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Join the ARTFEST AT DISTILLERY DISTRICT Leslieville supper club ®

JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Months of construction in the city’s east end have taken a major toll on local eateries.

With that in mind, three-year Leslieville resident Katie Reid recently created the Leslieville Supper Club, a monthly nosh for food lovers and local supporters of the east end.

“I’ve never actually been a part of a supper club myself, but I was just noticing that local businesses are suffering because of the construction,” said Reid during a recent interview.

As a local business owner/ entrepreneur, Reid said she felt inspired to do something to support the local business community so she launched the Leslieville Supper Club.

“I’m really big on community and I love supporting local. It’s also a way to get online friends together in real time, to put a name to a face,” said the certified professional dog trainer and walker who owns/operates KatyK9: your dog’s other best friend!

The Leslieville Supper Club’s premise is simple: Basically, a specific intersection or area is featured each month.

Last month, it was Queen Street East and Broadview Avenue. This month, it’s Queen and Leslie streets. >>>NEXT, page 12

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HELLO PUPPY: Dominique Rodriguez makes a new friend in 14-week-old Lyla during the Distillery District Artfest held Sunday afternoon. See Page 10 for another picture from this event.

Park named after city’s first black elected official Toronto’s first black elected official, William Peyton Hubbard, will be the namesake of the new park at Broadview Avenue and Gerrard Street East.

That was the name selected

by Torontonians in an online competition for naming the park outside the historic Don Jail.

The park is part of the

Bridgepoint Active Healthcare redevelopment of the site and before the land is handed over to the city, officials held a citywide competition for names.

Residents submitted a broad range of names – many of them alluding to the jail’s more macabre history – but when it came time to vote, a more hopeful history won out.

Hu b b a rd w a s b o r n i n Toronto, but his parents had escaped slavery in the United States via the underground railroad. He lived near the park, at a house at 660 Broadview Ave. In 1894, he was elected as an alderman, becoming Toronto’s first elected black politician. He also served as acting mayor.

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Outdoor Ping-Pong tables are being installed at Fairmount, East Lynn, Orchard and Balmy Beach parks. P h a s e 2 o f i m p r ov e m e n t s planned for Hubbard Park are set to begin shortly, while the second round of consultations for improvements to Cassels, Wildwood and Oakcrest parks will be happening in August.

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A new contra-flow bike lane, which will allow cyclists to travel in two directions on one-way streets, is coming to Dixon Avenue by the end of summer.

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The contra-flow lane will offer a connection from the bike lane on Dundas Street East to Woodbine Avenue and the waterfront trails.

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The Leslieville Farmers’ Market is looking for people with experience in graphic design, marketing and admin support to volunteer their time.

The market runs Sundays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Jonathan Ashbridge Park.

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Leslieville astrophotographer ready for Perseid meteor shower TAMARA SHEPHARD tshephard@insidetoronto.com Skywatchers could catch some of what NASA reports to be the most fireballs of any comet during the Perseid meteor shower early next week.

Leslieville astronomy enthusiast and astrophotographer Adam Evans will have the lens of his special astronomy camera trained on the spectacular show.

The Perseid meteor shower peaks each year on Aug. 11, 12 and 13 as the Earth passes through the debris trail of the Comet Swift-Tuttle. This year, it corresponds with the biggest, brightest supermoon of the year on Aug. 10, which is expected to impact the fireballs’ visibility.

Evans urged everyone to look skyward next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

“Don’t worry too much about the moon,” said Evans, manager of enterprise geospatial at Google Canada. “Get outside. Look at the north and northeast part of the sky.

You’re bound to see at least one meteor. You can see it with your bare eyes. Grab a comfortable chair.”

While generally, astronomers suggest meteor-watchers go out during the least ambient light – a couple hours before dawn – people not keen to awaken at 4 or 5 a.m. could also check out the sky at night, Evans said.

At Perseids’ peak, skywatchers can expect to see about 120 meteors per hour, including fireballs as bright as Jupiter or Venus, Bill Cooke with NASA’s meteoroids environment office said in a NASA video.

Cooke’s NASA team has tracked fireball activity since 2008 with a network of meteor cameras across the U.S. A database of hundreds of events indicates Perseid is the fireball champion of meteors.

“We see more fireballs from SwiftTuttle than from any other parent comet,” Cooke said.

Evans agreed. “By a mile. It is absolutely the best.”

Evans spent every clear night photographing the sky before his wife, Alison, gave birth to their daughter, Hazel, almost two years ago. Now,

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Leslieville resident and astrophotographer Adam Evans captured the Andromeda Galaxy, top, and a rosette nebula, above. See more of his photographs at www.sky-candy.ca

he gets out a couple nights a month, he said.

His gallery of photographic images of stars and dust, glowing gas and big spheres is prolific. National Geographic Books, Wikipedia, Skynews magazine and Sky and Telescope magazine have featured his work.

His favourite image is one he shot

of the Andromeda Galaxy, which includes data he shot in dark-sky cottage country, as well as in the observatory he built in his own Leslieville backyard.

“It shows you can take images despite light pollution using cool techniques,” Evans said. “It’s a photo of something several million light years away. It tells us new stars are

being born in that galaxy and at what rate. It’s two-and-a-half million light years away. The light left these stars when we were not even homosapiens.

“That’s pretty spectacular.”

Adams attended the University of Waterloo to study geography, geomatics, geographic information science and remote sensing.

The astronomy bug bit him one night in 2006 under a dark Chilean night sky in a professional observatory near the Andes during a backpacking trip. He then tried to replicate the experience in a Canadian urban setting.

Evans looks to the dark night sky and shoots his images with a target in mind. He uses software, Web tools and checks the weather.

“There is always something to see.

I’m taking very high-resolution photographs. But astronomy is pretty accessible to people with binoculars or the naked eye.”

Right now, for example, people can see Saturn and Mars at sunrise with the naked eye, he said.

Evans said he definitely hasn’t photographed all he’d like yet.

There’s still the southern hemisphere to explore. And witnessing the excitement in the faces of people appreciating astronomy for the first time.

“I enjoy watching people have their ‘Saturn moment’ when they see the rings pop out through a telescope,” said Evans, who is a parttime astronomy teacher to kids at the ROM, and shares his passion for astronomy to schools and community outreach groups.

Evans said his passion is both an intellectual interest and a humble reminder of what it means to be human in a vast universe.

“My passion for astronomy and astrophotography is in thinking, ‘the world is a pretty big place.

The universe is a pretty big place.’

Astronomy reminds me to stay humble and curious. When you think that light is travelling millions of years. My photo is of something in the distant past. ”

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Astronomy tips An interest in astronomy doesn’t require expensive equipment.

Astrophotographer Adam Evans offered fledgling amateur astronomers the following advice to get the biggest bang out of the night sky: • Get out whenever you can.

“If you’re not keen to get up at 5 a.m., you might see a few things in the night sky.”

• Suppress the instinct to go out and buy a telescope.

“You can take photos of space with a decent SLR camera.

“Try using a long lens on a tripod.”

• Before you buy a camera, buy a good pair of binoculars.

“Binoculars are cheap, portable and as good as a small telescope.”

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e’d like to hear about the best practices of your local Neighbourhood Watch.

It’s because we think the best ideas are often old ones, and where the safety of a community is concerned, neighbours watching out for each other is about as effective as you can get. An organized, sustained program like Neighbourhood Watch takes it a step further, and is a program that should be maximized on our streets and across the city.

Residents almost always support one another in time of crisis, or in the face of tragedy. We’ve seen that locally many times – just last week in Leslieville, after the two-alarm fire on Minto Street that had residents checking in on one another and offering assistance to police. In south Etobicoke, the rash of summer break-ins and assaults have people up in arms – watching out over each other’s houses and noting any suspicious activity to our view police.

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We need to be proactive if we always want to have any lasting effect on the safety of our communities.

Neighbourhood Watch can help us do that. Created in the 1980s by the Crime Prevention Association of Toronto (CPAT), it empowers neighbourhoods, businesses, and individuals to take action to reduce crime. Though the familiar signs are up all over the city, indicating the existence of a Neighbourhood Watch Group, we’re curious to know how many are actually still active? We’re willing to bet far less than the number of signs still up.

The success of the program is entirely dependent on the people of the neighbourhood. Even CPAT acknowledges on its website that programs go dormant when people move or they feel the reason for starting one has been solved, or the community once again feels safe. We shouldn’t take that sense of security for granted.

We’d like to find out how many Neighbourhood Watch Programs are active in Toronto. What’s the experience been, for those involved? Do groups share information, advice – or do they even know other groups exist? We’d like to investigate the possibility for growth and collaboration on a broader scale.

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Running without the advantage of name recognition Mayoralty candidates – at least some of them – get a lot of attention in Toronto municipal elections, and rightly so: the choice Torontonians make for mayor sets the future direction of the city more than any single vote.

But there are 44 other elections taking place – and some of those elections are more important than others.

In 2010, the Ford administration wouldn’t be what it became if Doug Ford hadn’t stepped in to hold onto the Ward 2 Etobicoke North seat after Rob Ford left it, to take the mayoralty.

Like too many other wards with well-known incumbents, Ward 2 has become a stronghold... not for an individual – but a family, the Ford family which has held it for 14 years.

And Doug is so confident in its strength that he’s suggested his young nephew and intended successor Michael Ford need not even

david nickle the city do interviews to take on the job. The brand in Rexdale is that strong. Actually, it may not be that strong.

Dismantle brand The Ford brothers have done much to dismantle their city-wide brand, and more to the point – motivate some fairly sophisticated opposition both city wide and more importantly in the ward.

That is where Andray Domise comes into the picture.

A financial advisor and writer who spent his childhood in Rexdale and lives in Etobicoke now, the 33-yearold African-Canadian has been offering up a pointed critique of the Ford brand in terms of its bedrock support in north Etobicoke and among African-Canadian young people.

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And Doug (Ford) is so confident in its strength he’s suggested his young nephew and intended successor Michael Ford need not even do interviews to take on the job.

He took on the idea of a Ford stronghold directly in a conversation that took place just prior to Michael Ford registering.

“The whole thing has to do with anger and resentment,” he said.

“A lot of support comes from people who feel disconnected and cut off from Toronto’s political establishment. You can see, looking around Etobicoke neighbourhoods, why people get the impression that nobody cares – all they have is half-finished projects and empty promises.

“If you can’t rely on people who represent you

to get the job done, you’re going to end up rallying around somebody who is going to capture all that anger and resentment and passion.”

Domise doesn’t hide his own anger, but he is betting that the residents of Ward 2 will eventually let go of that anger and resentment after being allowed to be more directly involved in deciding the shape of their community.

Domise is also, of course, just a candidate right now – one of 13 running in Ward 2, and one of 12 without the advantage of name recognition, and by no means established to be the best choice among them.

So his plans to turn Ward 2 from stronghold to freehold might be premature.

But he is running a campaign that at least indicates a sense of the stakes on Oct. 27, both for city and for community.

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WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715, cmoran@ torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Planning for a camping trip or just want to learn how to camp? Come to the library and pitch your tent!

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Make a Stop Motion Animation WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715, cmoran@ torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Children six to 12 can bring an iPad or iPhone to the library and make a short stop motion animation. Call 416-393-7715 to register.

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WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715, cmoran@ torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free A recent movie will be featured.

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Button Bonanza WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Gerrard/Ashdale Library, 1432 Gerrard St. E. CONTACT: 416-393-7717 Craft your very own Custom Button!

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The Yard Sale In The Yard Event WHEN: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Malvern Collegiate Institute, 55 Malvern Ave. CONTACT: Vicky Tsorlinis, 416-751-9733, vickytsorlinis@rogers.com COST: Free The Malvern Collegiate home and school council is hosting the first annual yard sale in the yard event with 60 vendors ready to sell you all kinds of garage sale items as well as crafters, food and live music provided by a local steel band performer. Email vickytsorlinis@rogers.com for vendor information.

Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www.beachmirror.com. Read weeks of listings from your neighbourhood as well as events from across Toronto.

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Songs In The Key Of Oz WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 416-755-1717 COST: $15 adults; $10 students, seniors, arts-workers In celebration of the 75th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz Aug. 15, the Civic Light-Opera Co. presents the internationally acclaimed musical comedy concert Songs In The Key Of Oz.

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Champions Beach Volleyball Tournament WHEN: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Ashbridges Bay Beaches, 1681 Lake Shore Blvd. E. CONTACT: Sinead, 647-977-1380, sinead@offlimitsports.com COST: $45 per person or $129 per team Off Limit Sports invites everyone to come play in a Recreational 6s Division for fun or competitive 4s.

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Family Story time WHEN: 11 a.m. to noon. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave.

CONTACT: Liza, 416-393-7715, , cmoran@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Songs and stories for the family.

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The Leslieville Flea WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Ashbridge Estate, 1444 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Brigid Elmy, leslievilleflea@gmail.com COST: Free Discover hidden treasure by visiting 50-plus vendors and their variety of vintage, salvaged, up-cycled goods, furniture, antiques, collectibles and select artisans. Visit www.leslievilleflea.com Park Yoga in Jonathan Ashbridge Park WHEN: 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. WHERE: Jonathan Ashbridge Park, 20 Woodward Ave. CONTACT: Trixie, 416-466-8152, parkyogatoronto@ gmail.com COST: donation Every Sunday. Fees are donation based with a portion of all proceeds going to support Nellie’s Shelter.

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Joanna Lavoie jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Four boys and one girl have been arrested and charged in connection with a twoalarm fire that destroyed two homes under construction in Leslieville last Thursday.

The young offenders, whose identities cannot be reveled under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, have each been charged with arson – endangering life, break and enter and possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000.

Detectives from 55 Division said they were able to quickly make an arrest thanks to information from the community.

The so-called “Arson 5” appeared in Youth Court at 311 Jarvis St. Friday, Aug. 1.

The unoccupied residences, at 12 and 14 Minto St., went up in flames around 3 a.m. Thursday, July 31.

Firefighters were on the scene within minutes and knocked down the fire by 4:30 a.m., but remained there for several more hours.

Extensive damage The blaze also caused extensive damage to a twostorey home next door at 10 Minto St. Toronto Fire Capt. Frank Carlisle said Thursday morning they were estimating damage to be in excess of $500,000.

Carlisle said 19 fire vehicles were deployed to battle the blaze.

“I grew up in that house,” said David Skinner, who received a call shortly after 3 a.m. and drove down from Barrie to help his elderly father, Al, who still lives in his childhood home.

S k i n n e r, a f o r m e r Metroland employee, said his 85-year-old father would be coming to stay with him for several months.

“It’s quite the ordeal.”

Al Skinner has lived at 10 Minto St. since 1942.

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Five teens charged with arson in connection with Leslieville fire July 31, which saw two homes under construction destroyed and a third home damaged.

his home shortly after the fire broke out.

“It was scary. I really felt the heat,” he said.

Minto Street, a quiet, dead-end street accessed by Eastern Avenue, is a place where everybody knows their neighbours.

Michael Murphy, a six-year Minto Avenue resident, said a neighbour alerted him to the fire.

“As I opened my door, I could just see the orange glow and feel the heat,” said Murphy, who captured footage of the blaze at its peak on his cellphone.

“It was crazy. It’s the most intense fire I’ve ever seen, for sure.”

Gary Hoffman has lived directly across the street from the destroyed homes for more than 60 years. He was one of several neighbours who called 911.

“I heard boom, boom, boom,” he said while describ-

ing the explosions that accompanied the fire.

Hoffman, who said he saw workers bring materials to the construction site just yesterday, said he’s grateful no one was injured or worse.

“You can rebuild a house, but you can’t rebuild a life.”

A visibly distraught man, only identified as Nick, is the developer of the two destroyed homes.

He declined to speak with the media.

“I’m just so relieved there are no fatalities,” said Ward 32 Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon, who dropped by the scene Thursday morning.

“Minto Street is a quaint, cozy street. It’s so great everyone is rallying together to help each other. Thank God it wasn’t worse.”

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The Krinos Taste of the Danforth festival returns Aug. 8 to 10 with new attractions such as Hollywood on Danforth and two new Guinness World Record attempts.

As Greektown’s largest fundraising event of the year, the Greektown on the Danforth Business Improvement Area (BIA) is looking to grow its philanthropy.

“What people don’t realize is that the event is by a not-for-profit organization and that profits go to charities in the community,” said Howard Lichtman, Taste of Danforth spokesperson and member of the Greektown BIA. Over the years, the Greektown BIA has donated more than $2 million to the Toronto East General Hospital (TEGH). Each year, the festival hosts the Danforth Dash Bed Race in support of the hospital’s expansion campaign.

This year it will be take place from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on Danforth

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Avenue, just two blocks east of Broadview Avenue.

This year, the festival is attempting to break world records for the largest tug-of-war tournament and the most people to perform a long jump. Both events will also be raising funds in support of Athletics Ontario.

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There will also be a Sports Zone where fans can interact with athletes from professional Toronto teams such as the Maple Leafs, the Raptors, the Argos and Toronto FC. The Toronto Star is hosting a Kids’ Fun Zone with activations from two upcoming family films, Paddington and the Boxtrolls.

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The Rainbow Kid fundraising campaign gets two-week reprieve JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com East-end filmmakers Kire Paputts and Colin Brunton are less than $6,000 away from reaching their goal of raising $30,000 for their latest project, a full-length, feature film called The Rainbow Kid. At the beginning of July, the creative duo launched a 30-day Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. So far, supporters have donated more than $24,000 to the project.

With just a few days left and so close to their goal, Paputts and Brunton learned they’ve been given a two-week extension and now have until Aug. 15 to reach their target.

“Indiegogo really likes the project and because we’re getting so close they wanted to help us get it to the next level,” Paputts said.

The duo have set up a special incentive where the person who refers the most donors will receive the film’s

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Producer/director Kire Paputts, left, works with Dylan Harman.

“most-prized possession”, a specially created book set to be used in the film.

For several months now, Paputts and Brunton have been working to raise enough funds to produce the dark coming-of-age story about a young man named Eugene who has Down syndrome who sets off on a crazy adventure to find the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

Earlier this year, they attempted to raise $200,000 through a 30-day Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.

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and the filmmakers walked away with nothing.

Instead of folding up their tent, Paputts and Brunton reevaluated the project and pared it down as much as they could without compromising its integrity.

The locations of the shoots were changed to inexpensive and/or free places in the city.

Cast and crew members even took pay cuts, Paputts said.

T h e R a i n b ow K i d i s even getting some celebrity attention as Canadian singer-songwriter, actress and motivational speaker Bif Naked recently tweeted about the film.

The pair have $34,000 in grants from the Toronto and Ontario Arts Councils to work with, but must use those funds within a set time frame.

Filming for The Rainbow Kid is set for September.

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Toronto rivers to be protected under the Ontario Greenbelt jean ko din jkodin@insidetoronto.com The City of Toronto is drawing up a final report to expand the Ontario Greenbelt to protect three key water systems in its backyard.

City planners are looking at the Don River, Humber River and Etobicoke Creek to map out the surrounding public green spaces that will be included in the city’s proposal to Ontario’s Greenbelt Council in February.

Franz Hartmann, the executive director of the Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA), said this is an exciting time for the city.

“It is taking an almost final step,” he said. “The reason why this is so important is because we want Torontonians to step into their backyard and be in the Greenbelt.”

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The Greenbelt Act was created in 2005 by the Ontario government to protect ecological areas from urban development and sprawl.

On Januar y 2013, an amendment was made to the Greenbelt Act to include an Urban River Valley Designation. With this new legislation, Toronto can apply to have key water systems and green spaces be connected to the headwaters of the Oak Ridges Moraine through to Lake Ontario.

But at least one group is concerned about a potential shortcoming to the expansion.

“A big issue for us is getting through the Dentonia golf course and some of the other private land in between,” said Andrew McCammon, president of the Taylor Massey Project.

But Shelley Petrie, program director of the Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation, said the proposed map’s discontinuity is not a major concern for the urban river valley expansion. Because municipalities own most of the green space, it does not diminish the overall goal of protection.

“If the designation considered both public and private land, it will never happen,” Petrie said.

“By and large, there is a collective protection of public land. This will then be an opportunity and an incentive (for private owners) to elevate the level of stewardship and care for their green space.”

Toronto’s Greenbelt expansion plan will be presented as a final report to the province in February.

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JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Phin Park, near Danforth and Jones avenues, is a great place for the community to get creative this summer.

During August, the Pocket Community Association (PCA) is hosting Art in Phin Park, a fourday-a-week, drop-in art program for children, teens, caregivers and adults.

Visual artist and printmaker Jerry Silverberg, who lives near Danforth and Donlands avenues, approached the neighbourhood group’s executive team late last year with the idea of running a free community art program as Phin Park’s inaugural artist-in-residence.

“It’s all about kids being creative and exploring the arts,” said Silverberg, who previously served as the artist-in-residence at the Franklin Children’s Garden on Centre Island. “(The PCA board) was very supportive of the idea. Hopefully every year it’ll be repeated.”

AWARDED FUNDING Before moving forward with the program, the PCA surveyed area residents as well as community groups and organizations about what they’d like to see in the program and who it should serve.

Together with Silverberg, the Pocket Community Association then prepared and submitted a lengthy application to the Toronto Arts Council for $7,500 in funding.

Art in Phin Park was awarded the funds this spring.

Paul Woodman, an 18-year area resident and father of three, helped bring the program to fruition.

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Maxence Tremblay Woodman, 11, left, and his sister Élie, 10, work on crafting puppets during a recent session of Art in Phin Park.

“The goal of the project is to engage the community and Phin Park is the central hub of the community. The idea is to share, teach and educate through the arts,” Woodman said.

“My kids love (the program).

They just can’t wait to get there at 11 o’clock and participate. It’s something they really look forward to.”

Each week, Silverberg works with Art in Phin Park participants to create works of art based on different themes including printmaking, puppet making, collage and book making.

“It keeps me on my toes. I love it,” said Silverberg, a freelance artist who runs Cascade Theatre, a touring theatre company for young and family audiences. He also spends the winter months working in Cuba on various art and mural projects.

On average, about 20 children and teens take part in Art in Phin Park each day.

Art in Phin Park will be held Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to 3 p.m. until Aug. 28.

Visiting artists On Wednesday evenings in August, the program will welcome several special visiting artists: Storytelling with Hugh Cotton on Aug. 6 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Music with Cheryl Reid on Aug. 13 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Mask Making with Cecilia Booth on Aug. 20 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., and Drum Circle with Marsha Coffey on Aug. 27 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

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City cycling advocacy group Cycle Toronto is 2,700-members strong with at least 97 per cent of its riders drinking coffee, says its executive director.

So it made sense when supporter Sweet Pete’s Bike Shop connected Cycle Toronto with Propeller Coffee, the environmentally conscious roaster that just opened a Bloordale roastery and cafe to offer ‘Contraflow,’ a new seasonal coffee blend. Proceeds from Contraflow sales will go toward supporting Cycle Toronto’s bike advocacy work.

Propeller Coffee’s model, ‘coffee for the social good,’ jived with Cycle Toronto’s values, said its executive director Jared Kolb, such as the power of grassroots community organizing to effect change; Propeller’s roaster uses as much as 85 per cent less gas than a traditional roaster while relying on Bullfrog Power for all its electricity and natural gas needs.

It also uses Autoshare instead of delivery vans.

“This is a really great partnership with them. It’s a really exciting initiative,” said Kolb, who first joined Cycle Toronto in 2010 as a volunteer, followed by director of membership and outreach and then director of campaigns and membership, before taking the helm.

Purchasing Contraflow will enable Cycle Toronto members and cyclists across Toronto to help fund cycling advocacy, Kolb said.

Cycle Toronto relies on four staff members and 10 part-time staff as

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Proceeds will go to supporting Cycle Toronto’s advocacy work.

well as 200 active volunteers.

“The work we do falls under three branches: direct advocacy at city hall. I’m down at city hall almost every day talking with city staff and councillors; we’re campaignbased,” said Kolb, citing protected bike lanes on Eglinton Avenue, Richmond and Adelaide streets.

“We’ve got our ward advocacy programs; we grow local groups.”

Cycle Toronto first began meeting with representatives of Propeller Coffee in January when they tried out different blends.

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