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DUCKING DOWN: Tyler Hartley of the Scarborough Stingers ducks to avoid a wild pitch during the team’s season opening game against Thronhill Sunday afternoon.For more from opening day, see page 36.

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MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Neighbourhoods either historical or created, and in some cases natural landscapes around them, are the subjects

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of Jane’s Walks in Scarborough this weekend. Free pedestrian events led by volunteers in cities around the world, the walks are named for Torontonian and urban visionary Jane Jacobs.

The first this year for Scarborough departs from in front of an apartment tower, 40 Teesdale Pl., this Saturday, May 4, at 10 a.m. It’s a tour of Taylor Massey, one of 13 “priority” neighbour-

hoods drawn up by the City of Toronto and United Way because they lacked access to social services. Taylor Massey was originally called Crescent Town after a highrise complex but residents

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