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FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012

NORTH EDITION

SCARBOROUGH’S COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1962

Danzig shooting response examined by Toronto EMS 3 Ontario Summer Games athletes prepare for upcoming events 8

Duran opens Scarborough jazz fest MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com The music and experiences performers are bringing to the Scarborough Town Jazz Festival this weekend are diverse as the area itself. Quisha Wint has travelled the world and sung back up for Maestro, Jacksoul and another, stranger icon of Canadian music, William Shatner. “He doesn’t look his age at all,” said Wint, who opened the Junos by singing with the ex-starship captain this year. Pressed into singing at age six in the East Toronto Church of God, Wint hadn’t known what to do when the congregation called for an encore. At 18, she got her first gig at a hotel in Seoul, South Korea. From there, she continued to Jakarta, Indonesia, then Macao, the United States and the Caribbean.

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SECOND ANNUAL FESTIVAL Wint is one of many taking the stage at the second annual festival at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto, which has partnered with Scarborough Summerfest, three days of cultural programming the centre arranged. Both festivals start on the grounds of the building, Burrows Hall Park, on Friday. The opening gala starting in the P.C. Ho Theatre at 7 p.m. is the only event of the weekend requiring tickets, which are $15. Besides cultural dance and drumming, the gala features Hilario Duran, the Cuban jazz pianist who formed the group Los D’Siempre in 1970, and later joined Arturo Sandoval’s band and worked with Dizzy Gillespie’s United Nation Orchestra. From 1998, Duran, nominated for two Juno awards and a Grammy, has

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Quisha Wint, left, Chelsea Stewart and Lester McLean are among the performers taking part in the Scarborough Town Jazz Festival, which opens today, at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto.

worked in Toronto as a solo artist. The remainder of the combined festivals, where Sheppard Avenue meets Progress Avenue, is free, with musical performances from 4 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. today; 4 to 8:30 p.m. tomorrow; and 2 to 8:45 p.m. Sunday. The first-ever Summerfest, which

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includes displays of martial arts, ethnic foods and children’s activities runs from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, noon to 10 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. Performer and Scarborough resident Lester McLean hopes after the tragic Danzig Street shooting last month, the festival “give @SCMirror

Scarborough the lift that it needs” and build the image of a place where people are comfortable raising their children. The jazz festival, which played to disappointing crowds outside the centre last year, will evolve once the word gets out, predicted >>>SCARBOROUGH, page 18

It’s a taste of the other Danforth, Scarborough’s Danforth. And while another Danforth Avenue festival this weekend may draw larger crowds, merchants and residents along the street east of Victoria Park Avenue have found a way this Saturday to show what their neighbourhood does best. In an area with body shops, mechanics, used car lots and auto parts stores, Wheels on the Danforth is their answer. The classic car show with 15 judged categories is this year’s addition to the Fun in the Park family festival presented by the Crossroads of the Danforth Business Improvement Area. “We’re hoping to have well over 200 vehicles on the street,” said Liane Murillo, the festival co-ordinator. “There’s going to be such a variety of vehicles, it’s going to be amazing.” Certainly, anyone who wants to check out, say, a 1930 street rod Chevrolet sports coupe, a 1958 Dodge Crusader or a 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 is in luck Saturday. In Oakridge Park east of Byng Avenue, centre of the family activities, “Odessa’s Mater” - an old truck refurbished by an Eastern Ontario >>>FESTIVAL, page 18

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