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Scarborough Museum honours artists collective
Day of remembrance
Desserts by Lamplight event planned for this Saturday MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com The Scarborough Museum is honouring Toronto artists this Saturday who are capable of making quilts out of paper and teaching printmaking skills to young museum volunteers. Though strangers to Scarborough, members of the inPrint Collective studied local artifacts and created an exhibit, Encounters with Scarborough, for the museum’s 50th year which has been held over in its Thomson Memorial Park buildings for months. The non-profit group also taught printmaking to around 15 of the museum’s youth team as part of a three-year youth diversity project sponsored by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. It was a treat to see how dedicated
and connected the youth were to the museum, Maureen Da Silva, a spokesperson for the collective, which started in 2008 with five graduating York University Fine Arts students who wanted to promote printmaking and find places to exhibit their art. Members had the volunteers create art on paper containing wildflower seeds, which were placed on stakes in a garden along a wall outside. “We had them plant their work,” said Da Silva, who said the biodegradable art plays with concepts of memory and time. While the paper disappears, the seeds remain in the soil, and are meant to show even “unknown” people contribute to Scarborough, she said this week. “The people maybe you don’t >>>ART, page 15
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CANDLELIGHT SERVICE: R.H. King Academy students Jack Bleeks, right, and Nihon Akbar place candles in the Heritage Room yesterday afternoon in memory of the 14 women killed in the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre. The candlelight memorial service was part of the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
Hospital hosts meetings on future of health care Big changes are coming to local health care, and starting next week, The Scarborough Hospital is taking that message to the community. Hospital officials have previously held meetings to let residents know a new provincial funding formula will make it necessary to move some
services out of its Birchmount or General campuses. Under review, for example, is the Maternal Newborn and Child Care Program. The hospital has recently noted “a significant decrease” in deliveries at both campuses and estimates it could save up to $5 mil-
lion by consolidating the program at one campus. Other choices will be recommended in a consultant’s strategic review for the hospital, which is expected to be finished and released by January. TSH, meanwhile, is asking
residents to come to community meetings “to share information” with residents and gather their opinions. The Centre for Information and Community Services on Midland Avenue hosts the first evening meeting next Thursday, Dec. 13.
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