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City of Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation staff member Clarissa Jewell removes a Japanese knotweed, a tall bamboo-like invasive plant, from High Park.

LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Whether on land or in the water, there are a number of species that are wreaking havoc on their surrounding environment and threatening the creatures and plants whose habitat they overtake.

They are bullies infiltrating Toronto’s ravines, prairies, wooded areas and waterways, keeping the city’s small, but ardent Parks, Forestry and

Recreation staff, and such conservation organizations as the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (OFAH), on their toes staving off these alien pests.

There are four different species of Asian carp – bighead, silver, grass and black – that OFAH’s invading species awareness program, in collaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, are keeping tabs on, preventing

these invaders from establishing populations in the Great Lakes.

“They can cause quite a bit of danger,” said Sarah Chadwick, the invasive species spokesperson for the OFAH. “There are no established populations in the Great Lakes, and we want to keep it that way.”

However, there have been reported sightings of Asian carp as close to home as Lake Ontario, Chadwick added.

Asian carp have the capability

to destroy aquatic ecosystems while negatively impacting the environment and economy.

“They could damage sport and commercial fishing in Ontario, which brings in millions of dollars,” Chadwick said.

Asian carp consume as much as 40 per cent of their body weight daily leaving little food for native fish to eat, reproduce extremely quickly enabling them to dominate habitats, and >>>WETLANDS, page 3

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Leslieville’s JIm’s Restaurant to close doors JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com A favourite old school diner in the heart of Leslieville will be serving up its last three-inch thick western sandwich this Sunday.

Jim’s Restaurant at 897 Queen St., just east of Logan Avenue, is closing its doors for good on Sunday, July 31.

The no frills family eatery, which like its sign states and many customers will attest really does serve “The Best Westerns”, along with a former auto garage-turned-gym called Anchored Social Club, will soon be replaced by a six-storey, mixed-use condominium development.

“I’ve been here since 2000. It’s hard to leave,” said the eatery’s owner, George Dafos, Tuesday evening. “After 16 years, I know everybody on the street. It’s not easy.”

Dafos said he looked into reopening at another location in the neighbourhood and saw five or six places but in the end leasing a place in this part of town was just too pricey.

In a note posted on the diner’s front door, Dafos and his staff thanked their loyal customers and friends for a “fantastic run” on Queen Street East.

“We couldn’t have made it without you. Leslieville’s been a big part of our lives,” the note read. >>>DINER, page 2

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Diner to be replaced by six-storey condo >>>from page 1 “I’ve made lifelong friends here.

I’ve watched the neighbourhood kids grow up. I’ll miss it but I’m also excited about the future.”

But, the restaurant business isn’t over for Dafos who along with his brother, Angelo, recently purchased The Gingerman diner on Victoria Park Avenue, just south of St. Clair Avenue.

They’ve already started setting up their new restaurant, which will be officially open for business under their ownership in early August. A grand opening celebration is set for September.

Jim’s Restaurant, which is known for its roast chicken, peameal bacon sandwiches, chicken soup, homemade home fries, egg scramblers, Greek specialties, and classic all-day breakfast among other things, has been an east-end staple since the mid-1960.

Dafos is the diner’s third owner.

Known for its fast, friendly service, Jim’s, which has counter seating for about eight and enough tables to seat around 30 people, is an unpretentious, cash-only place where anyone can come to grab some decent, affordable grub.

Dafos assured they plan on brining

that same relaxed, friendly atmosphere to their new home in East York.

“It’s a little bit of a different neighbourhood there. It’s not like Leslieville but the people are good,” he said.

A holdover from days when Leslieville was a predominantly bluecollar neighbourhood, Jim’s was one of the last remaining “greasy spoon” diners in the rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood.

AreA hAs chAnged “The area has changed a lot of years.

In the last five years, big changes came in,” Dafos said. “Sometimes change is good but I think there’s too many condos.”

Long-time Leslieville resident Billy Moore stopped by Tuesday evening for a Greek salad.

“I’ve been coming to this place since 1979. I’m going to miss it,” said Moore, who said he likes the western omelet with cheese, the club house sandwich, and the liver at Jim’s Restaurant.

Susan Zapletal, a midtown resident who has been eating at the diner for the last 12 years, was sad to learn Jim’s closing for good in a few days.

“I’m down her all the time. The food is excellent,” she said moments before walking in the door of the diner Tuesday.

“I’m upset by the fact they’re pulling it down and putting up a condo.”

More than a year ago, Daniels Corp. purchased the property from local real estate lawyer Mitch Korman.

In an interview, Niall Haggart, the company’s executive vice president, said since then they’ve had productive meetings with both the planning separtment and Ward 30 Councillor Paula Fletcher. A community consultation was also held back in March.

The plan is to construct a six-storey, 69-unit development with roughly 3,400-square feet of retail space at ground level and one level of belowgrade parking.

Haggart, who said the goal is to start construction by the end of this year, said he’s confident Toronto City Council will approve any zoning amendments for the development when it resumes this fall.

“We think it’s a good fit with the neighbourhood. It’s a very boutique, little building,” he said, adding they’ve also been working with the Leslieville Historical Society to erect a plaque outlining history of the site.

Woodbine Park, near Lake Shore Boulevard East and Coxwell Avenue in the Beach, will be the home of Canada’s largest food truck festival this weekend.

The third annual Toronto Food Truck Festival, which is set to feature more than 60 food trucks serving tasty eats from around the globe, will take place this Friday from 6 to 10 p.m.; Saturday from noon to 10 p.m.; and Sunday from noon to 8 p.m. helps hospitAl

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The bighead carp, part of the Asian carp family, is an invasive species. Others include silver, grass and black carp. Common carp is also an invasive species, but not part of the Asian carp family.

Wetlands, forests, birds at risk as invasive species start to spread >>>from page 1 increase the murkiness of the water making it difficult for native fish to find food. Grass carp specifically destroy wetlands that are key habitats for native species.

“It’s important to educate the public on what they look like,” Chadwick said.

“Our mandate is education and awareness.”

Bighead and silver carp have spread the most aggressively through the U.S. and pose the greatest threat to the Great Lakes.

The bighead can be identified by its small scales with dark blotches, short dorsal fin and eyes below the centre of its body; the silver carp has small, shiny scales; the black carp has large dark scales in a crosshatched pattern, and a pointed snout; the grass carp also has a short dorsal fin, and large, dark crosshatched scale pattern.

Brought to North America in the 1960s and ‘70s, Asian carp are often mistaken for common carp, Chadwick said.

Unlike Asian carp, the common carp has a long dorsal fin and two barbels (slender, whisker-like sensory organ at the mouth).

Fisheries and Oceans Canada continues to monitor for the presence of Asian carp.

“We’ve had lots of calls from the public.

People are keen to help,” spokesperson Becky Cudmore said.

There is a reason why these species are deemed invasive.

They’re highly adaptable and can tolerate a variety of habitat conditions. Parks

and forestry staff are currently battling the dog-strangling vine.

Although it is not new to Toronto – it arrived from Eastern Ukraine and Southern Russia in the 1900s – the herbaceous vine invades meadows and forest edges.

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They could damage sport and commercial fishing in Ontario, which brings in millions of dollars.

– Sarah Chadwick, on Asian carp

“It prefers open spaces,” said Cara Webster, acting supervisor of tree nursery and natural resource management within Parks, Forestry and Recreation. “It grows in vine form, twining small trees and shrubs. It chokes them out. If we don’t keep up on control, it will overtake newly planted species.”

It grows in large patches, outcompeting other species, Webster said, adding it poses a threat to native species like the black oak savannah in High Park.

It can impact recreation areas because once it establishes a huge colony, “you can’t walk through it,” Webster said.

Grassland birds, such as the Bobolink meadowlark, are particularly at risk.

That’s because the vine alters their habitat preventing them from nesting.

Toronto first began controlling the vine in the late 1990s when staff and volunteers

would manually remove it.

The challenge is that the dog-strangling vine has a very deep root system.

“Now, we use a method of applying a herbicide by wiping it on with a sponge.

That way, it doesn’t hurt other species,” Webster said. “It’s very widespread in Toronto. It’s in every watershed and transportation corridor.”

Agriculture Canada has introduced a biological control moth, a natural predator, which eats the leaves on the vine, as a method of control because the dog-strangling vine began impacting agriculture.

The vine is not the only menace Toronto is fighting. The Japanese knotweed, a five- to six-feet tall bamboo-like plant that out competes other vegetation, can be found along streams and at the bottom of ravines.

It spreads by its roots travelling down streams, Webster said. It blocks access to water, reducing all other native vegetation.

Green frogs, native to Ontario, are being displaced because they are losing their habitat.

“Every ravine in Toronto has a little bit of it,” she said.

Control methods include cutting it down twice a season and using herbicide on the root system.

“When people don’t stay on trail systems, they’re spreading species,” Webster said.

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he coming long weekend is known as Simcoe Day and now is a good time to learn a little bit more about Upper Canada’s first lieutenantgovernor and the founder of our city.

John Graves Simcoe is honoured across the province with a lake, county and more streets than we could ever mention. But it is only Toronto that celebrates the first Monday in August as Simcoe Day. The August long weekend holiday has many other names across Ontario and Canada ranging from the fairly bland civic holiday to the City of Vaughan’s Benjamin Vaughan Day and the City of Ottawa’s Colonel By Day. Simcoe, though, deserves a special place in the hearts of Torontonians. Named Upper Canada’s lieutenant governor in 1791, he founded York, which later became Toronto as the capital city, and also had a key role in naming Scarborough Our VieW because the bluffs reminded his wife Elizabeth of Scarborough, Simcoe has England.

Though only lieutenant goverspecial place nor until 1796, his accomplishwere many, including in our hearts ments taking a strong stand against slavery and banning it in Upper Canada years before it was abolished across the entire British Empire. He also laid out Toronto’s famous grid street system of north-south and eastwest roads, earning the thanks to this day of those travelling through and around the city.

So how do we celebrate him some 230 years after his time as lieutenant governor ended? Well, like all long weekends in Toronto, we have fun.

There’s numerous events set for our city this weekend, many drawing huge crowds of both local residents and tourists. There’s the Toronto Caribbean Carnival on this weekend, which features the King and Queen competition Thursday night at Lamport Stadium and then the Grand Parade Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Lake Shore Boulevard and Exhibition Place. Also, there’s the 15th annual Scarborough Rotary Ribfest from Friday through to Monday at Thomson Park and the Veld Music Festival at Downsview Park Saturday and Sunday. And if you’d like to step back to a time closer to Simcoe’s, you can take part in Simcoe Day activities Monday at Fort York. Whatever you do, have fun and stay safe whether you are in the city, travelling the highways or enjoying Ontario’s lakes and wilderness.

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Michael Ford continues family’s political dynasty What with all the sound and fury south of the border Monday night as Democratic Party conventioneers girded their loins for what could be a worldchanging political battle royale with the Trump family, it would be easy to have missed the quiet, civilized affair that ushered the late Rob Ford’s nephew Michael into that family’s office at Toronto City Hall.

America may have a stark choice ahead of it – but the voters in Ward 2 (Etobicoke North) made their choice a long time ago, and on July 25 they simply confirmed it. The Ford family – first the late Rob Ford, then his brother Doug Ford, and now Michael – are the dynasty of choice for Toronto’s northwest.

Nothing, not even Rob Ford’s toxic, drug-andalcohol-fuelled meltdown during his single term as mayor, seems to be able to shake that loyalty.

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david nickle the city that Toronto Council has a new member, maybe not the same but quite similar to the last two members, in Michael Ford, the 22-yearold son of Rob and Doug’s sister Kathy.

By all accounts, Michael Ford is a bit different than his uncles politically, although it is early to say: he hadn’t yet completed a single term as a school trustee before Rob Ford’s death necessitated his candidacy in the Ward 2 byelection.

He has developed a reputation in that time as a consensus-builder, curious and prone to evidencebased decision-making.

He is said to admire Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

If this is so, it will be a relief to Mayor John Tory, who also seems to admire Trudeau.

Since Rob Ford’s death earlier this year, Tory has governed without a real critic on the right. If the Ford family had sent Doug Ford back into the Ward 2 trenches, Tory would have been faced with having not only a critic, but also his most formidable foe in the 2014 municipal election.

It is possible that Michael Ford will grow into that role.

On election night, Michael Ford’s grandmother Diane opined that he might one day follow in his uncle’s footsteps and become mayor himself.

But it will be a while, likely, before the new councillor for Ward 2 moves into that part of the Ford brand, because so far he’ll be doing the work that established the family in Etobicoke to begin with and has endeared them all to those constituents: which is to say, answering phone calls, showing up at doorsteps, solving small problems definitively and

optionally, dealing with large problems at a policy level.

Michael Ford’s Uncle Rob treated that last element of the brand extremely optionally. Even as mayor, he paid policy scant attention – focussing on keeping taxes low, pointing out waste and gathering political capital as much from the votes he lost at council as the ones that he won.

There seems to be hope that Michael Ford will be different in that regard, and examine the needs of his constituents collectively as well as individually.

Because let’s face it: the voters of Ward 2 have collectively done much to elevate three generations of Fords to public office.

It will be interesting to see how the latest generation repays that loyalty.

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JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Long-time Riverdale resident Gerald Whyte loved life and lived it to the fullest.

Whyte, who was a well-known local historian and author, died peacefully on June 26 at Toronto Grace Hospital. He was 82.

A past-president of the Riverdale Historical Society (RHS), he worked tirelessly for two decades to preserve and promote Riverdale’s history.

Whyte was instrumental in the installation of dozens of historical plaques throughout the neighbourhood. He also coordinated numerous events for the Society, hosted countless Riverdale walking tours while donning a suit and his infamous straw hat, and authored the book, Streets of Riverdale.

“He was a true Riverdalian and probably the most unique. There are very few people who lived and breathed Riverdale like Gerald,” said close friend and fellow history-lover Robert Schott, who worked closely with Whyte on many local history projects over the years, including his book.

“I think we photographed every single house in Riverdale,” said

GERALD WHYTE Schott, who served as RHS’ vicepresident at the same time Whyte.

“We were always on the go doing something.”

Schott and Whyte saw and spoke to each other several times a day. For many years, they enjoyed morning coffee and croissants paired along with stimulating conversation with a large group of friends.

The last seven years, they met up every morning with their dogs before 7 a.m. rain or shine at The Rooster Café on Broadview Avenue.

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said Schott, who has continued the daily ritual.

Café owner Shawn Andrews said the dear friends became like family to the staff at The Rooster. Every day Whyte was in charge of flipping the coffee shop’s open sign.

“Because of their love for the café, they created a little daily community discussion. Both Gerald and Robert had a wealth of knowledge they were happy to impart,” said Andrews, who said she’ll never forget the wonderful staff parties Whyte hosted at his beautiful home.

“Definitely, his presence is missed every day at the café.”

Historian and friend Elizabeth Abbott, who co-founded the RHS, said Whyte “gave his all” to the Society.

“The Riverdale Historical Society was the great love of the second part of his life,” said Abbott, who knew Whyte for 17 years. “The historical plaques were his life and his passion.

Gerald leaves behind a big mark.

His significant contributions won’t soon be forgotten.”

Ron Fletcher, the Society’s cofounder as well as its president from 1998 to 2008, called Whyte’s contribution to community building in Riverdale “outstanding”.

“He was tireless in his devotion to all aspects of the Historical Society,” he said.

Kaitlin Wainwright, the director of programming for Heritage Toronto, worked closely with Whyte for nearly five years on numerous heritage plaques in the community.

“His biggest legacy cast in bronze is the dozens of plaques we produced with him in Riverdale. He has a tremendous legacy,” said Wainwright, adding she’ll always remember Whyte as a very detailoriented, accurate, and passionate historian.

“He was so fond of the lesserknown individuals in Riverdale’s history. He was a real advocate for the community’s history.”

The RHS has named an annual lecture in Whyte’s honour. The inaugural event will take place this fall.

An unveiling event will also be taking place in the coming months for the final heritage plaque he worked on for The Broadview Hotel.

Like many, Ward 30 Councillor Paula Fletcher was deeply saddened

by Whyte’s passing.

“Gerald was the heart and soul of the Riverdale community,” she said,

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pointing to Whyte’s efforts to initiate a heritage conservation district for commercial buildings along Queen Street East.

E d u c a t e d a t Ca r l t o n a n d Princeton universities, Whyte was a professor of history as well as an admissions officer at the University of Toronto.

It was there that he’d meet his dearest companion and best friend of more than four decades, Don Hueson.

Together, they enjoyed travelling, going to museums, and bargain hunting, not to mention hosting elaborate dinner parties at their eclectic Victorian-style home in Riverdale, which is filled with countless unique treasures.

“Although I am deeply saddened by his passing, I’m extremely grateful and blessed having Gerald as my dear friend for 40 years. He will always be in my heart,” Hueson said during Whyte’s funeral service.

Hueson said Whyte had a charming personality and a great presence, and was well loved by so many people. “He had so many friends near and far.”

In Whyte’s memory, donations can be made to the Toronto Humane Society.

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