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THURSDAY, JULY 26, 2012

CENTRAL EDITION

SCARBOROUGH’S COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1962

Prime Minister, Mayor meet at Scarborough police station 3 Scarborough junior tennis champions earn honours 10

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Reasons to Ride a Bike in T.O. Bicycle sharing program grows at UTSC MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Seeing a bicycle painted an “ungodly colour of yellow” – in one administrator’s phrase – means a University of Toronto Scarborough student is exploring the area.

Residents in the area of the campus at Military Trail and Ellesmere Road can expect to see more of the distinctive rides as more bicycle trails open in Scarborough and BikeShare gains popularity on the campus. The small-scale program

has changed hands since it started in 2007 but it lends bicycles to students at an unbeatable price: free. BikeShare started as a partnership between the Scarborough Campus Students’ Union and a student >>>BIKE, page 19

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OUR VIEW Balance between recreation, commuter needs. 4 CITY WIDE Cyclists, drivers and conflict. 18 PICK A ROUTE Plenty of trails to choose from. 18 and 19 ONLINE COVERAGE Type http://bit.ly/TCN_bike for more.

Shooting coverage hurting image of Scarborough: local BIA boss MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Scarborough’s image has suffered because of the media’s “misleading” way of labelling the Danzig Street shooting a “Scarborough” crime, says the director of a local business improvement area. “As was the case for far too many years, media refer to this crime happening ‘in Scarborough’ – not ‘on Danzig, near Morningside (Avenue), (or) in the east end,’” Ernie McCullough said Tuesday, July 24, in a letter to Toronto news organizations. It’s a serious problem, said

McCullough, whose Sheppard East Village BIA is far from the scene of last Monday’s streetparty shooting which took the lives of a 14-year-old girl and a 23-year-old man and saw 23 others suffer gunshot wounds. “Experience shows that a misleading media characterization of Scarborough can become public perception – with a negative impact on citizens and businesses alike,” he said. “If this misleading media image is not corrected, it will impede the east end from continuing to develop and >>>COUNCILLOR, page 5

Arson suspected in fires at expropriated homes Two Scarborough homes slated for demolition this week were set ablaze Sunday night. Fire crews were called to Chesterton Shores near Lawrence Avenue and Port Union Road for two homes on fire at 8:37 p.m. on July 22. “When we got there, the buildings were fully involved,” Toronto Fire Services District Chief Stephan Powell said. “The fire was coming

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through the roof of one of the two structures.” There were no injuries reported. Both homes were vacant and boarded up. “We believe they were both set on fire. The fire marshal’s office is investigating,” Powell said. There were about 30 fire trucks, including a tanker truck from Pickering, at the >>>VANDALS, page 17

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