vision,” said Bramzell.

The studio’s mission is general but ambitious. “Our overall wish is to provide a welcoming, uninhibited space for you to discover and unleash your inner creativity,” they write on the studio’s website. “Let us help you find and nurture your passion!”

Classes and workshops range from weekly children’s art classes to smartphone cinematography, and the space is available to rent for creative types hoping to offer their own expertise in custom workshops.

Unlimited Arts offers a range beyond that of other options, said Bramzell.

“There are art classes, but I don’t think there’s any place like us in the neighbourhood.”

Bramzell and deGruijter are also collecting milk bags – the larger bags that hold three individual milk bags, not the ones that actually contained milk – for a project that sees the bags woven into mats that are sent to third world countries. Everyone is encouraged to drop off milk bags, preferably flattened and folded, to the studio or pop them through the mail slot.

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ily that she and Katchky have seen the smiles of children, and then grandchildren, come through their doors.

That tradition of family extends to their own children. The dentist couple’s two sons are both working as orthopedic surgery residents, their youngest daughter is considering dentistry, and older daughter Ashley graduated dental school last year.

After finishing a year of specialized training in Boston, she’s expected to join the family practice this summer, marking two generations of dentists serving three generations of patients.

“Everyone in the family has sort of gravitated toward healthcare,” said Katchky.

Periodontist Jacklyn Glick is also joining the current team of 14 part- and full-time employees.

Katchky and Greenspoon said they are both very grateful to the many longtime patients who continue to support their practice in the Upper Beach.

“It’s become my home. This is where my patients are, and a lot of them are like family,” Katchky said.

UPPER BEACH resident Dwayne Reno moved his restaurant service business Building Block Associates from Kingston Road to Leslieville six months ago, in order to be in the heart of the restaurant scene.

On June 12 Building Block will mark its third anniversary of providing a unique mix of food supply and marketing services to the Toronto food service industry.

“We’re pretty unique in regards to what we offer,” said Reno. “We try to act as a supplier who doesn’t just slash prices.”

Reno, who went to school for marketing, found a natural slot providing both food and advice on business promotion, having Dwayne Reno grown up with a mother, an uncle and a grandfather all in the food service industry.

“I learned the industry hands-on by being in restaurants,” he said.

Reno said the multi-layered service approach was inspired by rising food costs, with some of his clients spending a quarter or more of their revenue just on food supplies – cutting into whatever marketing budget they might have had.

“These services and more can be accessed under the Building Block Associates roof, helping to level the playing field and give independent foodservice operators a fighting chance against the larger corporate-backed chains,” said Reno.

Building Block offers food supplies – produce, meat, bread, brand-name foods – alongside online marketing solutions and food cost management.

Reno will be launching a restaurant management program in the coming months as well.

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ith the warm weather coming and days getting longer, Canadians head outdoors in swarms. Since our summer is relatively short, most of us resolve to spend as much time outside as possible. In preparation for sunny days and warm nights on the patio, it’s time to spruce up our yards.

Last year I tackled two projects that were long overdue: our side fence and back porch … both of which were getting by on a wing and a prayer. They weren’t in great shape when we bought the house 14 years ago and I finally decided they had to be replaced.

I knew I wanted a different look than the typical wood fence and deck. Drawing on inspiration from books, magazines and blogs, I set out to design something that would not only look great but last through our harsh winters and hot summers.

A few years ago I built a bike shed inspired by a building we saw in California. Using reclaimed wood and corrugated metal I built a simple shed with a sliding barn door. This is so practical, since it allows for a very wide opening to get bikes in and out easily, without having to make room for (or hold open) swinging shed doors.

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After the success of that project, I decided to use galvanized metal for my new fence and deck. This material is made for exterior applications and is durable, inexpensive and maintenance-free, so it’s perfect for many outdoor applications. It’s readily available at most roofing places – my go-to is Danforth Roofing (danforthroofingsupply.com).

For the fence, we anchored wood posts in the ground at even intervals. To do this, measure the total length you need the fence to span and divide that into sections. A maximum of four feet is best between posts.

To secure the metal to the posts, I screwed in a wood frame all around the section where the metal would be fastened, using the posts as the main support and structure.

Then I cut the corrugated metal to the correct height and screwed it into the back of the wood frame. Finish off the exposed side with another wood frame and you’re done!

It was super easy, looks great and will need virtually no maintenance.

I built the deck and railings at the back of the house based on a design I saw in photos. Helpful tip: when searching for designs, bookmark all the photos you like and then figure out what the common element is, and use this in your design.

I really like a criss-cross pattern because it feels nice and open and allows us to see more of the yard from the back door. I used corrugated metal again on the side panels underneath the decking. Using the same technique as the fencing, create your wood frame to the right size, screw the metal onto the back and then attach the panel to the deck supports. It’s great to keep pests out from under a deck and keeps everything underneath clean and dry too.

So if you are planning some outdoor structures like a new shed, deck or fence this year, consider using materials such as corrugated metal. The function and durability are hard to beat, and you’ll end up with something that is really unique as well.

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emon curd is one of life’s great pleasures! It is guaranteed to put a smile on any mother’s face.

Although the recipe is quick and simple to prepare, it can be served any number of ways. Perhaps the easiest is to spread lemon curd on warm, freshly-baked scones with a dollop of whipped cream, or fill baked tartlet shells with this divine lemon mixture and decorate with sliced fresh strawberries.

One of my favourite recipes is to fold a cup of whipping cream, whipped until stiff, into the cooled lemon curd and serve it in a delicate meringue cup, garnished with fresh berries and a sprig of mint as lemon mousse.

Or freeze the same mixture for lemon ice cream. Any way you decide to serve lemon curd, you will score five gold stars!

If this is your first time making lemon curd, here are some helpful hints: Use a whisk to beat the mixture together; beat it until thickened and pale yellow in colour.

Cook the lemon mixture in a stainless steel saucepan to prevent the acid from the lemons reacting with the metal.

Do not answer the telephone or the door while making this concoction – give it your full attention. The curd will be ready in minutes anyway!

Lemon curd

2 eggs 1 cup (250 mL) granulated sugar 1/2 cup (125 mL) fresh lemon juice (2 or 3 lemons) 1 tbsp (15 mL) grated lemon rind In a stainless steel saucepan whisk together eggs, sugar, lemon juice and lemon rind until mixture is thick and lemony – this requires some muscle but is amazing for the biceps! Cook the lemon mixture over medium-high heat, whisking frequently to prevent catching on the bottom of the pan.

Once you see a few bubbles appear, the mixture is ready – this should take three to four minutes. Immediately remove saucepan from heat. If you are in a rush, spoon lemon curd into a stainless steel mixing bowl and put into a larger pan filled with ice. Whisk lemon curd until it cools, about five minutes. It thickens as it cools to a thick lemon custard consistency: smooth, tart, sweet and totally yummy!

This is one of my favourite, most dependable recipes, one I use over and over again.

Always use fresh lemon juice, not bottled concentrate, which gives a nasty, fake, chemical taste. Once limes are in season (July and August they are abundant and inexpensive) you can substitute lime juice and rind in the recipe with excellent results.

You will need a rasp. A rasp is a small, very sharp grater ideal for grating citrus zest. It also works well for fresh nutmeg from the seed and Parmesan cheese. Even better, ask for a rasp for Mother’s Day. Lee Valley carries them – they were originally a woodworking tool, but do double duty in the kitchen. You can also get them in good kitchen shops. You will love it – a good rasp will make life so much easier. Rasps add zest to life! (Sorry for the pun.)

For lemon ice cream, you will need one serving of the above recipe for lemon curd, cooled in a mixing bowl over a larger bowl of ice, and whipping cream.

While waiting for the lemon curd to cool, whip the cream. Amount of cream depends on the number of people you are serving.

For four to six servings, use 1 cup whipping cream (35 %). For eight servings use 2 cups of whipping cream.

To whip the cream, use an electric mixer in a deep bowl (to prevent spraying cream all over the kitchen), or a whisk if you have a good strong arm. Whip the cream on a medium-high setting or whisk like crazy until soft peaks form, rest, then carry on until stiff peaks appear.

Check the lemon curd to make sure it is cool – stick your clean finger into the middle of the cooling mixture. If it is cool, you are ready to fold the whipped cream into the lemon curd, with a folding motion using a rubber spatula. Continue folding until mixture is smooth and well blended, with no white or bright yellow bits showing. At this point you can taste this divine mixture which, unfrozen, is lemon mousse.

Spoon the mousse into your prettiest cups.

(I use small demitasse cups but small glass bowls work, as do wine glasses). Refrigerate until serving time, up to four hours ahead.

Ice cream: Put mousse into the freezer for up to four hours and serve as ice cream. If you wish, garnish with fresh strawberries and mint leaves. Ice cream can be made up to two days in advance. Cover well and keep frozen, but let stand in refrigerator at least one hour to soften slightly before serving.

Try one of these ideas and you should have some very happy people celebrating Mother’s Day with you!

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www.marthadove.com 416-691-4901 martha.dove@sympatico.ca

MASSAGE THERAPY

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

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

BEACHES MASSAGE CENTRE Zabiullah Khaliqi, RMT Randy Groening, RMT

2212 Queen St. E. (at Spruce Hill)

416-690-5185

• Essence • Dolores Wootton, R.M.T. Book online at essencetherapy.com (entrance on Willow, S of Queen)

www.advanced approachesmassage.com

416-694-6767

Jane Delamere, M.Sc.

DENISE M. F. BADLEYCOSTELLO

Dr. Kelly Robazza Dr. William Chan Dr. Caitlin McAlpine

THERAPY LOUNGE

Next Deadline is May 9th

CARL A. BRAND BARRISTER & SOLICITOR NOTARY

961 Kingston Rd. Toronto, Canada M4E 1S8

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

Su Willson, B.MUS, R.M.T. & ASSOC. 927 Kingston Rd. (W. of Vic Pk)

• Hours incl. evenings & Saturdays •

Voted “#1 Spa in Toronto” - Trip Advisor

Megan Evans, RMT, CRHP & Associates Massage Therapy • Reflexology 2245 Queen St. East • 2nd floor • Open 7 days per week •

www.therapylounge.ca

416-698-5861

416-916-7122

John H.

URBAN CALM THERAPEUTICS

Chiropractor

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

BJARNASON, D.C. 1906 Queen St. E. (1 block east of Woodbine)

416-694-2868

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

416-261-9679

PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES Renovations & Additions Structural Design • Building Permit

Local • Affordable 416-200-6300 www.WINTACO.com

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

416.420.4544

Graphic Design in the Beach Packaging, Corporate, Brochures, Leaflets, Web Design, Info-graphics.

Whatever your Graphic Design needs, please call:

NORTH DESIGN STUDIO 647 972 7630 www.northdesignstudio.com

architecture for independent businesses www.ngray.ca 416.778.4333

416-694-4090

Open Saturdays

416-690-6195

(416) 694-8181 www.stephenkingarchitect.com

Member Ontario Association of Architects

www.studiotangentarchitects.com info@studiotangentarchitects.com

416-690-6257

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

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

Voted “Best Massage Therapist” - NOW Magazine

Kevin Oates, R.M.T. & Assoc.

300 Main Street 416-690-3324

~Discovering A Better Way Together~ www.janedelamere.com Email: delamerej@gmail.com Phone/Text: 647-971-4739

Stephen G. King, Architect

contemporary new construction, additions, renovations open-minded 3D design process

Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Public

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

ARCHITECTURE/DESIGN

(Since 1989)

Advanced Therapeutics

Adults, Adolescents, Children 177 Danforth Avenue #301A 416-778-4242 www.christinaconnell.com Registered Psychotherapist in Ontario Individual, Couple, Family Counselling 22 Years Dedicated Experience

647-352-3348 www.thetherapystudio.ca

Drafting + Design

2401Queen St. E., Unit 38

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

Registered Massage Therapists Louise Abbott, RMT & Associates 138 Main St. (south of Gerrard) Open 7 days a week Free Parking • Accessible Book online

Chiropractic, Acupuncture, RMT

1522 Queen St. E. 416-465-5575 www.ashbridgeshealth.ca

579 Kingston Rd., #110, Toronto

Peter J. Salah

Neville Park Health Group 2455A Queen St. East

416-690-6257

Family Law Lawyer 2120 Queen Street East (@ Hammersmith)

Jen Goddard, R.M.T.

(at Victoria Park, next to Tim Hortons)

416-699-5320 • Free Parking

Chiropractor Neville Park Health Group 2455A Queen St. East

Registered Psychotherapist

Personal Training Private fully-equipped studio Qualified and experienced

William F. Deneault

Real Estate, Family, Litigation Wills & Estates, Corporate

Dogs, cats, pocket pets.

Housecalls available.

HOUGHTON VETERINARY HOUSECALL SERVICES

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

Glover & Associates

98 Scarboro Beach Blvd.

416-690-6800

BA, Dipl. TCPP, RP

KEW GARDENS HEALTH GROUP

Bert van Delft

GARRY M. CASS

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

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

416-690-2112

416-690-2417

PHYSIOTHERAPY

CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT

Tel: (416) 962-2186

Psychologist

Consultations • Therapy Individuals • Couples Over 20 years experience.

Located at Queen & Wheeler

ACCOUNTING

416-698-3157

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CLASSIFIEDS

Luxurious Beach Suites 485 Kingston Rd.

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Ads must be paid for at time of placement classifieds@beachmetro.com * 416-698-1164 x 22 2196 Gerrard St. E., Toronto, ON, M4E 2C7

Deadline for May 17th issue is May 9th

BARBER SHOP & HAIRSTYLING

Discover the benefits of good nutrition Join a weight loss challenge.

Call or text Sandy at

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

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NEW! Art Classes

Massage Promo: $30 1/2 hour • $50 full hour. Relaxing or deep tissue. 294 Main St., Suite 207 (Main Subway Station at Danforth) 416-691(13) 8717

After school Mon. & Fri. 4 - 5:30 pm (6 pm avail.) $25 drop in or 7 classes $150 Believe in Art workshops $40 per person Adult- Family and kids house parties too!

Employment Opportunities

Call De Anne 416-469-5994

I am looking for a caring empathetic person to take my blind brother for neighbourhood walks, weather permitting. He is a senior and has recently moved to the area.

This is a paid position.

647-867-5802

sandyalexandria13.sa@gmail.com

St. Clair Ave. E, & O’Connor Dr.

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Volunteers Volunteers Needed to deliver BEACH METRO NEWS

Please call 416-698-0351

Beach Home

Woodlee Rd./Glenn Morrow Mews

Semi detached, 3 bedroom, fully furnished home for short term rental this summer.

Enjoy a taste of beach life, lovely outdoor deck and garden-quiet, tranquil space, steps to the boardwalk. A homey cottage-like atmosphere. Ideal for a single person, couple or small family of 3.

Please contact Deborah 416 691-6631 dasinclair@sympatico.ca (5)

Stylish, Bright 1 Bdrm Bsmt. Apt. Private Sep. Entrance. Nice, Quiet House On Beautiful, Quiet, Tree-Lined Street.

4 pc. Bath, Breakfast Bar, Brdlm, Cable (Digital VIP), WiFi, C/A. Private Laundry, Close to 24 Hr. TTC. Easy Parking. $950 inclusive.

Roger

416-463-2212

(5)

For Rent Upper Beaches

2 Bedroom split level Duplex upper unit, utilities included.

Parking for 1 car only, 2 balconies 14’x7’ and 12’x5’ No smoker, no pets.

Available May 15, June or July 1st $1,350 per month (5) Call 416-463-0020 Queen/Silver Birch Shared backyard, parking. Steps away from Queen St. E., boardwalk. Easy access to Gardiner & Lakeshore Blvd. $2,595 + utils

Randy 416-689-7366 www.viewit.ca\81545

(5)

Condo for Rent: Beach bachelor condo w/balcony @ Woodbine & Queen. Incl.

STREET SALE Furniture, books, toys, clothing (women’s and kids), sporting goods, housewares, bedding, decorative accessories and more. Rain or shine! (5)

We buy! - We pay cash!

Single items or complete estates Wanted: old silverware, china, glass, furniture, pottery, jewellery, watches, pictures, artworks, coins, curiosities etc.

Call Terence: 416 466 1404 Fair market prices guaranteed! (r) Buying Sports Collectibles and Memorabilia. Hockey, Baseball, Football, Basketball, cards, programs, magazines, tickets, pucks, jerseys, posters and oddball items.

Please call Grant after 5 p.m. at 647-403-0297 or email at (7) bretsky@rogers.com Buying: National Geographic magazines, soft cover Readers Digest and Archie Comics. 647-428-4800. If no answer, please leave message (7)

Computer Services

Garden help wanted for small perennial garden at 1814 Gerrard. Email (5) gwynnegilest@gmail.com

Bed & Breakfast

KSTS Computer Support (VISA/MC)

SLIDES - 35 mm TAPES - VHS, 8 mm

Commercial Space for Rent

COZY SUITES INN

CALL GLEN

Convert to Digital On USB or DVD to view on Computer & TV

Free Pick up & delivery in the East Toronto

OFFICE SPACE

1 tape $25 / 3 tapes $60 Slides <200 -$.75ea 3 tapes $50 Larger quantities estimated

Call or text Peter 416-562-8664 DigitizeMeToronto@gmail.com

(6)

Spiritual

McArthur & Son Business Centre Air conditioning, boardroom, kitchen area, copier, etc.

Individual offices from $425/mth.

577-579 Kingston Rd. @ Main St.

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

Looking for an opportunity to discuss Canada’s achievements from the past, the present and the future?

Join Highland Creek LOL #2934 647-518-2038 (9)

Personal Care

416-690-2880

(r)

FOR RENT Main/Lyall Professional building.

New reno. TTC/GO

(5)

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

Call now 416-699-9714 x8 www.hardingandking.com

BEST IN THE BEACH @ 191 Kenilworth

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

New professionally installed kitchens.

Brand new elevator. Quiet private park setting. Very close to beach, shopping, public transit, all amenities. (r)

Beach Suites

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

Dazzling, completely renovated suites.

Kitchens with granite counters & stainless steel appliances. Modern washrooms, dark-stained hardwood floors, beautiful window treatment. MUST BE SEEN!

650 Woodbine

1 Bdrm $1,325

(r)

416-827-8095

doug.read@rogers.com

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Telescope for sale Newstar 114EQ Reflector Mint condition, manual and packing container.

Telephone: 416-694-5969 (5)

Resthaven in a beautiful Garden of Peace 2 side by side double depth plots for 4 caskets & 4 cremations Call Luis 416-266-7797 (5)

Garage Sale

(r)

416-624-3837

(r)

JIM’S APPLIANCE SERVICE

Beach And Beyond

Back yards, basements, garages and Demolition work.

Property maintenance and powerwashing.

Local Beach Resident.

For best service and price call.

Bob at 416 704 8139

Repairs to all major appliances, vacuums, and microwaves.

Fast, friendly service.

Good rates.

In-home/office, established professional, support service Serving Beach businesses since 1994 Service plans available

KLEEN WINDOWS

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 - References

Call Candy at 416 691-3170 (r)

CERTIFIED

CHIMNEY SWEEP

• W.E.T.T.- Certified • Cleaning / Inspection • Stainless Steel Liners Code Compliance • Masonry Repair nighthawkchimney.ca 416-892-5263 (5)

(r)

BEACH PUPPY LOVE

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

www.beachpuppylove.com

416 389 9234

Let us help you improve your home

Cleaning Services

Reorganization, Renovation and Relocation www.refocused.ca 647-267-0564

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BEACH

ULTRA

STEAM CLEANING LTD.

LAWN CARE

beachlawncare@hotmail.com (7!

CARPET, UPHOLSTERY RUG CLEANING

TO SERVE AND RESPECT

BEST JOB & PRICE GUARANTEED

416-567-3205

Vienna Upholstery

Call 416-783-3434

*Bonded*

www.computer-assist.ca 416-801-6921 (8r)

BLIND AMBITION

(r)

Custom Window Coverings Drapes, Blinds, Valances Also Duvet Covers, Shams, etc.

(r)

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

(r)

WAYNE’S - COMPLETE RECYCLING - DEMOLITION SPECIALISTS

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WASTE REMOVAL

EXACT TAX SERVICES TIM O’MEARA

WE CLEAN OUT YOUR JUNK NOT YOUR WALLET. ASK ABOUT OUR LOAD IT YOURSELF POLICY. SAVE MONEY. CALL MARY OR JOHN

TAX ACCOUNTANT

416-691-7556

Personal • Small Business Corporate • Back Filing (7)

Saturday, May 7th 8:30 am - 12:00 Noon

INCOME TAX

Lots of great, quality stuff. Don’t miss out!

(Raindate Sunday May 8th) (5)

$50 basic Small Business, others extra

Multi-family LANEWAY SALE Saturday, May 7, 9 a.m. to 12 KIMBERLEY AVENUE Rosemarie Popham Lane between #2 & #4 (Main & Kingston Rd) Visit our sculpture garden with art by Marilyn Walsh www.marilynwalsh.com (5) Rain date May 8

Guerin Bookkeeping 416-465-6249

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Expert Bookkeeping, Small business specialists, Strong on QuickBooks, Simply Accounting, “cloud computing”.

A la carte services. Affordable rates. Antonella 416-464-2766 (9r)

Same day service guarantee Open from Mon. to Fri. 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.

CALL FOR A FREE ESTIMATE

416-729-2077 cell

WWW.EUROPEANCLEAN.COM (7r)

Window & Eaves Cleaning Gutter Filter Installation

416 421-5758

rileyswindowcleaning.com

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BEACHES LAWN & PROPERTY

RUBBISH REMOVAL

(r)

THE HOUSE AND APARTMENT CLEANING COMPANY

A family business since 1956

647-899-9074

416-264-1495 CELL 416-567-4019

*Insured*

RILEYS’ WINDOW CLEANING

For estimate call

General Services

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

(21/17)

EUROPEAN CLEAN

416-698-9000

Financial Services

HEALTHY HOME

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

Affordable Certified IT Serving the beach for over 10 yrs

Next Deadline May 9th

(6)

CARPET & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING

(w. of Midland)

Home office & Small business Hardware & Software Support Network and Security setup PC/Mac Support, Web Site Design 416-438-6360 www.atlasnetwork.ca (5)

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Professional House & Pet-sitting. *Trusted & Reliable since 2003 *Overnight Stays *Daily Visits *Excellent ref(8) erences. Kate: 416-407-0972

2358 Kingston Rd.

COMPUTER SERVICES

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ReFocused

Home Decor

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

(5)

Pet Services (r)

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

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RUBBISH REMOVAL

Kevin 416-691-8503

HOME OFFICE: Computer repair

416-694-6241

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

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

NURSEWOOD RD. STREET SALE

(Queen St. E. & Victoria Pk)

1562 Queen St. E.

416-466-3766

Single depth • Sold together

Cemetary Plots

Magnificent

(near Coxwell)

CEMETARY PLOTS

Located in preferable ‘sold out’ area

OFFICE SPACE

416-856-4774

Chalet Beauty Bar

For Sale

Resthaven Memorial Gardens, Scarborough

Harding & King

Also RENTAL facilities available (r)

416-420-8696

Ideal for medical professionals, lawyers or accountants

LANDLORDS For Peace of Mind Call

We welcome everyone to weekly FREE Saturday night entertainment/dancing

Best accomodations in the Beach * kitchen * fireplace * parking * wi/fi 5 Star reviews *(3 night minimum!)*

2 side by side cemetery plots

Apartment/ Home for Rent

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

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UPPER BEACHES OFFICE SPACE

416-917-9025

Social/Events

gmail.com or call 416-988-1525

www.cozysuites.com (10r)

Paul McArthur 416-821-3910

Prayer of the Blessed Virgin. Oh, most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel, fruitful vine, splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me in my necessity. Oh Star of the Sea, help me and show me here you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to succor me in my necessity. There are none that can withstand your power. Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. Holy Mary, I place this prayer in your hands. Say this prayer for three consecutive days and then you must publish and it will be granted to you. Grateful thanks.

M.D. (5)

$1,200. Please reply to sbdynasty7@

416-691-6893

www.regsappliance.com

Cleaning specialists •Windows •Eavestroughs •Decks •Siding

Wanted

Photo/Art

or

416-698-1164 x 24 admin@beachmetro.com

to TTC, beach, stores, etc. Asking

REG’S APPLIANCE

Call 416-648-4410

Saturday, May 14th, 9 am - 1 pm

utiltities, some cable, parking. Steps

Routes available throughout the Beach, Upper Beach, Danforth, Birchcliff STUDENTS EARN COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS

(5)

(west of Main, north of Gerrard)

Drywall Installer wanted to work in GTA. 3 years experience. Permanent position. $32/hour. 40 hours/week. Emergency Plumbing. 506-15 Baif Blvd., Richmond Hill, ON, L4C 5N7. Send resume to: (6) emergency.plumbing7@yahoo.ca

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RUBBISH REMOVAL

Repairs to fridges, stoves, washers, dryers, dishwashers

th

Raindate: May 15

CLEVER DISPOSAL

Household Services

•Fast friendly service for 30 years •CESA certified

20 Annual Street Sale Sat. May 14 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Spacious 3 Bedroom Apt

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New 2nd fl Add., Full Balcony Granite, Slate, F.P., Skylights Details & Pics a MUST see www.upperbeachrental.com

1 Bdrm/Queen/Woodbine

WILKINSON

416-757-8757

(south of Kingston Rd)

For Rent in July & August, 2016

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2701 St. Clair Ave. E. At O’Connor Dr. Enter Main Door.

New and used items. Bake Sale, Silent Auction. BBQ Lunch.

Blantyre Ave.

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Announcement

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Upper Beach Attractive 2 Bed $1,475

(1.5” wide by 1” deep)

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

St. Clair O’Connor Community

Featuring Bachelors, 1 & 2 Bedroom renovated suites.

Ads are available in two sizes:

YARD SALE

SAT. MAY 7 • 10 am - 2 pm

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MAINTENANCE -Lawn Cutting -Property Clean Ups -Eavestrough Cleaning

416-414-5883 info@blpm.ca

(7)

EUROPEAN CLEANING LADIES

offer complete and thorough cleaning service for your house • office • condo Call Ilona 416-427-3815 (5.)

EXPERIENCED CLEANING LADY Weekly • Bi-weekly • One time cleaning Reliable & efficient

Contact Irena

416 690 0117 • 416 569 3236 (r)

416-825-9705

SCARBOROUGH DISPOSAL LTD. WASTE REMOVAL & EXCAVATION

DEANNA CLEANS

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

416-265-7979

Houses, Apartments, Offices

416 931 8222 d.cleans@yahoo.ca (r)

MR. FIX-IT

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All Day Cleaning Special for first-time clients.

For your home/condo/office.

Reliable, trustworthy, efficient cleaning service.

For more info, call Beata at 416.233.6462

PROFESSIONAL, MATURE, RELIABLE RENOVATIONS AND REPAIRS

10+ years experience Plumbing, Electrical, Carpentry, Painting, and Handy Work.

Randall 416-450-0599 MRFIXIT@rogers.com

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cleancomfortservices.com

(9r)

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Kellies Green Clean Home Services

EAST TORONTO VILLAGE

CHILDREN’S CENTRE

Cleaning services for Lower Beach residents Kids lunches & dog walking too A clean home is a happy home Kellie’s Cell 647 761 0266 kelliegreenis@gmail.com (6)

WINDOWS CLEANING EAVES CLEANING

(6)

Cleaning Lady Extra-ordinary & Exceptional Biweekly only $15/hr • Top Notch!

Call Sherry at

416-405-8301

(7)

Experienced Cleaning Lady available to clean house, apartment, condo, office and clean up after party. References Available Upon request. Please (5) call: 647-855-8424

Music

Bach to ROCK We teach it all!

Scarboro Music

See our ad on page 7

(r)

FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE FOR ADULTS WITH CHILDREN

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

416-699-8333

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PIANO TUNING REPAIRS

APPRAISALS (19)

Marble Recording. Need your music mastered? Call Don Reed at 416-465(5) 2777

Tutoring HELP WITH MATH & ENGLISH call ALBERTO 416 690 9389 for • report card 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 (6)

THE STUDY STUDIO Proven success with thousands of Beach area students for 15 years 1226 Kingston Road 416-690-6116 www.thestudystudio.com Specialized programs for grades 3-12 and beyond in all subjects.

Andrew English B.Ed.

BEACH PROPERTY MAINTENANCE -Property Clean Ups -Eavestrough Cleaning -Lawn Cutting - Hedge Trimming

416-414-5883 info@blpm.ca

(7)

BEACH PROPERTY MAINTENANCE -Lawn Cutting -Property Clean Ups -Leaf Removal - Winter Salting Services info@blpm.ca

(7)

Unbelievably Affordable Yard • Garbage Any reasonable request Security approved Contact: Tim Conway 647-828-2468

416 822 6309

CANADIAN TREE CARE Tree & Shrub: shaping, thinning, pruning, planting Deadwood or Complete Removal Storm Damage, Dangerous Limbs

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Victoria Gardening

Specialist in low maintenance, eco-friendly & native gardens

consultation - coaching pruning - planting - maintenance cleanups - containers - readied for sale

Allison 416-693-7214 naturescapeconsult@yahoo.ca

(6)

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

Marlene 416-698-5668

urban garden girl • garden cleanup & maintenace • garden renovation & transformation • plants, trees, stone, wood, metal • free consultation

cindy 416 574 6686

urbangardengirl@bell.net

LAWN AERATION

Landscapers Green Apple Landscaping

Nurturing, supportive care, flexible hours.

Early Childhood Education Specialists to answer your questions.

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

• SERVING THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1976 •

(r)

416-288-1499

Landscaping solutions to customize your space.

www.scotstonecontracting.com Call Scott 416.858.2452 (7)

IN THE BEACH LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE SPECIALISTS • Weekly & Bi-Weekly Lawn Cutting • Spring Clean-ups • Fertilization & Aeration • Hedge Trimming & Pruning • Seeding & Sodding (16) 647-210-LAWN (5296)

Fresh Green Property Maintenance LAWN / GARDEN

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Call Andre 416-422-4864

416-826-3269

(8)

BEACH HILL

PAINTING

INTERIOR, EXTERIOR QUALITY PAINTING; KITCHEN CABINET REFINISHING & CUSTOM PAINT; STAINING & WATER PROOFING, DECKS & FENCES

25 years • Free estimates

Dave 416 694 4369

Accurate work & reasonable rates Watch our videos at

MEN* *MOVE * Single Items too! * $29 / hr. + 1 hr. & up 1 man $39/hr 2-$49 • 3-$65 • 4-$85 7 days Dan 647-763-5257

NATURAL EFFECTS

NO MESS, NO FUSS, JUST SUPERIOR WORKMANSHIP, Fully Insured Member BBB • Beach Resident SEAN AT 416-985-8639

Design / Build Landscapes Over 30 years of award winning gardens.

416.699.3316 vincemacdonald@sympatico.ca

(5)

IDEAL

Family owned & operated 26 years in business

416-690-3890

sales@larryspainting.ca www.larryspainting.ca

PROWAY

PAINTING & DECORATING

LANDSCAPING

Interior • Exterior Residential • Commercial Plastering • Drywall

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

Lesley

416-258-9746

HUGO’S PAINTING 25 yrs. experience All kinds of painting.

Free estimates.

416-824-2957

LAWN IN ORDER

10 yrs in the beach lawn-hedge-garden-small trees seed-soil-fertilizer-mulch watch it grow w/worm castings (8)

LANDSCAPING 416-690-2476

“Rocking the Beach for over 15 years” (9)

Free Estimates & References Available (19)

(6r)

MARTIN PETROV PLUMBING SERVICES

No job too small 15 years in the Beaches 416 833 6692 martin@mapm.ca (7) Plumbing, Heating, Drains Video Camera Inspections Renovations. Design & Build Backwater Valve Snaking. Gas Master Plumber P1736

416-821-8438

(9)

PLUMBING •Repairs •New Installs •Drains •Alterations Same Day Repairs

416-855-9500

(6)

(11)

-expert painting & custom finishing - complete interior & exterior - expert Restoration - references (1)

proway.painting@gmail.com (18)

Toilets • Faucets Leaks • Drains Very affordable All work guaranteed 416-558-8453

REPAIRSMADEEASY.CA

ALL PERFECT PAINTING

647-456-3666 www.allperfectpainting.com

416.797.6731

NEED A PLUMBER

Bobby Mitchell

hugos_painting@hotmail.com (r)

MASTER PLUMBER

PLUMBER CONTRACTOR

(11)

Painters

Larry’s Painting & Repairs

(11)

(5)

GOGIRLPAINTING.CA (5)

416-265-4558 Cell 416-727-1595

(13r)

NEW BRIGHT PAINTING

newbrightpainting@gmail.com

& DRAINS Dishwasher & Gas Repairs Heating, Boilers & Radiator Repairs Reno, Repairs - LICENSED

(5)

Seniors Discount That set price includes kitchen, bathroom, ceiling, trims.

All materials & labour included.

416-910-6302

ATLANTIS PLUMBING

George: 416-278-7057 or Gabston Reno: 647-342-2872

now offering a painting Promo:

WE MOVE FOR LESS!

Contact us at 416 602 2128 (6r)

Fully licensed & insured.

Lic #T94

Over 20 years experience Interior, exterior, residential, plastering, drywall, laminate.

Fair quotes - top quality.

1 bdrm $450 • 2 bdrms $550 • 3 bdms $650 (6)

(5)

All Plumbing, camera inspection, power washing, snake drain cleaning, sump pumps, drainage systems, and back water valve installations. Great affordable rates.

Fully licensed.

clean reliable work reasonable rates drywall repairs 10 years experience friendly service • local resident

416 528 2950

24 hr. - lic# P1624

Cascade Plumbing GTA

WAYNE’S

(5)

freshgreenlawncare@gmail.com (8)

See our ad on pg. 15

Plumbing & Drains All types of plumbing work.

Smallest leak - complete bath reno.

Internal & external drain excavating.

Call the professionals 416-480-0622

BEACHCOMBERS

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

ABBEY ROAD

(r)

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

www.BestWayToMove.com (6r)

(11)

INSTALLATION RESTORATION INVISIBLE REPAIRS Rod 416-766-4066 see roderickdunn.com

painting & services

STONESCAPE 416-821-4065

TOM DAY

42 yrs

NASH COMPANY

MAN WITH CARGO VAN

(r)

WALLPAPER

Local. Taking care of your possessions.

(6)

www.ontariowaterplumbing.com

416-694-2470

No job too small for all your repair and painting needs (20)

dave@beachhillpainting.com (19)

All Season Movers

LTD

Professional Quality Service Repairs-Renovations-Installations

20% Discount off any competitor’s written quotation. Discount for seniors and single parent.

Lic. Master Plumber • Free estimates Patrick 647-404-7139 (8)

REASONABLE RATES

416-690-1356

ONTARIO WATER PLUMBING

NEIGHBOURHOOD PLUMBING

PAINTING

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

(r)

Mobile: 416-834-8474 Office: 416-757-6537 (6)

HARM’S PAINTING

(5)

416-999-MOVE (6683)

Paul 416 690 8846 pks15@primus.ca

Award Winning Design & Build

www.greenapple.ca

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

416-439-6639

Michael 647-770-8472

DAY CARE CONNECTION LICENSED, NON-PROFIT HOME CHILD CARE

Call 416-698-0750 daycareconnection.net

(5)

(5)

(r)

(5)

Shane 647 606 0970

Kevin 416-691-8503

urbangardengirl@bell.net

A.S.M. MOVERS

PRESSURE WASHING

LAWN CARE

cindy 416 574 6686

www.thegoodmoves.com Call Hakan: 416 899-3980 (15)

- All Stone Work - Fences - Decks - Retaining Walls - Painting/Staining - Junk Removal

rickscape@hotmail.com

beachlawncare@hotmail.com (7!

www.lerouxfroebel.com

(7)

25 yrs experience

(7)

• garden cleanup & maintenace • garden renovation & transformation • plants, trees, stone, wood, metal • free consultation

“Always on Time and on Budget”

Scotstone

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

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

-Lawn Cutting -Property Clean Ups -Mulching Services -Leaf Removal -Eavestrough Cleaning

416 822 6309

(5)

Interlocking & Natural Stone Repair

Movers

LAWN & LANDSCAPING

EXCLUSIVE

Retaining Walls • Planting

50 years in the Beach

MET LIC P18238, BBB A+, WSIB Master Plumber: Franc Zamernik

647 401 7970

(9)

urban garden girl

(13)

416 691-3555

(9/17)

416-522-7288

Free Consultations

GREENSTONE LANDSCAPES

416-699-8575

Dianne 416 699 5070

BEACH PLUMBING Small Repairs to complete houses Renovations

We stand by our contracts, big or small.

Also do Drywall and Plaster Repairs and more

Richard Durocher Interior & Exterior Small to Mid-size jobs

(19)

Serving the Beach For 20 Years!

• Specializing in Interlock, Retaining Walls • All Natural Stone Work, Decks, Fences • Sodding, Planting,Water Features, Lighting, Etc.

*** Free Estimates ***

PROFESSIONAL PAINTER

* Design + Installation * Planting + Pruning * Garden maintenance/Fall clean-ups * Complete Garden Makeovers

dave@writteninstonelandscapes.com 647-545-9561 (5)

www.kimpricelandscapedesign.com

EXCLUSIVE

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

Bilingual School

• Design and Construction •

‘As Promised’ Painting

Shasta Garden Design

Driveways • Patios • Steps

Creating Award Winning Gardens

info@blpm.ca

LAWN & LANDSCAPING - Spring & Fall Clean-ups - Lawn Cutting - Fertilizing - Seeding - Sodding - Aeration

Toronto: 416-434-3209 London: 519-636-9222 cdntreecare@hotmail.com

Landscape Design 647-545-5143

416-414-5883

(5)

(5)

WRITTEN IN STONE LANDSCAPES

MAINTENANCE

416-414-5883

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

shastagardens@hotmail.com

BEACH PROPERTY

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

LeRoux Froebel

416-467-6059

HARRY

BEACH

Child Care Available

LANDSCAPE • DESIGN & BUILD

KIM PRICE

Garden & Tree

(5r)

All Welcome

(r)

STONEHENGE

(r)

GARDEN CARE & ADVICE

TUTORING

www.greenapple.ca

416-690-0102

647 766 7875 John

French / German

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

(r)

(8)

One on One Tutoring Grades 3-12 Conveniently located in the Vic Park South Rehab Clinic/Henley Gardens www.headstarttutors-ca.com headstarttutors@rogers.com 416-272-9589 Summer programs, including mini math day camps available, July and August Neil Bennett B.Ed./OCT Sally Vickers B.Ed./OCT

Excellent pruning of shrubs & small trees. Lawn seeding, reel mowing, planting, weeding, butterfly gardens.

Interlock relevelling.

Carpentry repairs (deck & fences).

Downspout disconnecting.

Caring & environmentally friendly!

www.stonehengedesignbuild.com

Ted Reeve Arena

Hedge Trimming Clean Up Mulch, Sod, etc.

Head Start Tutors

ALL LAWN AND GARDEN

Green Apple Landscaping

184 MAIN ST. across from

Neighborhood Gardening Services

Kingston Rd/Vic Park

416-699-3772

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

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

Call Gary 647-829-5965

AND

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Electricians LOCAL ELECTRICIAN Fault Finding Knob & Tube Rewiring Service upgrades Insurance certificates

GREEN ISLE ELECTRIC

DECLAN O’MEARA 416-698-6183 CELL 416-875-5781

FRANZ’S PAINTING

Paulo’s Painting: Interior/exterior; quality painting; custom house painting; stain finishes. 10 years experience. Free estimates. Call Paulo at 416854-4360 info@paulospainting.com (22) www.paulospainting.com

CEJA ELECTRIC

Call Franz 416-690-8722

Plumbers

*Ask For Photo I.D.*

Experienced. Reliable.

Professional Work Guaranteed.

Drywall Repairs. Competitive Rates.

Beach Resident.

(5)

SERENITY PAINTING Beach resident with over 30 years exp Interior / Exterior Work Proper Drywall & Plaster Repairs No job too big or small Have the job done right the first time.

Referrals & Free Estimates

Steve 647-853-6420

(6)

ECRA/ESA LIC#7001069

Knob & tube rewiring Service Upgrades CARL 647-787-5818

(r)

CLAYTON ELECTRIC

Plumbing • Heating • Drains Renovation, Repair & Installation Lic. #P-15099

(14)

free estimates

MIKE PARKER PLUMBING 690-8533

ESA LIC# 7002668

(r)

Proud To Have Served Our Community For Over 50 Years Specializing in Service Upgrades and Knob & Tube Wiring Metro Lic. # E-594 / ACP # M-R1507

FREE ESTIMATES 15% less best price guaranteed Work done by Andrew Clayton

416-690-1630

(r)

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

MURPHY

LANIGAN’S

ELECTRIC

CONTRACTING CO.

ECRA/ESA#7004508

Knob & tube • No job too small

416-690-0173 Cell 416-529-5426

ACE

-Flat Roofs-Shingles-Eavestrough Toronto Fire/Police References An Honest Family Service

Tel. 416-569-2181

(11)

(r)

THOSE ROOFERS

Electric

Don’t call them, call those roofers

Lic: 7006786

COMPLETE ELECTRICAL SERVICES RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL

416-833-3006

Big or small we do them all VISA / MC / AMERICAN EXPRESS

(8)

MASTER ELECTRICIAN ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR Fully licensed & insured.

ECRA/ESA #7008706

George: 416-278-7057 or Gabston Reno: 647-342-2872 (13r)

MBX ELECTRIC LTD. Master Electrician Lic. ESA ECRA #7000314

Residential • Commercial - Knob & Tube Wiring - Service Panel Upgrades - Renovations & Alterations

Call Marc 416-910-1235

(7r)

- Shingles & Flats- Repair & Tune ups - Cedar & Slate - Re-roofs & new work

(r)

CITY WIDE ROOFING

Built-in-Cabinets •home entertainment centres •home offices •bookcases, fireplace surrounds •utilize your space with built-in storage units

For all your roofing needs In the Beaches since 1974 FAMILY OWNED & OPERATED

416-690-1430 • 416-266-8953 quotes@citywideroofing.ca www.citywideroofing.ca (19)

KEW BEACH GENERAL CONTRACTING

Roofing Flats • Shingles Siding • Fascia Soffit Eavestrough • Skylights & much more (5.)

COXWELL ROOFING

(12)

REX NORMAN CARPENTRY

Master of Carpentry specializing in interior & exterior finishing, decks, stairs, windows, doors, railings, book shelving, feature walls and much more. Putting quality first.

(r)

416-910-8033

(8)

SHINGLES • REPAIRS FLATS roofingsystemsplus.ca 416-857-0730 Free estimate (9)

BALMY BEACH

G. LOCKE

647-712-7663

(5)

ROOFING REPAIRS

CABINETRY, BUILT-INS INT/EXT TRIM & STAIRCASES

Call/text: 647-206-3376

PORCHES, DECKS, FENCES

Andrew, the Roofer

Glenn 416 837 9298

(10)

“Oftentimes, a repair is all you need.”

The Horan Company

(10)

Professional Carpentry

J. BROW ROOFING

For all your Interior Finish and Carpentry needs.

Renovations from the basement to the attic.

Local and On-time.

416-823-7314

(6)

CUSTOM CARPENTRY FINE INTERIOR - EXTERIOR CARPENTRY • PLUMBING ELECTRICAL GENERAL REPAIRS DECKS + FENCES

MARIO 416-690-1315

(5)

CUSTOM WOODWORKING KITCHENS BUILT-INS WALL UNITS - BOOK CASES

(12)

EASTLAKE RENOVATIONS • Fine Custom Carpentry • Porch Restoration • Pool Cabanas • Decks and Fences • Gazebos and Playhouses • Hardwood Flooring

416.452.5128

(5)

Roofers

BERGERON ROOFING

Shingle & Flat Specializing in Flat Roofs All Work Guaranteed 35 yrs. experience

(15)

CANADIAN CONTRACTORS

Met. Lic. B-16-964

(10)

647-771-0227 jeff@heyhandyman.ca www.heyhandyman.ca

Gord Walker 416-694-2119

Residential, Commercial, Retail, Home Offices Senior Rates Alan Burke 416-699-4350

STONEHENGE

•CARPENTRY •PLUMBING •ELECTRICAL •PAINTING •STAINING •DRYWALL REPAIR •PARGING •DECK & FENCE REPAIR •MINOR REPAIRS

(r)

asement

416-917-5990

(r)

TILE INSTALLATION

porcelain. marble . limestone . glass . ceramics All work guaranteed.

25 years experience Free estimates

HARDWOOD FLOORS

(r)

(8r)

Basement Lowering

JDB MASONRY

“Reclaim Your Basement”

416-738-2119

www.jdbuild.ca

(8)

TOTAL RENOVATIONS INC.

CANPRO MECHANICAL

(10)

Air Conditioning & Heating Experts HVAC / Repair / Maintain / Install Residential / Commercial Rental programs now available

(5)

WEBSTER FOUNDATION REPAIR 647-235-6690 Lic & Ins (4.)

Sam Capetano

(9).

A & R RENOVATION Basement finishing Bathroom & Kitchen remodelling Homestar top rated www.ar-renovation.com

Sanding, Staining, Refinishing, Repairs & Installations.

Quality workmanship for excellent rates.

416-662-4450 Free estimate

(11r)

GENERAL CONTRACTING

PLS Masonry offers over 20 years home repairs experience in the GTA Competitive prices • Satisfaction guaranteed

Call today for free estimate (6r)

PropertyPlus416@gmail.com Stress Free Estimates (5)

owner/operator

DESIGN-BUILD-RESTORE

Small or Large Indoor or outdoor Roofing Troughs Drywall Painting

647-712-7663

Quality Work by experienced home renovator

Bathrooms • Kitchens • Basements Flooring • Tile and Mosaic

Fully insured, municipal license & WSIB reg’d Free Quotations • Excellent references (5)

MARCANGELO INTERIORS Drywall, Taping Trim, Tiles, Painting

Scotstone

(6)

Kitchens - Bathrooms Basements - Doors, Windows Garages - Fences, Decks For all your reno needs, no job too small.

Metro lic

416 694-7402

(5.)

RENOVATIONS

Get your Demos!

We offer demos, demos, and yes, you guessed it...more demos!

Punctual timelines, immaculate clean-ups, the lat word in competitive rates and the ability to go above and beyond to fit your needs!

647-708-9227

(5)

Joe Watson

Furniture Refinishing & Home Interior Refinishing

416-449-0569 jjwatson57@gmail.com (5)

(7)

JACK OF ALL TRADES Handyman Services No Job Too Small Carpentry / Drywall Painting, specializing in decks & fences

416-278-5328

(9)

ABBEY ROAD

JASON THE MASON

TUCKPOINTING • CHIMNEYS CONCRETE WORK WINDOW CUTOUTS • WATERPROOFING & REGISTERED & INSURED 416-580-4126 cell (1/17)

Creative Construction

We can handle all your renovation needs. Additions, Basements, Painting, Plumbing, Flooring, Electrical, Etc.

MASONRY Repairs + Restorations

416-690-2476

Call Chris

We will beat any quote by up to 20%

(9)

416 - 903 4120

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING beachmetro.com $11.50 for 20 words OR

$17.50

for 1 column x 1” box (up to 40 words)

Call 416-698-1164 x 22 or email

• Basement - Garage • Kitchen - Bathroom • Fences - Decks - Windows • Painting - Drywall • Plumbing, back flows

416 917 5990

(5.)

DEMOLITIONS!

Jason

Marc 416 419 4281

marcangelointeriors@hotmail.com

(7)

ODD JOBS

extra words 35¢ each

KEW BEACH

(12)

Sanding Staining Refinishing Installation 25 years

Ads also appear at

Call 416 876-4986 (11)

ALFS FLOORING HARDWOOD FLOORING

(6 r)

JUST DRYWALL + TAPING

FLOORING SPECIALIZING IN SANDING & STAINING

Cell 416 434-2762 Painting - Basement Renos Plaster & Stucco • Interior & Exterior Small Renovation Jobs & Indoor/ Outdoor Spray Painting 35 Yrs Exp • Refs upon request (7) Free Estimates

416-606-4719

Underpinning Foundation Repair Drains, New/Repair

SILVERBIRCH

416-999-2333

416-200-6300

WET BASEMENT EXPERTS

HARDWOOD

416 660 4721

www.WINTACO.com

www.canpromechanicalgroup.com

Drywall, Plastering, Taping 15 yrs Experience • Excellent Job Call Mike 416-854-7024 647 833 7024 Fax 647-341-6104

Construction/Renovation Experts Maximizing Potential Kyle McKeever 647 880 0958

(5)

JOHN CLARKE

Tom 416 698 2111

Licensed masonry contractor

• FOUNDATIONS • LOAD-BEARING WALL REMOVALS • BASEMENT LOWERING - UNDERPINNING • ADDITIONS & RENOVATIONS

(r)

(9)

Call Scott 416.858.2452

CHIMNEYS - REPAIRS OR NEW BRICK, BLOCK, STONE WORK TUCKPOINTING, COLOUR MATCHING CONCRETE WORK - REPAIRS OR NEW BASEMENT WALKOUTS 416-463-9331 (r)

www.totalrenovations.com

www.smartgta.com

Cable runs HDNI Connections Programming Mario 416-690-1315

www.scotstonecontracting.com scotstonecontracting@gmail.com

HOME STRUCTURE SPECIALIST

416-694-2488

(416) 871-4608

Repairing & matching existing brick, Tuckpointing or new builds. Natural stone. Chimneys, Fireplaces, Foundations

• Brick / Foundation • Concrete / Stone • Chimney & Parging

Restoration & Build

Architectural Design-Build

& AIR CONDITIONING • AC cleaning & start up • Service, maintenance, repair • New equipment installation • Ductless AC installation • Licensed & Insured

Quality Stone Masonry & Brickwork

Underpinning Specialists (r)

(10)

SMART HEATING

garth.jerome@yahoo.ca (6r)

MANUEL 416-727-1900

www.basementlowering.com 416-494-3999

Call C.J. 647 222 5338

Garth 647-248-4952 or

416-558-8453

MR.

Professional drywall and plaster work. Renovation and Repair. Very clean.

No job too small.

Property-Plus

CONCRETE WORK L B

www.stonehengefoundations.com

CHIMNEY REPAIRS • TUCKPOINTING BRICKWORK • PARGING CONCRETE • INTERLOCKING

SERVICES “No Job Too Small”

(5.)

All about wooden floors Serving Toronto since 1981

416-467-6735

by Jim Ferrio ODD JOBS PLUS “Seniors never pay tax” Call Jim for a free estimate (r)

647-967-7366

(r)

QUALITY HOME IMPROVEMENTS & RENOVATIONS

• CARPENTRY / TRIM • DRYWALL PATCHING • SMALL JOB SPECIALIST “Serving the Beach Since 1980”

Flooring, Tile, Carpentry, drywall, paint, mud & tape. all types of small & large renos

(r)

416-375-5191

GNOMEWORKS

(8r)

23

FLAT SCREEN TV INSTALLS

Small & Large Jobs Indoor/Outdoor Work Reasonable Rate Call Bruce anytime 416-469-1974 (4???)

*60+ years Experience*

owering

CJ DRYWALL & PAINTING

THE HANDYMAN

SERVICES

Benching-Underpinning Waterproofing Inside/Outside New Drains

Give your floors a new beginning!!!

(5) Free Estimates

Trades

Marc 416-617-7205

All Types: Ceramics • Natural Stones Vinyl • Cork Hardwoods • Laminates Floating and Plank

Hardwood Flooring

HANDYMAN

(4r)

Flooring Installer

JIM 647 405 8457 416 691 8457

Mark Denington

• Shingle and Flat Roofing Repairs • Install Downpipes • Eavestrough cleaning For a Free Estimate ask for Lawrence

TOTAL INTERIOR RENOVATIONS Specializing in: Kitchen Design • Bathrooms Carpentry • Drywall • Floorings Basement Apartments Decks & Fences Met. Lic. Gord Walker B-8357 416-694-2119 (r)

Stucco • Moulding Wall Systems

(6)

416-691-8693

Queen St. Roofing 416-698-2613

Lic# B16393

Steve 416-285-0440

HEY HANDYMAN

(r)

YOUR STUCCO

Shingles • Flats Roof Repairs • Metal Work Eavestroughing & Siding Waterproofing • Since 1984

Call Vince: workshop 416-285-9895 cell 416-399-2342

www.galaxywood.ca

Shingles • Flats • Cedar Free Estimates Residential & Commercial Tel: 416-752-6453 Cell: 416-788-9020

416-466-9025

GALAXY

Serving Your Community Since 1971

Met. Lic. B-8357

(5.)

Painting, tiling, fencing, drywall, flooring, siding, vanities & much more.

MASONRY

Shingles + Flats Concrete Work Eavestroughs Cleaning + Replacement Lic.

Accomplished Finish Carpenter 25 yrs exp

647-967-7366

15 yrs exp No job too small!

Free Quotes, satisfaction guaranteed - Lic & Ins

FOUNDATION REPAIR WATERPROOFING

ROOFING

(19)

Foundation Repair/Waterproofing

Telephone Systems

ROOFING SYSTEMS PLUS

Bill Watson 647-283-0095

WET BASEMENT ?

Cable & Telephone Wiring

Flat and Shingle Roofs Re-roofing, Repair Eavestrough, Soffit & Fascia Workmanship Guaranteed Gus:

• Waterproofed showers & saunas • Tile leveling system (floors & walls) • Counters, islands & vanities • All work done custom on-site!

(r)

Innerspace

ROOFING & SIDING? SOLUTION!

Licensed/Insured On Time/On Budget (r)

TILE + STONE

www.webuildit.ca

Lic - Insured • Free Estimate

416-694-7497 ~ 416-423-4245

The Beach For 35 Yrs. Clyde Robinson 416 691 8241 www.robinsoncarpentry.com

ED GODFREY

416-264-8517

416-659-7003

Doug 416-871-1734 Jeff 647-686-8103

Free Estimates • Metro Lic. B17416

Quality Craftsmanship with Attention to Detail Local Carpenter Serving

•NO JOB TOO SMALL• Metro Lic. #B9948

Metro lic #B531 • All Work Guaranteed • Free Estimates

Flat Roofs & Shingles Aluminum Siding ~ Fascia & Soffit Eavestrough Cleaned & Replaced Tuck Pointing & Much More

ROBINSON CARPENTRY

Complete Kitchen, bathroom & basement. Interior/Exterior Painting & Carpentry. Doors, Windows, Siding, Fences, Decks, Patios

FAIRNEY & SONS LTD.

Serving the Beach 25 years Metro Lic 416-694-7402

Carpenters

Call Rex 416-889-1963 rexn@rogers.com

ALL TYPES OF ROOFS

GODFREY RENOVATIONS & REPAIRS LTD.

BEACH METRO NEWS

classifieds@beachmetro.com (r)

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More Details about DANFORTH

LOCAL AND FAMILY OWNED

Danforth Lumber has been family owned and operated for over 40 years and across three generations.

A huge advantage of being around serving the Beaches and surrounding area for so long is that we have been able to tailor our stock and services to the neighborhood.

416.686.9618

Whether it be our 1x4 Red Pine flooring for porches and balconies, the 7-1/4'' baseboards meant to match the older profiles in your home, or true 2'' joist hangers for those old joists, we have the expertise and products to help you with your home renovation problem!

Marvel in the Beach!

Has been featured in Style at Home magazine. Custom design top to bottom with meticulous attention to detail and high quality finishes. Features custom mill work throughout, all fixtures & hardware are hand picked, absolutely nothing has been over looked! Majestic, spacious & elegant family home. Media/theatre room in the basement, third floor master retreat could be a private residence with 13' ceilings.and a detached heated garden studio.

DANFORTH LUMBER Danforth Ave.

DANFORTH LUMBER

Victoria Park Ave.

Dawes

Main St.

Rd .

www.DanforthLumberHBC.com

Gerrard St. E.

25 DAWES RD.

(416)

699-9393

KEN GRIEVE

$2,500,000

Prime Beach Stunner!

Neville Park

Near Queen & The Beach

A graceful Dutch colonial inspired home with amazing curb appeal. Boasts a private drive & parking for 4. Elegant principal rooms, comfortable master with large ensuite, fantastic main floor family & games rooms overlooking the garden.

Quaint cottage like setting, situated on a reverse ravine lot with beautiful perennial gardens and a bright and airy main floor family room. Situated on a quiet cul-de-sac, only steps to Queen Street East and The Beach.

This solid semi is move in ready, recent updates over the last 5 years include, new kitchen, new wiring throughout, brand new appliances, landscaping and retaining walls, sound proofed between houses. Just move in and enjoy all the area!

$1,920,000

$939,000

$549,900

D

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UPPER BEACH Detached 3+1 Bedroom Spacious Living Area Formal Dining Area Fireplace Renovated Kitchen High Basement Call for more details.

KenGrieve@royallepage.ca Royal LePage Estate Realty 1052 Kingston Rd.

416-587-7522

Meet The Team! Karen Kubis Karen grew up in the business as her father was a successful Broker in Essex County for nearly 55 years. As well as valuable experience in all aspects of the market, she studied Environmental Studies at the University of Waterloo with a focus on Urban and Regional Planning.

Karen is also a past member of the Appraisal Institute of Canada and worked as a full time Appraiser in Toronto for Banks,Trust Companies, Government Departments and private Individuals. Karen's extensive sales experience in Metro Toronto and specifically the Beach and Bluffs make her a valuable asset to the DeClute team.

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