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New Supt. Heinz Kuck feels right at home in 11 Division

Born in Parkdale, 35-year veteran also served his first uniformed deployment in 11 Division

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ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com A Jane Jacobs approach to policing, that is how Heinz Kuck, the new superintendent of Toronto Police Service 11 Division, describes his approach to keeping the streets safe.

In his 35-year career, Kuck said one of the most memorable moments was back in 2001 when he had the opportunity to sit down with Jane Jacobs, author and activist best known for her influence on urban studies. They talked about urban reclamation, urban crime and community partnerships with police, which has guided his policing philosophy ever since.

“If you have small issues like broken windows, graffiti, abandoned buildings, autos, garbage, mattresses in the laneway, that disorder lets people know that the community doesn’t care,” Kuck said.

“And the next level being brought in there is more serious crime like street corner drug dealing, gang activity, robberies and sexual assaults and from that we then manifest to urban decline.”

Jacobs spoke to him about the importance of the community taking ownership and pride in its public spaces and of having eyes on the street.

“You want people out walking on the street,” Kuck said. “When you have a collectivity of likeminded people filling the streets and coming out of their homes you have reduced crime.” ‘community partners’ In addition to standard policing, Kuck said it is important for officers to connect with ward councillors about improving streets, garbage clean-up and going to the different business improvement area (BIA) groups about crime prevention through environmental design.

It is with all this in mind that beginning at the end of this month, Kuck has made a directive to massage the way community response officers, the officers seen on foot and on bikes, do their job and increasing the ownership those officers feel over the area. They will be responsible, through dialogue with community partners, to iden-

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Heinz Kuck (left) the new superintendent of 11 Division with Jane Jacobs in 2001. Kuck takes a Jacobs approach to policing, with a focus on reclamation, urban crime and community partnerships with police.

tify emerging trends of concern.

“Whether that is crime based with youth or seniors, fraud, drugs, disorder, whatever it might be, they will identify those emerging trends and then with community partners design and develop a solution both short-term and long-term,” Kuck said.

He also plans to expand on the division’s “force multiplying” which means getting assets and resources outside of what the division would normally get including the mounted officers, canine officers and more auxiliary officers.

“As a police division we cannot act one-dimensionally in keeping a community safe and making decisions on how we do that,” Kuck said.

“We have finite resources and finite funding and one of the greatest gifts given to a police organization is the gift by the community and what they bring in as a partner.”

Decisions he makes in keeping the division safe won’t just be made

from a police perspective, Kuck said. But they will be made while taking into account the wisdom of the people living and breathing and raising their families here.

“Those are the people I want to tap into and what they feel and see as the critical issues,” Kuck said.

“I want the police in partnership with the community to follow their direction.”

Local outreach On Friday, March 21 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hallelujah Fellowship Baptist Church on Pacific Avenue, 11 Division officers will come together with the congregation and the area community to celebrate the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Along with the Community Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) Kuck said the police have set priorities of raising money for the annual scholarship, cyclist safety and applying focus to CPLC meetings.

A veteran of the Toronto Police Service, Kuck took the helm at 11 Division on Jan. 1. But he isn’t just parachuting into the area, and in fact, Kuck has deep roots in 11 Division.

Born at St. Joseph’s Hospital in 1960 Kuck’s family lived on Symington Avenue, within 11 Division. They moved out of the area shortly after Kuck was born, but his father was employed by the City of Toronto Parks Department to work in High Park in the green house.

“High Park became a family focal point,” Kuck said. “Oftentimes on weekends in the spring and summer, we would go to High Park and go to the zoo, Grenadier Pond and walk around.”

Kuck joined the Toronto Police Service in 1979 as a police cadet and was made a constable in 1981.

Back then, training involved going to Police College in Aylmer, Ont., and midway through the training cadets would be deployed to the front line for experience.

“The division where I had my very first uniformed deployment, taste of the street, was 11 Division, at the old station,” Kuck said.

After his training was completed he was assigned to 14 Division where he worked for 17 years, first as a constable, then a sergeant.

Kuck was then promoted to staff sergeant and transferred to 53 Division where he spent seven years before returning to 11 Division as an inspector.

“It was a nice return to get back to the division,” Kuck said.

Kuck spent a couple of years there as the second-in-command and had a great opportunity to reconnect with the community, he said. ‘full circle’ The next stop on his trajectory was 51 Division where he spent four years as an inspector before being promoted to 53 Division as a staff inspector where he spent the last two years.

“On Jan. 1, I was promoted to superintendent and the chief made, in my opinion, one of his best decisions, to send me here,” Kuck said with a laugh. “For me it was a sense of coming full circle.”

He hopes to finish his career here in 11 Division and round out his contribution by doing all he can to make it the safest place in the city, Kuck said.

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orontonians hoping to fill their bellies with flavours representative of our diverse city may be disappointed with the city’s long-awaited menu of food truck bylaw amendments.

While foodies (and truck owners) waited to see what Toronto’s new ‘food renaissance’ would look like, Monday’s proposal seems to have been served undercooked.

The proposal would allow food trucks to sell from all pay-and-display parking spaces on major and minor arterial roads and in parking lots, as long as they are 50 metres or more from a bricks-and-mortar restaurant and 30 metres from school property.

And no more than two trucks on any given block.

This may seem like a victory for food truck movement and our view ourthe taste buds, but is it?

The proposal by city bureauLet residents crats appears to give an advantage to restaurateurs. It would decide success also allow councillors and BIAs of food trucks to ask the city to ban the trucks from a particular area.

Most cities in North America have a buffer between trucks and restaurants. Setting the buffer at 50 metres seems high, but better than the 100 to 200 metres restaurant groups wanted.

Why so many obstacles in a city that prides itself on being multicultural, that prides itself on its burgeoning restaurant scene?

Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain even paid a visit to our fine city for some gastronomic delights and enjoyed himself.

But, while the rest of North America seems to be moving forward on this culinary quest, Toronto sets up more obstacles to success.

We raise a cautious hand, as we recall the city’s failed 2010 a la Cart experiment, which saw some vendors lose a lot of money due to the bureaucratic red tape. City hall should not be over-thinking the food truck movement. It should regulate it, hold it to the highest health standards, then let residents decide what they want.

The proposal goes to the licensing and standards committee on Tuesday and then likely to all of council for a deciding vote on April 1. Although ambitious, the city wants to have trucks operating on the street by May 15.

We’ll see what they serve up.

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Letting a re-elected Mayor Ford govern is a long shot

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t was not for nothing that Rob and Doug Ford devoted such a large portion of their second Ford Nation YouTube show to listing an electoral ‘hit list’ of city councillors they’d like to see replaced. If the Fords are serious about governing for another four years, they’ll need both allies on council – but more importantly, they’ll need to reduce the ranks of what can only be called enemies.

This is a problem for the Fords. Also, it’s a problem for those considering supporting Rob Ford for a second term as mayor. For those, here is a reality check: it might, in real terms, be impossible to re-elect Ford as mayor, even if in this divided field, he manages to pull in more votes than anybody else.

Because here is the thing: a city government made up mostly of councillors who were re-elected or elected by voters upset with the way Mayor Ford has comported himself, are unlikely to let

david nickle the city a re-elected Mayor Ford govern, at least not for very long.Remember, a solid majority of councillors voted to strip Ford of his powers last year, after he admitted smoking crack, made lewd comments about his wife and faced details of police surveillance on himself and his alleged drug-dealer friend Sandro Lisi.

Since then, council has trundled along reasonably peaceably, under the consensus-based leadership of Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly.

More than a few councillors who spoke with me over the past few days – some on, and some off the record – made it clear that in the event the mayor’s re-elected, they’d waste little time in extending Ford’s exile – almost immediately.

“It’s true that if the city should choose to return him, you have to ask how can we

take his powers away?” said Don Valley East Councillor Shelley Carroll. “But I’ve got to tell you, we’d be looking to. We’ve all been sitting here from May, and when the first documents came out, wondering exactly how many hours of the day was the mayor hanging out with Sandro Lisi when he should have been doing his job?

(His re-election) is a slim possibility, but we would be giving him a rough ride. He already has let the city down, big time.”

For Ford to govern, councillors like Carroll will have to go straight up – and others, who are maybe less forthright at the moment, will have to be on the list too.

Etobicoke Centre Councillor Gloria Lindsay Luby, no friend of the mayor, wouldn’t engage in speculation, other than to say, “I think he has to demonstrate that he’s changed.”

Etobicoke Lakeshore’s Peter Milczyn pointed out that an election – even one that might not see a majority

in charge – should confer the powers of office on the winner. But he admitted that in the case of Mayor Ford, the decision of whether to respect that vote entirely would be a tough call.

“Certainly the initial reaction would be you win an election, you get to enjoy the power that goes with the office,” he said. “But the question of what else goes on between now and then... If there’s more drugs, or drinking, or whatever it is between now and election day, but he gets elected anyway? That kind of colours any authority he would have.”

So there it is: Rob Ford could transform himself between now and Oct. 27.

Or, council could all face the wrath of Ford Nation – and re-elect Rob Ford along with a council that doesn’t worry about things like drug abuse and truancy. It’s anybody’s guess, which is the harder fight to win

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Actor-comedian Ryan Hor wood has a favourite quote by poet Robert Browning: “The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!”

Growing up in South River, Ont. – population 1,000 – Horwood moved to Toronto at 19 with a $1,000 VISA card, $700 in his pocket and first and last month rent paid. His only plan was to start studying at The Second City.

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experiences he’s had for anything. The Bloor Street West and Ossington Avenue-area resident is host of YTV’s Cache Craze, billed as ‘the nuttiest competition show on TV.’ The high-energy adventure show, whose second season premiered on Tuesday, is inspired by the global phenomenon of Geo-caching, a GPS-supported game in which teams search for hidden caches.

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embark on a mission to find virtual caches that can only be unlocked by completing a series of challenges. The show is a modern-day treasure hunt comprised of death-defying drops, the highest highs and even the potential of being slimed, Horwood said.

“I get to be a real life Loonie Tunes character,” he said laughing.

The show is filmed in various locations througho u t s o u t h e r n O n t a r i o, including Horseshoe Valley, Niagara Falls and downtown Toronto.

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Ontario gives Red Cross $100K in aid for Ukraine family there. We are deeply concerned about those who have been injured due to the escalating violence in Ukraine and saddened by the loss of life,” Premier Kathleen Wynne said in a statement. “That is why we are providing this contribution that will go towards emergency medical aid.”

Funds to help emergency response teams Ontario is providing $100,000 in humanitarian aid and other supports to Ukraine.

The provincial Liberal government announced the support to the Ontario chapter of the Canadian Red Cross Society on March 9 in response to ongoing political unrest and violence in Ukraine.

Funds will help emergency response teams in Ukraine providing First Aid to the wounded from both sides of the conflict, the government said in a release.

“Ontario has a close connection with Ukraine, and I know that many people across the province have friends and

local community Ontario is home to one of the world’s largest Ukrainian communities outside the countr y, nearly 35,000 people.

Cr imea, a peninsula in southern Ukraine, has become the flashpoint in the battle for Ukraine, where three months of protests sparked by President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to forego a treaty with the European Union after strong pressure from Russia led to his downfall.

A majority of people in Crimea speak Russian and identify with Russia.

Russia has installed an armed presence on the peninsula in recent weeks. Putin has refused to dialogue with Ukraine’s new unity government.

Separatists in Crimea continue to pressure for unification with Moscow.

Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk vowed on Sunday not to give up “a single centimetre” of Ukrainian territory.

The Crimean crisis follows the deaths last month of 80 demonstrators in Kyiv in a pro-democracy movement come to be known as Maidan, named after the Ukrainian capital’s Independence Square.

- Tamara Shepard, with files from Torstar News Service

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The Shoe Company is thrilled to announce the grand opening of our Stockyards location at Weston Road and St. Clair Ave. West in Toronto on March 20, 2014. Bruce Dinan, President and CEO, Town Shoes Limited, is excited to open this brand new concept store in this newly developed shopping area.

“Toronto is an extremely important market to us, and we are pleased to be investing in this community. We have been tremendously successful for more than 20 years in the Toronto market, and we are happy to deliver a brighter store, an easier-to-shop experience and greater value than ever before. The Stockyards location is the first store in Ontario with our fresh new look!”

Spring 2014 is all about renewal at The Shoe Company. The brand new concept store in Toronto marks the beginning of spring.

The Shoe Company is famous for its selection of over 20,000 pairs of brand name shoes in each store. Their spring collection has the perfect shoe for every family member.

National brands include Nine West, Franco Sarto, Skechers, Cole Haan, Bass and Sperry.

The Junction’s style-conscious and savvy shoppers will discover this stunning collection of footwear and accessories at an irresistible value!

Our spring collection is available now!

The Shoe Company has also announced the launch of an exclusive collaboration with Canadian fashion icon Jeanne Beker.

The Jeanne Beker Collection typifies what The Shoe Company is all about: stylish, wearable, well-priced footwear that allows every woman to effortlessly look stylish.

The Jeanne Beker line will be available at all The Shoe Company locations in Canada, including the Stockyards location, starting April 1, 2014. The line features a key shoe for every woman’s needs: work, play, running errands, evenings out or relaxing at home.

“The Jeanne Beker line is a perfect addition to round out The Shoe Company’s unparalleled selection of stylish, wearable, well-priced footwear. Now every woman in Canada can be in Jeanne’s shoes this spring!”

– Catherine Abela Senior Vice President Merchandising Town Shoes Limited

Nobody brings style to springtime like The Shoe Company.

The Shoe Company is Town Shoes Limited’s assisted customer service, discount concept. The first location opened in 1992 and the chain has grown to more than 75 locations across Canada. The Shoe Company’s vision is to be the retailer of choice for Canadian families seeking branded footwear at affordable prices.

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TTC announces subway closures The TTC has announced a series of subway closures in March and April for construction related to its ongoing signal upgrade work on the YongeUniversity-Spadina (YUS) line, also known as Line 1.

Two more closures are planned for the weekend of March 22 to 23 and on April 5 to 6 during which time there will be no subway service between Bloor-Yonge and St. Andrew stations.

Frequent closures have been a staple of TTC use over the last couple of years as the transit commission proceeds on a host of badly-needed modernization improvements, including Automatic Track Control (ATC).

While the work isn’t expected to be completed until 2018 at the earliest, the TTC promises when ATC is on-line, headways - the distance between trains - will be automatically calculated by computer, which will allow for more efficient train service on Line 1 – and less overcrowding.

Along with the closure announcements the TTC also posted online a YouTube explainer video of the ATC

rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT work. For more information visit www.ttc.ca Exhibit ‘Sketching the Line’ on display wart

An art exhibition featuring sketches of subway commuters from several countries is screening on TTC subway platform video screens until April.

Sketching the Line is the latest cultural offering from the Art in Transit series and features 78 renditions of subway riders from Toronto, New York City, Berlin and the United Kingdom.

The drawings depict commuters caught in a state of contemplation while they ride the subway in various locales. seemingly unaware they are subjects of interest for the artist in their midst.

Sketching the Line runs until April 13 on the Pattison Onestop video screens found in most subway stations. For more information visit www.

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Distracted driving is now the number one killer when it comes to automobile-related fatalities, says the OPP. With fines for texting or talking on a cellphone while driving set to increase, the provincial police force released statistics last week showing last year there were 78 fatalities caused by distracted driving, compared to 57 for impaired driving and 44 for speeding.

As of March 18, fines for distracted driving will increase from $155 to $280. Critics say that’s not enough of a deterrent, since drivers will not lose any demerit points or face having their licences suspended if they’re caught talking or texting behind the wheel.

The OPP also kicked off a distracted driving awareness campaign running through the end of this week. For more info visit www.opp.ca Rahul Gupta is The Villager’s transit reporter. His column appears every Thursday. Find him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

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Theatre staked its claim on the storefront space with the aim of bringing new life to the neighbourhood through the power of art, culture and community. The space had been empty for a while, until Blais – who lives in the area – stumbled upon it and was inspired.

“We did our first show there and there was an outpouring of positive vibes and support,” Blais said.

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Splash’N Boots bring music to local church Windermere United Church, 356 Windermere Ave., hosts a free concert in March to help families find entertaining community building events that don’t cost a lot.

Splash’N Boots, who are up for a Juno Award this year for best children’s album, are coming back.

There will be a donation box to offset the cost of the performers and any proceeds will go to the Benevolent fund which is how Windermere helps offer some extra support to those in the neighbourhood.

The concert is March 16 at 2 p.m. Visit www.windermerechurch.ca or call 416-769-5611 for details.

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Development has been an increasing issue in Ward 13, according to the councillor.

The meeting will take place Wednesday, March 26 at 7 p.m. at Humberside Collegiate Institute, 280 Quebec Ave. For further details, visit ward13.ca bicycle art on display at runnymede library The Runnymede library, 2178 Bloor St. W., will be hosting a photography display called “The Foot that Moves the Pedal” for the entire month of March, on its second floor.

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Stolen pieces were artists’ ‘livelihood’ >>>from page 1 the painting should go. It was this weird partnership, almost like a marriage.”

But things started to mesh and the painting was going really well. Columbus and Chen were nearly finished the work when the studio was broken into Feb. 13 and the painting, along with three others, was stolen.

“They basically broke the door down and just took four paintings,” Columbus said.

Computers and a bicycle were left behind and some paintings had been shifted around as though the thief or thieves were shopping around.

An open letter posted on Creatures:Collective Gallery and Studio’s website reflects on the theft.

It reads: “The intruder (or intruders) absconded with no less than four pieces of work from our members, and attempted to remove additional works from the premises. Our current exhibition, from which several pieces were stolen, sought

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to explore the archetype of the starving artist. This body of work, from emerging members of our tight-knit community, expressed our dedication and love for our craft. The stolen paintings are not mere objects, they are our livelihood; the products of significant investment of not only money and time but of ourselves. This is what has been taken from us.”

Despite the loss, Columbus and Chen didn’t give in and that morning they got a new canvas and started on a second piece.

“As painters, and for ourselves, I guess, we had to show that whoever this thief was, they couldn’t stop us,” Columbus said.

“It was a week straight of painting, basically all day and

night, in order to get it done,” Columbus said. “We called it Round 2.”

Both paintings feature a bull and a matador, but the end result is quite different.

Columbus said he likes to think of them as two pieces in a series, that some day will hang side by side.

The new painting hung prominently at the Coalition exhibition, which showed at the new Green Belt Gallery in Brockton until March 2.

Greenbelt Gallery is run out of a live work space with a focus on local, emerging artists.

On March 20, there will be a fundraiser through the sale of paintings that have been donated.

The event is titled Resolve/ Recovery and will take place at the Creatures:Collective Gallery and Studio space at 822 Dundas St. W. at 7 p.m.

Money raised will go toward improving security at the space.

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Four Buttonville Public School classmates designed PACHI, the official mascot for Canada’s largest Games ever. PACHI will visit hundreds of thousands of kids to promote the Games.

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The next public consultation meeting will take place on Wednesday, March 19, from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

A more developed design of the urban park and waterfront trail, which was first unveiled in January, will be presented and residents can share their feedback.

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Many residents opposed the coffee shop at a meeting last November and at that time the owners agreed to meet with the community after it opened to follow up on their concerns around things such as signage and parking.

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Davenport MPP Jonah Schein tabled legislation at Queen’s Park March 4 that, if passed, would see significant changes to unpaid internships.

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“My bill will give unpaid interns greater protections under the law and clarify the conditions of a legal internship for employees and employers alike.”

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‘Misunderstood’ bats focus of new study program Species at Risk Stewardship Fund to support educational programming at High Park Nature Centre LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Bats get a bad rap – in part because of how they are portrayed in Hollywood blockbusters – yet, in reality, they are unassuming creatures who do a lot of good.

“They’re a really misunderstood species,” High Park Nature Centre executive director Natalie Harder told The Villager. “A lot of people are scared.”

Swansea P.S. students who visited the nature centre and got the chance to get up close and personal with a big brown bat as part of the Ministry of Natural Resources’ launch of the ‘Holy Bat Project Toronto’ last Wednesday, admitted they were scared.

‘Will he bite me,’ asked one child; ‘Will he drink my blood,’ wondered another.

With support from the provincial government’s Species at Risk Stewardship Fund, the

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Students from Swansea P.S. get up close and personal with a big brown bat at the High Park Nature Centre during the launch of the Ministry of Resources' Holy Bat Project last Wednesday.

High Park Nature Centre will be able to expand its bat edu-

cation programming, nature walks and introduce a new

initiative: bat monitoring. The centre will be establishing a

bat detector lending library, comprised of as many as 10 adult and kid-friendly, handheld detectors for anyone to borrow.

Nature centre staff, volunteers and High Park Rangers will provide tutorials on how to use the detectors before people take them home to monitor and measure any bat activity. Lenders will be asked to fill out information sheets to record what they learn, Harder said. This information will be forwarded to the Ministry of Natural Resources and the academic community.

The Bat Project is among the more than 100 species-atrisk projects across the province this year that are receiving support from the ministry to help protect Ontario’s most vulnerable species, such as the piping plover, the rustypatched bumble bee, and the little brown bat.

“I look forward to working with Toronto residents to

discover what bats use the air space over High Park. We know there are resident big brown bats in the park, but it remains to be seen if the park also is used by migrating bats in the spring and in the fall,” Dr. Brock Fenton, professor at the University of Western Ontario, who attended Wednesday’s launch, said in a statement.

Since its inception eight years ago, the Species at Risk Stewardship Fund has helped restore more than 24,000 hectares of animal habitat while supporting more than 2,100 jobs and approximately 256,600 hours of volunteer work. The new bat detector lending library is scheduled to be completely launched by the summer. People may stop by to sign out the detectors during the nature centre’s hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. plus additional evening hours.

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High Park school bites into Nutrition Month with a big crunch School in the running to win $20,000 grant to build outdoor classroom LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com It was the crunch heard around the Junction and Bloor West Village.

Promptly at 11:25 a.m., Thursday, March 6, as many as 180 students at High Park Alternative Jr. School took a massive, synchronized crunch out of their apples in celebration of Nutrition Month and FoodShare Toronto’s Great Big Crunch.

The Canada-wide event served to celebrate and enjoy healthy snacking while highlighting the availability of local produce yearround through activities like cooking and tasting, nutrition, soil and composting, sustainability and community development and the like. FoodShare Toronto is a non-

profit community organization whose vision is ‘Good Healthy Food for All.’ “Every school will be doing something different – our school community will be gathered and crunching at 11:25 a.m. and we’ll also be learning more about locally grown fruits and vegetables as our way of participating in a cross-Canada salute to healthy and local eating,” said Jocelyn Reyes Midghall, school council co-chair.

As part of the nutrition month event, High Park Alternative launched its voting campaign for the MAJESTA Trees of Knowledge Competition for which it has been short listed.

The only Toronto District School Board (TDSB) school to have quali-

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Students at High Park Alternative School took part in the cross Canada event that had students learning and eating fresh vegetables and fruit for a healthy diet. Students (left to right) Coen, Astrid, and Aveline chomp on their apples during the event last week.

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If it wins, the outdoor classroom will not only benefit the alternative school, but also Annette P.S., with which it shares a building, the Annette Recreation Centre, Junction Day care and the community at large.

The outdoor classroom boasts a meandering labyrinth foot path, whimsical flower garden and shed with green roof, among other amenities, said school co-chair Susan Gallelo-Kucharski of the design.

“We had to do an admission video. One of our parents, who’s in the film industry created a twominute scripted video,” she said.

“We had to submit our architectural plan on how we’d spend the money.”

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