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Covered rink opens at Greenwood Park REBECCA FIELD bsrm@insidetoronto.com Dog-walkers, joggers and other Torontonians experienced the first snow of winter Saturday, but visitors to Greenwood Park’s new covered skating rink were able to keep skating through the flurries thanks to the new roof over their head.

The rink is part of a pilot project, and is the first outdoor covered rink in the city – others have already been opened in

Brampton and Mississauga.

The rink’s construction came along with a new Figure 8 skate track, new change rooms for the park’s pool, a refurbished playground and a community garden.

“It’s just incredible, the rink is,” said Jesse Toporoski, 10, who arrived decked out in a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey to participate in some hockey drills with his friends from the neighbourhood.

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in the centre of the rink felt great,” he said referring to the Maple Leaf logo that’s printed on the ice.

The rink and skate track will be used for local hockey leagues and recreational skating in the winter, and ball hockey, basketball and other neighbourhood activities from community dances to tai chi in the summer as it allows activities to continue despite weather.

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Welcome santa CHRISTMAS CHEER: Clockwise beginning from bottom, Malvern Collegiate’s cheerleaders perform a lift along the route of the Beach Santa Claus Parade Sunday, while Santa Claus waves from his float during the parade. Community Centre 55 Executive Director and Ice Princess Debbie Visconti is joined by her ‘elf’ Gene Domagala as they walk along the route and Canada Post’s Louise Burd collects a letter to Santa from Oscar Stephenson, 3, and his mother Lindsay along the route. For more photos from the event, visit http://bit.ly/1crje69

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Football action GREAT PLAYS: Left, Keelan McManus makes a punt for Malvern as they face Downsview in the Toronto District School Board Senior Football Tier 2 City Championship at Centennial Stadium Nov. 21. Downsview defeated Malvern 22-15.

Right, Malvern’s Tyrell Jackson celebrates a touchdown.

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he increasing demand for the necessary funds for ice time is a serious, ongoing challenge in Toronto.

In this month’s feature (see page 10), we looked at the rising cost of ice time in the city. With Toronto facing its own budget limitations, funds are scarce for new capital projects such as indoor arenas, which would help meet additional needs.

Newer facilities, such as the Buckingham Arena complex at Downsview Park, tend to be built and operated by the private sector – and that ice time is even more costly.

But we are seeing municipal funds going toward smaller, outdoor projects. The good news is that there is growth in the city’s free outdoor ice offerings – the latest being the $3.4 million facility at Greenwood and Dundas streets, which opened last weekend. Last year, a new outdoor rink opened at Cedarvale Park in York.

Renovations for a twin outdoor our view pad at Dieppe Park in East York are nearly complete. So what Outdoor rinks needs to be done?

Access to recreation is a a priority for smart community investment.

Of potential concern is a communities recent survey conducted of 1,011 Canadian parents by Ipsos Reid on behalf of RBC, which showed 60 per cent of respondents named ‘cost of equipment and instruction’ as a Top 3 barrier to learning how to skate, while 46 per cent named ‘access of ice’ as another Top 3 barrier.

In order to ensure optimal access, we encourage the continued development, funding and maintenance of these outdoor projects in neighbourhoods.

As for the thornier issue of indoor ice it’s a contentious issue, one that sees alternating pressure on user fees and property tax hikes to help pay the bills.

Budget deliberations kicked off this week and councillors are grappling with the cost pressures of a multi-billion dollar budget, where they are tasked with finding efficiencies, maintaining existing service levels and dedicating money for new projects such as the Scarborough subway – all while keeping any tax increase to a minimum.

It’s a tall order.

In one respect, indoor ice time is no different than other public services such as transit. We will get what we pay for and what we deem to be a priority.

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Mayor Ford makes case he’s no gelding Mayor Rob Ford may have been politically neutered by his colleagues on Toronto council, but on Monday he was anxious to prove that he’s no gelding.

That was when city staff unveiled their proposed 2014 operating and capital budgets.

These are enormously complex documents, but here are some of the basics: property taxes will go up 2.5 per cent for homeowners and that figure includes a 0.5 per cent special levy to pay for a subway in Scarborough.

The Land Transfer Tax, estimated to bring in $335 million, will stay at the same rate as it was in 2013.

Now these are not the basics as Ford had explained them.

He has been dining out these past 11 months on a promise of a tax increase of no more than 1.75 per cent in 2014, and a 10 per cent cut to the Land Transfer Tax.

david nickle the city When Toronto council approved the idea of a 0.5 per cent property tax levy to pay for nearly a billion dollars in city costs for the Scarborough subway, Ford said that amount would be rolled into the 1.75 per cent increase.

No one agreed with the mayor on this strategy except his brother, Councillor Doug Ford.

But that didn’t stop Mayor Ford and the rhetorical bulldozer he brought to budget committee.

The budget, he said, was an example of what happens when you take mayoral powers away from a guy like him.

Joe Pennachetti, the city manager, had told Ford it would be possible to cut the Land Transfer Tax and deliver a 1.75 per cent property tax increase,

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It was a bravura performance, ably supported by Doug Ford. It, of course, had little to do with the facts.

subway included.

The “gravy train” – that 2010 shibboleth that helped make councillor Ford into Mayor Ford – is up and running again, he said, just days after council had so cruelly and undemocratically stripped him of his powers.

Et tu, Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly?

It was a bravura performance, ably supported by Doug Ford. It, of course, had little to do with the facts.

Pennachetti was quick to say he had never told the mayor that cutting the Land Transfer Tax was possible.

Chief Financial Officer Rob Rossini pointed out

later that the 0.5 per cent subway levy could not be rolled into the property tax increase for other services, because council had twice directed that no monies dedicated to other services be transferred to the subway.

As an aside, the Ford brothers’ assertion they’ve saved $1 billion over the term is also bogus.

In terms of actual cuts to city spending, the number is closer to $350 million.

The city manager would put the savings just shy of $800 million by factoring things like better-thanexpected performance of city bonds and favourable labour agreements. But cuts in spending? $350 million. So this is how it’s going to be for the rest of the term: untruths, half-truths and innuendo, bundled up in rhetorical flourishes from three years ago.

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Festive Bazaar WHEN: noon to 6 p.m. WHERE: Greenwood Tower - Recreation Room, 145 Strathmore Blvd.

CONTACT: Sue McMahon, 416-5318447, ext.1, www.tigp.org Selection of great new gifts, ideal for the festive season; Danforth Collegiate Hospitality Department bake sale; giant book sale, more than 80 per cent off cover price, new books suitable for children, youth and adults are only $1.

Port Lands Public Meeting WHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Riverdale Collegiate Institute Auditorium, 1094 Gerrard St. E. Port Lands and South of Eastern Planning Studies, notice of study commencement and public meeting takes place with an open house from 6 to 7 p.m. and presentations and Q&A from 7 to 9 p.m.

Action on Climate Change WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Susan Fraser, susan@ theravinaproject.org COST: Free Canadian Electoral Alliance and JustEarth co-hosting a town hall on climate change and electoral reform

Queen St. E. A gathering of creative friends.

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Malvern Christmas concert WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Malvern Collegiate Institute, 55 Malvern Ave. Malvern Christmas junior concert takes place Dec. 4, while the senior concert is Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 at the door at Malvern Collegiate, 55 Malvern Ave.

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. with speakers Elizabeth May, Craig Scott and Stephane Dion.

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Free Film Screening at The Fox WHEN: 11 a.m. WHERE: Fox Theatre, 2236 Queen St. E. Khemical Kiss Productions announces a free screening of “TAGER” & “The Paresis Bloom Trilogy”. Nathaniel Fox-Pappas is a local 26-year-old filmmaker who has devoted himself to creating short experimental films. RSVP @ rj@spiritevent.com.

Hanukkah lighting and Latke Fest WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Kew Gardens, 2075 Queen St. E. Watch as the menorah is lit in Kew Gardens, 2075 Queen St. E. at 6

p.m., then go back to Beach Hebrew Institute, 109 Kenilworth Ave. at 6:45 p.m. for Latke Fest.

East End Music Project music and dance fundraiser and launch WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Circus Academy, 1300 Gerrard St. E. The East End Music Project (EEMP), hosts a music and dance fundraiser and launch. Tickets are $25 via email eastendmusicproject@gmail. com. Proceeds subsidize music education for east end kids.

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The Artisan Social WHEN: 1 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Gilchrist Canavan Irish Dance, 1301

Bake-O-Rama WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Naval Cub, 1910 Gerrard St. CONTACT: www.beachhill.org Bake-O-Rama is a bake sale, baking contest and a neighbourhood social.

While contributing to the bake sale and entering the contest are limited to BHNA members, everyone is welcome to buy treats, cheer on contestants and mingle with neighbours.

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Community Centre 55 Christmas Bazaar WHEN: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Community Centre 55, 97 Main St. CONTACT: Lainey, 416-691-1113 Children’s crafts, goodies and raffles. Breakfast with Hamper and Santa will take place the same day, with Hamper the Reindeer visits taking place at 9 and 11 a.m. Santa arrives at 10 a.m.

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The building will receive a new entryway, new checkout kiosks that are express and self-service as well as structural repairs to a damaged window on the front.

“I’m looking forward to hopefully a more rejuvenated branch,” Tavakolian said. “It’s a very cheerful library, but the front entranceway was always a bit older and dark.”

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The Main Street library is now closed for renovations. It is tentatively set to re-open Dec. 16.

to the children’s department upstairs.

“Some people don’t even realize there’s a second floor to the library,” Tavakolian said.

“This is going to make that more visible.”

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“It’s basically to provide quicker service to customers

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“Having one central desk and more staff available on the floor with the self-checkout – I think will improve the relationship with staff and customers.”

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Be a c h e s - E a s t Yo rk M P Matthew Kellway is bringing Toronto’s mayoral issues with him to the House of Commons – and he’s not happy.

In a statement released Nov. 19, Kellway urges the Conservative Party to stand up for Toronto and tell Mayor Rob Ford it’s time for him to go.

“What I see is this incredible self-indulgence and egocentrism that comes from the mayor and his brother (Councillor Doug Ford),” said Kellway, who noted after two weeks “all the prime minister’s office has to say is that it is ‘troubling.’”

In his statement, Kellway emphasizes Toronto’s many issues.

“Tackling these issues is delayed while the prime minister’s fishing buddy hijacks the public discourse with his sideshow.”

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city an “international laughing stock.”

Kellway was appointed NDP Urban Affairs lead in the spring, giving him an active role in the issues that encompass Canadian cities.

“Cities are important to the welfare of the country as a whole,” said Kellway in a phone interview. “This is not a mayor that should be supported by the government of Canada. They should find better friends who represent the interests of the Toronto public better.”

Kellway said this self-indulgence includes the desire of both Mayor Ford and Doug to constantly be in front of the camera in the wake of the mayor’s recent series of scandals.

He said they’re making the story about them, and not about the issues the city itself is facing.

“When you are the story, you are in the way of public service,” Kellway said.

“What I see coming from the mayor is no sense of modesty, humility, decency. If any one of those things existed in his character, he would just go away.”

Kellway suggested the mayor allow room for others who are more willing to put public service before themselves and their issues.

By bringing his opinion to the House of Commons, Kellway said he hopes to reaffirm the position of the NDP caucus and send a message to Mayor Ford.

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The chilling cost of Toronto’s ice time The city is just ‘barely’ meeting the demand for indoor rink time, but the cost of it is skyrocketing

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your shoulder and your hockey stick – sometimes it is (scheduled for) pleasure skating, sometimes it’s hile the city of Toronto hockey – and you go down to the has managed to add very outdoor arena and away you go so little indoor ice over the we have increased that,” he said. past few decades, private enterprise The city has also poured $2.4 seems to be filling the gap. million into a complete overhaul “We have enough ice, barely,” and realignment of the twin outsaid John Gardner, Toronto’s longdoor rinks at Dieppe Park in East time volunteer presiYork, including “new dent of the Greater refrigeration equipToronto Hockey ment, two new pads, League (GTHL). renovation of the The league is basiadjacent building, and cally the umbrella a new storage shed,” said Mary Fragedakis, organization for TO CALL THEIR councillor for Ward 29 boys’ hockey in (Toronto-Danforth).

Toronto and some “We are days away adjacent municipalities, with about from re-opening the 40,000 members artificial ice rink at split between house Dieppe Park. I am league, select and What’s your experience been pleased to say that competitive levels. project is on time. It with your family and ice “It (membership) started last spring times/fees in the city? is down a bit this year and will be finished Email us at in both the house before the start of this letters@insidetoronto.com league and the GTHL year’s season. So, no (competitive) teams,” ice time was lost. I am he said from the Toronto-based very happy with that.

GTHL offices, at 265 Rimrock Rd., “I am also pleased the city recin North York. reation programs at our outdoor What is going up, however, is the rinks are free.” cost to use the ice.

Indoors, of course, as Gardner Gardner said his league is defiobserved, the ice is definitely not nitely impacted by higher fees. free and he added, “they keep jack“You know I was once assured by ing (it) three per cent a year. “ parks and recreation that (Toronto) For his huge group that means was not going to go to user pay,” he for “municipal ice you’re talking said. “Well they sure as heck are approximately a mean average of going to user pay and they have $200 an hour, a little bit more... been. And what they’re doing is rais“It’s gone up tremendously. It’s ing the price on kids’ hockey – and getting ridiculous.” the kids are primarily the biggest Councillor Mihevc agreed it’s a users – and the kids can’t vote, they contentious issue. have no say in the situation.”

“That’s the decision we have to On the other hand, while the city make in council. The current mayor has been lagging with its indoor (Rob Ford) has been averse in raisice, it does actually serve up plenty ing property taxes, but he has not of ice at its outdoor pads for both been averse in raising user fees,” pleasure skaters and shinny players said Councillor Mihevc. “So these – all for free and artificially chilled pendulums go back and forth a little bit. Now the pendulum has gone in so only stormy weather need keep the direction of user fees. users off.

In fact, the city just celebrated the “I think what you’re going to see grand opening of its latest outdoor in the next little while is pressure facility last weekend at Greenwood to say enough on the user fee side, and Dundas streets in the east end. push over to the (property) tax side The $3.4 million facility is being and that way you can guarantee billed as “Toronto’s first and only better accessibility. outdoor covered rink and skating “You’re not making the money an path.” obstacle for that kid in a poor area Last year, a new outdoor arena of Toronto who really wants to play was built in Cedarvale Park, behind house league and he’s not going to Phil White Arena. be able to afford it because the ice “That place is used like crazy – fees are so high.” the outdoor one,” said Joe Mihevc, Private rinks, of course, have to councillor for Ward 21 (St. Paul’s charge even more – “usually about West). “It’s throw your skates over $100 more,” Gardner said.

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The action flashes by the Ted Reeve Thunder bench during minor bantam AA action against the Leaside Flames at Scarborough Arena Gardens last Friday.

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What (the city is) doing is raising the price on kids’ hockey... and the kids can’t vote, they have no say in the situation.

– John Gardner, president, GTHL

“But there’s a reason for this,” he explained. “The problem is that the city rinks don’t have to pay municipal taxes on their own rinks whereas the privately owned ones gets charged the same as a motor parts company or a manufacturing company.”

The other obvious difference is private rinks do, at the end of the day, have to make a profit. And arenas are not cheap to build or run.

Buckingham Sports Properties, one of two major private players in Toronto (the other being Canlan Ice Sports), have quietly opened up the Buckingham Arena fourplex in the fall in the bustling new sports centre at Downsview Park, which also includes the MLSE’s new training facility for Toronto FC as well as the Hoop Dome.

“The biggest investments have been from MLSE (Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment) in opening up the soccer academy for Toronto FC and our investment of opening up a four-rink hockey complex,” said John Cook, vice president of Buckingham,

which already operates Chesswood Arenas in North York and Westwood Arenas in Etobicoke (four- and fivepad facilities, respectively).

“So we’re very excited that in the vision for the sports part of this park we’re able to provide facilities (indoor ice pads) that cities just don’t have the capital monies to spend anymore on large facilities like this.

“And hopefully the city sees the value in our complexes because my largest expense, as John Gardner (mentioned), is probably taxes. We pay very high property taxes and at the end of the day we’re competing against the municipality selling the ice.”

On the other hand, Cook said his company recognizes the contribution of public facilities, whether outdoor or indoor.

“Those municipal rinks are the ones that are building the foundation for later-on years when the more competitive GTHL teams need facilities like ours, and then of course for adults to continue playing hockey.”

The city’s only recent success has been twinning Leaside Arena, which opened in the fall, and it was only completed after considerable community fundraising.

Plans for a signature city fourplex on the east waterfront a few years ago, in which the four ice pads would have been ‘stacked’ on top of each other, almost got off the planning

board, but was scratched at the last minute, denied funding in the 2011 budget debates.

The city did take over the MasterCard Centre fourplex in south Etobicoke in 2011 after it proved too much for the Lakeshore Lions Club who opened it up in 2009 as a not-for-profit venture.

“I’m not going to take anything away from the politicians, certainly at this stage of the game,” said Gardner. “But politicians have a great way of supporting hockey; they congratulate the leagues on what wonderful jobs they do, and then when it comes to promising to keeping costs from increasing or maybe reinvigorating some old facility they do a great job...being ballet dancers. They dance and twist, but it doesn’t always get done.”

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Participate in the City’s 2014 Budget Process How City Council establishes the City’s budget and priorities directly affects the quality of life for every resident.The Operating Budget determines what programs and services the City will offer and how much the City will raise and spend.The Capital Budget and Plan provides funding for the facilities and infrastructure required to deliver those services.

A Staff Recommended 2014Tax Supported Operating Budget and 2014-2023 Capital Budget and Plan are now being considered by the Budget Committee for recommendation to the Executive Committee and then to City Council.

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Toronto City Council will review and approve the final 2014 Operating Budget and 2014-2023 Capital Budget and Plan at the Council meeting on January 29 and 30, 2014.

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The Riverside neighbourhood hosts its annual tree lighting ceremony, Light up the Riverside, Saturday at 5

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Part three of the series shares one family’s story to highlight the need for discussion

By Alison Brownlee

J

ulie Robbins was bubbly, athletic, popular and known for helping others. But she suffered from depression.

“We always did treat it as an illness,” said her mother Elaine. “I encouraged Julie to speak freely of it because it was an illness.”

Despite medication, counselling and support from her family, Julie lost her battle with depression while at university, shortly after she turned 21.

Tana Nash, president of the Ontario Association for Suicide Prevention, encourages everyone to discuss mental illness and thoughts of suicide.

“It’s OK to talk to somebody,” Nash said. “Break down the myth that asking about it will plant the seed.”

Thoughts of suicide are less about wanting to die and more about feeling hopeless, and the fear and shame associated with those feelings can isolate and prevent someone from getting help.

Asking a loved one whether they are considering suicide will not plant the idea, but create an opportunity to talk about other options, reduce risk and save lives.

Nash said while a person considering suicide often won’t say so, subtle hints, such as crying, unkempt appearance, withdrawal, giving away possessions, declarations of hopelessness, despair, anger, numbness or sharing stories of traumatic experiences can be some of the invitations to talk.

And if someone admits to considering suicide, listen with empathy and understanding, while offering to help find crisis intervention or

counselling resources to keep them safe.

A person with thoughts of suicide should never be left alone.

Nash, who has lost her grandmother and sister to suicide, said the majority of suicides are linked to mental health problems, and are preventable.

“It’s the 10th leading cause of death in Canada and we need to do something about it,” she said.

“We are losing way too many people every year to a preventable death.”

That prevention, she said, is everyone’s responsibility.

“We need to work together to learn more as neighbours, co-workers and friends,” she said.

Help can include medication, counselling, nutrition or sleep, as well as coping strategies or communication training.

Nash admitted talking about emotions can be challenging because it opens up vulnerabilities.

But mental illness is not like a broken arm, easily identified by others and fixed in a hospital emer-

gency department.

“We have to learn how to talk about our emotions and communicate those feelings so we can get the better help we need,” she said.

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After I hung up the phone, a light went on in my head and I said to my husband, ‘Oh my God, that was a goodbye phone call’.

– Elaine Robbins

And preventing suicide can also prevent the enduring pain felt by the family or community left behind.

“It’s heartache like no other kind of grief because of all the questions that come up and those feelings connected to losing someone,” Nash said.

Julie’s mother, Elaine, said the death of a friend in her daughter’s final year at Gravenhurst High School triggered her depression.

Julie was taking medication and undergoing counselling by the time she enrolled in Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo.

She came home several times that September, including for her 21st birthday spent with family, friends and her boyfriend. She seemed to be managing.

Ever ything changed by Thanksgiving.

Julie told her mom she wanted to return home. She agreed to continue university through distance education courses.

She left her parents on Thanksgiving Monday.

Julie called her parents that evening and something about the conversation unsettled her mother.

“After I hung up the phone, a light went on in my head and I said to my husband, ‘Oh, my God, that was a goodbye phone call,’” Elaine said.

Her husband, Dave, then called Julie. It was too late.

Julie ended up in hospital on life support because of an overdose.

She suffered cardiac arrest and >>>REPRESSING, page 15

Repressing emotions can Inspiring chef loved spending time in Muskoka inhibit the grieving process >>>from page 14 process, aside. had too many drugs in her system The secrecy that suicide is often to recover. She died before her shrouded in makes it all the more mother was able to make it to her difficult to cope with.

“And if we keep things secret, bedside.

“When we walked into the hospithen they only fester,” Bechthold tal, we didn’t know she was gone,” said. “They are wounds that will said Elaine. “We were informed not heal.” when we arrived.”

The grieving process related to Elaine, usually quick to tears, suicide can also be intense because slid down the corridor wall and of the trauma caused by the shock crouched into a ball. of the loss.

Grief is a circular process, said She didn’t cry.

Bechthold, which can include waves “I was in shock,” Elaine said.

She said her family experienced of guilt, fear, denial, anger, despair, a deep sorrow after Julie’s death. numbness, sadness and resolution The family’s grief has subsided over for an indeterminate amount of the past decade, but the pain will time. always remain.

Those grieving She encourages need to reach out parents with children help to get them Embrace (grief), for battling depression through it. reach out and get the to get them help, “People who get whether through a resources you need stuck in grief, their family physician or lives really do kind to move through it. of stop,” she said. counselling.

And for those who You’re going to be a “They’re stuck in have lost a child, grief process, in stronger person on the bitterness or pain or she urges them to the other side. sadness.” embrace their emotions and talk.

And that grief can – Marie-Louise Bechthold, “It’s very helpful to lead to other forms executive director, Meeting Place Centre for Healing and talk to someone who of depression and Growth has walked the road physical harm, such that you’re about to as alcoholism, drug walk,” she said. addiction or obesity, she said.

Some days, the only way to “Those addictions are really a slow form of suicide and they affect cope with the loss is to weep or scream. everyone in a family as well.”

“Go ahead and do it,” she said.

Grief though, in its many forms, “Feel whatever you’re feeling. Don’t cannot be rushed. squash it and make yourself sick.”

“Human beings, particularly Elaine said she heard and saw North Americans, seem to, in our Julie for a long time after her very privileged state, think we death. should not have to grieve. There “Some people thought I was should be a pill or something that we can shortcut grief,” Bechthold loony, but I didn’t care. I wasn’t going to extinguish her presence said. “Unfortunately, there isn’t.” if I felt it because it meant a lot to No one fully heals by pushing grief aside, she said. me,” she said.

Marie-Louise Bechthold, execu“Embrace it, reach out and get tive director for the Meeting Place the resources you need to move Centre for Healing and Growth in through it,” she said. “You’re going Muskoka, said some try to push to be a healthier, stronger person grief, a necessary part of the healing on the other side.”

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elaborate dinners.”

“That was happiness for him, to be able to create this great meal that he could eat, and that others could enjoy,” she said.

Daniel also loved ne thing Daniel Muskoka. Originally Keane loved to from Milton, Keane said do was cook. the family spent every “He became a very summer and holiday Daniel Keane accomplished chef,” said since 1999 at the cottage his mom Lynn Keane. on Joe River, but for Daniel the She said growing up, her son had a cottage was sacred. lot of food allergies, and was limited “It was where he was most conin choices. tent,” she said.

“As a result he became obsessed As a student in the summer of with the Food Network, and learned 2007, Daniel started a small business, how to create these wonderfully Cottage Concierge, in Muskoka.

The loved ones of Daniel Keane shared his story in the hopes that his lost life is never forgotten and can inspire the change needed to avoid further preventable deaths in Ontario.

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Daniel liked music and his love of the Tragically Hip rubbed off on his family.

“We travelled all over the place to see them,” Keane said. The first time Keane saw the Hip was in Bala with Daniel. “It was incredible to experience this moment together,” she said.

On April 28, 2009, Daniel committed suicide at the cottage.

He was 23 years old.

This summer, Keane had the opportunity to meet Hip lead singer Gord Downie, and she told him about Daniel. After his set they spoke again.

He said: “‘Thank you for telling me about Daniel. I played harder because of him,’” she said.

- By Laura Finney

EDITOR’S NOTE

Make sure to keep the discussion alive This concludes our three-part series on suicide among young people in Ontario.

Our goal has been to provide some compelling case studies of youth in need, some signs for parents to watch for and some hope for the future of our youth.

Simply put, we’ve learned through our discussions with experts, our discussions with parents of youth who have committed suicide, and others who have lived through the darkness and realize there is a bright future, and we hope you have too.

We’ve learned that this topic kept in a closet will not be fixed. We’ve learned that there are many, many people and agencies poised to help

a troubled teen, a parent in need, or surviving family members who need to cope with a tragedy.

We encourage you to keep the discussion alive. As parents, friends and mentors we encourage you to keep abreast of your teen’s activities and build deep relationships with those you love.

In a perfect world we’d love to eradicate the stories of pain and see them replaced with stories of hope.

Every time.

TELL US WHAT YOU THINK If you have a story to share about youth suicide or an opinion on our series, please feel free to share it with us. Email: letters@insidetoronto.com Our newspaper is here to support you and our community and we value whatever feedback you are able to offer.

Prevention/Coping Resources CALL 911 if you are thinking of harming yourself or if someone you know is in imminent danger of harming themselves.

Ontario Association for Suicide Prevention >> ospn.ca Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention >> suicideprevention.ca Hope and Healing After Suicide: A practical guide for people who have lost someone to suicide in Ontario >> www.camh.ca Kids Help Phone 1-800-668-6868

Lesbian gay bi transgender queer (LGBTQ) Youth Line 1-800-268-9688 Mind your Mind >> mindyourmind.ca A website for youth created by youth offering resources and tools to help manage stress, crisis and mental health problems Mobilizing Minds >> www.mobilizingminds.ca A mental health project led by young adults, community organizations and health professionals River of Life Program >> www.riveroflifeprogram.ca Online training about Aboriginal youth

suicide Teen Mental Health >> www.teenmentalhealth.org Information about adolescent mental health to advance the understanding of mental illness and to improve lives The Trevor Project >> www.thetrevorproject.org Information about suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth Your Life Counts >> www.yourlifecounts.org Website for youth to share thoughts and get help with their problems

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New rink extends playing season, offers summer opportunities >>>from page 1 Greenwood Park (FROG).

“I’ve lived in the area for about 25 years and I remember when this rink was really sketchy,” said FROG member Belynda Blyth. “I didn’t

want my boy to come here alone.”

Blyth teamed up with community members Joanne Murphy, Connie Harding, Fletcher and other members of FROG to first address issues

they had with the playground in 2005.

Fletcher quickly addressed the issue of the outdated building that accompanied the swimming pool and old rink, proposing to the city that

the pilot project be brought to Greenwood Park.

“It was almost magical the way that it was all of a sudden, ‘Boom, we’re giving you the rink of a lifetime,’” Blyth said.

“The covered rink will get an extended playing season,” said Fletcher, who noted that other rinks in the city – which need to close due to weather constraints – will be able to replicate the design of this rink.

The skating trail, though uncovered, provides a place for non-hockey players to enjoy the space while hockey games are going on under the roof. Included in the new change rooms is also a community space that can

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Children participate in a hockey shootout on Saturday to break in Greenwood Park’s new outdoor covered rink.

be rented out for birthday parties, art shows and other community events.

“It was not considered the safest of parks,” said Murphy from FROG. “(The park) has

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