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JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com The Riverside Business Improvement Area (BIA) has received two Ontario IgniteTO grants totaling $20,000.

The funds, announced by Toronto-Danforth MPP Peter Tabuns and Ward 30 Councillor Paula Fletcher at the BIA’s annual general meeting Sept.

30, will be used to help pay for two upcoming events: the Oct. 25 Riverside WalkFEST and the June 2015 Riverside Eats & Beats StreetFEST. The funds will allow organizers to significantly expand outreach and programming.

Both events tie in to the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games.

“Riverside is ready to host the world in 2015,” said Mitch Korman, chair of the Riverside BIA, which was recently awarded Ignite 2015 Community Partner Status and has been operating as a community partner with the PanAm/Parapan Am Games >>>bia, page 2

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OUT OF BOUNDS: Malvern Collegiate’s Chris Mills, right, is driven out of bounds by Newtonbrook Secondary School’s Zack Innes during high school varsity tier 2 football action last Thursday at Newtonbrook. Malvern won 35-1. This week they host Humberside Collegiate Friday at noon at Pantry Park. It’s part of the school’s annual Red and Black Day. See story on Page 13.

Two creative types from the city’s east end are set to showcase and sell their wares at this weekend’s first Craft Ontario Show.

The family friendly event, which is sponsored by Metroland Media Toronto, is set to take place Thursday to Sunday at Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St., just south of St. Clair Avenue West.

Riverside resident Yusuke Akai, who came to Canada from Tokyo 18 years ago and has called the Queen-Broadview area home for the last eight, is taking part in the show.

Akai, who, with his wife Naomi, started Aka Ceramic Studio in September 2012, creates functional ceramic pieces such as plates, mugs, vases and bowls in his spare time in his tiny home studio.

“My style is very simple. I try to make simple shapes beautiful,” said Akai, who also hand crafts the dyes he uses to add colour to his pieces.

Akai first started making ceramics when he was just 13 years old.

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Tabuns said he’s proud Riverside is one of the host communities for the 2015 Games, the largest international multi-sport event Canada has ever hosted.

“The Riverside BIA has a track record of community leadership and involvement and we are pleased to help Riverside embrace the Ignite 2015 status,” he said.

Fletcher said she’s always proud to support local businesses and business organizations such as the Riverside BIA, which she said has an exceptional history of delivering signature events, like WalkFEST and Eats & Beats.

“This partnership with the Pan Am Games is a terrific initiative to showcase this very special neighbourhood,

the gateway to the east end, when the eyes of the world are on Toronto,” she said at the meeting.

A a ro n Gl y n w i l l i a m s, Senior Manager, External Pa r t n e r s h i p s a t To r o n t o 2 0 1 5 Pan/Parapan American Games Organizing Committee, also attended the AGM and outlined the scope and legacy of the Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games, most notably the Athletes’ Village immediately to the east of Riverside.

Riverside resident Brent Chamberlain, executive director of the Friends of the Pan Am Path group, was also in attendance at the Sept. 30 gathering.

Chamberlain, who regularly runs on the Pan Am trail, spoke about the shortand long-term goals for the

80-plus kilometre Pan Am Trail, which runs through Riverside and has an entrance off Queen Street East to the Lower Don Recreational Trail.

As part of its Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games efforts, the Riverside BIA is also working to complete a three-year Riverside Bridge Gateway Capital Project, which will involve installing signage and dynamic lighting on the “The River I step in is not the river I stand in” bridge during the Games. Lighting is set to be installed Oct 25, while Riverside branding and way finding markers should be going in early next year.

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Ward 30: Candidates discuss key issues for Toronto-Danforth JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com It’s hard to narrow down just one top priority for Ward 30, TorontoDanforth.

From getting people moving to working together to manage growth to developing stronger relationships between constituents and their municipal representative to addressing congestion and mitigating the effects of intensification, those vying to represent Ward 30 at city hall have endless ideas about how address what they deem as their top issues.

The Mirror recently invited all of those running for city councillor in Ward 30 to sound off.

Jane Farrow, a journalist, Jane’s Walk founder and one-time executive assistant to Ward 32 Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon, said her top priority is saying yes to transit, housing, jobs, childcare and youth and getting Ward 30 working together.

In an email to The Mirror, Farrow pointed to the 16,000 people on the subsidized childcare wait-list, the Toronto Community Housing Corporation’s $1-billion-plus repair backlog and the 90,000-plus names on the social housing waitlist. She also mentioned Toronto’s bike infrastructure, which she said “pales in comparison to other developed cities around the world.”

“These problems go back a lot longer than just the last four years.

It’s time to work together, and to put behind us the top-down partisan style of representation that has left our community and our city behind for over a decade,” Farrow said, adding it’s time to bring back grassroots activism to Ward 30, which was especially notable in the mid-1970s with the Greater Riverdale Organization.

“Together, our neighbourhoods developed their own ‘Action Platform’ and launched successful efforts to “stop air and soil pollution, get more three to four bedroom housing units, control development, lower speed limits on residential streets, get laneway improvements, increase bus service, (and) expand community uses of schools,” wrote Farrow, an Etobicoke native who has

lived in Riverside for four years.

She said today community activism is sorely lacking in Ward 30 with just one recognized community association – the Pocket Community Association.

“Neighbours elsewhere have tried hard to form local groups in Riverside, Ashdale Village, Leslieville and Riverdale – but haven’t received support from city hall,” she said, promising, if elected, she’d connect local leaders, find meeting spaces and support neighbours, develop a ‘community association kit’ that will help to establish direct lines between our neighbourhoods and city hall, and convene an umbrella group of neighbourhood groups to discuss the important issues.

Three-time incumbent Paula Fletcher said her top priority is the “need to improve the way the city approaches new development and manages growth with a more holistic approach that considers more than each new development in isolation.”

“In Ward 30, we’ve taken a proactive approach to development by initiating five planning studies to establish clear planning frameworks to manage growth and ensure we preserve the character and culture of our community,” she wrote in an email to The Mirror.

“We don’t want a condo canyon on our main streets. People choose to live in the east end because of its distinct character and community spirit. The intensification we’ve seen in other parts of the city, particularly downtown would not be the right fit for Ward 30.”

Fletcher said she’s committed to standing up for residents and keeping height and density at a scale.

“I always insist on extensive consultations for new proposals, enhancements to the public realm that leave our neighbourhood greener and more vibrant, and transportation planning that takes the bigger picture into account,” she said.

Fletcher also said the growing demand for transit is key.

“We need to improve streetcar reliability on existing lines as we roll out the new streetcars. We need to ensure the plans for the port lands include the Broadview extension and a thoughtful, strategic plan for the Gardiner.”

Fletcher also pointed to the importance of maintaining an inclusive, diverse community.

Fletcher also said building and expanding green spaces to keep neighbourhoods vibrant and liveable as well as investing in childcare spaces in our community are key issues for those living in Ward 30.

Dan Trayes said the top issues in Ward 30 are transit, housing and “the total disregard for the general public by Councillor Fletcher.”

“For the past 14 years, great strides have been made, however, if what was being done was helpful then we shouldn’t have all the exact same issues we’ve now had for years,” he wrote in an email to The Mirror.

Trayes also pointed to “a state of disrepair that’s climbing every single day.”

“There’s a (social housing) waiting list of almost 100,000 people. We have to tackle these issues head on, and with transparency,” he said, adding the city shouldn’t be afraid

to ask for help from different levels of government.

“This has to be part of the solution, and I have the ability to do so as I’ve introduced myself to every leader, of every level of government with the exception of the prime minister.”

Trayes said he has more than 30 years of experience in housing and transit and said he believes (TTC CEO) Andy Byford and his frontline workers do “an excellent overall job.”

“It’s the planning part that seems to be the issue. It affects congestion.

It affects pedestrian access to certain areas. It affects cyclists as well,” he said, adding a “work together” plan for the city as a whole is needed.

Longtime east-end resident Liz West, a broadcast journalist who’s running for Ward 30 councillor for a second time, said Toronto’s public transit system is stuck in the ’80s and it’s unreasonable to ask Torontonians to have to wait for decent transit while politicians continue to argue.

“We need to provide relief in the quickest and most effective way,” she wrote in an email to The Mirror, adding she said mayorality candidate’s John Tory’s SmartTrack plan is a good option.

“Most importantly, we must be looking well past the four-year election cycle. I believe the GTA needs a 25- to 50-year transit plan that shows continuous transit growth,” she said.

West pointed to the need for a guarantee that there will be annual building of no less than what experts agree is the ideal kilometres of transit and said there also needs to be “permanent dedicated funding” with all levels of government.

“We also need to have a real conversation about how to prevent elected officials from changing an approved and funded plan to suit their own political needs. No more starting, stopping, digging, filling in, studying and then shelving,” she wrote.

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Further, West said the Toronto needs to make “a real commitment” to cycling in the city instead of wasting money by installing a bike lane for a few blocks on busy Eastern Avenue. She proposes creating a minimum of two safe, connected east-west cycling commuter routes in the ward as well as a minimum of two safe, connected north-south cycling commuter routes.

West also spoke about the future of the eastern portion of the Gardiner Expressway.

“I support a solution that keeps traffic flowing along major arteries, and opens up valuable waterfront property. A solution like this has already been presented by the private sector and is worthy of consideration,” she wrote.

West also pointed to the need for better ways to coordinate construction so vehicles are not faced with multiple diversions.

Lastly, she raised the issue of development; “a healthy part of any growing city.”

“Ward 30 is enjoying a development “boom” with renewal in many neighbourhoods, and as councillor I would be pro-active in ensuring that the new properties fit the character and needs of the community,” she said, noting increased traffic on residential streets due to the development boom as well as the removal of the eastern end of the Gardiner and Leslie Barns construction must be addressed and managed.

“We need to ensure that the infrastructure is there, including transit, to support the new residents, especially families, through proper consultation well in advance of final plans. Development, when managed properly, also provides opportunity for community enhancement and economic stimulation and working together can bring about great positive change.”

Ward 30 candidate Mark Borden did not respond to The Mirror’s request for comment, while contact information for Francis Russell has yet to be located.

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ere’s the challenge for this municipal election to Toronto citizens: let’s keep increasing the voter turnout.

In 2010, the voter turnout in the city was 50.5 per cent. While that figure may not seem impressive, it is actually the highest total in amalgamated Toronto’s election history. It is a remarkable double-digit increase from the 2006 municipal election total of 39.3 per cent. It’s also more than 12 per cent higher than the 2003 vote.

So was the election that swept Rob Ford into the mayor’s chair just a spike or a sign of a more engaged populace? We hope it’s the latter.

Stronger voter turnouts mean more people are heard from and a more accurate portrayal of the city’s desires is presented for our representatives to act upon. So how can increased engagement happen? Know that multiple voting options are available. If your schedule is tight on our view Oct. 27, advance polls run – one location in each ward – from Oct. Make your 14 to 19.

While online voting in Toronto voice heard on is not yet a reality, one location in each of the city’s 44 wards Oct. 27 is equipped with a Voter Assist Terminal that will be available for both the advance vote and on Election Day. The city’s website, toronto. ca, lists accessibility information for all voting locations. Secondly, check to see that you’re registered.

Paper cards are being sent in the mail to 1.6 million eligible voters this week. Citizens can also check the eligible voters list or get on it by visiting www. toronto.ca/myvote Finally, and most importantly, there are no shortage of issues – city-wide and neighbourhood-focused – for citizens to explore. If you live in the city, there is something out there that impacts you.

Visit our election website at insidetoronto. com/2014torontovotes to familiarize yourself with the candidates and the issues. If you don’t find that a concern is being voiced, why not voice it yourself? Elections are the perfect opportunity to do exactly that. There’s less than three weeks to go until Election Day, and less than a week before Advance Voting begins. Whenever you do it, whomever you cast your ballot for, make sure your voice is heard.

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How flexible is Tory’s SmartTrack plan?

John Tory’s plan for surface subway rail has been getting a lot of attention over the past months of the mayoral campaign, much of it skeptical. Indeed, Tory’s opponents have been attempting to use this rapid transit plan as their primary means of transporting themselves ahead of the popular Tory in the polls.

They have good reason to: Tory is extolling the feasibility of his transit-fornothing plan like a Revivaltent preacher. The financial plan for it is built primarily on his faith that Toronto development might continue to boom over the next decade or so as it has in the past – and that in particular it will boom around specific transportation nodes.

For the western portion of the run, through Etobicoke, Tory places his faith in engineers to lay new track around, under and (who knows?) over houses and community facilities and roadways to complete the whole grand vision.

david nickle the city So assuming that the whole thing goes ahead, and Tory’s faith is not rewarded – Toronto could be paying back a shortfall in funding to a city-spanning ‘surface subway’ that will wreak havoc on a westend community ruing the day they turned their back on the Ford family.

There is, however, a more likely outcome should Tory prevail : the realities of economics, politics and engineering will make the plan Tory’s pitching now impossible. To begin with, there is that Tax Increment Financing (TIF) plan, which relies on the marginal increase in property taxes from new development.

Even if the rules permit it and the development bears out Tory’s projections, there will be significant political problems in actually collecting the cash. The TIF

scheme will keep tax dollars away from municipal services associated with the growth, and, more significantly, could keep funding away from the province’s education system.

And of course engineers are not magicians: the problems raised by Olivia Chow are significant.

Tunnelling for what could be kilometres through the loamy soil of Etobicoke will increase the financial cost of the operation; tearing through neighbourhoods and roadways will inflate the political cost.

Now, Tory will still want to do something to fulfill his mandate, and even if a majority of skeptics are elected to council, he will be bound to use political capital to see that something through. He might be able to do so. One could imagine a compromise SmartTrack plan that avoids all that west-end trouble entirely, by not going there at all and concentrate on beefing up and

accelerating the electrification of the GO Stouffville line through Scarborough, extending it slightly to the west to Liberty Village and up to the Bloor subway line.

Doing so would provide rapid transit to parts of Scarborough that don’t have it now, and also deal with the considerable transportation infrastructure deficit in Liberty Village, while avoiding many of those costly engineering problems. Which means that the whole scheme need not rely so heavily on the worrying TIF plan. It would also, in the strictest sense of the word, represent a broken promise. But since Mayor Rob Ford claimed the Scarborough subway compromise following from the failure of his Sheppard subway plan was a “promise made, promise kept,” the term ‘promise’ has taken a certain elasticity.

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Roald Dahl Party WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Gerrard/Ashdale Library, 1432 Gerrard St. E. CONTACT: 416-393-7717 COST: Free Enjoy treats, games and activities as part of a celebration of 50 years of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. All are welcome.

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Tommy Thompson Park Sunday Morning Bird Walks WHEN: 8 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Tommy Thompson Park, 3 Leslie St. CONTACT: 416-661-6600, ext. 5770, www.tommythompsonpark.ca COST: Free Take a guided bird hike at TTP every Sunday morning during fall migration. Search for birds along

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Riverdale Community Arts & Letters Club WHEN: 6 to 7 p.m. WHERE: Riverdale Branch, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: Sue Dolynskyj, 416-8804735, asenseofstyle@gmail.com

Knitting WHEN: 5 to 7 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Dr. CONTACT: 416-396-3975 COST: Free Learn to knit or bring your own project and enjoy knitting with others. Join expert knitter and spinner Cathy Thomson on the third Thursday of each month. All skill levels are welcome. Please bring your own needles and wool. Drop in – no experience required!

Call 416-396-3975 for more information about this monthly knitting group.

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Special program WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to noon WHERE: Gerrard/Ashdale Library, 1432 Gerrard St. E. CONTACT: 416-393-7717 COST: Free Join Toronto’s NaNo veteran with the idea of writing a novel in 30 days. Learn how the NaNoWriMo community can help you achieve your novel writing potential.

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Remembering ‘Johnny K’, restaurateur, nightclub impresario JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Toronto has lost one of the most notable architects of its vibrant dining and nightclub scene.

Johnny Katsuras, better known as Johnny K, was a veteran restaurateur and nightclub impresario, not to mention publisher of an award-winning arts/music/ fashion magazine, who along with his wife/partner and chef Laura Prentice, opened, closed, sold and/or ran more than 20 resto-lounges in the last three decades.

Longtime east Toronto residents, Katsuras and Prentice were behind scores of notable establishments in the city’s east end including most recently The Playpen at Gerrard Street East and Carlaw Avenue and TomiKro on Queen Street East, just west of Leslie Street.

The couple also owned/ operated Danforth Avenue’s Lolita’s Lust and the Chinchilla Lounge as well as Pan on

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the Danforth, Johnny K: The Restaurant on Queen Street East in The Beach and The Liberty, to name a few.

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Katie Karas, Katsuras’ niece, started collecting news articles about her uncle 35 years ago, when she was just eight years old.

In an email to The Mirror, she said from his beginnings as a restaurateur at his Queen Street Eatery, Katsuras “seemed to have his pulse on what the people wanted; what was the next big hit.”

Karas said her uncle was “a handsome and charismatic man” people wanted to see and be around.

“He had a loyal following from his earliest beginnings and throughout the years,” she wrote, adding beside every great man is a great woman; in this case Laura Prentice.

“The dynamic duo was a force to be reckoned with, as she was not only a talented chef, but also a former Argos Cheerleader, and one smart cookie. A triple threat,” said Karas Karas said the beginning of her uncle’s “horrible journey” with cancer began late last year when Katsuras and Prentice were at their Florida home, the place they were planning to retire. While there, Katsuras unexplainably started losing weight rapidly, prompting the couple to drive 20-hours straight back to Toronto to seek medical attention.

Noel Trumpour, a downtown and east Toronto real

estate broker, was friends with Katsuras for more than three decades and enjoyed many good times over the years at his various establishments.

“I knew Johnny for many years, both personally and professionally,” he shared during a recent interview.

“He was the most innovative, forward-thinking guy I know. He was ahead of his

time.”

Trumpour said every time his “larger-than-life” friend would open a nightclub or a restaurant it would be original. “He had a knack for seeing what was coming down the pipe. It was amazing,” he said.

“Johnny was never afraid to take a chance and that chance always paid off.”

Trumpour also pointed to Katsuras’ amazing way of

making people feel welcome.

“He was a phenomenal host; the host with the most,” he said of Katsuras whom he called “one of the most legendary guys in the business in Toronto.”

Katsuras is survived by his mother Voula Katsuras, wife Laura and daughter Kevi.

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Crafts include jewelry, ceramics, glass and wood Ravine talk >>>from page 1 of his free time was spent learning all about traditional Japanese and Chinese ceramics.

In his 20s, Akai developed an interest in American industrial design and, after completing university, was hired to work as a designer and buyer of tableware.

He continued making his own pottery in the evenings as well as running his own ceramics classes.

Akai Ceramics Studio is part of the Established Makers group showcasing in the main hall.

Textile artist Textile and fibre artists Katie Sorrell, a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, who has called the GerrardCoxwell area home for a year, will be taking part in the show as one of 20 artists in the Emerging Maker Tent.

Sorrell, the founder of Heart’s Haven, said she is excited to showcase and sell her Canadiana- and wildlife-inspired clothing and accessories including scarves, cowls, coffee cozies, screen-printed shirts and tote bags at this weekend’s Craft Ontario Show.

“It’s good stuff for fall and winter,”

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Katie Sorrell’s Hearts Haven sweater and scarf.

said Sorrel, who by day works as a veterinary technician in the Beach.

Inspired by her graphic designer/ seamstress mom, Peggy Issenman, as well as her tapestry weaving aunt, Joanne Soroka, Sorrell said she always wanted to start up her own craft business.

Heart’s Haven, which she started about two and a half years ago, satisfies her need to create.

“I’ve always been kind of creative and I really like recycling old materials,” she said during a recent interview.

Sorrel said she’s looking forward to the Ontario Craft Show because it will give her the chance to share the unique story of each of her handcrafted pieces with prospective purchasers.

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East York Collegiate (Goliaths) and Leaside High School (Lancers) are part of a special evening of Friday night lights football at Monarch Park Stadium – but the traditional crosstown rivals won’t need the lights.

That’s because they’re first off the mark with a 4 p.m. game.

Rounding out the senior Tier 1 tripleheader is:

• 6 p.m., Northern SS vs.

Lawrence Park CI; • 8 p. m . , E t o b i c o k e Collegiate vs. Sir Wilfrid Laurier CI. The games are outside.

And if that’s not enough football, fans can get their pre-Thanksgiving Friday started at 2 p.m. with the junior version of the Goliaths/Lancers football rivalry hosted this year by the junior Goliaths at East York Collegiate stadium.

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Recalling the power of Hurricane Hazel 60 years later CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com Next week marks the 60th anniversary of Hurricane Hazel – for many, a time to remember the 81 lives lost to the most destructive storm in Toronto’s history, to reflect on the lessons learned and to rejoice in the measures since taken to prevent such a loss from occurring again.

Madeleine McDowell, a Humber River heritage preservationist and co-vice chair of the Humber Watershed Alliance, was just 13 when Hazel struck in a fury of 110 kilometres per hour winds and torrential downpours on the evening of Oct. 15, 1954.

“I understood that there was flooding and that the winds were terrific and they were blowing down trees and causing waves, but we didn’t realize that people were being swept away and drowning,” said McDowell, who still resides in the Humbercrest Boulevard home that sheltered her teenaged self as Hazel raged that night, dumping more than 300 million tons of water and turning the nearby Humber River into an unstoppable force.

“Approximately 20 billion gallons of water came sluicing down the Humber that night at a very rapid drop, which just pushed everything in front of it. The force it exerted took out bridges, houses, trees – and all that debris accumulated at

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An entire street was swallowed up on Raymore Drive in Weston during Hurricane Hazel. When the Humber River burst its banks and tore away a footbridge, the waters of the Humber were redirected through the neighbourhood. The flood killed 35 residents and washed away 39 percent of the street.

the bridges and formed dams, and when the bridges broke, the flood press pushed on through. Some of the bodies were recovered over at Rochester (New York), that was the force that the river had.”

In total, the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) estimates 4,000 southern Ontario families were left homeless by the ravages of Hazel – 1,868 of those in Toronto.

Just five kilometres up river from McDowell’s Baby Point area home,

32 homes on Weston’s Raymore Drive (which runs parallel to the Humber, just south of Lawrence Avenue West) were washed away by flooding, killing more than 30 people on that street alone.

McDowell remembers waking up to a beautiful sunny day the morning after the storm, and going out to survey the damage just down the ravine from her home.

“You couldn’t go all the way down.

They were starting to build houses down there and all the basements

were full,” she said. “We also went up Scarlett Road that Saturday morning, my parents and I...and from the top of the hill you could look down and see what was the Queensbury Hotel (at East Drive and Scarlett Road) and there was water coming out the second-storey windows, which was impressive.”

Those are just a few of the remembrances McDowell is set to share next Wednesday, Oct. 15 while leading a Toronto Field Naturalists’ walk commemorating the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Hurricane Hazel. It starts at 10 a.m. from the Old Mill subway station, ending two hours later at Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas St. There, a Hurricane Hazel display will be set up.

While Hurricane Hazel was undeniably tragic, Laurian Farrell, senior manager of flood risk management and infrastructure for the Toronto TRCA, said the storm served as a catalyst for positive change – especially when it came to flood control.

The whole concept of building near rivers, she said, changed because of Hurricane Hazel.

“One of the most important things we have now are our flood plain management policies, which allow conservation authorities to regulate development within flood plains,” Farrell said, noting the regulations were implemented to restrict future development and land use in flood hazard areas, thereby reducing

potential flood damage.

Before the storm, Farrell said the mandates of most conservation authorities were focused more on forest management, forestry and ecological habitat.

But after Hazel, the need for a body to oversee the valleys and flood plains became painfully clear, and conservation authorities were tasked with the role.

The TRCA itself was formed in 1957, when four smaller area conservation authorities merged to deal with the nine watersheds in Toronto: Etobicoke Creek, Mimico Creek, Humber River, Don River, Highland Creek, Petticoat Creek, Rouge River, Duffins Creek and Carruthers Creek.

In the years since, Farrell said the TRCA has invested heavily in flood control infrastructure.

Should another Hazel-like storm hit Toronto again, Farrell said the city is much better prepared for it.

As climate changes, however, so too do storms, and Farrell said Torontonians now have to face the spectre of dealing with not only Hazel-like storms but also with “flashy thunderstorms” like that of July 8, 2013, which temporarily paralyzed the city with flash floods that caused many a Toronto basement to flood.

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SickKids Family Room gives parents a place to relax – and sleep JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com When parents have a seriously ill child, their own needs often become secondary.

Thanks to a partnership with Ronald McDonald House Toronto, parents with children at The Hospital for Sick Children have a place to slow down, take a break and relax.

The Ronald McDonald House Family Room offers comfortable couches, food preparation, laundry facilities, televisions, Internet access, shower facilities, a play area with toys, recliners in private sleep pods and a private room.

“With the opening of our Family Room, eligible families now have the opportunity to experience a taste of home within the walls of the hospital,” said Pam Hubley, SickKids chief of professional practice and nursing.

For Jennifer Lewis, whose daughter Sydney has been a SickKids patient since she was born six months ago, the Family Room is a welcome reprieve. While she spends most of her time at her daughter’s bedside, the importance of having a place to take a timeout – however brief – cannot be overstated.

“Despite the frenzy of the beeping machines and bells and whistles, I can’t

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The laundry area has plenty of machines, which operate quietly and can do a load of laundry in as little as 40 minutes. Since the Family Room opened in July, roughly 1,000 loads of laundry have been done in the machines.

Perhaps the best-loved element of the Family Room is the sleep pods, which were modeled after first-class air cabins. The seven pods are separated from the main

room in a dimly-lit area with a fireplace.

“We don’t know of another Family Room that has something like this,” Holmes said.

“People come here for a quick nap and they average around 4 1/2 hours but we actually had one gentleman who came here and slept for 13 hours.”

A separate sleep room adjacent to the sleep pod area is occupied on a nightly basis, giving couples a chance to

The Family Room at SickKids has chairs for sleeping, a play area and a kitchen area.

imagine being outside this hospital (while Sydney is inside),” she said. “Being just steps away from Sydney (but in a relaxing setting) is more comfort and reassurance than I think anyone will ever know.”

Because her family hails from Innisfil, the Family Room is the closest Lewis and her husband have to the comforts of home.

“Prior to this room being open, the only breaks we had were downstairs (in the hospital) in the public open space there, so it was quite busy and chaotic,” she said. “I’m so thankful this is here now.”

The Family Room space is 1,725 square feet, but it is cozy, with a variety of areas so mothers and fathers can socialize with others or spend time alone.

The kitchen area features a fridge and microwave,

along with a dining table that can be kept together or separated to fit groups of various sizes. The fridge is stocked with staples, though families are welcome to bring their own food.

“We wanted to provide something where families could just have snacks when they needed a quick bite to refuel,” said Deborah Holmes, Ronald McDonald House Toronto director of programs and operations.

A computer station offers Internet access, and the television area has comfortable furniture designed to accommodate everyone, including mothers who have just given birth.

reconnect during their hectic stay.

A total of 49 volunteers help ensure families are not wanting for anything, but are careful to give Family Room users their space.

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JOHN TORY: frontrunner fending off the Fords DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com It’s two days after the boisterous debate where councillor Doug Ford made his stormy debut in the mayor’s race, and John Tory is still processing the experience.

“The interesting thing about the other night was the audience,” he muses as he sits down for an interview.

“I don’t remember a debate we had in 2003... the only one I remember was the one where the audience got into a tiny bit. But this was... like... well the Fords had loaded up the audience, and it was just... it was loud. It was just very different.”

T h e d e b a t e a t Yo r k Memorial Collegiate was, as reported by York Guardian reporter Clark Kim, quite raucous, with a large crowd of supporters chanting and EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one in a series of profiles on the leading contenders to be Toronto’s next mayor

heckling – while Ford, Tory and Olivia Chow hammered one another’s platforms and bona fides. At times, the heckling took on racist and homophobic overtones.

“My kids (who were in the audience) told me about that, a lot of the discourse in the room. It was not nice stuff.

There was a woman who got thrown out — she was a completely homophobic person.

You would never hear anybody say that,” Tory says.

The evening hasn’t precisely rattled the 60-year-old mayoral candidate. It would be tough to be rattled, after all, consistently leading in polls just four weeks away from the Oct. 27 election.

Ford is at this point Tory’s closest competition – Olivia Chow’s once-formidable popularity having dwindled to the mid-20s – and at this point, it’s not that close.

Tory’s treating it as if it is that close, of course.

The previous evening, he issued a statement indicating he’ll be assessing debate

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attendance based on whether Ford decides to attend.

And he’s mindful of all those Ford supporters – even the ones who say bigoted things in high school auditoriums.

“If you want to fashion a victory, and more important if you want to fashion a win, that includes people from across the city,” Tory says.

“I really believe this in my heart – if you stick to a message that’s a positive message

– one having less rancor – on what you’re trying to achieve on transit and jobs and so forth – and secondarily if you have them believe you’re going to take good care of your money.... I think that if they become convinced I’m a fiscal conservative... I think a lot of those people will say a combination of this guy’s skill and experience... I think that’s what we’re going to need.”

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make one wonder where Chow got the idea that Tory is a smooth talker. Through the interview, Tory moves through ideas in a sometimes circular, often circuitous way that defies reduction to sound bytes or even a decisive position.

For instance, the week prior Tory had made it clear he would vote against funding the annual Pride parade if the group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid were allowed to participate.

Pressed in our interview to clarify what he would do, Tory adds nuance: he wouldn’t use the power and influence of his office to force council to vote funding down, and would try not to let it get to the point of a vote to begin with.

“Would I whip or pull the vote? I would simply cast my own vote and make my own statements clear,” he says.

In general, Tory is leaning away from the high-pressure tactics that he says are associated with the Ford brothers over the past four years. “(Doug Ford) called himself the enforcer and the hammer at city hall,” Tory says. “When he says those words I repeat them in the form of a question: do the public believe they should be the enforcer and the hammer – or do they believe something different is called for?”

Tory is presenting only a few areas where he would push hard.

One, of course, is his SmartTrack plan, which has been under intense media scrutiny, and also criticism from both Ford and Chow, over its Tax Increment Financing funding plan.

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