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Lane named for family advocate
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Provincial boost for single mothers affected by poverty
Rosemarie Popham campaigned for end to child poverty
JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com WoodGreen Community Services has received $288,000 in funding from the provincial government to help participants of its innovative Homeward Bound program with their job search and employability skills training. The recently developed Transition to Success initiative is the fourth and final phase of the Homeward Bound program, a life-changing, four-year program that helps single mothers who have experienced poverty and homelessness transition into employment, safe housing, and financial security. The funds, which will be allocated over three years through the Ontario government’s $50-million, six-year Local Poverty Reduction Fund, will help WoodGreen evaluate its Transition to Success model with the goal of building more evidence of what works best for single mothers affected by poverty. Homeward Bound participant Olay Omodara said she benefitted from the Transition to Success program. “I learned all about life skills and the pathway to being self-sustainable,” she said. “Women, like me, will get the help and support they need to move forward despite challenges.”
JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com
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picking a pumpkin: Shey Marhue, 4, picks out a pumpkin to decorate during the Kingston Road Harvest Festival on Saturday. Find out what’s happening for Halloween in the Beach on page 10.
A charming lane in the Upper Beach now bears the name of one of the community’s most respected residents, Rosemarie Popham. Popham, who died of cancer in 1998 at the age of 54, was a social worker and well-known child and family advocate who campaigned for the eradication of child poverty. She was also a master gardener who cultivated beautiful rose bushes among other things at 4A Kimberley Ave., just north of Lyall Avenue, for more than 20 years. At least two dozen family members, friends, neighbours and supporters braved a rainy fall afternoon to attend the official lane-naming ceremony for Rosemarie Popham Lane on Saturday. The event began with the unveiling of the street sign followed by a few brief speeches in the lovely house, once a gardener’s residence, that Popham called home from 1975 to 1998. “I think this is a terrific way to honour someone’s great reputation and spirit, especially a beloved Beacher like Rosemarie Popham,” Beaches-East York Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon said at >>>beach, page 6
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