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RSS FeedsA healing Danforth looks back, one year after the unimaginable
(The Star Religion)

 
 

20 july 2019 09:16:28

 
A healing Danforth looks back, one year after the unimaginable
(The Star Religion)
 


Step for step, smile for smile, it is the Danforth again: the same endlessly friendly village-within-a-city that has beckoned Toronto for decades.The shops are hopping and the sidewalk patios are packed as the high heat of summer takes hold. Fruit stands bulge with colour. The human-scale hum of buying and selling, eating and relaxing, or even just strolling the street to take in the glory of Greektown — it’s almost as if July 22, 2018, never happened.But scratch the surface ever so slightly and the wounds remain painfully raw. The collective shock of a random, senseless shooting spree that knocked this most welcoming of Toronto neighbourhoods off its axis a year ago echoes loudly.And it will echo even louder this weekend in what is shaping up to be a delicate balancing act of commemorations, one intended as a solemn candlelit vigil of remembrance, the other a nearly-as-solemn celebration of #DanforthStrong, paying tribute to the city’s first responders and this caring community’s resilience.The tension between those impulses — wanting never to forget the victims, yet wanting this anniversary to be the turning point that puts a lid on the lingering trauma — is evident throughout the village, even in the second-floor office of Philip Kocev, the designated spokesperson for the Danforth Business Improvement Association.Kocev, who runs a real estate brokerage, knows there is no going forward without looking back. His role with the BIA requires him to emphasize the Danforth’s “vibrant recovery” because everyone’s livelihood depends on it. But all he need do is glance out his window and “the hairs on my neck stand up” — there, right across the street, is the very spot where the shooter fell and died a year ago, taking his own life after taking two others and leaving behind a meandering trail of 13 others wounded.“The short answer is yes, of course, the Danforth is back,” Kocev to ...


 
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