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As the Jazz Performance and Education Centre (JPEC) tunes up for its 2016 concert series, the organization is focusing on one of its founding goals: to create a jazz hub in the city.

Officially incorporated in 2008, JPEC’s concept came to fruition in 2007 when jazz aficionados and North York residents Raymond and Rochelle Koskie assembled a committee of fellow enthusiasts to address the need for a full-time jazz venue in the city – which continues to be one of two primary goals for the organization.

Hoping to model the venue after the Lincoln Center in New York City, the hub would include performance, educational programming, recording facilities, and jazz archives.

When JPEC first formed, the charitable organization came up with two primary goals: to expand jazz audiences’ knowledge and appreciation in the city, starting with the most musically underserved areas, and to work towards the creation of a permanent jazz centre in Toronto.

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ICE AGE: Visitors check out the scale of a wooly mammoth on display during the preview Wednesday of the Ontario Science Centre's new 'Mammoths and Mastodons - Titans of the Ice Age' exhibit. Read the story and see more photos from the exhibit on page 8.

Help North York school win $25K in national contest fannie sunshine fsunshine@insidetoronto.com A North York elementary school is in the running to win $25,000 in a national contest focusing on getting kids moving.

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Police Chief Mark Saunders visits youth who attend Spider Jones’ mentorship program

Youth Night launches Feb. 17 at 4:30 p.m.

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fannie sunshine fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Youngsters at a Jane Street and Wilson Avenue after-school program received a visit from Toronto’s top cop Monday, Feb. 8, who wanted to see first-hand how participants benefitted.

Police Chief Mark Saunders visited with about a dozen kids at Spider’s Web Children and Youth Empowerment Centre at 160 Chalkfarm Dr. The program focuses on sports, homework and mentorship, and is part of the Believe to Achieve Organization, which was founded by former professional boxer Chuck “Spider” Jones. homework help Spider’s Web Children and Youth Empowerment Centre, an initiative of Believe to Achieve, provides food programs, study groups for homework help, computer rooms, teaching guides, motivation support, no contact boxing training and healthy exercise habits.

Believe to Achieve Organization is a registered non-profit assisting kids aged eight to 16 in after-school personal development and mentorship programs.

“This is a fantastic program and I wanted to have a look,” Saunders said.

“It’s important for people to understand we care about communities and we are investing in our future. This is how we keep Toronto the best and safest city in the world.”

Speaking to The Mirror, Saunders said it’s imperative for young people to have positive role models and to provide “tools in the toolbox” to make wise decisions.

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Fairview library starts LGBTQ drop-in for teens

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Police Chief Mark Saunders visits the Spider’s Web Children and Youth Empowerment Centre on Chalkfarm Drive Monday.

is a success and I’m willing to support that,” he said.

Jones, who started Spider’s Web Children and Youth Empowerment Centre at the Chalkfarm Drive building five years ago, said he’s hoping to expand the program in other parts of the city within the next year and a half.

“We nurture and empower kids to stay away from crime and temp-

tation of the streets,” he said.

Annual fundraiser Believe to Achieve will hold its annual fundraiser, Fight for Youth, Wednesday, April 6 at Arcadian Court, 401 Bay St.

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A weekly lesbian gay bi transgender queer (LGBTQ) youth drop-in program will be held at a North York library branch until December, a first for Toronto Public Library.

Launching Wednesday, Feb. 17 at Fairview Public Library near Don Mills Road and Sheppard Avenue, the Diverse LGBTQ+ Youth Night will be open to 13 to 19 year olds and allies of the LGBTQ community from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Room 3 on the fourth floor.

No registration is required.

The drop-in, which will be named during the launch by attendees, will run every Wednesday during the launch time frame and will touch on a variety of topics facilitated by two counsellors from the Griffin Centre, a mental health agency and one of the program’s partners.

“This has been something that’s been in talks for a while,” said Sepideh Mckensy, youth services librarian at the Fairview branch.

“This is something that’s brand new for Toronto Public Library.”

Though LGBTQ youth programs are available at Lillian H. Smith Library near Spadina Avenue and College Street, it does not include counsellors or offer regular programming, she said.

“We are offering a safe, comfortable environment for youth to hang out,” Mckensy said, adding topics such as bullying, homophobia, mental illness, sexual education and

human rights will be discussed.

Attendees can also listen to music, access iPads, play board games, and just get to know one another in a private setting, she said.

“It’s a fun hangout where you can totally be yourself,” Mckensy said. “At the launch there will be prizes, raffles and TTC tokens for travel.”

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We are offering a safe, comfortable environment for youth to hang out.

– Sepideh Mckensy, Fairview branch youth services librarian

A selection of LGBTQ fiction and non-fiction will be brought to the program from the Yorkville branch and will be available weekly, she said, adding films from the Toronto LBGT Film Festival, Inside Out, will be screened at the drop-in likely starting in the spring. While most people associate downtown with LGBTQ services, Mckensy said it’s become evident these types of programs are needed in other communities, especially in areas with a high number of immigrants.

“Those teens can’t come out to their families as gay, they have no idea where to turn,” she said. “We are providing a safe, private, accessible space.”

The program is in partnership with Griffin Centre, Iranian Women’s Organization of Ontario, Flemingdon Health Centre/Fairview Community Health, and Toronto Parks and Recreation.

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ow celebrating its ninth year in Ontario, Family Day on Monday, Feb. 15, this year has become a welcomed long holiday weekend for many.

But whether or not people spend that time with their families is another question entirely.

It’s certainly not because there’s a shortage of funfilled events across the city.

From the annual Family Day skates hosted by several community groups to winter fundraisers by nonprofit organizations such as the Canadian Cancer Society, people of all ages can participate.

Do something educational by having kids attend winter nature programs at Rouge Park or take a family friendly tour of the Ontario Legislative Building while participating in a scavenger hunt at Queen’s Park.

Visit www.insidetoronto.com/toronto-whatson/ to see all the events and activities in our view your community the whole family can enjoy.

Perhaps this weekend will be Get out enjoy a time for couples instead to enjoy dinner out this Sunday with the long Valentine’s Day coinciding with weekend Family Day weekend.

Some restaurants are sure to be completely booked already, while others may have a long waiting list.

Make those reservations now.

For those willing to trek downtown, keep in mind there will be plenty of visitors in town with Toronto hosting the NBA All-Star Game along with all the basketball festivities taking place at various venues leading up to the tip-off Sunday evening.

Look for car lovers, too, as the 2016 Canadian International AutoShow kicks off Friday at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

And the Hockey Hall of Fame is getting in on the Family Day action by offering free admission for kids Monday.

Just one note however, with the threat of a potential taxi protest, the TTC might prove to be the better way this weekend if you are commuting down to the core.

Whether Family Day is a time to spend with family or just an extra day off, the city has a lot to offer this weekend.

Go out and take advantage of it.

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There’s hope for Toronto’s fiscal future, but not this year Nothing has changed.

Going into next week’s budget debate, Toronto council will be considering a 1.3 per cent inflationary property tax increase, with some, but not all, of the services the mayor and council promised last year.

It’s all buoyed by a banner year in land transfer tax revenue, surpluses from last year and reserves for rainy days.

It’s all fine, right?

Well not really. On Tuesday, Toronto city manager Peter Wallace reiterated and amplified points he made at the beginning of Toronto’s budget process in late 2015.

To whit: the whole thing – the city’s operating budget, tax rate, service levels, capital plans – is all unsustainable.

At the Tuesday executive committee, he put it as bluntly as he could. “We as staff will constrain expense growth and we are very successful in this, but in balance, council has shown

david nickle the city a propensity to increase service levels. That leads us to a conversation around what service levels will you cut. If you’re not willing to cut service levels, that leaves us with a conversation on revenue.”

Or more bluntly still: “Council needs to step back and decide not only what it says it funds, but what it actually funds.”

Now, this is the point in the budget column when I would shift into excoriating the budget committee for being hopeless morons who can’t put fiduciary duty ahead of craven politics. And there will be a bit of that: the 2016 budget is a duct-tape and chewing-gum affair that sets up unrealistic expectations among property taxpayers, and barring another miraculous year of growth in Toronto’s real

estate bubble.. er, market... makes things only harder to cobble together next year.

The budget committee and the mayor ought to have known better. Now that that’s out of the way, there is some hope things will get better.

During debate and afterward, Mayor John Tory and nearly everyone on the executive committee fell in with their city manager’s tune. Right after the budget is complete, council will get to work on a multi-stage debate on new revenue tools and possibly also higher taxes, held against the prospect of dramatic service cuts. Tory took a first step in that direction at the committee, albeit one he’d already taken publicly, putting forward an amendment to go ahead with a long-term 0.5 per cent property tax levy to pay for new infrastructure, in what he called the City Building Fund. It is a first step, and it would politically be the easiest thing for it to be the

last step. But Tory is making it pretty clear he values the advice, even the contrary advice, from senior civil servants.

He swallowed his pride when chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat released a report telling him the city shouldn’t attempt the full SmartTrack plan that he promised. And he made it clear in a short interview after the meeting that he values this advice, too.

“Why would you pay anybody good money if you didn’t want to listen to what they have to say or have them say it in some way that’s muffled?” said Tory. “That’s not how you get results. Quality people speak the truth to whoever they’re speaking to.”

In that respect, at least, it looks as though something has changed. We’ll see if it holds after council votes on the budget next week.

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Course - A Series on Social History WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: North York Central Library, Room 1, 5120 Yonge St. CONTACT: www.torontofamilyhistory.org/learn/courses/aseries-on-social-history COST: $80 ($70 for OGS members) Four-week course exploring the

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Telecast with the 92nd St Y — Joel Grey: Master of Ceremonies WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto, 210 Wilson Ave. CONTACT: www.templesinai.net COST: $10 Cantor Katie Oringel will open the program by singing a number of pieces by Joel Grey.

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Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ and Verdi’s ‘Otello’ WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Don Mills Library, 888 Lawrence Ave. E. CONTACT: 416-395-5710 COST: Free Can one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies be improved by the genius of Verdi’s music? Many would say “yes,” declaring ‘Otello’ the greatest of all Italian operas. Hear Iain Scott, one of Canada’s foremost opera experts, and judge for yourself.

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Wellness Lecture: “Brain Gym” WHEN: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Bernard Betel Centre, 1003 Steeles Ave. W. CONTACT: Maria Lindgren, 416-225-2112, ext. 130 COST: Free Exercising your mind is just as important as exercising your body.

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The hands-on exhibit is making its Canadian debut at the Ontario Science Centre fannie sunshine fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Visitors to the Ontario Science Centre can delve deeper into the Ice Age with a new exhibit focusing on mammoths and mastodons.

Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age, opened this past Wednesday, and runs until Sunday, April 24 at the Don Mills Road and Eglinton Avenue site.

Created by The Field Museum in Chicago, and making its Canadian debut, the hands-on exhibit will allow visitors to discover mammoth and mastodon origins and evolutionary adaptation; view a replica of Lyuba, a preserved baby mammoth; examine mammoths’ social organization and behaviour; explore diverse ecosystems; learn the difference between mast-

odons and mammoths; learn about human interaction with the giant animals; and investigate the extinction mystery.

Some people believe climate change is responsible for their demise, while others point the finger at human hunters, or a meteorite that struck Earth, which caused a great die-off.

The exhibit will also explore how researchers use cutting-edge science to excavate and analyze tusks, teeth, skin, hair and stomach contents to learn more about the huge creatures.

Mammoths and mastodons, which weighed as much as eight tons and bore tusks up to five metres long, existed for millions of years and were early cousins of the elephant.

The giant animals eventually disappeared, leaving an abundant fossil record, which researchers continue

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Left photo, Kavitha Kumar, 15, left, mammoth wrestles with Cameron Dawson, 15, under the watchful eye of the Ontario Science Centre's Roshelle Filart during the preview Wednesday of the centre’s new 'Mammoths and Mastodons-Titans of the Ice Age' exhibit; Right, visitors examine the display in the shadow of a skeletal model.

to analyze.

And though researchers have decoded about 70 per cent of the mammoth gnome, more information still needs to be had before cloning is a possibility.

A highlight of Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age is a replica of Lyuba, a well-preserved 42,000-yearold baby mammoth found in 2007 by a Siberian reindeer

herder. Also showcased are huge skulls and tusks and mastodon bones.

Dr. Daniel Fisher, lead curator and professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Michigan, said the continuing of new Ice Age discoveries have made the exhibit that much more appealing.

“People have an interest

in animals like this,” he said.

“The exhibit is designed to be engaging for toddlers to adults. I hope people take away an understanding the area is ripe for new discoveries. I encourage you to engage in it for your own growth and education.”

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For program and workshop information relating to the exhibit, visit www.ontariosciencecentre.ca

• A large mammoth weighs 10 tons, the same weight as about seven mid-size cars.

• An adult mammoth’s gut could hold 300 kilograms of food (more than 660 pounds).

• A large mammoth could measure four metres at the shoulder. That’s about the length of two average NBA players, one standing on the other’s head.

• An adult mammoth’s tusks could be three metres long.

• DNA evidence shows mammoths’ closest living relatives are Asian elephants.

• Mastodons were shorter and stockier than mammoths and evolved differently shaped skulls, tusks, and teeth.

• Mammoths were expert snowplows. To forage for food, they could clear a few square metres in 30 seconds or less using their tusks or head.

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Woman reminds Canadians Feb. 15 is also National Flag of Canada Day Marga van den Hogen will be handing out pins and flags in North York on Feb. 14 fannie sunshine fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Marga van den Hogen wants to make one thing perfectly clear: Monday, Feb. 15 is firstly National Flag of Canada Day, and secondly Family Day. “Flag Day is overshadowed

by Valentine’s Day and Family Day,” said the Thornhill resident. “We are not getting the message out to the public. It’s the most beautiful flag in the whole wide world, so distinctive, so Canadian. People don’t know about it, don’t think about it, don’t display it.”

Flag Day is marked annually Feb. 15, since the flag first flew over Parliament Hill in Ottawa on that day in 1965.

While listening to the radio several years ago, van den Hogen noted the announcer talked about Valentine’s Day and Family Day, but failed to make mention of National Flag of Canada Day.

“I thought, what’s the matter with Flag Day?” she recalled in a previous interview with The Mirror. “I’m only one person, but I wanted to do something about it.”

So in 2009, van den Hogen formed Flag Flyers, a group dedicated to raising awareness about Canada’s flag through visits to schools and seniors homes.

And for someone who feels as passionately as she does about her country’s flag, she can regularly be seen handing out pins and flags to people she meets on the street, always eager to spread the word about the maple leaf surrounded by red and white.

“If I’m out of the country and I see the flag, I feel at home,” she said. “Fly your flag, be a proud Canadian.”

Van den Hogen, who was born in Holland, said the Canadian flag is more than just something fluttering in

the wind.

“It gives us peace and unity,” she said.

In honour of Flag Day, van den Hogen will be handing out pins, flags and Flag Day information Sunday to parishioners at Blessed Trinity Church, 3220 Bayview Ave., north of Finch Avenue, starting at 7 p.m.

Van den Hogen, who has worn a Canadian flag pin every day since forming Flag Flyers, is encouraging Canadians to wear red and white and wave the nation’s flag proudly on Monday.

“Get out and show your patriotism,” she said.

Former North York resident Leo Marchildon spent 20 years working in the United States and noticed Americans seem to take considerably more pride in their flag than Canadians.

“In America, their flag flies proudly at every street corner,” the Flag Flyers member told The Mirror last year. “You don’t see that as often here as you do there.”

Canada flag facts • Every province and territory in Canada has its own flag. The one symbol that represents us at home and abroad is the red and white National Flag of Canada.

• The Canadian Red Ensign flies at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial of the Battle of Vimy Ridge in Vimy, France.

• When the Canadian flag flies along with the flags of the 10 provinces and three territories, the flags of the provinces and territories follow in the order they entered Confederation.

• The maple leaf has been used as an emblem in Canada since the eighteenth century. It has often served to distinguish Canadians abroad, as was the case with Canada’s first Olympians in 1904.

• Red and white were proclaimed Canada’s official colours in the proclamation of the Royal Arms of Canada in 1921 by King George V.

He said Canadians tend to be aware of Canada Day, but not Flag Day. “It falls at an awkward

• Dr. George Stanley, a professor at Royal Military College in Kingston, Ont. in 1964, suggested a red and white single maple leaf design for the flag because it could be seen clearly from a distance.

• Vexillologists (flag experts) often cite the National Flag of Canada as one of the world’s most beautiful based on its simple design and limited number of colours.

• In 1984, the Canadian flag reached new heights when it blasted into space on the flight mission uniform of Marc Garneau, the first Canadian astronaut in space.

• In 2005, one of the original maple leaf flags that flew over Parliament on Feb. 15, 1965, was returned to Canada by its owner, Ms. Elisabeth Hoffmann-Lamoureux. The flag was presented to the prime minister during the Canada Day celebrations on Parliament Hill.

placement in the year and is perpetually glazed over,” Marchildon said. “We’re not pushing for a statutory

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A splinter group of Toronto taxi drivers has cancelled plans to disrupt traffic over the long weekend.

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Taxi industry puts breaks on strike for NBA-All Star Game DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com There will be no taxi strike tomorrow, after taxi driver leadership met with three city councillors and agreed to stand down for the NBA All-Star Game.

Earlier on Wednesday, the newly-formed United Taxi Workers’ Association had threatened to drive a convoy of cabs down Hwy. 427, across the Gardiner Expressway and surround the Air Canada Centre for the basketball event. The group is continuing to protest the city’s decision not to seek an injunction against UberX and its drivers, which are operating illegally in Toronto while the city attempts to devise a bylaw that will permit them.

But over the noon-hour, the association members met with members of the city’s business community and three city councillors:

Scarborough Centre’s Glenn De Baeremaeker, BeachesEast York’s Janet Davis and Toronto Centre-Rosedale’s Kristyn Wong-Tam. At the end of the meeting, they emerged with a statement that the strike was off.

“We understand that doing a strike like this would just cause a big mess for Toronto business, and we can’t let riders be surcharged for UberX as well,” said Paul Sekston, spokesperson for taxi association. “It’s our duty as the taxi industry to make sure they get taxis to get back and forth from their events. It is our business to make sure that they are.

At this time I will say that the strike has been put off and there will be no strike for NBA All-Star weekend.”

Sekston said he and other members of the industry were convinced that the councillors and others not attending the meeting were allies, and not to take action that could

cause problems for visitors and Torontonians during the high-profile sporting event.

“I am very emotional of course, this is my industry,” said Sekston, who earlier in the day had called Mayor John Tory “a dictator” and accused him of working against the interests of cab drivers. “How did I change my mind? I let my emotions calm down and I used my head. I had to think in the best picture and look at the rest of the industry.”

And he added: “All three elected officials said UberX is illegal. That’s the kind of message we need to be sending out.”

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Concert series to begin Feb. 13 at Toronto Centre for the Arts >>>from page 1 shops conducted as part of JPEC’s Music in the Schools program, the organization is now shifting focus to its second goal.

“Jazz is very low on the totem pole for funding,” Rochelle said. “Ontario graduates 400 (jazz) students a year, and where are they going to go?

It’s an opportunity for them to play. Having a place for them to play is important. Jazz clubs are all over the place, it isn’t a centralized thing.”

Rochelle said the hub will take time to develop, and hopes it will eventually be located inside Toronto Centre for the Arts, home to JPEC’s upcoming concert series.

With several studios and close proximity to Hwy. 401, Rochelle believes the Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue venue is a good fit for a jazz hub.

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Rochelle and Raymond, who met when they were 16 and 18, respectively, would listen to jazz on their dates in the city while sharing a sandwich and coke, she said.

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to know the musicians while amassing 4,000 jazz albums and CDs. “We love music, and jazz was the focus,” said Rochelle, 76, a former teacher. “We wanted to give back to the jazz community in some way that allowed musicians to perform in a stable environment.”

When asked about a potential jazz hub in the city, Ross Porter, president and CEO of Jazz FM.91, said he’s in favour of anything that increases jazz and arts awareness.

“There is certainly a need for it,” he said of a jazz centre.

“It’s a great idea and I applaud the Koskies.”

Porter said the radio station, which is a sponsor of JPEC’s concert series, is in early talks to create a site downtown to house the collection of the late jazz piano legend Oscar Peterson.

“As the hub grows and progresses, (the Koskies) should start to talk to us,” he said.

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Japan’s 2020 Olympic Ambassador has been training at the North York YMCA fannie sunshine fsunshine@insidetoronto.com For Juri Iwata, training in Wado Ryu karate is no different in Toronto than it is in her homeland of Japan.

The 24-year-old, who is one of Japan’s top Wado Ryu competitors and that country’s 2020 Olympic Ambassador, has been training at the North York YMCA’s karate club at Bayview and Sheppard avenues Saturdays while studying abroad for one month at the University of Toronto.

When not training with the North York club, Iwata, who heads back to Japan Saturday, Feb. 13, can be found at Toronto General Hospital studying thoracic surgery.

A medical student at Japan’s Keio University, Iwata was training one day a week at the North York YMCA karate program, which happens to offer the same form of karate she trains in.

“Training is similar in Tokyo,” she said. “It’s not different here than there. It’s very good here.”

Training since the age of six in Wado Ryu, which mixes the striking of shotokan and the grappling of jujitsu, Iwata, who has her black belt, is also one of Japan’s 2020 Olympic Ambassadors for karate.

The International Olympic Committee is set to rule in the summer if karate will be included in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Summer Games.

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Juri Iwata, one of Japan's top competitors and 2020 Olympic ambassador, trains at the North York YMCA Saturday.

But even if the sport is included, Iwata said she plans to participate not as a competitor, but as a tending physician.

“I want to be a doctor,” she said. “I won’t be competing.”

Speaking of competition, medals of all colours were brought home by North York YMCA karate program athletes from the Karate Canada National Championships held in Richmond, British Columbia Jan. 29 to 31.

A team of Celine DellaQuericia, Renata Husnudinov, and Katrina Lawrence won gold in the kata event, with Husnudinov also capturing bronze in kumite.

Though Samin EftekharNejad, 20, won silver in kumite, the North York resident was less than pleased with her performance.

“It was okay, I could have done better,” she said.

The black belt, who has been training with the North York YMCA karate program for 16 years, said it would be “cool” to be part of the Olympics one day as a competitor.

“Taekwondo and judo (are Olympic sports), so why not,” she said.

Alex Waith, chief instructor of the North York YMCA karate program, said he was proud of the accomplishments his students achieved at the national championships.

“I’m really proud of their efforts more than their medals,” he said. “We have been competing on and off at the national event, and it was quite a good performance this time.”

As for their Japanese visitor, Waith said it was great having Iwata in class.

“We have quite a few students come down from Japan to train with us,” he said. “I am proud she represents our style of karate.”

Waith remains optimistic karate will become part of the Olympics, emphasizing it’s not only a sport, but a martial art.

“Karate is very much a martial art and the sport part of karate is just one part of the martial art,” he said.

Play structure closed last spring due to disrepair >>>from page 1 Radovski. “With the grant we will be able to purchase equipment to support a new initiative, the Yorkview Outdoor Play Enrichment Program. Equipment will be purchased for games of lacrosse, cricket, softball, soccer, flag football, ultimate frisbee, golf, tennis and track and field, just to name a few.

Students will be able to play games that are new to them, that promote physical activity, sportsmanship, and healthy competition. We will also

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Lisa Burrows, executive director of GoodLife Kids Foundation, said the Bathurst Street and Finch Avenue area school stood out because of its temporary lack of an outdoor play structure.

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and Yorkview Outdoor Play Enrichment Program is filling that void – it will be put in place to provide a new and different opportunity for all students to be active throughout the day. It’s also led by Grade 5 students, something we loved.”

The junior kindergarten to Grade 5 school saw its play structure closed off last spring due to disrepair. The structure had deteriorated to the point it was no longer safe for the 490 students to play on, Radovski previously told

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After putting in a replacement request to the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), an amount of $75,000 was committed for a new play structure, with the cost also covering resurfacing the play area, installing drainage and the planting of new trees.

The school then decided to hold a fundraiser, with the goal of raising $25,000 to add to the amount approved by the TDSB. The Yorkview Play Structure Committee came up with a structure wish list,

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