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HILARY CATON scm@insidetoronto.com Chop it up to luck and a whole lot of prayer. That’s what Audrey and Ted Shea say when asked how they’ve managed to remain married for 70 years. “We had ups and downs just like everybody else,” says Audrey now 89 years old, the only difference is they stuck it out. The couple met in the early 1940s in the Toronto community of Riverdale. Audrey was just 16 years old and Ted was 18, working at a local grocery store as a delivery boy. He would bring groceries to Audrey’s mother’s home every Friday. “I just thought she was such a pretty girl,” says 91-year-old Ted, who admits Audrey had a lot of admirers at the time; he wasn’t sure if he was even on her radar. “She had a lot of boys after her in those days. She had all the guys.” But as fate would have it, they both ended up attending the same young people’s dance club put on by the YMCA at Broadview Avenue and Gerard Street, but with different people. Audrey went with a different >>>COUPLES, page 31
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Development proposals are emerging for the future Sheppard East light-rail route, and this week a Scarborough councillor argued one condominium plan might not be big enough. Scarborough Community Council approved a first report Tuesday for 371 condo units at 3445 Sheppard Ave. E., where a builder proposes 10 and 11-storey midrise towers, ground-floor retail and 42 stacked townhouses to the rear of what is now a car dealership. The development, which would need a zoning amendment, is the first to test the Sheppard-Warden “avenue” study Toronto Council approved last year. Reviewed by local residents and businesses over two years, the study ( www.toronto.ca/ planning/sheppard_east.htm) was meant to revitalize an 800metre stretch of Sheppard around the Warden intersection, with new parkettes, streets and buildings up to 11 storeys tall. Toronto and the province have both approved a light-rail line for Sheppard, but Glenn De Baeremaeker questioned the development, just east of the >>>QUEST, page 32
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