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HISTORY: Jane’s Walk volunteer Phillip Gooding illuminates the tombstone of local luminary Ted Reeve in the St. John’s Norway Cemetery Saturday evening during a tour titled, ‘Spooky Night Walk’. See more photos on page 3.

Down Syndrome Association of Toronto hosts Buddy Walk The Down Syndrome Association of Toronto (DSAT) hosts the Buddy Walk, a threekilometre walk along the Ashbridges Bay Boardwalk Saturday at 11 a.m.

A celebration with food, prizes and a social gathering will follow.

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funds raised will remain with DSAT, seven per cent will be directed to the National Down Syndrome Society and its efforts for advocacy for people with Down syndrome.

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The community is mourning the loss of 31-year-old Kristy Hodgson and her dog Betty, who both died days after being struck by a vehicle on Dundas Street East between Carlaw and Logan avenues.

Shortly after learning about Hodgson’s death on Wednesday, April 29, people started dropping off fresh bouquets at a makeshift memorial, which also included three framed photographs nailed to a tree beside the Carlaw+Dundas wine and coffee bar at Dundas Street East and Carlaw Avenue in Leslieville. Someone also left a small teddy bear.

Scores of others have shared messages of condolence on social media.

The tragedy also had people talking about the need to improve road safety for all users.

A “To remember Kristy and Betty” Go Fund Me campaign at www.gofundme.com/t8g4rwh9 has also been set up with the goal of raising enough funds to apply to the City of Toronto for a commemorative bench and plaque in honour of Hodgson and Betty.

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Jane’s walk COMMUNITY BUILDING: Top, Jane’s Walk participants head through St. John’s Norway Cemetery Saturday night during the event titled ‘Spooky Night Walk’. Right, The moon rises over St. John’s Norway Cemetery during a Jane’s Walk, while left, Gene Domagala, left, and Alan Bone read the inscription on the lighthouse headstone in St. John’s Norway Cemetery commissioned by George Holmes in memory of his wife Janet.

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East-end artists produce playwright George F. Walker double bill JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com East-end based thespian talents Sarah Murphy-Dyson and Wes Berger have joined forces with one of Canada’s most iconic and prolific playwrights George F. Walker to present a double bill of plays from his new four-to-six play cycle, After Class.

The cycle is the first series of plays Walker has written since Suburban Motel, which he wrote in 1997.

The trio came together last spring to form CrazyLady, which is producing all of the plays in the cycle.

They’re currently presenting the Toronto premiere of Parents Night as well as the world premiere of The Bigger Issue; two deeply humane yet razor-sharp comedies running as a double bill until May 17 at Theatre Passe Muraille’s Mainspace.

Murphy-Dyson, who is originally from Victoria, B.C., but has called Toronto home since 2007, is acting in both plays, while Berger, a Niagara Falls native, who has lived in Toronto for about 15 years, is directing both of them.

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different roles in the ‘real-time’ double bill. She starts off as a Grade 3 teacher named Nicole in Parents Night followed by a high school principal named Irene in The Bigger Issue.

“That’s part of the fun. It might even be a little jarring at first,” Murphy-Dyson said during a recent interview, noting the double bill has no scene changes or stoppages.

“It’s amazing. The audience is really part of the action. Once I step on the stage the train has started and there’s no looking back. I had never

done something like this before, but I actually really love it.”

Murphy-Dyson lived in Winnipeg for 10 years while she trained and performed with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.

In high school, she took drama classes and despite being heavy into ballet, Murphy-Dyson, who also attended Canada’s National Ballet School as a child, said she always “preferred the dramatic stuff.”

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In 2006, she retired from ballet and went on to study theatre at the University of Winnipeg and in B.C. Murphy-Dyson, who moved to Toronto the following year and has called the city’s east end home ever since, has gone on to perform a number of film, TV and theatre roles, notably Capote, which stars the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.

She also performed in the Toronto production of Dirty Dancing as an understudy for the lead role of Penny as well as a feature ensemble and lead tango dancer.

Among other things, MurphyDyson has also written and performed in The Naked Ballerina, an autobiographic solo play.

Berger, who also directed the world premiere of Parents Night last fall in Hamilton, as well as MurphyDyson’s The Naked Ballerina at Hamilton’s Pearl Festival, started acting after completing his studies at Brock University in St. Catharines.

“Acting was always something I thought and fantasized about,” said Berger, who for the last 10 or so years has stuck more to film, TV and commercial roles so he could spend

more time with his now 10-yearold son.

“Theatre is the thing I love the most. It’s my passion.”

The last three or so years, Berger has once again turned his focus to theatre – specifically the directing side of things.

Berger, who will be directing the award-winning play Rukmini’s Gold in this summer’s Fringe Festival, first got to know Walker in early 2013 when he directed a play called Criminal Genius.

A short time later, Walker invited Berger to work with him on his new production The Ravine. He also stepped in to perform a key acting role in the show when one of the actors left suddenly. Murphy-Dyson also acted in the show, which was staged in early 2014.

The couple, who first met in 2009 at a commercial call-back, are also partners in life and the parents of a daughter named Audrey. MurphyDyson and Berger have lived in Leslieville for five years.

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Know your city with Heritage Toronto tours W hether you’re a resident or a tourist, how much do you know about the City of Toronto? Let’s go one step further: how much do you know about the city’s rich history?

The answers vary from a lot to very little; however, even those who know a lot about Toronto could certainly use a refreshing experience.

So with that in mind, now is the time to take one of the many guided tours offered by Heritage Toronto, slated to run through to Sunday, Oct. 4, and get a city refresher.

From Etobicoke to Scarborough, North York to the pockets in the downtown our view all core, the city is alive with a rich and diverse history, making any Book a tour day or weekend tour an experievery Torontonian should and explore ence have.

“Heritage Toronto’s fun and the city informative tours give citizens the chance to see Toronto’s neighbourhoods in a way they never have before,” said Heritage Toronto Executive Director Francisco Alvarez.

If you’re looking to get started quickly, May is Asian Heritage Month with tours that take you through Chinatown, Korea Town and the city’s Filipino community.

In Etobicoke you can take in the ‘Hurricane Hazel Revisited’ tour.

The ‘Guild Park’ tour talks about the long and rich artistic history of the southeast Scarborough area.

In North York why not take in the ‘Downsview Park’ tour? City neighbourhoods are also the focus of tours such as ‘Leslieville: Orange & Green’.

There are also bike tours, music history tours and tours such as ‘Before Toronto’, which take participants on an archaeological bus tour of the city’s first 13,000 years.

Spring has sprung and summer is just around the corner – even fall has tours to offer – so why not take full advantage of our great city – voted No. 1 place to live in the world to live by The Economist magazine.

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Tory needs to have the austerity talk At the start of the whirling vortex of chaos (otherwise known as the May Toronto council meeting) next year’s budget seems very far off.

It is not, of course. While council and the city deal with the ramifications of open-season on food trucks, a new city manager, the quest for a just taxi license and gender balance on the TTC, the city’s 2016 budget looms large – larger than is typical thanks to the odd way council balanced the 2015 budget.

This was in March, when council approved a 2.75 per cent property tax increase for homeowners, and filled a $60-million shortfall by effectively borrowing from the city’s capital financing capacity in future years.

Services were generally sustained or even enhanced, taxpayers were mollified with a rate-of-inflation increase, and the pain, Mayor John Tory promised, would come later. Tory also promised to let Toronto know in the coming weeks

david nickle the city exactly how he would deal with the 2016 gap between what it costs to run the city as it stands, and the diminishing amount of money actually available.

Although Tory would not use the words, it all suggested that in 2016, Torontonians would be looking at some form of service cuts.

Given that, it’s understandable that Tory has not yet made good on that one promise, to explain how he’ll balance things.

So far, the Tory mayoralty has been a good-news affair. His announcements generally aren’t about telling people what they can’t have, but what he will provide: improved traffic, jobs for under-privileged youth, technological innovation.

Soon Tory is going to have to start talking about more difficult things:

initially, one suspects, strategies for cutting waste in the city’s administrative bureaucracy, but as the process carries on, cuts and fee increases that will impact lives.

Tory has so far avoided talking about fees, effectively ruling out the operationally sensitive but politically difficult application of “revenue tools”.

Without a willingness to enact those things, the city is left with only one option: austerity.

The city doesn’t have a terrible record on measured austerity, but it doesn’t have a great one either. In general, Torontonians seem to like their services and react with a certain amount of organized pique when they are threatened. When the matter finally comes up, it will show even a council meeting such as this week’s for the honeymoon that it in fact is.

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Pedestrians will be forgotten Re: ‘Pedestrians: left out of the loop?’ Exclusive Report, April 30.

Walk Toronto’s Dylan Reid has every reason to be skeptical of Toronto Transportation’s Big Data plans. Twelve years ago, as a member of the Toronto Pedestrian Committee, I was asked to serve another term on that committee. I had to say no. After nearly four years, it was far too frustrating because of Toronto Transportation’s endless “can’t do” attitude.

If they had only devoted a fraction of their time and energy into what they “can do,” our city would have become a truly pleasant and safe place for pedestrians. As Reid pointed out, nowhere did Buckley say what his department could do or would do for pedestrians.

Sadly, this is just another version of “can’t do.”

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According to Toronto police, at 2:05 p.m. Monday, April 20, two vehicles were travelling eastbound on Dundas Street East between Carlaw and Logan avenues when the vehicle in front stopped.

The driver of the second vehicle – a 2004 Honda Civic – was following too closely and likely swerved to avoid rear ending the vehicle mounting a curb and striking a pedestrian who was walking two dogs in the process.

The driver of the Honda then reportedly returned to the roadway and struck a vehicle.

Police said the speed at contact with the pedestrian and dog was estimated at 50 kilometres per hour.

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Following the collision, both animals were rushed to Kingston Road Animal Hospital/VETS Toronto, but Betty’s injuries were too severe and she was euthanized on Saturday, April 25. The other dog, Indy, was examined by vets, but was not injured.

VETS Animal Charity, which aims to help animals in need of emergency medical assistance or care by providing the needed financial assistance for veterinarian costs, came forward shortly afterward to cover the costs of both dogs’ medical care/stay.

The registered Canadian charity is currently accepting donations in Betty’s memory at www.vetsanimalcharity.com or www.gofundme.com/ vetsanimalcharity VETS Animal Charity has also announced Hodgson and Betty will be the recipients of this year’s “Sweetie Pie Award” at the charity’s annual gala event in October.

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>>>from page 1 young woman who dedicated much of her time to her dogs and this campaign has been set up to honour Kristy and Betty...,” the campaign’s organizer John Martin wrote.

“Kristy and (her longtime partner) Nick (Siskopoulos) took Betty and Indy to the Cherry Beach dog park on many occasions and it is our hope to have the bench placed here or at a preferred location of Nick’s choice.”

Any additional funds raised beyond the $4,500 goal will be forwarded to Siskopoulos to help him with expenses related to this tragedy.

Another Go Fund Me campaign called “Help Nick through tragedy” has also been created.

Funds raised will be used to help him “stay above water while dealing with an unbelievable personal tragedy,” wrote the campaign organizer Kerry Gordon.

He said Siskopoulos, a freelance camera operator, is someone who always goes out of his way to assist or lead in productions and has a positive presence when on set.

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“My wife and I spent six weeks in Nepal … and fell in love with it. The scenic Himalayan Mountains and the wonderful people… I will never forget what I received from that experience,” he wrote on his website, www. lenswork.ca A photographer/artist/ instructor who owns Lens Work, a boutique photo/art gallery specializing in classes/ workshops, large-format printing and resin coating,

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Garage Sale For Shelter WHEN: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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An $800 grant from TreeMobile/Orchard People is helping transform the northwest edge of Fairmount Park, near Beaton Avenue, into an edible forest.

The Beach Hill Neighbourhood Association (BHNA) Tree Team, in partnership with the Fairmount Park Farm Market (FPFM), worked together on the neighbourhood orchard project.

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Five-year Upper Beach resident David Livingston-Lowe, a FPFM volunteer and member of the BHNA Tree Team, was part of the team that prepared the grant application earlier this year.

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Community members gathered on Sunday, April 26 to plant two pear, two apple and two cherry trees at the 4.6-acre park, which is at 1725 Gerrard St. E., two blocks east of Coxwell Avenue.

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Metroland Media Toronto is accepting tenders to deliver our weekly Newspaper and flyers to carrier drop locations within the East York, City Centre, and Toronto areas 3 times per week. This entails picking up the newspapers and flyers at our North York location on Tuesday’s and completing all Flyer deliveries by Wednesday’s at 3 p.m and all newspaper deliveries by Thursday’s at 2 p.m to all carrier drops.

All applicants must have a cargo van or cube truck and be a registered business with a valid HST number.

Contracts commence Monday June 1st and Friday June 5th, 2015.

(Depending on area selected to bid for)

Bid packages are available at the Reception Desk, of Metroland Media Toronto, 175 Gordon Baker Road, Toronto Ontario M2H 0A2 Tender due date: Thursday May 21st 2015 By 5 pm To the attention of: Anton McCormack Mailroom / Trucking Supervisor Lowest or any bid not necessarily accepted.

E-mail: david.thomson@itdtrailers.com Fax 905-670-2321

Tenders

Tenders

INVITATION TO TENDER Metroland Media Toronto is accepting tenders to deliver our weekly Apartment Saverbag to carrier and lobby drop locations within the Toronto, East York, North York and City Centre area 1 to 2 times per week. This entails picking up the skids of Saverbags at our North York location on Wednesday’s after 5 p.m, and completing all carrier deliveries by Thursday’s at 2 p.m and all lobby drop deliveries by Thursday’s at 7 p.m.

All applicants must have a cargo van or cube truck and be a registered business with a valid HST number.

Contracts commence Monday June 1st and Monday June 22nd 2015 (Depending on area selected for bid)

Bid packages are available at the Reception Desk, of Metroland Media Toronto, 175 Gordon Baker Road, Toronto Ontario M2H 0A2 Tender due date: Thursday May 21st 2015 By 5 pm To the attention of: Anton McCormack Mailroom / Trucking Supervisor Lowest or any bid not necessarily accepted.

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