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Sultans of String concert set for Sunday

By Amanda Gibb

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Santa was welcomed by youngsters and their parents during the Breakfast With Hamper event at Community Centre 55 on Saturday morning. Youngsters were able to visit with Santa, do holiday crafts and enjoy a pancake breakfast. Community Centre 55 will be a busy place this month as the Share a Christmas campaign kicks into high gear and lots of volunteers will be needed to help.

Volunteers key to success of Share a Christmas LOCAL RESIDENTS will have a number of opportunities this month to volunteer and help Community Centre 55’s annual Share a Christmas campaign.

This is the 38th year for the campaign which helps more than 1,000 East Toronto residents in need over the holiday season.

Volunteers are needed for a wide variety of tasks in the coming days including packing and sorting donations, putting hampers together and collecting and distributing donations. Much of the volunteer work will be based out of Community Centre 55 at 97 Main St.

“As you can imagine, this program takes an army of volunteers to ensure its success,” said Jade Maitland, Special Events and Volunteer Coordinator for Community Centre 55 in a release.

The campaign provides food, clothing, toys, basic essentials and other items that help families enjoy the holidays. The hampers delivered to those who the campaign helps contain enough food not just for Christmas but to also carry the recipients through into the New Year.

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huge volunteer effort, and it simply could not get done without the help of community members.

Packing and sorting dates for this year’s campaign are Dec. 18, 19 and 20 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. for nonperishable items.

All ages are welcome to come out to Community Centre 55 on those days to help out. Many local families make it a tradition to volunteer to help with Share a Christmas every year.

Those volunteering for the packing and sorting sessions at Community Centre 55 are advised to dress in layers as the building’s temper-

ature can fluctuate. “Bring your muscles as the food boxes can get heavy,” Community Centre 55 advises volunteers in its flyer. “Bring your patience as lots of elves come to help.”

On Saturday, Dec. 21, volunteers are needed from 10 a.m. to noon to help pack and sort toy donations.

This volunteer session is for adults only, and those attending are asked not to bring children.

Volunteers will be needed for most of the day on Sunday, Dec. 22.

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THREE-TIME JUNO nominated band Sultans of String will be returning to the Beach this holiday season as part of the Kingston Road Village Concert Series.

Sultans of String will be performing on Sunday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m. at Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd. The band is currently on their Christmas Caravan fundraising tour for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.

According to a press release, lead violinist Chris McKhool said that “helping refugees is a cause we care about deeply because more than 67 million refugees worldwide are in desperate need of our support. They have every right to live a safe and dignified life as much as we do.”

Sultans of String boasts a diverse repertoire of acoustic music, with McKhool on violin, co-founder Kevin Laliberté on guitar, Drew Birston on bass, Rosendo Chendy Leon on percussion, and Eddie Paton on second guitar.

“Touring is the lifeblood of a band these days. It’s always great to play in front of new audiences and be able to perform our music,” said McKhool.

The band will be playing a medley of Christmas songs to celebrate the holiday season on Dec. 15, including Jingle Bells and Silent Night.

“We play everything from rumba flamenca from southern Spain to kitschy jazz from eastern Europe, Cuban rhythms, East Coast Celtic rhythms, and Arabic rhythms from my ancestors,” said McKhool.

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Protecting the character of the Beach area top priority for owner of proposed house A letter to fellow Beach residents: The Beach is one of the most vibrant and desirable neighbourhoods in Toronto, with homes that are some of the most attractive in the city.

While the beauty of the area is enough to draw people in on its own, it’s the strong sense of community and relaxed lifestyle that people love. For me, it’s also a neighbourhood that I’m proud to call home since 2005.

My love for the Beach was the reason I chose the neighbourhood to build my dream home – a decision that has resulted in some concerns among our community.

As a member of the community and lover of the Beach myself, I am passionate about this area and recognize the importance of both maintaining its character and establishing a strong rapport with other residents.

While I appreciate the open dialogue and respect these concerns, I believe they are partly based on misinformation.

As a result, I would like to take the opportunity to correct the inaccurate information about my proposed plan at 440 Lake Front.

Based on misleading images that have been circulated, the impression has been created that the roof will be several stories higher than neighbouring homes. In reality, the roof will be lower

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THIS YEAR is the 40th annual Hair of the Dog fun runwalk. The event is organized by the Balmy Beach Club and will take place on Jan. 1, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. at 1 Beech Ave. Russell Dunn, a lifelong member of the Beach Balmy Club came up with the idea for the run.

The event’s name comes from the term “hair of the dog that bit you,” which is a metaphor for drinking again to cure your hangover.

The run is kept ongoing by organizer Gaynor Reader

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This image provided by the landscape architect for 440 Lake Front shows the space the proposed house will take on the property and its height. designed with beautiful beachfront architecture in mind, working with a worldclass architect.

Sustainability is my number one focus. I understand that the beach is environmentally sensitive land and I also have concern for the environment and our community.

The Toronto Regional Conservation Authority (TRCA) has studied the project for eight months and independent experts have found no concern related to flooding or other negative impact on the environment and the bluff. The house will actually stabilize the bluff. We have incorporated sustainability into the design of the house including a green roof and possibly geothermal heating technology.

Protecting the beachfront character of our community

and the beauty of Lake Ontario is my utmost priority, and the concerns expressed by the neighbourhood are not taken lightly.

I value the opinions of my neighbours and believe that having open and honest conversations are necessary to continue improving our community.

I hope that the information above will help to provide residents with a different perspective on the development of 440 Lake Front.

I will continue to remain open to hearing concerns and working towards an acceptable resolution for everyone.

If you would like to email me directly, I’d love to hear from you: 440lakefront@gmail.com Dr. Gunther Eysenbach (for the Eysenbach family)

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than the existing and neighbouring house to the west.

From street level, the property will be three stories high, which is the same height as surrounding properties. Many other properties in that stretch, including the current house on the property as well as the neighbor to the west, present themselves as 4-storey buildings from the beach.

There have been claims that the proposed home will be built all the way to the property line. The house will actually have a significant set back from the public beach, will not encroach on public space and will create more green space than my immediate neighbours have.

We worked closely with the city planners to meet their recommendations. The set back is 12.33 metres from the property line and 17.16 from the shoreline hazard line. The natural vegetation in front of the property creates an additional buffer.

Other homes in that area have built their outdoor pools right to the property line. There is no reason to believe that my property will adversely impact public enjoyment of the public beach.

Some of the residents may not agree with having contemporary homes in the Beach. While the style may not be of everyone’s choosing, there is no question that the design will be tasteful and fit in the beach environment. The home was

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“We’ve kept up the tradition because it has actually become a staple of the community,” Reader said.

“We’ve had people coming out for 20 plus years to do the Hair of the Dog on New Year’s Day.” The Hair of the Dog fun run is an all-ages event. Attendees have the option to do the nine-kilometre run or the three-kilometre walk along the Martin Goodman Trail.

While signing up, there are several categories to choose from such as: Men’s

Open or Women’s Open, Youth Male or Female 18 and under, Men’s or Women’s Master 45 and over, Power Walkers 9K Men and Women, Parents with children in strollers or 3K Half Milers, 3KM Walkers and Runners, Parents with Strollers and the “Open Hangover” Hair of the Dog award.

To enter, the fees are $40 for adults, $12 for children 18 and under, and $70 for a family pass that includes two adults and any children 18 and under.

After the run-walk takes place, there will be a hot lunch served as well as the award ceremony for participants.

Part of the “Open Hangover” package includes an alcoholic drink (or juice or water if you prefer) that you will be served at lunch.

Funds that are collected during the fun run go towards Balmy Beach Club’s canoe/kayaking program for ages eight and up. The programs offered range from

summer camps to full season programs and all year programs. “We use that money to help run our programs in the summer and to keep our camp fees as low as possible,” Reader said.

Participants can either register on the day of the run-walk from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. or preregister online at www. balmybeachcanoeclub.com Menorah lighting at Kew Gardens THE BEACH Hebrew Institute hosts is annual menorah lighting and Latke Fest on the evening of Saturday, Dec. 28.

The celebration takes place on the seventh night of Chanukah, and will take place in front of Kew Gardens Park on Queen Street East, between Lee Avenue and Waverley Road.

A giant menorah will be set up and lit starting at 6:30 p.m. After the lighting there will be a Latke Fest at the Beach Hebrew Institute, 109 Kenilworth Ave.

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Glen Ames Senior Public School robotics team members demonstrate The Isight 360 which helps visually impaired people navigate in urban areas. Named X-Sighted DC, the team will be competing in a provincial qualifier this coming weekend in Whitby.

Glen Ames’ robotics team creates Isight 360 system

By Alan Shackleton

GRADE 8 students at Glen Ames Senior Public School are preparing for another season of robotics competition in the FIRST Lego League (FLL).

This year’s team of 10 students from Glen Ames are calling themselves X-Sighted DC, and they will kick off the robotics competition season at a regional qualifying meet in Whitby on Saturday, Dec. 14.

Teacher-coach Luke Martin explained that the team rebrands itself each year with a new name and group of students to compete in the FLL competition. Team members for this season are Hayden H-C, Georgia B, Rachel S, Beck M, Xavier R-D, Zach W, Julia S, Anthony F, Elise D, and Luke J. Students wishing to be on the team have to try out, and making the team is a big honour.

“This is a very desirable program and it is so great to see the kids learning from the experience,” said Martin.

The Glen Ames robotics program has an impressive history, with teams from the school qualifying for the provincial FLL championships for the past nine years in a row.

Last season’s team also qualified for the international championships in California (the third time in a row for the school). That team, Guardians of the Galaxsee, won first place in the Project Presentation category at the United States FIRST Lego League (FLL) Open Championships in California in May. It was the

first time a Toronto District School Board robotics team won a first in an international competition, The FLL is an international alliance between Lego and FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). Each year it asks teams of students from around the world to use robotics and technology to come up with solutions to real-world problems based on a theme.

The theme for this season’s competition is City Shaper and it challenges students to help plan for the future of cities by creating “new, innovative solutions to help shape an optimal future, using our environment and modern-day tools and technology to make it last.”

The teams must use Lego Mindstorm technology to create their project.

Taking that challenge as their starting point, Team X-Sighted DC decided to use their robotics and technology skills to come up with a way to make navigating cities easier for visually impaired people.

They call their project The Isight 360.

It has a local inspiration in the recent work of former Glen Ames’ student Maddie Dick, who partnered with Dalia Amer, to try and get the City of Toronto to install more Accessible Pedestrian Signals in East Toronto neighbourhoods.

“Our project addresses the pressing and relevant issue of visually impaired people getting around the Beach community,” said Team X-Sighted DC’s project statement.

To do this, the team created The Isight 360 system which contains a 360-degree camera, a speaker, a virtual reality headset, ultrasonic glasses and a “smart cane” that includes a touch sensor.

The cane has been programmed to activate the ultrasonic glasses and an echo-location system depending on how many times it is tapped. The Isight 360 system also allows its user to turn on the camera and to contact a family member if in need of assistance.

The glasses take ultrasonic readings and let the user know how close they are to objects, and whether they are in a busy area or in one with more open spaces.

The system’s camera takes live 360-degree footage which can be accessed by a family member or loved one of the person using it to help them navigate an unknown area if need be.

Creating The Isight 360 took a lot of work on the part of the students, who had to come up the idea, evaluate its practical usefulness, then design, build and program it to operate properly. Part of the evaluation consisted of consulting with Canadian National Institute for the Blind and tech company Slalom.

Along with the technology, the FLL also judges teams on their ability to work together and how they present their project. Team X-Sighted DC builds on the many skills of its members, including their creative and musical talents.

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The Sultans of String Christmas Caravan concert will be performed at Kingston Road United Church on the evening of Sunday, Dec. 15. beast. Most people know us as an instrumental band, but there’s a lot of singing in this show. It’s really fun,” said McKhool.

McKhool, a former Beach resident for more than 20 years, said he’s looking forward to performing in his old neighbourhood because

of his friends there and the community.

He also said that the Kingston Road United Church is an amazing venue to play and to hear live music.

“If you know people who have never been to a concert there before, you have got to tell them to go because it’s

an amazing space. It’s beautiful, open, bright, gorgeous and sounds wonderful,” he said.

Tickets for the concert are available online for $25 at sultansofstringchristmas. eventbrite.com.

For more information about Sultans of String and to stream their music, visit www.sultansofstring.com

Cadence Holiday Concert set for this weekend THE CADENCE Holiday Concert takes place this weekend at Beach United Church.

The Cadence Vocal Band performs on Saturday, Dec. 14 at 7:30 p.m., and on Sunday, Dec. 15 at 2 p.m. Doors will open 45 minutes before the concerts start.

Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for kids under 10.

Those wishing to buy tickets can purchase them at the church office on weekday mornings, at the door prior to the concerts or online at Eventbrite.ca Beach United Church is located at 140 Wineva Ave. Studio 888 hosts watercolour show WORKS BY a number of local artists including Elizabeth Berry will be featured at the Group Watercolour Show at Studio 888 in the Beach.

The show is now on and will continue until Dec. 22.

Other area artists taking part include Sheila Frost, Gerry Withey, Ursula Kostiw and Gail Williams.

Featured will be a number of both framed and unframed watercolour paintings.

Show times are Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 4 p.m.; and on Fridays from 2 to 7 p.m.

Studio 888 is located at 2359 Queen St. E., between Balsam and Beech avenues.

For more information, please call the gallery at 416200-5551, email studio888@ gmail.com or visit online at www.studio888.ca

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In My Opinion

Santa mulls over whether Doug Ford was naughty or nice Alan Carter Global News

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s 2019 draws to a close, what should Jolly St Nick mark beside Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s name: naughty or nice?

It’s a complicated question, because this year has been a tale of two governments and two leaders.

In June, after months of outcry and plummeting poll numbers, Ford shuffled his cabinet and put new faces in the key portfolios of Finance, Education and Children’s Services.

At the same time a cronyism scandal cost Ford’s mercurial Chief of Staff his job.

Dean French was replaced

by Jamie Wallace, an experienced and even-tempered political operative.

Those changes marked

the beginning of a new look and tone for the administration.

The government walked back controversial policies.

It went back to the drawing board on autism services, deep sixed proposed changes to environmental regulations, even, in the words of the union, opening up “the piggy bank” to keep educational support workers on the job.

Ford himself has dialed down the bombast and curbed his more combative tendencies.

During the federal campaign Justin Trudeau painted Ford as a bogeyman that Canada could not afford, clubbing him repeatedly like a political pinata. The Premier refused to take the bait, and even after the ballots were counted, shrugged it off as “just politics, not personal.”

In his first year in office, Ford waged war on Toronto

City Hall, cutting council in half and savaging Mayor John Tory’s leadership at almost every opportunity.

Now with a deal to build the Ontario Line while dropping plans to take over Toronto subways, Ford and Tory are newly minted political BFFs. And when MPPs returned to Queen’s Park in October the partisan temperature was considerably lower.

Rote standing ovations were replaced by conciliatory statements about getting along for the betterment of the province.

The sudden change in direction is enough give some observers whiplash, but Beaches-East York NDP MPP Rima Berns-McGown isn’t buying it.

“It’s important to understand that while the Premier and his caucus are yelling less and, on the surface, appear more put together, their perspectives haven’t

changed” says Bern-McGown.

Even if most PC policies remain the same, Ford seems to have learned the value of being boring.

Former Premier Bill Davis famously set the template never-too-hot, never-toocold leadership in Ontario that was successfully copied

by Dalton McGuinty.

After starting 2019 as a disruptor, Ford now appears to be striving for middle-ofthe-road.

So as Santa mulls whether it will be coal or candy for the Premier, perhaps the choice isn’t just between naughty or nice.

The truth, at least in the latter part of 2019, is Doug Ford was….. nicer.

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Local school trustee Kennedy named vice-chair of TCDSB LOCAL TRUSTEE Angela Kennedy was recently elected vice-chair of the Toronto Catholic District School Board for 2019-2020.

Trustees at the TCDSB made the decision at a board meeting on the night of Thursday, Nov. 28. Also at that meeting, Joseph Martino was elected chair of the board.

Kennedy is the TCDSB trustee for Ward 11, which includes the Beaches-East York area.

Combined, Kennedy and Martino bring close to 50 years of school trustee ex-

perience to the positions of vice-chair and chair.

“The newly elected chair and I share a commitment to ensuring that all our proceedings are handled efficiently and respectfully; and it is our hope that we can come together as a board of trustees grounded in Gospel values and entrusted with this great gift of publicly funded Catholic education,” said Kennedy.

First elected to the TCDSB in 2000, Kennedy was reelected for her sixth term as a trustee in the 2018 municipal election. She has previ-

ously served as board chair twice (in 2008-2010 and 20152017). She also previously served as vice-chair.

Kennedy has a long history in East Toronto, having attended the former Corpus Christi Catholic Elementary School and Notre Dame Catholic High School.

A nurse, Kennedy also served for 10 years as president of the Toronto East General Hospital (now Michael Garron Hospital) Nurses Union, Local 115. She has worked at Michael Garron Hospital for more than 40 years.

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City backs plan for Queen and Coxwell area revitalization Paula Fletcher Toronto-Danforth (Ward 14) Councillor

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ousing affordability is one of the most pressing issues facing us today so I am pleased to support the proposed Queen Coxwell Revitalization on the current site of the Don Summerville Apartments on Queen Street.

For a year following the city election, I pushed to ensure that Toronto Community Housing (TCHC) added new affordable housing to their proposed revitalization. The new plan does just

that. City staff, TCHC and Context Development have now agreed to a redevelopment plan for the property that would add 100 affordable rental apartments and as well as 180 market rental apartments.

This is in addition to the replacement of 120 rent-geared-to-income apartments at Don Summerville 1555-1575 Queen St. E. Context Development will also build condos at the western end of the site as well as new retail space on Queen.

Two open houses were held about this project in late November. Context Development will now submit their formal proposal to city planning for review and further community consultations early in the New Year.

Current TCHC tenants will be

well supported during this redevelopment and I have been working with TCHC staff and tenants to keep them updated about the revitalization plans.

Tenants will have to relocate to other TCHC properties during construction but will have the right to return to their new home once construction is complete.

In order to ensure that it is not just a “bricks and mortar revitalization” the project also proposes significant benefits for TCHC tenants funded by the developer: a $100,000 TCHC scholarship program, a $250,000 TCHC social development fund and jobs for TCHC tenants with an estimated value of $500,000. The details of these are now being finalized.

Applegrove, our local community centre, has been engaged to involve tenants in the design of their new building which, when completed, will be fully accessible.

At the open houses, it was apparent that there is considerable demand for the new affordable housing and the condos in the neighbourhood. Many residents came by looking to move in.

It will be a great addition to Queen and Coxwell: rebuilt aging TCHC apartments, new affordable housing, new rental housing and new condos. A whole suite of spaces and places for those wanting to stay in our wonderful east end. You can follow the progress at queencoxwellrevitalization.com which will be updated regularly.

It was not easy to get this project turned around so I have added the creation of quality affordable housing locally to the Terms of Reference for two current planning studies – the Danforth Planning Study, and Gerrard and Carlaw.

As well, TCHC will no longer be able to simply replace their own rental housing – each revitalization will have to add new affordable housing. Our current housing crisis demands bold actions with the City of Toronto using every tool we have available.

As always, I look forward to your feedback on this and any other issue. You can always reach me at 416-392-4060 or councillor_fletcher@toronto.ca

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Letters to the Editor

Mayor Tory urged to get Vision Zero campaign back on track An Open Letter to Mayor Tory: We are writing to you on behalf of 32 Spokes, Ward 14 Bikes, and Toronto East Cyclists, safe streets and bike advocacy groups in the east end.

According to a recent CBC article, 1100 pedestrians have been hit in Toronto this year alone and 31 have died.

The city’s Vision Zero campaign promises to reduce traffic fatalities to zero. To reach this goal, our expectation is that the city is focusing on changes that actually make our streets safe.

We find recent statements from civic leaders deeply problematic and worrying because of their focus on things that we know will not bring about a safer city.

We see Councillor Lai and Councillor Pasternak actively encouraging city residents to wear high visibility garments, saying that this action is a key component of “doing our part”. Recent Toronto Police Services data shows that more than half of collisions between drivers and vulnerable users happen during daylight hours. In our experience, high visibility items serve only to highlight our presence. It doesn’t remove the friction between road users and pedestrians and that is of utmost importance: that behaviour is actually changed. High visibility garments will not make our streets safe.

In the same week, we saw Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders identify the use of

“earbuds” as a key problem that needs to be solved when it comes to street safety. This statement is especially concerning to hear after Chief Saunders’s own admission that he was aware that the reduction of traffic enforcement by TPS led to an increase in collisions. Focusing on earbuds ignores or distracts from what will bring change: effective enforcement. Asking people to not wear earbuds will not make our streets safe.

We can see things getting worse and many of us, including our family, friends, and neighbours, share a common fear that something will happen to us or someone we love that is completely preventable.

Mayor Tory, we ask for

your support to get us back on track with VisionZero and to send a strong message that wearing earbuds and high visibility garments will no longer become a central focus of any safety campaign in Toronto.

Please approve an increase in TPS traffic enforcement even more than the small task force approved inlast week’s TPS board meeting. To effectively combat dangerous and careless road

user behaviour, we need to see better traffic enforcement to undo the damage done in years past and get us on a path to improvement.

Please support a true commitment to Vision Zero that does not victim blame but rather focuses on actions that are proven to actually make streets safer: lowering speed limits, better road design, increased and improved infrastructure for alternatives to driving such

as biking and walking and transit, and many more.

Kathleen Mackey, Mary Ann Neary, Michael Werneburg on behalf of 32 Spokes.

Michael Holloway, Gerry Brown, David Simmons, Jamie Kwan, Paul Young, Mark Fernandez on behalf of Ward 14 Bikes and Toronto East Cyclists.

Lack of streetscape progress clear to see Re: Deja Views A look back to 1956 and Beech and Queen, Nov. 26.

In the 1956 photo there are four poles.

In the same vista from to-

day, there are at least eight poles. Are we making any progress toward improving streetscape?

Everywhere on Queen Street East there are new,

and often duplicate, poles being erected.

It seems the old poles are not being removed. Is anyone from city planning out there?

Paul R. Hill

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

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Lloyd Robertson joins guest readers at fundraising event for Bluffs Food Bank RETIRED CTV news anchor Lloyd Robertson will be joined by Avis Favaro, Don Gray and Scarborough Southwest MPP Dolly Begum for readings of seasonal stories at an upcoming fundraiser for the Bluffs Food Bank.

The Christmas Miracles: May All Your Dreams Come True event is set for Saturday, Dec. 14, at 7:30 p.m. at Birchcliff Bluffs United Church, 33 East Rd. The event will also feature Christmas music and refreshments.

Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at www.bbuc.ca or by calling the church office at 416-694-4081.

For more on the Bluffs Food Bank, please visit www.bluffsfoodbank.com

Carolling in the Park tonight in Glen Manor Park THE CAROLLING in the Park celebration in the Beach marks its 30th anniversary this year.

Started in 1989, the annual community singalong takes place in Glen Manor Park, Glen Manor Drive north of Queen Street East and south of the wooden bridge, on Tuesday, Dec. 10 from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Residents are invited to come out and join in with local choirs singing Christmas carols.

The Salvation Army Band will be performing and a collection will be taken to support Salvation Army activities over the holidays. Along with refreshments,

there will also be a special visitor who will be sure to please the kids.

For more information, please call David at 416-759-9997.

Breakfast with Santa at Legion Branch 11 THE ROYAL Canadian Legion Branch 11, 9 Dawes Rd., hosts a Breakfast with Santa on Sunday, Dec. 15 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The buffet includes eggs, pancakes, sausages, bacon and more. The event is fun for the whole family and includes photos with Santa. Tickets are $7 for adults and $3 for kids 10 and younger.

Tickets are available at the branch. Call 416-699-1353 for info.

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It’s a wonderful life in the Beach Bernie Fletcher

Wednesday, December 11, 5:45pm Family Christmas Fun Celebrate with other young families!

A meal, crafts, songs and stories.

Christmas Eve, December 24 4:30pm Family Service with Pageant 7:30pm Carols and Communion 11pm Midnight Mass Christmas Day, December 25 10:30am Carols and Communion

Candlelight Carol Service December 15 th @ 7:30 p.m.

Community Christmas Dinner December 25 th @ 3 p.m.

THE HOLIDAY season is a good time to count our blessings and reminisce about family memories. Old photos harken back to a very different era. How did life turn out for this smiling couple?

It was May 1944. The world was engulfed in war and the D-Day Invasion was only a month away. This wonderful photograph was taken on the day that Betty Archer and Edgar Dorsey became engaged. The Fox Theatre was playing Swing Shift Maisie about women working in the war industries.

A news article of May 2, 1944 welcomed Flying Officer Dorsey home on special leave after serving four years in Egypt, Tunis and Malta. Dorsey had the dangerous and lonely job of rear gunner on bombers. He received the Maltese Cross as a veteran of the “victorious African campaign against Rommel’s forces”.

I’ll let Ed and Betty’s son, John Dorsey, tell their story: “My dad signed up with the R.C.A.F, as he said he couldn’t swim and hated walking. He was sent to England after his training out West. Ed started his combat service as a “propeller”! Yes that is right, an airplane propeller. To be precise an air screw. Apparently, R.A.F Egypt needed 250 propellers or air screws as they called them, to repair their planes.

“When the request was decoded in London, an ‘s’ was dropped and 250 air men (air crews), Ed Dorsey being one of them, were put on a passenger ship and headed off to Cape Town, then to Cairo.

When they arrived, everyone on the ship was wondering why they were coming out to get them with barges! Not sure if this is true, but dad said that the British never referred to propellers as air screws again.

“I believe he was assigned to a Halifax plane as rear gunner. Their job was flying no more than 50 feet over the Mediterranean, below Ger-

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Above, Betty Archer and Edgar Dorsey on their engagement day in May of 1944 outside the Fox Theatre on Queen Street East. Below, Betty and Ed’s granddaughter Chloé Dewhurst and her husband recreate the photo on their wedding day in 2013.

man radar, looking for German shipping. Dad said they were so close to the water that they would get wet with spray. Once they located German ships, they would radio the info to HQ and then lead the torpedo bombers on a path that would be in line with the heaviest ships. Upon arrival, Ed’s plane would pull away and he and his crew would watch ‘the carnage unfold...on both sides’.

“While stationed in Egypt, Ed and a buddy ate some grapes they found. They got dysentery and were grounded. That saved his life. The plane he would have been assigned to blew up on takeoff, only the pilot survived.

Later in Ed’s first tour, he was stationed in Malta. During a flight over Messina the plane was hit with flak and it disabled an engine. The captain got on the intercom and told the crew to get their parachutes on and get ready

to abandon ship, but on his orders. The co-pilot was hand-pumping oil to the hit engine and was keeping the propeller free spinning, preventing the plane from being pulled down. The captain then added that if that didn’t work they would get Dorsey up here, as he was a certified “propeller”. Talk about humour and grace under pressure.

“During his second tour of duty, he returned to Toronto and got engaged to my mom, Betty. The photo at the Fox Theatre was taken that day.

Dad returned to his flights bombing Hamburg, targets on the Rhine and also Holland.

“Dad told me of times flying over Germany, in total darkness, unable to see the hundreds of planes around him. The only light would be from the flak in the air and unfortunately a bright flash and a loud bang as the plane

beside you blew up. Other times they would be scared because they would see a German plane go flying past them at lighting speed, wondering “what the hell was that”. Later they found out the Germans had developed jet aircraft.

“Six flights after returning home, dad’s plane was shot down over Germany. All of the crew survived the parachute landing and all were captured. During their interrogation, the Germans kept asking ‘which one of you is Dorsey ...where is Dorsey?’

The Germans knew of every airman we had flying over them.”

For his bravery Ed Dorsey was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.

In 2006 when “dad was in his last few weeks with cancer” his crew mate, navigator Sam Hearst would visit.

“He would spend his time holding Ed’s hand and giving him comfort. After my dad was gone, my mom wrote Sam and thanked him for looking after Ed in his time of need. Sam wrote back and said, ‘It was the least I could do for Ed after all the long, cold, lonely nights Ed spent looking after me.’”

Elizabeth (Betty) Archer (1924-2017) grew up on Hammersmith Avenue right down by the lake. Ed and Betty were married at St. Aidan’s Church in the Beach in May of 1945 and raised their family on Long Crescent in the 1950s.

A friend wrote on Facebook, “We used to bring Betty down to the Beaches where she would tell us stories of growing up here and in early years of marriage.”

Granddaughter Chloé Dewhurst wrote, “My grandparents had a wonderful life together and loved this photo. My husband and I tried to recreate their engagement photo on our own wedding day in front of the Fox Theatre in July 2013.”

My favourite Christmas movie is It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) filmed after United States Air Force pilot Jimmy Stewart returned from bombing missions over Europe.

You can catch this classic film about an everyday hero at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema on Dec. 14 at 10:45 a.m. free with a donation to the Stop Community Food Centre. Other films on the big screen include White Christmas (1954) (Dec. 15) and A Christmas Story (1983) (Dec. 21) which was filmed partly in Leslieville.

And speaking of movies and the Fox, our local police will sponsor the free movie for seniors at the Fox on Thursday, Dec. 19, at 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

The Main Menu

Tourtiere does double duty over the holidays Jan Main is an author, cooking instructor and caterer janmainskitchen@ yahoo.ca

TOURTIERE, THE traditional meat pie of Quebec served on Christmas Eve can do double duty during the holidays.

First, as a tempting main course served throughout the festive season from open house, to Boxing Day and beyond to New Year’s Day. Second, tourtieres make an edible gift especially if accompanied by a homemade pickle or chutney.

Get ready to prepare tourtieres for your own entertaining needs and extras to give as gifts.

There is no better way to say Happy Holiday!

Chicken Mushroom Tourtiere This is a lighter version than the traditional pork tourtiere using ground chicken or turkey and mushrooms. For the vegetarians in the crowd, substitute about 1 lb/ 500 g mushrooms, both white and cremini instead of the ground chicken.

The tourtiere freezes well for up to two months; defrost in the refrigerator overnight and re-heat in a 325 F (170 C) oven for 45 -50 minutes or until heated through.

It is especially tasty served

with cranberry chutney and a big green salad.

Pastry for the Pastry Challenged Makes a bottom and top crust, if the thought of making pastry is too scary, use 2 frozen pie shells: 2 cups (500mL) allpurpose flour 1/2 tsp (2 mL) salt 3/4 cup (175 mL) shortening at room temperature 1/3 cup (75 mL) cold water Chicken – Mushroom Filling 2 lbs (1 Kg) ground chicken or turkey 250 g cleaned, sliced white or cremini mushrooms 1 cup (250 mL) each, chopped onions and thinly sliced leeks, white part only 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 1/2 cups (375 mL chicken stock 1 cup (250 mL)fresh breadcrumbs, preferably whole-wheat (about 1 generous slice of bread) 1/2 cup (125 mL) fresh chopped parsley 1/2 tsp (2 mL) each, dried thyme and salt 1/4 tsp (1 mL) each, ground cloves, ground nutmeg, ground sage, fresh black pepper

Pastry: In a bowl, stir together flour and salt. Using pastry blender or two knives, cut in shortening until fine crumb consistency. Pour water over flour mixture and using a fork, stir together until it clumps. Form dough into a ball. Divide in half for two pie shells, top and bottom.

Place one portion of dough on sheet of waxed paper.

(Reserve the second ball of dough to be rolled later for top. Set aside.)

Flatten first portion slightly with heel of your hand.

Place another sheet of waxed paper on top of dough. Gripping ends of waxed paper between your body and the counter, roll dough out into circle ½ inch (1 cm) larger than 9 inch (23 cm) pie plate about 1/8 inch (3 mm) thick, turning waxed paper to roll in different directions forming a circle.

Gently remove top sheet of waxed paper to loosen, then replace. Quickly flip dough and both pieces of waxed paper over. Gently remove top piece of waxed paper and discard. Invert prepared pie plate over centre of dough circle. Ease your hand under waxed paper, holding dough against pie plate with flat of your hand, quickly invert pie plate. Discard waxed paper. Ease pastry down the sides of the pie plate. The pie shell is now ready for filling.

Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.

Filling: Preheat oven to 425 F (220 C).

Using large saucepan or Dutch oven over mediumhigh heat, cook chicken and/ or turkey for 5 minutes or until browned, stirring to break up meat. Stir in onions, leeks, garlic and mushrooms. Cook 5 – 10 minutes or until onions are softened.

Stir in stock, breadcrumbs, parsley, salt, thyme, cloves, nutmeg, sage and pepper.

Cook for 5-10 minutes or until liquid is thickened. Cool filling on rack. Once cool, spoon filling into prepared pie shell.

Meanwhile, roll second pastry dough into circle large enough cover filling about 1/8 inch (3 mm). Trim extra pastry edges and save for pastry decorations.

Using fingers, crimp and flute the edges of pastry together. Apply any pastry decorations to top of pie (such as holly leaves). Brush pastry top with egg wash (1 egg beaten and mixed with 1 tbsp (15 ml) water.) Using paring knife, cut vents into top of pastry.

Bake in centre of preheated oven for 30 - 35 minutes or until golden brown.

Cool on rack. Serve hot or at room temperature; cut into 6 – 8 wedges. May be covered and refrigerated; reheated and served the next day or covered with plastic wrap over-wrapped with foil and frozen for up to 2 months. Serves 6 – 8.

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Wine and related gifts for the holiday season Jacqueline Corrigan Wine View

TIS THE Season. When trying to please a crowd, it’s always best to keep it uncomplicated.

Here’s my go to wine list for the festive season: White: Santa Margherita, Pinot Grigio, Italy (Vintages); Stoneleigh Sauvignon Blanc, New Zealand; Louis Jadot Chablis, Burgundy, France (Vintages).

Red: Les Jamelles, Pinot Noir and/or Merlot, FranceMarchesi de’ Frescobaldi Campo ai Sassi Rosso di Montalcino, Italy (Vintages).

Rose: Chivite Gran Feudo, Spain.

Champagne/Sparkling Wine: Chateau de Montgueret Cremant de Loire Brut, France; Laurent Perrier Cuvee Rose, France; Henry of Pelham Cuvee Catharine Brut VQA. Port: Taylor Fladgate, Tawny Port, Portugal.

Dessert wine/liqueur:

Beaumes de Venise, France (Vintages); Frangelico, Hazelnut, Italy.

Here’s some gift ideas for wine enthusiasts: The Getaway: Niagara Icewine Festival “Canada’s Coolest Wine Festival”. New this year, the Snow Globe Soiree, a pop up dining experience set up along the Niagara Parks promenade. Ten clear, heated domes overlook the Horseshoe and American Falls while you and five of your friends enjoy a three course dinner with VQA wines inside your very own snow globe! Takes place Jan. 16 to Feb. 16. Details at www. niagarawinefestival.com Wine Aroma Wheel: When it comes to describing wine this is the tool to have.

The aroma wheel brings a continuity of word descriptions to break down the essence of a wine from first nosing (fruity, citrusy, tropical) to specific characteristics (berries, plums, lemons or melon). Info at www. winearomawheel.com Le Nez du Vin Nosing Kit: What the aroma wheel

does for your vocabulary, the nosing kit does for your olfactory identification of scents. It includes a guide book as well as scent vials with typical aromas found in red and white wine. Info at www.rosehillwinecellars. com Whisky tastings: If you love whisky, The Feathers Pub on Kingston Road conducts whisky tastings throughout the year. Their website says “We pride ourselves on having one of the largest and very best single malt scotch collections in Canada, if not North America.” For gift certificates call 416-694-0443 or visit www. thefeatherspub.ca DVD: Dean Spanley. Love wine, dogs or both (even better to truly appreciate Sam Neill’s tasting impressions of Tokaji wine), then this is your new go to film. Starring icon Peter O’Toole, his appearance in this film should be your signal that yes indeed this is one to see. This sweet comedy/drama, set in Edwardian England, will have you both laughing and

crying throughout.

Jacqueline Corrigan is a Certified Sommelier (graduate George Brown College Sommelier Program); a Member of the International Sommelier Guild; and a graduate WSET (Wine & Spirit Education Trust Britain).

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DEC. 10: Carolling in the Park at Glen Stewart Park, Queen St. E. (at Glen Manor Drive), 7:30-8:30 p.m.

Carol singing, hot chocolate and cider, Santa Claus, Salvation Army Band.

Proceeds to Salvation Army Band.

Info: David Breech 416-759-9997 ext. 0 DEC. 12: Christmas Carol Sing at St. Paul’s United Church, 200 McIntosh St., 7 p.m. Free. Donations to By The Bluffs Food Bank welcome. Info: 416-261-4222 DEC. 12-14: Scarborough Players present ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ at Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston Rd., 8 p.m., Dec. 1, 8 & 14 at 2 p.m. Tickets $24 at box office 416-2679292 or www.theatrescarborough.com DEC. 14: Pancake Breakfast at Beaches Recreation Centre gym, 6 Williamson Rd., 9:30-11 a.m. Community breakfast and non-perishable food drive.

DEC. 14: “Christmas Miracles: May All Your Dreams Come True” at Birchcliff Bluffs United Church, 33 East Rd. (Warden Ave. & Kingston Rd.), 7:30 pm. Seasonal stories read by retired CTV News Anchor Lloyd Robertson, Avis Favaro, Don Gray, and Doly Begum. Christmas music. Refreshments. Proceeds support Bluffs Food Bank. Accessible venue. Tickets $20 at www.bbuc. ca or Church office 416-694-4081 DEC. 14: Pop-Up Caribbean Christmas Market at the Ralph Thornton Community Centre, 765 Queen St. E., 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Free admission. Come for the great Caribbean-inspired shopping. Stay for the yummy food and all the fun. Games. Draws. Giveaways.

Come play with us...Dominoes, Ludo, Checkers. Snakes & Ladders. Info: caribbeanfoodguide@gmail.com DEC. 14: Holiday Market. at St. Aidan’s Church, 2423 Queen St. E. (at Silver Birch Ave.), 10 a.m.3 p.m. Crafts, gifts, baking, and much more. Info: 416-691-2222 DEC. 14, 15: Cadence Vocal Band Holiday Concerts at Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave., Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. Complex harmonies, intricate arrangements, vocal dexterity, and just plain fun for all ages. Tickets $20/ adults or $10/children under 10.

Tickets available through Eventbrite, church office or at the door.

Info: www.beachunitedchurch.com, www.cadence-unplugged.com DEC. 15: Sultans of String ‘Christmas Caravan’ at Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd., 7 p.m. Tickets: sultansofstringchristmas.eventbrite.com DEC. 15: Jazz service at Beaches Presbyterian Church, 65 Glen Manor Dr., 10 a.m.

DEC. 15: Breakfast with Santa at RCL Br. 11, Main Floor, 9 Dawes Rd, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Buffet pancakes, eggs, sausages, bacon etc. Pictures with Santa & let Santa know your Wish List. Tickets $7 Adults, $3 Children 10 years & younger sold in the Clubroom with a few available at the Door. Fun for the whole family. Info: 416-699-1353 DEC. 15: Sunday Funday at RCL Br. 11, Clubroom, 9 Dawes Rd, 12-7 p.m., Entertainment Lloyd Young, prize for Ugliest Christmas Sweater, shish-kebob meal. $9 p/p. Cutoff date for food tickets Dec 12 & sold at clubroom bar. Info: 416-699-1353 DEC. 19: Free Seniors’ Movie – ‘Last Christmas’ at The Fox Theatre, 2236 Queen St. E. Doors open 10 a.m., movie starts at 10:30 a.m. Sponsored

by Toronto Police 55 Division.

DEC. 20-29: Gerrard Street East and Coxwell Holiday Pantomime at Royal Canadian Legion Branch 1/42, 243 Coxwell Ave. $28 Children (under 12 years), $38 Adults. General seating. Recommended for children ages 5 and up! No babes in arms.

Limited seating available. Presented

by Torrent Productions Inc. Info: www.torrentproductions.com DEC. 21: Longest Night Service at Beaches Presbyterian Church, 65 Glen Manor Dr., 7 p.m. A quiet service of reflection, prayer and healing.

DEC. 21, 22: Withrow’s Winter Market, Saturday 10-4, Sunday 11-4 at Crow’s Theatre, 345 Carlaw Ave. Free admission! Wheelchair accessible space, stroller and dog friendly. Locally handcrafted goods, artisanal foods & local farmers.

DEC. 25: Christmas Lunch, co-hosted

by Beach United Church and St. Aid-

an’s Anglican Church, at BUC, 140 Wineva Ave., 12 noon-2:30 p.m., for people in the community who need some good food and good cheer on what can be a very lonely day. All are welcome!

DEC. 25: Community Christmas Dinner at Calvary Baptist Church, 72 Main St. (at Benlamond), 3 p.m.

Carols, Santa and gifts, turkey and all the trimmings. Free (any contributions appreciated). All are welcome including children.

DEC. 28: Beach Hebrew Institute Latkefest at Kew Gardens, 6:30 p.m. (the 7th night of Chanukah). Meet by the giant menorah on Queen St. to light up the night, then back to the BHI synagogue (109 Kenilworth Ave., for entertainment, songs, and a pot luck feast. Please bring a dairy or parve (no meat or seafood) salad or side or dessert. We will supply the best latkes in town!

DEC. 31: New Year’s Eve Party at the Balmy Beach Club, 8 p.m.-2 a.m.

Open to the public. Bring in 2020 by the lake. DJ-JJ will be spinning the tunes. Party favours, salty snacks on arrival, snack buffet at midnight.

Tickets available at bar beginning Nov. 15. $35 + HST. Purchase 10 or more tickets and you can reserve a table. This is an adult event.

DEC. 31: New Year’s Eve Dinner & Dance at RCL Br. 11, Main Floor, 9 Dawes Rd, 6 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Pre-dinner appetizers followed by dinner at 7:15 (roast beef, potatoes, veggies, bun & dessert). $35 p/p - advance tickets only - cut off for tickets Dec 21, available at the Clubroom Bar - no tickets sold at the door. Special door prize with your admission ticket.

Live entertainment from 8:30 p.m.

JAN. 1: 40th Annual Hair of the Dog Fun Run. Registration online at balmybeachcanoeclub.sportical.com/ events/4260 or day of starting at 10:30 a.m. Walkers leave at 11:30 a.m., runners at 12:00. 9K or 3K routes along the Martin Goodman trail. Chip timed.

Hot lunch served following race. $40 + HST for adults, $15 for youth under 19.

Money raised goes to support canoe/ kayak programs in the community.

JAN. 25: Robbie Burns Roast Beef Dinner and Ceiliah at Fallingbrook Presbyterian Church, 31 Wood Glen Rd., 5:30 p.m. Dinner, songs, readings, Scottish Country Dancers and Highland Dancer. $35. Sell out Event.

Tickets and info: 416-699-3084 TUESDAYS: BEACHES MENTAL WELLNESS GROUP at Community Centre 55, 97 Main St., 7-8 p.m. Peers helping peers with issues affecting mental health.

Info: www.mentalwellness.help WEDNESDAYS: FREE DROP-IN PLAYGROUP for pre-schoolers with a parent or caregiver at St Aidan’s Church (corner of Queen St E and Silver Birch) lower level, 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Toys, snacks, stories and songs. Runs weekly (except Dec. 25 and Jan. 1).

WEDNESDAYS: BEACHES GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS meeting at Church of the Resurrection, 1100 Woodbine Ave. (lower level enter through Side Red door), 7:30-9 p.m.

No fees or dues, just a desire to stop gambling. Peers helping peers. Help is available. Info: 1 (855) 222-5542 DANFORTH MENTAL WELLNESS GROUP at Neighbourhood Link, 3036 Danforth Ave. (at Vic Pk), 6-7 p.m. Peers helping peers with issues affecting mental health.

Info: www.mentalwellness.help CALVARY “GRACE PASCOE” CARE CENTRE in conjunction with Daily Bread Food is open Tuesday and Thursday mornings 9:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. for distribution of food to clients residing between Woodbine and Victoria Park, and Danforth to the lake. Donations of food accepted on those days. Enter from parking lot at rear of Calvary Baptist Church, Main and Benlamond.

Info: Kathie or Ann 416-691-2899 AL- ANON at Community Centre 55, 97 Main St., Wednesdays 7:15 p.m. Alateen members are welcome to attend. Info: 416-691-1113 AL-ANON BEACH R&R GROUP meets Tuesdays at St. Aidan’s Church, Queen St. E. at Silver Birch Ave., 7:30 p.m. (newcomers’ meeting 7 p.m.). Use side door in middle of the building. No fees or dues.

BEACH INTERFAITH OUTREACH LUNCH and Fellowship, 11 a.m.-1

p.m., to May 15, 2020. Adults in the community are invited for soup, sandwiches and fellowship. •Mondays at Corpus Christi Church (16 Lockwood Rd.). No lunch Feb. 17 •Tuesdays at St. Nicholas Anglican Church (1512 Kingston Rd.). Co-hosted by St. Aidan’s Anglican Church. No lunch Dec. 24 •Wednesdays at Beaches Hebrew Institute (109 Kenilworth Ave.). No lunch Dec. 25, April 1, April 8 •Thursdays at Beach United Church (140 Wineva Ave.) •Fridays at Kingston Road United Church (975 Kingston Rd.). Info: 416-691-6869 THE PSYCHIC IS IN! at Juice & Java, 2102 Queen St. E. (at Wineva), most Sundays, noon(ish)-6 p.m.

Great food, great shops to walkabout. Kid-friendly. Psychic Medium, Tarot, Astrology. Text or vx 647-4495920, email thepsychicinn@gmail. com, www.thepsychicinn.com EAST END COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE, 1619 Queen St. E. •Friday, Dec. 13, 1-4 p.m.: Healthy Holiday eating – have fun cooking in our community kitchen and gain more confidence in the kitchen by learning how to make smart choices when grocery shopping and how to make well balanced meals! Free. To register: Olivia 416-778-5802 x 208 •Thurs., Dec. 19, 2:30-4:30 p.m.: Winter Solstice Celebration. Make some beautiful decorations and ornaments while listening to holiday jingles and carols. Free.

Centre info: www.eastendchc.on.ca GERRARD ART SPACE, 1475 Gerrard St. E. •Noreen Mallory: Starting Again, December 4-22 •Holiday Pop Up Market, Dec. 14, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Info: www.gerrardartspace.ca CHURCHES ST. AIDAN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH, Queen St. E. at Silver Birch Ave. •Sunday Services 8:30 & 10:30 a.m.

(Children’s Program & Nursery at 10:30) •All are welcome to join us for our Christmas Services: Christmas Eve services are at 4:30 p.m. (with Pageant), 7:30 p.m. and 11 p.m.; Christmas Day service is at 10:30 a.m. All welcome. Info: Church Office 416-691-2222, staidansinthebeach.com ST. SAVIOUR’S ANGLICAN CHURCH, 43 Kimberley Ave. (at Swanwick Ave.). All are welcome.

Sunday service at 10:30 a.m., with children’s church. Prayer walk around the neighbourhood Wednesdays 2 p.m. See Facebook for starting point each week. Christmas Eve service 7:30 p.m. Info: 416-699-6512, www.stsaviours.ca, www.facebook.com/churchwithreddoor/ BEACH UNITED CHURCH, 140 Wineva Ave. All Welcome. Working together to nurture inclusive communities! •Dec. 15, 22: Advent Worship Theme – Pregnant Pause, 10:30 a.m.

•Dec. 21, 7 pm: The Longest Night.

This service offers an opportunity to acknowledge the burdens we carry silently during the Christmas season. •Dec. 24, 8 pm: Christmas Eve Service •Dec. 29, 10:30 am: “New Beginnings Workshop. Info: www. beachunitedchurch.com. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram.

BEACHES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 65 Glen Manor Dr. (S of Queen) in the heart of the Beach.

Worship in a family-friendly, relaxed environment. Sunday School and Nursery available. Coffee and new friendships are Free! LGTB friendly. Sundays 10 a.m. •Longest Night Service, Dec. 21, 7 p.m. •Theology on Tap, Mondays, 7 p.m., at the Beacher Café. Info: www.beacheschurch.org, 416-699-5871 Minister: The Reverend Katherine McCloskey FALLINGBROOK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 35 Wood Glen Rd. (corner of Kingston Rd. and Wood Glen Rd.) Please join us Sundays at 10:30 a.m. A welcoming service involving everyone with beautiful music. Sunday school and Nursery room are provided. •Dec. 12, 7 pm: Blue Christmas Service – A service for those grieving a loss, dealing with change or simply need a time of contemplation •Dec. 15, 10:30 a.m. Lessons & Carols Service led by Fallingbrook Choir. •Dec. 24: Candlelight Christmas Eve Service, 7 p.m. Intergenerational and interactive service. Fellowship to follow. •Dec. 29: Christmas Celebration Service, 10:30 a.m. Relive the Christmas story through readings, song and action.

Minister: Rev. Angela J. Cluney.

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Open Doors: Spiritual Matters

Christmas can be part of our daily lives all year round Rev. Angela J. Cluney Fallingbrook Presbyterian Church

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ver the past few years in our society, there has been an abundance of special days being highlighted in the media such as: Giving Tuesday and the National Day of Kindness.

These days focus on campaigns which encourage the generosity and goodwill of people. We are asked to reach out from our hearts to act generously and to share acts of kindness with others in these seemingly difficult times.

These days invite us to mindfully consider our responses and actions as

people living together in our world. They are an important step in our mindfulness of how we each can make a difference in the world.

These special days stand out to me more than the fun days highlighted such as: Ugly Christmas Sweater or hot chocolate days.

Mind you, I enjoy both ugly Christmas sweaters and hot chocolate, but I am more thankful that we can focus on acts of giving and kindness in a deliberate way.

Encouraging all of us to do this is what I believe the season of Christmas is all about. It actually is what each of our daily lives should be about every day of every week.

I believe that the Christmas story we are about to relive in our hearts and

souls reminds us of the very profound effect reaching out to others in generosity and kindness can have on us as humanity.

Long ago God gave us the greatest gift ever given with the birth of a child in a manger in the humble space of a stable. This gift of a newborn tells the world that we are indeed worthy and deserving of a life filled with blessings.

It is the gift that keeps giving each and every day as Jesus comes to live in our hearts. There is a desire for hope in our hurt society, and Jesus being born in such circumstances and with such difficulty reminds us that hope is never lost with God. All is possible with God! The birth of the Christ Child encourages us to give

back what we have so that the world in which we live can be a better place for all of us to live together in harmony.

Jesus brought peace into our world and it lives through each us and our actions now. We can share this hope and peace of Christ through our various acts of generosity and kindness by spreading joy and showing love to those crying out not just on the designated dates on the calendar.

God invites us to give of ourselves in meaningful and heartfelt ways so that we all will experience the beauty of Christ in our lives and we will be changed by the experience forever. Christmas can be a part of our daily lives all year round.

Merry Christmas!

Nominations sought for Agnes Macphail Award THE EAST York Agnes Macphail Recognition Committee is now accepting nominations for the 27th Annual Agnes Macphail Award.

Macphail (1890 – 1954) was the first woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons (1921) and the first in the Ontario Legislature (1943).

During her years in political office, which included representing the East York area provincially, Macphail focussed on issues of equality rights and social justice.

Nominees for the Agnes Macphail Award must be residents of the former Borough of East York.

They must also be an outstanding volunteer leader in community life in areas including, but not limited to: women’s rights, fairness to seniors, criminal justice and penal reform, international peace and disarmament and to adequate housing, health care and education.

Nomination forms are available in public buildings in East York or by emailing agnesmacphailaward@toronto.ca. Nominations can

be sent to Agnes Macphail Recognition, c/o Antoinette Crichlow, City Hall, 100 Queen St. W., 12th Floor, West Tower, Toronto, ON, M5H 2N2 or by email to agnesmacphailaward@toronto.ca. The deadline for nominations is midnight on Friday, Jan. 10, 2020.

Also, those wishing to make contributions to the award can do so through The East York Foundation, c/o G. Piercey, 50 Merritt Rd., East York M4B 3K6. Donations go directly to a registered charity of the recipient’s choice, and charitable receipts are issued.

The 2020 Agnes Macphail Award will be presented on March 29, 2020 at a public ceremony at the East York Civic Centre, starting at 2 p.m. For more info, contact committee chair Lorna Krawchuk at LTKrawchuk8@aol.com or 416-425-4431.

Fallingbrook Heights Christmas party FALLINGBROOK HEIGHTS Baptist Church at the Centre hosts An Original Family Christmas celebration on Saturday, Dec. 14.

The celebration will include crafts for kids, treats for all ages, and an authentic Christmas stable.

The event takes place between 6 and 8 p.m., and admission is free.

On Sunday, Dec. 15, the church hosts a Kids Christmas Pageant at the centre beginning at 10:30 a.m.

The Birchmount Community Centre is located at 93 Birchmount Rd. For more information, please visit www.churchatthecentre.com Seasonal concert at The Dock LOCAL RESIDENTS are invited to enjoy some seasonal music on Friday, Dec. 20, from 8 to 10 p.m.

James Levac, Paul Cafcae and Bonnie Memphis are teaming up to perform some classic songs of the season at The Dock in Leslieville.

Those attending are invited to sing-along or enjoy a seasonal beverage.

The Dock is located at 932 Queen St. E., beside the Value Village. For more information, go to www.jameslevacmusic.com

Main and Danforth Community Carol Sing HOPE UNITED Church, 2250 Danforth Ave., hosts the Main and Danforth Community Carol Sing on the evening of Sunday, Dec. 22.

Everyone is invited to the event which begins at 7 p.m.

After the singing, there will be hot chocolate and apple cider available. Song sheets will be provided and there will be songs of the season from all around the world.

The Main and Danforth Community Carol Sing is sponsored by the Danforth Village Community Association, Beach Metro News, and the Giffen-Mack Funeral Home and Cremation Centre.

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Enbridge Gas Inc. and Toronto Fire Services donated more than 800 combination smoke/carbon monoxide alarms to Community Centre 55’s Share a Christmas campaign. On hand for the Dec. 5 donation were John Doucet, from the Ontario Fire Marshal and Emergency Management, Debbie Visconti, executive director of Community Centre 55, Toronto Fire Services mascot Sparky, Tracey Teed Martin, director of Toronto Region Operations for Enbridge Gas, and Toronto Fire Services Deputy Chief Larry Cocco.

Hundreds of smoke/carbon monoxide alarms donated to Community Centre 55 campaign COMMUNITY CENTRE 55 received a donation of more than 800 smoke alarms for distribution to local families in need during this month’s Share a Christmas campaign.

The donation was made by Toronto Fire Services and Enbridge Gas Inc. at Main Street’s Toronto Fire Hall 226 on Thursday, Dec. 5.

The alarms are combination smoke/ carbon monoxide alarms, and the 810 donated Kidde 10-year “worry free’’ units have a total retail value of close to $50,000.

Debbie Visconti, executive director of Community Centre 55, said the alarms make an important addition to the Share a Christmas holiday hampers distributed to families in the east Toronto area as part of Share a Christmas.

“We are thrilled to be able to provide the community with these alarms to improve safety,” she said.

Enbridge Gas has been involved in providing funding for the donation of combination smoke/carbon monoxide alarms in communities across Ontario for the past 10 years as part of the Project Zero initiative.

Project Zero provides the alarms to fire departments in cities across the province to distribute to communities and residents at risk of not having adequate smoke/carbon monoxide alarm protection.

On hand for the presentation on Thursday were Tracey Teed Martin of Enbridge Gas, Toronto Fire Services’ Deputy Chief Larry Cocco, John Doucet of the Ontario Fires Marshal and Emergency Management, and

Community Centre 55’s Visconti.

Cocco pointed out that firefighters are far too familiar with the consequences of undetected fires and carbon monoxide leaks.

“There have been 11 fire deaths in Toronto this year, and in two of them there were no working alarms,” he said.

Teed Martin highlighted the dangers of carbon monoxide.

“Carbon monoxide is known as the silent killer for a reason, and we have proof that alarms save lives,” she said in a release. “The best way to avoid carbon monoxide exposure is to eliminate it at the source by properly maintaining fuel-burning equipment, and alarms are a critical second line of defence to protect against carbon monoxide poisoning.”

Donations, volunteers welcomed by Share a Christmas Continued from Page 1 need to be unloaded and the items added to the hampers.

From noon until the job is finished, volunteers will also be needed on Dec. 22 to deliver the hampers to the families that are receiving them.

Along with the work of getting the hampers together and then delivering them, volunteers are also needed to help collect donations. This coming Saturday, Dec. 14, Community Centre 55 is looking for volunteers to help out at a Food Drive at Dyson’s Valu-Mart on Queen Street East in the Beach from noon to 4 p.m.

Residents who are not able to give their time volunteering are reminded that they can help support Share a Christmas by donating food, toys, items for pets, or money to the cause.

Most needed non-perishable food items include canned meat and fish, canned fruits and vegetables, cereal, rice, soups, stews, jam, macaroni and cheese and juice.

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Edie, Lily, Grace and mom Megan make a donation to Community Centre 55’s Share a Christmas during Breakfast With Hamper. items for teenagers. Community Centre 55 suggests donations of gift cards, electronics, beauty supplies and sports equipment for the teens.

Donations of money to help the Share a Christmas campaign buy needed items are always welcome.

The campaign accepts donations by cash, cheque and credit card. All monetary donations are eligible for a tax receipt.

As well, Share a Christmas needs donations to help pets as they also

need to eat over the holidays. Most needed are dog and cat food donations, either in cans or bags.

For more information on volunteering, please contact Maitland at 416691-1113, ext. 224 or by email at jade@ centre55.com.

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CUSTOMERS STARTED lining up before 7 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 5, in anticipation of the grand re-opening of the Rocca’s No Frills at 269 Coxwell Ave. The doors opened at 7:30 a.m. and the customers surged in through the east side entrance off the Gainsborough Road parking lot for the opening ceremonies inside the store which included speeches, a donation to the Daily Bread Food Bank and a ribbon cutting.

“The community has really missed this store,” said customer Mya Barson in the line shortly after 7 a.m.

“I want to buy local and even though this is a big box store, it’s buying local and supporting the stores in the area.”

The store had been greatly missed since it closed suddenly in May of 2016 due to the need for urgent repairs to the building. As it turned out those repairs proved complicated and much of the store had to be entirely rebuilt, which took longer than had been originally expected and caused ongoing concern for the neighbourhood which had no other large grocery store.

No Frills set up a shuttle bus from the Coxwell store to the No Frills near Carlaw and Gerrard for customers who needed to shop.

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John Rocca, right, cuts the ribbon to mark the re-opening of the Rocca’s No Frills on Coxwell Avenue on Thursday, Dec. 5, morning. Also taking part in the ribbon cutting are Nicolette Rocca, left, and Carmen Rocca, centre. very nice but the Carlaw store “was not in our neighbourhood.”

Rocca’s No Frills played an important role in the life of the community prior to its closing, said Barson.

“This is a real hub for the community, especially the seniors,” she said. “There’s also a big free parking lot.”

Fronting Coxwell Avenue means Rocca’s is also directly on a streetcar line which makes it extremely accessible for people taking transit.

Customers looking through the window prior to being let inside were excited about the rebuilt Rocca’s store which is new, brightly lit and spaciously laid out at 18,000 square feet.

“This store is new and clean and it’s very exciting,” said Barson.

Customer Lisa Hodge was also happy to see Rocca’s re-opening after a more than three-year wait for its return.

“It’s very close to me so it’s good that it’s open again,” she said. “It’s caused a lot of problems not having this store open.

By the time we’d get to the Carlaw store (on the shuttle), nothing was there that we wanted.”

John Rocca spoke at the opening ceremony, along with Beaches-East York Councillor Brad Bradford, Beaches-East York MPP Rima Berns-McGown, and Daily Bread Food Bank CEO Neil Heatherington.

“It’s nice to be back in the Coxwell community,” Rocca said.

He acknowledged the former store building was old, and he said he was

thrilled with the new building.

“The old store was a piece of charcoal. We gave it a shine but it was never a diamond. I give my thanks to Loblaws, they built me a diamond. This store is a gem.”

As part of Thursday’s opening ceremony, Rocca’s No Frills donated a giantsized shopping cart to the Daily Bread Food Bank full of much-needed items such as peanut butter and tuna.

The first 250 customers on Thursday received gifts from No Frills which included a large re-usable shopping bag, chips, cookies and a No Frills coin on a key chain that could be used to unlock shopping carts instead of the usual loonie. The first 100 customers last Friday and Saturday also received a gift.

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Local dentist’s book teaches kids about dental care

By Fiona Bramzell

WITH A busy clinic looking after the teeth of Upper Beach residents for almost 30 years, you wouldn’t have thought local dentist Jeff Shnall would have much spare time, let alone enough to write a book.

But, his new children’s book, Saving Jackson’s Tooth, is proof that when it comes to educating kids (and adults!) on the importance of good dental health, time is no obstacle.

Beach Metro News caught up recently with Dr. Shnall for a quick chat at the Ella Minnow bookstore (991 Kingston Rd.) where he was reading from his book.

First things first – tell us a little about your book.

Saving Jackson’s Tooth is a rhyming picture book featuring six-year-old Jackson who has a cavity in his brand new molar. Jackson’s other teeth, who happen to be able to talk to one another,

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Dr. Jeff Shnall with his book Saving Jackson’s Tooth. notice the cavity in their new friend and try to get Jackson to see his dentist before it gets too deep. It becomes a race against the clock where the teeth encounter one problem after another in trying to save Jackson’s tooth!

What prompted you to write this book? And why talking teeth?

I felt that there was a need for a book to educate children and their parents about

the fact that if a cavity is found, it’s better filled soon, rather than letting it get large and more difficult to treat. In my own practice I’ve had many occasions when I’ve told a parent their child has a cavity, but they didn’t return until months later where it needed more extensive work. Having Jackson’s teeth talk to one another seemed like a fun and engaging way to teach children the importance of keeping their teeth healthy.

How long did the entire process take?

It took about eight months altogether. Once I’d written the story (and edited it down from the original 4,000 words!) I then had to find an illustrator who could accurately depict what the teeth and mouth should look like and allow them time to draw the 23 pictures the book required. I was

fortunate enough to find Catherine Lee, a Calgarybased illustrator, who really made the project fun – I was always excited to open an email to see her latest picture. She has a way of drawing that actually had me believing that teeth can talk!

What’s the main message you hope readers will take from your book?

After getting to know the characters in Saving Jackson’s Tooth I hope that children will feel a new connection to their teeth and will want to take better care of them.

And finally, where can we buy Saving Jackson’s Tooth?

The soft cover book is currently available at Ella Minnow and it is also available online on Amazon in softcover, hardcover and as an e-book.

For more info, visit www.drjeffshnall.com.

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Beach Memories

Though the Cold War ended 30 years ago, there’s a reminder in our community Gene Domagala discovered and both sides had the power to used nuclear weapons. The Western Powers joined to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (N.A.T.O) against the U.S.S.R., and this was the beginning of the Cold War. Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said in a speech in 1946 that “an iron curtain’ had fallen across the world, on one side the free world and on the other the Communist menace.

Both sides had developed planes that could drop atomic bombs, then later hydrogen bombs, on each other’s cities and countries. Later, both sides would develop atomic missiles, and we had the Cold War from 1945 to 1989.

There were threats of nuclear annihilation, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War and so on.

We had this great potential for disaster with country against country, and the deaths of millions of people if these nuclear weapons were used.

What should be done to protect people from such threats?

Cities around the world in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s made plans, people built bomb shelters on their properties, governments built huge underground bunkers for their top political leaders.

Canada was no exception to this. We were under threat from the Cold War for decades, and like other nations we ran drills just in case an atomic bomb was dropped on one of our cities.

In Toronto we would have hid in cellars or subways or places of refuge from this if it happened.

But how would we know if an attack was coming so we could take shelter? Just like

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Community Centre 55 retains a reminder of the Cold War on its roof – an air raid siren. The building on Main Street, south of Gerrard Street East, was a police station from 1911 to 1973. in the Second World War, we would use air raid sirens to warn people. They were placed in strategic places throughout Toronto – on top of buildings where you would be able to hear them if they went off. So many of these air raid sirens stood on the ready for decades until they were no longer needed because the Cold War ended.

Most of these sirens became obsolete, as I said, and were dismantled. But not all of them my fellow Beachers.

There is one of these sirens still standing in a notso-conspicuous place. You probably have passed by it numerous times and didn’t notice it.

The last air raid siren is now an historic site and it is sitting on an historic building. Where is it? It is located on the southeast corner of Swanwick Avenue and Main Street on top of the Community Centre 55 building.

How is it that this air raid siren was able to stay there? Many years ago, Bob Murdoch who was the then executive director at Community Centre 55 had a great idea. He said to me, “Gene, we have the old air raid siren on top our building. Should we keep it?”

We agreed that the answer

should be yes. This silent air raid siren stands in tribute to the end of the Cold War in honour of not only all our veterans but to all freedomloving people in Canada and the rest of the world.

There is not another air raid siren in East Toronto that I know of. It is an historic object reminding us of the value of our democracy, the Canadian way of life and freedom.

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Old Beachers, mainly those who have been living for the past 60 or 70 years, will probably remember this is a part of our history that should not be forgotten ever.

We have here in the Beach a monument that stands out like a beacon of light and freedom to countries like Canada.

Some will ask what is the Cold War? Well, dear young Beachers (and old Beachers), it began during the First World War when in 1917 there was a revolution in Russia where the Communist Party took hold of that country.

For the next number of decades it tried to overthrow other governments. During the Second World War, Russia was invaded by the Nazis of Germany. In the end, Russia along with Britain, France, Canada, the United States and other Allied countries won that war. But after it ended, the world had moved into the Atomic Age! At the end of the Second World War, Russia occupied most of Eastern Europe by military might. There were no free elections in these countries and they were under the heel of the Russian military though they were called socialist republics.

The name U.S.S.R. stands for United Soviet Socialist Republics, and all of it was ruled by dictator Joseph Stalin at that time.

The goal of the U.S.S.R. was world domination, but the Western Powers led by the United States tried to stop the Russian menace beginning in 1945.

The atomic bomb had been

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Sports

Neil McNeil volleyball boys finish first in city and fifth in province THE NEIL McNeil Catholic High School Maroons Senior boys volleyball team recently won the Toronto District Catholic (Colleges) Athletic Association’s city championship.

The win qualified the team for its fourth straight appearance at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) championships that were held in late November in Scarborough.

To qualify for OFSAA, the Maroons beat Etobicoke’s Monsignor Percy Johnson Catholic High School 3-0 at the city championships on Nov. 5. That win also wrapped up a fourth consecutive undefeated season for the Neil McNeil boys in TDCAA league play.

The Maroons then headed into the OFSAA AAA championships ranked fourth among the 20 competing teams.

Neil McNeil opened the OFSAA tourney round-robin action with 2-0 wins over Scarborough’s Albert Campbell Collegiate and Kingston’s Holy Cross before falling 2-1 to Barrie’s St. Peter’s.

The next day, the Maroons faced Georgetown District High School to see if they would continue through to the championship round

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The Neil McNeil Catholic High School Senior boys volleyball team recently won the city championship and then finished fifth at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) championships at the end of November. pool and play in the quarterfinals.

Georgetown won the first game 25-23, but Neil McNeil took the next two 25-22 and 15-12 to advance through.

In the best-of-five quarterfinal, the Maroons faced Mississauga Secondary School (winners of the 2016 and 2017 OFSAA championships and bronze medalists in 2018).

The Maroons started slowly, dropping the first two games before bouncing back to win the next two and set up a decisive fifth game. That con-

test went back and forth but Mississauga eventually won 15-13.

Overall, Neil McNeil finished fifth overall at the OFSAA championships. It was their fourth straight Top 10 finish in the province.

“I was very happy with the way the boys competed today,” said Neil McNeil head coach Dave Egan.

“Being down 0-2 in sets and 7-13 in the third can be disheartening but the boys showed some real resilience to come all the way back to

LONGTIME BEACH resident and Notre Dame High School teacher Frank Hickey was recently honoured with an OFSAA Leadership in Sport Award.

The presentation of the award was made during the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) AAA boys volleyball championships held in Scarborough on Nov. 20.

Hickey has taught and coached in the Toronto District Catholic School Board for almost 25 years, first at Senator O’Connor and most recently at Notre Dame.

The award is presented annually at the OFSAA championships to a coach from the host association who has made significant contributions to high school sports over their career.

Neil McNeil Catholic High School hosted the AAA OFSAA’s in Scarborough this year and Hickey was selected for the award by PHOTO: SUBMITTED the organizing committee. Along with Frank Hickey and his son Jacob, who is a member of the Neil McNeil Catholic High coaching high school sports, Hickey also has a long association with Beaches LaSchool Senior boys volleyball team.

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How Hot Yoga changed my life!

By Dana Dineen

THIS PAST week was no ordinary week at our local Hot Yoga Studio, “Beaches Hot Yoga”.

There was an air of excitement and pride as the studio honoured Jane DurstPulkys, the first student ever to practice over 2,500 classes and be the first Diamond Member since the studio was established in 2002. That is 2,500, 90-minute classes with a room temperature of 40 degrees.

And so almost 18 years ago, Jane began her journey in this local studio that has become an integral part of her daily life. At first, she was skeptical and somewhat reluctant but did what so many others do and took her first class and gave it a try.

Jane, a marathon runner for many years found all the running was tremendously harsh on her body and completely exhausted her. Also, a long- time sciatica sufferer, it was time for a change.

“A client of mine told me about Hot Yoga and I was extremely reluctant to try it, I thought it would not be challenging enough for me, boy oh boy was I wrong” remembers Jane.

“My first class was amazing, even though I could not do all the poses, I was uplifted by the heat, I felt like I had stepped onto a beach in the Caribbean, and I walked out feeling that I had found what I was looking for. The thing that was most surprising for me, during my practice I completely switch off from the outside world, as I am so focused, and I am left feeling like I have done my own personal meditation.”

And so, her love affair with Hot Yoga began!

Jane started going a couple of times a week and be-

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Jane Durst-Pulkys recently acheived the milestone of completing 2,500 Hot Yoga classes at the Beaches Hot Yoga studio. Durst-Pulkys is the studio’s first Diamond Member since its inception in the community in 2002. The classes are 90 minutes long and take place in a room with a temperature of 40 degress Celsius. gan to notice changes. The old running injuries began to vanish, as did the sciatica, her sleep improved, her skin glowed and her energy went through the roof.

Hot Yoga, is a yoga style practiced in hot and humid conditions, aimed to contract and strengthen your muscles and raise your heart rate to create a truly amazing yoga experience.

With the combination of heat, breathing, stretching, strengthening and focus, Hot Yoga has been known to help with a wide array of health problems.

It improves flexibility, builds strength and bone density, improves focus, reduces stress, eases anxiety and depression, burns calories, provides a cardiovascular boost, reduces blood glucose levels, improves sleep and digestion to name but a few.

It would seem the benefits are endless, but in order to gain from these benefits, a

regular practice is key. You do not need to be fit or flexible to start, you simply need an open mind and determination to see what a regular practice can do for you.

And this is exactly what Jane did, with an extremely busy and demanding nutrition practice she still finds time to go five or six times a week. She prioritizes her time at the studio making sure she always fits her practice in as she truly understands firsthand the benefits of a regular practice. Jane brings such joy to the studio and encourages all of her clients to take up Hot Yoga.

According to Jane. “Yoga changed my life and continues to rejuvenate me, I rarely get sick, sleep like a baby, feel stronger every day and still after all these years find it incredibly challenging, I have met some great people there and have developed wonderful relationships. And at 61 it makes me happy that I can get down on

the floor and play with my grandchildren without having to worry that I won’t be able to get back up!”

Located on Queen Street East, just east of Woodbine Avenue, the studio offers a variety of classes including Yin Yoga, Hot Pilates and Hot Yoga. A strong sense of community spirit lingers here with a warm friendly atmosphere always present in the studio, one of the many things that attracted Jane many years ago.

Congratulations Jane and here’s to the next 2,500!

Dana Dineen is Studio Owner of Beaches Hot Yoga.

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Arts & Entertainment

Jack and the BeansTalk pantomime set for December at Coxwell Avenue Legion TORRENT PRODUCTIONS brings its fourth annual holiday season production, Jack and the BeansTalk: A Merry Magical Pantomime, to the East Toronto area this month.

The show opens on Friday, Dec. 20 at 7 p.m. and is slated to run for 12 shows until Sunday, Dec. 29. Performances will take place at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 1/42 at Coxwell Avenue and Gerrard Street East.

Husband and wife team Rob Torr and Stephanie Graham of Torrent Productions think that the show will be a fun night out for families and people of all ages.

“Pantomime is an interactive, family night of fun.

There’s something for everybody,” said Torr, the writer and director of the show.

Torr said that writing will include jokes for the kids, jokes for adults, and jokes that everyone will understand.

Graham said that Jack and the BeansTalk will feature familiar characters that everyone will know and remember, including Jack, his mother, and his cow, Daisy.

“But it’s a pantomime so there’s lots of changes in the world. It’s very topsy turvy,” said Graham, the choreographer of the show.

Graham said that the

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Torrent Productions’ Jack and the BeansTalk: A Merry Magical Pantomime takes the stage at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 1/42 on Coxwell Avenue for 12 shows between Dec. 20 and 29. show features a cast of musical theatre actors from regional theatres across the country, including the Stratford Festival. Cynthia Dale from Stratford Festival and CBC’s Street Legal will make a special guest appearance as the voice of the Giant.

Graham said that the show is a great way to bring people together during the

holiday season.

Tickets can be purchased for $28 for children up to 12, and for $38 for ages 12 and up at Brown Paper Tickets: www.brownpapertickets. com/event/4216259. The show is recommended for ages five and up. Limited seating will be available at the venue. For more, visit www.torrentproductions.com

Nathaniel Erskine-Smith MP Beaches-East York

Readers can win tickets to pantomime in our contest BEACH METRO News readers are invited to enter our contest to win tickets to Jack and the BeansTalk: A Merry Magical Pantomime.

We have two sets of four tickets each for the Saturday, Dec. 21 evening performance available to be won. That performance starts at 7 p.m.

To enter, send an email ti-

tled Jack and the BeansTalk Contest to alan@beachmetro.com.

Please include your phone number in the email.

We will enter all submissions received into a draw and select two winners on Monday, Dec. 16 at noon.

Winners will be notified by phone and email and

must pick up the tickets at our office, 2196 Gerrard St. E. by 5 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 19 or another winner will be chosen.

The show will open on Friday, Dec. 20 at 7 p.m. and is slated to run for 12 shows until Sunday, Dec. 29 at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 1/42 on Coxwell Avenue.

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THE TWO Fours are staging their 100th Show Celebration Party this Saturday, Dec. 14, from 3 to 6 p.m., at Salty Dog Bar and Grill on Queen Street East in the Beach.

Along with The Two Fours’ good time rock and roots music there will be guest performers, free door prizes for many, and cake for all. Contributed from the Dulcinella bakeshop on Coxwell Avenue, the all-natural cake has no preservatives and will be decorated with The Two Fours logo.

“The community, including our fans, followers, and fellow musicians have been very supportive of us,” said Wally Hucker, co-founder of The Two Fours.

“Karen, Susan, and I wanted to thank them,” he added, referring to the other two members of the group’s ‘Key Three’ core, Karen Gold and Susan Litchen. “What better way with a party, music, dancing, cake, and gifts?”

The Two Fours chose to celebrate at Salty Dog, on the corner of Queen Street East and Waverley Road, in part because it is within a few blocks to the homes of all the ‘Key Three’ and many of their fans.

“We also wanted to thank Larry and Danny Papas,” said Hucker of the brothers who own Salty Dog. “They gave us our first real break, hosting a weekly Sunday open mic/jam when they operated Peppery Cat across the street.”

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Flanked by drummer Mitch Porter, at left, and lead guitarist Al Turnbull, right, The Two Fours “Key Three” members are Karen Gold, Susan Litchen, and Wally Hucker.

In all, the band played about 20 times at Peppery Cat and Salty Dog. Because all the ‘Key Three’ are long-time Beach residents with strong community involvement, about 15 per cent of The Two Fours’ shows have been benefits, charitable, and community events such as Wheels On The Danforth, Music In The Park, and the Toronto Beaches Lions Easter Parade. “We like giving back to the community which has been good to us,” said Litchen.

The Two Fours 100th Show Celebration Party is to give back to the community of fans, followers, and musicians who helped the band reach 100 shows in just three years.

In addition to music and dancing, the party atmosphere will be pumped up by free tickets for draws for door prizes. All guests will get a free ticket for door prizes including two $25 gift cards

Vistek photo-video chain; two $25 gift certificates from The Artisans; two musicthemed art and décor items; extraordinary cupcakes from Life is Sweet; two music-themed hardcover books from Book City; a heavy duty cast aluminum letterbox from Toronto Beaches Home Hardware, and two mounted and framed classic 45 RPM records from The Two Fours Guest performers, and any guest who has played with The Two Fours (excepting current members) in one of their 99 previous shows, including their open mic/jams, will receive an additional draw ticket.

Prizes for this draw, as special thanks for their support, are a mounted and framed classic 45 RPM record from the band, a $50 gift certificate from Vistek, and an ukulele

by Denver Guitars, valued at $110, from national music equipment retailer Long & McQuade.

Winter Solstice musical meditation slated BEACH COMPOSER/GUITARIST Mark Battenberg presents The Cosmic Dancer: A Musical Meditation for the Winter Solstice on Friday Dec. 20 at Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd. The fifth annual performance will feature guests including Shakuhachi flute master Debbie Danbrook, Cellist Kendra Grittani, film and television composer Mark Korven and voice art-

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Mark Battenberg hosts a Winter Solstice celebration on Dec. 20. ist Pep Duhaime.

This year’s performance will feature all original com-

positions and narratives that tell the story of The Cosmic Dancer, whose legends can be found in mythologies from all around the world.

Everyone is invited to join in the spirit of community and goodwill at this celebration of the longest night and the return of the sun. The performance starts at 7:30 p.m. Those attending are asked to bring food items for donations to local food banks over the holidays.

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Master Electrician Lic. ESA ECRA #7000314

Residential • Commercial - Knob & Tube Wiring - Service Panel Upgrades - Renovations & Alterations

Restoration Brick • Block • Chimneys Parging • Brick Replacement and more (19)

CUSTOM CARPENTRY IN THE BEACH QUALITY WORKMANSHIP FINE INTERIOR + EXTERIOR PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL PAINT + FAUX FINISHES Mario 416-690-1315 www.friedrichbuilds.com

(19)

The Cliffside Carpenter 30 years experience in interior trim Custom Cabinet design and construction • Decks and Fences

cliffsidecarpenter.blogspot.ca Peter 416 578 3755 Gibsonpeterk@gmail.com (5/20)

GENERAL CONTRACTING

Roofing • Flats • Shingles Siding • Fascia Soffit Eavestrough • Skylights & much more

416-824-7901

(19)

UPPER BEACHES ROOFING

(19)

www.laniganscontracting.ca

416-569-2181

(r)

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

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

SKYLIGHTS Repair & installation specialist.

Fix your leaking skylight today.

(19)

647-771-0227 jeff@heyhandyman.ca www.heyhandyman.ca

NEXT DEADLINE JANUARY 2ND

(r)

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

JDB MASONRY • Brick / Foundation • Concrete / Stone • Chimney & Parging

Restoration & Build www.jdbuild.ca

(19r)

416-606-4719 (19r)

MARCANGELO INTERIORS Drywall, Taping Trim, Tiles, Painting

Marc 416 419 4281

(19)

WET BASEMENT ?

Foundation Repair/Waterproofing

(19)

MAYFAIR HEATING & COOLING

(19..) (r)

Residential, Commercial, Retail, Home Offices Senior Rates Alan Burke 416-699-4350

416 824-7901

mayfairHEATINGandcooling.com

Telephone Systems

(r)

FOUNDATION

WATERPROOFING/ REPAIR UNDERPINNING

stonehengefoundations.com (r)

YOUR STUCCO Drywall, Plastering, Taping 18 yrs Experience • Excellent Job Call Mike 416-854-7024 647 833 7024 (20r) Fax 647-341-6104

416 988-2589 danielmccaf@gmail.com

(19r)

Classic Restoration & Woodworking 38 Years experience

classicrestoration@outlook.com

(19$)

(19.)

SIGNS SIGNS 416-699-9606

(19.)

Jack of all Trades HANDYMAN SERVICES

No job too small. Free estimates.

Serving the Beaches for 15 years.

416-278-5328

(20)

CUSTOM CARPENTRY IN THE BEACH QUALITY WORKMANSHIP FINE INTERIOR + EXTERIOR PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL PAINT + FAUX FINISHES Mario 416-690-1315 www.friedrichbuilds.com

(19.)

JASON THE MASON TUCKPOINTING • CHIMNEYS CONCRETE WORK WINDOW CUTOUTS WATERPROOFING REGISTERED & INSURED 416-580-4126 cell

Kitchens - Bathrooms Basements - Doors, Windows Garages - Fences, Decks

Maurice (Cell) 647.638.8441 (Bus) 647.344.4557

Cable & Telephone Wiring

• chimneys & foundations • parging & tuck pointing • arches, lintels & sills • door & window rough-ins • foundation waterproofing

GENERAL CONTRACTING

INDOOR AIR QUALITY

FAIRNEY & SONS LTD.

Stucco • Moulding Wall Systems

KEW BEACH

Metro lic

ED GODFREY

416-524-1124

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MASONRY by Daniel

416-525-6566

For all your reno needs, no job too small.

•NO JOB TOO SMALL• Metro Lic. #B9948

Best of Homestars

Winterize with Weatherwise Contracting

Cell 416 434-2762 Painting - Basement Renos Plaster & Stucco • Interior & Exterior Small Renovation Jobs & Indoor/ Outdoor Spray Painting 35 Yrs Exp • Refs upon request (19$) Free Estimates

•PAINTING •STAINING •DRYWALL REPAIR •PARGING •DECK & FENCE BUILD & REPAIR •INTERIOR & EXTERIOR REPAIRS

416-662-4450

ar-renovation.com

Eavestrough Cleaning Roof & Trough Repairs

HANDYMAN •CARPENTRY •PLUMBING •ELECTRICAL

• Kitchens • Bathrooms • Basement Renovations

416 759-8878

(23r)

JOHN CLARKE

SERVICES “No Job Too Small”

(19$)

FURNITURE REFINISHING + REPAIR

SERVICES

15 yrs exp No job too small!

Free Quotes, satisfaction guaranteed - Lic & Ins

Trades

416 467 6735

416-690-1430 • 416-266-8953 quotes@citywideroofing.ca www.citywideroofing.ca (23)

(21r)

marcangelointeriors@hotmail.com (20r)

Fully Licensed Contractors Guaranteed

(r)

Call today for free estimate

www.canpromechanicalgroup.com

Serving Your Community Since 1971

An honest family service in the heart of The Beaches

CHIMNEY REPAIRS • TUCKPOINTING BRICKWORK • PARGING CONCRETE • INTERLOCKING

Air Conditioning & Heating Experts HVAC / Repair / Maintain / Install Residential / Commercial Rental programs now available

416-659-7003

LANIGAN’S

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CANPRO MECHANICAL

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

www.webuildit.ca

Roofing & Aluminum

416 660 4721

416-999-2333

647-631-9220

PRO A & R RENOVATION

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

416-738-2119

Metro lic #B531 • All Work Guaranteed • Free Estimates

Roofers

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

(19..)

KEW BEACH

Marc Text/Call 416-617-7205

Lic - Insured • Free Estimate

GREEN ISLE ELECTRIC

torontoroofingindustries.com (21r)

Call 416-605-3594

MASONRY

CITY WIDE ROOFING

ESA LIC# 7002668

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QUALITY HOME IMPROVEMENTS & RENOVATIONS

Painting, tiling, fencing, drywall, flooring, siding, vanities & much more.

Steve 416-285-0440 cell 416-605-9510

Fences, Decks, Porches Flooring, Windows, Doors, Trim, etc.

Kitchens & Bath • Garage Restoration Serving the Beach for 15 yrs.

CALL VINCE

(11/20)

416 694 0906

Local • Reliable • Professional Servicing the beach for 15 years.

Met. Lic. B-16-964

by Kevin

JIM 647 405 8457 416 691 8457

HEY HANDYMAN

CANADIAN CONTRACTORS

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NO JOB TOO SMALL FREE ESTIMATES

TORONTO ROOFING INDUSTRIES LTD.

(19.)

CARPENTRY

416-691-7166

(20r)

CALL BILLY 416 525 6566

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

FLOORING SPECIALIZING IN SANDING & STAINING

Competitive prices • Satisfaction guaranteed

EAVESTROUGH CLEANING & REPAIRS

REX NORMAN CARPENTRY

A HANDYMAN

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

Serving the Beach 25 years

Carpenters

Kevin 647 282 8375

416-910-8033

Metro Lic

(1/20r)

LOCAL ELECTRICIAN

CELL 416-875-5781

Gus: (21)

ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR

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

(19$)

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

MASTER ELECTRICIAN

Doug 416-871-1734 Jeff 647-686-8103

DECLAN O’MEARA 416-698-6183

Lic# B16393

ROOFING & SIDING? SOLUTION!

Lic: 7006786

Electricians Fault Finding Knob & Tube Rewiring Service upgrades Insurance certificates

(r)

Shingles • Flats • Cedar Free Estimates Residential & Commercial Tel: 416-752-6453 Cell: 416-788-9020

(21r)

VISA / MC / AMERICAN EXPRESS

Call Marc 416-910-1235

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

416-694-7497 ~ 416-423-4245

J. BROW ROOFING

MBX ELECTRIC

416 691-3555

24 hr. - lic# P1624

(r)

(2r)

TOM DAY

We stand by our contracts, big or small.

Also do Drywall and Plaster Repairs and more

Dianne 416 699 5070

(r)

LTD

(21r)

Free Estimates • Metro Lic. B17416

CARL 647-787-5818

416-833-3006

ONTARIO WATER PLUMBING

Experienced. Reliable.

Professional Work Guaranteed.

Drywall Repairs. Competitive Rates.

Beach Resident.

free estimates

*Ask For Photo I.D.*

Big or small we do them all

50 years in the Beach

FRANZ’S PAINTING

Knob & tube rewiring Service Upgrades

SILVERBIRCH

HARDWOOD

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

ELECTRICIAN

Small Repairs to complete houses Renovations

416.797.6731

ECRA/ESA LIC#7001069

COMPLETE ELECTRICAL SERVICES RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL

Lic. #P-15099

PROWAY

COXWELL ROOFING

CEJA ELECTRIC

MASTER

Plumbing • Heating • Drains Renovation, Repair & Installation

416-690-3890

BEACHMETRO.COM

MURPHY

Mark the Painter at your service leaving you with money to spare!

Painters

Free Estimates & References Available

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

WINTER BRICK RESTORATION Bury the noise & nuisance in the dead of winter • licensed & insured • HomeStars verified Danielmccaf@gmail.com

416-988-2589

(19r)

UNDERPINNING & WATERPROOFING

•

NEX dea T dlin e:

Dec . 31

CLASSIFIED ADS are available in two sizes:

$13.00 for 20 words or fewer extra words are 35¢ each

AND/OR $20.00 for a block ad (1 column wide x 1” high) no more than 40 words Our Classified ad section also appears on our website.

Maximum General Contracting Inc. “Your basement lowering specialists”

416-826-3918 John www.mgcunderpinning.com maximumgen@gmail.com MET# B16348

Since 1998

(22r)

How about a

COLOUR AD? Call 416-698-1164 ext 26 for ‘Display’ ad rates.

* ALL JOBS *

35 YEARS EXP. IN THE BEACHES

DRY WALL - LAMINATE FLOORING - PLUMBING ROOFING - EAVESTROUGH SIDING, CARPENTRY + MORE WATERPROOFING • LICENSED

437-999-1011

(19$)

2196 Gerrard St. E. 416.698.1164

beachmetro.com

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Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Sights of the season

PHOTOS: DONNA BRAYBROOK

The annual DeClute Light Up The Beach celebration took place on the night of Friday, Nov. 29 at the foot of Leuty Avenue. Photo above, the Malvern Collegiate band and choir perform. Photo at right, Santa leads the countdown to the lighting of the trees along the Boardwalk. Photo below right, one of the many trees that are now lighting up the Boardwalk. Sponsored by DeClute Real Estate and Wright Sisters Real Estate, Light Up The Beach helps raise funds for Michael Garron Hospital’s mental health and addiction services.

PHOTOS: ALAN SHACKLETON

Photo above, Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher and the Leslieville BIA hosted a recent tree lighting ceremony in Leslie Grove Park which featured a real fire for visitors to keep warm. Photo below, the Toronto Beaches Lions Club held its annual Christmas In The Park Tree Lighting celebration in Kew Gardens on Saturday night. Lots of children were on hand to greet Santa and Mrs. Claus upon their arrival at Kew Gardens including Paul and Kerri. Photo bottom right, Cedric and Elliott enjoy some cookies at the Santa Experience hosted by realtor Shea Warrington on Sunday. The event was in support of Feedingnunavut.com, which is helping families in Canada’s High Arctic over the holidays.

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

HELPING YOU IS WHAT WE DO.TM Residential & Commercial Services

2301 Queen St. East | 1052 Kingston Rd | 517 Parliament St.

estaterealty.ca | 416.690.5100

KEN GRIEVE

Call Today and Let’s Get Moving

416-587-7522

kengrieve@royallepage.ca Sales Representative 33 Years Experience

May your homes be filled with warmth.

May your hearts be filled with joy.

All the best in 2020!

PATTI TANNER Sales Representative

Kerry Jackson

416-690-5100

Direct 416.571.2181 | Office 416.690.5100 Kerryjackson@gmail.com Royal LePage Estate Realty, 2301 Queen St. E.

ptanner@royallepage.ca pattitanner.ca

Great service comes from the heart!

Happy Holidays

And all the best for the New Year!

From our family to yours.

JessBrown

ToryBrown

JessBrown@royallepage.ca 416.690.5100

ToryBrown@royallepage.ca 416.690.5100

SALES REPRESEN TATIVE

TORY BROWN.C A

MIKE BARBIERI

Working hard to exceed your expectations and helping you “Own Your Dreams”

Broker

BROKER

TO RYBROWN.C A

Not intended to solicit anyone already under agency contract.

www.mikebarbieri.com 416.690.2181 bonsellhomes.com | lainey@bonsellhomes.com

Get the personal service you deserve.

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