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PARTY TIME: Performers took to the stage at this year’s Youth Day Toronto held at Yonge-Dundas Square on Sunday morning. This was the ninth year for the event, and organizers hoped to draw in a bigger crowd than last year’s 35,000 people.

When the Riverdale Farm Farmers’ Market drew to a close after a challenging 2014, it appeared the long-running attraction was done for good.

Thanks to the efforts of a group of four local residents and farmers’ market advocates, who have managed to galvanize an enthusiastic community and hopeful vendors, however, the market is alive and well for yet another year.

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Farmers’ Market, it re-opened for the 2015 season on Tuesday, June 30 with a variety of vendors bringing new life to the oncefaltering venture.

“There were a lot of conversations over the past couple of months where we heard that most residents of Cabbagetown wanted the market to come back,” said Ashley Collier, who spearheaded the market’s return with Mallory Hilkewich, Andrew Wilson and Mischa Hamara.

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Father and son team set sail at the Pan Am Games Olympic silver medalist Terry McLaughlin, and son Evert to represent Canada pan am games athlete LAURA DASILVA ldasilva@insidetoronto.com Sailing in the 2015 Pan Am Games will be a family affair for the McLaughlins.

Olympic silver medalist Terry McLaughlin, 58, will be the skipper on the four-man J24 keelboat, while his 25-yearold son Evert represents Canada in the Snipe class.

The fruitful father-son duo, who have multiple nautical awards and credentials bulking up their biographies, have lived together on Toronto Island for many years and are excited to take to familiar waters come July.

“The fact that I’ll be able to sleep in my own bed and that the boats are being kept in our home yacht club (Royal Canadian Yacht Club) is something to look forward to,” Terry said.

Evert said he hopes to break the chain of poor performances by Canadians at the last few Pan Am Games.

“Any medals we get will help promote the sport of sailing in Toronto and in Canada as a whole,” Evert said. “Canadian athletes need to have a big push and try to bring home as many medals as possible.”

Though Terry and Evert race in different boats, they have a lot in common.

They’re both Queen’s University graduates, and put equally serious game faces on during competitions.

“We have similar intensity and desire to win on the water,” Evert said. “That can make both of us a little hard to sail with because we’re not just out there having a good time. We’re trying to win.”

The 33-year age gap makes for an ever-evolving course of showing each other the ropes.

“I’ve learned not to take big risks on the water, and the importance of preparation,”

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Father and son sailors Terry, right, and Evert McLaughlin will both compete in the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games, but in different boats.

Evert said. “In sailing, there are a lot of things you can’t control, but there are things you can based on how prepared you are and how prepared your boat is. Terry puts a strong emphasis on that.”

Terry turns to his son for more practical guidance.

“I rely on Evert for electronic help. Without him I wouldn’t know how to use my phone or my TV,” he said.

Hoisting and trimming, on the other hand, seem to be in his blood.

Sailing in the McLaughlin family history runs as deep as the waters they glide across.

Paul McLaughlin, Terry’s father, was a two-time Olympian (1948, 1952). His mother, Mary, was also a competitive sailor and his younger brother, Frank, is a three-time Olympian (1984, 1988, 1992) who won bronze at Seoul in 1988 in the Flying Dutchman category.

Terry’s wife Mickey, a Dutch woman, started sailing recently after being a supportive sailing wife and mother for more than 20 years.

“She talks about her races as much as we talk about ours,” Terry said.

All three of their sons are involved in the sport and began racing at the age of four.

Terry chose the Dutch name Dirk for their eldest after a

sailor friend. Evert is named after Evert Bastet, a mate who sailed with him to the podium during the 1984 summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

“I still refer to them as big Evert and little Evert,” Terry said.

Their youngest son is Lucas.

“We just sort of ran out of Dutch sailors to name him after at that point,” he said, laughing.

Regardless of first name, the surname McLaughlin garners respect around the yacht club and at competitions around the world.

In September Terry will be defending his championship title at the New York Yacht Club Invitational.

“There’s more of a future for Evert than me,” Terry said.

Just before the Pan Am Games begin, Evert will be switching boats and competing in the Laser World Championships in Kingston, ON. Though he is racing in the Snipe class with his partner Alexandra Damley-Strnad during Pan Am, he most often competes in the Laser, a oneperson dinghy.

Evert is campaigning and training in hopes of qualifying for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics in the Laser class.

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The Slocan Ramblers release second album, Coffee Creek Release party for bluegrass band Saturday at the Tranzac JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com For a group of young musicians, the Slocan Ramblers have certainly embraced an old-time sound.

The bluegrass band consists of Annex and downtown Toronto residents Darryl Poulsen on guitar, Alastair Whitehead on bass, Adrian Gross on mandolin and Frank Evans on banjo, with Poulsen, Whitehead and Evans also pitching in with vocals. “Frank’s kind of our lead vocalist, but Al (Whitehead) and I sing our own tunes,� said Poulsen.

The quartet started out casually, with the four friends turning their shared love of bluegrass, folk and Americana into gigs here and there around Toronto. “We just kind of knew each other from around – I worked with Frank as a bike mechanic and met the other guys at school,� Whitehead said.

They became more committed as a group when they released their debut album, Shaking Down the Acorns three years ago. That album earned them accolades from the Huffington Post, Sing Out! magazine and even Don Cherry of Hockey Night in Canada fame.

While that album led to a busier touring schedule – the Slocan Ramblers have become an in-demand act at folk festivals throughout Canada, the U.S. and as far away as Israel – the band has hardly

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The Slocan Ramblers, Alastair Whitehead, left, Frank Evans, Darryl Poulsen and Adrian Gross, will be releasing their new album, Coffee Creek, on July 11.

decided to rest on its laurels.

The Ramblers are set to release their second album, Coffee Creek, this month. “There’s a lot more original material on this one,� Poulsen said. “We’ve really grown as a band over the past couple of years through touring.�

All four band members contributed tracks to Coffee Creek, which was produced

by Chris Coole of the Foggy Hogtown Boys, a well-established Toronto bluegrass band that has been supportive of the Slocan Ramblers virtually since day one. “They’ve been a huge influence on us,� Whitehead said. “It’s been really cool for us to have this generation of successful guys who are really talented who have accepted and helped us along as the new guys on the scene.�

The process the band used to record Coffee Creek differed greatly from the one they used to made Shaking Down the Acorns, due in part to their growing confidence and in part to them learning exactly how they work best.

Instead of recording their parts separately and having them mixed together to create a

glossy sound, the Ramblers all recorded together, giving the album more of a live feel. “We all agreed that this is when we sound our best, when we get the energy and the vibe of performing a gig,�

Poulsen said.

The Slocan Ramblers hope Coffee Creek helps to grow their audience, which has boomed with the re-emergence of bluegrass music. “It hit me that it was getting big again when I saw a subway ad for the Gap with a guy holding a banjo,� Poulsen said.

Whitehead added Toronto in particular has embraced the genre, and had done so even before bands such as Mumford and Sons helped bring banjos and mandolins into the mainstream. “It seems like there’s a show on every night somewhere – the Tranzac, the Silver Dollar, the Dakota,� he said.

The Slocan Ramblers will hold an album release party for Coffee Creek at the Tranzac at 7 p.m. on Saturday.

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Flavours of Pan Am at Market 707 JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Scadding Court Community Centre’s Market 707 is getting into the spirit of the Pan Am Games with a special event that will put the Games’ diversity front and centre.

T h e Fl a vo u r s o f Pa n Am/Eat Shop Play event will showcase the array of nationalities of the vendors who sell their wares at the popular shipping container market. “We have such diverse vendors in Market 707, and they’ll be showing their pride and putting flags out,� said Market 707 spokesper-

son Amanda July Cruickshank. “Some of our vendors will also have special menu items to celebrate the Pan Am Games with flavours from the different countries.�

The market offers entrepreneurs inexpensive space in shipping containers along Dundas Street West in which they can test start-up business ideas. Cruickshank noted some of the vendors at the Pan Am event will showcase Trinidadian, Colombian, Canadian and other roots.

The array of tastes on display will be but one draw at Flavours of Pan Am.

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“We’ll have a kids’ activity station where kids can do crafts and show off their pride, and a face painting station,� Cruickshank said.

The face painting will provide sports fans of all ages a chance to show off their national pride. “We have monthly events at Market 707 for the summer and we really wanted to do something to get the market involved somehow with the Pan Am Games,� Cruickshank said.

The Flavours of Pan Am/ Eat Shop Play event will take place from 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday, July 17 at 707 Dundas St. W.

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he Pan Am Games are here and they are taking place right now, so it’s time for Torontonians to stop complaining and start showing off our great city to the rest of the world.

We all need to look beyond the personal inconvenience and embrace the bigger picture.

Yes, those HOV lanes are annoying but it will only be for a short period of time.

The Games are bringing a lot of positives both economically and culturally. Let’s celebrate that. In today’s edition we’re looking at the Pan Am Games’ impact on businesses, the community and some of the many people taking part in the Games.

One of those positives was this weekend’s celebration on the Prince Edward Viaduct that saw the Pan Games Torch Relay ignite a our view Am community cauldron and the lighting up of the Luminous Veil.

Share your The lighting of the veil is one of the permanent legacies brought support and many about by the Games which also excitement include a number of world-class athletic facilities.

Also, athletes are thrilled to have the opportunity to show their stuff for hometown fans. It’s a rare opportunity for them, and one they will cherish. As Toronto sports fans, we need to share their excitement and show our support for our athletes.

As Torontonians we should also be embracing the chance to show those visiting from the 41 countries competing in the Pan Am Games we are a great city in which to live, work and play.

The Toronto Region Board of Trade looks at the Games as a chance to further establish the city as epicentre of global business. “From the business community’s perspective, we have 350,000 people coming into the GTA. These are folks who if they like what they see, will be coming back, and telling their friends. So hopefully we can look at this as a point in time where we can really showcase what we’ve got,” said TRBOT president Janet De Silva.

With athletic events now underway, there’s plenty of enthusiasm from volunteers and athletes. And if sports isn’t your thing, there’s no end of social and cultural events to enjoy during the Games. Enjoy!

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Breaking up: it really is hard to do It is too soon to say whether the wounds of amalgamation have healed

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hose of us who’ve been in and around Toronto and its constituent municipalities the last couple of decades probably don’t need the Fraser Institute to tell us what terrible problems amalgamation caused.

Before 1998, Toronto was six cities: North York and Scarborough and Etobicoke sprawling to the north and east and west, the tiny municipalities of East York and York huddling on the edge of old, urban Toronto.

When then-premier Mike Harris and his municipal affairs minister Al Leach announced

david nickle the city plans to amalgamate us all, everyone in Toronto not connected with the governing Progressive Conservative party knew instinctively it was a bad idea.

It wouldn’t save money.

It would make governing these cities of neighbourhoods more difficult, not easier.

It would, we were sure, be largely unpleasant.

We were, in the main, right. And now the Fraser Institute, in a study cutely subtitled “Breaking up is hard to do,” suggests the biggest reason for Toronto to stay together is precisely for that reason: re-establishing Toronto’s old municipal boundaries, or indeed new ones that might be more rational from a 21st century perspective, would be a big

job.

The question is, do the problems Toronto has now warrant that kind of work?

If we were talking a year ago in the dying days of the Rob Ford administration it would be an easy one to answer.

The shotgun marriage of municipalities had descended to such a dysfunctional state that suburban Toronto had elected Ford to its top job.

And although the mayoralty has passed to different hands, it is too soon to say whether the wounds of amalgamation have significantly healed.

It is probably also too soon to say that they haven’t healed, or that they won’t.

But as the Fraser Institute’s report notes, other municipalities have managed the split, and Toronto might too. If we were to do so, best not follow the example of Montreal, which ended

up with a jumble of small municipalities and a new regional government.

We would need some other model that took the lessons of history and the realities of the present into account.

In the meantime, it might also be healthy to recognize that there exists the simple possibility of separation: that the bikeriding, latte-sipping denizens of the downtown core might be able to debate in a different room from the suburban, fiscal conservatives of the old suburban communities, and each might elect a mayor according to their needs and aspirations.

Sometimes, there’s nothing to spur compromise in a relationship like the serious contemplation of its end.

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Show Us Your Game Face A rendering of the George Brown College residence, which will open this fall on the site that currently hosts one of the buildings in the Pan Am Games athletes’ village.

Students to move in after post-game finishing touches >>>from page 1 YMCA, marks the first time the college will be able to offer housing for out-of-town students.

“We have 250 two-bedroom suites with a kitchen and a bathroom, plus seven single rooms,” said George Brown College director of student experience Gerard Hayes.

“Of those suites, 20 will be barrier-free for people with disabilities.”

The rooms will hardly be the typical sparse student dorms. They will be furnished with air conditioners, flat-screen televisions with cable, wireless Internet access, refrigerators and microwaves.

“There will also be common areas, common laundry facilities and a games room,” Hayes said. “We want to really emphasize the student experience and get our students out socializing.”

While George Brown has been discussing the idea of building a student residence for some time, there’s no question the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games pushed the timeline along. Hayes noted the money that went into ensuring the athletes’ village was up and running by Game’s time enabled the college to take the plunge.

“It definitely made it financially possible for us to do it now,” he said. “We worked

with (the Pan Am Games committee) from the start and they were great to work with.”

“The games set up the decision for the college (to build a residence) for sure.”

Of course, even after the games are done, there will be some work required to ensure the rooms are ready for students. The athletes who will be using the rooms will stay in stripped-down versions of the rooms, with the appliances and other finishing touches to be added after the sporting event ends.

“We still have to do the millwork in the rooms, put the carpets down and do the finishes,” Hayes said.

The residences will primarily house students attending class at George Brown’s waterfront and St. James campuses given its proximity to those two locales. Students living there will have easy access to the rest of the city, with the residences boasting 200 bicycle storage spots and TTC streetcar service right outside the Cooper Koo Family YMCA. Having residences of its own should help George Brown College attract more students. Hayes noted the school typically has about 4,000 international students studying on its campuses at any given time, plus many more from outside the GTA.

“Certainly, a lot of those students are looking for places to stay, and it’s so expensive in Toronto,” he said.

With one residence set to open this fall, George Brown is already in early discussions to start work on a second student living space, though Hayes said sites and specifics are still in the works.

“It’s going to be a fantastic neighbourhood for people to live,” said Toronto Mayor John Tory at a recent event unveiling the athletes’ village.

“There’s going to be affordable housing, market housing, there’s a fantastic new park – Corktown Common – and it was finished on time and on budget.”

Tory lauded the village for being a truly mixed-use development, adding the Pan Am timetable ensured the development pressed forward.

“There’s a date when you have to do it by,” he said of the construction. “The show must go on. The housing has to be finished, the transportation has to be finished.”

With those deadlines met, it’s full steam ahead for the athletes and – in fall – for George Brown students.

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OCAD U mural brightens up foot of University Ave. JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The foot of University Avenue is cleaner and more colourful thanks to a new mural painted

by Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U) grads Heidi Berton and Emily May Rose.

The bright, whimsical mural spans more than 470 square feet in the University Triangle,

a long-neglected space where University, Front Street and York Street meet. Given that it sits where the Toronto Entertainment District BIA and the Toronto Financial District BIA meet, those two organizations decided to take on the triangle’s maintenance.

“That little triangle hasn’t really been maintained much for the past few years and there was a lot of tagging

going on there,” said Janice Solomon, executive director of the Toronto Entertainment District BIA. “We decided to jointly maintain it, and as part of that, we wanted to bring out some OCAD artists to create a mural to keep tagging down.”

The mural, painted in a bright, cartoony style, highlights the history and identity of the area.

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“We didn’t give them much direction, but we did say it should reflect what the area represents – the train tracks and the hustle and bustle that goes on down there,” Solomon said.

Berton noted she and Rose were simply asked to incorporate a piece of the area’s history, namely the train tracks that are a major part of the vicinity, what with the triangle being a stone’s throw from Union Station.

“We used the tracks as the backbone because they’ve been a part of the area, old and new, for so long,” she said.

“Apart from that, it’s such a high traffic area, we had ideas all around us. We just looked around and said, how about that bus? How about that rickshaw?”

The mural features a variety of modes of transportation, from planes, trains and automobiles to people-powered means such as bikes and roller skates. In an artists’ statement, Rose noted that movement – a defining feature of the busy

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neighbourhood – helped inform the design.

“Everyone in the area is consistently in transit, coming and going from Union, and we wanted to depict that community of movement in which all the different forms of transit are really brought together by the trains,” she noted.

In addition to bringing

smiles to the faces of those commuting through the area, the mural should help ensure the long-ignored triangle remains free of graffiti, as taggers are often loath to paint over someone else’s work.

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Representatives from six neighbourhoods surrounding the CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Athletes’ Village in the West Don Lands have put together a handy guidebook to encourage athletes, officials, visitors and area residents to take in events, eat and shop in the area during the upcoming 2015 Games.

Called the NAVTO2015 Guide, the 32-page, full-colour booklet printed in English, French and Spanish, is being spearheaded by the South Eastern Downtown Network Alliance’s (SEDNA) Pan Am Coalition. The informal group is the successor to the Old Town Toronto Network and represents stakeholders in downtown east Toronto.

Its members meet to exchange information in a round table format and network with other neighbour-

NAVTO2015 Guide

hood organizations.

Robyn Posner, who serves as the marketing, events and members services manager for the St. Lawrence Market Neighbourhood Business Improvement Area, is leading the project.

“It was definitely a group

effort. Being able to work together makes us stronger,” said Posner, who was also responsible for providing all of the content for her BIA’s pages in the guide.

“The six neighbourhoods around the Athletes’ Village felt it was important for us to create a comprehensive outline as to what (those at and around the Athletes’ Village) can do and all the things they can do at their doorstep.”

The areas featured in the guide include St. Lawrence Market Neighbourhood, Corktown, The Distillery District, Riverside, Regent Park and Evergreen Brick Works and Pan Am Path.

A companion website, www. navto2015.com, offers even more information about all of the happenings in the six neighbourhoods surrounding the Athletes’ Village.

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Show Us Your Game Face campaign aimed at helping smaller businesses DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com What is an event like the Pan Am Games worth to a city?

When Toronto was awarded the 2015 Pan Am/ParaPan Games in 2010, the answer at a packed victory party filled with politicians, media and business leaders at Labatt Canada’s waterfront offices was pretty clear: the Games were worth quite a lot.

Then-deputy mayor Joe Pantalone effused: “This is as big as it gets. You get 10,000 athletes, 15,000 direct jobs, 260,000 visitors… It shows Toronto has turned a corner.”

The Pan Am Games that begin this week and continue until July 26 were to provide a massive boost to the con-

pan am games economics struction of sports facilities, housing and transportation infrastructure. Those 260,000 visitors would bring tourism dollars. Toronto would be on the map.

Benjamin Tal and Andrew Grantham, economists from the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, quantified those benefits in a 2013 report, finding Pantalone’s numbers conservative. They estimated 26,000 new jobs and 350,000 international tourists coming into town for the event.

What could go wrong?

Gord Perks, who represents Parkdale-High Park on Toronto Council and presides over two business improvement areas adjacent to the venues at

the CNE grounds, said early indications for economic boom-times in Parkdale and Roncesvalles are not optimistic.

“The only communications we’ve really had (with the Pan Am organizers) have been late and they’ve been mostly notices about the problems that Pan Am is going to cause,” he said.

But John Kiru, executive director of the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas (TABIA), said the anxiety felt by Toronto businesses is real.

To try and turn this around, TABIA has created a playful promotion called Show Us Your Game Face (showusyourgameface.com), a contest asking people to take and post selfies of themselves patronizing local establishments.

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Volunteers take over from city >>>from page 1 harder than the closure of many farmers’ markets would. It was Toronto’s first organic farmers’ market, and the second farmers’ market in the city after the historic St. Lawrence Market.

It had been started by local resident Elizabeth Harris in 2001 and enjoyed years of success, but Harris’ death in 2011 led to the City of Toronto taking it over. Running a market was unfamiliar to city staff.

“I think it was a catch-22 where the city took over the market, and then the community stopped coming out because they didn’t feel like it was a true communityrun market anymore,” said vendor Chris Jurjans of Trillium Organic Farms, who was happy to give the newlyreopened market a try after seeing it slide over the past few years.

“When the community stopped coming, the farmers stopped coming and that kept even more people from the community away.”

As strange as it seems, the booming success of farmers’ markets also played a role in the Riverdale Farm market’s demise. With new markets opening throughout the city every year, competition grew and Riverdale became less of a destination for shoppers who found newer markets opening closer to their homes.

While the first day of the Cabbagetown Farmers’ Market was a success – some 20 vendors kept busy with a steady stream of customers despite ominous-looking weather – the organizers hope to grow it even further.

“Last year’s market, there were maybe five to 10 vendors here,” Collier said. “We have 20 here now, but we’re hoping to get it up to 25 or even more, back to the numbers it had during its best years.”

Of course, that will likely take some time. Some vendors have been hesitant to return after struggling through the market’s fallow recent years, and Collier, Hilkewich, Wilson and Hamara have no experience in running a farmers’

market.

“We’re all volunteers and we all have our own passions that we’re using to help us run it,” Collier said. “But still, it was our first time working with the city on something like this, so we had to figure out how to go about working with Toronto Public Health, getting the right permits and figuring out who we needed to talk to.”

They managed to connect with other farmers’ market operators, who provided them with guidance. Once they had the basics down, all that was left was to get people to come out. Given the long-standing love for the Riverdale market, that was the easy part.

“We’ve got really great community support,” Collier said.

The organizers are also looking for volunteers to ensure the market continues to run smoothly and word of its return spreads.

The market will run Tuesdays from 3 to 7 p.m. until Aug. 25. For more information, visit www.cabbagetownmarket.ca

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Ontario’s Celebration Zone WHEN: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

WHERE: Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. CONTACT: www.ontariotravel.net/en/info/panam COST: Free Experience 38 days of the best of Ontario during the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games - all events are free This mustvisit destination will have all-day live entertainment, 38 nightly concerts, 400foot zipline, daily children’s programming, live Games coverage, 40-foot rock climbing wall and adrenaline jump, weekly farmers’ market, culinary experiences, Ontario craft beers and award winning wines and more.

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Bastille Day Toronto WHEN: noon to 10 p.m.

WHERE: David Pecaut Square, 55 John St. CONTACT: /www.consulfrancetoronto.org COST: Free The Consulate General of France and Maille, are inviting Torontonians to celebrate Bastille Day. In true Parisian spirit, guests are invited to picnic on the grass or purchase fare from the French market, including sausages, French wines, pastries and more. The Maille Bistro will feature a mustard bar complete with five different flavours to help enhance your lunch.

Guests will also sample innovative cocktails and desserts made by French

local chefs and mixologists.

Games and activities for the entire family will take place all day long. The Bastille Day celebrations will end with an official ceremony and a large bal populaire, a traditional French dance, complete with a live band.

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The Probus Club Of Toronto WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Holy Rosary Parish Hall, 356 St Clair Ave. W. CONTACT: John Agnew, probus.toronto@gmail.com COST: $2 The Probus Club Of Toronto welcomes PROfessional BUSiness men and women who have retired from their jobs or business and want to maintain a social network with others who have similar interests.

Natan Sharansky in Conversation with MP Irwin Cotler WHEN: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

WHERE: Beth Tzedec Congregation, 1700 Bathurst St. CONTACT: 416781-3511 COST: $18 Natan Sharansky and the MP Irwin Cotler open a dialogue on Human Rights and Jewish Life.

Toronto in Literature Book Club WHEN: 6 to 7 p.m. WHERE: Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St. CONTACT: 416-393-7131 Discover Toronto in Literature. Join in each month for an informal discussion about a book set in Toronto. No registration required. This month’s book is Bridge in the Rain by Bianca Lakoseljac. Bridge in the Rain is a collection of stories linked by an inscription on a bench in Toronto’s High Park. Each story is told by a different protagonist who is dealing with a turning point in his or her life. The author, Bianca Lakoseljac, will be in attendance for discussion and Q & A.

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insidetoronto.com/toronto-events/pan-am-games Here you’ll have access to hundreds of events, including when and where the preliminary games and finals are happening. The Toronto events are highlighted in grey to make it easy to discover what’s happening near you.

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Regent Park welcomes torch relay JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com When the Pan Am torch made its way to the Regent Park on Monday, it had a large and enthusiastic crowd waiting for it.

Dozens of revellers gathered in the park to see resident Sureya Ibrahim bring the torch into the community as it passed through the downtown core, cheering as it made its way to the green space. Children from Dixon Hall and other community programs met Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games mascot Pachi, held up a massive Canadian flag and made their neighbourhood pride known.

More than a dozen torchbearers gathered there for a brief community celebration before dispersing to various other spots along the torch route.

Ibrahim was all smiles as she carried the torch along Dundas Street East to throngs of cheering supporters.

“It’s an honour and a joy to see all these people here,” she said. “It’s overwhelming. I see them every day – I work with them and they’re my neighbours – and seeing them cheer

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Sureya Ibrahim, left, passes the flame to Draga Culjak in Regent Park on Monday morning.

for me is so special.”

Ibrahim carried the torch roughly 200 metres past the Regent Park Aquatic Centre and into the park, where the flame from her torch was used to light the torch held by fellow torchbearer Draga Culjak. From there, Culjak carried the torch west to meet another torchbearer.

“It’s very special to be able to carry the torch,” Culjak said. “It means so much to represent Canada and to be part of this.”

Culjak was cheered on by her sister Sima and son Daniel. The latter pointed out his mother had

overcome a great deal to earn her spot as a torchbearer.

“She’s been through a lot and really changed her life the last few years, losing a lot of weight by getting into kayaking and other sports,” he said. “She wants someday to represent Canada as a paralympian in kayaking.”

Another torchbearer, Hana Klimczak, was also thrilled to play a role in welcoming the Games to Toronto.

“It’s an honour to do it because there are so many countries represented,” she said.

Klimczak, who moved to Canada from Serbia 20 years ago, is looking forward to cheering on the Canadian contingent, but noted “it’s good to support all the athletes because they’re so talented.”

The torch will continue to travel through Toronto as it leads up to the Games opening ceremony Friday.

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Metroland Media Toronto employees part of Pan Am/Parapan Am Games torch relay LAURA DASILVA ldasilva@insidetoronto.com Metroland Media Toronto employees working to bring coverage of the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games to communities around Toronto are protagonists of their own stories as they carry the flame in the torch relay.

Nirav Ashra, Sara Gharachorloo and Brianne Gagnier from Metroland Toronto’s advertising department and Fannie Sunshine and Hilary Caton from the editorial team, jumped at the chance to volunteer as torchbearers after a companywide call was sent out.

“The moment the email came in I thought it was a great opportunity and I should grab it,” said Ashra, who will carry the torch today in Roncesvalles.

“It’s a privilege and honour to be a torchbearer.”

He said the “guiding light” will help bring people together.

“Canada is an immigrant country.

With this event there is no race, no creed. Everyone is coming together as one community to celebrate the Games.”

Metroland is one of the official print and media sponsors of the Games and Gharachorloo, who was

handed the torch at North York Civic Centre yesterday, said this is a great way to bring faces to the company name.

“We need to show that we are a part of the community and are involved in the events Metroland supports,” she said. “Not just through sponsorship or donation, but to be there and actually show a presence is important.”

Carrying the illustrious torch naturally comes with some stage fright – in this case road fright.

“One of my little fears is, ‘Oh my gosh! Am I going to trip over something and drop it?’” said Gharachorloo. “I have a lot of friends and family coming. I think that’s calming me down a little bit.”

Gagnier, who will be carrying the torch in the Parapan Am relay on Aug. 8, wants to be in prime condition for her 500-metre trek.

“I need to get in shape,” she said.

She said participating in the relay will show Metroland truly supports the different communities within Toronto.

“Doing something positive like this gets our name out there and will help influence and encourage others to do the same,” she said.

Caton and Sunshine, who write

for Metroland’s Parkdale Villager and North York Mirror newspapers respectively, will become part of the Pan Am action they’re often tasked with covering.

“Being a reporter, you get to observe and write about it, but you don’t necessarily get to be a part of it,” said Caton, who carried the Pan Am torch in Etobicoke on Tuesday.

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With this event there is no race, no creed. Everyone is coming together to celebrate the Games.

– Nirav Ashra

“I saw this as a unique opportunity to be a participant instead of a spectator.”

Sunshine, who began her leg of the Pan Am relay at Regent Park Aquatic Centre Monday, said she looked forward to being part of this once-in-a-lifetime event.

“We don’t often see events of this magnitude in Toronto,” she said.

“People will be really excited to have something like this in their backyards, and I’m looking forward to being part of that excitement, even in this small role.”

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Toronto police officers Const. Jason Rennie, left, Const. Jeff Gough, Const.

Amanda Belanger and Sgt. Jon Ling participate as escorts along the route of the Pan Am Games Torch Relay in Kleinburg, Ontario.

Police follow flame

15-member close protection unit had to pass RCMP’s physical abilities test ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com Toronto Police Sgt. Jon Ling and his 15-member team are following the Pan Am Games flame – literally.

The officers make up the close protection unit for the Pan Am and Parapan Am torch relays, providing security for the torch and the torchbearers during the 41-day journey leading up to the Pan Am Games and the five-day trek leading up to the Parapan Am Games.

“And we are doing this (security detail) on foot and on bicycles, and we have a number of support vehicles as well,” Ling said in a recent interview.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime or oncein-a-career opportunity, so I’m pretty happy to be here doing it as are the rest of the team.”

The close protection unit is headed by retired OPP chief superintendent Ross Bingley with Ling being second in command.

Three other Toronto officers (Constables Amanda Belanger, Jeff Gough and Jason Rennie) have been seconded to the OPP for the detail as were two members of the Halton police force. The eight others on the team are from the OPP. Ling said members of the team underwent special training and had to pass the RCMP’s Physical Abilities Requirement Evaluation test.

Because much of the job involves running and biking, said Ling, “we had to be in reasonably good shape.”

“We’ve had different modes of transport for the torch itself,” Ling

said. “We had a guy on a unicycle, we’ve had people on bicycles, people in all sorts of watercraft: canoes, kayaks, and somebody swimming with the torch. She was swimming with one arm out of the water, holding the torch nice and high.”

The flame for the Pan Am Games was lit during a ceremony in Teotihuacan, Mexico and brought to Toronto on May 30, the day the torch relay began.

The torch will pass through 130 communities and cover 5,000 kilometres of road before its last stop on July 10 at the opening ceremony of the Pan Am Games.

Most of the 3,000 Pan Am torchbearers are community members, though they’ve also included some well-known figures like Walter Gretzky (father of NHL legend Wayne Gretzky), former longtime Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion and a number of professional athletes and former Olympians.

“There are some very, very excited people, especially in the smaller communities, who are just so happy to see the torch and to see the torch relay coming through their communities,” said Ling, noting there have also been “a few protestors here and there.”

There were no arrests or trouble at the protests.

“It’s been a great experience,” Ling said of the job. “We’ve really jelled as a team. We’ve become more than just team members but friends as well.”

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