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GROWING SEASON: Alliah Dakka, 7, right, gets a hand picking crab apples from Not Far From the Tree’s Becky Thomas as the Dallington Pollinators celebrated their first growing season at Dallington Public School on Thursday. The community garden, in the Don Mills Road-Sheppard Avenue area, broke ground just over a year ago. It has three major components: a community garden, a children’s garden, and a pollinator’s garden.
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HIT BY BUS; POLICE SEEK WITNESSES ◗PEDESTRIAN Police are appealing for witnesses after a pedestrian was killed by a TTC bus at Allen Road and Lawrence Avenue Saturday. Police said a 65-year-old woman was attempting to cross Lawrence Avenue when she was struck by the bus, which was exiting Lawrence West station around 10:30 a.m. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 416-808-1900 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-2228477.
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Community says good-bye to Ralph Platner LISA QUEEN lqueen@insidetoronto.com It wasn’t exactly enough to fill a stadium but about 200 mourners crowded around a North York gravesite yesterday afternoon to say goodbye to Ralph “The Program Guy” Platner. A fixture for decades at Toronto sports games and concerts, where he sold programs and other items, Platner died Oct. 9 at the age of 67 at Mount Sinai Hospital after suffering a stroke in July. Although Platner, a North York resident who grew up in the area of Rogers Road and Oakwood
Avenue, had no next of kin and was estranged from his extended family, the number of people who attended his funeral at Mount Sinai Memorial Park on Wilson Road east of Keele Street showed how much he was loved, his friend of more than 40 years, Alan Ross, said. “This is unbelievable. This is a hero’s send off. The man touched many, many lives and he was a gentle, caring person. No one knew how complex he was, not just sports but apparently he loved music and he loved the movies,” he said. “Just a very kind soul.”
Rabbi Chaim Strauchler agreed. “For all of us who knew Ralph, I think that we would all agree that, as a person, he would say ‘This isn’t necessary, to have this many people come out for me. It isn’t right’,” he said. “He was a person who was very humble, a very modest person, a person who never asked for anything from anyone. But each of us knows this is right and it is right that we are here and it’s right that we’re showing him the honour that so many of his friends came out today to show our respect to a friend, to a gentleman, to a person of fine character, a person we love.”
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FALL FOOD DRIVE Volunteers, including Karen Viray, left, sort through food at the North York Harvest Food Bank’s Fall Food Drive Sunday. According to an announcement yesterday, the drive has reached 75 per cent of its goal. The drive goes until Oct. 31. Staff photos/DAN PEARCE
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FINAL DAY: Blyleven Farms’ Natalie Pye cores and cuts some freshlypicked sampling apples during the final day Friday of the 2014 season of the weekly Fairview Mall Farmers’ Market.
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ow do you treat an illness when you don’t even know exactly what it is? That question has been Fran Davide’s reality for more than seven years. Speaking in the living room of her North York home where she and her family have lived since 2000, Fran admits to being tired. “You don’t know what sleeping is anymore,” she says, referring to a period that has now reached “seven years of pure pressure and stress.” Fran’s oldest daughter, Chiara, is 22. Today, Chiara cannot walk, stand, feed or dress herself. She lives at home and requires roundthe-clock care. Seizures in the middle of the night are commonplace. Fran proudly shows a picture taken at Chiara’s Grade 8 graduation – about 15 months before things changed. “She was the most loving, sensitive person,” Fran says, describing a young girl who was a gentle soul, one to whom all the animals would gravitate toward on nature walks. w OCTOBER 2007 Since the fall of 2007, it’s been a turbulent journey for the family, one that has seen its members – Fran, her husband Romano Cassuoli and Chiara’s younger sister Sara – plunged into a world of doctors’ appointments, tests, CT scans, referrals, spinal taps, MRIs and alternative therapies. There have been visits to Italy, Germany and several
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American states. But a definitive diagnosis remains elusive. It’s been nearly seven years since Fran got a call from a teacher at Chiara’s high school telling her that her daughter, then 15 and in Grade 10, wasn’t doing her homework. The news was strange to Fran, especially since Chiara had voluntarily taken a math course that July to better prepare for the school year. But sitting down with her daughter that weekend, Fran knew something was wrong with her bright, athletic girl: there was a noticeable change in her writing style. Chiara’s cognitive decline would be rapid and steep. By the end of October of that year, Fran had pulled
Chiara out of school (she’s never been back). A physical decline would follow. Chiara has now been immobile and non-verbal for five years. The intervening years have been a challenge to get a diagnosis and treatment. Lyme disease was suspected (a blood test from a lab in the U.S. in June 2008 did result in a ‘strong positive’ for Lyme) but Chiara has never been diagnosed with it in Canada. The roller-coaster of emotions on the family has been wearing. It’s all hard for Fran to re-visit. “Now I question everything,” Fran simply says today. “I’m not sure about what this whole Lyme thing is. We’re all so different.” “It’s just one big grey area.”
w RESOURCES STRAPPED With no definitive diagnosis, the resources of organizations equipped to help people deal with effects of certain conditions just aren’t available. “She’s in a nowhere territory, nowhere land, no diagnosis and no support – outside the regular support that is out there (for palliative care),” Fran says. Today, the family copes with Chiara’s day-to-day care as best they can. They do have a support worker who visits for 20 hours a week spread out over weekdays. But funds are an ongoing challenge, especially for equipment. A stander, a device that provides different positioning than what’s offered by a standard wheelchair, would
enable Chiara’s body to function better by providing the necessary gravity. The family had been able to borrow one for a time but had to return it once attempts to get a permanent one funded were unsuccessful, Fran says. A more supportive wheelchair would also help. To add to it all, Fran knows she has a job search looming in order to help with her income. She was forced to sell her business earlier this year in order to concentrate more on Chiara’s care and be closer to her daughter. “I try to focus on my day and moving forward,” she says. “When something tragic happens to you, you become a spectator in life.”
Looking to heLp? how: where’s Fran Davide has launched an online appeal for help using the crowdfunding platform, FuelLocal.com Funds raised from the campaign would go toward the purchase of a stander and a wheelchair to help with her daughter’s care. FuelLocal.com is being provided to local communities by Metroland Media, the publisher of The North York Mirror. Visit http://fnd. us/c/5sCLb to donate. There, you can also read Fran’s appeal, see pictures as well as a video made by Chiara’s sister Sara, who has had work recently featured in the Toronto Urban Film Festival.
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Fran Davide appealed to the community for help with providing home care for her 22-year-old daughter Chiara. The community is responding. Less than a week after launching a crowd funding campaign to help with her daughter’s home care, the North York resident has seen more than $2,000 raised. In addition, one of the items she had been seeking to purchase with the funds, a wheelchair, was donated to the family over the weekend by a member of the North York community who had a barely-used model. It is exactly the model the family had been looking for, Fran said. Chiara, who fell ill in 2007, today cannot walk, stand, feed or dress herself. She lives at home and requires round-the-clock care. She has not had an official diagnosis of her condition. Davide is grateful for the support. “The acts of kindness are really sustaining us,” she told The Mirror. “They’re giving us comfort and support.” To see Davide’s appeal or to donate, visit http://fnd.us/c/5sCLb. To see the North York Mirror’s story, visit http:// bit.ly/1v7JrUg
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h, rats, I’m out of toilet paper. Man, I hate when that happens. I don’t need any this second, mind you. It’s not an emergency or anything. I just want to make sure I’m not caught without any the next time nature calls, or texts, or tweets, or whatever nature does these days to let us know that we have to go. What bugs me is all the trouble you have to go through before you get toilet paper. You have to put on a disguise, for heaven’s sake. You don’t dare go shopping for toilet paper without a fake nose and glasses. The manufacturers have made sure of that with their packaging. For some reason toilet paper only seems to be sold by the metric ton. So the moment you grab one of these monstrous bundles the whole store knows what you’ve bought. You can spot your purchase several time zones away, in fact. The toilet
jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY paper sticks so high out of your shopping cart it looks like you just won one of those giant stuffed pandas at the Ex. Heck, even NASA can pick it up on its radar screens all the way from Jupiter. If you were able to buy just one teensy weensy little roll, nobody would give you a second glance. But when you’re forced to get enough to last Tom Hanks 100 years on that deserted island he was stuck on in Cast Away, everybody around fears for their lives. Getting that much toilet paper at one time is tantamount to announcing: “Hey guess what I’m gonna being doing soon?” Ah, but how soon? That’s the $64,000 question. You can see it in the terrified eyes of shoppers when they see you rounding the corner with your huge package in tow. They look
at you as if they think you’re on the shot clock and they could be in peril. I swear you can hear the theme music from Jaws pounding in the background as you approach and the aisles immediately part like the Red Sea to let you pass by. The only thing missing is Charlton Heston leading the way. For the life of me I’ve never been able to figure out why the manufacturers want us to disclose to a room full of strangers that we need toilet paper when we don’t even discuss such personal matters with friends. I mean, when was the last time you heard somebody around the water cooler say, “Hey, Len, I was just telling Steve and Joey that you have a real nasty case of the runs.” Even doctors are uncomfortable talking about bathroom habits. They, of all people, should be used to such talk, but it makes them uneasy, too. When he/she wants to know about what’s going on with you behind
closed doors they tap dance around it like Gene Kelly, using the euphemism, bowel movements. Not so for toilet paper manufacturers. The large product we walk out with is akin to wearing a veritable sandwich board ad. Speaking of which, I’ve stalled long enough. I’ve got to get a move on and alert the shoppers at my neighbourhood store what I’m going to be up to later tonight. But before I head out, time to take one last costume inspection to make sure I can get in an and out of there without being recognized. Fake nose? Check. Fake glasses? Check. Red face hiding underneath the idiotic disguise? Check. Ready or not, here I come. Jamie Wayne is a lifelong columnist, who takes writing very seriously. The topics? Not so much. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at jamie.wayne@sympatico.ca
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Halloween Haunted House WHERE: Don Mills Library, 888 Lawrence Ave. E. CONTACT: Debby Ng, 416-395-5710, debbyng@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Little boys and ghouls, prepare for a scare: children can take a walk through a spooky haunted house put together by the Don Mills Branch Youth Advisory Group. No registration required Friday, Oct. 24, 4:30 to 6 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 25, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; Thursday, Oct. 30, 4:30 to 6 p.m.
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Experience Wilket Creek WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence Ave. E. CONTACT: Jenny Rhodenizer, 416-397-1341, communication@torontobotanicalgarden. ca COST: Public $20; TBG and TFN members $15 A 6.5-km interpretive walk.
York Lions Women’s Soccer vs. Windsor Lancers WHEN: 1 p.m. WHERE: York Stadium, 4700 Keele St. CONTACT: yulions@yorku.ca COST: Free
West Wind : The Vision of Tom Thomson Film Screening WHEN: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: North York Central Library, Room 1, 5120 Yonge St. CONTACT: Andrew Lowe, 416-395-5625, alowe@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free No registration required.
TJFF Chai Tea Screening: Above and Beyond WHEN: 1:15 to 5:45 p.m. WHERE: Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, 5095 Yonge St. CONTACT: Toronto Jewish Film Festival, 416-324-9121, tjff@tjff.ca COST: $15
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York Lions Men’s Hockey vs. Brock Badgers WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Canlan Ice Sports - York, 989 Murray Ross Pkwy. CONTACT: yulions@yorku.ca COST: $10 adults; $7 non-York students and seniors over 55 Harold Green Theatre Talk Back Series: Bella the Colour of Love WHEN: 10:15 to 11:45 a.m. WHERE: Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto, 210 Wilson Ave. CONTACT: 416-4873281, www.templesinai.net, programs@templesinai.net COST: Free Call or email to register.
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Build by Pennsylvania German Johannes Schmidt in 1809, the Schmidt Dalziel barn sits on the northern grounds of Black Creek Pioneer Village not accessible to general admission visitors. It is considered one of the oldest barns in North America. At right, a bandsaw in the Schmidt barn.
LISA QUEEN lqueen@insidetoronto.com Make your way out of the visitor centre and keep going past all those familiar Black Creek Pioneer Village landmarks. Beyond the grain barn, fire house and harness shop and saddlery, hang a left at the Half Way House Inn and Restaurant. Between Roblin’s Mill and Taylor Cooperage is a path that leads away from village. Following the Black Creek, a tributary of the Humber River, the path leads under Steeles Avenue to the North Property. Last month, the village’s gold members were invited to tour the property’s five historical buildings but the site is no longer often visited by general admission guests. It wasn’t always that way. From the 1950s, when Toronto and Region Conservation for the Living City bought the land, until the 1980s, the authority ran the North Property as a picnic area, complete with archery range. Activities centred around the Dalziel Pioneer Museum, home to the impressive Schmidt Dalziel barn that reigns over the property. “The beauty and archi-
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path beyond pioneer village leads to remote north property tecture of the barn is really what makes it remarkable, along with its age, obviously, and its enormous size,” the village’s assistant manager, Wendy Rowney, told The Mirror on a recent tour. The North Property was first settled in 1808 by Johannes Schmidt and his family, who were Pennsylvania-German farmers, and after 1828 by the Dalziel family, who came from Scotland. So, why is the North Property no longer a familiar place for village visitors? changing priorities “Really, it’s a matter of changing our priorities in the mid-1980s and one of funding, frankly. We prioritized the operation of Black Creek Pioneer Village and we use the North Property for different uses right now,” Rowney said. “We do a lot of filming up there these days. We open it for selected special events (such as the Harvest Festival and Halloween programming), so it is open to the general public that way.”
There are plans to use the North Property for other purposes, such as for educational programs, but there are currently limitations with the site, Rowney said. “At the moment, it’s lacking some of the infrastructure you would require for that. Restrooms, for example,” she laughed, adding she has childhood memories of visiting the North Property in a horsedrawn sleigh at Christmas time. While the pioneer village eventually took priority over the North Property, it used to be the other way around, Rowney said. “The conservation authority purchased the (North Property) before they purchased the land for Black Creek Pioneer Village and they opened part of the land as a pioneer museum. It was called the Dalziel Pioneer Park in the mid-1950s,” she said. “They took the barn, which was built in 1809, and they created exhibits about pioneer trades and crafts and it turned out to be phenomenally popular, very,
very popular with members of the public. So, when the adjacent farm went up for sale in the late 1950s, the decision was made to purchase that farm and create a pioneer village, to build on the experience.” The North Property’s exhibits and galleries were moved to the visitor centre when it opened in the mid1980s and the focus turned away from the area, Rowney said. As the path from the village to the North Property climbs up a gentle slope from the Steeles underpass, visitors encounter two buildings. The first is a sawmill, built in 1889 and moved to the property from Uxbridge, and a sawyer’s cottage, built in 1835 and moved to the site from the community of Edgeley, from what is now the area of Hwy. 7 and Jane Street in Vaughan. There are also homes on the site, one built in 1808 and the other in 1870, which were lived in by descendants of the early farming families as recently as the late 1990s or early 2000s.
Beyond the buildings is a small, enclosed cemetery, with tombstones revealing that many of the early settlers lived well into old age, including Ann Bell Dalziel who died at 96 years old. While infant and child mortality rates were high and many women died in childbirth, many people of that era lived to be quite elderly, Rowney said. 1809 barn By far, the most prominent building on the North Property is the Schmidt Dalziel barn. The barn is massive and features a cantilevered second floor, which provided shelter for farm animals in the paddock outside. Pennsylvania-German farmers kept both grain and animals in their barns. A door under the cantilevered overhang allowed the animals to access their pens on the barn’s lower level. On the second floor, a sloping bank at the front door leads to the area where grain, such as wheat or
barley, was processed. Horse or oxen would pull in wagons of grain, which would be unloaded and the animals would be led out through a second door, which no longer exists because that area of the barn was later turned into a maple syrup display. Grain left on the threshing floor would be flailed to separate the grain from the stalk. On a breezy day when the wind could blow through the barn door and out the back window, the grain would be tossed in the air so the husks would be carried outdoors and the grain would fall to the ground. The enormous logs used to build the barn bear the marks of the tools used two centuries ago to square the beams and the pitchforks used over the years to toss hay. “It’s the barn (that makes the North Property) special,” Rowney said. “The barn is special because it’s really old, 1809, it’s really big, 8,200 square feet, it’s on its original location using logs that come from the property and it’s a wonderful example of Pennsylvania-German architecture. It’s one of the oldest and largest barns of its kind in North America still standing.”
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North York students help score world ball hockey record CLARK KIM ckim@insidetoronto.com Martin Parnell’s goal to complete 10 special quests in five years has taken him across the country while raising money and awareness to help children internationally. It started in 2010 with his first quest, running 250 marathons in one year, for Right To Play, an organization that reaches more than one million children in over 20 countries through weekly play programs. “I’ve been going on ever since,” said Parnell, who recently stopped in Toronto as part of his final quest to complete 10 world records in 10 universities across Canada. But he also visited Dublin Heights Elementary and Middle School in North York where the young students helped attempt to break the Guinness World Record for playing ball hockey. “These kids realize how well off we are and they want to help out other kids,” said Parnell, whose other world record-breaking attempts included hosting the biggest exhibition game of volleyball, Quidditch and European Handball. He encouraged everyone to get involved in some way as he reflected on his five-year journey, edging closer to the $1 million goal to help 20,000 children across the
world. “Give it a go. Give it a try,” said Parnell, noting he was initially inspired during his four-month cycling expedition across Africa in 2005 when he saw how sport and play impacted the lives of children. “Don’t worry about the finish line. It’s about the start line.” Dan Taylor, principal of Dublin Heights, said all 650 students participated in the Right To Play event at their school in some way as they learned the value of helping less fortunate kids. “It fit so perfectly with what Right To Play stands for,” said Taylor, playing ball hockey alongside the grades six to eight students. Former Canadian Women’s Hockey player and Right To Play Athlete Ambassador Sami Jo Small
also joined in on the action to lend her support for the cause. “Through Right To Play, I met Martin and Martin became a good friend,” said Small, adding she also sees the power of play as a great way to educate young people about teamwork and communication. “It unites us all.” Students Jonah Godfrey, Justin Oliphant and Aliya Pirone said they all had fun playing ball hockey, meeting Olypians, helping break a world record and learning about what Right To Play was about. “It was really fun,” Jonah said. “And I’ve never been part of a world record.” Visit www.righttoplay.ca for more information about Right To Play, and visit www.canadaquestforkids.com to learn more about Martin Parnell’s quests.
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Scholarships awarded to 25 community leaders Lawrence Heights and Neptune community residents eligible for fund FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Twenty-five residents of L a w re n c e He i g h ts a n d Ne p t u n e c o m m u n i t i e s received scholarships for education and employment training during an awards dinner late last month. The Building our Future: Limitless Heights Scholarship Program, funded by Heights Development, a co-venture of Context Development Inc. and Metropia, recognizes resident leaders of all ages who have been involved in community building/ development and made significant contributions within the Lawrence Heights and Neptune communities. Heights Development is
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Toronto Community Housing Corporation CEO Greg Spearn, left, Context director of development and planning Peter Venetas, Nadia Edwards and her daughter Precious, Metropia’s Sean Fleming and Toronto Councillor Josh Colle participate in the recent presentation of a Building Our Future: Limitless Heights scholarship for education and employment training to Ms. Edwards. She is one of 25 Lawrence Heights residents to receive a scholarship funded by Context-Metropia.
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Bombardier Q400 plane soars with high-capacity seating LISA QUEEN lqueen@insidetoronto.com Following an energetic dance by children and young people, North York’s Bombardier Commercial Aircraft unveiled a Q400 NextGen turboprop plane it has sold to Thailand low-cost airline Nok Air. With a list price of $30 million, the colourful plane, with splashes of pink and purple and a yellow nose complete with a smile, is the second Bombardier has sold to Nok. The first one is completing its “route proofing” process, which sees local
air-worthiness authorities ensure the plane meets its specifications. Bombardier and Nok Air officials attended the unveiling ceremony Sept. 30 at Bombardier’s Downsview site, northeast of Wilson Avenue and Keele Street. “This aircraft has to be the most cheerful Q400 ever. Take a look at that smile,” said Frank Baistrocchi, Bombardier’s regional vicepresident of sales in Asia Pacific. While the regional carrier aircraft is the same type of plane used by other airlines, a new configuration on board
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Frank Baistrocchi, Bombardier’s regional vice president of sales in Asia Pacific, makes his address recently during the company’s celebration of the delivery of an 86-seat extra capacity Q400 NextGen aircraft to Nok Air.
allows this plane to hold more seats, Baistrocchi said.
“It’s very important. This is the first 86-seat aircraft to
go into service for us. This is a high-capacity Q400,” he told The Mirror. “It’s the most economical turboprop in the market place and Nok Air helped us launch this aircraft, (they are) the first operator in the world to be operating this aircraft in that high-level seating capacity.” The plane, which can fly about 1,000 miles before refueling, is more economical and profitable than similar aircraft, Baistrocchi said. “Ticket prices can be cheaper. The airline can make more money,” he said. With the introduction of
the Q400 NextGen aircraft, Bombardier invented the modern turboprop, the company said in a statement. “With the flexibility to fly at both turboprop and jet-like speeds, the Q400 NextGen aircraft can be profitably deployed over short-range turboprop missions and medium-haul markets,” it said. Nok Air has a purchase agreement with Bombardier to buy as many as eight Q400 NextGen airliners, six of which are firm deals.
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Voting early nothing to be hasty about With advance polls open this week, it is tempting for those with strong opinions about the future occupant of the Toronto mayor’s office to put on their voting pants and cast ballot now rather than Oct. 27. Certainly by this point, anyone paying even a bit of attention has heard enough from the top three mayoral candidates to make a choice. As long as one doesn’t hold with the idea of strategic voting then there’s no reason to wait. If only it were as simple as that: that the future of the city rests solely, or even largely, on the shoulders of one mayor. It doesn’t, of course. There are 45 pairs of shoulders including the mayor, and while the mayor has enough influence to carry most votes, the buck ultimately stops with 44 city councillors who can support or thwart an agenda as they see fit. And while mileage may vary, it’s a fair guess that most voters haven’t had
david nickle the city nearly as close a look at their local ward candidates as they have at the ChowFord-Tory trifecta. With the high-octane drama in the mayor’s office this past term, it’s also more of a challenge to assess the record of one’s incumbent councillor. All of them have been operating under extraordinary circumstances. There are a few incumbents who’ve stood out either as candidates for reelection or for the boot. Giorgio Mammoliti, the Ward 7 councillor surely leads the pack in the latter: more than any other councillor not blood-related to the mayor he’s been a very publicly destructive force on council. Ron Moeser’s terrible attendance record can be partially excused as he was laid up for nearly a year from ankle surgery gone bad, but otherwise Ward 44 voters would be
justified in turfing him. Similarly long-serving councillor Norm Kelly, on the other hand, probably deserves another victory lap in Ward 40 solely on the basis of his supply-teacher/ deputy mayor role in the final, potentially fractuous year of this last term. Others, like Ward 22’s Josh Matlow or Ward 27’s Kristyn Wong-Tam, have maintained an active enough rookie term to make reelection a relatively easy choice. What about those many incumbents who kept their heads down through the term? And what do voters do in those seven wards with no incumbent? It boils down to this: voters who take advantage of advance voting opportunities have more before them than whether it’s to be Ford More Years or four new years. Getting it right will be delicate work, and nothing to be hasty about.
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Police make arrest in Etobicoke shooting case Police have arrested a 17-yearold boy in connection with the shooting outside an Etobicoke high school last week that claimed the lives of two teens. Officers responded to a call for the sound of gunshots in front of the School of Experiential Education, at 40 McArthur St., on Monday, Oct. 6 just after 12:30 p.m. There, they found 17-year-
old Don Bosco student Zaid Athir Youssef, and James Cardinal McGuigan student Michael Menjivar, 15, suffering from gunshot wounds. Despite CPR, both boys died of their injuries. Detectives made an arrest in connection with the two homicides on Tuesday, Oct. 14 at 12:15 p.m. A boy, 17, of Toronto, has now been charged with
attempted murder; point firearm; weapons dangerous to the public peace; fail to comply with recognizance; possession of firearm - not a valid licence holder; and possession of firearm - no permit. He can not be named, under provisions in the Youth Justice Criminal Act. He appeared in court yesterday morning for a bail hearing.
Waterfront marathon set for Sunday The Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon is set for Sunday. “We expect 25,000 runners from across Canada, the United States and 60-plus countries,” said an event media release. As the name suggests, the course primarily hugs the Toronto waterfront, from Beech Avenue in the east part of the Beach to west of Parkside Drive in the west.
There are two key exceptions where the course juts northward: a small salient at Bayview Avenue and a huge rectangular thrust in the middle of downtown Toronto involving Bathurst, Bloor and Bay/University streets. The full and half marathons (42K and 21K, respectively) both kick off at 8:45 a.m. on University Avenue around Queen Street and both finish
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Social Planning Council of Toronto plans to launch a campaign to increase funding to community programs MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Mayor Rob Ford is leaving office and Toronto’s non-profit community agencies hope the city’s next administration is a lot more generous. Inspired by the city’s arts community’s success in persuading city council to spend more on the arts and guarantee the funding yearto-year, Toronto’s non-profits say they’re launching a campaign of their own. After the Oct. 27 election, the non-profits will try convincing Torontonians the city’s $50 million in annual grants supporting thousands of their community programs – which range from health promotions and youth leadership groups to recreation for seniors – go a long way and deserve to be increased. “This is possible. We can do it,” John Campey, executive director of Social Planning Council (SPC) of Toronto, an independent voice for social and economic justice, linking research with community action, said Oct. 6 at City Hall. “We also recognize that it
won’t happen overnight.” The day was proclaimed Community Services Day in the city by Ford in a message that praised the programs the same community organizations offer. Campey wouldn’t comment on the apparent contradiction in the message: Ford, as mayor, had voted several times, and often without stating why, against council approval of the Community Partnership and Investment Program grants and other city grants the non-profit agencies say they use to leverage contributions and support from other governments. The city also a l l ow s m a n y social agencies to pay belowmarket rent for spaces it owns, and can issue property tax rebates or waive the cost of waste collection. But Beth Wilson, a senior researcher for the Social Planning Council, said needs are increasing across the city and are not being met because the agencies can only stretch their resources so far. In 2012, a plan to cut CPIP grants by 9.8 per cent was stopped by an eleventh-hour council motion, which passed
by one vote, she said, adding in 2013, an inflationary adjustment after two years without one also passed by one vote at council. Per person investment in community-based social programs is $17.70 a year in Toronto, which a SPC report said lags behind other cities; in Calgary, for instance, the amount is $66.72 a year. Staff of the Warden Woods Community Centre in southwest Scarborough work with older adults in danger of being evicted from their apartments. Colleen Phillips, a crisis intervention worker, said some of the seniors are afflicted by bed bugs and other “deplorable” living conditions the community centre often doesn’t have the resources to change. “We are so underfunded in this area,” she said. “They need help, and help is so thin in helping these people. Our hands are tied.” Marilia Lana said her twiceweekly English conversation group at the Community Action Resource Centre on Keele Street is so successful that, after two years, intermediate-level English speakers are separated, but 33 beginners and pre-beginners must remain together. “It’s too many people in one room,” she said.
An after-school program run by the same agency in an apartment building party room has had to be capped at 35 children. Susan Wright, working with the Toronto Arts Council since 2000, said until recently that sector was usually lucky just to avoid cuts. Everyone got behind a campaign in 2003 to use a bill-
board tax to fund an increase in the city’s per capita funding to $25 a year, when it was at the $14 level. Today, backed by council and all the major mayoral candidates, it’s headed for $25 per person in 2017, said Wright, who credited Gary Crawford, a right-leaning Scarborough councillor who is also a visual artist for help-
ing to swing some council votes. Municipal candidates including Olivia Chow, Erwin Sniedzins and Himy Syed, all of whom are running for mayor, attended the presentation. For more information about the 2014 municipal election, visit www.insidetoronto. com/2014torontovotes
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Top, members of the Mandarin-speaking community join in the Hong Fook Mental Health Association parade last Thursday. The march made its way from the Hong Fook offices at Bayview and Sheppard avenues to the Oriole Community Centre in support of World Mental Health Day. At left, Eun Jung Choi dresses in traditional Korean regalia for the parade. Above, Myung Meo Choe, right, and Mina Park lead the Woo Lim Tea Korean drumming troup. At right, members of the Cantonese-speaking community join in the march. The Hong Fook Mental Health Association was established in 1982 to address the mental health concerns in the East and Southeast Asian communities, and currently works with the Cambodian, Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese communities. The association helps people with linguistic and cultural barriers to gain access to mental health services.
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KEELE/ SHEPPARD- Well-kept raised bungalow, 3 bedrooms, kitchen, dining, living room, finished basement & garage. $1675+ utilities. No smoking/ pets. Available November 1st. 416-570-2705 VICTORIA PARK/401 close to school, mall, quiet area. Newly renovated, freshly painted, 3 bedroom main floor and 2 bedroom basement with private entrance. Laundry, parking, large backyard. Option to rent the whole house. 647-933-5812 /416-450-9810. VICTORIA PARK/LAWRENCE 3 bedroom upper level of house for rent. 2 parking, non-smoking/pets. Available immediately. Rent is negotiable. 416-751-6893.
Shared Accommodations
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Domestic Help Available
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RUSSIAN LADY, experienced cleaner. References available. $20/hr. 416-875-3527 Legals
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS In the estate of Elizabeth Petronella Sandiford, deceased. All claims against the Estate of Elizabeth Petronella Sandiford, late of the City of Toronto, Homemaker, deceased, who died on or about the 24th day of September, 2013, must be filed with the undersigned personal representative of the Estate on or th before the 14 day of November, 2014. Thereafter, the undersigned will distribute the assets of the Estate having regard only to the claims then filed. DATED at Markham, this 9th day of October, 2014.
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Home Renovations
Home Renovations
AFFORDABLE HANDYMAN CONTRACTOR
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CEILINGS REPAIRED. Spray textures, plaster designs, stucco, drywall, paint. We fix them all! www.mrstucco.ca 416-242-8863 Articles for Sale (Misc.)
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RAY PLUMBING Service Repair/ replacement, faucets, sinks, toilets, drains, main valve, leaky pipes, drain cleaning. Licensed and insured. 24/7. 416-880-4151 U-MARK PLUMBING Drain. Repair. Installation. Renovation. Re-piping. No job too small/ big. 24 hour emergency service. Free estimates. 416-897-8285.
Concrete & Paving
Concrete & Paving
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5.0L V8 Engine, Air Conditioning, Power Windows, Power Door Locks, Cruise, Tilt, Sync, XLT Convenience Package, Trailer Tow Package, Chrome Step Bars, Trailer Brake Controller, Fog Lamps, Rearview Camera, Back Up Sensors, 20” Chrome Clad Wheels, Leather Seats, Power Moonroof.
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