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Proposed location for 19 townhomes. Nearby residents expressed concerns about the increased density on their single-family homes.

Residents vow to fight development proposals toward intensification and all have raised the hackles of the nearby community. The majority of those who attended the public meeting were in opposition to an application by Technor Developments for a townhouse complex on a two-acre parcel at 71 Regent St. The lot, which formerly housed Richmond Hill Golf and Country Club offices, a shopping plaza and, most recently, a Montessori school, is surrounded by a prestigious subdivision known as Heritage Estates.

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everal hundred residents from Richmond Hill’s Ward 4 crammed into council chambers Oct. 26 to express their concerns about proposed development in their community. Three applications — for a 28-unit townhouse development in Heritage Estates, a 19-unit townhouse development on Elgin Mills Road West and two-home construction on a single-home lot — all represent the trend

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Technor built the high-end subdivision in the 1980s and, at that time, residents said, the developer insisted purchasers of the Colonial Williamsburg-style homes agree to their strict design standards. Residents were expected to follow rules governing changes to the exterior of their homes including colour, lighting and fence post caps. “We even had to sign contracts that we wouldn’t put up clotheslines,” said Carolynne Davy, one of the original homeowners.

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CHOOSING THE ON RIGHT SOME THOUGHTS YOUREXECUTOR EXECUTOR One of the most important estate planning decisions you can make is the choosing of the executor who will look after your estate, when you pass away. Essentially, your executor is the person appointed to make sure that your will is properly carried out. For instance, among other things, your executor is responsible for arranging the burial, making any claims on behalf of the estate, paying legitimate debts and taxes of your estate and satisfying the gifts made in your will. You should choose one or more persons well suited to the duties required. In making this choice, you should consider whether it is advantageous to select one executor, or several co-executors, as the case may be.

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The following are some points you should consider when contemplating the choice of your executor:

• If you are leaving the entire estate outright to your spouse, you may consider appointing your spouse as the sole executor, if you feel your spouse is capable of administering your estate. • One common misconception pertains to the number of executors you are obliged to appoint. If you wish, you do have the right to appoint just one person as your executor. • You should consider whether the person you are appointing as executor has the time to take on the task. An executor may be trustworthy, but he or she may be unwilling to accept the appointment. Executors have the right to decline the appointment at the outset when they find out they have been named. • If you are considering appointing an executor who lives in a foreign jurisdiction, you should discuss this with the lawyer preparing your will. Make sure you tell your lawyer that your executor lives in a foreign jurisdiction, so that she can address concerns regarding the requirement for your executor to post a bond. For example, the law of Ontario provides that there is no necessity for an executor to post a bond, if that executor lives in a jurisdiction within the British Commonwealth. • Your executor will have to make some management and business decisions. He or she will also have to deal with your grieving family. You should be aware that even though your executor may not have detailed business and management knowledge, he or she can hire professionals such as lawyers and accountants to deal with any complicated issues. • If you do not think that your children will get along with each other after your death, you may decide not to appoint any of your children as executors. Instead, you might wish to choose a neutral person or financial institution. • It is always a good idea to appoint one or more back up executors, in case your first executor has predeceased you, or if he or she is unwilling or unable to act. • If you are appointing three or more co-executors, such as three of your adult children, you may consider inserting a majority clause in your will to allow two of the three to make a binding decision.

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Bobby Orr Public School is located in south Oshawa - just a few blocks from the General Motors plant that has shed thousands of well-paying manufacturing jobs in the past decade, leaving many in the area precariously employed. When principal Kevina Morrison enters a Grade 5 classroom, the kids are using laptops and tablets to research animals and are eager to share what they’ve learned. Did she know that Tasmanian devils are nocturnal and were named an endangered species in 2008? asks one student. Another shows her pages filled with notes and diagrams on tree frogs. “What I see from the students are kids that are competitive, that want to be successful, kids that see a future for themselves,” says Morrison of her school. Bobby Orr is in Lakeview, a neighbourhood where more than a third -38.4 per cent - of children under the age of six live in a lowincome household, a rate three times the average in Durham. Early childhood development indicators show twice as many children in Lakeview are vulnerable when it comes to physical health, emotional maturity and language and cognitive development.

Schools step up In 2013, Bobby Orr was one of 12 schools in Oshawa selected to be part of the Durham District School Board’s (DDSB) Make a Difference program. The program takes a broad approach and includes training for teachers, supporting child nutrition through breakfast and snack programs, parent literacy centres, mental health support and oral language programs aimed at young children. Lisa Millar, superintendent of education operations for the DDSB, says it’s no secret education is the great equalizer. “If we begin to address poverty early on, there’s a direct correlation to graduation rates in high school.” Darlene Ciuffetelli-Parker, a professor of education at Brock University, has looked at how schools tackle poverty. Schools that are successful have hero teachers, who spend afterschool hours writing grant requests for playgrounds and breakfast programs, she says. They are schools

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Growing Up Poor: Child Poverty in Ontario Growing Up Poor: Child Poverty in Ontario is a Metroland Media Special Investigative Series, by reporters Jonathan Zettel, Reka Szekely, Todd Vandonik and Melinda Cheevers, that spotlights child poverty and to looks behind it to reveal problems and identify solutions

Beyond the classroom In York Region, 360 Kids Support Services has been supporting youth aged 13 to 26 for more than 25 years. Director of operations Bonnie Harkness explains her organization helps youth in-crisis, many of whom are experiencing poverty because of family breakdown or mental health and addiction challenges. “Youths are still kids, it’s not the 1950s and you can’t pull up your bootstraps and find a job if you don’t have a university education and you can’t get a university education if you don’t have money,” she says. 360 kids supports up to 1,000 youths a year at drop-in centres in Richmond Hill and Vaughan and in early March opened an emergency

shelter that sees 60 youths a day. It offers housing support that gives youth time to develop life and employment skills and slowly work their way up to affording market rate rents. Harkness is now working on adopting the Britain’s NightStop program, which would see community members with a spare bedroom in their home partner with youths who need a place to stay. “It’s really getting the community involved in dealing with the issue,” she explains.

Federal funding Minister of Families, Children and Social Development JeanYves Duclos says the first step to addressing child poverty was introducing changes to the child benefit program earlier this year. The government increased benefits to lower income families, while cutting universally available tax credits like the $150 child fitness tax credit. Under the new formula, a single parent with a child under the age of six earning $30,000 will

receive $6,400 a year, tax-free. “It’s directed to those families that need it most, nine families out of 10 will benefit from that, it’s a very large number of families that will benefit from this change,” Duclos says. The Liberals’ poverty reduction plan will also support indigenous and northern communities, and fund childcare and social housing services through the provinces. But Duclos cautions the government can never fully address the need. “Those resources will never be enough, they’ll be significant, but limited,” he said. “We have to think of a manner in which we can use our resources as effectively as possible.” At Bobby Orr Public School, Morrison naturally has a wish list of things that could further benefit her students, but she’s proud of what has been accomplished to date. “I’ve seen a change in the school in two years, a change for the positive,” said Morrison. “Kids see a brighter future.”

that respect the dignity of parents and make community connections. “It does revolve around how school communities understand deeply what it means to live in poverty and not to blame students and parents for living in poverty, but blaming the conditions of poverty,” she says. But she cautions schools are

only one piece of the puzzle; poverty is a complex problem that requires a complex solution. “Schools can fix the conditions of poverty only when the students are at school,” she explains.

BULLETIN

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Upcoming Meetings Monday, November 7 – Committee of the Whole – 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 9 – Council Public Meeting – 7:30 p.m. Monday, November 14 – Council – 7:30 p.m. Monday, November 21 – Committee of the Whole – 4:30 p.m. Agendas for all meetings are available on the Town’s website. Council meetings will be held at the Municipal Offices, 225 East Beaver Creek Road, 1st floor.

ASSISTIVE LISTENING SYSTEM

For meetings held in the Council Chambers, the Town of Richmond Hill offers an assistive listening system. Should you require the use of this system, please advise the Office of the Clerk in advance by sending an e-mail to clerks@richmondhill.ca or by speaking with Clerk’s Office staff before the start of the meeting.

Employment Opportunities The Town of Richmond Hill has the following employment opportunities currently available: • Lifeguards & Swimming Instructors • School Crossing Guards • Fitness Instructor • Aquatic Supervisor – Elgin West Pool • Facility Attendant – I & II / Community Centres • Facility Attendant – I & II / Arenas 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.

Road Closures REMEMBRANCE DAY PARADE This is to advise you that Yonge Street will be closed between south of Crosby Avenue and north of Major Mackenzie Drive and Wright Street from Yonge Street to Hall Street for a Remembrance Day Parade on Sunday November 6, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Temporary ‘No Parking’ signage will be posted on Yonge Street on the day of this event. Barricades will be assigned to the following locations: - Yonge & Crosby - Yonge & Centre E & W - Yonge & Bedford Park - Yonge & Arnold - Yonge & Dunlop - Yonge & Lorne - Yonge & Richmond - Yonge & Major Mackenzie - Hall & Wright

Community Information HoLIDAY SPICE TEA Enjoy a touch Holiday spice with everything nice at the Heritage Centre. Bring a friend to relax over tea and enjoy a specially prepared spice cake and our signature mulled cider. Date: Tuesday, November 22 Sittings: 1 and 2:30 p.m. Location: The Richmond Hill Heritage Centre, 19 Church Street North Cost: $8.50 (tax included) Reservations are strongly recommended. Please call 905-780-3802 to book your seat today!

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NoTICE oF CoMPLETE APPLICATIoN UNDER THE PLANNING ACT The Town of Richmond Hill has received the following application under the Planning Act: ITEM 1 INqUIRIES REFER To TowN FILE(S): D02-16027 D03-16009 Phoebe Chow, Senior Planner 905-747-6452, phoebe.chow@richmondhill.ca A request from MoNTANARo ESTATES LIMITED to amend the Zoning By-law for approval of a draft Plan of Subdivision, for lands described as Part of Lot 5, Concession 2 and municipally known as 12860 Leslie Street. The applications seek to permit 32 single detached dwellings, a new public road, a future residential mixed use block and a natural heritage block on the subject lands. ITEM 2 INqUIRIES REFER To TowN FILE(S): D02-16029 Shelly Cham, Senior Planner 905-747-6470, shelly.cham@richmondhill.ca A request from DoGLIoLA DEVELoPMENTS INC. to amend the Zoning By-law for lands described as Part of Lots 51 and 52, Concession 1, W.Y.S., and municipally known as 10922 Yonge Street. The application seeks to rezone the lands from Hold- Multiple Family Six (H-RM6) Zone to Multiple Family Six (RM6) Zone under By-law No. 190-87, as amended. The purpose of this notice is to advise the public that “complete” development applications have been received by the Town of Richmond Hill pursuant to the Planning Act. The applications have been circulated to Town departments and external agencies for review and comment. A Council Public Meeting will be scheduled and held at a later date, with formal notice being provided pursuant to the statutory requirements of the Planning Act. If you wish to express your views with respect to these applications, please forward your comments in writing to the assigned Planner noted above. The personal information accompanying your submission will become part of the public record. Additional information related to these applications is also available for inspection between 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM during regular business days at the Town’s Planning & Regulatory Services Department, located at 225 East Beaver Creek Road, 4th Floor (Telephone: 905-771-8910). DATED THIS 3RD DAY oF NoVEMBER, 2016.

SENIoRS’ CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIoN A wonderful way to start the holiday season! Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis at the McConaghy or Oak Ridges Community Centres. You will require identification to confirm that you are 60+ and a Richmond Hill resident. Each senior is allowed to pick up a maximum of two tickets and identification will be required for both. Date: Friday, December 2 Time: 1 p.m. Place: Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge Street FREE to all Richmond Hill Seniors 60+ For further information contact the McConaghy Centre at 905-737-1818.

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Community Information HOLOCAUST EDUCATION WEEK Beit Rayim Synagogue & the Town of Richmond Hill are proud to present MUSIC OF ANOTHER WORLD: SYZMON LAKS Date: Sunday, November 6 Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts | 10268 Yonge Street Under the artistic direction of HEW 2016 Artist-In-Residence, Simon Wynberg, the Grammy-nominated ARC Ensemble (Artists of The Royal Conservatory) presents a concert with a focus on the delightful music of Szymon Laks (1901-1983) and features a pre-concert talk about the life and music of this holocaust survivor. *Free admission; pre-registration is required. Reserve tickets by visiting musicofanotherworld.eventbrite.ca or by calling 905-771-5526

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REMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 11 A.M. Richmond Hillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Remembrance Day Service will take place at the Cenotaph (located at 10100 Yonge Street) on Sunday, November 6 at 11 a.m. The March of Remembrance will form at 10 a.m. at the northwest corner of Wright and Yonge Streets and will proceed south on Yonge Street at 10:30 a.m. All ex-service personnel are invited to take part in the March to the Cenotaph and residents are invited to attend the Service. Following the Service, a reception will take place at the Royal Canadian Legion (Br. 375) at 233 Centre Street East. Everyone is welcome. If you have any questions please contact Daniela Fiore at 905-771-2466

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Time to scrap the OMB

orgive us if you’ve heard this one before. The provincial government has pledged to reform the controversial, unelected, unaccountable Ontario Municipal Board (OMB). Longstanding opponents of this quasi-judicial body, which is empowered to overturn planning decisions made by democratically elected officials, will know reforms have long been promised - typically at election time. Politicians, community groups, environmentalists and others have denounced the OMB as little more than an adversarial mechanism through which developers exert their will on a reluctant community. Just the threat of a lengthy OMB hearing, with its inherent legal expenses, can intimidate a municipality into a settlement the community opposes. Recently, Springwater Mayor Bill French was shocked to learn the county had agreed to allow an additional 3,000 people in a massive project in Midhurst without input from his township. The decision averted an OMB hearing. Was anyone truly surprised? The public perception that the OMB often acts as an arm of the development industry is well founded. In a recent decision, a panel of divisional court judges struck down an OMB directive to the Town of Richmond Hill. The OMB had (astonishingly) set a cap on how much green space the town could demand from condo builders - in essence acting as an agent for the construction industry. A couple of years ago, the OMB overruled an Official Plan that took Waterloo Region eight years to produce. The OMB wanted 10 times more land designated for development than had been allotted. Some cities have tried to extricate themselves from OMB jurisdiction out of sheer frustration. As far as reforms are concerned, the province will consult with stakeholders. Preliminary proposals would limit the OMB’s ability to hear appeals and completely overturn decisions. They would prevent appeals of secondary plans, which are neighbourhood-specific plans, for two years and promote mediation over adversarial hearings. Would that be an improvement? Sure. But, the best solution would be for Minister of Municipal Affairs Bill Mauro to scrap this noxious board once and for all. Let’s hope that’s the message stakeholders deliver to Queen’s Park.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR There are consequences to speeding I would like to address the issue of reckless vehicle speeding on the town streets, or anywhere, and its consequences. On Friday, Oct. 7 my elderly parents, father who is 86 and just passed his annual driver’s test and mother who is 80 , were involved in a serious automobile accident. Almost returning home and about 150 metres from our driveway on Carrville Road, they were struck from behind by a vehicle being driven recklessly at a high rate of speed. Multiple witnesses at the scene described the vehicle travelling extremely fast, weaving through traffic when it struck my parents’ car just east of Avenue Road around 7:45 p.m. The impact caused their vehicle, a 2007 Chevy Malibu, to be spun around and end up on a drive-

SEND A LETTER: Email letters to editor to newsroom@yrmg.com way of one of the houses lining the street. The force was so severe that a shopping wagon in the trunk was forced forward into the back seat area. Fortunately no one was in those seats. Both vehicles were damaged beyond repair and Carrville Road was closed as emergency personnel and police attended to the scene. My parents were taken by ambulance to Mackenzie Health for examination and X-rays but fortunately were released around 1 a.m. with only severe bruising and contusions but mentally and physically shaken by the event. The other driver was charged with careless driving, I later learned. The impact on my

parents, who likely will not drive again and lost their means of transportation, is they will need much physio rehabilitation and other medical treatment, and will have the rest of their senior years completely altered by this. I would like to thank those persons who stopped to assist, from the gentleman who identified himself as a doctor and ran to our house to advise us of the accident and the couple who called 911 from their cellphone and stayed to comfort my parents until help arrived. Their compassion was greatly appreciated and I wish I could have gotten their names. This shows the difference between those who are reckless with uncaring attitudes for others by speeding and causing harm and those who care about others in the community.

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So many of our residents tell us that it just “felt right” when they walked in the doors at Oak Ridges and got that “welcome home” feeling. Choosing the right residence can be just that easy! Oak Ridges Community Bazaar Sun, Nov 20 • 11:00 am - 3:00 pm It’s a great time to start thinking about holiday shopping! We have some fantastic vendors including Epicure Selections, Party Lite, Gossip Accessories, Purdy’s Chocolate and many more! An Afternoon with Shout Sister Choir Tues, Nov 22 • 2:00 - 3:00 pm Join us for a great afternoon with Shout Sister Choir singing everything from Pop, Motown, Folk and even a little bit of Country. They will also get us into the Christmas spirit with many holiday songs. You won’t want to miss this performance!

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Remembrance Day was formally inaugurated by King George V in 1919 to recall the end of hostilities on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, in accordance with armistice signed by representatives of Germany and the Entente (United Kingdom, France, Russia) between 5:12 and 5:20 a.m.

Remembrance Day is officially the memorial and remembrance for members of Commonwealth of Nations States war dead since the First World War.

The red remembrance poppy is a familiar emblem of Remembrance Day due to the poem, “In Flanders Fields,” written by Canadian physician Lieut.-Col. John McCrae. Poppies were worn for the first time at the 1921 anniversary ceremony and have been worn ever since.

At the 11 a.m. Nov. 11 ceremony, which typically takes place at a town cenotaph or church, the “Last Post” is typically played and a two-minute silence takes place to honour the memory of the war dead.

Attend your local Remembrance Day ceremony: Sunday, Nov. 6, 11 a.m., McConaghy Centre, 10100 Yonge St., Richmond Hill

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Music may have saved Szymon Laks’s life. Rather, the Polish composer’s affinity to musical composition and conducting may have spared him. Laks survived the horrors of concentration camps Auschwitz and Dachau partly because of his rare ability to compose music that still works even if musicians or instruments are missing. As part of Holocaust Education Week, the music of Szymon Laks will be featured in a concert in Richmond Hill Nov. 6. Holocaust Education Week 2016 artist-in-residence Simon Wynberg is the artistic director of the ARC Ensemble, which will perform Laks’s music. Wynberg found out about Laks through a colleague at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “He is a really accomplished composer,” Wynberg said. “The music is interesting and affecting,” he said. Laks’s music is unknown, he said. His music has gradually been republished in the past five to 10 years, Wynberg said. In Auschwitz, Laks was the conductor of the men’s orchestra. “He was able to keep the orchestra running with the SS breathing down his neck,” Wynberg said. Because of his skills and talents, he got better food, clothes and accommodation. But Laks did not have a romantic view of how music sustained him, Wynberg said. “He has an honest, brutal view of the role music played in the Holocaust.” Laks wrote a book called Music of Another World. Wynberg points out that while Laks survived the Holocaust, his music has little connection to it.

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Where: Beit Rayim Synagogue and School in partnership with the Town of Richmond Hill presents this program at the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. When: Sunday, Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m. Who: The Toronto-based Artists of the Royal Conservatory (ARC) are committed to performing forgotten works of composers who were forced to flee Nazi Germany. The concert is led by music historian, guitarist and artistic director Simon Wynberg. For tickets: Free admission; pre-registration is required. Reserve tickets by visiting musicofanotherworld.eventbrite.ca or by calling 905-771-5526. Who was Szymon Laks? He was a composer, conductor, author and translator. Laks was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1901 to a family of assimilated Jews. He entered the Polish Conservatory in Paris in 1926. He was deported in 1941 and sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1942 where he was imprisoned for more than two years. He survived the Holocaust and died in Paris in 1983.

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What: Music of Another World: Szymon Laks, 1901–1983. The concert focuses on the music of Szymon Laks. The evening will feature a pre-concert talk about the life and music of this gifted composer from Holocaust Education Week 2016 artist-inresidence Simon Wynberg, ARC Ensemble artistic director.

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Bells of St. Matthew’s English Handbell Choir WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: St. Matthew’s United Church, 333 Crosby Ave. CONTACT: Joan Plume, 905-884-4535, st.matthewsuc@on.aibn.com COST: Free We are looking for new members to join our English Handbell Choir. No experience necessary. Please contact 905-884-4535 or St. Matthew’s at 905-884-3606. Registration is ongoing.

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Charity Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament WHEN: 6:15 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Richvale Lions Club, 114 Spadina Rd. CONTACT: Paul, 647-8986499, , ptuenmuk@gmail.com COST: $50 buy-in with $10 bounty chip Registration 6:15 p.m., start 7 p.m. Refreshments available. Hosted by Richvale Lions Club. For more details, call 905-770-1772

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Thornhill Presbyterian Church Bazaar WHEN: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Thornhill Presbyterian Church, 271 Centre St. CONTACT: Sheila Gault, 905-884-6568, www.tpchurch. net, sheilagault@sympatico.ca COST: Free There will be baked goods, pre-

serves, attic treasures, books, jewelry and accessories, hand crafts, artisans, and more. Come, have a delicious lunch or coffee and muffins, and enjoy the shopping. Film Club with Barry Dempster: Food for Thought WHEN: 2 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Richmond Hill Public Library, 1 Atkinson St. CONTACT: Anete Ivsina, aivsina@rhpl.ca COST: Free Big screen feasts for those who live to eat. Whether hunger strikes in Taipei or Mumbai or a French patisserie, food is served with wit and sensuality. Come take a trip around the world one dish at a time – watch a film and discuss it with Barry Dempster, poet, novelist, and founder of Southlake Cinemania. Nov. 5: The Lunchbox.

Sunday, November 6

Raising Healthy Kids Workshop WHEN: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: The Organic Compounding Pharmacy, 13237 Yonge St. Unit B10 CONTACT: Marco, 905773-8627, info@theocpharmacy. com COST: Free We will talk you through the essentials of children’s nutrition. Bathurst Clark Resource Library Hosts A Holocaust Survivor’s Testimony WHEN: 1:30 p.m. WHERE: Bathurst Clark Resource Library, 900 Clark Ave. W. CONTACT:

Bathurst Clark Resource Library, 905-653-7323, www.vaughanpl. info, librarian.librarian@vaughan. ca COST: Free Join Vaughan Public Libraries (VPL) for A Holocaust Survivor’s Testimony to hear personal testimonials and stories from Holocaust survivors. For ages 12 and up.On November 6, Bathurst Clark Resource Library hosts Mark Lane. Born in Czechoslovakia, Lane was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. He was forced on a death march to Mauthausen in Austria and to Gunskirchen from where he was liberated.

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November’s Richmond Hill Girly Book Club WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: The Falcon and Firkin, 10300 Yonge St, CONTACT: Clara COST: 5$ Welcome to the Richmond Hill Girly Book Club Meeting. This is a spinoff of the very popular Toronto GBC chapter (which is a spinoff of the London, U.K., chapter). The Girly Book Club now operates over 30 chapters across six countries with 30,000 women. We all read the SAME book at the same time and we’re so excited to have a Richmond Hill chapter. We hope very much you can join us this month. The book for November is ‘The Nightingale’ by Kristin Hannah. New members are always welcome!

Shops on Steeles. We have a fun and interactive afternoon program — Braingym® and more – A Multi-Sensory Brain Stimulation Program. Come dressed in comfortable clothing to participate and have fun.

Are you afraid of public speaking, need to present at work? We are here to help! WHEN: 7 to 8:15 p.m. WHERE: York Regional Police 171 Major Mackenzie Dr. W. CONTACT: Tina Gaisin, 416-509-2600, Tina@ FillTheRoom.ca COST: Guests are free there is a cost to join Inclusive Toastmasters helps people who want to improve their speaking abilities personally and in business! Join us and learn from great mentors on how to be better communicators and better leaders.

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Thornhill Newcomers and Alumni Association WHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Thornhill CONTACT: Terri, 905889-0014 COST: Call Terri Since 1972, the association has been welcoming women recently moved to Thornhill or who have had a lifestyle change. We invite you to join us on every second Thursday of the month for coffee, friendship and interesting activities.

Richmond Hill Senior Citizens’ Club, No. 35 - Members’ Regular Meeting WHEN: 1 to 3 p.m. WHERE: M.L. McConaghy Centre, 10100 Yonge St. CONTACT: Ron Walmsley, 905-883-1267, rwalmsle@rogers. com COST: Free with Club 35 Membership Doors will open at 12:30 PM.

Money Matters Program WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Catholic Community Services of York Region, 21 Dunlop St. CONTACT: Jamal Gharavi, 905=7707040 ext.237, jgharavi@ccsyr.org COST: Free Catholic Community Services of York Region (CCSYR) will host an eight-week long program to help adults learn basic financial education concepts. Named Money Matters, this program was specifically developed by the Canadian Centre for Financial Literacy to address the needs of many Canadians. Attendees will learn a wide variety of money matters including budget-

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A group of “disappointed and full of grief” bocce players crowded into Richmond Hill town hall Nov. 1, urging councillors to save their beloved indoor bocce facility at Rouge Woods. Changing demographics and demand in the community in southeast Richmond Hill led to a staff recommendation to dismantle the facility and convert it into a multi-purpose gymnasium. Councillors voted to accept the staff rec-

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unbelievable. They just can’t bear it. They’re seniors; they need a place to go and this is something they look forward to. Some of them go every day… We even have 96-yearolds come out and play, so this has got to mean something.” But a staff report showed declining membership over the years. The 7,200-square-foot indoor facility opened 15 years ago with 266 members and was supported with town subsidy, but, despite efforts by the town to boost membership, the number of users has dropped to 80. As a result, the town’s subsidy of 87.76 per cent has steadily increased, the staff report said. On the other hand, there is mushrooming demand for gymnasium facilities townwide and in the Rouge Woods community in particular. Town staff recommended Richmond Hill provide portable courts for indoors that could be used at Richvale Community Centre and Richmond Green, providing three evenings per week and two mornings per week to the those who wish to play. The portable system is used for competition and while it is shorter than the Rouge Woods Indoor facility courts, the size is accepted by the Special Olympics and is used in many sites in the U.S. and Canada, the report stated. The City of Mississauga has recently purchased these portable units for use in one of their recreation facilities. Cost per court, including the portable turf and enclosure, is estimated at approximately $7,000 per court. Cost to convert the indoor bocce facility at Rouge Woods, which was constructed with a future repurposing in mind, is estimated at $942,800, with construction beginning in

2018. The bocce courts would remain open until mid-2018. Bocce club members said “they were not interested in a portable playing system whatsoever and feel that Richmond Hill should continue bocce as is presently being provided,” the staff report said. “They expressed their concerns with a portable bocce playing surface not being safe with the potential for balls to leave the court area. They also expressed their concerns in reducing their access to bocce to anything less than the current seven days per week. Darlene Joslin, parks and recreation director, said the courts have been used in the UK, United States and Mississauga and there have been no safety incidents, but the town will continue to monitor it to ensure safety. The sole dissenting vote in favour of the staff recommendation came from Ward 1 Councillor Greg Beros. “We’re saying, ‘Take less, it’s OK, we’re serving the greater good’,” he said. “But there are times in a government you have to say it’s not always about the dollar. It’s not always about the majority.” Ward 3 Councillor Castro Liu noted that instead of serving less than 100 bocce players, and the town subsidizing 87 per cent of their costs, a repurposed gym would serve more than 1,200 residents per week and generate a higher revenue. “We’re not here to fight the bocce players. We’re not here to fight Italian seniors,” said Liu, in whose ward Rouge Woods is located. “I have to make a decision that is in the best interests of the town. Sometimes it’s not an easy decision, but, over the years, I have received tremendous pressure from my residents who see that most of the time, the bocce courts are vacant, while hundreds of residents are trying to book some gym time to play indoor sports such as basketball, badminton, table tennis and lots of other seniors groups who want a place to meet. They can’t find anything.”

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To the four dozen young boys cared for in their elegant and welcoming Aurora foster home for the past 14 years, they are Miss Maple and Mr. Fred. Removed from their homes by York Region’s Children’s Aid Society because of abuse, neglect, conflict or financial hardship, they have found a safe haven, often for years, in the loving home of Maple Porter-Balaz and her husband Fred Balaz. Both immigrants, PorterBalaz and Balaz wanted to give back to Canada. “What better way to do so than fostering. Taking children in your home, looking after them, showing them a different way of life, loving them, caring for them, I just thought that would be just wonderful,” said PorterBalaz, adding she and her husband chose to take in boys, usually between the ages of five and 12. “Sometimes, kids are coming from very, very difficult situations and they come into your home and some of them may act up or whatever but after a little while, they settle down because they can see that you care about them. There is love everywhere and you look after them the best way you can and they also become part of the family. They come into care and you want to give them a better

life and the kids appreciate it, they really do.” Balaz said being a foster parent is one of the fulfilling things he’s done in his life. York’s CAS has a serious shortage of foster parents. “I would certainly call it critical. We have just over 300 children in care and a third of those children in care are living outside the region because we don’t have homes in the region,” said supervisor of residential development, Karen Wright. “I think the other piece in terms of our crisis is we are at capacity, such that if we had a call today where a sibling group had to be placed, we can’t keep them together. We’re splitting them up... We have no infant homes in York Region and no teen homes.” York has 111 foster homes, down from about 130 homes 10 years ago, despite the ballooning population. “Also, I think for us, what we feel is, we almost have this generation of foster parents who are aging out and are beginning to plan their own retirement from fostering,” Wright said. While some children placed outside the region land in foster homes in the Greater Toronto Area, others are sent to homes hundreds of kilometres away, meaning youngsters in an already troubling situation find themselves distanced from family, friends, school and activities, Wright said.

The urgent shortage of foster parents is being felt by many Children’s Aid Societies, she said. CAS branches first rely on their own foster families to place children in need but when they are full, they turn to for-profit homes beyond their borders, Wright said. Porter-Balaz and Balaz, who have a grown daughter and two grandchildren, said they are thrilled to know they have made a difference in the lives of so many boys. Porter-Balaz recalled taking in a 16-year-old boy who hated school. After the couple convinced him of the importance of education, the teenager worked to get on the honour roll at high school before going on to graduate from college. “He brought his family back here to thank us for what we have done for him and he told us no one in his family has ever gone beyond Grade 10,” Porter-Balaz said. “I just thought that was an amazing thing, for him to come back and thank us. He was a lovely young man.” The couple also took in two young brothers who came to Canada from Romania. They taught them to speak English before the boys returned to Romania. The youngest, now nine years old, still calls regularly and is teaching English to his classmates. “In this house, there is

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Maple Porter-Balaz of Aurora, with husband Fred Balaz, have been caring for foster children for 14 years. York Region Children’s Aid Society has a critical shortage of foster families. structure. You do not allow kids to do as they please, because they’re the children and you’re the adult and you’re looking after them so you teach them skills. “We are a family,” PorterBalaz said. “We get fulfillment and joy and happiness. Because when we look back and see what we’ve done for these children, we can say our life is fulfilled, it’s full of happiness and joy.”

Foster parents must be at least 18 years old, be interested in improving the lives of children and complete a police screening and home assessment. They can be married or single, have their own children or not and are welcomed from various cultural and faith backgrounds. Foster parents receive extensive training. They receive a daily allowance of about $35 to $60 for each

child’s care as well as additional funding for clothing, transportation and recreation. The CAS needs foster parents both to provide ongoing care and short-term respite relief. For more information, visit yorkcas. org/fostercare.asp or call 1-800-7183850, ext. 6132.

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Information from the open houses will be published on york.ca/bayviewstudy and on York Region’s Facebook and Twitter social media channels. An accessible version of this notice is available upon request. This notice was issued on November 3, 2016. To submit a comment, question or for more information, please contact: Cathy Parmer, Communications and Community Engagement Specialist The Regional Municipality of York 17250 Yonge Street, Newmarket, L3Y 6Z1 Phone: 1-877-464-9675 ext. 75560 Email: roads.ea@york.ca Fax: 905-895-7735

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from 18 films in 1997 to 77 films this year. The festival closes with the premiere of My Egg Boy, Nov. 19 at 7 p.m. at the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. My Egg Boy is a Taiwanese comedy that looks at freezing time for the pursuit of love and stars actors Ariel Lin and Rhydian Vaughan. The comedy stars some of the smallest leading roles: frozen sperm and eggs, who are also in a battle against time to find the perfect match.

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When Ben Brown took to the pitching mound at the Ontario Top Prospect Showcase in June, he picked an opportune time to have his good stuff. During that event, the 17-year-old left handed Richmond Hill resident had his fastball clocked at 86 miles an hour and his off speed pitches were foiling batters. At the same time, his stuff drew the attention of some U.S. college baseball coaches who were in attendance. Among those was the

University at Albany, who offered Brown an athletic scholarship opportunity to pursue his baseball career and post secondary school academics. A member of the Toronto Mets of the Canadian Premier Baseball League this past season where he had a 3-0 won-loss mark while pitching in the U.S. and sporting an earned run average of well below 2.50, Brown gladly accepted. “It’s been a goal of mine since I was a kid to be playing baseball at the highest collegiate level there is,” he said. “I am also thrilled to be studying in another country as not many people get that opportunity, to combine athletics and academics.” A Grade 12 student at Richmond Hill High School, Brown had some conversations with other U.S. schools before the Albany,

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING ClubLink will be holding a public meeting to present our annual report on Class 9 pesticide use at DiamondBack Golf Club as required by Ontario Regulation 63/09 under the Pesticides Act. The annual report summarizes the use of Class 9 pesticides used in 2015. November 23, 2016 at 10 a.m. DiamondBack Golf Club 13300 Leslie Street, Richmond Hill, ON L4E 1A2 For more information please contact Wendy Burgess at (905) 841-7956.

All claims against the estate of Marius Thomas Kelley (a/k/a Thomas Kelley), late of the Town of Richmond Hill in the Province of Ontario, who died on May 27, 2016, must be filed with the undersigned solicitor on or before the 24th day of November 2016; thereafter, the estate assets will be distributed, having regard only for the claims the estate trustee shall then have notice.

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NOTICE OF CONSTRUCTION

IMPROVEMENTS ARE COMING.

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Offers available from November 1-30 2016. *Fully stackable clearance cash discount of $3,750 will be deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes and is applicable only to customers purchasing, financing or leasing any new 2016 Sentra S MT (C4LG56 AA00). +Standard rate finance cash discount of $5,000/$6,000 will be deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes and is applicable only to customers financing any 2016 Rogue SL Premium (YDG16 BK00)/2016 Pathfinder Platinum 4x4 (5XEG16 AA00) through NCF at standard rates. The cash discounts cannot be combined with lease or finance subvented rates or with any other offer. ˆ$14,000 Cash Rebate is applicable on the cash purchase of a 2016 Titan XD Diesel Platinum Reserve (3CPD96 AA00/AA50) models which will be deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes. Cash rebate is not combinable with lease and finance offers. †Representative finance offer based on a new 2016 Rogue SV AWD Moonroof & Family & Tech (Y6CG16 NV10)/ 2016 Sentra 1.8 SR CVT Moonroof Pack (C4SG16 AA00)/2016 Pathfinder Platinum (5XEG16 AA00). Selling price is $34,324/$23,329/$48,324 financed at 0%/0%/0% APR equals 72/84/60 monthly payments of $477/$310/$805 monthly for an 72/84/60 month term. $0/$0/$0 down payment required. Cost of borrowing is $0 for a total obligation of $34,324/$23,329/$48,324. Includes $500/$1,000/$1,000 special finance cash. **Loyalty/Conquest Cash(“Offer”) is available only to eligible customers who, in the 90 days preceding the date of lease/finance of an Eligible New Vehicle (defined below), have leased or financed a 2007 or newer Nissan, Honda, Toyota, Mazda or Hyundai brand vehicle (an “Existing Vehicle”) within past 90-days. Eligibility for the Offer will be determined by Nissan Canada Inc. (“NCI”) in its sole discretion. Proof of current ownership/lease/finance contract will be required. Offer is not transferrable or assignable, except to the current owner’s spouse or a co-owner/co-lease of the existing vehicle (either of whom must reside within the same household as the intended recipient of the offer). Individuals who purchased/leased a vehicle under a business name can qualify for the program provided that the new deal is not a fleet deal and that the individual can provide valid documentation that they are the registered primary owner of the business. If the eligible customer elects to lease or finance a new and previously unregistered model year 2016 Nissan brand vehicle (excluding NV, Fleet and daily rentals) (an “Eligible New Vehicle”) through Nissan Canada Finance Inc. (collectively “NCF”), then he/she will receive a specified amount of NCF Loyalty/Conquest Cash, as follows: (I) 2016 ALTIMA ($2,016); (II) 2016 MICRA/VERSA NOTE/SENTRA ($500); (III) 2016 JUKE/ROGUE ($600); (IV) 2016 PATHFINDER ($800); (V) 2016 TITAN XD ($1,000); (VI) 2017 TITAN HALF TON ($1,000). Loyalty/Conquest Dollars will be applied after taxes. Offer is combinable with other NCF incentives, but is not combinable with the Nissan Loyalty program. Offer valid on vehicles delivered between November 1-30, 2016. Models shown $37,474/$27,029/$49,324 Selling price for a new 2016 Rogue SL AWD Premium (Y6DG16 BK00)/ 2016 Sentra 1.8 SR Premium CVT (C4SG16 RL00)/ 2016 Pathfinder Platinum 4x4 (5XEG16 AA00). All Pricing includes Freight and PDE charges ($1,795/$1,600/$1,795) airconditioning levy ($100), applicable fees, manufacturer’s rebate and dealer participation where applicable. License, registration, insurance and applicable taxes are extra. Offers are available on approved credit through Nissan Canada Finance for a limited time, may change without notice and cannot be combined with any other offers except stackable trading dollars. Vehicles and accessories are for illustration purposes only. See your dealer or visit Nissan.ca/Loyalty. See your participating Nissan retailer for complete details. Certain conditions apply. ©2016 Nissan Canada Inc.