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The 11th annual Salsa on St. Clair street festival will sizzle in York Saturday, July 4 and Sunday, July 5. Inspired by Miami’s Calle Ocho festival, more than 100 artists are expected for the free two-day event along St. Clair Avenue, between Winona Drive and Christie Street, which will include live music, dance lessons and Latin food. Presented by TLN Telelatino, the Hillcrest Village Business Improvement Area, and the City of Toronto, Salsa on St. Clair has grown from a local event launching in 2005 to one attracting hundreds of thousands of attendees over two days. Salsa on St. Clair will run Saturday from noon to 10 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 9 p.m.

With the sun blazing down and music pumping, dozens of volunteers loaded hundreds of thousands of water bottles

into trucks last Wednesday to be delivered to those who call the streets home. Now in its 16th year, Project Water will provide more than 170 social service agencies, outreach providers and

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Oakwood Village artist Isaac Narciso Weber displays his award-winning Spiritual Warrior painting during the 11th annual Aboriginal Arts and Stories gala at the Art Gallery of Ontario last month.

Isaac Narciso Weber recieves national Aboriginal arts award Artist embraces his native roots DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com Fo r Oa k w o o d V i l l a g e Anishinaabe artist Isaac Narciso Weber creativity is a way to overcome life’s obstacles, which for him, started right from the get-go. Bouncing between his mother, his father and foster care – as did his siblings – growing up in Holland, then in a native community near Sudbury, then back in Holland, getting in trouble with the law along the way, Weber had one constant: art. Now, aged 27, a father of two young children, Weber still has art, but unlike when he was a teenager when it was getting him in trouble, now his creativity is helping to put food on the table. He said he’s been persistent

with image-making his entire life, and anytime he attempted something different, it didn’t stick. Art did. Living in Rotterdam, Holland, Weber became good at street art. However, he said troubles with the law messed up his high school years. But that didn’t stop him from continuing to make art. “One of my foster moms always used to tell me, if you are born 25 cents, you’ll never be a guilder (Dutch dollar). It means, if you are 25 cents, you’ll never be a dollar, stop wasting time on spray paint,” he said. He said the advice has stuck, and has led him to a fuller pursuit of art, not stopping at graffiti. He enrolled in the Willem de Kooning Acadmie, a prestigious Dutch arts school, though he did not finish. He eventually came to Canada and is completing a degree at OCAD University.

He formed an arts collective, Native V isions Productions, which consists of five Aboriginal artists. He sells his art, does seminars and workshops and commissioned work, managing to have art as his main source of income, with supplementary work on the side. “I’m very privileged. I’m almost making a living with the thing that I love. Not a lot of people do that. Yes, I’m an artist and it’s a struggle, and you don’t always have the certainty, but I’d rather have that than a 9-to-5,” he said. In June, he was one of four award recipients at Aboriginal Arts & Stories, a Historica Canada initiative. He won the senior arts category award for his painting Spiritual Warrior. He said he’s fully embraced his native roots and that’s evident in his art.

From top, Todd Southren, left, and Kevin Milburn cook up some burgers during the Weston Village Neighbour’s Night Out barbecue Friday evening; country band Big Monday rocked the 11th annual event; Burgers, hot dogs, and co-operative weather drew a crowd of all ages. Staff photos/ANDREW LAHODYNSKYJ

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ith Canada Day celebrations wrapped up lastnight with fireworks at numerous locations, it’s now time for residents to get geared up for Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Torch Relay events starting this Saturday in our city and continuing until the official opening of the Games on Friday, July 10. The torch relay started back on May 30 with the flame’s arrival at Harbourfront. From there, the torch has been on a 41-day trek across Canada. Along the way, it’s made stops in Vancouver, Halifax, Winnipeg, Calgary and numerous cities and towns across Ontario. By the time the torch relay wraps up next Friday, it will have been carried by some 3,000 torchbearers and visited more than 130 communities. For Torontonians, the torch relay excitement starts Saturday evening and there will be numerous opportunities for residents to get up close and personal with the torch as it makes its way our view through many of our city’s neighbourhoods through to July 10. The torch relay starts its day at Get up close Canadian Forces Base Trenton and personal on Saturday, and will arrive in Toronto late afternoon for a huge in your city community celebration on the Prince Edward Viaduct (also known as the Bloor viaduct) beginning at 5 p.m. Metroland Media Toronto will be at Saturday evening’s event, along with many other community groups and organizations. The celebration will culminate with the lighting of the Luminous Viel on the viaduct. The next day, the torch relay travels mostly through Scarborough with stops at Variety Village, the Toronto Zoo and a big celebration at 2 p.m. across from the Pan Am aquatic centre at Morningside Avenue and Military Trail. Sunday evening will also see the torch relay visit the Afrofest celebrations in the Beach at 7 p.m., and the Aga Khan Museum in North York starting at 8:15 p.m. The rest of the week, torch relay events in Toronto are planned for Thorncliffe Park and Etobicoke on Monday as the relay works its way through downtown; other events are planned in Etobicoke on Tuesday; a visit to Mel Lastman Square in North York on Wednesday; York and then the downtown core on Thursday; and finally the opening ceremonies Friday night. For more details on the torch relay in your community, visit us online at www.insidetoronto.com/ toronto-pan-am-games

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Who says pizza has to be high in calories? TDSB should The bad news is that the rain on Saturday forced us to put our backyard barbecue party on hold until later in the summer. The good news? Moving indoors didn’t stop us from having a good time. We ordered fast food instead. Well, reasonably fast, anyway. Me: “So, what’s it gonna be, kids?” Kaylee: “Pizza.” Brandon: “Pizza.” Paige: “Pizza.” Lucas: “Pizza.” Me: “Wow. That was easy. Nice to see the weather didn’t put a damper on anybody’s spirits. So it’s unanimous. Chinese food it is. Coming right up. I‘ll call Egg Roll Egg Roll right now.” Kaylee: “Jamieeeee. Do you have to try and make a joke out of everything?” Me: “Ah, so you are admitting I’m funny?” Brandon: “She said ‘try’ Jamie. I wouldn’t get too excited if I were you.” Me: “Thanks for the vote of confidence. Anyhow, what do yuz all want on it?” Paige: “No pepperoni.”

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY Lucas: “And no sausage.” Kaylee: “Or green peppers.” Brandon: “Or red peppers.” Paige: “Same goes for mushrooms and onions.” Me: “Just to recap: no pepperoni, no sausage, no green peppers, no red peppers, no mushrooms, no onions. Anything else you don’t want?” Lucas: “Yeah, anchovies, though I don’t even know what they are. I have a special knack for not liking things I’ve never tried.” Me: “So, it looks like toppings are out. I guess it’ll have to be cheese only, then. Coming right up.” Kaylee: “Cheese? Are you kidding? Ewwwww.” Me: “How can you have a pizza without cheese? That’s all a pizza is: cheese, over a bit of tomato sauce.” Brandon: “Tomato sauce? Double ewwwww.”

Me: “Any other requests before I pick up the phone to order?” Paige: “Just one. Make sure they leave off the crust. It’s just a waste of time. It takes forever to cut it off.” Lucas: “No dough, either, while you’re at it. Dough just doesn’t do it for me.” Me: “So, let’s see if I’ve got this straight. That makes it one small pizza... Kaylee: “Small? Forget that. It has be large.” Brandon: “No way. It has to be extra large.” Me: “Extra large it is, with nothing on it, nothing under it, nothing in it, nothing around it. Nothing even remotely in the same jurisdiction as it. Which, by process of elimination means we’re talking dipping sauce only. Everybody is OK with just dipping sauce?” Paige: “As long as it’s not garlic, of course.” Jamie Wayne is a lifelong columnist, who takes writing very seriously. The topics? Not so much. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at jamie.wayne@sympatico.ca

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To the editor: The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is again back in the news. The Ontario government finally has set up a special panel to consult with the public and find if it is time to break up this huge white elephant into smaller boards, which operated that way before amalgamation. The TDSB is too large. It has had a very difficult time working within its financial means. I hope that this commission comes back after public consultations with a recommendation of breaking up the mega board into smaller boards. The newer, smaller boards should start with a new mandate to serve our children’s future for competing in the global world. Moe Irshad

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York-Eglinton Farmers Market WHEN: 2 to 7 p.m. WHERE: Eglinton Avenue West from Marlee to Dufferin CONTACT: Olena Gapon, 647-349-7781, events@yorkbia.com COST: Free From July to October, York-Eglinton Business Improvement Area presents a farmers’ market every other Friday. Find fresh produce, ready-made healthy food, organic produces, hand-crafted products and more. Anyone interested in becoming a vendor can email for details. Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting us at www.yorkguardian.com. Read weeks of listings from your York neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto. 394-1006 COST: Free Have a family portrait taken by trained photographers. Offered in partnership with Arts for Children & Youth. Call to register.

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3D Printer Certificaiton for Teens WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-3941000 COST: Free For teens aged 13 to 19. Register at www.torontopubliclibrary.ca

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See the Pan Am Torch next week Come see the Pan Am Games torch relay make its way through Ward 11, York South-Weston Thursday, July 9. Weston native and founder of Courage Canada Mark DeMontis is scheduled to receive the torch around 10:30 a.m. at

700 Weston Rd. and then will head south to 625 Rogers Rd. to pass it on to the next runner. Among the local spots to be visited is the Mount Dennis Library on July 9. After briefly touching down in Toronto on May 30 and returning to

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Residents will soon be able to purchase a TTC day pass with their smartphones. Starting next week, The TTC will make available a mobile application, TTCconnect, for download which will make it possible for riders to purchase group or single day passes on

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bought, you can pre-purchase your ticket and activate it via the app up to a year after the pass was bought. And you can purchase and activate up to 20 passes. The app will be available for iOS and Android users to start, but the TTC says Blackberry and

Volunteers help load bottles on to a truck during the 16th annual Project Water at The Bargains Group last week.

Initiative delivers water to homeless on the streets of Toronto >>>from page 1 Summer survival kits, which include bottled water, a reusable water bottle, sunscreen, hat, toiletries, first aid items, sunglasses and a poncho, will be handed out during the summer. Project Water usually launches in July, but was moved up to avoid potential conflicts relating to the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games, Steinhauer said. “The need is greater,” she said of Project Water resources. “Every year there is a slight increase.” John Challinor, director of corporate affairs for Nestle Waters Canada, a corporate sponsor for the initiative over the past nine years, said it’s critically important to be able to access water, something the homeless might not be able to do. “Project Water is vitally important,” he said. “Jody proactively understands the issue. We can see the impact.” Without initiatives like Project Water, agencies like The Salvation Army wouldn’t be able to function, said Dan Millar, area director of public relations and development for the charity. “They help give us water to supply the streets,” he said, adding 1,200 bottles are handed out within a four-hour stretch. “People cannot survive without water. Our tag line is ‘giving hope today’, and that’s what we’re doing at today’s event.” Steinhauer also heads Project Winter Survival, which distributes winter survival kits to the homeless, including sleeping bags.

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Special carpool lanes installed all throughout the Greater Toronto Area for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games went into effect this week, and the verdict from drivers was less than flattering. On Monday, the first day of enforcement, jam-ups were reported on major roadways such as Hwy. 401 and Don Valley Parkway. The OPP was kept busy handing out $110 tickets to singleoccupant vehicles improperly using the lanes. You need to have a special Games pass or have at least three people in your vehicle, reduced to two persons at the end of July, to legally use the lanes. Emergency vehicles and taxis can also make use of the lanes.

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One month in and ridership of the Union Pearson (UP) Express air rail link appears to be within Metrolinx’s forecasts. The provincial transit planning agency unveiled the fourstop train connection between Union Station and Toronto Pearson airport in early June. Despite reports of empty trains on its first day of service Saturday, June 6, UP President Kathy Haley told Metrolinx’s board of directors last week the line is averaging 2,250 riders per day. This projects favourably to the stated goal of having 5,000 daily riders on average by the end of the link’s first year of operation.

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The City of Toronto released its latest statistics for pothole repairs last week and it would appear the numbers remain high. According to available figures posted by the city’s winter operations division, the city averages 237,000 pothole fills a year. So far this year it’s at 141,693, a number which includes 4,519 filled potholes during the week of June 15-19. Last year the city set a record with 354,000 pothole repairs between January and November.

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Public school board trustee expenses to be capped at $5,000 The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) voted at its June meeting to approve a motion to cap each trustee’s expenses at $5,000 annually despite a few trustees arguing it might not be enough to serve the community well. The recommendation came in response to a directive issued by Ontario Minister of Education Liz Sandals to

reduce discretionary budget allocations and implement a shared services model for trustee services. That resulted in some trustees, who used to have $27,000 for discretionary expenses, losing their constituency assistants. York South-Weston Chris Tonks admitted his constituency has suffered by losing

his constituency assistant. “I’m very cautious and responsible in what I spend,” said Tonks, adding the extra funds would allow for greater outreach in the community. But the majority of trustees agreed instead to try the staff’s recommendation of $5,000, which was based on the average amount of expenses spent by the board each year.

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Metrolinx report puts pressure on mayor and council There are a couple of ways to look at the new report from Metrolinx that draws attention to the need for a downtown relief subway line, for which no funding exists. One way is to see it as a stick with which to hit the Toronto-Council-supported Scarborough subway extension and Mayor John Tory’s proposed SmartTrack system: one a project that is unnecessary, the second a project that will only provide short-term relief; and both, unlike the relief line, close to fully funded. The Metrolinx report, Yonge Relief Network Study, was released in June, but Mayor Tory and council have had access to countless other opinions and studies indicating the Yonge

david nickle the city subway line is running over capacity and a relief line looping down from the Bloor-Danforth line and possibly points north is the cure. The study lays it out in starker terms. Toronto and Metrolinx have made some headway in mitigating the crowding on the Yonge line. The automatic train control and new, roomier trains help, as does the GO Regional Express plan that will form the backbone of Tory’s SmartTrack proposal. That will meet needs over the next 15 years. Past that, we’re all back in the same swamping boat.

Given all that, one might call Toronto’s political leadership for being shortsighted and pandering – funding inadequate short term transit plans at the expense of a long-term solution. That is a legitimate call. But the only call that follows from that is a “throw the bums out” movement, and there are three years before anyone can even think about that. In the meantime, the call from Metrolinx points to another difficult choice. If the city really wants to pay for a short subway line in Scarborough and a multi-station build along the Regional Express line that runs very close to that subway, it must either resign itself to the hub of its entire transit system failing or else

come up with a lot more money. It’s not inconceivable that council could do so. In the last term, council voted to raise property taxes to pay for a subway that would serve only a small portion of the city. There is a greater pretext for doing so in the matter of the Downtown Relief Line — in that all of

the city loses out when the hub of the system crowds to the point of dysfunction. But on the subject of dysfunction, the politics won’t make it easy. The suburbandowntown rift that’s defined this city since amalgamation in the late 1990s is showing no sign of healing, and as council is constituted, suburban votes hold sway.

But sooner rather than later, someone is going to have to make that choice. And once that’s done, we’re all going to have to start paying, and it will be considerably more than we would have with more rational and evidence-based leadership.

David Nickle is The Guardian’s city hall reporter. His column runs every Thursday.

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Cheering for the team behind the team Chevrolet gives thanks to the volunteers at the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games By: Stephen K. Carlisle, President and Managing Director, General Motors Canada

This year, more than 250,000 people will arrive in our city to join us for The TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games, events which will inspire and engage generations of Canadians.

The athletes will be the stars of the Games. Their stories, their hard work and their victories are what move us to celebrate their achievements, to take pride in our hometown competitors and to recognize those from around the world.

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It’s also with pride that we welcome our neighbours to Toronto and its surrounding areas, because it’s our city, it’s our province and it’s our country. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our community, and we’re ready.

Supporting Our Volunteers At Chevrolet, we recognize that the 23,000 volunteers at this year’s Games are the engine that makes it all possible. We’re ready because of those volunteers. We believe in the power of possibilities and there’s an incredible potential in each of them. The hard work of our volunteers should be recognized. They are like the pit crew in a grueling race and they deserve our thanks for the early mornings, late nights and their unfaltering dedication. Four years ago, Chevrolet committed to being the official sponsor of the volunteers for the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games. A commitment made out of respect for the volunteers own unfaltering commitment.

It was also a natural extension of Chevrolet’s long history of supporting Canadian sports. As the organizers have worked to shape the Games, we’ve worked alongside them to provide the support needed for our volunteers to make these Games the greatest they’ve ever been. This has meant providing Chevrolet vehicles to help the volunteers behind the scenes to prepare the field of play, to shuttle athletes to and from their matches, to enhance the spectator experience, and to participate in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. No matter how you enjoy the Games you’re likely to see these hardworking volunteers— but you should also think of the ones you don’t see, those integral to bringing the Games to life before a single race was run, before a single ball was thrown, and before any athletes proudly walked the Opening Ceremony to the applause of people from around the world. Take a moment to join us in thanking them.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS IN THE ESTATE OF STEPHAN NICKOLOFF, late of 110 Holland Park Ave., in the City of Toronto, in the Province of Ontario. ALL PERSONS having claims against the estate of STEPHAN NICKOLOFF, late 110 Holland Park Ave., in the City of Toronto who died on the 1st day of May 2015, are hereby required to send full particulars of such claims to the undersigned executrix. On or before the 1st day of August, 2015, after which date the estate’s assets will be distributed having regard only to claims that have then been received and the undersigned will not be liable to any person of whose claim she shall not then have notice. DATED at Toronto this 2nd day of July, 2015. Christina Jannetta 110 Holland Park Ave Toronto, Ontario M6E 1L6 Decks & Fences

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