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LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com St. Clare’s Roman Catholic Church continues to play an important role in Antonella Albano’s life. The married mother of a two-year-old daughter has been attending the St. Clair Avenue and Dufferin Streetarea church since she was three years old. “It’s a part of us,” Albano, 37, told The Guardian. “I’m so used to going to church on Sunday morning; it feels weird if we don’t go. There’s a connection there – it’s about our faith and our church family.” It’s great for her daughter, Lidia, too, Albano added. “She’s growing up there with our friends’ kids,” she said. “(Going to church) is a nice way to end the week.” Albano’s parents were first generation immigrants to Canada. They came to Toronto, settling in what is now known as the Corso Italia neighbourhood soon after they were mar-

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ried. They were still learning English and took comfort in living in the Italian community, Albano said. She and her brother attended St. Clare Catholic Elementary School adjacent to the church. A year before she got married, Albano’s mother died. “We felt at home at the church during happy times and sad times,” Albano said, recalling how congregants rallied around her family when her mother died.

She shared her personal connection to the church in a written contribution to St. Clare’s Church: Celebrating 100 Years of Faith and Service, a hardcover book created by parishioners, which not only delves into the evolution of the church, but highlights the growth of the Catholic church in Toronto over the past century as well as the Corso Italia neighbourhood. The book celebrates the centenary of the parish, which took place in 2013, and

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chronicles the life and times of its community near Dufferin Street and St. Clair Avenue West. It boasts more than 300 colour and black-and-white archival photographs and candid shots of the faith community over the decades. “The project was initiated because of the 100 anniversary,” executive editor Christine Horgan said. “It a lot of detail about church history and the actual building. It also talks a lot about the interior, its stained glass windows, about some statues donated by a particular parishioner.” It tells the story of parish life, of picnics and dances, Horgan said, adding the book took two years to complete. “We started with nothing, but ended up with more information than we needed,” she said. Horgan told of a story the book committee uncovered about one of the church’s priests who started a ‘back to the land’ project during the Great Depression. He took a group of parishioners who were out of work up north to be taught how to be farmers. “The church is a microcosm of the history of Toronto,” Horgan said.

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More than three years after avid cyclist and Swansea Grade 2 teacher Tom Samson was killed by a hit and run driver, the man behind the wheel that day has been sentenced to six months in jail. Miguel Oliveira will serve only three-months of that sentence on weekends after receiving credit for the time he spent on bail. The sentence, handed down Tuesday, also includes a two-year driving ban and 240 hours of community service. Samson, 35, died after being struck at the corner of Davenport Road and Lansdowne Avenue on his way to school Nov. 23, 2012. A teacher at Swansea Public School for eight years, colleagues remembered him at the time of his death as a gentleman and practical joker with an infectious smile. He is survived by his wife and two children, who were seven and almost five at the time. He coached the boys’ basketball team and led the Swansea Sharks to several victories. “He will be remembered as a dedicated staff member, who over the years made so many strong connections with those he encountered,” then principal Karen Ridley told

The Villager in 2012. “Tom will be missed greatly by our entire school community.” Ridley recalled her friend and colleague as a funny guy, who was quick to smile. A practical joker, he’d arrive in the school office with an “applause metre” and “laugh box,” she said. Samson’s friends and family were in the courtroom as Superior Court Justice Faye McWatt delivered the sentence. “Based on the damage to Mr. Oliveira’s vehicle, he had to have known he hit the cyclist who eventually died and that, at the least, the cyclist was injured after the collision,” McWatt said. In the spring of 2013, Swansea P.S. students commemorated Samson with a tree planting and plaque unveiling at the top of the Rennie Park playing field. ‘For Mr. Samson,’ it reads. “Our dear teacher and friend. He taught us to share, play, learn, laugh and never to grow up all the way.’ His children, Evora and Oscar Samson, unveiled the plaque to commemorate their father as their mother and grandparents looked on. – Lisa Rainford, with files from Torstar News Service

Meeting on Davenport Diamond rail crossing Metrolinx will provide an update regarding the Davenport Diamond rail crossing at a meeting on Monday, Jan. 18. The meeting takes place at the Davenport Neighbourhood Centre, 1900 Davenport Rd., at 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. This meeting builds on

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ome mid-January, the post-holiday blues are in full effect as many have returned to their regular work schedule and the kids are back in school after time off. The festivities enjoyed just a couple weeks prior are nothing but a distant memory with the focus solely on surviving the winter that is now fully upon us. But what shouldn’t be so easily forgotten is all the goodwill Torontonians have shown throughout the Christmas season and the start of the new year. Charitable organizations as well as individuals who have requested for donations to be given to numerous worthy causes found their pleas answered. The numbers don’t lie. The North York Harvest Food Bank recently announced that it has hit its Winter Food Drive goal having raised $270,000 and 250,000 pounds of food. That’s enough to provide our view 750,000 meals to children and families in northern Toronto. The De Sario family, who live Help those near Keele Street and Sheppard who help Avenue, just tallied how much they raised with their annual others Christmas lights display consisting of 50,000 LED lights. Passersby opened their wallets during the month of December and the first week of January to the tune of nearly $16,000 for The Hospital for Sick Children. Across the city, residents and non-profit organizations also gave whatever the Syrian refugees who arrived in Canada this winter needed as they began to settle into their new adopted country. Embrace the challenge

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Mayor John Tory can take a lesson from Rob Ford on avoiding City of Toronto strikes Rob Ford caused his supporters a lot of grief over his term in the mayor’s office, but no one who voted for him had cause to complain about his mayoralty’s handling of labour relations. Unlike his two predecessors, Ford got through his tenure with just one strike: a short one, of library workers. Council under Ford’s leadership went so far as to end the possibility of work stoppage at the Toronto Transit Commission, convincing the province to turn the TTC into an essential service. And through it all: no garbage strike, no inside workers’ strike, nothing to trouble Torontonians’ summer holidays an iota. All other things being equal, this alone might have guaranteed the Ford family a key to the mayor’s office as long as they wanted. It was, after all, the discontent with the 40-day garbage strike presided

david nickle the city over by former mayor David Miller in 2009 that helped buoy Ford from his council seat to the mayoralty in 2010. The lesson – that job security for mayors and job security for garbage collectors can’t really coexist – was well-learned. It seems as though this too is the one positive lesson Mayor John Tory has taken from Ford. Because right before Christmas, just as Ford and his deputy mayor Doug Holyday did in their day, the new team asked for a labour conciliator just weeks after negotiations between the city and its outside workers began. This was a very effective strategy the last time the city used it. The conciliation process accelerates the timeline toward a possible

strike or lockout situation, making it impossible for the negotiators at CUPE Local 416 to time their work stoppage for the warm, potentially stinky, days of summer. That happens, and the city negotiators are under pressure from an increasingly exasperated public to settle. And politicians need to look no further than 2009 to understand the political cost of holding ground, as Miller and company did. Would matters be any easier watching garbage pile up in parks and parking lots in a mucky, rainy March? It’s likely we’ll never find out. With half the city’s garbage collection contracted out, there is a serious disincentive for outside workers to walk off the job when first, it’s damp, and second, nobody notices. That is likely why the city’s other major union, CUPE Local 79, held its

strike vote over the weekend. Toronto negotiators have so far not requested conciliation with its inside workers. And while they may have yet done so, as matters stood it would be easy to see a circumstance where both unions are negotiating contracts months apart from one another – so any labour disruption would only come from one element of city services and not both. But these are defensive maneuvers for unions that are in a losing battle with their employer. If Tory and council somehow find themselves facing a strike or ordering a lockout, Ford’s reliable if often off-base criticisms of his successor will finally have some real bite. David Nickle is The Villager’s city hall reporter. His column appears Thursdays. Reach him on Twitter: @DavidNickle

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Read plays aloud at Annette Street Library Do you like reading aloud? How about theatre? Then you may wish to join a free community play-reading group Saturday, Jan. 16 at the Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. It meets from 1 to 4 p.m. Led by theatre-lover/actor Carina Cojeen, this group will read plays together monthly for four months. This instalment will read from Angels in America by Tony Kushner. For further details, call the library at 416-393-7692. about The Stop’s farmers’ market wLearn

Cookie Roscoe, founder and manager of The Stop Community Food Centre farmers’ market at Artscape Wychwood Barns, will be speaking at an event hosted by Green Neighbours 21 Monday, Jan. 18 at 7 p.m. She’ll be discussing what it’s like to run the market, deemed one of the best in the city. Take part in talking with Roscoe about the market’s past and future, the challenges in

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join green 13 to save great lakes Environmental advocacy group Green 13 presents ‘Working

Together to Save the Great Lakes,’ a free discussion with Nicola Crawhall, the deputy director of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative. The presentation takes place Thursday, Jan. 21 at the Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave., at 7 p.m. This is a bi-national coalition of 118 mayors who work together to protect and restore the great lakes and St. Lawrence. Crawhall will be speaking about the importance of protecting the great lakes from threats such as microbeads, phosphorus loadings and algae in Lake Erie, and how climate change is a game-changer for the way we must protect the lakes. For further information, visit www.green13toronto.org back in time at colborne lodge, kids wtravel

Children can travel back in time and explore life at Colborne Lodge from almost 200 years ago as part of a Time Traveller PA Day Camp Friday, Jan. 22 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Campers, ages seven to 10,

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Melody Johnson is directing a comedy musical, ‘One Night Only: The Greatest Musical Never Written,’ a show that’s improvised using audience suggestions.

Actor-director-comedian Melody A. Johnson promises her latest work will be a “raucous,” “unique” and “fun” night out. Kliffer Entertainment and Golden Ages Productions’ presents One Night Only: The Greatest Musical Never Written, a musical comedy that follows the conventions of a scripted show, yet is entirely improvised – no one production is the same. Johnson directs. “I’ve never done anything like this. It’ll be different every night,” Johnson told

The Villager. The Greatest Musical Never Written opens Wednesday, Jan. 27 and runs until Sunday, Feb. 14 at Factory Theatre Mainspace. What truly sets the show apart is that it will be completely improvised by the audience’s spontaneous suggestions. Determining the show’s musical styles, genres and types, keeping the improvisors up to speed, and deciding where in the show a certain song is needed will all be part of Johnson’s job. “I’ll be backstage logging suggestions from the audience,” she said. “I’ll guide (the performers) much like

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Swansea Book Club WHEN: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7638, swstaff@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free The theme of Swansea Memorial Library’s book club this winter is “Paris”. Read three wonderful books and discuss them with a group of bibliophiles like yourself. The books will be provided to you when you register! Swing Dance Society Dance WHEN: 7:30 to 11:45 p.m. WHERE: Lithuanian Hall, 1573 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: www.TorontoSwingDanceSociety.ca COST: members $8, non-members $12 All styles of swing dancing plus a lesson in Country 2 Step taught by Mark Read. No partner required. Beginner lesson from 7:45 to 8:30 p.m. Intermediate lesson from 8:30 to 9 p.m.

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Electronic Waste Collection WHEN: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: Free Annette Street Public Library and irecyclecomputers.com host an Inorganic Market for electronic waste. Saturday Knitting WHEN: 3 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416393-7692 COST: Free Bring your own supplies. Limited instruction.

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After School Club WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane St. CONTACT: Kara, 416394-1014 COST: Free Join the After School Club and learn new things, make stuff, meet other kids and have fun. January’s theme is “Spy School”. For children ages six to 12.

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PAIL Network Bloor West Peer Support WHEN: 7 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Bloor and Parkside area CONTACT: Lynn Davis, 1-888-301-7276, www.pailnetwork.ca, support@pailnetwork.ca COST: Free PAIL Network is an organization of volunteers who support families who have suffered pregnancy and infant loss. Please inquire about One to One Telephone Support if you are unable to attend. Shocking Truths Seminar WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. CONTACT: www.ismyhomesafe.ca, 1-855-569-1818 COST: Free Homeowners can learn about protecting their homes. Frank Cohn from the home improvement show on Newstalk 1010 will be there too to share some wisdom. Call or visit website to pre-register attendance.

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Poetry Slam WHEN: 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane St. CONTACT: Kara, 416-394-1014 COST: Free Spoken word poetry artist and 2014 World Poetry Slam Champion Ikenna “OpenSecret” Onyegbula has performed his work across the country. He will be leading a poetry slam workshop for youth, 13 to 24 years of age. The workshop will provide youth with mentorship and artistic development opportunities, while allowing them to showcase their artistic poetic talent on stage, and develop their leadership skills. Registration is required. Pick up an application from the library today. www.kadampa.ca, 416-762-8033, info@ kadampa.ca COST: $12, or $40 for four classes Four week series. Perfect for beginners. Discover the benefits of meditation and develop inner peace.

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PA Day Camp WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside Dr. CONTACT: Mallory Parks, 416-392-1748, http:// highparknaturecentre.com/pa-day-camp/, mallory@highpark.org COST: $50 Get ‘em outside. Kids will be exploring outdoors, making crafts and learning about nature.

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Captain Canuck gains sidekick to stop crime Crime Stoppers has teamed up with a Canadian comic book hero to raise awareness of the crime-fighting program. Captain Canuck, first published in 1975, will now have a secondary character called Crime Stopper. Toronto Crime Stoppers coordinator Det. Chris Scherk said the partnership promotes the program’s message to a younger audience, which it normally doesn’t reach. “I don’t expect them (young children) to pick up the phone and call Crime Stoppers,” he said. “But the fact that they already know what the program is about, when they’re in a position later on in life, (they’d) be able to pick up the phone and make that call. It’ll already be entrenched.” The partnership was announced Thursday, Jan. 7, at Toronto police headquarters where Captain Canuck repelled down the ten-storeyhigh atrium as Chief Mark Saunders, Mayor John Tory and Grade 4 students from

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Comic book character Captain Canuck displays a special issue at police headquarters during the launch of a new Crime Stoppers initiative.

Market Lane Junior and Senior Public School looked on. Asked what his message to the children is, Captain Canuck said “look after each other, look after your families, and if everybody is doing the best that they can, we’ll have a safer city, and I’ll have less work to do.” Scherk noted he had the Captain Canuck comics when he was a kid.

“I have a couple of them still in a box somewhere at home, so it was kind of cool for me to see the character make a resurgence.” The Crime Stopper character will appear in three to five issues. Saunders said the new initiative “can strike conversations in the house with parents with children on the importance of community safety, the steps that they can take to help keep their neighbourhoods safe.” In 2015, Toronto Crime Stoppers received 8,790 tips, leading to 107 arrests, 439 charges and the seizure of more than $7.3 million in drugs. “They’re not the highest numbers we’ve ever had. They’re not the lowest. They’re good numbers,” Scherk said. Since 1984, the program generated 124,947 tips, allowing police to lay 36,896 charges against 10,839 people and seize more than $312 million worth of drugs. -Andrew Palamarchuk

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