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Teens teach anti-bullying message to youngsters Assembly attended by shooting victim Louise Russo FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com
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Christmas spirit: Logan Navarro drops some change into the SickKids Hospital donation box outside the De Sario family home at 165 Benjamin Broake Trail Tuesday night after taking in the DeSario’s annual Christmas lights display.
Follow the lights to the De Sario home Christmas display raises funds for children’s hospital FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com
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at and Amatore De Sario’s house is hard to miss. First, there are the thousands of bright lights that adorn the Benjamin Boake Trail home.
And secondly, large inflatable decorations such as Mickey and Minnie Mouse and Snoopy can be found on the lawn and roof. For the past 13 years, the family’s home has lit up for the Christmas season, which serves as a fundraiser for The Hospital for Sick Children. The De Sarios spent time at the downtown hospital after their daughter was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes years ago. After a month of preparation, the lights were turned on Nov. 25
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and will shut off Jan. 6, Pat said, adding the house is lit up at 5:30 p.m. “We started getting everything ready at Thanksgiving,” she said. “It takes 150 hours.” While new additions are added every year – such as Charlie Brown and a pair of penguins – the De Sarios reuse the same decorations year after year, just in different locations, she said. “I don’t like it being the same all the time,” Pat said. “I change the design of it. People don’t want
to see the same thing.” The family puts out a collection box and has raised $80,000 for SickKids, she said, adding last year $16,000 was donated. The impressive display draws not only nearby residents to check out the site, but folks from outside the city, Pat said. “Last week we had the lights on and then shut them off,” she recalled. “A couple rang the doorbell and said they had come from Richmond Hill and can we please turn them on. So I did.”
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The Grade 3 St. Bernard Catholic School students sat attentively on the gymnasium floor, glued to the anti-bullying message brought by members of the leadership class at Chaminade College School. The presentation at the Jane Street and Lawrence Avenue school Tuesday was held in partnership with Louise Russo’s Working Against Violence Everyday (W.A.V.E.) program, which centres around the principles of respect, responsibility and role of leadership in reducing violence in schools and communities. Russo, an innocent bystander inside California Sandwiches at Sheppard Avenue and Chesswood Drive, was left paralyzed in 2004 after a bullet from a botched mob hit entered her spine. With a breathing exercise kicking off the workshop, students were asked to describe how they would feel if no one greeted them that week or showed acts of kindness. They were then asked to use words to describe physical, verbal/emotional and cyber bullying, which were then written on large pieces of paper taped to the wall. A short video shot by the high school students highlighting various forms of bullying was played, with younger students encouraged >>>youth, page 6
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