Beach Metro News – March 24, 2015

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March 24, 2015

Spring finally here – maybe Monday, March 9 brought one of those rare days when shorts-wearing cyclists and cross-country skiers enjoyed the same snowy but sunny weather on Kew Beach.

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Fish farm idea floated for Crescent Town INSIDE

By Andrew Hudson

WHERE MOST people see a big wide gap between the stores in Crescent Town, others spot good fishing.

Led by Beaches-East York MPP Arthur Potts, local organizers are testing the waters for a Crescent Town food co-op that can grow its own greens, and even raise some fresh fish on the side.

“It’s a work in progress,” said Potts, the parliamentary secretary for agriculture, but the urban farm idea “has a whole bunch of pluses.”

About six months ago, the Crescent Town Hasty Market closed, leaving a 9,000 square-foot hole in the neighbourhood’s retail centre.

Owner Pinedale Properties has yet to find a new tenant for the space, which once housed a Dominion supermarket.

Below, two more floors of about equal size are nearly empty, and have been so for years.

Potts said Pinedale is willing to rent the lower levels at “an unbelievably reasonable price.”

The space could work for an aquaponic farm said the idea has a long way to go.

Together with Neighbourhood Link, BCCS is ap– one where herbs and vegetables grow in trays floating in the same water used to raise freshwater plying to Ontario’s Agricultural Adaptation Council to fund a study that would test fish, such as trout or tilapia. the business case for the co-op and Up at ground level, Potts said urban farm. the idea is to divide the former “It’s very early,” said Quader.

Hasty Market space so that one “We’re just applying to the ministry part holds the food co-op store, to see if the pre-proposal will be acand the other a set of small cepted.” shops and offices.

Lorie Fairburn, a development “You could start a business manager with Neighbourhood Link, selling books, selling electron– Beaches-East York ics, doing haircuts or bike-fixsaid if the plan does go ahead, there MPP Arthur Potts ing,” Potts said. may be seed funding available from “The co-op would have a relaAction for Neighbourhood Change tionship with Pinedale, so that to help entrepreneurs get started as they animated that space, in the small shop and office spaces. they would pay more of the Fairburn said she looks forward property tax, the interest, maintenance, and a little to town-hall style meetings at Crescent Town to bit of rent.” hear what residents think of the idea.

Hasina Quader, a board member at the non-profit Bangladesh Centre and Community Services, Cont’d. on Page 3

“” “It’s a work in progress”

The past and future Kingston Rd. ...See Pages 16-17

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Self-defence workshop for women at Centre 55 Women’s self-defence instructor Marilyn Walsh, centre, coaches Thiviya, left, and Marlene, right, as they practise blocking physical assaults during a free workshop at Community Centre 55 on Sunday, March 1. Open to women and girls ages 12 and up, the next workshop will run on Wednesday nights in April, and again for the last two Sundays in May. Call Centre 55’s Lainey Anderson at 416-691-1113 ext. 223 for more information or to register.

Learning the true cost of a cup of coffee

By Andrew Hudson

WHEN LOUISE Hamilton tried picking ripe red coffee cherries in Nicaragua, it felt something like picking blueberries on an Ontario farm.

Coffee cherries grow thick on their branches so, like a

heavy bunch of blueberries, Hamilton said Woman’s Facebook Profile Picture.”

Schryer said Compañeros is well aware it’s tempting to strip them off by the handful.

But even now, in Nicaragua’s harvest sea- what a problem it is to have “wealthy white son, too many cherries are an unripe green. people show up, do work, and then leave.”

“It’s really labour intensive,” she said, and The trip was designed to give the group a not only because the cherries get picked one meaningful look at coffee-growing in Nicaragua, while also funding a long-term project by one.

Chris Schryer, another of the dozen mem- initiated by local people. bers of St. Aidan’s church who went on a Spencer Leefe, a Queen’s University stulearning trip to Nicaragua last month, said dent and one of the seven youth on the trip, it’s also because coffee grows best in the said it was his second time volunteering in Nicaragua, and well worth doing. mountains.

“We’re in a bubble here in “These trees are spaced North America,” said Leefe, four feet apart, some on noting how little press cover70-degree hills full of snakes age Central America gets in and scorpions and spiders,” Canadian news.

Schryer said.

“It made me more aware, “Then you fill a bag that not just of Canada, but the weighs 150 pounds and have world.” to carry it off the bloody volcano.”

After Haiti, Nicaragua is After an afternoon of pickthe second-poorest country ing, the entire St. Aidan’s in the Americas. group bagged about $5 worth Before they flew to the of coffee. That night, they capital, Managua, Louise met workers who in a day Hamilton said people told pick three to four times as her to watch for deep holes much by themselves. in the sidewalks. When she For most of their 10-day got there, she learned why visit, the St. Aidan’s group – people had stolen sewer – Chris Schryer was busy renovating a onedrains and other utility covers for scrap metal. room school on a coffee farm.

Chris Schryer said the inThe volunteers prepped the building for new paint, tiles and windows, come disparity is just as stark.

On the coffee plantation, the group stayed but left the skilled work to local tradespeople.

“It was a good mix of willing, unskilled in a simple dorm with bunk beds – a tempolabour and paid, very skilled labour,” said rary home for the 200 itinerant workers who come and harvest coffee before moving elseSchryer.

Organized by Compañeros, a private so- where for the sugar cane, cocoa, and produce cial enterprise registered in Canada and seasons.

Nicaragua, the trip brought more than willOn the other hand, in the city, they stayed ing workers – besides $12,000 for airfare, the with host families who had private rooms, group fundraised about $24,000 for the school live-in servants, and armed guards. project and to pay for local drivers, host famGrace Rockett said she got a sense of the ilies, a translator, guards, and other service wealth divide when sharing songs with some workers. of the kids at the school.

“A few people said to us, ‘You can go to an While she sang ‘This Little Light of Mine’ all-inclusive in Cuba for a lot less than that,’” and ‘Peace like a River,’ the kids sang one said Reverend Lucy Reid, who went on the song with lyrics about working to help their trip. families and being unable to go to school.

“The whole point is all-inclusives don’t pay Besides drinking it black, her friend Olivia fair wages.”

Fraser Barsby said she thinks differently For its part, Compañeros says it is not an about coffee after seeing how it’s planted, “exotic selfie” company. They recently linked tended, picked, cleaned, raked, split, dried, to a story on the satirical news site The On- roasted, bagged and sold. ion that had the headline, “6-Day Visit to “You don’t realize how much work goes Rural African Village Completely Changes into one cup of coffee,” she said.

“” “These trees are spaced four feet apart, some on 70-degree hills full of snakes and scorpions and spiders”

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Best Buddies program a highlight at social justice conference

By Andrew Hudson

MALVERN COLLEGIATE was buzzing all week before spring break.

But forget Cuba and Cancun – the hot topic was social justice.

Over five days, Malvern students and visiting speakers led more than 50 workshops for the school’s annual social justice conference.

Several dealt with gender issues, others with racism, poverty, politics, and food.

On day four, students could go see War Witch, a Canadian film about a child soldier in sub-Saharan Africa, or hear a talk on equity in the newsroom from David Studer, director of journalism standards at the CBC. Upstairs, in Marie Axler’s English class, students at the Best Buddies workshop talked about an issue much closer to home – making sure kids with intellectual disabilities or autism don’t go through school in a social bubble.

“Everybody deserves a friend,” said Robyn Christensen, a Best Buddies coordinator.

Now running in elementary and high schools as well as universities, Best Buddies promotes lasting friendships between students who might not get a chance to meet otherwise.

“We so often hear from parents of kids with intellectual disabilities that their kid’s never been invited to a sleepover, or to a birthday

party, or to go out to the movies, and now that they’ve been involved in Best Buddies, they have,” said Christensen.

“That’s amazing. We take those things for granted as a normal thing you have in childhood, but not all kids get those opportunities.”

Morgan Graham is a Grade 12 student and copresident of Malvern’s Best Buddies chapter.

Graham chats regularly with the student she’s been paired with, who goes to Danforth Collegiate. Sometimes they hang out.

Several times a year, the whole Best Buddies group rents out a gym to play basketball at Danforth, which has a special-needs program.

“It can get pretty intense,” said Graham, smiling.

At the end of the year, everyone meets at Malvern, where music teacher Mike Falla gets them all set up with drums. This year, Graham hopes they can organize a field trip, too, maybe to the Ontario Science Centre.

Like several other members, Graham signed up with Best Buddies back in Grade 9, and has done it every year since. She got involved after working for an Orangeville summer camp for kids with special needs, and had the same buddy for the first three years.

“You grow up with them,” she said.

Asked what her buddies think about it, Graham said, “I think they

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From left, Malvern students Daniella Rizza, Morgan Graham, Emily Chee, Amanda Rundle and Jocelyne Le Blanc play a team balancing game during a Best Buddies workshop at Malvern Collegiate on March 12. Starting six years ago, Malvern’s Best Buddies chapter has organized regular social events and one-on-one hang outs to better involve students with intellectual disabilities or who are on the autism spectrum.

feel more accepted. They get the friendship, the interaction skills – just normal teenager kind of things.”

A lacrosse player, Graham is going to a US college in West Virginia next year, and she has already spoken with the college president

about starting a Best Buddies chapter there as well.

Marie Axler is the Malvern teacher who has been in charge of the program for the last six years, but she was quick to downplay that role.

“Our students do everything,” she said.

Watching them play sports or do crafts or play music together, Axler said she’s struck by how easily all the students make friends.

“It’s very natural,” she said. “I think it gives both groups opportunities to see things and share things they normally don’t.”

Crescent Town co-op, cont’d. from Page 1

Kids learn healthy – and tasty – kitchen skills From right, Maheen, 8, chops apples for a coleslaw with her mother Moe Sharif and her sister Farheen, 10.

The trio were taking part in a Kids in the Kitchen workshop held on March 19 at the East End Community Health Centre.

Rolling a big purple cabbage onto the board, Maheen said it was nice to try some-

thing different than the regular green ones, and she and Farheen agreed – coleslaw is yummy.

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Local support is key to the plan, and not only because the co-op needs local customers. Potts said the group will look at raising the co-op’s seed capital by selling shares in the venture to local residents.

While it may be some time before anyone catches fish in Crescent Town, Potts recently toured a new aquaponics farm that is nearing its first harvest of herbs, winter greens and tilapia from somewhere just as urban – a Mississauga office park not far from Pearson Airport.

Called Aqua Greens, the farm boasts local, quick-growing, year-round produce that uses 90 per cent less water than the produce grown on a conventional farm.

Speaking about the co-op idea at Queen’s Park, Potts joked about coming from “the great agricultural riding of Beaches-East York,” but pointed out that an urban fish farm would not be the area’s first try at pioneering farm techniques.

In 1900, more than half a century before Crescent Town was built, the same land was home to the Walter Massey farm and to a cutting-edge venture called City Dairy Company – a farm that produced the first pasteurized milk in Canada.

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Police Beat POLICE HAVE arrested a Neil McNeil High School staff member on sexual exploitation charges, and believe there may be more victims.

The accused worked at the East End boysonly Catholic school as an educational assistant. Police from 41 Division allege he lured and sexually exploited a student on numerous occasions.

On Friday, March 13, Patrick Persaud, 58, of Toronto, was arrested and charged with eight counts of sexual exploitation of a person with a disability. He made his first court appearance the same day.

Investigators believe there may be other victims. The accused previously worked at St. Sylvester Catholic School near Kennedy Road and Finch Avenue East, from 2005 to 2009.

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POLICE ARE asking the public to help find a missing boy last seen Monday night near Queen and Woodbine.

Anthony Runsewe, 15, is described as black, 5’10, with a medium build and black hair in braids or an afro. He was wearing a black jacket and black jeans before he went missing.

Runsewe was last seen at about 9:15 p.m. near Queen Street East and Brookmount

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Police say he may be heading to Scarborough.

Anyone with information is asked to call 55 Division police at 416-808-5500, or make an anonymous call to Crime Stoppers.

THIEVES BROKE into several boats stored at Ashbridges Bay Yacht Club over the March 14-15 weekend.

Police at 55 Division are advising owners to check on their boats and report any breakins to the Toronto Police Service and the ABYC club office.

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In My Opinion

Building resiliency the key to surviving extreme weather THE RECENT prolonged stretch of frigid winter weather left many Toronto residents without water, and had the city scrambling to restore services. Ward 32 was among the hardest hit with hundreds of frozen pipes, broken water mains, and ‘no water’ calls to 311 and to my office.

Many of our fellow neighbours are still without running water.

I would first like to commend our residents for being so patient, for offering many helpful tips for Toronto Water, for being willing to highline for other neighbours, and for generously helping each other out. It shows the true benevolent spirit of our community!

I apologize for the communication breakdown at the beginning of this ordeal. It was frustrating for everyone. The city can and should do better at sending out clear and accurate messages on a more regu-

lar basis. I will be pushing hard and working with Toronto Water to improve communication!

Unfortunately, ‘extreme’ weather is becoming all too common.

In July 2013, we experienced the most damaging storm since Hurricane Hazel. There was a very intense rainfall within a short timeframe, which resulted in the flooding of rivers and creeks, roads, and many basements in Ward 32. At the peak of the storm, over 300,000 customers were left without power.

The recovery effort cost the city close to $70 million, and damage from the storm resulted in almost 6,000 insurance claims to the City.

In December 2013, freezing rain and ice pellets took down many of our trees and hydro lines. The storm again left around 300,000 Torontonians without power for the holidays.

Mary-Margaret McMahon Councillor Ward 32

The recovery costs of the storm were estimated at $106 million to the City and agencies.

There are always financial costs to these weather events, along with significant health and social impacts for our most vulnerable residents. Climate change has shifted our weather patterns, and we must adapt to this reality by making Toronto a more resilient city.

To become resilient, we need to plan and design infrastructure to reduce the impacts from weather events, along with preparing ourselves to bounce back quickly when these events occur.

I recently attended the parks and environment subcommittee on climate change mitigation and adaptation, where we heard from more than 300 passionate residents! I was energized by their ideas, from ‘Meatless Mondays’, to waste diversion strategies, warning labels on gas nozzles, energy efficiency, and urban agriculture.

All would help to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.

We need to plant more trees, protect our tree canopy, and be proactive in pruning our branches to reduce the damage to property and power lines during a weather event. If you would like to request pruning of your city tree, please call 311 to get on the list.

We can reduce flooding by using rain barrels to capture runoff, and we can work to increase permeable surfaces in the urban environment.

Investing in our aging infrastructure such as storm water management systems and improving our transit system are necessary to prepare ourselves for the future.

Preparation for extreme weather events and emergencies is a key component of a resilient city. Recently, as part of the public works and infrastructure committee, I was able to visit the Emergency Operations Centre. This is where a team of department representatives works to coordinate the response and recovery during an emergency such as the ice storm.

To further prepare Ward 32, I am working with Greening Ward 32, East Toronto Climate Action Group, and city staff to host an emergency preparedness workshop for late spring.

Stay tuned, and let’s become more resilient together!

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Even in the realm of comedy, racism is still racism I RECENTLY went to the Top Shelf Comedy show at St. Louis Wings with my husband and some friends.

The lineup of talented comedians pleasantly surprised me, but one comedian ruined the show for me.

There is a difference between poking fun at inherent cultural differences and being racist.

Many famous comedians base their acts on comical observations about cultural differences, but this was blatant racism.

He started by telling us that he was scanning the audience to ensure everyone was white. The next thing that came out of his mouth floored me, and broke my heart.

He said, “Can we just all admit how great it is to see all white faces here?”

He then made a slew of jokes that went beyond poor taste. He talked about how he felt such relief being in a crowd of white people, how good it felt to not have to see faces of other races particularly after his regular melting pot rides on the TTC. He pointed out the race of a TTC bus driver for no apparent reason, saying, “He must have been a Black Panther from the 60s because he was a big black dude.”

This comedian was young, so maybe he hasn’t made his way into the world far enough to see beyond his own ignorance, but would he not have considered that there are many of us in the audience who have racially diverse families? He clearly had no understanding of the impacts of his words, or the

implications that racism has on the fabric of our society.

It’s conceivable that he was strategically trying to make a controversial name for himself, but controversial or not, this is simply not okay. It’s all well and good to just brush it off and say, “It’s comedy, don’t be so uptight,” but this wasn’t comedy and you could cut the tension in the room with a knife.

I can’t help but make a direct correlation between his level of comfort in rolling out those jokes and the fact that he was telling them in a predominantly white neighbourhood. Is this what we want our community to stand for? We sit in a room of white guys and listen to another white guy bash on other races in the name of humour? I

can’t imagine finding another room of “all white people” in almost any other place in the city, or finding another comedy room where these jokes would be tolerated.

I feel ashamed to have sat through the rest of his act – I wish I had stood up and walked out.

I would like to attend future local comedy shows, but if racism is on the menu then you can count me out.

“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”

– Martin Luther King, Jr. Jennifer Wilson

Bill C-51 needs closer look from Canadians RE: IT’S not either freedom or security – it’s both [In My Opinion, page 6, March 11, 2015] First I would like to offer my sincere apologies to the author, MP Matthew Kellway. What they all endured that day was simply horrific – I cannot even begin to imagine.

Second, I am very impressed with the writing as it is neither confrontational nor rude but clearly points out that in fact Bill C-51 is in error.

The bill does not reflect what Canada stands for.

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In Memoriam Neil David Young, 1936 – 2015 NEIL YOUNG, best known to most Beach residents as a longserving MP, passed away on March 7.

Young was born in Scotland to parents John and Grace (Imrie) Young.

He immigrated to Canada in 1957 with his brother Ron. It was here he met his wife, Vivien.

He began his career as a tool and die maker, first testing the waters of politics by organizing his local union. He was a shop steward and later a business agent within the United Electrical Workers.

As a political candidate, he first ran for office as a city councillor in Ward 9 in 1976.

When that was unsuccessful, he ran for federal office for the NDP, twice losing the Beaches riding by narrow margins. In 1980 he returned and earned the voters’ confidence, which he kept for more than a decade.

Young represented the Beaches riding from 1980 to 1988, and continued in that role when the riding changed to Beaches-Woodbine, staying in office until the 1993 election.

During his time in office he served as party whip, as well as critic at various times for seniors, supply and services, housing, health, pensions, veterans affairs, persons with dis-

abilities, and social policy.

After retiring, Young worked as a consultant on issues faced by the disabled. He continued to golf no matter the weather, as well as travelling, gardening, cooking, and woodworking.

Young is survived by wife Vivien, children Neil, Leslie (Steve), Moira, Fraser (Cecilia), grandchildren Daniel, Marshall, Drew, Lucas, and Elyse, brothers and sisters Grace (Keith), Ron, Dorothy, Allan (Mary), and extended family in Canada, Scotland, and the US. A memorial service was held on March 11.

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Former MP Neil Young is seen playing the part of Toronto’s first mayor, William Lyon Mackenzie, during a parade marking Toronto’s sesquicentennial.

Letters to the editor, cont’d. from previous page Nor does it reflect the wishes of Canadians who are opposing the bill with a loud voice, from the young to the old, Canadian-born to new residents and future Canadians.

Canada is a country set apart from any other nation, and not just by international borders. We have always been a melting pot of races and ethnic origins. Believing in a gentler way, known as peace keepers around the world and in times of deep trouble, we have been liberators. Quick to leave, but always ready to continue to help everyone.

This is the Canada I was born into, and my father’s father, etc.

I oppose Bill C-51 and any like it. We as Canadians do not like what happened in Ottawa. We must strongly oppose these types of people, but not by instituting a state of fear as America does.

We go on thankful that more were not hurt or killed, and treat it as an isolated case of clearly idiotic violence. We go on being Canadians, the place people want to visit, live, prosper, and grow in safety, with constitutional protection for all.

Joseph Harms Calgary, Alberta

Mounds of evidence of bad dog owners running free in the Beach THERE’S AN elegant ice sculpture at the entrance to Kew Gardens, made for Family Day and miraculously surviving well beyond.

While the sculpture is well executed and the dog recognizable, I’m afraid that a more apt symbol of the beach and the park would be a giant mound of dog poo. Not as pretty as the ice dog but more representative of the park and the beach. The majority of dogs are offleash everywhere, not just south of the snow fence, and too many dog owners fail to stoop and scoop.

While restricting the off-leash area to the dog park ONLY may be unfair to the minority of responsible dog owners, it is just as unfair to the public to have to watch the ground at every step. I would much rather look at the lake, the ducks, and the spectacular ice formations.

Lee Gold Waverley Road

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AFTER BAKING for a big hotel, the AGO, a small bakery in France and another in Riverdale, Kent Lin returned for one morning to where it all began – the kitchen at Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute.

On March 11, Lin was among the many judges watching high school students sautée, bake, and weld their way to the top of the TDSB’s 25th tech skills contest.

“It helps to hone certain things,” said Lin, recalling the pastries he baked again and again before winning the city finals and then a silver at provincials back when he was a student at Danforth.

In another class, tech teacher and floristry judge Penelope Dunlop watched a trio of students rush to arrange a cascading wedding bouquet under time.

“We try to marry in-class work with the real world,” she said, noting that some of her students have already done paid floristry work before graduating.

Speaking over the whir of a paint-blending machine, auto-painting judge and BASF sales rep Kirk Edwards said students who stick with the trade have bright careers ahead.

“There’s lots of opportunity,” he said. “What shop owners are seeing now is the tradesmen they have are all ageing, and they have no young kids coming up.”

But after the March 11 contest, there are at least

two Danforth students who may be on the way – Junaid Bhikha and Mimmasha Basher, who won gold and bronze in auto-painting, were among the 14 Danforth students to win medals. Bhikha, together with fellow Danforth gold medalists Co-

rey Boudreault (Culinary Arts), Tristan Carreau (Job Skill Demonstration), Rudy Cho (Graphic Design) and Jordan Cardinelli (Auto Collision and Repair) will have a chance to compete at the Ontario Skills contest in Waterloo this May.

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At top, Grade 10 student Jerry Wang sautées garlic during the culinary skills event at the TDSB’s 25th high school skills contest at Danforth CTI on March 11. Above, Grade 11 student Holly Definney arranges a wedding bouquet in the floristry event while Nicholas St. Marie, below, repairs a fender in the auto collision and repair event.

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A big concern has always been that On or about June 2, 2010 the City of Toronto granted a sole-source contract (which community groups would find themselves means no other bids were allowed) to Tuggs excluded from using the parks for community events. This seems to be happening Incorporated over the then Boardwalk Café, the patios, the parking lots, the Sommerville with a dedicated group of residents trying to organize a seasonal farmers’ market at Kew and Kew Gardens concession stands and Gardens. The group has approached Tuggs four parks: Woodbine Beaches, Ashbridges to ask for a price to use land on the north Bay, Beaches, and Kew Gardens parks. part of Kew Gardens for a weekly farmers’ This exclusive lease was granted until 2028. market. No price has been given. Tuggs has The city gave Tuggs a monopoly over the restaurant and patios, and exclusive vending indicated it cannot support the proposal in Kew Gardens, and made alternate proposrights for food and beverages over the park als (such as using Woodbine Beach Park lands and the two concession stands. immediately West of the swimming pool) The city also gave Tuggs exclusive “sponsorship rights.” This means that groups and which, for the organizers, are not practical organizations that want to hold an event in or realistic. the park lands must have permission from Tuggs further asked the group to provide, Tuggs. Tuggs determines the price and the among other things, a brand logo, a three- to general terms of use. Tuggs keeps 85 per five-year business plan, a letter of support cent of the revenue. The city gets 15 per cent, from local businesses, a letter of approval even though it is public parkland being used. from the parks department, the names of There was a large public outcry in 2010 the 20 farm vendors who would be participating, full liability insurance, and much when the proposed lease caught the attention of the media, mostly because it was more. Not only would this take months to being sole-sourced and competitive bids organize by volunteers, in the absence of a were excluded. This went against the advice price and terms the group cannot approach of the city solicitor, who argued it should prospective vendors. Vendors cannot commit without knowing the price and terms. be put to public tender to maximize the benefits and options to the taxpayers. The Cont’d. on Page 22 Tuggs deal was debated at city council “in

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Community Calendar MARCH 24: Beach Garden Society Meeting at Adam Beck Community Centre, 79 Lawlor Ave., 7:15-9 p.m. Topic: A Rooftop Food Garden with Katie German of FoodShare. New members and guests welcome. Come early and enjoy informal discussions with members.

Light refreshments served. Venue is wheelchair accessible. Info: beachgs. ca@gmail.com, www.beachgs.ca (1) MARCH 25: Beaches-East York Federal Liberal Association Meeting at Community Centre 55, 97 Main St., 7 p.m. This meeting is open to ALL members and Liberal thinkers in our community. Regroup after at The Grover Pub & Grub, 676 Kingston Rd. for Pints & Politics.

Info: https://www.facebook.com/BeachesEastYorkFederalLiberalAssociation MARCH 26: Tenebrae Service at St. John’s Church, 794 Kingston Rd., 7 p.m.

Join us as we seek to recapture Jesus’ Passion with the sacred words and beautiful music composed by Toronto’s Healey Willan. A unique preparation for Easter. Info: Paul Williams 416-699-2518 (2) MARCH 26: Free Seniors’ Movie – “The Imitation Game”, at The Fox Theatre, 2236 Queen St. E. Doors open 10 a.m., movie starts at 10:30 a.m. Presented by Rotary Club of Toronto Beach. (2) MARCH 27: Silent Auction at Community Centre 55, 97 Main St., 6-8 p.m. Info: 416-691-1113 (2) MARCH 28: Spring Fling at Birchcliff Bluffs United Church, 33 East Rd., 7-11 p.m. Dance the night away to the music of Glenn Reid and Boogaloo, with music from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.

Refreshments, wine, beer, soft drinks.

Tickets $15 available online at bbucoffice@bellnet.ca (please include “Dance Tickets” in the subject line). Proceeds to Churches By The Bluffs Community Services Food Bank, Shower Curtain Productions, and ministries of worship, pastoral care and outreach. Info: 416-6944081, www.birchcliffbluffsuc.org (2) MARCH 28: Scarborough Seedy Saturday & Green Fair at Blessed Cardinal Newman High School, 100 Brimley Rd. S. (south of Kingston Rd.), 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Organic seed sale and exchange, workshops, and green tradeshow with 40+ vendors: heirloom seeds, eco products and exhibits, bee products, worm composting, gardening experts and associations, and more. Kids activities!

And recycling collection of used office electronics and household batteries.

Hosted by eco-teams from St. Agatha Catholic School, Blessed Cardinal Newman Catholic High School, and Seeds of Diversity. $2 or PWYC. www.seeds.ca or scarboroseedysaturday@gmail.com (2) MARCH 28: Earth Hour Lights Out! at Kew Gardens, Queen St. E. & Lee Ave., 7:30-9:30 p.m. Join the Beaches 3rd annual event, featuring music, singing and dancing in the park illuminated by paper lanterns. Info: info@beachesliving.ca (2) MARCH 28, APRIL 25,MAY 30: Beaches Artists’ & Artisans’ Spring Market at Beaches Presbyterian Church, 65 Glen Manor Dr., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Unique gifts and spring fashions for you and your home, created by local artists.

Shop for Easter and Mother’s Day. Vendors change monthly. Applications: co-ordiknits@rogers.com (2) MARCH 29: Glorious Brass Concert at Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd., 3 p.m. Ten of Canada’s finest brass players gather for a joyful celebration of all things brass. $20, kids 12 and under free. Info: 416-6996091, www.kruc.ca/concerts (2) MARCH 30: Annual Meeting of Applegrove Community Complex at 60 Wood-

field Rd., 6:30 p.m. Applegrove expects two vacancies on the Board of Directors.

For info, visit www.ApplegroveCC.ca or contact the Executive Director by Feb. 25.

Meeting includes light supper, speaker, the annual report and awards. To vote, membership must have been obtained

by Feb. 27. RSVP: 416-461-8143. (2) APRIL 2: Beach Photo Club at Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave., 7:15 p.m. Topic: Curating a Photo Exhibition. Group meets 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. Everyone from the novice to the experienced is welcome.

The only requisite is an interest in learning about the photographic arts.

Info: www.beachphotoclub.com APRIL 3: Toronto Beach Chorale presents Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass (a.k.a. Missa in Angustiis, Hob. XXII:11) at Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd., 7:30 p.m. An orchestra joins the TBC and guest soloists for this performance. Tickets: $25 ($20 advance), youth 7-18 $12 ($10 advance), children under 7 free. Tickets available online or at door (cash only).

Check website for special discounts: www.torontobeachchorale.com (2) APRIL 5: Beaches Lions Club 49th Annual Easter Parade, along Queen Street from Neville Park Blvd. to Woodbine Ave., 2 p.m. (2) APRIL 11: Beaches Spring Sprint, along the boardwalk starting/ending at Balmy Beach Club. 5km run/ walk for adults/seniors, 2km run for children, 2km walk for seniors. Registration is March 30, 31, April 1, 7 & 8 at Beaches Recreation Centre, 6 Williamson Rd., 7-9 p.m. Info: 416-392-0740 APRIL 18: Neighbourhood Clean-up, hosted by East Toronto Neighbourhood Association, 10 a.m.-noon. Bring a rake (if you can) and help tidy up Norwood Park, Kimberley School yard and No-Name Park. Info: www.east-toronto.ca (3) APRIL 21: Health & Wellness Fair at Birchmount Bluffs Neighbourhood Centre, 93 Birchmount Rd., 3-8 p.m. Over 45 exhibitors offering onsite consultations, unique gifts and samples, nutritional and fitness guidance, mini workshops and presentations, children’s area, and more.

Free admission. Info: 416-396-4310 (3) APRIL 21: Beach Garden Society Meeting & Flower Show at Adam Beck Community Centre, 79 Lawlor Ave., 7:15-9 p.m.

Presentation: ‘Nature’s Relationship in the Garden’ with Martin Galloway. New members and guests welcome. Come early and enjoy informal discussions with members or check out our library.

Light refreshments served. Venue is wheelchair accessible. Info: beachgs. ca@gmail.com, www.beachgs.ca (3) MAY 23: Springfest at Birchcliff Bluffs United Church, 33 East Rd. (Kingston Rd./Warden), 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Baked goods, books, CDs, toys, gently used household items and clothing. Enjoy a delicious breakfast sandwich or BBQ lunch. Knife and blade sharpening available. Collectible cars on display. (6) SECOND TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH: Amnesty International, in the Beach, meets at St. John’s Norway Church (Woodbine Ave. at Kingston Rd.), 7 p.m., to support Amnesty’s Human Rights work, through letter-writing actions and through organized public events to generate awareness of Human Rights actions worldwide. New members are most welcome.

Info: beachamnesty@gmail.com (fr) WEDNESDAYS: CHEZ HELENE’S WEDNESDAY Night Salon at 1437 Kingston Rd. (at Warden Ave.), 8:30 p.m. An open stage for talents of all kinds – dance, music, poetry, rap, etc – in an intimate café. Coffee, tea and delectable sweets

served by Helene Nicole. This is an opportunity for French and non-French speakers to perform and meet with others. 10 minutes stage time, or 3 songs.

Info: www.helenenicole.com (fr) THURSDAYS: WALKING GROUP at East End Community Health Centre, 1619 Queen St. E., 10-11 a.m. Want to get moving and improve your health? Come join the East End Walking Group for a stroll around the neighbourhood, followed by some light stretching. For more programs, check the Centre’s program calendar at www.eastendchc.on.ca. To participate in the walking group, call Zari 416-778-5805 ext. 222 (fr) FRIDAYS: BRIDGE – drop-in program for older adults at Beach Recreation Centre, 6 Williamson Rd., 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. If interested email apanch.2014@ gmail.com or call 416-686-5292. (fr) BEACH INTERFAITH OUTREACH LUNCH and Fellowship for Adults, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

•Mondays at Corpus Christi Church (16 Lockwood Rd.) •Wednesdays at Beach Hebrew Institute (109 Kenilworth Ave.) •Thursdays at Beach United Church (140 Wineva Ave.) •Fridays at Kingston Road United Church (975 Kingston Rd.) co-hosted by St. Aidan’s Anglican Church. •Every other Tuesday at St. Nicholas Anglican Church (1512 Kingston Rd.). Info: 416-691-6869 (r) BEACHES LIBRARY, 2161 Queen St. E. •Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies, 2 p.m. Cinematic classics, new releases, foreign films and documentaries. March 25 – A Fish Called Wanda (1988) •March 26: Marketing Your Fiction Book, 7 p.m.

Find out how the synchronicity of series characters and plot affects book marketing, and learn about recent publishing innovations. Info: 416-393-7703 (2) DANFORTH/COXWELL LIBRARY, 1675 Danforth Ave. •March 26: Storytellers from Away - Michael Parent, 1:302:30 p.m. In collaboration with the Toronto Storytelling Festival, Parent visits from Maine with stories and songs from his Franco-American heritage. Info: 416-393-7783 (2) GERRARD ASHDALE LIBRARY, 1432 Gerrard St. E. •March 26: Book Club, 7-8 p.m. March selection: “Late Nights on Air” by Elizabeth Hay •March 27: Youth Advisory Group (YAG), 4-5 p.m. Info: 416-393-7717, ashdaleevents@gmail. ca, www.torontopubliclibrary.ca. Library is wheelchair accessible.

(2) TAYLOR LIBRARY, 1440 Kingston Rd. •March 31: Monarch Butterfly Migration, 7 p.m., a discussion about the migration through Rosetta McClain Gardens. •April 7: An Afternoon of Roma Stories, 1:30 p.m. Travel the world of the Roma, through stories of magic, humour and adventure. •May 5: Heritage Trees – Preserving our Natural Roots, 7 p.m., a lively and illustrated talk. Info: 416-396-8940 (2) ST. JOHN’S CATHOLIC CHURCH CHOIR welcomes new members. We practise Thursdays 7:30-9 p.m. and perform Sundays at 11 a.m. at 794 Kingston Rd. (3 blocks east of Main St.). You don’t have to have musical training to sing with us, but you do have to like singing and want to be with others to make the whole greater than the sum of the parts.

We are friendly and welcoming and our leader is a wonderful music teacher.

Info: Paul Williams 416-699-2518 (r) ROTARY CLUB OF TORONTO BEACH holds a breakfast meeting every Tuesday, 7 a.m., at the Balmy Beach Club. For information please visit www.torontobeachrotary.org or call Judy Orr 416-690-2123 (r) BEACHES LIONS CLUB meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at their Club-

house, 10 Ashbridges Bay Park Rd. Interested in serving your community? Call Andy Buhot 416-690-3324.

Info: www.beacheslions.com (r) PEGASUS THRIFT STORE, 931 Kingston Rd. 50% off all winter apparel, footwear, purses, etc., now until April 4. Visit us on Facebook. Pegasus is a not for profit store with all proceeds supporting programs for adults with disabilities. (2) FREE SNOOKER CLINIC during April and May at Baron Byng Beaches Br 1/42 Legion, 243 Coxwell Ave. Learn to play snooker on regulation tables. Pool cues can be supplied. Info: 416-465-0120 (2) ST. AIDAN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH, Queen St. E. at Silver Birch Ave. •Sunday Services are 8:30 & 10:30 new St. Aidan’s Anglican Church, Queen St. E. at Silver Birch Ave. •Sunday Services are 8:30 & 10:30 a.m. (Church School & Nursery at 10:30). •Mid-week service - Wednesdays 10:30 a.m. •Holy Week & Easter Services - Palm Sunday, March 29, 8:30 & 10:30 a.m.; Maundy Thursday, April 2, 7:30 p.m.; Good Friday, April 3, 10:30 a.m.; Easter Vigil, April 4, 8 p.m.; Easter Sunday, April 5, 8:30 & 10:30 a.m. All welcome. Info: 416-691-2222, staidansinthebeach.com (2) BEACH UNITED CHURCH, 140 Wineva Ave. •Sunday Worship Service, 10:30 a.m.

Nursery care & children’s activity time available. •March 29: Palm/Passion, 10:30 a.m. •April 2: Maundy Thursday service, 7 p.m. •April 3: Good Friday service, 10:30 a.m. •April 4: Holy Saturday, 6 p.m. potluck supper and documentary ‘1000 Stars’ •April 5: Easter Day services, 6:45 a.m. at Leuty lifeguard station, Communion service 10:30 a.m. • Interfaith Lunch Program, Thursdays 11 a.m.-1 p.m. •Jazz & Reflection, April 11, 4:30 p.m. – Cadence (a cappella) •Speaker Series, April 8, 7:30 p.m., ‘Under the Visible Life’ with author Kim Echlin.

Info: 416-691-8082, www.beachunitedchurch.com. We are on facebook and twitter @NewBeachUnited (2) FALLINGBROOK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 35 Wood Glen Road (corner of Kingston Road and Wood Glen). Join us for inspiring Lenten and Easter services •Palm Sunday, March 29, 10:30 a.m. •Maundy Thursday, April 2, 6:30 p.m., potluck supper and service with communion. •Good Friday service, April 3, 10:30 a.m., will be at Kingston Road United Church and will feature special drama and music by both choirs. •Joyous Easter Service, April 5, 10:30 a.m. All are welcome. Info: www. fallingbrookpresbyterian.com (r) BIRCHCLIFF BLUFFS UNITED CHURCH, 33 East Rd. (Kingston Rd. & Warden Ave.). •Sunday Worship Services, 10:30 a.m. •March 29: Palm Sunday Service, 10:30 a.m. •April 3: Good Friday Service – Knob Hill U.C., 10:30 a.m. •April 5: Easter Sunrise Service at Sunnypoint Park, 55 Sunnypoint Cres. (Kingston Rd./Brimley), 7:30 a.m.

•April 5: Easter Service with Communion at Birchcliff Bluffs U.C., 10:30 a.m.

Info: www.birchcliffbluffsuc.org (2) ST. SAVIOUR’S ANGLICAN CHURCH, 43 Kimberley Ave. (at Swanwick Ave.).

Celebrate Holy Week at St. Saviour’s.

•April 2: Maundy Thursday Service, 7:30 p.m. •April 3: Good Friday Service, 10:30 a.m. •April 5: Easter Sunday Service, 10:30 a.m. Info: 416699-6512, www.stsaviours.ca (2)

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NEI GHBOURHOOD Everyone has a Story to Tell Serving Toronto’s Bangla readers

By Andrew Hudson

STEPPING ONTO Danforth Avenue with Shahidul Mintu, you can see right away why he calls journalism a charming job.

By 6 p.m. on a Thursday, the founding editor of the Bangla Mail and Bengali Times can’t walk half a block before one and then another friend stops to say hello.

“It’s a tight community,” said Mintu, smiling.

Now 39, Mintu was still in high school when he started reporting for a big-city daily in Dhaka, Bangladesh. By 18, he was a staff reporter at Ajker Kagoj (“Today’s Paper”) and the elected president of the Bangladesh Cultural Reporters Association.

Then, as now, Mintu says his great achievement as a journalist is simply meeting people – lots of people.

So walking towards Danforth and Victoria Park, crossroads of Toronto’s large Bangladeshi community, it’s hard to find anywhere to interview the longtime journalist, who three years ago co-founded what is now the most read Bangla-language newspaper in Canada.

Ducking into a café is no help – another friend is in line. Thankfully, Mintu knows the man at the counter, too, who opens a side door to the basement.

After finding the lights and two cups of tea, it’s the perfect place to get the story behind the story of the Bangla Mail.

Right now, Mintu said news media is growing fast in Bangladesh, with over 100 newspapers and 40 TV networks serving the country of 169 million. But in 1989, when Mintu was a teen gripped by stories about Gorbachev’s Perestroika or the Sri Lankan civil war, Dhaka had only a handful of daily newspapers.

His start at Ajker Kagoj wasn’t glamorous — he covered the schools beat, right down to the state of repair in school bathrooms – but Mintu said the newsroom was full of amazing mentors.

And with so little competition, people returned his calls, whether or not they knew he was in Grade 11.

“A lot of people were surprised when they met me,” he said. “I was the smallest guy, a tiny guy at the time.”

Even after Mintu began studying sociology at Dhaka University, he didn’t quit reporting. In fact, he took on more, moving to general assignment reporting, then political affairs.

Mintu covered the ruling party in Bangladesh for five years, and another five covering the opposition.

Once, he got a special assignment – to go out to the villages and report on the inner workings of the Sarbohara Party, a Communist group since banned for its use of guerilla violence.

After the story ran, Mintu got a package full of white funerary cloth printed with the words “Your time is finished.” Police never found out exactly who mailed the threat.

Mintu moved on to another paper, and began producing documentaries and TV dramas on the side.

“Once upon a time, I also wrote some stories,” he said, smiling about the several novels he’s published.

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But by the time he and his wife were getting set to move to Canada in 2004, Mintu decided to refocus purely on reporting.

In Toronto, Mintu quickly realized he would have a tough time landing a reporting job – there were few Bangla-language outlets of any kind. But after finding work in the hospitality industry, he took a journalism diploma at Seneca College that gave him a much better sense of the Canadian media scene.

In 2008, with no real web experience and another full-time job, he launched the Bengali Times site.

“I learned from YouTube, I talked to a lot of friends, I called back home,” he said. “Now I realize I was doing jobs that were supposed to be done in four hours, and I spent 24.”

Nonetheless, within a year Mintu had lots of positive feedback about the Bengali Times and decided to raise the bar. He hired a web designer, bought the domain name for thebengalitimes.com, and today the site has some 180,000 likes on Facebook.

But in the Victoria and Danforth area, Mintu found there were many Bangla readers who weren’t online. He wanted to start a print newspaper, with more Toronto stories.

He found a big supporter in Rezaul Kabir, owner of a Danforth Avenue electronics shop and, since 2012, the publisher of the weekly Bangla Mail.

Asked why he took on the role, which often involves more money spent than earned, Kabir said it’s because the Bangla Mail is the only Bangla newspaper that carries local news.

On the front of a recent issue is a photo of cricket fans waving flags on Danforth Avenue to celebrate the national team’s “magic” win over Britain. Inside are stories about the International Mother Language Day monument planned for Taylor Creek Park, and a local women’s employment program.

“The other thing is, he’s the editor,” said Kabir, nodding at Mintu. “He’s a very big journalist back home, so the main thing is to keep him with me.”

Mintu said he is thrilled with the Bangla Mail.

Other community papers have struggled, but its circulation and page counts are growing, and readers can pick it up in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Saskatoon.

“Now, I’m happy,” Mintu said. “I’m serving my community, and this is the great thing for me.”

News Briefs COMMUNITY CENTRE 55 is hosting its annual Silent Auction fundraiser on Friday, March 27. A selection of products and services donated by community residents and businesses will be auctioned between 6 and 8 p.m. For more information, or to find out how to donate, call Justice or Cameron at 416-691-1113.

The centre will hold its annual Breakfast with the Easter Bunny on Saturday, March 28, from 8 to 10 a.m.

Join the centre’s mascot, Hamper, and the Easter Bunny for a delicious plate of pancakes and maple syrup ($3 per person) or stop in for kids’ crafts and Easter egg hunts, the first at 8:30 a.m. and the second at 9:30 a.m. (bring your own basket). For more information call 416-691-1113 or visit centre55.com. Community Centre 55 is located at 97 Main St., at the corner of Swanwick Avenue.

THE ANNUAL Beaches Lions Easter Parade will take over Queen Street East on Easter Sunday, April 5. Starting at 2 p.m., the Beach tradition – a year shy of its 50th birthday – will run from Nursewood Road to Woodbine Avenue. Traffic will not be allowed on or across Queen Street east of Woodbine for the two-hour duration of the parade. For more information, visit beacheslions.com.

PAPER LANTERNS are set to illuminate the third annual Earth Hour Lights Out! Celebration in Kew Gardens on Saturday, March 28, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Dance and sing along to live music during the internationally-observed Earth Hour, with music by AnimalKyngdom, Dale K. Jones, and Muhtadi drummers.

THE ANNUAL Beaches Spring Sprint returns to the boardwalk on Saturday, April 11. Registration for the event will be held at the Beaches Recreation Centre, 6 Williamson Rd., from March 31 to April 1 and April 7 and 8 from 7 to 9 p.m. The race consists of a 5 km run or walk for adults and seniors, a 2 km run for children, and a 2 km walk for seniors, beginning and ending just east of the Balmy Beach Club. Start time is 9:30 a.m. for adults and 10:30 for the kids’ race. For more information call 416-392-0740 or find the event page on Facebook.

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gym on Saturday, March 28. For paywhat-you-can admission (suggested amount $2 per person or $5 per family), do-it-yourself enthusiasts can make cardboard creations, build with Lego, join a multi player Minecraft game on networked Raspberry Pi mini computers, take part in interactive demonstrations, and lots more. When hunger pangs threaten to interfere with the creative process, grab a quick bite at the snack table. The event, sponsored by the Bowmore School Council, runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 80 Bowmore Rd. For more information visit facebook.com/bowmoremakeitfair.

VOLUNTEERS ARE needed at two Beach locations to help out with the Canadian Cancer Society’s Daffodil Campaign in April. If you are able to donate a few hours to sell fresh daffodils or daffodil pins, your help would be greatly appreciated at Loblaws Victoria Park Market and Beach Valu-Mart. Funds raised during Daffodil Month go to research and support services for local patients and their families. To sign up to help or for more information, visit myccsschedule.ca UPPER BEACH residents have just a few days to submit their favourite name for the ‘No Name’ park north of Gerrard Street and William Hancox Avenue, unofficially known as William Hancox Park. Local city councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon is inviting residents to email ideas to councillor_mcmahon@toronto.ca by Friday, March 27 and to contact her if they would like to help organize a naming vote.

A JURY of local artists has selected a winning design for the International Mother Language Day monument that a non-profit group hopes to install in Taylor Creek Park this year. Featuring a trio of columns decorated with words from the 170 languages spoken in Toronto, the concept design was prepared by Monir Hussain, Apurba Bhaumik, and Tariq Mahbub Khan.

TRUE DAVIDSON Meals on Wheels is looking for drivers and delivery people who can help start a new route south of Danforth Avenue. Working in pairs, volunteers deliver hot or frozen meals to local seniors and people with disabilities. For info, call Neighbourhood Link at 416-691-7407.

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By Jon Muldoon

JANICE HARDACRE is a self-taught artist and photographer from the East End. She has been exhibiting her work for more than 10 years.

While she’s had her hands on many mediums, including drawing, painting, puppetry, sculpture and music, her current show, Knotscapes, is a collection of abstract photographs. The images of knots in old wood are all named for the shapes she saw in them – birds, insects, or just abstract shapes and patterns.

This sits well within her efforts to capture what she calls the ‘soul’ of these inanimate objects.

Knotscapes is on until March 31 at the Taylor Memorial Library, 1440 Kingston Rd. at Warden Avenue. Check the library website for hours or call 416396-8939.

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• ARTIST GABRIELE Craig will be teaching watercolour classes at the gardener’s cottage in Kew Gardens as part of the spring programming at the Beaches

LARRY WILLIAMSON moved to the Beach from the Waterloo region five years ago, but he’s been photographing his surrounding environments for around 40 years. In his previous home that meant the industrial heritage of the area. Now the beach is what inspires him, though he has photographed people for much of that time.

Williamson has a selection of abstract nudes at Madhus Café, 982 Kingston Rd., until the end of April. In this work he looks for new ways to present the lines and textures of the human form.

While the human body and the beach are inspirations for him, Williamson said he loves collaborating with other artists and is always looking for projects to work on with people with a creative bent.

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• MARILYN WALSH is one of 21 members of the Beach Guild of Fine Art who will take part in an annual exhibition at Sunnybrook Hospital, organized by the Sunnybrook Volunteer Association.

The show earns a commission for the association, with funds going toward patient care and comfort.

Walsh, known by Beach garden tour attendees for her distinctive sculpture, is a multi-disciplinary artist. The work she will show at Sunnybrook consists of lithographs. The images are drawn on a limestone block, etched three times, and hand-printed on a special press.

The Sunnybrook show will run from March 28 to May 9. If you don’t find yourself with a reason to head to Sunnybrook Hospital, the Guild will be holding its regular shows in the coming months, including Small Paintings for Small Spaces and an annual autumn show. See beachguildoffineart.com. for more. For information on Walsh and her work see marilynwalsh.com.

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Beach schools clash in the slush at Kew Classic Kew Beach and Williamson Road public schools met on March 12 on the rapidly melting ice in Kew Gardens. This was the second year for the now-annual Kew Classic, played outdoors at the city-run rink, won 5-1 by Williamson Road. Ethan Nobes, far left, and goalie Mackenzie Mitchell defend against a push from a Kew Beach player.

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Glen Ames students get creative for black history month

By Andrew Hudson

STUDENTS AT Glen Ames Senior Public School not only see black history, they hear it and sing it, too.

Beginning in February, when students at the local Grade 7 and 8 school climb the stairs to music class, they see four floors of art made to honour Black History Month.

Many pieces feature musicians – Louis Armstrong trumpeting in a field of daisies, Ray Charles’ name in English and Braille, a sparkling, sequined portrait of Diana Ross singing Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.

One poster, titled “Hats of History,” shows the towering top hat worn by Abraham Lincoln and several other famous toppers, from the #42 Dodgers cap worn by Jackie Robinson right up to the one-of-a-

kind brim that Pharrell Williams wore to last year’s Grammy awards ceremony.

“It took a lot of people, not just one, to break down the racial barriers,” said Mikaleigh Cairns, who made the poster.

Music has also had a strong role to play, said Glen Ames music teacher Ian Speck.

Besides taking classes on the key points of black history in North America, this year Glen Ames students watched Soundtrack to a Revolution, a documentary about the freedom songs sung by protesters in the US civil rights movement.

In Speck’s class, students also wrote responses to Old Man River, a song about segregation with a complicated history. It was written

by Oscar Hammerstein for the 1927 musical, Show Boat.

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about was how black people weren’t allowed in the front door of the theatre,” said Speck. “When they sang, ‘You and me, we sweat and strain, body all achin’ and racked with pain,’ they weren’t talking to black people in the audience.”

“They were trying to get empa-

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For more than a decade, Speck has kept the best of students’ Black History Month projects, and they decorate the music room yearround.

Some are uplifting, like the desk lamp decorated with photos of civil rights leaders and notes to This Little Light of Mine.

Others are unsettling. Among this year’s projects is a paper and plasticine scene showing the tree in Strange Fruit, the Abel Meeropol poem about lynching made famous

by Billie Holiday.

“We’re an elementary school, but the kids need to be able to grasp these concepts,” said Speck.

By Grade 7, he said most students know pieces of black history, but often “they don’t see the whole picture.”

Transposing some of those his-

tory lessons to music class is one way Speck hopes to fill the gaps.

Glen Ames is full of young musicians – all 430 students learn guitar – and when they play their spring concert on May 4, much of the music will be rooted in the spirituals, blues, jazz, and rock ‘n roll traditions that began with black musicians.

Speaking with a guitar in hand, student Morgan Harris said it’s been exciting to learn the history behind the music.

For her Black History Month project, she found herself going between reading history and listening to the likes of The Foundations, Lionel Richie, and the Black Eyed Peas.

“You don’t just sit down with a textbook and say, ‘Okay I have to do this,’” said Harris.

“You get to explore.”

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Students warned about potential online crimes

By Andrew Hudson

ON STAGE at Danforth Collegiate, a jilted ex posted sexy photos of his former girlfriend online.

She felt humiliated as they spread from phone to phone at school. She was hurt when her new guy saw the pictures and called it off.

She got angry when some mean girls used the photos to kick her off student council.

“I’m the victim here,” she said as it all piled up. “That’s totally not fair!”

Although it was theatre, that scene and two more performed by Grade 9 students for a March 12 assembly put real risks on stage.

One showed a fake online friend who listened for credit card details during Skype chats. Another showed the victim of a creepy “pop-up” ad that installed hidden spy-cam software when she clicked it.

Called “Don’t Be Fooled,” the March 12 event was jointly presented by Toronto police and Ontario’s anti-fraud agency – people who see the real effects of money scams, cyberstalking, and damaging photos that leak online.

“You guys are way up the curve,” said Frank Denton, assistant deputy minister in Ontario’s Ministry of Consumer Services.

As he said it, dozens of smart phones glowed in the auditorium. Several students were live-tweeting the event using the #DontBFooled hashtag. They cheered when it made the Toronto Twitter trends map.

“But there are people all around the world who are moving just as fast to figure out ways to trick you,” Denton added.

While geared for teens, many of the tips shared at Don’t Be Fooled work for anyone who posts on Facebook, Instagram, and other social media.

Police showed one video, made by a safebanking group in Belgium, in which random people get invited to meet a fortune teller.

Dressed in flowing white clothes, he puts on a good show. As he rattles off the strangers’ personal details — an Antwerp high school, an orange motorcycle, a best friend named Julie — they gasp in surprise.

But their faces fall when the details move to money: the listing price of their house, the €300 they spent on booze last month, their bank account number.

At the close, a group of hackers were shown mining people’s social media accounts for data.

“Your entire life is online,” flashed the ad.

“It can be used against you.”

In Canada, some 5,300 people reported identity theft to police last year.

There are 28 million people who regularly use the internet, and the fraudsters who stole a reported $58 million in 2013 are doing the same.

Besides tips on how to secure their money or personal details, speakers at the Danforth assembly talked about what to do when things go wrong.

Bonnie Levine, director of the not-for-profit Victim Services Toronto, said vicPHOTO: ANDREW HUDSON tims of online fraud, ID theft Students Jason Stewart and Trisha Sobti perform a scene about and sexual harassment ofthe risks of private photos leaking online during a March 12 ten feel embarrassed or huassembly at Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute called Don’t Be Fooled. Co-presented by the Toronto Police Service miliated. Sometimes those and Ontario’s anti-fraud agency, the event gave students tips feelings turn to severe deon how to keep their money and identities safe while online. pression and, in rare cases, suicide.

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ONE OF the oldest roads in Toronto is undergoing a veritable deluge of development. Over the next two to three years, seven, possibly nine, condominium buildings will be constructed on Kingston Road from Woodbine to Victoria Park, adding at least 500 new homes to the area.

While a spate of new developments on Queen Street has attracted a lot of community attention (and opposition), this doesn’t seem to be the case for Kingston Road, perhaps because it has quite a different historical character.

First laid out in 1800 by Asa Danforth, major construction on Kingston Road started in 1833. However, this portion of the road was never important as a destination but rather as a road to somewhere else (originally Kingston). To accommodate travelers and later, patrons of the Woodbine Racetrack, the area had a large number of roadhouses, liveries, hotels and taverns. Early hotels included the Lavender, the Norway House, the Smith family inn and brewery (near Woodbine), the Blacksmith Arms (also known as the O’Sullivan Tavern), the Benlamond (near Main), the Scarboro Heights Inn (Beech) and the Ontario House at Lawlor.

Thousands of commuters use Kingston Road as a thruway twice a day, but for those of us who treat Kingston Road as an integral part of our neighbourhood, the new developments, while a sign of a thriving community, will mean higher population density and the loss of some long-time local landmarks.

One of the first to break ground is the Beach Club Lofts at 303 Kingston Rd. Just east of Woodbine, the site was most re-

cently Royal Canadian Legion Branch #1 (now combined with Branch 42 on Coxwell). It was also once the site of a tollbooth that helped cover the cost of building the road. The other was at Victoria Park, called the Painted Post. (Think of Kingston Road as the original 407.)

Plans for the property have changed over the years with different ownership.

The first proposal called for a four-storey structure, then for an eight-storey building. The current plan, now under construction, is six storeys with 47 residential units and five commercial spaces.

On the north side just west of Main, at 580 Kingston Rd., will stand a six-storey condo called The Glen. It will have five ground-level town homes and 42 apartment units. When initially proposed, residents of the Glen Davis ravine mounted a campaign to either stop the development or make major changes to its impact on the ravine. Local Kingston

Road businesses, however, were happy to see the demolition of some less than stellar housing stock, and welcomed the addition of potential new customers.

The OMB sided with the developers and now the Glen Davis residents face the construction of another six-storey building at 646 Kingston.

The site at 646 is currently a nonprofit day care. The Beaches Child Care Centre was founded in 1994. The property was purchased several years ago by StreetCar, which plans a 51-unit condo building. Alie Warren, StreetCar’s VP of corporate development, said incorporating the daycare into the new building was considered, but the developer could not accommodate the special requirements into the building’s plan. StreetCar is working with the daycare to find a new location.

Glen Davis residents may soon have another new neighbour. Leontine Major, one of the city planners for the area, said she expects a proposal for the northwest corner of Main and Kingston, on property that a garage and a house now occupy.

The Dip ‘n Sip stood on the southeast corner of Kingston and Southwood for at least 35 years. I remember taking my daughters to classes at the YMCA in the mid-80s and walking down to what was then the only place on this stretch of Kingston Road to get a coffee and a donut. They also had great chicken salad sandwiches. I admit that I haven’t been in the place for over 10 years but I am sure there are former patrons of the Dip ‘n Sip who will miss it dearly.

Replacing it is another StreetCar building called The Southwood. It’s another six-storey condo. Full disclosure: My husband and me are proud ownersto-be of a three-bedroom condo in this building.

We have been thinking of downsizing for a while, but moving to a smaller house in the neighbourhood (if you could even find one for sale) wouldn’t solve the maintenance issues. It was the last two winters that made me reconsider my willingness to shovel out the car one more time. The solution: a condo.

But even with a whole lot of downsizing, we are not one- or two-bedroom people.

When I noticed the ads (in Beach Metro, of course) for The Southwood, I was excited to discover it had a number of three-bedroom units.

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The Benlamond, also known as The Bennie, above, was demolished in 1989 at the northeast corner of Kingston Road and Main Street. A Neighbourhood Link apartment building replaced it. The Dip ‘n Sip, on the southeast corner of the same intersection where Main Street becomes Southwood Road, will be the home of a development to be called The Southwood, above left. Below left, O’Sullivan’s Inn was another Kingston Road landmark. An important meeting place for supporters of William Lyon Mackenzie, it was built in the 1850s and demolished in 1988. Currently a two-storey residential building stands on the spot. The East City YMCA was the original home of Beach Metro News – then called Ward 9 News – as seen on bundling day in 1987, bottom left. Below right, Henley Gardens, at Kingston Road and Victoria Park Avenue, replaced this grocery store several decades ago.

Another major project, Kingston & Co., is set for the property across the street, replacing the Alpine Hotel.

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2560 Gerrard St. E. (east of Victoria Park) bedroom units. I asked Warren about the changed plans. Warren, who is a Beacher, said that when they started to get feedback from the community, there appeared to be a “demand for larger format units.”

Major said that she has been trying to convince a number of builders that people in the area like the “turnkey” idea of a condo but still want space for a dining table, not just breakfast bar.

Two blocks east of The Southwood, at 715 Kingston Rd., a three-storey building with eight townhouses is under construction. This replaced Louis’ Garage, which had been a Kingston Road fixture for more than three decades.

Major told me another development may also be in the offing on the south side near Beech, replacing three small bungalows just west of the Shnell Dental office.

The project that is getting the most attention is Beech House at 907 Kingston Rd. The building will be eight storeys with 93 units. What has the neighbourhood buzzing is the rebuilt YMCA. The Y, which will occupy the ground and the first below-ground floors, will include a gym, pool, therapy pool, fitness areas, child care, and spaces for community programs.

The two floors below ground will also include Green P parking. Those who buy into the Beech House will have a parking space and a two-year membership to the Y included in the deal.

As an aside, the original East City Y was the first home of Beach Metro News.

From its founding in 1972 to 1988, the newspaper, then known as Ward 9 News, operated out of the Y. The downside of the new Y is the loss of the last funeral home in the area, Sherrin. At the turn of the century the property at Beech and Kingston Road was a

chicken farm. In 1928 John Wear built a small building which included the John Wear Burial Company. In the early 1930s Bill Sherrin bought and expanded the business. In 1994 Sherrin was acquired by the Arbour Group. Unfortunately, while the Y will provide almost 100 new places to live, the development will take away the only place in the Beach to be memorialized. In July 2015, Sherrin will close and business will be moved to McDougall and Brown at Kingston and McCowan Road.

Across from one of the first major condominiums on Kingston Road, Henley Gardens, will be the largest development on this part of the street. Kingston & Co will be a 10-storey development with 137 units and eight to 10 retail stores. It replaces an iconic gathering place, The Alpine. This loss will throw planning for future Malvern reunions into total disarray.

So will all this development be good or bad?

Any community meeting on development I ever attended included concerns about traffic and parking. I admit that I think local traffic will increase, but

since there are already so many cars using Kingston to commute, I don’t think the increase will be noticeable. Parking?

Well, the Beech House includes a parking place in the purchase price. And quite frankly, there is no street parking available anyhow.

While the scale of development along Kingston Road will certainly have an impact on the neighbourhood, it will expand the retail district into the dead zone between Main and Beech. With so few houses for sale in the area (and the few that do come up going for prices that would have seemed ridiculous 10 years ago), the expansion of available units will allow not only more people to move into the area but allow locals to downsize in their community.

Kingston Road character has always included multi-unit dwellings, from hotels, to apartments, to extended care facilities. As a part of the process, I will be most interested in seeing what happens next.

Carole Stimmell is the past editor of Beach Metro News and a long-time Beach resident.

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Bernie Fletcher’s Reel Beach: Movies Made in East Toronto

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ou don’t need to be a “reel” detective to deduce that Murdoch Mysteries takes place in the early 1900s in the Age of Invention. The enduring CBC series wraps up its eighth season on Monday, March 30 and has been renewed for a ninth season which begins production in May. Watching the detective

Murdoch Mysteries was adapted for television from Maureen Jennings’ popular novels and is now seen around the world in 110 countries. William Murdoch is a very Canadian sleuth (as we like to see ourselves): methodical, polite, modest, bilingual and mostly nonviolent.

Beautiful costumes, authentic sets, ingenious gadgets and vintage vehicles are a big part of the appeal for period dramas. Viewers are magically transported back into a bygone era. We share the characters’ sense of wonder at the new world of horseless carriages, flying machines and women’s rights.

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The television and film industry pumps more than $1 billion into Toronto’s economy each year. For every star like Yannick Bisson (Murdoch) there are hundreds of unsung workers who recreate the atmosphere of dawn-of-the-century Toronto. The series has triggered 8,000 production jobs in the province for actors, writers, directors, extras and crew.

Period props a treat for fans Where does he get those wonderful toys? Most of the props and sets are created at the Murdoch

studios near Eglinton and Warden in Scarborough. Last July admirers from as far away as Australia and France visited the studio lot during a Fan Day. Big crowds also turned out to see the brilliant exhibit “Art and the Automobile” at the 2015 Auto Show.

Four of the cars on display appeared on Murdoch Mysteries, including the 1908 Reo (photo at right) owned by Ross McTavish of Waterloo.

The replica 1903 Ford featured in Who Killed the Electric Car? was built by prop master Craig Grant. Each auto was set against a huge backdrop of historic Toronto streetscapes, including storefronts on Queen Street circa 1903.

(Note: The 2013 episode “Nightmare on Queen Street” is not about road construction.)

Some of the vehicles come from private collectors. Producers also rely on picture car companies. Looking for a 1955 Chevy for James Dean in the new film Life (2015)? Need two NYPD squad cars for a Beauty and the Beast scene at Kew Gardens? No problem!

Peek behind the scenes Shaftesbury has now partnered with the Ontario Government on Making Murdoch, a 20-part online companion series (cbc.ca) which offers a behind-the-scenes look at the production of season eight on location at many of the beautiful sites in our province. It features unique places and untold stories, including the history of Old Town Toronto and the rise of the automobile. The series is set at Toronto Constabulary’s Station #4, which was on Dundas Street east of Parliament Street.

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f you’ve been reading my articles nest. I remember seeing the female sitting on eggs for what seemed like ages you’ve probably noted the many nn rokelman before my first sight of the little eyas. reasons why I love the winter. is an avid birder and nature photographer Their tiny, white, alien-looking heads Among other reasons, winter alnaturephotosbyann.blogspot.ca. lows anyone interested to take pictures were like nothing I’d ever seen in the of animals on beautiful snowy backwild, but their cute/ugly appearance grounds, to follow animal tracks after a fresh snowfall, and was much less interesting than watching the parents hunt, to easily locate waterfowl, as growing lake ice encourages kill, and feed their young. them to group together in the few open patches of water.

All this excitement was eventually shared with both That said, by the start of March I was as sick of the cold as friends and strangers who came to watch the nest and the everyone else and more than ready for spring. growth of the hawk family. Our bosses were thankfully I’m writing this on March 9, and I can hear the birds singunderstanding as the fifth floor of the Scarborough Civic ing outside my window. It might still be -10°C outside but Centre became obsessed with our very own reality show. that hasn’t stopped the return of little birds like sparrows, Coworkers brought cameras and binoculars and every day woodpeckers, nuthatches, and many more. As I stepped there was some sort of conversation revolving around updates on what we’d seen that day in the nest. outside to refill the feeders I saw a red-tailed hawk and a Our excitement initially came to an end when the bacopper hawk flying by and it reminded me of one of my first bies took flight and moved on. We felt privileged to have exciting birding moments almost six years ago. witnessed their growth, but felt a new form of ‘empty-nestsyndrome’ when we realized they were gone, unlikely to ever return.

Luckily for us the parents came back to the same spot for another two years and we watched several other eyas hatch, grow, and spread their wings and fly away. As I’m writing today I’m happy to report that the same mated pair is still there today, though the nest has moved deeper into the forest and is much harder to observe.

Let’s all say goodbye to winter and enjoy the spring for its warmer weather, the return of some of our favourite animals, and another season of nature running its course.

I have photoblogged life at the red-tailed nest for the last six years at redtailnest.blogspot.ca. Look up 2009 to see more of those first exciting memories.

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Below right, an eyas tests its wings the day before finally taking flight. Bottom right, three eyas.

It all started when a co-worker told me about a big bird building a nest near our office. I went over to investigate, certain it was just going to be a crow, and was amazed to see it was actually a pair of red-tailed hawks! I was so fascinated with this pair that in order to watch them more often I started arriving for work extra early, and leaving late. I started having my lunch outside, and I would even come by on weekends to follow their progress. For the first time in my life I was able to track a pair of red-tailed hawks from the beginning to the end of nesting season.

I watched with amazement as the parents broke off branches from trees and then wove them together into a

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Slow cooker beef goulash Prepare this the night before and magically, when you return home from work, the goulash is ready, all but the noodles which may be added to the slow cooker once you get home. Please note: Conventional stew method is at the end of the recipe.

1/4 cup (60 mL) all-purpose flour 1/4 tsp (1 mL) salt and freshly ground pepper 2 lbs (1 Kg) stewing beef cut into 1 inch (2.5 cm) cubes 2 tbsp (30 mL) vegetable oil 16 oz/450 g button mushrooms, halved 4 cloves garlic, minced

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1 tbsp (15 mL) paprika (preferably Hungarian) 1 tbsp (15 mL) Worcestershire sauce 1 can (5.5 oz/156 mL) tomato paste 4 cups (1 L) sodium-reduced beef broth 4 carrots, cut into 1-inch (2.5 cm) pieces 4 cups (1 L) extra broad egg noodles 1/4 cup (60 mL) minced fresh parsley In heavy plastic bag, combine flour, salt and pepper. In batches, add beef to bag and shake to coat. Discard any excess flour mixture. In large non-stick skillet, heat half of the oil over medium-high heat. Cook beef in batches, stirring, until evenly browned about five minutes per batch. Using slotted spoon, transfer beef to slow cooker.

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Add remaining oil to skillet. Add onions, mushrooms, garlic, and paprika.

Cook, stirring, until mushrooms are golden brown, about 10 minutes. Stir in Worcestershire sauce, tomato paste and broth; bring to boil, stirring until smooth. Transfer to slow cooker.

Add carrots, stirring to coat. Cover and cook on low for four to six hours, or until bubbling.

Stir in egg noodles and cover with liquid. Cover and cook for 15 minutes on high or until noodles are tender. Stir in parsley.

Conventional stew method: For a conventional stew, stir in carrots and transfer to an oven-proof casserole dish. Cover and bake in a pre-heated 350˚F (180˚C) oven two to 2½ hours, or until meat is tender. Do not add noodles to the stew. Rather, cook separately according to package directions and serve with stew.

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lthough St. Patrick’s whiskey, cognac, Curacao, simple Day has come and gone, syrup, Absinthe, Angostura Bitters, Ewine dward Finstein writer, award-winning author, TV and I’ve always considered club soda, lemon twist) and Brazilian radio host, educator, judge winedoctor.ca the month of March as Sangria (fresh seasonal fruit, Absinthe, thewinedoctor.blogspot.com “green.” Maybe it has something to cachaca, Spanish brandy, orange @DrWineKnow facebook.com/EdwardDocFinstein do with the arrival of spring, or is liqueur, red wine)! simply a carryover from celebrations Then there’s Midori Melon Liqueur. on March 17. There are also other dates worth drinking This light green, sweet melon cordial is an essential in “green” such as Earth Day and Green Living Day. After most stocked bars because it accentuates other liqueurs in working in the garden, I often like to indulge in a green cocktails very nicely. Check it out in a Grinch (Midori Melon smoothie of sorts. Whatever the reason, let me share with Liqueur, lemon juice, simple syrup, Maraschino cherry), you the basics of preparing green drinks.

Spider’s Kiss (Midori Melon Liqueur, vodka, lemon juice, The best place to start is by using green spirits. These are chocolate syrup, grenadine, chocolate dipped orange slice) alcoholic elixirs with green ingredients that will definitely or Wolf Bite (Absinthe, Midori Melon liqueur, lemon-lime add a bold splash to a mixed drink. soda, pineapple juice, Grenadine).

Green crème de menthe has to be at the top of the list. It’s Other green spirits include Sour Apple Schnapps and a shockingly green, mint-flavoured liqueur that is extremely green vodka. sweet, but not creamy as the name implies. As a staple in That brings me to the use of green herbs, vegetables and any stocked bar, it is used in drinks such as an Emerald Isle fruits. Although using fresh ingredients in green drinks is a (gin, green crème de menthe, bitters), Grasshopper Martini great idea, most of these natural selections will not supply (cream, white crème de cacao, green crème de menthe), the green colour that a green spirit will deliver. They do add Irish Flag shooter (green crème de menthe, Irish cream pizzazz though. liqueur, Grand Marnier) and a Mintini (vodka, green crème Fresh mint and lime are two of my all-time favourites. de menthe, peppermint schnapps, candy cane garnish).

Their zesty aromatics and flavour are wonderful. I also find Next up is green chartreuse. This concoction is produced green apples, green grapes, melon, and kiwi good additions. from 130 different herbs, plants and flowers from the French For vegetables, peppers, avocado and cucumber do admirable jobs.

Alps. It’s a cornucopia of herbal, floral flavours chock full of Finally, we have food colouring. Nothing adds a simpler, rosemary, thyme, cloves, citrus and cinnamon. It’s great in deeper shade of green than several drops of green food a Chartreuse Martini (gin, green chartreuse, dry vermouth) colouring. It’s tasteless and harmless and you can add as and Green Ghoul (Midori Melon Liqueur, chartreuse, ginger much or little as desired. beer or ginger ale)!

So the next time you have a hankering for a “green” Another classic is Absinthe. This anise-flavoured spirit beverage, check out some of these spirits and other ingreis made predominantly with grande wormwood, anise and dients. You don’t really need a special occasion. Remember, Florence fennel, although it does contain many other herbs. the concept is a very popular buzz phrase these days so Absolutely essential in an Absinthe Cocktail (Absinthe, ice indulge your emerald side and sip “green.” water, anisette, Angostura Bitters), Morning Glory (rye

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Beach Books The Vanishing Beach, 1896 – 2014, A sketch book of early Toronto homes and cottages

By Donal Murphy Oakhill Publishing Reviewed by Jon Muldoon

BEACHER DONAL Murphy has taken his lifelong love of the Beach and its distinctive cottage architecture and produced The Vanishing Beach, 1896 – 2014, A sketch book of early Toronto homes and cottages, his visual and written tribute to the neighourhood.

Murphy grew up in one of those cottages on Victoria Park – the first built on that road, purchased in parts from

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Money, Life & Law, cont’d. from Page 9 The proposed seasonal farmers’ market with all its community benefits has no starting point. Even if the organizers delivered on this long list, Tuggs can still say no in its sole discretion.

There is no appeal.

If proposed community events such

the Eaton’s catalogue – and his attachment to traditional Beach residences shines throughout the coffee table art book.

In 2007, realizing that many of those original houses were either being torn down or renovated beyond recognition, he began a project to capture examples with a camera and then on paper with pen, pencil, and watercolours.

“I really decided to do this because it’s all going,” he said of the portraits of local houses. “A lot of them have disappeared since then.”

While most of the homes here were modelled after those immigrants from the British Isles had left behind, many of them don’t exist in the UK, said Murphy.

“Those houses don’t exist in England anymore, but there are still some here,” he said.

Murphy’s artistic talent and penchant for quickly capturing the essence of a house were likely nurtured by a life spent in (and in charge of) creative departments at a number of well-known ad agencies. He’s taught classes at OCADU, written books, and spent nearly two decades as a volunteer board member at Beach Metro News.

Murphy’s family ties in the area run back as far as his great-grandparents, who moved to the area to escape the negative effects of the ‘big city’ on his great-grandmother’s health in the 1890s.

“The doctor said she had bad asthma, and she had to move to the country,” said Murphy.

In those days the Beach was

in the country, considered the edge of civilization.

His great-grandparents operated Victoria Park for a time, an amusement park at the foot of the street of the same name. The donkey rides were particularly popular, he said. The property they rented to house the park is now the site of the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant.

“I often wish they had bought that property, because I’d be a billionaire now,” he said with a laugh.

Despite the ‘sketch book’ in the title, the more than 30 pieces in The Vanishing Beach are not just throwaway scribbles, but almost impressionist-style works that cover a range of old Beach homes in all four seasons. Murphy has had a number of people ask for individual pieces for framing, and is happy to accommodate such requests.

Signed copies of The Vanishing Beach are available at The Great Escape Bookstore at 957 Kingston Rd., or by contacting the Beach Metro News office.

as a weekly farmers’ market in Kew Gardens were overseen by the city and not a private corporation, there would be an elected councillor and staff to assist, an avenue of appeal based on municipal law, and ultimately a city ombudsman to help if required. This has all been precluded by the private monopoly that was granted.

One solution would be to ask the city legal department to report to council the cost of amending the lease to release the parklands. The best solution is for community groups and residents to determine how to enjoy public parks. The “privatization” of our public parks for profit is bad public policy all around.

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hese days it’s a generally accepted scientific fact that plant to plant communication actually does exist. They have the amazing ability to ‘talk’ to each other using hormones released into the air. They also use interconnected root systems and minute electrical signals and sounds to warn their neighbours of impending insect attacks, drought and other threats.

But what about human interaction with plants, like stroking their leaves, playing music or the well-known belief that talking to them will encourage growth and keep them happy?

I remember reading a newspaper interview years ago in which Prince Charles added another notch to his reputation of being a little loony when he famously announced that he regularly talks to his bushes and shrubs at Highgrove – and they “respond quite marvelously and send messages in return.”

Naturally the British press had a field day with his comments and once the laughter died down he recanted in a princely sort of way and said he merely ‘instructs’ his plants to do things.

Shortly after hearing the news that Prince Charles royally commands his shrubs to behave themselves, the Royal Horticultural Society decided to put his plant-whispering theory to the test. In an informal experiment, they attached small speakers to plant pots and began bombarding their leafy subjects with human voices reciting works of Shakespeare and other plays to measure the effects on their growth.

Of course the study turned out to be inconclusive – probably because one of the recordings chosen was a reading of the post-apocalyptic tale The Day of the Triffids, which I think would be enough to scare the petals off any plant.

Talking to plants might be a bit of a stretch but playing music may at least have some measurable effect on their growth habit.

A few researchers have shown that when certain musical sounds are played near select species they will begin to lean towards the speakers and grow more vigorously.

The speculation is that sound waves increase the movement of fluids within leaf surfaces which leads to more

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active growth. Unfortunately, the studies also show that a lot of the test subjects paid no attention to the music and many others just packed it in and died. But that didn’t stop farmers from Indiana to South Korea from planting a network of speakers among their crops and swearing that music increases yield and plant health significantly.

So, in the off chance that music actually does work, what type of sounds do plants prefer?

Some insist that ultra-high frequencies – the ones that annoy your dog and scare away raccoons – actually have the ability to stimulate growth hormones called auxins which make plants grow larger and more aggressively.

Others think lower frequencies will do the trick and recommend playing a little Isaac Hayes, Barry White, or that guy who sings the bass part for the Oak Ridge Boys to keep them happy.

Then there are the people who may be letting their musical tastes get in the way by advocating a 24-hour diet of rap music, thumping club mixes and – perish the thought – Celine Dion.

Unfortunately, as much as we would like to believe it, there is no irrefutable scientific evidence to prove that talking, touching, tickling or playing music to plants actually has any beneficial effect on their growth rate or health.

What we do know is that they will be far more likely to flourish with a healthy environment of nutrients, warmth, water, and adequate light than with a dose of Shakespeare or Led Zeppelin.

Even so, when I am working in the greenhouse these days, the first thing I do is turn on the radio and give the plants a blast of Beethoven and Bartok.

And just in case they are in the mood for a little conversation, I might occasionally take time out for a healthy little chat, starting with something along the lines of “Getting enough water?”; “How’s the family?”; or “Any whitefly bothering you lately?”

It might not help but it can’t hurt, and who knows, they might even start to talk back.

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By Jon Muldoon

THE BEACH’S Water Brothers, Alex and Tyler Mifflin, are back for a third season of H2O-focused television, with a deal for a fourth season in place.

The pair’s popularity has soared, with deals inked for the show to be carried in more than 40 countries, including the US. The premiere of season three airs locally on the evening of April 7 on TVO. With World Water Day and Canada Water Week just wrapped up, the brothers’ focus on water is well-timed, and the two are ready and willing to cover any issue dealing with this precious liquid resource.

Season three sees the Water Brothers travel to Ireland, Scotland, the Coco’s Islands, Israel, and even the NASA Space Centre to discuss the search for water in space with celebrity astronaut Chris Hadfield. With recent studies finding that millions of tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year, the show is also timely in its exploration of the issues affecting water around the world.

Episodes will be online at TVO’s website after they air, and the entire first and second seasons are available to watch for free online at thewaterbrothers.ca.

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THE FINAL concert in the Kingston Road Village Concert Series will bring the lively sounds of a brass ensemble to Kingston Road United Church on March 29.

The 11-piece ensemble is assembled by Scott Good (scottgoodmusic.com), the musical mind behind many projects including the popular Vonnegut and the Slaughterhouse Orchestra, which brought the literary works of Kurt Vonnegut to musical life at KRUC in a past concert.

Good is inspired by the sound of brass instruments, writing that “the nature of the sound is powerful and immersive. The trumpet calls and stirs the soul to attention, the horn implies majesty, the trombone enriches and intensifies, and the tuba, well, they are the ground from which all stirring and majesty may spring!”

The ensemble will perform music from several eras, with a focus on English and Italian renaissance composers John Dowland, William Byrd, and Giovanni Gabrielli. Newer chamber pieces including Bozza’s Sonatina and Michael Tilson Thomas’ Street Song will be heard, along with a Monteverdi-inspired

work composed by Good.

Good invites music lovers to celebrate the arrival of spring with the literal sounding of trumpets. The concert gets underway at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 29 at Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd. Tickets are $20, and are available at the door.

• TORONTO BEACH Chorale will bring a bit of majesty to the Beach on Easter weekend, with a special performance of Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass on Good Friday.

The choir is an auditioned community choir in its seventh season under the direction of Mervin W. Fick. There are 50 members who perform a series of three or four concerts a year.

For the Lord Nelson Mass, the choir will be joined by special guest soloists including soprano Jennifer Krabbe, mezzo-soprano Jillian Yemen, tenor Stephen Harland, and bass/baritone Matthew Cassils, as well as a professional orchestra.

The mass has been called Haydn’s greatest composition, and offers a wide range of deeply felt emotion. It was written during a time of upheaval in Haydn’s native Austria, and is titled Mass for Troubled Times.

The Toronto Beach Chorale performs at 7:30 p.m. on Good Friday, April 3, at Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd. Tickets are $20 in advance through a choir member or torontobeachchorale.com, or $25 at the door, with discounts for youth.

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Scott Good

HAVANA, CUBA native Fernandez is bringing his comedy hypnotism show back to the Stone Lion.

First appearing on stage at the age of four with his hypnotist father, he has studied, and since performed, around the world.

Toronto Beach Chorale

Fernandez will mesmerize the audience on the evening of Sunday, March 29 at The Stone Lion, 1958 Queen St. E. For more information see fernandezhypnotist.com.

• THE LOCAL non-profit community singing club Stadium Singers is inviting members to join the new chorus. The group meets most Sundays at Monarch Park Stadium from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Learn to harmonize on classic tunes like Under the Boardwalk or Country Roads and meet new friends. A minimum $5 pay what you can donation covers costs such as sheet music and refreshments. For more information email Carolyn at stadiumsingers@outlook.com or just show up on Sunday, March 29. The stadium is at 1 Hanson St., behind Monarch Park Collegiate Institute.

THE UNIT featuring Terry Logan on keys and vocals, David Hutchison on drums and vocals, and Chris Banks on bass play every Saturday from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. at The Stone Lion,1958 Queen St. E. Coltrane, Hancock, Logan, Miles, and more are on the set list.

Jazz players are invited to sit in for a few tunes.

• GREG PILO brings live jazz to the Salty Dog Bar and Grill, 1980 Queen St. E., every Tuesday from 7 to 10 p.m. with no cover charge.

Tonight, Tuesday, March 24, will feature women in jazz, with Alison Young on saxophone, Stacie McGregor on piano, Neil Swainson on bass and Pilo on drums. Tuesday, March 31 will see Pilo joined by Perry White on saxophone, Lorne Lofsky on guitar, and Jeff MacLeod on organ.

• • JAZZY SUNDAYS continue at Morgans on the Danforth, 1282 Danforth Ave., east of the Greenwood subway station. Sunday, March 29 will feature Lisa Particelli’s ‘Girls Night Out’ jazz jam – where gentlemen are welcome too! On Sunday, April 5, Freeplay Duo featuring Suba Sankaran and Dylan Bell will perform. Jazzy Sundays run from 2 to 5 p.m. with no cover charge.

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CHEZ HÉLÈNE’S Wednesday Night Salon runs weekly at 8:30 p.m. at Café Chez Hélène, 1437 Kingston Rd., just west of Warden.

The multilingual open stage is open to singers, musicians, dancers, rappers, poets, and other performers to take part in French or English, with hosts Jadzia Skye and Michael Oesch.

Participants get 10 minutes or three songs worth of stage time. For more information, find Café Chez Hélène on Facebook.

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• W.E.T.T.- Certified • Cleaning / Inspection • Stainless Steel Liners Code Compliance • Masonry Repair nighthawkchimney.ca 416-892-5263 (3)

BEACH

Specializing in: Residential Demolition, Rubbish Removal, Garage, Basement & Yard Cleanups Driveway Friendly Rental Bins Available FULLY INSURED

416-624-3837

Kevin 416-691-8503

• Junk and Rubbish Removal • Hazardous Waste Pick-up • Small and Big Moves • All Kinds of Delivery Services incl. cottage country

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BILLY THE KID HONESTLY DONE

GARBAGE REMOVAL

Home Decor

“HOW MAY I SERVE YOU?”

Vienna Upholstery

MAN WITH PICK-UP TRUCK

(w. of Midland)

For light moves/deliveries, cleanups, etc. • FIREWOOD Efficient. Best rates. Call Max

416-568-7276

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“Always on Time and on Budget”

Call Hakan: 416 899-3980

LAWN CARE

- property clean ups - weekly/biweekly cut, trim, blow - starting at $15/week

416-698-9000

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ROSS APPLIANCE SERVICE

416-569-2181

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Custom soft furnishings

REG’S APPLIANCE

416-690-8673

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Custom Made Curtains, Pillows Upholstery - Blinds

2358 Kingston Rd.

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& Soft Furnishings Slipons.ca Cynthia Lovat-Fraser 416-575-6113

ROSE GARDEN 416 693 7673

INCOME TAX $50

beachlawncare@hotmail.com (16)

Financial Services

416-694-6241

SLIP-ON SLIPCOVERS

FROM $25 (BASIC)

Cleaning specialists •Windows •Eavestroughs •Decks •Siding

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

LANDLORDS For Peace of Mind Call

Call now 416-699-9714 x8 www.hardingandking.com

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OFFICE EQUIPMENT NOT WORKING?

http://homecomputercare.ca

2442 Danforth Ave. 647-889-4114 • Open 6 Days, 12-7

R.E. Services Inc. Brokerage We make owning real estate & being a Landlord painless, easy & profitable.

With Your Own Design or Create Your Own Design or Choose From One Of Our Ready To Use Templates

Phone 1-866-838-4785

Apartment/ Home for Rent Harding & King

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Business Cards - Flyers - Postcards Banners - Yard Signs

Bed & Breakfast (r)

david@davidesigns.net 416-721-1869

www.24x7printstore.ca

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TAX RETURNS

Household Services

Brochures, Post Cards, Ads, Newsletters, Business Cards and more.

Reasonable Rates.

Quick Turnaround.

Fabrications

416-691-7556

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Personal • Small Business Corporate • Back Filing (5)

www.geocities.ws/overtaxed_4now

g o o d o n p a per

647-899-9074

by finn Custom Blinds - Drapery 416-465-6292 finn.ellen@gmail.com (2.)

TAX ACCOUNTANT

Guerin Bookkeeping 416-465-6249

We m a k e yo u look

PRINT ONLINE

Unfurnished (to be discussed).

Parking with permit on the street.

Separate entrance from back yard.

All inclusive $650.

In my bungalow, for one person, quiet, reliable. Prefer short term.

All options to be discussed.

647-779-7410

Includes one large workspace and second office. Free Wifi & Xirius XM. A/C. Private entrance. No parking.

310 sq.ft. $1,200 + HST/mo, utils incl.

Property Manager info@lifeonqueen.com (2)

Chalet Beauty Bar

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1 BEDROOM BSMT APT

416-930-0077

THE PRINTING HOUSE

Custom Window Coverings

For estimate call

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Basic ONLY - Others Extra E-File today & get your FULL refund in 2 weeks!

Exciting Creativity

1 BDRM APT

Deck • Laundry • Parking $1,300 + Hydro 416-698-2379 viewit.ca #9819

Office Services

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Beech & Kingston

requires capable person(s) for planting and maintenance during spring, summer & fall, on part-time basis

Books wanted: art, photography, literature, aviation, military, poetry, sports, music, Canadiana, etc. Inno Dubelaar Books, 53 Dixon Ave. 416-694-1329 or 416-878-4319 (3)

1537 O’Connor Drive

Luxurious Beach Suites

416-712-2077

CREATIVE SPACE FOR LEASE

Personal Care

416-267-2265

Single items or complete estates Wanted: Old furniture, china, silverware, pictures, lamps, figurines, glass, curiosities, etc.

Fair market prices guaranteed!

Call Terence: 416 466 1404 (r)

416-759-2219

4 appls, parking $1,195 + Hydro First & last, lease, references required.

Debra 416-693-6111

BLIND AMBITION Drapes, Blinds, Valances Also Duvet Covers, Shams, etc.

TIM O’MEARA

Kevin Lundbohm, Manager

LARGE 2 BDRM

Featuring Bachelors, 1 & 2 Bedroom renovated suites.

Landscape Designer

416-971-9025

Recently renovated $750/mo incl.

Bank & earning refs req’d No pets, no smoking 416-698-1313 416-699-5217 (2)

485 Kingston Rd.

PRIME OFFICE SPACE

R.C. Legion Br. 11 9 Dawes Rd 416-699-1353

Te l : 6 4 7- 3 4 9 - 4 0 1 5

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Circle of One

416-690-2880

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Upper Beaches

OFFICE SPACE

Photo/Art

416-466-3766

8 Lawlor Ave. 416-690-3859

Cleaning and organizing superhero requires sidekick. Must be able to leap over cleaning problems in a single bound and fight dirt blind folded with a smile. Please send resume with cover letter, salary expectations and availability to boothysbusiness@gmail.com (2)

Volunteers

or

Circles Hair Design

Call Kim 416-993-5143

1 + 2 Bdrm beginning at $1,375

1 BEDROOM APT

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rinkee@skymarktravel.com www.skymarktravel.com (2)

416-553-2157

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“Warm up with your hair, come in today!”

Dazzling, completely renovated suites.

Kitchens with granite counters & stainless steel appliances. Modern washrooms, darkstained hardwood floors, beautiful window treatment. MUST BE SEEN!

416-827-8095

Deadline for April 7 issue is March 30 th

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Experienced, eclectic Beach resident offering a variety of affordable, flexible and practical support services to entrepreneurs and small business.

QuickBooks training also available short or long term.

EXACT TAX SERVICES

We buy! - We pay cash!

New professionally installed kitchens.

Brand new elevator. Quiet private park setting. Very close to beach, shopping, public transit, all amenities.

(includes HST)

Free to a good home. 2 adorable and friendly Guinea Pigs with cages and accessories. Contact Mike or Sue at 416-693-7910 (2)

Wanted

@ 191 Kenilworth

17.

(includes HST) For 20 words or less 35¢ each extra word

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BOOKKEEPING/OFFICE ADMIN/+MORE

Free

416-820-1527

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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

EXPRESS JUNK REMOVAL 24 HRS 16’ Cube Van & Pick up Truck Service Best Prices/Free Estimates

647-235-6690

BEACH PUPPY LOVE - Providing loving care to beach pets since 2003 - Flexible scheduling - Dog walking, pet sitting, in home boarding - Bonded & Insured

Cleaning Lady

www.beachpuppylove.com

Extra-ordinary & exceptional Weekly and biweekly $15/hr Call Sherry at

416 389 9234

416-405-8301

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B&W DISPOSAL Cleaning Services Backyard Basement Garage cleanups Rubbish Removal Small Demolitions Free Estimates

STEAM CLEANING LTD. (2)

NEIGHBOURHOOD SERVICE

Rubbish Removal, Demolition, Basement, Backyard & Garage Clean-ups. Home Improvements.

Seniors Discount. Tree Clean up.

We Recycle All Materials.

Cell

416-454-5404

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*60+ years Experience* Flooring, Tile, Carpentry & all types of small & large renos Call Rob & Steve at:

647-967-7366

TrustworthyRenovations.com

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DAVE’S HOUSE CALLS Courteous professional with 20 years of experience.

Finish carpentry, painting, minor plumbing and general repairs.

No job is too small.

Dave: 647 271-6481 Dave.housecalls@gmail.com

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HANDYMAN PLUS RENO

Painting, Drywall, Carpentry, Tile, Flooring References • Free Estimates 10% Seniors discount

Dave 416 294 3379

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BEACHES STORAGE $225 20’ Sea Container $350 20’ Heated Storage

416-402-3302

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CARPET, UPHOLSTERY RUG CLEANING

TO SERVE AND RESPECT

BEST JOB & PRICE GUARANTEED

416-567-3205

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HEALTHY HOME

• Bio-degradable, non-allergenic products used • Drying time 3-4 hours • Bonded, insured, certified Free At Home Estimates!

Call 416-783-3434

*Bonded*

(21/16) *Insured*

EUROPEAN CLEAN

Demolition & Removal of Garages, Porches, Fences, Concrete.

Same day service guarantee Open from Mon. to Fri. 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.

CALL FOR A FREE ESTIMATE

416-729-2077 cell

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RILEYS’ WINDOW CLEANING A family business since 1956

Window & Eaves Cleaning Gutter Filter Installation

416 565 8569

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JOHN’S SALVAGE JUNK REMOVAL AND RECYCLING OFFERS DISCOUNTS 647-762-2025

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Pet Services

BEACH PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

-Spring Property Clean-ups -Lawn Cutting/Aeration/ Overseeding/Fertilization 416-414-5883 info@blpm.ca (6)

EUROPEAN CLEANING LADIES

Brendalee 416-804-5545 PAWSSITTER.COM

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CAT CARE SERVICE Veterinary Technician with 20 yrs experience provides excellent care - Home visits - Boarding in my home - Experienced in giving oral, I.V. and sub-Q medications - Nail trims, grooming matted fur - References

Call Candy at 416 691-3170

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Cleaning and organizing superheroes Eco-friendly Local with references Kelly 647-889-4752 (11)

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Kingston Rd/Vic Park

416-699-8333

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PIANO TEACHER Susan Kohlhepp 416-690-2289 sjkohlhepp@gmail.com

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Join a jazz choir NOW! Rehearse Thursday evenings at 5 p.m. (then adjourn to the pub) Men especially needed. sheilaruthbrand@gmail.com (6)

Weekly • Bi-weekly • One time cleaning Reliable & efficient

Contact Irena

416-825-9705

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DEANNA CLEANS Houses, Apartments, Offices

416 931 8222 d.cleans@yahoo.ca

PIANO TUNING REPAIRS

647 980 4973

APPRAISALS

416-699-3772

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PrettyNEAT Cleaning Services (R)

20 yrs in the Beach!

Professional, Personalized Call/email for free estimate

647-992-6328 prettyneatservices@gmail.com

“PrettyNeat Cleaning for a PrettyNeat Customer!”

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DAY CARE CONNECTION LICENSED, NON-PROFIT HOME CHILD CARE

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CHILDREN’S CENTRE A licensed non-profit child care ser ving the Upper Beach for 28 years. w w w. E a s t To ro n to V i l l a g e . c o m THE BEST THERE IS! (r)

• report card catch-up • • in-depth homework/test help • • essay-writing + study skills • • numeracy + literacy support •

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NEED SOME TEMPORARY HELP

WITH YOUR FAMILY/CHILDREN? University student in the Beaches wtih great childcare experience - newborns to 10+ year olds. Driver’s licence - CPR certified - Fun - Reliable - Safe Great references Available April 27 - June 18, 2015

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Before - After School Care from Balmy Beach School in my home. 20 years experience, great references, receipts.

Adrianne 647-289-7776 (3) Hands in the Earth Home Childcare.

Nurturing home child care devoted to the magic of childhood. With preschool program that values child development. Flexible hours and competitive rates.

Handsintheearthpreschool@ gmail.com 647-637-6724 (2)

Garden & Tree

THE STUDY STUDIO Proven success with thousands of Beach area students for 12 years

1226 Kingston Road 416-690-6116 www.thestudystudio.com Specialized programs for grades 3-12 and beyond in all subjects.

Jennifer Wilson B.Ed. (19) Kim Rauch B.Ed.

TUTORING

OCT certified teacher, over 20 years experience, highly qualified (former dept head in a Senior highschool for Fr. Imm.)

All Welcome

Contact: Marion @ 647-406-4681 or: marionklein@hotmail.ca (3)

• Specialized in IB/TOPS/Calculus/Functions/GMAT • One-on-one tailored tutoring at your home • In-depth step-by-step explanation • Extensive knowledge with 14+ years experience • 2 Masters (Math Edu. & Applied Math) in USA (2)

Spanish Tutoring and Conversation.

Retired OCT certified teacher. Your home or mine. Call 416-693-7733 (2)

416-467-6059 (r)

info@blpm.ca

KIM PRICE Landscape Design

info@blpm.ca

Licensed & Insured

416-699-8575

Painters

Larry’s Painting & Repairs Family owned & operated 26 years in business

416-690-3890

larryspainting@gmail.com www.larryspaintingtoronto.com

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PROWAY

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BEACH PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

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PAINTING & DECORATING Interior • Exterior Residential • Commercial Plastering • Drywall

LAWN CUTTING

416.797.6731 Free Estimates & References Available

*(weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, and one time visits available)

(416) 414-5883 info@blpm.ca

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IN THE BEACH LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE SPECIALISTS • Weekly & Bi-Weekly Lawn Cutting • Spring Clean-ups • Flower Bed Maintenance • Fertilization & Aeration • Hedge Trimming & Pruning • Seeding & Sodding

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FRANZ’S PAINTING

Experienced. Reliable.

Professional Work Guaranteed.

Drywall Repairs. Competitive Rates.

Beach Resident.

Call Franz 416-690-8722

647-210-LAWN (5296)

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ABBEY ROAD

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STEVE’S PAINTING & REPAIRS INTERIOR • EXTERIOR WORK For strength, durability and finish, it’s all about the prep.

Have it done right, the first time.

References, free estimates.

Beach Resident

Cell# 647-853-6420

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‘As Promised’ Painting *** Free Estimates ***

LAWN IN ORDER (6)

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Specialist in low maintenance, eco friendly & native gardens consultation - cleanups pruning - planting - containers maintenance - readied for sale Allison 416-693-7214 naturescapeconsult@yahoo.ca (9)

BEACH

10 yrs serving the Beach and Leslieville. Complete outdoor property maintenance taking on a limited number of new contracts this season.

416-690-8846 paul.kinney@rogers.com

(8)

Scotstone

Traditional stone walls, steps, interlocking paths, patios & decks.

Landscaping solutions to customize your space.

www.scotstonecontracting.com Call Scott 416.858.2452 (9)

STONESCAPE 25 yrs experience

Interlocking Stone • Planters Retaining Walls • Steps • Fences Decks • Sodding

416-821-4065

rickscape@hotmail.com

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Design Installation Maintenance

- property clean ups - weekly/biweekly cut, trim, blow - starting at $15/week

Kevin 416-691-8503

beachlawncare@hotmail.com (7)

Victoria Gardening

Call Deanna at 416-931-8222 deannaforyourgarden@gmail.ca

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Movers “Always on Time and on Budget”

Hedge Trimming Clean Up Mulch, Sod, etc.

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• Small and Big Moves • All Kinds of Delivery Services incl. cottage country • Junk and Rubbish Removal

www.thegoodmoves.com 899-3980 (7)

Call Hakan: 416

We stand by our contracts, big or small.

Also do Drywall and Plaster Repairs and more

Dianne 416 699 5070

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RYLAN HARVEY

PAINTING

- Free Estimates - Interior/Exterior Painting, Staining, Metallic Surfaces - Fully Trained/Insured - 3 Year Written Guarantee - Committed to the Beaches 416-888-1647 Ref Available Check us out on HomeStars!

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PROFESSIONAL PAINTER Richard Durocher Interior & Exterior Small to Mid-size jobs

647 401 7970 The

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FUSSY! Painter

Colouring the Beach Since 1996!, Interior & Exterior.

First Rate Team Works Cleanly, Quickly and on Budget Special Attention to Prep, Repairs, Help with Colour, No Job Too Small, Written Quotes.

Call John (416) 698-2302 or (416) 670-2639

FOR YOUR GARDEN

LAWN CARE

www.beachmetro.com

Serving the Beach For 20 Years!

• Specializing in Interlock, Retaining Walls • All Natural Stone Work, Decks, Fences • Sodding, Planting,Water Features, Lighting, Etc.

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CARE-ADVICE-COACHING

647 766 7875 John

STUDIO 1

CARTAGE & STORAGE

• Design and Construction •

www.kimpricelandscapedesign.com

416-690-2476

Tree & Shrub: shaping, thinning, pruning, planting Deadwood or Complete Removal Storm Damage, Dangerous Limbs

Toronto: 416-434-3209 London: 519-636-9222 cdntreecare@hotmail.com

Watch our videos at

www.BestWayToMove.com (5r)

416-993-5143 Creating Award Winning Gardens

“Rocking the Beach for over 15 years”

LAWN CUTTING *(weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, and one time visits available) 416-414-5883

416-999-MOVE (6683)

2 Men + Truck $49/hr Office • Apt. Deliveries 416-830-8183

LANDSCAPING

-Lawn Cutting/Aeration/ Overseeding/Fertilization -Spring Property Clean-ups -Hedge Trimming -Eavestrough Cleaning

Accurate work & reasonable rates

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www.stonehengedesignbuild.com

HARRY

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WE MOVE FOR LESS!

LANDSCAPE • DESIGN & BUILD

GREENSTONE LANDSCAPES

• PLAYROOM • CHILDCARE REGISTRY • • LIBRARY • DROP-IN BABY TIME IS TUES & THURS AT 1:30 PM WORKSHOPS EVERY 2ND THURSDAY

- will do small moving jobs - local or long distance - removal & pick up of various items

Call Andre 416-422-4864

www.greenapple.ca

B I R T H TO S I X Y E A R S

416-414-5883

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Green Apple Landscaping

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CANADIAN TREE CARE

INDIV/GRP TUITION IN YOUR HOME QUALIFIED + EXPERIENCED TEACHER, K-12 PROVEN SUCCESS - REFS AVAILABLE (5)

www.greenapple.ca

FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

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MAN WITH CARGO VAN

STONEHENGE

MAINTENANCE

call ALBERTO 416 690 9389 for

Naoki (Japanese): 647-778-4322 inspiremathcanada@gmail.com

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BEACH PROPERTY

Inspire Math

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Marlene 416-698-5668

416-690-0102

All Season Movers

Front yard parking pads Drawings • Permits • Build 416-288-1499

MAINTENANCE

French / German / Spanish (23)

We provide a positive, encouraging environment for children 2 1/2 yrs to 12 yrs in a licensed, non-profit, parent-board day care.

Info. or to register

BEACH PROPERTY

HELP WITH MATH & ENGLISH

EXPERIENCED CLEANING LADY

BALMY BEACH COMMUNITY DAY CARE

Clare 13cd47c@queensu.ca

416 - 824 - 5269

Personalized Residential Housekeeping 30 yrs. experience. References

• Over 12 years professional experience including medications • Insured and Bonded • Veterinarian trained & recommended • Member of Pet Sitters International

Scarboro Music

Simply the best!

THE CLEANING SERVICES OF STEVEN PICTON

ALONE AT HOME PET CARE

We teach it all!

Tutoring

Have you seen your floors lately?

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Bach to ROCK

AND

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Ted Reeve Arena

NEAT FREAK Cleaning Services

416-698-1923

184 MAIN ST. across from

Deadline for April 7th issue is March 30th

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Pet Minding

416-200-4471 www.alonepetcare.com

647 886 8303

(3)

PAWS SIT STAY

by Zak’s Mom Cat or dog visits or sitting Dog boarding 416 691-8222 pet_minding@yahoo.ca references

WHO HAS TIME ANYMORE?

www.neatfreakcleaning.com

Walks Tailored To Your Dog’s Needs 5 Star Boarding w/pick-up/drop off Pet Visits/Sitting/Medications Exemplary Loving Caring Service Insured and References Available

Music

416-690-1356

416-288-1499

FOR ADULTS WITH CHILDREN

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Local. Taking care of your possessions.

Green Apple Landscaping 25 years Experience High Quality • On Schedule One-of-a-Kind Outdoor Living Spaces

www.lerouxfroebel.com

See our ad on page 15

REASONABLE RATES

Award Winning Design & Build

EAST TORONTO VILLAGE

CLEANING LADY

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Bilingual School

•18 months to 12 years •Preschool daycare & after school program 72 Main St.

Nurturing, supportive care, flexible hours.

Early Childhood Education Specialists to answer your questions.

Experienced, reliable, trustworthy, kind Call Kristine 416 575 2990

LeRoux Froebel

Call 416-698-0750

A.S.M. MOVERS

Landscapers

• SERVING THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1976 •

Quality House Cleaning Telephone: 416.690.3739 Cell: 647.278.7490

416 421-5758

rileyswindowcleaning.com

BOOTHY’S

Call Howard

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HOUSECLEANING

DEMOLITION EXPERTS

Call Gary 647-829-5965

Dependable service for over 20 years

THE HOUSE AND APARTMENT CLEANING COMPANY

& EAVESTROUGHS

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WINDOWS CLEANING

Irene Seliotis

BEACH 416-691-8503

EAVES CLEANING

CARPET & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING

offer complete and thorough cleaning service for your house • office • condo Call Ilona 416-427-3815 (4)

WINDOW CLEANING

Catherine’s Quality Home Cleaning

Weekly • Monthly • Bi-weekly Reasonable rates Call 647-527-6059 (4)

ULTRA

Call Bob 416-699-5306 cell 416-459-4137

(4)

Child Care Available

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BEACH METRO NEWS

fraser_j@bell.net

(9)

The Passionate Painter

Specializing in residential painting.

Minor drywall/plaster repairs.

416-997-8908 www.thepassionatepainter.com

(7)

BEST VALUE PAINTING & RENOVATIONS Residential & Commercial 10% Senior Discount Family owned • Free estimates

647-457-0748

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BEACH METRO NEWS

NEW BRIGHT PAINTING NO MESS, NO FUSS, JUST SUPERIOR WORKMANSHIP, Fully Insured Member BBB • Beach Resident SEAN AT 416-985-8639

newbrightpainting@gmail.com

(22/16)

Beach Hill Painting

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

G. LOCKE

Electricians LOCAL ELECTRICIAN

Dave 416 294 3379

HARM’S PAINTING

DECLAN O’MEARA 416-698-6183

CUSTOM WOODWORKING

PORCHES, DECKS, FENCES

Glenn 416 837 9298

CELL 416-875-5781

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ESA LIC# 7002668

Master Electrician Knob & tube rewiring Service Upgrades CARL 647-787-5818

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CLAYTON ELECTRIC Proud To Have Served Our Community For Over 50 Years Specializing in Service Upgrades and Knob & Tube Wiring Metro Lic. # E-594 / ACP # M-R1507

Plumbers

416-690-1630

Plumbing • Heating • Drains Renovation, Repair & Installation

690-8533 Lic. #P-15099

(r)

BEACH PLUMBING Small Repairs to complete houses Renovations

(r)

MURPHY

ELECTRIC ECRA/ESA#7004508

Knob & tube • No job too small

416-690-0173 Cell 416-529-5426

ACE

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Electric Lic: 7006786

416 691-3555

(r)

416-833-3006

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LTD

Professional Quality Service Repairs-Renovations-Installations

POWER

MET LIC P18238, BBB A+, WSIB Master Plumber: Franc Zamernik

Mobile: 416-834-8474 Office: 416-757-6537 www.ontariowaterplumbing.com

(r)

NEIGHBOURHOOD PLUMBING

20% Discount off any competitor’s written quotation. Discount for seniors and single parent.

Lic. Master Plumber • Free estimates Patrick 647-404-7139 (8)

TOM DAY

Plumbing & Drains All types of plumbing work.

Smallest leak - complete bath reno.

Internal & external drain excavating.

Call the professionals 416-480-0622 24 hr. - lic# P1624

(4)

PLUMBING PROBLEMS ??

$25 OFF ANY SERVICE

416-999-3594

(4)

We provide basement waterproofing for external and internal homeowners with a full line of service.

Great affordable rates. Fully licensed.

(4)

ATLANTIS PLUMBING

& DRAINS Dishwasher & Gas Repairs Heating, Boilers & Radiator Repairs Reno, Repairs - LICENSED

416-265-4558 Cell 416-727-1595

(2)

PLUMBING

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N.D. TREEN ELECTRIC ECRA/ESA Lic#7001629

Free Estimates Work performed by Master Electrician Panel Changes • Pot Lights Interconnected Smoke Detectors Knob & Tube Replacement Dale Treen 416-882-6701 daletreen@yahoo.com (9)

MBX ELECTRIC LTD.

Master Electrician Lic. ESA ECRA #7000314

Residential • Commercial - Knob & Tube Wiring - Service Panel Upgrades - Renovations & Alterations Call Marc 416-910-1235

(2)

Available for small electrical jobs.

New construction or renovations.

Call 647-888-7887 (3)

MASTER ELECTRICIAN ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR Fully licensed & insured.

ECRA/ESA #7008706

MARTIN PETROV PLUMBING SERVICES

No job too small 15 years in the Beaches 416 833 6692 martin@mapm.ca (2)

MASTER PLUMBER

PLUMBER CONTRACTOR Fully licensed & insured.

Lic #T85

George: 416-278-7057 or Gabson Reno: 647-342-2872

(2)

-Flat Roofs-Shingles-Eavestrough Toronto Fire/Police References An Honest Family Service

Tel. 416-569-2181

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THOSE ROOFERS Don’t call them, call those roofers ALL TYPES OF ROOFS

- Shingles & Flats- Repair & Tune ups - Cedar & Slate - Re-roofs & new work

Doug 416-871-1734 Jeff 647-686-8103 Lic - Insured • Free Estimate

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CITY WIDE ROOFING

For all your roofing needs In the Beaches since 1974 FAMILY OWNED & OPERATED

KEW BEACH ROOFING GENERAL CONTRACTING

George: 416-278-7057 or Gabson Reno: 647-342-2872 (4)

Over Twenty-five Years in the Beach (9)

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REX NORMAN CARPENTRY

Master of Carpentry specializing in interior & exterior finishing, decks, stairs, windows, doors, railings, book shelving, feature walls and much more. Putting quality first.

Call Rex 416-889-1963 rexn@rogers.com

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416-691-8241

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WET BASEMENT ?

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Serving Your Community Since 1971

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Innerspace

Handy Dan Dan 416-699-2728

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Alan Burke 416-699-4350

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Flat and Shingle Roofs Re-roofing, Repair Eavestrough, Soffit & Fascia Workmanship Guaranteed

(5)

“Reclaim Your Basement”

(r)

owering asement Benching-Underpinning Waterproofing Inside/Outside New Drains (r)

DILULLO

MASONRY

(11)

Coleman Contracting & Company

(2)

CHIMNEY REPAIRS • TUCKPOINTING BRICKWORK • PARGING CONCRETE • INTERLOCKING

(22/16)

SMART HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING • Furnace cleaning & inspection • Service, maintenance, repair • New equipment installation • Oil to gas conversions • Licensed & Insured

CHIMNEYS - REPAIRS OR NEW BRICK, BLOCK, STONE WORK TUCKPOINTING, COLOUR MATCHING CONCRETE WORK - REPAIRS OR NEW 416-463-9331 (r)

(6)

PROFESSIONAL RENOVATIONS Kitchens • Bathrooms • Finished basements

Small jobs too. Trust a local contractor.

(2)

Repairing & matching existing brick, Tuckpointing or new builds. Natural stone. Chimneys, Fireplaces, Foundations

www.scotstonecontracting.com scotstonecontracting@gmail.com (9)

JD BUILD

SPECIALIZING IN RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION & RESTORATION FOUNDATIONS, COLUMNS, MASONRY, CONCRETE WALLS BRICK & STONE WORK

416 738-2119 www.jdbuild.ca

(6)

THE HANDYMAN Small & Large Jobs Indoor/Outdoor Work Reasonable Rate Call Bruce anytime 416-469-1974

(3)

FOX

SMALL ENGINE REPAIR Sales & Service All Models Lawn Mowers • Snow Blower Chain Saws • Trimmers Trade-Ins Welcome

Patrick 416-819-8703

(3)

SPECTRUM

GREAT INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY www.spectrumreno.com 647-500-5155 (2)

JASON THE MASON

TUCKPOINTING • CHIMNEYS CONCRETE WORK WINDOW CUTOUTS • WATERPROOFING & REGISTERED & INSURED 416-580-4126 cell (2.)

Professional drywall and plaster work. Renovation and Repair. Very clean.

No job too small.

(8)

TILE + STONE

• Waterproofed showers & saunas • Tile leveling system (floors & walls) • Counters, islands & vanities • All work done custom on-site!

647-967-7366

Scotstone

Quality Stone Masonry & Brickwork

BUY•RENOVATE•SELL•PROFIT

MARTIN PETROV

Call C.J. 647 222 5338

(10)

Licensed masonry contractor

General repair • Painting, Electrical • Plumbing 10 yrs plus experience References Available handymanwoody@hotmail.com

416 833 6692 martin@mapm.ca

416-690-2476

Call Scott 416.858.2452

CJ DRYWALL & PAINTING

CONCRETE WORK L B 416-917-5990

(5)

WOODY’S

www.smartgta.com

(2)

If we were any Cheaper we’d be Free Masons

We will beat any quote by up to 20%

416 660 4721

(416) 871-4608

FANTASTIC DECKS + FENCES

MASONRY

QUALITY HOME IMPROVEMENTS & RENOVATIONS

416-999-2333

416-467-6735

(647) 622 1009 www.rightonreno.com

ABBEY ROAD

Call today for free estimate

www.stonehengefoundations.com

Custom Bathroom renovations Design & Build Licensed & Insured 647 505-6156 completebathroom.homestars.com

647-235-6690

WET BASEMENT EXPERTS

Competitive prices • Satisfaction guaranteed

Underpinning Specialists (2)

416-375-5191

Give your floors a new beginning!!!

(2) Free Estimates

PLS Masonry offers over 20 years home repairs experience in the GTA

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Cell 416 434-2762 Painting - Basement Renos Plaster & Stucco • Interior & Exterior Small Renovation Jobs & Roofing 35 Years Experience References upon request (3) Free Estimates

(3)

Sanding, Staining, Refinishing, Repairs & Installations.

Quality workmanship for excellent rates.

416 858 0253

www.basementlowering.com 416-494-3999

ROOFING & SIDING? SOLUTION!

416-910-8033

(11)

One stop shopping for all your Home Improvement needs Repairs to Renovations From Roof to Basement & everything in between • Lic & Insured

www.handydan.ws

JOHN CLARKE

Hardwood Flooring

416-699-0958

(r)

(11)

Home Renovations & Painting

Flooring Installer

Gord Walker 416-694-2119

Garth 647-248-4952 or garth.jerome@yahoo.ca

RightOn Contracting

FLOORING SPECIALIZING IN SANDING & STAINING

HANDYMAN SERVICES

Basement Lowering

KINGSTON RD ROOFING

Gus:

HARDWOOD

by Jim Ferrio ODD JOBS PLUS “Seniors never pay tax” Call Jim for a free estimate

Met. Lic. B-8357

Fully insured, municipal license & WSIB reg’d Free Quotations • Excellent references

(9)

TOTAL INTERIOR RENOVATIONS Specializing in: Kitchen Design • Bathrooms Carpentry • Drywall • Floorings Basement Apartments Decks & Fences Met. Lic. Gord Walker B-8357 416-694-2119 (r)

All Types: Ceramics • Natural Stones Vinyl • Cork Hardwoods • Laminates Floating and Plank

Bathrooms • Kitchens • Basements Flooring • Tile and Mosaic

SILVERBIRCH

416-659-7003

www.webuildit.ca

FOUNDATION REPAIR WATERPROOFING

Met. Lic. B-16-964

35 years in the Beaches Marty 416 579 6534 Roger 416 579 6548 KingstonRoadRoofing.ca

(4)

WEBSTER FOUNDATION REPAIR 647-235-6690 Lic & Ins (2)

ROOFING REPAIRS STONEHENGE

Steve 416-285-0440

Drywall, Plastering, Taping 15 yrs Experience • Excellent Job Call Mike 416-854-7024 647 833 7024 Fax 647-341-6104

FAIRNEY & SONS LTD. Metro lic #B531 • All Work Guaranteed • Free Estimates

DESIGN-BUILD-RESTORE

Quality Work by experienced home renovator

COMPLETE BATHROOMS

Stucco • Moulding Wall Systems

Underpinning Foundation Repair Drains, New/Repair

Foundation Repair/Waterproofing

Residential, Commercial, Retail, Home Offices Senior Rates

For all your roofing needs

Bill Watson 647-283-0095

CARPENTRY, DRYWALL, PAINT PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, TILE Licensed & Insured 30 YRS LOCAL EXPERIENCE ON TIME/BUDGET www.beachrenovations.com

Your Neighborhood Roofer Metro Licensed, Insured, WSIB No subcontracting, specialized in flat roofs and skylights Warranties on any Roof Repair www.theroofwhisperer.ca

Shingles • Flats Roof Repairs • Metal Work Eavestroughing & Siding Waterproofing • Since 1984

•home entertainment centres •home offices •bookcases, fireplace surrounds •utilize your space with built-in storage units

(r)

Telephone Systems

CANADIAN CONTRACTORS

Built-in-Cabinets

416-264-8517

Cable & Telephone Wiring

WHISPERER

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(r)

YOUR STUCCO

JIM 647 405 8457 416 691 8457

THE ROOF

“Oftentimes, a repair is all you really need”

• ON TIME / ON BUDGET •

(r)

Drywall, Painting, Carpentry Masonry, Flooring Reliable - Quality work

647-206-3376 Andrew, the Roofer

ROBINSON CARPENTRY For quality craftsmanship

•CARPENTRY •PLUMBING •ELECTRICAL

the handyman

Call/Text:

Carpenters

SERVICES “No Job Too Small”

Repair - Reno - Restore

Flat Roofs and Shingles Aluminum Siding • Fascia Soffit Sky Lights • Eavestrough

416-694-7402

HANDYMAN

BEACH RENOVATIONS

LANIGAN’S

647-979-5652

Call Clyde Robinson 691-8241 www.robinsoncarpentry.com Licensed with 30 years experience

(4)

(r)

Queen St. Roofing

Lic. & Ins.

(r)

ED GODFREY

416-690-1430 • 416-266-8953 quotes@citywideroofing.ca www.citywideroofing.ca (19)

Total renovations, basements, trim, doors, porches, wall units, closets.

Electrical, plumbing, paint, drywall.

416-855-9500

(4)

Lic# 7009221

with attention to detail

•Repairs •New Installs •Drains •Alterations Same Day Repairs REPAIRSMADEEASY.CA

Call: 416.939.7833

Retired Journeyman Electrician

Cascade Plumbing Waterproofing Specialist

Contact us at 416 602 2128

PANEL & SERVICE UPGRADE TROUBLESHOOTING & WIRING ANY KIND OF SMALL OR BIG JOB. REASONABLE PRICE

Mark Denington

(r)

•NO JOB TOO SMALL• Metro Lic. #B9948

CONTRACTING CO.

Electrical

COMPANY

www.totalrenovations.com

Complete Kitchen, bathroom & basement. Interior/Exterior Painting & Carpentry. Doors, Windows, Siding, Fences, Decks, Patios

Free Estimates • Metro Lic. B17416

416-694-7497 ~ 416-423-4245

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416-694-2488

• CARPENTRY / TRIM • DRYWALL PATCHING • SMALL JOB SPECIALIST “Serving the Beach Since 1980”

416-691-8693

416-752-1585

Architectural Design-Build

GODFREY RENOVATIONS & REPAIRS LTD.

Flat Roofs & Shingles Aluminum Siding ~ Fascia & Soffit Eavestrough Cleaned & Replaced Tuck Pointing & Much More

416-698-2613

VISA / MC / AMERICAN EXPRESS

ONTARIO WATER PLUMBING

TOTAL RENOVATIONS INC.

Marc 416-617-7205

COXWELL ROOFING

Big or small we do them all

Trades

(5)

•PAINTING •STAINING •DRYWALL REPAIR •PARGING •DECK & FENCE REPAIR •MINOR REPAIRS

•Shingle Roofs •Flat Roofs •Siding •Roof Repairs •Eavestroughing Insured • Met. Lic. B15515 For a Free Estimate ask for Lawrence

COMPLETE ELECTRICAL SERVICES RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL

50 years in the Beach

(2.)

Roofers

FREE ESTIMATES 15% less best price guaranteed Work done by Andrew Clayton

MIKE PARKER PLUMBING

(6)

FINE INTERIOR - EXTERIOR CARPENTRY • PLUMBING GENERAL REPAIRS DECKS + FENCES

MARIO 416-690-1315

www.tradeprocontractors.com

B2237

GNOMEWORKS

Call Vince Shop 416-285-9895 Cell 416-399-2342 www.galaxywood.ca

CUSTOM CARPENTRY

free estimates

416-694-2470

Kitchens • Built-Ins Shelving • Wall Units

42 Years Established in the GTA / Beach

A. Sheppard 416-347-4473 (4)

GALAXY

*Ask For Photo I.D.*

No job too small for all your repair and painting needs (11)

CABINETRY, BUILT-INS INT/EXT TRIM & STAIRCASES

ECRA/ESA LIC#7001069

dave@beachhillpainting.com (2)

Flats + Shingles Repairs welcome Alum Siding - Soffit Fascia Eavestrough - Pipe Also Repairs

Fault Finding Knob & Tube Rewiring Service upgrades Insurance certificates

GREEN ISLE ELECTRIC

Interior, Exterior Drywall and plaster repair References, free estimates 10% Seniors discount All work 100% guaranteed Providing quality painting for over 20 years

TRADEPRO GENERAL CONTRACTORS INC ADDITIONS KITCHEN & BATHROOMS

ROOFING

Accomplished Finish Carpenter 25 yrs exp

(2)

Creative Construction

We can handle all your renovation needs. Additions, Basements, Painting, Plumbing, Flooring, Electrical, Etc. Call Chris

416 - 903 4120

beachmetro.com

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BEACH METRO NEWS

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The Main Menu, cont’d. from Page 21 Chicken & vegetable stew with barley Pot barley versus pearl barley – what’s the difference? Pot parley has been polished to remove its outer hull, but a large amount of the remaining grain is left intact, making it more nutrient-dense than pearl barley.

If you have a choice buying these in the supermarket, go for the more nutritious pot barley.

6 slices bacon, chopped into ½ inch (1.2 cm) pieces 1 pkg (2 lb/1 kg) boneless, skinless chicken thighs cut into 1-inch (2.5 cm) pieces 2 leeks, white and light green part thinly sliced 2 onions, chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 tsp (5 mL) fresh thyme and grated lemon rind 1/4 tsp (1 mL) each, salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 each, carrots and parsnips cut into 1 inch (2.5 cm) pieces

2 cups (500 mL) salt-reduced chicken broth 1 tbsp (15 mL) each, Dijon mustard and fresh lemon juice 1/4 cup (60 mL) fresh chopped parsley In large Dutch oven, cook bacon over medium heat, stirring until crisp, about 10 minutes. Transfer to plate, leaving fat in pot. Add chicken, cook over medium-high heat, stirring until golden brown, about 10 minutes. Transfer to plate. Add leeks, onions, garlic, thyme, salt and pepper; cook over medium heat, stirring until softened about three minutes. Add carrots and parsnips; cook about four minutes.

Add broth and mustard, stirring to combine; bring to boil. Nestle chicken and bacon into mixture. Reduce heat to medium-low; cover and simmer, stirring occasionally, until chicken is tender, about 30 minutes. Stir in lemon juice and parsley.

Meanwhile cook barley according to package directions in chicken stock until tender, about 30 to 35 minutes. Serve with chicken and vegetables.

PHOTO: ANDREW HUDSON

Winter slowly drips away Water drips off the roof of the still snow-covered Leuty Pavilion on March 11, the first 8°C day of the month.

Answer to Reel Beach trivia question, from Page 19: Raisin in the Sun (2008).

The home inspection says the house is good.

But how do you know the house is great?

Watch to find out how our renovation and design experts can help you know for sure:

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mark richards team Total care. Incredible results

This is not intended to solicit buyers or sellers currently under contract with a brokerage. Not intended to solicit properties currently for sale.

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BEACH METRO NEWS

Spring is around the corner!

LOCAL AND FAMILY OWNED

Soon the snow will melt and we will all be moving outside.

This is just a friendly reminder that we are the

Beaches’ #1 Choice for Cedar, Pressure Treated, Composite Decking and Exotic Outdoor Decking.

416.686.9618

Give us a call and one of our knowledgeable staff will be happy to help you make your outdoor project dream into a reality!

Opportunity Knocks!

Magnificent and grand! Beautifully renovated 4 bedroom home. Gorgeous principle rooms, soaring ceilings, rich wood accents, renovated bathrooms, kitchen with centre island and stainless appliances. Other features include finished basement with high ceilings and separate entrance, alluring verandah, picturesque gardens, private 2 car parking.

Located on a lovely tree lined avenue just a short stroll to Queen Street and the Beach!

DANFORTH LUMBER Danforth Ave.

DANFORTH LUMBER

Victoria Park Ave.

Dawes

Main St.

Rd .

www.DanforthLumberHBC.com

Gerrard St. E.

25 DAWES RD.

(416)

$995,000

699-9393

KEN GRIEVE

Woodbine Semi

Bluffs Beauty

St. Lawrence Market

Lovely renovated semi-detached in much sought after Woodbine corridor, close proximity to subway and the trending Danforth. Main floor powder room, finished basement and private drive with multiple car parking!

Muskoka inspired home features an abundance of large windows capturing the property's mature trees. Family sized kitchen, fireplace in the main floor family room and warm natural light filters through all of the 5 bedrooms.

Facing a quiet courtyard this bright one bedroom has such a sweet space including a recently renovated kitchen with breakfast bar. Huge rooftop garden with bbq and sweeping views perfect for summertime entertaining!

$599,900

$1,335,000

$399,900

“It’s not about me...

Call today for your

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...it’s ALL about YOU!” Call Today and Let’s Get Moving

416-587-7522

kengrieve@royallepage.ca

Sales Representative 29 Years Experience

2014

Always here for you!

Direct: 416.606.4663 | Email: mail@cristina.ca NEW LISTING $149,000 Penthouse unit. Stunning view of the lake and golf course. Walk to subway, shops, health club and park. Five minute drive from the Beach, steps to Danforth Village. Feel free to call me anytime to book a showing or for more information on this property.

SOLD Steps to Coxwell subway. Gorgeous home built in 2001. Spacious open concept with 9.5 ft ceilings and over 1500 sq. ft. not counting the basement. Bright living rm, powder rm on main floor, open concept family rm with gas fireplace, pot lights and french door walkout to deck and back yard.

Open concept kitchen/dining rm combined with family rm. Custom built maple kitchen, 3 large bedrooms on 2nd floor, laundry and 4-pc bathroom. Juliet balcony in master bedroom, large bedrooms, 2 skylights. Hand-crafted wrought iron railings.

SOLD South of Kingston Rd. Large renovated 3 bed, 4 bath home, steps to tennis courts and park overlooking Bluffs and Marina on a very private tree-lined street, one block from lake. 2200 sq ft renovated and updated.

Royal LePage Estate Realty, Brokerage 1052 Kingston Road • 416.690.2181 www.cristina.ca

Meet the Team! | Ryan Gray

DeClute is proud to welcome Ryan Gray Before getting into the real estate profession, Ryan had over 10 years of sales experience selling nationally branded health, beauty and household products to large retailers across North America. This experience made the move to real estate a natural transition. Having always strived to provide nothing but the highest level of service, Ryan’s clients can expect a dedication to client-care that is second to none. A lifelong Beacher, Ryan has an intimate knowledge of The Beach and its surrounding neighbourhoods and is actively involved in the community.

GIVE RYAN A CALL AT 416.686.9618

www.DeClute.com