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Edwards Music Series brings song outdoors
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Get swinging in the garden this summer with the Edwards Music Series. On Thursday evenings in July and August, grab a chair and head over to the Toronto Botanical Garden for an alfresco evening of song. Admission is $2 – cash only – (members and children under 12 get in free) and if you don’t have a chair you can borrow a stool from the visitors booth. All concerts go from 7 to 8:30 p.m. If you arrive early, check out the organic farmers’ market and take a tour of the gardens. Toronto Botanical Garden is at 777 Lawrence Ave. E. Call 416-397-1341, email info@torontobotanicalgarden. ca or visit http://torontobotanicalgarden.ca
August dates Photo/PETER C. MCCUSKER
CONCERT PREPARATION: Flautist Jan Wong, left, and the rest of the Columbus Centre Concert Band rehearse at the centre on Tuesday. The band will perform at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the outdoor gardens at Villa Colombo Services for Seniors, 40 Playfair Ave. See page 5 for another photo.
n Aug. 2: Darbazi n Aug. 9: Laura Hubert n Aug. 16: George Gao n Aug. 23: Sarv Ensemble
Playground Games get children off the sidelines Event more important during violent summer, organizer says LISA QUEEN lqueen@insidetoronto.com
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uring a summer of violence in Toronto, this year’s Playground Games in North York are more important than ever, the organizer says. The one-day event has taken place for more than a dozen years in the city and would have pro-
ceeded without the series of fatal shootings that have made headlines in recent weeks, said Dawn MacDonald, executive director of KidSport Ontario. But this summer’s violent gunplay, including a mass shooting at a barbecue on Danzig Street in Scarborough July 16 that left two dead, a shooting at the Eaton Centre that killed two people on
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June 2 and a man found fatally shot in a school playground in Lawrence Heights in the early hours of July 19, shows the need for programs that provide children with positive alternatives to crime, she said. Children without positive opportunities are often not equipped to avoid the lure of gangs, MacDonald said. @NorthYorkMirror
On Aug. 9, about 300 children aged six to 14 will take part in Playground Games at Monsignor Fraser College on Norfinch Drive near Finch Avenue and Hwy. 400. “We want to let people know there are really good things happening across the city,” MacDonald said. Playground Games is a free event that offers youngsters who
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