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LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com If all goes as planned, the Perth/ Dupont library will get a new and much larger home at the corner of Campbell Avenue and Dupont Street.

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SAY CHEESE SANTA: Family members get just as excited as the kids who get to sit on Santa’s lap, as they snap a photo, creating a holiday memory. See more photos from Santa’s visit to the Junction on page 3.

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The library project is now making its way through city channels, according to Kevin Putnam, co-founder of the Junction Triangle Library Expansion Committee, which first came together in December 2010. The proposal will go to city council for final approval later this month, he said.

“The library will go from one of the smallest branches in the system to a full-size 10,000 to >>>CONDO, page 8

An appeal has been made to keep the Rennie Park Dog Offleash area open.

While city staff has begun the process of dismantling the off-leash area, users of the park have filed an appeal. Deadline for submissions is Dec. 24.

Following careful consideration and meetings with the community regarding the off-leash area and repeated

attempts to resolve issues that have arose, the Parks, Forestry and Recreation department announced the off-leash area would be closed.

The appeal, according to Parkdale-High Park Councillor Sarah Doucette, will take Parks, Forestry, and Recreation about a month to respond to.

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Take in artisan fair at Dufferin Grove Park The annual Dufferin Grove Winter Craft Fair takes place Sunday, Dec. 15 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Local, non-professional crafters will be on site with handmade goods such as teddy bears, jewelry, knitwear, T-shirts with unique designs, ceramic bowls and tiles, print work, hemp shopping bags, bath and body products as well as life music, storytelling and more.

The Zamboni Café will offer healthy food and hot drinks.

The fair takes place outside the rink building in Dufferin Grove Park, 875 Dufferin St., across from the Dufferin Mall, south of Bloor Street enjoy christmas carols by candlelight Runnymede United Church, 432 Runnymede Rd., hosts a community Christmas carol service on Dec. 15 at 7 p.m. The evening will include candlelight, favourite Christmas carols, the Christmas story and hot apple cider.

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Big wheels keep on turnin’ Thanks to St. Jacobs Mennonite who can fix historic fire engine LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com More than 60 years ago, firefighters in the Junction relied on a handdrawn chemical fire engine to battle blazes.

Once pulled to where it was needed, the engine was then turned upside down so the chemicals inside could mix and react to create a foam and enough internal pressure to force the foam through the nozzle of the hose and onto the fire.

Years ago, the historic engine was donated to the Junction Fire Station no. 423 where it has been on display in its front garden.

However, its wooden wagon wheels have seen better days. In desperate need of restoring, firefighters took matters into their own hands, using duct tape to keep the spokes attached to the wheel. Painted black, the tape is virtually unnoticable – at least from a distance, according to fire Capt. Greg Schultz.

However, the tape is no longer doing the trick. And so, Schultz is taking the engine, built in 1950, to St. Jacobs this month to Cleason B. Martin Buggy Wheels and Hitch Gear, a Mennonite business, where the wheels will be restored.

The engine will remain there until spring, after which it can be placed back in its spot in the fire hall’s front garden where it stays for eight or nine months of the year.

This is the second time the engine’s wheels have needed work.

Built by the American LaFrance Fire Engine Company while it operated a plant on Old Weston Road, just north of Junction Road, the chemical engine was originally used at the Benjamin Moore Paint Factory on Lloyd Avenue and donated to the fire hall by Benjamin Moore.

“The original paint for it was made by Mulock. The plant was at 159 Mulock Ave.,” Schultz said.

“The goal is to keep local history local.”

The cost to restore the wheels is approximately $800. The cost will be covered partly by the Junction

JUNCTION GETS FESTIVE HO,HO, HO: Above, Carl Brooks had a chance to visit with Santa and give him his Christmas wish list on Saturday during the Santa in the Junction event, hosted by the local BIA. At left, Jasmine plays with elf Ceria, while below, Mrs. Claus reads to the children through her display window.

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Junction fire hall Capt. Greg Schultz (l) poses with colleague Paul Spearman with an historic chemical fire engine, built in 1950. The engine’s wheels need restoring and will be taken to a restoration expert in St. Jacob’s Ontario.

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Business Improvement Area (BIA) and the Junction Residents Association. The local fire station and two Junction organizations continue to collaborate on different projects.

“It’s a mutual, ongoing partnership,” said executive director Kristina Skindelyte.

“They help us with watering the plants in the summer. We’re helping them with their toy drive.”

The Junction Fire station, at 358 Keele St., is home to a long list of historical artifacts, particularly because Schultz is a history buff.

The collection includes an early 1900s Gamewell – Northern Electric fire station house alarm gong. It was originally used for dispatching horse-drawn fire apparatus from the station. Once part of the street box telegraph system, it would be activated in the case of fire by a person closest to the alarm box, who would trip the alarm lever. The gong hangs at station no. 423 and has been used as a backup alarm system during a power failure.

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Write us The Bloor West Villager welcomes letters of 400 words or less. All submissions must include name, address and a daytime telephone number for verification purposes. We reserve the right to edit, condense or reject letters. Copyright in letters remains with the author but the publisher and affiliates may freely reproduce them in print, electronic or other forms. Letters can be sent to letters@ insidetoronto.com, or mailed to The Bloor West Villager, 175 Gordon Baker Rd. Toronto, ON, M2H 0A2.

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he Toronto District School Board is faced with a stark reality: a declining student population, while its hard costs continue to grow. But, in an attempt to rein in some of these growing costs, the province is contemplating selling $60 million worth of school properties this year.

The loss of such valuable community space will not only impact students but the city as a whole.

Where will, not only students, but sports and community organizations hold their events – sports or otherwise? How will we keep students active if there is not place to play sports or participate in outdoor activities?

In a time when more and more community organizations are looking for our view community space, to sell off these properties is, in the words Karen Pitre, Toronto Sports Partnerships of Council chair, “mind-boggling.”

There is a truth that some will help school populations are shrinking, perserve fields and keeping schools open just for the sake of a small student body is not economical. Some schools will need to close, but community space is at a premium in Toronto.

Neighbourhoods across the city are trying to carve out small parcels of land for community space, and with large playing fields already in existence, it begs the question why sell such valuable real estate? How will the community as a whole benefit by the selling of a field?

Why not look to partnerships with organizations to help preserve fields? Give the space over to the city to manage as a park or sports field. Take a different direction – create a covered skating rink like that at Greenwood Park, which can be used year-round for other things, including concerts, and other sports.

This is a time for creative thinking, not a time where it’s easier to just sell off a commodity. It’s important for the community – politicians included – to look at the community space that’s currently there, and think of ways to keep it there or make it better.

Some properties will have to be sold, but others should be preserved, improved, and become a place that builds community rather than divides it.

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Rob Ford: A journey beyond the absurd

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rom the ridiculous, to the absurd – and past that, to the slanderous, paranoiac and delusional. That is the route of discourse, coming from the office and family of the titular Mayor of Toronto these days.

On Monday, Vision TV aired an interview between Lord Conrad Black and Mayor Rob Ford astonishing in its scope. In the interview, Ford alleged Toronto police Chief Bill Blair had used Ford’s friend Sandro Lisi as a “prop” to get at him in the course of the police investigation into Ford’s alleged crack use – because, Ford said, the chief was cross at having been asked to curtail his budget.

He made really unconscionable allegations about Star reporter Daniel Dale – allegations that were dismissed by the police when they were first made – about his 2012 visit to public land behind the mayor’s house.

Without going into detail for fear of repeating them,

david nickle the city one can only characterize the allegations as a vicious slander that Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly wasted no time in calling “beyond the pale.”

The previous Friday – as the Black-Ford interview was taking place – the mayor’s de-facto deputy, city councillor and brother Doug Ford, let loose his own litany of fabrications and contradictions. In a 10-minute encounter with reporters, the city councillor suggested the generally Ford-critical media was practicing journalism in the manner of the Soviet statesupported (and generally state-supporting) Pravda.

Outdoing his little brother on the police-baiting front, he suggested that Blair, the judiciary and the media were all conspiring to release police documents in such a way as to slowly destroy the mayor and drive

him from office.

The media, he was sure, was murderous enough that they would be happy to drag Rob to the square, and hang him by the neck, if we were only provided a suitable length of rope.

It’s hard to know how to respond to all of this.

Lord Black exhibited his characteristic nerves of steel, chuckling supportively as the mayor burbled on with a list of dubious assurances, and unsupported assertions. Clearly, his time in prison has made stronger stuff of him than we in the city hall press gallery, faced with the wrath of Doug.

The best that we could manage was to ask questions, challenge obvious falsehoods, and attempt to clarify outrageous-sounding conspiracy theories.

And for all that, the Fordian discourse barely wobbled.

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Pay tribute to memories of Zivcic, Mandela with good works To the editor: As the world says farewell to Nelson Mandela, we must appreciate he overcame racism only to face ageism by those who will capitalize from his contributions with self-interest.

Mandela’s message was simple: Listen, and then talk.

I am sad upon hearing of the news of Mandela’s passing; this void must now be filled with compassion, not rhetoric.

As Toronto says farewell to a local hero police officer John Zivcic, and Mandela, let us honour their memory with good works that are founded on mutual respect.

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No need to keep Chapters in neighbourhood if not at current location: reader To the editor: urbane neighbourhood in the city Re: ‘Chapters to host town hall can no longer support even a single on its future in Bloor Village,’ News, book store. The third misfortune is the inappropriate use of a gorDec. 5 The loss of the geous heritage buildChapters store is a triple ing. Chapters became a tragedy for Bloor West beloved meeting place Village. Remember the for people in and out substantial opposition to of the neighbourhood in large part due to the Chapters initially coming into the neighbourhood unique architecture – Save the zoo with a P3: Friends – because of fear that its and because theatre, presence would drive cinema and book stores go together naturally. away the established book store we already A drug store is about had? We know how that as underwhelming a use went. Then, due to people treating of that space as one could imagine. the store as a library, reading room Especially by a retailer that already and children’s play centre as much as has a perfectly adequate and more a book store, sales were undoubtedly appropriate venue approximately less impressive than desired. a block away.

Every time we purchased a book Chapters would like to stay in or video on Amazon, or not ironithe area? Once Shoppers Drug Mart cally, Indigo Chapters online, we moves to the theatre, perhaps its old put another nail in the coffin of the location will be available – if we want physical book store. the tragedy to turn to farce.

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of High Park have proposed a public-private partnership with the city to turn it into a sustainable operation.

Friends of High Park Zoo submitted a proposal to the city’s budget committee this week to create a public-private partnership (P3) model to ensure the

zoo remains open for years to come.

The group is proposing establishing a High Park Zoo Conservancy in an effort to provide a zoo that is enduring and exceeds visitors’ expectations.

“This is our idea on how to make the zoo sustainable,” said Friends of High Park Zoo spokesperson Chris Diceman as public deputations continued at the budget committee at city hall. “The city alone can’t fund the zoo.”

The High Park Zoo has been operating for the past two years without city funding and the budget committee has not included it again for 2014, pointed out Diceman.

“The status quo is not an >>>CORPORATIONS, pg 10

Chapters will host a public town hall meeting in the new year to discuss the possibility of remaining in the Bloor West Village area, according to a spokesperson.

The meeting is scheduled for January, yet details have yet to be ironed out, according to Janet Eger, a representative of Indigo Books and Music Inc. “Certainly, we’d be most interested in staying in the fantastic Bloor West neighbourhood, if appropriate space is presented with terms we’re comfortable with,” she told The Villager.

Since community members learned that the Runnymede Theatre-turned Chapters bookstore, at the corner of Bloor Street West and Runnymede Road, was set to close in February after its 15-year lease comes to an end, many have been writing emails directly to Heather Reisman, founder and chief executive of Indigo Books and Music. They’ve been expressing their concern and interest in seeing the store remain in the neighbourhood, said Dianne Bradley, executive director of the Bloor West Village Residents Association (BWVRA). >>>CHAPTERS, pg 10

Closing Rennie Park off-leash area short-sighted, says resident To the editor: Re: ‘Dog park closing due to complaints,’ News, Nov. 28 I have to respond to The Villager’s article on the closure of the Rennie Park off-leash dog area. I cannot fathom how a few complainers can influence the city enough to go ahead and hurt so many people.

Let me explain to those complainers: Dog people love their dogs.

Many say their dog is a member of their family. They care for their dogs, as they would care for their children.

Dogs need exercise, but a walk around the block on a leash is like forcing your child to play on the same small jungle gym every day, with no variety to stimulate their minds, and no running to expand their lungs and exercise their muscles. These complainers forget that many, many people care for their dogs responsibly.

But to take away yet another much needed off-leash dog area is not only cruel to the dogs, but is

hard on the owners who just want to properly care for their dogs.

City life is noisy. Will you stop the airplanes from flying over your yard because you want a quiet garden?

Or the buses from going down your street because they rattle the cups in your cupboard? Or the Canada Geese from honking in the early morning, or the squirrels from chattering, or the children from squealing in the playground – all because your peace is disturbed?

Wake up.

The city is full of noises and barking dogs are happy dogs for the most part. What if you had a neighbour with a dog that barked a lot outside? What if your neighbour had an old car that he revved every morning? What if your neighbour had a baby that cried a lot or a child that yelled a lot? The reality? You can’t do anything about it.

So what makes you think you have the right to complain about dogs at healthy play when that is such a small fraction of the noise that we endure every day?

I grew up not far from what is now the off-leash area. My family has been in the area since 1949. I bet most of you do not realize that the area south of Swansea Public School’s field was the village dump during the 50s and 60s.

I can tell you, it is a far better place now than it was with debris and refuse and sofas rotting in the creek leading to Catfish Pond.

I would predict that if you were to measure the decibel level on St. Olave’s Rd. of the children at the school throughout the year and the dogs in the dog park, the school children would win hands down.

I suggest that a better reaction would have been to post a sign first warning that if barking occurs before certain times, then the area would be closed.

Just closing it is not the answer because many, many more people will be hurt than the complainers will benefit.

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Friday Afternoons at the Movies WHEN: 2 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Jane/ Dundas Library, 620 Jane St. CONTACT: Kara Miley, 416-394-1014, kmiley@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Christmas with the Kranks will be screened. The movie is open to adults. The next showing is Dec. 20 and will feature the movie Love Actually. Film starts at 2:30 p.m.

Junction Seniors Gathering WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Pascal’s Baguette and Bagels, 2904 Dundas St. W. CONTACT: Eleanor Batchelder, 647-235-0843, www.junctionra.ca/ junction-seniors, eob62@yahoo.com COST: Free The group meets at a local coffee shop for conversation, as a social network of neighbours. Tuesday mornings from 10 to 11 a.m., Agora Cafe, 3015 Dundas St. W. and Friday afternoons at the above location.

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Getting Ready for Winter – Family Nature Walk WHEN: 1 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside Dr. CONTACT: High Park Nature Centre, 416-392-1748, ext. 2, www.highparknaturecentre.com/ai1ec_event/getting-read, naturecentre@highpark.

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Winter Holiday Camp WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside Dr. CONTACT: 416-392-1748, naturecentre@ highpark.org COST: $45/day Explore High Park in the winter with a Winter Holiday Camp. Enjoy wintertime games, crafts and adventures. Runs all week except for Jan. 1. org COST: $2-$5/pp or donate-whatyou-can Plants and animals are prepared for winter. Are you? Search for busy squirrels, sheltered insects, friendly chickadees and sleeping oak trees to learn their survival strategies.

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Decorate a Tree for the Birds WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon, WHERE: High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside Dr. CONTACT: High Park Nature Centre, 416-392-1748, ext. 2, www. highparknaturecentre.com/specialevents/, naturecentre@highpark.org COST: $8/pp (adults and children ages three and above) Help decorate an evergreen tree in High Park with handmade pine cone bird feeders and edible garlands for the birds. Hike through the woods and learn how to feed chickadees from the palm of your hand, search the skies for soaring hawks and

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discover how birds like cardinals, nuthatches and woodpeckers survive the winter. Meet at the tennis club next to the nature centre to put all the crafts together and then embark on your hike in the woods.

Community Christmas Carol Service WHEN: 7 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Runnymede Community Church, 60 Colbeck St. CONTACT: 416-767-1401, www.runnymedechurch.org, info@ runnymedechurch.org COST: Free Traditional Christmas carols by candlelight, the Christmas story, hot apple cider and Christmas treats.

High Park Holiday Hike WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to noon WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: ajalberti@gmail.com COST: Free An easy ramble through the park with a stop for cider at historic Colborne Lodge. Casual socializing offering relief from holiday frenzy.

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Meditation for Daily Life WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. CONTACT: Kadampa Meditation Centre Canada, 416-762-8033, info@ kadampa.ca COST: $10/class $40/ five classes Healing ourself and others from within. These classes offer simple, practical methods to improve the quality of our life and develop inner peace. Each class consists of two guided meditations to let go of nega-

Dufferin Grove Park Wonderful Winter Craft Fair Fun Day WHEN: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Dufferin Grove Park, 875 Dufferin St. CONTACT: Ira Rabinovitch, iratating@yahoo.ca COST: Free

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Mystery Mayhem Author Readings WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Jane/ Dundas Library, 620 Jane St. CONTACT: COST: Free Mystery Mayhem brings together members of Crime Writers of Canada and mystery fans. Authors read from and discuss their work, and engage in lively conversation with the audience. This month’s authors are Gina Buonaguro and Gare Joyce, with host Sharon Crawford.

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West Bend Community Association Meeting WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Indian Road Crescent Public School, 285 Indian Rd Cres. CONTACT: 647-4788457, info@thewestbend.ca COST: Free West Bend Community Association (east of Keele and north of Bloor to CPR tracks) monthly residents meeting. New members welcome.

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moving in memory fit for a cause: Melanie Keyes works out at the Holly's ( J o n e s ) To y D r i v e a n d Aerobathon Sunday at Masaryk-Cowan Community Centre. Holly’s mom Maria has organized and hosted the event for the last 10 years in memory of her daughter.

Toys and food were collected for charity along with a twohour fitness class. All procceds benefited the The Dovercourt Boys and Girls Club.

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Organizing a community event?

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>>>from page 1 15,000 square-foot space,” Putnam told The Villager.

The Perth/Dupont library has been ranked as one of the city’s lowest circulation branches, however, there are waiting lists for almost every program. Those who frequent the library know it’s overcrowded. And so, as the city contemplated closing libraries in response to an independent consulting company’s report a few years ago, Junction Triangle residents rallied to create a public-private partnership to fund an expansion of their branch.

“Residents came together and worked with the councillor, who worked with the developer,” said Putnam, crediting Davenport Councillor Ana Bailão, who secured $1 million in Section 37 funding (money allocated for community use by developers), specifically from an

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Mazyar Mortazavi, president and CEO of Tas, attended Perth/Dupont library’s 35th anniversary event and was inspired to get involved in the project.

“For us, it’s part of our DNA, to be community builders first,” Mortazavi said.

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space to the library board for $1 million – even though it’s worth $3 million, Putnam said.

And, that money has already been allocated through Section 37 funds.

The remainder of the money needed to finish the interior will be made through the sale of the old library, he said, with the entire process will likely take three to four years.

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FRESH FRUIT MARKET HARVEST: Peter Underwood, a volunteer at the farmers’ market in the Runnymede Presbyterian Church at 680 Annette St. shows off one of this season’s fresh apples. The final market for the season is on Wednesday, Dec. 18, from 4 to 7 p.m.

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Decision on park expected in January >>>from page 1 by two city staff members who are not members of the parks department who will then send their recommendation to the manager of Parks, Forestry, and Recreation,” announced Doucette on her website.

“He will then make the final decision. We anticipate this being completed by the end of January 2014.”

Earlier, Jim Hart, general manager of the parks department wrote in a letter to the community that, “There have been conflicting park use issues that community members, users of the adjacent (Toronto District School Board) lands and area residents have clearly expressed and which we have been unable to resolve...

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been received about dogs off-leash outside the off-leash area and outside of the posted hours of operation and dog owners not complying with the requirement to stoop and scoop resulting in concerns of school children coming into contact with dogs off-leash and with dog feces.”

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Alex was first elected as Bloor West Village’s Chairperson in 1979. Over the years, he has spearheaded countless initiatives to promote local businesses, ensuring that local residents’ voices were always heard. In 2008, the Ontario Business Improvement Area Association presented Alex with it’s Life Time Achievement Award. Today, Toronto’s distinct neighbourhood BIAs owe much of their success to this small business icon who truly believes that successful local business enterprise comes from developing connections between business owners and its customers.

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There are several organizations within the community that could benefit from a little Christmas cheer from its neighbours. Groups like, Artsjunktion, a depot that receives and distributes donated materials and supplies free to Toronto District School Board (TDSB) staff, before and after-school care programs, daycare and parenting centres, even

high school students who use the donated materials for their visual art projects, said facilitator Eileen Orr. Its purpose is to recycle material that can be used to enrich classroom projects, in-school creations and to support students in the teaching of the TDSB curriculum.

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Representatives from The Boulevard Club brought a big cake and an even bigger cheque to their friends at the Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre (PARC) this month.

The Boulevard Club Gives Back, the charitable arm of The Boulevard Club, a private multi-sport, recreation and social club located in south Parkdale, raised $50,000 for PARC’s meal program.

Ann Geddes, general manager at The Boulevard Club, explained the Gives Back’s largest fundraising event of the year was held in October.

Money was raised through a silent auction, raffle and a live auction where members purchased meals for PARC members.

With the auction, Boulevard Club members - many of whom are from the Villager area - don’t take anything away with them, instead they were simply pledging anywhere between $300 for a month of meals to $3,600 for a year of meals for one person.

“For the second year in a row, the meals have brought in the largest portion of the funds,” Geddes said. developing connection After six years of working with PARC, Geddes said the Boulevard Club membership is developing a connection

with the members at PARC and this year, instead of a classic cheque presentation, representatives from Boulevard Club Gives Back came to PARC’s drop-in centre and shared a meal and cake.

PARC works with members on individual issues of poverty, mental health, addictions, homelessness and food security through four core areas of operation: a drop-in centre, a peer-support program, an outreach program, and supportive housing.

PARC chef Alain Levesque said in 2012 the organization served 77,000 meals.

The financial contribution of The Boulevard Club makes an enormous difference at PARC, he said.

“It keeps us afloat in the most basic sense,” Levesque said. “It gets divvied up in combination with other funding we get from the City of Toronto. It contributes to our ability to purchase food, it contributes to our ability to employ people like myself, other cooks and dishwashers.”

PARC receives a high volume of food from the Daily Bread Food Bank and Second Harvest, Levesque said.

“They provide the majority of the fresh food that we are able to serve, but we do have to purchase and supplement what we get from them in order to provide

a well-rounded nutritious meal,” said Levesque.

“We are well supported by our partners, but there are some definite gaps that The Boulevard Club helps us to close,” Levesque said.

Sheila Koffman, the owner of Another Story Book Shop and the co-chair of the board of directors at PARC, said it is important to PARC that every effort is made to get the best food for the members. Donations such as the $50,000 from The Boulevard Club Gives Back enables PARC to do that.

“They are supporting an organization that is so important and the food is such an important part of PARC,” Koffman said.

“Most of the people that are here might not even have a home, they might be on the street, they might live in a rooming house or a place where they don’t have the ability to make their own food.” donations needed PARC is seeking donations from the community to help provide PARC members with access to healthy and nutritious food.

A donation of $70 will provide one week of meals to a member during the holidays; $300 provides a full month of meals; and $3,650 will provide a full year of meals.

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Telling someone their office is having one is not betraying a secret.”

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only way you would do that is by telling somebody whose name you picked out of the hat to become their Secret Santa.”

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“If you can see it, touch it, smell it – it’s probably a municipal service,” ParkdaleHigh Park Councillor Gord Perks said at the 2014 City of Toronto Budget town hall meeting he hosted alongside colleague Parkdale-High Park Councillor Sarah Doucette earlier this month, the third budget meeting the two have presented. “The city you see is something we build together.”

A few dozen Wards 13 and 14 constituents gathered in the second floor staff room at Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School to talk to their councillors about the city’s proposed 2014 Operating Budget.

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increase, including residential and non-residential buildings is 1.3 per cent, said Perks about the tax supported operating budget. Council approved a special tax levy of 0.5 per cent for residential property tax and 0.17 per cent for non-residential properties to support the construction of the Scarborough subway, which results in a total 2014 property tax increase of 2.5 per cent on residential properties – an average of 64 extra dollars for a singlefamily dwelling, explained Perks. Despite the proposed increase, Toronto’s residential property tax remains one of the lowest of cities in Ontario.

“I think our residential tax rates are low. I think they’ll stay really low for the next while,” Perks said.

Breaking down the operating budget, the Ward 14 councillor pointed out that 20 per cent of funds go toward the Toronto Transit Commission

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Council will vote on the 2014 city budget Jan. 29 and 30.

“This upcoming budget will be another opportunity to implement the vision that we have for where our city should be going; about identifying not only the services we wish to have, but the principles on which we want our city to stand for,” said Bailao in a statement.

As this meeting approaches, Bailao is collecting her constituents’ feedback through her online budget survey and during a community telephone town hall Dec. 17 at 8 p.m.

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(TTC) while 3.7 per cent goes toward children’s services, including daycare, and 2.1 per cent is allocated for long-term care and services.

Perks broke down where residents’ tax dollars are going through a Power Point pre-

sentation. He cited Toronto Police Services ($656 million); TTC ($365 million), Toronto Fire Services ($279 million) and Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation ($195 million) as examples.

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new TTC rider,” Perks said.

“Transit ridership is setting record high ridership levels.”

More and more people are relying on ambulance services, and Perks said lives will be put at risk if the city doesn’t make the appropriate investments.

The 2014 budget proposes hiring an additional 56 paramedics next year and another 56 the following year and 57 positions in 2016 to improve response time to life-threatening emergency calls while reducing overtime pressures. The budget also proposes increasing the number of fire prevention officers while hosting more than 1,600 public education forums to promote fire safety.

“There will be new supports through the arts from the billboard tax,” Perks said.

“In neighbourhoods that have an above average number of people living in poverty, we’ll

create additional free programs at community centres.

Over the next several years, we’ll increase the number of priority centres.”

Next year’s budget includes increasing resources for the city’s planning staff. The planning department for the amalgamated City of Toronto is smaller than it was for the former City of Toronto, he said.

Other highlights include $6.3 billion to address ridership growth of the TTC and repair infrastructure and replace aging subways and streetcar; $535 million over the next decade to repair and maintain the Gardiner Expressway; and $15.6 million for the construction of the Toronto Zoo’s Wildlife Health Centre to provide modern, efficient and safe handling and care of animal patients.

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intermediate students from Catholic schools across the city participated in the annual event.

Teams of four students from more than 20 schools within the Toronto Catholic D i s t r i c t S c h o o l B o a rd (TCDSB) constructed their boat in the morning and then competed in both a speed and weight challenge in the swimming pool in the afternoon.

“We started with a lot of cardboard and a lot of tape,” said Joey Scamolla, a Grade 12 student at Bishop Marrocco, as he and his team scrambled to assemble their boat.

Asked what their strategy was in building a boat that could hold the four teammates during the weight challenge portion of the competition without sinking and keep two teammates afloat in the paddling portion of the competition without breaking apart, Scamolla said: “The lighter, the better.”

On the other side of the gymnasium, Julia Carrillo documented her team’s efforts snapping photographs as they built their “origamistyle” boat. The Blessed Mother Teresa team from Scarborough encountered a little bit of trouble initially, however, “their spirits are high,” Carrillo said.

Kiara Tonello, a Grade 11 student at St. Joseph’s Morrow Park Catholic Secondary School, said the goal is to design a boat that will make it to the end of the race without sinking. She and her team

Bishop Romero Catholic Secondary School's Mitchell Correia, left, Rodas Mesfun, and Jaedyn Charles stay as still as possible to keep their cardboard boat afloat at Bishop Morocco School last Wednesday. Below, the team’s boat tips, coming apart in the shallow end. Grade 10 students from the Toronto Catholic District School Board designed, built, raced, and then loaded their precarious vessels, with another team from Bishop Romero winning best overall for 2013.

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TTC offering free service for revellers New Year’s Eve If you’re going out on New Year’s Eve, leave the car at home and take transit - it won’t cost you a dime.

From 7 p.m. onwards on Dec. 31, all TTC service will be free until 7 a.m. Jan. 1.

The free ride is the result of a three-year partnership between the transit commission and Canadian alcohol distributing giant Corby Spirit and Wine which was announced this week. defends GO performance wMcCuaig

Metrolinx’s CEO defended GO Transit’s performance after a series of lengthy train delays last week.

Bruce McCuaig said none of the disruptions on Dec. 4 were caused by the transit agency, all of which took place during the evening commute and left some commuters stranded for hours. He said GO customer service acted quickly to inform customers of the delays and provide

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He also promised fare rebates for customers affected by the delays. GO service was disrupted because of separate incidents, starting with falling debris from a city bridge repair project on to the Stouffville line tracks in Scarborough, followed by a VIA Rail train stalling along the Lakeshore rail corridor which stranded riders headed east and west.

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The premier’s task force examining future transit funding options is set to make its findings public this week.

The group, made up of academics, planners, business professionals and citi-

zen members, was tasked by Premier Kathleen Wynne in the fall to evaluate how to come up with the entire $50 billion to fund the transit plan Metrolinx must complete within 25 years.

Panel chair Anne Golden will announce the final recommendations at the Toronto Board of Trade on Friday. want cycling funding wGreens

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The provincial party, which has no sitting members at Queen’s Park, called on the province to guarantee one per cent of future provincial transportation budgets for cycling and a further one per cent for improving walking infrastructure.

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