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The Prince Edward Viaduct will be the place to be this Saturday to get a heaping dose of Pan Am, Games excitement, not to mention community spirit. The Danforth Business Improvement Area (BIA) is working alongside the City of Toronto to host a full evening of festivities including the arrival of the Pan Am Torch Relay flame and the lighting of the community cauldron at 7 p.m., followed by the inaugural lighting of the upper part of historic bridge’s Luminous Veil structure at 10 p.m. “We’re very excited about July the 4th,” said Terry Nicholson, director, arts and culture services for the City of Toronto. “Everyone involved in this project has gone above and beyond the call of duty because they believe in it so much. It’s

a colourful legacy for the Pan Am Games.” On Saturday evening, the western side of the bridge will be home to ‘The Luminous Night’, the first of five free, accessible and family oriented community celebrations hosted by the City of Toronto for the Pan Am Games Torch Relay. Toronto is the final leg of the relay before the Opening Ceremony Friday, July 10. The event, which will run from 5 to 11 p.m., will feature a full roster of music and atmospheric performances that highlight the Pan American culture and spirit including Lisa Odjig, Kobo Town, Maracatu Mar Aberto, Amelie et Les Singes Bleus, TD Dots Finest, BBoy and Bgirls, Maestro Fresh-Wes, Parichay, Samba Squad, Henry Flow and Paper Theatre to name a few. There will also be sports >>>LIGHT, page 6

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Campers examine social justice issues on stage Angeline Mair amair@insidetoronto.com Peace Camp provides a stage in East York for its campers to talk about sensitive issues they may not otherwise have the opportunity to share. “Children’s Peace Theatre uses theatre as art as a tool to get children and youth engaged in conversations and engaged in exploring ideas about issues that are happening in their own lives, in the city and in the world,” says artistic director Karen Emerson. This year’s camp begins July 6 and after a three-week intense camp experience 45 children aged 8 to 13 years old, along with 12 accomplished professional artists and 18 youth and junior guides will present their play called Raising Revolution on July 25. Campers take a theme and explore it through theatre and music and create a full production. “It’s not like a

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Children from the Children’s Peace Theatre perform a play they created in the July 2013 season called Passage: A Moving Experience at the Children’s Peace Theatre.

school play. They write their own songs and scenes. It all

happens outside. It travels around the park,” Emerson

said. This year’s theme Raising Revolution explores how

young people get involved in making decisions about the things that affect their lives, she said. “How do we get young people engaged? Whether it’s at the community level, federal level what are different ways that people have been moved to justice. We want to really talk to the kids about: What does it take to get people really inspired to action.” The theatre group uses conflict transformation to explore the idea of peace and conflict. “Instead of creating conflict or shutting people out, we are trying to teach young people the tools for living in a pluralist society.” And theatre art is a powerful way to do that, she said. Because theatre allows one to take on a different role, said Emerson, the campers may express experiences they’ve had with maybe bullying or what it’s like to live in a different country.

“This neighbourhood has a high population of newcomers so it’s a lot of different cultures and we explore the idea of identity and culture.” For 15 years Children’s Peace Theatre has been creating a culture of peace by engaging children and youth in exploring the issues impacting their lives using the arts. Peace Camp has spaces for 45 children. “We want to subsidize about half of them.” Emerson said there are many families in the community who would not be able to give their kids this experience. So the fundraiser is specifically for the bursary. This is the first year its reaching out via crowd funding to cover the costs of 20 children to be part of the camp production Raising Revolution. The goal of the crowd funding at indiegogo. com is to raise $7,000.

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Eastern Commerce now home to new TDSB museum JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Ten rooms in the lower level of Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute, near Danforth and Donlands avenues, have been re-imagined as the new TDSB Museum. The Toronto Distr ict School Board (TDSB) officially unveiled the new 10,000-square-foot space, which has been given the honourary Ojibway name Debwemowin, meaning House where the Truth resides, recently. “This represents just a tiny snapshot of our collection,” said Supt. of Education John Chasty during a media event that morning. “This (new museum) solves

a number of problems at the same time and now gives us a permanent space we can work on and be proud of.” The TDSB Museum was previously in a much smaller space at 263 McCaul St. It took two years to move and prepare the new secure, climate-controlled space in the city’s east end. The museum’s historical displays, located in three large rooms, as well as along the main corridor, are focused on educational governance and the history of the TDSB viewed through artifacts and documents from schools. Some of the artifacts on display include the seats of honour from the original Toronto Board of Education Board Room at Old City Hall

along with a restored and repaired chandelier and a unique tear drop boardroom table from the 1870s. There’s also a table top piano from the early 1920s from the Metropolitan School for the Deaf that students, deaf and hard of hearing, would lay across to “hear” the music’s vibrations, as well as a collection of old school desks from different eras, an old dentist’s chair, a large gramophone, old science class specimens, not to mention old inkwells, “the strap”, slides, textbooks, learning materials, records and players and sports equipment. The museum is even home to an old school board meeting minutes book that dates back to 1847 as well as a

massive calculating machine that dates back to the early 1890s. Greg McKinnon, manager/archivist with the TDSB Heritage Services, gave a tour of the space, which is also home to the school board’s first-ever dedicated art gallery. Ab o r i g i n a l E l d e r Dr. Duke Redbird is the curator of its inaugural exhibition and program called D e b w e w i n ( Tr u t h ) , A Visual Representation of Contemporary First Nations, Métis and Inuit Cultures. The exhibit features 19 Aboriginal works of art from the TDSB’s extensive Canadian art collection. The display, which aims to connect its audience to the

environment of the creative mind of Indigenous artists and introduce imagery that might be recognizable as Indigenous art, but unfamiliar to conventional readings of art, opened June 20, National Aboriginal Day. “We are so proud of this collection, which truly provides a window on the past connecting us with our ancestors, communities and shared histories,” said TDSB Director of Education Donna Quan in a press release. “Now we have a place where all our students can go to access archival and historic treasures right at their fingertips.” Moving forward, Chasty said the TDSB would be looking to develop accompanying

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programming for the collections in the space and would be working to access both federal and provincial grants to enhance it. The Toronto Distr ict School Board, which has been collecting archival materials since it was created in the early 1800s and has amassed a significant wealth of material stored at a number of facilities across Toronto, has the largest public education collection in Canada. It contains more than a million pieces of fine art, archives and artifacts. The TDSB Museum is open by appointment only.

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ith Canada Day celebrations wrapped up lastnight with fireworks at numerous locations, it’s now time for residents to get geared up for Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Torch Relay events starting this Saturday in our city and continuing until the official opening of the Games on Friday, July 10. The torch relay started back on May 30 with the flame’s arrival at Harbourfront. From there, the torch has been on a 41-day trek across Canada. Along the way, it’s made stops in Vancouver, Halifax, Winnipeg, Calgary and numerous cities and towns across Ontario. By the time the torch relay wraps up next Friday, it will have been carried by some 3,000 torchbearers and visited more than 130 communities. For Torontonians, the torch relay excitement starts Saturday evening and there will be numerous opportunities for residents to get up close and personal with the torch as it makes its way our view through many of our city’s neighbourhoods through to July 10. Get up close The torch relay starts its day at Canadian Forces Base Trenton on and personal Saturday, and will arrive in Toronto late afternoon for a huge comin your city munity celebration on the Prince Edward Viaduct (also known as the Bloor viaduct) beginning at 5 p.m. Metroland Media Toronto will be at Saturday evening’s event, along with many other community groups and organizations. The celebration will culminate with the lighting of the Luminous Viel on the viaduct. The next day, the torch relay travels mostly through Scarborough with stops at Variety Village, the Toronto Zoo and a big celebration at 2 p.m. across from the Pan Am aquatic centre at Morningside Avenue and Military Trail. Sunday evening will also see the torch relay visit the Afrofest celebrations in the Beach at 7 p.m., and the Aga Khan Museum in North York starting at 8:15 p.m. The rest of the week, torch relay events in Toronto are planned for Thorncliffe Park and Etobicoke on Monday as the relay works its way through downtown; other events are planned in Etobicoke on Tuesday; a visit to Mel Lastman Square in North York on Wednesday; York and then the downtown core on Thursday; and finally the opening ceremonies Friday night. For more details on the torch relay in your community, visit us online at www.insidetoronto.com/ toronto-pan-am-games

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rankly, it’s hard to believe the first day of summer arrived on June 21, given how cool it’s been lately. I don’t think I’ve seen so many sweaters being worn during the day in the middle of June as this year. If there is one thing that this cool weather won’t keep from happening it’s the annual East York Canada Day. It was back in 1957 that True Davidson came up with the idea for the celebration and at the time everyone thought it was a bad idea. Why would anyone hang around on a summer’s day to participate, they said and predicted that True would be there all by herself. Well, True again proved the critics wrong. While it was a small affair held on the lawn of the East York Board of Education offices on Cosburn Avenue it was successful enough to be continued.

joe cooper watchdog So from there it grew, eventually moving to the grounds of East York collegiate, and then someone suggested that there should be a parade. Today that parade is the centre piece for the entire event. Back then the parade was made up of members of the military past and present, local businesses, municipal government departments and East York citizens could publicly express their pride in being Canadian. Consider the fact that the East York school board, the library board, the firefighters, and other municipal workers had floats and marched proudly in the parade. They did so because they were proud to serve the people of their community. The event finally had to

move to its present location, which was originally known as Cedarvale Park, and has now been renamed for Stan Wadlow. Thanks to True Davidson’s genius of local organization and commonsense management, the event was completely managed by the community, while remaining under the sponsorship and protection of local council. As a result it has always been a true East York institution, completely run by local volunteers and community groups. Despite a truly misguided attempt by the city of Toronto to take over the event in the early years of amalgamation, the institution has remained firmly in the hands of East York. The point is that our community now has a wonderful summer event thanks to more than 50 years of hard work that has been put into it by local citizens. Local businesses, service

groups, volunteer organizations, hobby clubs, and even community boosters should keep up this tradition of community involvement in some way. As always, this year’s celebrations included live entertainment, public booths under tents, the always popular bingo tent, and the always great fireworks display. What a great way it was to tell East York that you support the community and that you provide goods and services for your neighbours to benefit from. Despite all of the changes that have taken place since amalgamation, we have been able to hold onto this important community tradition. Thanks again to everyone who has helped keep this event alive and well! Joe Cooper is a long-time East York resident and community activist. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at eym@insidetoronto.com

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here are a couple of ways to look at the new report from Metrolinx that draws attention to the need for a downtown relief subway line, for which no funding exists. One way is to see it as a stick with which to hit the Toronto-Council-supported Scarborough subway extension and Mayor John Tory’s proposed SmartTrack system: one a project that is unnecessary, the second a project that will only provide short-term relief; and both, unlike the relief line, close to fully funded. The Metrolinx report, Yonge Relief Network Study, was released in June, but Mayor Tory and council have had access to countless other opinions and studies indicating the Yonge subway line is running over capacity and a relief line looping down from the Bloor-Danforth line and possibly points north is the cure. The study lays it out in starker terms. Toronto and

last term, council voted to raise property taxes to pay for a subway that would serve only a small portion of the city. There is a greater pretext for doing so in the matter of the Downtown Relief Line — in that all of the city loses out when the hub of the system crowds to the point of dysfunction. But on the subject of dysfunction, the politics won’t make it easy. The suburban-downtown rift that’s defined this city since amalgamation in the late 1990s is showing no sign of healing, and as council is constituted, suburban votes hold sway. But sooner rather than later, someone is going to have to make that choice. And once that’s done, we’re all going to have to start paying, and it will be considerably more than we would have with more rational and evidencebased leadership.

david nickle the city Metrolinx have made some headway in mitigating the crowding on the Yonge line. The automatic train control and new, roomier trains help, as does the GO Regional Express plan that will form the backbone of Tory’s SmartTrack proposal. That will meet needs over the next 15 years. Past that, we’re all back in the same swamping boat. In the meantime, the call from Metrolinx points to another difficult choice. If the city really wants to pay for a short subway line in Scarborough and a multi-station build along the Regional Express line that runs very close to that subway, it must either resign itself to the hub of its entire transit system failing or else come up with a lot more money. It’s not inconceivable that council could do so. In the

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Residents will soon be able to purchase a TTC day pass with their smartphones. Starting next week, The TTC will make available a mobile application, TTCconnect, for download which will make it possible for riders to purchase group or single day passes on their phones using a credit card. Unlike paper passes which go into effect at the time they’re bought, you can prepurchase your ticket and activate it via the app up to a year after the pass was bought. And you can purchase and activate up to 20 passes. The app will be available for iOS and Android users to start, but the TTC says Blackberry and Windows phone users could be added to the list in the future. Am Games carpool lanes wPan

Special carpool lanes installed all throughout the Greater Toronto Area for the upcoming Toronto 2015 Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games went into effect this week, and the verdict from drivers was less

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than flattering. On Monday the first day of enforcement, jam-ups were reported on major roadways such as Hwy. 401 and Don Valley Parkway. The OPP was kept busy handing out $110 tickets to single-occupant vehicles improperly using the lanes. You need to have a special Games pass or have at least three people in your vehicle, reduced to two persons at the end of July, to legally use the lanes. Emergency vehicles and taxis can also make use of the lanes. Express rider numbers are in wUP

One month in and ridership of the Union Pearson (UP) Express air rail link appears to be within Metrolinx’s forecasts. The provincial transit planning agency unveiled the four-stop train connection between Union Station and Toronto Pearson airport in early June.

Despite reports of empty trains on its first day of service Saturday, June 6, UP President Kathy Haley told Metrolinx’s board of directors last week the line is averaging 2,250 riders per day. This projects favourably to the stated goal of having 5,000 daily riders on average by the end of the link’s first year of operation. pothole repairs update wCity

T h e C i t y o f To r o n t o released its latest statistics for pothole repairs last week and it would appear the numbers remain high. According to available figures posted by the city’s winter operations division, the city averages 237,000 pothole fills a year. So far this year it’s at 141,693, a number which includes 4,519 filled potholes during the week of June 15-19. Last year the city set a record with 354,000 pothole repairs between January and November. Rahul Gupta is The Mirror’s transit reporter. His column appears on Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

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Light the Night on viaduct welcomes Pan Am Torch Relay >>>from page 1 activities for all ages, food trucks and more. On the eastern portion of the historic Bloor viaduct, the Danforth BIA will be holding a celebration called ‘Light the Night’ featuring its sixth annual Thrill of the Grill street festival. Toronto restaurateur/TV chef Lynn Crawford as well as Tommy Smythe of Sarah 101 on HGTV Canada and House and Home magazine will serve as the evening’s co-hosts. This year’s chefs include Ponniah Vijeyratname (Allen’s), Danilo Crea (The Combine Eatery), Jerry Sathisivan (Factory Girl), Dan Sanders (Globe Bistro), Michael Wallace (Das Gasthaus) and Jose Salgado (Tapas at Embrujo) as well as butchers Zach Davidson and Aidan Galligan (The Meat Department). Admission is $20. Proceeds from Thrill of the Grill will help fund kidney cancer research at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. “It’s been a year of planning to make this happen and it’s very exciting,” said Jennifer Lambert-Jones, the BIA’s vice-chair. “It’s been amazing and very fun to work with the city on this celebration. This is one of the biggest events the Danforth BIA has ever produced.” In 2003, a safety barrier, part of an original concept called The Luminous Veil, was added to Bloor viaduct. Dereck Revington Studio (DRS), along with engineers Yolles Partnership Inc., won a national

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competition for their design in 2002, which also included a lighting scheme where continuous linear LED lighting would be installed within an existing channel of The Veil and run its full length on both sides of the bridge. However, that plan was not realized at the time. In July 2013, Toronto council, as part of its Pan Am Games Host City Showcase Program, authorized the general manager of economic development and culture to enter into an agreement with Revington, the original Luminous Veil designer, to complete the Prince Edward Viaduct Illumination project. The project’s first phase got underway in February. “The bridge will be transformed into a 500-metre canvas. It’s painting in time and light. It will never look the same,” Revington said in a release. “There’s nothing like it in the world.” More funds must still be raised to light up the arches below the bridge. The local BIA has been working for more than six years to make this

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project a reality. “They’ve been instrumental in keeping the dream alive and moving it forward,” Nicholson said. Pan Am Torch Relay comes to East Toronto wThe

Sunday, July 5 – Day 36 n Come out bright and early to a Pan Am Games Torch Relay celebration at Withrow Park, 725 Logan Ave., just south of Danforth Avenue, in Riverdale. The festivities, which will be held in the northeast corner of the

park by Carlaw and Fenwick avenues by the playground, will get underway at 9 a.m. with roaming theatre performances by Shakespeare in the Rough and Driftwood Theatre followed by a welcome message from Ward 30 Councillor Paula Fletcher. The torch is set to be run through Withrow Park from 9:25 to 9:35 a.m. followed by a hula hoop jam at 9:45 a.m. Email friendsofwithrowpark@ live.com n The torch will be making a

second stop in the city’s east end Sunday evening at Woodbine Park in the Beach during the 27th annual edition of Afrofest. A formal torch arrival ceremony, which will include the lighting of the community cauldron by Emmanuel Jal Gatwitch is set to begin at 7 p.m. Woodbine Park. Visit http://afrofest. ca for details. Monday, July 6 – Day 37 n The Pan Am torch will be making a brief stop in Leslieville at the S.H. Armstrong Community Recreation Centre, 56 Woodfield Rd., just north of Queen Street East, at 10 a.m. for a 30-minute ceremony in the gymnasium. PACHI, the official mascot of the Games, will be on hand. Around 10:30 a.m., the first torch bearer of the day, Adelle Dubczak, will depart carrying the Pan Am flame and will pass it on to Olympic figure skater Patrick Chan who will be continuing the relay westward toward the Regent Park Aquatic Centre. For more information, call 416-392-0734.

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Local residents honoured to be torchbearers Five-year east-end residents Lawrence Alvarez and Ryan Dyment, the co-founders of the Toronto Tool Library (TTL), will be representing the City of Toronto as two of 16 community torchbearers. A native of Zimbabwe who became a Canadian citizen last May, Alvarez will be doing his 200-metre leg of the race the evening of Sunday, July 5 at Ashbridges Bay, while Dyment, who has lived in Toronto and the GTA his entire life, will be running on Tuesday, July 7 in Etobicoke near the Old Mill Subway Station. Alvarez and Dyment, who are roommates, have called the city’s

east end near Danforth and Chester avenues home since 2010. Neither had applied to be a Pan Am torchbearer but were invited by the City of Toronto to take part in the relay as the Toronto Tool Library was voted the #1 Greenest Group in Toronto and received a 2014 Live Green Toronto Award. Back in February of 2012, Alvarez and Dyment opened the first Toronto Tool Library location on Queen Street West in Parkdale. In October 2013, they opened the doors of their second location at 1803 Danforth Avenue, just west of Woodbine Avenue. The third location of their

venture opened in late April at the Downsview Library on Keele Street, just north of Wilson Avenue. The tool library is Toronto’s first community space for sharing tools as wide ranging as generators and drills to 3D printers and an opensourced Laser cutter. Anyone who needs a tool is welcome to access the library. The TTL accepts donations from community members interested in giving tools a second life in the hands of the community. By sharing tools rather than purchasing new ones that need to be manufactured and shipped, members reduce their environmental

impact, reduce their clutter, and save money at the same time. “It’s a huge honour. I feel amazing about it,” Alvarez said during a recent interview. He went on to say carrying the Pan Am torch is a sign he’s made a new home here in Canada; leaving behind the uncertainty and political instability back home in Zimbabwe. “Definitely, it’s an honour,” said Dyment, who met Alvarez in 2009. “We didn’t expect such an honour from sharing tools in the neighbourhood. It’s an event that’s only going to happen once in our lifetime.”

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WANTED 30 PEOPLE WITH HEARING LOSS Qualified Participants Needed for Technology Field Test

During this Limited-Time event, we are looking for people like you, who may be experiencing varying levels of hearing loss to evaluate a remarkable new line of digital hearing aids and a rehabilitative process that could be the solution to your difficulties. Call us toll-free today at one of the numbers below to see if you qualify for this Field Test. Potential candidates will be given a FREE hearing test to determine candidacy. Participants will be given a FREE in-office demonstration, and the opportunity to evaluate the latest, most advanced hearing aid technology for 30 days at drastically reduced rates. A refund* is available at the end of the test period if you feel your test aids do not improve your hearing. A full range of sizes are available in this new technology, including the exceptionally discre di creet and award winning “designRITE” and IIC models shown here:

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Movies In The Park organizers set fundraising goal for event >>>from page 1 by Friday, July 10. Ten thousand dollars is needed to cover insurance, screen rental, movie licenses and permits for four movie nights. Organizers are aiming to raise an additional $10,000 to donate to this year’s charity benefactors: The Toronto Kiwanis Boys and Girls Club and Art City Toronto, which both support local kids in their endeavours to succeed through education, creativity, security and community. The success of the IndieGoGo campaign will determine how much organizers can donate to these organizations. “(Movies in the Park) definitely needs an extra push. It’s a great community event,” said east-end resident Danielle Parkin, who this year is serving as the event’s co-

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chair alongside its founder, Nicole Crozier-Hynes, who also lives in the community. “We do approach local businesses to come on as sponsors and every year it’s a challenge to make it happen.”

At this point, there are only enough funds available to hold one movie night Sunday, July 12. Please visit http://moviesinthepark.wordpress.com/ for more information on Movies In The Park.

Metroland survey takes pulse of marketplace Similar to choosing between contact lenses or glasses, you can decide with your hearing professional which hearing aid style would best suit you. Both styles have approximately the same performance and functions, but are fitted to the ear differently.

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Cheering for the team behind the team Chevrolet gives thanks to the volunteers at the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games By: Stephen K. Carlisle, President and Managing Director, General Motors Canada

This year, more than 250,000 people will arrive in our city to join us for The TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games, events which will inspire and engage generations of Canadians.

The athletes will be the stars of the Games. Their stories, their hard work and their victories are what move us to celebrate their achievements, to take pride in our hometown competitors and to recognize those from around the world.

Simon Whitfield - four-time Olymp mpic ic triat triathlet hlete,, Olympic gold and silver medallist and Pan Am Gamess bro bronze nze meda medallis llist.

The TORONTO 2015 Pan Am Games Torch Relay Is Underway. Visit insidetoronto.com/panam to follow the Pan Am flame here in Toronto.

It’s also with pride that we welcome our neighbours to Toronto and its surrounding areas, because it’s our city, it’s our province and it’s our country. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our community, and we’re ready.

Supporting Our Volunteers At Chevrolet, we recognize that the 23,000 volunteers at this year’s Games are the engine that makes it all possible. We’re ready because of those volunteers. We believe in the power of possibilities and there’s an incredible potential in each of them. The hard work of our volunteers should be recognized. They are like the pit crew in a grueling race and they deserve our thanks for the early mornings, late nights and their unfaltering dedication. Four years ago, Chevrolet committed to being the official sponsor of the volunteers for the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games. A commitment made out of respect for the volunteers own unfaltering commitment.

It was also a natural extension of Chevrolet’s long history of supporting Canadian sports. As the organizers have worked to shape the Games, we’ve worked alongside them to provide the support needed for our volunteers to make these Games the greatest they’ve ever been. This has meant providing Chevrolet vehicles to help the volunteers behind the scenes to prepare the field of play, to shuttle athletes to and from their matches, to enhance the spectator experience, and to participate in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. No matter how you enjoy the Games you’re likely to see these hardworking volunteers— but you should also think of the ones you don’t see, those integral to bringing the Games to life before a single race was run, before a single ball was thrown, and before any athletes proudly walked the Opening Ceremony to the applause of people from around the world. Take a moment to join us in thanking them.

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To the 23,000 Volunteers of the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games, we say

THANK YOU! Together we celebrate the power of play.

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Park Yoga WHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Riverdale Park East, 550 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: Trixie, 647969-8152, parkyogatoronto@ gmail.com COST: donation; with fees to support Nellie’s Shelter Classes are located in the south east end of the park off Broadview Avenue by the large statue of Dr. Sun Yat Sen.

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Thrill of the Grill WHEN: 6 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Prince Edward Viaduct Bridge, 1 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: Susan Puff, 416-429-4479, www.thedanforth.ca, bia@thedanforth.ca COST: $10 or $20 Seven Danforth restaurants and food shops offer back ribs. Proceeds benefit kidney cancer research at the Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health

Science Centre. This event runs in conjunction with the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Torch relay celebrations also taking place on the viaduct Saturday night.

Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714 COST: Free An entertaining night of karaoke.

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Sunday Afternoon Euchre WHEN: 12:30 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714 COST: $6 Everyone welcome. Karaoke at the Branch WHEN: 5 to 9 p.m. WHERE:

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Drop In Darts WHEN: 7:30 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-4251714 COST: $5 Blind draw format and all are welcome. All money returned in prizes.

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East York Farmers’ Market WHEN: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell Ave. CONTACT: Ruth Abbott, 416-429-9684 COST: Free Now in it’s 15th year.

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Mosaic Summer Pole Walking WHEN: 9:30 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Mosaic Home Care Services and Community Resource Centre, CNIB, 1929 Bayview Ave., Suite 215H CONTACT: Kevin, 416-3227002 COST: Free Walking around the areas of Bayview and Eglington and Sunnybrook Park.

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Get Inspired Workshop: Button Making WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart, 170 Memorial Park Ave. CONTACT: 416-396-3975 COST: Free Learn how to make and design your own buttons. Supplies provided. Auditorium. For those aged: 11to 18 years. To register, call 416-396-3975. Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www.east yorkmirror.com. Read weeks of listings from your East York neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto.

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Mills United Church Cemetery, 126 O’Connor Dr. CONTACT: Don Mills United Church, 416425-4951 COST: Free This fashion show is held to help raise funds for the Massey Centre.

Community Yard Sale WHEN: 9 a.m. WHERE: Don Mills United Church, 126 O’Connor Dr. at Pape Ave. COST: Free Barbecue and Corn Roast WHEN: 10:30 a.m. WHERE: Don Mills United Church Cemetery, 126 O’Connor Dr. COST: Free Hamburgers, hot dogs, corn on the cob and more.

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Dusk Dances WHEN: Aug. 3 to 9; various times: 1:45 p.m. and/or 6:45 p.m. WHERE: Withrow Park, 725 Logan Ave. COST: PWYC Annual event features high quality urban, contemporary and traditional dance.

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Massey Centre Fashion Show WHEN: 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Don

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