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West and Dufferin streets-area resident, is one of 19 carded athletes vying for a spot at the tournament, what would be his first-ever Pan Am Games appearance. “It’s a huge honour, something I dream about,” Lucas told The Villager, “to be able to play at home in front of family and friends. It’s really exciting.” Hammond’s fate is in the hands of his coach who will select the team’s roster. He says he won’t find out if he’s playing in the Games until roughly three weeks beforehand. “It’s very nerve-wracking; >>>hammond, page 8

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Awareness of the city’s heritage places is low, admitted Dr. Lawrence Ostola, Toronto’s director of museum and heritage services. While at a recent event hosted by one of the 10 city-owned and operated museums, a woman remarked to Ostola, ‘I just found

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LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Buoyed by a Milton-based chicken processing plant’s ability to prevent odours from seeping into the nearby neighbourhood, a Junction Triangle factory says it endeavours to implement the same state-of-the-art technology. Nitta Gelatin Canada Inc. spokespeople assured local residents at a community meeting Tuesday the company continues to do all it can to eradicate odour, including fast-tracking the installation of new technology and hiring a process engineer to focus solely on the odour issue. “At the end of the day, we’re trying to get the odours down. We’re not going to wash our hands of this,” said Steve Boudreau, director of regulatory and quality affairs at Nitta Gelatin. Located at 60 Paton Rd. in the Bloor Street West and Lansdowne Avenue-area, Nitta Gelatin Canada specializes in the production

of bovine, porcine and fish gelatins, as well as collagen peptides for a variety of uses, including food, nutritional, pharmaceutical, cosmeceutical and technical. The process of extracting collagen from pig skin is what causes the odour. The company has already invested a significant amount of money to reduce the smell and is working with the Ministry of Environment (MOE). “I’ve looked at a number of different odour control technologies and spoke to companies that use them,” said Philip Shyu, Nitta Gelatin process engineer. What he found especially promising is the one used in Milton, which relies on a hydroxyl generator that uses UV light to break down water molecules to clean and deodorize the environment. It treats the air in the building before it goes out, Boudreau explained. In September, the MOE granted Nitta Environmental Compliance Approval.

By law, the company must get a certificate of approval to operate its factory. Anytime it makes a change in its efforts to reduce the smell, the MOE must grant its approval. As part of this approval, the company must undertake source testing, a scientific method to determine the rates of emissions, and implement an odour reduction plan. They have until March. “We’ve been in constant communication with the company,” said the MOE’s Jamila Dhanji. “We’re ensuring the company takes the appropriate measures.” Yet local residents who gathered at the meeting held at Davenport MPP Cristina Martins’ constituency office, remain wary. The odour – frequent and intermittent – which homeowners say smells like feces, has been causing them grief for years. “We want quality of life. We want to sit outside, to open our windows. We don’t want to gag when we’re outside,” said a resident, who applauded the company for its goal to completely eliminate the odour.

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Though rare, contact voltage can occur around electrical fixtures in winter, says Toronto Hydro Cynthia reason creason@insidetoronto.com

og walkers beware: the wet and icy sidewalks of winter could pose more than the risk of slick and slippery conditions, but, mingled with salt, could also present serious shock hazards for your four-legged friends. Although rare, incidents of contact voltage – stray electricity that may be present on the surface of outdoor structures such as streetlighting equipment, street signs and other energized fixtures – are especially dangerous for pets, and especially during the winter, said Toronto Hydro spokesperson Tanya Bruckmueller. “It’s more animals that are affected because they’re barefoot, and also because we just have two feet and they have four...Electricity looks for a path, and with pets, they always have two feet on the ground while walking, which provides a path or an arc for electricity,” Bruckmueller said. “ What happens with electricity is it likes salty, wet, conductive conditions, so generally in the winter is when we see incidents of this, if we did. When it’s salty and wet and you have metal equipment, it’s all very conductive.” With that in mind, Toronto Hydro is once again urging all pedestrians – but especially those out walking

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provide protection from snow, ice and road salt, there is no research to indicate that they safeguard pets from contact voltage. In fact, wet boots may increase conductivity and the risk of electric shock. Similarly, humans walking with wet boots are also at an increased risk. The best defence is to avoid any electrical equipment and step around metal covers. This includes watching where your pets and children are walking.

dogs – to exercise increased caution while maneuvering the snow-covered sidewalks around any and all electrical equipment, including streetlights, handwells (small metal or polymer plates covering underground wiring for streetlights), bus shelters, lighted signage, garage doors and even holiday lighting. Such street equipment can sometimes become energized by stray voltage caused by aging and/or corroded infrastructure, or by wires dislodged by the vibrations from heavy traffic at street level or the subway underground. Anyone who comes into contact with any such energized equipment is strongly urged by Toronto Hydro to “Stop, Clear and Call!” If you come across an instance of contact voltage, your pet may freeze and collapse. Some animals have reportedly suffered from seizures and muscle contractions, while in more severe cases, other animals have experienced respiratory distress or failure. Toronto Hydro advises pet owners faced with such an occurrence to assess the situation for existing hazards before acting. “It may be your first instinct to grab a person or pet in distress, but this may pass the electric current to you, rendering you both incapable of seeking help,” the electricity provider cautions in its online fact sheet, available at http://

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Dogs are at a higher risk because they walk with two paws on the ground at all times. This provides a better path for electricity to travel. This danger is intensified as dogs usually walk with wet and exposed paws. That said, contact voltage may even pose a risk to humans. The best defence is to avoid any electrical equipment and step around metal covers. This includes watching where your pets and children are walking and keeping your dog on a leash.

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Dogs are more susceptible to electric shock from things like metal handwell lids. Give them wide berth – and if your dog does get shocked, follow the stop-clear-call procedure.

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your pet from the hazard by pulling the leash or use another non-conductive object,” the Toronto Hydro fact sheet also advises. As with any emergency, Toronto Hydro urges anyone who comes in contact with contact voltage to call 911 for immediate assistance, as Toronto Emergency Services are trained to deal with elec-

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e’ve argued in these pages many times before that Torontonians will get the transit they pay for. The city’s transit woes are many; the solutions will need to be multi-pronged and include the input (and funds) of all three levels of government. So Mayor John Tory’s recent transit announcement – basically a fare increase, children 12 and under ride for free, and the promise of service improvements – must be lauded as at least an attempt to come up with some solutions. Despite campaigning on the promise to not raise transit fares, the user-pay approach to keeping transit moving versus a property tax increase is a safe option, but not necessarily a courageous one. As the cost of running Toronto’s transit system rises, fares will have to increase, but property taxes may need to rise as well and alternative funding addressed. Transit Bonds are just one idea. And with that inevitable increase, it’s not a stretch our view to demand more bang for our transit buck. Demand more Tory’s Monday announcement offered some of this added value: value for our 50 new buses; restoring all-day, increasing buck everyday bus services that were cut in 2011; 10-minute or better bus and streetcar service. But there needs to be more in order to make the current and future increases at the fare box less frustrating. For instance, a monthly Metropass will now cost $141.50 – it’s getting quite expensive to travel the TTC. For weekday cash commuters who drop $6 a day on transit, it works out to roughly $120 in a four-week month. Unfortunately there are few options for those without a car. Last week’s GO Transit and TTC announcement that an extra $60 GO transit sticker can be purchased so transit users can ride GO when the TTC is busy is not the way to sweeten the transit pie. Soon it won’t be enough to merely add two subway trains on lines 1 and 2 during morning and afternoon rush hours, all-door boarding, or 12 extra routes to the Express Bus network. Riders deserve more: a properly integrated GO and TTC pass, perhaps a two-hour ride-anywhere ticket so people heading out for quick grocery shopping can do so. Torontonians have to get used to the fact that transit will cost everyone more money. And politicians need to understand that any extra increases at the fare box or on our property taxes must be accompanied by something tangible to offset asking more money from residents.

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Mayor John Tory’s short-term progressive budget touts a better life for Torontonians

he first budget of a term of council is often an easy one to swallow. In 2011, it was such an easy budget that Rob Ford could get away with freezing property taxes, eliminating the vehicle registration fee and demanding that TTC fares be frozen, all thanks to a reserve squirrelled away from the previous administration. In 2015, Mayor John Tory is faced with a similar gift set. There is no surplus – the last time Toronto used a prior year surplus to balance the budget was 2012. The land transfer tax – which former Mayor Ford generously failed to eliminate – has come in at a staggering $425 million, $50 million more than finance staff anticipated. Ontario Premier Wynne and Mayor Tory are well-

david nickle the city disposed to one another – something that could not be said former Mayor Ford and former Premier McGuinty – so odds are good that the city will receive $85 million in help from Ontario. And unlike former Mayor Ford, Mayor Tory has felt no need to deliver a property tax freeze. Instead, Tory has done the opposite – and increased service levels to what seems like a luxurious degree, and charged Toronto residents appropriately. Buses will run more regularly and subway trains more frequently and children under 12 will ride the TTC for free; there will be more resources to save

the homeless from freezing cold nights and more shelter beds available all the time; traffic-clogging road work will finish up more quickly. And Torontonians will pay more. There’s an inflationary tax increase of 2.25 per cent that goes up slightly above Toronto’s rate of inflation when the 0.5 per cent Scarborough subway levy is added in (which it is). Non-children will be paying another 10 cents to ride the TTC. User fees are on the rise, as the city charges more for household garbage collection and hikes fees for renting ice by 7.25 per cent and premium sports field fees by 12.5 per cent. Pushing increases like that would have been bad medicine indeed for most mayors in Toronto’s recent history – and this may turn

out to be the case for Tory but I suspect it won’t. Tory made the point at a lunch-hour speech that his predecessor – that being Rob Ford, now Councillor for Etobicoke North – raised fees and taxes more marginally while at the same time reducing service. And that is not what’s going on here. Tory wants to be seen as fiscally prudent, but what he is selling along with that is the good life – or at least a better life – for constituents. It is at least in the short term a very progressive budget coming from a darling of council conservatives. It will likely pass as easily as it was, say, for Richard Nixon to visit China. David Nickle is The Villager’s city hall reporter. His column appears Thursdays. Reach him on Twitter: @DavidNickle

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Support Break for Play at upcoming kids’ fest A Bloor West Kids Fest takes place at Runnymede P.S. Saturday, Jan. 24. There will be face painting, balloon artistry, a silent auction, bake sale and performance by the Space Chums. Admission is $8 per person - no charge for “babes in arms.” All funds raised will go toward Break for Play, a non-profit, co-operative play group, which provides affordable programming for families in the community. From 10 a.m. to noon. Contact the school, 357 Runnymede Rd., at 416-3939055. too early to think about summer camp wnot

Swansea Town Hall will host a summer camp information fair, Jan. 25 from 2 to 4 p.m. Meet with directors of many of Ontario’s children’s camps. Bring the family and check out this free camp information

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to sketch the woodlands of high park wlearn your vocal chords with choir wstretch The High Park Nature Centre presents lessons in drawings for three sessions in January. Take part in the sessions: Jan. 25 from 1 to 4 p.m., Jan. 27 from 6 to 9 p.m. and Jan. 29 from 6 to 9 p.m. Practice looking closely at winter woodlands to create intricate sketchbook pages. Learn how to draw intriguing winter specimens from High Park trails, like pine cones, wasp nests, twigs and buds, seed, bark and more. Contact the Nature Centre at highparknaturecentre.com for details.

The Shout Sister Choir is seeking new members. The choir takes an unorthodox approach to choral singing – it does not audition and sings a variety of music from pop to Motown and folk to country and blues. New members are always welcome to join at any time at Emmanuel Howard Park United Church, 214 Wright Ave. Next practice is Feb. 4 from 7 to 9 p.m. Visit www.shoutsisterchoir. ca for details.

green thumbs welcome to horticultural night The Swansea Horticultural Society meets Wednesday, Jan. 28 at the Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave., in the Rousseau Room. Donna French will present

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Lisa Anita Wegner, left, helps Nolan Georgakopoulos, 5, create his first-ever professional piece of art which will be on display at Parkdale's Gallery 1313 until the end of the month.

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Vegetarian Dinner at Soup ‘n Such Cafe WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Soup and Such Cafe, 2285 Dundas St. W. CONTACT: Vegetarians of High Park, www.highparkveg.wordpress.com, highpark@veg.ca COST: Pay for your own meal Dinner at Soup and Such Cafe, a vegan-friendly cafe. Enjoy fresh made soups, salads, chili, quinoa salad and even vegan yogurt available. Toronto Vegetarian Association members, you get 10 per cent off with the Toronto Vegetarian Card. will provide insights into effective community organizing based on his decade of experience managing media, branding and outreach efforts, including the Homegrown National Park Project.

w Monday, Jan. 26

Community Lunch for Seniors WHEN: 12:30 to 2 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. CONTACT: Shirley at Silver Circle, 416-653-3535 ext. 240 COST: $5 per meal Enjoy good company and a nutricious meal, including soup, sandwich, juice, dessert and tea or coffee. Call to reserve your spot.

w Tuesday, Jan. 27

Junction Seniors Gathering WHEN: 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. WHERE: Agora Cafe, 3015 Dundas St. W CONTACT: Eleanor Batchelder, 647-

235-0843, http://www.junctionra.ca/ junction-seniors/, eob62@yahoo.com COST: Free We meet twice a week at a local coffee shop for conversation, as a social network of neighbours. Tuesday mornings at the above location and Friday afternoons 2-3 p.m. at Pascal’s, 2904 Dundas St. W. All welcome. Book Tasting at the High Park Library WHEN: 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: High Park Library, 228 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: Jessica Rovito, jessica.rovito@gmail.com COST: Free In celebration of Family Literacy Day, come out for a special book tasting event you’re sure to remember. Visit our library’s restaurant (the community room) where you can sample (read a few pages from a book) and order (borrow) different genres of

books from the menu. Story hour 2:30-3:30 p.m. Whet your appetite with stories about food from around the world. Photo Booth 3:30-4:30 p.m.

w Wednesday, Jan. 28

Weekly Meditation Classes in Bloor West WHEN: 6:45 to 8:15 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. CONTACT: Kadampa Meditation Centre Canada, 416-762-8033, info@kadampa.ca COST: $10/class, $40/5 class pass These meditation classes are drop-in and no pre registration is required. The classes are offered through Kadampa Meditation Centre Canada at the Swansea Town Hall. Although presented in series, each class is self-contained, includes two guided meditations and a talk, and can be attended individually.

w Sunday, Feb. 1

The Naked Trees of Winter WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to noon WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor Street West CONTACT: highparkwalkingtours@ yahoo.ca COST: Free A walk through High Park with an Urban Forester to learn how trees survive the winter and how to identify them without leaves. Meet at the benches near Grenadier Restaurant.

w Wednesday, Feb. 4

Free Drama Class WHEN: 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. WHERE: Windermere United Church, 356 Windermere Ave. CONTACT: Katie Mior, 416-769-5611 COST: Free Windermere United Church offers a drama program for children ages six to 12. Take place Wednesdays until June. Participants will explore storytelling through music, text and movement. The class project will be a musical version of The Three Little Pigs, which will be presented at the end of the session in June. Brian Stevens will be the instructor. Meet Author Velvet Haney WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Bloor/ Gladstone library, 1101 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: Melanie Ribau, 416-3937674, mribau@torontopubliclibrary. ca COST: Free Author and former model Velvet Haney reads from her debut graphic memoir “The Mousehouse Years,” the turbulent story of a dysfunctional romance, a single mother raising six children and a childhood filled with adversity and adventure, set primarily in the slums of 1960’s Toronto.

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Join the discussion about Toronto’s 2015 Budget The City of Toronto delivers over 150 different services. The Operating Budget determines which programs and services the City will offer and how much the City will raise and spend within a year. The Capital Budget & Plan provides funding for the facilities and infrastructure required to deliver those services. Staff-recommended budgets are now being considered by the Budget Committee for recommendation to the Executive Committee and City Council. Review the proposed 2015 Budget by visiting toronto.ca/council or toronto.ca/budget2015. To participate in the 2015 Budget discussion: 1. Make a public presentation at one of the Budget Subcommittee meetings on February 2 or 3, 2015. Register by email to buc@toronto.ca or by calling 416-392-4666 before 4 p.m. on January 30. Indicate your choice of location, date and session number. Individuals may make only one presentation at any one of the consultation sessions. City Hall Committee Room 1 100 Queen St. West February 2 Session 1 – 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Session 2 – 6 p.m. onwards

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in it together: Willa Silver, left, actor and comedian Andrea Martin and Bloor West Village Residents' Association (BWVRA) secretary Krista Wiley get together during the BWVRA fundraising dinner held last Wednesday at Queen's Pasta. The actor lent her support to help raise money to fight the proposed development at Bloor Street West and Durie Street.

2. Send your written comments about the 2015 Budget to the Budget Committee. Email: buc@toronto.ca. Fax: 416-392-1879, Attention: Budget Committee. Mail: Attention: Budget Committee,Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St. W., 10th floor, WestTower,Toronto, ON M5H 2N2. 3. Send a letter or email concerning the 2015 Budget to your local City Councillor. For information on how to contact your City Councillor, please call 311, TTY: 416-338-0TTY (0889), email 311@toronto.ca or visit toronto.ca. Notice: If you write or make a presentation to the Budget Committee, the City will collect and use your personal information in accordance with applicable laws. We also videotape meetings and make recordings publicly available on request. More information about the collection and use of your personal information is available at: http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/privacy.htm.

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Exhibits are becoming increasingly interactive and innovative: Ostola >>>from page 1 say, ‘I went to Fort York in Grade 3. What’s changed?’ There’s a perception we need to change.” During his talk about the future of Toronto’s museums and heritage properties, Ostola cited the book, Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv. Louv deduces children no longer interact with nature like they used to. “To some extent, there’s an historic deficit – is there more we should be doing? What are the roles of local historic institutions,” Ostola said. He acknowledged that Toronto’s museums face intense competition, with so many other options for entertainment available. “Where do museums fit in? How do we engage new audiences? Toronto is incredibly diverse,” he said. “How do we engage new residents and others we haven’t attracted in the past?” Technology has a role to play in promoting awareness of heritage properties, said Ostola, who added Toronto is not unique in its plight. The key is to think of the city’s museums and heritage sites in non-traditional ways. Each site has its own characteristics and different audiences. A lesser known fact is that Toronto owns 40 heritage properties – roughly 100 buildings are occupied by third parties, such as

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Steam Whistle Brewery, which operates out of the historic Roundhouse on John Street, he said. On a visit several years ago to the Fortress of Louisbourg, a partial reconstruction of an 18th-century French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Ostola said he saw some children, who were visiting, being told they couldn’t explore a certain room because it was roped off. “Why not engage them? In many places, we should get rid of barriers. It’s so much more of an experience to interact in an historic environment than to see it behind glass or barriers,” he said. Museum and heritage services now has a social media presence. It’s on Facebook and Twitter – “we have to speak to new audiences and use different forms of communication,” Ostola said. It is experimenting with a new program, which will “hopefully” be rolled out this summer, where visitors to Fort York will be able to interact with

animated historical figures. Museum and Heritage Services boasts a wide range of innovative programs and exhibitions. In March, Spadina Museum hosted the exhibit ‘Dressing for Downton,’ featuring the costumes of one of the most popular and critically acclaimed period dramas, ‘Downton Abbey.’ The exhibit featured 20 costumes from the production, a selection of dresses and accessories from the City of Toronto collection of the same era and Downton Abbeythemed tours of the restored house. The sold-out event inspired another one, The Gatsby Garden Party featuring live music, a ukulele jam and dancing, during which visitors took a trip back to the roaring ’20s. There are multiple uses for Toronto’s museums. For example, there’s a weekly farmers’ market at Montgomery’s Inn, pointed out Ostola. “We rent our places out for weddings, he said, highlighting Spadina Museum. One resident asked if museum and heritage services has a partnership with Toronto Public Library. This, he said, would be helpful in boosting its outreach. While there isn’t an overall, official partnership, sites like Fort York are partnering with its nearest branch to put on an exhibit. Follow Toronto’s museum and heritage services on Facebook: Toronto’s Historic Sites (operated by the City of Toronto) and Twitter: @TOhistoricsites

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Open mic night coming to Baka Gallery Café next month First performance night set for Friday, Feb. 6 A former musician-turned real estate agent has partnered with a local cafe to host a monthly open mic night in Bloor West Village. Disappointed in the lack of places to listen to artists in an intimate, family-like setting, Ernie Guidoccio said he was inspired after visiting Baka Gallery Cafe on Bloor Street

West at Beresford Avenue. The cafe has a second-floor gallery-lounge that few people even know about, he said. “I thought, it’d be great to have music there – it’s got a great intimate atmosphere,” Guidoccio told The Villager. That’s when he approached the

owner about hosting a regular music night, who agreed to donate the space on a monthly basis. The first open mic night takes place Friday, Feb. 6 from 8 to 11 p.m. Guidoccio will be joined by some of his musician friends. They’ll be playing acoustic guitar, mandolin, violin and the African Djembe drum

– all acoustic instruments. All levels of musicianship and talent are welcome. If you would like to perform, contact Guidoccio at ernieg@royallepage.ca Open mic night takes place on the first Friday of every month. Baka Gallery Cafe can be found at 2256 Bloor St. West. Email contactus@ bakacafe.com for details. – Lisa Rainford

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