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Yorkdale shooting victims tied to gang ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com Police believe two men gunned down at the Yorkdale Shopping Centre parking lot Saturday night are known gang members and were ambushed as they walked to their car.

Michael Nguyen, 23, was pronounced dead at the scene.

An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds.

Police didn’t publicly identify the second victim, age 24, who was taken to hospital in critical condition but has since been released.

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Making a difference at Bathurst and Finch What’s at the hub?

Community Hub brings health and social services to priority area FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Viacheslav Volkov’s group of Second World War Soviet veterans now has a formal place to meet, thanks to the creation of the Bathurst-Finch Community Hub. Volkov, president of the Canadian Association of World War Two Veterans of the Soviet Union, was one of several speakers to officially open the BathurstFinch Community Hub Wednesday.

Located in the parking lot of Northview Heights Secondary School at Bathurst Street and Finch Avenue, the 7,000-square-foot hub has been open since October and is used as a one stop shop for social services. gathering place Volkov said many members of the group are in their late 80s to early 90s and live in the area, making the hub an ideal place to gather.

“Now we can have meetings and events in this beautifully constructed building,” he said through a translator, adding the group recently held an event marking the anniversary of the Battle of

Stalingrad.

Susan McIsaac, president and CEO of United Way Toronto, called it a joyous day.

“It’s very inspiring to come in here,” she said. “This is the fifth of eight hubs in the city, and seven have been built.”

Bathurst-Finch Community Hub, which was six years in the making, is a key element in United Way Toronto’s Building Strong Neighbourhoods Strategy, an initiative that creates accessible community space and brings together health and social services in priority neighbourhoods across Toronto.

York Centre MP Mark Adler and MPP Monte Kwinter were on hand to offer congratulations, with Adler calling Bathurst-Finch Community Hub a model of efficiency.

“The Bathurst-Finch Hub is a welcome addition to the people of North York,” he said. community asset Kwinter said Ontario is about strong and healthy communities and the hub exemplifies that.

“It’s a great asset for the community,” he said. “It’s a great day for the city of

The BFCH will offer both community and medical services, all in one building.

The first floor will house community agencies offering services like counselling, employment services, seniors’ activities and youth groups.

There will also be space that community groups can use to meet, plan and organize, including a kitchen, a garden and meeting rooms.

The second floor will be a health clinic with a family doctor, counsellor, dietitian, foot doctor (chiropodist) and health promotion staff.

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Toronto.”

The provincial and federal governments each contributed $1 million towards the Bathurst-Finch Community Hub through the Infrastructure Stimulus Fund, while United Way Toronto donors the Polar Foundation and the S. Schulich Foundation pitched in $1 million toward the project.

The province has provided a total of $4.6 million toward Unison’s satellite Community Health Centre, which offers

family doctor, dietician, social worker, chiropodist and health promotion services. medical services Opened in October, the Bathurst-Finch Community Hub offers community and medical services, such as counselling, employment services, seniors’ activities and youth groups.

The hub is a partnership between lead agency Unison Health and Community Services, the Ontario Ministry

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of Health and Long-Term Care, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, United Way Toronto and the Toronto Distr ict School Board.

Capital funding comes from United Way Toronto, the Infrastructure Stimulus Fund and Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

Hub partners include Big Brothers Big Sisters of Toronto, Circle of Care, CUIAS (Canadian Ukrainian Immigrant Aid Society), Family Service Toronto, JVS Toronto,

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While not all agencies have catchment areas, Unison’s is bounded by Steeles Avenue, Bathurst Street, St. Clair Avenue and Keele Street.

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Townhouse fire displaces York University students Some 15 students have been left homeless after a fire broke out in York University housing on Monday.

No one was injured in the 4:30 p.m. two-alarm blaze, which started on the third floor of a Assiniboine Road

townhouse. It took firefighters about an hour to extinguish the fire.

York University is providing accommodation for students affected by the blaze.

A cause is not yet known.

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Transit: city must also raise funds

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lear similarities exist between Metrolinx’s suggested revenue tools announced Tuesday to expand transit in the Greater Toronto area and those recommended by the Toronto Region Board of Trade (TRBOT) last month.

Metrolinx has now joined the TRBOT in calling for an ambitious and sometimes uncomfortable plan to raise money to fund existing transit projects.

Both the provincial transportation planning authority and the TRBOT suggest using revenue generating ideas such as parking levies, sales tax, fuel tax and road tolls to meet the ambitious goal of raising $2 billion needed to fund The Big Move’s annual capital costs.

And their recommendations will be uncomfortable as both groups propose transit user and resident taxes to help pay for the cost of transit expansion and improvement.

Premier Kathleen Wynne welcomed Metrolinx’s announcement this week, our view acknowledging multiple sources of revenue will be required to get the transit people want.

City must The city too must begin to get on the same page to move forwork with ward. community But Mayor Rob Ford is already balking at the proposed recommendations from Metrolinx, which doesn’t include his idea of using casino money to fund transit improvements.

TTC Chair Karen Stintz declined to comment specifically on the recommendations, but was dismayed to hear Metrolinx is considering fare increases for capital expansion.

It’s time now for city representatives to recognize that a provincial government lobby won’t be enough to make up the lack of funding. They must explore these revenue tools that are gaining traction with influential decision-making groups and the public that is willing to pay for better transit.

It will involve the city working directly with community organizations to map out a plan for cost recovery instead of simply rejecting the notion of new taxes.

As Metrolinx CEO Bruce McCuaig stated, “We want to continue our conversation with municipalities, stakeholders and the public to help us deliver our investment strategy.”

It’s a conversation we should all continue to be a part of including city councillors who Metrolinx will be looking to for feedback before making a recommendation to the province and municipalities on June 1.

As we’ve stated in this space repeatedly before, we will get the transit we pay for.

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City needs formal position on transit priorities

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ow the world has changed. Not so long ago Toronto seemed to have many priorities for transit, but no money. Now that funding is lining up, Council cannot decide its direction, and so runs the risk of losing its remaining influence on where to invest in transit.

At long last there is a choice of opportunities on how to fund transit. The provincial government’s agency Metrolinx is proposing options including increased property taxes, user fees, and capturing part of the higher value of land along transit routes.

In the last federal budget, even Ottawa announced it was willing to contribute by making a portion of the gas tax available over the longterm.

As the pace picks up for transit funding, a new structure for delivering services through Metrolinx

david soknacki beyond the headlines is becoming ever more solid. While Torontonians are divided on its merits, Metrolinx will be able to integrate transit throughout our region.

The story is great so far, but what does this mean?

From the extra funds and new organization, does Scarborough get a subway?

What about the Downtown Relief Line?

Here is where the good news about happy cooperation falls apart.

It seems that Toronto’s transit priorities will be decided, at least in part, by Metrolinx. That organization will look to council for guidance. And right now, there are fundamental differences on which transit we ought to build. So in effect, council is not able to give advice.

Mayor Rob Ford cam-

paigned on a promise to expand the subway system, particularly to Scarborough. He remains adamant in saying that his suburban voter base wants nothing but “subways, subways, subways.” At every opportunity he says how he relishes the next mayoral campaign on the same issue.

It is a popular position in the suburbs.

The big problem is that a majority on council probably believes otherwise. Last year councillors approved a number of light rail lines, in defiance of the mayor’s wish.

The current thinking among staff at the TTC is that the greatest number of commuters will benefit by first finishing the light rail network, installing dedicated busways and, if capital is available for a subway, to build a Downtown Relief Line.

Although the city’s views on transit are at the risk

of being discounted by Metrolinx, not having a formal position is a sure recipe for irrelevance.

TTC Chair Karen Stintz is quite correct to suggest that Toronto needs to articulate its own transit priorities. Although her recommendations may be hotly contested prior to approval, and Metrolinx may not support council’s entire vision, it is absolutely essential for council to have a current set of priorities to put before Metrolinx and the premier.

Until very recently we had the situation of transit lines on a map, without any funding.

Now that funding may be around the corner, council needs to confirm its priorities before others decide Toronto’s transit future.

David Soknacki is a former City of Toronto councillor and budget chief. Contact him at www.soknacki.com

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Healthy Living event in Flemingdon Park Flemingdon Health Centre is hosting a half-day Healthy Living event at the Noor Cultural Centre April 6 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Clockwise from top left: Abbas Jeraj, Celine Corazza, Jason Xie and Souraiya Kassam received their 2012 Ontario Junior Citizen nomination certificates from North York Mirror Managing Editor Paul Futhey recently. They, along with David Moscoe (not pictured), were five nominees from North York put forward for the provincial honour. The awards seek to honour outstanding young people, aged 6 to 17. Among the highlights for the nominees: Jeraj, 17, is a Georges Vanier Secondary student who started #PROJECTHOMELESSTO, an organization dedicated to providing homeless youth with resources to succeed in school; Corazza, 16, is a student at Loretto Abbey who is actively involved in several initiatives, including the Me to We team as well as the school’s fundraising group B2l (Built to Learn); Xie, 17, is the president of the Carefree Lodge Youth Council, a long-term care home in North York; Kassam, 17, is a Don Mills Collegiate student whose community involvement includes such agencies as the North York Women’s Shelter, the Ontario Science Centre and Youths for Human Rights; Moscoe, 17, a student at William Lyon Mackenzie, has provided significant service to Scouts Canada.

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TTC chair surprised by Metrolinx transit fare hike proposal RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Metrolinx’s shortlist of recommendations to fund transit expansion in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond was met with surprise by the chair of the TTC. Ka re n St i n t z w a s a t Metrolinx’s downtown offices Tuesday morning to hear the announcement by Metrolinx

CEO Bruce McCuaig of 11 funding tools it will consider for inclusion in a forthcoming report due in June on paying for the Big Move transit plans for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).

While she declined to comment specifically on the recommendations, Stintz said she was dismayed to hear Metrolinx is considering transit fare increases as

a portion of the $2 billion needed in yearly capital costs to pay off the $50 billion Big Move.

“I would not advocate for that to be the solution for increased capital improvements,” said Stintz following the announcement.

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Holland Bloorview receives $1-million donation toward autism program LISA QUEEN lqueen@insidetoronto.com Children with autism suffering from anxiety will benefit from a $1-million donation to Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital.

The donation, from the RBC Foundation, will support the RBC Anxiety Management Program at the hospital, northeast of Eglinton and Bayview avenues.

Now in the second year of its five-year duration, the program offers group-based cognitive behavioural therapy for managing anxiety in children with autism.

The donation was announced at a special lunch on Tuesday, which was World Autism Awareness Day. Heather Cook, whose 11-year-old daughter, Ava, participated in the first year of the program, said it improved the girl’s quality of life.

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Dr. Evdokia Anagnostou, co-lead of Holland Bloorview’s autism research centre, is grateful the donation will benefit the community.

“One of the many benefits of the RBC Anxiety Management Program is training therapists from community agencies, which is helping to build muchneeded capacity in the community in support of kids with autism,” she said.

“We hope to train therapists from 10 agencies in the Greater Toronto Area by the end of the five-year program.”

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hen Toronto council shut down Mayor Rob Ford’s move to build a single subway along Sheppard Avenue,it may have seemed to some that this was a modal war: that council simply didn’t want to build subways, preferred light rail transit and didn’t love the former municipality of Scarborough as much as Ford did.

What it really was about, though, was money.

The Scarborough subway plan Ford put forward came with a promise of unrealistic levels of private sector financing and without a sense of how the city would actually pay to operate the new line.

It was really in answer to this, that in the months following the defeat of the mayor’s plan, councillors tried to discuss financing options. It didn’t get very far.

Councillors came forward with ideas – parking levies, a complicated business dubbed “CVA (Current Value

david nickle the city Assessment) uplift” – and their colleagues unceremoniously shot them down.

It’s the way things go at city hall these days, and one reason why things that one might think are crucial to the future of the city don’t go very far here.

That’s why it’s a lucky thing that former premier Dalton McGuinty thought to take responsibility for transit planning and financing away from Toronto politicians, and hand it off to Metrolinx, the province’s arms-length public transit body.

On Tuesday, Metrolinx released the initial foray into what will be a major, and necessary, public debate into how it might fund transit expansion in the Greater Toronto Area, in the form of taxes, fees and other revenue tools.

They are all politically

risky, the sorts of things municipal councils are loathe to approve. They are also, necessarily, regional in scope, recognizing the fundamental truth that the subway along Yonge Street in Toronto serves people who live outside Toronto as much as it does Torontonians.

If subsidy comes from anyone, it should come from everyone. It takes a government that is both large and mature to extract that subsidy.

Could Toronto do it?

Well, we’re certainly big but mature? Ford provided an eloquent demonstration Tuesday, when asked what he thought of the short list of revenue tools. He made a retching sound. Then he started talking about casinos again.

Hopefully Metrolinx and the minority Liberal government will prove themselves more up to the job.

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COST: Adults $5, children $1 Yom Hashoah: The Hidden Children of the Holocaust WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: 18 Wynford Drive, main floor CONTACT: Roby Sadler, 416-385-3910, roby@ oraynu.org COST: Free Oraynu Congregation for Humanistic Judaism marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with a ceremony of prose, poetry and music.

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Talks at Temple: Falsettos WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto, 210 Wilson Ave. CONTACT: 416-487-3281, www.templesinai.net, education@templesinai.net COST: Free Co-artistic directors David Eisner and Avery Saltzman will speak about the creative process involved with Falsettos, a Tony Awardwinning play. Registration required.

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Police believe shooters waited for men in parking lot >>>from page 1 Toronto street gang called the Asian Assassins,” North said.

“Even though this is likely a gang incident, there is no suggestion that the two victims returned fire or did anything to provoke this incident at the mall. In my opinion, someone must have known they were at the Yorkdale mall and were waiting outside in the parking lot.”

Police are looking for at least two gunmen. No descriptions have been released. At least eight shots were fired.

“Mr. Nguyen and the surviving victim attended the Yorkdale Mall together and were there for a short period of time. We also now know that nothing appears to have occurred while they were inside the mall that led to the shoot-

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Curtain Call Players had fun with Joseph and his dreamcoat Originally written as a short (15-minute) pop cantata, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat has grown into a full-sized theatre production that has proven to be incredibly popular with community theatre groups as well as their audiences.

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Taken from the last part of the Book of Genesis in the Bible, it retells the story of how Jacob’s favored son

Joseph is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers.

We follow his subsequent adventures in Egypt as he becomes advisor to Pharaoh and eventually reunites with his father and brothers.

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piece into something of a cartoon. The result is a bit of theatrical candy floss that evaporates almost as soon as the house lights are turned up. No wonder audiences return to this show again and again.

I have seen the musical many times over the years, and when the cast performs with enthusiasm the show always works. The cast on stage at York Woods Library Theatre provided more than enough energy to keep the production afloat starting with the radiantly sunny performance of Jeff Hookings in the title role.

He has a wonderful singing voice and an innocence that makes his Joseph very endearing.

Narrating the tale is Marissa Dingle, who navigates the sometimes rangy music with a powerful voice

that happily never assaults the ears. She can belt notes to the far reaches of the auditorium, but the sound always arrives in pleasant form.

In the role of Pharaoh, Twaine Ward delivered an impersonation of Elvis Presley that delights the crowd without trying to milk it for extra applause.

These three leading players were all very well suited to their roles, but the rest of the cast was solid as well. Joseph’s brothers get a chance to shine with the country-flavored One More Angel in Heaven in the first act and with Those Canaan Days in the second half.

Jon Alexander provided the choreography which is executed by the ensemble with confidence.

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ing of scenery, costumes and lighting to create a pageant that whirls like confetti in the wind.

This production served as a fine introduction to the pleasures of Joseph.

That said, this is a show that desperately needs a rest on our local scene. Just about every community group in the area has had at least one crack at it, and while it is always enjoyable, there are other family-oriented musicals that deserve equal stage time.

Curtain Call Players presented Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at York Woods Library Theatre, 1785 Finch Ave. W., last month.

Veteran theatre reviewer Mark Andrew Lawrence offers his insights on stage and musical productions for The North York Mirror. Contact him at nym@insidetoronto.com

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Del Grande said the environmental assessment, which was halted earlier in the term, should be completed as a way to take some of the partisan bite out of the debate on the Gardiner’s future.

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Del Grande made the comments after Toronto councillors went over a briefing note, explaining how it was that the environmental assessment approved under Mayor David Miller was effectively halted after Ford was elected, without council’s approval.

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Mayor Ford launches Clean Toronto Together program Mayor Rob Ford is inviting Torontonians to clean up – their neighbourhoods, that is – in the third annual Clean Toronto Together initiative.

Fo rd a n n o u n c e d t h e annual event Tuesday at Toronto City Hall. It’s a fourweek clean-up program, in which citizens and the city deal with litter, graffiti and vandalism.

“Keeping our streets, parks and neighbourhoods clean and safe is the goal of the Clean Toronto Together program,” said Ford.

“What is significant about this program is that we all work together. City, staff, students, workers in offices, community groups – everyone pitches in and works together to keep our city clean.”

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The program comes in four parts. The first part involves city staff cleaning up litter, hauling away dead trees and branches from city property and removing graffiti.

On April 19, office employees and students can take part in a corporate and school clean-up day.

And on April 20 it’s Mayor Ford’s Community Clean Up Day, in which community groups can clean up a park or other public space.

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OUR READERS REACH OUT: We received a number of emails in response to our posting of a picture of a barred owl submitted to us by a Mirror reader last month. A sampling of the submissions include, clockwise from above, this image from Willie Ma taken at Toronto Botanical Garden; North York residents Jason and Allison MacNevin submitted a shot of what’s believed to be a woodcock in the Don Valley Parkway/York Mills Road area; Gwen Scott snapped this bird in her North York backyard; and, also in her backyard, Ottavia Piluso got a picture of what’s believed to be either a Cooper’s or a sharpshinned hawk. To see these submissions and more, visit bit.ly/northyork_galleries as well as our Facebook page.

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68 84 MONTHS

WEEKLY + TAX

+HST 5.99% APR, $0 DOWN

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69 72 MONTHS

*

$

$

WEEKLY + TAX

+HST 5.99% APR, $0 DOWN

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$

20,988

72 84 MONTHS

*

$

WEEKLY + TAX

+HST 5.99% APR, $0 DOWN

9,888

+HST

WEEKLY + TAX

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$

20,688

*

+HST

71 84 MONTHS

$

WEEKLY + TAX

5.99% APR, $0 DOWN

2010 MUSTANG V6 CONVERTIBLE AUTOMATIC, AIR CONDITIONING, PW, PL, KEYLESS ENTRY, STK#39600A

$

+HST

WEEKLY + TAX

AUTO, AIR, 4 CYL, LEATHER PW, PL, KEYLESS, MOONROOF, NAVIGATION, ONLY 8,000KMS, BALANCE OF FACTORY WARRANTY, STK#34125A WEEKLY

$

72 MONTHS 5.99% APR, $0 DOWN

+HST

AUTO, AIR, 8CYL, PEOPLE MOVER, EX-RENTAL, EX-USA, STK#P2394

$

+ TAX

84 MONTHS 5.99% APR, $0 DOWN

+HST

WEEKLY + TAX

84 MONTHS 5.99% APR, $0 DOWN

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$

+HST

28,988*

AUTOMATIC, AIR CONDITIONING, 8 CYL, BUCKET SEATS, PW, PL, KEYLESS, STK#F30507A

$

72 MONTHS 5.99% APR, $0 DOWN

AUTO, AIR, 8 CYL, PW, PL, KEYLESS, LOADED, STK#30528A

$

WEEKLY + TAX

112 72 MONTHS

$

WEEKLY + TAX

+HST 5.99% APR, $0 DOWN

+HST

8 CYL., AUTO, AIR, PW, PL, POWER BRAKES, KEYLESS, ONLY 38,000KMS. STK# F30335A

$

WEEKLY + TAX

72 MONTHS 5.99% APR, $0 DOWN

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31,888*

$

123 72 MONTHS

$

+HST

WEEKLY + TAX

84 MONTHS 5.99% APR, $0 DOWN

AUTOMATIC, AIR CONDITIONING, 8 CYL, PW, PL, KEYLESS, ONLY 45,000KMS, STK#F30605A

WEEKLY + TAX

+HST 5.99% APR, $0 DOWN

$

39,888*

135 84 MONTHS

$

WEEKLY + TAX

+HST 5.99% APR, $0 DOWN

MANUAL, LEATHER, AIR CONDITIONING, PW, PL, KEYLESS, ONLY 51,000KMS.

$

22,888

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89 72 MONTHS

$

WEEKLY + TAX

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2012 MUSTANG V6 COUPE PREMIUM MANUAL, AIR CONDITIONING, LEATHER, PW, PL, KEYLESS, SHAKER AUDIO SYSTEM, ONLY 32,000KMS, STK#31176A

$

22,688

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77 84 MONTHS

$

WEEKLY + TAX

5.99% APR, $0 DOWN

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