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Heather heights P.S. day wcommunity Heather Heights Junior Public School and the Vocal Music Academy hosts a Community Day and Garage Sale next month. The event takes place at the school, which is located at 80 Sloan Ave., on Saturday, May 11, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Vendors wishing to participate can call the school about table rentals, which will be $40. The school’s number is 416-3966305. Help to enhance bird, butterfly habitats Local Enhancement and Appreciation of Forests (LEAF) is calling on Torontonians to help increase the city’s bird habitats. The organization is offering Native Garden Kits for songbirds, which contain an assortment of perennials and shrubs ranging from wild bergamot to serviceberry shrubs. LEAF already offers Native

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The Agincourt Chess Club meets this Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. The meeting takes place at the L’Amoreaux Community Centre, 2000 McNicoll Ave., at Kennedy Road. Those interested in playing chess are invited to take part. There are no fees, teaching or tournaments. For more information, please contact Alex Knox at 416-4930019, aftert 6 p.m. Metis history Hill United watCree,West

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Guest speaker will be Virginia Barter, an historical researcher for the Metis Nation of Ontario. She will share stories of her Cree and Metis heritage. Also, the documentary The Fiddlers of James Bay, that explores the Scottish conncetion to the Cree people, will be shown. Light refreshments will be served. The church is located at 62 Orchard Park Dr., at Kingston Road. Call 416-283-5337 for more info. Festival volunteers sought wBridging

The Bridging Festival, which takes place each summer in the Kingston-Galloway-Orton Park (KGO) neighbourhood, is looking for volunteers to serve as festival advisors. The advisors would help to plan and organize festival outreach, artists and food. They would be required to meet every three weeks between May and September. Anyone interested in helping out with this community festival is invited to a meeting on May 14 at the East Scarborough Storefront,

4040 Lawrence Ave. For more info, please call Cindy at 416-698-7322, or email programs@scarborougharts.com stages Annie Jr. wSchool

Our Lady of Grace Catholic School presents its production of Annie Jr. this week. The show takes the stage on Wednesday and Thursday of this week starting at 7 p.m. The school is located at 121 Brimwood Blvd., in the Brimley Road and McNicoll Avenue area. For more information, call the school at 416-393-5372. Collection showing now on wPermanent

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Mixed media works by Frank Glazier will be exhibited at the Cedar Ridge Gallery from Friday, April 27, to Thursday, May 2. Opening reception for the exhibit is slated for this Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. Glazier has been exhibiting his work since 2001, just two years after he retired from a career in architectural practice. He is interested in exploring beyond the traditional application of paint to canvas and incorporates a variety of materials into his works. The Cedar Ridge Creative Centre is at 225 Confederation Dr. Call 416-396-4026 for more information on the Glazier exhibit.

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Hospital raising awareness of organ donations MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com It started with a cough that wouldn’t go away. Ramesh Nankissoor had a rare condition called sarcoidosis, and every year for 12 it got harder to breathe, until he constantly needed oxygen, and his wife Savi to push him in a wheelchair. The Scarborough man is back to living an active life, after a double lung transplant four years ago, because someone else registered as an organ donor. SCARBOROUGH HOSPITAL “They tell us most people live up to five years (after the transplant). I thought five years was better than dying in a few months,” the retired computer hardware engineer said yesterday at The Scarborough Hospital’s General campus, where he and Savi were talking to passers by about organ and tissue donation. His healthy, strong new lungs allowed Nankissoor to go to his son’s wedding in Florida, to take a cruise to Alaska and do other things he couldn’t when he was sick. “I got a new life. I would have been dead,” he said. The Nankissoors, and Tom Mitrovski – who received a

donor kidney almost 34 years ago and is still healthy today – will also join hospital staff for National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week at TSH’s Birchmount campus this Wednesday and Thursday. PERSONAL MISSION For them, getting people to register is a personal mission. When it comes to Scarborough, though, the exchange of benefits transplants bring, including corneas for eyes and skin for burn victims, has not been a fair one. Last year, 26 residents received an organ from a donor but only six people from TSH were donors, the hospital said in a release. There are 89 people in Scarborough waiting for a transplant – nearly 1,500 people across Ontario need a donor organ, and one of them dies every three days – but only nine per cent of Scarborough residents have registered as donors, compared to 22 per cent of Ontarians and 14 per cent of people across Toronto. Some people Nankissoor, 64, spoke to Monday said they were donors already – a few showed him the back of their Ontario health cards

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as proof – but he suggested it was better to also register their consent online. “When the time comes, the cards will be difficult to find,” he said. Many passing through the hospital hallway walked quickly past Nankissoor but took a card or other information with them. Others refused even that. “S o m e s p e e d u p,” Nankissoor admitted. He doesn’t know who his lungs once belonged to, but through the Trillium Gift of Life Network Nankissoor wrote a letter to the donor’s f a m i l y, e x p re s s i n g h i s thanks.

Habitat for Humanity Toronto was set to answer residents’ questions this week about a nine-unit re-development it is proposing for Birchmount Road in the Cliffside area of southwest Scarborough. The charity, which enlists volunteers to build housing low-income families can own, has said it will submit an rezoning application this spring for 357 Birchmount Rd., land at the corner of Highview Avenue on which it wants to build one detached and eight semi-detached houses. Scarborough Southwest Councillor Gary Crawford held a pre-application meeting last night at Variety Village to consult the community on the proposal. Another public meeting would be held at Scarborough Community Council after the application is submitted.

FOURTH ANNIVERSARY “My fourth anniversary is coming up May 9, and I will write them again,” he said. As a member of the Scarborough Gift of Life Association, Nankissoor also hands out materials on organ and tissue donation each month at Cedarbrae Mall. He said he does it because a verse in the New Testament Book of Luke has meaning for him. It reads in part, “For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required.” In the release, Mitrovski said his family made another

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Double lung transplant recipient Ramesh Nankissoor, right, speaks to passers-by at the Scarborough Hospital-General campus on Monday in an effort to raise awareness about on-line organ and tissue donation registration.

decision to “give back” after his transplant. “When my wife passed away, she donated her eyes,” he said.

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Leader2Leader conference planned for UTSC Business leaders are invited to learn from their peers how to stay competitive in a challenging and changing economy at a seminar slated for the University of Toronto Scarborough. The Leader2Leader conference takes place Friday, May 3 at the UTSC campus, 1265 Military Trail, in the International Centre.

The event, which runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., is sponsored by UTSC, The Scarborough Mirror and Certified General Accountants. Industry professionals and experts will share the ways they have continued to thrive and build on the existing challenges and how they plan for the future. The conference has been

designed to provide opportunities for members of the public to connect with each other and the business community. WORKSHOPS Workshop topics will include: defining your leadership; economic success in difficult times; the usefulness

of social media; and learning to manage generational differences. Sharon Barnes-Simmonds, director of accounting for the Toronto International Film Festival, will deliver the keynote address at 9:30 a.m. Scarborough Mirror editorin-chief Peter Haggert will moderate a workshop on The Entrepreneurial Journey from

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A 24-year-old woman suffered minor injuries after two females robbed her near Orton Park and Botany Hill roads. Police said one suspect produced a knife and demanded the victim’s cellphone around 11:50 p.m. on April 18. A struggle ensued when the victim didn’t comply. The suspects fled with the victim’s cellphone, glasses and keys. One suspect is black, 5’9” tall, 115 pounds with a thin build. The other is white and about 5’6” tall. In another incident, police are looking for a man and a woman after a 76-year-old woman was robbed Thursday morning. Money and TTC tickets were stolen from the victim’s purse. The robbery happened near Danforth and Pharmacy avenues at about 6:10 a.m. Anyone with info should call Crime Stoppers at 416222-8477.

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The opportunity of Global Youth Service Day T his Saturday’s Global Youth Service Day event is a great opportunity for Toronto youth to learn more about volunteering and how they can help their city and themselves. Celebrated in more than 100 countries, and with Michelle Obama as its honorary chair, Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) was established in 1988 as a way for children and youth to come together to address issues of global and local importance to them. Set for the Members Lounge of Toronto City Hall from 1 to 5 p.m., the event will be the first time GYSD has been marked in Canada. It’s being hosted by the City Youth Council of Toronto (CYCTO). The council helps youth help their communities, influence public policy and our view learn about how our city’s municipal government works. Several service Youngsters can learn more GYSD and Toronto’s youth organizations about council at the event or by going to to be on hand www.gysd.org and www.cycto.ca respectively. At Toronto’s event, at which all youngsters interested in volunteering are welcome to attend, a number of service organizations will be on hand, including Habitat for Humanity Toronto, the Toronto International Film Festival and Jane’s Walk. These organizations obviously believe they can benefit from the enthusiasm, energy and availability of young volunteers. Young people who find an organization to help will also gain in the many ways that volunteers do, such as a sense of appreciation for helping others and making their community better. Toronto’s GYSD, though, should not just be about what local organizations need and the benefits of volunteering. It should also be about ideas. Encouraging young people to get involved in the community helps us all. And it especially helps when those young volunteers are not just carrying boxes, but also are identifying the issues of concern in their neighbourhoods and working to find solutions. We can learn from some of the examples of other GYSD projects around the world. In Buffalo, New York, some 1,000 youngsters are involved in recycling projects to help their city’s environment. We’re looking forward to seeing Toronto’s young people become more involved in their communities through this Saturday’s GYSD.

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he NHL Stanley Cup playoffs begin next week and though it has been nine years since the Toronto Maple Leafs last qualified for the postseason, as this little ditty explains, one expects that they’ll look like they belong in short order. I Ain’t Shaving, Till We Bring Stanley Home Like the heroes of last year. And the legends before them. There’s a ritual we all go through Before the playoff games begin. We chuck our razors in the trash. And on the mirror we write in foam: “I ain’t shaving, till we bring Stanley home.” It’s not some silly superstition. Its power is tried and true. When you get your playoff

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY game face on, There’s nothing you can’t do. And one look at the stubble around you Is enough to get you in the zone. I ain’t shaving, till we bring Stanley home. My kids don’t recognize me. My wife, she thinks I’m hot. The rookies up and down the bench Wish they could grow what I got. And one look at the stubble around you Is enough to get you in the zone. I ain’t shaving, till we bring Stanley home. And though you’d swear that I play for ZZ Top When May rolls into June. And when I drop by the

local retirement home I look like the oldest dude in the room. And one look at the stubble around you Is enough to get you in the zone. I ain’t shaving, till we bring Stanley home. So, like my father before me. And his father before him. There’s a ritual we all go through Before the playoff games begin. We chuck our razors in the trash. And on the mirror we write in foam: “I ain’t shaving, till we bring Stanley home.” I ain’t shaving, till we bring Stanley home. Jamie Wayne is a lifelong columnist, who takes writing very seriously. The topics? Not so much. His column appears every Tuesday. Contact him at jamie.wayne@sympatico.ca

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Wasted money could have funded transit To the editor: Re: ‘Paying the price for underfunding transit,’ The City, April 18. Columnist David Nickle seems to ignore the fact that over the past 20 years, many millions of dollars have been wasted by the city that could have gone toward transit. There has been huge overspending in the past within the TTC – overruns on the St. Clair line as just one example. It is sensible and honest to do as Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong suggests: give the taxpayers some idea of the projected costs. Because of many years of mismanagement at city hall, the answers are much more complex than Nickle implies. The current Executive Committee and former budget chief deserve gratitude from the beleaguered Toronto taxpayers. Anne Robinson

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GECO tunnels memories To the editor: Re: ‘Local industrial areas allowing feral cats to survive and thrive,’ Letters, April 16. It’s not generally known these tunnels were not used by personnel who worked on explosives – nor did such personnel even know of the underground tunnel system. They were for the use of maintenance workers only. Those who worked on munitions used aboveground enclosed walkways that led to distanced shops (distanced to prevent an explosion in one shop sending up the entire plant). I worked there (as did two family members) and my job took me to many of the above-ground shops. Sidney Ledson

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Proposed surface transit is not rapid To the editor: Re: ‘Surface rapid transit most affordable choice,’ Letters, April 16. While I enjoy reading most of the opinions expressed in The Scarborough Mirror, I

can’t say I agree with all the opinions and I’m not usually compelled to respond. But I must write to set the record straight. The opinion by P. Reid is accurate and informed, but fails when

it calls the surface transit “rapid”. The term rapid is only correctly used when the transit has complete priority over all other vehicles at all the intersections.

What is proposed is not rapid transit. Toronto residents have been bamboozled to think we can’t afford subways. The reality is that we can’t afford not to build it.

A perfect example is the Scarborough Sheppard subway. We started the line more than 10 years ago. We must complete that line, to make the whole line viable. Hratch Aynedjian

City’s unionized workers are well compensated To the editor: I’ve noticed once again CUPE is running its information campaign on television and on transit ads to let us know how valuable our civic employees are. I would like to point out our civic employees are doing these wonderful things for us because they are being well paid to do so. I am tired of the well-worn union catch phrase that “any budgetary decisions will not be made on the backs of the workers”. I would like to point out the majority of us have to work for

a living. Therefore, my friends, we are all workers. Our city streets are clogged every day with untold thousands of us as we struggle to get to our jobs so we can make a little money to pay our tax bills and feed our families. Unfortunately, the majority of us in the real world don’t have overly generous pay and benefit packages that are guaranteed to go up every couple of years until the day we die. In fact, a lot of people are either on a fixed income, work for a small company or are self-employed so they don’t

even have a benefit plan, pension plan or the unheard of luxury of sick days. I’d say that since the beginning of the new-look Toronto, its unionized employees have been well compensated even to the point of their being a deterrent to any possibility of good fiscal policy planning. With an out-of-control wage bill, how can the city even try to control its spending and not keep reducing the quality of the services it owes to the public? The various unions say they don’t want any financial decisions made on the

“backs of their workers”. Yet, they are perfectly content to place the financial burden of their wages and benefits on to the backs of you and I, the other workers, also known as the lowly taxpayer. Maybe if things weren’t already so skewed in the union’s favour we might stand a chance of drawing up a truly fair and equitable contract. But with the roles of who gives and who takes being already firmly established between the two sides, why even bother going through the motions? With decades of ridicu-

lous concessions under their belts, union members have achieved the level of self entitlement that many holding public office have come to enjoy. This has clearly become a David versus Goliath scenario. I sincerely hope the details of every union contract between the city and its employees is available for scrutiny by the taxpayers because after all, it is our money they are negotiating with. It would be nice if we could decided whether they are worth it or not. Chris Belfontaine

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Left, Sandra Pettigrew, left, and Tom Clifford walk around the track Thursday at the Rouge Valley Health SystemCentenary campus location of the Lobraico Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation Centre. Clifford, a former patient at the centre, currently mentors new patients like Pettigrew through the centre’s programs. Above, exercise therapist and coordinator of cardiac prevention and rehabilitation services Lynn Scholey, right, measures Augusto Gayas’ blood pressure at the centre.

Hope for cardiac patients at Rouge Valley ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com

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hen Tom Clifford volunteers, he puts his whole heart into it. The Scarborough resident is giving back to a place that helped him get back on track with his health. Clifford, now 67, suffered a heart attack in June 2007. One morning, he felt a sudden weakness throughout his body and called 911. Paramedics rushed him to Rouge Valley Health System’s Centenary site, which specializes in cardiac care. “I ended up in emergency at three o’clock in the morning and realized I was having problems with my heart,” Clifford said in an interview last week. “It sort of came out of the blue, but looking back you can see signs that led up to it like you smoke a pack a day of cigarettes for 40 years and you have high blood pressure and ignore it. These things catch up to you.” Clifford was stabilized that June morning and spent a week in the coronary care unit where he underwent angiograms (x-ray tests that use a dye and a camera to look at blood flow in arteries and veins) and was treated with medication, including blood thinners, blood pressure pills and cholesterol pills. He was then referred to the hospital’s

six-month cardiac rehabilitation program. The program, established in 1997, offers education classes, exercise tests and classes, individualized home exercise plans and counseling. It’s run out of the Lobraico Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation Centre, which takes up the 11th floor of the hospital. Track, treadmills The facility has a 14-lap mile track, treadmills, exercise bikes, Nu-step machines, weight sets and an education theatre. Patients are under the care of an exercise therapist, who prescribes an exercise plan based on medical history, heart rate and blood pressure. “They gradually crank you up... The whole idea is to build up your heart muscle,” Clifford said. “You feel a lot better, definitely. It’s a unique program. I was never a walker or an exercise person in the past...It certainly has led me to a healthier lifestyle.” Clifford said he stopped smoking and eating fast food. “Your genetics, your family history. You don’t have control over that,” he said. “But you have control over the foods you eat, the stress you’re under, your exercise, your medications, smoking, and these are things the program helped me change.”

When Clifford retired two years ago, he began volunteering for the program. “I mentor people,” he said. “The objective is really to walk with other patients and talk to them, see how they are and if they’ve got questions. You exchange stories back and forth.” Clifford said when his father had a heart attack in the 1950s he was treated only with nitroglycerin spray (which opens up the blood vessels of the heart) and was told to go home to rest. “Well, he lasted three months,” Clifford said. “Today’s philosophy is get out there, exercise and walk...but you need therapists to monitor you.” The cardiac rehab program at Centenary treats about 1,500 people per year. Patients are initially booked for education classes, an exercise test to measure their fitness and an orientation session on the track. They then take part in weekly exercise classes. Program coordinator and exercise therapist Lynn Scholey said cardiac rehab participation decreases a patient’s chance of dying from another “cardiac event” by up to 50 per cent. “Our main goal is to encourage a hearthealthy lifestyle, increase the patient’s fitness,” she said. “We prescribe and progress their exercise...and work with them closely to monitor their risk factors.”

More than 50 past patients, including Clifford, have returned as volunteers. Centenary cardiologist Dr. Nisha D’Mello said cardiac rehab is now “fundamental to the management of any patient who’s had a heart attack.” Cardiac care has come a long way over the past three decades. Up until the mid-’80s, heart attack patients were treated with only oxygen, morphine and nitroglycerin. A clot-busting drug was added to the treatment in the late-’80s. Today there are several more life-saving treatments, such as angioplasty, that can open up a blocked artery. Therapy has evolved “Along the way therapy has also evolved about how we treat people after they’ve had their heart attack,” D’Mello said. “Now we have come to recognize two categories of drugs that are very useful in improving the pumping of the heart post myocardial infarction (heart attack).” Cardiac rehab is also part of standard treatment. “For my patients who’ve been sent to cardiac rehab and who I see and follow up, I see a tremendous improvement in their energy levels, in their overall well-being,” D’Mello said. “It teaches them how to exercise safer and how to

focus on modifying risk factors as they go forward, and these we know are the most important factors in heart health down the road.” But what’s not clear is how long a patient would benefit from cardiac rehab. OHIP currently covers it for six months. “We need to have evidence to suggest how long is the program cost effective and how long does it produce results,” D’Mello said. “The second thing we need to realize is what’s the best modality for delivering cardiac rehab especially in the community. Is it in the hospital setting? We know that that works, but a lot of patients cannot keep coming to the hospital.” On Saturday, Centenary’s cardiac rehab program will hold its annual walkathon. The 2013 Walk with Heart aims to raise $100,000 for the purchase of a new metabolic exercise test system and an improved air circulation system for the track. The walkathon, which will feature a live band, runs from 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. at the centre (11th floor of Centenary hospital, 2867 Ellesmere Rd.). To sign up for the walkathon call the cardiac rehab office at 416-281-7022.

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WALK TRANSIT LINKS ◗JANE’S Traversing the underground PATH system and visiting the launch site of the Scarborough Eglinton Crosstown LRT are just some of the transportation-flavoured offerings part of the upcoming Jane’s Walk festival and walking tours. The walking tours take place May 4-5. Visit www.janeswalk.net for more info. TO HOLD TRANSIT WORKSHOPS ◗TEA

The Toronto Environmental Alliance is looking for participants for workshops aimed at improving transit advocacy. The group wants to train “transit ambassadors” willing to engage in community discussion and lobby on behalf of new funding for Metrolinx’s Big Move plan, which seeks to improve existing regional transit connections within the next 25 years. To register for the one-day workshop series taking place in May, email transit@torontoenvironment.org Rahul Gupta is The Mirror’s transit reporter. His column runs every Tuesday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

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The Battle of York WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Bendale Public Library, 1515 Danforth Road CONTACT: Janice Howe, janicelhowe@sympatico.ca COST: Free Illustrated history during War of 1812.

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Introduction to Internet level 1 WHEN: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. WHERE: St. Paul’s L’Amoreaux Centre, 3333 Finch Ave. E.CONTACT: Sivanesan Muthiah, 416-493-3333 x288, www. splc.ca, sivanesan@splc.ca COST: $50 for 4 lessons ($45 for members) Hands-on training with the Internet. Learn to use different search engines like. Discover useful websites for news, entertainment, online games, and shopping, and receive training on how to use the Internet safely. Recommended pre-requisites: Introduction to computers. Home Exercises WHEN: Noon to 1:30 p.m. WHERE: St. Paul’s L’Amoreaux Centre, 3333 Finch Ave. E. CONTACT: Elsa Uy, 416-493-3333 ext. 227, www.splc.ca, elsa@splc.ca COST: Free Benefits of home exercises; Top 10 exercises; Thera band; Incorporating exercise into your daily activities.

Where Do Crime and Mystery Stories Come From? WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Birchmount Public Library, 496 Birchmount Rd. CONTACT: 416-396-8890 COST: Free Sharon A. Crawford discusses origins of her plots and characters as she reads from her first collection of mystery short stories Beyond the Tripping Point.

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Advance Care Planning Seminar WHEN: 1:15 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Wexford Heights United Church, 2102 Lawrence Ave. E. CONTACT: 416-757-0676, wexfordhghtsuc@ bellnet.ca COST: Free Tracey Human, RN, palliative pain symptom management consultant, will speak on advance care planning - a process designed to help seniors think about and express choices about their future care. Learn about steps you can make today to ensure your wishes (and not someone else’s) guide the decisions made for your future care and medical treatment. Refreshments at 1:15 p.m. New Taoist Tai Chi Open House WHEN: 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: 1430 Kingston Rd., 1430 Kingston Rd. CONTACT: 416-461-1043, kingston.road@taoist.org COST: Free New Taoist Tai Chi open house.

Safari in Africa - Friday Forum WHEN: 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Birchcliff Bluffs United Church, 33 East Rd. CONTACT: Sue, 416-694-4081 COST: $15 Retired teacher Bob Massie went on a Safari with friends to Kenya and Tanzania, East Africa. His presentation begins with scenes of the Mount Kenya Region at Serena Mountain Lodge.

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Woburn to Kenya: Tech Recycling Fundraiser WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Woburn Collegiate, 2222 Ellesmere Rd. CONTACT: Ben Gross, ben. gross@tdsb.on.ca COST: Free Bring your old computers, cables, batteries, microwaves, televisions, cell phones - and anything else electronic to support Woburn students travelling to Kenya to volunteer with Free the Children.

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Rummage/Garage Sale WHEN: 9 to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Scarborough Bluffs United Church, 3739 Kingston Rd. CONTACT: 416267-8265 COST: Free Clothing, shoes, linens, towels, housewares, small appliances, sporting goods and more.

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Plant Show and Exchange WHEN: 1 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: St. Paul’s L’Amoreaux Centre, 3333 Finch Ave. East CONTACT: Elsa Uy, 416-493-3333 ext 227, www.splc.ca, elsa@splc.ca COST: Free Participate in the plant show. Plant competition. Plants exchange. Seniors Book Club WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Albert Campbell District Library, 496 Birchmount Rd. CONTACT: 416-396-8890, COST: Free May 31: De Nero’s Game; June 28: The Brain That Changes Itself.

Euchre Night WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Church of the Master United Church, 3385 Lawrence Ave. E. CONTACT: 416-4310333 COST: $6 / player Everyone welcome. Cost $6. Each play includes: prizes and refreshments. Wheelchair accessible. Support attendants free or $6 to play.

w SOLO Dance Club WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Cedar Brook Community Centre, 91 Eastpark Blvd. CONTACT: Pat, 416-447-1537 Couples and singles dancing every Saturday until midnight. w Sunday, April 28

6th Toronto Scout Group Community Euchre WHEN: 7:15 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 11, 9 Dawes Rd. CONTACT: 6thtorontoscouts@mail.com COST: $6 Community euchre with prizes, draw and refreshments. Admission is $6.

Agincourt Chess Club WHEN: Noon to 6 p.m. WHERE: L’Amoreaux Community Centre, 2000 McNicoll Ave. CONTACT: Alex Knox 416-493-0019 COST: Free Enjoy a casual game of chess. No tournaments, teaching or fees.

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Garfield A. Fray, a Certified General Accountant, will discuss the basics of bookkeeping for new business owners next month at the Albert Campbell Library. The presentation will cover

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A number of Scarborough businesses were out doing their part for the environment recently. Yesterday, the Scarborough Town Centre marked Earth Day with a community cleanup of the area surrounding the shopping centre at McCowan Road and Progress Avenue. On Friday, staff at Toyota Canada’s head offices near Bellamy Road and Progress

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The agenda kicks off today with Mayor Rob Ford’s executive committee and a full slate. The big items on the committee involve a report looking at suggesting new taxes and fees to pay for public transit expansion, which Ford has opposed, and another item looking at ways to bail out the sinking BIXI downtown bike rental program, which Ford has also publicly opposed. The mayor has not yet weighed in on a number of other items coming up, however. Gardiner Expressway rehabilitation plan The committee will be taking a look at the Gardiner Expressway rehabilitation plan, essentially approving the plan approved and recommended by the city’s Public Works and Infrastructure Committee earlier this month. The multi-billion dollar project will be going ahead with some early repairs rejigged to allow the city and Waterfront Toronto to

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The committee will be looking at a proposal to make city council records subject to freedom of information requests. Currently, councillors’ records are protected, which means their schedules, work emails and communications to lobbyists aren’t available to the public, in the way that the mayor’s is. The motion from Councillors Paula Fletcher and Sarah Doucette aims to change that. finance rules inquiry wCampaign

At the beginning of the month, Councillor Adam

Vaughan filed an administrative inquiry about the way that campaign finance rules ought to be applied. Vaughan refers to recent rulings by the Campaign Compliance Audit Committee, and confusion about the rules for political spending and fundraising before a candidate was registered. Ford was spared prosecution by the committee earlier this month after it was found he’d fundraised and spent money prior to registering as a candidate in 2010. fair set for Saturday wVolunteer

Toronto’s Youth Council is coming to city hall Saturday with a volunteer fair. The fair will celebrate youth volunteer work from across the city and will connect youth with arts and social service organizations in the GTA. The event happens from 1 to 5 p.m. in the Members Lounge at Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St. W.

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Parks Canada meetings continue >>>from page 1 in annual operating funds as a place to showcase other national parks and preserves, most of them remote. Andrew Campbell, Parks Canada vice president of visitor experience, said agency staff will keep meeting farmers, First Nation representatives and other stakeholders to work out specifics of the plan, which he said will be issued this fall in draft or “better than draft form.” “We’ll be out doing that discussion over the summer and into the fall,” Campbell said, adding public meetings will follow the release, as they did with the vision document. “Broad consultation is what we want.” The concept has been criticized by conservation groups which argue too much of the Rouge NUP appears reserved for farming, weakening the ecology of the park and its value as a link for species between Lake Ontario and the Oak Ridges Moraine. Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent had

predicted lands in the park would be handed over to Parks Canada last fall, but Jim Robb of Friends of the Rouge Watershed, campaigning for ecological protection to be recognized as the Rouge NUP’s primary goal, wasn’t bothered by the delay. “We’re actually pleased that the government is not pushing ahead in haste,” Robb, the group’s general manager, said. Friends said an existing Rouge Park plan to complete a wide forested corridor north to the moraine “is the backbone of the park,” and shouldn’t be sacrificed. The group also wants more federal land considered for inclusion in the park, a position backed by Toronto Council. Since last August, the To r o n t o a n d R e g i o n Conservation Authority has assumed daily management of Rouge Park, though Kent had promised to appoint an advisory council to help oversee the transition. Campbell said establishing an advisory group - seen

as similar to the informal Rouge Alliance that ran the park until last July - is difficult until the federal government has commitments from major park landowners to hand their properties over. Discussions with landowners including the province, which owns two thirds of the Rouge NUP area, “continue to be productive and are moving forward,” said Campbell, who denied there was any continuing dispute between Ottawa and Queen’s Park over the nature of the park or compensation for provincial land. In a report on last year’s public engagement, Parks Canada said the emerging management plan “will provide the overarching guidance” for management of the park and contain strategies for, among other things, conservation, sustainable agriculture, the park trail system and visitor experience. For more on Parks Canada and the Rouge Park, visit www.pc.gc.ca/progs/np-pn/ cnpn-cnnp/rouge/index.aspx

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HELPING HANDS: Left, Toyota Canada president and CEO Seiji Ichii takes part in the company’s 20-Minute Makeover community clean-up event Friday afternoon in Scarborough. At top left, Nadia Dawit holds a garbage bag open for Janelle Cohen during a community clean up around the Galloway Road and Lawrence Avenue area Saturday. At bottom, left, Toyota employees Merv Sutton and Dionne Duhamel help with the company’s clean up of the area. And above, Toyota employees Jane Xie, left, and Linda Do participate in the event.

Staff photos by Nick Perry

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An American Hockey League (AHL) scoring title will have to serve as consolation for Brandon Pirri after his Rockford IceHogs team just missed the post season. He picked up his leagueleading point total of 75 points (22 goals, 53 assists) in 76 games. His team had a decent record – in fact the best of any team not to make the AHL post season – with 87 points in 76 games. “We had a playoff run here at the end of the year where we made it real tight the last 30 games, and that was the goal throughout all this and we came up a little short so it’s kind of bittersweet,” said Pirri, who attended Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute, in a phone interview yesterday. “I’m happy I got that award but at the same time the playoffs were the goal at the beginning of the year and we came up short.”

Ironically, Pirri could yet see some post season action this year: the Chicago Blackhawks, who drafted him in the second round (59th overall) in 2009, could still recall him. “It’s something obviously I can’t control ... I’m just training and staying in shape and keeping focused in case that does happen.” Over the previous two years, he’s played six NHL games with two assists. Like probably every other AHL scoring leader before him, his goal is to not repeat – but to “play in the NHL.” LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITY “That’s been the goal since growing up. You want to show that you’re consistent and every year I’ve proven that I can add more to my game defensively and offensively,” he said. “And just looking for the opportunity and when I get the opportunity, make the most of it.” Those dreams, he said,

were forged growing up in the area of “Kingston (Road) and Victoria Park (Avenue). I went to Norway (Junior Public School).” As for his hockey beginnings, he said “I played at Malvern in Scarborough. I played until I was eight or nine and then I got into rep hockey.” He started out his high school with the first two years at Birchmount Park Collegiate, making the varsity hockey team in Grade 10. “It was fun just to ham it up with the boys and just have a good time,” he said. He spent his final two years at Vaughan Road Academy, but didn’t play varsity hockey as he was focussed on playing provincial junior A hockey with the Streetsville Derbys and the Georgetown Raiders. He spent one year in U.S. college hockey with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before turning pro.

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Six finalists were chosen from more than 4,000 entries in the Toronto 2015 Mascot Creation Challenge. From left, the twins mascot was submitted by students from Scarborough’s Dr. Norman Bethune Collegiate Institute. The raccoon mascot was submitted by students from North York’s St. Francis de Sales. The porcupine mascot was submitted by students from a Markham school. The owl mascot was submitted by students from Scarborough’s J. B. Tyrrell school. The moose mascot was also submitted by J. B. Tyrrell students. And the beaver mascot was submitted by a family from Mississauga. Go online at toronto2015mascot.ca or facebook at www.facebook.com/toronto2015vote and vote for your favourite.

Local students among Pan Am mascot finalists Pair of Scarborough schools submit entries chosen by judges; online voting now taking place Four entries from across the city – including two from one Scarborough school – are among the top six finalists competing in the Toronto 2 0 1 5 Ma s c o t C re a t i o n Challenge for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games. Youth aged 16 and younger were asked to create a mascot that represented the Games,

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and 11, were in a show together and my one son was in a few more when he was a teen and in university.” Tonkin added he’s also been in at least 45 shows. In 1962, the group performed their first non-Gilbert and Sullivan shows, Merrie England, and have been staging popular musical production ever since. This year, their 60th anniversary production will be the musical comedy, The Pajama Game. Producer of the show and member of the group since 1993, Barbara Back, said the show is a light-hearted story about a strike at a pajama factory, and the budding romance between a manager and a worker. “It’s about the conflict of the strike and the conflict between the two of them because they like each other, but he’s a boss and she is a member of the union,” Back said. She said it’s a hysterical show with memorable characters and several musical numbers that people will enjoy and recognize. Recently, this show had an award-winning run on Broadway that starred Harry Connick Jr. Although this year’s show will

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