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Those interested in taking part can sign up at the Balmy Beach Club, which is at the foot of Beech Avenue or online at www.balmybeachcanoeclub.sportical.com/ events/2167 until noon Tuesday, Dec. 30.

People can also register at 10:30 a.m. on the day of the event.

Registration, which costs $30 for adults ($25 in advance), $10 for children and $60 for a family with two adults plus their children

under 19, includes a hot lunch and prizes.

The event, which starts at the Balmy Beach Club, will get underway at 11:30 a.m. for those taking part in the three-kilometre walk.

Those participating in the ninekilometre run start at noon.

Proceeds from the event benefit the club’s young athletes and programs for youth.

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United Church (BUC), 140 Wineva Ave., invites crafters each month to knit kids’ vests and blankets for children and mothers abroad.

Once a year, the knitted items are displayed and blessed at BUC before being donated to Canadian Food for Children, an organization that ships containers of food, clothes and medical supplies to Africa and South America. Call 416-691-8082 for more details.

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Artist Jennifer Cline paints the Beach in watercolours JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Award-winning artist Jennifer Cline is synonymous with the Beach.

The lifelong east ender often draws inspiration from local landmarks for her watercolour and acrylic paintings, many of which can be found throughout the neighbourhood.

“The architecture of some of our buildings is really beautiful,” Cline, who has called the Beach – south of Queen Street East – home for more than 30 years, said during a recent interview.

“I never run out of things to paint.

There’s an endless supply of inspiration.”

Cline, who works mostly with watercolour paint, said she especially enjoys painting along the Beach Boardwalk as well as Ashbridges Bay. “I’m kind of focused on the Beach.

I just love the outdoors,” she said.

In some cases, Lake Ontario is actually part of her work as she’s dipped her paper in the water to create a soft effect for her pieces.

Cline employed this technique for her 1999 piece Summer Boardwalk – The Beach.

“I feel like the lake is a part of that painting,” said Cline, a founding member of the Beach Guild of Fine Art who has taken part in countless group and solo exhibits and events over the years, including the Beach Studio Tour.

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Artist Jennifer Cline is often found in the neighbourhood sketching what inspires her.

Jazz Festival is also a great source of inspiration for Cline, who has done numerous colourful paintings of bands playing in front of local landmarks The Beacher Café, Fire Station 227, the Alex Christie Bandshell in Kew Gardens and the former Lick’s Homeburgers building at Queen Street East and Kenilworth.

“I always go out during Streetfest and sketch the bands. I love it,” said Cline, who can be spotted sketching and painting in the community throughout the year, especially during the warmer months.

Cline also enjoys doing paintings of old photographs, especially those that feature sights from the Beach area.

She also draws inspiration from her travels. Cline has visited Colombia, England, Egypt and Morocco. She’s also gone on painting trips on two occasions to Greece and once to the south of France.

Over the years, Cline has donated a number of her pieces to local organizations including a 100th anniversary montage piece to Community Centre 55 as well as a painting she did earlier this year of the Kew Gardens Cenotaph, which is helping raise funds and awareness to refurbish the deteriorating monument.

Cline, who studied advertising design at the Ontario College of Art, worked for several years as a graphic

designer, illustrator and layout artist for Cockfield Brown Agency, Eaton’s and The Bay. “I love the whole design aspect of art,” said Cline, who left the corporate world more than 20 years ago and still occasionally accepts commercial jobs.

“Freelancing gives me the time to get back to my painting.”

Over the years, she’s been hired to do custom art work on the interiors and exteriors of homes, boats, businesses and cottages. Custom cards of select paintings can also be ordered.

Prints of Cline’s artwork are presently available for purchasing at Seagull Classics, 1974 Queen St. E., just west of Waverly Road. Cards featuring her paintings can also be

found at BookCity, 1950 Queen St. E., just west of Kenilworth Avenue.

Some of Cline’s pieces in the community include: -A series of paintings of banners she did about five years ago for the Beach BIA are currently on display at the Beaches Library.

-Two large prints of her paintings at the Balmy Beach Club: one of the very first clubhouse from 1905 and a montage of multiple images from the club’s 100-year history.

-The 100th anniversary painting Cline did for Community Centre 55, 97 Main St., is also available for viewing in the community centre’s lobby.

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For more information about Jennifer Cline, visit www.jennifercline.com

BREAKFAST AND A SKATE

Eating and exercisING: Left top, Chef Scott Savoie serves breakfast at An Sibin Pub during the third annual Holiday Antler Breakfast for Charity Friday morning. Left bottom, Drew Dopwell signs a banner at the breakfast. Below, Brad Bettinson helps his son Wilder while his other son River skates behind them at councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon’s annual skate day at Ted Reeve Arena Saturday. Right, William Joice gets a lift from his dad David at the skate day.

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egardless of your beliefs, Christmas is a time best spent with those you love. In our hurried world, where time is precious, sitting back with those most dear to you is a way to recharge and focus on what’s important.

This connection extends beyond your immediate family; it impacts everyone around you: extended family, neighbours, the entire community.

More people seem to have smiles on their faces, wishing each other ‘Happy Holidays’ as they make their way through bustling malls, busy streets and crowded grocery stores.

With so much cheer in the air, our view let’s try to extend that spirit of goodwill well beyond the holi– why not make every day Mingle with days a day to keep happiness alive.

And there are a plethora of your fellow ways to do that, whether it’s Torontonians helping a neighbour shovel the snow, visiting family, calling a friend you haven’t spoken to in a while, or heading out and spending time with your fellow Torontonians.

There are so many activities, programs and attractions to enjoy over the holidays. Why not go for a skate at one of the city’s indoor or outdoor rinks? Visit one of the city’s farms or zoos – yes, Riverdale Farm and both the High Park and Toronto zoos are open during the winter months. You can also check out the many historic sites – Colborne Lodge, Montgomery’s Inn, or the Scarborough Museum to name a few.

And for the more adventurous among us, why not enjoy one of Toronto’s many trails, including The Shared Path along the Humber River?

And while you’re out there, take in a new part of town. The city is filled with amazing places to walk, great local shops to drop in to, and amazing food experiences from all around the world.

This holiday season, why not take in everything the City of Toronto has to offer – whether it’s with friends or even if you’re looking for some alone time.

Check out our calendar online at www.insidetoronto.com for holiday events happening now to the New Year.

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Toronto forced to face some truths in 2014 Trying to parse the meaning of 2014 is only slightly less challenging than summarizing a Thomas Pynchon novel.

But if not now, then when? So let me take a stab at it.

2014 was the year Toronto realized it was not, in fact, a city.

It was not, at least, the kind of city we have always thought that we were and the place we hoped we might remain: an idealized place where ethnic and economic divisions are not obstacles to consensus and harmony.

We always knew this vision of Toronto might be a mirage.

But in 2014, we stepped through the illusion and were faced with the undeniable evidence: on Oct. 27, only John Tory was able to exceed the support that remained with the Ford family – mayor Rob Ford and his brother Doug.

That Torontonians would

david nickle the city elect Rob Ford mayor in 2010 might have been excused as a blip.

Voters either did not know or could not believe how unsuited Rob Ford was for the city’s top job, and were likewise ignorant or incredulous of the fact that the picture Ford painted of the city’s problems and the solutions to those problems had so little to do with reality.

But when four years later, with all of that amply and painfully demonstrated, so many – about a third of those who voted – cast their vote with Doug Ford, there was no denying it.

Toronto’s old idea of itself as a city no longer applies.

Of course, that’s not to say we underwent dramatic change over 2014.

Toronto’s “elite” as the Fords describe them have

always been too enamoured of the shiny cultural artifacts of downtown, and always judged the city as to how well those artifacts shone against those of other bigger, more famous cities around the world.

And the elites have always smugly boasted about Toronto’s multicultural cred – all those cultures celebrated, all those languages spoken.

It’s been tougher for the elites to recognize that many of the people bringing those cultures and speaking those languages have gone to live in parts of the city that have been allowed to deteriorate, and since amalgamation in 1998 been farther from the decision-making centre of Toronto than ever before.

The vote for the Fords came from many in those communities – despite the fact that the Fords offered nothing tangible there other than to articulate

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2014 was the year Toronto realized it was not, in fact, a city. It was not, at least, the kind of city we have always thought we were and the place we hoped we might remain...

affection and camaraderie.

That vote sustained over unprecedented scandal, in spite of lies against a backdrop of the illegal drug trade that is one of the most genuinely corrosive elements a city can face.

And that is what we’ve learned, more than anything, in 2014: the nature of our long, chronic injury.

In 2015, here’s hoping we can learn how to heal it.

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The structure is part of the church’s effort to raise awareness and funds for an upcoming volunteer service trip a group of eight young people and four adults will be taking to Nicaragua’s Jinotega Region, a mountainous area known for its many coffee plantations, in mid-February.

While there, the team will work to improve a school for the children of the working families who live on the plantation grounds as well as those who come seasonally for the harvest.

“It’s symbolic. It’s got items that relate to the coffee business,” said Rev. Lucy Reid, who has served as the priest-in-charge.

This is the second time St. Aidan’s has put up the shack-like structure outside the church during the Christmas season. This year’s crèche is a wooden structure covered in burlap coffee sacks.

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The nativity scene in front of St. Aidan’s Anglican Church raises awareness about upcoming trip.

The shack, which will remain outside St. Aidan’s until the first weekend of January, houses a nativity scene with Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus. It also includes a lawn sign explaining what it’s all about.

In December 2012, the church erected a similar structure on its front lawn to raise awareness and funds for its first outreach trip to the Anexo Dios Proveera settlement, which

is in a high-risk neighbourhood called Barrio Grenada in Nicaragua’s capital city of Managua.

On that trip, the 16-member team built five sturdy and safe wooden homes for families living in decrepit structures much like the one outside the local church.

Reid, who previously worked as a university chaplain, has brought three groups of young adults to El Salvador and Nicaragua on similar outreach missions and said the experiences were invaluable for all involved.

“It’s a real eye-opening experience for participants,” she said.

For the 10-day trip, St. Aidan’s is working with Companeros Inc., a private social organization dedicated to organizing international volunteer programs and facilitating community development projects involving Canadians and Nicaraguans.

Each of the trip’s participants has been asked to raise $500 to help purchase project materials.

They must also come up with an additional $2,500 to cover their flight and other program expenses such as translators, guides and drivers.

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a $5,000 grant. The Rotary Club of Toronto Beach has also donated $1,000 to the cause.

A number of fundraisers have already taken place and more are planned for the New Year.

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During a recent interview, Anderson said he became interested in exploring further the history of the community after attending and getting involved in the 150th anniversary of Leslieville Public School last spring.

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Wrongfully jailed Beach resident helps Amnesty’s Write for Rights JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com About 20 people gathered at St. John the Baptist Norway Anglican Church to take part in Write for Rights, a worldwide write-a-thon hosted by Amnesty International.

The event, which was held on the eve of Human Rights Day (Dec. 10), aims to use the power of letter writing to help bring about the release of people who have been wrongfully detained and to influence world leaders to protect individuals or people whose human rights have been denied.

Longtime Beach resident Hamid Ghassemi-Shall, along with his wife Antonella Mega, were among those writing letters at the monthly meeting. Just more than a year ago, Ghassemi-Shall was released from Iran’s notorious Evin Prison after more than five years of wrongful imprisonment following allegations of espionage.

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“It’s really special to have someone here that you campaigned for,” said Dr. Don Payne, who has volunteered with the local Amnesty International chapter for more than 20 years.

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difference in people’s lives. Letter writing does make a difference.”

Payne joined other Amnesty International members at Pearson Airport in welcoming GhassemiShall home on Oct. 10, 2013.

“Two years ago, probably in this very room, people like you were writing letters for me,” Ghassemi-Shall said during the meeting.

At that time, he was imprisoned and had no idea what was going on outside those concrete walls and that thousands of people – spearheaded by a dedicated team from Amnesty’s Beach chapter – were working to free him and improve the conditions he was living in.

Ghassemi-Shall said the hardest part of his 64 months in captivity, the majority of which were spent on death row, was being left with his thoughts.

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Ghassemi-Shall, who since has been writing letters pushing for action on other cases of wrongful imprisonment in his homeland of Iran among other things, said letter writing through Amnesty can really make a difference.

“You never know who opens a letter,” he said. “I’m here to pay back for the other prisoners and it’s a great feeling.”

Mega also can’t say enough about the support she received from the local Amnesty chapter.

“It just shows the small actions of very generous people can really make a difference,” she said, adding the sheer willingness of the Beach Amnesty members to help was beyond touching.

Ghassemi-Shall, a Canadian citizen who immigrated to Canada from Iran after the 1979 revolution, travelled to Tehran to visit his ailing mother in May 2008.

Authorities in that country seized

Ghassemi-Shall’s passport, credit cards and personal belongings, and he was arrested on or about May 24. He was placed in solitary confinement for about 18 months and underwent lengthy interrogations and beatings.

Sentenced to death in November 2009, Ghassemi-Shall and his brother Alborz, who was also arrested, were released to the prison’s general population area.

A short time later, Alborz reportedly died of “stomach cancer”.

Ghassemi-Shall was forbidden from attending his funeral.

Ghassemi-Shall was unexpectedly released from prison Monday, Sept.

23, 2013.

He is believed to be part of a group of 80 prisoners freed by Iran a day before Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s visit to the United Nations.

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Longtime annual turkey drive surpasses quarter-century JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com East-end resident Wendy Dobson is affectionately known to many in the community as “The Turkey Lady”.

For more than 25 years, Dobson has coordinated an annual Christmas turkey drive.

This year, Dobson and her team have succeeded in raising enough funds to purchase more than 100 10-pound turkeys for less fortunate families and individuals from The Red Door Family Shelter, the Secord Community Centre and The Massey Centre for Women.

T h e 4 1 6 Co m m u n i t y Support Centre for Women in Cabbagetown will also be

receiving three 30-pound turkeys, which will be prepared with all the fixings for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day meals for clients.

Years ago, Dobson, a realtor by trade, purchased two turkeys for The 416.

The following year, she bought four for the same organization and the rest is history.

“I thought if I can bring four why can’t I bring more and that’s where it all started,” Dobson said during a recent interview. “Each year it grew.”

She now collects and distributes between 100 and 125 turkeys each year.

“It’s just my little way of giving back to the community,” said Dobson, who meets with the organizations in the

fall.

“It’s just something I do every year and it just makes me feel good.”

Dobson said her annual endeavour wouldn’t be possible without the generosity of her friends, family members, clients and colleagues.

For several years, she purchased turkeys from her longtime supplier, Sunnybrook Meats at Queen Street East and Broadview Avenue.

Two years ago, Dobson was forced to find a new supplier after the owner retired.

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