East York arts fair celebrates 10 years
The Danforth East Arts Fair celebrated its tenth anniversary last weekend, and featured the work of dozens of local artists.
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East Yorkers sing together to remember Gord Downie
Singing their favourite Hip songs at least a 100 people gathered to celebrate the life of Gord Downie in East York
Revitalizing the Danforth with pop-up shops
In the spring of 2012, the east Danforth commercial vacancy rate was 17 per cent and nearly one in five stores lay empty. It was a quiet section of an otherwise bustling city neighbourhood.
Community group roughs it overnight to support Syrian refugees
When the image of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on a beach in Turkey, was published, it hit Elizabeth Dove hard.
“There was a burning local need to help, and (there were) people who wanted to do something, but had no idea where to start,” she said. “We have the space; we have the ability and frankly there is a moral imperative.”