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Twins Dana, left, and Ava Tabib enjoy fruit smoothies during Cultura Festival at Mel Lastman Square last Friday. Tomorrow evening at 8 p.m., Cultura’s Main Stage will celebrate the final night with a performance by Les Tireux d’Roches followed by Rob Roy Collins at 9 p.m. The feature film ‘Paddington’ will be screened at 9:30 p.m. From 6 to 8 p.m. there will be more music acts, buskers and dance; there is also a food village and kids’ zone.
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It’s been nearly a year since the last Ford Fest in Thomson Memorial Park, and Ford Nation’s been silent on when the party might return to Scarborough. Former mayoral candidate Doug Ford, however, says Ford Fest isn’t dead - and it may soon transplant itself to a new territory, North York. On Tuesday, he said the family were checking possible dates and locations and would make an announcement “probably in the next week.” Ford added he’s talked with younger brother Rob, former >>>FORD, page 20
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Taking place alongside Cultura Festival is an art exhibition on Canadian athletes being held throughout July in the gallery space of Toronto Centre for the Arts. Check it out while you are visiting Mel Lastman Square for Cultura Festival.
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The obituary for North York’s Mary “Pat” Stocks is personal, funny and full of inside jokes. The one thing that her son, Sandy Stocks, who wrote it, did not anticipate is that it would delight anyone other than her family and close friends. But, the 600-plus-word obit has struck a cord with readers
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reply to them all to say thank you for the kind words about the obituary.” He said he and his family have received messages from such places as Scotland, Dubai and New Zealand. Pat died July 1 at age 94 in her home. She lived on Underhill Drive, near Lawrence Avenue. The obituary starts off with an attempt to give away the mother, grandmother and great-
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