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As winter continues to rear its frigid head, the Bloor-Yorkville area is getting set to celebrate all things icy.

The Bloor-Yorkville BIA’s ninth annual Icefest will see beautiful ice sculptures adorn the Village of Yorkville Park, with professional ice sculptors offering demonstrations of their art.

“It’s an opportunity for people to get out in the middle of winter,” said Bloor-Yorkville BIA executive director Briar de Lange. “At this point, cabin fever’s built up and people need to be entertained a bit.”

This year’s theme, Heat Wave, is geared toward providing visitors with a mental break from the cold. Ice sculptures will feature tropical imagery to provide at least visions of warm weather, from palm trees to surfers to dolphins.

“We called it Heat Wave because we thought that was kind of ironic, considering the long-range forecast,” de Lange said.

While the ice carving demonstrations will take place throughout the Bloor-Yorkville area, the Village of Yorkdale Park >>>expanded, page 6

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A chilly kiss: Hard Rock Cafe employees Michelle Spaull, Emilyn Narraway, Kristyn Wighton, Chloe Edlin, Jennifer Hickey and Kalie Belanger enjoy the hot tub with Kiss makeup after jumping into the icy pool at the Sears Great Canadian Chill 2014 event held at Yonge and Dundas Square on Monday. The event was held to raise money in support of the Paediatric Oncology Department at SickKids Hospital. More photos page 3.

Megathon raising funds for Metro Central ‘Y’ JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The Metro Central YMCA is encouraging the public to get fit for a good cause.

The downtown Y is one of eight branches across the

GTA taking part in the YMCA Megathon, an event in which people raise pledges and take part in a variety of classes designed to test their limits.

“It’s a fun, healthy, endurance-style event, but it’s designed for people of all ages,

abilities and fitness levels,” said Metro Central YMCA senior program director Sarah Beldick.

While the bulk of the activities will take place on Saturday, March 1, the Metro Central YMCA will host events in the week leading up to the

Megathon itself.

“We have everything from MegaZumba – a massive zumba class that’s like a twohour zumba dance party with people coming out in costume to Mega RetroFit, where people >>>metro, page 2

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Metro Central ‘Y’ aims to raise $50,000 with Megathon >>>from page 1 will get prizes for top fundraiser and best 80s fitness outfit,” Beldick said.

Those seeking a lowerimpact workout can join MegaYoga or MegaAquafit events.

Participants are asked to collect pledges for each event in which they participate.

The Metro Central YMCA is looking to raise $50,000 or

more through pledges.

The money raised will go toward ensuring the YMCA is able to offer its programs to everyone who wants to join. available to everyone “At the YMCA, we want all of our programs to be available to everyone whether or not they can pay for them,”

Beldick said.

“We want to be able to help everyone meet their goals, whether that’s finding work, staying fit, learning to swim or playing sports.”

She added participants do not need to meet any fundraising minimum in order to take part in a class – any amount is welcome.

The classes throughout Megathon week tend to draw

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large crowds, but there is always room for more.

In addition to the fitness

classes, the YMCA will host a family carnival from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 1.

“That’s a fun place for families just to come out and enjoy themselves with their kids,” Beldick said.

Megathon week at the Metro Central YMCA kicks off with a book sale beginning tomorrow and a silent auction starting on Monday

at the service desk.

Both events will run until March 1.

For more information on the events taking place at any of the YMCA fitness centres across the GTA, to register or to pledge a participant, visit www.ymcamegathon.org

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f we were to wipe off almost four years of dust from our crystal ball, the smoke would reveal a possible provincial election this spring. With that, comes uncertainty and, potentially, the province’s (and with it Toronto’s) transit file getting derailed – again.

If we are to take Metrolinx at its word, the provincial transit agency has put everything on the table when it comes to transit in the Great Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). At its recent meeting, a long list of options was presented by staff, which will then get whittled down following consultations with the public and elected officials.

More consultations? More waiting. And what feels like more of the same, which our view amounts to very little. Cynicism aside, Torontonians should attend Project any and all meetings when it comes to transit solutions. We deadlines need voices at the table. As many have to be met voices as we can muster.

With some projects now underway – the Eglinton Crosstown LRT; the Scarborough subway given the green light – and Metrolinx committed to a share of the subway relief line within 15 years, we have a shot at being part of the discussion.

And according to Metrolinx CEO Bruce McCuaig, the plans are not limited to one major project, but likely a series of improvements in the short, mid- and longterm.

However, there needs to be a maximum time allotment for dealing with any project - big or small. No more open-ended deadlines. Projects take years – sometimes decades – to complete; so too much lag in decision-making is foolish.

Each day we consult, every week we wait for another meeting, the longer it will take to actually finalize a transit solution for the GTHA. If Metrolinx is to embark on another series of consultations – the first round kicking off in March – we should be there to voice our ideas. With an initial short list of recommendations to be presented to the Metrolinx board in June, and a final list by this coming winter, things will hopefully become focused.

But when these projects will be completed is not so definite. A change in governments should not lead to changes to these approved projects. Deadlines have to be met. Decisions have to stick.

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Councillor Del Grande exceeded expectations In my career as a journalist, I’ve only made two politicians angry enough to put me on their do-notreturn-calls black list. The first was former mayor Mel Lastman, who never got over the fact that I didn’t endorse him for mayor in the 1997 election.

The second was Councillor Mike Del Grande. In 2004, a year after he was first elected, he took me on a pre-Christmas tour of his ward and made some comments about the changing demographics there: specifically that white people were moving out as Chinese people were moving in. I recorded them, and reported them accurately.

They showed up in the Scarborough Mirror over Christmas. By New Year’s Eve, commentators from outlets across the country were saying the worst things about Del Grande.

And that was it for us.

For the next 10 years, Del Grande would not return

david nickle the city phone calls, speak with me or even acknowledge my presence – with rare exceptions, usually when I’d written something that made him angry enough to warrant a tongue-lashing.

Over the weekend, Del Grande made it known that he won’t be seeking reelection. I have not called the councillor about this.

So instead, I write this column: in part, as an open letter to a councillor who has spent a career throwing up his arms in frustration and anger at his critics and his colleagues – and at the same time, accomplished many of the things I think he hoped to see happen after he was elected in 2003.

Del Grande came to city hall with an accounting background, and he believed he was a person to sort out Toronto’s fiscal

woes. He wasn’t able to convince mayor David Miller, and that began seven long years in the wilderness.

When Rob Ford announced his intention to run for mayor in 2010, Del Grande was among the first to support him, and when Ford won, Del Grande’s support was rewarded with the job he first eyed: Toronto’s budget chief.

And no one can deny Del Grande worked that job hard. Possibly a little too hard, given the toll it took on his health. Unlike other budget chiefs, he took on the lion’s share of the work himself – often complaining of the long hours he spent at home, trying to fit the camel-sized realities of the cost of government through Ford’s needle-sized expectations of the price.

Deputations coming before budget committee might have been put off by Del Grande’s gruff manner of questioning. But he did use the answers he got to

put forward moderate compromises he hoped would get the final result through council.

And it almost worked.

But Del Grande quit the job in 2013, when council voted to add just a little more spending to his budget against his wishes.

As far as he was concerned, he felt “vilified.”

At this year’s budget meeting in January, he railed, quite accurately, against the lack of civility, and elsewhere has criticized, again quite accurately, the moral decline Ford has brought to the office of mayor.

And now, as Del Grande prepares to exit the realm for good, I hope he doesn’t think too poorly of the place he feels used him so badly. It may not have lived up to his expectations – but really, over 10 years here, he has only exceeded so many of ours.

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The event will take place at Daniels Spectrum Friday at 6 p.m. for dinner with the show beginning at 8 p.m.

Jambo Jam concert builds school in Kenya Help build a school in Kenya by attending Jambo Jam 2 on Saturday at Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), 115 Simpson Ave. The concert features musical performances and guest speaker Spencer West of Free the Children. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets cost $25 at www. ticketweb.ca

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The festival seeks to connect people with Irish culture through films crea t e d by Irish filmmakers.

TIRFF will run Friday, Feb. 28 to Sunday, March 2. Visit www.torontoirishfilmfest.com Library events in midtown Toronto New York Times best-selling writer Anna Quindlen will be at the Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St., with the Globe and Mail’s Johanna Schneller Monday at 7 p.m.

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The African Students Association (ASA) at the University of Toronto presents Romeo and Juliet, a unique re-telling of the classical Shakespeare play, at the Al Green Theatre Feb. 27 and 28 and March 1.

Romeo and Juliet, the tale of two star-crossed lovers, takes place in an African city and showcases the talent of the cast and crew of University of Toronto students.

Shows take place at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $15 for students with valid student ID and $20 for adults.

Visit www.eventbrite.ca/e/ romeo-and-juliet-tickets10383129219 WorldPride volunteers needed In order to ensure this year’s WorldPride celebration, set for June 20 to 29, is as successful as expected, organizers are seeking more than 2,000 volunteers.

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Volunteers are needed to handle behind-the-scenes details, interact with the public, control crowds and responsibilities leading up to and during the festival. Visit www.makepridehappen.com Ontario Black History Society exhibit An exhibit at the Market Gallery in St. Lawrence Market, 92 Front St. E., highlights the impact of the Ontario Black History Society’s 35-year existence.

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This year’s Icefest will feature an expanded zone for children and families in the park, with kids invited to play with building blocks made of ice, as well as kiddie cubes, which feature small toys encased in ice, which can be purchased for a $2 donation.

Maple syrup taffy will also be available for a $2 donation, with proceeds from both going toward the Bloor-Yorkville BIA’s charity of choice, the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

“February’s heart month, and the month of Valentine’s Day, so it made sense to choose that for our charity,” de Lange said. “We’ve raised in excess of $25,000 over the past Icefests and we want to push that total past $30,000 this year.”

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Hundreds of people take in the ice sculptures during last year’s Bloor-Yorkville BIA Icefest. This year’s event takes place Feb. 22 and 23 in Village of Yorkville Park.

dozen competitors will gather in the park and showcase their skills, creating works of art out of giant blocks of ice.

The sculptors come from all over Ontario, and Icefest visitors will be allowed to watch them work and vote on a favourite.

“The wonderful thing is, the (ice sculptors) volunteer to come out and show what they

can do, and people really love watching,” de Lange said.

Icefest will take place from noon until 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in the Village of Yorkville Park.

The ice carving competition will kick off at noon on the Saturday.

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Announced last week, the 2014 charter lists almost 40 promises for service improvements.

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To have a look at the full list visit www.ttc.ca neptis evaluates wA research growth plan group which recently issued a critical review of Metrolinx’s Big Move transit expansion plan is now setting its sights on the province’s official growth strategy for the Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH).

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North Toronto Hockey Association’s third annual outdoor Winter Classic Saturday For the third year in a row, the North Toronto Hockey Association (NTHA) will head to where the sport first got its start: outdoors.

This season’s Winter Classic has been scheduled for Saturday with all house league games moved “outside to the outdoor rink behind North Toronto Arena.”

The evening will then feature competitive games involving the select and ‘A’ level players at 6:30 p.m. for minor atom; 7:30 p.m. for bantam; and 8:30 p.m. for midget.

Players will still have full access to the dressing rooms in the arena, although they’re asked to remember to bring their skate guards “for that walk outside.”

As for spectators, the league advises: “remember your childhood....dress accordingly.”

And it also has another suggestion: “bring your own ‘blades’ and skate on the

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Charles Matheson moves the puck for RYR during a game against Peanut Power during the North Toronto Hockey League 2013 Winter Classic.

pleasure skating portion of the rink while keeping an eye on the action.”

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COST: $20 to $36 As our Canadian athletes participate in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, the instruments of the orchestra are also in training. They will be competing at the prestigious Orchestra Games, and Toronto Necropolis is a business name of Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries.

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WHERE: Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St. CONTACT: Pierre Campeau, 647-466-4069, pierre.campeau@gmail. com COST: $150 per ticket Hospice Toronto’s signature fundraising event celebrates 25 years of volunteer, home hospice palliative care and support. Visit www.tnplh

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Successful skateboard program coming to Spruce Court Cooperative From seven thin pieces of wood to a fully pieced together, sanded and painted deck, a handful of students recently completed a pilot project where they built their own skateboards by hand.

“The students made these from scratch, they are so proud of that,” said Namee Lee, project lead.

Lee, who lives near Yonge and Lawrence, is an industrial design instructor at OCAD University and the co-founder of the registered charity Thinking Forward.

Thinking Forward offers training programs for Toronto children, youth and adults aimed at aiding them to develop stronger character and skills so they might impact their communities in a positive way.

The three-year-old organization does outreach in schools, community centres and other public venues, with a focus on creative learning for children and leadership training for youth and adults.

Its principles are based on the CHOICES method, which stands for the development of good Character, Helping others, Ownership of one’s actions, being a positive Influence, showing

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“But for now it is a great piece of artwork,” Lee said.

All the work was done with hand tools, which Lee said teaches kids about resilience.

“They see that it doesn’t come easy, but the more you invest in it the more you will be proud of it,” Lee said.

A second round of this skateboard-making program is scheduled to start in the next few weeks at Spruce Court Cooperative in Regent Park.

“I think it will continue to be successful,” Lee said.

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“You can never press a board on your own so I thought it was a really good, hands-on way, to teach about working together,” Lee said.

After the students pressed the boards, they came up with the designs for their individual boards. Many designs depicted something the youth were proud of or their cultural heritage, and one was a tribute to a relative who had died.

“They were able to do what they wanted to do,” Lee said.

Adults varnished the boards for the youth, but Lee said the decks are currently without wheels. Wheels for a single board costs about $70, so Lee said Thinking Forward is looking for someone who might be

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“Our programming is aimed at character development, specifically on respecting each other, diversity and antibullying, but all done through the creative arts,” Lee said.

The pilot project ran at Alexander Muir/Gladstone Public School for 11 weeks.

Ten students between grades 6 and 8 participated.

To make the boards, the students glued together seven thin layers of wood and then a vacuum bag sucked the air out from between the layers.

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