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Volunteer drivers are desperately needed for the organization’s Meals on Wheels program, which saw a 20 per cent increase in demand this year.

The program delivers almost 50,000 healthy meals a year to seniors.

“For a homebound senior to have the opportunity to access healthy meals, and have somebody deliver it on their behalf, is essential to their livelihood and essential for them thriving and living independently in the community,” said Steve Vanderherberg, senior manager of community and volunteer engagement for Woodgreen.

Volunteers typically help deliver meals one day a week from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday to Friday. A gas allowance is provided for drivers, who must have a valid driver’s license, a good driving record and their own vehicle. Drivers stay in their vehicles while volunteer runners deliver meals to seniors’ homes.

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Toronto and East York Community Council has given the go-ahead to build four three-storey townhouses in a lot off Curzon Street in Leslieville.

The townhouses come shortly after a massive development of townhouses was approved to the south – and over the objections of one local resident who worries the two developments would make the street all but impassable.

“We’re just a little residential street – we’re already putting in 100 townhomes just half a block from this place,” said Joshua Peace, who lives on the street. “Even if we have a home renovation happening on our street it causes backups.”

The redevelopment is to take place at 102-106 Curzon St., a oneway, north-south street running between Dundas Street and Queen Street East.

Councillor Paula Fletcher moved for approval.

“A refusal would lose at the OMB (Ontario Municipal Board),” she said. “It would not make it because the zoning allows it.”

But Fletcher said she does remain concerned about traffic on Curzon, which is also congested in mornings and afternoons by school buses dropping off students.

“I’m very sensitive to the fact that there’s a traffic problem on Curzon,” she said.

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New churches ready to sprout up in wake of downtown Toronto condo conversions ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com In recent years, a number of Toronto churches abandoned by their congregations have been converted into lofts – The Abbey Lofts on Sunny Side, The Church Lofts on Dovercourt or The Glebe Lofts on Pape Avenue, to name just a few.

But, according to the pastors at two new downtown pop-up churches, these conversions don’t mean the search for spirituality has ceased for urban residents.

In fact it is quite the opposite and these new churches focus on community and not a physical space.

“For a lot of people church equals either a building or a service time, but church really isn’t either one of those,” said Darryl Dash, the Pastor at Liberty Grace Church.

“It is actually a group of people who are trying to live in community.”

Spiritual questions Leslieville resident Daniel Yang, lead pastor at Trinity Life Church, said there is a need for churches that reach out, in particular for those with spiritual questions, struggling to find their identity and their community or searching to ground themselves in something.

“There is a reason there are a lot of yoga centres in Toronto,” Yang said.

“People are looking for a sense of transcendence, a sense of spirituality and yoga provides a physical component, but also roots the individual to some sort of spiritual nature without any kind of strong commitment to any kind of institution.”

Yang said his hope is this new downtown church will draw in a new kind of congregant.

“The idea is to reflect who is in Toronto now,” Yang said. “The reason the buildings are being sold and turned into condos is because congregations have died off or moved to the suburbs and left the city.”

Trinity Life is Evangelical in denomination, but Yang said how it manifests may be different than people might expect.

“With labels like Evangelical, there is a certain connotation and socially charged feelings, so a part of my job is to hear the community out and understand if their perception of who we are is really reflective of how we feel,” he said.

“From that point, start a church that is more accessible to those who,

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Leslieville resident Daniel Yang is the lead pastor at Trinity Life Church, a new church in downtown Toronto.

maybe in the past were a little bit skeptical.”

Yang, originally from the United States, has lived in Leslieville for about three months. He is an employee of Toronto Church Planting, an organization that helps people start new churches.

“I truly believe Toronto needs more churches and new kinds of churches,” Yang said.

Visioning Trinity Life is in its infancy and Yang said he is currently doing visioning with people in the community who have given up on church and institutional religion, but that have a renewed interest in learning more about Christianity and the Bible.

Also with those who have a strong sense to dream up a new church for Toronto.

“If you want to dream a little bit with us and begin to envision what it would look like... this might be a great opportunity,” Yang said.

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Trinity Life hosts launch community gatherings at 5 p.m. Sundays at Daniels Spectrum in Regent Park and Yang said they aim to officially launch the new church in the fall of this year.

Just a few months old, Liberty Grace Church operates out of Liberty Village.

They meet at a dance studio where they rent space for meetings on Saturday nights.

Right now there is a group of about 15 people who are essentially the nucleus of what will become the church community, Dash said.

“Basically we are sort of organizing right now, gearing up and figuring out what we are all about,” Dash

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“We get together and sing, talk about what kind of church we would like to become and how we can serve the community. And then we just hang out together.”

Place to serve people Eventually he sees the members of Liberty Grace gathering in small groups in homes, renting a space for larger meetings and services, meeting in parks, holding events, but most importantly serving the community.

“I would love to see us have a space, but not so that we can assemble once a week and then have it sit empty the rest of the time,” he said. “But to have a place to serve the community and for people to come and be together.”

Liberty Grace falls under the Fellowship Baptist umbrella and Dash is the former pastor at Baptist churches in south Etobicoke and the Kipling and Eglinton area.

For three or four years leading up to this point Dash said he thought about leaving the suburbs for the city and trying to create a church community from scratch.

There are no churches in Liberty Village so Dash saw it as an opportunity to start from zero and reinvent what it meant to be a church.

“Go back to what the core of a church is, rather than get caught up in all the externals,” he said.

Whether people realize it or not there is a spiritual need that people inherently have, Dash said.

And he intends for Liberty Grace to address that in a way that is accessible to young urban professionals in Liberty Village. “Obviously we are not trying to reinvent the faith, we actually take the faith very seriously, but some of the trappings can get in the way of people who are searching,” he said.

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hether Toronto councillors vote for a downtown casino or not, it’s critical they make that decision with accurate information and understanding of the long-term implications.

The report released Monday by Toronto city manager Joe Pennachetti lays out some of the terms Toronto councillors must demand if we are to enter into such an agreement with the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.

What the report does not do is come out for or against a Toronto casino. It leaves that decision to our elected councillors.

What the report does do is give all involved some facts to work with. Pennachetti said the report paid particular attention to economic development associated with a casino.

For instance, a casino downtown along with expanded gaming at Woodbine in Etobicoke would provide our view construction investment of $3.3 to $3.6 billion and create more Casino not than 11,000 construction jobs and some 12,000 casino-related an economic jobs once the facilities are built cure-all to their full capacity.

The report also sets terms for the city to negotiate hosting fees from OLG. Given the desirability of a downtown location, Toronto should not settle for less than between $111 to $148 million annually, the report says. Property taxes from a new downtown casino and an expanded Woodbine are also estimated at $19 million a year, according to the report.

Those are big numbers, but we urge care and foresight before going all in.

A downtown casino is not the cure-all for all of Toronto’s financial woes, as some seem to believe.

Linking city infrastructure projects to casino revenues is a dangerous game as that money cannot be guaranteed to flow endlessly and generously. Look at Windsor, which for years made big money from its casino, but is now seeing its facility downsized as competition from Michigan keeps American gamblers and their money at home.

There is only so much money available to be circulated and we need to be aware that money being spent in a casino, is money not being spent elsewhere in our economy.

Yes, there is a lot of money to come the city’s way if we agree to a downtown casino. What we must be careful of is unrealistic expectations and linking that money to city-building projects that will end in failure if the casino tap starts running dry.

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Future of casino in hands of councillors They asked for a report on casinos. What Mayor Rob Ford and council got was a Rorschach blot.

On Monday, the mayor’s executive committee will be starting what could be a two-day marathon to consider the long-awaited report from Toronto city manager Joe Pennachetti, setting out “the facts” on the prospect of allowing a casino downtown.

The report is a curious beast. It lays out many benefits to approving a casino – it would kickstart 10,000 jobs in construction, another 10,000 long-term jobs and let Toronto hit the magic million-square-foot mark for convention space, which would help the city attract the biggest conventions and trade shows that apparently elude them now.

The report makes mention of the potential downside, and also notes that Torontonians who participated in the public consultation this winter were dramatically opposed to the idea, and those who

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But it does not recommend any course of action.

What it does do is set out conditions for approval that on the face of it would make it nearly impossible for a casino to happen.

Toronto would need to receive an unprecedented hosting fee – effectively splitting the fee the province would receive 50-50, with a guaranteed minimum of $100 million a year.

The private-sector operator, meanwhile, would be responsible for any infrastructure improvements, including public transit improvements it might desire.

Premier Kathleen Wynne has made it clear Toronto won’t get a special deal.

The only way that Toronto could see the kinds of hosting fees is if the Ontario Lottery and Gaming

Corporation offers the same deal to other municipalities hosting casinos.

That seems like a long shot, which makes it easy for councillors who are uneasy about placing a casino in downtown to support casinos, conditional on Toronto receiving everything recommended.

Before the report came out, Ford released a pitch in favour of the casino. He will almost certainly be able to get the report through his executive committee, but whether he can get the report through council is another question.

Pro-casino lobbyists have been trying to drum up support, but grassroots community members have been urging the opposite.

Councillors who were hoping for some guidance from the city manager will only be frustrated.

As before, the future of gambling in Toronto will be councillors to call.

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And subways not only cost more to build, they cost more to operate and are cost effective only if use is high enough.

Shortly after the Sheppard subway opened, there was talk of shutting it down because of the higher operating costs.

That didn’t happen, and taxpayers continued to subsidize its operation (more than the cost of operating buses on the route). That may have changed since then, but it is an issue when planning other rapid transit lines.

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Fiction Writing Workshop with Sharon A. Crawford WHEN: 11 a.m. to noon WHERE: Gerrard/Ashdale Library, 1432 Gerrard St. E. CONTACT: Gail Ferguson, 416-393-7717 In this interactive presentation to the Ashdale Writers’ Group, Sharon A. Crawford will discuss plots, characters and point of view in writing fiction and read from her mystery short story collection Beyond the Tripping Point.

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The Rail Garden Community Dinner WHEN: 5 p.m. WHERE: Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 79 Hiawatha Rd. CONTACT: therailgarden@googlegroups.com The Rail Garden, which offers community and private garden plots in the public lands near the south west tunnel entrance to Monarch Park, hosts a dinner at 5 p.m. Cost, $10 for adults and $5 for children.

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StreetARToronto aims to develop, support, promote and increase awareness of street art and its role in adding beauty and character to neighbourhoods across Toronto, while counteracting graffiti vandalism and its harmful effect on communities.

Murals can be located on public and private property (with approval by the site’s owner).

This year’s proposals are due April 15.

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Call Evonne at 416-691-1113, ext. 222 to book your free halfhour private consultation.

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To find the participating studios, which is in the area south of Gerrard Street between Coxwell Avenue and east of Victoria Park, look for the yellow signs and bicycles. Visit www.beachstudiotour.ca Tommy Thompson Park Bird fest May 11 Celebrate International Migratory Bird Day at the Tommy Thompson Park Spring Bird Festival May 11.

Located on the waterfront, Tommy Thompson Park is Toronto’s largest greenspace and provides critical stopover habitat for migrating birds.

There have been 314 native species, plus 10 introduced, recorded to date at the park.

During the Spring Bird Festival, learn about the amazing phenomenon of migration and the importance of bird conservation. A variety of activities will be offered for people of all ages and all birding abilities including hikes.

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Recognized internationally as a ground-breaking platform for up-and-coming talent, this multifaceted festival combines the world of design and art to establish fresh and dynamic ways of looking at fashion. This year’s theme, Fashion Therapy, examines aspects of the human psyche that seek resolve through fashion. Fashion Therapy is explored around the sub-themes of drama, craving, crisis, escape and euphoria.

The event takes place from 7 p.m. to midnight daily. Tickets are $30 for a day pass, $80 for a week pass at http://fashionarttoronto. ca/buy-tickets

Beach Studio Tour is set for May 3 to 5.

Beach studio tour takes place in may wAnnual It’s time to think art with the 20th annual Beach Studio Tour May 3 to 5.

The self-guided tour showcases the work of 25 artists in a variety of media including paintings in oil, acrylic and watercolour, handwoven fashion, glass art, ceramics, photography, sculpture, jewelry, handbags and home decor.

Participating artists will be onsite all weekend to share and talk about their work.

At every studio location there will be refreshments and a draw for a chance to win an original piece of art.

The event goes from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Council voted unanimously at its meeting Thursday to support TTC Chair Karen Stintz’s motion to have staff report back on how the city can apply for money from a new $47-billion federal infrastructure fund.

Stintz wants a share of that money, expected in 2014, to fund one third of a proposed $7.4-billion downtown relief subway line and to cover repair costs for the Gardiner.

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Jane’s Walk is inviting submissions for a poster exhibition to be held in conjunction with this year’s walking tour series.

The group is inviting poster designers to submit their works highlighting the idea of walkable cities.

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TRUCKING ASSOCIATION CRITICAL OF PLAN On the heels of Metrolinx announcing a shortlist of potential user fees and taxes to pay for the Big Move, the plan to get Toronto and the Greater Hamilton Area moving, the Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) has come out against the transportation plan itself.

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‘Stay tuned’ for transit funding plan: Premier RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Premier Kathleen Wynne declined to state her opinion on the shortlist of taxes and user fees under consideration

by Metrolinx to fund transit expansion in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) during a speech Monday in Toronto.

But Wynne did hint that new transit funding could be made available by the provincial government before final recommendations in June from Metrolinx on paying for the Big Move transportation plan, perhaps as early as the forthcoming provincial budget.

“Stay tuned. I’m committed to putting in a plan that’s going to allow us to pay for transit infrastructure,” said Wynne to reporters following a speech at the Toronto

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The TTC is working to make all of its stations accessible. Woodbine Station upgrades will start this year. Work will include a second exit to improve customer convenience and safety.

Improvements include: New Automatic Sliding Doors, Lighting and Selective exteriors finishes ● Two new elevators ● Improved signage New Elevator ● Second exit at the north west corner of Woodbine and Strathmore ● Enhanced landscaping around the bus bay and future second exit We are interested in hearing your suggestions on how to help reduce construction impacts in your community.

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Lito Romano Community Liaison, TTC e-mail: lito.romano@ttc.ca telephone: 416-397-8699

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$

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$

• 4X4 • CD • A/C • AUTOMATIC • TOW PKG • 84,000 KMS • CM124C

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12,990

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$

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21,990

FOR ONLY

FOR ONLY

• LEATHER • MOONROOF • BLUETOOTH • HEATED SEATS • POWER GROUP • 31,000 KMS

10,990

$

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$

FOR ONLY

16,990

$

2010 FORD FUSION SEL SEDAN AWD • 3.0L • V6 ENGINE • AUTO TRANS • AIR COND • LEATHER INTERIOR • ALL WHEEL DRIVE • PWR SUNROOF • PWR WINDOWS & LOCKS • 67,000 KMS • CE149A

19,990

FOR ONLY

15,988

$

2011 FORD TAURUS

2010 FORD FOCUS SE • HEATED SEATS • MICROSOFT SYNC • POWER GROUP • CRUISE • A/C • 37,000 KMS • CB163A • AUTO TRANS

13,990

$

2011 KIA FORTE KOUP SX

2010 TOYOTA YARIS • POWER WINDOWS • POWER LOCKS • KEYLESS ENTRY • CRUISE • CD • A/C • CB163A • 71,000 KMS • AUTO TRANS

25,990

$

• LEATHER SEATS • HEATED SEATS • MOONROOF • MICROSOFT SYNC • POWER GROUP • 37,000 KMS • P3908

12,990

$

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20,990

$

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blend in flour.

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1 cup figs, chopped 2 tbsp finely chopped hazelnuts 2/3 cup butter 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips 2 oz unsweetened chocolate 2 eggs 4 egg yolks 1/2 cup granulated sugar 3 tbsp all-purpose flour

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Heat oven to 350 F. Heat shortening and chocolate chips in microwave, stirring until smoothly melted.

Add remaining ingredients. Mix well.

Spoon into lined cups.

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.

Frost and decorate. ~ Recipes courtesy NC

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orange shortbread

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