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Kevin Brooks has delivered more than 1,000 presentations across Canada and the U.S., sharing his story of drinking and driving.

ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com Every morning Kevin Brooks wakes up, there’s a wheelchair beside him that reminds him of his “nightmare”: killing his friend in a drunk driving crash.

It began as a typical warm Saturday in June 2000.

Brooks, then 21, was hanging out with his high school sweetheart and watched her ride in a horse show. He then went to

his youngest sister’s ballet recital.

After the event, Brooks attended a house party where he thought he’d have a few beers and then call it a night.

But that never happened.

“I ran into some old school hockey friends I’d grown up with, and one thing led to another, and we were down to have a wild night,” Brooks said.

And they hopped from one party to another.

At one point during the night, Brooks

returned home to get more beer. The British Columbia resident wasn’t yet “blackout drunk” and stopped in front of his car thinking something bad could happen.

“We all have that voice inside that warns us at times,” Brooks said.

“That was one moment where I was still consciously aware of what was going on and had that opportunity to make the better choice and chose not to.”

Brushing off the warning, Brooks con>>>a mistake, page 3

For the first time in more than 60 years, the Balmy Beach Canoe Club (BBCC) is sending athletes to the Olympics.

Oakville resident KC Fraser along with her paddling partner Genevieve Orton, who hails from Lake Echo, Nova Scotia and is a life-long member of the Orenda Canoe Club, will be racing in the 500-metre canoe sprint event in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 15 and 16.

Orton and Fraser are also part of a four-member team with Andréanne Langlois and Émilie Fournel that will be competing in the 500-metre canoe sprint on Aug. 19 and 20.

Erica Scarff, an award-winning gymnast who lost part of her leg at the age of 12 to the same rare form of bone cancer that Terry Fox had, will also be heading to Brazil to compete in the 200-metre paracanoeing sprint event at the Paralympic Games which runs from Sept.

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Scarff, 19, only started paracanoeing just over three years ago. The Mississauga resident trains at the Balmy Beach Canoe Club under coach >>>BaLmY, page 9

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Park Yoga WHEN: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Jonathan Ashbridge Park, 20 Woodward Ave. CONTACT: Beatrix Montanile, 647-993-YOGI (9644) COST: donation A portion of all proceeds will go to support Nellie’s Shelter for abused women and children.

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Supercar Sunday WHEN: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: BMW Toronto, 11 Sunlight Park Rd. CONTACT: www.supercarsunday.ca COST: 12 and under free,13-plus $5 Featuring more than 100 vehicles from brands that include Lamborghini, Ferrari, McLaren, Aston Martin, Alfa Romeo, Porsche, Lotus and many more.

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Wednesday Afternoon At The Movies WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Beaches Library, 2161 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 416-393-7703 COST: Free Join the library for a series of cinematic classics. Aug. 10: Brief Encounter (1945).

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THE NUMBERS Impaired driving occurrences in OPP patrolled areas for the past five years:

2010 Alcohol: 6,324 Drug: 214 2011: Alcohol: 6,267 Drug: 184 2012: Alcohol: 6,423 Drug: 178 2013: Alcohol: 5,636 Drug:: 248 2014: Alcohol: 5,151 Drug: 219

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Above, Kevin Brooks’ crumpled car after the crash that killed his friend and left him paralyzed; Brooks standing with his two sisters at his sister Allison’s graduation. Right, this was taken the night before the car crash - June 23, 2000 and was the last photo ever taken of Brooks standing with his family.

2015: Alcohol: 5,373 Drug: 195

A mistake that lingers, more than 16 years later >>>from page 1 tinued drinking and partying hard.

“By the time we were leaving the last house party, we were all really drunk,” said Brooks. “We were double digit drinks for sure. I’d say well over 10, probably pushing 20.”

Three of Brooks’ buddies got in a cab, but before it left, one friend, Brendon, got out and opted to travel with Brooks.

“I was like the stubborn idiot who wanted to drive drunk,” Brooks said. “From what I’ve heard, people were trying to get my keys away from me, but I had an extra pair in the glove box. ... In hindsight, too bad somebody didn’t just punch me out.”

Brooks and Brendon were speeding to another party.

“Going 110 to 130 in a 70 zone, just stupid.

Beers are open, tunes cranked, totally not paying attention,” Brooks said. “I don’t remember what happened. I missed a corner, and the car hit a road divider and went airborne, hit the ground and rolled multiple times.”

Weeks later, Brooks woke up in an intensive care unit and learned that he had been in a crash and that he was paralyzed from the chest down.

“A little bit later, I asked about who was

with me and found out my buddy Brendon passed away. That was the worst thing I’d ever heard in my life,” Brooks said. “He’s gone and dealing with that was a nightmare.”

Brooks contemplated suicide but was confined to a bed, too weak to even move.

With the support of his family, best friend and Brendon’s family, Brooks’ outlook began to change.

“It allowed me a chance not to totally give up,” he said of the support.

After a two-month hospital stay, Brooks was transferred to a rehabilitation centre where he learned to dress himself, roll over in bed, sit up and get around in a wheelchair.

It was a new life for Brooks, who had been an active man.

“I could play every sport decently. I skateboarded, I snowboarded, I played hockey. I was just go, go, go, and then all of a sudden, boom, I’m in a chair.”

His future career as an electrician was over, his girlfriend of two-and-a-half years left him and he faced criminal charges from the crash.

“And dealing with the fact that I killed a buddy, there was so much to deal with,” he said.

Brooks pled guilty to dangerous driving

2016 (to date): Alcohol: 2,147 Drug: 81

causing death; a charge of impaired driving causing death was dropped.

“I lost my licence for three years. There were community hours and probation but no jail time,” Brooks said. “I still look at it as light.”

Brooks said he felt something good had to come from the tragedy, and about two years after the collision, he began sharing his story at schools in the hopes of preventing drinking and driving.

“I used to be a server and I’d be scared if I had 10 people at a table, so getting in front of an entire gymnasium of teenagers was terrifying, but once I started talking, I just sunk into a bit of a groove,” he said.

“Then after, I was just mobbed by kids and they were crying, thanking me and shaking my hand. There was a connection made.”

Brooks has now delivered more than 1,000 presentations across Canada and the U.S. “It’s been a saving grace for me to have a positive outlet for what happened,” he said.

“I can’t say I’m proud of the journey that led me on it, but I found it and I just keep looking forward.”

MORE ONLINE One toke over the line: Police are prepping for a possible spike in drivers who are one toke over the line as Ottawa prepares to legalize marijuana for recreational use. bit.ly/1toke The grey area of pharmaceuticals: How prescription use can lead to impaired driving charges. bit.ly/pharmadrugs A survivor’s story: In a matter of seconds, an impaired driver changed Cherie Daniels’s life forever. bit.ly/ crashvictim

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It is critical that the message gets out that drugimpaired driving is as socially and morally unacceptable as drunk driving.

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Bloor bike lanes address city’s growing cycling needs I’m usually pretty careful riding a bike on Toronto streets, but last week I had a near thing.

Riding down Coxwell Avenue on my way to a Mayor John Tory press event, I thought I could make it past some road work that pushed very close to streetcar tracks, and as it turned out, I couldn’t, not quite.

So when the front tire slipped into the streetcar track, it went over and I nearly did too; somehow managing to get off the bike without really falling myself.

Lucky me.

Seriously.

Lucky me.

In July, a study by Ryerson University and the University of British Columbia on bike accidents in Toronto found that fully a third of the serious ones were caused by cyclist’s tires either getting caught in the tracks or slipping across them.

Usually, there were no

david nickle the city bike lanes and the cyclists reported trying to maneuver around parked cars or other obstacles.

And it happens a lot.

Between 2005 and 2014, the city has charted 1,232 cyclist collisions – a number that doesn’t include simple mishaps.

The whole thing adds a bit of perspective to the new pilot project that got underway this week to try out separated bike lanes on Bloor Street.

There are no streetcar tracks on Bloor Street, but there are an awful lot of cars, and the stretch through the Annex is a well-documented hazard for cyclists trying to get across town.

It’s been a pain for auto drivers, during this relatively short construction period, with two of the

four lanes of traffic there shut down, and there will probably be some more pain – or at least mild discomfort – as the pilot runs its course.

Drivers are going to have to get used to it, because the status quo is a precarious place right now.

More people are choosing to bike to and from work than ever.

And while the city has provided some good cycling infrastructure – a total of 558.4 kilometres of on-street bike lanes, before the Bloor project is counted – Toronto also has 82 kilometres of those tirecatching streetcar tracks to contend with.

Cycling is safer in Toronto, but it’s hardly as safe as it might be.

The authors of the study that appeared in the BMC Public Health journal in July had a couple of recommendations short of getting rid of all those streetcar tracks.

Bike lanes, obviously,

are crucial – but they also recommend fully-separated streetcar tracks, like those on Spadina or St. Clair.

The city can do other things, too.

Simply patching potholes on well-cycled routes – or all routes, for that matter – would go a long way to making a safer, smoother commute for cyclists.

Providing more places to safely lock bikes might not make things safer, but might be more effective.

But in the short term, running a successful pilot project along one of the great, city-spanning streets, and working diligently to build out the bike plan that Toronto Council approved earlier in the summer, is an excellent step toward syncing the city’s form with the needs of a growing number of its residents.

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Plans for Queen Street East concert venue moving ahead Plans to convert part of the Champions-Greenwood Off Track Betting teletheatre at Queen Street East and Kingston Road into a live music venue got approval last week from the Toronto and East York Committee of Adjustment.

The July 27 vote came ov er t he obje c t ion s of neighbours who said that the 2,700-capacity entertainment venue would over-tax a neighbourhood already experiencing music and outdoor events in the nearby Woodbine Park.

“There will be considerably more people, more traffic, people coming out late at night – and where will those people go?” said Brooke Larson, who lives on Orchard Park Blvd. across Queen Street from the venue.

“We’re worried they’re going to be coming through our street, tossing garbage, creating a scene.”

The t heatre would be operated by entertainment promoter Live Nation, and would occupy 3,150 square metres of the space at the east end of the complex.

Michael Bissett, representative of the company redeveloping the site, said that many of the neighbours’ concerns had been taken into account.

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“There will be private events, and there will be comedy. There will be about 150 events a year, but 80 to 90 will be concerts and comedies and the rest will be corporate.”

He also said that it was unlikely that the space would fill its entire 2,700-person capacity.

“If you’re lucky, you’ll get 2,000 people to come,” he said, noting that the teletheatre had a capacity of 2,500.

The committee approved the plan with some caveats: it can be no larger than 3,150 square metres, and it cannot be used as a disco, dance hall or night club.

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Balmy Beach Canoe Club sending three athletes to Rio head coach Peter martinek part of canada’s three-member kayak/canoe coaching team >>>from page 1 Mary Ellery and is just one of two women who will be representing Canada in the sport at the Paralympic games along with Christine Gauthier from Dorval, Quebec. Paracanoe will be making its debut at this summer’s Paralympic Games.

“Right now I’m just heavily focused on training,” Scarff said Tuesday evening from the patio of the Balmy Beach Club where dozens of supporters had gathered for a heartfelt send-off celebration.

“I’m really excited (to be going to the Paralympics) and I’m sure as it comes closer I’ll get more and more excited.”

will help them to go fast,” he said during the speech portion of the send-off ceremony on Tuesday night, which six former Olympians attended.

Martinek will also be heading to the Rio Olympics to be part of the three-member coaching team for Canada’s kayak/canoe team.

The last time a coach from the BBCC was selected to go The Olympics for the Canadian team was back in the early 1970s.

The last BBCC paddler who went to the Olympics was Ken Lane, who along with his partner Don Hawgood competed in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and won silver medals.

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ParalymPic debut Scarff, who is currently training six days a week, also said she’s especially honoured to be competing in a sport that is making its debut at the 2016 Paralympic Games.

During the celebration, BBCC Commodore Eleanor McIntyre said she couldn’t b e p r o u d e r o f B B C C ’s Olympians.

“The dedication that it takes to get to national championships, the world championships, let alone the Olympics, is phenomenal,” she said.

“These three young ladies have really sacrificed a lot of their lives to pursue this dream and we really should be in awe of them.”

Fraser, who started paddling when she was 14 years old, is headed to the Olympics for the first – and apparently last – time. aiming for a medal “2016 is my final year of international racing,” the 30-year-old Oakville resident said during an interview.

“It’s like I’m wrapping it up at the top and hopefully aiming for a medal.”

Fraser, who has trained at the Balmy Beach Canoe Club for seven years, said it means so much to her to have the support and encouragement of those who have been part of her journey.

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with me,” she said.

“I’m glad I get to share this moment with the Balmy Beach Canoe Club because they’ve helped me a lot on my journey and they’ve been like family to me.”

Orton, who has been training with Fraser in Toronto, vowed they’d compete their hardest in Rio.

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‘We’ll do you Proud’ “We’ll do you proud,” she told those in attendance.

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the community for helping take care of her three-year-old daughter while she devotes a lot of her time to preparing for the Olympics. best Wishes Three-time Olympic coach Peter Martinek, who has served as the head coach of the Balmy Beach Canoe Club since 2008, also offered his “girls” his best wishes for a successful time in Brazil.

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More than 200 participants from Canada, the United States, Mexico, Australia and the United Kingdom will compete at the eighth Canadian Transplant Games from Aug. 8 to 13, which is hosted every two years to raise organ and tissue transplantation awareness as well as to thank donors and their families.

Contrary to what some might think, many transplant recipients live productive and active lifestyles, and the games are an opportunity for people to see the results of an organ transplant in action.

“These transplant recipients are surviving and excelling in life. We had female recipients that had given birth – and life continues again,” Canadian Transplant Association Ontario Provincial Director Sandra Holdsworth said, who also received a liver transplant 20 years ago.

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“I’m living proof that transplant works. Before the transplant, I couldn’t walk 10 steps without stopping and gasping for air,” Farinha said.

“I received a gift, and now I put my heart into everything I do.”

For the first time, living organ donors are invited to take part in the events as athletes. There are increasing numbers of living organ donors coming forward – so much that they have exceeded the rate of deceased donors at one point this year.

Other highlights of the event include a Family Day at the Toronto Islands, the closing ceremonies and gala dinner, as well as the track and field event on Saturday, Aug. 13 at University of Toronto’s Varsity Stadium. Admission is free and residents are welcome to attend to cheer on the athletes. Visit games. canadiantransplant.com for event schedules.

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Aug. 31. Featuring artist-inresidence Jerry Silverberg, Art in Phin Park is open to kids, teens, caregivers, and adults and features a number disciplines including collage, puppet making, printmaking, book making, and mural painting to name a few.

It is presented by The Pocket Community Association with the support of the Toronto Arts Council.

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The organizers of the Rivertowne Safety First BBQ are looking for donations for their seventh annual event.

Some of the most-needed items include gift cards and drinks as well as activity sponsorships like face painting, and the cotton candy and snow cone machines.

Volunteers are also needed to assist with the festivities, which will be held at Joel Weeks Park, which is west of Broadview Avenue and north of Queen Street in Riverside, on Saturday, Aug. 13 from 2 to 9 p.m.

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Storyteller Rukhsana Kahn will be in attendance on Aug. 17, followed by Deepa Bhandari, who will be teaching origami, on Aug. 24.

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RAY PLUMBING Service Repair/ replacement, faucets, sinks, toilets, drains, main valve, leaky pipes, drain cleaning. Licensed and insured.

24/7. 416-880-4151

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BRICK, NATURAL STONE & CHIMNEY WORK

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Fax: 905-853-1765

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Fast Same day! Free Estimates!

Seniors Discounts. We do all Loading & Clean-ups! Lowest Prices.

Call John: 416-457-2154 Seven days

Plumbing

CHURCH SPACE for rent, Midland and Shepperd Ave East, 1700 sq ft., available immediately. Call 416-525-8936

Phone: 1-800-743-3353

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BUILDER/ GENERAL Contractors Metro LIC# T85-4420956 Residential/ Commercial. Complete Restoration. Finished Basements. Painting. Bathrooms. Ceramic Tiles. Leaking Basements. House Additions. Office/ restaurant renovations.

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Waste Removal

Waste Removal

for Rent/Wanted

Handy Person

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Travel & Vacations

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Painting & Decorating

Painting & Decorating

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING painters at bargain prices! Summer special $100/ room (WALLS 1 COAT) Fast, Reliable. Free estimates!

Second-To-None Painting 905-265-7738

Flooring & Carpeting

Flooring & Carpeting

CARPET, LAMINATEA1, sales, installation, repair, restretch.

Seniors discount. For expert workmanship/ low rates, free estimates call (416)569-5606

GEORGIA CARPET & FLOORING Supply & install all your flooring needs at very affordable prices.

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