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Good deeds celebrated at Urban Hero Awards FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Hero. A small word that has a big meaning.

Sixteen such people were honoured Thursday, Oct. 19 at the 2017 Urban Hero Awards gala, which celebrates community ’heroes’ for their inspiring work, leadership, and good deeds in Toronto.

Created by Metroland Media Toronto in 2009, which publishes the Mirror, Guardian, and Villager newspapers, this year saw 65 nominations submitted by the public in eight categories: Arts, Business, Education, Environment, Good Neighbour, Health, Social Issues, and Sports. Eight winners were selected by Metroland Media Toronto staff, and for the first time, the awards included a ’People’s Choice’ online voting round, which saw another eight nominees with the most votes across the categories declared People’s Choice winners.

Some 16,000 unique votes were cast.

Surrounded by supporters and well-wishers, each winner received a framed write-up, which resembled the front page of a newspaper, highlighting their accomplishments during a threecourse dinner at York Mills Gallery on Leslie Street, south of Hwy. 401.

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Left, recipients of the 2017 Urban Hero Awards gather for one final hurrah following the ceremony at York Mills Gallery last Thursday Sixteen people/organizations were honored for their good deeds and impact made in their communities across Toronto. The categories included: Arts, Business, Environment, Education, Social Issues, Good Neighbour and Sports. Right, Sharon Nyarko was honoured in the category. She managed to take a picture with her award at the beginning of the evening, before having to sneak out to write a university exam. lisher of Metroland Media Toronto, noting each winner made a difference to the people in their neighbourhoods.

Dikema Etto doesn’t place much value on being an Urban Hero.

"Helping others, to me, gives me much joy," said the Good Neighbour category winner. "It’s better to give than to receive."

For the past eight years, the Scarborough resident has picked up and distributed food and care items twice a month to homeless people downtown through StreetFeed.

"They genuinely appreciate you coming out," Etto said. "There’s something special about it. It’s not being a hero. The whole phrase is meaningless. It’s about how can I improve your life and

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It’s about helping others feel awesome. You never know what impact you leave on others."

He also created A Fresh Start, a drive to distribute personal care items to Syrian refugees in Canada.

Used car dealership owner Nasser Rad and his staff were looking for ways to help people in need when his wife came up with an idea: why not give away cars to people who could otherwise not afford one?

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"Life is not easy, there will be obstacles along the way," he said. "You have to keep moving forward."

In previous years, the Urban Hero Awards were held in Etobicoke, Scarborough, and North York.

This year, in conjunction with Canada 150 celebrations, the program was open to everyone in the city.

Sponsors of this year’s event were Canadian Tire, HealthyPlanet, Newad, Humber College Lakeshore Campus, Rajasri CPA, and Dr. Amanpreet Chopra.

For information or to submit a nomination for next year, visit www.urbanheroes.ca

The full list of 2017 Urban Hero Award winners are: Arts: Louise Garfield People’s Choice: Oksana Hrycyna

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da as a refugee from Iran 27 years ago with no money and only a drive to succeed in his pockets.

"You have to help people who are not fortunate in life," he said.

And if entrepreneurs are struggling to come up with ideas for their business, Rad offers a simple solution: "Ask your wife."

JosĂŠ Alberto Flores credits his mother for his resilience.

When he moved to Toronto from El Salvador 24 years ago, he spoke little English but was fortunate to have a strong support network of teachers who wanted him to succeed.

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scores, and an 18 per cent increase in science marks.

"And then when you get to high school, when children are fed every day, suspensions are cut in half and graduation rates go up 17 per cent," she said.

A healthy breakfast provided through an in-school program only costs about $1.66 per student, with the City of Toronto and the province combining to provide only about 26 cents per student. Corporate and private donors contribute greatly, but there is still a need for more funding.

Parsonage added that, of the 40 per cent of students who go to school hungry, 20 per cent don’t have lunch, either. Dinner often consists of processed or fast food due to the fact that it tends to be cheap and convenient.

According to Divided City: Life in Canada’s Child Poverty Capital, a 2016 report by a coalition of social service agencies, 29 per cent of food bank users are children, and food bank use increased by 13 per cent from just 799,320 visits in 2008 to 905,970 visits in 2016.

To learn more about student nutrition programs, visit www.tfss.ca

JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com With roughly one in three Toronto kids living in poverty and 40 per cent coming to school hungry every day, it’s nearly impossible for far too many youngsters to be at their best throughout the school day.

Hunger affects grades, behaviour and graduation rates, and with Toronto holding the dubious title of Canada’s child poverty capital two years running according to a study released last year by a group of social service agencies, the issue seems unlikely to abate.

Programs such as the Toronto Foundation for Student Success (TFSS) provide meals through student nutrition programs to help all students start their school day on equal footing.

Abigail Taylor, a Grade 8 student at D A Morrison Middle School, said the program helps ensure she and her classmates start their day fed - something that might not be the case for far too many otherwise.

"Some people don’t eat breakfast, and (the nutrition program) has things like pancakes and oat-

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Students at Rose Avenue Junior Public School enjoy a healthy meal through a student nutrition program. programs city-wide.

Sandra Best of the TFSS says such programs should be present in all schools, and that all students should be encouraged to join.

"It will help get rid of the stigma," she said. "And in such a diverse city, when you’re playing in the playground with someone you sat next to at breakfast that morn-

meal," she said. "It fills my stomach so I won’t have to wait for lunch.

That helps me focus in class."

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ing, you’ve already broken bread with them and you’re going to see new friendships."

Catherine Parsonage, executive director and CEO of the TFSS, noted that when kids start their days off with a healthy and nutritious breakfast every day, it leads to a nine to 12 per cent increase in literacy, a 10 per cent increase in math

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’Anti-Trudeau’ rally reportedly planned for Kew Gardens JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com A busy park in the Beach will be under close watch Saturday, Nov. 4, after reports surfaced a white nationalist group plans to gather there for a rally.

Kevin Goudreau, the leader of the Canadian Nationalist Front and operator of the White Pride website, recently posted a video on Twitter inviting supporters to attend an ’anti-Trudeau’ rally at Kew Gardens, near Queen Street East and Lee Avenue. That post has since been removed.

On Sept. 30, the Peterborough native reportedly organized a similar white supremacy demonstration in that city. Scores of counter-protesters showed up and drowned out his group. Goudreau was not in attendance.

Metroland Media Toronto reached out to Goudreau to inquire if his organization still intends to hold a rally at the east Toronto park. He did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

Regardless, Ward 32 Coun. Mary-Margaret McMahon said she’s taking the matter seriously, even if a demonstration doesn’t materialize.

"I have notified the police. As we always do, we’ll monitor our parks, but right now it’s a rumour mill," she said during a recent interview.

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That post has since been removed. such an event.

"They wouldn’t be allowed anyway. We’re a tolerant city and neo-Nazi rallies aren’t acceptable," said McMahon, who heard about the so-called event via Facebook.

She said word of a similar rally planned for the Beach surfaced about a year ago, but never happened.

Const. Jon Morrice of 55 Division’s Community Response Unit said police are "monitoring social media to see if there is more chatter about the event."

Morrice, who handles crime prevention and social media for the east Toronto division, said he’s commented on a number of Facebook threads asking people to notify him "if the organizer starts posting things."

"So far there has not been anything else.

Police attend these types of events to ensure compliance with the permit that must be obtained prior," he added.

There has been some talk of late by members of the community on social media about putting together a counter-response, however nothing concrete had been planned as of press time.

McMahon she said she’s encouraged to see community members speaking out against such an event.

"Diversity is our strength. That’s our motto and I’m proud of the east end for promoting and celebrating that," she said.

Last Saturday, four people were arrested during two opposing protests, one of which was against Trudeau’s policies, at Toronto City Hall. At that time, one person was charged with assaulting a police officer, while another was charged with carrying a prohibited weapon. Two others were charged with causing a disturbance.

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Sidewalk Toronto is a joint effort by Waterfront Toronto and Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs to create a new kind of mixed-use, complete community on Toronto’s Eastern Waterfront.

Google’s sister company plays role in waterfront project JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Waterfront Toronto will be working closely with Google’s sister company to develop Toronto’s eastern waterfront, starting with a new high-tech, mixed-use community in the port lands.

The new partnership, known as Sidewalk Toronto, will have a significant hand in the development of the 800-acre eastern waterfront.

Quayside, the 12-acre site near Queen’s Quay and Parliament Street, is the first project. It will include 20 per cent low-income housing along with retail, employment and cultural uses.

In March 2017, Sidewalk Labs responded to a request for proposals issued

by Waterfront Toronto.

The tripartite waterfront development agency chose Google’s sister company, following a rigorous pro-

curement process that involved local and international firms.

"There is no better city in the world as a partner for Sidewalk Labs. We need to harness the talent and ambition of urban technology to help serve the people of Toronto and keep our city affordable, livable and vibrant," Toronto Mayor John Tory said in a release.

"Sidewalk Toronto will help us test new ideas and new solutions to everything from transportation to affordable housing, benefitting our residents and drawing more talent, investment and jobs to our city."

Eric Schmidt, Alphabet Inc.’s executive chair, agreed. Alphabet Inc. is the parent company of Google, which also intends to move its Canadian headquarters to the eastern waterfront.

"On Toronto’s eastern waterfront, we are making a bold bet that innovative

technology and forwardthinking urban design can make fundamental improvements in city life," he said.

"Toronto is the ideal place for Alphabet and Sidewalk Labs to do something impactful that we hope will foster new ideas that can be applied by cities around the world."

The next year will be devoted to community and stakeholder consultations as well as long-range planning, notably improving infrastructure and transit, coming up with affordable housing and flexible retail use models, and establishing data protection and privacy policies. This first phase will launch with a community town hall on Wednesday, Nov. 1 from 6 to 9 p.m. Specific details about where the meeting will be taking place have yet to be announced. Email info@waterfrontoronto.ca or call 416-214-1344 for more information.

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The gathering will be held at the Balmy Beach Club, 360 Lake Front.

All are welcome.

For more details, contact McMahon’s office at councillor_mcmahon@toronto.ca or 416-392-1376.

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On Monday, Oct. 30 from 7 to 9 p.m., Beaches-East York Coun. Mary-Margaret McMahon, along with city staff will be hosting an open house to discuss the new plan for the local play-

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Ontario colleges at a crossroads The strike that hit Ontario’s 24 community colleges and cancelled classes for 230,000 full-time students is not your run-of-the-mill labour dispute.

Yes, there are two widely diverging and entrenched sides. But this particular labour dispute is extraordinary for one big reason. The 12,000 striking college professors, instructors, counsellors and librarians have an ambitious, far-reaching goal that goes far beyond wages and benefits. They want nothing less than to change the business model for the province’s community college system so there are more full-time professors with more power. Represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees’ Union, they’re calling for a drastic reduction in the percentage of part-time instructors at the colleges and an increase in the number of full-time teaching positions.

In recent years, colleges have increasingly turned to cheaper, part-time instructors to save money. The union says part-timers now make up 70 per cent of all college teachers and want that number reduced to no more than 50 per cent. The college’s bargainers - the College Employer Council - see things differently and makes its calculations based on the number of teaching hours, not the number of teachers. By their measure, half the teaching is already done by full-time professors. Only 30 per cent is done by contract instructors while part-time employees, who are also union members, account for a fifth of the teaching.

Whatever numbers you pick, the fact remains the union wants more full-time professors. And meeting its demands would carry a hefty price tag - $250 million more a year, according to the Employer Council.

Now the question for Ontario is not simply whether the strikers deserve what they want. It’s whether those demands will deliver a better education for college students and justify spending an additional $250 million more a year on them.

If the answer to those last two questions is "yes," someone has to figure out where to find the money. No one can expect tuition fee hikes to cover all or even most of that higher cost. Clearly, the provincial government read taxpayers - would have to contribute more. The province is far more generous in funding universities than colleges. Yet the distinction between the two has blurred. Colleges now grant degrees and their professors conduct research.

Meanwhile, in this era of new, disruptive technologies, when the very nature of Canada’s economy is in flux and the challenges facing young people trying to enter the workforce are huge, community colleges have a greater role in the education system.

College management can’t fix everything on its own.

Whatever happens in the current strike, the Ontario government needs to rethink the province’s colleges system and how it is supported.

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Final year of council’s term to be quiet... by design At this time next year, Torontonians will have selected a new mayor, and a new city council.

A year is, or ought to be, a long time, a long enough time for a lot to happen.

But if I may make a prediction, by this time next year there is a good chance that not very much will happen at all, at least at Toronto City Hall.

There’s sure not much on the horizon.

In a term where council committed - and recommitted - billions of dollars to a one-stop subway line to Scarborough and the reconstruction of an elevated highway at the Gardiner Expressway and the Don Valley Parkway, dipped toe in the Rail Deck Park, another billion-dollar-plus project, and bravely tried -

DAVID NICKLE The City and failed - to implement road tolls to start paying for it all, the last year looks quiet.

Perhaps, indeed likely, this is by design. Mayor John Tory has made it clear that he’s aiming for a second term, and his 2014 second-place opponent Doug Ford has made public that he’s aiming to win that election for himself.

For Tory, now is no time

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to take risks and pick potential fights.

Indeed, I’d bet that the mayor’s last big fight - and it won’t really be that big will come in his decision to back making the Bloor Street bike lane pilot project permanent when it comes to Toronto council next month.

If that goes smoothly, then the only other hurdle on the horizon will be the 2018 operating and capital budget, which if history is any indication, is always fraught in the making but reasonably acceptable in the finale.

And the mayor and council can get on with their shortened re-election campaigns, starting in May this year rather than the usual January.

If it’s to be a two-way

battle between Tory and Ford, keeping a low profile in 2018 is a good strategy.

Ford has ammunition to take on Tory, but there’s a finite amount of it and he tipped his hand with his early campaign launch.

To win, all Tory has to do is keep his head down, and keep it civil.

David Nickle is a reporter and columnist covering Toronto City Hall for Metroland Media Toronto. He can be reached at dnickle@insidetoronto.com

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an indescribable feeling to be on stage right beside your kids singing and dancing in front of all those people."

This year’s show, titled I.ZOM.B, will once again be staged on Halloween night (Tuesday, Oct. 31) at 7:30, 8, and 8:30 p.m. on Howland Road between Langley and Victor avenues. As always, admission is free, but donations are always appreciated.

"People just love the show and they really appreciate it.

The (Riverdale Halloween Show) makes the neighbourhood feel really unique. It’s a huge community effort," said Welch, who got involved in the event when he first moved to the neighbourhood in 2004.

About 10 years ago, Welch became the main producer and playwright of the show, which was founded back in 2002 by area residents Donna MacLachlan and LJ Savage.

"There are no rules. It’s such a great creative process," said Welch, who de-

JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com There’s a special Halloween tradition in Riverdale that brings the community together, and results in a high-level theatrical production thousands of people have come to love and look forward to year after year.

The Riverdale Halloween Show, which this year is celebrating its 15th anniversary, is a true labour of love that takes dozens of area residents more than a month to put on each year. The show’s performers are also all from The Danforth, Riverdale, and Leslieville areas.

"It’s like an Amish barn raising, but we make theatre. I don’t know of any other neighbourhood in Toronto that does anything like this," said Sammy Ray Welch, a freelance film and TV director who has produced and written original scripts for the production for more than a decade.

"It’s the greatest time. It’s

For this year’s show, they’ll be playing a family from the 70s.

"We’re in crazy costumes and we’re rapping. It’s totally going to be lots of fun," smiled Dennis, who helped film a promo video for the show outside Riverdale Perk Tuesday afternoon.

Husband Spencer also helped build sets for the production, which wouldn’t be possible without the contributions of Artists’ Play dance studio.

"The entire production is made possible by people pooling their personal resources. It’s a full month of preparation," she said.

Each year, community members also hold a pumpkin drive to raise funds for the event. People can also support the Riverdale Halloween Show by contributing to an Indiegogo crowd funding campaign at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/i-zom-briverdale-halloweenshow-2017#/

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Producer Sammy Ray Welch filming the 15th annual Riverdale Halloween show in front of Riverdale Perk cafe Tuesday with Ginger Welch, Dave Cameron (centre) and Andy Cosby. part in the production for several years.

This year, Leslieville resident Vanessa Dennis will once again be participating in the Riverdale Halloween Show along with her husband Spencer, 12 year-old

votes at least eight weeks each year to putting on the family friendly event.

All three of his daughters - Ginger, 13, Charlie, 10, and Lucy, 8, along with his wife Jan Parnega are also heavily involved and have also taken

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That an awards program like this can garner this kind of support, speaks to the value of recognizing our everyday heroes.

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Those people serve as inspiration to the rest of us, and we feel it’s our job as a community news organization to bring those stories to light.

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Oksana Hrycyna brings cultural education to Ukraine

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t has been 10 years since Oksana Hrycyna went to Ukraine for the first time, as a volunteer counselor with the Toronto-based charity Help Us Help The Children.

For two weeks each summer, the high school teacher has been running a two-week summer camp helping orphaned children and refugee children from the war learn the skills and self-esteem that they will need when they leave the orphanages where they have spent their lives.

And in the 10th year, Hrycyna is more attached to the program than ever.

"Every summer I get a new family," she said. "I make it very clear to them that’s how I feel about them. And I have some counselors who come back (after having been campers) for the first time to volunteer, they refer to me as mama. I look at them with such pride."

Hrycyna got involved with the work in Ukraine young, coming out of the Ukrainian-Canadian community’s scouting program. Of Ukrainian descent herself, she volunteered through Help Us Help The Children, and eventually came to administer camps that help children who for one rea-

son or another are without parents or guardians engage with the world.

"The program is very intensive - it’s a two week program where every day they go through four different workshops," she said. "This includes candlemaking, leatherworking workshops, workshops in pottery.

Ukrainian culture is very rich so we teach a lot of folk art."

The young people in the program, aged six to 18, often have little connection to their own culture - and often no experience outside the walls of their orphanage homes. Some are refu-

gees from eastern Ukraine, displaced because their parents were killed in the war. But most are social orphans in state care because they may have family members but they are incapable of doing so.

"A lot are feeling the anxiety of having to leave an orphanage where everything’s been done for them and they’ve been treated with kid gloves, then they’ll be tossed into the world and having to fend for themselves," Hrycyna said.

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They do have their mama -- Oksana Hrycyna.

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Oksana Hrycyna has spent the past decade helping orphans in Ukraine develop life skills and explore their creativity through the Toronto-based Help Us Help The Children.

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A trained dancer, choreographer and television producer, Garfield has helmed Arts Etobicoke, growing the already thriving community arts organization into a very public presence in Toronto’s west-end neighbourhoods.

"I wanted very much to continue the legacy of my predecessor, Christine McIvor, while at the same time bringing fresh eyes to the organization," said Garfield, who retired from her role as executive director over the summer.

Garfield’s fresh perspec-

tive brought big, but evolutionary changes. The community arts council has been operating in Etobicoke since 1973 - and has been providing support through programs such as the President’s Legacy Scholarship Fund, which helps 16 young artists a year pursue an education in the arts.

Garfield maintained those programs, but also brought Arts Etobicoke face to face with the community.

She established the organization’s Storefront Gallery in Islington Village - which helped bring more west-end artists into the community.

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banNOISE, an urban arts youth training program and festival, and QMAP (Queer Media Arts Program) for LGBTQ youth in Rexdale.

"We created a ’gallery’ of

public art through the production of four human rights murals in collaboration with Amnesty International, and a fleet of 15 art-wrapped vehicles with Art on the Move,"

said Garfield.

The word "we" is crucial in Garfield’s lexicon.

"All of this work was done in collaboration with many, many artists, arts organizations and community groups, which only points to the vibrancy and dedication of the community arts sector in Etobicoke," she said. "I hoped we strengthened and

deepened people’s experience with artistic expression wherever it found them along their life’s journeys."

Garfield also brought people to local government, and was among the strongest of advocates for increased arts and culture spending.

But Garfield never forgot who was most important: the young artists, many of whom she mentored as they found their voices.

"In my view, mentorship is a precious, generous exchange between experience and ambition," she said. "In great mentorships, the learning flows both ways and can become one of the deepest, longest lasting relationships in one’s life."

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Nasser Rad gives away cars and hope

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asser Rad can’t solve all your problems, but he can provide you with a free ride.

Through his used car dealership Autorama, Rad gives away vehicles to individuals and families unable to afford the expense.

Through an online vote, he was selected as a 2017 Metroland Media Toronto Urban Hero in the field of Business.

"We try to make one of their problems go away," said Rad about the free car program for which he was honoured. "The main consideration is; can we help someone?"

The program started in 2015, when Rad and his staff at the dealership sought a way to offer direct assistance to people in need, beyond a monetary donation. As of September, Autorama has

awarded 10 free cars. Past Care to Share winners include a young Ajax woman who overcame a learning disability and bullying, to get into college and needed a vehicle to get to her summer job, counselling kids with developmental challenges. Other recipients are single mothers, new Canadians and others who could use a little bit of help.

Rad can relate.

Having arrived in Canada from Iran 27 years ago as a refugee with no money and only obstacles to success. Today, Autorama generates more than $20 million in annual sales, has sold more than 12,000 cars and has an inventory of 250 vehicles at its North York location, employing 20 people.

Every applicant is thoroughly interviewed and vetted by staff members work-

ing on their own time. In order not to influence the process, Rad doesn’t get involved until the very end.

Each winner undergoes a special "ceremony" for which everyone at Autorama pitches in to get the vehicle ready.

Every car must be certified for safety, cleaned and prepared. These are not $20,000 luxury rides, but practical vehicles durable, well-maintained and 100 per cent ready for the road. Applicants pay nothing out of pocket, save insurance. Each winner is treated like a regular customer.

Being in a position to help others acts as validation for Rad’s decision to immigrate to this country, he said.

"I wasn’t able to afford a car and now I can give them away for free," he said. "This could only happen in Canada."

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Hicks and the staff of Canadian Tire #192 located at 1019 Sheppard Ave. E. are certainly experts when it comes to fundraising. To date, the team has raised thousands of dollars for North York General Hospital’s ongoing campaign to replace 426 patient beds.

For his and his team’s efforts, Hicks and the Canadian Tire Store #192, have been nominated by the hospital and named Metroland Media Toronto’s Urban Hero.

An experienced fundraiser, Hicks said the personal touch helps in attracting donors, whether they’ve given in the past or not. He reached to his own contact base of businesses and individuals with personal entreaties for monies to support the hospital.

“You need to make them feel like they’re a VIP, especially the long-time sponsors,” Hicks said. “You acknowledge the importance of giving and look to build more relationships.”

“You really learn to rely on the community.”

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“Some have had children born there, so it didn’t take much convincing to help out.”

Sitting on the foundation board has convinced Hicks of the continual need to solicit more donations to help pay for out of pocket expenses, like new beds, equipment or capital expansions. It gives him motivation to keep coming back to long time donors in the hopes they will have a little bit more to spare.

“It’s always rewarding to see the money raised go to something which will really help.”

played a pivotal role attracting sponsors to the hospital’s own fundraising events like the Masters Golf Tournament and Heart of Fashion. He also challenged his staff at Canadian Tire to organize their own efforts.

Customers at the store were encouraged to donate by cashiers, who were coached on the fine art of the “soft sell”, Hicks said.

More than $5,000 was raised in the month-long point-ofsale campaign, which was matched by Canadian Tire.

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Urban Hero Martha Nyame started school in Ghana

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t was as if God spoke to her.

Martha Nyame was back in Abosamso, a village in Ghana’s Ashanti Region, building her family a house.

As the roof was being attached, Nyame, who had left for Canada eight years before, decided she would give the house to poor children she didn’t know.

Her parents were farmers, and poor, so Nyame, a 2017 winner of Metroland Media’s Urban Hero Award in the Good Neighbour category, never attended school.

One of eight children, she grew up "sad", she remembers, "because my mom don’t [sic] have money".

Returning to Ghana in 1994, she saw many children who faced a childhood like hers. They were "outside, crying and hungry," she says.

In those moments, "I feel pain. Something happens to me."

The following year, she opened the Abosamso Charity and Orphanage International, a free school and an orphanage which originally welcomed 75 children. Some arrived there as infants.

There’s a government school in Abosamso where most local children go, but like Nyame’s parents, many families can’t afford the fees or the costs of uniforms, books, and stationary.

During her first years in Canada, says the Rexdale resident, she felt just going outside was difficult, because she couldn’t speak or count in English.

"I didn’t know my left from my right," she says.

The school kept expanding. Nyame hired qualified teachers and a cook. Meanwhile, in Cana-

da, she did factory jobs and earned extra money sorting mail for a courier company.

Always, she sent whatever she could to Abosamso, but in 2003, Nyame was told she had fibromyalgia.

The condition has worsened, and now she has arthritis too.

Since 2013, she hasn’t been able to work. Children with parents at the school had to go home; now only 18 remain, all orphans or abandoned.

Nyame still sends them whatever she can, but worries it’s not enough. She is disbanding the school, because she can’’t pay its teachers their wages.

Her charity (www.abosamso.com) can still use any form of support for the orphans which remain in her care, including gifts of clothing and other items, or donations as small as $5.

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very day is a new day for doing good," says Dikema Etto, a 2017 winner of Metroland Media’s Urban Hero Award in the Good Neighbour category.

Everything he does is founded on one principle: "All is given to me by my Creator."

First thing each morning, he asks that Creator to open his eyes, so he can see the needs of other human beings, and Etto asks for a chance to do something to help them.

"We are each called to be a blessing, period," he says in his home in Scarborough’s Woburn area.

That’s why, when Etto celebrated his 40th birthday in downtown Toronto with chefs and musicians in 2015, he invited people who were homeless.

It’s why he created A Fresh Start, a drive to distribute personal care items to Syrian refugees in Canada. People he had never met gave and donated space to store items.

People are eager to get involved in charity work; you just have to ask, Etto says.

For instilling his instinct to give, which "follows me hand and foot, like a shadow," Etto credits his mother Veronica - a "Bible

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Urban Hero Dikema Etto has been recognized for his work collecting bread and other items for Toronto’s needy. Etto says he needs to practice what he believes in. "Every day is a new day for doing good," he says. lady" who passed last year but taught him from an early age to visit the sick and feed the hungry - and his wife Noreen, who "makes my engine run" and is mother to their five children.

At 34, tired of "vain things," Etto got rebaptised and examined his life, asking the Creator to help him make the best use of his remaining years.

He practices what he believes in, and takes a hands-on approach, he says, since nothing beats meeting the people you’re serving.

"I have no love of writ-

ing cheques," says Etto, who for eight years has picked up and distributed food and care items to homeless people downtown through StreetFeed.

He knows StreetFeed’s early-morning appearances, made whether or not it’s raining or snowing, give desperate people hope.

People call Etto, who is educated as a paralegal, but works as an independent wealth manager, to offer food, and he brings it to neighbours, food banks, and other places.

His goals include teaching financial literacy.

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Johann Fisch of Etobicoke stands in the forest he started by planting five trees in Broadacres Park in 1981. For his dedication to the environment and to beautifying his community, Fisch has been recognized with an Urban Hero Award.

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or the past 36 years, Etobian Johann Fisch has been turning Broadacres Park into a quiet, forested oasis.

The German-born Fisch first gained a passion for environmental issues as a nine-year-old boy in his native country. An old man - 60 years on, Fisch does not recall his name - helped foster a love of all things green, which led to Fisch eventually planting trees in the Etobicoke park in 1981.

"I was thinking of the future and the environment and I found the perfect spot to plant some trees and show people it’s possible," said Fisch, who is hearing impaired, through his son and interpreter, Chris.

While the city typically

frowns on civilians planting trees in public parks, no one stopped Fisch, and over the years the forest in Broadacres Park has grown to impressive proportions with thousands of trees and other plants.

To this day, he can be found planting every Earth Day, and he regularly drops by the forest he started to clean up or tend to a small vegetable garden he started there.

"Anyone is free to use the (vegetable) garden," he said through his son. "Anyone who is struggling to find food is free to take some."

Fisch said that while awareness of environmental issues has grown, not enough is being done to protect the planet.

"I’ve lived in the past,

seen what it’s like the present - it’s getting a little worse - and I’m worried about the future," he said. "I feel like the future’s very bleak . over 60 years, I’ve seen the changes for myself."

Having single-handedly started a forest in the city, he knows it’s possible for every single person to make a difference, though he notes that more hands in the soil will make for lighter work.

He is happy to join up with volunteers, either for his Earth Day plant or to help maintain the forest by cleaning up litter that collects there.

He can often be found in the heart of the forest, where he planted his first five trees 36 years ago.

"This is where my heart is," he said.

he depth and breadth of Alice Cheng’s work on environmental issues would be impressive for anyone; but, given her youth, what she has accomplished is nothing short of astounding.

A Grade 11 student in the international baccalaureate program at Victoria Park Collegiate Institute, Cheng has started up her own not-for-profit social venture that aims to serve as a one-stop hub where young people can learn about sustainability and monitor their consumption habits. The initiative, Global Figure, also serves to support other youth-led initiatives.

"Ideally, I want to make youth rethink the way we consume things - everyday products or even media," she said. "In an urban setting, it can be hard to keep track of what you’re consuming."

Global Figure also sells sustainable products, with Cheng using the funds raised to support other grassroots youth-led initiatives.

"It’s a way to get youth more involved and to recognize youth out there who are making a difference in the world," she said.

In addition to starting up Global Figure at the age of 15, Cheng has served as copresident of the Toronto

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"In school, you can be so focused on upcoming projects that are due, you don’t always have time to think about the big issues," she said. "It’s not that youth don’t care about these issues. It’s that they often don’t have time to address them."

Cheng acknowledges that despite her vast work in the environmental field, she still has a lot to learn herself.

"You think you’re doing things the right way, but then you learn something new and realize there are so many ways you can change," she said.

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osé Alberto Flores is paying it forward.

The educator and People’s Choice Urban Hero Award winner for Education experienced first-hand how having caring teachers could make all the difference between young people sinking or soaring in the classroom.

When Flores moved to Toronto from El Salvador 24 years ago, there were many teachers who took time to get to know and support him in his studies, he said.

"They wanted me to give 200 per cent," he said.

"They were strong role models who pushed me

and supported me. Just because I came from humble beginnings didn’t mean doors would close."

Flores just wrapped up five years as vice-principal of St. Mother Teresa Catholic Academy in Malvern, where he was known for his compassion toward students and getting to know them as people.

"I wanted to give the community all they needed," he said. "If a student is not motivated to come (to school), I would take time to talk with them. Each student has a story."

Flores, who is now viceprincipal of Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary

School and Regional Arts Centre in Bloor West Village, would pay for breakfast and bring it to class for students who couldn’t afford to buy it on their own, and if they were falling behind with the workload, would help organize their studies.

"We’re a team in the school with the parents as well," he said. "I want the students to be successful.

They need structure and if they don’t get it, we fail them as a system."

Flores spent years building trust with students by being transparent and having an opendoor policy, he said.

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and need to be treated with respect," he said.

"Yes, I’m vice-principal, but I’m also a role model

and I need to model with respect. At the end of the day, I want you to be in school and I want you to

graduate."

He takes care of paperwork at the end of the school day so he can spend time during the day chatting with students on their spares and visiting classrooms.

"I ask their opinions on school life," he said. "I’m not a vice-principal who disciplines. I’m a caring adult who supports you."

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"Everyone is so unique and has so many strengths," she said.

"They’ve taught me to live one day at a time, to love everyone around us, and to see everyone from a different perspective and not to judge; to be open and have an open heart."

Leung Tou has been principal of the school for developmentally disabled students for four years. Recently, she and her staff were named winners of the

Urban Hero Award for Education by judging panel.

"It’s definitely an honour," she said. "I think of us as a whole family. This is an amazing attribute to the hard work my staff puts in every day."

The Leslie Street and Lawrence Avenue area school enrols 70 students aged four to 21 who have development disabilities.

Some 55 staff members help support students, ranging from teachers to nurses to occupational therapists.

"We follow an alternative curriculum focused on communication and functional life skills," Leung

Tou said. "Students come from all over Toronto. We teach students how to manage themselves and care for themselves."

Daily activities include an emphasis on hand and face-washing, setting the table, eating independently and preparing food, she said.

"Some students are nonverbal, so we teach them picture symbols," she said.

"We try to give students as much as a voice as possible."

Building independence is not only done on campus, but throughout the outside world, Leung Tou said.

"We take walks around the area, we go on TTC buses, we go swimming," she said. "We try to give them real-life, authentic experiences outside of the school.

We go out to concerts or bring concerts to the school."

And just like other schools do, the national anthem is played every day just at a different time.

"One student sings O Canada at the end of the day, as opposed to the start," she said. "We have a staggered entry at the start of the day, but at the end of the day, we are all together."

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Park Lane School principal Esther Leung Tou (centre) and members of the staff have been selected Urban Heroes.

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Nyarko, who has also won one of Metroland Media Toronto’s Urban Hero awards for health, said the film she directed and produced earlier this year was originally meant for a psychology course she was taking in university.

"We were instructed to make short videos on anything we learned throughout the course, and I decided to focus on depression," the 19-year-old digital storyteller and second-year university student said.

"The film shows how immensely trivialized mental illness is, and why it shouldn’t be so."

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niversity of Toronto Scarborough student Sharon Nyarko wants to challenge the misconceptions surrounding the scope, causes and effects of mental illness, and to generate a platform for discussion on the issue.

And her short film Beyond Words was aimed at doing just that.

In May, the film came in first place in a monthly film competition put on by Art With Impact, a California-based organization aimed at promoting mental wellness through art and media.

health is an issue that’s dear to her heart.

"I have myself been depressed and I know so many people who have gone through depression or some other form of mental illness," she said. "In some ways . I was talking to people whom I addressed during that period, my episode, vicariously through that video."

In the film, said Nyarko, she got to address issues that have been bottling up.

"It was refreshing letting those thing out," she said. "People began to speak up and share their own stories with me, so I didn’t feel alone."

Nyarko noted it was her "great support system" and faith that got her through her ordeal.

"The stigma and isolation are in many ways more debilitating than the illnesses themselves because they stop people from seeking help and seeking supports," she said. "Mental health and illness is not something that should be trivialized because it’s so real."

Nyarko said "it’s very touching" to be recognized as an Urban Hero.

"I hope to keep doing this (mental health advocacy work) for as long as I can," she noted.

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"If I can spend six hours playing sports on a Saturday, why can’t I divide that in half and spend three hours playing sports, three hours doing something academic?" he said, adding he began working hard to improve his grades.

And when Gooden began to apply himself, he realized he had an interest in science.

"I just absorbed the material. . It felt natural," he said. "I had a science teacher who at one point said, ’You are really good at this.

You should consider becoming a doctor.’"

In university, Gooden said, his interest in medi-

verton Gooden’s career had a humble beginning.

As a student at York’s George Harvey Collegiate, he was focused on sports, not academics.

"I was struggling. I was getting D’s and C’s," said Gooden, a winner of Metroland’s Urban Hero Award for health. "I was barely keeping my head above water."

But in Grade 10, Gooden said he had a "light bulb moment" during a conversation with a school guidance counsellor.

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Dr. Everton Gooden, a head and neck surgeon at North York General Hospital, has won an Urban Hero Award.

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neck surgeon) after completing his training in 2001.

He has served as North York General’s chief of otolaryngology since 2009 and has also held several volun-

teer positions at the hospital.

Gooden served as the hospital’s chief of staff between July 2014 and July 2017 and is a member of hospital foundation’s board of governors.

As co-chair of the foundation’s annual physicians’ campaign, he helps with fundraising initiatives, mo-

tivating his colleagues to also support the cause.

Gooden, a resident of the Lawrence Park neighbourhood, is also an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s faculty of medicine.

"It is sometimes challenging trying to fit everything into a calendar, but I absolutely enjoy it," Gooden said of his busy schedule. "I can’t think of a more rewarding profession. . I learn a lot from the patients that I meet on a daily basis and I find that opportunity to meet so many different people and learn from so many different people a real privilege."

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Social Issues Architect mentors youth through Community Design Initiative

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trailblazer is what Riverdale architect Paul Dowsett hopes to be when it comes to mentoring youth in the city of Toronto. He’s been doing just that for the past eight years through his Community Design Initiative, which led him to become one of two recipients of the Urban Hero Awards for social issues.

"It’s a weird feeling. It’s proud and humbling all at the same time. I’m a professional architect, so to be recognized as an urban hero for social issues is kind of interesting," Dowsett told Metroland Media.

"I don’t think most people in the world see architects as operating in the social realm. It’s something more architects should do and could do; it’s really part of our job description."

Mentoring youth has been a passion for Dowsett for the past 30 years, but it was in 2009 when he had the idea of mentoring youth in the Kingston Galloway/Orton Park east Scarboroughcommunity.

It began after he participated in a design charette with disadvantaged youth of the Scarborough community who were tasked with redesigning the East Scarborough Storefront community centre.

"We got to the end of that charette and we saw the enthusiasm of this youth, and the way they’ve latched on to it was so infectious that we could not let it stop there," Dowsett explained.

"So, we said ’let’s keep this going and mentor them through the process of design thinking and teach them about architecture

and sustainability.’"

Along the way, youth were also taught presentation, organizational, and leadership skills. It was also a career catalyst for many youth. Dowsett said he’s proud to say many of the participants have pursued university careers in engineering, architecture, urban planning, social development, and international affairs. Before the project, Dowsett said, for many, university wasn’t even on "their radar".

"I can’t count the number of kids who have gone to university and I feel like we had big part in that, and I don’t mean that in a boastful way," he said.

"Without this learning, they may not have gone on to university; it gave them a step up to think bigger and it’s great."

Paul Dowsett created the youth design project, known as Community Design Initiative, to help youth learn about design and make real decisions about their community centre. Paul and his team, through mentorship, made a lasting impact on the lives of youth.

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Youth mental health holds importance for Urban Hero

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wo years ago, north Toronto resident Nicole German and her family were struck by tragedy with the sudden death of her 14-year-old daughter, Madeline "Maddie" Grace German Coulter.

Maddie was an advocate for youth mental illness and after her death, her mother became one too, which is why she created the Maddie Project.

"The Maddie Project is a legacy to my daughter and speaks to a wish that she’d expressed. She wanted to change the way youth access mental health care," said German.

"When she passed away, there was an up swell of the community wanting to do something. The work that I’ve done has really been a community effort, so it’s hard for me to take full credit because I look at this like a coming together of community for a common cause."

German is one of two Urban Hero recipients in the social issues category for her dedication to channeling her grief into something good for the community through the Maddie Project, which helps other teens across the country battling with mental health issues. The project’s goal is to create awareness by reducing the stigma and sparking conversations be-

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Nicole German is the founder of The Maddie Project, a grassroots movement focusing on opening a dialogue about youth mental health. tween youths, youths and their parents, teachers or coaches. It also aims to increase access to support for youth suffering from depression and mental health concerns.

She’s also partnered with North York General Hospital, the place where Maddie spent three months of her life in acute care. The Maddie Project has become the biggest community supporter of the Phillips House, the home of children and adolescent outpatients seeking mental health programs. Together they’ve raise over $1 million

Congratulations to all of the Urban Hero Winners.

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to create the 1.2-acre therapeutic healing garden named after her daughter.

"Maddie’s Healing Garden is really appropriate for her. She loved the outdoors and being physically active," German added.

"So it’s not only a wonderful legacy and an inspiring place, but it’ll give really tangible results in how it will be helpful to youths and their families in their journey through mental health issues. So it’s really around the fulfilment of her wish, and when she passed away, it was a natural area for us to contribute to."

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Toronto Argonauts’ Jamal Campbell remains humble to home

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oronto Argonauts’ offensive lineman Jamal Campbell keeps Toronto’s Jane and Finch neighbourhood close to his heart.

"Growing up in Jane and Finch is just like other communities. Obviously, it has its social problems, but my experience growing up there was a positive one because it created a lot of character," the 23-year-old said. "In terms of Jane and Finch as a community, I love the community."

The six-foot-seven-inch Canadian Football League sophomore remains humble to his home, which is

why he still lives there and continues to be a mentor for youth even after being drafted 22nd overall by the Argos in 2016.

"Growing up, I’ve seen so many of my friends and just kids I went to school with just not having the right guidance," he said.

"So when I talk to kids, students, I try to mentor them; I try to be the voice that I never heard and the voice that I also heard, you know, just trying to keep them, make them see the bigger picture."

He grew up mainly playing basketball at courts in the area and across the city, but it was only when

he was in Grade 11 at C. W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute when he discovered football through an Argos’ community program.

He said it took him some time to get used to the game, but once he got the swing of things, post-secondary schools came calling and he was off to York University, staying close to home.

"Being in Toronto, I was able to just stay involved in my community and stay involved in my family," he said. "It was just wonderful."

Campbell’s humbleness and his community outreach work, such as his

speaking at schools and other community events, are just some of the reasons why he was nominated for an Urban Hero award by his close friend’s older brother, Paul Nguyen.

"I think he has a really bright future and I’m looking forward seeing him go even further," Nguyen said.

Although his career is young, Campbell hopes he will be remembered as a respectful player and person.

"That’s all I really want," he said. "I want to be the best version of me on and off the field."

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Toronto Argonauts’ offensive lineman Jamal Campbell has won an Urban Hero Award in the People’s Choice sports category. The Jane and Finch native still lives in the area and continues to give back to his neighbourhood despite his new found fame.

Jennifer Smith helps girls, women enjoy playing hockey

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ennifer Smith loves everything about hockey.

Growing up, she would watch the sport on television and play lots of it on the rink and on the street.

But she never played organized hockey until she attended the University of Toronto and joined a women’s intramural league.

"I played for four years and really didn’t think I’d play hockey after that," she said, until she found out about a women’s recreational league starting up in 1992.

"I’ve played ever since," she added.

Now 49, Smith is the president of the Toronto Leaside

Girls Hockey Association, which operates out of the city’s east end.

She became involved with the organization back in 2003 as an assistant coach of her daughter’s hockey team.

"I don’t think I would have ever imagined in 2003 that 14 years later I would have had this incredible opportunity to help with our board, with our hundreds of volunteers, to shape and grow this organization in the way that we have," she said.

Founded in 1974, it was established to create opportunities for girls and women, regardless of their skill lev-

el.

Currently, the association operates a wide-range of programs with over 1,600 members.

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Toronto Leaside Girls Hockey Association president Jennifer Smith settles in for another night at Leaside Memorial Community Gardens, as the Toronto Leaside Junior Wildcats practise behind her.

Smith has been selected as an Urban Hero in the sports category in recognition of her dedication to girls’ hockey.

environment for these athletes is important," Smith said.

Her commitment and passion for helping women in hockey is what earned

her a nomination for an Urban Hero award from her colleague June Smyth.

"She just wants every girl who’s interested in playing to be able to play at the best

level for them and to love the game," Smyth said. "I’ve always admired Jennifer and looked up to her because not only is she dealing with a difficult position, but she manages it with grace and understanding and really tries to help people."

Smith said she’s happy being recognized for her work, but she said she can’t do it alone.

"There’s 13 of us on this board, and there are hundreds of volunteers in this organization . I’m just one person; it takes many volunteers to put 1,600 players on the ice every week," she said.

"This is lovely, but really, it’s a team award."

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Life of a Craphead artists Amy Lam (left) and Jon McCurley have created a replica of the equestrian statue of Edward VII, a fixture of Queen’s Park, that will be floated down the Don River.

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Don’t be alarmed if you see a life-sized statue of King Edward VII floating down the Don River near the Queen Street Bridge in the coming weeks.

The stunt is part of a sitespecific performance titled King Edward VII Equestrian Statue Floating Down the Don River by Torontobased artist duo Life of a Craphead (Amy Lam and Jon McCurley). Supported by the Toronto Arts Council, this is the artists’ first major public art project.

Inspired by the bronze equestrian statue of King Edward VII at Queen’s Park, the whimsical show aims to

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NIGHT OF DREAD: Wear your best black-and-white "dreadful" attire and join Clay and Paper Theatre, towering puppets, stilt walkers, fire-spinners and more as they walk Toronto’s streets Saturday, Oct. 28 from 5 to 9 p.m. at Dufferin Grove Park.

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HAUNTED HIGH PARK: Enter High Park after dark and discover the chilling legends and ghostly tales that have been spooking visitors of the park for decades and walk inside the candlelit rooms of the historic Colborne Lodge Oct. 27 to 29 at 7:30 p.m. in High Park. $32.50 per person.

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TORONTO’S HORROR HALLWAYS: Toronto’s Horror Hallways returns with a bigger and scarier maze than ever before. This year features pitch-black hallways and demons around every corner. Fridays (6-11 p.m.), Saturdays (6-11 p.m.) and Sundays (6-10 p.m.) until Halloween at 37 Stoffel Dr. in Etobicoke. $15 per person.

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SCREAMWHISTLE: Steam Whistle Brewery is back with its 16th annual Screamwhistle Halloween dance party. Screamwhistle takes over the brewery for two nights with music provided by DJs Skratch Bastid and Fields McQueen on Oct. 27 and 29 at 255 Bremner Blvd. Doors open at 9 p.m. $35 per person.

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HALLOWEEN ON CHURCH STREET: One of the biggest Halloween events the city has to offer, Halloween on Church Street is the annual Halloween block party that features thousands of costume-donned attendees. It takes place Tuesday, Oct. 31 at Church and Wellesley Village starting at 6:30 p.m. Free.

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The SH Armstrong Pool at the Duke of Connaught Public School might have closed down for good, after a tied budget vote cut its funding for city programming in the spring.

But after a successful push for one-time funding by local Toronto-Danforth Coun. Paula Fletcher this summer, the Leslieville pool is going strong and under the watchful eye of a citizen/staff working group.

And on Oct. 23, Toronto’s Community Development and Recreation Committee voted to extend that funding, so the pool can stay open through the winter.

That funding - about $43,000 - will let programs operate until March, when staff will recommend reinstating the full budget for

the pool as a part of the 2018 city budget process.

For Sara Ehrhardt, who co-chairs the working group, that funding would be not only a huge relief but will let the community continue to promote programs that have seen a dramatic increase in uptake from participants over the summer.

"We’re becoming more and more visible in the community," said Ehrhardt at the meeting. "Success begets success.

There’s hundreds of people in the pool now having a positive experience and many will want to go back for the winter."

Until the funding is in place, however, the working group’s hands are tied regarding advertising programs over the winter months. The uncertainty has made it impossible to advertise in the city’s Fun

Guide. Once it’s in place, then members of the public can register.

Ehrhardt is looking forward to doing more outreach, meanwhile, with young families and youth.

"With some of the parents, getting to know how to register is a barrier," she said. "Then with the youth, they sometimes forget the Duke of Connaught if they’re not at that school.

We have women and girlsonly club, and we want to make sure that young women and women from racialized communities have an opportunity to do that."

One thing that may draw people to the pool this winter is the temperature.

The working group managed to get the temperature in the pool raised from the somewhat chilly level of 78 degrees to a toasty 82 degrees.

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Holding to an election promise made in 2010 and again in 2014, BeachesEast York Coun. Mary Margaret McMahon told reporters that two terms on city council is enough for her. She won’t be running for re-election in the 2018 election.

"One thing I learned about city hall is that people often change their minds," said McMahon. "I know you expect you will not see my name on the ballot in 2018, and you’re right. You won’t."

McMahon, who was elected in 2010 when she defeated incumbent Ward 32 Coun. Sandra Bussin, then re-elected in 2014, said her decision not to run is one she wishes more of her colleagues would take.

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"I would encourage my colleagues to think of their accomplishments, to think about their future and to take the torch and pass it on to someone else."

McMahon has twice asked Toronto council to consider term limits, and has twice been rebuffed by her colleagues. Cur-

rently, there are no limits to the time that a politician can serve on Toronto council, although no mayor in amalgamated Toronto has served for more than two terms and Mayor John Tory has signalled that his 2018 reelection campaign will be his last.

It is another story for city council, however, with many members having held elected municipal office since before amalgamation in 1998.

McMahon wouldn’t say whether she would be endorsing a successor in the 2018 election.

"It’s early days," she said. "We’ll take a look at that. It’ll be an interesting election."

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Public works approves charging station pilot program DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Toronto Hydro will be setting up a total of 14 charging stations for electric vehicles in three city core wards, if council approves recommendations from the city’s Public Works and Infrastructure Committee.

The pilot project, which got the nod from the committee at its Oct. 18 meeting, is intended to help owners of electric cars who may be relying on permit parking and who don’t have a space on their own property where they could hook up to a household electrical outlet.

It will see two stations (each capable of charging two vehicles) set up in wards 18, 30 and 32 for a one-year pilot project., along with an additional charging station set up at Toronto Hydro’s headquarters at 500 Commissioners St.

For the City of Toronto, the project is inexpensive just $40,000 to create signage for the stations - but councillors on the committee were hopeful that the project would succeed and spread.

Ward 19 Coun. Mike Layton said that many tenants in his ward also drive automobiles and that it makes sense to encourage them to purchase electric vehicles, which have a lower carbon footprint.

"For these people that own cars, this will offer them an opportunity to do a lower carbon switch," he said. "The only solution to our future transportation issues that we will be facing is getting people out of their cars; however, there are instances where individuals because of their work - won’t be able to access public transit or walk or take a bicycle."

According to Toronto transportation staff, ap-

proximately 1,600 electric cars are owned and operating within Toronto. Ward 7 Coun. Giorgio Mammoliti called the pilot project "ridiculous" on that basis.

"It’s 1,600 cars in Toronto and we are looking at changing the infrastructure without even knowing the costs associated," he said.

Ward 41 Coun. Chin Lee worried about the advent of electric cars and cautioned that the city should not see itself as being on the hook for charging infrastructure.

"Right now, the infrastructure is not in place to handle everyone; but, when we make individually a decision to buy electric vehicles, we have to be aware of the limitations," he said.

"We cannot expect the government to come forward and put infrastructure in because we made the decision to buy an electric vehicle."

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Leslieville welcomes inaugural Future Theatre Festival JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com A new festival focused on supporting and developing independent Canadian theatre has come to Leslieville.

The inaugural Future Theatre Festival, which runs Oct. 19 to 29, features three new plays in development by the emerging Seven Siblings theatre: New World by Genevieve Adam,

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Tactile Maladies by Nawi Moreno-Valverde, and this place by Becky Tanton.

The festival, which takes place at The Attic Arts Hub at 1402 Queen St. E., just east of Greenwood Avenue, will also include an introductory acting workshop in the Michael

Chekhov technique, a staged reading of a new play by artistic director Will King and the theatre company’s annual Halloween party.

Visit http://www.sevensiblingstheatre.ca/ ftftickets for more information.

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Artist Callen Schaub finds his energy Canadian abstract artist Callen Schaub has launched a new exhibit in Leslieville aimed at promoting positivity.

Called Energy, the collection of 15 paintings aim to represent the emotional strength needed to break through the darkness of a

negative mindset when faced with trolling. To do so, the artist takes his audience on a visual journey illustrating how positive and negative energies have impacted his painting to date.

Schaub is known for his innovative paint techniques and live performances.

The show is available for free public viewing at Project Gallery, 1210 Dundas St. E., Tuesdays to Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. or by appointment until Saturday, Oct. 28.

Visit www.projectgallery.ca for more information.

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