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The owner of the hundred-yearold grocery store and apartment complex that burned to the ground at Broadview and Gerrard this past summer will be rebuilding the structure as soon as city hall approves the plans submitted last week.

But when it’s finished, owner Rosita Lee says it won’t likely be a grocery store that occupies the new retail space.

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corner of the intersection that destroyed the landmark building and displaced 70 people.

If city officials approve a demolition permit and building permits, Lee says work will start immediately to rebuild.

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“Something where the young people can hang out. There’s no places where people can go and have a cup of coffee. There are three streetcar lines, and they’re 24 hour lines...”

If that sounds a lot to you like a doughnut shop, you wouldn’t be too far off the mark.

“It would be very nice if Tim Hortons wanted to move in,” said Lee. “It would be a very good spot for them.”

Lee’s hopefulness comes from the ashes of the July 13th four-alarm fire at the southeast

Malvern Collegiate’s Rebecca Anderson (4) battles for a rebound under the Monarch Park Collegiate basket during high school senior girls’ Tier 2 basketball action at Malvern Tuesday. Monarch Park went on to win the game 28-23.

After 25 years, the Riverdale Art show is still drawing in artists and art lovers – both repeat attendees as well as first timers – to St. Barnabas Church on Danforth and Chester avenues.

It all started in 1989 when artist Jenny Reid, who is also the art show ’s organizer, decided to take up painting again.

“I thought there must be more people like me who really

want to cover their costs and needed a market that didn’t involve galleries and begging and pleading,” said Reid.

“You don’t really earn money as an artist, if you break even you’re doing well.”

At the same time her congregation at St. Barnabas Church was looking for new ways to raise money, said Reid. So she came up with the art show idea to help both the struggling artists and her church.

Reid gathered other artists and suggested they all pitch in $20 to cover advertising

costs and suggested 20 per cent of sales be donated to the church.

“There was some skepticism at first, they didn’t think it would take off,” said Reid.

“So that first year I had to drag some people into it.”

According to Reid that first show took in almost $4,000, with only 11 artists and 28 works of art sold.

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Cancer Train song aims to engage people about diesel train debate ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com It’s an old-fashioned protest song, which area activists and musicians hope will help stop diesel trains from running through their neighbourhood.

The Green Wall Boys, an ensemble of musicians including Leslieville singer Ian Butler, and filmmakers from Roncesvalles Village and beyond, have released a new song and music video calling for the electrification of the Georgetown South rail corridor through Toronto’s west end.

The song, written by local real estate agent and member of the Wabash Building Society Chander Chaddah is called Cancer Train.

“It is an attempt to try to engage the public through music, which is a universal language and with that engagement, energize the public to get up and say, ‘this is not right’,” Chaddah said.

The Georgetown South (GTS) Project by Metrolinx will allow for the new Union Pearson Express

(formerly known as the Air Rail Link) between Toronto’s Union Station and Lester B. Pearson International Airport and increase service from approximately 50 trains per day to about 200 by the time of the Pan Am Games in 2015.

‘DUMB IDEA’ Currently, the plan is to run diesel trains along the line, which has some residents in the communities along the corridor, like the Wabash Building Society and the Junction Triangle Rail Committee in Parkdale, speaking and acting out against the project.

Chaddah pulled together some musicians, a videographer and a producer he knows who were on board with the idea and volunteered to create the song and video.

Butler said he sees the use of diesel trains as a short-term decision by politicians when they should be looking long term.

“I think it is silly that in a day in age when we are spending so much time encouraging health, we are

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Participants who helped create both the song and video for Cancer Train after the release party for the protest song.

doing something that discourages health,” Butler said. “In the end, I think we will look back and say, ‘that was a dumb idea’.”

The song and video bring a lighthearted element to a serious topic, which Butler said would likely engage more people.

“It is a good, fun way of getting across a message,” Butler said.

The child and adolescent mental health department opens bigger space at TEGH HILARY CATON brsm@insidetoronto.com The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Outpatient department celebrated its newly acquired space with an open house at Toronto East General Hospital last week.

The spacious department will be the new home for its Building Bridges day program along with its urgent care clinic, the Psychotherapy, Education and Research For Anxiety in Children and Teens (PERFACT) program and various psychiatric consultation services.

“This is a very long anticipated event,” said Dr. Krista Lemke, the medical director of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, in her speech to kick off the event.

“This is a product of a tremendous amount of collaboration both in the hospital and our community

He said the video is meant to introduce the public to the new website www.cancertrain.ca “It is an information website that lays out in a very cogent way arguments for electric and the arguments against diesel,” Chaddah said.

If electric trains were used along the line to the airport it could stop more often, connect to the TTC, fare would be cheaper and therefore accommodate thousands more riders, Chaddah said. Also, if electric trains were used, Chaddah said there would be no need for Metrolinx to build noise walls along the corridor.

Roncesvalles resident Peter Warnica, who produced and also plays guitar on the song, has been involved with the issue of diesel verses electric trains for a number of years.

“It is just wrong to be in, what we like to call, a world class city and make a decision like this,” Warnica said. “To me it is a no brainer.”

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partners.”

The RBC Foundation was one of those partners and donated $500,000 toward creating the new space, which boasts more than a dozen rooms including a small kitchen, a family room, a quiet room, a playroom for child-based assessment and psychotherapy, and offices.

Originally the department was on the fourth floor of TEGH, a space that was much too small to fulfill the needs of the department.

“We just outgrew the space,” said Karin Doan, the manager for the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Outpatient department.

“Now it’s spacious, it’s not as closed in, so there’s more opportunity for privacy. We don’t have to fight for group rooms. So now they have their own space. It’s great.”

The Building Bridges program is a 12-week full-time school program in partnership with the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB), which helps children 12 to 17 receive an education when they cannot attend a regular school due to mental health disorders such as high anxiety or depression.

The program accepts about eight students, Doan said, and has formalized educational programs with teachers that come in from the TCDSB. “These are students that are school-avoidants.”

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There was no budget for the project, and the video was filmed along the rail corridor.

The idea for the song and video arose out of frustration, Chaddah said.

“One of the most important issues in the city, with respect to public transit, seems to be completely off the public radar,” Chaddah said.

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About 220 full turkey dinners will be served Nov. 26.

The turkeys are bought in advance and need to be stored in ‘foster’ freezers until then. Volunteers are also needed to help cook them on the day in their own ovens. Other volunteers, including those to help serve, help in the kitchen or provide dessert, are also required. Call 416465-3755.

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Ward 32 artists are invited to help develop new programs and events for East End Arts, a Local Arts Service Organization (LASO) created to serve the east end of Toronto.

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Homeless Connect Toronto is a branch of the North America-wide Project Homeless Connect which aims to improve the access the homeless have to the services and programs they need.

The 2013 Street Needs Assessment interim report, which was released by the City of Toronto this summer, estimated the number of homeless at 5,219.

While those numbers represent an increase of only about one per cent from the last survey in 2009, all Torontonians should be concerned that so many of our fellow citizens have no place to call home.

It’s important to note more than 76.1 per cent of those surveyed by the city on the our view night of April 17 were recorded as taking refuge in city-administered homeless shelters. Approximately Homeless 8.6 per cent were sleeping outConnect has doors, according to the report.

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Councillor and mayor’s breakup an ugly one It surely was an aggressive move by Mayor Rob Ford to send robocalls to the constituents of Ward 43 Scarborough East Councillor Paul Ainslie Friday evening.

One might even say it went over the top in its aggression, straight on to intimidation and bullying, or to use Ainslie’s words, “thuggery.”

But it’s really not surprising.

Never mind Ford’s generally pugilistic modus operandi when it comes to local, retail politics. eye to eye Never mind that Ainslie had broken with the mayor on his vision for a subwayat-all-costs for Scarborough residents.

The two hadn’t seen eye to eye really since the beginning of the term.

Ainslie started out, installed as the chair of the Toronto Public Library Board, where he did his best to implement the may-

david nickle the city or’s early-term cost-cutting agenda – ultimately getting caught up with the mayor’s office in the stumble over branch cuts that emerged in the 2011 budget process.

And when it came time to replace Ford’s budget chief Mike Del Grande, Ainslie – an experienced budget committee member more than willing to do the job – was passed over in favour of budget neophite Frank Di Giorgio.

On the other side of the equation, Ainslie wasn’t afraid to go on the record to the Toronto Star when they were investigating allegations that the mayor had shown up appearing to be intoxicated for the annual Garrison Ball.

Ainslie said those allegations were true.

So Ford took to the telephone lines, on his own dime, to tell Ainslie’s

constituents that it was “extremely, extremely unfortunate” that Ainslie “did not listen to his constituents,” and “led the charge” against the subway in Scarborough.

The implication is clear: that good-hearted Scarborough folk should cast their votes elsewhere the next chance they get.

Integrity commissioner Ainslie came out swinging Tuesday.

He’s taking the matter to the city’s integrity commissioner.

He outright called Ford a liar over his characterization of the subway and called the whole robocall adventure “a blatant act of political thuggery.”

Strong, brave words.

It’s a shame that he couldn’t have found them sooner.

Ainslie was absolutely right to raise questions about the financial realities surrounding the subway

plan.

Yet as recently as July, Ainslie supported moving along with that plan – despite the fact that many of the same funding problems existed then as now.

In an interview, he explained that he’d hoped the city could negotiate those away by the Sept. 30 deadline council set.

But really – hope for such a resolution was as faint then as it is now.

Now it’s off to the integrity commissioner, who’ll be asked to rule on whether Toronto council’s code of conduct is copacetic with aggressive robocalling in the wards of one’s political enemies.

While that sorts itself out, we might show a little understanding about the vehemence with which Ainslie directs his rhetoric toward his former friend the mayor. As breakups go, this is an ugly one.

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Explore other trees in the neighbourhood and learn how you can salvage wood from your own trees.

Toronto Beach Chorale WHEN: 7:30 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd. CONTACT: http://torontobeachchorale.com COST: Cost, $20 and under Toronto Beach Chorale joins with guest vocalist, Paula Griffith, the Toronto Beaches Children’s Chorus, and guest musicians.

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The Joy of Writing The Joy of Writing, a weekly workshop where writers gather Tuesdays from 7 to 9 p.m., at the Queen-Saulter Library, 765 Queen St. E. Call Lucille Barker at 416-392-6810.

Beach Photo Club meeting Beach Photo Club meetings are held every first and third Thursday of the month from September to June at St. Aidan’s, 70 Silver Birch Ave. at 7:30 p.m. The only requisite is an interest in learning about the photographic arts.

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The number of apartments on top will also be reduced from seven to six, but there will be more total bedrooms: 16 as opposed to the 13 in the original structure.

Again, Lee said modern building standards were a limiting factor.

“Before, you could do whatever,” she said. “They made openings here and there. It used to be all dental and medical offices and over time they introduced bathrooms and kitchens and made them into apartments.”

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Get into the Halloween spirit with Value Village thrift store’s Halloween costume catwalk Thursdays in October.

Set to festive Halloween-themed music, the store’s costume consultants will showcase the season’s most popular costume looks while providing useful Halloween shopping tips to help transform people in time for Halloween, Oct. 31. The catwalk takes place at 3 p.m. at Value Village, 924 Queen St. E. Free.

Celebrate all things fall during the Kingston Road Village Business Community’s FallFest.

Taking place between Hannaford Street and Fallingbrook Road Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the event includes pumpkin decorating, a bouncy castle, music, food, face painting and sales.

Meet historian Gene Domagala at Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd., at 1 p.m. for a historic walking tour of Kingston Road Village.

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Help the legion and get rid of ewaste Get rid of your electronic waste and help the Royal Canadian Legion Baron Byng Beaches Branch 1/42 renovate its building.

The legion is asking people to bring their obsolete or broken electronics, including TVs and monitors, computer items, cellphones, household and auto batteries, wires and more to the legion at 243 Coxwell Ave. Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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The first Leslieville Gallery Crawl takes place Sunday.

Created by Leslieville’s new Project Gallery, the crawl includes stops at Atomic ToyBot Gallery, 978 Queen St. E.; MJG Gallery, 1028 Queen St. E.; Ben Navaee Gallery, 1107 Queen St. E.; Project Gallery, 1109 Queen St. E.; Parts Gallery, 1150 Queen St. E.; Pentimento Gallery, 1164 Queen St. E.; and Heliographics Studio and Gallery, 1238H Queen St. E. Meet at Atomic ToyBot Gallery at 1 p.m. The tour, which goes until 5 p.m., will move east, spending a

half a hour at each space.

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Grab your bike and tweed to learn about Ward 32 Hop on your bike and put on a tweed jacket and learn about the history of Ward 32 Saturday, Oct. 26.

Meet from 2 to 4 p.m. at Grinder Coffee, 126 Main St. for the first Ward 32 Historical Tweed Bike Ride featuring Gene Domagala, the Bard in the Park Thespians, and 32 Spokes Local Cycling Club.

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T h e K i n g s t o n Ro a d V i l l a g e Residents’ Association will host its founding meeting Monday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. at Adam Beck school, 400 Scarborough Rd. The association is a place for residents of Kingston Road Village (bordered by Kingston Road, Victoria Park Avenue, Gerrard Street and Malvern Avenue) in the Upper Beaches to gather and share ideas.

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The Ralph Thornton Centre (RTC) is going back to the 1920s to raise money for its programs.

The Murder Mystery Mingle Fundraiser, set for Friday, Oct. 25, will see the RTC transforming into a Speakeasy juice joint complete with jazz music, flappers, hors d’oeuvres, booze, prizes and murder.

The cocktail party is an interactive “Mingle” mystery, where participants will speak with suspects and ask questions to piece together the clues. People do not perform lines or act, they simply have to find out who did it. Prizes will be awarded for best costume and to the investigator who solves the murder.

The event takes place from 8 p.m. to midnight at the RTC Club, 765 Queen St. E. Cost, $65, which will be used to for activity development and also to fund outreach strategies.

Visit https://rtcclubmurdermystery. eventbrite.ca for tickets.

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NORM NELSON nnelson@insidetoronto.com Choirs, bands and theatre companies in east Toronto have been hard at work this fall preparing for their upcoming seasons.

And many of them have their opening fall performances lined up over the next several weeks.

BEACH CHORALE concert wTORONTO

The Toronto Beach Chorale kicks off its sixth season Saturday, Oct. 26 at 7:30 p.m. at Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd. with ‘inspiration in Music: Wish Upon A Star.’

They’ll be joined by the Toronto Beaches Children’s Chorus and guest vocalist Paula Griffith.

Musical numbers will include: The Impossible Dream, Will You Be There, Over the Rainbow, When You Wish Upon A Star, and Sure on This Shining Night.

More information at http:// torontobeachchorale.com SHARE HOLIDAY CONCERT wRIVERDALE

Riverdale Share, the annual holiday fundraising concert, will enjoy its second year back at the Danforth Music Hall

Sunday, Dec. 8 at 3 p.m.

Tickets go on sale beginning Sunday, Nov. 2 at three Danforth locations: • The Big Carrot, 348 Danforth Ave. • Treasure Island Toys, 581 Danforth Ave. • and It’s My Party, 423 Danforth Ave. (at Chester subway) The purpose of the longrunning popular concert, as explained on its website, is to bring “together residents, businesses, students, volunteers, community leaders, and performers to celebrate the spirit of community and to raise money for families in crisis.”

Visit http://riverdaleshare.com/ BEACHES CHILDREN’S CHORUS wToronto

T h e To r o n t o B e a c h e s Children’s Chorus is hooking up with the Toronto Beach Chorale for a joint concert, Wish upon a Star Saturday, Oct. 26 at 7:30 p.m. (see Toronto Beach Chorale for more information on this concert).

The choir will hold its own concert, Winter Melodies, Sunday, Dec. 8 at 4 p.m. at St. John’s Norway Anglican Church, 470 Woodbine Ave. The choir said it’s also

excited to sing at Toronto City Hall’s annual Christmas Concert, which is sure to get you in the spirit of the season Tuesday, Dec. 24 at 11:30 a.m.

Admission is free.

Visit www.torontobeacheschildrenschorus.com HARVEST brings music to beach wACOUSTIC

Acoustic Harvest is a monthly concert series bringing the finest local, national and international acoustic roots music in Toronto to the east-end communities of the Beach, the Scarborough Bluffs, greater Scarborough and beyond.

Next up, on Saturday, Oct. 26 at 8 p.m., is the third annual Healing Garden Benefit at St. Nicholas Anglican Church, 1512 Kingston Rd. Featuring Laura Smith, Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters with houseband Wendell Ferguson, David Woodhead, Don Reed and John Sheard.

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The Voca Chorus of Toronto (formerly the East York Choir), which rehearses and holds most of its performances at Eastminster United Church, kicks off its season Saturday, Dec. 7 at 7:30 p.m. with Songs of Joy and Peace.

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transit focus’ needed for transit planning w‘Laser In an open letter to Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) elected officials, Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance chair John Tory called for a “laser focus” to transit planning.

Tory, who is also a popular radio host, released the letter as city council debated whether to jettison a fullyfunded LRT plan and raise property taxes to fund a threestop Scarborough subway extension instead.

Transit planning is in jeopardy due to “short-term decision-making and politicking”, writes Tory. “The result has been decades of cancelled projects, incomplete facts, and failed accountability.” work impacts streetcar service wTrack

Track and platform work will require replacement buses for west-end streetcar service late into December, the TTC announced.

As of Sunday, both 501 Queen and 508 Lakeshore streetcar routes have buses running between Long Branch and the Humber Loop, until

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Buses will also replace 505 Dundas streetcars between Lansdowne Avenue and Dundas West station, as well as on the 506 Carlton route between Lansdowne and Keele Station. Regular service on both of those lines is slated to resume on Nov. 24 kids letters on screens wsubway

Paeans to Toronto from the pint-sized will appear on subway video screens until the end of the week.

Dear Toronto features excerpts from love letters written by children submitted during Harbourfront Centre’s Thanksgiving Day Festival, via the centre’s HarbourKIDS program.

Until Oct. 20, the Pattison Onestop subway screen network will display Tweets from @HarbourKIDS excerpting letters, which all begin with “Dear Toronto”, followed by a brief sentence explaining what the children love about

the city.

For more information about the project, visit www. artintransit.ca barrier wall protest campaign wNoise

A west-end neighbourhod group has organized a phone-in campaign targeted at the Ontario Minister of Transportation to stop construction of 16-foot tall noise barrier walls along the GO Georgetown South rail corridor.

The Junction Triangle Rail Committee is asking residents to call Glen Murray’s office daily at 416-327-9200 and request he arrange to meet with members of the group and a commissioned architectural firm to discuss an alternative design for the walls.

Metrolinx intends to construct the noise walls, to mitigate the effect of increased diesel train traffic, before the Union-Pearson Express air rail link opens in 2015.

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Mixed reviews for Eglinton Crosstown RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com While many residents support the Eglinton Crosstown LRT project, others like Bob Humphrey want it “killed” before it starts running.

The pensioner was part of a passionate group of local residents to take part in a panel discussion co-organized by Metroland Media Toronto at Northern District Public Library last Thursday.

Humphrey aired his concerns about the planned 19-kilometre rapid transit line to run below and along Eglinton Avenue, between Black Creek Drive and Kennedy Station.

He was convinced the light rail project will achieve the opposite of its objective to make transit more accessible – by ushering in condo development and crowding out local residents as a result.

“If they build all this stuff on Eglinton, people won’t be able to use transit and will go back to their cars,” said Humphrey, a resident

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“It’s the wrong line in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Several participants were also concerned that not enough is known about the specifics of the plan.

One woman said she was worried the city and Metrolinx, the planning agency tasked by the provincial government with delivering the $5-billion dollar project, are not adequately communicating construction plans with residents.

Eglinton Way BIA chair Maureen Sirois said she too feared not enough residents are aware of the Crosstown, the area’s first major transit undertaking in decades, which will take seven years of construction.

But the proprietor of women’s attire shop Accessories by Eva, which has stood at 402 Eglinton Ave., for 55 years, said redevelopment of the street was long-overdue and the Crosstown crucial to the long term health of local businesses.

“You have to have an attractive streetscape which makes people want to visit during the day and come back at night,” said Sirois who was part of a three-person panel moderated by Metroland Media Toronto editor-in-chief Peter Haggert.

Fellow panelist John Taranu agreed, saying the Crosstown could turn parts of Eglinton into one of the city’s most attractive destinations to visit, travel and shop, on par with the likes of the Danforth or the Beach.

“Su d d e n l y, E g l i n t o n becomes a place you visit because you want to go there not because it’s close by,” said Taranu who is a director with advocacy group Cycle Toronto as well as the Eglinton 2020 community association.

A final Crosstown community meeting takes place Thursday, Oct. 17 at the Mount Dennis Library, 1123 Weston Rd.

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Toronto police, city looking to speed up crossing guard process CLARK KIM ckim@insidetoronto.com The local public school board is looking to work with Toronto police and the City of Toronto to expedite the process of getting more crossing guards in the community to increase school safety.

Toronto District School Board (TDSB) Chair Chris Bolton updated trustees at the regular board meeting Wednesday, Oct. 9 that he already met with Toronto Police Services about the issue in response to two

recent school children pedestrian deaths.

“It seems to take a long time to get a crossing guard,” Bolton said.

He explained the current process requires the City of Toronto to review the initial request for a crossing guard, which then goes to Toronto police for approval.

A suggested solution they’re looking into now, said Bolton, is to combine the city and police review process.

Bolton also noted Scarborough Southwest Councillor Gary Crawford

and York West Councillor Anthony Perruzza introduced a motion at council to set up the School Safety Zone Working Group.

If passed, the task force would consist of police, city and public and Catholic school board representatives as well as any other community stakeholders to review issues such as heavy vehicle traffic in school zones, school drop-off zones, parking regulations around schools, school bus

routes, crossing guards and enforcement of traffic rules.

The goal would then be to develop a list of possible actions such as enhanced use of signage and pavement markings, targeted education campaigns, traffic enforcement, school zone speed reduction to improve and promote pedestrian safety.

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incredibly hard with the school board to try and figure out what to do,” said Crawford. “There is not one answer that can solve the issue.

Banning trucks in school zones is not the answer. What is an answer is a concerted effort between all parties to really figure out how we can deal with the importance of school safety.”

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Check out works from seasoned participants and newbies >>>from page 1 evolved into an annual event the neighbourhood, as well as the artists, look forward to.

Reid even recruited her husband Neville to help out with the administration work.

Since its first show, the Riverdale Art show has sold 972 works of art totalling $123,750 with almost $26,000 of that money going to the church.

According to Reid, the money from the past few art shows were used for the choir program and the restoration of the church’s organ, which is “an extensive and long procedure.”

The show also began to expand the different types of artwork on display to not only include paintings but mixed media, encaustic (hot wax), original artistic prints, photography and sculpture art.

An average of 20 artists participate in the show every year and there are always

Riverdale Art show organizer Jenny Reid, left, displays one of her pieces at last year’s event.

This year, some of her work includes this painting of a cat and perhaps even this wintry scene. The show takes place Friday and Saturday at St. Barnabas Church.

repeat artists who show at least 15 pieces ranging from $50 to $500 and who have been at the show since its inception.

Reid credits the Riverdale show’s longevity to its simple nature.

“It doesn’t cost anyone (much) money,” said Reid.

“The artists just pay a table fee and it covers our printing

costs for a few ads, flyers and invitations.”

According to Reid, the only thing artists have to do besides pay their table fee and show up with art, is distribute flyers and bring a snack for opening night.

“I think that’s why it has kept going really,” she said.

This year, artists, seasoned participants, and newbies

will join together this Friday and Saturday for the 2013 art show.

And for the first time an artist will be opening the show and Robert Callaghan has the honours.

He’s a retired Ontario Provincial Police staff sergeant who became known for his paintings of back lanes in Toronto’s east end during the winter. He won’t be showing art work this year for medical reasons, but wouldn’t miss out on still being a part of the show; he’s been participating for the past eight years.

“I’m honoured and pleased to be asked,” said Callaghan, who is a member of the Don Valley Art Club.

He hopes to bring some humour to opening night and of course get the chance to see what other artists have been up to in preparation

for the show. An aspect Callaghan believes is beneficial to the artists as well as the customer.

“Something a customer says about a painting could push an artist in a direction they never thought about,” said Callaghan. “It’s as much a show as it is a creative hub.”

Both Reid and Callaghan said the art show is especially good for new artists. Many of them who attend the show are displaying their works for the first time, and it’s a valuable experience.

“I think that’s really nice to give people the chance to do that and they realize how much work is involved in preparing your work, presenting it, standing in front of it and having people coming in and looking at it,” said Reid. “It’s a new adventure for some people.”

For first-time visitors the show can be a bit overwhelming, said Reid. Art is everywhere and takes up all the available space in the church’s hall.

“It’s not like a gallery,” said Reid. Galleries often take between 40 to 60 per cent of artists profits, she said.

That’s one of the many reasons why, Callaghan credits the Riverdale Art show’s longevity to Reid and her husband. They’ve found a way to make it work for the artists and for a good cause, he said.

“I can’t think of another local art show that has that kind of endurance,” said Callaghan.

“It’s become a real happening on the Danforth.”

The Riverdale Art show takes place Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. with a reception and Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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