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Colour to brighten children’s lives LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com

Being neighbour to an oil pipeline ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.

It was a bustle of activity at Safehaven, a non-profit organization that provides respite and residential care to children with multiple disabilities and complex medical needs, on Tuesday morning. As many as 30 volunteers from Dulux paint armed with brushes and rollers were efficiently adding a fresh burst of colour to the walls of the Bloor

West and Dufferin streets-area children’s home away from home – an 8,000-square-foot space. Their efforts were part of a new initiative called Colourful Communities, launched this year to “give back to the community and add colour to people’s lives – proven in studies to have a powerful effect on people’s moods,” said Martin TustinFuchs, brand manager for Dulux paint in a statement. As the team from Dulux paint >>>safehaven, page 11

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The line which crosses the north end of the city, could soon transport tarsands oil from Alberta and that’s got a lot of people worked up about what’s pumping underneath their neighbourhoods. We investigate  on page 10.

Krys Dix says she knew as early as Grade 3 that she wanted to be a teacher; what she never would have guessed is that she would go on to teach at the same school she attended from kindergarten to Grade 8. Dix recently retired after teaching for more than three decades at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School, in Roncesvalles Village. Not only did she gradu-

ate from the elementary school on Fermanagh Avenue along with her four siblings, but so did her own three children. “Thirty-two years, that just tells you what a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful school it is. The community is wonderful; the kids are just as great. I can’t say enough,” Dix told The Villager. “I can’t tell you how nice a place it is.” The school, situated at 116 Fermanagh Ave., is celebrating >>>it’s, page 7


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