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REBECCA FIELD bsrm@insidetoronto.com Riverdale is feeling the warmth of a little island breeze during a chilly fall with the reopening of The Real Jerk restaurant on the corner of Gerrard Street and Carlaw Avenue. The restaurant had its grand opening Oct. 5 after being evicted from its Queen Street and Broadview Avenue location a year and a half ago. “We’ve found that the majority of (customers) used to come from this area,” said restaurant owner Ed Pottinger. “So we’re actually closer now. This is our neighbourhood. Even though we were down at Queen and Broadview, this is our neigh-
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bourhood more than anywhere else.” Pottinger runs the restaurant with his wife, Lily, who has been manning the kitchen since they reopened a month ago. His daughter works in the new bar lounge that serves more than 40 different kinds of Caribbean and South American rum, while his son works as a waiter. “They all love it, they’re really motivated,” Pottinger said. “My wife is in the kitchen. She might not love it so much because we’re so busy.” Since reopening, Pottinger said it’s like a new restaurant with a rush of people who are excited to have the restaurant there, but they’re still trying to >>>RESTAURANT, page 12
Talking Wildwood Park REBECCA FIELD bsrm@insidetoronto.com Wildwood Park has a new design underway and it’s up to neighbourhood residents to decide how they want it to look. Friends of Wildwood Park, a group of like-minded neighbours who came together this year to help shape the park’s development, met at the Naval Club on Gerrard Street Tuesday night to brainstorm a plan for the revival of their park, set to be completed by 2015. “Water parks, they love them,” said Jacky Arminen on one of the features she hopes
will be included in the new park. “There’s (water at) other parks that we have to walk to, it would be great to see some 30 seconds from my house.” Attendees were guided by city landscape architect Diane Leal into discussing what their community values are when it came to the park. Those values came down to community, exploration, nature and exercise. It’s these values Leal said the park’s design, which will be finalized by April, will be based on. “Establishing the values that are important in a community >>>PARK, page 6
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