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FREEZING NIGHT ON STREETS — LITERALLY? ARTS AND CULTURE

Aidan Aird of St. Brother Andre and Pauline Kashtelyan of Aurora High School are just two teens who were homeless last night and preparing to sleep on the streets, despite impending freezing rain conditions. Some 30 students pledged to participate in the 360 Kids Young Leaders Night on the Streets to raise money and awareness for the 300 youth across York Region on any given night without a place to sleep. They started their experience at 8 p.m. from the 360 Kids Home Base in Richmond Hill and headed to various locations round the region, accompanied by 360 Kids staff and volunteers. They returned to base at 6 a.m. this morning for a hot breakfast and to talk about the experience. For more, go to yorkregion.com and look for social media posts by the participants.

Heritage Village Fest cancelled; BIA suggests new July event

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Big-spending budget gets mixed reviews in York BY LISA QUEEN

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While the federal Liberals are trumpeting their first budget as an investment in Canadians’ futures, critics complain the financial document, at best, fails to deliver on key promises and, at worst, leads the country down the road to ruin. In his budget, called Growing the Middle Class, Finance Minister Bill Morneau laid out a spending spree that will see the government spend $11.9 billion on infrastructure, bring in a child benefit that will lift thousands of children out of poverty and help middle-income families, and kick-start the economy.

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But the budget also made a laughing stock of an election promise to keep the deficit at less than $10 billion. This year’s deficit will hit almost three times that benchmark at $29.4 billion. And while Morneau hopes to balance the books in five years, he didn’t put that in writing. The budget reflects the message Canadians have given the government to help families and make investments in the future, he said.

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“What we’re also going to do is be prudent along the way,” he said. Investments in infrastructure include $3.2 billion for public transit, with $2.41 billion of that coming to Ontario and Quebec, $2 billion for clean water and wastewater and $3.4 billion for social infrastructure, such as housing, child care and recreation facilities. But although $1.48 billion is earmarked for affordable housing, Richard Lyall, president of Vaughan-based Residential ConstructionCouncil of Ontario or RESCON, doesn’t think the funding will make much of a dent in the lack of affordable housing in York Region. See CITIES, page 10.

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Arts group says decision due to lack of support from town; BIA suggests new event in July By KIM ZARZOUR

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Richmond Hill’s Heritage Village Fest has been cancelled for this summer, but there is still hope a new street festival, revamped and renamed, can be held next year in the downtown core. For more than 20 years, Yonge Street, between Major Mackenzie and Crosby Avenue, has been closed for one day in June for the Heritage Village Festival street fair. The day-long event, featuring performances, children’s rides, displays and gift booths, had garnered fans — and critics — over the years. It was the premier event hosted by the not-for profit group Arts Richmond Hill, but in a recent email to supporters, president Dino DiMarco said he was forced to cancel it after council withdrew its financial support. A $10,000 annual grant from the town helped cover costs for the festival, along with other activities, such as a holiday tree-lighting ceremony at the McConaghy Seniors Centre and a musical Choral Extravaganza.

‘Not only has [the town] refused to provide any financial support, they have made it extremely difficult for us to even secure a location.’ DiMarco, who took over as president three years ago, said the event lost its focus and the board — now reduced to four members — lost its enthusiasm after the town made changes to its grant funding structure. In 2015, town council approved a new community and cultural grants program, rolling several funds into one, said Karin Ash, manager of Cultural Services. Richmond Hill organizations and artists, including Arts Richmond Hill, were invited to apply for funding in the fall and those selected had to complete a full application with accompanying documents, Ash said. In January of this year, after a peer review

of applications, 19 individuals and organizations were awarded funding. Arts Richmond Hill did not make this list, because the organization did not specify a specific project, Ash said. Council had also requested audited financial statements from Arts Richmond Hill. There had been no formal process in place for granting funds to the group, no application form required and no followup requested on the group’s expenses and in 2013, a majority of councillors passed a motion asking Arts Richmond Hill for audit information. That information was never received, Ash said. DiMarco said the group felt an audit would be expensive and unnecessary. “We had full disclosure. An accountant prepared our statements, although they weren’t audited.” An audit, he said, would cost about $5,000 and the organization — which was led in the past by former Ward 5 councillor Nick Papa, as president and treasurer — did not feel it was needed. “Maybe it was politics, when Nick was there, I don’t know. He filed statements with Revenue Canada. Nothing leads me to believe he would not disclose …. There was full transparency,” said DiMarco. “We’ve had a whole hodgepodge of things come at us and it’s left a bitter taste in the mouths of many people.” The situation is further complicated by a request from the town that the group reconsider the location and look at the possibility of holding the event in an arena, rather than closing down Yonge Street to traffic. “Not only have they refused to provide any financial support, they have made it extremely difficult for us to even secure a location, nor have they shown any initiative to even provide any moral support in helping us with this festival,” DiMarco said in an email. “We are very disappointed in having to make this decision, however, town council

Curtain Club presents mystery thriller that hits theatre stage on April Fool’s Fabian Levy-Hara, Tamara Van Bakel, Andrew Pawarroo, Beth Matthews, Joshua Sidlofsky and Anne Kim in the key roles. Performances run from April 1 to 16; with curtain rising at 8 p.m. each night and 2 p.m. for the Sunday matinée. Tickets are $20 each, $17 on preview night March 31; call the box office at 905-7733434. The community theatre is located at 400 Newkirk Rd,, at Elgin Mills Road East, in Richmond Hill. For more, visit www.thecurtainclub.org - Heather Nutt-Christensen

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Youth and cultural groups perform on stage during the Heritage Village Festival, held on Yonge Street, which is closed to traffic. The BIA suggests a new event should be held in July and focus on an international celebration. has provided us with no alternative.” But not everyone is upset about the cancellation. Many members of the village’s BIA (Business Improvement Area) complained that the Heritage Festival hurt business, said chairperson Mehrdad Sabouhi.

‘It was extremely difficult to open for business on the day of the festival ... other businesses were coming to the village, setting up tents and competing.’ “It was extremely difficult to open for business on the day of the festival,” he said. “At the same time, other businesses — like physiotherapists, chiropractors, hair salons — were coming to the village, setting up tents and competing.” Sabouhi said he sent letters to Arts Richmond Hill about the stage being set up in front of the Tridel building and blocking storefronts there, while other businesses on Yonge north of Major Mackenzie complained of being blocked by trucks, storage and garbage connected to the event. “They never responded,” he said. “I love any festival ... but even the name Heritage Village Fest seemed wrong.” Instead of a celebration of the beautiful old buildings and churches, with local farm food and historical farm implements for kids to learn from, Sabouhi said the festival had evolved into a “free market”. The BIA hopes to replace Heritage Festival with a different event next summer: an International Village Festival. Yonge Street would still be closed, but the

350 local business members would involved in a celebration village’s many cultural groups, Sabouhi said. The festival, featuring food, vendors and performances from different ethnic communities, would attract 10,000 to 15,000 people to the core and it would be held in July, when weather should be better, he said. DiMarco, meanwhile, hopes to take Arts Richmond Hill “to a higher, more prestigious level. “We are starting from scratch, trying to get back to the original mission... to promote arts and culture.” Going forward, he said, the group plans to move in a “more modern/progressive direction [with] more upscale, professional artistic events that will provide a broader appeal to the Richmond Hill artistic community. That will include a Chinese symphony orchestra performance in August and in the fall, a Richmond Hill-born screenwriter now working in Los Angeles will create a show for the performing arts centre, he said. Instead of a holiday tree-lighting ceremony, DiMarco said there is talk of a Mill Pond festival with “old-time Christmas spirit”. Asked about DiMarco’s statement that the town has withdrawn support, Ash said to her knowledge, Arts Richmond Hill has not sent official correspondence to town staff. “We intend to connect with Arts Richmond Hill about this matter going forward.” The town is grateful for the service that Arts Richmond Hill provides to the community, she added. “We both share a common interest in creating an opportunity for artists to express themselves and share their talent with the community. We wish them every success in their future endeavours.”

The Curtain Club’s latest production, Wait Until Dark, opens on April Fool’s Day. But don’t let the quaint apartment of Susan and Sam Hendrix fool you; hidden within is a score for which thieves and con men would kill. The mystery, written by Frederick Knott, focuses on two newly acquainted crooks becoming ever more desperate and depraved, waiting until dark to play out the classic thriller’s chilling conclusion. The Richmond Hill production, directed by Sharon Dykstra and produced by Jo Ann Warren, stars Cam Lund, Nicholas Mann,

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Wednesday, March 30 – Council Public Meeting – 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 4 – Committee of the Whole- 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 6 – Council Public Meeting – 7:30 p.m. Agendas for all meetings are available on the Town’s website under the Council section “Meetings and Agendas” tab. Council meetings will be held at the Municipal Offices, 225 East Beaver Creek Road, 1st floor.

Board unless, in the opinion of the Board, there are reasonable grounds to do so. If you wish to be notified of the passing or refusal of the proposed Zoning By-law Amendments, you must make a written request to the Acting Clerk, The Corporation of the Town of Richmond Hill, 225 East Beaver Creek Road, Richmond Hill ON L4B 3P4. Notice of Collection: Personal information collected as a result of this public meeting is collected under the authority of the Municipal Act, the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA), the Planning Act and the Town of Richmond Hill’s Procedure By-law, and all other relevant legislation, and will be used to assist in making a decision on this matter. All personal information (as defined by MFIPPA), including (but not limited to) names, addresses, opinions and comments collected will be made available for public disclosure to members of the public, at the meeting, through requests, and through the website of The Corporation of the Town of Richmond Hill unless you expressly request the Town to remove it. Questions regarding the collection, use and disclosure of this personal information may be directed to the Acting Clerk at the contact information provided below. Compliance with Provincial laws respecting Notice may result in you receiving duplicate notices. Detailed information regarding the proposed Zoning By-law Amendments may be obtained by contacting the Planning & Regulatory Services Department between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., 225 East Beaver Creek Road, 4th Floor at 905-771-8910. The Staff Reports will be available at the Office of the Clerk, Ground Floor of the Municipal Offices, on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 after 3:00 p.m. The Staff Reports will also be available on the Town’s website RichmondHill.ca/Meetings. Gloria T. Collier, Acting Clerk Town of Richmond Hill Tel: 905-747-6363 225 East Beaver Creek Road Fax: 905-771-2502 Richmond Hill, ON L4B 3P4 E-mail: clerks@richmondhill.ca DATED THIS 24TH DAY OF MARCH, 2016

Zoning By-law Amendment and Proposed Draft Plan of Subdivision Appeal: If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at the public meeting or make written submissions to the Acting Clerk, The Corporation of the Town of Richmond Hill before the proposed Zoning By-law Amendment is passed or refused and/or before the proposed Draft Plan of Subdivision is approved or refused, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision of the Council of the Town of Richmond Hill to the Ontario Municipal Board and may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Municipal Board unless, in the opinion of the Board, there are reasonable grounds to do so. If you wish to be notified of the passing or refusal of the proposed Zoning By-law Amendment and/or decision of the Council of the Town of Richmond Hill in respect of the proposed Draft Plan of Subdivision, you must make a written request to the Acting Clerk, The Corporation of the Town of Richmond Hill, 225 East Beaver Creek Road, Richmond Hill ON L4B 3P4. Notice of Collection: Personal information collected as a result of this public meeting is collected under the authority of the Municipal Act, the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA), the Planning Act and the Town of Richmond Hill’s Procedure By-law, and all other relevant legislation, and will be used to assist in making a decision on this matter. All personal information (as defined by MFIPPA), including (but not limited to) names, addresses, opinions and comments collected will be made available for public disclosure to members of the public, at the meeting, through requests, and through the website of The Corporation of the Town of Richmond Hill unless you expressly request the Town to remove it. Questions regarding the collection, use and disclosure of this personal information may be directed to the Acting Clerk at the contact information provided below. Compliance with Provincial laws respecting Notice may result in you receiving duplicate notices. Detailed information regarding the proposed Zoning By-law Amendment and proposed Draft Plan of Subdivision may be obtained by contacting the Planning & Regulatory Services Department between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., 225 East Beaver Creek Road, 4th Floor at 905-771-8910. The Staff Report will be available at the Office of the Clerk, Ground Floor of the Municipal Offices, on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 after 3:00 p.m. The Staff Report will also be available on the Town’s website RichmondHill.ca/Meetings. Town of Richmond Hill Gloria T. Collier, Acting Clerk Tel: 905-747-6363 225 East Beaver Creek Road Fax: 905-771-2502 Richmond Hill, ON L4B 3P4 E-mail: clerks@richmondhill.ca DATED THIS 24TH DAY OF MARCH, 2016

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COUNCIL PUBLIC MEETING Wednesday, April 20, 2016 Concerning a Proposed Zoning By-law Amendment and Draft Plan of Subdivision A PUBLIC MEETING has been scheduled for Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers of the Municipal Offices, 225 East Beaver Creek Road, to notify the public and receive comments on the following applications that have been received by the Town. ITEM 1 INQUIRIES REFER TO TOWN FILES: D02-15033 & D03-15010 Andy Karaiskakis, Senior Planner 905-771-2412, andy.karaiskakis@richmondhill.ca A request from DORMER KING INC. to amend the Zoning By-law for lands and for approval of a Draft Plan of Subdivision, for lands described as Part of Lots 37, 38 and 39, Plan 202 and municipally known as 368, 376, 384 and 390 King Road. The subject lands have a frontage of 94 metres (308.4 feet) along King Road and a total area of 0.865 hectares (2.137 acres). The proposed Zoning By-law Amendment would amend Zoning By-law No. 1275, as amended, by rezoning the subject lands from “Residential Urban (RU) Zone” under Zoning By-law No. 1275, as amended, to “Semi-detached One (RD1) Zone” and “Multiple Residential One (RM1) Zone” under Zoning By-law No. 313-96, as amended. This zoning would facilitate a proposed draft Plan of Subdivision consisting of twelve (12) semi-detached dwellings and fourteen (14) townhouse dwelling units on the subject lands. Any person may attend the meeting and/or make written or verbal representation either in support of or in opposition to the proposed Zoning By-law Amendment and/or Draft Plan of Subdivision. Written comments by any person unable to attend the meeting should be mailed/faxed/emailed to the Acting Clerk, The Corporation of the Town of Richmond Hill to be received no later than 12:00 p.m. noon on Wednesday, April 20, 2016. Please ensure that you include your name and address so that you may be contacted if necessary.

Notice of Proclamation The Council of the Town of Richmond Hill hereby declare that March 26th be proclaimed as “Purple Day”

Employment Opportunities The Town of Richmond Hill has the following employment opportunities currently available: • Lifeguards & Swimming Instructors • Building Services Intern • Supervisor, Water and Wastewater • School Crossing Guards • Fitness Instructor • Training Officer For detailed information about these and other positions, including application instructions, deadlines and file numbers, please visit the Town’s Website at RichmondHill.ca/Employment or view the public bulletin board at any one of the Town’s community centres.

Community Information EASTER MONDAY RECREATIONAL SWIMS Richmond Hill will be hosting three recreational swims on Easter Monday, March 28. Bring your family and spend an afternoon promoting a healthy active lifestyle. Wave Pool: Leisure Swim 6:30a.m.-8a.m. Leisure Swim 11a.m.-12:30p.m. Wave Swim 1-3p.m. For the Richmond Hill fee and swim admissions standards please refer to page 105-111 of the current Community Recreation Guide.

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bought a radio this week. For our kitchen and those who spend time there. It’s a wooden box, really, smaller than a shoebox, with a very good speaker. Simple, with a couple of dials. Just as the online reviews promised, the sound is amazing, with rich bass and a sort of texture I had not heard in years. It almost made me sad to think we’d gone without these kinds of sounds in our kitchen for so long. Our old kitchen radio was made of plastic, which I guess was strike one. Before it died last year, a speaker had fried, so it played one side of songs recorded in stereo. You heard parts and instruments you’d never really heard before. Which is kind of fascinating at first. Later on it’s just weird. And, of course, move around a bit in the kitchen and your body interfered with the signal and then some oldies station turned into “alternative pop” or a fact shared on a newscast was drowned out by static. Enjoying this song? Don’t move! “This just in to the news desk....”? Everyone freeze! The new radio tunes precisely. In the last couple of days I’ve tried a jazz station, a classical station, classic rock, an all-news station, CBC, an AM talk radio show. All sound great, even if the golden age of radio is long past. Don’t tell them that. When you’re an iffy cook, like myself, and it’s your turn to whip up some grub, you spend a lot of time in the kitchen getting your masterpieces sauteed and fried and boiled and whipped and strained and mashed — and the dishes cleaned. You start cooking at 5 and dinner is ready at 7:20 and you’re not sure where the time went and how everything turned out just sort of “OK” rather than wunderbar the way it does when your wife or just about anyone else you know cooks. And how did I dirty so many pots and pans? So it’s good to have a good radio there with you, to listen to music, the news, baseball games. Then your time in the kitchen was

Bernie O’Neill not spent in vain. Until last year when the Jays had their run, I kind of forgot how great it is to listen to a baseball game on a radio broadcast, as you let your mind fill in the blanks, draw the pictures, of your hero at bat with two men on and down two strikes and he belts one into the left field seats. Or the pleasant surprises of just listening to what someone else has chosen to play, rather than what you’ve chosen thanks to “bluetooth options and wireless streaming of your favourite music” — offered on another radio I didn’t buy. People say they don’t like listening to the ads, but I don’t mind. Ads are the price you pay for listening to a lively radio broadcast for free, the same way ads pay for what we read in a newspaper or see on TV (after the cable charge) or our computer screens (after paying for Internet). I write about this, I guess, because I surprised myself. People still buy radios? It wasn’t somebody’s birthday. Christmas is long past. I just wanted it, for my family. For myself. There are a lot of ugly things going on in the world right now and it’s nice to have something you can just turn on that’s beautiful and listen in for free. And listen with someone else, share the experience, instead of standing there alone with headphones or earbuds and “your” songs. The radio actually looks like a larger radio we had when I was a kid. Maybe it’s designed to look that way — old school, with new technology inside, playing the sounds of more carefree times. You kind of wish you could tune in and hear times are good, and there is peace and prosperity in the world. But then it’s a radio, not a time machine.

I was waiting to pick up my daughter from the bus stop a couple of nights ago around 10:55 p.m. I had parked on the side of the road, had my hazard lights on and was waiting outside my car. A police cruiser drove by and the next thing I know, he had turned around and stopped to ask me if everything was OK. I told him I was waiting to pick up my daughter and he left. I was relieved to know that Richmond Hill is still a safe place and York Regional Police officers stand by the motto of many police forces: “to serve and protect”. Thank you once again to our police officers who work to keep our community safe.

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Impose levy on house sales Canada is poised at the edge of a massive financial precipice. A recent TD Bank forecast of a $150 billion deficit in five years stands in stark contrast to a predict-

ed balanced budget in four years Justin Trudeau’s Liberals anticipated just months ago. Canada is in serious financial trouble. Many worthy causes are anticipating promised infrastructure funding: roads, bridges, sewers, all forms of transit, Aboriginal housing and education, social housing, etc. Any one of these could absorb the $10 billion or so that Trudeau can safely commit this year. Drastic problems demand drastic solutions. Consider this idea. Canada should tap into the greatest source of wholly unearned, often unexpected, wealth we’ve ever experienced. The inexorable rise in home prices in many regions has created virtual fortunes for many homeowners. Two examples: my family purchased a home in the far north end of Toronto in 1968. We were stunned at the price — $40,000 — exactly double what we received for our Winnipeg residence. This despite being in a thinly populated area with gravel roads and barns and livestock still evident in nearby fields. This home recently sold in one day for $900,000. Friends made an early purchase in Don Mills for

SEND A LETTER: Email your letters to the editor to mbeck@yrmg.com about $15,000. Lesser homes on their street are now selling for just over $1 million! My suggestion — an assessment of perhaps 10 per cent on such gains made on homes sold in designated regions of Canada. There were four different owners of our North York home after we sold it — an average gain of $200,000. A special levy of $20,000 should still leave them smiling and would — cumulatively and progressively — provide the funds all levels of government so desperately need. Toronto reported about 100,000 homes sold in 2015. Just do the math. Of course, there will be market changes over the coming years, but as long as Canada remains such a desirable country of destination, major immigration will continue and as will rising home prices in most areas.

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They don’t know what we are, we creatures huddled in our metal capsules, wheeling past at breakneck speeds. They just know they need to get to their breeding ground, or to the roadside gravel so soft for nesting, or they want to bask on the sun-warmed pavement. And in horrifying numbers, reptiles and amphibians end up smushed under our tires. It’s an increasing problem in our suburban communities where development is destroying habitats, leaving wildlife in shrinking, isolated patches with no way to escape. But the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) says there is something you can do to help.

Snapping turtles like this one love to make nests in loose gravel at the side of roadways, putting themselves at risk of injury or death under the wheels of vehicles.

The TRCA is launching a new initiative — the Road Ecology Citizen Science Project — using volunteers to help gather data on wildlife “road interaction”. The conservation authority is looking for citizens with an interest in ecology and biology to conduct field surveys and walk the roadside of predetermined monitoring sites, recording all signs of wildlife crossing, basking, feeding, nesting, injured and deceased on and around roadways.

NEW APP TO DOWNLOAD The TRCA is also launching a new Road Ecology application to gather the data; it will be available for download to the “citizen scientists” who register to participate. “The work by volunteers will support the work we are doing on assessing connectivity of habitats,” said Kasey Livingston, a project manager.

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Terrestrial and aquatic creatures are being harmed by the GTA’s growing transportation infrastructure, she said. Habitat fragmentation and vehicles striking and killing wildlife have made roadways “one of the greatest threats to the persistence of wildlife populations in urban and urbanizing areas,” she said.

CROSS ROADS TO BREEDING PONDS Amphibians and reptiles face danger when they mass migrate between wetlands, for example. Frogs or salamanders often try to cross roads to move from one breeding pond to an older one that has been ingrained in them over generations, she said. Snakes often bask on roads that heat up in the sun, and turtles prefer the soft gravel on road shoulders for nesting. If the Citizen Scientist project can validate where hot spot priorities are, the TRCA can take steps to protect that wildlife, said Vince D’Elia, project manager. Directional fencing and culverts can guide wildlife crossings under roadways, for example, and piles of large rocks can provide an alternative for snakes seeking warmth. The conservation authority has identified four sites across the GTA where wildlife is particularly vulnerable, including areas in Brampton, Caledon, Oak Ridges and Richmond Hill. The Oak Ridges Corridor Park — an area that extends from Bathurst to Leslie Streets — is one of the sites chosen for monitoring. It has been identified as a nature sanctuary and an east-west natural corridor at the narrowest “pinch point” on the Oak Ridges Moraine, Livingston said.

Project Orientation Session: Toronto and Region Conservation Authority 101 Exchange Ave., Vaughan Thursday, April 7 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. The area serves as protection for the headwaters of the Humber and Rouge Rivers, plays an integral role in the recharge of their waters and an essential ecological link with a wide diversity of habitats. Other sites will be located in the Town of Caledon (Castlederg Sideroad at Centreville Creek Road) and City of Brampton (Heart Lake Conservation Area and McVean Drive at Castlemore Road). Volunteers aged 18 or over (or over 14 years of age if accompanied by a legal guardian) will be required to attend at least one field training session to learn about safety, species identification and data collection protocol. They will be asked to commit to eight hours a month (in two-hour morning segments) from April to October. The project orientation session is set for Thursday, April 7 at the TRCA offices in Vaughan, and field training will be held throughout the month at Heart Lake Conservation Area in Brampton. To learn more, visit: https://apply.trca.ca/ opportunity/road-ecology-citizen-scientistvolunteer-position or email volunteer@trca. on.ca

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“This budget on housing is a real mess. I like the parts on seniors’ renos, homelessness and shelter. Other than that, it lays a massive bill in the hands of millennials without dealing with the real problems,” Lyall said. Housing affordability is a huge problem, particularly in York Region, and is having a significant impact on economic development as young people struggle to afford places to live. That dynamic is stopping businesses, looking for a ready workforce, from setting up in the region, Lyall said. Fewer than 50 rental units have been built in York in each of the last three years, the Newmarket resident said. The federal budget will merely put a Band-Aid of “drop in the bucket” limited funding on a housing market bogged down in systemic challenges, including new housing taking about 10 years to get through the development approvals process and construction. York Region chair Wayne Emmerson congratulated the government on its budget, pointing out Ottawa has committed more than $120 billion over the next 10 years to improve and expand public transit, increase affordable housing, modernize water and wastewater infrastructure and enhance broadband service in rural communities. Emmerson and several mayors and regional councillors met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and federal officials on a bus trip to Ottawa last month to lobby for a number of York priorities, including the extension of the Yonge subway to Richmond Hill, advancing all-day, twoway GO service serving Markham, Vaughan, Aurora and Newmarket, completing the final four Viva rapidway segments and addressing affordable housing needs. “Clearly, our federal partners listened, as our priorities align very closely with the priorities of the government of Canada,” Emmerson said. But unlike Conservative infrastructure programs of the past, the Liberal budget doesn’t appear to invest in big-ticket, job-creating initiatives, such as subways, roads and bridges this time around, Thornhill Conservative MP Peter Kent said. Instead, funding appears to be going toward supporting existing transit stock, he said.

‘NIGHTMARE BUDGET,’ SAYS KENT The Liberals’ decision to break its promise to keep the deficit below $10 billion will kill jobs and plague future generations with massive debt, Kent said. “We’re characterizing the budget as a nightmare budget. It has more than $100 billion in undisciplined spending projected and no plan to balance the books.” Bryon Wilfert, chair of the board of the Richmond Hill Chamber of Commerce and a former York Region Liberal MP who served as Parliamentary secretary to the minister of finance twice during his time in Ottawa, welcomed the significant investment in much-needed infrastructure and praised the government for boosting the economy. “Investment in infrastructure is very important, although it’s obviously not to the scale some would like. But if I were cities today, I would be jumping up and down,” he said. “Obviously, they are trying to stimulate the economy. But at the end of the day, it’s not government that creates jobs, it’s the business community. I like the fact they are going to eliminate some of those boutique tax (credit) things. We need a more streamlined tax approach ... where businesses are encouraged to re-invest.” Wilfert did express concerns with the deficit — “it’s very easy to get into a deficit and very difficult to get out.” Richmond Hill MP Majid Jowhari said the budget “puts people first and delivers the help Canadians need now, not in a decade from now. What is good for the middle class is good for Richmond Hill,” he said in a news release. “It’s time for Canada to make smart, strategic investments that will grow Canada’s economy and strengthen the middle class ... bringing Canadians good jobs, a cleaner environment and thriving communities.” - with files by Kim Zarzour

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York Region Tories outspent rivals in federal campaign By Chris Simon

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Money doesn’t always guarantee success in life. The same can be said for the federal candidates in the 2015 election. Campaign expenses for three of the Newmarket-Aurora riding’s five candidates — then Conservative MP Lois Brown, Liberal Kyle Peterson and New Democrat Yvonne Kelly — have been released on the Elections Canada website. According to the document, Brown spent $117,630.33, while Peterson had $52,313.75

in expenses and Kelly put $21,163.04 into her campaign. “We ran a lean campaign,” Peterson, now the MP for the riding, said from Parliament Hill Thursday. “It was an effective one, in hindsight. We had a lot of volunteers making phone calls and door knocking, which means you don’t have to spend so much producing pieces to mail. It’s not unusual for the sitting MP to spend more money than the challenger.” The spending limit in the riding was $219,830. That amount is higher than in past campaigns, due to the historic length of the

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The operator of an unlicensed daycare in Vaughan begged for mercy last week before being sentenced for breaking provincial law by running a crowded and unsanitary daycare at which a two-yearold child died from unconfirmed causes. Olena Panfilova was also charged by York Regional Police with manslaughter March 17 in connection with the 2013 death of Eva Rakovich, 2, at Newmarket court. In relation to the provincial charges at the Tannery court in Newmarket, she received a jail term and fine along with her co-accused. Panfilova, her husband, Ruslan Panfilova, and her daughter, Karyna Rabadanova, each received a 30-day sentence, which they are able to serve on weekends, along with three $15,000 fines. “I was trying to help the parents, people who were not able to pay large amounts of money,” she said through an interpreter while fighting back tears. “It was my beloved work. I was involved in that for 27 years. All the money I made I was

putting it into my business and not in order to become rich. Because of everything that occurred, I am in a very poor situation and my daughter is under stress. I have lost my health. I am in a very bad place and I really didn’t want it to happen. I beg you to understand me.” She said this despite Justice of the Peace Marie-Christine Smythe noting during her sentencing that the three were making between $700 and $850 a month for each of the 28 children split between two houses. This was not the only damming evidence, Smythe told the court, explaining that, at one point, a witness saw Panfilova unable to walk straight and smelling of alcohol while at the daycare. Another witness said Panfilova showed her documents alleging that they were a licensed facility and yet another claimed Panfilova told them to be careful as they were “being watched”, as authorities began looking into the conditions during an initial investigation at the two houses on Yellowood Circle in Vaughan. No action was taken as a result of that investigation.

Officials said they found deplorable conditions in the houses. Some 28 children, all under the age of 10, were being kept at two separate houses, located at 343 and 345 Yellowood, along with some 14 dogs and only three adults supervising the situation, the court heard. The houses were said to have smelled of urine, in a report drawn up by inspectors, and had filthy cribs, crammed conditions and fermenting food in the fridge. There were rooms with seven cribs and six playpens, including one in a closet with a child’s scribble on the wall. There was also listeria found in the home, in chicken stew, cooked grains and deli meats, according to the report. “We would like to stress that it’s very traumatic for them and they are very remorseful,” Panfilova’s lawyer, J. Richard Forget, said. “The death of a little child is a tragedy. I am sure they will never make a similar offence, I am sure they have learned their lesson.” A completed coroner’s report into the cause of Eva’s death has not been released because of the ongoing investigation.

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Olena Panfilova at Newmarket court, September 14, 2015 However, her lawyer said the daycare was little more than good intentions, gone awry. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions,” paralegal Phil Bouranov said, after the hearing. He said the houses acted as more of a cultural centre, where the kids could be around their Russian culture, insisting the money they made was ploughed back into the business, including buying Russian books for the children. Panfilova started taking care of five children, but the number grew and grew before she eventually had almost 30 staying in two houses, he added.

The Day Nurseries Act allows home daycares to operate without a licence only if they look after no more than five children with uncommon parentage. Patrick Brown, the lawyer representing Eva’s parents in their multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the province and daycare operators, said the prosecution came a step too late. “Although the operators were found guilty, this type of prosecution should have been brought by the Ministry of Education well before Eva died,” he said. New legislation passed in the wake of Eva’s death stiffened penalties and regulations for unlicensed daycares. The Yellowood daycare operators were charged under the old rules. Although the Crown asked for the trio to be banned from running or working as child-carers, the defence said they should be allowed to work around children under supervised conditions. There has been no ruling on that as of yet. Panfilova and her daughter also face obstructing justice charges.

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Two local soccer players represent Canada in England Two Richmond Hill residents were chosen to a 20-player roster that will represent Canada in an upcoming men’s under-20 international friendly soccer match against England, Canada Soccer announced this week. Fullback Gabriel Boakye, 18, and midfielder Luca Uccello, 18, were named to Canada’s

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A celebration of lives well lived and people well loved Read more Life Stories on yorkregion.com

Kate Coen helps people battle cancer

By Chris simon

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ate Coen was a cancer warrior. The Newmarket woman founded KC’s Cancer Cushion Fund in an effort to help other people battling the disease pay for treatment or living expenses. While Kate succumbed to cancer in June 2008, her legacy thrives and the fund has raised almost $500,000. To this date, the fund is largely run by her family and friends. Coen was a stay-at-home mother of three, who experienced first-hand the financial hardships brought on by cancer. Her husband took a good amount of time off work while she was sick, to take her for treatment. “We all tried to pitch in, but we all had jobs too; most of the time, it was left up to (him) to take her and it was really hard on them, financially,” KC’s vice president and Kate’s niece, Jen Haines-Brett said. “But when she started to meet people she was going through chemotherapy with, she’d hear how horrible it was for them. She met a woman who was a hairdresser and a single mother. She used to take the bus or subway for chemotherapy and would go to work right after. “Time she should have spent

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with her son was spent at work trying to pay bills. That was sickening to my aunt.” Haines-Brett says Coen’s death still stings. She kept many of Coen’s emails and goes through them every once in awhile. Coen referred to Haines-Brett as her ‘little sis’, ‘friend’ and ‘daughter’.

‘Time she should have spent with her son was spent at work trying to pay bills. That was sickening to my aunt.’ “She was a very special person,” Haines-Brett said. “She was kind of my hero. She was only 12 years older than me and she lived with my parents for quite some time. She was more like a sister and became my best friend. She talked to everyone; whether you wanted to or not, you made a friend by the time you left. She would try to make a party out of everything. Nothing really sums her up.” Kelly Pickard-Lefterys, a longtime friend and current president of the fund, also taught Coen’s oldest child at school. “The people she really connected with were these other women, like herself, who were going through chemo,” she said. “She was someone who didn’t leave it to someone else to step

Kate Coen (right), and her niece, Jen Haines-Brett enjoy a holiday hug. in. She was very action oriented. She tried to take a very difficult experience and create some meaning out of it.” Coen was also quite positive, even as her health declined. “She firmly found her faith later in life,” Haines-Brett said. “I could never understand how she could be so positive about her prognosis. It made me sick. She wanted to help

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“Adored by children, universally respected and an inspiration to her peers, Mrs. McCluskey was a tireless volunteer, quick to deflect the praise heaped on her.”

every person she could. Se was a people person and involved in everyone’s life.” The fund will host its 10th annual pub night May 14 at Newmarket Community Centre and Lions Hall, at 200 Doug Duncan Dr. Pogo Rodeo, featuring Barenaked Ladies drummer Tyler Stewart and Newmarket High School graduates Tom Gibson and Derek and Duncan Swain, Your community newspaper is celebrating the achievements and contributions of everyday, ordinary people, who have affected the lives of others in extraordinary ways. Leaving a lasting impression on the community, our award-winning journalists will write a fitting tribute in memory of those who have a special story to share. Through your community newspaper and LifeNews.ca, we celebrate those no longer with us and remember the memories we share.

will perform. Several sponsorship opportunities are available and organizers hope to raise $50,000. Admission is $30 per person and tickets can be purchased at cushionfund.com. For more information, visit the cushion fund website or Facebook page or follow the organization’s Twitter handle, @ cushionfund.

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