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Volume 48 No. 18
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November 26, 2019
Light Up The Beach set for Friday night
PHOTO: DONNA BRAYBROOK
Santa Claus comes to town
Santa waves to the crowds along Kingston Road during the Beaches Santa Claus Parade held on Sunday afternoon. For more photos from the parade, please see Pages 14 and 15.
THIS FRIDAY, Nov. 29, night will see the annual DeClute Light Up The Beach celebration which starts at the foot of Leuty Avenue at 7 p.m. Residents are invited out to join Santa Claus as he strolls the Boardwalk and counts down to light each tree in sequence. Light Up The Beach was conceived as a way of making the Boardwalk and Beach a destination point for residents in the winter months. “In 2007, the Beaches Boardwalk was a thriving summer destination. In the winter months, it was often lonely, dark, cold and dreary,” explained Rochelle DeClute in a blog that she and Ayla Altilia wrote on how Light Up The Beach began. That summer a resident approached Rick DeClute, of DeClute Real Estate, with a plan bring life to the area in the winter by lighting up trees along the Boardwalk. “It was too big a project for this neighbour to ‘light up’ the Beach himself, but he knew the DeClutes had a long history of supporting and sponsoring many, important initiatives in our community.
‘Monster’ home plans concern Balmy Beach area residents By Alan Shackleton
RESIDENTS IN the Balmy Beach neighbourhood are preparing to fight a pair of proposed homes on the shore of Lake Ontario that they say will forever change the character of the area not just for residents but everyone who visits and uses the beach. The proposals for the properties at 428 and 440 Lake Front, between Silver Birch Avenue and Nursewood Boulevard, are calling for huge homes on the properties that will dwarf most of the neighbour-
ing structures. Many of those residents gathered at a home in the area earlier this month to learn more about the proposals, and how they can fight them. The first step in that fight was taken on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 21, when the City of Toronto’s Committee of Adjustment (COA) granted a pair of requests to defer a hearing on variance changes to existing bylaws being sought by the owner for the property at 428. The requests for deferral were made by Beaches-East York
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Councillor Brad Bradford and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA). Both the lawyer representing the owner and the lawyer representing the neighbours on both sides of the 428 property told the committee they had no objection to the requests for deferral. A condition of the deferral granted by the COA was that the owner of the 428 property hold a meeting with area residents within the next three months. More than 20 area residents had shown up at the COA meeting on Continued on Page 27
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Beach Guild of Fine Art Christmas show slated By Amanda Gibb
THE BEACH Guild of Fine Art’s Christmas Art Show and Sale will be running for its 25th year at the Gardener’s Cottage in Kew Gardens this holiday season. The Christmas show will follow the 25th Anniversary show, which is being held at the Beacher Cafe for the rest of November. Created in 1994, the Beach Guild of Fine Art has strived to encourage the appreciation of art in the Beach community. “They actually started in a coffee shop to support each other and then held the first show at the Beacher
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Cafe together,” said guild president and owner of 360 Studio, Nanci Miranda. The Christmas show at the Gardener’s Cottage takes place on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Sunday, Dec. 8. Miranda said that there will be small paintings, hand-painted or printed holiday greeting cards, and hand-painted Christmas ornaments for sale. “There’s a lot of small gifts. The Christmas show is special, and everything is original art,” she said. This is the last time the guild will be doing a show at the Gardener’s Cottage because it will be closing to Continued on Page 4
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He was confident we could make it happen,” the blog explained. And that confidences was rightly placed as DeClute Real Estate now dedicates an enormous amount of time and resources every year stringing Christmas lights as high as 65 feet above the Boardwalk through mature trees lining the shores of Lake Ontario. More than 80,000 individual LED bulbs on 20,000 linear feet of wire are hung every fall in advance of the Light Up The Beach display, which has attracted international attention. As well joining Santa, those attending Friday night’s Light Up The Beach celebration can also enjoy hot chocolate and other treats. Along with being a great celebration of the season, the event is also a fundraiser that supports mental health and addiction services at Michael Garron Hospital. The event has raised close to $35,000 for the cause. Light Up The Beach is sponsored by DeClute Real Estate and Wright Sisters Real Estate. For more information, please visit www.lightupthebeach.com
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