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DESSERT: Liaison College Culinary School hosted a 911 Culinary Cook Off Sunday with proceeds going to 22 Division Community Police Liaison Committee bursary fund for youth. Here, Toronto police 22 Division officers Joe Kovacic (left) and Roy Burns put the final touches to their dessert – peanut butter brownie truffle.
Hard-hit swim clubs could get financial break from city TOM GODFREY etg@insidetoronto.com
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Etobicoke’s elite swimmers and divers may soon be getting help from city council for hardships they have suffered due to a
closure of the Olympium for renovations for the 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games. A request for aid was made to city hall and a committee on April 17 agreed the athletes from clubs based at the Olympium
suffered financially and otherwise from the closure last June. The pool is not slated to reopen until September. Committee members approved $181,000 in credits to waive the new pool’s fees to be
shared by the Etobicoke Diving Club, Etobicoke Swimming and Olympium Synchronized Swimming Club to help them stay afloat. Also hurting is the Mavericks >>>city, page 14
Ward 3 Councillor Peter Leon faced an angry chorus of residents Tuesday night. Central Etobicoke residents who live in The East Mall and Rathburn Road area packed the Etobicoke Civic Centre council chambers to get information on a revised proposal to build a 902-unit condominium and commercial retail project in their neighbourhood – a project many said they believed was “dead”. Some residents reacted in astonishment when Etobicoke York Community Council considered a planning report at its meeting April 8 seeking Toronto council’s direction to send a city lawyer and a city planner to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) on June 26 in support of the city’s settlement with Lanterra East Mall Limited. Lanterra appealed to the OMB last November, two years after it had submitted a rezoning application to the city for 600 and 620 The East Mall. Lanterra’s latest plan calls for two, 24-storey condominiums connected by a six- to eight>>>TORONTO, page 31
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