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Beach residents are invited to a meeting about the possibility of organizing a Christmas market in the community.

The gathering will take place Wednesday, March 2 at 7 p.m. at St. Louis Bar and Grill, 1963 Queen St. E. (second floor), just

east of Woodbine Avenue. Everyone is welcome to join Beaches-East York Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon for

this initial meeting. Contact McMahon’s office at councillor_mcmhon@toronto.ca or 416-392-1376 for details.

An important piece of the Hutchinson family’s history has been preserved. On a recent frigid Friday afternoon, a handful of William James Hutchinson’s relatives gathered at the future home of the massive Riverside Square development near Queen Street East and The East Don Roadway. They were collecting a family heirloom: a 1,300-pound namesake stone engraved with the words William James Hutchinson Building. “This is really exciting. It’s neat to have a piece of family history preserved,” said granddaughter Susan Hutchinson. “It’s a bit of a Hutchinson family reunion.” Youngest granddaughter Cathy Hutchinson, who worked at the east-end plant in the summer of 1980, said the >>>family, page 12

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which will feature guest speaker Kyro Nagib, the pharmacy manager and owner of the Pharmasave at 1021 Kingston Rd., will be held in the library at Malvern Collegiate, 55 Malvern Ave., from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. A $5 donation is suggested for each attendee. The school council will also be making a $250 donation to the St. Moses and St. Catherine Church, a Toronto-based parish that counsels and cares for those battling mental illness and addiction. Registration is required as space is limited to 60 attendees. The registration deadline is Friday, Feb. 26. Email Vicky Tsorlinis at vickttsorlinis@rogers.com to save your seat.

East Toronto historian Gene Domagala will be giving a presentation on people and places in the Beach this evening at Beaches Library, 2161 Queen St. E., at Lee Avenue. The event will start at 7 p.m. All are welcome. Call 416-393-7703 for details. the winter blues at Beach festival wBeat

A dozen Beach venues have come together to help you beat the winter blues by creating the Cold Weather Blues Fest. The music festival will feature more than a dozen acts on Friday and Saturday from 8 to 11 p.m. nightly. For details about who’s performing, when and where, visit http://coldweatherbluesfest. com

Jambo Jam 3 helps build boys school in Kenya Jambo Jam 3, a concert and silent auction to raise funds and awareness for Free The Children (FTC), will take place Saturday at Riverdale’s Metropolitan Community Church, 115 Simpson Ave. The Bogani Family Coalition, which is aiming to help raise the $1.2 million needed to build a high school for the Boys of the

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Malvern Collegiate Home and School Council is presenting its latest parent/teacher and community engagement seminar on Tuesday. The topic of discussion will be prescription drugs and teens. The free seminar for adults,

Mara, Kenya, is hosting the fundraiser. Proceeds will help pay for the all-boys secondary school being constructed in the Maasai Mara Region of Kenya. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for drinks and the silent auction. The concert, which will feature emcee/host Heather Bambrick alongside the MCC Toronto Choir directed by Diane Leah, is set to begin at 8 p.m. The event will also include guest speaker Marc Kielburger, cofounder of Free The Children. Tickets cost $30. The church is near Gerrard Street East and Logan Avenue. Visit www. mcctoronto.com/events/jambojam-3 skating at Jimmie Simpson wRoller

East-end Toronto residents, dust off your wheels, roller skating is coming to the Jimmie Simpson Community Centre, 870 Queen St. E. The first session will take place Monday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. A second roller skating night is set for Monday, March 13, also from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Admission is $10. Email organizer Sarah Bell at reffinadorabell@gmail.com for more information.

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Ca l l B e a c h e s - E a s t Yo r k Councillor Mar y-Margaret McMahon’s office at 416-3921376 for more information.

The Beach Hill Neighbourhood Association (BHNA) is holding its annual town hall meeting Tuesday. The meeting will run from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at The Naval Club of Toronto, 1910 Gerrard St. E., just west of Woodbine Avenue. All are welcome to come out, meet their neighbours, and learn more about what the BHNA is doing to improve and beautify Gerrard Street East and the Beach Hill neighbourhood. People are also invited to raise concerns and ask questions as well as suggest ideas and propose activities for the community. Memberships will be available for purchase. For more information, visit www.beachhill.org

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Volunteers are needed to help The Beach Village Business Improvement Area (BIA) with its community events. The BIA is specifically looking for outgoing people of all ages who enjoy interacting with children and families as well as those who are comfortable speaking in public and encouraging people to take part in the association’s events. High school students can include their work as part of their mandatory community service hours. Call 416-693-2242 or email office@thebeachvillage.com

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New parking spots have been installed on Fir Avenue, east of Fernwood Park Avenue. The spots for visitors and residents will be available from April 1 to Nov. 30. From 7 a.m. to midnight, the public can park in the spots, which are reserved for permit holders overnight.

The green space, which is on a small piece of land on William Hancock Avenue just north of Gerrard Street East and east of Main Street, is now known as Upper Beach Gardens. Residents selected the moniker after a lengthy voting process.

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Leslieville ‘legacy’ saved Burgess Building façade to be part of shelter development JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Ask and you shall receive. A small group of Leslieville residents felt it was important to preserve and incorporate a piece of the community’s history into a new development so they contacted their local councillor, who in turn consulted the developer and the city’s planning department, and made it happen. The building in question is the circa 1888 Burgess Building at the southwest corner of Queen Street East and Logan Avenue, whose current main-floor tenant is Woodgreen Discount Drugs. Admittedly in rough shape, the three-storey structure, which is Leslieville’s first medical building, has a number of notable architectural features including moulded brick courses, pilasters, brackets, a variety of windows and a detailed cornice. Initially, the developer Harhay Construction didn’t intend to incorporate the Burgess Building into its plans for a seven-storey, 118-unit condominium on the site that also will house the Red Door Family Shelter at 875 Queen St. E.

“Because the community spoke up this historical aspect of the neighbourhood is being preserved,” said Riverside resident Shiralee Hudson Hill, who along with her husband Matthew Hill, spearheaded the effort. “It’s a good news story. It’s a pretty amazing feat.” In early July, the couple – who live just down the street from the building – crafted and distributed a two-page handout for those attending a public meeting about the imminent loss of one of Leslieville’s oldest commercial buildings. They also joined the Leslieville Historical Society (LHS), which made the effort to save 887 Queen St. E. from demolition its first major preservation challenge. ‘making a difference’ “When I entered into this back in July I thought it was a lost cause,” Hudson Hill admitted during a recent interview. “It’s just a wonderful kind of story and it’s unexpected in some ways. This is really one of those stories about people making a difference.” Back in October, a successful meeting took place with Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher, developer Chris Harhay and members of the community. At that time, the developer offered three options: keep the façade as is and construct around it; dismantle the façade brick by brick,

categorize and restore it and re-install the north and east walls; or recreate the façade from new materials. The Leslieville Historical Society decided to support the second proposal. “We had long discussions and we ended up supporting that option. We were realists from the outset,” Hudson Hill said, adding the LHS understood saving the entire building was an extremely expensive and ambitious goal. Chris Harhay, the president of Harhay Construction Management Ltd., said he heard about the importance of preserving the façade of 887 Queen St. E. and was receptive to making it happen. “I think it’s just a really excellent opportunity to create a wonderful mixeduse development,” he said, calling the effort a “great example of a collaboration between the community the city, the Red Door and us as a developer. In the end it’s a much better building and I think it’s going to be a model for future development. I feel this is an opportunity for us to give back to the community. It’s a legacy.” Harhay said the new plans did result in a six-month delay but in the end they have resulted in an outcome everyone is now happy with. The project was approved at the January meeting of Toronto and East York Community Council. Toronto City Council gave the final green light on Feb. 3.

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On Sunday, Feb. 28 – the one-year anniversary of her brother Ryan’s death – Brenda Hind will be heading to the place where the family enjoyed many good times together: Ashbridges Bay Park. “We used to fish there as kids and have family picnics near there,” she said during a recent interview. Ryan Hind, who was 39, and 25-year-old Donny Ouimette were fatally shot Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015 inside a McDonald’s restaurant on Danforth Avenue at Coxwell Avenue following what police are describing as a “fairly significant physical altercation” with an armed security guard who had stopped in for a bite to eat. The unnamed guard, who sustained minor injuries during the exchange, was not charged. A one-year memorial for Hind and Ouimette has been organized for Sunday, Feb. 28 at 2 p.m. on the western edge of Ashbridges Bay Park at the foot of Coxwell. Close family friend Bishop Eric Reynolds of the Ontario Old Roman Catholic Church will be on hand to say a few words and lead some prayers. All well-wishers are welcome to attend.

‘Cooking from the Community Cupboard’ helps sponsor a Syrian family

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Proceeds from the sale of this cookbook will help sponsor a Syrian refugee family.

have also Saturday donated their design, photography, and printing skills as well as time to the book, which is for sale at a number of local shops including the Great Escape Bookstore, 957 Kingston Rd., Collected Joy, 1035 Kingston Rd., The Sweetest Things, 928 Kingston Rd., and Cobalt Gallery. Contact Platt at 647-7417837 for more information.

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Cooking from the Community Cupboard, a fundraising effort to help the Upper Beaches Lifeline Syrian group sponsor a Syrian refugee family, will be launched Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. at Cobalt Gallery, 870 Kingston Rd. Refreshments, including recipes from the cookbook, will be served. Spearheaded by Beach resident Christine Platt, Cooking from the Community Cupboard features more than 40 recipes submitted by east-end businesses and residents. A number of residents

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word, and song will be held in the Upper Beach neighbourhood to welcome refugee families to the community. The first event will take place Friday from 7 to 11 p.m. at Madhus Café, 982 Kingston Rd. The second soirée is set for Saturday, also from 7 to 11 p.m., at Grinder on Main, 126 Main St. The evenings will feature poetry by Kate Marshall Flaherty along with music by Anne Hurley and Jim Videto. There will also be an open mic for anyone inter-

ested in sharing a song, story, or poem. All are welcome to come by and purchase warm drinks and treats. Donations will be directed to three east-end groups that are sponsoring and helping resettle refugees. Newcomer Mixer at the hub wSyrian

All newcomers are welcome to a social event hosted by East Toronto Families for Syria at The Hub on Saturday. This casual event takes place from 2 to 6 p.m. and

is to allow Syrian newcomers the chance to connect with one another and share experiences and information. The Hub is a storefront where the community can gather and be a part of welcoming families to the community at 1803 Danforth Ave. It is also a donation drop off/pick up location for household goods, and small furniture in good condition, to be donated to refugees. RSVP by email to info. easttorontofamilies4syria@ gmail.com

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onsidering that film and television production work is worth $1 billion a year to Toronto, we think it’s a good idea Mayor John Tory is heading out to Los Angeles for a business mission in support of the industry. The mayor of one of the world’s largest centres for film, television, and digital media production should be making annual visits to help promote and protect what is an important business to our city. And he goes at an especially good time as the value of the Canadian dollar relative to the U.S. dollar makes shooting movies and television shows in Toronto even more attractive for American production companies. “Toronto’s film and television sector is a growing source of jobs and economic growth,” said Tory in a press release. Along with the dollars the industry pumps into Toronto’s economy, it’s also helping grow an extremely valuable source of local talent, which benefits our city on so many levels. our view Being a centre of film and television production also makes Toronto a Trip helps cultural hub in Canada. It builds a strong community of promote not only people in the creative arts, but also in the many technical sides our city of the industry from high-tech digital imaging, to sound systems, to set building, special effects, catering, transportation, hotels and more. It’s an industry that also builds Toronto a profile beyond the film industry as it also helps increase tourism. While in Los Angeles, Tory has meetings planned with 11 major studios including CBS, Paramount, Warner, and Sony. According to the city, those studios alone have more than $800 million worth of projects planned for Toronto in 2016 alone. Tory is not going by himself on this trip either; he is bringing with him a delegation of both film and tourism professionals from the city. They represent Canadian companies and the hospitality industry, and are making the trip on their own dime. There are nine partners as part of the delegation and they are paying $5,000 each to sponsor An Evening With Canada’s Stars that will showcase Canadian excellence in the industry as part of the visit. Tory will also meet with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. While some may see this as a nice excuse for the mayor to get out to California at the end of February, we view it as an important part of the job: promoting local industry and looking after our economic health.

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‘Crazy’ gondola scheme might be stretching it If you’re going to pitch a crazy transit scheme like gondolas across the Don Valley to service a fancy artisanal market, probably it’s best to make sure that nobody’s planning an extravagant mea culpa about their crazy transit scheme within the same week. Such is the unhappy circumstance that the entrepreneurial gondoliers at Bullwheel International Cable Car Corp., who pitched their plan to stretch cable across the Don Valley just days before Metrolinx moved to slash prices on the Union-Pearson Express train to boost its gossamerthin ridership. The train was at one time touted as a major economic development boost, providing a quick link between Union Station and Pearson airport. The investment – $465 million – was deemed worthwhile, even as the private sector consortium initially interested in the project lost interest, and

david nickle the city in 2010 Metrolinx took the whole thing over. The private sector clearly knew something that the public sector leadership didn’t, because the rail line opened up with tepid ridership. It wasn’t hard to see why. With few stations, and those that existed difficult to access, the only way that the 25-minute airport ride could be a convenience would be for those travellers who were staying or holding meetings within a short walk of Union Station. And with the price point of $27 one way, really only executives with an expense account would have any reason to ride it. But for that class of traveller, an airport limo ride with door-to-terminal service would only cost a few dollars more.

What a terrible idea that airport express train was. What a terrible, seductive idea. It was so seductive, of course, because it played to that aspirational myth that is so damaging to Toronto’s more necessary priorities: namely, that we need to dress ourselves up in the manner of much larger cities in Europe and America in order to remain competitive. So if there are trains from Stockholm’s downtown to its airport, and an express train between Victoria Station and Gatwick Airport in London, what fun it would be for us to be like that too. So many of our major transit initiatives have sprung from that ethos. In the 1990s, then North York mayor Mel Lastman fought tooth and nail to make sure there was money for the Sheppard subway, because he knew that building it would validate the Yonge-Sheppard hub that was to be his old city’s

downtown. Scarborough is getting an absurd, one-stop subway extension to the Scarborough Town Centre, because residents there have been convinced that a subway is the path to civic legitimacy. The gondolas as described sound like a lot of fun – soaring over the leafy glories of the Don Valley, carrying passengers from the million-dollarhomes of prime Riverdale to the boutiques and paths of the Evergreen Brick Works in the Don Valley and back. It sounds almost enough fun to subsidize with tax dollars when the logistics prove too costly and the revenues too slim for the private sector. The worst that can happen is you might have to cut your fares.

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‘Blithe Spirit’ by Noel Coward WHEN: 8 to 10:30 p.m. WHERE: GAS - Gerrard Art Space, 1475 Gerrard St. E. CONTACT: Melissa Beveridge, 416-886-6472, mortarandpestleproductions@gmail.com COST: $15 ‘Blithe Spirit’ is an improbable farce centering around famed novelist Charles Condomine. Charles and his second wife, Ruth, host a dinner party where the guest of honour is eccentric spiritualist, Madame Arcati. She conducts a seance and brings back Charles’ manipulative, childish first wife, Elvira, who is determined to win Charles back by any means necessary. On stage until March 5.

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Choreographer turns to African roots for inspiration winter stations JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com If the past two months are any indication, 2016 will be a year of great opportunity and excitement for Danforth East dancer/choreographer Esie Mensah. Mensah – who has lived near Woodbine and Danforth avenues since October – will present a nine-minute excerpt of her 2015 work Akoma as part of Footsteps Across Canada, described as a celebration of human spirit and diverse Canadian expression that features six choreographers (three female and three male) from across the country. Each choreographer represents a unique Canadian voice from the African diaspora. P re s e n t e d by d a n c e Immersion, Footsteps Across Canada runs during Black History Month on Friday and Saturday for three shows at Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231 Queen’s Quay W. Tickets cost $29 to $34, or $22 to $29 for students and seniors, and can be purchased

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Choreographer/dancer Esie Mensah is part of Footsteps Across Canada at Harbourfront Centre.

online at www.harbourfrontcentre.com or by calling 416973-4000. Akoma is a 75-minute dance/theatre piece written and choreographed by Mensah about a young man’s journey from Ghana to Canada and his wrestling with the decision to return home. Originally choreographed for five dancers, the work aims to explore how the thoughts we

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keep can take over our mind; how we can lose ourselves in them and what happens if it goes too far; and if a young man named Yao is strong enough to fight his thoughts, which have come alive. Last Thursday, Mensah celebrated the world premiere of Venus’ Daughter, which she choreographed. The 90-minute play, written by Meghan Swaby and presented by Obsidian Theatre, runs until Sunday at The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen St. W. Visit www.obsidiantheatre.com/ season/venus-daughter for more information. Earlier this year, she choreographed a 60-second commercial, which is set to be begin airing by the end of this month. “It’s really nice to be able to know work is coming in,” said Mensah, who plans to develop Akoma into a larger format production. “I’d like to do it for Canada’s 150th birthday (in 2017). It’s an ideal story line about Canada’s identity.” Mensah, whose family is

from Ghana, has been dancing her whole life. Along with her five siblings, she started out as a member of Toronto’s Ewe Dance Ensemble. The family would travel from their hometown of Hamilton to Toronto for practices and performances. “My parents wanted to make sure we understood our culture,” she said. “My family’s been involved with that group for nearly 50 years.” Because of her early exposure to Ghanian, Malian and Guinean dance styles, Mensah said everything she does has a stamp of her background. “There’s always an imprint of my heritage in everything I do,” said Mensah, who graduated from George Brown College’s one-year commercial dance studies program in 2007. After completing her studies, Mensah spent five years as a performer and background dancer for industry icons including Janelle Monae, Blake McGrath, Shawn Desman, Nelly Furtado, Jully Black, Flo Rida, and Deborah Cox.

At left, visitors get a closer look at the Winter Stations installation, ‘The Steam Shoe’, on Saturday. Below, ‘In The Belly of a Bear’ attracts a crowd. Check out Winter Stations until March 20 at lifeguard stands across Balmy, Kew and Ashbridges Bay beaches. Staff photos/ Joanna Lavoie

Let’s get our kids moving! Lots of good things happen when our kids move more. Being active doesn’t have to mean planned, structured exercise. All you have to do is encourage that natural urge to ‘Run. Jump. Play. Every day.’

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The 506 Streetcar Project connects neighbourhoods along Gerrard route The 506 Streetcar Project aims to connect neighbourhoods along its Gerrard Street East route. The line will be fêted throughout the month of March with events and activities, including an exhibition of wall art in galleries and storefronts along Gerrard from Coxwell to Greenwood. Supported by the Gerrard In d i a Ba z a a r Bu s i n e s s Improvement Area, All Aboard! Life along the 506 will run from March 1 to 27. A grand opening reception for the art show is set for Saturday, March 5 from 4 to

8 p.m. at Flying Pony Gallery, 1481 Gerrard St. E., just west of Coxwell Avenue. Visit www.gerrardindiabazaar.com for the full list of art locations. That same day participating artists will be on hand for a self-guided art crawl. People can take in The 506 Roadshow and receive appraisals and home décor/ furniture upcycling consultation tips from vintage hunter Debbie Facey, and her colleague, designer Lisa North off BluMorpha. This event is also set for Saturday, March 5 from 3 to

7 p.m. at The Vintage Hunter, 1390 Gerrard. The weekend of March 12 and 13, community members are invited to the Little India area to learn more about the history of the neighbourhood as well as that of the 506 streetcar line. A photo display will be held at the Gerrard/Ashdale Library, 1432 Gerrard. Activities are also in the works for March Break (March 15 to 18) as well as the two remaining weekends of the month.

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Transit consultation at Riverdale Collegiate Community members are invited to learn about plans for public transit in the city’s east end. The meeting takes place today from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Riverdale Collegiate Institute, 1094 Gerrard St. E. at Jones Avenue.

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Don Roadway, and the TTC’s Waterfront LRT, which will stretch across the waterfront to Leslie. Contact Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher’s office at 416-392-4060 or councillor_fletcher@toronto.ca for more information.

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