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SIMON MARTIN smartin@yrmg.com The world looks different when you use a wheelchair. Just ask Doug Poirier. The Georgina resident was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2009 and since that time accessibility has taken on new meaning. The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act is supposed to make Ontario an accessible place to live by 2025, but Poirier says there is a lot of work to do to get there.

Inconveniences and difficulties lie around every corner. Like the gas station in East Gwillimbury that Poirier attempted to enter last week. He couldn’t get his wheelchair over the lip in the curb cut out. What made the matter worse for Poirier is the treatment he received from the gas station employee. "When I asked for help, he told me, ’It’s not my problem.’"

Poirier spoke with the gas stal See RESIDENTS, page 14

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Doug Poirier, who has multiple sclerosis (MS) and relies on a wheelchair, has been encountering accessibility issues around York Region. For example, justices of the peace and police officers have access to the closest parking spots at the Tannery Mall’s north parking lot in Newmarket, while Poirier has to park farther away.

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Star Trek’s Tricorder a sign of health care to come “Take two apps and I’ll call you in the morning”: Game-changing technology puts data in hands of patients KIM ZARZOUR kzarzour@yrmg.com A trip to the doctor can be an ordeal.

Take time off work, drive to the health clinic, sit in the waiting room until the doctor can see you, have your throat swabbed or ear examined or head over to the medical lab for blood tests or imaging, then wait some more for the results, for the follow-ups, for the prescriptions ...

Dr. McCoy had a better way.

The Star Trek doctor simply pulled out his trusty Tricorder and within seconds, you were diagnosed and on your way to better health.

Soon, you too may boldly go where science fiction has gone before.

A real-life Tricorder is close at hand — along with a host of other new digital devices poised

to send that data to the cloud so patients and doctors can discuss the results.

Kitchener-based CloudDX is one of 10 contest finalists. The Canadian startup’s “Vitaliti” is a wearable device that includes a blood pressure monitor, a Spirotoscope to show images from body cavities like ears, a base station that tests saliva, urine and blood, and sensors that, combined with your smartphone, help you self diagnose everything from strep throat to major diseases — then lets you know when it’s time to seek medical advice.

Vitaliti is expected to be available later this year. Retail price is not yet determined.

This growing appetite for corroboration between the medical world and technology is ushering in a world of increased convenience and control for patients, Salah says. “The future of health care looks great.”

to transform health care — from e-health data-sharing to wireless, wearable devices for disease prevention and management.

Hadi Salah is a digital health enthusiast, MaRS Health analyst and founding member of Hacking Health — a grassroots, volunteer-based organization that brings together doctors, designers and developers.

Salah says the Tricorder device is one way innovation is bridging the gap between science fiction and reality.

The X-Prize Foundation has offered $10 million in a global competition to develop a handheld medical scanner based on the Star Trek device.

The contest imagines a consumer-friendly mobile device capable of diagnosing more than a dozen health conditions including diabetes, Hepatitis A, stroke and tuberculosis, and able

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A LOOK TO THE FUTURE: HEALTH CARE

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Ontario startup CloudDX has created Vitaliti, a virtual doctor based on Star Trek’s tricorder device, one of several promising new technologies transforming health care.

More innovations creating a buzz: Hadi Salah’s predictions for how technology will change health care: A move away from reactive medicine to proactive and predictive.

“We’ve been using wearable technology like Fitbit to gather data — the next step will be to take that data, analyze it and provide suggestions to improve our health.”

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More personalized medicine.

Instead of prescribing a onesize-fits-all approach to illness, you will be able to “choose your own adventure” based on lab tests showing which approach your body will best respond to.

A move away from institution-centred care to health care in the community — workplace, libraries, homes — aided by digital technology like smartphones and webcams.

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Moving power away from health-care providers into the hands of patients. “You will own your own data, rather than relying solely on doctors’ recommendations and referrals.”

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A move from funding based on volume — i.e. fee for service — and toward more valuebased billing, i.e. doctors will be paid according to outcome.

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Akira: A smartphone app connects you to a real-life doctor within five minutes. It will ask you your symptoms and offer advice, prescriptions or referrals to a specialist.

Figure 1: An “Instagram for physicians”, doctors share photos of patient ailments and seek opinions from one million other doctors Leo Lab: a tele-dermatology app lets psoriasis sufferers post a photo of an outbreak or flare up and connect with a dermatologist. A sleep and itch monitor and forum for parents to share best practices is also in the works.

APSARA: a single-use cardboard drone that delivers medical supplies and decomposes in a month.

AliveCor: a mobile phone device and app with two electrodes that can perform an electrocardiogram MobiSante: a pocket-sized smartphone-based ultrasound system Manage My Pain: An Android app that allows users to record and track their pain and learn what the symptoms mean.

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EDITORIAL | OPINION

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Tomorrow’s challenges demand solutions today

The Markham Economist & Sun, published every Thursday, is a division of the Metroland Media Group Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Torstar Corporation. The Metroland family of newspapers is comprised of more than 100 community publications across Ontario.

Imagining the future has been a powerful thought exercise for humankind since the dawn of history. And while our predictions about where our society will be in 10, 25 or even 50 years are often at odds with reality 20th century expectations of flying cars and cities on the moon by the year 2000 proved overly optimistic - it’s still important for all of us to do our best to plan for what’s to come despite the inherent uncertainty when doing so.

This is especially true for the policy-makers whom we trust to make decisions on our behalf. The fact is, York Region is in for significant changes over the decades to come as the population is projected to grow from its current 1.2 million people to nearly 1.8 million by 2041.

With growth will come a number of demographic challenges, with one of the largest potential factors being our aging population. The number of senior citizens is expected to balloon from today’s tally of 124,734 to 311,257 by 2031. We’ve heard countless times from experts in the field that this aging trend will have a profound impact on the economy and also that we’re behind in terms of providing needed support, such as housing, for today’s seniors, let alone those who will reach retirement in the future.

Currently, we also know the average commute time to work for York Region residents, at 32.1 minutes, is the worst in the GTA. With the number of trips made during the morning rush hour projected to rise by 64 per cent over the next 25 years and the quantity of trips outside York’s borders estimated to increase by just 25 per cent, it’s clear action will be needed to not only alleviate congestion today, but prevent it getting worse tomorrow. To tackle the looming problem, the region has estimated it will need more than $22 billion, with $8.9 eyed for transit and another 13.2 billion for roads.

Undoubtedly, the rising impact of climate change will also create issues that will need to be addressed.

Change is inevitable and, while it’s great we’ve identified what many of the challenges may be in the future, too many of them lack solutions. It will be vital for us to impress upon officials at all levels of government the necessity of developing forward-thinking policies to ensure a prosperous tomorrow.

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• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR • Use all resources to find health-care solutions Re: Wait times are "the defining feature’ of healthcare system, Feb. 23.

Canadians are relying on a health-care system that has not met its primary principles - namely reasonable access - in at least 24 years. As millions are now suffering, some even dying, due to the inability to access proper and timely health care it is a virtual poison poured into the wound to tritely say, "there has been ’slippage’" since the initial progress following the 2004 federal-provincial health care accord. It’s no longer good enough to say, as Michael Decter indicates, "We think the Canadian system can be fixed.

We’re optimistic about

that."

We are now in 2017!

The only consistency is that wait times continue to grow. Fixing them with the same tools and philosophy that caused them to break is not only counterproductive, but a proven method to destroy lives and families.

Many Canadians must become their own advocates, but how many are prepared to take that on?

They’ve invested their trust and well-being to their doctors, who in truth, all have crowded waiting rooms filled with terrified and desperate patients they can never attend to properly.

Patients have three choices. Some call anyone they know to see if they have a connection with a specialist that is willing to break the "get in the queue" rules to be seen earlier; oth-

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ers leave the country and pay for care; the rest suffer and succumb to their disease or a new one resulting from the ongoing physical, emotional and/or mental trauma.

There are two colossal factors when choosing which fork in that healthcare road to take. If you stay in Canada, your care will be paid for, but you will get the specialist that is willing to see you first.

Others will fiercely seek out answers. If they are going to spend their money then they want (and deserve!) the best. These patients will engage the services of agencies that have done the due diligence and can provide them with data on outcomes, infection rates and physician performance. Most importantly, they won’t pay the alarmingly incorrect rates quot-

ed such as $41,000 for a knee replacement in the U.S. Let’s stop scaring people with these irresponsibly inflated quotes and tell them the truth. Canadians can walk away with a new knee from a leading U.S. health care provider for almost half that!

There are answers to this problem. It’s time to engage all of the resources available to provide patients with health-care solutions. The "whatever it takes" option is at our fingertips Kelly Meloche International HealthCare Providers Inc.

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I’ve had the opportunity to visit Dublin many times --- I’ve fallen in love with its quirky people, stunning architecture, innumerable pubs and its world class cuisine. I had a preconceived notion that Irish food began and ended with the potato and that I’d need to order a ton of Jameson to wash down whatever I was going to eat. However, I was blown away with its seafood, its out of this world lamb, the selection of stout beers (my fave!) all prepared simply and straight forward, unhampered for by any pomp and ceremony. I’ve tried to recreate some of those fond memories for you this week…

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Jailing Wu, who has been charged with numerous bylaw infractions by the City of Markham after three trees were cut down on her Markham property in December, asked for and was granted a three-week adjournment in provincial court Thursday morning.

Wu, who is listed as the owner of 47/51 Gainsville Ave., in Unionville, appeared in Richmond Hill provincial court Thursday in her second appearance, joined by a Cantonese interpreter but still without counsel.

She indicated she has retained lawyer David Goodman to represent her and was told to be back in court at 9 a.m. on March 30.

The charges on the Gainsville Avenue property spurred an outcry from neighbours after three mature trees were cut down late last year.

A half-dozen of those neighbours were in court Thursday morning watching the proceedings. Some were also at Wu’s first appearance in court back on Feb. 9 in Richmond Hill.

Residents have called on the city to hasten a planned review of the 2008 tree preservation bylaw in the hopes of strengthening it and preventing property owners from cutting down trees, paying small fines and reaping profits after redeveloping the properties for much higher values.

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As the humble potato is the cornerstone of Irish cuisine, it only seemed right that we feature our famous Potato and Egg Salad Reg. $1.69/100g. When I worked in the kitchen my absolute favourite thing on earth was mixing up a batch with that irresistibly tangy dressing while the potatoes and eggs were still warm. Divine!

Next up we’ll have Colcannon Reg. $5.99/4’x5’ foil, that quintessentially Irish side dish of creamy mashed potatoes tossed with chopped green kale. And as we’re the Village Grocer, we’ve mixed in bacon for good measure.

Next up we’ll have Leek and Potato Soup Reg. $8.99/900ml.

Yukon gold potatoes, fresh leeks, butter and a touch of cream: the epitome of comfort food!

So far we’ve only featured side dishes, so it only seemed right that we feature a hearty main dish. I remember sitting down for a few pints in Murray’s on O’Connell Street on my last trip to Dublin. I was there mainly to imbibe, however after a few I was feeling peckish and warily ordered their Beef & Guinness Stew Reg. $10.99/4’x5’ foil. I had low expectations but was blown out of the water with how rich its flavours were. We’ve done our best to recreate it here!

Our Sous Vide of the week will be a Chicken Breast in our Jack Daniel’s BBQ Sauce Reg. $4.99/100g. These are stupidly easy to make at home, just pop the bag in a pot of boiling water for 10 minutes and you’ve got yourself a tasty dinner.

And lastly, our dressing of the week will be a new one, Citrus Poppyseed Reg. $5.99/250ml. I’m thinking that it will work perfectly alongside grilled chicken strips, diced red peppers and onions tossed with chopped romaine.

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At the pizza counter, you’ll find one of Linda’s new creations, a Guinness Sausage and Potato Pizza.

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MANGO PALMER

Don’t balk at the price, these delicious mangos cost a premium as they’re picked ripe off the tree on Tuesday and flown directly to us on our shelves by Thursday morning as opposed to conventional mangos which are chemically treated and sit for weeks on a container ship before they reach us. One look at these tropical beauties and our chef, Kulam bought a whole case, proclaiming these were reminiscent of the mangos of his childhood, from his backyard in Sri Lanka. These are a size 6, which is as big as it gets, and we’ll be selling them at cost while supplies last. NOW: EACH

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I recently overheard an exchange between a cute older lady and one of our cashiers as I was leaving work. She drives a long way to our store just to buy Barry’s Tea Reg. $8.99, the iconic brand from Cork City. Hearing such high praise I had to pick up a box to taste for myself, and she was most definitely correct. My only previous encounter with Irish tea was at Bewley’s Tea House Reg. $9.99 on Grafton Street in Dublin, whose tea we’ll also feature be featuring.

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All weekend at the store we’ll be serving up traditional Irish fare. We’ll have Corned Beef Thursday through Saturday that we’ll serve on Steeles marble rye with mustard and a pickle on the side, or sliced thick with mashed potatoes and buttered cabbage. Now:

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We’ll be making tons of these, beginning Thursday, and you’ll find that it’s a great complement to most of our Irish comfort food dinners – Although tea is Ireland's go-to hot drink, we'll especially the Guinness Stew!

EACH be featuring two coffee specials. The first of these will be a Bailey's Latte (which sadly has no alcohol...) and also 400g bags of Irish Cream Coffee from our friends at Velvet Sunrise Coffee Reg. $14.99 Now

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Simply put, this is the best sausage we make at the store…at least in my opinion. We start with coarsely – ground lean pork, some mild spices and use the iconic stout beer as the requisite moisture. There are two ways I like to enjoy these. First, I like to steam them with some sauerkraut and then brown them in a hot pan to We’ll have two features in our freezer. The first is our give them a crispy finish. And secondly (weather Turkey Rice Soup Reg.$8.95/900ml which is the permitting), grilled and then served on a bun perfect gluten-free substitute for a chicken noodle soup. schmeared with a sharp mustard and topped Secondly, we’ll save you the labour-intensive with crumbled bacon and process of making Scalloped Potatoes extra old cheddar…sheer Reg. $12.95/8’x5’ foil, using my grandmother’s OFF deliciousness! Reg. $5.99 OFF recipe!

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When I think of Baileys, I think not of Ireland, but Grethe, our great blonde Dane who has worked here for so many years. It’s her fave and after pouring it in my coffees many mornings to perk me up, it’s become one of my favourites, too! Suffice it to say that our Bailey’s bill this week will be sizable!

Bailey’s Cheesecake – Shortbread crust, creamy cheesecake filling with ample amounts of Baileys blended in, topped with Baileys-spiked fresh whipped cream.

Sm. $18.99, Lrg. $29.99 Bailey’s Millefeuille – Cliff’s famous handmade puff pastry filled with a generous layer of Baileys custard, Baileys whipped cream and another layer of puff pastry, dusted with icing sugar. $3.99 each St. Pat’s Vanilla Cake – our beloved vanilla cake iced green and decked out with a ton of shamrock swag to celebrate the occasion.

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CHEESE, PLEASE! Dubliner is an absolutely delicious cheese, native to Cork County, Ireland. Perfect for both snacking on and for cooking – think a grilled cheese or melted in scalloped potatoes! Tastes like a combination of old cheddar and parmesan. Equally enjoyed with a slice of our Irish Soda Bread! Reg. $4.99/100g

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I’ll never forget the first time that I saw corned beef come out of the oven at our old store on Carlton. I’d always thought of corned beef as a rather pedestrian cold cut, until I saw that glistening beef brisket, rubbed with brown sugar, cinnamon and peppercorns emerge. Lord, what an intoxicating aroma, there’s nothing like it! We’ll be featuring our Cured Beef Briskets Reg. $7.99/ lb at the meat department, so all you have to do when you get home is rub them down with whatever you please and slow cook them to perfection. Not only have we discounted these, but you’ll also get a free head of cabbage with the purchase of one, OFF and our recipe to make Corned Beef and Cabbage.

Out of everything our family and staff have accomplished at the store, perhaps our greatest claim to fame has been giving the humble flank steak the love it rightly deserves. These are one of our signature items that people have been enjoying for years and years. The quasi-balsamic/teriyaki marinade, as so many other things in our store was developed by my grandmother, Doreen. We trim these up real nice and marinate them for a few days in that perfect sweet and savoury mixture. Easy to do on the grill or on broil, 7 and a half minutes a side (trust me, I’ve got it down to a science). Let it rest while you set the table, and then slice as thinly as possible and serve…either on a bun or just on the plate.

Two condiments work perfectly with this: our homemade Jack Daniel’s BBQ Sauce or a tablespoon of horseradish mixed into a cup of mayonnaise. Reg. $12.95/lb

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A LOOK TO THE FUTURE: DEMOGRAPHICS

York Region by the numbers As Canada celebrates its 150th birthday, demographic information gives us a glimpse of where our community stands today and where we’re headed.

York’s current population of 1.2 million will grow by more than 50% to

The number of children in the region will grow from:

The number of adults in the region will grow from:

The number of seniors will balloon from:

1.79 million IN 2041 2011

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The population of the Greater Toronto Area will be:

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“We could see even millions of these sensors spread throughout York Region,” Martin said.

Sensors and other “Internet of Things” tech can also be used to create “smarter” cities. Martin thinks instead of having several stand-alone systems – one for electricity, one for roads, etc. – that a smarter city would have all its city resources on one shared network that shares data dynamically in realtime.

Chen offered another instance using renewable energy.

For example, a washing machine runs on a duty cycle, with most power being available during evenings.

With solar or wind power, washing machines, refrigerators and other appliances would automatically detect periods of high sunshine or high winds and collect power dynamically instead of on a fixed cycle.

All these advancements will cause “job destruction”, Chen says. Indeed, automation – not globalization – is why Chen believes we’ve already seen job losses. A challenge, he says, for which Canada must prepare.

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You just got off the train at the Markham GO station, it’s raining and you need to get home.

As you exit the station, an automated car waits for you – having already detected your arrival through the GPS on your smartphone.

You take a seat in the car and off it goes – controlled by artificial intelligence (AI) – to drop you off home. The car reads body temperature data from your smartphone and automatically adjusts temperature.

“We’re building a planetsized machine and we’ll be connected to it,” said Stephen Chen, a professor in the School of Information Technology at York University.

This is a small preview of the big changes in technology experts believe will change the lives of Canadians in the coming decades.

“I have a daughter close to two years old,” Chen said.

“I don’t think she’ll ever learn to drive, I think autonomous vehicles will take over in five to 10 years.”

AI, Chen says, is becoming increasingly reliable.

Human intelligence and machine intelligence is quickly becoming the same thing.

“If we banned human drivers today the world would instantly be a safer place,” he said. “That’s with today’s technology, let alone the technology we’ll have in the future.”

He gives as an example Google’s AI, which beat a human in the strategy board game Go. “It learned on its own,” Chen said. After playing Go against itself repeatedly, Google’s AI effectively taught itself out to play the game.

Rapid advancement in AI will only make automated vehicles safer and more efficient, Chen says.

IBM Canada senior executive Michael J. Martin says automated vehicles and the “Internet of Things” can help York Region face its transportation and population challenges. In 2015, York

Region’s population was 1.5 million, by 2041 it’s expected to 2.13 million.

The “Internet of Things” describes how everyday objects will be connected and constantly sharing data with each other. It’s how your future smartphone will “speak” to your future automated vehicle, but the possibilities are limitless.

Martin explained that sensors on power lines - for example - would share data to the cloud, informing the power company of a sagged or damaged line immediately and electricity could be deferred to another line to

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CHOOSE YOUR EXECUTOR WISELY An Eye Opening Story The appointment of an executor is a crucial The Wills Lawyer consideration in the preparation of a will, and should not be taken lightly. Your executor will be managing and distributing the assets you leave, and often will be making decisions which may have serious effects on the lives of your children or other beneficiaries, after you have passed away.

The executor you appoint will hopefully be sensitive to the feelings of your children, conscious of their needs, hopes and dreams. However, if you choose an executor only for his or her skill in managing money, an executor who only cares about the “bottom line,” overlooking the highly personal needs which are likely to arise in the lives of your children, your choice may prove to expose your children to years of conflict and hostility, frustration and pain, at a time when you are no longer there to help them.

Les Kotzer The following story from my book, Where There’s An Inheritance - Stories From Inside the World of Two Wills Lawyers, illustrates how difficult life can be for children who live under the controlling hand of an insensitive but honest executor.

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Dad’s will left everything equally to his two sons, Ryan and Cary. They were in their early twenties when Dad passed away. The major asset in his estate was the family home. When Dad passed away, neither son was living at home, but both of them wanted to move back to it because it was the home where they grew up. That home represented their memories, their family and their history. Dad’s home had been furnished with antiques and family heirlooms that meant a lot to both Ryan and Cary as they grew up.

What frustrated the boys was Dad’s appointment of his life long friend, Rudy, as sole executor. Rudy was a businessman who was used to dealing with the bottom line, whether it involved time or money. As executor, Rudy had the right to put the house up for sale, which is exactly what he did. Ryan and Cary begged and pleaded with Rudy to transfer the house to them, but to no avail. They said that the house meant a lot more to them than money. Rudy knew that, as executor, he had the power to sell the house, no matter what the boys said, and defended his decision by pointing out the house needed expensive repairs.

Rudy was also concerned about the state of the real estate market, which he felt was going to fall. He wanted to sell before the housing bubble burst, and explained to the boys that he was acting in their best interests in selling before it was too late.

He told the boys that emotional attachment to a property is an obstacle to realizing the best price.

The boys were powerless to stop the house sale. They felt Rudy was abusing his position as executor, and neglecting their rights as beneficiaries. They felt that Rudy was simply trying to wind up the estate in the manner which was easiest and most convenient for him. They felt their own feelings and wishes were meaningless to Rudy.

When they wrote to Rudy to formally tell him that Dad wanted them to have the house, Rudy ignored their letter and kept on with his efforts to sell the house.

However, he said that they could remove the antiques and family heirlooms if they wanted them, but they had to do it quickly because the house would soon be sold.

They felt that when Rudy made his offer to them about removing the antiques and the heirlooms, he was giving them what they were entitled to get anyway.

The boys had no way of stopping Rudy so they consulted a lawyer to find out if Rudy had the right to sell the house under Dad’s will. According to the advice that they received, Dad’s will gave Rudy the power to sell the house and, in fact, Rudy was within his rights as executor to do it, without their approval.

After the house sold, both Ryan and Cary were devastated. Completely ignoring their pleas, Rudy had sold their strongest ties to their youth. This house now belonged to an absolute stranger. What made them even angrier was that Rudy had totally misread the real estate market, and if he had listened to them, and kept the house, they would have had a house worth a lot more than what Rudy sold it for.

To sum up their feelings, they said that Rudy may have been their Dad’s friend, but that did not mean he was their friend, or that he was immune from being sued for selling the house for too low a price.

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A LOOK TO THE FUTURE: CLIMATE

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Alexia Kopackov surveys the damage done to fields that were flooded on Jane Street in King. Farmers in York Region are worried about more extreme weather conditions that are predicted for the future.

Hotter, dryer, stormier: York Region in 50 years SIMON MARTIN smartin@yrmg.com According to Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips, the problem with climate change at the moment is it’s best seen in places where few people live. “It’s about skinny polar bears, and who gives a rat’s ass about skinny polar bears?” Phillips said.

That might change in the next 50 years.

The bizarre winters in which February is balmy and March is frigid don’t appear like they are ending anytime soon, Phillips said. The weather models are predicting more extreme weather events in the next 50 years.

“Everything will be warmer. Heat waves will be more torrid. The bigger storms will be stormier. There will be longer dry periods,” he said.

It makes sense that as the world gets warmer there will be more energy to drive extreme weather, Phillips said. “It’s not all doom and gloom. There are going to be winners and losers. Grape growers can hardly wait for climate change.”

While there is a lot of uncertainty that comes with future weather modelling, Phillips points out that he was around 25 years ago when models for what the weather would be like in 2020, and the models have proven to be very accurate.

Models can’t account for technological advances or mass changes in human behaviour, Phillips added. People need to accept that we are witnessing the warming of our planet. For the most part, people have accepted that as fact. “There are a few charlatans out there that say things aren’t

warming up, but nobody talks to them.

They are phoneys,” Phillips said.

Few people are more at the mercy of the “weather gods” than farmers. Stouffville’s Richard Reesor helped start one of Canada’s biggest sweet corn operations, Rouge River Farms. For Reesor, a far bigger concern than higher temperatures in the future is extreme weather.

“What is really harmful is damaging storms,” he said. “I have heard from climate predictors that storms might be more violent.”

The warmer temperatures predicted could be beneficial for corn in York Region.

Reesor said corn planted in Tillsonburg, Ont., has a higher yield potential than corn in York Region. But if those higher temperatures are accompanied by extreme drought, it makes things more complicated.

“Last year was a very serious drought that hurt. If that was from climate change, I don’t know,” he said.

Holland Marsh farmer Bill Eek said it would be ignorant to say the climate hasn’t changed.

“Thirty years ago, everything had to be out of the ground by the 5th of November.

Now we are just getting into the carrot harvest then,” he said. “We just had a February with an average temperature of 3.4 C. That ain’t normal.”

The marsh is in the enviable position of having irrigation at the ready from Lake Simcoe, but what has Eek concerned for the future is extreme storms. “It causes soil erosion and off it goes to the nearest river or lake,” he said. “There’s nothing as a good as a light rain.”

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TIM KELLY tkelly@yrmg.com Liberal candidate Mary Ng had the MarkhamThornhill riding byelection field to herself - for a few days anyway.

There are now three other candidates lined up to challenge for the vacant April 3 federal seat, called

by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when longtime MP John McCallum resigned in January to take up an appointment as Canada’s ambassador to China.

Ragavan Paranchothy won the Conservative nomination over four challengers last Wednesday and immediately hit the campaign trail.

The 42-year-old father of two, who has lived in Markham for the past seven-plus years, said he is a broadcaster by profession who also does PR consulting.

He believes it’s important that the representative of Markham "lives in Markham and understands the issues of Markham.

"I’m a resident of Markham and have worked with numerous cultural ethnic groups and organizations in Markham, so I have a better understanding of how things work here."

He also says, among other issues, the government’s planned legalization of marijuana is a concern he has heard about at the door.

Gregory Hines has been nominated by the New Democratic Party. He is described as a small-business owner and community support worker, "who will fight for hard-working families in Markham-Thornhill as our next member of Parliament."

Hines is a husband and father of four who says he is a supporter of the arts. He

has operated the DOAHL Academy of Dance in Markham for the past decade, serving as director, choreographer and CEO. He has also worked as a community support worker for the past eight years, providing support to adults with intellectual disabilities through Community Living York South.

Brendan Thomas Reilly has been nominated to represent the Libertarian Party of Canada.

A resident of Pickering, Reilly works at the University of Toronto, as the model system designer/programmer.

He says he has distanced himself from the status quo parties, "due to their sheer size and desire for control of the lives of all citizens."

The byelection is one of five being held across Canada the first Monday of April.

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Two men are facing over 60 charges for more than 20 residential break-and-enters across southern Ontario that includes alleged break-ins in Richmond Hill and Markham homes.

York Regional Police co-operated with other GTA police services in laying the charges to the accused men who are from Brampton and Toronto. They are linked to a total of 22 incidents and were arrested Feb. 13 while allegedly breaking in to a Durham Region residence. They are also charged with break and enters in Bolton, Scarborough, Brampton, Mississauga, Oakville and Burlington.

Charged with 15 counts of break and enter, two counts of break and enter with intent and 11 counts of possession of property obtained by crime is Deandre Kadeem Davis, 26, of Brampton.

Charged with 15 counts of break and enter, two counts of break and enter with intent, 10 counts of possession of property obtained by crime, two counts of breach of probation and driving while under suspension is Shuntwon Tayvon Clarke, 22, of Toronto.

Clark appeared in Newmarket court March 14 while Davis will be appearing in Newmarket court March 22.

York Regional Police said it has assembled a dedicated break and enter task force to investigate the rising number of residential break and enters across the region, up to 349 this year from 320 last year at the same time. It says a co-ordinated effort between the district property crime teams and the break and enter task force has resulted in 20 arrests so far this year.

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A troubled teenager told a Newmarket court how the vice-principal he trusted and respected - a man whom he’d often shared "boys’ nights" with - made sexual advances on him during an evening together soon after his high school graduation.

The court heard how Paul Paterson, then viceprincipal at Thornhill’s St. Robert Catholic High School, developed a friendship with the young man, who had faced anxiety, depression and substance abuse in the past.

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Paterson also developed a relationship with the man’s mother, he said, gaining her trust to the point that she’d eventually ask him to look after the teen while she was on vacation.

What they didn’t know was that the men were drinking and smoking weed together during sleepovers and one camping trip, the teen said, explaining at no point was the female "life partner" Paterson told him about ever present.

The teen’s issues increased to the point where he also started doing drugs - sometimes a

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Paterson didn’t make any advances on him, he said, but did occasionally make sexual references in a "half-joking" manner.

Paterson also told the teen about a gay experience he had when young, the teenager said.

It was after graduation that the pair decided to have one last "boys’ night", during which Paterson was to sleep at the teen’s home while the boy’s parents were overseas.

After going to the LCBO and smoking from a bong, they drank a bottle of Jagermeister and a couple of beers, he said.

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"I didn’t know what to do, so I froze up," the teen told police. "I didn’t want it to happen. The whole time I was pretending to be asleep. I think he assumed I was really hammered."

The teen rolled on his back to stop the advances he said. Paterson fondled his genitals for two minutes, eventually heading to the bathroom, at which point the teenager left to sleep elsewhere.

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"I look at a lot of places and say I’m not going to try and go in there," he said.

The problems are often small and have easy solutions. Take the Tannery Mall in Newmarket. Accessible parking is limited to spots in the south and east parking lots.

Poirier has lobbied for accessible parking spots at the north side of the building where the provincial offences court entrance is located, which he regularly visits as part of his job with the Ministry of Natural Resources. A few years ago, the mall redid the rear parking lot but didn’t include any accessible parking spot.

"The closest parking spots to the door are reserved for justices of the peace, police officers and contractors," Poirier said.

It seems Poirier’s concerns have been heard as commercial property manager Kelly Shinn said the Tannery intends to put in accessible parking spot in the rear lot this spring.

Vaughan resident and accessibility activist Randy McNeil said busi-

nesses need to be pushed to become more accessible. He thinks they are waiting because they know the accessibility act’s deadline for compliance isn’t until 2025.

Washrooms, ramps, door buttons, curb cutouts, parking: the list of issues McNeil sees is long and widespread.

"You have to plan ahead and do your best to find a business that is accessible," he said. "Get in the chair for a week and see how you do?"

Making buildings accessible is a challenge for many businesses, president of the Markham Board of Trade Richard Cunningham said. But it’s also the right thing to do, he said.

Some business owners, especially those operating small, independent stores or offices, are unaware of the regulations that are in the accessibility act, he said. Others are concerned about the financial impact of upgrading their buildings to meet the new rules.

"In a lot of cases it is not [financially feasible ]and thus comes the challenge," Cunningham said.

A business owner undertaking renovations or constructing a new building must ensure it is accessible. There is a cost to the business for doing that, he said.

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That means power door operators and tactile walking surface indicators at the top of stairs and at platform edges, which help alert pedestrians with low vision that they are entering an area of potential hazard.

Barrier-free access between all floors will be required for most new buildings, including public meeting places, such as theatres, community centres and places of worship, care buildings such as long-term care homes, and commercial/retail buildings like supermarkets and shops.

Other requirements include barrier-free washrooms to be provided in public areas of most buildings, with power door operators, as well as a folddown grab bars design to allow for transfer space.

At least one universal toilet room will be required in all buildings and, for multistorey buildings, at least one for every three floors. Space for an adult change table will have to be provided in all universal toilet rooms except in buildings under 300 square metres in building area.

The province’s goal is to have an accessible Ontario by 2025. For Poirier and McNeil, these changes can’t come soon enough.

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The 75-minute junior-intermediate show included over 200 students and began with a tribute to African culture that featured a drumming circle.

Canadians like Harry Gairey Senior and Viola Desmond, known as social justice pioneers, were portrayed in performance. "The Trial of the Stone" - a folk tale preserved by Canadian Black children’s author Ricardo Keens Douglas - was interpreted to bring wisdom to problems like racial profiling, stereotyping and the politics of exclusion.

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Mental health leader reaches out to cultural groups Rebecca Shields praised for enthusiastic approach toward mental health KIM ZARZOUR kzarzour@yrmg.com

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Rebecca Shields, CEO of Canadian Mental Health Association York Region and South Simcoe Branch, received a Women Worth Watching Award. nadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Vancouver-Burnaby branch and now, with the CMHA York Region and South Simcoe branch as chief executive officer.

Or, as Shields prefers to call herself, chief enthusiasm officer.

That enthusiasm is in evidence as she talks about her current focus, building cultural competence in the branch’s mental health services across York Region and South Simcoe.

About five years ago, the York-Simcoe branch looked at its data differently, she says.

"We realized the organization wasn’t serving people in the way we wanted to."

Turns out six per cent of their clients identified as having a first language other than English, but overall in the community, one third of residents use English as a second language.

Mental illness affects us all and the many new Canadians in the region, facing trauma of relocation, may be at higher risk. At the very least, she says, those numbers should be the same. It appeared peo-

ple were falling through the cracks.

"We need to be able to reach people who are marginalized, who face issues of stigma, particularly in hard-to-reach communities where their understanding of mental health can be extremely different from the Westernized model."

Under her leadership, the branch embarked on recruiting and training that would ensure all service providers were "culturally competent"; new programs aim at reaching out to communities facing barriers of language, stigma or access.

"We need to do this not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because there’s real societal cost if we don’t."

Shields seems undaunted by the task.

"I’m an eternal optimist," she flashes her characteristic wide smile.

"I’m so thrilled to be able to do my part to create communities that I want to live in. And I get to work with the most passionate people, surrounded every day by people who are doing good work. How lucky am I?"

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In her younger years, Rebecca Shields walked her dog in her Vancouver downtown east side neighbourhood.

She lived not far from the local safe-injection site, an area notorious for drugs, prostitution, homelessness and crime, but her white fluffy puppy revealed the neighbourhood’s hidden, human side.

"He was just a puffball of a thing and people who were ’street involved’ would come up and pet him," she shrugs. "It’s just humanity, right?"

Humanity is what drove Shields to make her mark in Vancouver and now, it is driving her here in York Region.

Shield was named on the Top 40 Under 40 in Vancouver in 2012, Newsmaker of the Year in 2014, and in 2016 she was presented with the Women Worth Watching award, a North American accolade that honours women who are leaders in their field.

It’s an unexpected trajectory for a private-school educated chemistry degree holder.

Shields’ career was heading in a very different direction - food chemistry when she had "a moment".

She didn’t want to be a scientist. She wanted to do what she loved doing: volunteering and helping others.

"I come from a family of volunteers," she says. "It was always in me."

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Scarborough, Ontario, also Your kids have moved provide the option of out and you have too much additional services like space. The home that saw housekeeping and your family grow seems less laundry. Here, there’s even worth the hassle it takes to an on-site dining room to maintain it. If you think it may reduce the need to cook at be time to move to a smaller home. and more manageable home, you may want to take a closer 2. E n j o y a s e n s e o f community. look at what active lifestyle Living in a like-minded communities have to offer. community makes it easy For 55+ adults, these type of to meet others who share communities eliminate many your interests. Trinity of the obligations of home Ravine Towers is sponsored ownership while providing

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Home maintenance tips for the winter months Winter can be a particularly tough season for a home – even if it’s brand new. Since wind, snow and ice can’t distinguish between old or new houses, don’t make the mistake of thinking that your new home doesn’t need regular maintenance, especially during a harsh Ontario winter.

Fortunately, all new homes in Ontario come with the mandated builders’ warranty that lasts up to seven years from the date of possession and is guaranteed by Tarion. To help protect your warranty rights, it’s important to conduct regular home maintenance yearround. If you don’t, regular wear and tear on your home can cause damage that may not be covered by your warranty.

One issue to consider in winter is fluctuating temperatures that can sometimes lead to a build-up of roof ice and potentially dangerous icicles.

This can occur when the roof surface is warm enough to melt the snow but the surrounding air temperature is cold enough to refreeze the melted water.

Areas to monitor are roof valleys, dormers, skylights and roof over-hangs.

Regular freeze and thaw cycles, especially in these areas, can eventually lead to water seeping inside the home.

Where it can be done safely, clearing roof ice and snow can help reduce the

likelihood of future water leaks.

Other important outdoor maintenance tasks include ensuring that all air intakes, exhausts and meters are clear of snow; cleaning gutters and washing out all debris; and turning off and drain-

ing exterior hoses and pipes.

Inside your home, managing the humidity level – a key indicator of a healthy indoor environment – is particularly important during the colder months.

You can monitor this by using a hygrometer, an inexpensive device that can be found in hardware stores. The healthy range during the winter is 30 to 45 per cent humidity.

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Excess moisture can even be caused by simple day-to-day tasks such as showering, cooking and doing laundry.

Make sure that bathroom fans, kitchen range hoods and ventilators, such as heat recovery ventilators — items that are specifically installed in your new home — are in good working order to help you control moisture.

Too little moisture can also result in damage that may not be covered by the statutory warranty.

If you have low humidity in your home, your interior finishes may be affected and wood products may shrink. Installing a portable humidifier should help.

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East Gwillimbury Fire Chief Phil Dawson (left) and Richmond Hill Mayor Dave Barrow board a bus bound for Newmarket during the annual 360Kids night on the streets experience. Community leaders spent the night pretending they were homeless youth looking for shelter.

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Richmond Hill Mayor Dave Barrow emptied the contents of their envelope two loonies, a pair of bus passes and instructions for he and East Gwillimbury Emergency Services Chief Phil Dawson to make their way to the Salvation Army Youth Shelter in Sutton.

"With two bucks we could split a coffee," he said.

Double-checking their meagre resources, the pair were resigned to begin a journey through York Region on a cold evening.

It was the annual 360 Experience, an event that

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The March 2 event was also about touching base with the many other agencies that partner with 360 Kids to help protect the vulnerable in York.

After catching a VIVA bus in Richmond Hill, our travellers arrived at the Newmarket terminal just in time to board the nextto-last run to Sutton - a circuitous route, running through Keswick and Jackson’s point, before arriving at the shelter in Sutton.

Upon checking-in with staff at the shelter it is suggested the pair make their way around town and find someplace to keep warm for a while.

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The pair eventually located an open kiosk, taking refuge from the unseasonably cold temperatures that night.

"It’s lonely out there," said Barrow. "It’s boring!"

Making their way back to the shelter, the two managed an hour’s sleep before heading back to their own lives, jobs, homes, cars and a credit card.

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SIMONE JOSEPH sjoseph@yrmg.com Aaron Walderman has the perfect conversation opener for any party.

He builds ukuleles for fun.

For him, it is more than just a pursuit he can boast about at parties.

"There’s a great deal of art involved - a balance of colours, making sure it’s appealing but at the same time, making sure everything works right."

He spoke about this passion for building instruments in the basement of his Thornhill home, where his workshop is located. Walderman sports rainbow-coloured suspenders, gesturing to his creations, stopping here and there to pick one up and talk about it.

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Aaron Walderman is a Thornhill resident and an experienced luthier - a builder of wooden instruments such as ukuleles - who often uses reclaimed wood. Here he is in his basement workshop, sanding a ukulele.

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The first 50 instruments were all part of his learning curve, according to the retired engineer.

They are stored in a garbage bag in his garage.

"Mona Lisa" of guitars his perfect guitar. He confesses he doesn’t think he can make another as good.

Making a good instrument is about being precise, he says.

"The top must be a certain thickness; the soundhole should be in the right location and the right size."

Selling instruments pays for the equipment he needs to make ukuleles.

"It pays for itself and then some," he said.

People find him via word of mouth. Walderman is adamant that he doesn’t want to turn this pursuit into a business.

"Never," he said. "As soon as it is a business, I have to do it. It’s a lot more fun doing it the way I want to do it."

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Showtime: 400 musicians coming to town to break world record ALI RAZA aliraza@yrmg.com How do you prove that 400 musicians and bands performed for 372 hours and 10 minutes straight?

That’s the next challenge for Epidemic Music Group and the Earl of Whitchurch as they get the final details ready to launch their attempt to break the Guinness World Record for longest concert by multiple artists.

The attempt starts Friday, March 17 at 7 p.m. and will end on Sunday, April 2 at 7:10 a.m.

"It’s game time," Epidemic producer and committee chair Kevin Ker said. "Our goal was to make this national because we really want this to be a Canadian event.

It’s bigger than just Stouffville and York Region."

"We’re setting a world record for Canada’s 150th."

Stouffville is the centre of attention as the concert has drawn the attention of media outlets across Canada. By comparison, the current record holder - Ri Ra Irish Pub in Las Vegas - had no trouble attracting attention when they broke the record in 2014.

Epidemic has released a full schedule with a band list on their website. All 400 slots have been filled, with Ker having to say no to more and more bands eager to participate.

While Paladin Security will have surveillance, recording the event with a time-stamp, organizers need volunteers that are independent of the event to sign up as witnesses for the 16-day record.

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As Stouffville prepares for two weeks of nonstop music, Ker says he would’ve ripped his hair out if it were not for the "greatest team of all time" - his core committee.

With a team of 25 people, he says he feels like they’ve done this before.

"We spent the last seven years building this music community of open mics, musicians, festivals, etc.," Ker said. "It’s been in the making and this concert is the natural next step."

Tickets are only sold at the door for the recommended donation of $5, all proceeds go to the charity of the day.

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Bean Around The World brews up mix of art with coffee TIM KELLY tkelly@yrmg.com Enjoying some art with a fine cup of joe in your favourite coffee house is a timeless tradition.

Whether it’s music, painting or photography, art and a finely-brewed java just seem to go together.

That’s certainly the way Rick Lustri, owner of Bean Around The World, an independent coffee house in Markham plaza at 5762 Hwy. 7 East, sees things.

Lustri, who opened his business 18 months ago, has been holding open mic events regularly and is now inviting artists and artisans to come in on Saturdays to show their wares.

This Saturday afternoon, for instance, he’ll allow local photographer Emil Pasini to display his latest work.

For Lustri, "whatever

sales they (artists) make they get the word out to bring their friends in to try and find me - it’s a win-win and it’s communitybased."

Pasini, 20, enjoys "capturing the world and different aspects of Earth" through his lens.

The former Bill Crothers Secondary School student calls himself a motivator, artist and musician.

He said he hopes by showing off his art he’ll bring Rick, "some new business. I hope to acquire some new business myself, maybe meet other artists, even a midnight shooting partner."

For Lustri, it’s been an interesting transformation from working in the corporate world to independent business owner.

He got the idea to open the only Bean Around the World outside the Vancou-

ver area after meeting one of the founders of the business out west a number of years back. After thinking about the idea for four or five months, he decided to take the plunge and spent the following year getting the business going.

His location in the mall along Hwy. 7 between McCowan Road and Main Street fits his needs he said because it provides ample parking with 400 spaces.

He said the rent is reasonable as well.

He said he’s done the social media thing in terms of getting the word out, but finds word of mouth from satisfied customers is the best advertising.

Business has so far been up and down but he said once customers try the product, they come back again.

"They absolutely love my coffee," Lustri said.

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Youth wanted for free theatre workshops

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Shadowpath Theatre Productions and Gap-Gen will be teaming up to bring free theatre workshops for youths in York Region, including the first one in Richmond Hill.

Theatre Ontario has awarded funding to Shadowpath and Gap-Gen to work together in designing and delivering a highquality arts education outside of formal schooling. This program will emphasize engagement by working with youths ages 14 to 21 to co-create meaningful experiences that will exercise minds, bodies and imaginations.

There is a need for this type of work in the York Region community and there are partners and resources from which to draw from, Shadowpath

artistic director Alex Karolyi said, noting three youth workshops in three different York Region communities will be offered.

Any youth aged 14 to 21 may participate in these workshops.

Shadowpath is a registered charitable organization and has been turning everyday spaces into creative places since 2002.

Gap-Gen is a division of LifeNotes Wisdom Inc. Its mandate is to equip young adults with their own tool kit to handle transitional challenges.

The first workshop is March 25, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Richmond Hill Art School, 10271 Yonge St. #205. Workshops will also take place in April and May, but dates and times have not been confirmed.

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The dinner table can be a place where dreams are launched.

It was during the Clarkson Cup in Markham a few years ago that Ellie Sasaki and her Markham-Stouffville Stars teammates were invited to dinner with the Boston Blades in a tournament-related event. Conversation turned to the opportunities for women in hockey when it struck the now 17-year-old their might be a chance for her.

"That’s where I really found out women can do something with hockey," said the Markham resident, who has accepted a full scholarship to attend the University of New Hampshire for next season. "I was in Grade 8 or 9, I think, but it opened the door for me."

It wasn’t long after dining out with Canadian Women’s Hockey League heroes that she started sharing with U.S. college programs her interest in scoring an NCAA scholarship. Last year, she received notice from UNH that they would be keeping

Ellie Sasaki an eye on her progress. She signed a national letter of intent in November to join the Wildcats program in Durham, New Hampshire for the 2017-18 season.

"I just loved the location and got a good vibe from the coaches," she explained, recalling her official visit to the Division 1 school which competes in Hockey East. "I got a chance to talk with the players and liked them.

"I think the best thing is being able to play at the highest level I can. It’ll be a great experience playing with girls at a similar competitive level."

One Wildcats’ player in particular she related to was junior forward Katie Haslett who hails from Rothesay, New Brunswick and is among a half-dozen Canadians on the roster.

"It was nice knowing there are other girls with similar experiences," said Sasaki, a Grade 12 student at Markham District High School. "It was definitely easier knowing there are girls there going through the same thing. I’m really excited because I’ve been working toward this for a while."

Sasaki, who plans to study exercise science, is presently in practice mode as she prepares for her final games as a junior hockey player with the Brampton Canadettes.

The Canadettes are gearing up for the provincial girls and women’s championships starting April 7 following a firstround exit from the Provincial Women’s Hockey League playoffs at the hands of the Toronto Aeros.

Sasaki, who grew up playing for the MarkhamStouffville Stars, is an assistant captain for the Canadettes. She scored eight goals among 24 points in 38 regular season games for Brampton this season.

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It wasn’t just another day in the pool for 86-yearold swimming dynamo Barb Powell.

The Scarborough resident, who comes to the Markham YMCA five days a week to get fit by swimming and taking an Aquafit class, raised $735 Saturday morning swimming 54 laps to "help people join the Y who might not be able to come any other way," Powell said.

The former Markham resident was taking part in the Y’s annual megathon fundraiser, part of a group of participants and spon-

Barb Powell, 86 sors numbering 2,000 raising $45,000 through swimming, karaoke, line-dancing, box fit and a boot-camp challenge.

Powell, who "believes in

helping other people," raised the most money this year she’s ever generated in four years of participating in the Markham Y’s megathon.

Powell said she’s hiked the entire Bruce Trail and used to be a sailor but said "now that I’m older, swimming is the best exercise for me."

Her proud son, Brian Powell of Stouffville, was on hand to watch his mom finish up her fundraising swim Saturday.

"She’s a dynamic lady still doing this at 86, still going really strong," he said.

"She’s a real great example."

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l Friday, March 17 Language Cafe - Friday WHEN: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

WHERE: The Bridge Church, 5440 16th Ave., Markham CONTACT: 905-294-6716 COST: These are informal drop-in opportunities where you can enjoy a beverage and snack while practicing English with fluent locals and other newcomers. l Saturday, March 18 George’s Railview Model Railway Club WHEN: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. WHERE: George’s Model Railway Club, 550 Alden Rd., Suite 201, Markham CONTACT: mike@theclares.ca COST: Single $10, family $20 Mark break open house. l Sunday, March 19 Newcomer Care Group

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WHEN: 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. WHERE: The Bridge Church, 5440 16th Ave., Markham CONTACT: 905294-6716 COST: $15 Fleeing your homeland and moving to a new country as a refugee is one of the hardest things a person can face. Do not face it alone. Register online. l Monday, March 20 Meditation Class WHEN: 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. WHERE: Bill Crothers Secondary School, 44 Main St., Markham CONTACT: 866-850-YOGA COST: Weekly sahaja yoga meditation classes. Learn how to meditate and how to awaken your own inner spiritual energy. l Tuesday, March 21 Markham At The Movies - The Dressmaker WHEN: 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. WHERE: Flato Markham Theatre, 171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham CONTACT: Flato Markham Theatre, 905 305 7469, hello@markhamatthemovies.com, www.markhamatthemovies.com COST: A glamorous woman returns to

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She transforms the women and exacts sweet revenge on those who did her wrong. l Wednesday, March 22 Morning Break Craft Classes WHEN: 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. WHERE: Markham Missionary Church, 5438 Major Mackenzie Dr. E., Markham CONTACT: 905-2945081, emc@markhamemc.ca COST: $20 Nine weeks of food, fun and fellowship to craft, enjoy a coffee break, hear a short devotional. l Thursday, March 23 Real Estate Panel: First-time Home Buyers WHEN: 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. WHERE: Angus Glen Community Centre and Library, 3990 Major MacKenzie Dr. E., Markham CONTACT: Evelyn Fok, efok@markham.library.on.ca, https://mplfirsthome.eventbrite.ca COST: Our real estate panel aims to provide first-time home buyers with information and answer any questions about buying a first home. Register on the website

5 things to do this weekend l Friday, March 17 John McDermott WHEN: 8 p.m. - 11 p.m.

WHERE: Flato Markham Theatre, 171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham CONTACT: 905-305-7469 COST: Prime: $64, Regular: $59 Students: $15 Juno award winner and beloved Scottish-Canadian tenor John McDermott takes the stage at the Flato Markham Theatre. l Saturday, March 18 Skedaddle Pop-Up Exhibit Get lost in play!

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WHERE: JEH MacDonald House, 121 Centre St., Thornhill CONTACT: thinkined.com/skedaddle.html COST: $18 Featuring interactive installations that blend the charm of oldschool neighbourhood play with the allure of unconventional thinking.

Ukrainian Easter Eggs Workshop WHEN: 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.

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l Thursday, March 16 Life in Canada Group WHEN: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. WHERE: The Bridge Church, 5440 16th Ave., Markham CONTACT: 905294-6716 COST: $15 An 8-week experience where participants join a group of other newcomers to learn things that will help you be successful in your new country.Register online.

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