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Fewer tickets issued amid work-to-rule campaign BY JEREMY GRIMALDI

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work-to-rule campaign by York Regional Police has coincided with a huge drop in the number of traffic tickets being handed out to York Region drivers. Between June 27 and July 17, 2,630 tickets were handed out. During the same time last year, 7,791 tickets were issued. That’s a 66-per-cent drop. This compares to an uptick in the tickets handed out in the three weeks leading up to the action, between June 6 to June 26, 2016 – a rise of almost 1,000 when compared to last year. In response to the action, which also includes officers wearing pins and speaking to drivers about the reasons behind the labour strife, the deputy chief has called for officers to “fulfill their legislated and moral obligation” to keep York Region roads safe. “It has been made clear to all members that our expectation is they will continue to act in a responsible, professional and respectful manner in their day-to-day duties,” Deputy Chief Tom Carrique said. “We care about the safety of road users in our community… we will not allow community safety to be compromised in any way.” But it’s not just fewer tickets that are

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being doled out, there’s also been a significant rise in the number of warnings issued by officers, rising by more than 1,000 – 2,195 to 3,218 – between June 27 and July 17. The issue of tickets has been a flashpoint among frontline police officers and the service’s executive command team for years. In 2015, yorkregion.com published a leaked memo to officers detailing how many tickets officers are obliged to hand out – 260 tickets each month for each 30-man platoon. The union complained that “ticket quotas” hinder an officer’s ability to do the job, limiting their discretion on whether to give a ticket or a warning. However, Carrique defended the “performance indicators” and said traffic safety and speeding is almost always the top concern for residents around the region. This is not the only area of strife. Officers overwhelmingly voted to begin

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York Regional Police Const. Todd Stewart hands out a fine to a driver in this file photo. A workto-rule campaign by police has coincided with a significant drop in the number of traffic tickets being issued to drivers.

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Taxes would rise up to $60 on home assessed at $500K BY TERESA LATCHFORD

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urora residents may be looking at a tax hike of more than 3 per cent in 2017. Town council recently discussed budget preparations. The report recommended the net tax increase for the base operating budget be aligned with the consumer price index, reported at 2.3 per cent, plus a 1-per-cent increase to top up capital reserve funds. For a home assessed at $500,000, the increase would be between $55.30 and $60.33.

The nine report recommendations also suggest staff address current budget under funding, such as utilities, within the set budget and new funding be levied for additional projects requested by council. Councillor Harold Kim took issue with the suggestion that the Aurora Public Library, Aurora Cultural Centre and Aurora Historical Society each receive a designated budget funding amount. “I do believe culture is valuable in our town, but if (these organizations) See page A10.

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Aurora council is looking at a potential tax increase between 3.3 and 3.6 per cent as its budget process begins.

POINT/COUNTERPOINT

Should York police make same cuts being eyed in Toronto?

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BY CHRISTINE VAN GEYN

Canadians Taxpayer Federation

Despite a dropping crime rate, York Region continues to hire more police officers and spend more on policing. Thirty cents of every dollar in the 2016 York Region operating budget is going to the police and net spending is set to increase by 3.4 per cent per year on average until 2018. While other police boards across the GTA are pulling back on new hires and making attempts to bring their budgets under control, York Region council appears to have no interest in restraint. Despite York Region having the lowest crime rates for a municipality of its size, the York Region council approved a 2015 budget that could see as many as 180 new police staff hired over four years and 22 new staff actually hired in 2016. Meanwhile, a Toronto task force has recommended a freeze on hiring and promotions that would see 350 fewer officers by next year. The Toronto task force also recommended merging divisions and using civilians rather than the highly paid uni-

formed officers for certain duties. The Toronto task force proposals are designed to save $100 million over three years, the vast bulk of which comes from savings in officers’ salaries. Salaries make up a huge component of the cost of policing in Ontario and York Region has extremely expensive police, with 70 per cent of officers earning more than $100,000. Police are an important and necessary part of our communities, but if crime rates are dropping and budgets are soaring, those new officers and their six-figure salaries will mean higher and higher property tax rates. York Region should take a page from Toronto’s book and look at ways of bringing the police budget under control. Salary and hiring freezes and an increased use of non-uniformed civilian police staff could be an important first step and it is something York council must consider.

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The radical changes being proposed for the Toronto Police Services reflect a fundamental lack of understanding of the police profession, why police services exist and the critical state of our social systems. To begin with, any document that speaks of the “business of policing” brings its entire credibility into question. Policing has never been a business. Policing is a public service. Policing is a social enterprise and must be carried out person to person. Technology can enable but can never replace this person-to-person contact. Police officers cannot be casual encounters in the public they serve, but must be part of it. Closing down precincts and removing a sustained presence in a community runs counter to the tenets of the community

policing model. The reality is that the cost of policing has gone up. Mandated training and procedural costs to process a charge in time and money have increased. Most importantly, these additional burdens are focused on protecting the rights of Canadian citizens. Eighty per cent of police calls deal with non-criminal related events/activities. Policing is one of a number of public services designed to serve society, but policing is designed to serve as the backstop when all other avenues fail. Every time a police service has to respond, the response represents a breakdown of our social system. The police, once called, are morally and legally obligated to respond: they cannot say no regardless of cost. The report fails to address the core issue in policing and that is the cost of salaries and benefits, which makes up anywhere from 85 to 95 per cent of a police service’s budget. Dismantling the police profession through civilianization, stopping recruiting and promotions causes more problems than they actually solve.

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IMPAIRED: Detection of drugs tricky, police say Drug-impaired driving often under reported and may be becoming as prevalent as alcohol impaired driving soon. The RCMP, Ontario Ministry of Transportation, and the Canadian Society of Forensic Science - Drugs and Driving Committee (DDC) are conducting research to test three roadside oral fluid drug screening devices that can help nab drugimpaired drivers and are becoming increasingly commercially available and being used in other countries, including Australia, which has been among the leading countries using such devices, which work by measuring drug levels in saliva. These devices are similar to Approved Screening Devices used to detect alcohol. But, before Canadian police forces could begin using such a device, there would have to be changes made to the Criminal Code of Canada that would allow roadside drug screening to become part of existing drunk driving statutes. Peel Regional Police Const. Alex Scarchilli, who works out of the Peel force’s Road Safety Services Unit and is the coordinator for the force’s 12 DRE officers, said these officers use investigative instincts and physical observations to detect drug impairment. Officers who are trained and qualified may also conduct standard field sobriety tests, he said. These include asking the driver to walk and turn or stand on one leg.

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DRUG-IMPAIRED DRIVING The majority of impaired driving incidents reported by police to Statistics Canada are alcoholrelated, while three per cent are reported to be drug-related. However, RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Harold Pfleiderer said this is a misnomer as “roadside surveys and research suggest that drugimpaired driving is under reported and is actually becoming as prevalent as alcohol impaired driving.” Pfleiderer said the national police force administers Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) training and oversees standards in conjunction with police partners across Canada. DRE officers, used by GTA police forces, can put a suspected drug impaired individual through a standardized series of psychophysical tests as well as using clinical indicators to determine if they are impaired by drugs and if so, potentially point to the type of drug that has been used. This, in conjunction with toxicology results and driving evidence, can then be used as evidence in court, Pfleiderer said. In 2008, changes to the Criminal Code of Canada were implemented that provided police with the tools and powers to enhance the enforcement of drug-impaired driving. Police have the authority to demand that a suspected drug-

ONE TOKE OVER? As Ottawa prepares to legalize marijuana for recreational use, police are girding for a spike in drivers who find themselves one toke over the line. “Certainly, the potential is there,” said Sgt. David Wallbank, provincial coordinator of the OPP’s drug evaluation and classification program. More than 220 OPP officers are trained to detect drug impairment in motorists, and that number will rise as pot moves into the mainstream.

Unlike alcohol and the well-known breathalyzer, there is no universally accepted roadside test for drug impairment, police say.

“The RCMP uses all the tools, technologies and legislation that is approved and available to deter, detect and stop individuals from driving under the influence of any intoxicant,” Pfleiderer said. “The RCMP does not currently use a breathalyzer to detect potential drug impairment but would welcome any approved device that

would help police officers detect and remove impaired drivers from our roads to help keep Canadians safer.” But, here is the issue: how much drugs in a driver’s system is too much? Unlike alcohol and the well-known breathalyzer, there is no universally accepted roadside test for drug impairment. This is just one of a number of challenges officers face in charging drug-impaired drivers and seeing a conviction in court. There is no legal limit for drugs allowed in the body and police don’t have a device similar to a breathalyzer that allows them to test for drug

“We are trying to train as many officers as we can, especially with the pending legalization,” Wallbank said. Lacking the equivalent of the breathalyzers that detect alcohol, police employ a variety of techniques to reveal impairment by marijuana and other drugs. Investigations begin at the roadside. Officers trained in standardized field sobriety testing conduct a three-step evaluation: following a pen or finger with the eyes while the head is kept stationary, walking and turning and a one-leg stand. “It can be used on either alcohol or drugs,”

Wallbank said. Drivers who fail are arrested and brought to the detachment where, in the case of suspected drug use, they are brought before a drug recognition evaluator. “They do a 12-step battery of tests,” Wallbank said. Alcohol is initially ruled out through a breath sample, followed by an interview of the arresting officer. The driver undergoes a battery of tests and examinations that include blood pressure and pulse readings, a darkroom examination of pupil sizes, and other

impaired driver submit to a drug influence evaluation and that the person provide a sample of blood, urine, or oral fluid to test for the presence of “impairing substances.”

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impairment. Alcohol impairment has an established Blood Alcohol Content limit of 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood (80 mg%) that can be determined by trained police officers using Approved Screening Devices, more commonly known as breathalyzers. “Canada does not currently have legal limits established for drugs. When legal limits are set by legislators the RCMP will enforce the legislation as written,” Pfleiderer said. Police are hoping to have a new tool to test for drug impairment

indicators of possible drug use, including flaccid muscle tone. Samples of urine, saliva or blood are taken to be analyzed by the Centre of Forensic Sciences in Toronto. However, the presence of a drug in a sample is not sufficient to charge an individual with impaired driving. The evaluation, in its totality, must show impairment, including the evaluator’s observations. “Then it’s up to the judge to make the determination whether or not the person was impaired at the time,” Wallbank said.

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EDITORIAL Canada needs solution to reduce number of impaired driving deaths

SOCIAL MEDIA Pokémon GO players shot at with pellet gun in Newmarket; woman charged DU MO — lol it sounded like the Kennedy assassination ‘there was a shooter on the roof....SWAT teams arrived....’ Bill Kukulewich — Was it part of the peril. Was she under contract with Nintendo LOL Nicole Alonzi — This is a game. It’s supposed to be fun. What’s happening in our world. Stop this. Protect our kids. What is happening? Keep our kids safe. York Region public board applicants forced to pay third-party company to apply for jobs Gail Cynthia Copeland — Ludicrous! It was set up by school board bureaucrats for their benefit only. School board staff really don’t live in the real world. None of the other big online job boards require applicants to pay any sort of fee. Daren Goodchild — So let me get this straight. People who have no job and are looking to make money, are now going to have to PAY to look for a job and make money? Who’s light bulb idea was that. Corrie Carpenter — I have!!! I have paid twice though, not the once mentioned above to apply.....didn’t think it was a good thing but really wanted a good job for my kids. I guess I was the dumb one.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Viva rapidways can help emergency responses I had occasion to call an ambulance for a family member to go the Southlake Regional Health Centre emergency department at the end of June. And I have recently returned to a former bad habit: smoking. Since two of us were at emergency with our family member, I felt it was OK to go outside and have a cigarette. As most people who utilize the hospital services of Southlake are probably aware, one can no longer smoke anywhere on hospital property. You have to go off the property to indulge in your habit. So I was standing on the sidewalk on Davis Drive in front of the hospital indulging in my bad habit when I heard the sirens of an ambulance coming. I looked at the traffic jam in front of me and thought, “How is the ambulance ever going to get through all those bumper-to-bumper cars that are stopped?” Since the population of Newmarket has grown so much in the last couple of decades, we tend to face all-day rush hour now. And, lo and behold, the ambulance came speeding along the Viva lane that did not have any buses in it at the time. He made it into the emergency ambulance garage in what seemed like record time to me. I was in awe. That ambulance being able to get through the rush hour-type traffic so quickly may have saved that patient’s life. And so I had to re-think my own complaints about this formerly unavailable lane that is often empty. I do not recall anyone announcing that these Viva lanes could be used by our first responders to emergencies. And so I felt I had to let other people know how this Viva lane, that is often empty, could be used for first responders on their way to an emergency. Minutes and seconds matter in these kinds of life-or-death situations. I know if a loved one was in an emergency and I called 911, I would hope they would arrive very quickly and not get stuck in traffic. Perhaps a lot of people share my former negative thinking about “that empty lane” as they sit in a local traffic jam. As things would happen, I was driving south on Yonge Street toward Mulock Drive last Saturday and I was saddened to see a collision, where one of the cars involved had ended upside down with the driver still inside. As I sat in the traffic jam that had built up, waiting for the traffic light at William Roe Boulevard

to change to green, I heard the sound of an ambulance siren. There was a crowd around the vehicle that was upside down and I watched as the ambulance got stuck in the traffic jam as they tried to make it to the overturned vehicle. A lone man ran out trying to get the backed up cars to move so the ambulance could get through the cars and I thought of that recent afternoon I had watched the ambulance on Davis speed along the Viva lane and get into the garage at Southlake. Perhaps we should be celebrating the Viva lanes coming down Yonge now, instead of complaining. Those Viva lanes will be coming close to our house and I know that in the type of emergency that requires a 911 call, we always hope those first responders will get to us as soon as possible. Because when there is an emergency, who are you going to call? 911. And you also will probably hope they get to your place as soon as possible.

Mary McKinnon Newmarket

Appointing runner-up makes sense in Ward 5 Re: Longtime Newmarket Ward 5 Councillor Joe Sponga resigns, June 30 I learned with regret that Councillor Joe Sponga has resigned from his job as representative for Ward 5. As a resident of Ward 5, there is need to fill the position quickly so residents, such as myself, have a voice on council. Appointing John Heckbert, the runner-up to Joe Sponga in the recent municipal election, to the vacant position of Ward 5 councillor makes good sense for a number of reasons: 1. The runner-up, John Heckbert, canvassed the ward, as Mr Sponga did, and conversed with residents in the ward about their needs; 2. He also had to fund his original municipal election campaign and if a byelection is called, then he would be incurring an additional personal expense; 3. He didn’t disappear once the municipal election results were known and has been active in the community as indicated by reports in The Era; 4. By appointing the runnerup, the town would have a full slate of councillors and the residents would have a representative immediately on council — not next year or whenever; 5. The Town of Newmarket

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would save many tax dollars; Would all the residents of Newmarket pay for the byelection, if that was the decision, or just the residents of Ward 5? 6. I ask the municipal elected officials a question: If you were runner-up to the position you hold now, would you want to be appointed or face additional costs to serve for about two years of the present term? 7. From a resident’s perspective, if the runner-up doesn’t do stellar job with his appointment, he is out at the next municipal election. Thanks for taking the time to read this approach to filling the Ward 5 vacancy quickly by appointing John Heckbert as councillor.

Bryan Allen Newmarket

Sign needed to remind cyclists to be courteous I called the Town of Newmarket today concerning cyclists not letting pedestrians know they are coming up behind them. They told me they really couldn’t do anything about this problem. This morning, my husband and I were walking around 7 a.m. on the path that goes around Fairy Lake, which we have done for years almost every morning. There were a few people on bicycles and most of them did not let us know they were coming up behind us. One gentleman came so close to knocking me over that I felt I just had to say something. Why couldn’t they put up a sign saying either use a bell on your bicycle or shout out that you are coming up behind people on the path? Thank you for letting me vent about this problem.

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guess I am a traditionalist (although some call it something else) when it comes to the lyrics of O Canada, our zippy little national anthem that we play over a speaker system at my house everyday at 5 a.m. sharp, 7 a.m. on weekends. We stand at attention and smell the backbacon and maple syrup and Tim Hortons coffee and just let our chests fill with pride, before watching reruns of the Trailer Park Boys. Actually, not really. But we are proud to be Canadians and see enough on the news to realize we’re lucky to live where we do and it would be great, as far as our country is concerned, if we did not screw it up. So I was disappointed to hear that no longer will schoolchildren sing “In all thy sons command”, (since it’s only children who sing the anthem, admit it – adults stand silently at hockey games and such, never opening their mouths, since that’s not cool, to actually show you care) but rather “in all of us command”, the word sons being expunged at the request of an ill MP. And that’s fine. Nice gesture. It’s just that, Canada seems to have been running fairly well for ages with the lyrics we have. Why mess with it? And why stop there? There are MPs whose last names end with “son”: Garrison, Malcolmson, Peterson. Will they change their names to Garrichild, Peterchild and so on as soon as they have the chance? Perhaps we can also change the name of the province just west of ours to Personitoba. But back to the anthem. What about “true patriot love”? Patriot having its origins in “patrios” or “of the father”, as in the evil patriarchy and all that. (As opposed to maternal love, of the mother, Mother Earth, etc.) Should we not have changed that, too, while we were at it? To what would we change it? Something cool! Hunka burnin’ love? They call it puppy love? Whole lotta love? Unconditional love? (Although it does seem conditional — if taxes go up or our government payments go down, we get angry.) A groovy kind of love? Perhaps you get my point, even if you’re not McLovin’ it. My point being, we seem to change things as hallowed as the national anthem pretty easily and have little respect for tradition. I don’t imagine you would see Americans changing the words of the beautiful God Bless America — from “her” to “it” — Gold Bless America, land that I love, stand beside it, and guide it — because a politician said the lyrics were sexist. Americans can be silly, but not that silly. Not as silly as us. Although I guess it would only be deemed sexist if the original word was him, and not her. Then there was the singing group that changed the lyrics of O Canada at baseball’s all-star game to “all lives matter”. Hunh? But then I’m not sure why anyone is upset, since Canada so casually changed words already. Announcer: “Ladies and gentleman... pardon me, will ‘all of us’ please stand for the singing of our national anthem. Feel free to make up your own lyrics and change any words you may offensive. Audience: O Canada, our politically correct land, although maybe it’s not really our land, we stole if from the First Nations! With glowing hearts we see thee rise, the true north gentle and passive, from far and wide O Canada, we find “standing on guard”* too militaristic! God (or whoever, since some of us are atheists) keep our land (although as previously mentioned, it’s not really “our” land, per se) glorious and free (although sometimes we wonder how free we really are anymore), O Canada we stand on guard* (some conditions apply) for thee, O Canada we stand on guard* for thee! et

anada, we need to talk. A recent study by the U.S.-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examined the percentage of road deaths linked to alcohol impairment for 19 wealthy countries and the results aren’t good. Canada led all of the nations studied with alcohol impairment found to be a factor in 33.6 per cent of its road fatalities. That puts Canada ahead of the U.S., New Zealand and Australia, where alcohol impairment was involved in 31 per cent of road deaths. We’re also significantly higher than the average rate of 19 per cent. Needless to say, this isn’t the sort of ranking in which any nation wants to place first. In the opinion of Robert Solomon, professor of law at Western University and national legal director of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, this country’s dismal performance is owed to it having among the “dumbest impaired-driving laws on the face of the planet.” “I find it somewhat sad that it takes a study by the CDC to get the attention of the Canadian public,” Solomon told Jim Coyle of the Toronto Star, adding lawmakers have been hearing for years that Canada has among the world’s worst records when it comes to drunk driving-related fatalities and injuries. While measures such as graduated licensing and a requirement that drivers under 21 have a zero blood-alcohol content (BAC) have helped, Solomon says Canada lags behind many other nations that have already dropped the bloodalcohol threshold for impaired driving from 0.08 to 0.05 and introduced mandatory breath screening. Police have the power to pull over any motorist and request for ownership, licence and insurance information, but they need reasonable grounds to request a breath sample. According to Solomon, this requirement allows a significant number of drivers who have been drinking, and many impaired motorists, to evade detection. Mandatory breath-screening has resulted in a reduction in deaths and injuries in every jurisdiction in which it has been introduced, Solomon says. According to Coyle’s piece, legislation permitting mandatory breathscreening has passed second reading in the House of Commons and is due for further study this fall. While it may not be a panacea, it’s a good start. As a nation, we clearly need to have an honest conversation about how to reduce the number of impaired driving fatalities and injuries on our roads, because this is one first-place ranking we definitely don’t want to retain.

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Today Learn to Sew with Anne-Marie Schlodder July 28 & Aug. 4, 6:30 to 8 p.m. East Gwillimbury Public Library - Holland Landing, 19513 Yonge St. Learn basic sewing machine skills while creating fun projects. Bring sharp scissors, ruler or measuring tape. See sample projects at the branch. Ages 13+. Ages 10-12 may participate with adult. Register. Cost is $42.50. Contact: info@egpl.ca, 905-836-6492, www.egpl.ca Men Wanted Who Love To Sing July 28 & Aug. 4, 7 to 9:30 p.m. Sharon Hope United Church, 18648 Leslie St. Experience the joy of singing four-part a cappella harmony in the company of friends, while supporting our communities through various events. Contact: Dave McCaffrey, info@uccchorus.com, 289-648-6300. Discovery Days for Kids July 28 & Aug. 4, 1 to 3:30 p.m. Hillary House National Historic Site, 15372 Yonge St. in Aurora. Join the Aurora Historical Society for our summer children’s program Discovery Days for Kids! Each day will consist of a kid-friendly tour of Hillary House National Historic Site followed by a fun heritage craft or activity. Programs include Medical Detectives, Nature Seekers, Arts and Craft, Back to School, and our ever-popular Dig It! Visit aurorahs.com for more details. Contact: Leigha Cooney, leigha.cooney@aurorahs.com, 905-727-8991. Kids Tech Lab: Inventing with Makey Makey July 28, 6:30 p.m. East Gwillimbury Public Library - Holland Landing, 19513 Yonge St. Explore new tech at this fun and interactive workshop! Ages 6-10. Contact: info@egpl.ca, 905-836-6492, www.egpl.ca AHS Speaker Series: Karen Edwards July 28, 7 to 9 p.m. Hillary House National Historic Site, 15372 Yonge St. in Aurora. Join the AHS and Karen Edwards as she recounts the history of Spadina House and the Austin family. Cost: $5 for members, $7 for non-members. Contact: Leigha Cooney, leigha.cooney@aurorahs.com, 905-727-8991.

Tomorrow Lego & Play July 29, 10:30 a.m. East Gwillimbury Public Library - Mount Albert branch, 19300 Centre St. It’s time to build! Get Creative with Lego! Ages 5+. Drop in. Register. Contact: info@egpl.ca, 905-473-2472, www.egpl.ca Newmarket Jazz+ Festival July 29 to Aug. 1, various times. Ray Twinney Recreation Complex, 100 Eagle St. W. The Newmarket Jazz Festival is at multiple locations this year including the Ray Twinney Recreation Complex, Riverwalk Commons, Main Street and more. See website for complete festival details and ticket information. Contact: 905-841-6893. Builder’s Club July 29, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. East Gwillimbury Public Library - Holland Landing, 19513 Yonge St. Ages 5+. Free. Drop in. Put your engineering skills to the test! Build different structures from unique and ordinary materials! Please Register. Contact: info@egpl.ca, 905-836-6492, www.egpl.ca

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Mount Albert’s Rose family really digs potatoes BY SIMON MARTIN

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n a sweltering summer day at Rose Family Farm in Mount Albert, Wilf Rose knew just the place to cool off.

“Let’s head to cold storage,” he said.

Rose, the fifth generation to have worked the farmstead on Centre Street, trudged through the dirt toward the homemade cold storage unit that could best be described as a giant insulated tent. In front of the entrance, a few stray potatoes lay in the muck.

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The cold air within was a welcome relief. Potatoes were piled knee-high on the dirt floor, but the tent was more empty than full. “This is what we have left from last year,” Rose said. Potatoes are the Rose Family Farm’s main crop now, but that wasn’t always the case. The agricultural roots of the Rose family run deep as they have worked the land on Centre Street since 1840. Potatoes were never Wilf’s crop. He farmed pigs and cattle. The advent of potatoes on the farm came from Wilf’s son, Trevor Rose. The younger Rose started small, selling potatoes on the side of Hwy. 48 when he was 16 years old. When he took over farming duties from Wilf, Trevor told his dad he was getting out of livestock. His father didn’t have a problem with that. “I had my day, now it’s his turn,” Wilf said. While the fields are mainly full of potato hills, the Roses provide other goods to sell out of their farm store that operates everyday from May 24 to Oct. 31. Strawberry sea-

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Wilfred and Norma Rose sell fresh potatoes, fries, berries and more from their family farm in the East Gwillimbury community of Mount Albert. For more agriculture stories, visit yorkregion.com. son is just wrapping up, notes Wilf’s wife Norma. They also grow pumpkins and sell pies and meat. However, the biggest draw might actually be the chip truck that is open Friday to Sunday and turns Rose potatoes into some of the finest french fries you can find locally. “It’s not too complicated. We just soak ’em in water and put them in,” Wilf said of the family french fry recipe. The interest in eating local food has certainly helped business at Rose’s.

“Every year we get more and more interest locally,” Wilf said. “It’s hard to find a place to park some Saturdays.” That being said, farmers are at the mercy of the weather more than most. Although Wilf said last year was an amazing year for potatoes, the dry summer so far this year is not ideal for potatoes that thrive in damp soil. While Trevor is out irrigating what he can, it’s safe to say this year’s crop won’t be as bountiful as

last year. It’s part of the farming the Rose family understands. “No matter what, farming is a gamble,” Norma said. The reality is the family doesn’t know how high the potatoes will be piled in cold storage after the potato digger goes through the fields yet. To make a living you have to work within your means, Norma said. For that reason, you won’t find the fanciest equipment on the farm, but what is there still gets the job done. Harvest time is just around the

corner. New potatoes will probably be ready around the end of July, Wilf said, while the potatoes are harvested in the fall. As for the best way to keep your potatoes from going bad, Wilf laughed and pointed at the DIY cold-storage unit. “In the refrigerator, in the dark,” he said. For more information about the Rose Family Farm, visit rosefamilyfarm.ca or show up in person at 17569 Centre St., Mount Albert.

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Water and Wastewater Master Plan Update and Transportation Master Plan Update The Regional Municipality of York is planning for the future and has completed updates to its Water and Wastewater Master Plan and Transportation Master Plan. Research, analysis and community input guided the updates.Thank you to all who participated and for having your say. York Region is expected to grow to 1.79 million people and 900,000 jobs by 2041. Master Plans are fundamental tools to accommodate population and employment growth. York Region’s Master Plans guide infrastructure needs and strategies to address water, wastewater, roads and transit services over the next 25 years and beyond. The Water and Wastewater Master Plan identifies water and wastewater servicing strategies to address current and future servicing needs to provide safe, reliable and costeffective services to the Region’s communities. The Transportation Master Plan establishes the vision for transportation services, assesses existing transportation system performance, forecasts future travel demand and defines projects and strategies to address road, transit and active transportation needs.

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Way, prizes for dressing up as your favourite superhero Aug. 18: Kung Fu Panda, Ada Johnson Park, 60 Hartwell Way, enjoy animal-themed games, crafts and activities before the movie and win prizes for bringing a favourite stuffed animal to watch the movie with you. Aug. 25: Inside Out, Aurora Town Park, 49 Wells St., games and crafts before the movie and come dressed in your favourite colour. Sept. 1: Hotel Transylvania, Hickson Park, 155 Conover Ave., wear your costume while you enjoy Halloween-themed games, crafts and activities. For more information or to check for weather-related cancellations, call 905-7264762.

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Home Hardware helps zoo’s red pandas play BY TERESA LATCHFORD

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Aurora’s Home Hardware is helping enrich the lives of red pandas. The business was recently thanked on Twitter by the Toronto Zoo for donating a wooden play structure to help encourage the animals to be active and play within their enclosure. The wooden play set was on display at the store owned by Chris and John Barfitt when they were approached by a Toronto Zoo employee about purchasing it. “It was an older play set that has been around for a while,” Chris said. “When the zoo employee asked if he could buy it, we told him he could just have it. The pandas may as well enjoy it, rather than it sitting in the store.”

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The endangered ailurus fulgens, commonly called the red panda, is a rust-coloured mammal whose pattern resembles that of a raccoon. Native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China, it feeds mainly on bamboo, pears, grapes, bananas and apples. The amount of gifts in kind the zoo receives might surprise you, Marion Zimmer, senior development officer for the Toronto Zoo, said. Recently, the zoo received industrial brushes that the rhinos are using for enrichment. These items are used to encourage behaviour the animals would practice in the wild, or to simply engage them. Other donations include auction items, such as artwork. The zoo uses cash donations to support the animals, help organizations that preserve biodiversity and more, she added.

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What’s open and what’s closed this Civic Holiday long weekend BY TERESA LATCHFORD

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Banks, government offices, post offices and most child centres will be closed on Aug. 1. Some 404 LCBO locations will be open but some with modified hours so check specific location hours by visiting lcbo.com or calling 1-800-668-5226. Most grocery and convenience store locations will be open but check your local store for hours of operation before you leave home. York Region Transit and Viva services will be operating on a Sunday schedule on Aug. 1 and GO services will be operating on a Saturday schedule. The splash pads across the region will be open. Here’s what’s open and what’s not in your municipality:

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Georgina: • The Beer Store at 443 The Queensway S. will be open. • The Civic Centre, Georgina gym, leisure pool, public libraries, Stephen Leacock Theatre, Club 55 locations, Georgina Pioneer Village, Sutton Arena, Ice Palace, Georgina Animal Shelter and Adoption Centre, The Link and The ROC will be closed. • Curbside waste collection will be one day later this week. King: • The municipal offices and facilities are closed. • Nobleton Pool will be open. • Curbside waste collection is not impacted. East Gwillimbury: • Municipal offices and facilities are closed. • Waste collection unaffected.

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Linking generations through digital storybooks By kim zarzour

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Young people these days spend so much time indoors, tethered to their cellphones and computers, Teresa Porter wonders how they get by. Old folks these days, lacking in digital skills, do things the old-fashioned way — the harder way — so Kevin Chik wonders how they get by. Or at least, both used to wonder. Now, a pilot project in York Region is linking two generations and they are both, young and old, discovering they have much to learn from each other. It’s part of a two-year collaborative project between three York Region organizations — CHATSCommunity & Home Assistance to Seniors, York Region Community Information and Volunteer Centre and the York Region District School Board — called Making Connections Storytelling York Region. The Ontario Trillium Foundation-supported project connects seniors and their life wisdom with students and their digital expertise. In one such project, students at Richmond Hill High School worked with five seniors from across York Region for several weeks this spring, recording memories from days gone past using the latest digital technology. The process began with students in the Grade 12 English class interviewing five seniors about meaningful memories they wished to share. The students then composed scripts from those memories, which they passed along to members of the Grade 11 Communications Technology class, who had spent the semester learning basic skills in video production, graphic design and photography. The technology students helped the seniors work with the scripts to create a digital video recording of their stories with photographs, videos, music and memorabilia.

FINDING THINGS IN COMMON For many of the participants, it was a chance to discover how much life has changed — and how much the generations have in common. Teresa Porter, of Newmarket, shared a memory from years ago,

about how her daughter, when she was 16, found a baby bird in a broken nest. “No one thought it would survive,” Porter told the students, “but she carefully nurtured the bird all summer long.” Porter described how the tiny creature grew to trust the girl, flying through the tree canopy and returning to perch on her shoulder. It was a good story to share. The Richmond Hill students are the same age as her teenaged daughter was and Porter thought they could relate. But she was surprised to discover how little they could relate to a tale so closely linked to nature, so far removed from today’s world of constant digital connection. “We don’t go outside much,” Kevin Chik, 16, told her. “It’s interesting, though, to hear about how life is outside the home.” This is what it was like, Porter explained, before the days of cell phones in pockets, when entertainment was what you found outdoors. “Don’t you go out in nature, go for hikes or camping or anything?” They shook their heads. No. And yet, if it weren’t for the students’ familiarity with digital technology, Porter knows she couldn’t tell her story to the rest of the world in such a compelling way.

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Richmond Hill High Grade 11 student Sorush Khalesi speaks to Aurora’s Dorothy Gummersall about the digital storytelling project they’re both involved with. Aptly called Making Connections, she gets help from students to tell her story about writing letters to her brother far away, training to fight in the Second World War. away at training camp in Vancouver, preparing for battle. “I still remember clearly, sitting at the kitchen table, putting Xs and Os all along the edge of his letter,” she told the students. But those kiss-and-hug symbols landed him in big trouble with his commanding officer, who demanded an explanation for the “secret code”. The students are captivated by Gummersall’s stories of air raids and rationing gas tickets that her father, a dairy farmer, needed for his milk trucks. David Brownlow, of Aurora, had another group enthralled with his tales from the Depression as a toddler who lived on a train — a converted 1904 sleeping car — as his father was a travelling “whistle-stop dentist”. These are the kind of history lessons you don’t find in books, said Hadiqa Mawji, 16. “The stories we tell to our friends aren’t as interesting as [the seniors’] stories,” added Qays Chaviwala, 17.

“We just talk about what happened yesterday or last week. They have whole lives to talk about.” For vice principal Aline Daniel, it’s a way to bring lessons to life. “This is authentic. It’s not just a made-up project. They’ve built up these skills all semester and now, this is going to be published and available. The technology they are using, it’s the real deal.” A celebratory screening is planned for October and participants will also make a presentation at the school board’s Quest conference for educators around the world, said Communications Technologies teacher Anna Wilson. “You can see the seniors, how proud they are, and the students, too,” she added. “They’ve realized they have something to learn from them. It’s an opportunity to interact and glean their wisdom.” A similar digital story project is continuing in the coming year with seniors and students at Dr. G. W. Williams in Aurora, and the program is expected to be expanded to other

elementary and secondary schools in the region this fall, according to Rosemary Park, chair of York Region Community Information and Volunteer Centre and manager of Making Connections. Other digital story projects are planned for this summer including videos created by seniors who use community gardens, Park said. The end goal is to encourage seniors’ digital literacy and provide storytelling, oral history, digital story skills and community reporting instruction to seniors and youth. “It’s said that every time someone tells a story, it creates community by creating lines of connection,” Parks said. “Story by story, this is what the Making Connections York Region project is doing. We’re connecting generations, our many diverse cultures and each other.” The digital stories can be viewed on the https://civicyork.ca e-community website, Facebook, YouTube and yorkregion.com

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he decision to shoot at Pokémon GO players with a pellet gun in downtown Newmarket the night of July 23 was probably not malicious, rather “a bad idea turned into an even worse one,” one witness said. Tonya Piierto, manager of Newmarket’s Cachet Restaurant, witnessed the police takedown of a woman alleged to have shot at the new online game’s players who were congregating outside the restaurant. The madness began just before 10:30 p.m., when about 15 York Regional Police cars pulled up outside the venue, located on Water Street, at the foot of Main Street. Witnesses to the incident pointed officers to the roof of a Main Street building, where there was allegedly someone shooting at them with a handgun-style pellet gun. Four shots were fired, but no one was hit, police said, noting officer seized a pellet gun.

‘It’s a concerning incident, but I’ve seen more positives from the game.’ “There was SWAT and dogs and everything,” Piierto, a mother-oftwo, said. “We didn’t know what was going on. About 10 or 15 minutes later, we saw police breaking down a door across the street and come out with a woman in cuffs.” Police walked the suspect to the police station on Prospect Street, only metres away from the site of the arrest, Piierto said. Piierto said she knows the suspect, who is a semi-regular customer at Cachet, and she doesn’t think the alleaged act would have been one of aggression. “We know her and talk to her on occasion; she comes in the restaurant,” Piierto said. “She’s a nice person and has a good job. I don’t think this was a malicious act, more like maybe a bad idea turned into an even worse one. Main Street is a very small circle, so we all know one another.” Pokémon GO a mobile-phone based game where players collect

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Pokémon GO players gather outside the Cachet restaurant in downtown Newmarket Wednesday. They’re shown in the same location where police allege someone used a pellet gun to shoot at Pokémon GO players from a nearby apartment balcony Saturday night. A Newmarket woman, 29, faces charges in connection with that incident. and battle digital characters on their smartphones. It was released in early July 2016. It has caused a variety of disruptions to people’s lives. For example, a pair of teenage brothers from Alberta caused an international incident after crossing the American border into Montana, eventually being apprehended by border police. In Innisfil, on Tuesday, a female pedestrian playing Pokémon GO was almost hit by a driver also playing the game, police said.

In the past two weeks, the number of Pokémon GO players gathering at the “upside-down canoe” monument outside Cachet has been growing so large that it has regularly reached between 50 and 100, Piierto said. Although the players have not been bothering anyone, others at the restaurant have noticed that many players become a safety hazard due to their inattentiveness while crossing the street, she said. However, Piierto said she’s seen

more positives than negatives as a result of the game, explaining how it is causing people to leave their homes and get outside and causing plenty of social interaction in the meantime. “It’s a concerning incident, but I’ve seen more positives from the game,” she said. “It’s kind of cool watching people who wouldn’t usually be out, walking around, talking to one another. I can’t believe how much it’s grown in such a short time. It’s now to the point where about 60 per cent of

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rive into Stockholm’s city centre during rush hour and you’re going to pay for the privilege — about $5 during peak period. This idea, called congestion pricing, had been kicking around this Scandinavian country for years before policymakers finally decided to implement the program permanently in 2007. With congestion pricing in place, air quality quickly improved by as much as 10 per cent. Traffic fell by 20 per cent as commuters switched to public transportation. “(Critics) said the congestion charge system would kill industry. They said all the shops would close down and disappear. They said it would be dreadful,” said Linda Persson, policy advisor with the City of Stockholm. “In the end, the shops stayed and every fifth car disappeared.” The scenery may change, but for those who have spent any significant length of time covering transportation issues in any metropolitan area, the arguments sound all too familiar. Sweden is working toward a fossil fuel independent transport sector by 2030. Low transport emissions have made Stockholm one of the world’s greenest capitals. But the Swedes have set their sights higher still. Much like Greater Toronto and Hamilton (GTHA), Sweden’s capital is experiencing rapid urban growth. At roughly two million when counting the surrounding area, Stockholm expects to add another 200,000 by 2030. Expansion at this scale requires a lot of planning and investment. It also requires, as Persson notes, some degree of political toughness. The congestion charge was highly controversial and, following intense debate was ultimately decided by referendum. “A lot of people in Stockholm agree that if you want to increase congestion then you should have to pay for it,” said Persson, adding the program has paid off. A stag-

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Stockholm boasts a well-developed public transportation system with subway, streetcars and buses that run on biogas and electricity. It is looking to build on the 800-km network of cycling trails it already has in place. gering 80 per cent of people entering Stockholm’s core every day ride public transit. Ontario is flirting with traffic busting schemes, too. In late June, the Liberal Government introduced High-Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes on the QEW as a means to combat congestion. The pilot project is slated for end of summer and run a 15.5 kilometre stretch between Oakville and Burlington. HOT lanes for Highway 427 have also been announced, which prompted swift rebuke from critics who accuse the government of “selling access to Ontario’s highways to those who can afford it.” Political convenience has long been the blight on transportation planning. Plans are made to woo voters and then scrapped by newly elected governments. But with an estimated $6 billion lost to GTHA congestion every year action is critical. As the process unfolds ques-

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unfunded transit plans to the tune of $11 billion. In neighbouring York Region, public officials continue to fight for the infrastructure that would improve transit times across the region. The track work on the Toronto-York Spadina subway at the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Station at Hwy. 7 has been completed, but not without cost. York Region’s share of the cost continued to rise as the project continued to come in over budget. Earlier this year, the region found it would be on the hook for an additional $160 million after pitching in an additional $92 million the year prior to help pay for the $3.2 billion extension. The rising cost is being blamed on start-up delays, poor contractor performance and design changes. In June, the province announced $55 million in funding for the design of the Yonge Street subway extension to Richmond Hill and in July, York Region launched a Yonge subway now campaign asking residents and transit users to sign a petition for long-term funding to complete the project that would accommodate more than 165,000 riders on weekdays once complete. The region and local municipalities continue to advocate for the rapid transit lanes to accommodate buses. Rapid transit lanes on Hwy. 7 in Markham and Davis Drive in Newmarket have already completed these projects and rapid lanes on Yonge Street are expected to come next. More than half of the world’s seven billion inhabitants live in cities — a figure that is projected to grow to 66 per cent by 2050. As urban centres grow, so too does the demand for more efficient means of moving the people who live in them. We step out of the Stadshuset and onto a city bus armed with a head full of insight, but also with a sense that when it comes to mobility at least, Sweden’s future transportation plans are running more smoothly than anything we have conjured up. —with files by Teresa Latchford Editor’s note: The trip was paid for by the Swedish government.

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It was hard to have a better weekend than 14-year-old Newmarket resident Brianne McGrath. She travelled to Calgary between July 20 and 24 to participate in the U16 National Field Hockey Championship with Team Ontario. Better yet, she returned with a gold medal after Team Ontario beat British Columbia 1-0 in the championship game. “When the game ended I was so surprised and excited,” McGrath said. McGrath, whose first sport is ringette, started playing field hockey in Grade 5 after seeing her sister play the sport in high school. She plays for the Dolphins Field Hockey Club who play in Scarborough and Aurora. The experience of playing for Team Ontario was memorable both on and off the field from McGrath. “It was really good to get to know the girls,” she said. “The games were really competitive. Every time you stepped on the field

you felt a rush of energy.” Although the competition was fierce, Team Ontario dominated the field of contenders by not allowing a goal the whole tournament. McGrath, who played left defence, said she thinks the team only gave up five shots the whole weekend. “We had a really talented team,” she said. Winning the title was a great way for McGrath to wrap-up her summer as she is heading back to Bill Crothers Secondary School in Markham next week to start Grade 10. Their field hockey team won the YRAA and made it to the OFSAA quarterfinals last year and she hopes they go a bit further this year. When she’s not playing field hockey, McGrath plays ringette for the Richmond Hill Lightning. McGrath also plans to carve out some time to watch field hockey at the upcoming Olympics in Brazil although she sounded disappointed that the Canadian women’s team failed to qualify. “I guess I’ll have to watch the men’s,” she said.

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The Par 3 hole No. 3 at Silver Lakes Golf & Conference Centre was the Panel’s Pick.

Lush, tranquil Silver Lakes tees up its A-game Silver Lakes Golf & Conference Centre DIRECTOR OF GOLF: Chris Bratten STATUS: Public SIGNATURE HOLE: No. 14. Playing to nearly 542 yards from the middle tee deck (595 from the tips) along the shoulder of an aqua practice range, this standout par-5 sears its way into the dimpled brains of many visitors to Silver Lakes. The No. 4 handicap hole on the course is one of several in a list of candidates for top hole at the 7,029-yard facility designed by R.F. Moote. “The thing about this course is that you can ask a lot of people and probably get different responses because every hole is different and the routing is pretty unique,” said Bratten. Although playing straightaway, there is the ominous aqua range looming up the left side of the hole and marsh along the side until about 150 yards out. Mastery of your driver is imperative. Playing to a long and slightly uphill green, it is a rather unsuspecting hole unless you play into headwinds which lengthen it even further.

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TROUBLE AWAITS: No. 9. Though thinned out in recent years to permit some escape from tree trouble, this par-4 at 387 yards is often a showdown between second shot and tree situated on the right side of the fairway on this tophandicap hole on the par-72 course. Shots into the tree-lined left side can mean a punch out but at least a look into the elongated, peanutshaped green. Right side? Meh, not so much. CURSE OF THE COURSE: Tight fairways demand accu-

racy off the tee decks. “There’s not a lot of wiggle room off the tee,” said Bratten. “If you hit your ball well you can score. If not, it can be a long day.” GIMME A LIFE MEMBERSHIP: The tranquil atmosphere of Silver Lakes starts with the approach up the tree-lined and canopied driveway to the clubhouse. To be sure, there is a Carolinas feel at Silver Lakes which opened for play in 1993. Presence of the Holland River ensures moist and lush bent grass tees and fairways even during summer’s dry periods. CLUB-TOSSING TIME: No. 8. At 465-yard (white tees), this par-5 right dogleg require a decision on how much to “chew off” with the drive. To the right and for the bold, it’s all carry over a pond extending to maybe 240 yards from the tee box so a potential dunking awaits from the tee. For shots that do clear the water, bunkers loom and require additional oomph! off the tee. It’s at this point many PT panel members ask themselves, “What would Mr. Wiggedy Whack do?” Wisely, ol’ Whack chose the safe play to the left side of

the fairway for an undisturbed path toward the bunker shouldered green. It’s longer, but smarter for the average player. PANEL’S PICK: Difficult call, but with two one-putt birdies and a par in our four-member panel, tough to go wrong with No. 3, a par-3 playing to 130 yards from the white tees. Birdies and pars are best served to shots below the pin. THE PRO’S VIEW: “You don’t feel like you’re being repetitive on the course where you’re doubling up and playing the same hole again,” said Bratten, in his fourth season at Silver Lakes, discussing the layout and variety of the facility. GENERAL INFO: Check out the unique seven-acre aqua range and floater golf balls … Wetlands and the Holland River wandering through the property play a role on 12 of 18 holes … Five sets of tee decks range from 5,100 to 7,029 yards at the tips. LOCATION: 21114 Yonge St.,, East Gwillimbury Tel: 905-836-8070 or 1-800-465-7888 (toll free) Website: silverlakesgolf.com – compiled by John Cudmore

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The 4th Annual Dunsmuir Dream hockey tournament raises money to support kids who cannot afford hockey and was held at National Training Rink in Newmarket on July 16. The Dunsmuir Dream Foundation was set up by friends of Robert Dunsmuir who died in a Sharon house fire in 2013 along with his father, Kevin, his mother, Jennifer, and brother Cameron Dunsmuir. Here, organizer Alex Miles is joined by all the volunteers who help host the tourney.

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Former Olympian reflects on dilemma faced by athletes unsure about Rio ‘I can’t blame people for not going,’ says Newmarket baseball player Peter Orr who represented Canada in 2004

eter Orr cherishes the opportunities he had to play baseball for Canada. They were among the best moments of his baseball career, in fact, highlighted by a chance to play for the Red Maple Leaf in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Orr, who retired from professional baseball following a 2015 season, which included winning a gold medal in the Toronto Pan American Games last summer, understands the dilemma facing some athletes concerned with conditions in Rio de Janeiro where the Olympics are due to be staged next month. Zika virus. Rampant crime. Pollution. Political upheaval. All considerations for an athlete with different career implications attached and depending on that athlete’s personal situation. Orr long ago realized that once he got the chance to represent Canada, he wanted all he could get. Would it be worth the risk travelling to Brazil if he had another opportunity? “I can’t blame people for not going,” said Orr, who played for Canada in the 2004 Athens Games. “It’s hard to go out of your safety net and where you make your living. “It would be difficult especially

if you are young and about to start a family. It’s not likely, but what if you did get it? Nobody takes chances like that anymore. That’s one thing that would scare me.” It wasn’t that many Olympics ago when so-called amateurs and professionals could not co-mingle. May the Bunny Ahearne era rest in peace.

‘It would be difficult especially if you are young and about to start a family. It’s not likely, but what if you did get it? ‘ Now that doors are open to encompass more sports — ironically, softball and baseball are sitting this one out but are likely to return for Tokyo 2020 — there exists a wider variety of perspectives. “What I took away from Athens was 100 per cent positive,” said Orr, a Newmarket resident. “I was happy I went and had the chance to do it. The whole point of the Olympics is the experience - 99.99 per cent of people don’t get to go.” As a member of the Washington Nationals organization, he “put up a stink,” imploring management to reverse its initial decision and let him attend the Beijing Games in 2008. In the minor leagues at the

John Cudmore Cuddy Shark time, he was promoted to the bigleague club just before the start of the Games. Orr understands the varying perspectives. He gets that not all sports and athletes view the Olympic Games and their bread-andbutter equally. He wonders for the future of the Games if, now that the stars in many sports are allowed in and but now decide to stay away, how that will play out. “The reality is the way the Olympics are going it’s making it tougher and tougher to be an Olympian,” he said. “If they’re not getting the best athletes people are going to stop putting money into them.” As a young pro gaining experience, Orr had the opportunity to play in a setting not familiar to most North American athletes when he played winter baseball in Venezuela. The safety factor was

not unlike what it is predicted to be like in Rio. Certainly it seems unlikely anyone is going to be wandering tipsy, golden medal and beer jug in hand through the streets of Rio like Canadian skeleton Jon Montgomery in the Vancouver Winter Olympics. “Venezuela was a very dangerous place and I stuck out like a sore thumb,” said Orr, referring to the Hugo Chavez era. “The crazies could easily come after us although there was a good chance anyone would get into big trouble for coming after a big league player. “If you went out at night, though, you put yourself into a difficult spot, 100 per cent. If I had wanted to go digging for trouble it was easy to find.” As a player on contract, ultimately Orr was at the mercy of his employer. He wonders what the future will be for baseball players. “I think we will see more nonbaseball people running teams and they won’t allow or don’t care,” said Orr. “It’s too bad. They don’t know how cool it is to represent your country and fulfilling for your career.” Orr agrees with others on the topic of safety for athletes, especially within the athlete’s village. “Most athletes stay in the Village and if you do, you’ll be fine,” he said. “I guess you can’t prevent someone from shooting a rocket

into the Village. Otherwise, there’s no way to get in — it’s almost frustrating to get in and out to events.”

Rich Lunney gloves honours for CNE tourney participation Holland Landing resident Rich Lunney will be among six former players honoured Aug. 31 for contributions as players and coaches in the CNE’s Bulova Watch softball and Lions baseball tournaments. The CNE’s softball/baseball committee announced recently the inclusion of Lunney, who played in the tournament over several seasons as a member of the Newmarket Ray’s Gulf and Newmarket-based Chubb Security senior A fast-pitch softball teams in the 1970s. The men’s tournament no longer is played although a novice and bantam tournament for girls is slated for Sept. 3 and 4. Lunney, 70, also coached a Newmarket Hawks peewee team including his son, Doug, to a finals berth and served as an assistant coach on the Newmarket entry which won the 59th CNE-Lions tournament last season. With the 2016 additions, more than 100 women and men will have been recognized for their participation in CNE tournaments during and beyond their playing days.

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ROY, Alfred Joseph (Al) October 14, 1920 Toronto July 18, 2016 Newmarket Peacefully passed away at Southlake Regional Health Centre on July 18, 2016 with family by his side. He was a young 95 years old. Beloved husband of Edna Margaret (Pringle). B eloved Father of Judith (G ordon) Reid, Deborah (Dan), Rober t ( Terri), Catherine and Paula (John) Bedoya. Beloved Grandfather of Michael and Christopher (Annie) Wilcox, and Adam and Grant Bedoya and GreatGrandfather of Kaiya Wilcox. Al ser ved during WWII stationed in d i f fe r e n t c i t i e s a n d w h i l e s t a y i n g temporarily in Regina, he met and fell in love with Edna. While Al was with the RCAF at Comox B.C. as an aero engine mechanic, he proposed via Canada Post and Edna accepted. Edna also ser ved in W WII and was stationed in St. John New Brunswick at that time. They were married June 4, 1945 and made a life in To r o n t o r e c e n t l y c e l e b r a t i n g 7 1 years of mar r iage. Al was a proud To r o n t o n i a n . H e a l s o h a d m a n y many fond memories of his childhood years at Roches Point Lake Simcoe with his dog Rover. He retired from CN Railway after 31 years of service. He was strong, very much loved and will be greatly missed. He will always be with us. Many thanks for the kind and compassionate care Al received at 4E Southlake Village and Southlake R e g i o n a l H e a l t h Ce n t re. A s p e c i a l thanks to Doctor Liquornik and Doctor Luk for their excellent care. No funeral will be held. Flowers are gratefully declined. Instead, should you wish to make a donation in Al's name, please consider the Heart and Stroke Foundation or Prostate Cancer.

DRUERY-WORTHINGTON, Eva Leona Heather (nee Howden) Passed away peacefully at The Villa C a r e C e n t r e o n M o n d a y, J u l y 2 5 , 2016 in her 79th year. Loving wife of the late Harold Druer y and Donald Wo r t h i n g t o n . B e l o v e d m o t h e r o f Thomas (Maureen), Phil (Lynne), Doug (Connie), Andy (Sharon) and Matthew. Proud grandmother of Shane, Jason, Christopher, Nicole, Brian, Brittany, B r a n d o n , B ro o k , A l l i s o n , B a i l e y, Co l i n , K a d e n a n d t h e l ate Ta m my. Lo v i n g g re a t - g r a n d m o t h e r o f f i ve great-grandchildren. Sister of Irene, Violet and predeceased by her b ro t h e r H e r b. Eva gra d u ate d f ro m George Brown College and became the Life Enrichment Director at Resthaven Nursing Home. She was one of the founding members of The Newmarket Happy Hoppers Square Dance Club. Eva was a longtime member of The Trinity United C h u rc h a n d p a s t p re s i d e n t o f t h e UC W. She was also ac tive in many community clubs including Beavers, ALS Walk-A-Thons and the Red Hat S o c i e t y. F r i e n d s m a y c a l l a t t h e R o a d h o u s e & R o s e Fu n e r a l H o m e, 157 Main Street South, Newmarket for visitation on Thursday, July 28, 2016 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A Fun eral S er vi ce w il l b e he ld at Tr i n i t y U n i te d C h u rc h , N e w m a r k e t on Friday, July 29, 2016 at 11 a.m. M e m o r i a l d o n at i o n s m ay b e m a d e to the Children's Wish Foundation or Trinity United Church. www.roadhouseandrose.com FARRY, Joseph August 31, 2006 Ten years ago you had to leave us. We just had one little granddaughter then, your little Dreamboat. We now have four beautiful granddaughters and a very handsome little g r a n d s o n . We l o v e a n d m i s s y o u ver y much. Things have never been the same since you left.

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WILLIAMSON, Robin Michelle In loving memor y of a ver y special niece, Robin, who went to live with God July 31, 2015. "Miss ya and love ya forever." xoxo, Aunt Helen

YAKELEY, Delbert H. August 20, 1915 ~ July 25, 2010

WEEDON, Horace Edwin (W.W.II Vet.) Peacefully, surrounded by his family at Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket on Tuesday, July 26, 2016. Horace, in his 93rd year, b e l o ve d h u s b a n d o f M a r j o r y ( n e e Walls). Loving father to Jim and his par tner Astrid of Kelowna, B.C. and Michelle and her husband Scott Cleland of Schomberg, ON. Predeceased by his sons Gary, David, brothers, John, Vincent, Rober t and s i s t e r M a r y. D e a r g r a n d f a t h e r o f Tammy, Mark, Christopher, Jennifer, D a v i d , N i c o l e, K i m b e r l e y, N a t h a n , Holly, and Bobby-Jo. Great grandfather to William, Cole, Alyson, Thomas, Mike, Zoe, and Nathan. Horace will be fondly remembered by his ex tended family in the U.K . Fr i e n d s m a y c a l l a t t h e T h o m p s o n Funeral Home, 530 Industrial Parkway S., Aurora (905 727-5421) on Thursday July 28 from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Funeral Service in the chapel Friday, July 29 at 1 p.m. Interment Kettleby Cemetery.

Love and cherished memories Linda Lou (Shaw)

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In loving memory of our cherished daughter, sister and aunt who passed away on July 31st, 2015.

Always loved and forever missed by Mom & Dad, Lindsay, Heather, Liam, and Maddy.

SWEENEY, Bridget ( f o r m e r l o n g - t i m e n u r s e a t Yo r k County Hospital) passed away peacefully at Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, on Tuesday, July 26, 2016, in her 91st year. She will be greatly missed by her nephew Steve Prentice and his wife Jane. Great-nieces and nephews Bonnie Roach (Ivan), Cindy Higgins, Amanda Prentice (Esam) and Shawn Prentice (Jamie). Great-great-nieces and nephews Sarah, Richie, Mathew, Hannah, Tyler and Aiden. Predeceased by her sister Mar y and b r o t h e r - i n - l a w J o h n Pr e n t i c e a n d niece Eileen Prentice. The family would like to thank all the nurses at Southlake Regional Health Centre. A v i s i t at i o n w i l l b e h e l d at St. J o h n Chrysostom Church, 432 Ontario S t r e e t , N e w m a r k e t o n Tu e s d a y, August 2, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. with funeral mass to follow. If d e s i re d, i n l i e u o f f l owe r s, p l e a s e make donations to the Canadian Cancer Society.

Loving you forever; w i fe A n n , f r i e n d s Pa u l , K e i t h a n d Darren and grandchildren and daughter-in-laws Ilona and Debra

WILLIAMSON, Robin

Gone yet not forgotten Although we are apart Your spirit lives within us Forever in our hearts.

NIELSEN, Susan Hilarie It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Susan H ilarie N ielsen on July 23, 2016 at t h e a g e o f 6 4 a f te r a co u ra g e o u s, decade long battle with ALS. Beloved wife of the late Erik Nielsen and loving mother to Erin and Jesse. Pro u d gra n d m o t h e r to Ca r te r. S h e will be greatly missed by her sisters D e b b i e, J e a n a n d Vi v, h e r b ro t h e r D a v i d, h e r m a ny n i e c e s, n e p h e w s a n d e x te n d e d f a m i l y, h e r m a ny friends and her former colleagues at Yo r k C e n t r a l H o s p i t a l . A s p e r h e r wishes, a celebration of life will be held in the coming weeks. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the ALS Society or, consider planting a flower in your garden to honour her legendary green thumb.

LAMPOLE, David Alexander Passed away suddenly at Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital on Monday, July 11, 2016. David was 24 years young. Loving son of Bill and t h e l a t e C a t hy. C a r i n g b r o t h e r t o Jeff. Beloved grandson of Jacqueline and the late Richard Toms and the late Fred and Rita Lampole. Nephew of Deborah (Real) Arsenault, Peter To m s , L a r r y ( K a r e n ) L a m p o l e a n d Brian ( Vicki) Lampole. David will be dear ly missed by his cousins M ike (Lisa) Arsenault and Christina (Stephen) Nicholson. The family would like to thank the many support workers who interacted with David throughout his short life. Cremation has taken place and a private family service will be held at the Roadhouse & Rose Funeral Home. Donations in David's memory may be made to The Association for Community Living Newmarket/Aurora District.

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WENZEL, Mark Robert October 19, 1960 - July 16, 2016 Passed away suddenly but peacefully at Southlake Hospital. Beloved husband to Marion and proud and loving father of Abby. Mark will be sadly missed by his siblings Katherine (Larry), Chris (Monica), Rod, Anita (Andrew), Alexander (Lacy) his mother Joan, step-mother Anna and countless dear friends. Please join the family for a Celebration of Mark's Life at the Wenzel log cabin in Queensville on August 13th between 2 and 5 p.m. A smile for all, a heart of gold The very best the world could hold Those we love don't go away They walk beside us every day Please visit http://www.roadhouseandrose.com/ book-of-memories/2649337/WenzelMark/view-condolences.php

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