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Local beauty icon and television personality Rita Stirpe has been nominated for a Contessa Award in the category of Makeup Artist of the Year. Hosted by Salon Magazine, the annual Contessa Awards is one of the most buzzed-about events in Canada’s beauty industry. Currently placed in the top 10 semi-fi nalists in her riding, which were announced in mid-September, Stirpe will run alongside nine fellow makeup gurus from across the country. The fi nalists in each division will be announced in mid-October, followed by the announcement of the winners at the Contessa Gala on Nov. 9, 2014, at the

Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto. With over 15 years of experience in the beauty industry, including her time as host and community producer of Cosmetic Art on Rogers TV, Stirpe is considered Vaughan’s beauty crush, known for beautifying everyone

1. Rita Stirpe, Vaughan-based beauty guru and cofounder of the city’s new Allure Beauty College 2. From weddings to red carpets, natural to glamorous, Stirpe is known for creating a diverse array of fl awless looks 3. The winner of the Contessa Awards’ Makeup Artist category will be announced at the gala in Toronto on Nov. 9

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from brides to Hollywood stars. Stirpe’s nomination is a proud moment for Vaughan and is also timely as the makeup artist and educator launches her own beauty college in the community, Allure Beauty College Inc., this fall. www.salonmagazine.ca

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Ste. Anne’s Spa in Grafton, Ont., is celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness Month by offering a three-night, four-day yoga retreat for breast cancer fi ghters, survivors and their loved ones. Throughout the retreat, which takes place from Oct. 7 to 9, 2014, participants will be led through a gentle yoga program — suited for yogis of all levels — of breath work, restorative yoga, traditional hatha yoga and meditation. The retreat is hosted by Ste. Anne’s resident yoga instructor, Jenn Hall, who is a breast cancer survivor. The retreat includes deluxe accommodation, a $360 spa and wellness allowance, three group meals per day, yoga practices, guided walks, a wellness workshop, a skin care class and more. According to the Canadian Cancer Society, by the end of this year 24,400 women will have been diagnosed with breast cancer. www.steannes.com

PEACEFUL WARRIOR YOGA RETREAT AT STE. ANNE’S SPA — GRAFTON

1. Participants of the Peaceful Warrior Yoga Retreat are provided with yoga mats, blankets, yoga props, pillows and eye pillows for the duration of the retreat 2. The retreat consists of a gentle yoga program suited for women of all levels that includes breath work, restorative yoga, meditation and more 3. Fellow breast cancer survivor Jenn Hall, the resident yoga instructor at Ste. Anne’s, hosts the retreat 4. Ste. Anne’s is recognized as one of Canada’s favourite spas

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Winnipeg-based family business Freed & Freed’snew heritage line might just replace the ubiquitous Canada Goose parka as the de facto uniform for Canadians this winter. Inspired by old English tweed, Freed’s coat collection was unveiled at an exclusive VIP preview at the Ritz-Carlton in downtown Toronto on Aug. 20, 2014, where guests were guided through the luxurious collection by Marissa Freed, the company’s fourth-generation president, who leads its creative direction. Freed & Freed has been long recognized across Canada as the manufacturer of the offi cial uniforms for the Canadian military and RCMP, as well as those of VIA Rail and the Canadian team of athletes at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. The new Freed heritage line by the nearly century-old company is now available at Holt Renfrew, Pink Tartan, Honey, Gotstyle and other high-end retailers. www.freedandfreed.com

The Canadian Alliance of Film & Television Costume Arts & Design returned to TIFF this September to celebrate show-stopping costumes with a star-studded guest list. Spotted was actress Natalie Brown, womenswear designer David Dixon, Toronto Fashion Incubator’s Susan Langdon, Juno-winning R&B artist Jully Black, Fashion Week fi xture Robin Kay and other prominent personalities. The crowd of over 300 got an up-close look at the work of CAFTCAD’s members, which encompasses wardrobe from television (think Master’s size-24 boots from FX’s new horror drama The Strain and 16th-century-inspired garments from CW’s Reign) and fi lm (historical-adventure movie Pompeii, action-packed The Masked Saint and the Romeo and Juliet-inspired dance fi lm Make Your Move ). The Sept. 9 shindig at the Spoke Club on King West continued the non-profi t organization’s mission of promoting Canadian costume design in both industries — with a steady stream of drinks from Tag Vodka, Bear Flag wine and Birra Peroni. www.caftcad.com

FREED HERITAGE LINE PREVIEW AT THE RITZ-CARLTON — TORONTO

CAFTCAD CELEBRATES COSTUME — TORONTO

1. The Montrealer is inspired by the Québécois city 2. The Torontonian was designed for Toronto’s harsh winters 3. The Vancouver embodies the hip vibes of Canada’s West Coast

1. CP24 on-air personality Patricia Jaggernauth 2. Hip-hop artist Kardinal Offi shall 3. Peroni was one of the event’s sponsors 4. Actress Meghan Heffern 5. R&B artist Jully Black, costume designer Antoinette Messam and Zoomer magazine contributing editor Charmaine Gooden

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Since 1964, the Ford Mustang has always, and unabashedly, been a staple of pop culture. This year the sleek and sporty car turns 50 and fi ve global fashion visionaries — American fashion icon Anna Sui, Rogan Gregory and Scott Mackinlay-Hahn of Rogan, luxury handbag designer Paula Cademartori, Tomaso Anfossi and Francesco Ferrari of CO|TE and jewelry designer Pamela Love — joined Ford to celebrate with Mustang Unleashed, a limited-edition line of graphic T-shirts inspired by the car. Each designer created three shirts, which VIPs got a sneak peek of during a preview at Toronto’s Hazelton Hotel on Aug. 27, 2014. Guests were treated to various sweets and a manicure using OPI’s six-shade Ford Mustang collection, such as the aptly named Race Red. Mustang Unleashed, produced by Loomstate, is now available exclusively on Gilt. www.gilt.com/unleashed

FORD UNLEASHES MUSTANG T-SHIRTS — TORONTO

1. Mustang Unleashed T-shirt collection preview at Hazelton Hotel 2. Brazilian-born designer Paula Cademartori’s glamour T-shirt for women 3. Candy bar of Hershey’s Kisses, sour gummy keys, chewy red berries and other delights

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On Aug.16, 2014, the Kleinburg Leo Club held its premier large-scale event — a four-hour dodgeball tournament at Trio Sportsplex — in support of the Canadian Diabetes Association. Five teams of 10 participated to bring awareness to diabetes and the importance of a healthy lifestyle for both diabetics and non-diabetics. In between games, players donned cowboy hats, sunglasses, Hawaiian garlands and other wacky accessories at the photo booth table set up by the club. Some even sported hairbands with cat ears as their uniform, but it was the Mighty Dodgers in Nike headbands who were the best dressed and winning team. At night, about 30 people

headed to Kleinburg’s much-loved bakery Dolcini by Joseph for awards and a silent auction fi lled with prizes ranging from Amado Salon hair products to Telus phone holders. Guests enjoyed a special diabetic dessert from Dolcini by Joseph and hors d’oeuvres from The Doctor’s House. The event raised close to $3,000. www.e-leoclubhouse.org/sites/kleinburg

1. Dolcini by Joseph owners Maria and Joseph Montinaro 2. Kleinburg Leo Club president Maddalena Vani 3. Guests outside the pastry and cake shop’s Kleinburg location 4. Fruit cheesecake from Dolcini by Joseph

DODGE4DIABETES WITH THE KLEINBURG LEOS — VAUGHAN

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On Sept. 20, Shyamora Luxury Homes celebrated with friends, family and guests as it launched the grand opening of Manors of Kleinburg, a new community of custom homes. This new development strays from the uniformity of most subdivisions by creating a map of unique estates. Shyamora Luxury Homes offers clients one-on-one consultations with award-winning architect Gus Ricci and an award-winning interior designer to ensure that custom wish lists are realized. The grand opening celebration depicted luxury at its fi nest, with guests served a glass of white wine and a delicious buffet from Efi nka — Catering With Elegance.www.shyamora.com

SHYAMORA LUXURY HOMES CELEBRATES GRAND OPENING OF THE MANORS OF KLEINBURG — VAUGHAN

The Manors of Kleinburg will be comprised of custom-designed estates to refl ect each homeowner’s individuality

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After Vaughan’s leading lifestyle publication City Life Magazine unveiled its new cover design for its August/September 2014 issue, Masthead, the premier website destination for the periodical industry, picked up the story and reported on the magazine’s new look and direction.

The piece outlined how City Life ’s redesign displays a modern and cutting-edge art style that matches its bold new content. The logo redesign is also refl ected in the publication’s digital platform citylifemagazine.ca, which is also undergoing a full revamp, along with its parent company, Dolce Media Group (previously named Dolce Publishing Inc.).

Since 2002, City Life has published nearly 75 issues and this new direction represents an evolution of the brand. “We are a complete media house from print to web and everything else in between,” says Fernando Zerillo, cofounder and creative director of Dolce Media Group. “City Life’s new visual identity needed to match our new editorial direction, which has a heavier focus on investigative and impactful stories. We couldn’t be more proud of this new direction.” www.mastheadonline.com

MASTHEAD CELEBRATES CITY LIFE ’S NEW COVER AND CONTENT — TORONTO

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BINDER TWINE RETURNS TO KLEINBURG FOR 48TH YEAR — KLEINBURG

1. Festival-goers stopped by Inverno Snow Management’s booth to enter a ballot for free snow removal 2. A true family affair, Binder Twine entertained the kiddies with face painting and other fun-fi lled activities

On Sept. 6, 2014, the Binder Twine Festival returned to the quaint village of Kleinburg for its 48th year. A rural tradition dating back to the 1800s, when farmers visited the community to purchase twine, the annual celebration was once again packed with family fare, juried craft exhibitors and Olde Tyme activities, namely and most notably a spoof of traditional beauty pageants known as the Queen Contest. From fl ipping pancakes to milking a cow, eligible young ladies, aged 16 and over, exercised their pioneer skills for the chance to draw a winning ticket for the festival’s Quilt Raffl e. A nod to a simpler time, Binder Twine, organized and run by over 800 volunteers, is a celebration of the community for the community – with proceeds going toward local schools and clubs. www.bindertwine.ca

MAPLE DENTAL HEALTH’S PATIENT APPRECIATION BBQ EVENT — VAUGHAN

Dr. Paul Sclodnick, his team and his clients raise money for Hemophilia Ontario at Appreciation BBQ

Great food, live music and a Yogurty’s food truck made for a picture-perfect Sunday as friends and patients of Dr. Paul Sclodnick and his associates at Maple Dental Health gathered at the clinic’s Patient Appreciation BBQ on Aug. 10, 2014. Over $800 was raised during the event in support of Hemophilia Ontario, a national voluntary health charity that strives to improve the health and quality of life of people with inherited bleeding disorders and, ultimately, to fi nd a cure. The raised amount was matched by Dr. Sclodnick, bringing the clinic’s total donation closer to $2,000. www.mapledentalhealth.com

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This October, Canada’s biggest independent paint store, Steeles Paint, is bringing back its Give to Pink campaign, which last year raised over $25,000 for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation — Ontario Region (CBCF). In honour of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, all October long Steeles Paint will donate $1 from every purchased can of Benjamin Moore eco-friendly paint or Para Paints’ zero-VOC paint. New this year is the Give to Pink photo booth, where visitors to the store can donate to don fun, angel-themed props and pose for the camera in honour of breast cancer awareness. All pictures taken in the booth will be posted on the store’s “Wall of Angels.” The campaign will wrap on Nov. 1 with a cheque presentation to CBCF.www.steelespaint.com

STEELES PAINT LAUNCHES SECOND ANNUAL GIVE TO PINK FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN — VAUGHAN

1. This year’s Give to Pink T-shirt will be worn by the Steeles Paint team throughout the month of October, and can be purchased as a form of donation 2. The Steeles Paint team is all smiles3. The graphic on this year’s Give to Pink T-shirt is as fun as it is inspiring

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There are still 10 minutes to go before the doors open to this year’s Feast of Fields Organic Food Festival, yet there are about three-dozen cars lined up at the entrance. Foodies, Earth lovers and those who are a little bit of both have trekked to the rolling pastures of Cold Creek Conservation Area in Nobleton, Ont., for the annual event.

Founded by Jamie Kennedy, Michael Stadtländer and a select group of culinary masters, Feast of Fields is more of a massive picnic in the park than a culinary festival. This year, nearly a hundred vendors of organic food, wine, beer and other delights wait at their stations to tend to curious patrons, all of whom carry a wine glass and plate for taste-testing. It’s bigger than it’s ever been, and yet despite the event’s evolution, president Daniel Gilbert says it still stays true to the philosophy it was founded upon.

“This all began more than 25 years ago, when we decided to put an event together that would bring organic chefs and organic farmers together,” says Gilbert. “It was also to promote organic agriculture and organic products to everyone. And we’ve been reasonably successful,

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because now organics is getting to be pretty much mainstream, so this is really a celebration of how far we’ve come.”

Navigating through the maze of vendors, who are scattered strategically to prevent lineups and promote vendor-patron dialogue, guests get to savour the delicious diversity of the organic world. Vancouver-based Sip, which creates natural craft soda, shows off its naturally sweetened bubblies (the Lavender Lemon Peel is a must-try), while the Orangeville Dinner Series dishes out samples from an assortment of crafty meals (gazpacho with goat cheese, a summer-vegetable fritter from the Mono Cliffs Inn and pulled pork wrapped in brussels sprout leaves are just a few options). Chef Suman Roy from Toronto’s Wild Burger is blowing guests’ minds and taste buds with his burgers made from wild game. While the new restaurant has become renowned across the city for serving scrumptiously unexpected burgers — think ostrich, camel, crab and kangaroo — today Roy is sampling his wild rabbit slider, made from locally hunted meat.

“We work directly with our Aboriginal partners who do the hunting,” says Roy, who has been participating in Feast of Fields for the past eight years. “Everything is made fresh in-house — even our bun is a proprietary recipe, and everything is scratch-made.”

The rest of the vendors range from big city stars like the Drake Hotel’s Alexandra Feswick, Wanda’s Pie in the Sky from Kensington Market and Steam Whistle Brewery, to small-town sensations like Caledon-based Pommies Dry Cider, the Orangeville Dinner Series and Nature’s Emporium from Newmarket and Vaughan. But no matter where they came from, the chefs and restaurant and organic gurus spend some time with each guest who moseys by their stations.

“At the end of the day, I really hope Feast of Fields helps people see just how interesting and good tasting and beautifully presented organic food can be,” says Gilbert. “I want them to hold those tastes with them and remember where they got it and remember that it’s organic.”www.feastoffi elds.org

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1. This year’s Feast of Fields was the biggest yet with tons of booths boasting organic, artisan products from across the GTA and Canada 2. Event-goers sipped and savoured their way through the festival 3. From fi ne wines to handmade salsas and everything in between, Feast of Fields provided an unforgettable culinary experience 4. The inspiration didn’t stop at the edibles — eye-catching works of art could be found throughout the festival5. One vendor took advantage of end-of-summer’s sweet peaches

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