Several local galleries are participating in this year’s Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, now in its 20th year. The largest photography event in the world, the festival features 1500 artists in 200 exhibitions across the Greater Toronto Area.

Exhibition: The Dark Room 5.0
Artist: Various
Gallery: 918 Bathurst
918 Bathurst St.
Date: May 17

Mark your ballot on May 17 at 918 Bathurst for The Dark Room 5.0, which will feature a one day only juried exhibition showcasing the many processes of analog and alternative photography.

Exhibition: The Language of Flowers
Artist: Carol Auld
Gallery: Café Pamenar
307 Augusta Ave.
Dates: May 1 – 31

At Cafe Pamenar, The Language of Flowers explores the spectacular beauty of daily life and multiple meanings that can be ascribed to flowers. All the images in Carol Auld’s exhibition of original giclée prints were taken from gardens in downtown Toronto.

Exhibition: Carbon Manifest
Artist: J. R. Bernstein
Gallery: Bezpala Brown Gallery
21 Yorkville Ave.
Dates: May 8 – June 1

Carbon Manifest by J. R. Bernstein at the Bezpala Brown Gallery in Yorkville consists of carbon-printed black and white landscape photos of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic. Taken during an international artist residency in 2014, the images in the exhibition investigate the theme of metamorphosis, evolution, and the inevitable change of our physical environment.

Exhibition: The InterLove Project
Artist: Colin Boyd Shafer
Gallery: Miles Nadal JCC
750 Spadina
Dates: April 30 – May 22

And Colin Boyd Shafer’s exhibition, The InterLove Project showing at The Miles Nadal JCC celebrates the love that can flourish between people of different religious beliefs.

—Annemarie Brissenden with files from Neiland Brissenden

Relentless OMB stifles creative green projects

[pullquote]“I’ve come to the conclusion that the overriding factor in municipalities getting nice things is sheer willpower.”[/pullquote]

By Terri Chu

Every time someone mentions a great municipal infrastructure project on the other side of the pond (usually in a really progressive nation like Germany or Sweden), I mutter some lame excuse as to the reason why Canadians can’t have equally nice things.

“Our population density is too low” I might say. Perhaps I will opine that “we have so many cheap resources, we can’t do it economically”.

Small towns in Sweden have reduced their carbon output by having things like district energy systems, energy from waste facilities, and stringent building codes. Why can’t we have nice things? I’ve come to the conclusion that the overriding factor in municipalities getting nice things is sheer willpower.

Municipalities like Guelph had incredible mayoral leadership to make their district energy system a reality. It costs a lot no doubt, but they are securing the long-term energy future of the town. Guelph did it despite the legislative hurdles it had to go through provincially. Its residents were on board with the idea of building for the future (that is until they weren’t; the mayor was eventually voted out of office).

The City of Toronto, on the other hand, despite its high density development (often in large swaths; think the Dupont Street corridor), doesn’t even bother. Yes, it will cost developers more to put in building infrastructure to plan for the future, but why can’t the city demand this?

When this question was raised recently, city staff simply said they didn’t have the power to compel developments to do this. They do! They just have to be creative. Section 37 (a provision that lets municipalities trade benefits with developers) money trade-offs could be made, and in the case of Guelph, civic leadership forced the issue. Other towns with great progressive staff and laggard civic leadership often run into hurdles. I’ve consulted with municipalities where the staff was pushing on a rope to get council on board. Those projects rarely went ahead.

That sadly is the situation that Toronto faces: lots of great staff who understand the challenges a mega city faces, and a municipal government unable to function because of said mega city politics. Anything above and beyond Ontario’s outdated building codes are an automatic no go.

It is hard to blame Toronto given the already difficult situation of an amalgamated council. On top of that, Ontario municipalities suffer from a relentless Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) that seems committed to protecting developers like the delicate flowers that they are. God forbid cities force developers to spend an extra dime to ensure long-term energy solutions and the lowering of environmental footprints.

While Sweden has eliminated many a garbage truck by deploying underground vacuum tubes to collect waste, Toronto is still trying to figure out how to get around provincial laws to get even slightly higher efficiency buildings…or buildings that don’t have falling glass for that matter.

In the absence of strong civic leadership (some have argued it is an impossible feat since the amalgamation of Toronto), it is time for the province to recognize it needs to stop hog-tying municipalities (and in particular its biggest city which is barely functioning as it is) when it comes to planning for its own energy future. Municipalities have far more influence over carbon reduction than the province does. Whether a city invests in more roads or more subways has a lot more direct impact than building windmills.

It’s possible for Ontario to have nice things too.

As a wise friend once said, “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” If the province won’t take a proactive approach in helping municipalities, please stop getting in the way of the progressive ones. Axing the OMB would go a very long way to accomplishing this.

Terri Chu is an engineer committed to practical environmentalism. This column is dedicated to helping the community to reduce energy and distinguish environmental truths from myths.

Also by Terri Chu:

Don’t fall prey to marketing (March 2016)

Reduce, reuse, then recycle (February 2016)

The power of labelling (January 2016)

Meet the Bathurst bird babicka

Ewa feeds the birds in front of Bathurst Station. The retiree, who wishes she could still work, occupies her time by caring for the pigeons and squirrels.
MICHAEL CHACHURA/GLEANER NEWS

By Michael Chachura

In the parkette in front of Bathurst Station an elderly lady sits feeding the pigeons and the squirrels.

Sun, rain, snow, or sleet, she’s here on the bench with a bag full of bread and some seeds. Why she feeds the animals, she doesn’t know. She’s not crazy, although sometimes she bursts into laughter and claims she is.

Her name is Ewa. She was born in the Czech Republic in the 1940s. She moved to Canada with her two children because she didn’t want her daughters playing in the street alongside Soviet tanks. Ewa worked as a nurse, spending most of her career working in a Toronto emergency room and then at a Toronto medical centre in the mental health department. She retired from nursing two years ago.

“All I want to do is go back and work,” she tells me. “If I could go back I would.”

When the pigeons see her get off the bus, they fly over Bathurst Station and land beside the bench where she sits.

“They can tell me by my white hair,” she says with a matter-of-fact face. “Wouldn’t you be happy if someone recognized you?”

She comes to see them every day and remembers their habits.

“This one, I recognize him. He sits here and waits for me to feed him from my hand.” She is also friendly with the squirrels.

“See this big one, that is the mama. Watch this.”

She throws a ladyfinger onto the ground and the big squirrel quickly grabs it. Soon Mama Squirrel is running across the street on the telephone wires. Ewa even cares for the animals when she’s not there. Before she leaves her bench each day, she sprinkles feed on the ground so that the pigeons can have breakfast the next morning.

She’s been coming to this bench every day since she retired.

“I remember in Prague it was normal for people to feed the birds. Here they give you dirty looks.”

She believes the birds deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.

“The birds are very smart, very smart.”

She once found a pigeon that was injured and couldn’t walk.

“I couldn’t leave him. I am like that.”

She took a taxi, with the pigeon as passenger, to Sheppard and Downsview. There she entrusted it to Rudy, known as the Pigeon Protector.

Sometimes a bird gets sick or injured and passes away. Ewa refuses to allow their bodies to be disposed of or left to rot. Instead she smuggles them onto the bus under her coat to bury them in a special place. She will never disclose the location so that no one can disturb their resting place.

Ewa believes that retirees die because of boredom. Her biggest fear is becoming someone who stays at home and does nothing. Feeding the birds keeps her sharp and busy.

The reason Ewa feeds the birds is as unique as she is.

As a retiree, she feels trapped. She loved her work and wishes she could go back to it. Her patients required special attention and care. Those suffering with mental illness are oppressed in our society, and some are forced to spend time on the streets, where people like you and me ignore their pleas for spare change or food. Ewa’s care for the pigeons is motivated by more than just a love for animals. It is motivated by a deep compassion for those in need. She acts on the principle that everyone and everything deserves compassion.

What will happen when she is no longer able to feed the birds?

“I don’t even want to think about it,” she says, cupping her hands and shaking them to the sky, the wind raw and biting.

“I need them.”

Pharmacy drugstore chain says it will respect building’s heritage

By Annemarie Brissenden

The Brunswick House has a new tenant.

Rexall, a pharmacy drugstore chain, will be taking over the first floor of the building at 481 Bloor St. W., confirmed landlord Larry Sdao. The betting lounge on the upper floors will be moving out, and Sdao said the second and third floors will be available to lease.

[pullquote]“We are looking forward to becoming part of the community”—Derek Tupling, Rexall spokesperson[/pullquote]

“We are excited to be able to come into the Annex neighbourhood,” said Derek Tupling, director of communications and government relations for Rexall.

The Brunswick House has long been a flashpoint in the neighbourhood.

Local residents say the student dive bar — which Ottawa-based nightclub promoter Abbis Mahmoud has operated through his Dreammind Entertainment Group since 2005 — was a blight on the area that was responsible for late night noise, drunken scuffles, and crime.

In November last year, Sdao announced that he would only renew Mahmoud’s lease on a month-to-month basis, and that he was actively seeking a new tenant. Boston Pizza explored opening a sports bar and restaurant in the space, but backed away after community members objected to the possibility of a patio and expressed concerns about whether the chain would mesh with the unique fabric of the street.

Tupling said Rexall is keenly aware of the community’s attachment to the building, and that his company plans to reach out to local residents’ and business associations right from the outset.

“We are looking forward to becoming part of the community,” he said, noting that pharmacies are the face of healthcare in the community, and provide quick access to high quality services.

Likening the future Brunswick House location to the chain’s other urban outposts at Queen Street West and University Avenue; Church and Front streets; and, College Street and Spadina Avenue, Tupling said Rexall was attracted to the site because it is in an urban community with high foot traffic.

To “create a flagship location that embraces the entire community”, Tupling said Rexall is doing something it has never done before: it is bringing in an expert to help build the site.

“Our intention is to respect and maintain as much of the building’s historical and architectural integrity as possible.”

Sdao said that is what sold him on Rexall.

“They have a genuine approach, and want to respect the heritage, design, and what the building has been for a long time.”

Neither Sdao, nor Tupling would speculate on when the store would be open for business; they both pointed out that renovations to the heritage building would take time.

“Rexall and I, we want to do it right,” explained Sdao. “These projects don’t happen overnight.”

“There’s some things in the building that have gotten long in the tooth, so to speak, and we want to look at opportunities to revitalize and incorporate those into the design of the store,” Tupling added. “We want to make sure that when the doors open, everyone is as happy as much as possible with the result.”

NEILAND BRISSENDEN/GLEANER NEWS

Annex resident, Governor General’s Performing Arts Award Winner, and Order of Canada Member R.H. Thomson (shown here at The Green Beanery at Bloor and Bathurst streets) stars as a prominent historian and Quebec sovereigntist navigating the ravages of dementia in You Will Remember Me playing at the Tarragon Theatre (purchase tickets) until April 13. For full story, please see: What does it mean to remember?

Our third survey of development projects in our coverage area highlights projects that interest us, trends that appall us, and elements that enthrall us. We favour innovative projects that connect with a neighbourhood’s built form, reflect community consultation, and meet the objectives of the City of Toronto’s Official Plan. We take a dim view of developers that do an end run around the process and appeal directly to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), which demonstrates little respect for the city’s urban planning guidelines. And, we — once again — make an argument for razing the OMB. Please click on the image below to enlarge.

Businesses decry lack of consultation

By Annemarie Brissenden

Chinatown business owners are apprehensive about the Evergreen Centre for Street-Involved Youth’s relocation to the area, but community leaders are confident that any concerns can be addressed before it opens in September 2017.

Brent Mitchell, the mission program officer for the Yonge Street Mission (YSM), which operates the centre, explained that the move became necessary because “space limitations were impacting our capacity to serve the youth as well as we would like”.

[pullquote]“Consultation after purchase; it’s not consultation, it’s announcement”—Tonny Louie, past chair, Chinatown BIA[/pullquote]

Currently on Yonge Street just south of College Street, Evergreen serves approximately 150 young people aged 18 to 24 daily, providing employment and full-spectrum health services, as well as personal counselling on employment, housing, and education.

Although the YSM has been a community fixture since 1896, Evergreen has grown out of its 10,000-square-foot space, which though converted into a youth-oriented service centre in the 1980s, was never built for that purpose.

The new space at 365 Spadina Ave., however, is 24,000 square feet, and will be custom designed to maximize the effectiveness of Evergreen’s programming, as well as enable partners to provide additional services, likely in the areas of education and mental health.

As soon as the YSM purchased the space, its representatives met with Joe Cressy (Ward 20, Trinity-Spadina), whom to date has canvassed approximately 4,500 residents, met with dozens of community groups, and held two public meetings on the matter to address any local concerns about the move.

But many Chinatown business owners are upset that those consultations did not occur before the YSM bought the building, because at this point, the centre is an as of right development that does not require any rezoning or city approvals to operate.

For Tonny Louie, past chair of the Chinatown BIA, it’s odd that you can’t even put out a sandwich board without consulting other business owners in the area, but you can open a centre without any previous notice.

“We have a zoning bylaw that is not compatible with our current age; it has to be revised to be fair to all stakeholders,” he said.

Louie stressed that the YSM is “doing a good thing, no doubt about it”, and that he is not anti-poverty, but that the organization has failed at communication.

“There’s no sensitivity, no consideration for the neighbourhood or the culture,” he said. The attitude is that it’s a “done deal, as of right…. Consultation after purchase; it’s not consultation, it’s announcement.”

Former councillor and Grange Community Association honorary president Ceta Ramkhalawansingh said she was a little surprised and taken aback by the reaction of the Chinatown BIA.

“Taller buildings and developments are far more egregious than providing services to kids who are already here.”

“It’s not a question of bringing people here, it is a question of providing services for people who are already here,” agreed Maggie Helwig, who’s on the board of Friends of Kensington Market and is also the rector of Bellevue Avenue’s Church of Saint Stephen-in-the-Fields. “The YSM has a really good, impressive range of services for street-involved youth. This move will only be helpful to the community.”

But Louie — noting that many people in the community are afraid to speak out because it’s a highly sensitive issue — disagrees.

“They don’t live here,” he said. “You won’t find a lot of 18 to 24 year old [street-involved youth] on Spadina Avenue.”

Therein may lie one of the primary disconnects between the different parties. Some appear to view that stretch of Spadina Avenue and Chinatown as part of a larger community that includes Alexandra Park, the Grange, and Kensington Market, while Louie is speaking from a perspective in which Chinatown is a distinct neighbourhood in and of itself.

And both perspectives have merit.

“We have seen a movement westward in the city of the gathering spaces of street-involved youth in and around Kensington Market, and at Queen and Bathurst [streets],” said Cressy.

While Mitchell admits the driving decision behind the relocation to Spadina Avenue was the concentration of youth in the area, Superintendent Frank Bergen, Unit Commander of the Toronto Police Service’s 14 Division, “can’t necessarily agree that a concentration of youth is in [Chinatown specifically]”.

“Be honest,” asked Louie, “would you like your business to be next door?”

One of his major concerns is the potential for loitering.

“Walk by [Evergreen] at Yonge and Gerrard [streets], and you’ll see 10 to 15 people hanging around all the time, smoking, and teasing the girls walking by,” said Louie.

There’s already a bylaw to address that, responded Bergen.

“We’re not going to condone gaggles of people outside smoking.”

Mitchell also suggested that some people may be misinterpreting what they are seeing.

“The dynamics of the buildings around us at Yonge Street create a false sense that has little to do with us,” he said, adding “we will do as good a job as possible” to combat any loitering.

One approach is through the design of the building itself. They are creating an entrance that is welcoming, comfortable, and, most importantly, transparent, because “youth will loiter to see if it is safe to go in”.

“It will be a complete facility with a rooftop patio and smoking area,” said Marc Garner, the executive director of the Downtown Yonge BIA, who is consulting on the design of the new building and has spoken at community meetings about the relationship Evergreen has with its current neighbours.

“The community should not be fearful.”

Ramkhalawansingh believes that the community “will find that once [it] gets up and running, this will actually be a non-issue”.

Until then everyone is prepared to keep talking. “My role is to work with all different stakeholders to identify areas of concern, so we can address them,” said Cressy.

Bergen agreed. “Whatever concerns there are, I’m comforted knowing that everyone is talking, so we can set up for success.”

Seaton Village loved for its friendly, low-key character

By Annemarie Brissenden

In Seaton Village, children regularly run the risk of being late for school, but the blame lies squarely on the shoulders of their parents. In this everyone-knows-everyone neighbourhood — still a friendly hamlet that’s home to residents who have lived there for decades — the morning walk, or the inevitably not-so-quick jaunt to Fiesta Farms, is an opportunity for friends to swap stories and share the latest news. It’s easy to lose track of time.

[pullquote]“The city planning process…doesn’t help build communities”—Jennifer Hunter, SVRA president[/pullquote]

“Seaton Village is kind of like the little brother everybody forgot about,” said Jennifer Hunter, the president of the Seaton Village Residents’ Association (SVRA). “We’re an interesting, self-contained spot.”

Diane Fotheringham agreed.

“It’s still a bit of a secret, a wonderful little residential area. It’s not quite gentrified, and still has a neighbourhood feel,” said Fotheringham, who has lived in the neighbourhood for 20 years and owns Titus & Louise on Dupont Street. “I didn’t come here willingly, but I quite love it.”

Like so many other historical downtown neighbourhoods, Seaton Village is facing encroaching development and gentrification, but as a March 3 open house demonstrated, its residents are finding ways to preserve the sense of community that they hold dear.

Working in conjunction with Joe Cressy (Ward 20, Trinity-Spadina) and Toronto City Planning, they’ve developed a Dupont Street Study — already being appealed by eight different properties at the Ontario Municipal Board — in the hopes of guiding development along the area’s northern flank. The study highlights existing characteristics that reflect many of the city’s older neighbourhoods: diversity, useful services and retail, strong built form and heritage, and a stable population with long-term residents. It also reflects a desire to maintain the area’s walkability and family-friendly focus, while adding green space, and more restaurants and patios.

According to Hunter, there are eight development applications alone in the Davenport Triangle, and a total of 28 stretch west along Dupont Street.

“Dupont Street is a little commuter route that people used to go from point A to point B, but now everyone is landing there,” she said.

Noting that re-invention and re-imagination can be very exciting, she added that gentrification doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing.

“It provides an extraordinary opportunity, but it’s a little daunting. It has to be handled with sensitivity to the neighbourhoods.”

Seaton Village has its share of “micro” development issues as well: minor variances to two- and two-and-a-half-storey houses that are being purchased for $1 million.

“These minor variances are the most complex,” explained Cressy. “We’re working on new guidelines for the Committee of Adjustment relative to Seaton Village.”

The hope is that it will make the application process for minor variances less adversarial.

“The city planning process really pits neighbour against neighbour. It doesn’t allow you to resolve it amicably,” said Hunter. “It doesn’t help build communities.”

For the SVRA, however, developing the studies is a way to counteract that.

“We are looking at the visioning as a means to connect with people.”

It’s that sense of connection that the residents clearly want to preserve.

“Every street has a street party, the festivals are starting to grow,” reflected Hunter. “It’s really cool how many different hubs there are: Vermont Park, St. Albans, the school…there’s so many opportunities to see people.”

Play starring R.H. Thomson opens at Tarragon

COURTESY CYLLA VON TIEDEMANN
Warm and funny: You Will Remember Me is about a family struggling to care for a loved one who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

By Annemarie Brissenden

“Who are you, again?” asks Edouard, the family patriarch at the centre of You Will Remember Me, now playing at the Tarragon Theatre until April 10. It’s a much repeated, at times humorous, refrain that serves not only as a reminder of the dementia that is subtly ravaging his memories, but also hints at the broader question posed by the play: what constitutes our identity?

[pullquote]“You can’t assume the next generation will value what you’ve bequeathed to it” —Joel Greenberg, director[/pullquote]

Or simply put, who are we, really?

Originally written in French by the Governor General’s Award-winning Québécois playwright François Archambault, at its heart the play — translated into English by Bobby Theodore — is about a family struggling to care for a loved one who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. In a particularly poignant twist, the loved one grappling with such pathological forgetfulness is a man who has spent his life dedicated to remembering. Edouard, an accomplished history professor, is also a prominent lion of the Quebec sovereignty movement.

Annex resident R.H. Thomson, director Joel Greenberg’s first choice for the role, plays the lead role.

“I was looking for a man in his mid to late 60s with gravitas who would be credible as a public figure; somebody passionate about politics,” explains Greenberg.

Thomson, who likens the play to Hamlet’s soliloquy, says he was “drawn to its richness and density. It’s an elegant play about this journey.”

As Edouard navigates his memory loss, questions arise about the nature of identity. Is it constant, something that’s distinct from our experiences? Or is it a construct formed from the collection of memories — both cultural and personal — that we lug around, somewhat like an albatross slung about our necks? If so, does that construct change with every social interaction and every experience? Can we ever have any control over how others will remember us?

Thomson refers to Willem de Kooning, an abstract artist who had Alzheimer’s, to illustrate the connection between memory and identity. As de Kooning’s illness progressed, his paintings changed. But did that mean that the artist was regressing to nothingness, or that he was rediscovering a purer self? As de Kooning lost the connective tissue of his memories, perhaps his abstract paintings in fact became far more accurate.

“Were the paintings more from the core of who he was?” reflects Thomson.

Underpinning the personal here is the political, in which, Greenberg explains, dementia becomes a metaphor for how a society remembers itself.

He first read the play two years ago, just after it had opened in Montreal, during the last few weeks of the Quebec election. Greenberg says it was compelling to see the personal and political written into the play at a time when a society’s own identity was not only being challenged, but was also challenging itself.

Though Quebec sovereignty is not the centre of the play, says Greenberg, “it is central for the main character, who is very fond of being a much quoted voice during the Quiet Revolution”.

“The Quebec founding myth is quite an intoxicating idea if you are a Quebec sovereigntist,” adds Thomson. “It’s an exhilarating idea if you believe in it.”

What happens, though, if the people around you stop believing in it?

Edouard is written as a really important voice for the Quebec movement; a man who thought those who followed him would be just as passionate about sovereignty.

“But you can’t assume the next generation will value what you’ve bequeathed to it,” says Greenberg, who adds that part of what Edouard discovers is that “what he has to say is long past being interesting”.

The director, who is also the co-founder and artistic director of Studio 180, which is co-producing the play with the Tarragon, describes the play as “the beginning of a conversation; not a play that tries to tie up anything”.

He says that Studio 180 looks for interesting and provocative subjects that they hope will promote public discourse. And while it can be an emotionally taxing play, it’s not all grim seriousness. There’s plenty of warmth and humour to be had, as well.

“The situations and conflicts arise in all families,” says Greenberg, stressing the play’s universal appeal.

After all, we all want to be remembered, in one way or another.

You Will Remember Me runs at the Tarragon Theatre until April 10. For further information, or to buy tickets, please visit http://www.tarragontheatre.com.

Also by Annemarie Brissenden:

Drink L’Elixir d’Amore on Bloor (February 2016)

Hooked on Language (September 2015)

Delivering history in Harbord Village (April 2015)

MICHAEL CHACHURA/GLEANER NEWS
Tomek Iwanek takes on an intermediate course rated 5.9 at the newly opened Basecamp Climbing (677 Bloor St. W.) in the former Metro Theatre.

By Michael Chachura

A new rock-climbing gym has opened its doors at Christie and Bathurst streets. Basecamp Climbing (677 Bloor St. W.), which revamped the Metro Theatre, features 40-foot climbing walls and routes that target all levels of difficulty. Currently they have 70 routes, and they pledge to offer one new route each day.

Basecamp also has auto-bilayers, meaning that a partner is not required to climb.

The only climbing gym on a subway line, Basecamp offers monthly and annual memberships, day passes, and lessons. For owner Matt Languay, opening his own climbing gym has been the fulfillment of a dream. He has an undergraduate degree in engineering, and previously worked for a company that made climbing walls.

By Brian Burchell

University of Toronto Schools (UTS) will mark its third annual celebration of International Day of Pink with an expanded mandate to raise money for Sprott House, which opened last month in the Annex. Led by UTS guidance counsellor Catherine Wachter and organized by the students themselves, the day builds awareness of homophobia, transphobia, bullying, and discrimination in schools and communities. One of the largest events in the city, it culminates with a celebration in Matt Cohen Park at Bloor Street and Spadina Avenue that brings out community members and the Toronto Police Service’s mounted unit. It is supported by local businesses — many of whom donate prizes — and the Bloor Annex BIA, whose chair also publishes this newspaper.

“It’s hugely validating for the students to get outside with their message of tolerance and inclusiveness and have that validated by cars going by honking in support,” said Wachter.

Community members are encouraged to attend this year’s event on April 13 at 1:30 p.m. at the park. Don’t forget to don your pink.

For further information, please contact Catherine Wachter at 416-946-0223.

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