Milton Villager Magazine Volume 1, Issue 10 - July 2013 www.MiltonVillager.com Additional bonus content and photos available online
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Game On:
First Annual Ball Hockey Tournament for Charity
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t was “Game On” Saturday, June 15, when a group of eighty kids from seven to thirteen were treated to a day of road hockey in the Home Depot parking lot. A group of committed volunteers representing four major service groups, the Italian Canadian Club of Milton (ICCM), Optimist Club of Milton, Rotary Club, and Knights of Columbus, organized the tournament. Planning started around six months ago. “Angelo Posteraro and I were thinking about a community event we could organize, and we didn’t really know what form that would take, but eventually we settled on a ball-hockey tournament,” spokesman Rod McLachlan explained. And that’s how “Game On” was born. It featured two rinks built by the committee themselves, and their efforts didn’t end until late the night before.
“The idea is to remove the stigma associated with therapy,” Director Kristen Dougherty explained. “It’s not supposed to be that big of a deal; everyone needs to talk about stuff.” The idea is modeled after the walk-in medical clinic. The idea of kids donating money to charity really appealed to her: “I think the fact kids come out to help other kids their age; it means they understand them.” To learn more about The Rock, visit its website at www.therockonline.ca or call the Milton office at 905-875-2575. By Laura Steiner
The tournament featured sixteen teams, eight for each age group, and a barbecue with food provided by Longos and cooked by the Optimists. The younger kids played in the morning for teams sponsored by Century 21, La Rose, Milton Orthotics (Team Crosby & Stanley), and The Gerrits Family (Team Gerrits). All participants were awarded medals, and the winning team received a miniature Stanley Cup. This year’s winner was sponsored by Century 21. Participants paid $10 each with proceeds going to The Rock (Reach Out Centre for Kids). “Kids helping kids was what it came down to,” McLachlan said. The Rock is Halton Region’s largest kids’ mental health centre with offices in Milton, Oakville, and Burlington and features a walk-in therapy clinic.
Team Gerrits featuring Heather Gerrits
Beth von Richter and her son Blake
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n Saturday June 8, the Hawthorne Village Plaza hosted its first annual Charity BBQ to raise funds for muchneeded equipment for the Milton District Hospital.
“Thank you to the Hawthorne Village Plaza for organizing this wonderful fundraiser to support the Milton District Hospital Foundation. It is because of supportive community groups such as the shops at Hawthorn Village Plaza that the Milton District Hospital can continue to provide the best possible healthcare with the most cutting edge technologies to the Town of Milton.” said Andrea Cayer, Development and Communications Associate at MDHF. About 50,000 new residents are expected to call Milton home after the completion of phase three of the town’s residential plan. The anticipated influx of new residents requires some improvement to the current state of our hospital. With the barbecue raising an impressive $3,000 toward new equipment purchases, it seems well suited to becoming an annual event. Everyone seemed to enjoy their hamburgers and hotdogs while listening to the DJ blasting popular music. Kids were busy having their faces painted and taking pictures with Star Wars characters and the beautiful mermaid. Meanwhile, many adults were scratching their raffle tickets to see if they were the lucky winners of a forty-inch flat panel television. To help burn off some of the extra calories we took in, there was a complimentary Zumba class that had people out of their seats and dancing to the beat. I caught up with the McCarter family, and Colleen had this to say: “We had a great time! Our three kids were dancing and eating the afternoon away! The fundraiser is very important because it’s for our community hospital, and with our growing community, we need our hospital to grow with it.”
Jessica Lockwood
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Hawthorne Village Plaza Charity BBQ
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By Anshul Sharma | Photos by Eva Mende-Gibson
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La Rose Bakery holds
ItaliaFest Fundraiser
Jonny, Tony & Roberto
By Laura Steiner | Photos by Theresa Brereton
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n Sunday June 9, La Rose Bakery held its second annual ItaliaFest with the proceeds going to the Townsend-Smith Foundation. “Sal and I really wanted to help raise funds for the hospice, which isn’t up and running yet,” La Rose owner Maggie Lizzi said, “but hopefully it will be soon because we need one here in Milton.” ItaliaFest was a hive of activity that featured a bouncy castle for kids, accordion music, a bocce ball area provided by the Italian Canadian Club of Milton (ICCM), and a Fiat display by Milton Chrysler and Fiat. ItaliaFest also included pulled Porcetta (pork) sandwiches, pizza baked in a stone oven, and pizzelle cookies.
Chloe
“It’s about getting the foundation out there and answering questions, making people aware,” Foundation Board Chair Bruce Schallemberg said. Schallemberg gave an interview standing behind a table full of brochures advertising the foundation. He explained what establishing a hospice means to him: “For me, it would mean bringing a service to a community where I live that doesn’t presently exist.” A hospice is a home providing care for the sick, especially the terminally ill. Ontario has twenty-seven such facilities with 215 beds. An additional twelve are in various stages of development.
Bruce, Amelia, Carol, Susan, Lyndon of Townsend Smith Foundation
A patient’s family member calls a hospice, and the hospice then opens a file for them. The hospice will check in with the family until the patient is ready to enter, often making a home visit to assess the situation. The idea behind the Townsend-Smith Hospice is “to provide individualized care based on trust, integrity, and personal choice offering physical, emotional, social, and spiritual support in a comfortable and compassionate environment,” Co-Founder Lynden Smith said. He has had two experiences with a hospice. His father-in-law spent weeks in a palliative care unit. “He was upset, in terrible shape. We got him over to Hill House Hospice in Richmond Hill,” Smith said, “and he went to sleep that night and didn’t wake up.” That hospice stay lasted only twelve hours.
Niko, Ale, Daniel and Luka
Smith was the main caregiver for his wife, Tessie, who died of cancer. When he wasn’t working, he was taking care of Tessie, up at 2 a.m. taking her sugars. “I wasn’t ready for the day,” he said. “I wasn’t ready for the night.” That went on for four and a half months. “This is a time when the caregiver can become a spouse again,” he said of the time in a hospice, which is often two or three weeks. The Townsend-Smith Foundation wants to fund the hospice through fundraising and government contribution. “The government would contribute to this palliative patient with the funds for some of their health care that they normally would,” Smith said, “and then the community, through donations, will provide the balance of that to cover the cost of the care.” To learn more about Smith Townsend Foundation, including how to donate or volunteer, visit the website www.townsendsmith.ca.
Ariana and Alessia Borea at the Firetruck
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Jungle Book
stage show
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he story about a talking animal society in the Indian wilderness, The Jungle Book, was brought to the stage with a creative homemade flare on May 23 and 24 at the Milton Centre for the Arts. Those memorable tunes from Disney’s 1967 animated musical of The Jungle Book, originally published in 1893 by Rudyard Kipling, were performed by the Milton Youth Theatre Productions. The Mattamy Theatre stage was transformed with vines dangling from the ceiling, trees made of construction paper, and a La-Z-Boy throne at the top of the staircase where King Louie (Holla Smith) sat. Louie wore a bear fur vest, wrist bands, and an orange Mohawk resembling Blanca’s hairdo from Street Fighter II. The Jungle Book’s antagonist, an aggressive bully of a tiger named Shere Khan ( Joseph Sadgrove), wore a tiger tail attached to an orange-striped tailcoat. Before the kids all ran out to take a bow and then cheered amongst each other with excitement when the curtains closed, the performance concluded with encores of everyone’s favourite Jungle Book songs “The Bare Necessities of Life” and “I Wanna Be Like You (Oo Oo).” Additional roles were created so that eighty-six kids had a part to play, including a narrating coconut tree (Rylee Wood) and Kaa the Snake, whose character was split into three “coils” (Meaghan McDonagh, Baily Smith, and Ava Tamo). There was also a seven-child group of bees (Martina Pandullo, Fiona MacFarlane, Ryan Di Lorenzo, Logan Jagedo, Kadence Orgar, Thomas Murdock, and Olivia Brazeau) who periodically swarmed Mowgli (Gavin Lander) and his friends Bagheera (Aly MacFarlane) and Baloo (Erin Healy). Story by Stuart Service | Photos by Ann Kornuta
By Laura Steiner | “Photos by Laura Steiner and Cathy Nelson Gordon
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Milton Fights Cancer
Tina Hopkins after she completed her survivors lap
elay For Life started as a labour of love. In 1985, an American surgeon, Dr. Gordon Klatt, wanted to raise money for the American Cancer Society in honour of his patients. He liked running marathons and decided to combine his two interests by walking the track all night at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. His friends paid $25 to walk with him for thirty minutes, and together they raised $27,000 by walking for twenty-four hours. Friday, June 14, marked Milton’s Relay at Milton Fair Grounds. Participants in teams of ten gathered to “Celebrate, Remember, and Fight Back,” walking twelve hours around the track. It was an overnight event to symbolize a cancer patient’s journey. There’s a survivor’s dinner and a triumphant survivor’s lap.
and “Cure.” The event is described as a “ceremony of hope and remembrance” during which people are invited to the stage to say why they participate in the relay. The ceremony included pictures of those lost to cancer and honoured survivors by showing their pictures as well. The third ceremony is a “fight back” ceremony held at 2 a.m. “We pledge to do this and try and raise funds and awareness of cancer all year long,” Event Coordinator Stacey Brunton-Douglas said. For more information on Relay for Life, visit the website at www.relayforlife.ca.
“It felt wonderful. Every year you can come back and know that you’re another year clear,” Tina Hopkins said. Some teams dressed in costume, and among the most creative was one group dressed as bees. Hopkins told her survival story as part of the opening ceremonies. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009. “I say ‘we,’ because from that moment on, my husband, Doug, never left my side.” She then described her defiant attitude towards her recovery: “It turns out my way was best for me, and best for my husband, and best for my children, my family and my friends.” Hopkins was open about it, describing how she even offered to show her surgical scar to her kids. The luminary ceremony took place as night fells and people grow tired. The luminaries were white paper bags, usually with a written message in memory of people who have lost their lives to cancer. The luminaries outlined the track overnight and were displayed in the grandstands in the shape of the words “Hope”
Fred’s Angels walking in memory of Fred Spear From left, Judy Spear, Marta Redmond, Ruth Hill, Ashley Veldman, Kim Rhynold, Amber Smith, Steven Sutherland and Melody Spear.
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Lorne Scots 2990 Stand for Review
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he Army cadet program was founded in 1861, making it one of Canada’s oldest youth programs. It had the “royal” status conferred on it by George VI in recognition of the movement’s involvement in World War II. It’s free to join and runs from September to May for youths between twelve and eighteen. Cadets are represented in Milton by the Lorne Scots 2990 Regiment celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this year. The regiment meets Thursdays from 6:30 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. On Saturday, May 25, the 2990 held its thirtieth annual ceremonial review at the Fairgrounds. Cadets in full dress uniform put on a display for family, friends, and officers representing the R.C.M.P., Royal Canadian Legion, and the Halton Regional Police. R.C.M.P. Superintendent Rick Penney served as the reviewing officer and remarked, “It should always make you stand a little bit taller.” Penney noted similarities between the two groups. Many were awarded medals based on their years of service. Other awards included Best Attendance, Best Dressed, and Best Shot. “Cadets train cadets,” Reviewing Officer Captain Satish Tarachandra said in his speech. Tarachandra is a corporal in the RCMP and also noted similarities between the two movements. “The cadet movement is focused on youth, and one of the things
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Photos by Denise Cooperwhite
that’s strongest in the R.C.M.P. is our commitment to youth,” Tarachandra said. Only one in thirty cadets proceed on to military service or working with the police. “In this environment here, we’re able to develop youths so that they can develop others throughout their lives. They’re trained to lead at an adult level.” By the end of their fourth year, cadets are expected to be “masters at instruction.” Cadets are offered some free and exceptional travel opportunities. This year they took a trip to Quebec on an exchange with a regiment from Montreal. There were some issues with language during the five-day trip. “Some of us aren’t bilingual, and we were able to function very productively, and have a lot of fun,” Tarachandra said. The trip served as the year’s highlight for many cadets.
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Chief Warrant Officer Leach-Trudeau’s highlight is yet to come because this summer he goes to Scotland to train with cadets there. He also is retiring this year from the regiment. “You learn lots. The principles are leadership, citizenship, physical fitness and discipline. It goes on and on,” he said of his overall experience. The 2990 regiment is always looking for new members and volunteers. To learn more, visit www.miltonarmycadets.ca.
Leach-Trudeau Regimental Sergeant Major Chief Warrant Officer
Sergeant Sparsh Kapar receiving his Junior NCO Achievement Award
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Milton Business Connections Bowlathon
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he scene was nothing short of idyllic. If you believe in omens, you could certainly place your faith in the signs of the radiant sunshine.
The dynamic Milton Business Connections (MBC), of which the Milton Villager is a proud member, gathered on the Milton District Hospital (MDH) grounds during the afternoon of June 14, for the presentation of the outstanding donation provided to the MDH Foundation (MDHF) following a highly successful charitable event, the sold-out Bowlathon held on May 30, at Champs Family Entertainment Centre (Champs).
of the community and give back as best as I can. Really, MBC is about learning, sharing, and supporting each other in business. They definitely played a part in my being the number one agent in my office in 2012. I am lucky to be a part of such a great group of business owners!” In 2012, MBC hosted a Bowlathon that raised $1,200 to support the United Way Milton. This year, MBC partnered with Champs to support MDHF. The event was extremely
Founded in 2011 by Carol Duvall, Robert Duvall, and Richard Bolton, the desire to create MBC came from a need to network with local businesses and the Milton community as a whole. With over thirty active members, MBC continues to thrive and grow with business representation in various sectors including insurance, mortgage, real estate, accounting, computer services, social media, branding, and website design. As Carol Duvall told the Milton Villager, “What makes our group unique is the premise that members will grow their business through regular networking with like-minded professionals while supporting our community through our yearly community fundraisers.” Lisa Roach, sales representative with Century 21 and MBC member said, “The group very much mirrors my own values in business. I believe it’s very important to be a part
MDHF Board and Staff
Dean Barreca & Rob Hewlett
entertaining with an amazing prize at the end: MBC was able once again to give back to the community with an impressive $5,319.50 donation to MDHF. The funds will go towards essential medical equipment for use at MDH.
By Elizabeth Kogan | Photos by Eva Mende-Gibson
Richard Bolton, Rob Duvall & Maria Gray
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For more information on Milton Business Connections and how you can become a member, please contact Carol Duvall at connect@miltonbusinessconnections.ca.
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“We are honoured to be the charity of choice for the 2013 Bowlathon,” said Helen Vatistas, executive director of the MDHF. “$5,000 is an outstanding contribution to our hospital. We are so thankful to have groups in the community such as the Milton Business Connections and Champs give their time and energy to support our hospital.”
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By Jan Mowbray
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illed as child-friendly event, the fourth annual Teddy Bears’ Picnic was an opportunity for families to invite neighbours, friends and relatives. Children were encouraged to bring their Teddy Bears to the picnic to share in the fun: •
Petting zoo with 40+ friendly, extremely well-behaved, friendly animals. Miniature donkeys and goats, an, ostrich, a couple of llamas, some rabbits and more.
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Entertainment – the Milton Choristers were there in fine form. There were also performances by representatives of the Christian Culture in Milton
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Rides on the Country Heritage Park Train
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Bouncy Castles were very busy
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There was continuous lineup for face painting
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There was even a Teddy Bear Care Station where all the Teddy Bears could have a medical checkup by the “nurse” on duty.
Donations to the Salvation Army Food Bank in Milton were gratefully accepted at the gate. Country Heritage Park is the perfect place for the Teddy Bears’ Picnic – plenty of space for the various displays and activities; lots of grassy space to sit down and just watch the goings on or eat a picnic lunch. And lots of shaded area if you wanted out of the sun. Lunch was available to purchase on site at the child-friendly food canteen or you could have brought your own picnic. It was a perfect day for a picnic. If you missed it this year, you really should make sure you watch for it next year. It really is fun, a special event for young families.
Teddy Bear
Picnic & Art of Christianity Celebration
Everett and Kelly Dolan-Robertson Nathalie Tayag
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ay 25th in the Milton Sports Center parking lot was cool but sunny - a perfect day for the Optimist Club of Milton Bike Rodeo. The bike safety event consisted of five stations that took about 20 minutes for participants to complete. The kids started with the bicycle and helmet inspection station manned by Karen Haist and Matt Burger of Spokes ‘N Slopes who generously donated their time. The next station was signs and signals manned by Milton Community Consultation Committee volunteers Ann Marie KuarSingh and Mike Cluett. Participants reviewed key road sign and traffic light meanings and were taught hand signals before embarking onto the riding portion of the course. Three on-bike stations were manned by Bike and Auxiliary Officers from the Halton Regional Police Service and Milton Optimist volunteers. The on-bike course started with a shoulder check station where kids were able to practice turning their heads to check for traffic while still riding in a straight line. The next station consisted of a slalom course, designed to teach participants steering and obstacle avoidance. “It’s harder than it looks!” was one child’s comment after she completed the course through the pylons, which were
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Milton Optimist Bike Rodeo
loaned to the club for this event by Don MacRae’s State Farm office. The last station was a mini-road course with two stop signs and turns. The kids put their stop, left, and right hand turn signals into action as well as learning how to make safe left hand turns on a street. There were a number of Beavers, Cubs, and Guides who came in uniform to participate in the rodeo, which was designed with the Guide and Scout Cyclist badge requirements in mind. All in all, there were 47 participants and their parents. Many kids went through the on-bike stations multiple times allowing them to hone their skills. Goodie bags with items generously donated from Milton businesses and Halton Regional Police were given to all participants along with certificates of completion. There were also prize packages given out by random draw after the event to six lucky kids. Most importantly kids and parents alike left with a greater knowledge of bike safety. We’re looking forward to growing this event next year!
By Kim Macdonald | Photos by Konstantin Fedochev
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