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The Bloor West Village Residents Association (BWVRA) is providing the opportunity to have dinner with actress, author and

comedian Andrea Martin of SCTV and My Big Fat Greek Wedding fame.

Martin, an American native, moved to Toronto early in her career and has called Bloor West Village home for years.

She showed her support at an Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) pre-hearing and mediation Monday, Jan. 6, regarding a proposed development at Bloor West and Durie streets. She was one of more than 100 local resi-

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Martin, whose book ‘Lady Parts’ was recently released, will speak about her storied career, what she loves about Toronto and what she values >>>save, page 6

This spring the High Park Nature Centre will have a new place to call home.

As of April 2015 the Nature Centre, currently located at 440 Parkside Dr., will be on the move to a new space near the entrance to High Park at Bloor Street West.

Known to employees and park goers as the Forest School, the existing facility boasts 5,000 square-feet of space, a significant increase from its building that’s roughly 700 square-feet.

According to Natalie Harder, the centre’s executive director, the lack of space at its current location was a large deciding factor for the move.

“It’s not a lot of space. We obviously spend a lot of time outdoors, but with the case of severe weather we have to have a place to bring everybody,” she said.

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St. Joe’s welcomes Adam Michael Lamelas, the new year’s baby HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

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The couple was scheduled to have a big New Year’s Eve dinner with her cousins in their parents home. She said the “cramps” were getting stronger around dinner time, but admits they were bearable.

“My family was saying, ‘oh you need to go to the hospital’ and I said ‘no they’re just going to send me home,” Goncalves recalled.

She wasn’t set to deliver until Jan. 6. She was five days early. So she insisted it was nothing.

As people around the world rang in 2015 with friends and family, Marlene Goncalves was at St. Joseph’s Health Centre coping with her “intensifying” contractions with husband Telmo Lamelas by her side.

“I started feeling cramps earlier in the day around 11 a.m. and they were coming and going,” Goncalves said.

“I felt a little weird, but I let it

“I was totally refusing to go to the hospital,” she said.

It wasn’t until 9:30 p.m. when the contractions “were really strong and were coming closer,” when she thought this may be the real deal.

The couple lives near Dufferin Street and Eglinton Avenue, but her parents live close to St. Joe’s and it’s the hospital her doctor is affiliated with. So she and her whole family, cousins and all, rushed to St. Joe’s.

Goncalves was already dilated fivecentimetres dilated when the nurses

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“Everything happened so quickly after that, my water broke and it all became a blur,” the new mom said.

Just more than two hours later, at 2:52 a.m. Marlene and Telmo welcomed their first child, Adam Michael Lamelas, weighing six-pounds 15 ounces.

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Merry Christmas to all those celebrating this week.

Recently The Ukrainian Canadian Social Services held a Christmas Bazaar at its Bloor Street location, where Executive Director Lidia Cymbaluk sold decorative wheat centrepieces (above).

Chrystina Klukowskyj offered tasty baked treats (below), while other tables were filled with decorative Ukrainian crafts, tablewear, clothing and food.

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Brendan Gall, left, and Lesley Faulkner appear in the Tarragon Theatre’s production of, ‘Lungs’.

Show Lungs tackles issue of raising children in a world that’s falling apart Features Junction Triangle actor Brendan Gall LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Not unlike the character he plays in Tarragon Theatre’s remount of the award-winning production of Lungs, Brendan Gall is a 30-something father who is concerned about the state of the environment as he raises his son.

“I read the script and realized I wasn’t a unique snowflake,” the Junction Triangle resident said with a laugh.

Gall’s character is a married 30-something who with his wife is contemplating having a child. They’re a middle-class, white-privileged couple, who is worried about the world, the environment and what humankind is doing to the planet.

The play is about their personal struggle to decide whether or not to have a child – or if anyone should have a child.

“My wife and I are neurotic, anxious and worried about being good people,” Gall told The Villager.

Lungs, written by British playwright Duncan

Macmillan, and also starring Lesley Faulkner, opened New Year’s Eve and runs until Sunday, Jan. 25 at Tarragon’s Extraspace.

Lungs promises to give a no-holds-barred look at lifetime of love in a time of global anxiety and political unrest. It’s simply two actors on stage in the midst of a conversation.

Coincidentally, Gall and his co-star both have young children. Gall’s little boy is almost three.

“My partner and I worry a lot about the environment.

We worry about the world as our child is growing up,” he said.

Gall and Faulkner “fight a lot. We care about the same things, but our approach is different,” he said.

“I’m a big fan of confident avoidance – this production is inadvertently therapy for me.”

Audiences really respond to the play. The script resonates with a lot of people, Gall said.

“I’ve done remounts before.

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(to be reprising a role), but it’s also a little nerve-wracking because there are expectations. You’ve got to deliver a second time.”

Gall was born in Nova Scotia, but grew up in Richmond Hill. He credits a friend in elementary school for turning him on to acting.

He would go on to graduate from the Unionville High School, an arts school before attending George Brown Theatre School.

He had aspirations as a kid of becoming a movie star.

“The reality is, being an actor in Canada has little to do with Hollywood,” Gall said.

“I feel really lucky. I’ve gotten to do some great work.”

He is currently starring on the medical show, Remedy, and has some writing projects in different stages of completion.

Lungs can be seen at Tarragon Theatre’s Extraspace, 30 Bridgman Ave., Tuesday to Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

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hings are beginning to happen in this city to relieve traffic congestion. Short-term, the TTC has a host of projects on the way to assist in that (see our list online at bit.ly/1vZ2zyN). A longterm strategy is just as critical, but also important is getting everyone in this city to do their own part.

Businesses in this city fuel the very need for commuting. Deliveries need to be made. People run errands, grab coffees and many use their cars to do so.

But where these efforts plug up our roadways, people need to think differently about how they or their business impacts traffic. How can they change what they’re doing and be a part of the solution, rather than the problem?

On Monday, Toronto police and the city’s parking enforcement began their blitz on illegally parked cars in the city’s core.

Any vehicle caught causing our view congestion because they were in a live lane was tickWe all need to stopped eted or towed.

Though the law isn’t new, be part of the Mayor John Tory made the rigtraffic solution orous enforcement part of his six-point plan to reduce traffic congestion in early 2015.

Commercial delivery and courier companies are a necessity for businesses downtown. But unless they want to foot expensive towing bills, they’re going to have to find new ways to operate to avoid jamming up the streets during rush hour.

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The loss of $6 billion in productivity each year is projected to grow to $15 billion by 2031.

Businesses need to think outside the box to change their impact: perhaps consider flex time, satellite offices or allow staff to work from home.

Tory’s suggested fewer events be hosted downtown and making sure marathons and charity walks aren’t monopolizing major roadways.

Residents should ask how they can change their own commuter routines so they are more considerate of other drivers.

And the city should measure the outcome of this enforcement campaign and apply that success to other commercial neighbourhoods in need of relief.

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Our ‘hurry up and wait’ culture My, did Toronto councillors and the mayor get off to a running start this week.

Mayor John Tory and councillors looked at all sorts of ways to speed cars and trucks on their way with traffic management as police got busy towing illegally stopped vehicles during rush hour.

The Public Works and Infrastructure Committee wasted no time putting staff to work studying whether or not to contract out garbage collection. Tory was so excited to get going that he nearly fell over on an icy Toronto sidewalk.

And that was just by Tuesday.

In all this hustle-and-bustle, it was good to be reminded that not everything in Toronto is an around-the-clock project, and there are still some parts of the city where people know how to slow down and smell the roses.

And where better to do that than in Nathan Phillips Square.

On Monday, the city’s Government Management

david nickle the city Committee kicked off the term hearing from the team that’s managing the nine-year, $60-million project to spruce up the square outside Toronto City Hall.

The project got its start under the David Miller administration in 2007, with a design

by PLANT Architect and a budget of $40 million.

The cost of that project has ballooned to about $60 million, with elements added and removed through the years as political whims shifted.

This week staff recommended adding back many of the elements of that revitalization that had been removed – which would add $11 million to the project.

If everything is added back the $70-million project to improve Toronto’s civic square will be finished in 2016.

If a concurrent repair of the ceremonial ramp going to the

roof of City Hall is included, that will be 2019.

If the city can find a restaurateur with $4 million to spend on building a restaurant there, we’ll have one of those, too.

Until then, Nathan Phillips Square will be some flavour of the way it is now: partially open, dotted with hoardings, kind of arid: all for a project that was intended to marginally improve the political and cultural centre of our city.

It’s this example – along with the decades-long rehabilitation of the Gardiner Expressway and the continuing mirage of subways in Scarborough – that reveals Toronto’s true political cult heritage, and against which the new hurry-up culture of the Tory administration finds itself.

Council can hurry up as much as it wants now. Before too long, we all get down to the regular business, of waiting.

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Village being ruined by development To the editor There are lessons to be learned from the mad rush to the suburbs in the 1960s.

If you thought developers were building communities, you were wrong. These suburbs had no services that people could walk to, yet they were led to believe they were buying in communities. The newest suburbs still do not have a main street community style.

To make matters worse, many developers are now seeking to rebuild within the city limits. This puts midrise and high-rise condos in existing low-rise neighbourhoods where they don’t belong. That would be in Bloor West Village where we are under extreme mid-rise development pressure.

Developers and planners messed up the suburbs – now they want to do the same inside the city itself.

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Get swinging with hustle dance workshop Learn how to dance the hustle Friday, Jan. 9 at the Lithuanian House, 1573 in Hall B, from 7:30 p.m. to midnight. The lesson will be taught by Mary Adams.

Monthly dances are sponsored by the Toronto Swing Dance Society. All ages are welcome.

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the ‘Room Enough for Nature: Unusual nature discoveries in High Park’ as part of its Winter Speaker series, Sunday, Jan. 11 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Howard Park Tennis Club, 430 Parkside Dr. For years, speaker Richard Aaron, has wandered the trails learning about the park’s flora and fauna. On occasion, he has chanced upon a totally unexpected animal or plant. Aaron will share some of these unusual encounters. Visit highparknature.org for details.

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The Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas St., hosts a pub night, Friday, Jan. 9. Doors open at 6 p.m. There will be music by Tony Day from 8:30 p.m. until midnight. Admission is free.

There will be sandwiches, beer, wine, coffee and snacks for sale. Bus #55 from Jane subway station or #30 from High Park or Islington stations.

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The event was originally planned for December, but was postponed due to weather. Hear some of the Junction’s finest storytellers recollect their best Junction stories. Admission includes snacks and a pint of ale from a JCB special cask. Tickets at the door and at Annette Street library in advance; tickets from the December date will be honoured.

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It takes place at the Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. at 7 p.m. For further information, visit green13toronto.org

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Save our Village team ‘feeling positive’ about mediation with developer so far >>>from page 1 about living in the Bloor West Village community at a fundraising dinner at Queen’s Pasta, 2263 Bloor St. W., Jan. 14 at 7:15 p.m.

Attendees will be able to purchase her book and get their copies personally signed

by Martin.

The entertainer will speak to fellow diners during dessert, according to the BWVRA’s Krista Wylie. Wylie connected with Martin when she made a donation to the community advocacy group Save Our Village.

“I emailed her a thank you and wondered if she would be willing to come and chat with the community,” Wylie told The Villager.

The fundraising event includes a three-course dinner and cash bar. There are only 40 spots available and tickets are going quickly, said Wylie. Tickets are $135.

After the pre-hearing Monday, the Save Our Village team of lawyer, planner and

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volunteers was “feeling positive.”

Mediation continues until Friday. If an agreement is not reached, an official OMB hearing will be set for a later date.

“OMB mediation gives the opportunity for us to work with the developer to decide what happens,” Wylie said.

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It offers a chance to explore the park and the nature it has to offer all year round, through camps, school programs, nature clubs, family nature walks, special events, programs for girl guides and scouts, educational birthday parties and adult programs.

By July the larger facility will be the new location of the nature centre thanks to a $350,000 grant over three years courtesy of the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

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nization that we needed that boost to allow us to take that risk to moving to a bigger space,” Harder said.

A large portion of the grant will be put toward new equipment, such as tables, chairs, office supplies, while the remainder will be used to increase staffing due to the increased enrollment in programs. A total of four positions will be created over the three year period.

Another reason for the move is visibility; according to Harder a lot of people don’t know where the High Park Nature Centre is located.

“Unless you have a reason to go there, you don’t really stumble upon it,” she said.

“This new site is right there, it welcomes people to High Park. It’s good for visibility, but accessibility too, it’s close to the High Park subway station.”

The nature centre board has “had its eye out” for the building since September 2013, Harder added. The new centre’s location will require a bit of sprucing up, including a fresh coat of paint and new furniture.

With the added space the centre will be able to add a few new features including a volunteer hub, a larger more cozy area for the parent-tot program it runs complete with carpet and couches. It will also double as a space for parents who wish to stick around while their kids are in nature programs.

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Graffiti was spotted recently along a new stretch of noise wall along the Georgetown South rail corridor.

Several “tags” were spotted on the new five-metre high wall located just north of Ruskin Avenue by area residents last weekend, including local activist Kevin Putnam. Since November 2014, Metrolinx has been leading construction of approximately 20-kilometres of noise walls along the Georgetown corridor, whose material includes transparent acyclic and pre-concrete segments.

In 2013, Putnam was part of a group proposing an alternative “green” design for the walls made entirely of natural vegetation whose benefits included reducing the likelihood of graffiti.

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The city has begun towing illegally parked vehicles that block lanes during rush hour.

rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT The measure was one of several announced in late 2014 by Mayor John Tory, who has vowed to drastically improve city gridlock, particularly downtown. On Monday, police and parking officials were out en masse to see to the quick removal of cars, delivery trucks and other motorized vehicles impeding rush-hour traffic flow.

Police issued 592 parking tickets and 76 vehicles were towed during the morning and evening rush hour.

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Anyone with a ticket for the Rock’s tilt against National Lacrosse League rivals the Buffalo Bandits Friday, Jan. 23 will be able to ride on GO all night. The promotion is part of the Rock’s pledge to win against Buffalo – or provide fans with a free ticket to another home game if the team loses.

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Ward 13 Constituency Hours with Councillor Sarah Doucette WHEN: 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-392-4072, councillor_doucette@toronto.ca to make an appointment COST: Free Ward 13 City Councillor Sarah Doucette holds Constituency Hours regularly to meet with constituents in person.

Toronto Swing Dance Society Dance WHEN: 7:30 to 11:45 p.m. WHERE: Lithuanian Hall, 1573 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: Sylvia, http://TorontoSwingDanceSociety.ca/friday-dances COST: members $10, non-members $15 A fun-filled evening of all styles of swing dancing plus Hustle Lessons by Mary Adams.

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Saturday Writers WHEN: 9:30 to 11 a.m. WHERE: High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside Dr. CONTACT: 416-393-7671 COST: Free Read from and discuss works in progress. Prose, poetry, essays welcome.

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Book Tasting at High Park Library WHEN: 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: High Park Library, 228 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: 416393-7671 COST: Free In celebration of Family Literacy Day, come out for a special book tasting event. Visit the library’s ‘restaurant’ (the community room) where you can ‘sample’ (read a few pages from a book) and ‘order’ (borrow) different genres of books from the menu.

WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

WHERE: Howard Park Tennis Club, 430 Parkside Dr. CONTACT: http:// highparknature.org/wiki/wiki. php?n=VolunteerOpportunities.

VolunteerStewardship COST: Free Despite its many built-up areas, High Park still has an impressive diversity of nature. For years, Richard Aaron has wandered the trails and on occasion, he has chanced upon a totally unexpected animal or plant. Aaron will share some of these unusual encounters with you. Following the talk, the floor will be open for audience members to share their own unusual High Park nature discoveries.

COST: Free Meet twice a week at a local coffee shop for conversation, as a social network of neighbours.

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Ace Your Interview WHEN: 3 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Dufferin/ St. Clair Library, 1625 Dufferin St. CONTACT: 416-393-7712 COST: Free Discover how to handle challenging

Junction Seniors Gathering WHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Agora Cafe, 3015 Dundas St. W. CONTACT: Eleanor Batchelder, 647-235-0843

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Dynamic Resumes WHEN: 3 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Dufferin/ St. Clair Library, 1625 Dufferin St. CONTACT: 416-393-7712 COST: Free Learn how to write targeted resumes using key words and accomplishment statements and identify what information employers are looking for when they review resumes. Call to register.

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Tall Tales of the Junction WHEN: 6 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Junction Craft Brewery, 90 Cawthra Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: $20 The Junction’s finest storytellers will be ttelling Junction stories. Join in with your own Junction tale and win valuable and fun prizes. Admission includes snacks and a pint of ale from a Junction Craft Brewery special cask. Tickets at the door and at the Annette Street Public Library.

French Immersion information evening WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: James Culnan Catholic School, 605 Willard Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-5325 COST: Free An information meeting for parents who are interested in learning more about French Immersion.

w Tuesday, Jan. 20

Green 13 presents: Funding Cities With Local Energy: Geothermal Urban Royalties WHEN: 7 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. COST: Free Visit www.green13toronto.org/ event/funding-cities-local-energy-

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w Wednesday, Jan. 21

West Bend Community Association WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Indian Road Crescent Public School, 285 Indian Road Cres. CONTACT: 647478-8457 COST: Free The West Bend Community Association (East of Keele and North of Bloor to CPR tracks) monthly residents meeting. New members especially welcome.

w Sunday, Jan. 25

Winter Sketchbook: Lessons in Drawing WHEN: 1 to 4 p.m. WHERE: High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside Dr. CONTACT: www.highparknaturecentre.com/adult-workshops COST: $150 for three sessions Look closely at winter woodlands to create intricate sketchbook pages.

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Flooring & Carpeting

Metro Licence #: 7000356

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