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Local Remembrance Day services planned for Nov. 11 LOCAL REMEMBRANCE Day ceremonies planned for this year will have special significance as they will also mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. It was at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 when the Armistice was declared to mark the end of the war which took place from 19141918 and killed more than 60,000 Canadian soldiers.

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Halloween On Queen The cool, drizzly weather didn’t put a damper on The Beach Village’s Halloween On Queen event which was held in Kew Gardens and Ivan Forrest Gardens on Saturday, Oct. 27. Tons of family-friendly events, live music and contests took place, including a costume contest, seen here, and a pumpkin carving contest. Motorists need to drive carefully and be on the look out for trick or treaters on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 31.

Bradford, Fletcher win races for new council seats

Cannabis legalization brings more questions than answers

By Nina Rafeek

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“MAKE US proud, Brad!” A supporter cheered, as he raised his pint glass above the boisterous crowd that came to celebrate Brad Bradford’s win at Local 1794 on the Danforth.

Bradford, an urban planner at the City of Toronto Chief Planner’s Office, is celebrating his first foray into politics as Beaches—East York’s newly elected city councillor in the new 25-ward model system. He succeeds Mary-Margaret McMahon, who voluntarily stepped down after serving a self-imposed limit of two terms. Having officially endorsed Bradford, McMahon was there to celebrate his win as well.

“Overwhelmed,” Brad Bradford said after clinching a win that came down to an extremely tight race—less than 300 votes with former Beaches—East York MP and councillor candidate, Matthew Kellway.

The newly elected Ward 19 councillor attributed his success to the hard work of his campaign team. “I am just extremely grateful to this team. You can’t win a campaign without a team and the people who gave their time, their energy and their

enthusiasm to this campaign. I am just totally inspired by that,” he said.

“I feel so honoured and privileged that the residents of Beaches—East York trusted me with this important position and I am more inspired and empowered than I ever was before to work as hard as possible to make this community even better,” Bradford said about his victory in an interview with Beach Metro News shortly after his win.

As for his first order of business, Bradford plans to touch base with local community groups, residents’ associations and people from “top to bottom” to set priorities on what needs to be done. “Certainly, that’s road safety, certainly that’s revitalizing our main streets and working together to come up with a plan to do that,” said Bradford.

“It was extremely emotional,” Bradford said, on his narrow victory over Kellway. “I would really like to work with him. He’s a very smart guy, a lot of great ideas and I certainly think we have a shared vision for the community,” he continued.

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THERE’S A cloud in the air, and it’s not from the chilly autumn fog. Since the legalization of recreational marijuana in Canada, the people of Toronto can’t stop raving about it.

Premier Doug Ford’s government passed legislation on the use and sale of marijuana on Oct. 17.

However, citizens are only able to purchase it online through the Ontario Cannabis Store for now. As for shops, stores will be able to sell pot as of April 2019.

Some local shop owners are eager to join the sale. Sarah Hatch, owner of the Peace Pipe Shop on Queen Street East just east of Wineva Avenue, is one of them.

The accessory retailer offers a variety of products that range from glass bongs and pipes, to vapourizers and scented incense.

Hatch explained that the legalization provides an advantage for a small chain retailer since they would now be able to offer cannabis and expand throughout the province. However, she added that there will also be competition.

“The disadvantage is now not only do we

have to compete with the government on an accessory level, which by the way they have already undercut us on pricing through their website substantially, but we’re up against big corporations, ironically the same corporations that only a few years ago looked down on us as if we were just all seedy business owners,” Hatch said.

Most users like Rebecca Loughran are content with the decision. Loughran is a returning customer at the Peace Pipe Shop and she prefers a Sativa highbred in an oil base smoked through a vape. Since she has been smoking for more than 15 years, she uses the cannabis specifically for her anxiety and concentration.

Sativa is said to provide a more energizing experience, which is the opposite of the Indica strains. According to a page on the Ontario Cannabis Store online site, “there are hundreds of strains of plants-each bred for specific characteristics and often intended to produce specific effects for consumers.” Loughran also spoke of the importance of choosing the right type of marijuana.

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Over at the Fox and Fiddle on Danforth, the energy was electric as new and loyal supporters banded together in celebration of Paula Fletcher’s re-election.

The 15-year veteran was re-elected for the newly

merged Ward 14, beating out her rival, friend and former colleague, Mary Fragedakis.

Cheers and applause could be heard throughout the 4000 sq. foot restaurant as the Toronto-Danforth incumbent stood on stage to thank the constituents and her team.

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New Ward 14 Toronto—Danforth city councillor Paula Fletcher celebrates her win on the evening of October 22 at the Fox and Fiddle on the Danforth.

In true politician form, the new Ward 14 councillor galvanized the crowd with her speech on democracy and the premier’s decision to shrink city council. “I want you to know that we fought very hard and I will continue to fight for this city, for democracy in this city,” she said.

On stage, Fletcher reiterated her plan to continue to fight for Toronto amid the rapid series of provincial and municipal changes.

“This has been the rocki-

est road and the craziest election I’ve ever had,” she said.

As for what’s ahead, Fletcher reassured her constituents that she will keep fighting to serve the Toronto—Danforth community.

“This is going to be a difficult four years, many people told me that at the door. They’re very worried about what will happen to this city and I thank you for putting that trust in me to do the right thing at city council,” she said.

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Cannabis safety and testing should be priority, say Beachers Continued from Page 1 “I think it’ll be lesser of a headache for people who want to try it, and it’s better now because you can find the strains— whether you like Indica or Sativa, you can find what you need.

This way you’re not buying it off the streets where it could be laced with chemicals,” she said.

Others have said that the legalization was long awaited, but that there are cautions to it. Paul Shakespeare, a resident of the Beach, added that the effects of cannabis can now be tested.

“I’ve been in favour of it for a long time because of all the generations of people who have been criminalized for minor offences, and all the money spent on trying to prevent the use,” Shakespeare said.

“I see a lot of stuff where you get people making all kinds of romantic claims about what it can do and there’s no way really to prove it because if it’s illegal, you can’t test it.”

Another Beach resident, Beth Clune, expressed her concern for cannabis users.

“I’m hoping there are appropriate safeguards to keep it out of the hands of young people and drivers. Being safe is the most important thing to me,” Clune said.

Cities have until Jan. 22 of 2019 to decide if they want to ban privately-run cannabis stores from opening until shops become legal. Until then, legal sales are strictly online.

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Rebecca Loughran has been smoking cannabis for over 15 years and prefers an oil-based strain. She is outside of the Peace Pipe Shop located on Queen Street East.

Cary-Meagher to work ‘outside’ school board to help students

By Nina Rafeek

AFTER A tumultuous final year as Beaches—East York trustee for the Toronto District School Board, (TDSB) Sheila Cary-Meagher spoke to Beach Metro News about her career and why she decided not to run in this year’s municipal election.

The TDSB integrity commissioner released a report in February of this year that found the trustee used “derogatory and discriminatory” language directed at a person’s sexual orientation.

It was later discovered that the comment was directed at Toronto Sun journalist, Sue-Ann Levy.

Shortly after the report was released, Cary-Meagher took a voluntary 10week leave of absence. “I took a leave because I felt I needed some time to mend my relationship with the LGBTQ community,” she said.

After the trustee returned from leave, she issued a public apology to the board and released a statement on her website. She also put forth a motion to start a LGBTQ advisory committee.

“We are in the process of structuring it

right now,” she said.

In an interview with Beach Metro News, Levy said she spoke to CaryMeagher, but she never apologized.

“She said she made a statement on her website and that I can take from her statement,” Levy said. “It’s that her actions and her attempts to smooth over what she did and her refusal to apologize to me speaks to a lack of integrity,” she said.

Regarding her conversation with Levy, Cary-Meagher said that she did apologize but is not sure she accepted it. “She’s not going to get a gold star for listening,” Cary-Meagher said.

While some might have thought the situation was the reason CaryMeagher decided not to seek reelection after more than 30 cumulative years as a public school trustee (from 1973 to 1986 with the former Toronto Board of Education, and from 2001 to 2018 with the Toronto District School Board), she said her comments, which she “deeply regrets”, had nothing to do with her decision.

“I found that I was no longer in sync with the direction the board was going and I spent so much of my time angry,”

she said.

Cary-Meagher said her creation of the Model Schools Program – which she considers to be her biggest and most significant achievement and legacy – is “falling apart”.

The trustee said there are currently 150 Model Schools programs in the city. The programs were designed to provide extra funding for staff and food programs to schools in communities with high poverty rates.

The trustee said that being in the board while her Model Schools Program is “dying” is a “bitter pill to swallow.”

“We were doing something that was actually going to have an impact on these kids that weren’t getting a fair shake,” she said.

Cary-Meagher said that she will miss working with the parents and students in the Beaches—East York community but she felt that she could no longer be productive as a school board trustee. “I need to be in a place where I could do something good.

That I could be constructive and the outcome for children will be better, so I’ll do it from the outside.”

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Several east end services slated for November 11 Continued from Page 1 The sacrifices made by Canadians during the First and Second World Wars, The Korean War, Peacekeeping missions and other conflicts will be honoured at local Remembrance Day services set for the Beach, East York and Scarborough on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 11.

In the Beach, the ceremony takes place at the Kew Gardens cenotaph, Queen Street East opposite Bellefair Avenue. It begins with a parade of veterans from Corpus Christi Church on Lockwood Road at 10:30 a.m. to Kew Gardens. The official ceremony at the cenotaph starts at 10:55 a.m.

In East York, the ceremony takes place at the East York Civic Centre’s Memorial Gardens, 850 Coxwell Ave., starting at 10:45 a.m. Southwest Scarborough residents can observe Remembrance Day at the Scarborough Cenotaph (Kingston Road and Danforth Avenue) beginning at 10:45 a.m.

Michelle Aarts continues advocacy work as new Beaches – East York Toronto District School Board trustee

By Nina Rafeek

MICHELLE AARTS (in photo at left) was “surprised but not surprised” when she learned that she was the new BeachesEast York trustee-elect for the Toronto District School Board.

With three children in the TDSB system, she had been involved with the board for years, particularly with the Parent Involvement Advisory Committee (PIAC).

She does admit, however, that she became a little worried coming down the end of the campaign period.

“In the last week, the big “MP” [Matthew Kellway-Phil Pothen] campaign machine descended on the ward and that was worrisome,” she said.

But Aarts’ efforts paid off. With a team consisting of friends and family, she had been knocking on doors since July. She wanted everyone in the ward to know who she is and to educate residents on why they should care who their trustee is.

Aarts’ expects her biggest challenge will be to keep the budget in the black. “The current provincial government really seems to be about cutting right now. They seem to be cutting grants and programs left and right,” she said.

Aarts is also continuing her advocacy work amid the provincial government decision to revert back to the 1998 sex-ed curriculum, which is devoid of sexual orientation, consent and other modernized issues affecting young students.

She said that the provincial government does not respond well to agencies and advocacy groups, but they seem to place a lot of value on individual voter contact.

She is thus, working with parents and students affiliated with a website called curriculumforward.ca to help get their voices heard. On the website, a concerned citizen can find a letter template that they can use to fill out and send directly to the provincial government as well as sex-ed resources not included in the current curriculum.

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Beaches—East York City Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon, Toronto Bloomsday founder Mary Durkan, Beacher Rory O’Shea, and Irish Ambassador Jim Kelly pose with one of the several new laneway signs that recognize the Bloom on the Beach celebrations, part of the worldwide Bloomsday celebrations.

Local laneway names pay tribute to annual Bloom on the Beach event

By Beach Metro Staff

THE IRISH Ambassador to Canada, Jim Kelly, was on hand for the official unveiling of four newly named local laneways in honour of Bloom on the Beach.

The ceremony was on Saturday, Oct. 13, and recognized the Bloom on the Beach event which has been taking place in the community since 1992.

Bloom on the Beach is part of the worldwide Bloomsday celebrations which take place every June 16 in tribute to Irish author James Joyce and his masterpiece Ulysses.

Those taking part transform their communities into early 20th century Dublin for the day as they honour Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses.

Thanks to input from Beaches–East York Councillor MaryMargaret McMahon, the City of Toronto recently ratified the naming of the four laneways in order to recognize the Bloom on the Beach event.

The laneways are Bloomsday Way, Sandycove Way, Liffey Way and Stephen’s Green Way. They are located in the Leuty Avenue and Glen Manor Drive area, south of Queen Street East.

The newly named laneways run adjacent to the Peggy Delaney Way laneway which was unveiled in 2016.

Delaney was a philanthropist and volunteer who spent her life bettering the lives of others.

For more on Peggy Delaney Way, see our story at http://www.beachmetro. com/2016/10/04/peggydelaney-inspires-eastend-laneway/ or better yet, simply Google Peggy Delaney Way, Beach Metro News.

Along with Ambassador Kelly, also on hand for the Oct. 13 unveiling were Councillor McMahon, Rory O’Shea (son of Peggy Delaney), and Toronto Bloomsday founder Mary Durkan.

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Local Hero

It’s all in a day’s work for this Beach comedian who helps those in need

By Fiona Bramzell

AS A long-time stand up comedian, Judy Croon is used to being in the spotlight.

When she’s off stage, however, she devotes most of her time to shining the light on people and causes that often get overlooked.

Judy is one of those people who packs so much into her schedule you wonder how she ever has the time to sleep.

In addition to her work as a comedian, Beach resident Judy is a motivational speaker and laugh coach— giving keynote speeches to companies such as CAMH, Royal LePage and Enbridge on how to relieve work stress through humour, as well as being a radio and podcast host and author.

But on her website you’ll see very little about the hours of charity work she does which ranges from weekly deliveries of basic supplies to families living in need, to hosting comedy benefit gala shows that raise money for aid organizations around the city.

It is this selflessness and reluctance to take credit for her charitable work that prompted Valerie Bibb, Judy’s long-time friend, to want to share her story.

“Judy does so much good work aside from her standup and motivational speaking,” said Valerie. “Yet she never uses it for self-promotion. In fact, she deflects it —it’s just who she is.”

And, according to Valerie, it is the way she has been ever since they were in elementary school together, where Judy would always be involved in various causes, especially those involving the welfare of animals.

While Judy never followed through on her childhood ambition of becoming a vet, leaving university in the second year, her love of animals and determination to literally help the ‘underdog’ led to her becoming a lifelong advocate of those in need.

The organization she founded, DogStarz, helps dogs find their forever homes, and she is also heavily involved with the No Hungry Pets Project which supplies food banks and other charitable organizations with pet food and financial help for people struggling with veterinary bills.

Combining her hosting and comedic skills, this year saw Judy host the Stand Up For No Hungry Pets fundraiser on Sept. 19 at The Opera House where she assembled a line-up of

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Judy Croon is a local hero who not only motivates and makes people laugh, she also works hard to raise money for a variety of organizations such as No Hungry Pets Project, City Street Outreach and Sistering. stellar comedians who all gave their time for the very worthy cause.

For someone as talented as Judy, it would have been very easy to simply forge ahead with her career and focus on ‘making it’ in a business where only the best succeed.

While she did spend time in California — working the clubs, meeting the right people, including Joan Rivers, one of her main inspirations — she eventually landed back in Toronto and, having become financially stable, which is a rarity in the world of stand-up, Judy began to seek out ways to give back in her community.

“Judy has always looked for opportunities to help,” said Valerie.

“She is constantly brainstorming, looking for ways to encourage others to get involved.”

And this includes Bibb herself who, along with Croon, goes out every Thursday evening to deliver food, clothing and other items as part of the City Street Outreach volunteer team.

“The City Street Outreach work is particularly important to both of us,” said Valerie.

“Seeing firsthand the difference it can make to families, often living in motels with next to nothing, really puts things in perspective.”

Sistering, an agency for at-risk and sociallyisolated women, is another organization close to Croon’s heart where, once again, she employs her talent and name recognition to do good for others. This year Judy hosted another fundraising event in conjunction with the Second City where she also coaches up-and-coming stand-up comedians.

On a personal note, Valerie has been the recipient of Judy’s compassion and generosity, receiving some much-needed support and comic relief when going through her battle against breast cancer. “Judy would text me to say she’s coming over, whether I liked it or not!” Valerie said with a laugh. “She would simply sit with me, talk, make me laugh, spend time. This is what she does…without ever expecting anything in return.”

As a prime example of Judy’s reluctance to take credit for all the amazing things she does for others, when she learned that there would be an article about her in the Beach Metro News she asked that the founders of City Street Outreach, Grace Gintoli and Alex Smirnis, were mentioned.

If you are interested in learning more about the essential work they do in the city or volunteering on their team, please email info@ citystreetoutreach.com.

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Editor’s Notebook

Now is a critical time for good community journalism Alan Shackleton Beach Metro Editor

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ello Beach Metro Community News readers, let me introduce myself and say that I am thrilled to have been named editor of this outstanding community newspaper.

I have been in the journalism business for more than 30 years, and I am looking forward to bringing my experience to Beach Metro Community News.

I know the communities this

newspaper covers well, having worked for the bulk of the past 18 years as an editor with other community papers in Scarborough, the Beach and East York.

So why have I decided to come out of an early and voluntary retirement to put myself back into the community newspaper business?

Believe me, I’ve asked myself that question and so has my family.

While I have missed the excitement of deadline days, breaking news stories, and all the hustle and bustle of a newsroom, the reason for coming back is my strong belief that this is a critical time for good community journalism.

I believe journalism is in my blood, and having had some time to reflect recently on what it is I want to do with the rest of my working life it became clear to me that this is what I should be doing.

And in a world in which fake news has now become an accepted reality, social media platforms pass themselves off as legitimate and credible news reporting organizations, and click bait is sadly the first goal of far too many newsrooms, good journalism is vitally important.

And I feel it is especially important at the community news level, which is what I have dedicated my-

self to for most of my journalism career.

We are the news organizations that are closest to our readers, and we are the only ones who are going to be reporting the stories that are of direct importance to you and your neighbourhood.

Local news is at the heart of strong democracies and strong communities.

It helps all of us know what’s going on, both the good news and the bad; gives us the opportunity to celebrate success, get to know our neighbours, right wrongs if necessary and keep those in positions of power accountable to us.

And that needs to be done in a responsible, non-partisan manner which treats everyone fairly and with respect.

I have always admired the Beach Metro for its dedication to serving its community, and I aim to continue and expand upon that in my role as editor.

With that being said, I’m looking forward to getting better acquainted with Beach Metro readers, columnists and contributors.

Please feel free to email me with your comments, concerns and stories ideas at alan@beachmetro. com

Beach Metro Community News, published by Ward 9 Community News Inc., is a non-profit, non-partisan community newspaper founded in 1972 and published 23 times a year. It is distributed free by volunteers in East Toronto and Southwest Scarborough and paid for by our advertisers.

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In My Opinion

It’s time to get to work Brad Bradford City of Toronto Ward 19 Councillor Elect

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hat a journey the past few months has been.

Thank you to all of the residents who listened, shared their thoughts and made tough decisions in the ballot box.

I know it was a tight race, and I look forward to working on behalf of all residents of Beaches—East York for the next four years.

To my team, and to all of the candidates who put their name forward, thank you for contributing your time, effort and ideas to our community.

I ran for office because I believe everyone should have a say in building our shared future. We are so fortunate to live in a community

that cares about each other and the challenges we face. But, we need a local government willing to partner with us and take action. Election night taught us what can happen when motivated people come together, work hard, and share their vision for a better tomorrow. Community-led change is possible.

Much of the work ahead will be about balancing what I call the big moves and community initiatives – the major, city-wide issues, and the local, day-to-day issues of residents. My commitment is to make a contribution to both.

As the Downtown Relief Line (DRL) champion on council, I will be pushing for progress on that project as part of an improved transit system that provides allday, all-direction service. We have the political will and we

need to work with our Federal and Provincial partners to secure funding and get Toronto moving. The DRL is only one part of the local transit picture and I will be a true partner in fighting for more reliable, convenient, and accessible service across the ward.

I’ll be equally active in pushing for progress on safe streets, support for main street businesses, and affordability, including housing and child care. We also need to ensure new development is done responsibly, enhances our community, and provides a variety of housing opportunities for those hoping to call the Beaches—East York home. Yes, there is a lot of work to do. But I know together we can meet this moment.

My team and I knocked on over 50,000 doors this campaign and that desire to hear from you directly didn’t end on election night. To be

responsive and accountable, I’ll continue to be out in the community and my office will be a resource for residents where concerns can be heard and solutions can be developed. Come in and tell me about what you want out of local government, what hasn’t worked before, and how I can help address the issues you and your family are facing.

As your councillor, I will work directly with residents and community leaders, on delivering real, practical solutions for Beaches— East York. Too often, councillors are beholden to a political party or ideology and not the community; I can assure you my commitment is to you, Ward 19, and our shared progress.

With the shrinking of council and the doubling of our ward, the role of local government has never been more important. Dur-

ing the campaign, I talked about enhancing the role of community councils, and I think we should explore opportunities to include citizen-members to better reflect the perspectives of local residents. I think it could also help to deliver more gender balance and diversity across our government.

I will be replacing two hardworking local champions in Mary-Margaret McMahon and Janet Davis and I do not take that responsibility lightly. I’d like to thank them for their service and I’m sure they will remain strong voices for Beaches—East York.

I’m humbled and honoured to be representing our community at City Hall and I’m determined to make my time in the Council Chamber count.

Together, we can achieve a safer, more affordable, and more equitable city.

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Beach monuments remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice Gene Domagala

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unday, Nov. 11, marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, “the war to end all wars.”

Since then there has been the Second World War, the Korean War and many other conflicts that have claimed countless millions of lives. In these conflicts, Canada has sent over the “flower of youth”, men and women to fight for what we call “the cause of freedom’.

On this anniversary never forget those who fought and gave their lives to this cause. This should be directed to the youth of our country.

Although this year’s Remembrance Day ceremony is on a Sunday morning, observances should be held at appropriate times in schools for young people to be made aware. Schools, religious organizations, and Legions have the names of these brave soldiers in a conspicuous place of importance.

In the eastern part of the city and the Beach area, we have monuments related to this 100th anniversary. There are three such memorials that should be noted.

The first such monument is dedicated to a doctor who lived in the Beach and dedicated his life to helping the less fortunate, and to our Beach soldiers. Dr. William Young helped many of those young soldiers at no cost, tried to mend

their broken bones and “shell shock” experiences. His aid to these soldiers is legendary.

There was a great tragedy that came during the last years of the First World War and the years after called the Spanish Influenza which killed more than 50 million people worldwide. Canada was no exception.

Not only did hundreds of soldiers die of this disease in the east end but also hundreds of civilians. Dr. Young was helping them and he himself died of it.

In his honour, the people of the Beach and the east end erected the Dr. William Young Memorial Fountain to recognize his devoted work to the people of this area. The memorial is located in Kew Gardens at Queen Street East and Lee Avenue, approximately 1,000 feet south of Queen on the west side of Lee. The second monument is located in Kew Gardens on the south side of Queen Street opposite Bellefair Avenue. This historic site was built in 1946 by the Business Men and Women of the Beach. It is dedicated to those who fought in the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, and lately to all the veterans who served our country in other conflicts. The Remembrance Day ceremony is held every Nov. 11 at this monument to honour fallen comrades, live comrades and all those who have served or are serving Canada.

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buried in this cemetery close to the memorial. This monument was dedicated during the 100th anniversary of our great Canada in 1967. It was put together by the local Royal Canadian Legion Branches. The monument reads: “Designed and erected to the memory of our departed comrades resting here by the members of Branches 1-42 - 93 -299 - 321 – 332 Comprising Zone D-6 Royal Canadian Legion – Sept 1967. We shall remember them.”

This monument represents the more than 500 veterans that are buried in St. John’s.

On Sunday, Nov. 11 of this year a Remembrance Day ceremony will be held at the Kew Gardens monument, opposite to Bellefair Avenue, starting at 10:55 a.m. This is held not to glorify war but to condemn it. Peace is the only solution.

So we here in the Beach, Toronto, Ontario, Canada salute them. Never forget.

The Anglican Church of St. John the Baptist Norway Kingston Rd. & Woodbine Ave.

You are welcome here Sundays: 8:30 a.m. Holy Communion a quiet said service 10:30 a.m. Choral Communion with vibrant church school Wednesdays: 10:00 a.m. Holy Communion

Resonant Reflection

7:30 pm, Saturday, November 10 Songs of Remembrance & Seasonal Music A benefit concert for the East End Refugee Fund Presented by the Bach Children’s Chorus/Bach Children’s Youth Choir

Ed’s Real Scoop donates over $22,000 to Sick Kids Hospital over four years

By Surina Nath

THE OWNER of Ed’s Real Scoop, Ed Francis, business partner Stephen Reynolds and local realtor Christian Matthews have raised a total

of $5,000 this year for Sick Kids Hospital, taking their total overall donations over four years to $22,500.

During one Saturday in August, $1 of every scoop sold was donated to Sick

From left to right: Lisa Bojin, customer service manager in Leslieville; Stephen Reynolds, partner and general manager; Christian Matthews, co-sponsor of the Sick Kids event and real estate agent; Ed’s Real Scoop Ice Cream founder Ed Francis; Mark Johnson, owner of Ed’s Real Scoop in Mimico; and Rosalynde Stearn, customer service manager in Roncesvalles.

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Lunch and home baking.

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November 11th is Remembrance Day. Poppy 'Taggers: Veterans, Legionnaires, Cadets, and Volunteers will be out there with Poppies... Please say "Hello!"

Counter boxes will be delivered to those businesses who requested a box during the previous campaign.

If you do not have a Poppy counter box at your location, contact me and I will make arrangements to get one delivered.

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Francis has lived in the Beach for more than 31 years. He grew up in Ohio, and went to Oberlin College for physics. After graduation he worked for the Peace Corp and came back in 1971 to build his own international packet switch network for Chase Manhattan Bank.

He left Chase in the 1980s to work in Boston running a network management department for a company that wrote internet code, Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). In 1987 he moved to Canada and by the 2000s, he chose to focus on running his ice cream shops with

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Community Calendar NOV. 1: Pumpkin Parade! at Ed McCleverty Playground (a.k.a. Ted Reeve Playground), Gerrard St. E. just east of Main St., 6:30-7:30 p.m. rain or shine.

Bring your pumpkins to the wading pool area for a “spooktacular” lighting with neighborhood pumpkins! Stay for the final lighting or drop & go. Pumpkins will be properly disposed of in a city provided bin.

NOV. 1: Beach Photo Club at Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave., 7-9:30 p.m. Topic: “Evolving Documentary Photography Projects” with Tobi Asmoucha. Club meets first and third Thursday of every month (September to May). Info: www.beachphotoclub.com, beachphotoclub@gmail.com NOV. 2: Sistema, a concert to help fund music lessons and instruments to low-income families in Toronto, at St. Paul’s United Church, 200 McIntosh St., 7:30 p.m. Tickets: Pay What You Can NOV. 3: Christmas Bazaar at St. Nicholas Church, 1512 Kingston Rd. (east of Warden), 12 noon-3 p.m.

Don’t miss it! Shop for wonderful crafts, baked goods and candies, meat pies, preserves, books, jewelry, attic treasures and much more, and then enjoy a lovely lunch. Info: 416-691-0449, www.stnicholasbirchcliff.com NOV. 3: Christmas Bazaar at East Toronto Salvation Army, 107 Cedarvale Ave., 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Tea room, baked goods, frozen foods, crafts, knitted items, white elephant table. All welcome.

NOV. 3: Peppermint Fair at St. Clair O’Connor Community Centre, 2701 St. Clair Ave. E., 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Crafts, baked goods, treasures, and lunch in the Tea Room. All welcome.

NOV. 3: Christmas Market at St. Barnabas Anglican Church, 361 Danforth Ave. (entrance off Hampton across from the Chester Subway), 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Fine art, face painting, artisanal crafts, refreshments, jams and jellies, jewelry, raffle table and more. Venue is wheelchair accessible. Info: www.stbarnabas-toronto.com NOV. 3: Jazz & Reflection at Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave., 4:30 p.m. Theme “Radiance” featuring Laila Bialia, internationally renowned award-winning jazz vocalist, keyboardist, composer, and host for CBC Saturday Night Jazz, accompanied by Ben Wittman on percussion.

Freewill offering. Info: www.beachunitedchurch.com NOV. 3: Grant-Full Food and Fellowship Soup Kitchen Dinner at Grant A.M.E. Church, 2029 Gerrard St. E., 12 noon-3 p.m. Info: 416-690-5169 NOV. 3: Open House at Nisbet Lodge, 740 Pape Ave., 2-5 p.m., followed by Anniversary Banquet at Missionary Hall, Calvary Church (next door to Lodge), 5-9 p.m.

Celebrating McClintock Manor Foundation’s 70 years of service to the seniors of East York. Tickets: $50 pp and 4 or more $45 pm. RSVP. All proceeds to our Caring Continues campaign year 5. Info and tickets: 416-469-1105 NOV. 4: Tom Allen’s ‘The Missing Pages’ presented

by Kingston Road Village Concert Series at Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd., 1:30 p.m.

A concert play about the sole Canadian to meet Beethoven. $20 eventbrite (www.missingpages.eventbrite.com), $25 at door. Info: www.kruc.ca/concerts NOV. 4: Scarborough Central Lions Christmas Craft Sale at Birchmount Community Centre, Birchmount Rd. & Kingston Rd., 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

55 craft vendors, snack bar. Info: 416-438-4471 NOV. 9: Music On Main at Calvary Baptist Church, 72 Main St. (south of Gerrard St., north of Kingston Rd.), 7:30 p.m. Malvern Senior Dance, Malvern Jazz Choir and Malvern New Orleans Jazz Experience will be performing. Refreshments served after the performance. Tickets $15. Info: 416-691-4721, calvaryonmain@calvary-baptist-church.ca NOV. 10: Christmas Bazaar at Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd., 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Home baking, preserves, jewellery & accessories, tea room, crafts, books, Christmas decor, hostess gifts, raffles, kids fun fair and shopping mall. Info: 416-699-6091, www.kruc.ca NOV. 10: Holiday Bazaar at Fallingbrook Presbyterian church, 31& 35 Wood Glen Rd. (at Kingston Rd), 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Art, attic treasures, baking, basket draws, jewelry, knitting latest style (scarves, socks, yoga socks, text mitts), preserves, PJs, quilts, sewing – Christmas and every day, silent auction, tea room. Info: 416-699-3084, fboffice@rogers.com NOV. 10: Bach Children’s Chorus & Bach Chamber Youth Choir present “Resonant Reflection” at St. John the Baptist, Norway Anglican Church, 470 Woodbine Ave. (at Kingston Rd.), 7:30 p.m. A benefit concert for the East End Refugee Committee featuring moving songs of remembrance and wintry seasonal music. Charissa Bagan, Artistic Director; James Pinhorn, BCYC Conductor; Eleanor Daley, Pianist. Accessible venue, plenty of parking. Tickets $20 (students $10) available through the church office at 416-691-4560 or at the door. Info: www.stjohnsnorway.com NOV. 10: Academy Concert Series presents A Complicated Friendship: Brahms and Schumann at Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave., 7:30 p.m. Featuring Jeanie Chung, piano, Sheila Jaffe, violin, Emily Eng, viola, and Kerri McGonigle, cello. Tickets $20/$14/$5 (under 18). Info: 416-629-3716, academyconcertseries.com NOV. 10: Movember Celebration at R.C.L. Branch 13, 1577 Kingston Rd., 7 p.m.-midnight. Join the Birch Cliff Village Movember Celebration raising awareness and funds for men’s cancer.Tickets now available $15. Live band, mystery door prize, raffle and midnight munchies. Tickets and details on facebook: Birch Cliff Village Day Out or sandy_691@live.ca NOV. 10: The Vatican Deception at Fox Theatre, 2236 Queen St. E., 1:20 p.m. (doors open at 1 p.m.).

The acclaimed documentary investigates a prophecy of hope and an epic conflict surrounding it. Film Director Paul Stark will be in attendance and the event will commemorate this year’s Centennial of

Remembrance Day. Tickets $11.50 available at www. foxtheatre.ca. Info: www.TheVaticanDeception.com NOV. 10: Mistletoe Marketplace at St. Paul’s United Church, 200 McIntosh St., 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Lunch counter, treasures, Christmas items, gift baskets, lots of vendors!

NOV. 10: Evening with The Stars – Darren Evorglens “Hits of the 50s, 60s and 70s” and Bobby Allen “Man of a Thousand Voices” at Scarborough Legion, Br. 73, 2 Robinson Ave., 8 p.m.-midnight. Info: 416-691-4763 NOV. 10: Concert of Hope at Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave., 7:30 p.m. (6:45 cash bar). Featuring the Shout Sister Choir performing blues, folk, jazz, and gospel in intricate harmony, and Abby Zotz, award-winning singer/ songwriter with touches of Sarah Harmer, Joni Mitchell and Sarah McLachlan, accompanied by Chris and Joel Saunders. Tickets $20, $10 for children 10 and under, available at Eventbrite.ca or at the door. Info: 416-691-8082 NOV. 10, 11: “Precious Legacies” Concert, Lecture Demonstrations and Workshops presented by Rina Singha Kathak Dance Organization at Glen Rhodes United Church, 1470 Gerrard St. E. (at Coxwell Ave.). Tribute Concert & Reception: Sunday, Nov. 11, reception 3-6 p.m., concert 4-6 p.m. Concert Tickets are $20 ($18 for students & seniors). Workshops $30/workshop. Contacts for tickets: preciouslegacies.eventbrite.com; phone 416-5108112 or 416-463-1710; shanta.chikarmane@gmail.com NOV. 11: Remembrance Day Luncheon at Beaches Baron Byng Royal Canadian Legion, 243 Coxwell Ave., immediately after service at Kew Gardens. Info: Legion 416-465-0120, Community Centre 55 416-691-1113 NOV. 13: Scarborough Garden & Horticultural Society Annual General Meeting at Scarborough Village Recreation Centre, 3600 Kingston Rd. (at Markham Rd.), 7 p.m. Free presentation “Decorations for the Festive Season” by Sheridan Nurseries. Refreshments included. Guests welcome. Info: www.gardenontario.org NOV. 14: Mini-Series at St. John’s Catholic Church, 794 Kingston Rd. This one includes part 1 of a short video explaining the Mass from beginning to homily (the liturgy).

Part 2 will focus on the Mass from the Eucharistic prayer (offertory) to dismissal and will be held in January with lots of notice. Meet upstairs in the room above the church garage, behind the priest’s house. Light refreshments will be served. Parking behind the church. Free but space is limited so please register with Deacon Paul McCourt at: rpm@paulmccourt.com or by calling 416-686-8657.

NOV. 17: Christmas Bazaar & Luncheon at Scarborough Bluffs United Church, 3739 Kingston Rd., 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Home baking, preserves, jams & jellies, crafts, knitting, sewing, collectible and new Christmas decorations, Granny’s attic, country store, silent auction, quilt raffle, cheeses, frozen dinners, encore table (“regifted” goods), luncheon from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m., and more. TTC 116 & 86 pass by. Handicapped accessible. Parking lot access opposite 13 Crestwood NOV. 17: Acoustic Harvest presents Lynn Miles at St. Paul’s United Church, 200 McIntosh St., 8 p.m. (doors open 7:30 p.m.). Miles is one of Canada’s most accomplished singer/songwriters and multiple award winner. Tickets $25 at door, $22 in advance at www.acousticharvest.ca NOV. 17: Christmas Market at Woodbine Heights Baptist Church, 1171 Woodbine Ave. (at Sammon Ave), 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 20 local artisans and crafters; baked goods; cafe/tea room, children’s craft table. Free admission. Info: woodbineheights.ca NOV. 17: Community Christmas Market at Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave., 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Fair Trade and locally produced items, handcrafted Christmas decor, knitted toy animals, jewelry, baked goods and tasty treats, including gingerbread creations and our famous meat pies, jams and jellies, and more. Make a day of it - stay for lunch and checkmark some of your Christmas list! Info: 416-691-8082 NOV. 17: “Mardi Gras” Silent Auction and FUNdraiser at Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 79 Hiawatha Rd., 7 p.m. Performances by the Roberta Hunt Trio and our own Spirit Choir.

Hors d’oeuvres, wine and beer will be served. Come bid on exciting items such as Spa weekends, Jewelry, Gift Baskets, etc. Tickets at the door $25. Parking lot off Ashdale. Info: 416-686-6809, www.nuuc.ca NOV. 24: Silent Auction, Bake Sale & Raffle at Main Street Terrace, 77 Main St., 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Donations welcome. All proceeds to the Resident Christmas Fund. Info: Jane Devine 416-690-3001 ext 231 NOV. 24: Craft Sale at St. John the Baptist Norway, 470 Woodbine Ave. (at Kingston Rd.), 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Local artisans will have crafts and gifts for the home and the holidays. This is a very popular annual sale. Lunch and home baking will also be available. For inquiries regarding vending tables, please contact, Genny Stock at crafts.stjohns@gmail.com NOV. 24: Christmas Fair at Calvary Baptist Church, 72 Main St. (1 blk. N. of Kingston Rd.), 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

China, crystal, jewelry, crafts, lunch room and “The largest table of homemade foods in the Beach.”

NOV. 24: Holiday Bazaar at True Davidson Acres, 200 Dawes Rd., 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Baked goods, tea room lunch, raffles, handmade crafts, lightly used goods for sale and so much more! All proceeds go to support the work of the volunteers and benefit the residents. Info: 416-397-0400 NOV. 24: Soundwave Café at Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave., 2:30-4:30 p.m. Featuring Canadian folk singer/songwriter Sarah Hiltz performing in a relaxed, coffee-shop atmosphere. Complimentary coffee and tea. Freewill offering. Info: 416-691-8082 NOV. 24: Christmas Bazaar at Faith Presbyterian Community Church, 140 Dawes Rd., 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Famous Filipino food, bake table, Christmas crafts, white elephant table, toys and more. Venue is wheelchair accessible.

NOV. 24, 25: Customer Appreciation Days at Hooper’s Pharmacy & Vitamin Shop, 2136 Queen St. E. 20% off store-wide. Largest selection of quality vitamins, supplements and natural products in the Beach! Stock up on basics and shop for Christmas.

We Are Your Partners in Health. Info: 416-699-3747 NOV. 25: Cantemus Singers Benefit Concert Performance for Centre 55’s Share-a-Christmas at St. Aidan’s Anglican Church, 70 Silver Birch Ave. (at Queen St. E.), 3 p.m. Cantemus Singers, directed by Michael Erdman, present “Es Nascido – He is Born”: Christmas carols and motets from Renaissance Spain and Catalonia. Fundraiser for Centre 55’s Share-a-Christmas campaign. Tickets at Centre 55 and at the door. General admission $20 / kids under 12 free. Info: 416-578-6602 or www.cantemus.ca NOV. 25: Beaches Santa Claus Parade, 1 p.m. Parade starts at Victoria Park Avenue and travels west along Kingston Road to Walter Street, ending at Community Centre 55. Bring a toonie to support CC55 Share A Christmas program. Kids, don’t forget your Letters to Santa! Presented by CC55 and the businesses of Kingston Road Village. Info: www.centre55.com, 416-691-1113 NOV. 25: Christmas Craft & Bake Sale at St. John’s School gym, 780 Kingston Rd. (2 blks E. of Main St.), 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Featuring 30+ artisans offering one-of-akind affordable gift ideas! Raffles, 50/50 draw and silent auction! We’re on Hamper’s Santa Claus Parade route so drop in before or after for hot beverages & light lunch offerings! Accessible to all. Contact Jane: 416-698-3528 NOV. 25 & DEC. 2: Scarborough Model Railroaders Train Show at 17 Jeavons Ave., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Two floors of HO and N scale layouts – 1950s southern Ontario with authentic steam & diesel sound, and double-tracked mainline through mountain scenery.

Adults $5, children $2, seniors $3. New members welcome! Info: www.scarborough-model-railroaders.org 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 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 BEACH INTERFAITH OUTREACH LUNCH and Fellowship, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Adults in the community are invited for soup, sandwiches and fellowship. •Mondays, to Dec. 31 (no lunch Dec. 24) at Corpus Christi Church (16 Lockwood Rd.) •Tuesdays alternating at St. Aidan’s Anglican Church (70 Silver Birch Ave.) – Oct. 30, Nov. 13, 27, Dec. 11 and at St. Nicholas Anglican Church (1512 Kingston Rd.) – Nov. 6, 20, Dec. 4, 18 (no lunch Jan. 1) •Wednesdays, to Dec. 19 (no lunch Dec. 26) at Beach Hebrew Institute (109 Kenilworth Ave.) •Thursdays, to Dec. 27 at Beach United Church (140 Wineva Ave.) •Fridays, to Dec. 28 at Kingston Road United Church (975 Kingston Rd.) •Christmas Day Dinners Dec. 25 – St. Aidan’s 1 p.m., Calvary Baptist 3 p.m. Info: 416-691-6869 CLOTHING DONATIONS NEEDED for low-income seniors. Pants, jeans, sweaters, socks, boots, mitts, ski jackets etc. All donations are greatly appreciated. For drop-off info. please call 4l6-690-5650.

GERRARD ART SPACE presents Styx & Stones 3: Ravens, Goddesses & Trees, works by Jyne Greenley at 1475 Gerrard St. E., until November 11. Reception: Oct. 27, 3-6 p.m. Info: www.facebook.com/ events/1814362011973087/ or 416-778-0923 BEACHES LIBRARY, 2161 Queen St. E. •Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies, 2-4 p.m. Cinematic classics, new releases, foreign films and documentaries. Oct. 31 – Young Frankenstein (1974); Nov. 7 – Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)•Nov. 2: Holocaust Education Week: Life in Hiding – Eva Kuper, 10 a.m. •Nov. 6: Fraud Protection for Seniors, 2-3:30 p.m. •Nov 6: Beach and East Toronto Historical Society presents David Fuller – The First Armistice Day and the End of the Great War, 7 p.m. Info: 416-393-7703 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) •Wednesdays: Midweek Service, 10:30 a.m.; Meditation, 7:30 p.m. •Thursdays: Euchre, 7 p.m.; Scripture Study, 7:30 p.m. All welcome.

Info: Church Office 416-691-2222, staidansinthebeach.com BEACH UNITED CHURCH, 140 Wineva Ave. All Welcome! •Regular Sunday Worship Service 10:30 a.m. Nursery care & children’s activity time provided.

•Nov. 10: Knitting Group, 10 a.m. •Nov. 11: Remembrance Sunday, 10:30 a.m. “to remember is to work for peace” •Nov. 18: Mindful Mornings, 10:30 a.m. Program of baking and mindfulness for children. Register at youth@beachuc.com. Info: www.beachunitedchurch.com. Find us on Facebook and Instagram.

BEACHES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 65 Glen Manor Dr. (S of Queen) in the heart of the Beach. Worship in a familyfriendly, relaxed environment. Sunday School and Nursery available. Coffee and new friendships are Free! LGTB friendly. Sundays 10 a.m. Info: www.beacheschurch.org, 416-699-5871 Minister: The Reverend Katherine McCloskey FALLINGBROOK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 35 Wood Glen Road (corner of Kingston Road and Wood Glen).

Join us Sundays 10:30 a.m. for a dynamic, spiritually relevant service accompanied by excellent music. Families are always welcome and we offer a Sunday school program. Info: www.fallingbrookpresbyterian.com

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2. If baby teeth are just going to fall out and be replaced, why take care of them?

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5. What is the difference between a ‘cap’ and a ‘crown’?

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1. Wisdom teeth are a vestigial organ, which is to say that we don’t really need them anymore. Our prehistoric ancestors had much larger jaws (and therefore plenty of room for all 32 teeth), be-

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cause their diet was much more coarse than ours is today.

As our diet has become more refined, our jaws have gradually gotten smaller, causing crowding out of the last teeth to grow into the mouth. Not everyone has crowding and problematic wisdom teeth, but it is certainly a very common problem. Eventually we will evolve to the point where we no longer have wisdom teeth.

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Keep in mind that in order to be effective, they need to be used daily for a period of at least two-three weeks.

5. The last one is a trick question - a ’cap’ and a ‘crown’ are actually the same thing. Dentists call them crowns, and their patients usually call them ‘caps’, but they are both a covering for a badly damaged or worn tooth.

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The end of the Great War in 1918

By David Fuller CANADIANS WILL mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War 12 days from now, much as they have in past years: with solemn ceremonies, poppies and moments of silence for the fallen.

BUT IT’S important to remember that Nov. 11, 1918 was also a joyous occasion for those who had suffered four years of hardship and loss. People were ecstatic when they heard the Armistice was signed and the men would be coming home, but few realized what “coming home” would really be like. For many soldiers, including those below who volunteered in 1914-1918, the return would be postponed for months through to the spring of 1919 and it would be to a country that had changed greatly.

Historian Tim Cook, in his latest book, The Secret History of Soldiers: How Canadians Survived the Great War, writes about a shared culture that helped soldiers cope with the constant threat of death in the most devastating war in history. He also notes that the soldiers’ culture, with its black humour and irreverent, incomprehensible language, was something that alienated them from society for a time and left them with a sense of loss of the special bond they had with each other “over there”. They were changed.

For the 129 men and one woman of Malvern Collegiate who served between 1914 and 1919 and survived, the Armistice meant going home, but also living with what the war had done to them, both physically and mentally.

Gunner George Ames, who lived at 687 Kingston Road, suffered serious wounds to his right thigh from shrapnel just nine days before the guns went silent at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11. They were guns he had been firing while serving in the artillery near Valenciennes. Ames’ service didn’t end until 1920 and his release from a convalescent hospital. A successful businessman before the war, he gave it up to farm, but the wounds never healed completely, and he

PHOTO: TORONTO ARCHIVES

When news of the Armistice came on Nov. 11, 1918 people headed downtown to celebrate, hitching rides on anything that moved.

died from them in 1933.

Lieutenants Walter Carveth of Birchcliff and John Zieman, 146 Main Street (now Cool Runnings restaurant), were both pilots in the Royal Air Force who ended the war in German prison camps after being shot down six weeks apart in the summer of 1918. While life as a captured airman could be somewhat civilized by war standards, it still meant captivity and separation from comrades and family for months or longer.

For Private Thomas Dewdney, captured at Ypres in 1916, it was two years before he could even look forward to going home. His brother Robert had come home in February 1918, after months in English hospitals recovering from wounds received at Vimy.

Carveth’s sister, Bertha, who was serving as a nurse at a Canadian war hospital, worried along with her family after he went missing, until the Red Cross reported that he had been captured. Zieman’s family also went through

PHOTO: MARY MOORE, GRANDDAUGHTER OF JOHN ZIEMAN

PHOTO: MARY MOORE, GRANDDAUGHTER OF JOHN ZIEMAN

Prisoners at Danholm-Stralsund internment camp on the Baltic Sea in 1918. John Zieman and his observer, 2nd Lt. H. Tannenbaum, are among them, possibly the two men at the end of the back row.

POW John Zieman is welcomed home in 1919.

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brought joy, sadness and change an anxious time after hearing he had been shot down, until his capture was also confirmed. Many families held out hope that their missing son had been made a prisoner and not killed.

The family of Dr. Opie Sisley, who lived in the big house on the northwest corner of Main and Kingston road, clung to that hope for many months after they heard their son “Bud”, a fighter pilot with 70 Squadron, had gone down in his brand new Sopwith Camel in 1917. It wasn’t until the following year and after numerous hopeful enquiries for information, that the RAF finally recommended he be officially “presumed dead”. The family received some of his personal belongings from the Germans months after the war ended, a further reminder of his fate. The oldest Sisley brother, “Max”, flew with the air force for almost a year before he was sent to a convalescent hospital for officers, recovering from what we now call PTSD. John Zieman’s brother, Dick, spent Armistice day 1918 in a hospital on the French coast after being gassed on Nov. 8/9, just days before the war ended. He was serving as a Private with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles, who had just successfully assaulted the Canal de l’Escaut and were heading to the rear to await the Armistice, when enemy shells came down on him and several others. Dick, who had lied about his age to enlist at 16, returned home eventually but suffered from poor health the rest of his life and died in 1955 at age 55.

For Cook, the core question about the shared experience of soldiers at war is, “how did they survive? How did they cope, how did they endure… why didn’t they all break down?”

He sees an answer in the things soldiers shared: songs, jokes, stories, theatrical performances and sports. These activities serve as what he calls a “shield” against the bru-

tality of war that helped maintain the men’s will to fight and accept the dangers they faced together in a war they all believed was a just one.

“I think you begin to see the development here of, quite obviously, a different culture – different from civilian life, a culture that is helping them band together…and…a culture that, I think, tells us something about a new Canadian culture…and Canadian identity.”

Cook also wrote his book to help people today understand the significance of what that generation went through.

“There’s this tremendous number of Canadians who have a family connection to the First World War, which shouldn’t surprise us,” he said. “If 635,000 served and 66,000 were killed, that leaves about 540,000, and so there are literally millions of Canadians who have a link to the war. And I meet them everywhere and they want to know more about their great-grandfather or possibly a greatgrandmother as a nurse… so I hope that this book is one of those things that helps to reach out and really humanize this generation.”

Of course, many Malvern men did not return, and 25 of them are remembered on the memorial at Malvern.

David Fuller is a writer and member of the Malvern Red and Black Society and the Central Ontario Branch Western Front Association (cobwfa.ca). He will be speaking about the First Armistice Day and the end of the Great War in Toronto at the Nov. 6 meeting of the Beach & East Toronto Historical Society, 7 p.m., in the Beaches Library.

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Tim Cook’s book, The Secret History of Soldiers: How Canadians survived the Great War.

PHOTO: CONTRIBUTED

PHOTO: MARY MOORE, GRANDDAUGHTER OF JOHN ZIEMAN

‘Bud’ Sisley, shot down in 1917, was thought to be a prisoner, but was later ‘presumed dead’.

Dick Zieman with a group of nurses at a convalenscent hospital where he was recovering from being gassed two days before the war ended.

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Arts and Entertainment Beat The Kingston Road Village Concert Series continues RADIO HOST Tom Allen returns to the Beach on Sunday, Nov. 4 at 1:30 p.m. for the second concert of the Kingston Road Village Concert Series.

After the stunning opening concert entitled Countertenor Madness, the series will feature Tom’s show Missing Pages.

This chamber musical was written by Tom and is directed by Richard Greenblatt. It features actor Ric Waugh as Ludwig van Beethoven, Tom Allen as Anton Schindler, Patricia O’Callaghan as Susannah Sotto, Bryce Kulak as Theodore Molt and Lori Gemmell, harpist.

The concert features the music of Beethoven, Handel, C.P.E. Bach, Theodore Molt (the Canadian who met Beethoven), plus original music and arrangements by the cast.

Prepare to be entertained and also to learn fascinating stories from real events. This concert is music history that is funny, moving and informative.

The concert takes place at Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd. Tickets are $20 in advance at www. missingpages.eventbrite.com or $25 at the door. For more series information visit www.kruc/concerts or 416-6996091.

Photo Club whose members had a desire to show-and-sell their images and sharpen their skills.

Members and guests include those still belonging to the Beach Photo Club such as Maureen Littlewood, Jude Marion, Selby Shanly, Natalia Shields, Felicity Somerset, Rod Trider, David Williams and John Wallace.

Acoustic Harvest Live Music THERE IS a venue change for the Acoustic Harvest Live Music’s presentation of Lynn Miles (www. lynnmilesmusic.com). The concert will

take place at St. Paul’s United Church at 200 McIntosh St. in Scarborough on Saturday, Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. Doors open 7:30 p.m.

Plenty of free parking and the venue is wheelchair accessible. Tickets are $25 at the door and $22 in advance on the website www.acousticharvest.ca.

Lynn Miles is one of Canada’s most accomplished singer/songwriters.

With 12 albums to her credit, she is the winner of multiple Canadian Folk Music awards and a 2003 Juno award for Roots and Traditional Solo Album of the Year.

Local photo club members exhibit in Yorkville FROM NOV. 7-11, the f8 Photography Collective presents its nineteenth exhibition entitled A Sum of Parts at the Dignam Art Gallery located at 23 Prince Arthur Ave. in Yorkville.

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THE THEATRE production of Between The Sheets is returning to the Toronto stage for the first time in six years.

In the age of the #MeToo movement and helicopter parenting, this production is a timely, must-see addition to Toronto fall theatre.

“In the current social and political climate Between The Sheets has never been more relevant,” said actress and co-producer of the show, Jorie Morrow (pictured at right). “The play deals

with issues that are at the forefront; sexuality, power, and women being held accountable for men’s actions, motherhood, and the pressure for women to ‘do it all’, not to mention school systems in chaos.”

Morrow, a Beach resident, recently appeared in Living Will at the 2018 Toronto Fringe and is a professional theatre artist as well as a member of the Toronto Beach Chorale.

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THE KINSEY Sicks, best known as “America’s favorite Dragapella Beauty shop Quartet” are bringing their show Things You Shouldn’t Say to Toronto on Thursday, Nov. 1.

Celebrating their 25-year anniversary of a capella, the show will be presented by Sing! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival located at the Al Green Theatre at the Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina Ave. The show starts at 8 p.m.

The Kinsey Sicks will be covering a lot of important issues going on worldwide, such as American politics, racism, gender equality, AIDS and more. The group will be showing off their musical talent with hilarious and wild humour. The group’s morality background of the performance is to prove that having a hateful heart can be fought with humour and happiness.

Spencer Brown is a member of the Kinsey Sicks whose character is Trampolina, a delightful, kind-hearted, yet intellectually confused woman. Brown has been with the group for a decade and describes the experience as a wild ride.

“It’s very satisfying, creatively. We’re our own writers, directors, and producers,” Brown said. “We get to have the creative say of what we want to put on stage for our audiences to see and hear.”

Brown and his team believe Canadians will love what they have to offer.

Things You Shouldn’t Say carries an emotional message.

In Brown’s point of view, Canadians are looking down at the American government and wondering what is really going on. “We live in a climate where our president is giving away and saying the most outrageous things. People who are on his side are normalizing this. There’s a time and a place for everything and it goes the same way for anybody in any profession,” Brown explained. “We’re pointing out everything

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The Kinsey Sicks will be performing their show, Things You Should Say, on Nov. 1. that’s ugly in the world and making fun of it. We’ll be saying a lot of things that shouldn’t be said.”

Beach resident Pat Silver, co-manager of Sing! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival, helps to coordinate everything. She has a vision alongside the manager to get the shows to function. To get the message out, Silver goes to the festival’s board of director to pitch the performance. The team then works together to decide if the performance is manageable then works to organize the show.

“The great thing about a capella is it’s very easy to put on.

There’s just singers, no backline such as drums pianos or sets,” Silver said. “The performers only walk on and sing, so there’s no need to put in extra work for the stage.”

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The renowned Bach Children’s Chorus and the Bach Youth Choir will perform a concert titled Resonant Reflection on Saturday, Nov. 10 at St. John’s Norway Church at 7.30 p.m.

The choirs will perform songs of remembrance and celebration for the coming holiday season.

All proceeds will go to the East End Refugee Committee. St. John’s is a founding member and ongoing supporter of this group.

The church also has a long connection with the 75th Battalion, the Canadian Expedition Force. The Reverend Leonard Baynes-Reed, a long-time priest at the church was the chaplain to the CEF and a stained glass window and a war memorial in the church honours those who died in the First and Second World Wars.

This popular choir has been winning awards for the past 32 years. Residents are invited to bring the family to enjoy a fun evening of musical memories.

Tickets are $20 for adults, and students are $10, and can be purchased through the church office, 470 Woodbine Ave., or by calling 416 691-4560.

The East End Refugee Committee (EERC) is a true Beach success story, reaching out a hand of friendship to those in need. It provides hands-on refugee sponsorship and a support group consisting of a number of east end Toronto churches.

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tir Up Sunday was an English tradition based on the church calendar, the last Sunday before Advent, the end of November, when family members got together to stir up the Christmas pudding in readiness for the Christmas celebrations.

Everyone from the youngest to the oldest would give the rich mixture a whirl while making a wish. As an incentive, silver coins were planted in the mixture: a ring for marriage, a coin for good fortune and a thimble for life’s blessings. Later, Christmas cake was added to the tradition.

You can re-create your own Stir Up Sunday with friends and family to ready your kitchen for the Christmas festivities.

This fruit cake recipe from Recipes For Victory, the recently published cookbook from Fort York, is an excellent simple cake delicious any time of the year and wonderful served with a slice of old cheddar. In addition, the cookbook available through Amazon and at Fort York’s canteen, is an excellent gift especially if accompanied by this yummy cake!

Canadian War Cake Originally called Boiled Raisin Cake or Trench Cake (as it was sent overseas to soldiers in the trenches), it was made with no eggs and very little fat in keeping with the restricted rationing of the time. However, the cake does not lack in flavour. Its moistness, quick and easy preparation and versatility makes it a worthwhile cake for any season or occasion (especially worthy of note for those who usually do not enjoy fruitcake). It’s a winner!

Although the cake calls for sultanas, other dried fruits can be substituted such as: craisins, chopped crystallized ginger, currants, chopped dried apri-

cots even a few nuts If you like – be creative!

3 cups (750 mL) sultanas 2 cups (500 mL) packed brown sugar 2 tbsp (25 mL) butter 1 tsp (5 mL) ground cinnamon 1 tsp (5 mL) salt ½ tsp (2 mL) ground cloves 2 cups (500 mL) boiling water 1 tsp (5 mL) baking soda 1 tsp (5 mL) hot water 3 cups (750 mL) all-purpose flour

Line two 8 x4 inch (1.5 L) loaf pans with parchment paper. Place oven rack in the centre of the oven at 325 F (160 C).

Chop the raisins coarsely. In a medium saucepan combine the raisins, sugar, butter, salt and cloves. Pour in the boiling water. Bring to the boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Transfer to a large bowl and let cool to room temperature. Mix together the baking soda and hot water; stir into the raisin mixture. Stir the flour into the raisin mixture about one-quarter at a time. Divide the mixture between the prepared pans; smooth tops.

Bake in the centre of the oven until golden brown on top, firm when lightly touched and a cake tester inserted into the centre comes out clean, 50-60 minutes. Let cool in the pans for 10 minutes; turn out onto rakes, right side up and let cool. (Make ahead: Wrap and sore at room temperature for up to 4 days or freeze wrapped cakes in an airtight container for up to 1 month.)

Arts and Entertainment Beat Production of Middletown coming to Leslieville

THE SHAW Festival’s production of Middletown by Will Eno will be taking the stage in Leslieville.

Crow’s Theatre, in partnership with the Shaw Festival, is presenting the production from Nov. 12 to Dec. 1 at the Streetcar Crowsnest in the Guloien Theatre, 345 Carlaw Ave. at Dundas Street East.

Featuring the original Shaw Festival production cast including Karl Ang, Kristopher Bowman, Fiona Byrne, Benedict Campbell, Claire Julllien, Corrine Koslo, Jeff Meadows, Peter Millard, Natasha Mumba, Moya O’Connell and Gray Powel, Middletown is directed by Meg Roe. The play is a look at small town life that “juxtaposes the existential with the quotidian and travels to outer space and back again,” according to the Crow’s Theatre press release.

After seeing Roe’s take on the play at

Shaw, Crow’s Theatre Artistic Director Chris Abraham felt he needed to bring it to Toronto.

“Like many, after watching Middletown I left the theatre choked with tears, overcome with Meg Roe’s flawless rendering of Will Eno’s masterpiece. I knew right away that I had to share the share the experience with those that couldn’t make it to the Shaw Festival,” he said in the release.

Middletown is staged as an intimate, in-the-round theatre experience shared by both the actors and the audience. It tells its story in a series of vignettes taking place in an ordinary suburban town as the lives of the residents intersect on a journey that takes them from the local library to outer space and all points in between, said the release.

The play has earned rave reviews in both Canada and the United States.

For ticket information and show times for Middletown, please visit crowstheatre.com.

Academy Concert Series

THE ACADEMY Concert Series presents its first concert of the season on Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at Eastminster United Church at 310 Danforth Ave. Dedicated to Peter Longworth, the concert is called A Complicated Friendship: Brahms and Schumann.

The program includes a Brahms violin sonata, Schumann piano quartet and Brahms first piano quartet written in the years following Robert Schumann’s death. The theme highlights the very complicated relationship and friendship Brahms and Schumann had with each other. Special guest artists are pianist Jeanie Chung and violinist Sheila Jaffé.

Tickets are $20 for a regular ticket and $14 for students/seniors aged 65 and over. To reserve tickets or for further information, please visit the website at www.academyconcertseries.com or call the Academy Concert Series at 416-629-3716.

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Saving seeds is an essential way to maintain food varieties Katie Fullerton

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all is here and it is time for me to entertain my next door neighbour Leena with my annual “seedy” performances in the backyard. These performances are always the same: I haul out a container of paper bags – full of mysterious dried plants – and spread them out on the deck.

I then roll out my tools – bowls, plates, spoons, strainers and envelopes. Once the staging is set I begin the annual “seedy” ritual. Instruments in hand I shake, I toss, I crumble and I strain – and then I blow over (Leena’s favourite part) the contents of the bowls to extract the magic from the dried plants.

What is this performance you ask ? What magic am I conjuring ? Why, it is the annual “Saving of the Seeds”.

For years now I have been a Seed Saver and have grown and saved and stored flower and vegetable seeds. All of my seeds – once thoroughly dried -– need to be processed for saving by drying, sorting, cleaning and finally, properly storing them for the next year.

The seeds grown in my garden are used for next year’s crop, donated to the Toronto Seed Library, or traded at various seed exchanges across the city such as Seedy Saturdays.

(For more info on Seedy Saturdays see BM article from March 13 “Time to start Thinking Seeds and Trees”.)

I am far from being alone is this hobby: gardeners across the city and the world – whether in their own backyard, in allotment plot, community gardens or on farms – are producing and saving their own seeds. And, pardon the pun, this seed saving obsession is growing!

Why save seeds?

“People tell us amazing stories about the seeds they save,” said Rhonda Teitel-Payne, Co-coordinator of Toronto Urban Growers. “They keep varieties that their parents or grandparents grew, sometimes from other countries. They can’t find these seeds anywhere in stores. Other seed savers want to save money, be more self-reliant food wise and have a consistent supply of quality seeds. For others it is a way to be part of nature’s cycle.”

But by far the key reason people are saving seeds is to protect the genetic diversity of our food, plants and trees. As per Seeds of Diversity – a Canadian organization devoted to seed conservation – world-wide we grow only about 10 per cent of the food varieties out there and we have lost 75 per cent of agricultural biodiversity in the last 100 years!

Therefore, we need to conserve and store as many kinds of seeds as possible in order to maintain a diversity of food varieties and to facilitate adaptations to ever changing climate conditions.

Seeds of Diversity members grow local, open pollinated, heirloom/heritage and organic seeds. (At last count Seeds of Diversity had more than 400 members and more than 2,900 regionally adapted and rare seeds have been collected and stored.)

Getting Started in Seed Saving My own seed saving efforts started simply with a few vegetables – beans, peas and lettuce.

If you would like to start to try seed saving this fall, then beans would be a good choice – they are still available, are easy to gather and can immediately be stored with a little cleaning. All you need to do is leave some of the bean pods on

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If you would like to learn more about seeds and seed saving, there are many organizations and online resources to help you. Seeds of Diversity Canada, the Toronto Seed Library, and USC’s Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security Sales Representative with manuals, research, event listings and school resources.

647-858-9708 Workshops are offered throughout the year. Recently, durmarkbattenberg@rogers.com ing Toronto Urban Agriculture week (Sept. 8-16) several seed workshops were offered through Toronto Urban Growers Real Estate Homeward (TUG), Access Alliance and the Toronto Seed Library (TSL).

1858 Queen St. E. 416-698-2090 The TSL, which has installed seed library branches throughout the GTA, including two in our area (Toronto Tool Library on the Danforth, and the Riverdale Hub on Gerrard www.homeward.info East) will also be having workshops and seed processing bees later in the fall and winter.

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Six steps to getting a green thumb Mary Fran McQuade Mary Fran McQuade is a local writer specializing in gardening and lifestyle

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ou hear it a lot: “She has such a green thumb.” In England, the usual term is “green fingers,” which always makes me think of a Sherlock Holmes mystery for some reason.

The green thumb idea makes me cringe a little bit.

It makes it sound like you need a magic touch or some special talent to make plants grow well. And that’s not true.

Anyone can have a green thumb. It’s not a special gift, like Mozart’s music or Michelangelo’s sculpture or Gretzky’s way with the puck.

Anyone can develop a green thumb, with time and practice.

If you feel you’ve been cursed with a black thumb that blights everything you grow, here’s a quick list of things to do that will make you a green-thumbed gardener in no time.

1. Have patience. Gardening isn’t much like what you see on TV. It takes more than five minutes to put together a nice mixed planter. You can’t dig a quick hole and just poke a new tree in it. Seeds

don’t sprout overnight, and tomatoes don’t make fruit in one month. Growing things the right way takes care, and most plants take their own sweet time to get going.

2. Pay attention. Flowers and veggies are living creatures, and they have a few needs. So pay attention to how much and when you water them. Watch for how much sun they get. (Each plant has its own preferred exposure.) Remember to fertilize now and then. Check weather conditions so your plants don’t fry or shiver.

Some experienced gardeners use their green fingers to keep a garden notebook or journal to help them remember this kind of stuff.

3. Read. Hundreds of websites rattle off gardening advice like confetti. Some are very good, many are not. Look to see who’s behind the advice that’s filling the screen. Anyone with a product to push is suspect.

Reputable commercial growers, however, have pretty good info – it benefits them if your garden succeeds. Recent books by authors in your area are good choices, too.

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With time and practice, anyone can have a green thumb says columnist Mary Fran McQuade, pictured at right. ware beautiful books about want and put a few in the English gardens.) ground or in a pot. You’ll see how they respond to light, 4. Talk to other gardeners. water, fertilizer, planting Several gardening groups depth and all that other stuff have developed on Facebook that experienced gardeners where people can ask for have, well, learned from exhelp and advice from other perience. folks. You can also join a 6. Don’t give up too easgarden club (often called “garden society” for some ily. You’ll make mistakes – so long-forgotten reason). The what? It’s not like fire will fall Beach, East York and Scar- from the sky, earthquakes borough all have garden soci- will rumble or there’ll be rieties. Check them out in local ots in the streets. Most of the papers, Facebook or on the time, you’ll learn something web. And don’t be shy about from your mistakes. And asking people on the street after many years of gardenabout their gardens. Garden- ing, I’ve decided that someers usually love to talk about times, plants are just plain what they do, and you may perverse. You can do all the even come away with some right things, and they will not free plants or seeds. thrive. Chalk it up to the complexity of life and move on to 5. Get out and do it. Find the next plant.

Gardening is fun – don’t let some plants you like, do a little research on what they it be a grind.

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in the Beach

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CANADIAN CONTRACTORS

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HARDWOOD

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Electricians

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INTERIOR PAINTING

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HEY HANDYMAN

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Neighbourhood Stops and Shops

Queen East I.D.A Medical Pharmacy aims to help with opioid crisis I.D.A. Medical Pharmacy, located at the corner of Woodbine and Queen Street East, opened in August 2018 and is managed by pharmacist of eight years, Milson Chan.

The pharmacy provides a number of services, from free compliance packages for seniors, prescription delivery, to medication counselling. When legalization of marijuana was mentioned, Chan says that “the government must have good control over where and what can be sold with respect to cannabis; some bigger pharmacy chains might get into selling medical marijuana— not us.

But, if anyone has any questions they are more than welcome to come in and ask.”

In his spare time Chan teaches at the University of Toronto as a part-time clinical instructor in the Faculty of Pharmacy. “It is great to be involved in the education of

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the new generation of pharmacist,” he says.

With mention of the younger generation, Chan discusses how OHIP Plus covers most medication for patients under 25 as of last year — from birth control, antibiotics and mental illness medication — the pharmacist confirms that there is a large range of people benefitting from this program. Seniors above the age 65 were wary of this program but they’re covered by OHIP as well.

The two categories of this medical coverage are split into high or low income seniors. This is where high income seniors pay a $100 deductible every year for coverage, and low income seniors are able to access their necessary prescriptions.

“We have to balance the cost of the health care system which is why OHIP Plus was a big decision with respect to prescription coverage,” says

Chan. “Mental illness is a large issue that’s currently going on. There is a stigma going around this topic, but as we are coming to learn there is a wide scope of issues to be tackled,” he explains. From sleep disorders, to schizophrenia and addiction, Chan says it’s important to be extremely vocal about mental health as certain conditions need pharmaceutical attention. “Lately evidence lies in traditional medicine rather than trying to find remedies by yourself,” he states.

Chan emphasizes how there is a huge issue regarding addiction and opioid use for this generation. “We are trying implement an ‘Opioid Use Disorder Treatment’ with drugs such as methadone and fentanyl,” he says.

“Hopefully that will be available in the next few months so patients can come in for an observed dosage to reduce the chance of over-

dose while managing symptoms of addiction.”

The popular fatal opioid, fentanyl, is 50 to 100 times more toxic than morphine.

The veterinary opioid carfentanil is now being circulated which is 100 times more toxic than fentanyl (10,000 times more toxic than morphine).

These two opioids are causing a spike in the number of deaths within the drug-using community. According to the City of Toronto, in 2017 there were 303 opioid overdose deaths, including both accidental deaths and suicides.

This represents a 121 per cent increase in deaths compared to 2015. In 2017, one in four opioid overdose deaths in Ontario occurred in Toronto.

For any questions, including opioid use and treatment, stop by the Queen East I.D.A Medical Pharmacy at 1876 Queen Street East or contact Milson Chan at 647-313-1948.

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