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Agnes Potts' annual garage sale for Youth Without Shelter took place on July 5 at her home on Wingrove Hill and she raised over $3,500 for the shelter.
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Mimico Baptist Church hosted a barbecue and choral concert July 2 with funds going to relief efforts in Myanmar. Here, the Mandarin Choir from the host Mimico Baptist Church perform as one of three choirs featured that night.
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Since May 31, Woodbine Slots security guard Rickey Neal has been on strike with his fellow co-workers. He remains optimistic an agreement will be reached soon.
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Gavin Bastiampilla of Toronto Seniors shows his form during the Etobicoke District Cricket Under-25 team took on Toronto and District Seniors in a game July 5 at Centennial Park.
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Manjit Khundal gets people to sign her petition to to require a doctor to prounounce a death within a reasonable time frame, after she waited 14 hours to have her mother pronounced dead in nursing home.
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Artist Patricia Lynne Harris holds up one of her paintings that are on display at the Neilson Park Creative Centre. The paintings in her exhibit, Landscapes Personified III - Slices, represent the, "quick images flashing before my eyes," during her...
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Construction on the new Lakeshore Lions Arena located at the rear of Lakeshore Collegiate is well under way as giant steel beams are erected to form the shell of the facility.
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Canadian Blood Services held their 'Sirens For Life' blood donor clinic with the help of officers from 22 Division and the public at The Sun Life Building on Bloor Street on Monday. Const. Candice Poole makes her donation while Sgt. Bart Evans...
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Volunteers wanted for Buskerfest
Welcome to Buskerfest!The ninth annual celebration in the St. Lawrence Market neighbourhood is looking for volunteers who will welcome people to the festival and ask for a donation for Epilepsy Toronto.
Volunteer shifts are available from 10:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. during the course of the festival, which runs from Aug. 21 to 24.
Buskerfest is expected to raise about $200,000 for Epilepsy Toronto.
For details, visit www.torontobuskerfest.com/content/volunteer.htm, e-mail volunteers@torontobuskerfest.com or call Adam Bailey at 416-964-9095.
A look back at Sherway
Sherway Gardens will host the 37th Annual Summer Antiques sale, Aug. 4 to Aug. 10. More than 10,000 antiques and collectibles from premier dealers from Ontario and Quebec will be showcased at the city's oldest antiques show.
On display are pieces of vintage clothing, heirloom canoes, traditional folk art from the Maritimes, restored mahogany dining room tables, white-washed cottage furniture, vintage timepieces, armoires from France, ancient coins, pine harvest tables, sideboards, blanket boxes, brass beds, pressed glass and estate jewelry.
Free fishing tackle appraisals are available Aug. 8 and Aug. 9 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Free admission and parking. For more information call 416-621-1070 or visit www.sherwaygardens.ca or www.asinter.com
Taste the world
Albion Islington Square presents the Fusion of Taste Festival, July 19.
Try mouth-watering delicacies from around the world. Part of the entertainment includes amusement rides, a magic show, a fire breather, face painting, clowns, stilt walkers, live singers and dancers.
The festival runs from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. For more information call 647-898-3267 or visit www.albionislingtonsquare.com
Name that mural
The Village of Islington's business and property owners are holding a contest to name their latest mural. Located at 4994 Dundas St. West, the two-part mural is nearing completion. Artist John Kuna's design illustrates the story of how in May 1994 an 18-year-old student, Harold Shipp, convinced a test pilot to fly a massive Lancaster bomber over his school's football field to drop cards which could be redeemed for prizes to raise money for new school bleachers. The cards wound up scattering across "the Chinese market gardens" near T. Montgomery's Inn. The mural captures the moment before 300 students converged on the field to collect the cards, trampling a cabbage patch in the process. Contest deadline in July 25. For more information visit www.villageofislington.com. Submit entries in writing to finda35@sympatico.ca or mail to: Village of Islington B.I.A., P.O. Box 234, Station D, Etobicoke, ON, M9A 4X2.TCDSB high school teachers accept contract
Toronto's Catholic secondary school teachers voted recently to accept a tentative four-year agreement that would see a three per cent increase in their salary each year of the term.Union president Kathleen Gardiner said the members voted 95 per cent in support of the agreement, which has "considerable improvements in benefits, long sought after."
Teachers and senior management have also agreed to improved consultation processes on local issues, she added.
"Provincial discussions between the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association and the Ontario Catholic School Trustees Association, earlier this year, were of considerable assistance in this round of bargaining," Gardiner said in a release.
The agreement is subject to approval by the Ministry of Education's appointed supervisor of the Toronto Catholic District School Board.
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