Locals call for Kingston Road bus By Josh Sherman
Volume 46 No. 22
February 6, 2018
A CLIFFSIDE entrepreneur says disjointed bus service is hampering business development on Kingston Road, so he’s launched an online petition to draw attention to the issue and call for a dedicated TTC Kingston Road bus route for Scarborough. Dr. Gerard Arbour, who has operated Kingston Road’s Bluffs Chiropractic for 25 years, created the petition on change.org in mid-January. To date, it has garnered more than 1,800 signatures online. “I’m very pleased with the response,” said Arbour. He decided the time was ripe for the petition because
of the TTC’s recent decision to begin running bus service to Bluffer’s Park this summer. “To have some continuity in the busses would certainly be helpful,” he said. Currently, several busses operate along different stretches of Kingston Road, meaning it would take multiple transfers to travel the length of the one-time highway. Arbour’s initiative has the approval of Ward 36 Coun. Gary Crawford. “I applaud any petitions that the community wants to do,” he said. Continued on Page 2
PHOTO: JOSH SHERMAN
Where’s the love? On Kingston and Fallingbrook On Page 16, meet the festive Beach family who keeps their home dressed for the holidays – all year long.
Meet the makers behind Winter Stations By Josh Sherman
SEVEN YEARS ago when Alex Wilson and Alan Johnston founded their building company Anex, it was a more utilitarian venture than it is today. “Our main focus was furniture at first,” said Wilson. “And then that switched to custom everything.” That everything has come to include 12-foot-tall hands, the reconstruction of a full-grown tree for a railroad museum’s display in Windsor, and a giant replica of the pink pussy hats protesters donned during the 2017 Women’s March. The oversized hat, which the Anex team has been working on at a rented warehouse near Danforth and Warden Avenues, will soon appear at Woodbine Beach, joining
six other public art installations that make up the annual Winter Stations exhibit. The public art and design competition opens on Family Day, Feb. 19, at Woodbine Beach. “These kind of projects that we’re doing, I never really imagined that we would be doing these kinds of things,” Wilson said, adding the idea of doing “non-conventional, weird stuff” has always intrigued him. This winter is the fourth time that Anex has helped construct the displays, which are responses to an annual international call for submissions, and it is a challenge that the company’s trades have a lot of fun with. PHOTO: JOSH SHERMAN
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Sarah Huxhold, Alex Wilson and Matthew Eapen at Anex’s warehouse near Danforth and Warden.
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