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Designs for the Fort York Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge were unveiled to the public Tuesday evening at the Fort York Visitor Centre and attendees were impressed.

“I thought they all had redeeming qualities,” said Corrie Galloway, a resident at Bathurst Street and Queens Quay. “I liked all of them, it’s a tough decision.”

About 60 community members showed up June 2 to get a look at the three short-listed designs and help decide which bridge best suits the neighbourhood. With a budget of $19.7 million, designs ranged from simplistic to detailed and provided attendees with three distinct bridges from which to choose.

The bridge itself will be in two parts. The first spans from the southeast corner of the South Stanley Park Extension, which is a new creation stemming from this project, over the north rail corridor onto the northern portion of the Ordnance Triangle Lands, within the new Ordnance Park.

A second bridge will span from the south side of the Ordnance Triangle Lands over the southern rail corridor onto Fort York Garrison Common.

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Wood Studio artists still don’t like condo plan HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Artists and small-scale manufacturers who work out of 440 Dufferin St., affectionately called The Wood Studio, have been offered another revised proposal to transform the industrial building into con-

dominiums.

But the community’s answer seems to remain the same: we don’t want it.

“There’s enough condos here already,” said David Woolfrey, a digital artist who uses the space six days a week.

“It’s an employment zone and it does its job fantastically

as it is right now. It’s difficult to find a place like this. Why disrupt that?”

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The Basements set to play NXNE, June 18 HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

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rontman and lead guitarist Kevin Black of the rock band The Basements gets some of his best inspirations for songs by simply grabbing a coffee and strolling around Parkdale.

“I’ll walk down Queen Street and come up with ideas for themes or pin down lyrical hooks and chorus ideas,” Black told The Villager.

“I also practiced a lot in an alley near Sorauren Avenue and Queen Street...

I wrote a lot of songs in Parkdale.”

The Toronto-based four piece band will be sharing their Parkdale inspired music at the annual North

by North East (NXNE) music festival taking over Toronto from June 17 to 21.

The band will hit the stage at The Silver Dollar Room, 486 Spadina Ave., on Thursday June 18 at 9 p.m. a familiar stomping ground for the band, who also performs at the Horseshoe Tavern, 370 Queen St. W.

“It’s neat just to have people talking about music on social media and have people get excited to see shows,” said the Roncesvalles resident.

“Because of NXNE people will have the chance to see talent from all over the world and see shows you wouldn’t get to normally see.”

The band, consisting of Black on guitar and vocals, Davis Vonn Mara on bass guitar, Jonathan Jackman on drums, and newly added member Josh Cockerill on guitar and keyboards, formed in 2013.

According to Black, he met Jackman and Vonn Mara at a mutual friend’s house party, where they were having a jam session in rotation with different musicians taking turns on different instruments.

“Just when the three of us happened to be in this musical roulette together, it was just like instant magic,” Black recalled.

“So we decided to meet outside of parties and make a band of it. It worked out really well, we’re all on the

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It’s neat just to have people talking about music on social media and have people get excited to see shows.

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Clockwise from top left: Kevin Black, Davis Vonn Mara, Josh Cockerill and Jonathan Jackman, members of the Torontobased band The Basements. They will be playing at The Silver Dollar Room on June 18 as a part of the annual North By North East music festival.

same page musically.”

They then recorded their first songs in their home studio, for their self-titled debut EP in mid-2014.

Cockerill, a longtime friend

of the band, was added after their first album made its debut.

Black said he always knew he wanted to be a musician. He’s been in a

band since he was in Grade 6 and now at the age of 32 he’s still following his passion for music. Originally from London, ON, he moved to Toronto about six years ago.

“I moved here for the music scene,” Black admitted.

“There was one in London, but it moved in waves. The people that got big always ended up moving to Toronto.”

The band’s music is described as minimalist ‘80s-inspired rock that compares to English rock bands Echo and the Bunnymen and Tears for Fears. Therefore it’s no surprise the inspiration behind their new upcoming EP comes from Iggy Pop’s debut album The

Idiot that he did in collaboration with Englishman David Bowie.

“To me it’s very urban sounding and it sounds like the gritty city. I like that concept of sounding like a particular time and place,” Black said.

“When this album was conceived, we wanted it to sound like Toronto at night.

It gets more metaphorical than that, but we wanted it to be a night album.”

The four-song EP doesn’t have a release date as of yet or an official title, but Black said fans can expect a digital release out near the end of the summer.

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Emily Adrian pens young adult book Like it Never Happened HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com First-time novelist Emily Adrian is excited for her debut book, Like It Never Happened, to be in the hands of readers.

“I’m really looking forward to the book being out in the world for the first time and hearing from readers for the first time,” Adrian, a Queen Street and Ossington Avenue resident told The Villager.

The young adult novel tells the story of Rebecca Rivers, a 16-year-old theatre buff who scores the lead in the school play with her friends, who call themselves the Essential Five and take theatre very seriously.

“It allows her to escape from the identity her peers have thrust upon her; she’s known for being a loner and promiscuous, even though those rumours are based on

misinterpreted evidence and have never been true,” Adrian explained.

As the novel progresses, Rebecca develops feelings for her co-star as well as the adult director.

“The book is about how she navigates those two relationships,” Adrian explained.

“Love, lust and friendship are continuous themes in the book.”

T h e n ov e l i s s e t i n Portland, Oregon, Adrian’s birthplace.

She said some of the places and activities she described in the book were things she used to do as a teen living in Portland.

“There are little things from my own experience spr inkled in the book.

There’s a lot of superficial stuff because it’s familiar territory,” she said.

“All of the ways the characters pass the time; they

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Parkdale author Emily Adrian’s first novel, ‘Like It Never Happened’.

go to the diner I went to as a kid. I know kids in Portland like to go to 7-Eleven, get a Slurpee and climb this one hill and look at the view from a certain bridge.”

The novel is described as realistic teen fiction, which Adrian said she really wanted

to convey because teen life is nothing like the movies.

“It feels real and that’s because it’s confusing for the character, it’s not clear cut and she doesn’t have this one big passionate romance that’s a movie-style ending.

It kind of feels like how high

school really does feel, which is a lot of awkwardness,” Adrian said.

“I went with that because when I was a teenager, I really fell in love with books that portrayed the high school experience in a no-frills, straight-ahead kind of way.”

Like It Never Happened was a labour of love, Adrian said, written three years ago while she worked in an office by day and devoted all her energy to writing as soon as she clocked out. She was so focused on being published, she said, because she felt like she was at a bit of a crossroad.

“When I started writing the book, it was either time to finally succeed or devote my energy to another career goal,” she said.

“I didn’t ever intend to stop writing, but I was working these office jobs that were

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pretty much dead-end office jobs because I was devoting my real energy into becoming a published author. But that couldn’t go on forever; I needed to make real progress.”

A year after she started writing it, the book was sold to Penguin Books.

Now fresh off her New York City book tour, Adrian will be at Type Books at 883 Queen St. W. Friday, June 12 from 7 to 9 p.m. for her official Toronto book launch.

She’ll be reading an excerpt from the book to audience members and will be signing copies.

“It’s pretty cool to see it come full circle,” she said.

“Having it finally out in the world is extremely satisfying.”

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Improved transportation should be a Pan Am legacy I

magine a legacy from the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games where people get around this city in a more efficient fashion.

Given the preparations being made for the Games’ traffic influx, it’s not an unrealistic hope.

Hundreds of thousands of additional people are expected in the city and the Greater Toronto Area for the Games next month, so it’s important for everyone to do some transportation planning.

This challenge on our roads will be in addition to other planned road construcour view tion projects during the summer months.

Toronto stands Key to this planning process – for residents, businesses and to benefit after visitors – will be understanding Games are over the tools and resources available to help get around the city.

This week a web-based transportation planner, accessible at www.2015gamestripplanner.ca, was launched by the province. It provides real-time traffic details, such as road closures, traffic speeds, HOV lane locations, a booking feature for accessible parking spots and more. An app is also available for download on Apple, Android and Blackberry devices.

That announcement comes a day after GO Transit unveiled its enhanced service plans for the Games.

These include more service on routes that serve major events and that Games tickets can be used as valid fare on GO on the day of that event.

There’s an additional opportunity from all of this transportation preparation that stretches well into the future: applying what’s being learned.

Traffic is not a new issue to the city. What successes can be shared from these preparations? What lessons can be learned? We have to study the traffic patterns that unfold during the Games. We have to measure the impact of initiatives such as HOV lanes. Surely there are aspects of the web trip planner that can be co-opted for travelling within the city after the Games are done?

With the transportation planning, there are additional potential benefits for the city – not just for future special events, but for day-to-day life.

That’s what a legacy is all about.

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Toronto council will have to deal with budget shortfall at some point

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emember the 2015 budget?

It’s been a few months now, and there’s been a lot of water under the elevated highway, as it were, so it’s understandable if you don’t. The takeaway: property tax increases were kept reasonable, in spite of the fact Toronto was hit with an $86-million shortfall due to housing costs downloaded by the provincial government.

Council dealt with that shortfall with some cuts, and a $60-million “loan” from the city’s capital investment program: money that will have to be replenished over the next several years.

As dubious councillors voted to approve the scheme, Mayor John Tory promised that soon he would be offering a

david nickle the city plan as to how best to pay back that loan to the city’s capital investments. Two per cent cuts to spending across all departments was one of the ideas bandied about.

This week, Toronto’s budget committee received and passed on Tory’s more refined plan, which amounted to not much more – and in important ways considerably less – than that.

Tory sent a letter to the committee, asking that city departments and cityfunded agencies like the TTC all be asked to find two per cent savings. The letter is not legally binding – only council as a whole can give direction to the

city’s civil service – but it’s clear enough as far as it goes.

Tory goes on, however, to ask for some other things: he would like to make sure the property tax increase remains at or below the rate of inflation, and wants the city to continue to fund public transit in an aggressive way.

Oh, and these efficiencies mustn’t lead to any reductions in service.

On June 9, the city’s budget committee had a look at the letter and sent it off to city staff. As budget chief Gary Crawford noted, these kinds of letters have come out of every mayor’s office since Mel Lastman.

There have rarely been times their advice has been taken to the letter, and Crawford admitted after the meeting that over the next few years council will

probably have to figure out some other measures in order to finally balance the budget.

Parkdale-High Park Councillor Gord Perks, something of a critic on these matters, put things more bluntly.

“There will come a day when we have a stark choice between reducing the services we deliver to people and finding a way to pay for them,” he said. “Last term, we had a mayor incapable of facing that choice. I’m hoping this council is a little more adult because the longer we put this off the worse it gets.”

I guess we’ll see just how bad it gets over the next few years.

David Nickle is The Villager’s city hall reporter. His column appears Thursdays. Reach him on Twitter: @DavidNickle

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19th-century schooner moved to Fort York HiLARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com A piece of Toronto’s naval past was preserved as construction crews removed a 19th century ship, known as a schooner, from the Bathurst Street and Fort York Boulevard area.

The discovery was first made in May by an archaeological crew. The location is currently being developed for a condominium overseen

by EllisDon and Concord Adex.

The schooner remains were successfully excavated and moved last Thursday to its interim location in the front parking lot of the Fort York Visitor Centre at 250 Fort York Blvd.

“After the deck work on the Gardiner (Expressway) is completed, we’re going to move the ship and it will go up on a permanent cradle (at Fork York) so people can get a good look at it,” said Wayne Reeves, chief curator of Museum and Heritage Services from the City of Toronto.

Reeves said the part of the ship that was found is called the keel.

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A 19th-century schooner discovered at Queen’s Wharf was loaded onto a truck and taken to Fort York last Thursday where it will be preserved and displayed outside the historical site’s visitor centre.

the bottom and dates back to the 1830s.

“It’s the oldest ship that’s ever been recovered archaeologically in Toronto harbour,” Reeves told The Villager.

“It’s a fairly significant artefact that speaks to Toronto as a working port and there’s enough of the ship left to really drive home the fact that Fort York was established on the water’s edge.”

Reeves added until about 130 to 140 years ago, a ship could have

been right at Fort York’s doorstep, but after lakefill was done for railways, industrial buildings and housing the shoreline moved farther away from its original location.

Reeves added although it’s the oldest ship to be recovered, the type of boat holds no major significance to Toronto Harbour’s history.

He calls it “the pickup truck of the 19th century.”

“In many ways, it’s still your runof-the-mill boat,” Reeves said.

“You can imagine if you found

a Ford F150 at the back of your property, you’d say it’s interesting, but is it significant? It’s not like we found a British ship that sunk in the War of 1812 that would attract international attention.”

Still, the discovery was exciting and interesting for Fort York, Reeves said. It’ll take about a year or two to find out the schooner’s full history and answer some of the questions people may have about it. Until then, the plan is to leave the boat as is, with very minor touch-ups. The idea is to have it remain as a ruin and tell the story of the archaeological find.

According to Reeves, this isn’t the first time a ship has been found in Toronto during development and it most likely won’t be the last.

“Since the 1980s, this is the fourth ship that’s been found in lakefill on the bed of the old Toronto harbour,” Reeves said.

“And there’s still more land undergoing redevelopment (in the area). So stay tune for more finds in the future.”

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The City of Toronto, directed by Build Toronto, is working with the city’s Waterfront Secretariat on this project while MMM Group facilitates the meetings.

The three companies chosen to battle for the hearts of the Fort York community were EllisDon, the Dufferin Construction Company and Landmark Bridge Builders.

Each team was allowed 15 minutes to present their bridge design to the crowd and highlight its uniqueness and their vision for the bridge.

• EllisDon created a bridge that is a hybrid between the Bathurst Truss Bridge and the Strachan Girder bridge that they call a Truss/Girder combination. This bridge would be constructed with the same dark rust rail material as the Bathurst and Strachan bridge, while the pathway would be concrete. This design included a curved seating area, with a portion that doubles as

stairs at the south end near Garrison Commons. It also has two lookout points at the north end by Stanley Park and the south end by Garrison Commons.

“For our bridge design, we’re combining these two classic bridge types. We get the benefits of both,” said Marc Ryan, the lead architect.

“We get the low compactness of the Girder and the framed views of the Truss.”

• The Dufferin Construction Company’s design proposed creating a completely stainless steel bridge called Garrison Crossing. It would be the first one in North America, according to Juan Sobrino, design lead for the company.

The shape of the bridge itself mimics the original curvy and shifting alignment of Garrison Creek. Each bridge would have an arch made of stainless steel with stainless steel mesh on either side of the bridge with a concrete path.

According to Sobrino, stainless steel has higher corrosion resistance, would require less maintenance by the city, and would have a longer service

life than the required 75 years as stated in the design criteria they received.

• Landmark Bridge Builders came up with a simple S-shaped bridge design that creates a continuously curvy creek-inspired fluidity. Both bridges in this design mirror the Humber bridge with the same white finish. According to Robert Davies, the lead architect on the project, this is the company’s third attempt at designing this bridge. The first concept was scrapped by the city because it was between $6 million and $8 million over budget.

“We wanted to go back to basics to see if our instincts were still strong,” Davies said, referring to the new design.

A selection committee consisting of citizens who know the area will choose the final design based on price, project management, overall design and construction.

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Session Toronto Craft Beer Festival returns June 13 Below-market units available There will be plenty of food, fun and beer to go around when the Session Toronto Craft Beer Festival comes to Yonge-Dundas Square this Saturday.

The festival started as a finale to Ontario Craft Beer Week, a celebration of small, independent breweries.

It was co-founded by Jed Corbeil and Curt Dunlop, whose love affair with fine beer led them to open the Griffin Pub in the Muskoka region. When that took off, they founded the Session Muskoka Beer Festival.

“We had such a great response, when we heard about the Ontario Craft Beer Festival, we decided to try to do something in Toronto, bringing together great brewers,” Corbeil said.

Unlike other local beer festivals, Session makes a point of offering beer drinkers something they haven’t tasted anywhere else. Its Collaboration Nation program pairs breweries with celebrities to create signature brews, with stellar results.

“Sam Roberts partnered with Spearhead and they have a hard time keeping up with demand,” Corbeil said.

The limited edition Synergy Saison, a craft beer collaboration between Mill Street Brewery and Parkdale band Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker (USS), will make its debut this weekend.

“The beer is a Belgium-style saison that’s dry and blond in colour with a light cloudiness to them,” said Joel Manning, brewmaster at Mill Street Brewery.

The collaboration took about two weeks. Manning said the band came down to the brewpub and tasted some of the house beer as well as different style Belgium saisons. From there, the band described flavours they liked and didn’t, and Manning crafted the beer.

As for working with the band, Manning said the experience was great because they feel the same way about beer.

“They seemed like a very good fit for us; they’re fun and

they’re huge beer guys and music and beer go together really well,” Manning said.

The festival also fosters collaboration between breweries and brew pubs, with participants coming together to create limited batches of festival-specific beer.

This year will see Session Gose take centre stage. The slightly sour German wheat ale was concocted after much deliberation and discussion

by Local 7, a group of Toronto pubs specializing in craft beer consisting of The Auld Spot, C’est What?, Bryden’s, WVRST, Bar Hop, The Only Café and Bar Volo.

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Many said they were not impressed.

“This neighbourhood is subject to too much development in the last few years,” said Darien Taylor, a resident at Gladstone and Peel Avenues. “Enough is enough.”

This proposal consists of a one 12-storey building and two eight-story buildings.

There would be 281 parking spaces and 269 residential units, 22 per cent of which are two-bedroom units and 10 per cent three-bedroom units.

The non-residential square footage would be about 60,000, equivalent to the square footage in The Wood Studio, and would be located in an eight-storey tower in the north building.

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Phipps, who has been a community planner on this proposal since 2011, told The Villager the community’s concerns have been raised with the developer and this third offering comes close to the middle ground.

“It’s better than the other two and as they’ve revised their proposal, they’ve addressed more and more of the concerns brought to them,” Phipps said.

“I think that it’s a hard decision for the city.”

The proposal also came with $2 million to contribute to Section 37, funds that would allow the city to have a 10-year lease on 14,000 square feet of space at subsidized rent prices for artists.

But neither the community nor the councillor was impressed with that number.

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