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Flags can unify a country under one symbol. They can communicate togetherness on a battlefield. They lead marching bands and races or allow people to mourn the loss of a loved one when placed at half-mast.

Flags can serve unlimited purposes; and this Christmas, they will help serve food to the poor.

This is the third year for Daily Flag for Daily Bread. The event, run by Michelynn Laflèche, Benedict Hilliard and other Leuty Avenue residents, takes place throughout advent, which runs throughout December to Christmas Day. Each day a new flag is hung at a different house on Leuty Avenue. The flags are also posted online where people from all over the world are able to bid on a flag until Jan. 11 at 6 p.m.

In past years, flags were sold to people as far away as Greece, France and Costa Rica.

This year, organizers are hoping to raise $12,000 with proceeds going directly to the Daily Bread Food Bank.

Laflèche said there is more community involvement this year with local businesses as well as Fire Station 227 participating. The fire station will collect food for the cause. >>>ADVENT, page 2

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TREATS FOR ALL: Santa hands out candy canes during the annual Carolling in the Park event in Glen Stewart Park Tuesday.

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Advent flags helping people facing hunger in Toronto >>>from page 1 “It’s the time of year that people think about giving to those places,” Laflèche said.

“Sometimes we don’t even really know that there are food banks right here in the Beach — there are two that are one kilometre away from the Beach itself.”

Laflèche and Hilliard decided on donating to the Daily Bread Food Bank after returning to Toronto in 2009 after several years living in the U.K. “When we came back in 2009, I guess the recession was still in full swing. There seemed to be a lot more poverty that was visible to us,” Laflèche said. “You could see the homelessness. You could see the people that were struggling and the statistics backed that up.”

The point of the flag is to raise awareness that hunger happens throughout the city, even in the Beach.

“These are our friends or our neighbours who may rely on this at some point in their lives, so we all need to help when we can.”

Laflèche said the Daily Bread Food Bank raises 75 per cent of their year’s total at this time of the year.

“This is the right time of the year for raising money for Daily Bread Food Bank,” Laflèche said.

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Benedict Hilliard stands with his flag for the Daily Flag for Daily Bread fundraiser.

Laflèche and Hilliard said they are hoping to start selling postcards of the flags as well, but are still looking for a printer that will offer the service free of charge.

In the meantime, TPM Communications made their Christmas card using the image of a flag that does a take on Andy Warhol’s cans of soup laid out into the shape of a Christmas tree, crediting Daily Flag on the back. The Beach company also made a donation.

“I’ve done the first (flag) this year,” said Hilliard, who last year sold his flag in a bidding war for $750, with a second copy of the same flag raising $740. “Everyone else takes up the challenge.”

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can sell from $30 to hundreds of dollars.

“The craftsmanship and the ingenuity is getting better and better,” Hilliard said. “It’s quite incredible.”

Neighbour Geoff Burpee and his family have participated in the fundraiser for the past three years.

“Apart from the fact that it’s a wonderful creative project, it’s also the fact that there’s a need for it,” he said. “It feels great to go and do something that people open up their pocket books and you end up raising several thousand dollars for the Daily Bread Food Bank.”

Visit dailyflagfordailybread. wordpress.com to bid on the flags or make a donation to the food bank.

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LOBLAWS IN THE BEACHES HOSTS TURKEY DRIVE FOR SECOND HARVEST

On December 7 and 8, Loblaws at 17 Leslie St. hosted its annual Turkey Drive for the Second Harvest. Customers donate turkeys for local families, just in time for the holiday season. Second Harvest is the largest food rescue program in Canada. It picks up donated and excess food, which would other wise go to waste, and delivers it to community agencies across Toronto. The store’s next Turkey Drive takes place December 14 and 15.

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REBECCA FIELD bsrm@insidetoronto.com Kew Gardens is looking brighter and more festive after the Toronto Beaches Lions Club hosted Christmas in the Park.

The annual event has taken place in the park for the last 25 years and showcases local talent, as well as a tree lighting. This year the club stepped it up a notch by lighting three of the park’s trees instead of their usual single tree.

“They’re excited about the lighting up of the tree,” said Jessica Riley who attended the Dec. 7 event with her three young children. She was there to help with the Toronto Beaches Children’s Choir (TBCC), which

performed a number of Christmas carols despite the cold.

“The family aspect to it really rings in the season and it makes everybody excited,” Riley said. “It’s something to do on a weekend evening – it’s great.”

Along with the children’s choir the Toronto Beach Choral (TBC) also performed.

“It’s great to have community involvement,” said Stephanie Davies from TBC. “That’s what it’s all about — music and art is about bringing people together so there’s no better way than having everyone singing to their own ability, to their own gusto.”

The performances took place in the Alex Christie Bandshell in Kew

Gardens and were accompanied with some hot chocolate and goodies from Cobbs Bakery, as well as a visit from Santa Claus.

“The kids love it. They love coming out and singing carols,” said Bronwen Low from TBCC. “It’s relaxed, it’s fun.”

“It always seems to be the coldest night of the year when we do it, it’s funny,” said Andy Buhot, as parents with bundled-up kids crowded around the bandshell.

“Every year we try to get someone else as far as entertainment goes,” said Buhot, chair of the the Toronto Beaches Lions Club event. “It’s lots of fun for everybody.”

“The Beaches Lions – everyone is really friendly and it’s a fun group to work with,” said Karoline Bourdeau, a new member of the Beaches Lions Club who attended the event with her family.

“Events like this makes your holidays feel like holidays – it makes the season real.”

Right, James Hogan, 14, helps carry the family Christmas tree home during the Christmas in the Park holiday tree lighting event in Kew Gardens Saturday night.

Natalie Poissant and her son Conor, 10 months, pick up a raffle prize during the event.

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Tatum Spiegelberg, right, Grace Montgomery and the rest of the Toronto Beach Children’s Choir perform some Christmas carols.

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he Toronto District School Board is faced with a stark reality: a declining student population, while its costs continue to grow. But in an attempt to rein in some of these growing costs, the province is contemplating selling $60 million worth of school properties this year.

The loss of such valuable community space will not only impact students but the city as a whole.

Where will not only students, but sports and community organizations hold their events - sports or otherwise? How will we keep students active if there are no places to play sports or participate in outdoor activities?

In a time when more and more community organizations are looking for our view community space, to sell off these properties is, in the words of Karen Pitre, Toronto Sports Make Council chair, “mind-boggling.”

There is a truth that some community school populations are shrinking, space better and keeping schools open just for the sake of a small student body is not economical. Some schools will need to close, but community space is at a premium in Toronto.

Neighbourhoods across the city are trying to carve out small parcels of land for community space, and with large playing fields already in existence, it begs the question why sell such valuable real estate? How will the community as a whole benefit by the selling of a field?

Why not look to partnerships with organizations to help preserve fields?

Give the space over to the city to manage as a park or sports field. Take a different direction – create a covered skating rink like that at Greenwood Park, which can be used year-round for other things, including concerts and other sports.

This is a time for creative thinking, not a time when it’s easier to just sell off a commodity.

It’s important for the community – politicians included – to look at the community space that’s currently there, and think of ways to keep it there or make it better.

Some properties will have to be sold, but others should be preserved, improved and should become places that build community rather than divide it.

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Rob Ford: A journey beyond the absurd

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rom the ridiculous, to the absurd – and past that, to the slanderous, paranoiac and delusional.

That is the route of discourse, coming from the office and family of the titular Mayor of Toronto these days.

On Monday, Vision TV aired an interview between Lord Conrad Black and Mayor Rob Ford astonishing in its scope.

In the interview, Ford alleged Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair had used Ford’s friend Sandro Lisi as a “prop” to get at him in the course of the police investigation into Ford’s alleged crack use – because, Ford said, the chief was cross at having been asked to curtail his budget. allegations He made really unconscionable allegations about Star reporter Daniel Dale – allegations that

david nickle the city were dismissed by the police when they were first made – about his 2012 visit to public land behind the mayor’s house. vicious slander Without going into detail for fear of repeating them, one can only characterize the allegations as a vicious slander that Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly wasted no time in calling “beyond the pale.”

The previous Friday – as the Black-Ford interview was taking place – the mayor’s de-facto deputy, city councillor and brother Doug Ford, let loose his own litany of fabrications and contradictions.

In a 10-minute encounter with reporters, the city councillor suggested the generally Ford-critical

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The media, he was sure, was murderous enough that they would be happy to drag Rob to the square and hang him by the neck.

media was practicing journalism in the manner of the Soviet state-supported (and generally state-supporting) Pravda.

Outdoing his little brother on the policebaiting front, he suggested that Blair, the judiciary and the media were all conspiring to release police documents in such a way as to slowly destroy the mayor and drive him from office. murderous media The media, he was sure, was murderous enough that they would be happy to drag Rob to the square, and hang him by the neck,

if we were only provided a suitable length of rope.

It’s hard to know how to respond to all of this.

Lord Black exhibited his characteristic nerves of steel, chuckling supportively as the mayor burbled on with a list of dubious assurances, and unsupported assertions. wrath of Doug Clearly, Black’s time in prison has made stronger stuff of him than we in the city hall press gallery, faced with the wrath of Doug.

The best that we could manage was to ask questions, challenge obvious falsehoods, and attempt to clarify outrageous-sounding conspiracy theories.

And for all that, the Fordian discourse barely wobbled.

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Pancake Breakfast WHEN: 9:30 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Beaches Recreation Centre, 6 Williamson Rd. CONTACT: Annikki, springsprint@hotmail.ca COST: Free Pancake Breakfast hosted by the Beaches Recreation Centre Advisory Council. Please bring a non-perishable food donation.

Visit with Santa WHEN: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave. The Rotary Club of Toronto Beach is welcoming Santa. Chocolate and cookies will be provided. Cameras welcome. Donations of non-perishable food items to Centre 55 food drive gratefully accepted.

Outdoor Classic Hockey game WHEN: 8:30 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Kew Outdoor Rink, Foot of Lee Avenue CONTACT: Annikki Desmarais, 416-690-6390, Annikkid@hotmail. com COST: Free Atom hockey game between Ted Reeve and Ice Raiders.

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Community Skate WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Ted Reeve Arena, 175 Main St. Join Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon for her annual free skate.

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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WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: The Remarkable Bean, 2242 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Bronwyn van Vugt, bronwyn@greenbeaches.ca COST: Free We choose books that inspire us to live our lives conscious of the planet and of those around us. Book suggestions and new members always welcome. Event hosted by the Green Party of Beaches-East York.

The Leslieville Flea WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Jimmie Simpson Recreation Centre, 870 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Brigid Elmy, 647-267-8538 Antiques, furniture, salvage, vintage, records and handcrafted designs and more.

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Christmas Eve Service WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Toronto Formosan Presbyterian Church, 31 Eastwood Rd. CONTACT: 416-7789615 Toronto Formosan Presbyterian Church holds a service of song and scripture. Everyone welcome.

Hair of the Dog Run WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

WHERE: Balmy Beach Club, foot of Beech Avenue CONTACT: www. balmybeachcanoe.com, COST: $30 adult ($25 early bird) and $10 youth/ children Lace up your running shoes and come on down to the Balmy Beach Club at the foot of Beech Avenue

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Conscious Living Book Club

Climate Action Group East Toronto Climate Action Group are citizens who are concerned about smog, climate change and other environmental issues as they impact the city and particularly east Toronto. We meet monthly and welcome your involvement and support.

Visit www.etcag.org St. John’s Catholic Church Choir St. John’s Catholic Church Choir welcomes new members. The group practises Thursdays from 7:30 to 9 p.m. and perform Sundays at 11 a.m. at 794 Kingston Rd. Call Paul Williams at 416-699-2518 Breakfast meeting Rotary Club of Toronto Beach holds a breakfast meeting Tuesdays at 7 a.m. at the Balmy Beach Club. Visit www. torontobeachrotary.org or call Roger Cecchetto 416-415-5000 ext. 6078 Senior Lunch Bunch Senior Lunch Bunch meets at St. Aidan’s Memorial Hall, 70 Silver Birch Ave., every other Wednesday for a program from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., lunch until 1:30 p.m. Cost, $5.

Transport to lunches available for a small fee. Call Neighbourhood Link 416-691-7407.

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The Joy of Writing The Joy of Writing, a weekly workshop where writers gather Tuesdays from 7 to 9 p.m., at the QueenSaulter Library, 765 Queen St. E. Call Lucille Barker at 416-392-6810.

Lactation help La Leche League Canada, Riverdale chapter, meets 7 p.m. every third Wednesday, 715B Danforth Ave. Call Diane at 416-463-4502.

Newcomer help Newcomer Outreach Program by Toronto police helps new immigrants learn about the role police play in Canadian society and services provided by police. Call 416-808-7070.

Parenting workshop Parenting workshops at Applegrove Community Complex, 60 Woodfield Rd., and Daycare Connection FRC, 184 Main St., Thursdays from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Call Joanne at 416-778-5805, ext. 218.

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Centre 55 gets into holiday spirit with pancake breakfast REBECCA FIELD bsrm@insidetoronto.com It was a day of crafts, pancakes and old St. Nick at Community Centre 55’s

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The centre held the event to ring in the holiday season and raise money for their year-round programs.

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blast. It’s amazing,” said Vilko Zbojar who came to the centre with his two sons who both asked Santa for iPads for Christmas.

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“It’s such a heart of the community. We’re so blessed to have such a jewel in our community.”

Centre 55 provides programs from seniors tax clinics to community pasta nights.

They also provide Christmas hampers to 800 families living in the downtown east end.

“It’s been a good day,” said Evonne Hossack, program director at the community centre.

“I think it’s great for community involvement, to get people involved in the spirit of Christmas and to be able to go and have breakfast with friends and family.”

The cost of the breakfast of pancakes and sausages was either a monetary donation of whatever an attendee could afford, or a food donation.

“What we’ve done is made sure that it’s affordable so it’s inclusive for everyone,” said Hossack. “If someone were to come in off the street not

being able to pay, we don’t even care, we just put the cans out and say ‘just make a donation.’”

Helping out at the Dec. 7 breakfast were students from the centre’s counsellor-intraining program.

They will also be helping put the Christmas hampers together from Dec. 18 to 22.

The annual event introduced a craft bazaar this year where vendors were able to sell baked goods and knickknacks.

“This is the first year that we’ve done a bazaar,” Hossack said. “We’ve probably had 100 people show up for the breakfast so the real trick will be getting people used to the idea of a Christmas bazaar.”

“A lot of people are giving their proceeds back to the centre itself,” said Dayle Snider, who created handmade Christmas ornaments for the event.

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See Page 7 for pictures from the Community Centre 55 breakfast.

Volunteers needed for Share A Christmas Centre 55’s Share a Christmas needs your help.

The annual event, which sees volunteers delivering Christmas meals and toys to about 800 families in need in the east end, needs people to donate non-perishable food items; help pack and deliver the food and toys Sunday,

Dec. 22; adopt-a-family, where you can customize a food hamper and gifts for a specific family in need; and donate Canadian Tire money, among many other things Visit www.centre55.com/ programs_sac.htm or call Centre 55, 97 Main St., at 416-691-1113.

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Eleventh Annual BEARY MERRY Christmas 2013

Metroland Media Toronto is very proud to be the founder of the Beary Merry Christmas Campaign. For the 11th consecutive year, Beach Mirror employees will deliver teddy bears to children spending the holidays in our local hospitals. We are so proud to have Samko & Miko as the official sponsor of this year’s teddy bears. As you can see, there are many other community minded businesses in the area that have generously purchased a bear for a needy child this season.

We thank all of our partners for helping us put smiles on the faces of so many children this Holiday Season.

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creative paper, bows, crafted gift boxes, cones and more, said a press release.

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The event goes from noon to 4 p.m. at the Beach Business Hub, 2181 Queen St. E., Suite 301. No reservations are needed.

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READING FOR FOOD: Carolers sing outside Kingston Road United Church earlier this month before a reading of the Dickens classic tale, ‘A Christmas Carol’. Food donations were collected at the event in support of Community Centre 55’s annual Christmas Food Drive.

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Cities, communities will have a year to fight developers with proposed bill >>>from page 1 days to allow more time for studies and communication with the public, which generally can take more than nine months.

“The developers, of course, if they even get the slightest whiff that the city is looking at it or may be looking at (their development), they run right off to the OMB, leaving out all of the public input, leaving out the city to make a decision,” Prue said.

Prue noted a shorter time frame leaves the city without the ability to communicate properly with engineers, transit, schools and anything else that may factor into a new development entering a neighbourhood.

“It’s very hard for the city or the public to go and say ‘Why are you appealing to the board?’...because nothing concrete is there,” Prue said.

Situations where a developer has prematurely gone to the OMB have happened in the Beach, Prue said, citing the development proposal on

kind of thing at the whim of a developer who doesn’t want to use the process and who uses this hole in the law.”

Prue introduced the bill concurrently with a review of the OMB, which is being done by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Prue hopes the review will bring more attention to the bill than it would if he proposed it on its own.

“Developers have lawyers, they have planners, they have engineers, they have everybody at their beck and call,” Prue said.

“I don’t feel sorry for them.

It might take a little bit longer for them to get a decision made, but they have to be patient because in my view the community has every right to be heard.”

Bill 20, called the Respect for Municipalities Act (City of Toronto), and introduced

by Trinity-Spadina MPP Rosario Marchese, passed its second reading March 7. This bill proposes that Toronto be removed from the OMB altogether.

Beaches-East York MPP Michael Prue introduced a private member’s bill to give cities more time to decide on new developments.

the northeast corner of Queen Street East and Woodbine Avenue, which was brought in front of the OMB Oct. 21.

Residents are still waiting for the results of that hearing.

“They (developers) run there because they know they’re going to get a more sympathetic hearing at the OMB than they’re going to get from the city,” Prue said. “It’s very unfair to a neighbourhood to be subjected to that

If Prue’s bill is passed, it will apply to cities all over Ontario, not just Toronto.

“This is where it stands a chance of passing – it’s not just a Toronto-only bill,” said Brian Graff, a Beach resident who approached Prue with the idea of changing the number of days from 120 to 365.

Graff was actively involved in opposing the development that took over the iconic Licks Homeburger that once stood on Queen Street East. It’s through this that he became familiar with planning and legislation relating to new developments.

“Like many people, I’d like to see the OMB changed or abolished and replaced with something else,” said Graff, who is a member of the Beaches Residents Association of Toronto (BRAT) but approached Prue as a private resident.

“People I know have been frustrated with the whole process and the OMB,” Graff said. “This is a reasonable change to the planning act.

It’s completely ridiculous that the law only allows four months,” Graff said. “(The bill) looks fairly dry because it’s just changing dates, but

the impact could be quite significant.”

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Riverdale Share hopes to top $30,000 A sold-out crowd at the Danforth Music Hall was filled with the holiday spirit during Sunday’s Riverdale Share concert.

The parade of entertainers had the jam-packed audience alternately listening intently (such as to Blue Rodeo frontman and Riverdale resident Jim Cuddy singing Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas) or, when the

situation demanded it, enthusiastically joining in (such as for the always boisterous Twelve Days of Christmas led by the first two-thirds of iconic family entertainers Sharon, Lois and Bram. For added measure they ended with their Skinnamarink song).

The sold-out show, back-stopped by the volunteer Riverdale Share house band, will no doubt help the

entirely volunteer-led organizers achieve their goal of raising more than $30,000.

And it’s all donated to community support groups that primarily work in Riverdale and neighbouring east Toronto neighbourhoods.

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