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A creative writing and literacy program for marginalized women in Parkdale has been given a new lease on life, awarded a $75,000 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to continue the workshop for the next three years. “I can’t stress enough how important this grant is. Without it we wouldn’t be able to have the group,” said Carol Allain, a drop-in services manager at Sistering, a women’s organization that offers practical and emotional support to women in need. “We don’t have any of our own money for it, it runs on grant money. So we will be worry free for the next three years.” The workshop, Sister Writes, which runs twice a week at the Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor St. W., is run by novelist, freelance writer and arts educator Lauren Kirshner. She graduated from the University of Toronto’s Masters of English in the Field of Creative Writing and was mentored by famous Canadian author Margaret Atwood. >>>PARTICIPANTS, page 5

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THIS LITTLE PIGGY: Andrew Sharpe crafts at This Little Piggy on Monday. The Parkdale store plans to host craft making workshops every other Monday for toddlers with a different craft each week. Last Monday’s craft was tissue paper stained glass windows.

Bike Pirates set sail for new home Rent too high for volunteer group; workshop is moving to Parkdale LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com With the new year comes a new location for the ever popular volunteer-run, DIY organization Bike Pirates. The Do-It-Yourself workspace

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Ward boundary review wA ward meeting Thursday boundary review meeting will be held at the Parkdale library, 1303 Queen St. W., in the auditorium, today from 6 to 9 p.m. It’s one of a dozen meetings the city is holding as part of its initial public consultation on rejigging ward boundaries in time for the next election in 2018 in order to ensure fairer representation. The format for the meetings has an open house for the first hour with consultants available for one-on-one discussion and maps on display for viewing.

It’s followed by a presentation and discussion for about two hours. Visit www.drawthelines. ca Han Dong’s New Year wTrinity-Spadina Levee MPP Han-Dong is celebrating his New Year’s Levee at Scadding Court Community Centre, 707 Dundas St. W. Jan. 10 from 1 to 3 p.m. with snacks and hot and cold refreshments. about High Park’s wTheLearn unusual discoveries High Park Stewards host the

‘Room Enough for Nature: Unusual nature discoveries in High Park’ as part of its Winter Speaker series Sunday, Jan. 11 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Howard Park Tennis Club, 430 Parkside Dr. For years, speaker Richard Aaron, has wandered the trails learning about the park’s flora and fauna. On occasion, he has chanced upon a totally unexpected animal or plant. Aaron will share some of these unusual encounters. Visit highparknature.org for more information.

Winter Fun Day returns Learn how trees survive wColborne to Colborne Lodge w winter in High Park Lodge hosts a winter The High Park Nature Centre, 440 fun day Sunday, Jan. 18 from noon to 3 p.m. Taffy-pulling for kids takes place inside Colborne Lodge, while roasting marshmallows, eating roasted potatoes and sipping warm cider takes place in the great outdoors. Most activities are outside. Small fees apply for taffy-pulling, potatoes and cider. No cost to enter the grounds, but regular admission applies for tours of Colborne Lodge. Call 416392-6916.

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Annual alternative design event back at Gladstone HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Once a year Toronto-based artists and designers come together to take over the Gladstone Hotel and fill it with one-of-a-kind pieces from fine art to sound installations for the alternative design event Come Up To My Room (CUTMR). Two Parkdale artists are participating in this year’s edition, LeuWebb Projects at King and Dufferin streets, and Dundas and Dovercourt resident Michael Vickers with Oliver Pauk. “It’s a wonderful organization and icon in Parkdale that’s really important to us, the arts community and the city as well,” said architect Christine Leu, one half of LeuWebb Projects. LeuWebb Projects debuted its first Toronto installation at the Gladstone’s CUTMR event in 2011 and since then they’ve created exhibits for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, the Toronto Design Offsite Festival and the Toronto

Outdoor Art Exhibition. This is the 12th year of CUTMR which will run for an extended 10-day stint from Jan. 16 to 25 at the Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W. The alternative design event will showcase works from various Toronto designers and artists throughout the entire hotel for public viewing. It also includes visual entertainment and music. T h i s y e a r L e u We b b Projects will be showcasing its ‘Rotating Reflections’ exhibit, consisting of more than 30 rotating accordion arm mirrors attached to the ceiling, some motion censored, which will have fading colours reflected in the mirror. The rotating mirrors allow “fleeting and distorted glances, cast shifting images and project light in fluid motion.” When coming up with the idea Webb, who is also an architect and a DJ, said the hotel’s history was always front of mind when creating the installation. It’s designed

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‘Rotating Reflections’ by LeuWebb Projects is part of the alternative design event Come Up To My Room, Jan. 16 to 25, at the Gladstone Hotel.

to reflect the past, present and future of the Gladstone. “The thing I enjoy about the pieces is that you can casually sit in the Melody Bar and have these reflections moving around you. If you’re alone there might be few that are moving because you’re there. But if you’re there for a party it can be much more

active,” said Leu. “I think the experience can really change depending on the time of day or what’s happening in the space.” According to Webb, it’s not a traditional art piece in the sense that audiences would go and look at the installation; it’s more about “enhancing your experience in the

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space.” For Vickers and Pauk, firsttimers to the event, they will be showcasing two installations at the Gladstone, one on the front doors and another on the second floor in room 210. Both are part of an ongoing series of site specific works focusing on processes involving digital manipulations and activations of space called Spectra Logic. “The work is grounded in the relationship between man, materials and contrasting landscapes and environments,” Vickers said. “It has really been an opportunity to push ourselves and try out new materials; this is our first time working with fabric and some of these materials in this way. Vickers and Pauk are both visual artists. Pauk’s work

involves photography mixed with projection-based elements, while Vickers specializes in painting, sculpture and installations with sheets of metal and molded Plexiglas covered in brightly hued paint. Together they manage the Akin Collective studios at 444 Dufferin St. Recent projects are The Long Winter, Sunday Drive Art Projects, The Drake Hotel and the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Vickers described the installations as “colourful escapes” that have an “otherworldly feel.” Both deal with engaging the viewer in a new way that explores his and Pauk’s relationship with the materials as artists. For more information on LeuWeb Projects, visit www. leuwebb.ca, for Michael Vickers, visit http://michaelvickers.org and for Oliver Pauk, visit www.oliverpauk. org For a full listing of run times of CUTMR’15, visit www. gladstonehotel.com/spaces/ come-up-to-my-room

High Park Nature Centre gets newer, larger home thanks to grant HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com This spring the High Park Nature Centre will have a new place to call home. As of April 2015 the Nature Centre, currently at 440 Parkside Dr., will be on the move to a new space near the entrance to High Park at Bloor Street West. Known to employees and park goers as the Forest School, the existing facility boasts 5,000 square-feet of space, a significant increase from its building that’s roughly 700 square-feet. According to Natalie Harder, the centre’s executive director, the lack of space at its current location was a large deciding factor for the move. “It’s not a lot of space. We obviously spend a lot of time outdoors, but with the case of severe weather we have to have a place to bring everybody,” she said. The centre has had an increase in subscribers to its various programs and will need the extra space to house

people in its main space. The High Park Nature Centre is a non-profit organization established in 1999 that helps promote awareness and respect for nature through outdoor environmental education and park stewardship. It offers a chance to explore the park and the nature it has to offer all year round, through camps, school programs, nature clubs, family nature walks, special events, programs for girl guides and scouts, educational birthday parties and adult programs. By July the larger facility will be the new location of the nature centre thanks to a $350,000 grant over three years courtesy of the Ontario Trillium Foundation. “We’re such a small organization that we needed that boost to allow us to take that risk to moving to a bigger space,” Harder said. A large portion of the grant will be put toward new equipment, such as tables, chairs, office supplies, while the remainder will be used

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Children snowshoe as part of the High Park Nature Centre’s winter program. Thanks to a three-year grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the centre will be moving to a new, larger home closer to the park’s Bloor Street entrance.

to increase staffing due to the increased enrollment in programs. A total of four positions will be created over the three year period. Another reason for the move is visibility; according to Harder a lot of people don’t know where the High Park Nature Centre is located. “Unless you have a reason to go there, you don’t really

stumble upon it,” she said. “This new site is right there, it welcomes people to High Park. It’s good for visibility, but accessibility too, it’s close to the High Park subway station.” The nature centre board has “had its eye out” for the building since September 2013, Harder added. The new centre’s location will require a bit of sprucing

up, including a fresh coat of paint and new furniture. With the added space the centre will be able to add a few new features including a volunteer hub, a larger more cozy area for the parent-tot program it runs complete with carpet and couches. It will also double as a space for parents who wish to stick around while their kids are in nature programs.

Additionally, the nature centre will be equipped with a nature book lending library, larger offices with new computers for staff and a bat monitor library. The building will also double as a meeting space for the different organizations within High Park; Harder said it will give them a chance to create “a cohesive mentality that will have park groups connect more frequently.” Overall, said Harder, staff and park groups couldn’t be happier to have a fresh start in the new space. “It feels amazing. Everyone is very excited about it and we have a really great community of supporters who come to programs who have been rooting for this to happen,” Harder said. “We’re excited for ourselves but we’re also excited about what this means for the park because all the park groups have been really rooting for this. We’re pretty thrilled.

For more information, visit www.highparknaturecentre. com

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y, did Toronto councillors and the mayor get off to a running start this week. Mayor John Tory and councillors looked at all sorts of ways to speed cars and trucks on their way with traffic management as police got busy towing illegally stopped vehicles during rush hour. The Public Works and Infrastructure Committee wasted no time putting staff to work studying whether or not to contract out garbage collection. Tory was so excited to get going that he nearly fell over on an icy Toronto sidewalk. And that was just by Tuesday. In all this hustle-andbustle, it was good to be reminded that not everything in Toronto is an around-the-clock project, and there are still some parts of the city where people know how to slow

david nickle the city down and smell the roses. And where better to do that than in Nathan Phillips Square. On Monday, the city’s Government Management Committee kicked off the term hearing from the team that’s managing the nine-year, $60-million project to spruce up the square outside Toronto City Hall. The project got its start under the David Miller administration in 2007, with a design by PLANT Architect and a budget of $40 million. The cost of that project has ballooned to about $60 million, with elements added and removed through the years as political whims shifted. This week staff recommended adding back many of the elements of that

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revitalization that had been removed – which would add $11 million to the project. If everything is added back – which is up to council – the $70 million project to improve Toronto’s civic square will be finished in 2016. If a concurrent repair of the ceremonial ramp going to the roof of city hall is included, that will be 2019. If the city can find a restaurateur with $4 million to spend on building a restaurant there, we’ll have one of those too. Although after the failure of city hall’s own Café on the Square restaurant,

it’s unlikely they’ll find anyone. Until then, Nathan Phillips Square will be some flavour of the way it is now: partially open, dotted with hoarding, kind of arid. All for a project that in the end was intended to – let’s be honest – marginally improve the political and cultural centre of our city. It’s this example – along with the decades-long rehabilitation of the Gardiner Expressway and the continuing mirage of subways in Scarborough – that reveals Toronto’s true political cult heritage, and against which the new hurry-up culture of the Tory administration finds itself. Council can hurry up as much as it wants now. Before too long, we will all get down to the regular business – of waiting.

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Polar Bear Dip raises $75K for Habitat for Humanity Polar Bear Club takes a chilly dip on New Year’s Day More than 500 people braved the icy temperatures of Lake Ontario to take part in the Toronto Polar Bear Club’s Polar Bear Dip on New Year’s Day at Sunnyside Beach. The 10th annual dip raised approximately $75,000 for Habitat for Humanity Greater Toronto Area, the club’s Ian MacLeod told The Villager, Jan. 2, although he added the organization was still tallying the exact amount. “We had 450 registered online on New Year’s Eve and there were easily 50 more that signed up at the event,” said

MacLeod. Since its inception in 2005, the Toronto Polar Bear Club has raised almost $200,000 for Habitat for Humanity Greater Toronto Area. Its participant numbers have grown since then, when the dip attracted 25 participants and raised $6,000. Last year, approximately 400 took part raising more than $50,000. “We were all so tired and cold that we didn’t do much after the event yesterday,” said MacLeod. – Lisa Rainford

Making a run for it: Top right, Richard Lis, left, has a devil of a time keeping warm in Lake Ontario on New Year’s Day at Sunnyside Park to help raise funds for Habitat for Humanity. Right, brave Polar Bear Dip participants take to the lake. Above, more than 500 participants run into the chilly water. For more photos from the event, visit http://goo.gl/ZDo0Cw Photos/PETER C. MCCUSKER

Participants learn literacy, writing skills >>>from page 1 Kirshner along with guest writers and novelists, teach participants valuable literacy and writing skills, develop their leadership capacity and help them learn effective communication strategies to become more active members of the community. According to Allain, the workshops have become so popular there is currently a waiting list for the upcoming January sessions – it also helps that the program is offered to participants for free. “The women who come to Sistering either have no income or they’re on a fixed income,” Allain said. “It’s also a very individual program and we work from a social justice, anti-oppressive perspective.” Kirshner founded the program in 2010 to provide women with the tools to share their stories and wisdom, while learning from awarding winning authors, poets and journalists. “I wanted, especially, to create a space where women could write about the issues that shape their lives,” Kirshner explained. “I’ve benefited tremendously from mentorship myself, so I knew how important connecting to other artists is when developing a creative practice.” The women who sign up also design a magazine that contains their entire collection of work from the session. Since its inception the program has conducted more than 300 workshops in the

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Ward 13 Constituency Hours with Councillor Sarah Doucette WHEN: 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: Irmgard, 416-392-4072 to make an appointment COST: Free Ward 13 City Councillor Sarah Doucette holds Constituency Hours regularly to meet with constituents in person.

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Saturday Writers WHEN: 9:30 to 11 a.m. WHERE: High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside Dr. CONTACT: 416-393-7671 COST: Free Read from and discuss works in progress. Prose, poetry, essays welcome.

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Book Tasting at High Park Library WHEN: 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: High Park Library, 228 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7671 COST: Free In celebration of Family Literacy Day, come out for a special book tasting event. Visit the library’s ‘restaurant’ (the community room) where you can ‘sample’ (read a few pages from a book) and ‘order’ (borrow) different genres of books from the menu. Richard Aaron will share some of unusual encounters of flora and fauna with you. Following the talk, the floor will be open for audience members to share their own discoveries.

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Parkdale-High Park Education Town Hall WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Parkdale Library Basement Auditorium, 1303 Queen St. W. CONTACT: Lisa Druchok, 416-763-5630, http://cheridinovo.ca/, dinovoc-co@ ndp.on.ca COST: Free As Parkdale-High Park grows, so does TDSB student enrollment. Hear how

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Winter Sketchbook: Lessons in Drawing WHEN: 1 to 4 p.m. WHERE: High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside Dr. CONTACT: 416-392-1748 COST: $150 for three sessions Look closely at winter woodlands to create intricate sketchbook pages. You’ll learn how to draw intriguing winter specimens from High Park trails. Workshop includes all three sessions: today and Jan. 27 and Jan. 29.

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St. Joseph’s Healthcare Centre welcomed Adam Lamelas on New Year’s Day. He was born at 2:52 a.m. weighing six pounds, 15 ounces.

“I was totally refusing to go to the hospital,” she said. It wasn’t until 9:30 p.m. when the contractions “were really strong and were coming closer,” when she thought this may be the real deal. Marlene and Telmo live near Dufferin Street and Eglinton Avenue, but her parents live close to St. Joe’s and

Just more than two hours later, at 2:52 a.m., Marlene and Telmo welcomed their first child, Adam Michael Lamelas, weighing six-pounds 15 ounces. So far, both mom, dad and baby have been adjusting well, although Marlene admits she’s tired and is grateful for what sleep she gets. Both her mother and mother-in-law will be helping her out at home as the days progress. “Thank goodness,” she said.

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Donna Dooher named interim CEO and President of Restaurants Canada HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Author, chef, television host and restaurant owner Donna Dooher can now add interim President and CEO to her list of titles. The Liberty Village restaurateur was named the interim president and CEO of Restaurants Canada recently, while the organization conducts a thorough search for suitable candidates. Dooher has also been the chair of Restaurants Canada’s board of directors for the past seven years. “I’ve been a longtime supporter of this organization, I’ve been a member for over 20 years and I recognize the value and the importance of the association in our industry,” she said. “So, I was very happy to step up and lend a hand.” Restaurants Canada, formerly known as the Canadian Food Services Association, has more than 30,000 members across the nation and is the largest business association in the country for foodservice owners and operators. Dooher, who owns Mildred’s Temple Kitchen, 85 Hanna Ave., has been in the ParkdaleLiberty Village area for quite some time. She first got her start in the restaurant business more than 30 years ago when she had a catering business called Avant-Gout in what is now the Great Hall at 1087

Queen St. W., but eventually had to move on. “I outgrew that space, so I was looking for an industrial space just to grow my production kitchen,” Dooher explained. She got her first bricks and mortar restaurant in 1989 with Mildred Pierce at 99 Sudbury St. It closed in 2007, re-opening as Mildred’s Temple on Hanna Avenue in Liberty Village in 2008. As interim president and CEO, her responsibilities will take her away from the kitchen and into an office. It’s a change she welcomes with enthusiasm after having to “stand all day.” The business will have to sustain as best it can, but she’s not worried. “I’m very blessed that I have a great team on the ground, they’re all wonderful and we mapped out a plan on how this will work and affect people’s roles and people will have to step up,” she said. “So far, so good for now.” When it comes to her new role, Dooher said there are a few initiatives she’d like to stay on track with that are of relevance to the members, which include employment insurance, wage increases and the major issue of pushing for uniform and consistent menu labelling requirements across the country for restaurant owners. “We can’t have Toronto having its own set of rules and then Ontario and then

Canada because we crisscross all over the country,” explained Dooher. “These are all things we want to be engaged with the government moving forward.” “We have a lot we’re looking to have implemented and hopefully some of that will happen on my watch.” According to Dooher, Restaurants Canada is also looking into setting up a new program called Grad Path, which will help students graduating from hospitality programs to connect with industry professionals across the country. Despite having a full plate of responsibilities and having her hand in different pots, Dooher is confident she can manage it all and is grateful for the Restaurants Canada team, who help her stay on task. But like any new role, there’s a learning curve, she said, which includes knowing your limits. “One can overload for sure. What’s important is that you get the right support around you to ensure you don’t explode and sometimes you have to say no to some things,” she said. “But with a little bit of planning and strategy I’m sure it will run smoothly. I will just have to monitor my level of engagement and commitment, but I feel pretty confident that it’s all going to work out.”

Not-for-profit organization still looking for donations >>>from page 1 To help fund the move and re-establishment in Parkdale, Bike Pirates launched an Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign. The goal was to raise $20,000 for the not-forprofit organization’s move and renovations of its new space. The campaign closed January 3, falling short of the goal. That figure was arrived at by estimating how munch money went into improvements at the 1292 Bloor St. W. location, Shapley said.

“We had to put in all the wiring in the basement; we put in an accessible washroom and a kitchen,” she said. With the move, Bike Pirates is almost doubling its work space. “We’re a victim of our own success,” Shapley said. “This was our busiest summer yet.” Shapley attributes this in part to the high unemployment in the city. “More people can’t afford to go to the bike shop to fix their

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Greenest City receives provincial grant Parkdale’s Greenest City is one of more than 30 projects from communities across Ontario to receive part of a $3 million grant from the provincial government’s Local Food Fund. Greenest City received $190,100 over 36 months to pay for staff and program expenses. Ontario’s Local Food Fund supports innovative and local food projects that increase

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