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Neighbours cite speed as a factor for noisy streetcars LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Barbara Starr is no stranger to living in neighbourhoods where streetcars make their way along tracks embedded in city streets.

For several years, she has called the Dundas Street West and the Roncesvalles Avenue and also the Harbord and Bathurst streets areas home.

She also lived for a stint in Roncesvalles Village.

Last August, she moved to the area of Dundas West and College streets. Streetcars are a way of life for Starr, who

understands that with them comes some sound and vibration.

However, over the past seven months, she has noticed a significant increase in that noise and vibration.

“Since the beginning of August, the noise and vibration has increased drastically. Things vibrate across my counter,” Starr told The Villager. “My beef is the increase.”

The triangle of tracks is used as a turn-around, residents say. Yet, high traffic is not their concern. >>>TTC, page 8

Have a say on West Lodge West Lodge Park is a large space, with plenty of potential, but currently sits empty and unused the majority of the time.

That is on the verge of changing as the park has been earmarked for capital improvements in 2014 and the community is invited to have their say in the design of West Lodge Park.

Councillor Gord Perks and City of Toronto Parks staff are holding the community consultation meeting to discuss improvements to the park on Lansdowne Avenue. The community will have an opportunity to discuss what they would like to see in the space.

At the meeting a group of female newcomer youth from Parkdale will make a short presentation about research they

have done into what might be possible in the park, including a community garden or play equipment.

The girls, aged 14 and 15, have been working with Where The Children Play, a group that aims to help transform Parkdale’s parks and green spaces into creative natural spaces for children to play and learn.

According to Carolina G’ala with CultureLink Settlement Services and Where The Children Play the exercise of participating in the meeting helps the newcomer girls work on their public speaking, self confidence and helps them feel like they have a voice in the community.

The meeting will take place on March 5, 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the May Robinson Auditorium at 20 West Lodge Ave.

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Quilt to be auctioned off in support of kids’ choir ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com Ellen Long runs her hand along a quilt spread out on a table in St. Christopher House on Dundas Street West.

The colours don’t necessarily match and the squares aren’t all the same size, but they come together to make a big beautiful quilt, created by the Common Thread Kids Choir and their parents and supporters.

“Somehow it works,” Long said. “It really has people’s marks in it.”

A south Parkdale resident, Long is the founding president of the Common Thread Community Chorus, which started 14 years ago. Common Thread is a secular, non-audition choir that sings folk music reflecting the languages and cultures of Toronto.

A year and a half ago Common Thread launched the kids choir as a two-year pilot project in partnership with St. Christopher House School of Music at Dundas Street West and Ossington Avenue.

They practice weekly and sing a collection of folk, roots and world music. It is open to children aged 7 to 13 and no experience is necessary.

They learn a wide variety of fun songs that build a sense of belonging, respect for diversity, and positive social change from a youth perspective.

Participants come from all over the city. Ten-yearold Nick White comes from the Davenport and Dufferin area and has been a part of the choir since it began.

“The people here are nice and it is fun to do,” White said.

But, lately the choir practice time hasn’t just been about singing.

“Every week a group of parents, as the kids rehearse, sit around and literally hand stitch (the quilt),” said Long.

“We are just building as we go.”

The quilt began after Long took a course in fabric painting at the Haliburton School of The Arts.

A newcomer to the process, she was nevertheless struck by how easy it was to do and

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Front from left are Ellen Long, Theresa Vaz, Leaha Howard, Chloe Wang, Eric Wang, with Nick White and Raymond Lai in the back row. The youth are part of the Common Thread Kids Choir and the quilt they have on display will be auctioned off in the spring to raise funds for the program.

how beautiful hand-painted fabric can look.

“I was told when I was younger that I didn’t have any art talent and some people are told they don’t have any music talent,” she said. “Because we know that if you get a chance you can do it, and that is the philosophy behind our choir.”

As she started making

the fabric squares, the idea dawned to turn it into a community project.

That’s when she got the other choir members and supporters involved and started stockpiling some of the completed squares into a textile bank.

“I felt there was something powerful about this and about inviting people to

make squares and try it out,” she said.

And then came the idea of what to do with them: a quilt.

An artist friend helped design the quilt and the parents set out sewing it. When the quilt is finished it will be auctioned off, likely in May, with all the proceeds going toward the kids choir.

The quilt will be on display at the Hands Together concert Sunday at Daniels Spectrum, the new cultural hub in Regent Park at 585 Dundas St. E. The event kicks off at 3 p.m. with activities for children and adults as well as a silent auction.

At 4 p.m. there will be performances by Common Thread Community Chorus, Common Thread Kids Choir and the Rainbow Songs Foundation Teachers.

At the concert, Long said a second quilt will be created – a “participatory pop-up quilt” that will be made and auctioned off in real-time.

Audience members will be asked to paint a fabric square as they arrive and the

wet squares will be carefully pinned to a large Styrofoam sheet.

Once full, it will look like a completed quilt that will be live auctioned from the concert stage. The quilt will then be sewn together and delivered to the winner a few weeks later.

Tickets to the March 3 concert are $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and $10 for students.

Youth welcome Common Thread Kids Choir welcomes youth with a range of experience because Long said they believe everyone can sing. The cost is on a sliding scale between $1 and $5 a week, depending on the family’s budget.

The choir operates on trimesters and the next term begins March 18. Long said there are currently 14 youth involved and more are welcome to join.

For more information visit www.commonthreadchorus.ca or www.stchrishouse. org

Parkdale students pen and publish their own books Kids improve their attitude about writing ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com

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ith titles such as My Life with Justin Bieber, The Devastating Race and The Best Friend Book, the selection of 38 new books in the Parkdale Junior and Senior Public School library aren’t just aimed at students – the students wrote them.

Last Thursday, the Grade 6 authors hosted a celebratory book launch in the foyer of their school where students received printed copies of their books in front of their families, teachers and Toronto District School Board officials. three months The books came about after three months of creative writing work.

“It took a long time and it was kind of stressful,” said Turner Crockett, the author of What Happens in Cuba Stays in Cuba. But holding

his book, Crockett said he was pleased with the result.

Kemo Camara penned the book A Team AKA Team Awesome, an adventure book about four boys on vacation. He said he learned a lot from the experience.

“The good thing about writing this book is that I learned to spell new words and writing became my favourite subject,” Camara said.

In 2012, the Seaforth Avenue school received $195,000 through the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation, a registered charitable organization established in 2004 to help provide new books and learning materials to Canadian elementary schools.

It was the largest single grant ever awarded by the foundation.

The bulk of the grant money was used to purchase books from Chapters for Parkdale’s classroom libraries, but a portion

of the grant was given in cash for the school to run programs and workshops, including the Story Quest writing program.

Each book contains five chapters and in addition to each student receiving a copy of his own book, the school library will get a copy of each book for other students to check out.

Story Quest High Park resident Charlotte Safieh, a certified Ontario Elementary School teacher, writer and developer of the Story Quest writing program, guided the students.

“When I was a teacher, I saw how excited kids got about writing,” Safieh said.

With that in mind, she developed Story Quest, a creative writing program for schools. According to Safieh, the program helps students improve their attitude toward writing.

It also creates a safe and supportive environment

Staff photo/ERIN HATFIELD

Grade 6 students at Parkdale Junior and Senior Public School hold up their newly published books at their book launch party last Thursday.

that allows students to develop their creativity, enables them to express themselves and cultivates independent thought.

Over the 12-week workshop, the students were given the time and support to write a story about

whatever interests them or whatever they find exciting.

“At the beginning some were hesitant,” Safieh said.

“But then gradually they opened up and some of them didn’t want to stop writing.”

Safieh helped the stu-

dents develop their stories by asking them pointed questions about the characters and setting.

In addition to writing their books, the students also got to design the cover and choose the font inside.

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s commuting woes continue across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA), it’s time for everyone who has a stake in moving people around to come together and start talking about solutions beyond spending billions of dollars to build new rapid transit lines in the coming decades.

We need to start thinking of alternatives, ones that can be quickly implemented and will see an immediate impact on not only the ways in which we move people around the GTHA, but also the cost of doing it. In the case of the TTC, it can be as simple as altering the times we use the system for our daily commute.

Former TTC chair Adam Giambrone said a huge amount of costs the TTC incurs for rush-hour service could be our view saved if riders could spread out the times they commute.

Take time to The TTC is in “a perpetual budget crisis” in which it is share your essentially penalized by higher costs linked to its increases in commute ideas ridership during rush hours.

Shifting commute times by as little as 30 minutes could alleviate some of those costs, and it’s a solution many businesses seem willing to offer their employees.

Also, some foresight into future planning can lessen demands on the public transit system and also help lower operating costs. Toronto’s Chief Planner Jennifer Keesmaat is championing plans for greater intensification of the city’s major streets, with more multi-use buildings of six to seven storeys, which would feature residential, retail and office units all within the same structures.

It seems like such a simple concept: get people living closer to where they work so they can avoid longer commutes. But we have to build it before they will come, and right now that’s the opposite of the way land development and planning works in the GTHA. Our roads and transit are full of people riding packed buses or driving long distances to industrial areas far from residential communities.

The same goes for downtown congestion as thousands rush in and out of the core each weekday, jamming an already congested subway system and major roads. We need to come up with some new and better ideas. Our feature in today’s paper, Intelligent Transit, looks at some of these proposals, and we hope it encourages readers to come up some of their own ideas. What are your smart commute ideas? Email them to letters@insidetoronto.com newsroom

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What can a mother do when her daughter decides to meet with her Internet love 1,800 kilometres away from home?

She follows her daughter and brings her to a hotel room where the daughter insists on staying in the city even though she doesn’t have money. And since she suffers from a mental disorder, the results would be disastrious.

In desperation, the mother called 911. Two police officers arrived and had a serious talk with the daughter.

The point of writing is to say how patient and compassionate these two officers were in dealing with my daughter.

They did not take away her dignity, but brought her to the reality of things.

One of the officers even gave her a hug and his card so she could let him know what she decied.

The citizens of Toronto should be proud of their city police force.

Annette Madden

Council’s frailties more obvious than ever In case anyone had any doubt, Mayor Rob Ford is as good as invulnerable.

On Monday, the mayor, his brother and his lawyer went to the city’s compliance audit committee and asked they not be made to face prosecution over a compliance audit report that showed he’d overspent his campaign allowance by $40,000. When the committee agreed, the mayor escaped the second of two legal problems that could have seen him barred from office.

Add to that his victory in the libel lawsuit levelled against him by the owner of the Boardwalk Cafe, and the mayor is three for three.

It’s a remarkable feat, although it’s one that has been entirely consistent with Ford’s ability to deal with issues that would wipe out most politicians.

Then again, most politi-

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cians would find themselves rejuvinated – their mandate and influence effectively renewed. I wouldn’t bet on that in the case of Ford and the council that has long ago ceased to recognize his leadership.

Council in particular seems to have descended into a lame-duck morass, not so very different from the final year of mayor David Miller’s mandate, when he made it clear he wouldn’t run again: a forum that too easily descends into posturing, positioning and vendetta-voting.

The February council meeting illustrated this all

too well. Council spent its first day whether to debate a walk-on item about the shelter system and tried to put one of Mayor Ford’s harshest critics onto the mayor’s executive. They went on to browbeat two of the city’s accountability officers, debate whether to let newcomers here illegally use services the city offers regardless of citizenship (and then claim victory on that basis) and put off deciding what to do with an Etobicoke hockey arena.

Finally, after extending the meeting to a punishingly long evening session, they made a token sensible decision, and voted to shut down a plan by Councillor Mark Grimes to offer developers incentives to build condominiums on the waterfront. That, added to a quick motion by Councillor Paula Fletcher to formalize grace periods for

parking-permit holders in the downtown neighbourhoods, represented the bulk of the collective wisdom of council this month.

But generally, the leaderless crew ran the meeting with all the grace of a sugared-up daycare full of three-year-olds trying to drive a minivan.

There is no obvious mechanism for this to change. The mayor returns a survivor, but no more a bridge-builder than he ever was. Council remains an unorganized agglomeration of ambition. The city government as a whole continues to be unworthy of the fine city that it’s charged with.

To put it another way: Mayor Ford may be as strong as he’s ever been; but the real frailties of Toronto’s municipal government have never been more apparent.

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Development has Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art looking for new home ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com A stretch of Queen Street West currently home to the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MoCCA), a gallery and an art school, is now the site of an amendment application for a nine-storey condominium building.

A preliminary report on the zoning amendment application for 944 to 952 Queen St. W. made its way through Toronto and East York Community Council Tuesday.

This application proposes to amend the zoning bylaw in order to permit the redevelopment of the mixed-use building with 151 homes.

The rezoning application is required to permit the height, scale and density proposed by the applicant.

According to Ward 19 (Trinity-Spadina) Councillor

Mike Layton, a community consultation meeting will be scheduled and a final report is targeted for the summer.

The preliminary planning report identified a number of issues to be resolved including the height and density, building sitting and massing, amenity space and parking and vehicular access.

MoCCA has been renting a 990-square-metre repurposed textile factory on the site since 2005. Layton said loosing the gallery will be a blow to the stretch, but MoCCA has been thinking about finding its own, larger, permanent space.

“The issue with MoCCA does go a little deeper because they were outgrowing the space,” Layton said. “They are looking for an expansion that can’t be accommodated there.”

Layton has been meeting

with MoCCA regularly to help them look for other options.

“They would like a lot of space,” Layton said. “They would like to rival some of the contemporary art museums around the world, which means an aggressive expansion.”

Layton hosted a pre-application meeting with some area associations representatives and the developer in January.

“The feedback there was that people thought it was a little too ambitious, a little too big for the site,” Layton said.

“As well, the increasing concern is that with these new buildings, they tend to have higher rent on the main floor in the mixed-use portion and it tends to attract only a single type of commercial operations, big banks and Shoppers Drug Mart.”

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Smarter commuting could save TTC money

Offering flexible commutes could also reduce riders’ stress, improve productivity of employees RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com

proving more attractive to professional women with families, who must juggle As traffic gridlock worsens, their children’s needs with the commuters are facing the demands of their profession, stark choice of paying more said Samatas. to realize the completion of “Women are looking for new transit systems or watch flexibility, but they also want commute times in the GTHA to be challenged by their job,” (Greater Toronto Hamilton said Samatas. “It’s hard to drop Area) continue to balloon to off your kid at daycare or unimaginable levels. school when you have to be at Throughout February, resia meeting by nine o’clock.” dents have had the chance to She said the company participate in roundtables, has achieved a higher rate of consultations and discussions, retention for its employees to evaluate transit plans that who are keen to stay in a posipromise to reverse the tide of tion, which affords them the congestion and usher in a new flexibility in how they work.

Courtesy photo future for transportaThe challenge, she said, tion options – one that is for more businesses to Former TTC board chair Adam Giambrone estimates that if one to two per cent of those peak-time riders could alter their won’t come cheap. offer flexible work times commute times by just 30 minutes, it would save the TTC approximately $10 million in new service costs.

Even if they are without sacrificing proa funded, such massive ductivity. closer look infrastructure under“I think we have come crisis,” said Giambrone, who ing could be offering “incentakings will cost tens of a long way, but it’s one is now a media commentator. tives” for travelling outside Inside billions of dollars and Toronto thing to have a policy “And one thing in the mix of of peak periods so that riders will take decades to and another to live and things to consider is shifting who choose to do so could complete. Meanwhile breathe it every day,” the burden from the peak receive some form of fare RAHUL GUPTA and region’s transit systems, residents, no matter their Samatas said. hours.” discount. which, presently, is dealing Offering a flexible commute He estimates it costs the “Your goal here is to encourrgupta@insidetoronto.com choice of transportation, with overcrowding and trafremain stuck in traffic patterns would not only improve an TTC around $6 million for age very specific travel,” said A senior Toronto architect fic congestion. promised only to worsen. employee’s productivity but it every one per cent growth in Giambrone. applauds Chief Planner Keesmaat has frequently With new transit for Toronto would also benefit the cashridership.

Chris Upfold, TTC chief of stated her support of a lowand area far off into the future strapped TTC, said the former In 2012 the TTC reported customer service, acknowlJennifer Keesmaat’s call for mid-level development rise future for Toronto that and existing transportation chair of the transit agency 514 million annual rides and edged some benefits in a camprojects with strong links to could handle the growing networks straining to deal with recently. is anticipating around 528 milpaign to encourage shifting public transit. city’s needs without raising record ridership, new ideas on The TTC’s continuing lion by the end of 2013. commute times to off-peak But David Butterworth the ire of local communities how to deal with situation are dilemma, according to Adam Giambrone estimated that periods. said he wants to see concerned about condoemerging.

Giambrone, is it is attracting if one to two per cent of those But he balked at the prosKeesmaat and the city planminium towers changing Businesses, especially, are record ridership numbers, but peak-time riders could alter pect of getting the TTC to ning department settle varithe landscape of the neighlooking to find ways for a much of that travel is coming their commute times by just 30 approach employers. ous planning “ambiguities” bourhood. during the peak hours.

“I think we can do somesmarter commute for their minutes, it would save the TTC regarding the building of At a recent speech at employees. Or in some cases, thing to help our customers six- to eight-storey buildthe at the Toronto Board of they are eliminating the comunderstand what their options ings along major avenues Trade, Keesmaat encouraged mute completely by granting are, and where it might be What we find is people are more productive when in the city. shifting focus from singleemployees more flexibility in busier. But aiming a camthey don’t have a long commute and are not family residences to higher deciding when – and where – paign at employers is not a “If Jennifer is really sugexhausted. We don’t want our employees getting gesting this then she’s got density mixed-growth housthey work.

TTC issue,” said Upfold. up at 5 a.m. so they can spend three hours on a to allow some flexibility ing, particularly outside of Local staffing and recruiting Instead, he said the TTC the downtown core. would likely focus on benefits and freedom within the firm Poly Placements allows its nail-biting commute. mid-rise guidelines,” said workforce of around 50 people to customers, who could then “We have a tremendous – Sarah Samatas, Poly Placements Butterworth, a senior flexible start and leave times, inform their employers about amount of capacity within head of human resources the City of Toronto to as well as the ability to telethe benefits of altering their designer for firm Kirkor Architects and Planners. redevelop our avenues as commute for one or two days commute times.

Speaking this month, very livable urban places,” per work week, said the place“Peak times are the most approximately $10 million in “We could show that if you Butterworth said the type Keesmaat said. ment agency’s head of human difficult time to add service,” new service costs. get on a bus or subway at a of European-style developButterworth said develresources. Sarah Samatas He suggested the TTC certain time you’re going to he said. ment Keesmaat envisions opers might be interested in “You have to potentially buy get a seat, for example.” said said the company realized should consider a “twofor Toronto could create new building mid-level buildings giving employees options on new vehicles and hire more Upfold. “Customers can then pronged” awareness camcreative opportunities for in areas near major tranwhen they come into work people just for those times. paign to educate riders and go back to their employers designers. sit connections, but only at its location near the busy If you could get those people employers and called on the and say: ‘Gosh wouldn’t it He said such planning intersection of Yonge Street to adjust their commutes, you city and province to review be great if I can make these if they can make it work would facilitate the transfinancially. and Eglinton Avenue made would have capacity to handle their current policies on comchanges.’ But we don’t have formation of certain sub“Why is anyone going for a more productive and less service load without adding mutes. plans in respect to influencing urban neighbourhoods distracted workforce. any service.”

Giambrone said when employers.” to knock down a two- or into local “satellite cores,” three-storey building just “What we find is people are Giambrone believes the While an advertising camhe headed the TTC board walkable urban areas with to build six?” he said. “You more productive when they TTC could save on the need between 2006 and 2010, the paign is possible in the future, opportunities for office and don’t have a long commute for providing more peak or TTC had planned to run an Upfold said the TTC has no really need to have make it retail space and connected affordable to purchase the and are not exhausted,” said rush hour service if riders were advertising campaign encourcurrent plans for one. via public transit to the land and ensure there a reaable to shift their commute aging flexible commute times.

Samatas, however, encourSamatas. “We don’t want our downtown core. Building sonable return on it.” employees getting up at 5 a.m. times by as small an amount The campaign, however, was aged both the TTC and GO with transit in mind would, so they can spend three hours as either 30 minutes earlier never launched.

Transit to educate ridership according to Butterworth, on a nail-biting commute.” or later.

He said another way to about the benefits of shifting ~ with files from ease pressure on the Toronto Flexible commutes are “We’re in a perpetual budget encourage smarter commuttransit commutes.

David Nickle

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TTC finds tracks to be in ‘state of good repair’ >>>from page 1 Starr said she isn’t sure if it’s a maintenance issue, but she has noticed the noise and vibration tends to increase if streetcars speed through the intersection.

“When they go slow, it’s not so bad – it’s never going to be silent,” said Starr.

“From my obser vation, speed is one of the factors.

When they speed up, they make a ‘thug-thug’ noise.”

Starr is part of a group of neighbours who have banded together to form the

Residents for a Quiet Ride to ensure the noise and vibration issue is resolved.

TTC spokesperson Jessica Martin confirmed the public transportation agency was first made aware of the noise and vibration in January and sent its “track maintenance staff” out to investigate. The tracks were found in a “state of good repair,” she said, however, there was evidence of some wear and tear on the components of a “tailing switch.”

“We took the opportunity

‘When they go slow, it’s not so bad.’ ~ Barbara Starr, local resident to replace it because we had to dismantle the switch to investigate,” said Martin.

Ma r t i n s a i d we a t h e r impacts noise level too. In the winter, it tends to be louder than in summertime.

Lubricant is used in particular areas to grease the

tracks, however, this tends to take place in areas that are “loops,” such as the High Park loop, Martin said.

Speed could be a factor, she added.

“We’ve sent an inspector to look at that,” she said.

Christina Ramos has lived in the neighbourhood for the past 40 years. She agrees since last year, the noise has become problematic.

The streetcar noise and vibrations “shake the house,” she said.

“It’s very loud,” she said,

describing the noise as a ‘clicking’ sound.

Her neighbour, Rohan Walters, can take credit for initiating the Residents for a Quiet Ride.

An architect, he designed and built his house at Lansdowne Avenue and College Street in 1996 to absorb vibration caused by the streetcar tracks.

“I’m sensitive to the level of vibration,” he said.

Walters recalls in 2000, the noise and vibration had increased and so he con-

tacted the TTC at the time and the problem was quickly resolved.

Since moving into his house, he says he’s noticed the level of track maintenance has “deteriorated.”

The group is in the midst of creating a petition. It has created a Facebook page as well. “ We w a n t t o d o t h i s together in a determined way,” said Walters.

For further details, visit www.facebook.com/residentsforaquietride

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Greater Toronto Area realtors reported 2,823 sales through the TorontoMLS system during the first 14 days of February. This result represented a decline of 8.3 per cent compared to the same period in 2012.

“The number of transactions was lower for most home types in comparison to last year, but so too was the number of new listings. This means that market conditions remained quite tight, especially for low-rise home types. The result was continued price growth over last year,” says Toronto Real Estate Board President Ann Hannah.

The average selling price for TorontoMLS transactions in the first half of February was $509,061 – up by four per cent in comparison to the same time last year.

“The annual rate of price growth so far in February has been in line with expectations for 2013,” says Jason Mercer, TREB’s Senior Manager

of Market Analysis.

“The average selling price in the GTA will continue to grow this year but at a slower pace compared to 2012. The basis of this price growth will be the low-rise segment of the market, for which months of inventory and therefore choice for buyers remains very low.”

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Thinking of selling your home this spring? The single most effective and budget-friendly way to ensure your home is at its most appealing is to make sure it is meticulously clean, says Ron Abraham, president of the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA).

Abraham says that elbow grease and an eye for editing are the real keys to springing your home to the head of the pack. So what should be on your spring cleaning checklist?

“The exterior, entryway, main living space, kitchen and bathroom(s) tend to make the biggest impression on would-be buyers so make sure to take special care with these areas,” recommends Abraham.

Here’s a helpful checklist to help guide your spring scrubbing: • De-clutter: Clutter distracts buyers from your home’s features. And don’t just throw everything into a closet! This will make it seem like the home doesn’t have enough storage space.

• Depersonalize: To help buyers envision themselves in the space, remove personal items like family photos, toys and children’s art.

• Make sure the exterior of the home is well maintained – this means snow removal in early spring and landscaping in late spring/summer.

• Kitchens are the heart of any home. Make sure the kitchen is clean (pay close attention to floors counters and appliances), free of last night’s cooking smells and appears organized and functional.

• Bathrooms should be sparkling clean, free of clutter and as spa-like as possible (Stocked with fresh towels and soaps, and well-lit).

• Windows should be washed on the inside and the outside – clean windows will really brighten up your home.

• Furniture should be polished, upholstery and drapes cleaned and carpets and rugs steam cleaned if possible.

“Spring cleaning efforts will help prepare your home for sale. Remember, making your home look its best does not require spending a ton of money on costly projects; rather, make sure your home is sparkling clean and talk to your realtor about else you can do to stage your home for sale.”

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DANIELLE MILLEY plv@insidetoronto.com More than 300 people gathered on the site of the former Don Jail Sunday for the chance to be the first to walk along Jack Layton Way. The unveiling of the renamed roadway on the soonto-reopen Bridgepoint Health campus took place Feb. 24, a day before the street officially opened to traffic.

Before the crowd took a stroll from the new Bridgepoint to Broadview Avenue, many spoke about the former city councillor and leader of the federal NDP party, Layton including his widow, Trinity-Spadina MP Olivia Chow.

“We thank city council and ( Toronto-Danforth Councillor) Paula Fletcher for naming this street Jack Layton Way. “It is very fitting that what was here was a menacing jail that’s been transformed into a place where there is healing and lots of love. That is so much the Jack Layton way,” she said.

‘It is very fitting that what was here was a menacing jail that’s been transformed into a place where there is healing and lots of love.’ ~ MP Olivia Chow The event was coined as an opportunity for people to remember the principles and values Layton believed in and championed.

People wore buttons in support of equality, health care, education, child care, arts, transit and the environment.

In the summer, council also decided to name the Toronto Ferry Terminal after Layton, who died in August 2011, but Fletcher said re-naming the street after the former NDP leader was a way for Riverdale to honour him.

“This is our community’s

tribute to Jack,” she said.

Fletcher said the location was the right place for a combination of reasons – Layton was instrumental in seeing the Don Jail refurbished into the new Bridgepoint Health; he was one of the first to champion cleaning the Don River; it’s in the heart of Riverdale; and it’s at the entry into East Chinatown.

“You put all that together and it just felt like Jack,” Fletcher said.

Chow and Fletcher were joined by councillors Mary Fragedakis, Janet Davis, and Pam McConnell; MPPs Rosario Marchese (TrinitySpadina) and MPP Peter Tabuns (Toronto-Danforth); Layton’s successor MP Craig Scott; Beaches-East York MPP Michael Prue and MP Matthew Kellway; MP Peggy Nash; and former MPP Marilyn Churley.

L a y t o n’s c h i l d r e n , Councillor Mike Layton and Sarah Campbell, as well as his two granddaughters were on hand for the celebration.

Plenty of Toronto residents also turned out.

Vaughan can’t crack Ford fortress DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Trinity-Spadina Councillor Adam Vaughan missed the draft for Mayor Rob Ford’s all-suburban Executive Committee as council voted to support the mayor’s pick to fill the empty spot on his team.

Only 14 councillors voted to put Vaughan on the powerful committee, a move that would have overruled Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday’s striking committee that chose

Ford loyalist Etobicoke North Councillor Vince Crisanti over Vaughan, a vocal critic of the mayor.

‘Simply geography’ Vaughan, championed by left-of-centre ally Joe Mihevc, argued the Executive Committee needed some representation from Toronto’s downtown core.

Since the 2010 election, Ford’s Executive Committee has included not a single councillor from the Toronto-

East York Community Council area.

“The reason I’ve asked for my name to be put forward is simply geography,” Vaughan said.

Ford, however, said downtown councillors are welcome to come before the Executive Committee, make speeches and suggest motions that might be moved by members.

He said he didn’t want Vaughan on the committee because he wouldn’t be supportive of the Ford agenda.

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Beverley Thorpe doesn’t live in Layton’s former riding, but she knew she wanted to be at the event as soon as she heard about it.

“Normally I wouldn’t do this on a Sunday, but I thought it was important,” she said.

“It’s important that we recognize Jack with at least a minimum of a street named after him, and keep his vision alive.”

Thorpe, in particular, liked Layton for his environmental policies so she thought the site near the Don River was fitting.

“I love the fact that we are high up and next to the Don Valley,” she said. “It’s a good location.”

Though Beach resident Karen Pierce was a Layton supporter it wasn’t her idea to stand outside for an hour on a snowy Sunday; her daughter Heather wanted to attend.

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Bursary program teams up with art organization Sketch ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com It makes sense for Sketch, an arts organization for homeless youth, and the Jim Fay Music Bursary to team up.

Jim Fay was a traditional and roots musician who lived in Brockton Village. He died suddenly in October 2008.

Fay was involved in Toronto’s music community, and he consistently encouraged others to foster their musical pursuits, so in honour of his memory his family and friends created the Jim Fay Music Bursary, which is handed out every year in December. To date they have awarded 12 bursaries.

The friends of Jim Fay transferred the bursary to

Sketch at the beginning of the year.

“They looked around the content of Sketch’s work and recognized it was well in line with what the bursary is doing or hopes to do,” explained Michael O’Connell, the Recording Studio Coordinator at Sketch.

Sketch is a community arts initiative engaging young people who live homeless or on the margins. The program engages and educates that population in the arts.

“Sketch is a good administrator of the bursary because we deal largely with the same demographic that the bursary has been set up for,” O’Connell said.

The bursary aims to help youth who face systemic bar-

riers in getting a job, sustainable housing or accessing a recording studio or computer to make recordings.

“Youth in Toronto that face many barriers in terms of socio-economic, racial and gender identity, sexual orientation or because they are new Canadians and are having a hard time adjusting in Toronto,” O’Connell said.

“The bursary does its best to reach those people.”

The annual concert SHINE raises funds for the Jim Fay Music Bursary for Youth.

It takes place Sunday, from 7 to 10 p.m. at Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. W. Purchase tickets for $25 or make a donation to the Jim Fay Music Bursary at http:// shineconcert.ca

Students share warm creations with Ronald McDonald House families LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com On one of the coldest days in February, a group of Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School students paid a visit to the kids and families staying at Ronald McDonald House to bring some warm wishes in the way of knitted hats and scarves.

The group of high school students, in grades 9 to 12, comprised the 12-member knitting club, which had created over the past month as many as 35 hats and scarves.

“I asked the kids, ‘where do you want to donate them?’

Someone suggested Sick Kids hospital, but they’re not able to accept items coming into the hospital because of germs,” said educational assistant and knitting club co-ordinator Flora Venezia.

The hospital, instead, suggested the club donate to Ronald McDonald House Charities. Ronald McDonald Houses provide a home-awayfrom-home for families of seriously ill children who are staying at a nearby hospital.

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about them. They have programs that offer everything from education to meditation.

Ronald McDonald House on McCaul Street, near College Street and University Avenue, was more than happy to receive the knitted gifts, said Venezia.

The club has only been meeting since the first of the month. It was Venezia who came up with the idea after being laid up with a broken ankle.

After months of being cooped up, she called a friend for a reprieve.

“She said, ‘Don’t kill anyone,’ I’ll be right over,’” recalled Venezia with a laugh.

She brought with her

knitting looms and showed Venezia how to knit without using needles. That visit was the catalyst for the school’s knitting club, which has become a big hit.

“They’re busy little beavers,” said Venezia.

The students say knitting is “relaxing.”

It takes just a couple of hours to complete one hat, they said.

“Once you get the hang of it, it gets addictive,” said one member.

It’s a great way to create gifts for people, said another.

The student council can take credit for donating $200 towards purchasing the wool, which it raised through various fundraisers including school dances.

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Poetry through the ages WHEN: 1 to 5 p.m. WHERE: May Robinson Auditorium, 20 West Lodge Ave. CONTACT: friendlyspike@primus.ca COST: Free Psychiatric Survivor Archives Toronto (PSAT) and The Friendly Spike Theatre Band announce Poetry through the Ages, an afternoon dedicated to reading poetry that has been collected

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