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COMMUNITY KITCHEN: Linda McLean, left, Wendy Lopez and Carolina Ayala participate in the East York Community Kitchen’s nutritious meals and recipes workshop held Sunday at the East York Community Centre.

Meeting on Leaside townhouses rescheduled A community meeting about a proposed development for the northeast corner of McRae and Sutherland drives has been rescheduled for the end of the month.

The meeting was originally

set for Jan. 8 but has been rescheduled as a result of a technical flaw in the formal notice issued by the city, Don Valley West Councillor John Parker said.

It will now take place Jan.

27 in the William Lea room of Leaside Memorial Gardens at 1073 Millwood Rd. It is expected to begin at 7 p.m., Parker said.

The meeting will focus on a proposed development on a former gas station and a few

neighbouring properties.

The application calls for six townhouses and two detached homes.

An existing car repair shop and two detached homes would be demolished.

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Veteran police officer, Sgt. Jack West, set to retire Traffic unit head at 54 Division involved in huge shootout at Etobicoke motel in 1991 ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com

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hough he’s retiring from the traffic beat, Sgt. Jack West will be taking his interest in safety down another road.

Since 2008, the 40-year veteran of the police force has been in charge of the traffic unit at East York’s 54 Division where he’s best known for initiating pedestrian and bicycle enforcement blitzes along the Danforth.

West, dubbed by colleagues as the traffic warrior, retires at the end of January.

But he hopes to continue to spread his traffic safety message as a media commentator or a professor.

“I’m going to put some resumes out. I’m going to apply to teach at a college,” he said, adding he’s also been approached by “some media to participate as a traffic law expert, and if that doesn’t work out, I’ll just have to become a professional golfer.”

West, 62, joined the police force as a constable on Oct. 1, 1974 and was first assigned to 22 Division in the west end of the city.

“I’ll never forget when my sergeant told me, ‘West, you’re walking the beat.’ It was one of the coldest nights in December,” he said. “At two o’clock in the morning I was checking rear alleys, making sure that all the stores in the area, the doors were secure, and all I could hear was the snow crunching on my boots and I felt like I was the only man

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Toronto police Sgt. Jack West, also known as ‘The Road Warrior’, will be retiring from the Toronto Police Service after nearly four decades. He has served as 54 Division’s traffic unit boss since 2008.

in the world.”

While working at neighbouring 21 Division in south Etobicoke, West was involved in a couple of shootouts.

“My job was to walk the Lake Shore motel strip area,” he said.

“There were 18 motels there. It was known for prostitution, a lot of drugs.”

In one incident in 1991, two of West’s fellow officers spotted a Porsche parked outside the Rainbow Motel and began to

investigate a motel room.

Suddenly, the motel room door swung open and two men opened fire on the officers.

“They went for cover. They called in assistance. I wasn’t far away,” West said. “There were 413 shots fired out of that room at the police officers. This continued for about a day-and-a-half.”

West was eventually ordered to go in with the emergency task force and arrest one of the two suspects.

While searching the suspect, West found a key piece of evidence: a motel room key that tied the suspects to a double murder in British Columbia. The Rainbow Motel gunfire wounded an officer and is known as one of the most spectacular shootouts in Toronto’s history.

West was involved in another shootout in the same neighbourhood. It started when he and his partner followed two suspects in a stolen van.

“I was in plain clothes, and they moved quickly into a dark parking lot,” West said.

“The driver exited the van, took a shot back at us and he disappeared into the woods.”

West arrested the female passenger and found a key on her that led him to a motel where he thought the outstanding suspect would return to. He was right.

That motel was the scene of yet another shooting.

After police returned fire and shot the suspect with a 12-gauge shotgun, West jumped on top of him in order to secure him.

“He was yelling at me,” West recalled. “I discovered that he had a stolen bullet-proof vest and he’s wearing two coats.”

The vest saved the suspect’s life, and five hours after the gunfire, he was giving a statement at the police station.

“The experience of the motel strip area taught me you do not judge a book by its cover,” West said.

“He (suspect) was a short, short

man, about 120 pounds, and by looking at him physically, I would never think he had the capabilities of what he did.”

West said the suspect was sentenced to 18 years in jail and that since then apparently he’s committed “one or two” homicides.

As a front-line officer, West had an interest in traffic.

He spent time on what he called the accident car where he investigated collisions from fender-benders to fatalities.

Because of his traffic experience, West was transferred to the Toronto Police College where he designed the traffic generalist course and taught for 13 years.

West also sat on a Ministry of Transportation board to regulate e-bikes and wrote a book on the Highway Traffic Act. Last year, West was honoured with the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Traffic Safety.

“It’s so important for road safety to enforce the Highway Traffic Act, and it’s not a case of going out and getting people, it’s a case of going out and upholding the law,” West said.

But the traffic warrior stressed police officers shouldn’t appear to be too punitive.

“They have to learn to be fair, they have to be good listeners, they can’t prejudge and most of all: common sense.”

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Bridgepoint takes possession of Don Jail site JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com The last major milestone in the $1.2 billion transformation of the northwest corner of Gerrard Street East and Broadview Avenue has been reached.

Bridgepoint Active Healthcare officially took possession Monday, Jan. 6 of the building that once housed the Toronto Jail, an imposing red brick structure at the corner of Broadview Avenue and the new Jack Layton Way. Two weeks earlier, on Dec. 20, a small ceremony was held outside the front doors of the jail with staff members and officials gathering to lower the

flags outside the institution and honour its history.

“It’s the last really important step in the redevelopment of the site,” said Marian Walsh, Bridgepoint Active Healthcare’s president and CEO, Tuesday afternoon.

“We’re really excited that we’re entering the last phase of completing the full landscape and campus plan. By fall, the site should be complete.”

Wo r k e r s f r o m P C L Constructors Inc. have since set up green construction hoarding around the circa 1958 building, which is also known as The Don Jail or simply The Don. In about two week’s time,

asbestos assessment and abatement work will be among the steps undertaken in preparation for the building’s demolition. Crews will then begin removing windows, large equipment and other materials from the inside of the former jail.

“The demolition will start from the inside out,” said Walsh, noting the goal is to completely demolish the structure by April 30.

“There’s no historical value to the property. It’s not an architecturally significant building in any way.”

Once leveled, a road named Blue Rodeo Way will be built on a sliver of land where the former Toronto Don Jail con-

nected to the Old Don Jail, which was built in 1864 and has recently been repurposed to house administrative offices and the Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation.

The remainder of the Don Jail property, known as Block ‘D’, will be considered for future development, while another road – Bridgepoint Drive – which will lead to the front of the new hospital, is planned for just above this parcel. A large parking lot just south-west of the Toronto Jail site will be home to a new City of Toronto-owned park.

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The last of the Don Jail inmates have been moved out and will eventually be housed in the new Etibicoke based Mimico Correctional Centre. The Don was handed over to Bridgepoint Active Healthcare.

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he ice storm that hit Toronto at the end of last month imposed severe hardship, physically, emotionally and financially, upon hundreds of thousands of residents.

Which makes the behaviour of councillors and the mayor at the special meeting held last Friday and this Monday to approve a call to seek financial help from the provincial and federal governments to help cover ice storm costs so disappointing.

There are many issues surrounding the storm’s impact, costs associated with it and how the city’s leadership dealt with the crisis. The meeting was held to deal with those important items, yet it turned into a forum for petty politics and blatant electioneering.

We deserve better from our our view elected officials. And they need to know most voters can see through what they were up to at the meetWarning: ing, and it will only reflect badly on themselves. After unanimously Voters are approving Monday morning what watching was a no-brainer of a decision to ask for federal and provincial disaster relief funding to cover two-thirds of the estimated of $171-million cost to the city for the ice storm and the flooding in July, the silliness started.

Councillor Karen Stintz, who has said she intends to run for mayor in this year’s election, said Mayor Rob Ford should have handed over authority to Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly during the ice storm instead of taking the limelight for himself.

Ford fired back at her and then went on to take shots at Kelly, accusing him of not being a leader during the crisis. Kelly accurately said the meeting was “degenerating into an embarrassing melee.”

To wrap it up, Councillor Doug Ford, Mayor Ford’s brother, called Councillor John Parker “pathetic.” That came about after Parker made a remark about Mayor Ford thanking city staff for their work during the ice storm.

Pathetic is what we would call the entire meeting.

The request for funding could have been quickly dealt with Friday. Of course it was going to be a unanimous vote. The only reason the meeting continued was because too many councillors were using it for selfish motives. With this being a municipal election year, voters in this city need to take a hard look at our representatives. The behaviour of many of them Monday and Friday should not have improved their re-election chances.

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any people living in East York do not know that it is home to one of the finest community art collections in Canada.

East York contains many fine pieces by local artists and works by members of the famous Group of Seven.

The collection is preserved by the East York Foundation, which was established by then township Reeve True Davidson.

Provincial legislation This was done though the passing of provincial legislation in order to preserve the cultural holdings and artifacts of the Township of East York.

This legislation was updated in 1967 when the Village of Leaside and the Borough of East York were amalgamated.

In 2004, the City of Toronto formally recognized the East York Foundation and today it is the formal custodian of

joe cooper watchdog artifacts from the time it was a borough and a township.

A board of directors today oversees the management of an extensive collection of art, sculpture, rare books and documents.

The board works with the City of Toronto to ensure that this collection is preserved as professionally as possible.

As many of the holdings as can be displayed as possible are placed on view.

From Jan. 4 to 31 a special display of oil paintings, colour block prints and lino block prints of Mary E. Wrinch will be on display at the Leaside Library. art director Wrinch emigrated in 1885 from England with her family and enrolled at Bishop Strachan School, later

becoming the art director at the school for 35 years.

While making Toronto her home base, she was notable for exploring the Muskoka area years before the Group of Seven depicted the same region.

Throughout her career, Wrinch experimented with water and sky in motion, often applying shades of blue and purple.

Many of Wrinch’s prints include flowers and wildflowers always portrayed frontally, filling the picture as seen in Darwin Tulips, 1932, which is on display.

At age 45, Wrinch married oil painter George A. Reid. artists’ colony They resided at Upland Cottage in Wychwood Park which was considered an artists’ colony, a permanent sketching ground for students at the Ontario Central School of Art and Design (now OCAD).

After Reid’s death in 1947,

Wrinch continued her printmaking, creating florals and landscapes.

She resided at Upland Cottage until her death in 1969 at age 91.

During her life she was a member of Ontario Society of Artists, Women’s Art Association of Canada, Canadian Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, to name only a few.

Please come and view the work of this very talented but relatively unknown female artist, whose works were once shown alongside the Group of Seven as an equal.

The display will be on for only a month and it would be a shame to miss seeing this amazingly beautiful artwork.

Thanks to Elaine Snider for assistance in writing this column.

Joe Cooper is a long-time East York resident and community activist. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at eym@insidetoronto.com

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Ford is in fighting form these days Anybody still thinking Rob Ford won’t be a formidable force in the 2014 mayor’s race need look no farther than this week’s special ice storm council meeting to disabuse themselves of the idea.

Ford showed the world this week what a political pit-fighter can do in a forum where all his opponents still feel they ought to constrain themselves by civility.

Ford properly entered Monday’s forum, the second day of the two-day meeting, after council had dispensed with the crucial non-question of whether the city should ask for provincial and federal aid to deal with the cost of the December ice storm. After a speech in which he praised city and Hydro staff and chided his colleagues for not doing so themselves, the fight was on.

The marquee match came when TTC chair and mayoral hopeful Karen Stintz rose to take on Ford. Through a series of carefully laid-out prosecutorial questions, she attempted to establish that Ford’s decision not to declare

david nickle the city a state of emergency during the ice storm flowed from his unwillingness to surrender power to his deputy mayor Norm Kelly, and that doing so harmed the cleanup.

She didn’t stand a chance.

When Stintz tried to set things up and ask the mayor if he agreed the city would have been better served by having one mayor in charge, Ford shot back that he was in charge and did just fine – and went on to assert that Stintz herself had done nothing to help get the TTC up and running.

By the time Stintz was able to counter that attack and push her core argument to the fore, she was reduced to trying to shout over the mayor, who wondered, “What are you so angry for?”

If Stintz goes ahead and files her papers for the mayor’s race, that’s what she’ll be facing, debate after debate: a taunting, confident incumbent who

in spite of any evidence you might care to throw at him won’t back down.

Stintz wasn’t the only one to buckle. When Councillor Joe Mihevc went after Ford’s voting record, Ford turned it around and went after Mihevc’s travel record.

When Kelly tried to correct Ford’s mischaracterization of his own work ethic, Ford went on the attack.

Scarborough-Rouge River Councillor Raymond Cho’s almost plaintive questioning of the mayor’s aggressive tactics was met with more mockery, as the mayor bobbed and weaved and laughed off attacks from all corners.

In the end, it wasn’t so much that Ford left the room looking particularly good, as that he’d left everyone around him looking foolish and flustered. As this election year progresses, any candidate hoping to deny Ford a second term is going to have to find a way to fortify their inner calm.

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Work on Crosstown LRT continues Metrolinx is advising Eglinton Avenue residents to get ready for further construction related to the Eglinton Crosstown LRT project.

Work is set to begin below Eglinton on the eastern tunnel portion of the light rail line, with much of the work taking place between Brentcliffe Road and Yonge Street.

Just as with the western section from Black Creek Drive to just past Eglinton West Station, the construction will include relocating utilities, building “headwall” supports and completing access and extraction points through which massive boring machines will eventually excavate tunnels east.

For more information about the 19-kilometre Crosstown LRT project scheduled for completion in 2020, visit www.thecrosstown.ca the transit apps wRanking

Which transit app is the best for determining when your bus or streetcar is coming?

The TTC wants to know.

rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT Like other transit agencies, the TTC allows thirdparty developers to make use of its vehicle GPS data.

But despite the popularity of Where Is My Streetcar, Rocket Man and others, the TTC doesn’t promote or recommend any specific transit app, leaving riders to determine on their own which works best.

Now, the TTC is planning to hold an online voting contest to endorse and promote a single app, which it will feature and recommend to its customers.

The contest is expected to launch in early 2014. author to speak at St. Paul’s wTransit

The author of an influential transit tome will speak at an event organized by the city in late January.

Jarrett Walker, a respected transit network consultant from Portland, Oregon will give a keynote speech and

A NATURAL ALTERNATIVE TO SLEEP MEDICATIONS MD DISCOVERS SLEEP PROPERTIES IN PUMPKIN SEEDS

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engage in discussion with chief city planner Jennifer Keesmaat at an event, which is part of the ongoing Feeling Congested? initiative.

The event takes place at 7 p.m. Jan. 23 at the Great Hall inside St. Paul’s Church, 227 Bloor St. E. Elevator, escalator down wservice

TTC riders who require use of elevators and escalators to access the subway may have to reconsider traveling to Main and York Mills stations.

As of this week, elevator service at Main is down until March 23 to allow for a major overhaul of the existing structure.

Also closing for major repair work are the southend escalators located near the passenger pick-up area in York Mills station.

They are scheduled to be out of service until late September.

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Newman at Danforth Music Hall wJohn John Newman will perform at The Danforth Music Hall in support of his debut album Tribute.

At 23, Newman is no stranger to success. In 2012, he wrote and sung on UK dance hits Feel The Love and Not Giving In by Rudimental.

Newman has spent the last year working on Tribute and touring with Rudimental and Plan B. His all-ages concert at The Danforth Music Hall is on April 5.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m. at www.ticketmaster.ca, Rotate This and Sound scapes. history meeting in Riverdale wWaterfront

The Riverdale Historical Society (RHS) is hosting a detailed and intimate presentation on the history of Toronto’s waterfront Tuesday, Jan. 28.

Featuring Jane Fairburn, author of Along the Shore, the event takes place at 6 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Clubhouse, 450 Broadview Ave. at Langley Avenue.

A lawyer by trade, Fairburn

has lived near Lake Ontario for decades and has a keen interest in the history, geography, landscape and people of the Toronto shore.

Her interest in the waterfront also derives from the fact her descendants are among the first generations of Anglo and Irish settlers in Ontario.

Admission is free for RHS members. Non-members pay $5. Memberships will be available for sale at the event.

Visit www.riverdalehistoricalsociety.com for more information. extended French program info wTCDSB

The Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) offers Extended French programming to students beginning in Grade 5 at several schools across the city.

Evening information meetings about the program will be held locally at the following schools: Our Lady of Fatima, 3176 St. Clair Ave. E. (416-393-5252) tonight at 7 p.m.; St. John, 780 Kingston Rd. (416-393-5220) tonight at 7 p.m.; Blessed Sacrament, 24 Bedford Park Ave.

(416-393-5226) on Feb. 12 at 6:30 p.m. and St. Vincent de Paul, 116 Fermanagh Ave. (416-393-5227) on Feb. 27 at 7 p.m.

Go to http://bit.ly/1a2GnzN for more information about TCDSB’s French Immersion and Extended French programs. parking tickets issued during ice storm wFight

Residents who got a parking ticket during the recent ice storm can plead their case to the City of Toronto.

Overnight street parking is banned in many parts of the city, and requires a permit in others.

On Monday, Dec. 30, the city advised people to request cancellation of a ticket by describing the special circumstances in an application to dispute the fine at http://bitly.com/1ggfwPJ Completed application forms can be sent by e-mail to parkingmeters@toronto.ca or faxed to 416-696-3652. Parking tickets can also be disputed at civic centres. music fest back on The Danforth wWinterfolk

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actually its roots music – back on the western end of Danforth Avenue.

The 12th annual festival is slated to take place Feb. 14 to 16 in a number of establishments east of Broadview Avenue after spending the last two years at a downtown Toronto hotel.

Previous to that it had been held for seven years on the Danforth in a handful of establishments, mostly between Broadview and Chester subway stations.

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The one-day event is set for Saturday, Feb. 8.

The bonspiel’s goal is to raise $10,000 for the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

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BIG WIN: East York’s Anthony Scavuzzo, left, and Austin Mundie break in alone on West Hill goalie Jeff Deverea during midget senior division action at Don Montgomery Arena on Saturday during the Don Montgomery Memorial House League Select Tournament. Left, an East York player, white sweater, battles West Hill’s Joseph Hifani, left, and Haily Stratchen during the game. East York went on to win this game 5-0. A tough 2-1 loss to Kingston to close out the tournament, however, eliminated East York from the playoff round after they had opened the tournament with a 2-2 tie with a team from Iqaluit who ended up as finalists in the 10-team division. The East York league also had teams competing in three other divisions at the tournament – novice, atom and midget junior.

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East York baseball starts girls peewee all-star team SEAN DURACK active@insidetoronto.com The East York Baseball Association has added a new wrinkle to its programming for the coming season.

For the first time since its inception more than 60 years ago, the association will form a girl’s peewee all-star team for those 11 to 14 years old.

The team, which will host tryouts at Scarborough’s Variety Village this month and next, will compete with other girls’ peewee teams from across the GTA. Girls tend to drift away from the game of baseball around the peewee age, in some cases shifting to softball.

Others simply stop playing.

Numbers dwindle “Unfortunately the numbers tend to dwindle as they get older. Some of them want to continue to play baseball.

The idea for the team is driven from that,” said Mark Ireland, Bulldogs vice president of

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Our objective right now is to keep them playing and keep them from drifting away from the game.

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rep ball, noting there’s been a positive response from the community.

“There’s a genuine excitement. We’re all looking forward to it.”

It’s a move that has been a long time in coming for East York Baseball.

Only the start And with discussions to possibly expand to the mosquito level (10 to 13 year olds) and perhaps rookie ball (7 to 9 year olds), it’s only the beginning.

“Until now we haven’t been able to put the right combination of people together – the support, infrastructure,

coaches and players,” said Ireland.

“The key for us is to get the girls to continue to play the game. How it develops and how it evolves four or five years from now is yet to be determined. Our objective right now is to keep them playing and keep them from drifting away from the game.”

Ireland will be on hand with other coaches to host tryouts at Variety Village, at 3701 Danforth Ave., on Jan. 25 and Feb. 1. There will be no charge to try out.

To help with the cause, Ireland has also enlisted the help of Samantha Collins and Jessica McKibbon who played with the East York association and represented the province at the national bantam championships last year.

Both will help from a coaching and organizational standpoint.

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In late July or early August 2012, the female victim was walking in the area at about 9 p.m. when she was grabbed from behind by a suspect who dragged her to a nearby park, sexually assaulted her and threatened to kill her, police alleged.

The suspect fled on foot following the incident.

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East York Garden Club monthly WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Stan Wadlow Clubhouse, 373 Cedarvale Ave. CONTACT: Susan Bartlett, 416467-4945, susanhirst@gmail.com COST: Free The East York Garden Club will feature a slideshow presented by Donna Fenice. Doors open at 7 pm for social; speaker will be at 8 p.m.

Canadian Federation of University Women, Leaside-East York WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Northlea United Church, 125 Brentcliffe Rd. CONTACT: www.leaside.org/cfuw COST: Free Ada Mackenzie: A Woman of Influence in Women’s Golf. Joan Elliot, chair of archives, Ladies Golf Club of Toronto.

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Teen Night at the Movies: Man of Steel WHEN: 5 to 8 p.m.

WHERE: S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Dr. CONTACT: 416-396-3975, COST: Free Sent as a child to

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East York Historical Society WHEN: 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart, 170 Memorial Park Avenue CONTACT: Margaret McRae, 416-429-7821, www.eastyork.org/eyhs.html, eyhs@eastyork.org COST: Free Toronto’s First Post Office is the subject of our next meeting with speaker Kate Akerfeldt, assistant curator of Toronto’s First Post Office. Refreshments at 7 p.m. and meeting at 7:30 p.m.

Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www.east yorkmirror.com. Read weeks of listings from your East York neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto.

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WHEN: 12:30 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714 COST: $7 Everyone is welcome.

Visual Artists Show & Share WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Art Cave, 155 Lamb Ave. CONTACT: Naz Rahbar, info@eastendarts.ca COST: Free Receive and share friendly feedback on your visual artwork. Participants are invited to bring one to three pieces of their work for discussion.

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Robbie Burns Dinner and Dance WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 10 COST: $25 per person Menu: Scottish steak pie, haggis, mushy peas, neeps an’ tatties, a glass of wine, triffle, tea, coffee and

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East York Community Kitchen WHEN: 3 to 6 p.m. WHERE: East York Community Centre, 1081 1/2 Pape Ave. CONTACT: Jennifer Kim, 416-532-7840, eyckitchen@gmail. com COST: Free Cook and eat a tasty, nutritious meal.

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Mayor, councillors trade barbs at council’s ice storm meeting DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Toronto Council rushed to unanimously support a request to the provincial and federal governments to help deal with the costs of the December ice storm and summer flood. But any hopes of continued solidarity were soon dashed, as Mayor Rob Ford faced hard questions about his decision not to declare a state of emergency last month.

“Mr. Mayor, you could have put the deputy mayor in charge but you didn’t, because you wanted to keep the power for yourself,” said EglintonLawrence Councillor Karen Stintz, who has announced her intention to run against Ford for mayor in 2014.

Stintz levelled the accusation in an attempt to grill Ford during the second day of the council meeting, that was cut short Friday because of a

requirement to end the meeting at 3:30 p.m. in deference to the Jewish Sabbath.

On Monday, Toronto Council faced another religious deadline, having to stop the meeting by 4:30 p.m. in deference to the Islamic festival of Mawlid al-Nably.

Ford had called the special council meeting then to meet a deadline of Tuesday at midnight, to request disaster relief funding from the provincial government.

Council did unanimously support Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly’s motion to ask for at least $114 million to cover costs of both the ice storm and the summer storm from the federal and provincial governments. Toronto is facing a total of $171 million for the costs of both storms.

With that out of the way, councillors settled in to an at-times angry exchange with Mayor Ford. Stintz suggested the ice storm recovery might

have gone better if one person had been in charge – and that Ford could have facilitated that by handing the reigns of power over to Kelly.

Ford maintained there was always one person in charge: “Me, I was in charge,” he said.

Ford went on to criticize Kelly for being less present during the crisis than Ford, who held numerous press conferences, was. “The Deputy Mayor had his chance,” he said. “He was nowhere to be found Saturday night. I was the one who took the lead.”

Kelly rose to point out he had been involved through the city’s committee dealing with disaster preparedness.

“This is degenerating into an embarrassing melee and part of that melee was a misstatement by the mayor, who said I was nowhere to be found,” said Kelly.

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Dale also runs The Gondola Project website covering all things cable cars. He said he got the idea for a gondola network while considering the difficulty of reaching the Brick Works from street-level.

“I’ve been working within the cable car industry for five years. The Brick Works is a wonderful but poorly connected site. I merely put two and two together,” he said.

Getting to the Brick Works via transit isn’t easy. The centre had to scrap its shuttle bus from Broadview subway station following flooding damage and is using temporary replacements until a new vehicle can be obtained. One TTC bus, the 28A Davisville service, stops at the centre, located at 550 Bayview Ave. – but only on Saturdays.

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son Anthony Westenberg puts it, a cable car would appear to make sense for the Brick Works.

“We do have an interest, not just about getting to the Brick Works but also other features and attractions in the ravines,” said Westenberg. local ecosystem

One advantage according to Westenberg is the cable car network could be constructed without much upheaval to the local ecosystem since its environmental footprint is smaller than for road building and wouldn’t impact existing traffic. It could also operate in harsh winter conditions.

But he warned the project remains only an idea, and significant questions need answering before anything can be decided.

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Toronto-Danforth Councillor Mary Fragedakis believes more transportation is needed in the Don Valley.

She said 500,000 visitors came to the Brick Works last year and places such as the Todmorden Heritage Museum are becoming more popular.

The area will also be a hub in a city network planned for the 2015 Pan Am Games.

“There’s a lot going on to attract people down into the valley, but at this point no real connection for people who live in my community,” said Fragedakis.

“Cable cars would be an innovative way to get down there, which would certainly put our community on the map and connect people from a busy area like Broadview and Danforth down into the valley.”

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Brick Works has plan for city’s tree canopy Ice storm took heavy toll on Toronto’s trees REBECCA FIELD rfield@insidetoronto.com Toronto’s trees are looking barren and broken these days, but Evergreen Brick Works has plans for the city’s green spaces this spring.

Sue Arndt, program director of greenspace programs at Evergreen, will be working on Toronto’s green canopy come spring with hundreds of planned plantings, stewardship and tree monitoring programs across the city and the GTA. “We definitely will be focusing on assessing damages (from the December ice storm) as well as encouraging homeowners to think about replacing any trees lost on their properties and assessing the right tree for the right place,” said Arndt, who said they’d have to wait until spring to really see what damages there are.

“Our season launches around Earth Day weekend where we’ll be having some community events at the Brick Works as well as sites around the GTA,” Ardnt said.

“It’s definitely important for people to engage in the green spaces. It builds communities. It builds awareness of the value of these urban green spaces and what they bring.”

To help improve Toronto’s green spaces, Evergreen is accepting applications for their 10th annual Green Grants until Monday, Feb. 24 at 5 p.m.

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Lukezich said Evergreen has funded more than 500 programs over the past 10 years, including last year’s community garden at Eastview Community Centre on Blake Street.

She said more than 300 groups apply each year.

“This has been something that people can really depend on,” said Lukezich, who said recipients of the grant will find out if they were accepted around Earth Day in April so they have time to plan their projects for the spring.

“It’s just incredible to see some of these projects we’ve funded two or three years in a row. It’s really just amazing to see the benefits first hand in the community,” said Lukezich, who takes an annual tour of the projects around the GTA. “It’s amazing to see people who have had the opportunity to come out to get their hands in the dirt and if they don’t have a backyard or if they live in an apartment building, this gives them access to be able to plant and grow their own food,” said Lukezich, referring to community gardens.

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Toronto shows little enthusiasm towards making bid for 2024 Olympics DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Moving any further with a possible bid for the 2024 Olympics will cost Toronto taxpayers $1 million – but with the 2015 Pan Am Games looming, there seemed to be little enthusiasm for going ahead with the plan at city hall.

“I want to concentrate on the Pan Am Games,” said Mayor Rob Ford Tuesday afternoon, shortly after the report to the Jan. 20 eco-

nomic development committee was released.

“I think we’re cleaning up the Pan Am Games from where it was and right now I’m a little skeptical of putting a million dollars out after I saw the failure of our last Olympic bid.”

That was a sentiment echoed by Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly.

“We’re just in the process of preparing for the Pan Am Games and I would like to see how we handle that, what benefits flow from it, and

then we’d be in a better position,” he said. hosting The report at economic development committee includes a feasibility study from Ernst & Young, looking at the benefits and risks associated with hosting the Olympics.

The study indicated that the Olympics would boost Toronto’s visibility on the world stage and

add jobs, attracting conventions and tourism.

And it would bring in infrastructure investment. But it would also leave the city open to “significant costs and risks.”

If Toronto were to win the bid, costs to host the games could range from $3.3 billion and $6.9 billion.

Succeeding in winning the bid will also require the support of the federal and provincial governments as well as a demonstration of public and corporate support.

Toronto has been down the road of bidding for the Olympics twice before.

Most recently, Toronto lost to Bejing for the 2008 Olympics – after former Mayor Mel Lastman caused an international stir making a joke about cannibals immediately prior to travelling to Africa to gather support for Toronto’s bid.

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Harvest Tables Antiques

made with

Furniture

Reclaimed Woods

Handcrafted

By

SALE

Alfred

is on

29 Bermondsey Rd 416-690-5505 (East of DVP & South of Eglinton East)

visit: www.alfsantiques.com