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SANTA’S STATION: Penelope Jensen meets Santa during the CP Holiday Train stop at the Lambton Yard on Monday night, held to benefit the Daily Bread Food Bank.

It harkens back to an era of bridge clubs, knitting circles and book clubs – social activities like these that The Festival of most often House Culture took place focuses on i n p e o p l e’s community homes.

Toronto’s building in Second Annual neighbourhoods Festival of House Culture, a weekend of community building that features music, art, food, conversation and the like, takes place in residents’ homes this year, Dec. 3 through 6 simultaneously, in two neighbourhoods – the Junction-Roncesvalles Village-West Bend and in Little >>>house, page 7

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Whelan performs in Stones in His Pocket Help light Roncy for holidays LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com

Junction Triangle-based actor Mark Whelan has a following of a particular demographic he attributes to one Canadian brewing company with which he’s had a five-year relationship.

“I seem to be pretty popular with guys between the age of 25 and 35,” Whelan said with a smile during a conversation at a local Junction cafe.

“They often stop me on the street to ask, ‘Are you the Sleeman’s guy?’”

Indeed, Whelan has appeared in eight Sleeman Brewery commercials in which he recounts the company’s notorious history. Viewers might recall his opening line of dialogue, “Every bottle of Sleeman’s has a past...,” as he sits on a bar stool before digging into a trunk of gold aboard a pirate ship amidst duelling pirates; or in another where he tells of George Sleeman’s fight against prohibition.

As the saying goes, it has taken Whelan 25 years to become an over-

night success.

“I’m really lucky because I get to work right across the board, in television, film, commercials and theatre,” he told The Villager. “Theatre is probably my first love.”

Whelan is starring in a production of Stones in His Pockets, an Irish play penned in 1996 by Marie Jones for the DubbleJoint Theatre Company in Dublin, Ireland. It is presented by the Irish Stage Company of which Whelan is a founding member and will be performed at the Alumnae until Dec. 12.

The play is extremely funny, said Whelan, but is regarded as more of a tragicomedy.

“It’s not uncommon for Irish people to deal with tragedy through comedy,” he said.

Set on the west coast of Ireland in a small town, Stones in His Pockets is a movie-within-a-play. There are two main characters, Charlie Conlin, played by Whelan, and Jake Quinn, played by co-producer and fellow actor Stephen Farrell. The two play extras cast in the sequel to The Quiet

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Junction Triangle actor Mark Whelan (centre) stars in ‘Stones in My Pockets’, under the direction of James Barrett, and co-staring Stephen Farrell. Sarah Barton is stage manager.

Man, and all 15 characters, both male and female.

“We play everyone from young children to old men and 30-yearold women,” Whelan said. “Our

accents vary from Irish to English and American

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Students take on documentary filmmaking in CityShorts LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com For four years, Helen Costa, a Bishop Marrocco Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School student, has been taking the 504 streetcar, yet it wasn’t until recently that she discovered just how special some shops along its route are.

As part of a filmmaking pilot project called CityShorts, presented by the not-for-profit Back Lane Studios, Costa was assigned the task of creating a three-minute documentary focusing on a particular aspect of Roncesvalles Village. Initially, Costa confessed, she wasn’t too thrilled about her topic: the Old Country Shop, a European gift shop on Roncesvalles Avenue.

“But, once we went down there and introduced ourselves to the shop owners, it was wonderful,” Costa, a Grade 12 Religion Arts student, said.

“They were so sweet.”

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Teacher Teresa Kelly, background, helps Helen Costa (centre) and Jessica Jeffrey as they work on their film ‘A Trip to Old Fashioned Europe’.

German store in Roncesvalles Village, Costa said she learned.

“Obviously, over the years, things have changed, but this is the only shop that maintained its history.

Everything is original,” Costa said. “A

lady who had come to the store while we were there filming had visited the store as a child. She said everything was still the same. She could see her childhood in the store.”

After filming was complete, Costa

and her group decided what story they wanted to tell in three minutes.

They called their film A Journey to Old Fashioned Europe.

“I take the 504 streetcar – I’ve never once looked out the window and acknowledged this shop. When I look at it now, it’s a special little store,” Costa said.

Because the students only had a month to prepare their films, Back Lane Studios founder Ellen Moorhouse said she and its members prepared a roster of topics the students could choose from and provided filmmaking mentors to support them.

The students had the opportunity to see their work on the big screen at the Revue Cinema on Nov. 20.

The goal is to show the students’ films at the Revue as part of regular movie screenings before full-length features.

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The Roncesvalles Village Business Improvement Area’s (BIA) Christmas tree had seen better days.

Last year, it shone brightly on the High Park library’s lawn. This season, the branch is undergoing renovations, displacing the tree.

And, so the search was on for a new tree. Because of a shoestring budget and current weather conditions, a new, planted tree wasn’t in the cards this year. Instead, Feihl approached Roncesvalles United Church (formerly Emmanuel Howard Park United Church) Rev. Anne Hines. Together, they decided on the two existing mature trees that flank the north entrance of the church that’s situated at Wright and Roncesvalles avenues.

“The entrance to the Village Healing Centre (at the church) is there; the flea market is there. In a way, it’s kind of an entrance to the heart of the community,” BIA manager Veronica Feihl said. “The trees are right there beside the sidewalk flanking the street.”

The BIA, Roncesvalles United Church and RoncyWorks, a casual network of volunteers who work together to improve the neighbourhood, are inviting community members to help fill the trees with solar-powered holiday lights on Saturday. Lights cost $15 each.

The lights are to celebrate community spirit as well as all rituals, Kwanza, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah and Yuletide, all symbolic of light-bearing practices.

Hand-crafted (or purchased) solar lights, and donations are welcome and can be dropped off at the church, 214 Wright Ave. The Saturday tree lighting event runs from 1 to 4 p.m.

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he Syrian humanitarian crisis has gripped the world, and the world is finally responding.

Traumatized by the horrors of war, a life away from unimaginable violence is what these refugees seek.

They are looking for a life of peace, a life of hope, and a future for their children in a land free from bombings, unwarranted arrests and detentions, rape, torture, intimidation and, of course, death.

This is what Syrian refugees are fleeing from.

Lifeline Syria, a Toronto-based organization, will recruit, train, and assist sponsor groups to welcome and support 1,000 Syrian refugees coming to Canada as permanent immigrants to our view resettle in the Greater Toronto Area over the next two years.

It’s time to Its website states some startling facts: more than 75 per cent of put people Syrian refugees are women and before politics children; fewer than one per cent of Syria’s refugees will get a chance to be resettled overseas. And after nearly four years of civil war, more than a quarter of a million people have died, more than half of whom are believed to be civilians.

It’s our national obligation to help the needy, the afflicted, the poor and the tortured. It’s our national obligation to welcome the Syrian refugees with open arms; not only is it the humane and decent thing to do, but our welcoming nature will help facilitate the settlement process so refugees can move from being victims of war to contributing members of Canadian society.

It’s time to put people before politics.

The Government of Canada will work with Canadians, including private sponsors, non-governmental organizations, provincial, territorial and local governments to welcome 25,000 Syrian refugees to our country.

Welcoming the refugees is not only to benefit their physical health, but their mental and emotional well being. How can we not benefit as a collective people when we are doing good toward our fellow man?

For more information on how you can help the Toronto resettlement process, visit www.lifelinesyria. ca or read our story on The Clothing Drive – tinyurl. com/zrtrd2h – a Toronto-wide initiative that has collected thousands of pieces of warm clothing for Syrian refugees and is now in desperate need for a larger facility to store the donations, as daily drop offs continue.

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Councillors face a very real budget process It’s about to get real.

That was the message from Toronto’s new top bureaucrat to Mayor John Tory and the members of his Executive Committee.

For the first time in years, city staff will be crafting a preliminary operating and capital budget that will need serious political attention.

City manager Peter Wallace told the Tuesday meeting of the powerful committee in no uncertain terms that if council wants to balance the budget and provide a property tax increase at around the rate of inflation, council’s going to have to figure it out.

“We have a very challenging decision environment,” said Wallace, who came to the city earlier this year from his job as head of the civil service at Queen’s Park.

“Pressure is around five per cent before any political decisions are made by council. That is typically the type of pressure that we see, but that is not yet consistent with a residential tax

david nickle the city rate at the rate of inflation and it’s not consistent with known capital pressures.

With staff recommendations we can partially, but not fully resolve that gap.”

This is a big change from the way council has become used to receiving its budget recommendations. Since the middle days of David Miller’s administration, city staff have presented a budget that more or less balances out, which is to say, the city’s programs are more or less funded by a property tax increase that more or less hits the rate of inflation.

Sometimes, surprises happen as earlier this year, when money the city had been expecting from the province didn’t materialize. Council figured out a complicated self-borrowing scheme to maintain the property tax increase then,

but that was a one-time fix.

This time, council is on notice that the situation hasn’t fixed itself, and city departments have generally not been able to meet the target of two per cent reductions that Tory promised would happen over the course of the year.

So it’s going to be up to council, and Wallace is hopeful Toronto’s 45 elected leaders will be up to the challenge to find political solutions where mere administration is not enough.

I would be more hopeful myself, had I not watched council try to do exactly that back in the early days of amalgamation, when the city was placed under extraordinary financial constraints by the downloading of hundreds of millions of dollars of new services.

What resulted then was a combination of a war of words between the city and the province, and a desperate attempt to rearrange the city’s finances to enable a

property tax freeze that was finally unaffordable.

Among other things, the city got deep into a computer leasing deal that cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars and required a $26-million public inquiry to sort out.

When staff brought forward their unbalanced budgets then, councillors were faced with hair-whitening options for savings or revenue that went nowhere and paralyzed the process.

The solution was, ultimately, to engage staff in providing a real budget with real solutions. It made it all a bit dull.

Tory has made a mandate of being a bit dull, and it will truly be a test of that mandate, to see how he deals with what is going to be, once again, a very interesting and very, very real budget process.

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Christmas Bake Sale WHEN: 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

WHERE: Runnymede Presbyterian Church, 680 Annette St. CONTACT: Walter Brewer, 416-767-2689, runnymedepc@bellnet.ca COST: free Baking of all kinds for your tasting pleasure.

Holly Tea & Craft Sale WHEN: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: The Anglican Church of St. John’s West Toronto, 288 Humberside Ave. CONTACT: Frank Rinaldo, 416-7632393, www.sjwt.ca, hollytea@sjwt. ca COST: Free Enjoy festive tea/coffee with assorted sandwiches and sweets.

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Toronto School of Art Open House WHEN: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Toronto School of Art, 980 Dufferin St., Second Floor CONTACT: Renee, 416-504-7910, tsa-art.com, info@tsa-art.com COST: free Visit for an end-of-term celebration featuring student galleries and refreshments, check out the studio spaces while some classes are led by faculty of professional artists, and visit the third annual tiny art sale featuring small-scale works and handmade items. All are welcome.

Bloor St. W. CONTACT: egrisola@ torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free A puppet show of Robert Munsch’s classic Jonathan Cleaned Up, Then He Heard a Sound. Holiday stories and crafts to follow. Ideal for ages two to seven. Drop in.

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High Park Stewards WHEN: 10:30 a.m. WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: highparknature.org, stewards@ highparknature.org COST: free Help the High Park Stewards remove buckthorn. Meet in front of Grenadier Restaurant at 10:30 a.m. Rain or shine, but not during lightning.

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Hour of Code WHEN: 4 to 5:15 p.m. WHERE: Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane St. CONTACT: Kara, 416-394-1014 COST: free Learn the basics of coding with this lesson based on Star Wars, and participate in the global Hour of Code movement. For children ages seven and up. Space is limited. Call to register. Also on Dec. 10, lesson based on Minecraft.

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The Clothing Drive seeks donations to rent own space >>>from page 1 and infant wear. Gammon Dewling said she is storing bags in her garage, not willing to turn any donation away.

Organizers are encouraging everyone to donate to the drive’s crowdfunding campaign online (http://bit.ly/1TnRQvI) so that The Clothing Drive can afford to rent its own facility.

“One of the things that I’ve been trying to get across is that it doesn’t need to be a big donation, like $500,” Gammon Dewling said. “I’ve told my kids we’re going to donate $10 a day.”

Already, a package of clothing was delivered to a refugee family, a mother and her three children, in Toronto.

The Clothing Drive’s program director Julie Mahfouz accompanied a private sponsor to meet them, an experience she called humbling. She and vol-

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unteers painstakingly selected clothes for each of them.

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the day with all the messages, emails, sorting and space issues immediately subsided,” Mahfouz said in a statement.

“She was a real person from Daria, Syria – a place that has been bombed over and over again since 2012.”

Her English is limited and she has not left the building she has lived in since she arrived in Toronto.

“She was so shy to ask for too many clothes, but gracious and enormously thankful when our volunteers went above and beyond to give her more than what she had requested,” Mahfouz said.

“When she spoke in Arabic with our volunteer you could feel her excitement.”

Mahfouz said the mother was relieved when she realized volunteers had given her looser fitting clothing and hijabs.

“When the children saw the four large bags of clothes and shoes that were waiting for them, they were so happy that they would finally be able to wear the sizes and the styles made for their little frames,” she said.

Mahfouz is a small business owner in Toronto. The initiative is a personal one for her. Her husband is Syrian and still has family in Syria.

“The atrocities happening in that country are real and

those who are coming here have experienced that awful reality,” she said. “We need to help them. We look at our lives in Canada; the opportunity and abundance we have, our kids sleeping in warm, safe beds and we are grateful. If you ask me why I am leading this initiative, the answer is simple – I’m a Canadian and that’s what we do. We help.

We give.”

Earlier this month, one of The Clothing Drive’s creators Laura-Jean Bernhardson, founder and CEO of Fresh Collective, a clothing boutique in downtown Toronto, posted a notice explaining that her Queen Street West store would be a drop-off point for the clothing drive.

“Right away, the wonderful people of Toronto jumped in to help in droves,” she said in a statement.

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There will be 18 events taking place in 17 houses in the Junction-RoncesvallesWest Bend areas, plus a number more in Little ItalyTrinity Bellwoods.

Residents of the Little Italy-Trinity Bellwoods neighbourhoods organized their own Festival of House Culture.

“We had this vision and hope that each year we’d add a new neighbourhood.

It would have its own programming. That’s how the festival could grow,” Holt said.

Within the two areas, all events and gatherings are within walking distance of each other and timed so that people can attend as many as they’d like.

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These experiences were w h a t i n s p i re d Ho l t t o create the Festival of House Culture.

“I t h o u g h t , w h y n o t include theatre, comedy, film and dancing? I’m very into the idea of bringing people together for a conversation – how often do we do that?

When, in our culture, do we have the opportunity to have a conversation about something that interests us with people we don’t know.”

Including music in the mix helps to break the ice, Holt added.

As part of this year’s event, there will be a gift circle in which people will share what they need in their lives and/ or what they can offer in way of goods and services.

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helps to set a particular mood. Warm tones create a space that is inviting and gives off a positive energy.

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The event was created by West Bend resident Michael Holt, a musician who used to play festivals, concert halls and large and small commercial venues.

“There was always something missing for me in it and that was a deep level of connection with my audiences,” Holt said. “When I discovered house concerts, this was what I was missing.

I fell in love with them.”

After house concert tours throughout North America and Europe, Holt said he wanted to share the experience with his musician friends and started a concert series called ‘Piano Salons’ comprised of two different musical acts performed in homes every month.

“We’d pair them with a conversation,” Holt recalled.

“There’s an intimacy that happens at someone’s house.

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Lambton House hosts community pub night makes visit to Lambton House, 4066 Old presents Mirrors, an evejunction market wSanta Dundas St., hosts its next ning of music and dance community pub night Friday, Dec. 4.

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The Windermere United Church Fall Concert Series

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The Saturday, Dec. 5 concert features award-winning musician Paulina Derbez, Westminster United Church music director Nancy Sicsic, and dancer Lucy Rupert.

The event takes place at Windermere United Church, 356 Windermere Ave. at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets cost $20, and are available at the door.

Email wintermerechurch@ bellnet.ca for details.

Santa will be returning for his annual visit to the Junction Saturday, Dec. 5, starting at 11 a.m.

Santa in the Junction: Winter Market will feature traditional window displays and children’s events, and merchants will be offering special deals during the Winter Market.

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