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that to make at home.” As for the competition, the students from Thistledown emerged victorious for their “jacked up jerk” recipe, featuring coconut rice, jerk chicken wrapped in Swiss chard and mango salsa. “We’re lucky to have a school that’s very involved in the culinary arts,” said Grade 12 Thistletown student Amanda Korkola. “We go on special field trips and learn things like first aid and CPR and get our food handler’s certificates and SmartServe (server credentials.)” She added Thistletown has its own garden in which they grow many of the ingredients used in their dish. The culinary arts are popular among students in the schools in which they are offered. “Most kids sign up for it, even if they don’t stick with it all the way through high school,” said Spencer Marshall, a Grade 11 student at

Western Tech. His school finished second in the competition with a rice cake and Asian salad dish. Ashtae Foster, a Grade 12 student at Heydon Park, said virtually every student at her school wants to take part in the program, which could open doors in the culinary arts down the road. “We’ve even learned how to do master dishes like lobster and shrimp, fettuccine and linguine,” she said. Thistletown won $500 for its school’s nutrition program for winning the competition, while Western Tech took home $300 and Heydon Park students won $200. Other schools across the TDSB also benefited from the event, with Breakfast for Learning handing over a cheque for $445,000 to the Toronto Foundation for Student Success.

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ixty years ago today, Toronto woke up to a scene of horror. On the night of Oct. 15, accumulated heavy rains associated with Hurricane Hazel led to flooding that killed 81 people. On Raymore Drive along the Humber River, 32 houses were washed away and 35 people were killed. Five volunteer firefighters died when their truck was swept away as they tried to help a stranded motorist caught in the Humber’s flood waters. Along with the Humber, the Don and Rouge rivers and Highland Creek flooded their banks with enormous amounts of fast-moving water. By the time it was over, some 4,000 families across southern Ontario and more than 1,800 in Toronto had been left homeless. While 1954 may seem a long time ago to many, the impacts of Hurricane Hazel and how it changed land usage and development in are felt to this day. Also, our view Toronto judging by the many letters we’ve received from readers regarding Conservation the 60th anniversary, it is still well remembered by those who Authority lived through it or lost family formed as result members. See our collected coverage of Hurricane Hazel and letters from our readers at http://tiny.cc/drxrnx In her letter, Yvonne Rice remembers how she and her husband tried to help at Raymore Drive: “We drove to Raymore Drive and when we got there the Humber River was huge and houses were floating down the river with people on top screaming for help. The firemen were all there and had ropes and were making a human chain to reach the stranded people. I will never forget their cries for help as long as I live.” Madeline McDowell, who is now vice-chair of the Humber Watershed Alliance, was 13 when Hurricane Hazel struck. She said at the time many didn’t realize how deadly the storm had been until the next day. Coming on the heels of days of heavy rains in southern Ontario, Hurricane Hazel resulted in some 20 billion gallons of water rushing down the Humber, washing away everything in its path – bridges, houses, vehicles and people. After the hurricane, a conservation authority, now known as Toronto Region Conservation Authority, was formed to improve flood control measures and regulate development on flood plains. A hard lesson was learned by the death and destruction of Hurricane Hazel, but our city is now much better prepared for natural disasters.

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To those considering casting their vote at advance polls: think about it

ith advance polls open this week, it is tempting for those with strong opinions about the future occupant of the Toronto mayor’s office to put on their voting pants and cast ballot now rather than Oct. 27. Certainly by this point, anyone paying even a bit of attention has heard enough from the top three mayoral candidates to make a choice. As long as one doesn’t hold with the idea of strategic voting – which is to say, watching the polls up to election day and deciding where their vote best goes to, ahem, defeat a particular candidate – then there’s no reason to wait. If only it were as simple as that: that the future of the city rests solely, or even largely, on the shoulders of one mayor. It doesn’t, of course.

david nickle the city There are 45 pairs of shoulders including the mayor, and while the mayor has enough influence to carry most votes, the buck ultimately stops with 44 city councillors who can support or thwart an agenda as they see fit. And while mileage may vary, it’s a fair guess that most voters haven’t had nearly as close a look at their local ward candidates as they have at the Chow-Ford-Tory trifecta. With the high-octane drama in the mayor’s office this past term, it’s also more of a challenge to assess the record of one’s incumbent councillor. All of them have been operating under extraordinary circumstances – working in an arena that is one-half local governance

and one-half Lord of the Flies. There are a few incumbents who’ve stood out either as candidates for reelection or for the boot. Giorgio Mammoliti, the Ward 7 councillor surely leads the pack in the latter: more than any other councillor not blood-related to the mayor he’s been a very publicly destructive force on council. Ron Moeser’s terrible attendance record can be partially excused as he was laid up for nearly a year from ankle surgery gone bad, but otherwise Ward 44 voters would be justified in turfing him. Similarly long-serving councillor Norm Kelly, on the other hand, probably deserves another victory lap in Ward 40 solely on the basis of his supplyteacher/deputy mayor role in the final, potentially fractuous year of this last

term. Others, like Ward 22’s Josh Matlow or Ward 27’s Kristyn Wong-Tam, have maintained an active enough rookie term to make re-election a relatively easy choice. What about those many incumbents who kept their heads down through the term? And what do voters do in those seven wards with no incumbent? don’t vote in haste It boils down to this: voters who take advantage of advance voting opportunities have more before them than whether it’s to be Ford More Years or four new years. Getting it right will be delicate work, and nothing to be hasty about. David Nickle is The Villager’s city hall reporter. His column appears Thursdays. Reach him on Twitter: @DavidNickle

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‘We held hands and said our goodbyes’ reader recalls of being trapped in flood To the editor: Re: ‘Marking Hurricane Hazel’s 60th’, Oct. 9, The Guardian. When Hurricane Hazel hit on Oct. 15, 1954 I was working at the Bank of Commerce at St. Clair and Dufferin and my husband was picking me up to drive to Maple where we lived with my parents. We tried to go across Steeles Avenue and just West of Dufferin Street there was a dip in the road and we thought we could make it through as we could see headlights under the water approaching us from the West. That did not happen and the car stalled and we were pulled up against the guardrail with the water rushing around the car. Our groceries were floating around the back seat and as I knew my husband could not swim, we held hands and said our goodbyes to each other. Before we knew what was happening, someone had

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and when we got there the Humber River was huge and houses were floating down the river with people on top screaming for help. The firemen were all there and had ropes and were making a human chain to reach the stranded people. I will never forget their cries for help as long as I live. My parents in Maple did not know where we were as all telephone connections were out and we did not get home until Sunday morning making our way up Keele Street. My husband was a milkman at that time and on the Monday morning on his route in Woodbridge he was called upon to help pull people from the swollen waters West of Islington along No.7 Highway. I have spoken at different functions on how I was involved and thank the good Lord I am still here today at almost 81 to talk about it. Yvonne Rice

Hurricane left family homeless To the editor: Re: ‘Marking Hurricane Hazel’s 60th’. When Hurricane Hazel hit us, I had just turned 14 a few days prior. We lived on Gilhaven Avenue which was the last street off the bottom of Raymore Drive. We lived three houses in from the footbridge that washed out and sent water flooding around the bend and took out that row of houses at the bottom of Raymore. During the night we were woken by loud knocking on our door telling us to get to higher ground as the Humber was flooding its banks. Many of our neighbours and ourselves went up to the Westmount Army and Navy Club, which I believe was on Kingdom Street. They took us in for the night. The next morning when we came back to our home it was hard to believe the devastation. The low-lying river had risen so high and spread out so much it looked like a lake. The bridge was gone and we

then realized that so were the houses so close to us. Our basements were flooded and we weren’t allowed to stay. We were put up in motels along the lake shore. Eventually my brother and myself went to stay with our grandparents in Uxbridge while my mom dad and younger brother went to live with relatives. After a few weeks we went back home. Our basement was still flooded and we had trouble with rats from a dump

that was on the other side of the river. Compared to what happened around the corner from us, it was a small price to pay. I had known a younger girl in one of those houses whom I sometimes played with and traded comic books with. Sometime during the next year we were told we could no longer live in our houses anymore and all the families on Gilhaven were given a sum of money to relocate. Sandra Wilkie (nee Foote)

Father put on a brave face To the editor: Re: ‘Marking Hurricane Hazel’s 60th’, Oct. 9, The Guardian. We lived at 111 Laurelcrest Ave. (Bathurst and Wilson) and my father tried so very, very hard to get us to safety to my grandmother’s house on Evelyn Avenue, near the (old) Junction. He piled five kids in the car, pajamas, raincoats, boots, hats, gloves and teddy

bears. We almost made it to Bathurst Street, but the little bridge was washed out. Back to our home, in the torrential downpour of rain and unbelievable winds. He carried us, one by one by one, over his shoulder, into the house. He was scared, little did we know. Will never forget. Pictures do not do it justice. Lynne Foster

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Transit, cycling, congestion and walking discussed at Ward 18 candidate debate HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Transit, cycling, congestion and walking were on the table at a recent all-candidates’ debate for Ward 18 at the Bloor/Gladstone library. “I take my bike and take the TTC so it was important for me to come and hear what the candidates had to say,” said Josh Shook at the Oct. 8 meeting. “I would like to see things move forward, especially for bike parking and bike safety.” About 60 people squeezed into the small meeting room including two dozen people who stood and sat on the floor for more than two hours listening to candidates Paul Alves, Ana Bailão, Bobby Beckett, Jolene Hunt, Alex Mazer, Jim McMillan, Derek Power, Elsa Romao and Mohammad Uddin talk about the different transportation issues facing the ward. For the themes of transit and congestion, candidates agreed the Dufferin Street bus is a nightmare for TTC riders during rush hour and that congestion on streets such as Dundas Street West and Queen Street and Dufferin Street and Lansdowne Avenue

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date to suggest putting the new fleet of streetcars on the Dupont route to improve service, which he said would take twice as many people and uses electricity rather than fuel. Romao suggested more traffic studies and consulting with experts to solve the problem. The solution of timed lights to help with the flow of traffic was also suggested by a few candidates. Candidates were also asked which mayoral candidates’ transit plan they were most in favour of and how they would choose to fund it. The majority chose Olivia Chow’s plan, which pledges to boost bus services city-wide and backs the funded Finch and Sheppard LRTs and a downtown relief line. “I’m closest to Olivia’s plan,” Mazer said. “I like the idea of building light rail in Scarborough. I like the idea of enhanced bus service, I like the idea of putting money toward the gaping hole in the TTC capital budget, which is why we have so much unreliable subway service.” Beckett joked about a monorail coming to the city, >>CANDIDATES, page 10

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want better transit, they will have to pay for it, while Power suggested raising taxes isn’t the only solution but better transparency regarding where tax dollars are being spent on a dollar per dollar basis. For the theme of cycling, the Minimum Grid plan, wants 100 kilometres of protected bike lanes put in across the city, was mentioned and supported by a handful of candidates. Mazer and Bailão mention signing on for it, but it was Bailão who gave the crowd a dose of reality. “Even if all 44 councillors approved it right now, we do not have the infrastructure, or the resources at the city to deliver the grid,” she said. “The first thing we need to do is work with the cycling department. The transportation departments across the city, we have five of them, need to include cycling in each one of them. That’s the change needs to happen at

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On Saturday, Oct.18 from 2 to 4 p.m., Rain Tonight, A Story of Hurricane Hazel is a free, family-friendly reading from Steve Pitt’s children’s book, told from the perspective of an eight-year-old heroine. While Hurricane Hazel was undeniably tragic, Laurian Farrell, senior manager of flood risk management and infrastructure for the TRCA, said the storm served as a catalyst for positive change – especially when it came to flood control. The whole concept of building near rivers, she said, changed because of Hurricane Hazel. “One of the most important things we have now are our flood plain management policies, which allow conservation authorities to regulate development within flood plains,” Farrell said, noting that the regulations were implemented to restrict future development and land use in flood hazard areas, thereby reducing potential flood damage. “The biggest advance since

Hazel is this policy, which is unique to Ontario. I’m not sure there’s anywhere else in the world that has such strict development policies, in terms of flood risk management.” The TRCA itself was formed in 1957, when four smaller area conservation authorities merged to deal with the nine watersheds in Toronto. In the years since, Farrell said the TRCA has invested heavily in flood control infrastructure. Should another Hazellike storm hit Toronto again, Farrell said the city is much better prepared for it. “...nobody understood the magnitude of the problem. Since then, our awareness and our understanding of the storm systems has much improved, so we would expect to have people evacuated to safety before we would get into the type of trouble we had with Hazel,” she said. There’s more! We’ve got stories, photos and letters about Hurricane Hazel online at http://bit.ly/1vvGHA9

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Road Sweeping Operation Toronto & East York District Transportation Services is getting ready to perform sweeping operations on the streets of Toronto & East York this fall.The purpose of the sweeping is to collect leaves that fall, naturally, onto the street. All streets will be swept on two occasions.The operation will continue until November 28, 2014.The map shows the area where the sweeping operation will take place. Please do not rake leaves onto the roadway or sidewalks from your property. City by-law officers will be enforcing the City of Toronto by-law that relates to the use of streets and sidewalks. Raking leaves onto the roadway is a by-law offence and could result in charges being laid. It is an offence to store, place or dispose of material, including fallen leaves in such a way that it may enter onto a street by any means, including wind or water. In addition, raking, blowing, placing or dumping leaves onto City property (sidewalk, roadway, catch basins, etc.,) can create dangerous conditions, cause flooding on the roadways or on property or cause accidents. Here’s how to put leaves out for collection: Use reusable containers (any rigid open-top container such as a garbage can, bushel basket, green plastic yard waste bin– no lids) or kraft paper yard waste bags. Put leaves at the curb by 7:00 a.m. on your scheduled yard waste collection day. Check your collection calendar for your yard waste collection schedule and more helpful hints. Sorry, no plastic bags: The City does not collect leaves and yard waste in clear plastic bags or Halloween-themed plastic bags. (If you use these decorative bags, please empty the contents into one of the approved containers listed above before placing out for collection. Ways to reduce the amount of leaves you put at the curb for collection: Feed leaves to your backyard composter now, plus stockpile leaves to add as dry material during the winter. Here’s what the City collects as yard waste: Leaves, plant/tree trimmings, weeds and brush. Branches measuring less than three inches or 7.5 cm in diameter should be tied in bundles no longer than 4 feet or 1.2 min length and 2 feet or 0.6 m in diameter. Pumpkins and waste fruit from trees in your yard are also accepted.

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Autumn Splendour WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to noon WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: highparkwalkingtours@yahoo. ca COST: Free

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Bloor West Village Arts and Crafts Show and Sale WHEN: 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Runnymede United Church, 432 Runnymede Rd. CONTACT: Janet Mather, 416-767-1093, themathers@rogers.com COST: $2, children under 12 free Plan to attend the 33rd annual Bloor West Village Arts and Crafts and Sale. Visit seven rooms featuring 60 artisans, plus home baking and lunch room.

Professional photographer David Allen leads this tour of High Park. He will show you how and where to look to get memorable results. Bring camera. Meet at the benches near Grenadier Restaurant. The Fourth Annual Toast to Autumn WHEN: Noon to 7 p.m. WHERE: Lithuanian Hall, 1573 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: Weslie Guca, 416-7054475, www.toasttoautumn.com, weslie.guca@gmail.com COST: Free Live music feat. Juno artist Paul James, food and art fair, hourly giveaways, kids games, magic show, make your own comic and more. Nestlé Canada’s Craveyard Halloween Party

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Conservation and Development in the Rouge River Watershed WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Bloor/ Gladstone library, 1101 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: 416-393-7674 COST: Free York University’s Dr. L. Anders Sandberg travels from the mouth of the Rouge River to the Oak Ridges Moraine exploring the interactions and conflicts of different past and future land uses and the future establishment of the Rouge National Urban Park.

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Ward 13 Councillor Debate WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Runnymede United Church, 432 Runnymede Rd. CONTACT: info@bwvra. ca COST: Free The Bloor West Village Residents Association hosts an all-candidates’ debate for Ward 13. Swansea Horticultural Society WHEN: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavina Ave. CONTACT: Ellen Mitchell, 416- 7672574, e.mitchell@rogers.com4 COST: Free Stephen Smith from the Urban forest

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• An electrical fire happens every eight minutes in North America.

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• Many older homes have outdated service panels that are often ‘over-fused’, creating fire and shock hazards.

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• Renovations completed in the 1960s and 1970s used aluminum wiring, creating a dangerous mix that poses significant risk.

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Parkdale-High Park MP Peggy Nash will host a Google hangout to discuss child care Friday, Oct. 17 at 2 p.m. during which she’ll be joined by experts in the field and will take questions from community