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ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com Inspired by the popular Sorauren Park Pumpkin Parade, the Friends of McCormick Park are launching their very own event this Nov. 1 just over the tracks. Sorauren Park Pumpkin Parade draws hundreds of pumpkins and people from all over Toronto to view the jack-o’-lanterns that local residents bring there the day after Halloween. Now in its ninth year, the Sorauren event was one of the first such events in the city. At its peek the Sorauren Park event drew nearly 2,000 jacko’-lanterns although recent years have seen that number decline slightly, likely because of similar pumpkin parades popping up all over the city. “We just loved the Sorauren event, it’s fantastic,” said Joe Pauker who is organizing the event with Jennifer Tibbitt, his fellow member of the Friends of McCormick Park group. “Everyone came from around the neighbourhood, kids were running around.” Re s i d e n t s i n t h e a re a o f McCormick Park can bring their jack-o’-lantern and a candle to McCormick Park around 7:30 p.m. The pumpkins will be lined up along the path on the west side of McCormick Park, off Brock Avenue north of Middleton Street. After each of the pumpkin parades at parks around the city, the City of Toronto picks up the gourds to be composted. Tibbitt said both city staff and the staff in the office of the area councillor, Ana Bailão have been very helpful with the event.

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Mentalist tells tales of hauntings in Parkdale ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com As All Hallows’ Eve approaches and minds turn to ghosts and goblins, renowned mentalist Mysterion The Mind Reader said you don’t have to go far in Toronto’s west end to possibly see a poltergeist or apparition. From Roncesvalles Avenue to beyond Dufferin Street, in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood, Mysterion said he has heard a number of reports of ghost sightings and experienced one such sighting of his own. “There are a lot of ghosts for a small area,” Mysterion said. Mysterion, who lives at College Street and Lansdowne Avenue, said his knowledge of Parkdale hauntings comes from a combination of research, stories he has been told, and lived experience. “Anyone who is a mentalist is heavily interested in anything supernatural,” Mysterion said. “It is a natural progression to my being interested in ghosts.” He begins his haunted walk on the bank of Lake Shore Boulevard West north of the Boulevard Club. Mysterion said a number of people have made reports of repeated sightings of a woman in a black Victorian dress. “She crosses the (Lake Shore Boulevard) and walks up the hill,” Mysterion said. “She walks right out into traffic and crosses as though she is oblivious to any traffic and comes up the hill and vanishes.” Moving north of there, Mysterion said he had an artist friend who lived in a building near the corner of Dowling Avenue and Leopold Street. She had repeated encounters with a ghost in the stairwell. “When she (friend) was coming down the stairs she could see her reflection in the window and she saw the reflection of a guy walking behind her,” Mysterion said. “But she turned around and no one was there, she turned back around and his reflection was back in the window.”

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Mysterion the Mind Reader stands in a small parkette in Parkdale. The area behind him is where people have reported seeing the ghost of a nun floating in the air.

At the corner of Dowling Avenue and Queen Street West, Mysterion said he had an encounter of his own. A s t re e t - i n v o l v e d p e r s o n approached him, a woman he had seen and spoken to many times before. She asked him for change, but having none they wished each other well and went on their way. “The next day I was walking by PARC (the Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre) and her photo was in the window,” Mysterion said. “She had died three days before.” Heading east along the north side of Queen Street West, there is a vacant storefront which once housed a butcher shop. Mysterion said the daughter of the butcher is said to still haunt the space. There were numerous reports of a poltergeist that once lurked around the site of the Guardian Drug Store. A building had stood on the site, but was torn down. Mysterion said he has heard of candles floating in the air above the store where the rooms of the old building would have been. At a home on Macdonell Avenue, looking down Seaforth Avenue, Mysterion said he has heard of tenants hearing the voices of children playing in the stairwell. Perhaps one of the most frequent

reports of an apparition being spotted, he said, is at a parkette on West Lodge, where the Our Lady of Charity convent and school for wayward girls once stood. Mysterion said many people have reported seeing a nun, possibly one of the Good Shepherd Sisters who ran the home, walking around and even floating in the air. “She will even sometimes approach people who are down on their luck and offer advice,” Mysterion said. On the site of the former Toronto Home for Incurables, south of Queen Street on Dunn Avenue, there is a ghost, sitting in a wheelchair, who has been seen on the grounds. Down at the Gladstone Hotel, where Mysterion has hosted seances and events, he said he is only aware of one ghost in the building. “In what was now the Art Bar, there used to be a storage area with a piano in it,” Mysterion said. “Staff at the time used to tell me that after the Melody Bar had closed, they would sit and have a drink and at least once a week that piano would start to play.” There is no shortage of stories of ghosts and hauntings in Parkdale, and Mysterion said now is the best time of year to get out and have one of your own.

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Toronto residents are being asked to give more than a treat this Halloween. They can also hand out Change for Kids coins that give trick-ortreaters a chance to win prizes while supporting Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Canada’s largest hospital for disabled children. “This is the first year we’ve ever run this program,” said Tracey Bailey, president of Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation. “Our goal is to raise $100,000.” This is how the Change for Kids initiative works: People can buy an activated Change for Kids coin card for $5 at any Scotiabank branch in the GTA. Cards obtained from other distributors such as Spirit Halloween, Costco, Toys “R” Us, newspapers or magazines can be activated for $5 by visiting www.changeforkids. ca. People can then pop out the coins from their card and give them to trick-or-treaters. Children and parents should be told to visit www.changeforkids.ca and enter their coin PIN code for their chance to win prizes. “The PIN number is important because Scotiabank will make an extra $5 gift to Holland Bloorview every time a PIN code is entered,” Bailey said. There are more than 500 prizes, including a weekend stay at the Great Wolf Lodge for your family and nine other families of your choice. Change for Kids also features two events this weekend: a Halloween party at the Ontario Science Centre Saturday night (Oct. 27) and a “Monster March and Fun Fair” at Holland Bloorview on Sunday (Oct. 28). Admission to the Halloween party is $18 and includes access to

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oronto’s neighbourhoods must be places where residents have opportunities to come together to learn, volunteer and play. This month’s “A Closer Look” feature delves into the issues of affordable community space in the city and the challenges community groups have in gaining access. We looked at both a city-wide experience and assessed the situation in our community, looking at the issue from the standpoint of not only specific user groups, but also those who rent out their facilities for community use. At the root of this challenge is money – or lack of it. Earlier this year, the cash-strapped City of Toronto, facing an outcry from local sports organizations, ultimately waived a permit fee hike for the use of city fields that our view would have added $1.5 million to the city’s coffers, but also City should would have threatened those organizations’ survival. list available According to a report from the Wellesley Institute, spaces titled Exercising Good Policy: Increasing Access to Recreation in Toronto’s 2013 Budget increasing access to recreational facilities is a smart investment, one that pays off with improved health of the populace. We agree the City of Toronto has a role to play in ensuring affordable access to community space for artistic and recreation groups. But perhaps there’s more to achieving this than by waiving fees. There are facilities in the city (places of worship come to mind) whose operators are looking for user groups as well. As a representative from a church in Weston noted, about the only challenge with being a landlord is getting the word out that space in the facility is available for rent. Would it make sense, then, for the city to have a centralized area online where not-for-profit facilities and potential user groups can be matched up? There is also reason for optimism. One of the recommendations in the Wellesley report calls for stable funding for youth outreach workers programs in order to enable positive health outcomes for our young people. Earlier this month, the province announced funding for 35 new youth outreach workers, with 20 of those spots earmarked for Toronto. While a provincial funding announcement from a minority government is not quite the definition of ‘stable’, that announcement, which took place at the Jane Street Hub in York, is a start and is recognition of the need for those kinds of investments in our communities.

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Re: ‘Reader talks privatization and meat,’ Letters, Oct. 11 The TTC probably needs a shake-up, but this civic corporation exists because of the private corporations who initially ran the public transportation service in Toronto were so inept at the job that Toronto had no choice but to take over the whole thing and establish the Toronto Transportation Commission. According to Toronto historian Mike Filey, the private transportation companies refused service to areas deemed unprofitable, which apparently did not sit well with the Toronto tax-paying citizens who felt they were entitled to such service. After all, any private enterprise is going to put profits before service. Privatize the TTC and see how fast service to non-profitable routes are chopped and how many Torontonians are cut off from public transportation. The TTC puts service first, something private companies cannot afford to do. Bill Tee

Battle ignites over smoking ban at city hall Those who think Toronto council’s tug-of-war flipflopping under Mayor Rob Ford is a new development in Toronto politics either have short memories or are new in town. Municipal councils have flipped and flopped frequently and sometimes with great gusto. Remember smoking in bars and restaurants? Back in the day, it used to be commonplace to have your calamari dusted with nicotine. Second-hand smoke was a health issue, but for many, commerce and culture trumped science and medicine. The first attempts at smoking bans, in the mid1990s, happened in two former municipalities: North York, and Toronto. In both cases, councillors bowed to pressure from restaurant owners and the tobacco industry, and

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reversed the bans within months of them being put in place. It was only after amalgamation and with the urging of the city’s medical officer of health Dr. Sheela Basrur that council pushed ahead with a city-wide ban. And that was a terrible fight in itself, as restaurateurs and bar-owners lined up to predict a hospitality apocalypse if smokers were asked to take it outside. But the bylaw passed, its opponents placated with a phase-in law and Toronto’s restaurants and bars boomed, or at least flourished. Eventually the provincial government decided

to mirror Toronto’ ban and for a time, it seemed as though all was settled. This week, the Toronto Board of Health decided to ramp it up a notch. Having sent smokers outside, the board recommended starting consultation on a bylaw that would make smoking on outdoor patios, at sports fields, outside buildings and on hospital grounds illegal. One can never entirely predict these things, but so far it seems as though the kerfuffle of the late 1990s won’t see a repeat this time. According to a report from the Basrur’s successor, Dr. David McKeown, there is more widespread support for smoking bans now than 15 years ago. The dire predictions the hospitality industry made last time simply didn’t come to pass. This is not to say that I’d lay money on it happening;

after all, Toronto council could well do another flip-flop on its 15-year-old opposition to casinos and approve one later this year. And while the memories of the Mad Men-era smokeem-if-you’ve-got-em ethos may have been stronger in the late 1990s than it is now, we are in the midst of the Angry Man era of Fordfamily red-meat conservatism here at city hall. So we’ll see how this goes. Now that provincial law has enshrined the city’s existing smoking bylaw, there’s no risk of that reversing. The question of what happens outside is very much in play. And given everything else on our plate, the last thing Toronto needs is a bare-knuckled rematch of the smoking war. But given the crowd at city hall these days, that may be just what we get.

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>>>from page 1 it is a night to have fun in their own home. “It gives people an opportunity to see themselves, their lives and their community in a new way,” Likely said. Adair Robertson, a resident of Strachan House, participated in the fashion show for a second time. “I like the atmosphere, the feeling and the camaraderie of it,” Robertson said of being in the fashion show. Dressing up in special outfits and participating in a fashion show makes him feel good about himself and gives him a sense of accomplishment, he said. His fellow fashionista for the night, Novelette Nelson, who lives at the Homes First building at Danforth Rd. and St. Clair Avenue, said she was happy to serve as a model in the show. “I knew I could pull it off,” she said with a laugh. “And it gives you that extra something that makes you feel good about yourself.” The clothing featured in the fashion show come through donations from people in the community and businesses. Area hair stylists did the models’ hair, while each of the 12 participants chose the outfits they would model. Each model got to keep

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Davenport Councillor Ana Bailão hosts an open house and public forum to discuss upcoming and proposed development in Ward 18 on Saturday. “Many new development applications are currently being proposed and this will have a future impact on Ward 18,” Bailão said in her monthly e-newsletter. “While this change is coming, we have a tremendous opportunity to manage this change, to guide this process and to work together for a combined vision of what we want to see for our neighbourhoods. “I strongly believe that at the heart of a successful planning

process is the involvement and feedback of local residents.” The planning forum will include a three-part discussion of the various planning initiatives and new proposals in Davenport. Area residents will get an opportunity to view artist renderings of each development proposal followed by short presentations by city planners. People will then get the chance to pose questions to a panel comprised of developers, city planning staff and the councillor. The forum takes place Saturday at St. Helen’s School, 1196 College St. from 1 to 4 p.m.

June Clause, a Homes First resident and fashion show model, makes her way down the runway at the Strachan House Ghetto Chic Fashion show last Wednesday.

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their outfit, and volunteers behind the scenes also got to choose an outfit. The remainder of the clothes were donated to the residents of Homes First. Patricia Mueller, executive director of the Strachan Avenue Homes First building, said the fashion show is really about developing community and making the residents feel good about themselves. “These are all second hand clothes, but it shows them they could wear these to go to a job interview or

High Park Library is on hiatus for an approximately three-week period for some renovations, including the installation of a self-service check-out. “We’re hoping it’ll be three weeks,” said Toronto Public Library spokesperson Susan Martin. “The bulk of the construction will be complete by Nov. 12.” However, renovations are known to come with their share of unexpectedness, she added. The reason for the Roncesvalles Village branch’s

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Rising fees hit youth sports CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com

‘If they had implemented that, it would have killed us.’

hen the Etobicoke Basketball Association (EBA) got hit with news of a more than 333 per cent fee increase at half its gyms last month, the impact was forecast as potentially catastrophic – especially to the 1,200-kid strong league’s lower income players. That’s because, like many voluna teer-driven, notcloser for-profit sports look organizations Inside across Toronto, the Toronto bulk of EBA’s player fees go directly toward facilities permits. For such groups already operating on shoe-string budgets, any increase in permit fees – like EBA’s recent threefold bump-up at Toronto District School Board (TDSB) gyms – must be passed along to its participants, explained Joe DaSilva, an EBA board member and volunteer coach. “If we ran a middle class league, we would have no problem because we’d just increase our fees and people would say that was fine, but we’re working very hard to make (EBA) very inclusive of everybody,” he said, noting that many of the league’s players come from single-parent homes, making fees a barrier. “This (TDSB increase) really affects how many kids we can afford to subsidize. We gather funds during the year to subsidize around 200 kids, because how do you turn away a kid who shows up with $50 and says, ‘This is all I have. I want to play basketball’?” EBA is far from Toronto’s only not-for-profit struggling with the search for affordable space – just as the TDSB isn’t the only provider struggling to accommodate them. The changes to the permitting fee schedule at the TDSB, explained board spokesperson Ryan Bird, came about because of a shortfall between the cost of supporting the community use of school space and the revenue collected. “Before these measures were voted on, we were subsidizing our permit holders to the tune of $11 million each year. The fact is we couldn’t continue subsidizing it to that level,” he explained, noting the TDSB issues close to 20,000 permits each year in its 550 schools across the city. Across the city, a series of fee increases announced this year at both the City of Toronto and school board levels – arguably the two biggest providers of gym,

~ WBA President Roy Baksh

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Whether local gyms remain accessible to our youth is a question the city and its school boards must come to grips with.

playing field and community spaces in the city – have left many sporting groups crying ‘foul’ over a lack of affordable space. “Gyms are not like condominiums, they’re not being built on every corner – there’s a finite inventory of them and the permit office holds all the cards,” DaSilva said. DaSilva’s concerns echo those expressed by many in the city’s minor baseball community earlier this year, when playing fields were struck by a $1.5-million fee hike proposal by the City of Toronto. Groups like the Weston Baseball Association (WBA), Etobicoke Girls Softball League and the East York Baseball Association said some of the city-owned fields they, as not-forprofit associations, had previously used for free, were now facing increases that could put some of the leagues out of business. “If they had implemented that, it would have killed us,” WBA President Roy Baksh told The York Guardian back in April, shortly after city council waived the increased fees – which would have meant an extra $15,000 for

the WBA – for a year. While Baksh expressed hope the city might provide an exemption next year to leagues like his providing sporting opportunities in high needs areas, there is still no promise the increased fees won’t be implemented across the board in 2013. With increases at both cityowned playing fields and in the TDSB school facilities due to come down in just a short few months, sporting groups across the city have been left scrambling to see how best they can accommodate all their players – not just the ones who can afford the increase in fees they’ll be forced to levy upon them. At a time when sports groups are getting hit hardest, a report emerged this month from the Wellesley Institute, urging the City of Toronto to improve the health of its residents by increasing access to recreational outlets. “City councillors have opportunities, right now, to improve the health of Torontonians that don’t require massive investments or complicated agreements with other levels of government,” reads the report, entitled Exercising Good Policy: Increasing Access to Recreation in Toronto’s 2013 Budget. “One of these opportunities is quite simple: increase access to recreational services for Torontonians.” Coming as it does in the wake of yet another violence plagued summer in Toronto, the report and its recommendations are reminiscent of reaction to Toronto’s Summer of the Gun in 2005, when funding for community programming rolled in as a means to stop youth violence. One of the results of that influx was the Community Hub initiative in some of Toronto’s most underserved suburban neighbourhoods, where a lack of community space was compounding the challenges of social isolation and poverty faced by many residents. As part of their ongoing Building Strong Neighbourhoods Strategy – and in partnership with the province, key agency partners, and private funders – United Way Toronto has developed eight community hubs in priority neighbourhoods across the city, funding $1 million toward the

capital costs of each hub, as well as contributing $150,000 annually toward each’s operating costs. “In looking at developing the Building Strong Neighbourhoods Strategy and hubs in particular, was the fact that, yes, space is a big challenge all over the city, particularly in suburbs,” said Lorraine Duff, United Way Toronto’s director of programming. “So we decided to ensure that some of this space was available for community agencies to use.” Seven of the planned eight hubs will be fully open and operational as of next month, Duff added, noting the hubs in MidScarborough, Crescent Town, Flemingdon Park-Victoria Village, Weston-Mt. Dennis, and Rexdale are currently open, while those in Dorset Park and the Bathurst/ Finch area are set to open by beginning of November. Duff said so far the community spaces within those hubs – including community kitchens, meeting rooms, and in the case of the Rexdale Community Hub, a gym – are always well used and in demand, especially by the kids. The EBA was just one of the community groups impacted by the TDSB’s decision to reclassify its subsidy recipients earlier this year – meaning an “unplanned for and exorbitant” fee hike they say will nearly quadruple their permit fees. Whereas now, as a Level 1 recipient, a single TDSB gym costs the EBA $3.51 an hour on a school night, come Jan. 1 the same gym in the same time slot will cost them $17.10 an hour once they’re shuffled down to Level 2 status – nearly five times as much. And that’s on top of the additional 43.7 per cent hike in fees the board also plans to implement on Jan. 1. While the TDSB has granted the EBA and other groups impacted by the board’s subsidy re-categorization a muchappreciated deferral on the fee hike from its original September implementation date until Jan. 1, the EBA’s DaSilva said the league is left with no choice except to raise registration fees in order to recover the “unplanned for and exorbitant” fee hikes come January. “This, quite simply, will put the price out of reach for a lot of our families. All house and rep team players...this season will now collectively need to find an additional $63,000,” he said of the league’s 1,200 players. “Without a doubt there will be a lot of kids sitting on couches instead of playing hoops as a direct result of this decision.”

Church continues outreach despite losing home In July, the Parkdale Neighbourhood Church (PNC), a Christian community that offers meals and programming for Parkdale’s vulnerable, found itself homeless. The PNC had been renting the basement of Epiphany and St. Mark’s Anglican on Cowan Avenue, but moved out after it became more than they could afford. According to Erinn Oxford, PNC director, the organization was in financial crisis, but out of the ashes arose beauty in the form of a strengthened community and new relationships. “We are really going through a reboot right now,” Oxford said. “We have extinguished the vast majority of our expenses, we have found alternative space to run our programs and I am doing a lot of work fundraising and rebuilding.” PNC, funded through donations, fundraisers and the Baptist Church, operates drop-in, weekly meal and art programs and outreach work, but without a home, the organization was at risk of having to shut down programs that serve a population in Parkdale that has struggles of their own, Oxford said. Instead of giving up, PNC spilled out into the neighbourhood, making the organization stronger than ever, Oxford said. PNC has built partnerships to solve their space problem, Oxford said. Bonar Presbyterian Church agreed to have PNC run its Monday meal program. SKETCH offered Oxford office space at their location in the Beaconsfield neighbourhood and as of this week, the art classes will be run out of ‘coffee corner’, an area in the back of the Salvation Army Thrift Store. PNC connected with Junia House, which opened their home on Dunn Avenue as a meeting place for PNC volunteers to gather before providing outreach work. The organization has begun to partner with The Jeremiah Community, a Christian community in the Anglican tradition, and together they host weekly worship service in the chapel at St. Francis Table on Queen Street West. The River Trading Book Store has also offered PNC to use their space for knitting circles and writing workshops. For its longevity, it is crucial for PNC to grow connections with other churches, regardless of denomination, and service organizations in Parkdale, which is exactly what is happening, Oxford said. Visit www.pnctoronto.ca for more on PNC. – Erin Hatfield

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Former Constantines frontman to perform at Parkdale Library ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com From the Donkey Sanctuary of Canada in Guelph to the basement of a coffee shop in Edmonton, Bry Webb said he finds a real appeal in playing his music in nontradition venues – the next such venue being the stacks of the Parkdale Library. Friday at 8 p.m. the former frontman of Canadian artpunk band The Constantines will brings his introspective solo album, Provider, to life in the library at 1303 Queen St. W. “One of the joys in making music for me is trying to find new spaces to play,” Webb said. “So this is a real privilege.” Anytime you bring music into a new space, whether that is a bar, an art gallery or a library, the songs have a different life, Webb said. “Going into a library, there is a certain atmosphere there that will lend itself nicely to playing quieter music,” Webb

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said. “It is a nice, muted calm atmosphere so I think it will work really well.” The idea of trying to fill a notoriously quiet space is an interesting task, Webb said. Webb, along with lap steel player Rich Burnett, pedal steel player Mike Brooks, and upright bassist Tyler Belluz, recorded Provider entirely live off the floor in three days.

The collection of nine songs was released on the independent label, Idee Fixe one year ago. Webb’s performance is part of the Toronto Public Library’s Make Some Noise/ Take Some Noise Local Music Collection and Events where library patrons can see live music concerts in the stacks of their local library for free.

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Residents are invited to review and comment on the various development applications coming in Ward 18.

Relive the Moment WHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. WHERE: May Robinson Auditorium, 20 West Lodge Ave. The Friendly Spike Theatre Band hosts Relive the Moment, pictures and videos from Mad Pride Week 2012.

Historical event WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Fern Avenue Public School, 128 Fern Ave. Roncesvalles-Macdonell Residents’ Association and Roncesvalles Village Historical Society (RVHS) event. Assorted presentations on local heritage, including some of Borkowski’s stories by members of our RVHS executive.

Metrolinx public meeting WHEN: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Toronto Police Service 11 Division, 2054 Davenport Rd. Metrolinx public meeting about the progress being made on the Old Weston Road/ Junction Road Rail Crossing.

■ Tuesday, Oct. 30

■ Saturday, Oct. 27

Ward-wide planning townhall WHEN: 1 to 4 p.m. WHERE: St. Helen’s School, 1196 College St.

following the Oct. 23 meeting, NAK Designs Strategies will put forward a recommended plan at the November monthly meeting of Roncesvalles MacDonell Residents’ Association.

■ Monday, Nov. 5

Friends of McCormick Park meeting WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: McCormick Community Centre, 179 Brock Ave. CONTACT: 416-392-6907 Meeting.

■ Tuesday, Nov. 27

Public consultation for Dundas Roncesvalles Peace Garden Part 2 WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Fern School, 128 Fern Ave. The second of two public meetings on the Dundas Roncesvalles Peace Garden. After considering the ideas and options

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group of 50 lucky Ward 19 residents took home shiny new bicycles as part of a giveaway organized by Olympic medal-winning kayaker Adam van Koeverden and councillor Mike Layton. The duo were joined by Olympic athletes Kurt Browning, Kara Lang, Brian Stemmle and Mark Oldershaw in handing out bikes to lucky recipients ranging in age from three to about 80. “After the Olympics, (van Koeverden) wrote me a note saying we have Olympians and we have bikes to give away,” Layton said. “I told him we could do some promotion for them, but that was easy. People really respond to free stuff and Olympians.” The lucky winners were asked to send in essays, poems or art expressing why cycling is important to them and to society in general. Hundreds sent in submissions, with the top 50 being chosen. Alexander Smith, 13, was one of the lucky bike winners and

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Riley Round, 5, gets some help with his new helmet during a bicycle giveaway held last Wednesday at the Toronto Community Housing Corporation building at 177 Pendrith St.

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the feel of wind on her face. “I want to share this good feeling with everyone,” she wrote. While the winners came from all over Ward 19, Charles Dowdall of Toronto Community Housing said his organization was happy to host the event in front of the Pendrith Park apartment complex. “(Cycling) is what makes not only the Toronto Community Housing community but also the City of Toronto a vibrant city,” he said.

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