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Remembrance Day ceremonies planned for Saturday, Nov. 11 REMEMBRANCE DAY ceremonies are being planned for the Beach, East York and southwest Scarborough on the morning of Saturday, Nov. 11. The Beach ceremony takes place at the Kew Gardens cenotaph on Queen Street East opposite Bellefair Avenue. The Beach ceremony 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. There will also be a march of veterans and Royal Canadian Legion members south on Coxwell Avenue to the Memorial Gardens as part of the East York ceremony. Southwest Scarborough residents can observe Remembrance Day at the Scarborough War Memorial cenotaph, located at the meeting point of Kingston Road and Danforth Avenue, beginning at 10:45 a.m. The sacrifices made by Canadians during the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, peacekeeping missions and other conflicts including Afghanistan are honoured at Remembrance Day services. Remembrance Day is held at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, as that is when the Armistice was declared to mark the end of the First World War which took place from 1914-1918 and killed more than 60,000 Canadian soldiers. East Toronto residents are reminded that members of local Royal Canadian Legion branches are now selling poppies with proceeds going to the Poppy Fund that helps veterans and their families who are in need. Many local businesses, including Beach Metro Community News, also have poppy boxes available for residents to purchase a poppy and donate to their local Legion branch.
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Halloween fun in the Beach and Scarborough
Today is Halloween day and there were lots of local events last weekend leading up the fun on Oct. 31. Photo above left, Jay Marks, who has been running Fear Factory at the Beaches Recreation Centre with a team of volunteers every year since 2009, gets ready for the opening of Fear Factory last Friday. The event took place all weekend and collected food donations for Community Centre 55. Photo above right, Eva, 7, Nicholas, 11, and Isabella, 9, wore their costumes to the Halloween Food Truck Festival at Variety Village in southwest Scarborough on Sunday. PHOTOS BY SUSAN LEGGE AND ALAN SHACKLETON.
Voters in Scarborough Southwest byelection have number of chances to meet candidates VOTERS CASTING a ballot in the upcoming byelection to choose the new city councillor for Ward 20 Scarborough Southwest will have a number of chances to learn more about the candidates at events planned for next month. Scarborough United Neighbourhoods (SUN) is teaming up with local community groups to hold events in early November that will help provide information to Scarborough Southwest voters. The byelection will be held on Thursday, Nov. 30. Advance polls are planned for Saturday, Nov. 25, and Sunday, Nov. 26. A total of 23 candidates are registered to run in the byelection, which is being held to replace former Scarborough Southwest Councillor Gary Crawford who resigned his seat earlier this year. So far, three events have been planned to allow voters to meet
with the candidates in the byelection. On Saturday, Nov. 4, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m., a Candidates Marketplace is being planned for the Birchmount Community Centre, 93 Birchmount Rd. The Marketplace will see invited candidates give a three-minute speech, then move to booths they have set up in the community centre’s gym to engage directly with voters in an informal manner and setting. For more information on the Marketplace, please go to https:// bit.ly/sswmarketplace or visit SUN’s Facebook page. On Thursday, Nov. 9, a candidates forum is slated. The forum will also take place at the Birchmount Community Centre, and will begin at 7 p.m. Invited candidates will each give a short speech, followed by conver-
sations and questions on themes identified by audience members when they register for the forum. Advance questions will be collected through the registration forum, and those wishing to attend need to know that the number of available tickets is limited and preregistration is required to attend in person. For information on registering for the Nov. 9 forum, please go to https://bit.ly/sswmeeting This forum will also be live streamed for those who cannot attend in person, and information on how to watch is at the above website. The forum is organized by the Scarborough Civic Action Network, the Birchmount Bluffs Neighbourhood Centre, the West Scarborough Neighbourhood Community Centre, and SUN. On Thursday, Nov. 23, a candidates forum will take place at the
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Oakridge Community Centre, 63 Pharmacy Ave., from 7 to 9 p.m. This forum will see a moderator lead a debate of invited candidates. Each candidate will get a threeminute introduction speech, followed by questions from the moderator and residents. Exact details, including registration requirements, are still being finalized by the organizers of the Nov. 23 forum. For updates, visit the SUN Facebook page. Voters in Scarborough Southwest should also know that they should be receiving their Voter Information Cards (VIC) from the City of Toronto by Nov. 14. A VIC cannot be used as identification. It is not necessary to have one to vote if you are an eligible voter in the ward. For more info on the Scarborough Southwest byelection, please go to www.toronto.ca/MyVote