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Two of Leaside’s youngest volunteers are hoping to raise 70,000 pounds of food in support of the Daily Bread Food Bank’s Thanksgiving drive. Sisters Sarah Jordan, 12, and Claire, 7, are already seasoned volunteers, having raised more than 90,000 pounds since their food drive began six years ago. “Last year we raised over 60,000 pounds of food. This year with all the extra support from

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Food drive event set for Saturday >>>from page 1 drive I didn’t expect much, but now I feel really great about it. We didn’t really expect it to be this big,” Sarah said. Younger sister Claire, who got an even earlier start volunteering for the food drive, has taken on a growing role as a budding nutritionist. “I talk to kids and tell them which foods are important for the food bank,” she said. Claire says foods high in protein, calcium, fibre, vitamins and minerals are important, such as: canned fruits and vegetables, canned fish and meat, pasta, rice and lentils. Always looking for new ways to raise more food, the girls decided to get local schools and businesses involved. For

a second year, the sisters have set up the School Challenge, which includes 12 schools and approximately 6,000 students rallying behind the food drive. “We go to assemblies at each of the schools and Sarah and I talk about our different roles. I talk about which foods are healthy and which are not,” Claire said. In addition to the School Challenge they have launched a Local Business Challenge to urge businesses and realtors to buy Holiday Hampers or make donations. They are always looking for ways to expand the food drive and getting businesses involved was a part of that, said their mother, Lynda Debono.

“It is very busy in the house. We have food donations being dropped off at our door, school assemblies to get to and preparations for our barbecue event this weekend,” Debono said. The family is preparing for a community barbecue on Saturday, Oct. 11, at McDowell’s Valu-Mart, 1500 Bayview Ave. Sarah said this is a way to thank friends, their families and all the people who supported the food drive; it’s also where people can drop off donations. Canned goods are welcome and prebagged groceries are available at McDowell’s for purchase for the Daily Bread Food Bank.

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Special guests to attend flame lighting >>>from page 1 exhaustion, according to the legend. The torch lighting ceremony and the beginning of the torch relay are set for 6:30 p.m. Guests attending the Thursday ceremony include

Constantine Voidonicolas, chair of GreekTown on the Danforth BIA, Ward 29 Toronto-Danforth Councillor Mary Fragedakis, Alexandros Ioannidis, Consul General of Greece, Andonis Artemakis, president of the Greek

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Mark a. cadiz mcadiz@insidetoronto.com Award-winning author and Riverdale resident Ken Setterington has gained international acclaim for his book Branded by the Pink Triangle having won several prestigious awards this year. The non-fiction book intended for young adults discusses the persecution and treatment of homosexuals by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust, a topic rarely discussed. “We need to know our history and recognize what happened during the Holocaust so we can move forward,” Setterington said. “And there is still persecution of gays around the world today.” Eleven million people were killed during the Holocaust, roughly five million were nonJewish including Jehovah’s Witnesses, Roma, the disabled, mixed raced couples (African and German) and gay men. These groups are often under-reported, forgotten about when the history of the Holocaust is discussed,

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Ken Setterington, left, author of, ‘Branded by the Pink Triangle’, is awarded the American Library Association’s Stonewall Honor Book award by Stonewall committee member Peter Coyle in June 2014. Setterington was named the first Children and Youth Advocate for Library Services for the Toronto Public Library and has won several awards for his works.

Setterington said. The book, which ties in first-person accounts and stories from survivors into the larger context of gay persecu-

tion, took roughly four years to complete as Setterington spent time researching in the Netherlands and Germany. Setterington, a former

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marked with a pink triangle on their uniforms. “When I became a teenager. I realized I was gay, then I discovered gay men were also victims in the Holocaust and the pink triangle was the symbol they wore when they were sent to the concentration camps,” Setterington said. The book, intended for children, has faced some debate about the book’s classification as readers expressed their concern about the graphic content and its appropriateness for children. But Setterington said the book respects the reader’s ability to handle the subject matter giving credit to children ages 12 and up. Setterington, who grew up in Scarborough, said he was introduced to the atrocities of the Holocaust when he was in Grade 2. “It is an aspect of the Holocaust that hasn’t really

been explored in children’s literature,” said Meghan Howe, the library co-ordinator at The Canadian Children’s Book Centre, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to encouraging, promoting and supporting the reading, writing, illustrating and publishing of Canadian books for young readers. “Setterington is masterful storyteller, and it is this skill that allowed him to take this very mature and very difficult subject and make it accessible to a youth audience.” When asked about the timing of the book and the role is has played in its success, Setterington said if the book was written 15 or 20 years ago it wouldn’t have been released, which says a lot. “The time is right,” he said. This year’s book was awarded the Stonewall Book Award by the American Library Association and won the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Literature. It was also selected as one of the five finalists for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.

Garneau celebrates space flight at namesake school CLARK KIM ckim@insidetoronto.com Former Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau celebrated the 30th anniversary of his first flight in space last Friday at the school in East York named after him. As the first Canadian in space, Garneau shared his story to students at Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute on how he went from serving in the navy to becoming an astronaut and then being elected as a federal politician. “You should choose things you feel passionately about,”

said Garneau, using his own life as an example. “Life can take you in all different directions.” But it was his time as an astronaut that seemed to most captivate the students as he went through his presentation about what it took to be one of the privileged few to get a view of Earth from space. Along with the intense year-long training it took to be prepared for the space mission, Garneau said teamwork is just as important as well as developing a tight working relationship with every person on the team to the

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point where they all trust each other with their lives. “That’s why we trained together for a year to build that relationship,” he said. Then students learned that it took the space shuttle, travelling at 28,000 km/hr, less than nine minutes to enter space. “You feel a huge amount of

vibration,” recalled Garneau, also noting the loud noise and his knees feeling heavy. But once the engines were turned off, it was quiet and then everything felt loose. “It’s kind of a magical feeling,” said Garneau, who described the feeling of weightlessness and being able to look down on Earth from space. “I realized all of us live on this planet. And guess what, there’s nowhere else to go.” He added that going around the Earth in 90 minutes and seeing 200 countries below helped put into perspective the need to find a way to live

together regardless of all the differences. “Marc Garneau is a wonderful reflection of that,” said Garneau, noting the ethnic diversity in the school. Students like Fatima Wa h e e d a n d E p h r e m Mulugeta said they were honoured to have Garneau visit their school. “A community like this doesn’t get opportunities like this that much,” Waheed said. Vinod Mahabir, president of the Overlea Garneau Alumni Association that worked on putting together the school event since January, said he

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was also humbled to have had the opportunity to meet Garneau. Despite Garneau’s busy schedule as the Liberal Critic for Foreign Affairs, Mahabir noted the MP still attended a special dinner the night before to help fundraise for scholarships awarded annually to two deserving Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute students. “Being available to the kids, this is what he loves,” Mahabir said.

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ere’s the challenge for this municipal election to Toronto citizens: let’s keep increasing the voter turnout. In 2010, the voter turnout in the city was 50.5 per cent. While that figure may not seem impressive, it is actually the highest total in amalgamated Toronto’s election history. It is a remarkable double-digit increase from the 2006 municipal election total of 39.3 per cent. It’s also more than 12 per cent higher than the 2003 vote. So was the election that swept Rob Ford into the mayor’s chair just a spike or a sign of a more engaged populace? We hope it’s the latter. Stronger voter turnouts mean more people are heard from and a more accurate portrayal of the city’s desires is presented for our representatives to act upon. So how can increased engagement happen? Know that multiple voting options are available. If your schedule is tight on our view Oct. 27, advance polls run – one location in each ward – from Oct. Make your 14 to 19. While online voting in Toronto voice heard on is not yet a reality, one location in each of the city’s 44 wards Oct. 27 is equipped with a Voter Assist Terminal that will be available for both the advance vote and on Election Day. The city’s website, toronto. ca, lists accessibility information for all voting locations. Secondly, check to see that you’re registered. Paper cards are being sent in the mail to 1.6 million eligible voters this week. Citizens can also check the eligible voters list or get on it by visiting www. toronto.ca/myvote Finally, and most importantly, there are no shortage of issues – city-wide and neighbourhood-focused – for citizens to explore. If you live in the city, there is something out there that impacts you. Visit our election website at insidetoronto. com/2014torontovotes to familiarize yourself with the candidates and the issues. If you don’t find that a concern is being voiced, why not voice it yourself? Elections are the perfect opportunity to do exactly that. There’s less than three weeks to go until Election Day, and less than a week before Advance Voting begins. Whenever you do it, whomever you cast your ballot for, make sure your voice is heard.

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Help keep East York a ‘warm’ community While there is certainly a geographic area called East York and a community by the same name, what has happened to the bonds that once linked the community together? I think it is only fair to say that the division that took place due to amalgamation of Leaside and Thorncliffe from the main body of East York has taken its toll. Unfortunately, I think today when you say East York, people immediately think of the pre-1967 boundaries rather than the former borough. Certainly areas such as the Governor’s Bridge community self-identify more with Rosedale than with the neighbourhood around Pape and Cosburn. The reality is that East York has been undergoing changes ever since its citizens decided to become an independent municipal body back in the 1920s. It has gone from being the site of market gardens

joe cooper watchdog to booming post-war housing to the community in transition that it is today. Community worth living While I’m a great defender and booster of the East York community, I’m not a hopeless sentimentalist or “stick in the mud” reactionary either. What I do believe in is keeping alive those things that make a community healthy and worth living in while keeping negative trends at bay. One of the key things that has made East York the healthy place it has been is the mix of people who care about their community contained within it. There are many communities in Toronto that have many pretty houses and other conveniences, but I wouldn’t care to live

in them. It’s not because they are crime-ridden or they have significant social problems – in fact they may be considered to be “better communities.” The simple reason I wouldn’t want to live in them is because of that intangible factor that can be called “being a cold community.” Caring The core community that is East York is a “warm” community, in that people are friendly, they talk to one another, and they care about their neighbourhoods. I can walk down the street and say hello to people and even start up a conversation. We still have a sense of community pride and a wide variety of clubs and organizations with deep roots and histories. This is in contrast to other communities where

people simply come home and their main interest is in their own backyard. Maintaining East York as a “warm” community is a common goal that needs to be kept in the forefront of every business, community group, neighbourhood association and politician. You, the citizen reading this column, can help by saying hello to your neighbour with a smile and doing something, big or small, to keep the community livable. By keeping that kind of community spirit we can keep the edges of the former borough from fraying any further. Who knows, we may even be able to entice some of our “lost communities” back into the fold when they see what they are missing. 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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Toronto mourns loss of restaurateur and nightclub impresario ‘Johnny K’ JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Toronto has lost one of the most notable architects of its vibrant dining and nightclub scene. Johnny Katsuras, better known as Johnny K, was a veteran restaurateur and nightclub impresario, not to mention publisher of an award-winning arts/music/fashion magazine, who along with his wife/partner and chef Laura Prentice, opened, closed, sold and/or ran more than 20 resto-lounges in the last three decades. Longtime east Toronto residents, Katsuras and Prentice were behind scores of notable establishments in the city’s east end including most recently The Playpen at Gerrard Street East and Carlaw Avenue and Tomi-Kro on Queen Street East, just west of Leslie Street. The couple also owned/operated Danforth Avenue’s Lolita’s Lust and the Chinchilla Lounge as well as Pan on the Danforth, Johnny K: The Restaurant on Queen Street East in The Beach and The Liberty, to name a few. Katsuras died Sunday, Sept. 28 following a battle with cancer. He was 60. Katie Karas, Katsuras’ niece, started collecting news articles about her uncle 35 years ago, when she was just eight years old. In an email to The Mirror, she said from his beginnings as a restaurateur at his Queen Street Eatery, Katsuras “seemed to have his pulse on what the people wanted; what was the next big hit.” “No matter what the next venture was, it was sure to be well received. Like Johnny K’s in the Beaches, Tasmanian Ballroom, Liberty, Fourth & Fifth, Lolita’s Lust, Pan, I.C.E. Magazine...too many to list. He was a successful restaurateur, club owner and publisher. He sure made his mark on Toronto’s landscape.” Karas said her uncle was “a handsome and charismatic man” people wanted to see and be around.

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“He had a loyal following from his earliest beginnings and throughout the years,” she wrote, adding beside every great man is a great woman; in this case Laura Prentice. “The dynamic duo was a force to be reckoned with, as she was not only a talented chef, but also a former Argos Cheerleader, and one smart cookie. A triple threat,” said Karas, who also lost her mother to cancer last year. “My heart goes out to Laura, who waged her own war against the dreaded disease that took Johnny’s life, but she won her battle.” Karas said the beginning of her uncle’s “horrible journey” with cancer began late last year when Katsuras and Prentice were at their Florida home, the place they were planning to retire. While there, Katsuras unexplainably started losing weight rapidly, prompting the couple to drive 20-hours straight back to Toronto to

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seek medical attention. Noel Trumpour, a downtown and east Toronto real estate broker, was friends with Katsuras for more than three decades and enjoyed many good times over the years at his various establishments. “I knew Johnny for many years, both personally and professionally,” he shared during a recent interview. “He was the most innovative, forwardthinking guy I know. He was ahead of his time.” Trumpour said every time his “largerthan-life” friend would open a nightclub or a restaurant it would be original. “He had a knack for seeing what was coming down the pipe. It was amazing,” he said. “Johnny was never afraid to take a chance and that chance always paid off.” Trumpour also pointed to Katsuras’ amazing way of making people feel welcome at his many establishments. “He was a phenomenal host; the host with the most,” he said of Katsuras whom he called “one of the most legendary guys in the business in Toronto.” Trumpour also pointed to Katsuras’ wife, Laura. “She had a ton of faith in the guy and vice versa,” he said. Scores of friends, acquaintances and family members also posted online messages of condolence for Katsuras. Another friend recalled Katsuras’ “infectious smile” calling him “The King of The Danforth”, while one woman said he was “stunningly handsome, successful and full of energy to live the dream he set out for himself”. Katsuras is survived by his mother Voula Katsuras, wife Laura and daughter Kevi. A celebration of Johnny K’s life was held the evening of Monday, Oct. 6 at Lolita’s Lust at 513 Danforth Ave., following his funeral service earlier that day at Scarborough’s Pine Hills Cemetery.

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John Tory’s plan for surface subway rail has been getting a lot of attention over the past months of the mayoral campaign – much of it skeptical. There is good reason. Tory is extolling the feasibility of his transit-for-nothing plan like a Revival-tent preacher. The financial plan for it is built primarily on his faith that Toronto development might continue to boom over the next decade or so. For the western portion through Etobicoke, Tory places his faith in engineers to lay new track around, under and (who knows?) over houses and community facilities and roadways to complete the whole grand vision. So assuming that the whole thing goes ahead, and Tory’s faith is not rewarded, Toronto could be paying back a shortfall in funding to a city-spanning ‘surface subway’ that will wreak havoc on communities in the west end. There is a more likely outcome: the realities of economics, politics and engineering

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Ward 31 candidates’ debate slated Danforth East Community Association hosts event The Danforth East Community Association (DECA) will be hosting a Ward 31 all-candidates debate Wednesday, Oct. 15 at the Kimbourne Park United Church, 200 Wolverleigh Blvd., from 7:15 to 9 p.m. The debate will mainly focus on three areas: trans-

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City staff from various departments met this week to developing guidelines for future Complete Streets policies. About 450 people from various city departments, including Planning, Transportation Services and Toronto Public Health, were expected to take part in a workshop Tuesday at Daniels Spectrum in Regent Park to learn more about Complete Streets, the notion that roadways should be open to all forms of trans-

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Top junior hockey league back in town The Leaside Wildcats junior team has kicked off its third year in the province’s top junior women’s hockey league. Although usually based at Leaside Arena, the team’s next game – following a brief Thanksgiving weekend break – is Friday, Oct. 17 at 8 p.m. at East York Arena against cross-city rivals Toronto

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TEGH seniors’ fair puts focus on healthy aging Mark a. CaDIZ mcadiz@insidetoronto.com The Toronto East General Hospital (TEGH), as part of the senior friendly hospital initiative, hosted a seniors’ fair educating the community about the importance of active aging and wellness recently. “We are all going to age some day, so it’s important to know what’s going to happen next to us,” East York senior Jacquelin Archer said. “I think it’s well worth the time to get yourself informed about what services exist.” Archer visited different senior booths that lined up the hallway leading up to the hospital’s lecture theatre where the fair took place. According to Statistics Canada, the fastest growing segment of Toronto’s population is its oldest residents and those between the ages of 55 and 64, and the city needs to prepare for the growing demand of senior services it said in a Toronto

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Roberta Keogh, centre left, and Bernadette Mackillip attend the Healthy Aging Fair at Toronto East General Hospital.

seniors strategy report. In the last city census in 2011, there were 680,945 adults over the age of 55 with numbers expected to grow significantly in the coming years. “It is really important for us to encourage hospitals to take on senior-friendly care because the

number of people entering older adulthood is going to increase over the next decade as we will see an exponential increase of people 65 and over,” Irene Andress, chief nursing executive of TEGH said. As part of the hospital’s strategy, a senior-friendly hospital committee was set up and is responsible for

developing an action plan focusing on ensuring seniors are as mobile as they can be while in hospital. East York resident Kaare Melts, who attended the fair, has lived in the community for more than 50 years. Melts said she hasn’t experienced any major health problems, but acknowledged the importance of being pro-active. “I think it’s important that seniors come and take part in these initiatives because we always end up learning something,” Melts said. “I’ve started to develop some minor problems and I really need to start investigating what’s out there so I know where I can get help.” Andress, who spoke about seniors’ issues at the fair, said she wants to make sure that everyone is aware of resources that are already available to them such as city-run adult day programs offered at different locations across the city, which cater to people who are physically frail,

have cognitive impairment or who are socially isolated. “There are a plethora of resources available in the community and in the hospital, but sometimes there is an information gap to get the information to the person at the right time,” she said. Archer, along with other seniors who were at the fair, eagerly sought information as many made their rounds from booth to booth collecting brochures and talking to service representatives. “It is always very good to have an outreach program like this where seniors can communicate between themselves about issues they have. It is always better to have more communication than less,” Archer said. TEGH has also hired a geriatrician, Dr. Jarrod Rosenberg, as part of its senior hospital initiative.

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Ward 32 candidates Sandra Bussin, left, Maria Garcia, Carmel Suttor, incumbent Mary-Margaret McMahon, James Spears, Brian Graff and Eric de Boer (not in photo) sit on the panel during an all-candidates meeting at Duke of Connaught Junior and Senior Public School.

others believed in selling off units to private companies. But the idea didn’t receive full support. “We should be maintaining these properties, not selling them off,” Bussin said. Flooding concerns Other residents were concerned with how the candidates planned to prepare for extreme weather conditions, especially flooding common to the area. “I’ve never worked so hard in my life,” McMahon said of last year’s ice storm that left many residents in the area without power. She noted her social media strategy to connect residents affected by the storm with other families and assured the crowd she was commit-

ted to the sewer replacement project to reduce basement flooding, in conjunction with the Danforth area. But the biggest issue of the night was how to relieve TTC congestion on Queen Street and improve rush-hour traffic, often crowded with parked cars and loading trucks. McMahon said the residents were sick of shortturning streetcars, and proposed base transfer times and 10-minute streetcar guarantees. “It’s time to bring back Transit City,” Bussin said to applause. The plan was first proposed by former mayor David Miller in 2007. Candidates Carmel Suttor and Brian Graff proposed to purchase more express buses. Suttor said the city should be using technology more

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crowd to reconsider voting for the statistically favourite incumbent, who promised this would be her last term if re-elected. “We’ve lost four years,” said Bussin, who said she was ready and eager to come back. “There hasn’t been a major project in the ward this term. It’s been about chickens in your backyard and term limits, very superficial stuff,” she said. “I’ve done renos, a library, a bridge...these are things that I

know how to get done.” Outspoken candidate James Sears told the crowd he was running an “anti-Marxist campaign” and promised to reign in spending by first slashing councillors’ sixfigure salaries. “City councillors are public servants. You guys are the masters. Servants should not be making more than their masters,” Sears said, who also proposed taxing non-profits to support seniors living in poverty. Confident “I bring up issues that no one else brings up,” he said. Despite the bickering, McMahon said she was confident she had another four years in council. “I’m not into divisive debates. I have a lot of energy and ideas and over the last four years I’ve given the community the encouragement they need to cut through the red tape and make their ideas happen,” she told The Mirror.

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