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10-storey condo gets green light ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com The concessions around a development at 383 Sorauren Ave. don’t satisfy all of the community’s concerns, but it comes close, says Parkdale-High Park Councillor Gord Perks.

“We couldn’t get everything,” Perks said, of the proposed 10-storey condo at Soraruen and Dundas Street West, immediately to the north of the condo complex known as the Robert Watson Lofts.

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“It is only by finding the middle ground that we prevented the original building

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The 383 Sorauren Ave. proposal was made by developer Bill Gairdner in 2012 for an 11-storey residential building.

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Outside may have been bitterly cold and cloaked in ice this month, but inside the small greenhouse in Trinity Bellwoods Park the temperature was 30 degrees Celsius and the orchids and geraniums bloomed in vibrant white and fuchsia.

The greenhouse, which was donated in 2008 by a television gardening show, is property of the City of Toronto and is run by the greenhouse committee of volunteers.

It’s used in the spring by about two dozen area gardeners to start seedlings and in the summer as a storage shed. But, for years it sat largely unused during the winter months, despite the fact on a sunny winter day it can feel like spring in the hot house (a green house with a furnace).

“I just thought it was a shame that it sat empty in the winter because it has to be heated or the water pipes would freeze,” said Gene Threndyle, a gardener by trade who lives in a nearby Artscape building.

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Finding peace and calm balancing ice and rock Peter Riedel’s rock balancing passion born in Sunnyside Park CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com Those who enjoy summertime walks along the banks of the Humber River near the Old Mill likely already know Peter Riedel’s work: stacked rock masterpieces that seem impossibly – and indeed precariously – balanced against both wind and waves.

Every spring, summer and fall, Riedel, a professional photographer by trade, emerges from his south Etobicoke apartment to entertain his self-described “obsession” – the construction of gravity-defying creations at Len Ford Park, Humber Bay Shores and anywhere and everywhere else he can find a good crop of rocks.

A Montreal native, Riedel moved to Toronto nine years ago from landlocked Atlanta after a failed marriage to an American woman and consequent separation from his young son, coupled with a short stint in jail on drug charges and the death of his father, left his life in tatters.

New to the city, Riedel took up residence in Parkdale and soon began spending his spare time in Sunnyside Park, where his rock balancing hobby was born.

“I’d never even been here before.

I didn’t know a soul, I didn’t know the city, I knew nothing. You might as well have brought me into the Amazonian jungle,” he said.

“Living in Atlanta, I’d missed the water, though, so when I moved to Parkdale I was drawn to the lake.

And that’s when I started doing basic structures with the rocks I found there.”

However, every winter, as chilly temps set in and his beloved rocks become hidden under snow and ice, Riedel is forced to reluctantly retire his creative energies for the season.

Every year until this one, that is.

This year, his hobby has come out of hibernation. Thanks to the bountiful harvest of ice blocks created by a near 90-degree bend in the Humber River at King’s Mill Park, he’s been able to adapt his artistry to more frigid climes – and the result, he said, has been simply “magical”.

“I look at these and they really are like giant gemstones, the way they’re shaped,” said Riedel one

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You may have wondered who is responsible for the rock balancing along the Humber River. Photographer Ian Kelso captured artist Peter Riedel in action creating beautiful sculptures with his hands and a hammer.

sunny morning late last week, while come here and you’re just walking, surveying the 23 ice structures – and you see this. It’s great for the some nearly six-feet tall – he’d spent spirit. It’s inspiring.” hours painstakingly balancing in For Riedel, though, his hobby isn’t sub-zero temperatures. about the recognition or praise his “I think what makes it really magic work has garnered in recent years for me is the fact that they are trans(he was profiled by Bravo’s Arts and lucent, so when the sun hits them Minds program in 2011), but rather in just the right way, that just ups the deeply therapeutic effect of the the magical look of process itself. them.”

Since the beginDuring The Living in Atlanta, I’d ning, Riedel said Guardian’s frigid attention to missed the water... the interview with Riedel detail required of so when I moved to his handiwork would over 45 minutes last Friday, several wellParkdale I was drawn often leave him lost bundled park patrons in his own little world to the lake. – completely blockstopped with cam– Peter Riedel eras in hand to take ing out the troubles pictures of Riedel’s of his past and the crystal-like creations – their trans“black state of mind” thinking of all he’d lost often put him in – and lucence brought out by the sun.

“My friends from Facebook keep allowing him to find peace in the asking me ‘who made these? Who task at hand. made these?’” said nearby resident “The most important thing in Alex , who previously posted photos all of this is that I’ve found it very of Riedel’s sculptures. therapeutic. It’s very peaceful for my “Before I said I had no idea mind; very meditative and calming.

It’s the only thing I’ve ever done in – maybe some local Aboriginal people. But now I can tell people my life where I zone out; where I’m I met him. actually just here in the now,” he “It’s amazing,” he added. “You explained.

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“When I’m doing it, I’m not thinking of what was, or what will be, or what needs to be, all I do is just concentrate 100 per cent on what I’m doing....and I didn’t know that I could ever experience that. I knew you could if you were some sort of Hindu maharishi on a mountaintop or somewhere, but for me to experience it doing this, that’s what gets me really excited to come out – even on winter days like this. Most people hide away from going out, but I love it. I was out here last night (in -20 C weather). I love it.”

And as Riedel’s skill and artistry with his balanced rocks – and now ice – has evolved, so has the meaning he has begun to take from his

creations.

“Over the years it’s become more and more symbolic for me. (The balanced sculptures) really do symbolize any of our lives...the fact that they’re so precarious, the fact that this element or that element or that person can come along, and within a split second they can all come tumbling down,” he explained.

“Life is like that all the time.

People’s lives can change in seconds with just a simple phone call, whether for the good or for the bad.

It’s all that precarious.”

For more images of Peter Riedel’s work, visit his website at www.rockbalancing.ca or his Flickr account at bit.ly/1acAw91

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he ice storm that hit Toronto at the end of last month imposed severe hardship, physically, emotionally and financially, upon hundreds of thousands of residents.

Which makes the behaviour of councillors and the mayor at the special meeting held last Friday and this Monday to approve a call to seek financial help from the provincial and federal governments to help cover ice storm costs so disappointing.

There are many issues surrounding the storm’s impact, costs associated with it and how the city’s leadership dealt with the crisis. The meeting was held to deal with those important items, yet it turned into a forum for petty politics and blatant electioneering.

We deserve better from our officials. And they need to our view elected know most voters can see through what they were up to at the meetWarning: ing, and it will only reflect badly on themselves. After unanimously Voters are approving Monday morning what watching was a no-brainer of a decision to ask for federal and provincial disaster relief funding to cover two-thirds of the estimated of $171-million cost to the city for the ice storm and the flooding in July, the silliness started.

Councillor Karen Stintz, who has said she intends to run for mayor in this year’s election, said Mayor Rob Ford should have handed over authority to Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly during the ice storm instead of taking the limelight for himself.

Ford fired back at her and then went on to take shots at Kelly, accusing him of not being a leader during the crisis. Kelly accurately said the meeting was “degenerating into an embarrassing melee.”

To wrap it up, Councillor Doug Ford, Mayor Ford’s brother, called Councillor John Parker “pathetic.”

That came about after Parker made a remark about Mayor Ford thanking city staff for their work during the ice storm.

Pathetic is what we would call the entire meeting.

The request for funding could have been quickly dealt with Friday. Of course it was going to be a unanimous vote. The only reason the meeting continued was because too many councillors were using it for selfish motives. With this being a municipal election year, voters in this city need to take a hard look at our representatives. The behaviour of many of them on Monday and Friday should not have improved their re-election chances.

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Rob Ford shows he’s in fighting form Anybody still thinking Rob Ford won’t be a formidable force in the 2014 mayor’s race need look no farther than this week’s special ice storm council meeting to disabuse themselves of the idea.

It’s not that the mayor suddenly revealed himself to be suddenly improved at the job he still nominally holds.

He’s still just as scandalridden in 2014 as he was at the end of 2013. And he’s not making any more friends on council.

But for all that, Ford showed the world this week what a political pit-fighter can do in a forum where all his opponents still feel they ought to constrain themselves by civility.

Ford properly entered Monday’s forum, the second day of the two-day meeting, after council had dispensed with the crucial non-question of whether the city should ask for provincial and federal aid

david nickle the city to deal with the cost of the December ice storm. After a speech in which he praised city and Hydro staff and chided his colleagues for not doing so themselves, the fight was on.

The marquee match came when TTC Chair and mayoral hopeful Karen Stintz rose to take on Ford.

Through a series of carefully-laid-out prosecutorial questions, she attempted to establish that Ford’s decision not to declare a state of emergency during the ice storm flowed from his unwillingness to surrender power to his Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly and that doing so harmed the cleanup.

She didn’t stand a chance.

It was like watching a Marquis-of-Kingsbury boxer take on one of the droogs from A Clockwork

Orange.

When Stintz tried to set things up and ask the mayor if he agreed the city would have been better served by having one mayor in charge, Ford shot back that he was in charge and did just fine, and went on to assert that Stintz herself had done nothing to help get the TTC up and running.

By the time Stintz was able to counter that attack and push her core argument to the fore, she was reduced to trying to shout over the mayor, who wondered, “What are you so angry for?”

If Stintz goes ahead and files her papers for the mayor’s race, that’s what she’ll be facing, debate after debate: a taunting, confident incumbent who in spite of any evidence you might care to throw at him won’t back down.

Stintz wasn’t the only one to buckle in the face of Ford’s bulldozing style.

When Councillor Joe Mihevc went after Ford’s voting record, Ford turned it around and went after Mihevc’s travel record.

When Kelly tried to correct Ford’s mischaracterization of his own work ethic, Ford went on the attack.

Scarborough-Rouge River Councillor Raymond Cho’s almost plaintive questioning of the mayor’s aggressive tactics was met with more mockery, as the mayor bobbed and weaved and laughed off attacks from all corners.

In the end, it wasn’t so much that Ford left the room looking particularly good, as that he’d left everyone around him looking foolish and flustered.

As this election year progresses, any candidate hoping to deny Ford a second term is going to have to find a way to fortify their inner calm.

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Free fitness classes aim to help girls grow ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com Liberty Village resident Laura Sanhueza-Miller, who has competed internationally in both rowing and triathlon, has taken her personal failure and used it to try to help young women across Toronto through a not-for-profit organization called Shaping Her Esteem (SHE).

Miller, 29, who is married and works in sales, grew up in North York. At the age of 14, she started competing in triathlons. personal ‘Failure’ She continued to compete in these races, which combines biking, running and swimming long distances, until 2005 when, at age 21, Miller went to the world championships for triathlon, but failed to finish the race.

“That was very difficult for me because I had been training so hard just to get to that point,” Miller said.

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“I hadn’t done any mental training at all,” Miller said. “I had just trained physically.”

Miller said she also struggled with bulimia, which she said was triggered by criticism of her body by coaches, intermittently, for a number of years, and that impacted her overall health for competing.

“It really woke me up after that race,” Miller said.

“Having had that failure was an opportunity for me to grow and learn about my body and the importance of nutrition, the combination of mental training and physical training, putting all those pieces together.”

That is when Miller started to think about starting something to help girls, but decided she, personally, needed to be in a good place before she could attempt to help others.

Miller took six months off sports entirely before she took up rowing.

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Participants do some floor work during the Shaping Her Esteem (SHE) fitness fundraiser Sunday at the Argonaut Rowing Club.

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Launched one year ago, SHE targets girls eight to 16 years, offering them online resources.

The website, http://shapingheresteem.com, features blogs written by a 13 year-old, 16 year-old and an adult pertaining to their experiences with sports and nutrition.

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“We did (a fitness program) in Regent Park last fall, and we want to continue it there but we need funds to do that,” Miller said. “We also hope to start up in North York and (the) Danforth.”

SHE is supported by a group of volunteers, fitness trainers, educators, nutritionists and more, whom she uses for their expertise.

“There is an incredible amount of community within this organization,” Miller said. “We have a list of about 100 young, professional females in the Greater Toronto Area who come from different backgrounds.

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Parkdale native Dylan Moscovitch, 29, along with partner Kirsten Moore-Towers, 21, of St. Catharines, qualified for the upcoming Olympic Games with their second straight second place finish in the pairs event at the national figure skating championships which wrapped up Sunday in Ottawa.

It will be the first Olympics for both skaters (having finished 5th in the Canadian Olympic qualifying event back in 2010).

The pair nearly medalled at last year’s world championships, finishing fourth.

In 2012, the partners had a setback finishing fourth at national’s. In 2011, they won national’s and finished eighth at the world’s.

“I grew up skating at McCormick Arena and, as I got more competitive, throughout the city, of course, but that was my home club – West Toronto Skating Club,” said Moscovitch in a previous interview. “A few of my friends that I grew up skating with coach there now.”

As a youth he played a lot of sports, including hockey with the Parkdale Flames and “baseball at Christie Pits for the Lizzies.”

He’s one of two Olympic-bound skaters from Toronto, the other being North York native Patrick Chan who won his seventh straight national men’s figure skating title in Ottawa on Saturday, earning him his second trip to the Olympic Games.

Parkdale Collegiate’s Trudy Minbashian, right, spikes the ball past Harbord Collegiate blockers during high school junior girls, south region volleyball action last Wednesday at Harbord Collegiate.

Harbord maintained their undefeated record with their sixth straight win.

Parkdale dropped to 1-3.

At the senior level, the Parkdale team has started the season with seven straight wins.

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But that didn’t lead to any concessions so the working group was dissolved and Toronto City Council instructed city staff to oppose it at the OMB. A prehearing was held in September and the hearing was set to begin on Jan. 6. Then just a couple days before the proposal was set to go to the OMB, Perks said the developer phoned the city’s solicitor with some concessions.

It wasn’t enough to satisfy community concerns and all of the parties headed to the hearing. But before it began, lawyers and planners from both sides spent the morning going back and forth on the issues and they were solved to the satisfaction of the city planner, Perks said.

“The community, myself and city staff had to hold tough right up to the 11th hour,” Perks said. “We got nothing easy out of this developer. Every inch we gained was hard work.”

At the last minute the developer approached the city with concessions, including: to reduce the height of the front of the building by incorporating a stepback of three metres between the sixth and seventh floors, and an additional stepback of three metres between the seventh and eighth floors.

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“Yes, the total height in the middle of the building, where the elevators go up is 10 stories, but we don’t have a 10-storey street wall,” Perks said. “The building is sculpted so that we reduce the shadow impact, we reduce the sense of a building looming over you... the impact and the total volume of the building is less than just a 10-storey tower by a lot.”

The precedent as to height had already been set by the six-storey Robert Watson Lofts next door, Perks said, so this developer always had a right to build a building in the sixto-12 storey range.

“There was no position that the city could take at the OMB that would have prevented a six-to-12 storey building,” Perks said. “And if we had tried to say, ‘you can’t build

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a six-storey building’, the board would have sided with the applicant and we would have got the original building they brought in which was considerably bigger than what we got.”

The developer also agreed to increase parking and the city and the developer also came to an agreement on Section 37 money (these are contributions from property developers in exchange for increases in height or density beyond existing zoning and policy allowances) in the area of $225,000 to be split between the Wabash Community Centre and Sorauren Park improvements with the rest going towards affordable housing.

“We had gone in with a very aggressive number just to put pressure on the developer, but the developer’s original position was zero,” Perks said.

After the two parties came to an agreeable compromise, the OMB ruled that compromise to be its decision, a de facto OMB ruling that happens in a fairly high percentage of OMB cases, Perks said.

“I would say this is an

example of the community and city staff holding the developer’s feet to the fire to get the best outcome we could,” Perks said.

But Brian Torry, the cochair of the RoncesvallesM a c d o n e l l R e s i d e n t s’ Association (RMRA), said he doesn’t see it that way. Torry said in his opinion the city does not appear to be trying to control development in the neighbourhood.

“The city has a choice to fight tooth and nail or to settle and unfortunately, we just keep settling in our neighbourhood,” Torry said. “And that means that every developer that comes in builds a bigger building.”

SAME CONCERNS Torry said his concern is, whenever these developments come up, the community raises the same concerns: increased height and increased density and the pressure on the community including traffic, parking and infrastructure, but they don’t seem to be addressed.

He called it a lack of concern for what the community really wants. To suggest the main concerns were stepbacks and visitor parking, said Torry, isn’t accurate.

“Neighbours care about height, neighbours care about density, about increased traffic on the streets,” Torry said.

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Escarpment advocate next speaker >>>from page 1 the shared courtyard at his building to the greenhouse for the winter months. He built some rustic looking shelves and trellis and the greenhouse committee purchased some stools for the space, Threndyle said.

But animating the space in winter didn’t stop there.

Originally the idea was to open the greenhouse in the winter, sell coffee and invite people in. Because of bylaws and rules around selling coffee or food, they decided against it, but that is when Threndyle said he and a neighbour came up with the idea of a winter discussion series in the community greenhouse in Trinity Bellwoods Park.

The Hot House Discussion series was launched last winter and according to Threndyle they proved to be popular.

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“The idea was to get people in here to talk about stuff that they know about or that they did,” Threndyle said. “Not that they have a PhD in it.”

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students from George Brown College bringing in scones and cookies they made.

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“My dad was into photography and I’d play with his camera. I was attracted to looking through the lens.”

The Bloor Street West and Dovercourt Road-area resident would go on to take photography in school, however, found herself in a career on TV, first as a children’s television host and then as a puppeteer. She is likely best known as the creator, operator and voice of Kids’ CBC’s talking yam puppet, Mamma Yamma, a role Eisner played for six years.

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stage with a famous musician. I brought my camera with me on my TV adventures or when I’d travel, I’d bring my camera along. I’d go off on my own and have the camera with me,” Eisner said. “When I decided to leave Kids’ CBC, I told myself I’d do everything I always wanted to do. I always wanted to have a show.”

The Gladstone Hotel welcomed her instantly, she said. Debuting Thursday,

Jan. 9, Eisner said it was “really wild.”

“It was so exciting to do something so different,” she said. “It was really cool. I got a lot of support. It was rad.”

Eisner describes 2013 as an “epic year of change” for her. This was the launching pad for her show, Favourite Things. She chose snapshots of her favourite moments over the last few years.

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know me. I’m proud of the stuff I’ve done. I picked photographs of my favourite moments,” she said.

Eisner said she enjoyed getting viewers’ feedback as they were looking at her images.

She’ll continue showing her photographs in future exhibits, Eisner said, just as she’ll continue on TV. She was a natural puppeteer as early as a child. As her mother read stories to Eisner and her sister, Eisner would want to make the pictures talk.

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Metrolinx is advising Eglinton Avenue residents to get ready for further construction related to the Eglinton Crosstown LRT project.

Work is set to begin below Eglinton on the eastern tunnel portion of the light rail line, with much of the work taking place between Brentcliffe Road and Yonge Street.

Just as with the western section from Black Creek Drive to just past Eglinton West Station, the construction will include relocating utilities, building “headwall” supports and completing access and extraction points through which massive boring machines will eventually excavate tunnels east.

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TTC riders who require use of station elevators and escalators to access the subway may have to reconsider travelling to Main and York Mills stations for the time being.

As of this week elevator service at Main is down until March 23 to allow for a major overhaul of the existing structure.

TTC is recommending making use of Victoria Park or Kennedy station from the east, and Broadview or newlyrenovated Pape Station to the west as possible alternate destinations for riders with accessibility concerns. Also closing for major repair work are the south-end escalators located near the passenger pick-up area in York Mills station. They are scheduled to be out of service until late September.

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RMRA to host market place for families ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com During the past 10 years, Brian Torry, area realtor and co-chair of the RoncesvallesM a c d o n e l l R e s i d e n t s’ Association (RMRA), said he has seen the number of families taking up residence in North Parkdale and Roncesvalles Village grow exponentially.

“Ten years ago when I moved onto our street, there was one young child that we knew of,” Torry said.

“Now there are at least 25 kids.”

It’s with the ever-increasing number of families and young people in mind that the RMRA will host an evening Market Place highlighting extra-curricular activities for children and youth.

On Tuesday, Jan. 28 from 7 to 9 p.m. residents can go

to Fern Avenue Public School (128 Fern Ave.), and peruse tables manned by tutors, music teachers, youth yoga and art instructors, clowns and other children’s activities instructors.

The RMRA is the residents association that encompasses the area north of Queen Street west between Roncesvalles and Lansdowne avenues and north to the rail corridor.

It has been active in the neighbourhood since the 1970s and hosts monthly meetings on the last Tuesday of each month.

For the past couple of years, when winter sets in, it has hosted a market place meeting bringing together area organizations of a particular theme.

“January is a cold, dark and miserable month and we have never had great atten-

dance at meetings in January, so a few years ago we decided it was a good time to promote the neighbourhood,” Torry said.

According to Torry some of these market place meetings have been tremendously successful, while others not.

“I think it has been hit and miss for us,” Torry said.

But with the focus of this year’s market place directed at families, Torry suspects the meeting will be of great interest to the young families who are coming to dominate the area.

“We are hopeful that it will be really well received,” Torry said.

Area organizations, which offer children’s activities, can still sign up to attend.

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