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Lily-Anne, right, celebrates Pi Day Monday by pie-ing teacher Leo Joseph, during Notre Dame High School’s Pi Day celebration assembly. Lily-Anne won the honour by reciting pi to 73 digits in a school-wide competition at the all-girls Catholic school.

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The organizers of the 28th annual Afrofest, which for the past four summers has been held at Woodbine Park in the Beach, are crying foul about the City of Toronto’s decision to reduce their two-day event to a one-day affair.

In a Monday email, Music Africa, which runs and produces the festival, said this decision by the city will have significant negative impacts on their festival.

“This move will not only make it difficult to organize a viable festival but also hinder its growth and community impact,” the email read.

Music Africa said it is always willing to “work constructively” with City of Toronto officials, >>>noise, page 6

Intravenous drug users seeking a safe place to inject will soon

be able to do so in Leslieville.

Late Monday mor ning, Toronto Public Health announced the South Riverdale Community Health Centre

(SRCHC), at 955 Queen St. E., just east of Carlaw Avenue, has been selected as one of three small-scale sites for supervised drug injection. The other two

Toronto locations are the Queen West-Central Toronto Community Health Centre on Bathurst Street, just south of Queen Street West, and

The Works at Toronto Public Health’s building on Victoria Street, near Yonge-Dundas Square. >>>service, page 12

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Cops, kids connect in the kitchen Police initiative a recipe for success JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Chopped 55, an initiative spearheaded by 55 Division’s Community Response Unit, pitted teams of six students in grades 4 to 6 from six local junior public schools – Bruce, Dundas, Roden, Blake Street, Morse Street, and Leslieville – against each other in a friendly cooking competition.

The challenge, which included Mexican, Italian, appetizers and fine dining rounds, kicked off in November and wrapped up earlier this month.

All of the cooking competition’s bi-weekly preliminary rounds took place at the Loblaws PC Cooking School on Musgrave Street, near Victoria Park Avenue and Gerrard Street East.

Kitchen co-ordinator Kira Guthrie from Loblaws worked closely with 55 Division’s Const. Glen Pablo and participating police officers to set up and run the program.

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We hope (the kids) got life skills, mentoring and positive interactions with the police.

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“We wanted to do something fun and exciting for the kids and everyone loves those cooking competitions on TV, especially Chopped,” said Guthrie, who also visited participants at their schools.

“The kids really got into it, a lot more than we thought they would,” she said, pointing to some students who were so inspired they’ve

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Dundas Junior Public School Grade 5 student Tiffany Vuong, left, gets some help from ‘Chopped Canada’ season 2 winner Sonia Cuffy during the recent Chopped 55 cooking competition.

started cooking meals for their families at home.

“It’s really good team work, too. The kids all worked together.”

Guthrie said she hopes the program will continue to run for years to come as it was such a great experience for all involved.

“We’re already brainstorming ideas for next year,” she said.

Pablo said another desired outcome of the program was to help build confidence.

“We hope (the kids) got life skills, mentoring, and positive interactions with the police,” he said.

Ayda Zivariparan from Dundas Junior Public School loved being part of Chopped 55.

“It’s very exciting and it gave us the opportunity to see if we want to become a chef or not,” she said during the Italian round back in January.

Prior to Chopped 55, the Grade 4 student hadn’t had many interactions with the police.

“I think they’re really nice.

They’re just nice people,” said Ayda, who is one of about 40 volunteers at her

grand finale Chopped 55’s grand finale championship event is set for Thursday, March 24 in the Showcase Kitchen at George Brown College Chef School. On this day, the Top 2 teams will compete to be the inaugural Chopped 55 champs, while the members of the four other teams will take part in a workshop led by chef school director John Higgins, who is also a celebrity guest judge on the ‘Chopped Canada; TV series. school who helps with the hot lunch program.

Grade 5 student Tiffany Vuong, who is also from Dundas, said she was excited to be part of her school’s Chopped 55 team.

“I knew I would enjoy every moment,” said Tiffany, who said she likes to cook and learn how to make new things.

“I’m pretty confident we’re going to make it to the final (round). We did pretty well in the other rounds.”

A s i d e f ro m b r i n g i n g together young people and police officers from the city’s east end for a fun cooking

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competition, Chopped 55 included certification for participants on first aid and food handling as well as training on the preparation of healthy, tasty meals.

Throughout the four rounds of competition, a host of personalities were invited to serve as judges, including politicians, members of the media, motivational speakers, community leaders, educators and other positive influencers as well as representatives from ProAction Cops and Kids.

Sonia Cuffy, the winner of season 2 of Chopped Canada, also volunteered her time to serve as a celebrity judge, mentor, and cheerleader.

“Cooking is something I love to do and I also love to give back,” said Cuffy, who visited schools to teach cooking techniques, including basic knife skills that helped students with food preparation on competition nights.

“I’ve really enjoyed doing this and the kids are awesome. If I’ve influenced just one kid, my mission is complete.”

Chopped 55 was made possible through a grant from ProAction, Cops and Kids, which provides financial support for community programs run by the Toronto Police Service Community Policing Unit on behalf of kids at risk.

Toronto police partnered with Loblaws and George Brown College Chef School on the initiative. The Food Network Canada and Guerilla Printing also supported Chopped 55.

To raise funds for trophies and prizes, Chopped 55’s organizers are selling Chopped 55 aprons for $20.

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Opening safe injection sites is right thing to do

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Toronto Board of Health proposal to open safe injection sites for drug users in three neighbourhoods is bound to make many residents uncomfortable, but it is the right thing to do. Put quite simply, these sites will save lives and make our entire city safer.

That being said, if you live in Parkdale, south Riverdale or the Yonge/Dundas area you are rightly feeling some concern. Residents will be asking themselves if safety in the area will be compromised, if they at risk of being flooded with heroin and fentanyl addicts looking to shoot up. The answer is: No. The call for the safe injection sites our view has been made in response to a growing number of deaths related Attend to overdoses during the past decade Toronto. meetings, in Those numbers are up 41 per cent learn more from a decade earlier, and in 2013 a shocking 206 people died after injecting drugs. In the face of these numbers, to do nothing would be both irresponsible and immoral on the part of the health department and our city’s leaders.

“All lives are important, and nurse-supervised safe injection sites save lives,” said Angela Robertson, executive director of the Queen West-Central Toronto Community Health Centre in Parkdale, one of the proposed safe-injection sites.

The South Riverdale CHC and a Toronto Public Health office known as The Works near Yonge and Dundas are also proposed safe injection sites.

All three facilities already offer safe injection kits and have experience. They were identified as the best spots for the safe injection sites since they have the busiest needle exchanges in the city.

Their staff say the existing services prevent the spread of hepatitis C and HIV among drug users.

But more still needs to be done. Many addicts visiting these centres are homeless, and since they often use quickly and in public, most often alone, they are at high risk of a lethal overdose. Providing a safe place for them to do this lessens the chance of death or disease.

The board of health will offer further recommendations on the safe injection sites this summer, once community meetings are held in the identified areas.

We encourage you to take part in these meetings and learn the facts about this proposal.

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No doubt about it, March Break has arrived The sure signs that it’s March Break: 1. You get the sudden urge for maple syrup. Not just so you can lather it on an enticing stack of pancakes you are intending to inhale either.

Your primary focus is to go to one of those festivals out of the city to actually see how they make the yummy stuff.

2. You constantly daydream of heading off to High Park, Riverdale Farm or the Toronto Zoo. After which you immediately break into a rousing chorus of Talk to the Animals, secretly hoping the next person who walks by will ask you if you speak rhinoceros. So you can giggle, “Of courseros, can’t you?”

3. Without even realizing it, you find yourself Googling bed and breakfasts in Muskoka though you don’t even know what the heck they are.

4. You jot down Medieval

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY Times in big bold letters on your things-to-do list. There’s no getting around it. There’s just something about this holiday that has you itching to see a joust.

5. You find your ears perking up while eavesdropping on a friend’s conversation and you can’t stop yourself from interrupting, “Excuse me. But did I just overhear you say wagon ride? If so, count me in.”

6. Thoughts of scavenger hunts race through your mind.

7. Seeing bustling outdoor playgrounds with all over the GTA. 8. NCAA Basketball March Madness coming to a TV near you.

9. And a tablet. And a

laptop. And a mobile phone.

Incredibly, the latter three often found perched on the lap of one co-worker. Sitting next to you, if you’re lucky.

10. Having celebrities such as Dora the Explorer drop by your local mall to put on a show.

11. Two words: nature trail.

12. Two more: must visit.

13. Last two: right now.

14. Going down to the boardwalk in the Beach.

15: Seeing monarch butterflies everywhere.

16. Being asked for directions to Casa Loma.

17. Wondering if this will be the year you actually hop on a plane to Florida to catch the Jays at spring training.

18. Or finally muster up the courage to do the scary

EdgeWalk around the CN Tower.

19. (a) “Can we go to Ripley’s Aquarium? Can we, can we, can we?” (b) “Can we go to Black Creek Pioneer Village? Can we, can we?” (c) “Can we go to the Ontario Science Centre? Can we, can we?” (d) “Can we go to Disney On Ice? Can we, can we?” (e) “Can we go to all of the above? Can we, can we?”

20. I’ll take (e) please. And that’s for here and to go.

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The average Toronto household generates 15 kilograms (33 lbs) of waste a week.

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HAVE YOUR SAY! Draft Waste Strategy Overview Tuesday March 29. 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. Presentation at 7:00 p.m.

St. Paul’s Bloor Street Church, Cody Hall, 227 Bloor St. E. (Bloor/Yonge Station) Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle: Waste Diversion in Houses, Apartments, and Condos Monday April 4. 6:30 - 9:00 p.m. Presentation and Workshop at 7:00 p.m.

Central YMCA, Auditorium, 20 Grosvenor St. (Wellesley Station) Diversion Opportunities: Businesses and DIY Home Renovators Thursday, April 7. 2:00-3:30 p.m.

WEBINAR: www.toronto.ca/wastestrategy Waste Recovery and Residual: How to Handle Remaining Materials Tuesday, April 12. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Presentation at 7:00 p.m.

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Noise, time violations cited in city’s decision >>>from page 1 but added the conditions set by the city jeopardize the success of their festival.

“This seems in complete contradiction to Toronto’s official ‘Music City’ initiatives,” organizers charged.

On Monday, BeachesEast York Councillor MaryMargaret McMahon said the city made the decision to reduce Afrofest’s event permit from two days to one because Music Africa failed to respect noise regulations as well as exceeded permitted time frames.

Afrofest organizers are denying these allegations.

“The sound company we employ does most of the events at Woodbine Park, including Canada Day and Beaches Jazz Festival concerts, and use the same sound equipment, crew and sound levels,” said Peter Toh, Music Africa’s president, in the press release.

“The volume at Afrofest is no different than at those events, but in our case they are being called violations.”

In the email, Toh said the city had agreed, in writing, six months prior to Afrofest’s 2015 edition to allow the festival to run later to accommodate a ceremony for the Pan Am Games, then just two weeks before changed the permit conditions.

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understanding of the contractual obligations we had, both to accommodating the Pan Am Torch Relay and to the headline act that followed,” he charged.

McMahon disagreed.

“We set strong parameters and they were followed by and large the first year. The second, third and fourth years, not so much. The envelope continued to be pushed,” she said.

“I live up by The Danny and could hear the music up there. There is a community (by Woodbine Park) and we want people to get a good night’s sleep and have a good quality of life.”

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“We would like the rules to be followed and respected. We’ll reward good behaviour.”

McMahon said if all goes well this time around, the city will discuss issuing a two-day permit in 2017.

Afrofest, which started in 1989, is the largest annual African music festival in North America. It draws up to 60,000 revelers daily.

Up until 2011, Afrofest was held at Queen’s Park but it “outgrew” that space and was relocated to Woodbine Park in 2012.

Share a laugh, support a charity The March edition of East End Comedy Revue, a monthly comedy show for charity, is set for Sunday.

The evening of laughs for a great cause will once again be held at The Duke Live, 1225 Queen St. E. at Leslie Street. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

This time around, comedians Pete Zedlacher, James Cunningham, Shannon Laverty, and George Westerholm will be the headliners with special guests Natalie Norman, Cleve Jones and Kevin MacDonald.

Founded and hosted by Dave Martin of CBC’s The Debaters, the event ended

with the closure of The Dominion in 2014. In the fall, Leslieville entrepreneur Katie Reid approached him about bringing back the event, which raises funds for charities.

A portion of the proceeds from this month’s show will be directed to The Blake Street School Breakfast Program.

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Tickets can be purchased at The Duke Live or online at www.ticketscene. ca/events/15082 for $15 in advance or $20 at the door.

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Share your opinion on study of Queen Street East restaurants improve the Wednesday economic health of local eateries while maintaining the community’s “main-street” character.

The study could result in an updated, area-specific zone bylaw amendment regulating restaurant uses.

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An open house on a restaurant study being undertaken for a stretch of Queen Street East from Woodbine Avenue to Nursewood Road will take place Wednesday.

The meeting will run from 7 to 9 p.m. at Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave., just north of Queen Street East.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

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Nicholson’s last day at the transit commission was Friday, and he leaves a large legacy. Cheers Danny! delivery of 4 streetcars a month wexpect

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The project has attracted significant opposition from residents near Kennedy Road and McNicoll Avenue who have attempted to halt the garage, with little success.

SHEPPARD EXTENSION DOWNSVIEW sought wTO The significant technical and financial challenge of building a Sheppard Avenue West subway extension from YongeSheppard to Downsview station has not dissuaded York Centre Councillor James Pasternak from continuing to push for it.

It’s estimated to cost $2 billion, and that doesn’t include the cost of building a bridge over the West Don River.

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ensemble crosses border to perform wJazz Washington, D.C.’s Sidwell Friends Upper School Chamber Chorus and Jazz Ensemble will be performing at Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave., just north of Queen Street East, on Saturday, March 19.

The event, which is the jazz ensemble’s first international show, will begin at 4:30 p.m.

Admission is by free-will offering.

For details, call 416-691-8082. celebrate Earth Hour in Kew Gardens The fourth annual Earth Hour Lights Out! event is coming to Kew Gardens on Saturday.

Presented by the Toronto Beaches Lions Club and Beaches Living, the free sunset to lights-out celebration will run from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. and will feature candlelight, paper lanterns, live music, and sing-alongs.

Kew Gardens is at 2075 Queen St. E. at Lee Avenue. All are welcome. Email www.beachesliving. ca/lightsout for details.

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The Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir is presenting a concert featuring soloist Linda Feijo on

Saturday in the Beach.

The event will get underway at 7:30 p.m. at St. Aidan’s Anglican Church, 70 Silver Birch Ave. It is a fundraiser for St. Aidan’s Beach Zipline community outreach program and the Balmy Beach Club’s accessibility plan.

Tickets cost $30 and are available in advance at the Balmy Beach Club, located at the foot of Beech Avenue. Call 416-691-2222 for information.

MP hosts tax clinics wToronto-Danforth

Toronto-Danforth MP Julie Dabrusin is hosting four tax clinics for people with lower incomes.

The clinics will take place Saturday, March 19 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday, March 23 from noon to 4 p.m., Saturday, April 2 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Thursday, April 7 from noon to 4 p.m. at Dabrusin’s office, 1180 Danforth Ave. at Greenwood.

Those eligible are singles with incomes below $30,000, couples with incomes below $40,000, and adults with a dependent with incomes below $35,000 (with $2,500 added for each additional dependent).

Email Julie.Dabrusin@parl.gc.ca or call 416-405-8914 to make an appointment.

a macaron, help a charity wEnjoy Nineteen of Toronto’s finest patisseries, two of which are located in the city’s east end, are set to take part in Macaron Day TO on Sunday.

Like cities around the globe, Toronto will be celebrating the buttercream- or ganache-filled meringue cookie while raising funds for a great cause.

The local event will be benefitting Leslieville’s Red Door Family Shelter.

Participating bakeries donate macarons to customers who mention they’re celebrating Macaron Day TO, and 25 per cent of the proceeds from all additional macarons purchased on this day will be donated to the Red Door.

Local participating bakeries are Bobbette & Belle, 1121 Queen St. E. and Patisserie La Cigogne, 1419 Danforth Ave. Visit www.macarondayto.com for details.

Flea back at distillery district wLeslieville

The March edition of the Leslieville Flea is set for Sunday in The Fermenting Cellar of Toronto’s Distillery Historic District, 28 Distillery Lane, near Parliament Street, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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market, which features vintage, salvaged, up-cycled goods, furniture, antiques, collectibles and select artisans, is free.

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The Beach Garden Society’s Fine Art Show and Sale is slated for Tuesday from 7:15 to 9 p.m. at the Adam Beck Community Centre, 79 Lawlor Ave., near Kingston Road and Victoria Park Avenue.

The show will include a presentation titled “In the Footsteps of the Group of Seven” by authors Sue and Jim Waddington.

Email marilyn_walsh@rogers. com or call 416-461-8714 for more information.

Children are invited to enjoy an afternoon of creative, hands-on fun in the Beach on Sunday.

Presented by the Design Exchange and sponsored by TD Bank, the Winter Stations Kids’ Day will be held at Nabors Paint, 2184 Queen St. E. at McLean Avenue from 1 to 4 p.m.

All are welcome to come and create winter-themed collages and mixed-media artwork while learning about the basics of architecture and design form and function.

Participants will also explore ideas behind green building initiatives and the key role of sustainability in urban communities.

Visit www.dx.org for details. a book, raise a pint at refugee fundraiser wBuy

Refugee Settlement Via Pocket, an east-end group sponsoring Syrian refugees, is hosting a book sale on Sunday, March 20 in Riverdale.

Books and Beer for RSVP will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. at Dora Keogh Irish Pub, 141 Danforth Ave., just

Garden Society art show on tuesday wBeach

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Service would be within existing harm-reduction program >>>from page 1 The pilot project, which the city’s board of health will debate on Monday is the city’s response to a rising number of overdose deaths – up 41 per cent in a decade – from heroin and fentanyl. The latest statistic from 2013 recorded 206 deaths in Toronto from people who had injected drugs.

The city’s health department said injection drug users visited such harm reduction services across Toronto 100,000 times in 2015, and almost 1.9 million needles were distributed last year, along with other supplies.

Providing life-saving harmreduction services is nothing new to the South Riverdale Community Centre, which has operated its award-winning COUNTERfit Harm Reduction Program for 18 years.

COUNTERfit, which serves people who use drugs and live in an area roughly bounded by the Don River, Victoria Park Avenue, Lake Ontario and Eglinton Avenue, distributes and collects needles as well

learn more w To better help the community understand what will be involved in setting up and running a supervised injection site in Leslieville, the SRCHC will be hosting a series of weekly open houses on Thursdays in April from 5 to 7 p.m. All are welcome. w A Facebook page titled Leslieville Supports SIS has been created. People are welcome to follow along. w Community members can also access more information by visiting South Riverdale Community Health Centre’s website at www.srchc.ca as offers referrals for health care and addictions services to its 3,000 clients, not all of whom are intravenous drug users. Last year, the program received more than 22,000 client visits and distributed more than 320,000 needles.

Lynne Raskin, SRCHC’s executive director, said providing a safe-injection service

is “the piece that has always been missing” at the east-end facility.

“This is something that is certainly good for people who are in the system, but also for the community,” she said, adding a supervised injection site will result in fewer syringes left behind in the community by users.

She said 24 to 28 clients are expected to make use of the service daily during business hours. The program is open weekdays at 8:30 a.m. and runs until 5 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays and until 8 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Raskin also said the SRCHC feels it’s important to help the community understand what will take happen if a supervised injection site opens in the community.

She said basically there will be an intake process for clients who will go into a small room with three cubicles as well as an after-care area. A nurse, a co-ordinator, and harm reduction workers will

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also be on hand at all times, Raskin said.

“The point is to accept people where they’re at and go from there and develop positive relationships with clients,” she said, noting SRCHC is home to the only memorial of its kind in North America for people who have died from preventable diseases related to drug addiction.

“It’s not just about paraphernalia; the other piece is to save lives.”

Riverdale resident Linda Rozmovits has served as a SRCHC board member for three years and said the proposed supervised injection site would enhance one of the organization’s core services: harm reduction.

“This new initiative is really just the logical next step,” she said Tuesday afternoon, adding those who access harm-reduction services are much easier to connect to health and other social service supports.

“The idea with supervised injection is less people inject-

ing in public. Nobody deserves to die alone in a stairwell.”

Rozmovits said it’s understandable some community members may be concerned, but the SRCHC will be there to answer any questions and hear feedback.

Diane Dyson, the director of research and public policy at WoodGreen Community Services, said her organization has had a long-standing partnership with the SRCHC. A number of WoodGreen clients make use of SRCHC’s harmreduction program.

She said the east-end social service agency would welcome the safe injection site.

“We think it’s a really important thing to be doing. We’ve seen a rise in the number of overdose deaths,” said Dyson, a mother of two.

Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher said the city has a responsibility to do its part to reduce the number of drug overdose deaths and emergency rooms visits in Toronto by intravenous drug users.

“The time has come. The statistics are troubling,” said Fletcher, who expressed her support for the safe injection site proposed for her ward.

“I have a lot of faith in the South Riverdale Community Health Centre. They have a lot of experience in harm reduction.”

C a n a d a ’s f o r m e r Conservative government was hostile towards Vancouver’s Insite, the country’s only safe injection facility, even after a 2011 Supreme Court ruling supported its existence. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said he approves of Insite as a model other cities can use.

Dr. David McKeown, Toronto’s medical officer of health, said the benefits of safe injection sites are proven by research. He will report back to the board in July, after public meetings take place.

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