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the food bank myth LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com There exists a myth that those who rely on food banks are lazy or have made bad choices. This is absolutely not the case, stress leaders in the fight against hunger, not only in Toronto, but across the country. “People who use food banks are the same as you and me. They’re people who have experienced job loss, sickness, or mental breakdown. It can happen to any of us,” said Gail Nyberg, executive director of the Daily Bread Food Bank, the largest provider of food relief in the Greater Toronto Area. “We’re here to give them a hand while they’re down and get them back on their feet.” The Etobicoke-based distribution centre that provides food and resources to as many as 200 food programs across Toronto distributes 600,000
hampers a month to its member agencies – one third of those in need are children, Nyberg said. The registered charity’s latest ‘Who’s Hungry’ report that looks at the past year will be released in September. “We know we’re starting to see a dramatic increase (in food bank use). This replicates what we’re seeing in the economy: precarious jobs, part-time and contract; retail outlets closing and plants shutting down,” Nyberg said. People who have lost their jobs typically don’t fall into dire straights immediately, particularly if they qualify for Employment Insurance. Food banks are accessible once a week to receive two to three days’ worth of food for each member of the family. “We’re in our lean time now, too. We don’t get a lot of donations,” Nyberg said. >>>straining, page 6
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Ryan Noble is the executive director of the North York Harvest Food Bank. Right now, there is an increasing demand for food bank services in the city.
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out the night. The effects on the sufferer, however, can be debilitating. “You feel like you’ve been hit by a 10-ton truck when you get up in the morning, often with headaches, feeling like you’d like to go back
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Beyond that, sufferers tend to toss and turn throughout the night and can suffer a loss of shortterm memory and libido. There are also potential long-term cardiovascular health effects, with sleep
apnea sufferers seeing a two to fourfold increase in the incidence of high blood pressure, stroke and heart failure. “When you fall asleep, your cardiovascular system relaxes just like the muscles
in the rest of the body, so your blood pressure goes down, your heart rate goes down, oxygen consumption by the heart goes down because the heart’s resting,” Bradley said. “If you keep waking somebody up, you get surges of sympathetic (nervous system) activity that raise the heart rate, raise the blood pressure and increase the pumping activity of the heart at a time when it should be resting.” Potential cures for sleep apnea are varied, depending on the severity of the case. Bradley noted that prevention is the greatest cure – by maintaining a healthy body weight and keeping active, the risk of developing the condition is greatly reduced. Other simple solutions include sleeping on your side or having your tonsils removed if they are particularly large, though these only serve to help some patients. For many, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) masks are the best treatment. Worn overnight, the face masks blow air through the nose and into the back of the throat to keep the airway open. “This controls sleep apnea, but it doesn’t cure it,” Bradley said. Securing an appointment in a sleep clinic to get diagnosed can be difficult. To help with the backlog, Bradley worked with a group of partners to form BresoTec, a company that has developed a home testing kit. A face mask – the BresoDX – captures sleep sounds in the patient’s home through a microphone and patients can simply mail in a chip containing the recording for analysis. “It makes diagnosis easier and we can look at a patient’s full night’s sleep in less than five minutes,” Bradley said. For more information on the BresoDX, visit https:// bresotec.com/
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Program helps build bridges between community and police >>>from page 1 up with officers from 23 Division’s Somali Liaison Unit to help run the Friday evening program all summer long, which Myers – himself a retired Toronto police sergeant who once worked out of the north Etobicoke division – said goes a long way towards building bridges in the community. “We trained the officers beforehand so they could participate with the kids and have fun. What having them there does is, it helps the community see the police in a little different light,” he said. “And over time, it helps to break down those barriers and helps the community come to see (the officers) more as people than what they see on TV.” The Dixon Park program, which kicked off in July and wrapped two weeks ago, drew close to 40 kids aged seven to 14 from the Dixon and Islington communities - an impressive turnout Myers said TIRF hopes to build on next
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Anoke Dunscon (left) gathers players around before leading a rugby skills workshop in Dixon Park. summer, when they plan to skills they can use – fun“But we also hope that this expand to offer a full-fledged, damental movement and program has opened their four-team house league prophysical literacy skills – and eyes to different opportunigram. that they’re able to develop ties and showed them that “We hope the kids were those further for next year,” there’s more than just being able to take away some Myers said. in their apartment. We tried
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Straining the food bank system >>>from page 1 Campaigns, such as Hunger Awareness Week, which takes place Sept. 19 to 23, help bring attention to the issue of hunger in Canada, and sees food banks across the country hosting events to highlight the work they do and the experiences of Canadians who are assisted by them. Yet, hunger, pointed out Nyberg, is not just a week in September, it’s here all year. She encourages everyone to make a food donation by dropping off items at the nearest fire hall or grocery store. Daily Bread also benefits from companies like Loblaws that have strict rules regarding expiry dates. Food that gets turned away from chain stores can go to food banks, Nyberg said. The North York Harvest Food Bank is the primary food bank for northern Toronto. Last year, it distributed more than 2.3 million pounds of through 77 community programs. Since the recession in 2008, food bank use in the inner suburbs has increased by 45 per cent, according to executive director Ryan Noble. He points to the high cost of real estate coupled with stagnant wages and fewer employment opportunities as some of the reasons for the increase. “People find themselves in food insecurity because of job insecurity. We live in a very rich city in terms of financial and food,” he said. “It’s when housing systems and job systems break down that there’s a problem.” Food bank users are getting a small supply of food so that their money can stretch further, Noble said. For the average user, once rent and utilities are paid for, all that’s left is $4.51 a day, he said. Through its partner agencies, North York Harvest Food Bank also provides clients with further support, such as job skills, settlement services, and housing. The food bank, Noble said, “gives us a captive audience to understand what the root causes (of poverty) are.”
The food that is needed at food banks is the same that families want to serve at their dinner table. It’s healthy, low sodium, low sugar, and protein-packed. “There’s a lot of food insecurity awareness around fall and Christmas,” Noble said. That’s why September’s Hunger Awareness Week is timely and important. “It helps raise awareness before we enter our busy season,” Noble said. Pam Jolliffe, interim executive director of Food Banks Canada, a national charitable organization that supports a network of provincial associations, affiliate food banks, and food agencies working at the community level to relieve hunger, said hunger is a symptom of people living in poverty. “It’s a persistent problem – unacceptable in a country like Canada,” Jolliffe said. “Most food banks started 30 years ago as a short-term solution. Unfortunately, they’re still here many years later.” Overall, food bank use has increased by 26 per cent since 2008. Alberta is suffering economic difficulty because of the sputtering oil and gas industry. So many Albertans are out of work, Jolliffe said. The government has been taking steps to help families out of poverty, she said, citing the new child tax credit, and changes in support to seniors, as well as the ‘Canadian Poverty Reduction’ strategy; however, more steps can be made. “We need Canadians to speak up, to press the government for better policies,” Jolliffe said. For further information or to make a food or financial donation, visit www.dailybread.ca, www.foodbankscanada.ca, or www.northyorkharvest.com
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High demand items at food banks: Canned vegetables; canned fruit Pasta and pasta sauce Canned meat in water; canned fish Rice; flour Peanut butter Dried and canned beans High fibre/low sugar cereal; oatmeal Baby food, baby cereal, baby formula Source: Daily Bread Food Bank
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Wesley Mimico hosts lunch program The Wesley Mimico United Church congregation welcomes back guests to its lunch and food bank programs. “We know that many residents have low incomes and hunger is no stranger on the Lakeshore,” Harry Oussoren, a volunteer host, said in a statement. “So these ministries – along with initiatives by other faith groups and food banks – contribute toward
food justice for many struggling to live on ODSP (Ontario Disability Support Program) and Ontario Works and inadequate minimum wage incomes.” Every Saturday at noon, except dur ing summer months, guests gather in the lower hall of the Martin Luther Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2379 Lake Shore Blvd. W., at Superior Avenue, for lunch and an opportunity to
meet Lakeshore friends and neighbours. The food bank is also open. Recently, the congregation sold its church building at 2 Station Rd. at Mimico Avenue to a Montessori school. The congregation gathers for worship in the Mimico Library Sundays at 10:30 a.m. For details or to volunteer, contact Rev. Joan Smith and the Wesley office at 416-2515811 or 416-546-5737.
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Thomas Fisher’s mill and raceway is pictuered here at Lambton Mills in 1868.
Fisher mill saw years of success Mills were an essential element of life in early Upper Canada, and the Humber River was blessed with many good mill sites, including two in Etobicoke operated by Thomas Fisher. Born in Yorkshire in 1792 to a well-off family, Thomas came to Canada circa 1820 with money to invest. His wife, Sarah, joined him in 1821 with their children. In 1822 Thomas leased the government-owned King’s Mill on the west side of the Humber River at today’s Old Mill Road. Under his management, the mill became profitable for the first time since it was built in 1793. In 1834 the government sold the King’s Mill to William Gamble, another local miller. As compensation, Thomas received a 20-hectare lot on the west bank of the Humber, south of Government Road, in Lambton Mills. Thomas immediately started construction on his new home, ‘Millwood’. He built a two-storey frame grist mill first, followed by a two-storey Georgian house
denise harris history corner of rough-cast stucco, overlooking the mill. After a fire in 1849, the mill was rebuilt for £3,000 as a five-storey building. The first two storeys were stone and the upper three were frame. Fisher gave a share of the business to his eldest son Edwin Colley Fisher, and it was profitable every year until 1857. Low grain prices resulted in liens being put on the property that were called in and the mill was sold to Edwin’s father-in-law. Thomas managed the mill for one more year, then turned it over to Edwin. Thereafter Thomas and Sarah lived part of the year at Millwood and part with their daughter Elizabeth Whitney in Toronto. Sarah died at Elizabeth’s home in 1873, as did Thomas in 1874. Edwin encountered a string of difficulties, including insect infestations that ruined farmers’ grain and low water
levels in the Humber. By 1871, Edwin had stopped operating the mill and was farming. After Edwin died in 1879, the property was sold and turned into a woolen factory. It had several owners before burning down in 1901. Today, traces of Fisher’s mill and raceway can still be found in the undergrowth at the base of the valley wall, west of Home Smith Park Road, about half a kilometre south of Dundas. In 1963, Millwood house was bought by Sidney Thompson Fisher, Thomas’ great grandson. Too decayed to restore, he planned to build an exact replica on the same site to use as a museum about the Humber. After encountering insurmountable barriers, the Fisher family instead built the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto to honour their ancestor. Denise Harris is the Heritage Officer of the Etobicoke Historical Society. Her column appears every second Thursday. Reach her at denise. harris@sympatico.ca
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Stroll-a-thon WHEN: 10 a.m. WHERE: Islington Seniors’ Centre, 4968 Dundas St. W. CONTACT: 416-231-3431, islingtonseniors@bellnet.ca COST: Pledges of $10 The annual five-kilometre Stroll-a-thon in Etobicoke’s beautiful West Deane Park supports the many recreational programs and support services provided by the Islington Seniors’ Centre. The 4 km walk along the Lakeshore raises awareness and reduces the stigma of mental illness and raises funds for support programs.
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Soup Day WHEN: 4 to 7 p.m. WHERE: Christ Church St. James Anglican Church, 194 Parklawn Rd. CONTACT: Julia Graham, 416-231-7070 COST: Free Made by Stonegate Farmers Market staff with market produce, it’s a small way to say thank you for a great market season.
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Yoga in the Garden WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Weekly Yoga Classes, Winnipeg Road CONTACT: Marina Quattrocchi, 416-2460123, marina.quattro@bellnet.ca COST: Free Enjoy yoga classes in a beautiful Etobicoke garden. No experience
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MPP Yvan Baker Seniors’ Advisory Group Meeting WHEN: 10 to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Richview Library, 1806 Islington Ave. CONTACT: ybaker.mpp.co@liberal. ola.org COST: Free Learn more about CNIB programs, services, common eye conditions, and vision health.
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How to Get Published WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Eatonville Library, 430 Burnhamthorpe Rd. CONTACT: 416-394-5270, eaprograms@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Join author (and founder of the Mesdames of Mayhem), Madeleine Harris-Callway, as she shares her experience of getting published. Registration is required.
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Community Thanksgiving Dinner WHEN: 5 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Holiness Kingdom Ambassadors Intl. Ministries, 37 Racine Rd., Unit 5 CONTACT: 416-840-5138, www.holinesskingdomambassadors.org, holinesskingdomambassadors@gmail.com COST: Free Need a hearty, well-balanced thanksgiving meal? Dine with the church. Enjoy food, fellowship and fun. Registration is required.
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‘Legacy light’ will be installed at intersection where man died CYNTHIA REASOn creason@insidetoronto.com Etobicoke York Community Council voted in favour of the installation of a “legacy light” at an Etobicoke intersection where a young man was struck and killed last year. Laura Hayes, the sister of the victim, made a tearful plea in support of a traffic control signal at Islington Avenue and Deerfoot Drive to west-end councillors at their Wednesday, Sept. 7 meeting. “On Oct. 10, my brother was struck and killed at Islington and Deerfoot. He had gotten off a TTC bus and simply tried to cross the road at about 7:25 p.m.,” she said. “Unfortunately he wasn’t able to make it across safely, and was struck and killed by two cars.” In the 11 months since her brother’s tragic death, Hayes said she has canvassed the local community to get support for the installation
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A memorial honouring a man who was killed last year at the intersection of Islington Avenue and Deerfoot Road. Etobicoke York Community Council has approved installation of a traffi control signal at the intersection.
of some kind of pedestrian crossing at the intersection, which she noted hosts a TTC
bus stop on Islington, as well as an entry point for two subdivisions that house a lot of
seniors and children. “I went around and I spoke to a lot of people in the area
and they seem to agree with me,” Hayes said of the support she’s garnered for the signal, as evidenced by a petition on which she’s collected upwards of 175 signatures. “I’m just one person, though. I can’t do it all by myself; I need help and support. And I need to know that something good is going to come out of this loss of a human being...Because this is all I have left. I don’t have anything left to give (my brother) value of some kind.” Hayes’ impassioned plea convinced the majority of EYCC councillors to vote against a city Transportation Services report, which recommended against lights at Islington and Deerfoot, citing the results of a study that indicated the traffic control signal warrant was not achieved. “I think my colleagues know me well enough where if it doesn’t meet the warrants, I generally go along with that,” Etobicoke Centre
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Councillor John Campbell said, before tabling a motion to install lights at the intersection. “But no one wants to see this happen on any roadway in Toronto...and I think if we were to not act and install this light, then we might not be doing our proper duty as city councillors to ensure safety on our roadways.” In supporting Campbell’s motion, York West Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti went so far as to advocate for a change to the city’s policy in regards to the installation of traffic control signals at the sites of pedestrian fatalities. “I think we probably have to change the policy so that after somebody has a tragic accident, that we automatically put in a light,” he said. “There’s absolutely no reason that we should not put a light at this particular intersection. At the very least, it’s a legacy light for the gentleman that lost his life at that intersection.”
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Air Farce’s Luba Goy to emcee upcoming Dine for Dignity gala Etobicoke Services for Seniors’ ninth annual Dine for Dignity fundraising gala promises to be One Enchanting Evening this year. Hosted by Royal Canadian Air Farce’s Luba Goy, the Sunday, Oct. 23 dinner will feature live musical entertainment from Canadian crooner Michael Vanhevel and a silent auction with proceeds benefiting seniors supported by Etobicoke Services for Seniors (ESS). ESS has served as an anchor in the Etobicoke community for more 30 years, providing services to support the independence of seniors and providing respite to their caregivers. Some of the ESS services the proceeds from this year’s Dine for Dignity gala will help support include: • Seniors’ transportation to important medical appointments, grocery stores and community programming; • Adult day programs for
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Comedian Luba Goy will host an upcoming Dine for Dignity gala in support of the Etobicoke Services for Seniors.
cognitively and physically impaired seniors; • In-home respite care and caregiver relief; • 24-hour overnight respite and hospital-to-home transitional care in ESS’s Caring Centre; • In-home social visits to a senior who may be isolated and living alone.
Dine for Dignity takes place at Panemonte Banquet and Convention Centre, 220 Humberline Dr. Silent auction preview opens at 4:30 p.m.; followed by dinner at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $80. Visit www. bit.ly/DineforDignityTickets or by calling 416-243-0127 for information.
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uReport: Women’s Habitat completes renos Women’s Habitat shelter officials recently celebrated the completion of renovations at its outreach centre for women and children in south Etobicoke. Upgrades to the community kitchen, program space enhancements and installation of a commercial exhaust system at the centre at 140 Islington Ave. were made possible by a nearly $70,000 Ontario Trillium Foundation grant awarded earlier this year. Etobicoke-Lakeshore Liberal MPP Peter Milczyn recently congratulated Women’s Habitat staff on their work in a statement. “I am very happy that this grant from Trillium will allow the Outreach Centre to expand its services, which already include individual and group counselling, transition and support services, housing assistance, parenting support, programs for women, children and youth, and many drop-in programs.” Silvia Samsa, executive director of Women’s Habitat, said the outreach centre
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desperately needed the OTF grant. The centre serves more than 9,200 individual meals every year, and did so, in an apartment-sized kitchen, Samsa said. “It could not meet the need,” Samsa said of the kitchen in a statement. “Many of our clients have disclosed to us that these meals are often the only secure source of food in their day. Some of our younger clients
take home leftovers to share with their families. “We knew that without a renovation we would no longer be able to provide these meals.” The renovated kitchen will allow the agency to expand its life skills and nutrition programming. Women’s Habitat has provided emergency shelter to women and children who are survivors of violence since 1978. Its outreach centre opened in 2006.The Ontario Trillium Foundation has an annual budget of $136 million, and awards grants to some 1,000 projects every year.
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