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A woman is dead after a fire ripped through an apartment above a store on the Danforth early Monday.

Fire crews were called to 1294 Danforth Ave. (near Greenwood Avenue) at 2:14 a.m. and found flames and smoke coming from a third-floor apartment window when they arrived.

Capt. Adrian Ratushniak said firefighters located a woman’s lifeless body in a bedroom while “in the process of fighting the fire.”

“We extinguished the fire pretty quickly,” he said, noting a “smoke alarm was sounding at the time” that firefighters arrived.

The fire marshal’s office is investigating the cause of the two-alarm blaze.

Damage is estimated at $150,000.

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Large number of Thorncliffe students take part in ‘sex-ed strike’ MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Parents striking against Ontario’s new sex education curriculum pulled hundreds of students out of schools in Scarborough, East York and Etobicoke, Toronto’s

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The first day of a declared week-long strike saw only around 130 students, about 10 per cent, attend Thorncliffe Park Public School, one of the city’s largest.

Some 1,220 children were

absent from Thorncliffe, the largest single success in a campaign against the planned introduction of updated health and physical education lessons in September.

A Facebook group declared the strike would last all week,

and encouraged parents to download letters to send to schools, explaining they consider the curriculum “ageinappropriate” and in conflict with their values.

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Police warn of increase in bike thefts JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com

Fifty-five Division police are reporting a number of recent bike thefts throughout the division.

Investigators report the thefts occur both in the day time and the evening and often times bikes are removed from sheds.

In some instances, bicycles were stolen from a shed minutes after being placed there by their owners.

Underground parking garages have also been targeted.

Police said the thefts are likely due to the better weather and more availability of bikes.

Here are a few tips for to

avoid having your bicycle stolen and/or what to do if it is: • Register your bike with the Toronto Police Service at https://webapp1.torontopolice.on.ca/BicycleRegistry • Re c o rd yo u r s e r i a l number and descriptions (with pics) of your bike; • Invest in a good lock for your bike...and use it, even if you’re just running a quick errand; • Lock your bike to your shed and also lock your shed. Const. Jon Morrice, 55 Division’s Crime Prevention Officer, said he actually locks the tire of his bike to the frame, then locks both his bike to his shed and locks his shed.

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to flimsy objects, bushes, wooden fences and so on.

Anyone with information about bike thefts in the community should contact police immediately at 416808-5500, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.co, or text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637).

Tips can also be left on facebook at https:// www.facebook.com/ TorontoPolice.

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City’s largest clothing bank now in a bigger facility New Circles serves residents of Flemingdon Park, Victoria Village, Thorncliffe Park and Crescent Town DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com New Circles helps put clothes on the backs of 13,000 people each year and has celebrated its 10th anniversary and relocation to a bigger facility that will help serve more people.

New Circles, now located in southeast North York on Bartley Drive, is the city’s largest clothing bank, having distributed approximately 200,000 items of clothing last year. It serves residents of Flemingdon Park and Victoria Village in North York and Thorncliffe Park and Crescent Town in East York. Clients do not pay.

“I really want to congratulate you,” said EtobicokeNorth MPP Shafiq Qaadri, parliamentary assistant to Premier Kathleen Wynne. He

was speaking at a celebratory event Thursday, April 30 at the not-for-profit service agency’s facility that had more than 100 supporters pack its clothing bank, including Toronto Mayor John Tory and other dignitaries.

“This type of institution really takes a village of individuals who felt the need and not just reacted and said let’s write a cheque, but have really come together to form a really remarkable institution.”

New Circles is the brainchild of founding director Cindy Blakely who was a social worker at the Toronto District School Board and saw first-hand the effects of poverty on people.

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This led to the creation of the Holiday Angel program in 1996. The seasonal matching program has donors buy gifts, clothing and household items for clients. It continues today.

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“Have we grown? You bet. The first year, we saw 775 people. In 2014, it was 13,000,” Blakely said.

“At New Circles, any time a new client walks in through the door – you’re going to love this Mr. Tory – we attempt to launch them on their very own smart track.”

Clients come seasonally (four times per year) to shop for their and their family’s clothing using a voucher system.

The organization recycles approximately 15,000 pounds of clothing per month, both new and used.

Besides a clothing bank, the organization: • offers job skills training; • runs seasonal giving programs such as the Holiday Angels;

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It operates on an $800,000 annual budget.

Tory said more organizations such as this one are needed in the city. New Circles, for example, started with an idea by someone who had a heart to help others.

“Look at the place that we’re in now. Look at the programs that run in here that do everything from helping people get jobs to helping people with their clothing, and most of all, helping people have a bit

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Tory said the most important issue facing city council is the growing gap between those who are comfortable and those who are not, particularly newcomers to Canada.

“If we are being consistent with our own values and if we’re really trying to build a strong community that doesn’t have more people on the outside looking in than on the inside looking out, then the work done by organizations such as this and the work done by the city government is the most important work we do.”

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Know your city with Heritage Toronto tours W

hether you’re a resident or a tourist, how much do you know about the City of Toronto?

Let’s go one step further: how much do you know about the city’s rich history?

The answers vary from a lot to very little; however, even those who know a lot about Toronto could certainly use a refreshing experience.

So with that in mind, now is the time to take one of the many guided tours offered by Heritage Toronto, slated to run through to Sunday, Oct. 4, and get a city refresher.

From Etobicoke to Scarborough, North York to all the pockets in the downtown core, the city is alive with a rich and diverse history, making any day or weekend tour an experience every Torontonian should have.

“Heritage Toronto’s fun and our view informative tours give citizens the chance to see Toronto’s neighbourin a way they never have Head outside hoods before,” said Heritage Toronto and explore executive director, Francisco Alvarez.

Toronto If you’re looking to get started quickly, May is Asian Heritage Month with tours that take you through Chinatown, Korea Town, and the city’s Filipino community.

In Etobicoke you can take in the ‘Hurricane Hazel Revisited’ tour.

The ‘Guild Park’ tour talks about the long and rich artistic history of the southeast Scarborough area.

In North York, why not take in the ‘Downsview Park’ tour?

City neighbourhoods are also the focus of tours such as ‘Leslieville: Orange & Green’.

There are also bike tours, music history tours, and tours such as ‘Before Toronto’ that take participants on an archaeological bus tour of the city’s first 13,000 years.

Spring has sprung and summer is just around the corner – even fall has tours to offer – so why not take full advantage of our great city – voted the No. 1 place to live in the world to live by The Economist magazine.

Toronto has so much to offer, including some fascinating history that’s well worth learning more about.

So head out and experience Toronto in ways you’ve never experienced before.

For a full list of tours (you can filter by type and time) visit http://heritagetoronto.org/tours/2015-tours

Write us The East York Mirror welcomes letters of 400 words or less. All submissions must include name, address and a daytime telephone number for verification purposes. We reserve the right to edit, condense or reject letters.

Copyright in letters remains with the author but the publisher and affiliates may freely reproduce them in print, electronic or other forms. Letters can be sent to press@insidetoronto.com, or mailed to The East York Mirror, 175 Gordon Baker Rd. Toronto, ON, M2H 0A2.

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Open house at Cosburn Park Lawn Bowling Club

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s anyone who has travelled along Cosburn Avenue near Coxwell Avenue knows, one of the main features of the area is the lawn bowling club.

Officially known as the Cosburn Park Lawn Bowling Club, the club has been part of East York since 1929.

The clubhouse building that you see on the site dates from 1937 with the verandah being added in 1952.

In 1971 the Borough of East York placed an addition on the building and it is now a comfortable place to gather.

While many people associate lawn bowling with seniors, it is actually played by people of many different ages and it is definitely family friendly.

As the club web site states, it is a sport suitable for anyone aged 10 to 100.

Lawn bowling is certainly not intended for adrenaline

addicts but it is an excellent way to slow down and relax while exercising.

It’s casual pace and friendly competition is an excellent way to relieve one of the stresses and strains of our hectic modern life.

The game itself is a competition where one tosses a bowl (a small black ball) to a jack (a small white ball). player A player or a team earns one point for each bowl closer to the jack than the nearest opponent.

While that may sound easy, it’s actually not as the bowl is unevenly weighted to one side so that it turns.

So the skill comes in being able to control the bowl so that it travels to the spot where it will gain a point.

To make things even more interesting you play on manicured grass, known as a bowling green that is divided into rinks.

joe cooper watchdog Your bowl must remain inside of the rink boundaries otherwise it falls into what is known as the ditch and is removed from play.

There is much more to the game in terms of how scores are made and types of competitions that can be played.

All in all, while it may appear to be a simple game, it’s actually very challenging and rewarding.

The Cosburn Park Lawn Bowling Club is welcoming new members and is offering a series of free open house sessions during the month of May to introduce people to the sport.

The next two sessions will take place on Tuesday, May 12, at 7 p.m. and Thursday, May 14, at 1 and 7 p.m. and there will be two others after that.

All that is required to

attend is that you wear comfortable clothing and flat soled shoes.

You will be provided with equipment to play and instructions on how to use that equipment properly. clubhouse There is a clubhouse on the grounds and members enjoy barbecues, special dinners, family days, card parties and other events.

If you decide to become a member, you will find the fees to be very reasonable.

If you wish further information about the club and open house events, please call 416-421-4171 or email cosburn_bowls@cosburnparklawnbowlingclub.ca.

The club also has a web page with further information at www.cosburnparklawnbowlingclub.ca 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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Mosaic Presents: Medication Safety - Presentation by Home Care Rx WHEN: 1:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Mosaic Home Care Services and Community Resource Centre, CNIB, 1929 Bayview Ave., Suite 215H CONTACT: 905-597-7000, info@ mosaichomecare.com COST: Free Lisa Sever and Danielle Caron of Home Care Rx talk on medication safety.

Heritage Group WHEN: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: Presteign-Woodbine United Church, 2538 St. Clair Ave. E. CONTACT: 416-755-8352, www.presteignwoodbineuc.com COST: $7 A series of presentations on the history - good and bad - of Toronto and Ontario. Soup for lunch is served on the first Thursday of each month.

Card Making Workshop WHEN: 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Leaside Public Library, 165 McRae Dr. CONTACT: 416-396-3835 COST: Free Make a unique card Mother’s Day. Drop in, no registration required.

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Get Inspired Workshop: Pompom Creatures WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart, 170 Memorial Park Ave. CONTACT: 416-3963975 COST: Free; Call to register.

Learn how to turn yarn into pompom creatures.

Free. Supplies provided. Auditorium. For those aged 11 to 18 years old.

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.

Children’s Peace Theatre, 305 Dawes Rd. CONTACT: Ekua, 416-786-3992, www.tubmancommunity.org COST: $25; Family of four $20 per person.

A day of fitness and health: run/ walk, lectures on health and fitness, brunch, performances and more.Door prizes and raffles.

w Annual Church Yard Sale WHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Presteign-Woodbine United Church, 2538 St. Clair Ave. E. CONTACT: 416-755-8352, www.presteignwoodbineuc.com COST: Free Books, plants, trinkets and treasures.

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Swallowing Clouds WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Danforth/Coxwell Branch Toronto Public Library, 1675 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7783 COST: Free Program for children ages 9 to 12 years old. Working with professional dancers, musicians and an author, children will be guided through a creative journey leading up to an exciting performance. Performance is scheduled on June 6 at noon. Application and registration is required.

Application at the Danforth/Coxwell Branch.

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WHEN: 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714 COST: $6 Everyone welcome.

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East York Farmers Market WHEN: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell Ave. CONTACT: Ruth Abbott, 416429-9684, rabbott@sympatico.ca COST: Free Foot Care at CNIB WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

WHERE: Mosaic Home Care Services and Community Resource Centre, CNIB, 1929 Bayview Ave., Suite 215H CONTACT: 905-597-7000, info@mosaichomecare.com COST: Community Clinic $40; In-home $55 Registered nurse provides: referrals to podiatrist, foot massage and more.

Call to book an appointment.

WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Dr. CONTACT: 416-396-3975 COST: Free Toronto Master Gardeners presents a program on practical ways to increase your garden space, with step by step plans for a small garden and creative container gardening.

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Seniors Euchre WHEN: 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Main Square Community Centre, 245 Main St. CONTACT: Victoria Burns, 416-693-9300 COST: $1.25 Euchre for seniors 55+.

Novice players are welcome.

Dementia and Communication WHEN: 4 to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: South East Toronto Family Health Team, 840 Coxwell Ave. CONTACT: Indra Moffett, 416-640-6307 COST: Free Learn strategies to improve communication with the person with dementia.

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t the start of the whirling vortex of chaos (otherwise known as the May meeting of Toronto Council) next year’s budget seems very far off.

It is not, of course.

While council and the city deal with the ramifications of open-season on food trucks, a new city manager, the quest for a just taxi license and gender balance on the Toronto Transit Commission, the city’s 2016 budget looms large – larger than is typical, in fact, thanks to the odd way that council decided to balance the 2015 budget.

This was in March, when council approved a 2.75 per cent property tax increase for homeowners, and filled a $60-million shortfall by effectively borrowing from the city’s own capital financing capacity in future years. Services were generally sustained or even enhanced, taxpayers were mollified with a rateof-inflation increase, and the pain, Mayor John Tory

david nickle the city promised, would come later.

Tory also promised to let Toronto know in the coming weeks exactly how he would deal with the 2016 gap between what it costs to run the city as it stands, and the diminishing amount of money actually available to the city.

Although Tory would not use the words, it all suggested that in 2016, Torontonians would be looking at some form of service cuts.

Given that, it’s understandable that Tory has not yet made good on that one promise, to explain how he’ll balance things.

So far, the Tory mayoralty has been a good-news affair. His announcements generally aren’t about telling people what they can’t have, but what he will provide.

Very soon, our mayor is

going to have to start talking about more difficult things: strategies for cutting waste in the city’s administrative bureaucracy, cuts and fee increases.

Tory has so far avoided talking about fees very much, effectively ruling out the operationally sensitive but politically difficult application of “revenue tools” such as road tolls and consumption taxes.

Without a willingness to increase or enact those things, the city is left with only one option: austerity.

The city doesn’t have a terrible record on measured austerity. In general, residents seem to like their services and react with a certain amount of organized pique when they are threatened.

When the matter finally comes up, it will show even a rough-and-tumble council meeting such as this week’s for the honeymoon that it in fact is.

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The platform opened last year, but in an unfinished state. Its final design includes an immense “art wall” which doubles as a glass divider spanning the length of the Yonge and University waiting platforms.

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East end Olympians at World Relays A couple of east-end Olympic track stars had opposite results at the world relay championships which wrapped up in Nassau, Bahamas last weekend.

Crystal Emmanuel, from the O’Connor Drive area, helped the women’s 4x100m team qualify for next summer’s Rio Olympics with a record setting performance that almost got them on the podium.

Not only did the team qualify for next year’s Olympic games, they just missed the bronze medal by the narrowest of margins: 0.01 seconds.

And both their preliminary round time of 42.94 seconds and their event final time of 42.85 seconds smashed the Canadian record they set at the 2013 world championships of 42.99 seconds.

The women’s 4x400m team also qualified for Rio. Not so for the men, who didn’t qualify in either event.

Aaron Brown, who grew up in the area of Coxwell Avenue and Gerrard streets, saw his 4x100m relay team crash out

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East York resident Crystal Emmanuel, pictured here in last summer’s Commonwealth Games in Scotland, helped the Canadian women’s 4x100 relay team qualify for the Olympics in Rio in 2016.

as did the 4x200m relay team (not an Olympic event).

“Baton exchange miscues sunk any medal aspirations with neither advancing to their event final,” noted the Athletics Canada press release.

The men’s 4x400m relay team also did not qualify.

Fortunately as Athletics Canada also noted, “all is not lost.”

That’s because there will be more opportunities to qualify for Rio 2016 including at this summer’s 2015 IAAF World Championships in Beijing.

Canada’s 4x100 relay team earned a bronze medal at the last world championships in 2013.

Brown went to Bowmore Public School and then on to Birchmount Park Collegiate.

Emmanuel was born and raised in Scarborough (1991 to 1999, attending Eastview Public School), then to Barbados (1999 to 2008) and then back to Toronto to East York’s O’Connor Drive area, finishing up high school at Vaughan Road Academy and East York Alternative School.

Both Olympic relay events (4x100m and 4x400m) are featured in this summer’s Pam Am games and will be held right here in Toronto at CIBC Pan/Parapan Am Athletics Stadium at York University.

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Parents expected to explain abscences >>>from page 1 constituency office of Premier Kathleen Wynne, who is their MPP. In Scarborough, just over 700 children did not attend Cornell Junior Public School, near Markham and Scarborough Golf Club roads, though 150 students arrived as usual.

“We’re open, and staff are here and working,” said Maureen Coyle, Cornell’s principal.

At around 2 p.m., the Toronto District School Board said it did not have a number yet of absences across the city.

Board officials, however,

noted the absences were heavy in some areas of the city, including Thorncliffe, the Kingsview Village area in Etobicoke, and some parts of Scarborough.

Schools were working to confirm the reasons for absences, though many parents handed letters to principals and teachers in advance while others spoke to them without sending a letter. “When a child is not in school, we’re expecting a parent to call and say why,” said Shari Schwartz-Maltz, a board spokesperson.

School principals, meanwhile, are doing their best to address “misconcep-

tions” about the curriculum, Schwartz-Maltz said, urging parents to talk to principals and teachers, go through the curriculum and “continue the dialogue.”

“Parents can protest as they wish but we’d like the kids to come back to school,” she said.

Parent groups opposed to the new plan want the province to restart consultations on the curriculum, but Education Minister Liz Sandals has said the update will be introduced as planned.

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Local coffee house owner killed in Kentucky robbery JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com O n e o f t h e ow n e r s o f Leslieville’s Grinder Coffee was killed this past weekend while visiting Louisville, Kentucky for the Kentucky Derby.

Scott Hunter, who also tended bar for several years at the House on Parliament (HOP) in Cabbagetown, was fatally shot as a result of an altercation with three people during an apparent armed robbery attempt around 9 p.m.

His friend was not seriously injured during the incident.

“We are so grateful for all of your support during our time of loss,” Grinder Coffee posted on its Facebook page.

“Thank you to everyone for their kind words, love and support through this difficult time. As soon as we know more about a service, memorial, etc. We will keep you all informed.”

Out of respect for Hunter, the café closed its door until Tuesday.

A book of condolences has been set up at the coffee shop at 1021 Gerrard St. E., which is between Pape and Jones avenues near Gerrard Square.

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House on Parliament also posted a message of condolence on social media. “It is with sadness and heartbreak we tell our HOP friends of the death of Scott Hunter. Scotty was in Louisville, Kentucky attending the Kentucky Derby when a mugging went horribly wrong. Our hearts go out to his family in Hamilton and all the people who knew and loved him.”

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there with a warm hug, shoulder to cry on, a quick grin and funny as hell.”

The pub also lauded Hunter for his recent success as an entrepreneur.

“It is a testament to his drive and ability that he was able to balance both roles so well,” they wrote. “To Scott’s family, we would like you to know what a joy it was to have Scotty in our lives. He was one of a kind, well lived and loved.

Our thoughts and prayers are with you.”

Louisville Metro Police have arrested and charged three teens – two males and a female – with murder and robbery in connection with his death. Investigators are also looking into whether the trio is behind a series of recent robberies.

– with files from Torstar News Service

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