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Resident wants people to say no self-storage in port lands Leslieville resident Jamie Jennings said there’s much more potential for the port lands than big box self-storage warehouses.

Specifically, he’s concerned about two, five-storey facilities proposed for 300 and 440 Commissioners St. “(The port lands) are just

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The Prince Edward Viaduct will be the place to be Saturday to get a heaping dose of Pan Am, not to mention community spirit.

The Danforth Business Improvement Area (BIA) is working alongside the City of Toronto to host a full evening of festivities including the arrival of the Pan Am flame and the lighting of the community cauldron at 7 p.m., followed by the inaugural lighting of the upper part of historic bridge’s Luminous Veil structure at 10 p.m.

“We’re very excited about July the 4th,” said Terry Nicholson, director, arts and culture services for the City of Toronto.

“Everyone involved in this project has gone above and beyond the call of duty because they believe in it so much. It’s a colourful legacy for the Pan Am Games.”

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fter 34 years in the cookie business, Mary Macleod Shortbread has more than mastered the art of baking the one part white sugar, two parts butter, and three parts flour biscuit.

The cookie emporium, which has been headquartered in Riverside, at 639 Queen St. E., just west of Broadview Avenue since 1997, will be selling and offering samples of its famous buttery cookies this weekend for all to enjoy at the Taste of Toronto (www. tasteoftoronto.com) food festival, which runs July 2 to 5 at Fort York.

Upwards of 20,000 visitors are expected to take in the foodie-focused festival, which will feature worldclass chefs, Toronto’s top restaurants and more than 70 exhibitors.

Taste of Toronto, which is sponsored by Metroland Media Toronto, publisher of

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this newspaper, is one of a number of consumer shows Mary Macleod Shortbread participates in each year.

“We like to do events that reach out to our target market and Taste of Toronto is a real foodie event,” said Sharon Macleod, who has served as the company’s ‘chief cookie officer’ since its founder – her mother-in-law – retired in 2010.

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When it first opened, Mary Macleod Shortbread was the first of its kind in Canada devoted exclusively to the creation and sale of hand-made, pure, smallbatch shortbread cookies.

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Trillium grant allows Beaches Jazz to establish four new arts programs JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com

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Afrofest 2014 celebrates African culture and brings together many African communities through music, food and cultural activities. This year’s addition, the 27th annual, takes place this weekend at Woodbine Park.

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biggest and best one yet, this year’s festival will also include workshops, spoken word artists, dance groups, African music and culture an interactive children’s will be celebrated in a big village and a marketplace way at Woodbine Park this with more than 70 vendors weekend. guaranteeing something for Presented by Music Africa, everyone. in partnership with Africa Afrofest is also proud to New Music, the 27th annual be associated with the Pan edition of Afrofest will take Am/Parapan Am Games as place Saturday and the Pan Am Torch will pass through Sunday from noon Sat-Sun to 10 p.m.

Woodbine Park T h i s y e a r ’s Sunday evening.

A formal torch festival is set to arrival ceremony, feature 35 live which will include the lightperformances by African and Canadian artists, notaing of the community caulbly legendary Zouk group dron as well as music and Kassav (Martinique and performances that highlight Guadeloupe) as well as San Pan American culture and Fan Thomas (Cameroon) spirit, is set to begin at 7 and the highly energetic and p.m. dynamic Congolese group Woodbine Park is north of Wenge Music – Nouvelle Lake Shore Boulevard East and east of Coxwell Avenue.

Generation featuring Bill Clinton Kalonji, Celeo Scram Admission is free. and Flamme Kapaya to name Visit http://afrofest.ca, email a few. info@musicafrica.ca or call 416-469-5336 for details.

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A new fine arts component is making its debut at this year’s Beaches International Jazz Festival (BIJF).

As a result of a two-year, $96,400 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, Beaches jazz is offering four new free and accessible multi-art programs for children, teens and adults.

They include: the Youth Arts Exhibition, the Youth Mural Program, the BIJF Community Mural Workshops and the Youth Curatorial Program.

The non-juried Youth Arts Exhibition, which features works of art by 64 high school students age 14 to 18 from across the GTA on the theme ‘How does music inspire you?’, will be held at Above Ground Art Supplies’ Beach location at 1842 Queen St. E. as well as at its downtown Toronto store at 74 McCaul St. until Monday, July 20.

An opening reception is set for Thursday, July 9 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Beach.

The Youth Mural Program, which kicked off last September and wrapped up at the end of June, involved students from Adam Beck Junior Public School, Balmy Beach Community School, Beaches Alternative Public School, Bowmore Road Junior and Senior Public School, Crescent Town Elementary School, Earl Haig Public School, George Webster Elementary School, Gledhill Junior Public School, Kew Beach Junior Public School, Kimberley Junior Public School, Norway Junior Public School, Secord Elementary S c h o o l a n d Wi l l i a m J .

McCordic School creating murals on the themes of diversity, community and music with the assistance of professional artist/instructor, Nicole DiNardo.

The works of art were painted on both schools’ walls as well as on panels installed at the 13 east-end schools.

They were also replicated as 24” by 36” pieces, which will be displayed at 33 businesses in the Beach as well as at the Beaches Library from

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Top, students at Gledhill Junior Public School display their mural, part of the Beaches International Jazz Festival’s Youth Mural Program.

details The 27th annual Beaches International Jazz Festival will kick off Wednesday, July 8 with the Pan Am Welcome Series for the Games and its athletes/officials at Billy Bishop Airport. Musical groups will entertain guests with jazzy tunes at the island airport until Friday, July 10, the opening day of the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games.

Friday, July 10 to Thursday, July 30.

“I really enjoyed working with the schools,” said Joanna Katchutas, curator of the BIJF’s multi-arts and photography programs. “It was a really great experience working with the students, the teachers and the principals. Everybody was really welcoming to us and there was lots of learning for everyone.”

During a recent interview, Katchutas said all of the students involved in the program are “super excited” to have their colourful creations on display during the upcoming jazz festival.

After BIJF, the artwork will head to Scarborough General Hospital where it will be displayed in ‘The Artist Walkway’

at the hospital’s main campus at 3050 Lawrence Ave. E. from Sunday, Aug. 23 until Thursday, Oct. 8. Afterward, the pieces will be permanently hung throughout the hospital.

The third program, the BIJF Community Mural Workshops for adults and children, will be taking place the weekends of July 11 and 12 and July 18 and 19 from noon to 6 p.m. daily at Woodbine Park.

De Anne Lamirande will be serving as the leader of adult mural workshops, which will be held at the Pan Am Celebration Indie Stage July 11 and 12 as well as at the Party Island Stage July 18 and 19.

The children’s workshop leader is Nicole D’Amario.

She’ll be offering mural workshops for kids near the main stage area all four days.

“We really want the community to come and paint live to the music with our qualified instructors,” Katchutas said.

“It’s going to be lots of fun and everyone should come and try it.”

Once the festival is over, the murals will be donated to Toronto East General Hospital Foundation for permanent installation at the local hospital.

The final initiative – the

Youth Curatorial Program – is an opportunity for high school students ages 14 to 18 to earn their mandatory 40 community service hours by volunteering during Beaches jazz. Volunteers are still needed to help curate the Youth Mural Program as well as assist with the Community Mural Workshops at Woodbine Park.

“It’s a really fun way to volunteer,” she said.

For more information or to help out, email multiartsbeachesjazz@gmail.com This year’s BIJF will also include the return of the sixth annual Jazz in Motion Photography Exhibition.

This juried photography display, which will feature images that best define the essence of jazz music, jazz musicians and the audience that supports them, will be held at Above Ground Art Supplies’ Beach location from Thursday, July 23 to Monday, Aug. 10. The exhibition‘s grand opening is set for Thursday, July 23 from 5 to 7 p.m.

The application deadline is July 10 at 11:59 p.m.

Email photoprojectsbeachesjazz@gmail.com to apply.

Visit http://beachesjazz. com/photo-project for details about the Multi-Arts Initiatives.

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ith Canada Day celebrations wrapped up last night with fireworks at numerous locations, it’s now time for residents to get geared up for Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Torch Relay events starting this Saturday in our city and continuing until the official opening of the Games on Friday, July 10.

The torch relay started back on May 30 with the flame’s arrival at Harbourfront. From there, the torch has been on a 41-day trek across Canada. Along the way, it’s made stops in Vancouver, Halifax, Winnipeg, Calgary and numerous cities and towns across Ontario. By the time the torch relay wraps up next Friday, it will have been carried by some 3,000 torchbearers and visited more than 130 communities.

For Torontonians, the torch relay excitement starts Saturday evening and there will be numerous opportunities for residents to get up close and personal with the torch as it makes its way our view through many of our city’s neighbourhoods through to July 10.

The torch relay starts its day at Get up close Canadian Forces Base Trenton on and personal Saturday, and will arrive in Toronto late afternoon for a huge comin your city munity celebration on the Prince Edward Viaduct (also known as the Bloor viaduct) beginning at 5 p.m. Metroland Media Toronto will be at Saturday evening’s event, along with many other community groups and organizations. The celebration will culminate with the lighting of the Luminous Veil on the viaduct.

The next day, the torch relay travels mostly through Scarborough with stops at Variety Village, the Toronto Zoo and a big celebration at 2 p.m. across from the Pan Am aquatic centre at Morningside Avenue and Military Trail. Sunday evening will also see the torch relay visit the Afrofest celebrations in the Beach at 7 p.m., and the Aga Khan Museum in North York starting at 8:15 p.m.

The rest of the week, torch relay events in Toronto are planned for Thorncliffe Park and Etobicoke on Monday as the relay works its way through downtown; other events are planned in Etobicoke on Tuesday; a visit to Mel Lastman Square in North York on Wednesday; York and then the downtown core on Thursday; and finally the opening ceremonies Friday night.

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Metrolinx report puts pressure on Mayor John Tory and Toronto council There are a couple of ways to look at the new report from Metrolinx that draws attention to the need for a downtown relief subway line, for which no funding exists.

One way is to see it as a stick with which to hit the Toronto council-supported Scarborough subway extension and Mayor John Tory’s proposed SmartTrack system: one a project that is unnecessary, the second a project that will only provide short-term relief; and both, unlike the relief line, close to fully funded.

The Metrolinx report, Yonge Relief Network Study, was released in June, but Tory and council have had access to countless other opinions and studies indicating the Yonge subway line is running over capacity and a relief line looping down from the BloorDanforth line and possibly

david nickle the city points north is the cure.

The study lays it out in starker terms.

Toronto and Metrolinx have made some headway in mitigating the crowding on the Yonge line.

The automatic train control and new, roomier trains help, as does the GO Regional Express plan that will form the backbone of Tory’s SmartTrack proposal.

That will meet needs over the next 15 years. Past that, we’re all back in the same swamping boat.

Given all that, one might call Toronto’s political leadership for being short-sighted and pandering – funding inadequate short term transit plans at the expense of a long-term

solution.

That is a legitimate call.

But the only call that follows from that is a “throw the bums out” movement, and there are three years before anyone can even think about that.

In the meantime, the call from Metrolinx points to another difficult choice.

If the city really wants to pay for a short subway line in Scarborough and a multi-station build along the Regional Express line that runs very close to that subway, it must either resign itself to the hub of its entire transit system failing or else come up with a lot more money.

It’s not inconceivable that council could do so.

In the last term, council voted to raise property taxes to pay for a subway that would serve only a small portion of the city.

There is a greater pretext

for doing so in the matter of the Downtown Relief Line – in that all of the city loses out when the hub of the system crowds to the point of dysfunction.

But on the subject of dysfunction, the politics won’t make it easy.

The suburban-downtown rift that’s defined this city since amalgamation in the late 1990s is showing no sign of healing, and as council is constituted, suburban votes hold sway.

But sooner rather than later, someone is going to have to make that choice.

And once that’s done, we’re all going to have to start paying, and it will be considerably more than we would have with more rational and evidencebased leadership.

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Hey! Good Lookin’ brings subject of looking after elderly to centre stage JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com A made-in-the-Upper-Beach production will be featured during this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival.

Co-written and co-starring longtime east-end residents Jorie Morrow and Jillian Rees-Brown, Hey! Good Lookin’ is a 50-minute play about two estranged sisters’ “unexpected romp in an ICU waiting room” as they try to come to grips with their elderly mother’s declining health.

Morrow and Rees-Brown, who both live near Victoria Park Avenue and Kingston Road, met last fall while working on the play Euchred

by Megan Hutton at Alumni Theatre.

“Instant friends is how we describe it,” Morrow said during a recent interview at a local café.

“We connected over our caregiver stories.”

With so many similar stories of caring for aging parents, Morrow

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Longtime east-end residents Jorie Morrow, right, and Jillian Rees-Brown co-wrote and star in, ‘Hey! Good Lookin’, a 50-minute play about two estranged sisters, that will be presented at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival.

and Rees-Brown were inspired to write a light-hearted and heartfelt play about the many challenges

faced by those in the so-called “sandwich generation.”

“We really felt there wasn’t a

voice for the caregiver. Our hope is that people will identify with the play in some way and not be afraid to ask for help,” Rees-Brown said, adding the pressure and stress of looking after aging, unwell loved ones can also be very isolating.

Morrow agreed.

“We felt this was a fairly broad story many people would relate to,” Morrow added.

Rees-Brown, who has worked full time as a theatre and film actor since the late 1970s, plays the role of Angela, while Morrow, a social worker by day who five or so years ago got back into acting part time, plays the role of Mary.

They also perform a number of other smaller roles in the one-act play, which they hope will be developed into a full-length, two-act production down the line.

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Danforth BIA, city hosts festivities around lighting of bridge’s Luminous Veil Saturday >>>from page 1 accessible and family oriented community celebrations hosted by the City of Toronto for the Pan Am Games Torch Relay. Toronto is the final leg of the relay before the Opening Ceremony Friday, July 10.

The event, which will run from 5 to 11 p.m., will feature a full roster of music and atmospheric performances that highlight the Pan American culture and spirit including Lisa Odjig, Kobo Town, Maracatu Mar Aberto, Amelie et Les Singes Bleus, TD Dots Finest, BBoy and Bgirls, Maestro Fresh-Wes, Parichay, Samba Squad, Henry Flow and Paper Theatre to name a few.

There will also be sports activities for all ages, food trucks and more.

On the eastern portion of the historic Bloor viaduct, the Danforth BIA will be holding a celebration called ‘Light the Night’ featuring its sixth annual Thrill of the Grill street festival.

Toronto restaurateur/TV chef Lynn Crawford as well as Tommy Smythe of Sarah 101 on HGTV Canada and House and Home magazine will serve as the evening’s co-hosts.

This year’s chefs include Ponniah Vijeyratname (Allen’s), Danilo Crea (The Combine Eatery), Jerry Sathisivan (Factory Girl), Dan Sanders (Globe Bistro), Michael Wallace (Das Gasthaus) and Jose Salgado ( Tapas at Embrujo) as well as butchers Zach Davidson and Aidan Galligan ( The Meat Department).

Admission is $20.

Proceeds from Thrill of the Grill will help fund kidney cancer research at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.

“It’s been a year of planning to

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A designer’s rendering of the Luminous Veil on the Bloor Viaduct. The lights on the bridge will be environmentally responsive changing colour with the wind, temperature and weather conditions.

make this happen and it’s very exciting,” said Jennifer Lambert-Jones, the BIA’s vice-chair.

“It’s been amazing and very fun to work with the city on this celebration. This is one of the biggest events the Danforth BIA has ever produced.”

In 2003, a safety barrier, part of an original concept called The Luminous Veil, was added to Bloor viaduct.

D e re c k Re v i n g t o n St u d i o (DRS), along with engineers Yolles Partnership Inc., won a national competition for their design in 2002, which also included a lighting scheme where continuous linear LED lighting would be installed within an existing channel of The Veil and run its full length on both sides of the bridge. However, that plan was not realized at the time.

In July 2013, Toronto council, as part of its Pan Am Games Host City Showcase Program, authorized the general manager of economic development and culture to enter into an agreement with Revington, the original Luminous Veil designer, to complete the Prince Edward

Viaduct Illumination project. The project’s first phase got underway in February.

“The bridge will be transformed into a 500-metre canvas. It’s painting in time and light. It will never look the same,” Revington said in a release. “There’s nothing like it in the world.”

More funds must still be raised to light up the arches below the bridge.

The local BIA has been working for more than six years to make this project a reality.

“They’ve been instrumental in keeping the dream alive and moving it forward,” Nicholson said.

The Pan Am Torch Relay comes to East Toronto Sunday, July 5 – Day 36 • Come out bright and early to a Pan Am Games Torch Relay celebration at Withrow Park, 725 Logan Ave., just south of Danforth Avenue, in Riverdale. The festivities, which will be held in the northeast corner of the park by Carlaw and Fenwick avenues by the playground, will get underway at 9 a.m. with roaming theatre

performances by Shakespeare in the Rough and Driftwood Theatre followed by a welcome message from Ward 30 Councillor Paula Fletcher.

The torch is set to be run through Withrow Park from 9:25 to 9:35 a.m. followed by a hula hoop jam at 9:45 a.m. Email friendsofwithrowpark@live.com or visit http://on.fb. me/1LSCKdM for information.

• The torch will be making a second stop Sunday evening at Woodbine Park during Afrofest.

A formal torch arrival ceremony, which will include the lighting of the community cauldron by Emmanuel Jal Gatwitch, a former child soldier turned recording artist and peace activist, followed by remarks from TO2015 and torch relay partner as well as music and performances that highlight the Pan American culture and spirit, is set to begin at 7 p.m. Woodbine Park is north of Lake Shore Boulevard East and east of Coxwell Avenue. Visit http:// afrofest.ca for details.

Monday, July 6 – Day 37 • The Pan Am torch will be making a brief stop in Leslieville at the S.H. Armstrong Community Recreation Centre, 56 Woodfield Rd., just north of Queen Street East, at 10 a.m. for a 30-minute ceremony in the gymnasium. PACHI, the official mascot of the Games, will be on hand to entertain summer camp children and teach then his signature dance – the wiggle.

Around 10:30 a.m., the first torch bearer of the day, Adelle Dubczak, will depart the celebration carrying the Pan Am flame and will pass it on to Olympic figure skater Patrick Chan who will be continuing the relay westward toward the Regent Park Aquatic Centre. Call 416-3920734 for more information.

The Toronto Tool Library co-founders slated to carry Pan Am torch JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Five-year east-end residents Lawrence Alvarez and Ryan Dyment, the co-founders of the Toronto Tool Library (TTL), will be representing the City of Toronto as two of 16 community torchbearers.

A native of Zimbabwe who became a Canadian citizen last May, Alvarez will be doing his 200-metre leg of the race the evening of Sunday at Ashbridges Bay, while Dyment, who has lived in Toronto and the GTA his entire life, will be running Tuesday in Etobicoke near the Old Mill Subway Station.

Alvarez and Dyment, who are roommates, have lived near Danforth and Chester avenues since 2010.

Neither had applied to be a Pan Am torchbearer, but were invited by the City of Toronto to take part in the relay as the Toronto Tool Library was voted the No. 1 Greenest Group in Toronto and received a 2014 Live Green Toronto Award.

In February 2012, Alvarez and Dyment opened the first Toronto Tool Library in Parkdale. In October 2013, they opened the second location at 1803 Danforth Ave. The third location opened in April at the Downsview Library.

The tool library is Toronto’s first community space for sharing tools such as generators and drills to 3D printers and an open-sourced Laser cutter. Anyone who needs a tool is welcome to access the library.

The TTL accepts donations from community members interested in giving tools a second life in the hands of the community.

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As a result, Jennings has founded the No Big Box Waterfront Campaign (http://noboxwaterfront. com/), which aims to represent concerned citizens interested in preventing the further industrialization of Toronto’s waterfront.

“It’s pretty much as grassroots as it gets at this point,” he said during a recent interview.

“My goal is to give a voice to those with concerns about the project.”

Belleterre Real Estate Partners Limited, the project’s developer, could not be reached for comment by Mirror press time Tuesday.

So far, Jennings said he’s received a lot of positive feedback from his website and from people interested in getting involved to ensure port lands redevelopment is discussed.

“I hope this is going to morph into something bigger,” he said, adding the @NoBoxWaterfront Twitter account is also getting a lot of traction.

Councillor Paula Fletcher, whose ward includes the port lands, said she’s “very concerned” about the proposal for a 98,000-square-foot warehouse at 300 Commissioners St., which is located on “film lands” and said she intends to oppose the proposal when it comes up at the Committee of Adjustment.

Out of city’s hands She went on to say the second proposed storage warehouse, a 200,000-squarefoot self-storage facility at 440 Commissioners St., doesn’t fall under any precinct plan and said there’s not much she can do to stop it from being built.

“It’s not what we all want to see there, but we don’t

own the land,” said Fletcher, adding she feels the City of Toronto should have purchased that land years ago.

“There’s no leverage on this one.”

Regardless, the Ward 30 representative said she’d push for “good design” for the building.

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Cheering for the team behind the team Chevrolet gives thanks to the volunteers at the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games By: Stephen K. Carlisle, President and Managing Director, General Motors Canada

This year, more than 250,000 people will arrive in our city to join us for The TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games, events which will inspire and engage generations of Canadians.

The athletes will be the stars of the Games.

Their stories, their hard work and their victories are what move us to celebrate their achievements, to take pride in our hometown competitors and to recognize those from around the world.

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It’s also with pride that we welcome our neighbours to Toronto and its surrounding areas, because it’s our city, it’s our province and it’s our country. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our community, and we’re ready.

Supporting Our Volunteers At Chevrolet, we recognize that the 23,000 volunteers at this year’s Games are the engine that makes it all possible. We’re ready because of those volunteers. We believe in the power of possibilities and there’s an incredible potential in each of them.

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Four years ago, Chevrolet committed to being the official sponsor of the volunteers for the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games. A commitment made out of respect for the volunteers own unfaltering commitment.

It was also a natural extension of Chevrolet’s long history of supporting Canadian sports.

As the organizers have worked to shape the Games, we’ve worked alongside them to provide the support needed for our volunteers to make these Games the greatest they’ve ever been.

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Beaches International Jazz Festival WHEN: noon to midnight

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WHERE: Woodbine Park, 1701 Queen St. E. CONTACT: beachesjazz. com The Beaches jazz festival will take place July 10 to 26.

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Way-finding art ribbon cutting and cake WHEN: 11 a.m. WHERE: West side of bridge at Queen Street East/DVP CONTACT: Jennifer Lay, 416-466-8167 COST: Free Help launch Riverside’s new way-finding art with ribbon cutting ceremony and cake.

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Maker Play with the Toronto Tool Library WHEN: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7715 to register COST: Free Join in the Maker movement with the Toronto Tool Library and bring out your inner maker through science and play.

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Yoga for Kids WHEN: 11 a.m. to noon WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715 COST: Free Come to Jones to learn some fun yoga exercises.

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Mad Science WHEN: 11 a.m. to noon WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715 COST: Free Join the Mad Science team and learn about the science of toys!

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“I’m very cautious and responsible in what I spend,” said Tonks, adding the extra funds would allow for greater outreach in the community.

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