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CNE runs Friday through to Labour Day All week, Exhibition Place has been a flurry of activity with new employees touring the grounds, workers washing windows, touching up the paint on fences and erecting the bright green and pink Canadian National Exhibition banners.

All these last-minute details are being taken care of in advance of the opening of the 2012 CNE on Friday.

Canada’s largest fair and one of the Top 10 fairs in North America, the CNE was founded in 1879 and celebrates its 134th year this season.

In its 18-day run, the CNE attracts nearly 1.3 million people and generates an economic impact of almost $59 million each year.

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STREET ART: an artist works on his mural, one of several painted in an alley off Ossington Avenue, as part of a unique outdoor art program.

Graffiti artists take over Ossington Ave. alley ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com It didn’t matter that it was mid-day or that a half-dozen police officers were milling around: a group of graffiti artists took aerosol cans in hand and set out to transform a west end alley into an outdoor art gallery.

Well and Good, a grassroots arts organization, brought its Brighten The Corners mural campaign to an Ossington Avenue alley last week.

Over the course of five days, beginning Thursday, Aug. 9 and lasting through the weekend, more than a dozen artists worked away in the West Ossington Lane Way, north of Queen Street West.

Brockton Triangle resident Steve Ferrara, the director of Brighten The Corners, explained the project was intended to create an outdoor gallery and help drive a better understanding of graffiti and graffiti art.

This project, Ferrara explained, was initiated by Scott Mills of the Toronto

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Police Service and Well and Good, which continuously works to try to break down issues and help people understand the difference between vandalism and public art. Ferrara immediately got on board when asked by Mills.

For him, a project like this isn’t really about graffiti management.

“We are about getting art out there,” Ferrara said. “Vandalism is always going to be around... we aren’t going to change that.”

However, he went on to explain @ParkdaleLiberty

that among the graffiti artists he knows, they just want to paint.

Tagging and vandalism is born out of being told they aren’t allowed to paint.

“What we try to do is create opportunities for people to paint,” he said. “I’m not saying that is going to end vandalism, but given more opportunities to paint in positive ways and not be destructive, ideally that will lead to more positive things.” >>>BRIGHTEN, page 6

Back this year are classic CNE events such as the Ambassador of the Fairs competition, the PeeWee Baseball Tournament and the midway. New initiatives and ventures include The CNE Sky Ride and a zipline.

The popular Bandshell will feature Big Sugar with Flash Lightnin’, Nick Carter with Andrew Allen, the Boogie Wonder Band, Freddie McGregor, the Spinners and Don McLean.

Ex h i b i t s p l a n n e d i n c l u d e Battleground CNE! The Military History of the CNE Grounds, which explores the integral part the grounds played in Canadian military history and Rock ‘n Roll Will Never Die!, celebrating 50 years of The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and The Beach Boys.

The CNE runs until Sept. 3 and admission is $16 or $12 for children 13 and younger and seniors.

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New non-profit, job-creating catering company celebrates new location on Queen Street West ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com Michael Lewin leans on the heavily varnished wood counter of the new Raging Spoon Café. He looks around at the freshly painted white walls and into the shiny stainless steel kitchen that feeds the Raging Spoon Catering Company.

They are still settling in, but Lewin, the business manager at Raging Spoon, which hires and trains people who have mental health as well as addiction and poverty struggles, said this is a great space for their operations.

Established in 1997, the Raging Spoon Catering Company offers good food at a fair price and is an operation of Working for Change, an organization that advocates for employment opportunities for psychiatric survivors and emphasizes the importance of work in the lives of people who have been marginalized by poverty and mental health issues. Raging Spoon Cafe currently has eight employees.

Additionally, it makes sense they set up shop in Parkdale where there are food networks, co-ops and people working toward better food security, Lewin said.

“Food is a lot more than survival,” Lewin said. “It even has moral implications with food costs – who gets to eat what and who doesn’t. It’s an art and it’s a science.”

Lewin, who has been with Raging Spoon for the past eight years and a chef for 15, said he sees it every day: the people who work there feel more stable.

“People just feel better when they are working,” Lewin said. “They aren’t staying at home taking medication and doing nothing, getting frustrated and probably in crisis.”

But, apart from helping to give opportunity to survivors who want to work as a chef or in the catering industry, Lewin said they also make really great food.

“We also try to create a competitive menu,” he said. “Because no matter how nice and well intended our social mandate is, it wouldn’t work if no one is buying anything.”

Although the catering operations have traditionally done well, the café wasn’t as successful. But Lewin said he hopes the new, bright space with a large window looking onto Queen Street will draw more people in as they pass by.

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counter foods and maybe really great homemade burgers,” Lewin said. Comfort foods made from scratch, sandwiches and soups will also likely be offered.

“We would like to serve the community something good that it doesn’t already have,” he said.

Raging Spoon was at 761 Queen St. W. in a former church that was once home to a variety of non-profit and social service organizations.

But when that building was sold to a developer, Raging Spoon had to find a new location.

When they started to look around they found a vacant space at 1658 Queen St. W. in the heart of Parkdale.

Their catering operations are now up and running in the new location and Lewin said they aim to have the café open in the fall.

Working for Change’s office is just down the street at 1499 Queen St. W. It also operates The Out of This World Café at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Parkdale Green Thumb and Voices from the Street, a speakers bureau comprised of individuals who have had direct experience with homelessness, poverty and/or mental health issues.

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Michael Lewin, the business manager at the Raging Spoon Catering Company and Café, outside of the not-for-profit’s new location on Queen Street West in Parkdale.

Keys to the studio Keys to the Studio, a collective of artists with developmental and intellectual disabilities such as autism and Down syndrome, took to the stage at The Sister on Queen Street West in Parkdale last Thursday to raise money for their unique program, which operates out of the Masaryk-Cowan Community Centre in South Parkdale. The program encourages creativity among the participating artists through collaborations, the creation of original music, weekly one-to-one sessions, small group practices, jams, invitational gigs, field trips and self-produced concerts.

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Cuts hurting our children

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Easy steps for better waste diversion

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ow well do you recycle? Do you ensure everything that should go into your green bin makes it in there?

The merits of public and private garbage collection systems in Toronto will continue to be debated. It’s a debate that was renewed last week when the residential portion of the city from Yonge Street to the Humber River officially switched to a private system of collection.

This now means about half of the city – west of Yonge – has privatized collection (Etobicoke has had its residential waste collected privately since before amalgamation). The remainder of the city continues to have its residential waste collected by city employees.

But let’s think beyond the our view method of collection. Let’s think about what we, as residents, are Take time to doing.

Residents must use this time review your as an opportunity to embrace better habits of their own when garbage habits they put out their waste for collection. We must ask ourselves: Are we doing all we can?

Doing all we can means ensuring residential waste is properly diverted into garbage, recycling and green bins.

This may mean taking a bit of sorting time beforehand. Refer to your waste collection calendar or use the Waste Wizard online tool to get more information if you’re unsure about what goes where. Accessing information is straightforward; it’s not hard.

According to figures from the City of Toronto, our recycling has a 20 per cent contamination rate (referring to items that can’t be recycled). Reducing that number is a meaningful and achievable goal.

Ultimately, waste that’s properly sorted before collection means more efficient collection. That’s ultimately better for the taxpayer. That’s the benefit.

As for the public versus private collection debate, let it continue. Will cost-saving success experienced by this program merit expansion? Will the dire warnings of worsening service be correct? Maybe further adjustments to Toronto’s garbage collection system won’t even be deemed necessary.

Regardless of that outcome, there are manageable tasks we as residents can do now.

The first week wasn’t perfect for the new service provider, as reports of delays surfaced. As much as one would like the smoothest of transitions in a service as important as waste collection, sometimes that’s not always possible – particularly in a large city.

A core component of elected representation is ensuring efficient and effective delivery of services.

Constituents can do their part by ensuring as little of Toronto’s waste as possible goes to landfill.

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Write us The Parkdale Liberty-Villager welcomes letters of 400 words or less.

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We are concerned to learn that cutbacks the provincial government is making to doctors’ compensation threaten the viability of pediatricians’ practices in our community.

Our pediatrician recently provided an outstanding example of why we need local doctors caring for our children.

In May, our second child was born. A communication mix-up at the hospital had our son discharged before a blood test for jaundice was done. Two days after he left the hospital, we took him to see our pediatrician.

She was suspicious something had been missed and ordered a blood test. At 11 p.m. she called us twice to warn us our son was in danger and we had to take him to the hospital.

Our local pediatrician saved our son from brain damage or death. When kids’ health is an issue, voters have long memories. Protect local pediatricians by telling your MPP to reverse the cutbacks that threaten their offices.

Nicholas and Katherine Manning

Reader suggests we talk about sychronizing traffic lights Everybody talks about gridlock, but those in charge are obviously not interested in the extra work it may need.

Years ago I contacted my councillor about synchronizing traffic lights on major routes in the GTA. He referred the matter to one of the fellows in charge for our district.

That’s where it died.

Considering the City of Hamilton introduced this system many years ago, why are our people

ignoring the possibility of moving traffic just a little faster?

In Hamilton it is possible to drive from one end of the city to the other without ever having to stop at a traffic light, while driving at the proper speed limit.

Just consider the amount of pollution we can avoid by not forcing all vehicles to a continuous stop and go.

How much pollution does a single truck emit in this system? And how much less

expensive is this suggestion, compared to building subways?

There is no guarantee drivers will switch to subways and the big trucks will still have to deliver their loads.

The word “synchronizing” has recently appeared when we talk about gridlock, but has the possibility actually been discussed seriously?

Please lend your support to this idea whose time

came long ago.

Let’s get the people in charge of traffic lights moving by putting pressure on them.

If Hamilton can do it, so can Toronto. And if it requires more one-way streets, so be it.

An additional benefit will be to discourage speeders and save gasoline. Or is big gas actually supporting a system that increases their sales?

Herb Kucera

Minimize labour market inequities to help stem poverty in communities It’s disheartening to learn funding for many of the youth programs in Toronto’s priority neighbourhoods is running out.

While these programs are important, they are only the first step and more needs to be done to stem poverty in

priority neighbourhoods.

There have been many media reports and academic studies that have documented the difficulties of young people entering the labour market. This literature shows the situation is considerably more dire for racialized

graduates.

The most effective way of eliminating poverty is to tackle its root causes: underemployment, unemployment and lower average pay for marginalized communities.

Numerous studies have shown that marginalized

communities have lower employment and participation rates and are compensated less for their labour.

By minimizing labour market inequities, we can reduce poverty and its associated effects.

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Neighbourhood Block Party WHEN: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Fred Hamilton Park, College Street between Roxton and Shaw The Neighbourhood Block Party, hosted

by The Friends of Roxton Road Parks, offers music, barbecue, arts and crafts, a bocce tournament, and garage sale, among other things. Proceeds to benefit Friends of Roxton Road Parks revitalization initiatives for Fred Hamilton, George Ben and Roxton Road parkettes.

Queen West Music Fest WHEN: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. WHERE: Trinity Bellwoods Park, 1053 Dundas St. W. in the southwest section bordering Queen CONTACT: queenwestmusicfest. com Donations to Toronto Western General Hospital Foundation accepted.

■ Sunday, Aug. 19

Behind the Scenes at the High Park Greenhouse

events.insidetoronto.com WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to noon WHERE: High Park Greenhouse, Greenhouse Road CONTACT: A.J. Alberti: ajalberti@ gmail.com, COST: Free Free walking tour to the greenhouse in High Park and viewing of ornamental gardens. Casual, informative and fun.

Meet at the benches across the road from Grenadier Restaurant.

■ Tuesday, Aug. 21

Workshop on civic engagement and food security WHEN: email for details WHERE: Dunn Avenue Parkette, 245 Dunn Ave., south of Queen Street West In partnership with Parkdale Food Network and Maytree Foundation is the Quest for Healthy Food Workshop at Dunn Parkette (Youth Garden). Email mikayla@greenestcity.ca to register.

Parkdale Community Legal Services public meeting WHEN: 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Parkdale library, 1303 Queen St. W.

Parkdale Community Legal Services will be holding a public meeting about the Ontario government’s cuts to the Community Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit. This benefit has helped tens of thousands of Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program recipients to maintain housing. This program is slated to end in January. The end of this program will mean more hardship and even homelessness for Ontario’s most vulnerable. Join Cheri at the meeting to discuss how to stop the cuts and fight poverty in our community. Visit the event’s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/events/447572775283022/

■ Saturday, Aug. 25

Family Fun Festival WHEN: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Trinity Bellwoods Park, 1053 Dundas St. W., south side CONTACT: Manny Wong, mwong@cmcp.ca, 416-532-9485 The Family Fun Festival is hosted by College-Montrose Children’s Place and features food, fun and inflatable bouncy

castle. Accepting donations for Artscape Youngplace.

■ Wednesday, Sept. 12

Mobile Blood Clinic WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

WHERE: Parked on Fraser Avenue just north of Liberty Street The Bloodmobile donor clinic on wheels is convenient and comfortable. It is equipped with four collection stations where you can give blood in a relaxed setting. First-time donors are welcome.

■ Sunday, Sept. 16

Bikeathon for 4 Real Food 4 All WHEN: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Fred Hamilton Park, College Street between Roxton and Shaw Help raise funds for programming that will make real food accessible to those on low incomes. As a Rider 4 Real Food 4 All, you can get pledges and raise funds as you choose from three different scenic routes (30K, 50K, or 100K) that all end up at the historic

McVean Farm (a FarmStart initiative). At the farm you’ll get a scrumptious feast from the fields, entertainment, prizes, and farm tours. Meet and greet those who grow your food, and see where it all comes from! Proceeds from the Bikea-thon go toward Co-op Cred, a joint program between WEFC and PARC. Visit http://westendfood.coop/bikeathon2012 to register and for details.

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Running free Tuesdays WHEN: Tuesdays until Sept. 30 at 6 p.m.

WHERE: CAMH Bell Gateway Building, 1001 Queen St. W. CONTACT: Register with Andrea at Reynolds@camh.ca Running group for families who have a loved one with a mental health or addiction issue.

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>>>from page 1 Given the time and the space, Ferrara said, the artists were able to create elaborate and beautiful pieces that line the buildings, fences and doors to create an outdoor art gallery.

Also, one of the best ways to deter vandalism is to erect really great art which, Ferrara said, others won’t paint on top of.

In advance of the project, volunteers canvassed the property owners to get permission to paint their back doors and fences.

“There were a few flat out refusals...” Ferrara said, adding that in the end about 30 property owners gave their permission. “It certainly brightens up the area.”

More than 20 local and internationally renowned artists from Toronto and Montreal worked on the Brighten the Corners mural program in the Ossington alley.

Participating painter Aaron Li-Hill who lives in Trinity Bellwoods is a full-time artist who often works on largescale murals as well as canvas.

He has painted murals for The Chinatown Business

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ARTISTS AT WORK: a group of graffiti artists took over an alley off Ossington Ave. to paint murals with the support of arts organization Well and Good and Toronto Police.

Improvement Area near Dundas Street and Beverly Street as well as at a restaurant at Bathurst Street and Bloor Street.

The appeal of participating in this project, for Li-Hill, was its community-building, beautification and the opportunity to get together with other artists.

“Our alleys are so neglected that they become so tagged up because we don’t perceive them as usable space,” he said.

In his piece, Li-Hill created an image of a deer with

movement and geometric lines based on industrial forms. North American animals are a recurring theme in his work.

“I like to collide this concept of lost nature with our own industrial forms,” Li-Hill explained. “I see a lot of our society and civilization as sort of taking away habitat that would have been here naturally.”

Brighten The Corners hopes to get funding to run workshops with youth and painting some other areas of the city.

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Most theatre actors are fortunate to land a highprofile part in one William Shakespeare production.

Parkdale resident Kevin Ritchie has managed to land several, albeit they will all be part of one play.

Ritchie is one of three actors starring in the Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), which is currently in the midst of a short run at Casa Loma.

The play zips through all of Shakespeare’s plays in a brisk 97 minutes, a task that is as fun as it is daunting.

“I remember reading the play and thinking it was amazing on paper but that nobody could actually do it,” Ritchie said.

“The amount of energy you have to have to do it isn’t something you usually see in a play.”

The Parkdale resident, who stars alongside Matty Drappel and Jeff Hanson, plays a range of roles from Juliet to Julius Caesar to King Lear. The plays are woven together in an at-times breakneck pace, complete with costume changes.

“We looked at each section as kind of a free-standing bit, so it’s kind of like a sketch show like Saturday Night Live or MadTV,” he said.

Of course, when whipping through 37 plays in such a short time, the cast must be clicking on all cylinders, from setting up one another’s lines to ensuring they leave props and costumes where the others can quickly find them.

“Everybody absolutely has to be on the same page,” Ritchie said. “It’s trust as much as anything else.”

Ritchie’s lengthy experi-

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The Classical Theatre Project’s Matty Drappel, left, Jeff Hanson and Kevin Ritchie will be mounting a production of, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).

ence on the stage has certainly helped. He has worked with the Classical Theatre Project – the production company mounting the play – in the past and has plenty of other credits to his name.

“I’ve been acting since I was a wee youth,” he said.

“I think my first play was a kindergarten show and after that, I gave up on the learning part of school really fast.”

He studied theatre in George Brown College’s conservatory program and has since appeared in various productions of Shakespeare’s works as well as plays such as The Full Monty and A Chorus Line.

Throughout his career, however, he has always gravitated to the works of the Bard.

“In school, there was a real focus on the classical texts and I was always engrossed in Shakespeare,” he said.

“This show was pretty much a perfect fit.”

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of William Shakespeare (Abridged) takes a different, light-hearted approach to the popular plays.

With some works distilled to one or two lines out of necessity, there are ample rewards for Shakespeare aficionados who catch the references but the work is accessible to those who are less familiar with Shakespeare’s oeuvre as well.

“It’s playful, and there’s a huge element of improvisation to it,” Ritchie said.

“It’s freer than a lot of (traditional) Shakespeare plays and more relaxed. There’s leniency to play with the audience a bit.”

T h e C o m p l e t e Wo rk s of William Shakespeare (Abridged) will end its run under the evening sky on Casa Loma’s Garden Terrace on Wednesday, Aug. 29 with shows at 7 and 9:30 p.m. n For tickets or information, call 416-915-6750 or visit www.completeworksabridged.com

Music festival fundraises in Trinity Bellwoods The Queen West Musicfest, the west end’s free and family friendly music festival, returns this weekend.

The festival takes place in Trinity Bellwoods Park, located between Queen Street West and Dundas Street West at Crawford Street, on Saturday, Aug. 18.

The 2012 lineup will include seven rock music acts.

Headlining is the Skydiggers.

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are touring in support of their eighth studio album.

Rounding out the full day of music is a roster of Toronto bands including Lazybones, Stone River, Jessica Mitchell, Vanessa Vescio and Scarlett Jane.

This is a fully licensed, all-ages event with bands performing live from noon to 7 p.m.

The event is free to attend but donations to Toronto

General and Western Hospital Foundation and Musicounts, an organization whose goal is to ensure children in Canada, regardless of socio-economic circumstances and cultural background, have access to a music program through their school. Since the Queen West Musicfest was started in 2009 by area resident Sean McCormick, The Queen West Musicfest has raised nearly $30,000 for local charities.

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Coalition reveals details of air rail link legal challenge RAHUL GUPTA press@insidetoronto.com In opting for diesel trains instead of electric alternatives, Metrolinx ignored its statutory obligations to ensure sound, long-term transit planning, alleges the Clean Train Coalition (CTC), which has issued a legal challenge against a planned air rail link (ARL) to run between Union Station and Pearson International Airport.

The coalition said it has already filed an application in Ontario Divisional Court calling for a judicial review of the 2011 decision by the regional transportation planning agency not to electrify the ARL in time for the 2015 Pan American Games, a move, the group charges, was made due to political interference from the provincial government.

“Metrolinx was told by the Government of Ontario not to proceed with electrifying the air rail link and instead to move ahead with diesel trains in order to meet an imposed and arbitrary deadline of the Pan Am Games,” alleged CTC co-chair Rick Ciccarelli during a Wednesday, Aug. 8 press conference at the foot of the Wallace Avenue pedestrian bridge in the Junction, right beside where the link will run.

The coalition, which is made up of residents living along the Georgetown South rail corridor in the west end of the city, wants the courts to force Metrolinx to abandon its ongoing work on the project and instead focus on electrifying the ARL before it opens.

“We’ve been left with no choice but to seek a legal

remedy to stop this dirty diesel plan,” said Ciccarelli.

CTC legal counsel Saba Ahmad said Metrolinx had unlawfully exceeded its mandate as an agency.

“We argue Metrolinx acted contrary to statutory requirements that long-term vision and goals guide its decision making,” said Ahmad.

She said the court challenge asked that Metrolinx set aside the diesel train project for the ARL and conduct a full analysis comparing electric and diesel technologies taking into account environmental and health impacts in addition to technical and economic considerations.

The 13-page court application has been made available on the Clean Train Coalition’s website at www.cleantrain. ca Mark Ostler from Metrolinx wouldn’t comment directly on the case, but said the 18 diesel trains manufactured by the Japanese company Sumitomo that were approved for purchase in 2011 for the ARL exceed the WHO’s emissions requirements.

“These vehicles are fully convertible to electric, beat the WHO’s stringent emissions standards and reduce airborne particulate emissions by 90 per cent,” he said Tuesday afternoon in an email.

Ostler said the ARL was still on schedule to be completed by 2015.

Metrolinx is proceeding with its own study on the feasibility of electrifying the ARL. The study is scheduled for completion in 2014.

It will cost approximately $1 million per train car for electric conversion.

York South-Weston MPP wants answers The Liberal MPP for York South-Weston says Metrolinx needs to answer questions she has regarding the timeframe for electrification of a planned air rail link (ARL).

Laura Albanese said she sent a letter to Metrolinx CEO Bruce McCuaig late last month, requesting a timeline for when the regional transit planning agency can go ahead with electrification of the 3.3-kilometre track, scheduled to open in 2015.

Albanese also said she has asked the agency to provide a preliminary estimate on the costs for converting the express service to a local route, with more stations running through the rail corridor. The current route contains four stations.

“I think we can have the conversation of delaying electrification if more stops can be added to make the link more of a local service,” said Albanese. “Metrolinx should be clear as to what’s possible.”

Anne Marie Aikins, media relations manager for Metrolinx, said McCuaig sent out a response to Albanese’s letter by courier on Tuesday after he returned from a two week vacation. She did not disclose any details of his reply.

NDP MPP Jonah Schein said he’s hopeful Liberals like Albanese will support his private member’s bill calling on the ARL to be electrified before it opens.

The bill is scheduled to be introduced Sept. 20 at Queen’s Park.

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Thousands of volunteers behind Ontario Summer Games in T.O. ERIC HEINO active@insidetoronto.com Excitement is heating up for the thousands of volunteers, participants and sports fans eagerly awaiting today’s launch of the Ontario Summer Games (OSG).

The opening ceremony of the bi-annual Olympic-style competition is 7 p.m. tonight at Varsity Stadium.

Organizing committee chair Rahul Bhardwaj and his team began preparations for the Toronto event a few months after the completion of the 2010 games in Sudbury.

The challenge is to take all that planning and make it a reality, he said.

“It is truly remarkable what we have built with these games,” he said.

“The organizing committee has been working for 18 months and now thousands of volunteers are also operating to help the games. So many people are civically engaged and want to be the best host to their province. They are doing an enormous amount of work right now.”

Preparations are ongoing with the bulk of the 2,500 athletes arriving in time for today’s opening ceremony.

In addition to preparing 13 athlete villages and 20 sporting venues, organizers are busy ensuring proper food preparation, making transportation arrangements and managing the opening ceremony.

Final preparations The athletes, meanwhile, are making final preparations for what is, for some, the highest level of competition of their lives.

Every athlete approaches the competition differently, says Lana Perry.

A former archery competitor, coach and current administrator with the OSG, Perry understands even the most stoic archers can get high strung, but have to focus on pre-games training.

“Some younger athletes will actually taper their training off so they don’t hurt their muscles and some will amp it up to get more endurance.

A lot of what we do becomes mental training. It really differs depending on athletes,” said Perry.

And even though everyone is coming from Ontario, the humidity and weather in Toronto can alter the functionality of equipment, Perry said.

Restringing bows, tweaking rifle sights and double-checking bicycle tires can be the difference between standing on the podium and watching from the stands.

There is a counterbalance to the stress of the OSG. Perry knows the teens involved aren’t here just to compete; they are also excited about the rich social experience of meeting like-minded athletes.

“A lot of the time they come away having met some very great people,” said Perry.

“Even just wandering around in the dormitory, they are wearing different uniforms and they get to know each other. Being teenagers, they are very social anyway.”

For a full schedule of events, visit www.ontariosummergames.ca

Tonight’s opening ceremonies launch bi-annual Olympic-style competition Toronto athletes are competing in their own backyards at the Ontario Summer Games which run today through to Sunday.

About 2,500 athletes from across the province will be competing in sports from rugby and sailing to fencing and softball.

Nine sports are being held at 17 venues across Toronto.

The Games are seen as a gateway to further national and international competition, acting as qualifiers for most of the sports featured during the event, said Crystal Peiris, a games consultant with Sport Alliance of Ontario, the organization in charge of running the Summer Games for the provincial government.

“The Ontario Games are a stepping stone for athletes to competitions like the nationals and the Canada Games, for example,” Peiris said.

The Games play a vital role in the long-term development of Ontario’s sports organizations and foster “unmatched” life skills and values that an

‘The Ontario Games are a stepping stone for athletes to competitions like the nationals and the Canada Games, for example.’ ~ Crystal Peiris, consultant

athlete wouldn’t necessarily pick up in a classroom, Peiris said.

Blair McIntosh, a former director of Games for the Sport Alliance of Ontario and the director of sport for the 2015 Pan American Games, said the provincial Games teach “discipline, socialization, diversity, acknowledgement...it changes an athlete’s life.”

“We have seen many of our athletes go from playground to (Olympic) podium and then go on after their athletic

careers to accomplish great achievements in life,” said McIntosh, who has 28 years of amateur sport and multisport games experience.

Fans can get tickets, which are available at each venue for $5. Tickets give people access to all venues for that day only. Pins are also available at each venue for $25, which gives holders access to all venues for the entire competition days.

Canoe/kayak is being held in Welland, cycling will take place in Albion Hills, skeet shooting is held in Oshawa, sporting rifle will take place in St. Catharines and the triathlon is in Brampton.

Some local neighbourhood venues are: • U16 male and female field hockey is being held at Lamport Stadium, 1151 King St. W. • Rowing is being held at Marilyn Bell Park, 851 Lake Shore Blvd. W. Warm-up is slated for Thursday between noon and 2 p.m. Preliminaries and finals are set for Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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Municipal Class Environmental Assessment - Notice of Study Completion The City ofToronto has completed a Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (EA) Study to advance the recommendations of the City’s Wet Weather Flow Master Plan (approved by City Council in 2003) to capture and treat polluted stormwater and combined sewer overflows (CSO’s) that are discharged to the Don River and Central Waterfront. This will help to improve water quality and our environment. In addition, necessary upgrades have been identified to the City’s critical sanitary trunk sewer infrastructure within the study area to improve operations and service future growth.

The study has defined the problems/opportunities, identified and evaluated alternatives, and determined a preferred solution and design in consultation with the City ofToronto, regulatory agencies, and the public.The City has accepted the consultant’s recommendations regarding the preferred solution and design, including the following project components: Sanitary Trunk Sewer System l A Lower Don/Coxwell BypassTunnel that will be used on a contingency basis as a bypass to the existing Coxwell SanitaryTrunk Sewer (STS) allowing for periodic maintenance and any necessary repairs of the Coxwell STS, l Four underground storage tanks for offline storage of peak sanitary flows where additional capacity is needed. l Upgrades to the NorthTorontoTreatment Plant (NTTP).

Wet Weather Flow Collection and Storage System l Three integrated tunnels (Lower Don/Coxwell BypassTunnel,Taylor Massey CreekTunnel, and Inner HarbourTunnel) connected to an equivalent of 15 underground vertical storage shafts that will collect and store wet weather flows and convey these flows to a new wet weather flow treatment facility. l Three underground storage tanks for offline storage of wet weather flows from four remote outfall locations.

Treatment of Collected Wet Weather Flow l A new wet weather treatment facility that will provide high-rate treatment of wet weather flows and will be located on future lakefill in the waterlot south of the existing Ashbridges BayTreatment Plant. l A new pumping station in Ashbridges Grove Park with forcemains connecting to the new wet weather flow treatment facility. l Retrofit of an existing CSO tank at the NorthTorontoTreatment Plant.

Opportunities for Review The study was carried out following the requirements for Schedule ‘C’ projects under the Municipal Class EA. An Environmental Study Report (ESR) has been completed and placed on public record for a 45-day review period starting August 10, 2012 and ending September 24, 2012.The ESR will be available for review on the project website at www.toronto.ca/cleanwaterways and at the following locations: Beaches Library 2161 Queen St. E. 416 393 7703

Leaside Library 165 McRae Dr. 416 396 3835

City Hall Library 100 Queen St. W. 416 393 7650

St Lawrence Library 171 Front St. E. 416 393 7655

If you have any outstanding issues about this project, please address them to the City staff listed below and we will attempt to seek a mutually acceptable resolution.

James Yacoumidis, Policy, Planning and Project Consultant City of Toronto, Metro Hall, 18th Fl., 55 John St., Toronto, ON M5V 3C6 Tel: 416-392-8834 Fax: 416-338-2828 TTY: 416-397-0831 E-mail: cleanwaterways@toronto.ca or Visit: toronto.ca/cleanwaterways If concerns regarding this project cannot be resolved in discussion with the City ofToronto, a person or party may request that the Ontario Minister of the Environment make an order for the project to comply with Part II of the Environmental Assessment Act (referred to as a Part II Order), which addresses individual environmental assessments.

The Minister must receive the request in writing by September 24, 2012 at the address below, and a copy must also be sent to the City contact.

If no requests are received by September 24, 2012, the City may proceed with this project as outlined in the Environmental Study Report.

The Honourable Jim Bradley Minister of the Environment 77 Wellesley St. W., Ferguson Block, 11th Fl., Toronto, ON M7A 2T5 Issue Date: August 2, 2012 Information will be collected in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. With the exception of personal information, all comments will become part of the public record.

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