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February 18, 2020
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Welcoming the Year of the Rat
Dancers take part in Chinese New Year celebrations to welcome the Year of the Rat at Gerrard Square recently. The celebration on Feb. 8 featured dancers, demonstrations and information booths.
Wayne ‘Hollywood’ Joice remembered for his positive attitude, selling of pens By Amanda Da Silva
WAYNE “HOLLYWOOD” Joice was remembered at a peaceful visitation and funeral service surrounded by the ones closest to him earlier this month. Joice, who died on Feb. 4 at the age of 60, was in a closed casket with red and white flowers on top of it, as he wanted. At his visitation held at the Cardinal Funeral Home on Bathurst Street on Feb. 7, memories of him were swapped between chosen family while Hey Hollywood by Paul Quarrington played in the background. Joice was born on Aug. 4, 1959. He was well known in the Beach community for selling pens at the corner of Queen Street East and Lee Avenue. He was born prematurely weigh-
Wayne ‘Hollywood’ Joice is shown in this Beach Metro News file photo selling pens on Queen Street East. ing one and a half pounds, which resulted in his body never being fully developed. He was one out of 15 kids and sadly the only one out of his siblings to survive and live a full life. One of his siblings lived to a year old, but the others died shortly after birth.
Joice’s father, who was blind, played a mouth organ outside of Honest Ed’s until he got an illness that made him stop and switch to selling pens. Joice followed his father in the pen selling business. “I loved him like he was my son,” Joice’s childhood friend and caretaker, Pat Pypher said. After Joice’s mother passed away, Pypher took full care of him. She took him to every doctor’s appointment, was with him during the times he went to the hospital and always made him feel included in her family and special events during the holidays as well as his birthdays. “He was always a happy go-lucky fellow,” Pypher said. “He never complained about anything, he never asked ‘Why me? What did I do to deserve all of this?’ He was always Continued on Page 2
Winter Stations 2020 on display at Woodbine Beach By Amanda Da Silva
WINTER STATIONS 2020 is now on at Woodbine Beach. An opening night ceremony was held on Thursday, Feb. 13, at the Fox Theatre on Queen Street East in the Beach to give area residents a chance for residents to see the winning artists talk about their designs and what inspired them to create them. The winning submissions this year are: Mirage by Cristina Vega and Pablo Losa Fortangordo, Kaleidoscope of the Senses by Charlie Sutherland, Noodle Feed by iheartblob and The Beach’s Percussion Ensemble from Centennial College. Beaches East-York Councillor Brad Bradford gave the opening speech at Thursday night’s event. Losa Fortangordo talked about
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how both he and Vega wanted design a device that would play to the spectator’s vision depending on where it is. After going through past works by himself and Vega, he wanted to highlight that they both noticed “the difference between the drawing documents and the experience/realty.” The presentation was then handed off to Sutherland, who began by showing past projects he has done and also inspired by. The Kaleidoscope of the Senses targets hear, touch and smell as the structure has an open bell that when hit by wind creates sounds, a chimney that emits aromas of oil and a tactile bench within the structure that is the only thing the observer can make physical contact with. Continued on Page 2
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