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St. Joseph’s Health Centre was the real winner at Woodbine Racetrack last Wednesday. Its second annual St. Joe’s Plate raised more than $62,000 in support of the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. The event’s proceeds will enable the renovation of a lounge and dining area within the unit, creating a ‘home away from home’ feel for clients who require overnight care while being treated for mental illness. Guests at the fundraiser dined on a buffet dinner in a private tent overlooking the racetrack. Races took place every 25 minutes throughout the night. Etobicoke Sports Hall of Fame inductee and jockey Sandy Hawley made an appearance, sharing a few words of advice for those betting on the horses. The “out-of-the box” fundraising event brought together as many as 240 people in support of treatment for mental illness at the west-end health-care facility. Many were family and friends of Lauren Whelan, for whom the event was dedicated. Whelan, a 19-year-old student at Wilfred Laurier University, struggled with depression before taking her own life in January of this year. Whelan, >>>FUNDRAISER, page 14

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Art crawl June 13, 14 NATALIE CHU nchu@insidetoronto.com Art in Liberty Village just got a little more local. The two-day Liberty Village Art Crawl will return for its second year and feature some 45 artists from across Ontario and Montreal. But this year, the event will also feature a half-dozen artists from the neighbourhood. Liberty Village resident Darryl Dash will bring his photo blog of the neighbourhood to the event in prints, a couple of canvases and a Kickstarter campaign to create a photo book. “Part of it is that I love the community. I was looking for a

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way to connect online with residents,” said Dash, who began the project in late 2012. “I love getting out there and capturing a visual representation of the unique things in the community,” he said. Dash said he often looks for the intersection between the old Liberty Village and the new developments that have taken over the area in his images. One of his favourite photos is of the old prison chapel in Liberty Village Park. His favourite aspect of the image was capturing a little pipe sticking out of the wall. “It’s a small community so you have to go over the same >>>VARIETY, page 2

New Ward 20 councillor July 7

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HORSE PLAY: Medieval Times’ Nick Melowsky and his Andulusian stallion Castrano demonstrate their battle skills during Toronto Horse Day at the Exhibition Place Horse Palace on Saturday. See more photos from Horse Day on Page 3.

The Ward 20 (Trinity-Spadina) seat vacated by Adam Vaughan will be filled by council appointment, with a special Toronto Council meeting July 7. Vaughan resigned his seat to run in the Trinity-Spadina federal byelection, which was vacated earlier this year by New Democrat Olivia Chow, who is running for mayor. Rather than wait to see how he fared as a Liberal candidate in that byelection, Vaughan resigned as soon as the writ was dropped. Council has few choices available to it in selecting his successor. The seat must be declared vacant within 60 days of Vaughan’s resignation, and because the vacancy occurs after March 31 of the election year, Council cannot hold a byelection.

Instead, councillors must have an appointment process. Under the rules proposed by the city clerk, interested applicants have until June 20 at 4:30 p.m. to submit their applications. Applicants will be able to address the July 7 council meeting for five minutes each, with the order chosen by lot. The new councillor will be serving for only a short time. There will only be two more council meetings before council recesses for the municipal election — the first, starting the day after the proposed special meeting, and the second at the end of August. The appointment will be in effect until the newly-elected councillor is sworn in following the Oct. 27 municipal election.

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