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Celebrate all things winter with carnival
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NEWS IN BRIEF
n R.C. Harris talk
The Riverdale Historical Society presents Wayne Reeves, the chief curator of the City of Toronto Museum Services, Jan. 29 at 6 p.m. Reeves will speak on the work of R.C. Harris, one of the architects of the Prince Edward Viaduct and the R.C. Harris Filtration Plant, among other city projects. The meeting takes place at the Riverdale Public Library, 370 Broadview Ave. at Gerrard St. Admission is free for members and $5 for non-members. Memberships, which cost $20 a year, are available at the event. Visit www.riverdalehistoricalsociety.com for details. Lace up your skates Sunday for Beach United Church’s annual Eat Pray Skate event at 6:30 p.m. at Kew Gardens Rink.
916 Kingston Rd.
Roads to honour late Jack Layton and Blue Rodeo
Winter skateboarding
Get out and embrace the cold Saturday. On Jan. 26, Kimberly Public School and Community Centre 55 hosts their Winter Carnival from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 50 Swanwick Ave. The event includes a bouncy castle and obstacle course, kids crafts, photo booth, snowman buddies, glitter skates, colouring, bean bag toss, a bake sale, refreshment sale and more. There are also a number of planned activities, including: • Cross-country ski races at 10:30 a.m. • Toboggan races at 11 a.m. • Ice hunt at 11:30 a.m. • Snowshoe races at noon • Snow toss at 12:30 p.m. • Ring around the reindeer at 1 p.m. • Penguin races at 1:30 p.m. Community Centre 55 is also hosting its pancake breakfast at 97 Main St. from 9 to 10 a.m. It costs $3 per person. Call 416-691-1113 for details.
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A TRUE CANADIAN: Connor Foley does a trick at the Ashbridges Bay Skate Park Sunday afternoon.
Two roads in Riverdale will honour longtime east-enders, Toronto and East York Community Council has decided. The old Don Jail Roadway has been renamed in honour of the late New Democratic Party leader and MP Jack Layton, who died of cancer in August 2011. And a new road in the Bridgepoint Health subdivision will be named in honour of Riverdale band Blue Rodeo. O n Tu e s d a y, Toronto and East York Community Council unanimously approved reports recommending names for the new subdivision resulting from Jack Layton the redevelopment of Bridgepoint Health at Gerrard Street East and Broadview Avenue. The plan would see the existing Don Roadway, which connects Broadview Avenue with Gerrard Street East, renamed Jack Layton Way. Councillor Paula Fletcher called the roadway a suburban-style street in an urban environment. “This is really significant in our community, to be able to honour the late Jack Layton with a road north of the new park,” said Fletcher, referring to parkland being created just north of Gerrard Street. “This is a currently existing road. It’s a short cut, it’s a very suburban road that shortcuts from Broadview Avenue down to Gerrard and it really is a suburban road in the middle of an urban area. It will be closed and the little portion … will be a lovely urban road named after one of the most urban visionaries the city has ever known.” The new Blue Rodeo Drive will run through the current site of the Don Jail. “We’ll be replacing the prison yard with new drives,” she said.