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The Riverdale Fire Station’s aerial truck is off the chopping block. A Tuesday briefing from Toronto Fire Chief J.W. Sales does not include the local fire truck among those being removed from service on a permanent basis. “I am so pleased that the aerial fire truck will remain at Station 324 in Riverdale and that the fire chief listened to the community, recognizing the need to retain fire service levels in the growing Carlaw Dundas neighbourhood, in East Chinatown, the West Donlands and other Waterfront communities,” said Councillor Paula Fletcher yesterday. “I look forward to the opportunity to work with the fire department and city planning to ensure that an updated fire service plan is put in place for these communities.” On Jan. 30, Toronto council voted against various motions to increase funding to the Toronto Fire Services’ budget. The aerial truck was one of the cuts being considered. Fo u r o t h e r t r u c k s i n Scarborough, Etobicoke and Bloor West will still be removed from service. ~ files from David Nickle

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Fairmount Park Ice Masters hosts Winterfest Saturday The Fairmount Park Ice Masters are excited to host their fifth annual Winterfest Saturday. The afternoon of winter fun takes place from 2 to 5 p.m. at Fairmount Park, 1725 Gerrard

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pleasure rink and tobogganing down the hill at Gerrard Street East. The event will also include a skate and ski swap and sell. An outdoor wood stove will be fired up and hot dogs and hot

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presents its Mosaic Storytelling Festival Sunday at 3 p.m. Hugh Cotton and Celia Lottridge will take listeners on a journey from Ireland and England to the villages and countryside of Russia and meet tricksters, surprising heroes and wise fools in stories of brave and reckless deeds and magic. It is pay-what-you-can, however, $5 per person is suggested. Tickets can be purchased at the door at St. David’s Anglican Church, 49 Donlands Ave. Call 416-466-3142 or visit www.mosaicstorytelling.ca of Pig a Chinese animal zodiac sign wYear

A story on Page 10 of the Jan. 30 edition of The Beach Mirror, headlined ‘The Chinese find great symbolism in numbers’, did not include the pig in the listing of the 12 Chinese animal zodiac signs. The Mirror regrets the error. family mental health symposium wfree

The Toronto Catholic District School Board is shining a light on family mental health concerns at a free symposium. The event is geared to parents, educators, students and staff

who have a loved one dealing with mental health issues. It will offer support and information Feb. 20 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at 80 Sheppard Ave. east of Yonge Street.

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The 12th annual Winterfolk Blues and Roots Festival takes place on five stages in four venues Feb. 14 to 16. Most of the weekend-long event (Friday night and allday Saturday and Sunday) is free, although there are four special multi-artist concerts with a fee (none more than $15). Visit www.winterfolk.com

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“The idea for the campaign – a parody of celebrities and celebrity magazines – kind of caught on,” said Anne Babcock, WoodGreen’s chief operating officer, during a recent interview. “We found the campaign amus-

HELPING REAL PEOPLE DDC Canada’s Toronto office is behind the pro-bono campaign, which features real single mothers who have participated in the Homeward Bound program. Last spring, the internationally recognized marketing communications agency approached WoodGreen after reading a study about how for each dollar invested

in Homeward Bound program graduates, $4 is returned back to society. “Our creative is a parody of popular celebrity media culture, but instead of celebrity-focused stories, it features hard-hitting headlines about struggling single mothers and the real hardships they face each day,” said Denise Rossetto, DDB Canada’s executive creative director, in a Jan. 15 release. “Learning about celebrities is fun, but we want people to recognize that there are many others who are in greater need of our attention and support.” WoodGreen is working to expand its Homeward Bound model, which will mark its 10th anniversary in 2014, to other communities in Ontario, namely Peterborough and in Halton Region. To learn more about the campaign, and to watch the video, visit www. woodgreen.org

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JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com The beautiful, but poverty-stricken central American nation of Honduras has a special place in the hearts of one family from the Beach. In 2009, Dr. Ross Upshur, his wife Kim Echlin and their daughters Olivia and Sara travelled to Honduras to volunteer at the El Hogar de Amor y Esperanza Children’s Home, a school and safe haven for some of the poorest children from both rural and urban areas of Honduras. The family, which attends Beach United Church, enjoyed their experience so much they returned in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Olivia, now 23, also went back to El Hogar in August. This March Break, Sara, 15, and her mother are set to travel to Honduras for the fifth time with a team of 15 teens and parents/ supervisors. “When I go down (to Honduras) it feels very special to me,” said Sara, who was born in the neighbouring country of Guatemala and still has four siblings there. “I hope I make a difference (in the lives of the children there).” While at El Hogar, Sara, like other young volunteers, played with the children, ran after-school activities, helped prepare the evening snack and did some light maintenance work. She also helped her father, a medical doctor, run a small clinic for the El Hogar children. A Grade 10 student at Rosedale

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Right, this March Break, Sara Upshur, right, and her mother Kim Echlin will return to Honduras to volunteer at the El Hogar Children’s Home, while right, girls at the El Hogar Children’s Home in Honduras.

Heights School of the Arts, Sara will likely do much of the same this trip. Echlin, who serves as a board member of the registered charitable organization, El Hogar Projects (Canada), said watching the El Hogar children grow and accomplish their dreams is beyond rewarding for their family. “Our family has always been interested in working abroad and this, to me, really made sense because we were working with kids,” she said, adding after several trips to Honduras they’ve all developed special relationships with the children at El Hogar. “Honduras is really one of the poorest nations on Earth. It’s very, very tough living circumstances for

the kids.” A number of GTA-area churches have ongoing commitments to raise funds, send teams and help raise the profile of El Hogar, which also operates three other schools for boys and girls in various grades. PAY OWN AIRFARE All volunteers who travel to El Hogar pay for their own airfare, accommodation and food. Many also raise additional funds and bring much-needed personal items such as toiletries for the children at the school. Sara and Kim are currently working to raise funds for El Hogar through the “Go for Gold” campaign.

They’re collecting old jewelry, single earrings, broken chains, watches and other pieces that are no longer of use. These items will then be recycled and sold with the proceeds directed to El Hogar. Anyone interested in contributing can put items in an envelope with their name, address and phone number and drop it off at Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave., just north of Queen Street East, or email kim.echlin@gmail.com to have their donation picked up. Charitable receipts are available for any donations over $20.

Visit www.elhogar.org/canada for details about this charitable organization.

The Gerrard India Business Improvement Area (BIA) is looking to expand the scope and scale of its annual Festival of South Asia to reflect and include the diversity and changing nature of the area. Qualified consultants are invited to submit proposals for the development, management and production of the 2014 Festival of South Asia for a six-month term running from late February/early March to September. There are also opportunities for additional ad hoc projects and future longer term contracts. The deadline for submissions is Monday, Feb. 10 at 5 p.m. Proposals and enquiries should be submitted electronically to Subbu Chintaluri at gibbia@gerrardindiabazaar.com and Andrew Horne at flyingponycafe@gmail. com or mailed to Subbu Chintaluri, manager, Gerrard India Bazaar BIA, 1426 Gerrard St. E., Toronto, ON, M4L 1Z6. This year’s Festival of South Asia will take place for two days over a weekend in mid-summer. The exact dates have yet to be determined.

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he Olympic Winter Games kick off Friday and we’ve got 221 athletes vying for gold in Sochi, Russia – our largest team to ever represent Canada at the winter event. Ontario is well represented with 64 athletes, the most of any province. Toronto has eight Olympians that we’re particularly keeping an eye on: Patrick Chan (figure skating), Dylan Moscovitch (figure skating), P.K. Subban (hockey), Natalie Spooner (hockey), Michael Lambert (snowboarding), Katie Tsuyuki (snowboarding), Lenny Valjas (cross country skiing) and Phil Brown (alpine skiing). If you weren’t already planning on it, there are a few good reasons to get on the Winter Games bandwagon for the next two and a half weeks. our view The Olympics truly are a unifying event. No matter your culOlympics tural background, your political ignite national views or whether you actually know the difference between pride luge and skeleton, there’s nothing like a podium win to ignite the national pride in all of us. The Games strengthen our communities at home. While our athletes are a world away, we can invite our neighbours, friends and family together to cheer them on. It’s a great excuse to reach out, or strike up a conversation with a stranger, to talk about the standings and how Canada’s team is faring. It serves as a great inspiration for our children. At a time when childhood obesity rates are critically high, introducing kids to the exciting world of the Winter Games is the perfect way to get them more active. It’s an especially welcome inspiration at this time, to be reminded that winter in Canada can be enjoyable if we embrace it and play in it. And children can always use more positive role models. Why not introduce them to our roster of Olympians and Paralympians who serve as examples of determination, focus, great teamwork and even how to get back up after a failure. The Olympic Winter Games start with Friday’s opening ceremonies and continue until Feb. 23, with the Paralympic Games beginning March 7. Tune in, host a Winter Game-watching party, get the kids involved by having them cheer for their favourite athlete and then do something really Canadian – go play in the snow.

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Scarborough subway still far from a certainty On balance and considering their limitations, Toronto council put together a proper so-so budget for 2014. It’s too bad that in the midst of all that mediocrity, the most vital debate in the 2014 budget deliberations didn’t quite happen. That’s not to say there wasn’t a lot of talk about the wisdom of slathering a 0.5 per cent property tax premium to pay for a portion of a multi-billion dollar subway going into Scarborough, because there was. St. Paul’s Councillor Josh Matlow provoked a couple of high-octane discussions about the property tax hike. On the first day of the budget deliberations, he tried to have the property tax hike itself voted on separately. He was thwarted then by Speaker Frances Nunziata and council’s procedural rules, and then council supported her ruling on a razor-thin margin.

david nickle the city And once that vote happened – it was done. When Matlow, an admitted naysayer on the Scarborough subway, moved a motion to put off spending any of the proceeds of that tax until 2015, Nunziata ruled that out of order on the legal advice that such a decision might open up the city to a legal challenge. To wit: you can’t say you’re levying a tax for a specific purpose then not spend it there. And so council, in their last budget debate before the election, went ahead and charged taxpayers for work on a subway that still may never be built. Now, it’s true that council has supported the subway to replace the Scarborough RT, and when it voted to do so last year, Metrolinx agreed to build it.

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A smart opponent would leave that base to (Rob) Ford, and go after a portion of the streetcar-loving majority.

But there are still impediments. For one thing, there are elections coming up: likely a provincial election, and a municipal election Oct. 27. And while there is a large contingent of voters in Scarborough who believe that a shorter subway line is a better fit than a longer light rail line, there’s every indication they’re not a majority. A poll released Monday by Leger shows that 61 per cent of Toronto voters would prefer a light rail line and 56 per cent of Scarborough voters would like light rail over a subway. In Toronto, at least one serious mayoralty can-

didate, David Soknacki, has indicated if elected in October will steer the course back to light rail. Others may or may not follow suit, depending on how public opinion goes across the city over the coming months. Mayor Rob Ford will almost certainly continue to support subways, on the likely correct assumption that the minority of subway supporters will intersect almost perfectly with his own base. A smart opponent would leave that base to Ford, and go after a portion of the streetcar-loving majority. As to the province? Who knows what a fresh legislature will bring to the question of subways in Toronto. All in all, it seems an unwarranted risk, betting a 0.5 per cent 2014 property tax hike on the vagaries of election-year politicking.

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music by The Lost Boys and friends, hot chocolate and hot dogs, shinny hockey, tobogganing, fire trucks and police cars. Gnostic Public Lectures: Irradiate From Your Centre WHEN: 1:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 647-467-5307, toronto@vopus.org COST: Free Various public lectures. Visit www. vopus.org East Toronto Lunar New Year Community Fair WHEN: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Gerrard Square, 1000 Gerrard St. E. CONTACT: Councillor Paula Fletcher, 416-392-4060, councillor_fletcher@ toronto.ca COST: Free Come for live entertainment, community information booths, a lion dance, kung fu, and Chinese folk and dance music!

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Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www.beachmirror.com. Read weeks of listings from your neighbourhood as well as events from across Toronto. toronto@vopus.org COST: Free Sound is vibration and everything in creation vibrates. We invite you to hear about the dimensions beyond this physical world and the chakras and to discover how everything is connected.

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Riverdale artist hopes new CD will be more than a career ‘Footnote’ NORM NELSON nnelson@insidetoronto.com Longtime Riverdale resident Gregg Lawless has carved out a rewarding career bringing music to students throughout the GTA and Canada. Much of it has been carried out through his alter ego Gregg LeRock, specializing in French music for English-speaking students and for which he has recorded four albums and received two Juno Award nominations. He also works with area school boards, helping students through a variety of songwriting workshops. You could call it his ‘day’ job. At night, under his own name, he dives into his ‘other’ music career as a songwriter and performer. And he released his fourth album (as Gregg Lawless) late last month. His new album, titled Footnote, effortlessly mines today’s music styles – rock and blues with a touch of folk, reggae and jazz. He wrote nine of the tracks and mixed in an irreverently fun, slow-groove cover of Elvis Presley’s ‘All Shook Up’.

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Riverdale musician Gregg Lawless released his new CD, ‘Footnote’.

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Gardiner Expressway meeting Thursday Concerned citizens are invited to attend the third public consultation on the future of the Gardiner Expressway East. The public meeting takes place Thursday from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Bram and Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St. An open house will be held at 6:30 p.m. Presentations are at 7 p.m. Visit www.gardinereastpublicmeetingfeb6. eventbrite.ca to register. Those who can’t attend the meeting in person can follow along online at www. gardinereast.ca Waterfront Toronto and the City of Toronto are currently carrying out the Gardiner Expressway/Lake Shore Boulevard Reconfiguration Environmental Assessment and Integrated Urban Design Study. This study will determine

the future of the Gardiner and L a k e Sh o re from about Jarvis to Leslie streets. At this point, the four alternatives considered are to maintain the elevated expressway; improve the urban fabric while maintaining the existing expressway; replace it with a new aboveor-below grade expressway; and to remove the elevated expressway and building a new boulevard. Visit www.gardinereast.ca for details. shoreline public info meeting wBeach

A public information session on the preferred alternative for resolving long-term shoreline stability and sediment issues at the mouth of

Coatsworth Cut and Ashbridge’s Bay Park is set for Thursday. The consultation runs from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Toronto EMS and Fire Academy (main auditorium), 895 Eastern Ave. The meeting, which will also include a presentation on the results of the evaluation of the various remedial alternatives considered, is part of the 2013 Ashbridges Bay Erosion and Sediment Control Project Class Environmental Assessment. A community liaison committee has also been formed. For details about the project, visit www.trca.on.ca or contact Project Manager Lisa Turnbull at lturnbull@trca. on.ca or 416-661-6600, ext. 5645.

Queen East strip now Beach Village JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com The Beach Business Improvement Area (BIA) is taking cue from the community’s distinct “village feel” in its latest rebranding campaign. Established in 1793, The Beach has a distinct smalltown feel, which the BIA is highlighting by renaming the Queen Street East commercial strip The Beach Village. “We are truly a village because we’re at the end of the (Queen Street East) strip,” said Beach BIA Chair Rick Gabriele during a recent interview. “We’re not necessarily changing the name of the BIA or the neighbourhood. It’s a new marketing strategy for the strip.” Gabriele said the goal is to get people talking about the area’s small-town feel and viewing The Beach Village as a “must-go” destination for walking, shopping and living. Aptly, the Beach BIA’s new

slogan is Walk it. Shop It. Live It. The rebranding campaign, which includes banners and transit shelter ads as well as various upcoming promotions, also underlines the 23-block Beach Village as “the longest shopping district in Toronto.” Helping community Local advertising agency and BIA member Top Drawer Creative (TDC) essentially donated its services for the rebranding campaign which got underway last summer and involved indepth researching including interviews and surveys with focus groups made up of both BIA members and Beach residents. “We jumped at the chance to get involved with the Beach BIA when they approached us for some brand help because we have deep roots in the Beach, with my first business opening here way back in the 1980s,” said Howard Chang. The Beach BIA, which rep-

resents more than 300 businesses along Queen Street East from Lockwood Road to Neville Park Boulevard, was able to offer TDC a $7,500 stipend for its services, which the local ad agency, in turn, donated to Community Centre 55’s Share-A-Christmas campaign. “We normally work on larger national brands and the scope of work the BIA needed was well beyond their budget. “We donated 90 per cent of the hours invested in what would normally be a six-figure project and the balance we charged the BIA as an honorarium – and promptly donated 100 per cent of it to Centre 55,” Chang wrote. “As a successful local business with business reach across North America, we feel it’s important to walk our talk of social corporate responsibility that is in the DNA of our organization.” The Beach BIA hosts Family Sunday in the Beach Feb. 16 from noon to 5 p.m. Visit www.beachbia.com

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to 200 metres at each end, and transportation infrastructure on the mainland would need hundreds of millions of dollars in improvements. The city requires engineering reports to see whether the new aircraft would meet noise restrictions. Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly said he hoped by the March 25 date for the special executive committee meeting, there would be enough clarity to render a decision, which he hopes will be approved. “I think there are a considerable number of people and groups who believe that the

island airport is an important economic asset to the City of Toronto,” he said, noting urban advocate and author Richard Florida has recently endorsed expanding the airport. “What I hope is finally a fulsome debate (will happen) and we’ll have a final decision, yea or nay. I think our chances are better than most people think.” Trinity-Spadina Councillor Adam Vaughan said approval is unlikely. “They’re just going to keep deferring and deferring and deferring,” he said. “The only answer that’s going to come from this council is no. “You cannot build the equivalent of the Ottawa International Airport on the waterfront and you can’t do it with other people’s money. “Making this work now in the current configuration is going to cost $200 to $300 million.”

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Beacher Debbi Wilkes recalls Olympic podium moment half a century ago MICHAEL HAYAKAWA bsrm@insidetoronto.com When Beach resident Debbi Wilkes was just five years old, she got the chance to take part in the Unionville Skating Club’s annual ice show. The production was Peter Pan. Now 67, Wilkes said that skate was a defining moment. “For some reason I was given the role of Tinker Bell and the thrill of that and being recognized or given a chance to shine was important. It opened the door to opportunity,” she said. Working her way up the competitive ranks as a member of the Unionville Skating Club, Wilkes began skating pairs when she was 10, before suffering a setback when her original partner elected to quit the sport. Then Newmarket resident Guy Revell entered the scene. If it weren’t for Revell, Wilkes said she might never have enjoyed the success she did. “Guy was like a big brother to me because he was six years older and he was a better skater. “I was in awe of him and it made me work harder,” Wilkes said of her former partner, who died in 1981. Forming a competitive pairs entry

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Former Olympic medalist and Beach resident Debbi Wilkes is the business development director for Skate Canada.

in the autumn of 1958, Wilkes and Revell experienced immediate success, skating their way to the 1959 Junior Canadian championship. Then came three consecutive third-place finishes at the Canadian championships followed by firstplace efforts at the 1963 Canadian and North American championships and another first at the 1964 Canadian championship. The crowning moment for Wilkes and Revell came when they capped

off their competitive careers 50 years ago by reaching the medal podium with bronze draped around their necks at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. Standing on the medal podium when they received their bronze medals and watching the flag being raised was the most vivid recollection Wilkes said she has of the 1964 Games. “Even today when I watch a podium celebration with a

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came first and skating should be a hobby,” she said. “So I was ready to move on with my life.” After graduating from high school, Wilkes did her Bachelor of Arts honours at York University and got a masters in communication at Michigan State University. While at the East Lansing, Mich.based campus, Wilkes did some coaching as a graduate assistant as a means of reducing her tuition fees. Upon returning to Canada, Wilkes found employment at CFTO and continued to coach on the side with the North Toronto Skating Club. It was during her time at CFTO when a new career for Wilkes was launched broadcasting figure skating with Johnny Esaw starting in the late 1970s and through the 1980s. When Esaw retired, Wilkes continued to broadcast the events with Rod Black. She has been the director of marketing and sponsorship for Skate Canada for the last seven years. Wilkes said she is intending to watch the upcoming Olympics from her Beach home.

Visit www.beachmirror.com Friday to read the full story about figure skater Debbi Wilkes.

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