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Staff photo/BENJAMIN PRIEBEKristian, 10, plays on his backyard treehouse, which is in the shape of a ship. Because the tree house is in violation of a city zoning by-law, Kristians parents, John and Diana Alpeza, are seeking a minor variance from the committee of adjustment. The hearing takes place June 23.

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The city could be spending $16 million a year on bicycling infra-structure to put its 10-year bike plan in place, but studies on major cycling corridors like Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue would be postponed for at least two years.

Thats i f To r o n t o Council goes along with rec-ommendations from Torontos Public Works and Infrastructure Committee at its Monday meet-ing.

The committee was consider-ing a plan from city staff that would see separated bikeways, painted bike lanes and off-road lanes criss-crossing the city over the next decade.

The bike plan would see a total of 525 kilometres of new cycling infrastructure laid down on city streets, and the fund-ing level of $16 million would allow all but two projects to be completed within the 10-year timeframe.

But the committee pulled back on staff recommendations,

Bloor Street bike lanes study could be shelved for two years

>>>DELAY, page 9

LISA RAINFORD [email protected]

The Alpeza familys ship remains safely in its harbour for now.

Its been constructed to fi t within the branches of a tree

thats been in the Swansea-area homes backyard for more than 40 years. Thats because the ship is actually a tree house, built over the past six years by John Alpeza for his two sons, Mateas, 8, and Kristian, 10.

However, its in violation of the citys zoning bylaw and on June 23, a Committee of Adjustment will decide its fate.

Alpeza, a self-described failed artist turned architect,

says he continues to modify the tree house. He has plans to add book shelves and board games for the kids.

This is a tribute to the tree, Alpeza told The Villager as he

Fate of Swansea tree house to be decided

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Its another busy construction season for Toronto.

That means even more road clo-sures, traffic tie-ups and headaches for commuters and residents.

But while infrastructure work may seem, on the surface, to have been hastily organized, planning begins several years in advance, requiring coordination not just between city agencies, but by private owners of utilities as well.

We plan several years ahead so that everyones needs are being met, said Jeff Climans, the citys director of major capital infrastructure coordina-tion. Major projects can be planned many years in advance and often need to be.

Climans and his staff of 19 work on revolving five-year planning windows, coordinating the citys construction plans with Toronto Water, the TTC and various private and public agen-cies that may also need to engage in infrastructure repairs so that if a road is being torn up, its only torn up once.

The department is currently deter-mining 2021s planning needs, moving on to 2022 once this year is through. In fact, chances are great any major city works project requiring months of closures, from replacing ancient sewer watermains to road rebuild-ing and re-surfacing, had years of planning and coordination behind the scenes.

It wasnt always the case; the depart-ment for infrastructure coordination has only been around for six years. Climans admitted the past approach was more reactive, limited to the shar-ing of project spreadsheets. But with better technology, its now possible to map out a project and automatically determine if theres a red flag or any conflicts with another project, even if no communication about the work has yet taken place.

That allows the department then to attempt to soften the edges of a plan,

and ensure everyone is on the same page before the work is scheduled to start, Climans said. Sometimes that means providing greater incentives, or in rarer cases, withholding private construction permits so city work

can proceed.There is a good deal of negotia-

tion that takes place, and one of the interesting challenges that comes about is the fact each organization has had to realize their programs have to

give way to something else, he said. We have to ensure organizations dont plan in isolation.

This year, he said, the city has come to the realization theres an upper limit to how many closures resi-

dents can suffer in a year, leading to a deferral of some work so that more essential projects can be done. Last year, for example, several city projects were deferred until after the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games.

On Gerrard Street, at the intersec-tion of Church Street, sub-contracted work crews are busy replacing 135-year-old watermains and sewer pipes from Yonge Street to Sherbourne Street. Later on in the summer, road reconstruction will begin on the same stretch of Gerrard, including a complete re-surfacing of the street and surrounding sidewalks, new lane markings including bike lanes, trees and better lighting.

City spokesperson Michael DAndrea said the work on Gerrard alone has involved consultations with Toronto Water, the transportation services department, the local BIA and Ryerson University. The work is being done, he said, when a majority of Ryersons student population isnt on campus, meaning less disruption.

We integrated the needs of all our clients to one single project ultimately to reduce and minimize any conflicts and disruptions to the community, said DAndrea, director of the citys engineering and construction ser-vices.

In order to get the word out to the public, detailed construction signs are posted at every site, he said. The signs were revamped to clearly indicate the nature of work taking place, the dura-tion and other important details.

Theyre descriptive, written in plain-speak and with a large font, DAndrea said. It gives people infor-mation, which was currently lack-ing.

In addition, the blue and white signs also display a numerical code, indicating who to contact in case of concern or complaint.

When you contact 311 and give them the code, it goes directly to the manager of this project, he said. I dont think theres any other munici-pality out there which gives you that kind of level of detail.

MAPPING IT OUTDrivers may not realize, but planning starts years in advance of road closures, traffic tie-ups

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Above, a revamped city road sign provides details of a road work affecting the intersection of Dundas and Bay streets May 12. The new signs are part of the citys effort to better inform the public about ongoing construc-tion projects. Bottom left, workers cut sewer pipe on a worksite at the intersection of Gerrard and Church streets. The work involves replacing 135-year-old underground sewer watermains and is scheduled to continue until the fall. Bottom right, lane closures and shared space is the reality at Gerrard and Church where a major road work project is taking place for the next several months.

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Think safety first this Victoria Day weekend

The long weekend is just about here, and many of us will hit the road for this Victoria Day holiday. No matter when you go be it in the city or on a

longer road trip to a cottage or to pitch a tent your main focus should be arriving at your destination alive.

The excitement of having a few days off from the everyday sometimes causes people to throw common sense out the window (along with some litter dont do that by the way). While you and other drivers snake through slow traffic, you can expect the Ontario Provincial Police to be keeping a close eye on how you drive.

Last year, a total of 27 motor-cyclists and four passengers died, with 17 of those motorcycle driv-ers reported as driving properly at the time of the crash, the OPP reports.

While speed and loss of control also played a role in the deaths, the OPP is cautioning both

motorcyclists and other drivers to do a better job of sharing the road.

These weekends away from our routine dont have to be reckless. Speeding, careless lane changes and unnecessary risk taking can cause more than a rush it can end your life or someone elses. If you follow the rules of the road, and the person driving next to you does the same, along with the vehicle ahead of you and the other trailing a safe distance behind, theres no reason this shouldnt be a holiday to remember for all the right reasons.

And if you want to celebrate the birthday of the late Queen Victoria with fireworks be safe about it.

The Canada Safety Council believes its best to enjoy fireworks at a show put on by professionals such as the City of Toronto set for Monday night at Ashbridges Bay Park.

But if youre going to be your own pyrotechnic pro-tege, follow these tips:

Read the instructions, cautions and warnings on each firework item.

Set up outdoors in a clear, open space. Light fireworks on a hard, flat and level surface to ensure stability.

Spectators should be at a safe distance. Only adults (18 years or over) should handle the

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Share the road and be firework safe If recent history has taught us nothing else, let us remem-

ber this: that left to their own devices, Torontos political leadership is about as good with a budget as a pack of 12 year olds with their parents credit cards.

It had always been so, at least within the lifespan of amalgamated Toronto.

In 1997, Mel Lastman was elected the citys first mayor on a promise of a three-year property tax freeze delivered at the same time as the city was reconstituting itself into the largest municipality in the country at the behest, but without the support of the provincial government.

Lastmans first term set a tone that subsequent councils have maintained: namely, that marginal property tax increases are the most injurious thing a government might inflict upon homeowners about an equivalent evil to reduc-ing services upon which those homeowners had come to rely and limiting promises of improved ser-

vice to come.And so over the years,

council has approved proj-ects, maintained services and kept property tax increases slim to none.

This week, Torontos city manager Peter Wallace brought out another in what is developing into a series of despatches, delineating what to many has been obvious for years. Toronto has been able to maintain the fiction of a growing city and a low property tax environment thanks to factors that are either entirely beyond its control (a booming real estate market that pours in revenue through the municipal land transfer tax) or measures of which council should frankly be ashamed (approving capital projects for future years with no means of financing). At some point, very soon, the booms going

to end and the projects will have to be built.

Wallace first pointed this out to councillors in the fall shortly after he took the job. That early report gave Mayor John Tory a small amount of political cover, to propose that the city maintain a 0.5 per cent levy on the property tax bill currently in place to help finance the Scarborough subway, to finance more transit infrastructure.

This report, coming to next weeks Executive Committee, provides an imperative for more of the same: a debate on what other ways we might find, to support ourselves in the style to which weve become accustomed. To whit: revenue tools.

These conversations havent gone well in the past. In the last term of Council, politicians balked at supporting any revenue tools, even as they voted to go forward on subway expansion in Scarborough. Former mayor David Miller was able to get a couple

of major revenue tools through council, but the battle over the land transfer tax and vehicle registration tax nearly broke council.

Will it be any different now? Its not encouraging. Toronto council this term has shown just as little appetite for long-term financial planning as ever. Under the leadership of Tory, council approved a billion-dollar rebuild of the Gardiner Expressways elevated lanes, against expert advice.

The Scarborough subway, absent all but one stop, remains on the books. And this week, Tory made it clear himself that one thing he wont support is any significant increase to Torontos bargain-base-ment property tax rates.

Theres no doubt about it: the arrested 12 year olds on Toronto council have a lot of growing up to do.

Council needs to step up to make Toronto sustainabledavid nickle

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St. Marys Catholic Secondary School students have banded together in support of the more than 80,000 people who were forced to evacuate fire-stricken Fort McMurray, Alberta

Its not unusual for the Dufferin and Bloor West streets-area high school to come together in the time of need of a particular com-munity. After seeing images of the devastation, students were spurred into action

The school has held fund-raisers to help people across the world who experience disasters, like the Typhoon in the Philippines, Grade 11 student Gemarie Aguadera told The Villager. Canadians are known for helping other countries, therefore we felt it was our duty as Canadians to help. Seeing the situation on

the news, we felt it was our turn to help.

Aguadera credits teacher Steve De Quintal for coming up with the idea to sell flow-ers because Mothers Day was just around the corner and ice cream sandwiches because theyve been sold before at the school and were popular.

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We did not have the time or resources to do anything else because it was last minute, but we wanted to do something to help, she said.

As of May 11, the sale of flowers and ice cream brought in almost $180. Aguadera said ice cream and pizza sales would con-tinue until the end of the week after school in order to raise as much as possible. Proceeds will be donated to

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Aguadera for her efforts, calling the work she and her fellow students have done, wonderful.

The flowers were a big hit and quickly sold out. The supply of ice cream and pizza has to continually be replenished.

Upon hearing about the purpose of the fundraiser, some individuals even went out of their way to donate without purchasing (any-thing), Aguadera said.

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A sea of hundreds of Toronto fire-fighters wearing their dress black uniforms and white gloves stood solemnly with family and friends Monday morning to pay final respects to their fallen colleague Sara Rosen, whom one remembered as genuine, selfless, smiling and full of life.

Mourners packed Benjamins Park Memorial Chapel on Steeles Avenue West near Keele Street in North York for Rosens 90-minute funeral.

Jackie Gaistman, Rosens partner, called her my compass.

Sara is the fiercest, most genu-ine, brutally honest, inspirational, joyful, free-spirited, soulful, gen-erous, strong, determined, feisty, loyal, courageous person Ive ever met, Gaistman said, calling her his wife. Sara loved her parents and her brother Mark with every ounce of her heart. Mark is living testament to Saras love, generosity, caring and courage. She was, and still is, such a hero.

Twelve years ago, Rosen donated her kidney to her brother, Mark. Since then, the siblings would celebrate an additional birthday every year marking the date of the transplant, said Rosens father, Allan.

Rosen, 38, was a 15-year Toronto firefighter, who worked out of Station 443 on Islington Avenue in central Etobicoke. She had planned to take a years sabbatical from her job this September to attend law school on a full scholarship.

Rosen died last Thursday in a mountain biking accident while out riding with a colleague at Kelso Conservation Area in Milton, Ont.

Gaistman called his life with Rosen a magical jour-ney because of Rosens joy of life, excitement and passion. You made everyone around you laugh,

feel happy, feel worthy, feel respected. You made everyone want to enjoy life. You always fought for what was right.

It is your strength that is helping me get through this terrible trag-edy.

A strong sense of self, determina-tion and a spirit to fight for what was right were themes woven throughout the stories Rosens father told from his daughters life.

Nothing would stop Sara, Allan Rosen said.

He recalled how she stood play-ing with water in a sink while other children in her class gathered as per a teachers instruction. How she pulled an astounded 240-pound male firefighter, wearing 75 pounds of weights, from a smoke-filled room during a training exercise.

How she persevered to another fire hall and was hired when the platoon chief of the first hall she approached said they werent set up to accept women firefighters. Do you have a lock on the door? Do you have a bunk?

Rosen had asked. How emotionally struck she was

when she was with the first fire crew to respond to a devastating fire in two barns at Woodbine Racetrack in August 2002 that killed 31 horses. How unreservedly she had offered a kidney to her brother when his health began to fail. And how she then became a vocal advocate for organ donation.

Many mourners wept when Allan Rosen closed his eulogy by saying, I wont hear my daughter say I love you anymore. Goodbye, Sara. I love you.

Rabbi Tina Grimberg read American poet Mary Olivers poem, When Death Comes because it spoke to Rosens mark on the world, she said.

When its over, I want to say all my life/I was a bride married to amaze-ment... I dont want to end up simply having visited this world, Grimberg read. Sara Rosen did not simply visit this world. She was a bride married to amazement.

Frank Ramagnano, president o f t h e Toronto

Pro f e s s i o n a l Fi re Fi g h t e r s Association, shared messages of condolence offered by Toronto firefighters.

Sara was powerful and fierce. People like Sara make you want to do more in the world to help others, one firefighter said.

Another offered: She was honest, caring and full of life. She was always looking to make things better.

If we had 3,000 Saras, we would have the most successful union in the world, Ramagnano said.

Toronto Fire Chief Jim Sales, who is out of the province, also offered a message of condolence.

The chief said he met Rosen in recent weeks when she spoke with him in his office about her role as a volunteer Toronto ambassador for the Positive Space campaign. The campaign seeks to create a more-inclusive workforce for members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer and two Spirited (LGBTQ2S) com-munities.

I was immediately impressed by Saras grace, profession-alism and her com-mit-

ment to this project. Sara was giving and kind, it was clear to me in our all-too-brief meeting, Sales wrote.

Mike McCoy, Toronto fire deputy chief of operations, said Rosen car-ried out her duties with courage and compassion. He first met Rosen in 2005 when he was her platoon chief.

The position of a firefighter is often dangerous, thankless, and at times, pushes you to limits you never thought you were capable of. It is not an occupation for the faint of heart or something to be entered into lightly. You have to love this job to do it well. Sara did it well.

McCoy said her colleagues will remember Rosen as a truly com-passionate person, a humanitarian with a zest for life and a person with a strong, determined personality.... She was generous and caring, and always eager to lend a hand.

McCoy encouraged mourners to take some comfort in the knowledge Rosen was doing what she loved when her life ended.

On a beautiful spring day, she was living life to the fullest and enjoying every minute of it, he said.

Hundreds of firefighters stood at attention in two lines on either side of Alness Street outside the funeral home as members of the Toronto Professional Fire Fighters ceremonial unit piped Rosens funeral procession to the cemetery.

Memorial donations may be made to the Sara Rosen Memorial Fund, which benefits organ transplants at Toronto General Hospital, mental health causes and The Positive Space Anti-Bullying Campaign.

Donations may be made c/o The Benjamin Foundation, 3429 Bathurst St. Toronto, M6A 2C3. Visit www.benjamins.ca or call 416-780-0324.

Rosen leaves her partner, Jackie Gaistman, children Frelan and Alex and her beloved dog, Brownie, as well as her parents, Allan and Ann, and her brother, Mark.

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Staff photo/DAN PEARCEThe body of Sara Rosen travels to the grave site on the back of a 1939 fire truck after the funeral service at Benjamin's Park Memorial Chapel Monday morning. The Toronto firefighter died last week in a mountain biking accident at the Kelso Conservation Area in Milton.

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voting to cancel, for now, studies on some of the major corridors that form the back-bone of the plan.

Those corridors would include Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue, Kipling Avenue, Jane Street, Kingston

Road, Midland Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard West.

Work would continue on projects already underway: Bloor-Dupont between Keele Street and Sherbourne Street, Yonge Street between Finch Avenue and Sheppard Avenue, and Yonge Street

between Bloor and Front Street.

Works Committee Chair Jaye Robinson moved that amendment in order to incorporate the findings from the Bloor pilot project, which will see bike tracks put in place through the Annex

from Shaw Street to Avenue Road in 2016.

Were trying to find a compromise on this, said Robinson following the vote.

A lot of people would like to see the results of the Bloor bike lane pilot. If you

look at the timetable, a lot of those studies are way into the future. So the goal was to really get the feedback, the data and the learnings from the Bloor pilot. What were going to do is come back in two years and review that.

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said he was happy to see the $16-million funding to go forward.

But Im disappointed to see the major corridor studies have been halted, he said.

Toronto Council will debate the matter at its June meeting.

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stood under the structure on the afternoon of May 13. It goes through the branches like a thread through a needle.

The elaborate tree house first piqued public interest on social media last month, Alpezas wife Diana said. While its a big hit among its young owners and their friends the boys celebrated their birth-days and have impromptu play dates on the ship the tree house has provoked the ire of some of the familys neighbours.

Kate Lawson lives three doors down from the Alpezas. She called the city on behalf of her mother, Marita Bagdonas, who owns the adjacent house.

All I did was ask the city if this was legal, Lawson said. When we look out the kitchen/dining room window, all we basically see is a wall thats probably 20 feet tall thats all overgrown with ivy.

She had to help her mother relocate her garden further south in the yard so that it wasnt caught under the shadow of the tree house.

All her roses and daisies had died, Lawson said. We hang laundry out the back, but now theres no cross breeze.

Since she first made that inquiring phone call, Lawson said she and her mother have felt ostracized by the neighbours.

After receiving the com-plaint about the tree house in the summer of 2014, the city issued Alpeza a Notice of Violation informing him that it was in violation of the citys zoning by-law and that if they didnt bring the tree house into compliance with the citys zoning by-law we would initiate legal action, Mark Sraga, director of inves-tigations, said in an email statement to The Villager.

Alpeza feared the city would force him to tear down the tree house. While there hasnt been any court order or any other type of order issued by the city to remove the tree house, Sraga stressed, altering or removing the structure to comply with the by-law was one of three options staff gave Alpeza to address the issues of exces-sive height and insufficient set back from the property line.

While she is not opposed to parents building tree houses for their kids, Parkdale-High Park Councillor Sarah Doucette says the structure exceeds the maximum per-mitted height.

This structure does not just affect the immediate neighbours, the whole street can see it. Its very, very tall and quite bulky, she said. It shouldnt interfere with the neighbours enjoyment of their properties.

The tree house has been an issue for two years now, Doucette said, adding that

residents will have the opportunity to voice their opinions at the Committee of Adjustment meeting.

Chopping off the top, would be a Frankenstein solution, a crazy surgery. That would only weaken the structure, Alpeza said.

Instead, he is seeking a minor variance. In the meantime, the city will not lay any charges as Alpeza goes through the application process.

I would like to stress that our goal in this matter is simply to gain compli-ance with the citys zoning by-law as we try to work with property owners to achieve that the laying of charges or other court action is our last resort, Sraga said.

Alpeza said he is not only working to appease the city, but also his neighbours.

Whatever their concerns are, I hope I can address them, he said.

Last week, the Alpezas hung a banner on the front of their house to generate support for their plight. Since then, they have welcomed anyone who was curious and wanted to take a look. Marilyn Hall, a nearby resident of Lavinia Avenue, said she had heard about the tree house on the news.

When I saw the banner, I thought Oh, thats where it is. I think its fantastic, she said. If my kids could have had something like this they would have loved it.

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The fate of John Alpezas $30,000 backyard tree house will be decided at an upcoming Comittee of Adjustment meeting June 23.

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Two public meetings are coming up this month to discuss transit proposals for the waterfront.

Waterfront Toronto and city officials will present preliminary design and planning concepts for possible new, yet currently unfunded, transit routes which may include the East Bayfront LRT.

Two meetings are scheduled for the study, with the first taking place Wednesday, May 25 at Brigantine Room inside Harbourfront Centre start-ing at 6 p.m.

Another meeting takes place in Mimico the next day at John English Junior Middle School at 95 Mimico Ave. at 6 p.m.

wLAST CHANCE TO TAKE IN TUNNEL VISIONThe Tunnel Vision subway exhibit is down to its final month.

The installation inside St. Lawrence Market features photographs, maps and other artifacts from nearly

100 years of transit plan-ning, dating well before the opening of the citys first subway stations.

Organized by the Toronto Transportation Society, the exhibit, which opened in February, closes June 11.

wMOVE OVER UBER, HERE COMES APPLEThe legalization of Uber is well at hand, but could another tech giant one day enter the ride-hailing market?

It certainly seems like Apple is interested, with the company announcing last week it is investing $1 bil-lion in a Chinese competi-tor of Uber, and acting as a strategic investor to the company, Didi Chuxing.

Its certainly conceivable Apple will never operate a ride-hailing service on its own.

But the companys deep pockets combined with the burgeoning growth of the industry could mean theres a day when Apple-branded vehicles are providing pri-vate rides in this city, and rivalling Uber in popularity.

wLONGTIME TTC HEAD OF PLANNING HAS RETIREDThe TTCs longtime head of planning has finally called it a day after a career spanning more than three decades.

For 21 years of his career with the city, Mitch Stambler was the com-missions chief planning official, having a hand in developing transit expan-sion projects and plans.

Stambler had a direct role creating the Transit City light rail network plan, and he was also part of planning for the Spadina subway extension.

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w Tuesday, May 24Chair Yoga - Spring SessionWHEN: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Humbercrest United Church, 16 Baby Point Rd. CONTACT: Virginia, [email protected] COST: $55 /nine weeksGentle yoga for seniors, including those with some physical limitations.

w Wednesday, May 25Ready for Reading Toddler StorytimeWHEN: 10:30 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: Free

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w Saturday, May 28Doors Open - Annette Street Public LibraryWHEN: 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: FreeAn original Carnegie Library, Western Library was renamed Annette Street Library in 1962. It is among the old-est Toronto Public Library buildings. Construction started in 1908 using a $20,000 grant from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

w Sunday, May 29Native Plant SaleWHEN: noon to 4 p.m. WHERE: Christie Pits Park, 750 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: 416-631-4438, www.nanps.org, [email protected] COST: FreeNorth American Native Plant Society hosts sale of wildflowers, ferns, grasses and shrubs, information about attracting birds, butterflies

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w Wednesday, June 1Tea and BooksWHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: High Park Library, 228 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: Brian Bertrand, 416-393-7671, [email protected] COST: FreeWondering what to read next? Join librarian Miro Sikura for a cup of tea and a lively presentation of interest-ing books.

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