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SCHOOL MEMORIES: Former student Jack McRoberts looks for his name in the ‘Book of Corporal Punishment’ during the Wilkinson Junior Public School celebration of its 100th anniversary. McRoberts attended the school from 1938 to 1948.
East-end Toronto residents are invited have their say on future transit plans, specifically the Downtown Relief Line. The gathering, one of several being held across Toronto in the coming weeks, will take place Thursday, June 2, at Riverdale Collegiate, 1094 Gerrard St. E. at Jones Avenue. Hosted by the City of Toronto in partnership with the Toronto Transit Commission, and Waterfront Toronto in coordination with Metrolinx, the meeting will run from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. A presentation is set for 7 p.m. During the meeting, results of the evaluation of alignment options will be presented as well as the proposed locations for station entrances. The Relief Line, one of four key transit initiatives being studied, is a subway line being planned to connect the BloorDanforth subway east of the Don River with downtown. More information about the Relief Line can be found online by going to www.reliefline.ca
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Mayhem in Greektown wrestling card benefits Michael Garron Hospital
The Mayhem in Greektown wrestling event at the Royal Canadian Legion’s Branch 10 on Pape Avenue recently helped to raise funds for Michael Garron Hospital in East York. The pro wrestling card was presented by the Detroit Eatery, and featured The Fraternity - Channing Decker and Trent Gibson, Mike Bailey, Rosemary, Space Monkey and a number of other wrestlers taking part ot the fans’ delight. For more information on upcoming GreekTown wrestling events follow @greektownwrestling on Instagram.
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Saturday, June 4 York Humber High School, 100 Emmett Ave 9:30 am – 11:30 am Presentation at 10:00 am
Tuesday, June 21 City Hall Members’ Lounge 100 Queen Street West 3:30 pm – 6:30 pm Presentation at 5:00 pm
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East York, Riverdale set for Doors Open Toronto More than 130 architecturally, historically, culturally and socially significant buildings across Toronto are set to open their doors this weekend for the 17th annual edition of Doors Open Toronto. This year’s festival is themed “Re-used, Re-visited and Revised” and will highlight the adaptive repurposing of buildings throughout Toronto’s architectural history. For the first-time ever, Doors Open Toronto, which is produced by the City of Toronto in collaboration with community partners, will feature a keynote speaker. Award-winning industrial designer Karim Rashid, who has more than 3,000 designs in production, will be speaking on Friday, May 27 at The Design Exchange, 234 Bay St. He will speak as part of the event’s popular ‘OpenInsights’ series, which will feature speakers discussing current topics in design, architecture and the revitalization of Toronto. Visit www.toronto.ca/doorsopen for more information. East end residents can also take in walking ours as part of Doors Open Toronto. • Voices of Danforth East: A Jane’s Walk is a medical/health/research walk where participants will be invited to consider several social justice
Todmorden Mills will be among the facilities taking part in Doors Open Toronto this weekend.
issues along the rapidly transforming corridor of East Danforth. Terrain: Construction, Sidewalk, Flat, Uneven; Tour Length: 1 hour 30 minutes; Saturday and Sunday Tour Times: 12 p.m., 3p.m. • Waterfront Toronto West Don Lands Public Art Tour is an architecture and design walk that will explore Toronto’s next great neighbourhood: the West Don Lands and its inspiring public art collection. Terrain: Hilly, Sidewalk, Flat; Tour Length: 1 hour 30 minutes; Saturday and Sunday Tour Times: 10 a.m., 2 p.m. Online registration is recom-
mended. Several structures of note in the city’s east end are featured in this year’s Doors Open Toronto including: • Bridgepoint Administration Building – Old Don Jail, 1 Bridgepoint Way on Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This iconic building, which opened in 1864, was initially used as a reform jail. It remained operational for 113 years until it closed in 1977. After years of stagnation, Bridgepoint Active Healthcare purchased the property, as part of their plans for a
new campus. • Centennial College, School of Communications, Media and Design – Story Arts Centre, 951 Carlaw Ave. on Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Designed in 1954 by renowned architect Peter Dickinson, this modernist gem was originally built as the Toronto Teachers College and won a Massey Architecture Award as the best school design in Canada that year. Centennial College purchased the building in 1978 and after a decade of use did extensive renovations. It reopened in 1994 as the Bell Centre for Creative Communications. Now known as the Story Arts Centre, this campus is solely dedicated to offering media, communications, design and visual and performing arts programs. • Todmorden Mills Heritage Site, 67 Pottery Rd., on Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Once a small industrial community that provided lumber, flour, beer and bricks to the growing city of Toronto, this City of Toronto Heritage site consists of four in situ structures: two historic houses, the former Brewery building as well as the renovated and fully accessible Papermill Theatre and Gallery.
Malvern Collegiate musical icon McRae honoured JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com George McRae’s 90th birthday surprise was one for the books. To mark the start of his ninth decade, McRae, who for 37 years taught music at Malvern Collegiate, received an extra special birthday serenade from 21 students from the east-end high school. The whole thing was organized by his son, Craig, with the help of Malvern’s current head of music, Mike Falla. On May 9, the school’s senior dance band was heading to Ottawa to compete in Musicfest Canada’s “The Nationals” event. Surprise On the way there, they made a small detour to Picton – where McRae has lived since he retired in the late 1980s – to do a very special performance. “We were sitting outside the house getting some sun when all of a sudden we heard some music coming from the driveway and then we saw the Malvern band marching towards us playing Onward Malvern,” said McRae, a former North York resident who officially turned 90 on May 18. “It was an emotional surprise
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beyond words. I didn’t expect it.” Clad in their distinctive red and black uniforms, members of the jazz ensemble then played a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday. Afterwards, McRae along with his wife, Penny, daughter, Pam, and son,
Craig, enjoyed a light lunch with the students and their teacher. McRae even played a few tunes for them on his grand piano. Falla said he was happy to play a part in this unforgettable surprise. “It was great. It was an amazing
experience,” he said, adding some parents of current band members were taught by McRae and the students were thrilled to put a face to a name after hearing so many stories about him over the years. “You could sort of see the memories flowing back.” Craig said he wanted to do something extra special for his father’s milestone birthday. “My dad’s entire life has always been his kids, his grandkids, his wife and his music,” he said. “What do you get somebody who needs nothing?” When considering what to do for such an important occasion, McRae turned to his father’s passion: music. “Dad’s biggest thing is music and he still plays piano and trombone daily,” he said. McRae, who started Malvern’s instrumental music program in 1948, was instrumental in bringing music to the forefront of high schools in Toronto. Under his guidance, Malvern’s band has played for prime ministers, the Queen, at every Grey Cup parade, at Toronto Blue Jays and Maple Leafs games, as well as at the Toronto Santa Claus Parade. Malvern Collegiate is also a special place for McCrae’s mother, who was a student there.
Marilyn Ullrich memorial takes place Saturday
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A memorial celebration for Marilyn Ullrich is set for Saturday afternoon. The gathering will run from 2 to 5 p.m. at Community Centre 55 (CC55), 97 Main St. at Swanwick Avenue. All well-wishers are welcome. Ullrich, a 30-year east-end resident, was killed Tuesday, May 3 when a vehicle crashed into the front window of the Bold Steps Dance Studio in the Beach. She was a well-loved and well-known community member who supported events and initiatives at Stephenson Park, near Danforth Avenue and Main Street. Ullrich, who was 68, was also part of the seniors program at CC55 and also volunteered there. commemorative tree
The Friends of Stephenson Park stewardship group has recently partnered with Community Centre 55 to raise funds to install a commemorative tree in the local park in her honour. Enough funds have already been collected to purchase and plant the tree, however donations are still being accepted in her name for the local community centre’s annual Share-A-Christmas program’s Teen Angel initiative, which was close to Ullrich’s heart. Tax receipts are available. For more information or to make a donation, call 416691-1113. pad opens at wSplash George Webster Park
The new splash pad at George Webster Park opens this Saturday with cake, games and a ribbon-cutting to mark the occasion. The grand opening will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. to celebrate the new splash pad, as well as the park’s new drinking fountain, paths, benches, trees and sitting stones. The splash pad will be open daily from 9 a.m. to dusk. The park’s wading pool opens for the season June 30. George Webster Park is at 30 Chapman Ave., west of Dawes Road and Victoria Park Avenue.
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xpo 2025, here in Toronto, with a major build in the city’s port lands, the eyes of the world on us, fancy pavilions from around the world, visitors from everywhere... How’s that sound? Tough to say no. Actually, it looks as though it will be pretty easy for Toronto to say no. On Monday, Mayor John Tory offered as tepid a response as he could to a letter from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau indicating the federal government would be interested in exploring a bid. He was even more tepid Tuesday, after a group of business and political leaders came to Toronto City Hall to offer up a privatesector funded business case for hosting the exposition. A study advocating a business case – that, he was
david nickle the city fine with. But a commitment to hosting the event that involved either significant city expenditure or funding from other levels of government that might cut into money that would otherwise go to the city? Not likely. It would, in fact, have been very difficult for the mayor to say anything else this week, as his Executive Committee was grappling with a bombshell report from City Manager Peter Wallace talking about Toronto’s long-term fiscal forecast. The report has been floating around for more than a week, and its findings are stark: Toronto is headed for a fiscal cliff, and soon. Council’s two contradic-
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tory imperatives – to provide fulsome services and infrastructure, and to minimize the tax burden on property owners – means that very soon, Toronto Council will no longer be able to balance its annual budget. How, under those circumstances, do you say yes to a plan to host a world’s fair 25 years into the 21st century, of the sort that was really only a big deal in the middle of the 20th century? It’s not to say that an old-fashioned Expo wouldn’t bring some benefit to the city and the country. It would showcase the city to interested, forward-looking visitors. And it would maintain that interest over the better part of a year. But really, Toronto can do all of that on its own, and is doing that on its own. The port lands are
already undergoing a major redevelopment and regeneration, meticulously planned and with great private-sector interest. Those precincts don’t need pavilions – they need parkland and housing and office/industrial space. We are already undergoing a massive and at-least partially funded public transit expansion. Would a successful Expo bid accelerate that? Or would it simply shift funding to other transit projects that might benefit visitors better than Torontonians? Last year, Tory did something that few other mayors have done, and said no to a potential Olympic bid. It’s not hard to see a repeat performance when it comes to Expo.
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Entertainment at the Legion WHEN: 8 p.m. to midnight WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-4253070 COST: Free
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Plant Sale and Elegant Yard Sale WHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Woodbine Heights Baptist Church, 1171 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jane Ayer, 647-783-4644, janeannayer@yahoo.ca COST: Free
CONTACT: 416-393-7720 COST: Free For children age nine to 12. Registration required.
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Fort McMurray Benefit Concert WHEN: 3 p.m. WHERE: Westview Presbyterian Church, 233 Westview Ave. CONTACT: www. wvchurch.wordpress.com, westview@bellnet.ca, 416-759-8531 COST: $10 Contrasts from Handel to Doppler. Solos, duets and trios for flute and piano.
Tai Chi on the Danforth Open House WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: St. Barnabas Anglican Church, 361 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: Silvia Wineland, 416-757-3728, www. zwta.org/toronto, zwtadanforth@ gmail.com COST: Free An introduction to tai chi, a gentle mind-body exercise for balance, flexibility and relaxation.
Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www.east yorkmirror.com Read listings from your East York neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto.
Kew Beach Lawn Bowling Club Open House WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: 103 Ferrier Ave. CONTACT: Fay Henderson, 416-466-6598, bowlerlady@ rogers.com COST: Free Spring Carnival WHEN: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: William Burgess Public School, 100 Torrens Ave. CONTACT: Suzanne Williams, williamburgessfundraising@gmail.com COST: Free Pony rides, petting zoo, bouncers and super slide, face painting, games, raffle, barbecue and more.
Plains Rd. Fun for everyone: inflatables, video game bus dance party, selfie photo booth, silent auction, face painting, Toronto Maple Leaf Fan Zone. Central Connection Art Show and Sale (two days) WHEN: 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday; 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday WHERE: Withrow Park Clubhouse, 725 Logan Ave. CONTACT: www.centralconnection.ca, g.gregory@rogers.com COST: Free Central Connection is a group of established and emerging Toronto artists who have been painting together since about 1990.
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with a barbecue and bake sale. Retro field games, crafts and button making, raffles and a festival stage with performances by students. Proceeds support Earl Haig PS initiatives.
Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Avenue CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, jimb. farrell@yahoo.ca COST: $6
Meditation for Beginners WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: Sandra Lewis, 416-3685395, sllewis@sympatico.ca COST: $12 per class; four for $40 A class for people who have tried to meditate and decided it was too hard, or for people who would like to learn.
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East York Historical Society WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Ave. CONTACT: 416-4297821, www.eastyork.org/eyhs.html, eyhs@eastyork.org COST: Free Arthur Bousfield, chair of Canadian Royal Heritage Trust, speaks about cataloguing Canada’s royal heritage.
Kitchen Basics WHEN: 4 p.m. WHERE: St. Luke’s Anglican Church, 904 Coxwell Ave. CONTACT: 416-421-6878, ext. 21 COST: Free Each session, cook and learn together, share a meal, and take away leftovers and recipes. Suitable for anyone new to cooking, struggling to cook on a limited budget, or who needs a refresher.
Earl Beatty Fun Fair WHEN: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Earl Beatty Public School, 55 Woodington Ave. CONTACT: Zenobia, 416-393-9070, ebsacinfo@gmail. com COST: Various prices Games, activities, bouncy castles and slides, kids’ spa and salon, bake sale and other food. Live dance, live music, and martial arts demos.
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After School Maker’s Club WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview Ave.
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Planning starts years in advance of road closures and traffic tie-ups RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com It’s another busy construction season for Toronto. That means even more road closures, traffic tie-ups and headaches for commuters and residents. But while infrastructure work may seem on the surface to have been hastily organized, planning begins several years in advance, requiring coordination not just between city agencies, but by private owners of utilities as well. “We plan several years ahead so that everyone’s needs are being met,” said Jeff Climans, the city’s director of major capital infrastructure coordination. “Major projects can be planned many years in advance and often need to be.” Climans and his staff of 19 work on revolving five-year planning windows, coordinating the city’s construction plans with Toronto Water, the TTC and various private and public agencies which may also need to engage in infrastructure repairs so that “if a road is being torn up, it’s only torn up once”. The department is currently determining 2021’s planning needs, moving on to 2022 once this year is through. In fact, chances are great any major city works project requiring months of closures, from replacing ancient sewer watermains to road rebuilding and re-surfacing, had years of planning and coordination behind the scenes. It wasn’t always the case; the department for infrastructure coordination has only been around for six years. Climans admits the past
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approach was more reactive, limited to the sharing of project spreadsheets. But with better technology, it’s now possible to map out a project and automatically determine if there’s a red flag or any conflicts with another project, even if no communication about the work has yet taken place. That allows the department then to attempt to soften the edges of a plan, and ensure everyone is on the same page before the work is scheduled to start, Climans said. Sometimes that means providing greater incentives, or in rarer cases, withholding private construction permits so city work can proceed.
“There is a good deal of negotiation that takes place, and one of the interesting challenges that comes about is the fact each organization has had to realize their programs have to give way to something else,” he said. “We have to ensure organizations don’t plan in isolation”. This year, he said the city has come to the realization there’s an “upper limit” to how many closures residents can suffer in a year, leading to a deferral of some work so that more essential projects can be done. Last year for example, several city projects were deferred until
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Celebrating East York skateboarding In the south corner of Stand Wadlow Park, 888 Cosburn Ave., located by the flower beds planted by the East York Garden Club is one of the community’s best assets. That is the East York skateboarding park, which has become the home of some of the best skateboard talent in Canada, if not the world. Our own local skateboard group – Team East York – has travelled around the world competing in contests where they have skateboarded with the best of the best, and won. Working with Toronto Parks and Recreation, Councillor Janet Davis and other local supporters, Team East York has helped to make our skateboard park the success that it is. This is not surprising given that since 1997 Team East York has focused on promoting a positive skateboarding community in Toronto, with an emphasis on East York. This weekend, Team East York and Toronto Parks and Recreation, along with local sponsors, are hosting a contest of skateboarding skills that the entire community is welcome
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joe cooper watchdog to take part in. For those whose impressions of skateboarding come mainly from watching at a distance, seeing a properly conducted contest can be very exciting experience. One of the first things that most people discover is that rather than being a youth activity, it’s actually one where people of all ages take part. What you will find is that skateboarding is a very family oriented activity, with kids and parents often skating together, as the sport is now over 40 years old. The next thing you’ll discover is that skateboarding is surprisingly quiet as everyone – both participants and observers – are focused upon the split second timing found in the moves while the urethane wheels used on today’s skateboards ride smoothly over the park’s concrete surface. The skateboard culture that you see at the park has its
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Lastman’s Bad Boy makes $208,000 donation to Hospital for Sick Children According to Blayne Lastman, noooooobody’s better at helping kids in need of urgent care than the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). Lastman, the well-known owner of the Lastman’s Bad Boy furniture chain, dropped by the hospital earlier this month to deliver a $208,000 cheque in support of SickKids’ Labatt Family Heart Centre. The funds were raised through customer and staff
donations, supplier support and through the chain itself. He was greeted by SickKids Foundation president Ted Garrard, SickKids head of cardiovascular surgery Glen Van Arsdell and SickKids ambassador Jonathan Richardson as he made the impressive donation. “There’s no better institution in the world for kids,” he said. “I met Dr. Van Arsdell a couple of years ago and his
love of the game (keeping children healthy) is incredible. Given how much he loves what he does, well that got to me too.” Jonathan, 13, has been nicknamed “Captain Cardiac” by his friends. While still in utero, he was diagnosed with a heart defect that left him essentially with half a heart and he has undergone three open heart surgeries, the first when he was three days old.
“It’s my home away from home,” the youngster said of SickKids. “It’s where my doctors and nurses took care of me. Every year when I come for my check-up, they say hi, tell me how much I’ve grown and how well I’m doing – and I am doing well.” The $208,000 brought the total amount donated by Lastman’s Bad Boy to more than $400,000 over the years.
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Ju s t a f e w d a y s a f t e r Bombardier announced a plan to deliver all of Toronto’s new streetcars on schedule comes word another prominent transit project is postponed. Production issues are affecting Kitchener-Waterloo’s ION light rail cars, which are under construction by the transpor-
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Nandu is the name for Toronto Zoo’s baby rhino TARA HATHERLY thatherly@insidetoronto.com The Toronto Zoo’s baby Indian rhino now has a name — Nandu. More than 11,500 people pitched in to help choose the cute calf’s name, which means one who is cheerful and happy. The moniker was one of three choices put to an online vote, along with Vihaan, which means morning or dawn, and Kaziranga, the name of a national park in India where twothirds of the planet’s one-horned rhinos live. Each name was chosen by one of Nandu’s wildlife care keepers. The three keepers held up a large board cloaked with a black cloth, before pulling back the fabric to reveal the winning name, suggested by keeper Ryan Hegarty. “I feel very honoured and proud that the public voted for the name that I chose,” said Hegarty. “It feels very special that they also feel that the name was fitting for him. And I think it’s a great fit for the baby, because he’s definitely a happy little guy, and everyone that sees him gets a smile on their face, and he’ll be a great ambassador for
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The Toronto Zoo’s baby Indian rhino, Nandu, trots around his exhibit on Thursday during his naming announcement event.
his species.” The little guy, now two months old, weighs more than 500 pounds. He was already 140 pounds when he was born February 17 to mom Ashakiran and dad Vishnu. He’s packing on approximately five pounds a day as he builds up to the 5,000 to 6,000 pounds he’ll be when he’s full grown at four years old. As media and zoo visitors awaited
the announcement of his name, Nandu trotted around behind mom, splashing through water and mud while curiously scoping out the crowd. He’s been exploring his outdoor exhibit for a week now, spending time between there and the indoor enclosure he started off in. “He’s getting a little bolder, but he’s still sticking really close to
mom,” shared keeper Matt Berridge, who suggested the name Vihaan, but said he thinks Nandu is a cute choice. “He’s still getting comfortable with big, open spaces and everything that’s going on,” Berridge added. “The peacocks are new to him, the zoo mobile going by, the trucks going by. He doesn’t seem worried by it, but he can tell it’s new, and he looks at it and runs closer to mom for reassurance.” His teeth are coming through, allowing him to start chowing down on solid foods like carrots, hay and bamboo. Playing in the shower is still a highlight of his day, but now that he can go outside he loves playing in the mud as well. He got his first toy, a ball he’s played with a few times, and enjoys scratches from his keepers, who are smitten with him. “He’s just so adorable,” said Berridge, smiling. “He’s a perfect little rhino.” Keeper Angie Snowie, who suggested the name Kaziranga, is sure many others will fall in love with Nandu too and be inspired to help protect his species. “Three rhinos every day are being killed for their horn,” Snowie noted.
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rate of inflation.” Wallace’s report indicated that, in effect, Toronto Council’s budgetary process has resulted in an actual property tax decrease in recent years when adjusted for real inflation. Council has been able to keep the city afloat thanks to the unprecedentedly strong real estate market, which has led to a nearly 150 per cent increase in the land transfer tax since it was approved in 2006 – and on one-time uploads from the provincial government. To a lesser degree, the city has also benefited from higher-than-inflation TTC fare increases. “The total incremental increase with property taxes
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