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TOUR DE BLACK CREEK: Young cyclists head out on the Tour de Black Creek ride Saturday morning at the Driftwood Community Centre. For more photos from the event, see page 8 and visit us at bit/ly/northyork_galleries
Ambitious goals for fall food drive North York Harvest Food Bank (NYHFB) hopes to raise 100,000 pounds of food and $100,000 in donations for this year’s Fall Food Drive, which runs until Oct. 18. “Learning levels and social behavior are tied to healthy, adequate meals – so going to
school with an empty stomach can really put kids behind,” Anette Chawla, executive director of NYHFB, said in a release. According to the organization, 33 per cent of clients are under 18 years old. To help kick off the drive,
Jo h n Po l a n y i Co l l e g i a t e Institute students will sort food Wednesday, Sept. 25 at NYHFB, 640 Lawrence Ave. NYHFB is the primary food bank for northern Toronto, distributing two million pounds of food last year through 60 neighbourhood programs.
Community members are strongly encouraged to donate nutritious non-perishables such as fish, dried beans, cooking oils, and whole grains.
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For a list of suggested food donations, visit www.northyorkharvest.com/ffd2013
This is the final Tuesday you’ll receive a North York Mirror. “As people consume their news and information differently, we must change with the times too,” said Metroland Media Toronto general manager Marg Middleton. The move to providing one newspaper every Thursday, will be matched by renewed emphasis on the www.northyorkmirror.com and www.insidetoronto. com websites. “We’ve had terrific growth of users and traffic on our website during the past year. Our readership is telling us it’s time to build on our successful web strategy,” said editor-in-chief Peter Haggert. In the spring, Metroland Media Toronto converted your Friday North York Mirror into a Tuesday newspaper. With that, new features were added to the newspaper, accompanied by a new design and Twitter and Facebook platforms. “Those newspaper features will become part of the Thursday newspaper beginning next week. We’ve received good reader response – and that tells us how important they’ve become to telling the story of the community,” said Haggert. >>>RENEWED, page 7
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