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Scarborough’s new face is Jennifer McKelvie, a scientist, ratepayer president, and an aspiring politician. McKelvie was named Tuesday night as interim leader of the Scarborough Community Renewal Organization, a group formed to find a “common vision” for one of the world’s most diverse places and fight for improvements. “Our organization is about identifying what our needs are, and how we want Scarborough to be known,” McKelvie said after the group’s first meeting at the Scarboro Golf and Country Club. “We’re willing to put in the hard work to make this a better place to live, work and play.” SCRO is meant to carry forward a community renewal campaign started by local Rotary clubs, which released 14 recommendations a year ago. Dave Hardy, the campaign’s mastermind and an urban planner, said his fellow Scarborough Rotarians had grown tired of the “condescending attitude we were receiving” from the rest of Toronto. >>>COMMUNITY, page 3

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Above, Lucy Perri asks a question at the Scarborough Community Renewal Organization launch meeting Tuesday at the Scarboro Golf and Country Club. Right, Dave Hardy of the Rotary club speaks at the meeting.

Eight committees, each with interim chair, were named in all, including for social development, arts, culture, tourism and sports (ACTS), health promotion and seniors, natural environment, and suburban planning. McKelvie said each needs to find “as many different perspectives as possible” by recruiting local people from all ages and walks of life.

Each interim chair will host a first meeting, asking who each small group might be missing and hoping organizations will offer them meeting space, she said. McKelvie, who will lead the administration committee herself, is president of the Centennial Community and Recreation Association, sits on Toronto and Region Conservation Authority board,

and finished second attempting to unseat Scarborough East Councillor Ron Moeser in 2014. Justin Brown, co-founder of another new group called Trailblazers of Canada, which teaches youth “social elevation skills,” noticed youth were lacking in the audience Tuesday. But he said he will work with others at the SCRO to bring more young people into the renewal movement.

Pat Sherman, an Agincourt resident, suggested it would be useful if SCRO could get Ontario Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins to act on recommendations for large-scale investments in hospitals for Scarborough and west Durham. “I think it’s time for the citizens of Scarborough to stand up and say, ‘It’s our turn,’” he said. Phyllis McLeod said she should join the health committee after asking whether

SCRO will push for more mental health supports in Scarborough. Too many youth are being expelled from Scarborough schools as “troublemakers” instead of getting a chance to learn, she said. Does she think SCRO, founded in a country club, can help with these systemic issues? “I can still hope,” said McLeod. “I like that they’re reaching out.” For more on SCRO, go to www.renewscarborough.ca

Woman hailed as hero for helping seniors in fatal Malvern fire ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com A personal support worker who remains in hospital following the Feb. 5 fire at a Malvern seniors’ apartment building is being hailed a hero. Police said the worker was checking in on one of the residents when she came upon the fire on the fifth floor of the home, at 1315 Neilson

Rd., around 3 p.m. “(She) then started helping people out and put herself in danger,” 42 Division Det. Sgt. Gerry Heaney said in an interview Wednesday (Feb. 24). “We believe that she is a hero.” The health care provider was among 15 people taken to hospital. Three died while three others remain in serious condition. “Originally she was critical. We didn’t think that she would survive

and she has,” Heaney said of the personal support worker. The other two who remain in hospital are elderly residents of the home. The cause of the two-alarm blaze is still being investigated by the fire marshal’s office and police, who are awaiting test results from the Centre of Forensic Sciences. “We’re still trying to locate some of the displaced residents to be prop-

erly interviewed,” Heaney said. The displaced fifth-floor residents are expected to return to their units when repairs and renovations are completed at the end of April. The fire marshal’s office had said the building was “compliant with respect to the amount and location of sprinklers.” Police didn’t release the names of the victims, but media reports have identified the deceased as Hyacinth

Roberts, 72, her husband Charles, 90, and Azeema Safraj, 86. Toronto Community Housing, which runs the building on Neilson Road, was charged this week with violating the provincial fire code for having combustible materials in an exit route. Toronto Community Housing could face a maximum fine of $100,000 in connection with the charge.

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‘Crazy’ gondola scheme might be stretching it If you’re going to pitch a crazy transit scheme like gondolas across the Don Valley to service a fancy artisanal market, probably it’s best to make sure that nobody’s planning an extravagant mea culpa about their crazy transit scheme within the same week. Such is the unhappy circumstance that the entrepreneurial gondoliers at Bullwheel International Cable Car Corp., who pitched their plan to stretch cable across the Don Valley just days before Metrolinx moved to slash prices on the Union-Pearson Express train to boost its gossamerthin ridership. The train was at one time touted as a major economic development boost, providing a quick link between Union Station and Pearson airport. The investment – $465 million – was deemed worthwhile, even as the private sector consortium initially interested in the project lost interest, and

david nickle the city in 2010 Metrolinx took the whole thing over. The private sector clearly knew something that the public sector leadership didn’t, because the rail line opened up with tepid ridership. It wasn’t hard to see why. With few stations, and those that existed difficult to access, the only way that the 25-minute airport ride could be a convenience would be for those travellers who were staying or holding meetings within a short walk of Union Station. And with the price point of $27 one way, really only executives with an expense account would have any reason to ride it. But for that class of traveller, an airport limo ride with door-to-terminal service would only cost a few dollars more.

What a terrible idea that airport express train was. What a terrible, seductive idea. It was so seductive, of course, because it played to that aspirational myth that is so damaging to Toronto’s more necessary priorities: namely, that we need to dress ourselves up in the manner of much larger cities in Europe and America in order to remain competitive. So if there are trains from Stockholm’s downtown to its airport, and an express train between Victoria Station and Gatwick Airport in London, what fun it would be for us to be like that too. So many of our major transit initiatives have sprung from that ethos. In the 1990s, then North York mayor Mel Lastman fought tooth and nail to make sure there was money for the Sheppard subway, because he knew that building it would validate the Yonge-Sheppard hub that was to be his old city’s

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Students and first responders treat a ‘patient’ during a simulated disaster training session held Feb. 18 at Centennial College’s Morningside Campus.

A subway crash and a mass shooting. That’s what emergency services students and first responders were confronted with as part of a training exercise at Centennial College’s Morningside campus last Thursday. About 500 volunteers, including Centennial students from several programs, donned make-up and role played. “This gives us hands-on experience that we can’t get in the classroom or out of a textbook,” said firefighting student Adam Pomper. “We don’t get many opportunities to work collaboratively with EMS, police and all the other first responders, so for us to use all of the equip-

ment and to work together as a team in situations such as this where we really don’t know what’s going to happen allows us to think on our feet and to learn from mistakes and it gets us better prepared for once we hopefully do get into a job.” playing patients Centennial nursing instructor Kimberley Mack said the mock disaster also gives her students “an opportunity when they’re playing patient roles to see what it’s actually like to be a patient.” The province’s Emergency Medical Assistance Team (EMAT) set up a mobile field hospital that functioned as a staging and triage base to assess and treat patients. EMAT is comprised of oncall physicians, nurses and

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who have been in buildings that were bombed, Caulford added during a discussion at The Scarbororough Hospital’s General campus. “One child, who’s five, hasn’t spoken since (age) two, when the bomb hit. Stutters only,” he said. “The kids aren’t in school, and they should be.” Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities, a community health centre, has triaged medical conditions of the Radisson’s newcomers, mostly to get them to various clinics. Some doctors visiting the Radisson arrived in Toronto as refugees themselves, and work at the hotel, “in my view, to build the Canada they came to,” Caulford said. At the Toronto Plaza Hotel on Wilson Avenue, which is also housing governmentsponsored Syrian families,

Scarborough’s Diversity Midwives found several women who thought they would be sent back overseas because they were pregnant. One, at eight and a half months, was hiding her pregnancy under heavy clothes, Caulford said. The federal Liberal government promised to settle 25,000 refugees from Syria, and Caulford said he expects that number to double as that country’s civil war continues. A larger community effort, including a network of medical specialists and adequate ground transportation, is needed, he said. Rain Irwin, an Arabicspeaking settlement worker for Catholic Crosscultural Services in Scarborough, has greeted refugee arrivals at Lester Pearson International Airport for three months, and said they’re hungry to know Canada. But Irwin, whose mother is from Syria, was disappointed to discover many arriving Syrians “did not know where they were going.”

There is “a lot of anger” in the hotels, and all newcomers should be moved out of them, she said. Members of the Arab C o m m u n i t y C e n t re o f Toronto also briefed professionals gathered at the General on Syrian culture, but Yasmine Bennett-Abuayyash, the group’s communication coordinator, told them to beware of stereotypes and assumptions. “There’s no one Syrian,” she said, adding though Syrian fathers may tend to make decisions for families, assuming they speak for all family members means “we silence the women.” Don’t assume patients will decline a service or have declined it because of their religion – it could just be fear, Bennett-Abuayyash said. She told the professionals to be sensitive, but ask the same difficult questions about things like sexual history and reproductive health they ask other patients or clients. “Just say, ‘These are questions we ask all patients; this is Canada.’”

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A Chinese New Year celebration in Mid-Scarborough this Sunday is also a chance to get families talking about a subject few discuss, elder abuse. Researchers interviewed Chinese seniors and their adult children in Toronto for a project on the tensions that exist when the children take care of the elders. An open house on Feb. 28 welcomes the Year of the Monkey with activities and refreshments from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Dorset Park Community Hub on Kennedy Road. It also launches an interactive pamphlet based on the research, which was sponsored by the Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter ( CC N C TC ) a n d g ro u p s working with Cantonese- or Mandarin-speaking elderly people. The pamphlet presents scenarios, based on the inter-

views, from points of view of both the elder and the child, said Ben Wang, head of the research team. Researchers talked to seniors and adult children in Scarborough, East Toronto, North York, Richmond Hill and in downtown Toronto. Often, they were reluctant to speak openly about their problems, but those interviewed will be anonymous in a coming report on the project. Wang said the seniors, knowing this, appreciated a chance to tell their stories. Traditionally, he added, seniors are in a position of authority in families, but having come to Canada many become reliant on their children. “They feel like they’re not playing their traditional role.” The project found families were often reluctant to seek outside help, and many programs that could help them

were not geared to their cultural needs, including language or dialect. The CCNCTC said Chinese elders “are the fastest growing visible minority group in Canada,” and people need to understand tensions and conflicts that can lead to elder abuse. In a much-discussed case five years ago, a north Scarborough man and woman were arrested and charged with failing to provide the necessities of life and criminal negligence causing bodily harm. Authorities said the couple had forced the man’s mother to spend the winter in their home’s garage. When found, she was unconscious and frostbitten. Elder abuse exists across all societies, and it’s certainly not unique to the Chinese community, but it “wasn’t something the community itself spoke about,” Wang said. – Mike Adler

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Neighbourhood groups back call for new Highland Creek incinerator Five community associations in east Scarborough say they “stand in solidarity” for a new sewage-burning incinerator in Highland Creek. Highland Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant’s incinerators are obsolete and the City of Toronto must replace them, choosing between more modern incinerators or trucking the sewage away as dried pellets or sludge, a proposal also known as “beneficial use.” Toronto City Council voted in 2011 for “beneficial use” but the plan

was unpopular with residents near the Beechgrove Drive plant, who didn’t want truckloads of sludge taking local roads out to Hwy. 401. They convinced the province to require a new environmental assessment, which has burned up as much as $1 million, re-examining options for the plant. Representing 17,000 households, the presidents of the Coronation, Highland Creek, Guildwood Village and West Rouge ratepayer groups signed a letter saying they strongly

support incineration, and arguing evidence from the study backs up this opinion. They sent their Feb. 19 message to the city’s Public Works Committee, which will meet on Monday, Feb. 29, with a recommendation to approve the incinerator option. Supporters of incineration have expected victory at the committee level, but were less confident of winning the final vote at council. In 2011, city staff and the committee also recommended incineration,

then saw the initial vote reversed. This time, all three options, including pelletizing the sewage, were judged to have “very small overall” effects on human health; one wasn’t measurably better at this than the others, the committee will be told in a report. Polar Bear Day at zoo wThe Toronto Zoo’s polar bear cub

will make its first public appearance this Saturday for International Polar Bear Day.

The unnamed female was born to mom Aurora at the Zoo Nov. 11, along with a sibling that did not survive. A naming announcement for the cub will be made by Zoo staff Thursday, Feb. 25. Along with the cub’s unveiling, the zoo is also hosting a Polar Bear Fest and its annual Move Your Paws for the Polar Bear Cause walk and run Feb. 27. Visit www.torontozoo.com/Events for more information about the events.

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E ANOTH SOLD

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Drum Artz @ Tropicana WHEN: 5 to 6 p.m. WHERE: Tropicana Community Services’, 1385 Huntingwood Dr. CONTACT: Cameal Johnson, 416-439-9009, ext. 248, cjohnson@tropicanacommunity.org COST: Free Learn the art of drumming with Samba experts. This free after-school program for youth offers a variety of workshops, training, and a final performance. Feb. 29 to May 16. Call to register.

Do Not Resuscitate: What are the Implications? WHEN: 1:30 to 3 p.m. WHERE: St. Paul’s L’Amoreaux Centre, 3333 Finch Ave. E. CONTACT: Elsa Uy, 416 493 3333 Ext.305, , elsa@splc. ca COST: Free Tea & Books WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Agincourt Library, 155 Bonis Ave. CONTACT: 416-396-8950 COST: Free

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Stephen Leacock Seniors Dances WHEN: 7 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Stephen Leacock C.C., 2520 Birchmount Rd. CONTACT: 416-396-4040 COST: $5 per couple, $3 single Silverthorn Symphonic Winds Concert: Musician’s Choice WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Wilmar Heights Event Centre, 963 Pharmacy Ave. CONTACT: Jamie or Kim, silverthornsymphonicwinds.ca, 963pharmacy@gmail.com COST: $20 at the door Family Feud Contest WHEN: 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. WHERE:

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mike adler edges of toronto new hospital campus in Scarborough and another in West Durham. And before that: Replace operating rooms and diagnostic suites at the General, renovate and expand emergency rooms at The Scarborough Hospital (TSH) Birchmount and at Rouge Valley Health System (RVHS) Centenary – oh, and build the Bridlewood community hub, a north Scarborough dialysis centre, YMCA and resource centre held up purely by provincial intransigence. But it’s been almost four months since Hoskins got the report, and apart from “Thanks,” he hasn’t said a definite thing about it. Scarborough’s MPPs are quiet, too. The panel won’t like this silence. One panelist, John Ronson, said last August if the province doesn’t take action on the report, “I’m going to be very, very angry.” Other people are angry already. In 2014, Scarborough’s Chinese Outreach Committee,

volunteer fundraisers for the hospitals, told local MPPs they would turn their community against the Liberals unless the government made those hospital investments. What now is stopping the province from, at very least, announcing the hospital master planning exercises the report says should be done within 12 months? Yes, the RVHS administration opposes the break-up of their hospital between two regions, but as the report argues, Durham and Scarborough are different places with different needs. TSH supports mergers by region and last month, Friends of the Ajax Pickering Hospital in Durham called it the “most beneficial and logical” outcome. When they aren’t blaming the hospitals for their problems, Scarborough’s MPPs insist they’re fighting hard – behind the scenes, anyway – for all these projects. Now it’s time to prove it.

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A final farewell to an old friend I said goodbye to an old friend recently. It was much harder than I thought. We’d known each other intimately for many years, a lot longer than many people in my life, including my teenage daughters, my dog, and all of my coworkers. Yup last week I said goodbye...to my old couch. I’d bought her in university back in the 1990s. Her most prized feature? It’s a pullout; these seem to be few and far between these days. I was going away to university for my master’s degree and had no interest in living in residence with those hideous undergrads. She got me through school quite comfortably. I learned to like Cheers while sitting on her late at night. I sat on her while calling my girlfriend – now my wife – every night after 11 p.m. when the rates went down. I ate poorly chosen, fat-filled dinners on her in those two memory-filled basement apartments at school. After university, I loaned her to my girlfriend. Clearly

john lyon LYON AROUND she was more mature than I was, even then, and already had her first apartment. I guess our packing job into a borrowed pick up truck was a little shaky as we lost an easy chair along the way, but the couch remained unscathed. She’s been in my own basement since we moved in, but a few years ago she took a blow. A full beer can stored on a shelf above her leaked and the stain on one of her seams is still visible, a war wound if you will. OK, you beat it out of me: I once was a card carrying member of the Beer Can Collectors of America, Trillium Chapter of Ontario, if you please. Watched the Leafs’ one playoff run in the last 10 years on her, although she had been around long enough to remember the Blue Jays and Leafs runs in the early 1990s. Off her we sprang in 2010 when Sidney Crosby score the golden goal for Canada in the

Winter Olympics. There were countless family movie nights in front of the fireplace. She accommodated visiting dignitaries, or at least nieces, nephews, and the kids’ friends. I think my favourite use of her was the most recent. My youngest, Rachel, 12, likes to pull out the bed and watch the hockey game with me on Saturday nights. As she was sitting indignantly on the curb I looked at her longingly. I went out, kissed my hand, made sure no one was looking, and touched her gingerly on the arm. The couch, not my daughter. A final goodbye. The good news is the garbage guys were over vigilant this week in light of labour issues. I didn’t tie down the pullout bed part so the couch was left on the curb for me to enjoy for two more weeks! Thank God for something. Canada’s Automotive Lifestyle Destination

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(responsible) accountable for these offences.” A murder case is usually taken over by the cold case section if it remains unsolved after three years. The new website allows people to search more than 500 cold cases. The oldest is the murder of 12-year-old Patricia Lupton. She was found suffering from trauma off McCowan Road south of Ellesmere Road at about 7:05 p.m. March 9, 1959 and later pronounced dead on scene. Patricia was last seen alive about 90 minutes earlier, leaving her home en route to Kennedy Park Plaza. “Each case is important to us, despite its age,” Saunders stressed. “When information about any of these cases surface, investigators review and assess to see if anything can be done to advance the investigation. Homicide investigations have always been, no matter how long

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Metrolinx to lower UP Express fares In what might be the least surprising transit news of the year, fares for the Union Pearson (UP) Express are going down by a significant amount. The exact fare cut wasn’t known as of Tuesday, Feb. 23, but media reports had it dropping down to $12 from $27.50 for the cost of a one-way trip between Union Station and Pearson airport, and less than $10 if the purchase was made with a Presto card. The writing was on the wall for UP when Metrolinx, which operates the service, announced in February disappointing ridership numbers well short of the 5,000 per month needed to break even on operating costs. MAYOR WANTS PHOTO RADAR wTORONTO

John Tory has requested the province allow the city to make use of photo radar for traffic enforcement. The primary motive for the mayor’s request, it would seem, is to save money on ballooning policing costs. Having cameras installed at traffic

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The TTC will likely decide what to do with the old Danforth Garage later this year. TTC chair Josh Colle will introduce a motion at this week’s board meeting of the transit commission for staff to report in September on the building’s future use. B e a c h e s - E a s t Yo r k Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon initially requested the TTC look into community uses for the site, located at the

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Main will be the first subway station to receive fare gates accessed by Presto. The transit commission announced last year it would begin installation of the gates in 2016, which slide open when a Presto card is tapped. It’s part of the TTC’s work to migrate fare payment to Presto, which is expected to be completed by 2017. At that point, older fare methods like tokens and Metropasses will have been phased out in favour of Presto. Expect to see the fare gate at Main station in early March. Rahul Gupta is Metroland Media Toronto’s transportation and infrastructure reporter. His column runs every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

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Canadian swim trials set for Scarborough It’s not just the most important meet of the year that Swimming Canada is hosting at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre in Scarborough April 5 to 10. It’s their most important swim meet for the next four years. That’s because it’s the Olympic and Paralympic swimming trials. In other words, it’s where Canada’s top swimmers will qualify for this summer’s Rio Olympic

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| SCARBOROUGH MIRROR n | Thursday, February 25, 2016

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SCARBOROUGH MIRROR | Thursday, February 25, 2016 |

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Silver medal for Revolution at U.S. tourney Sports Hall of Honour The Scarborough Titans U15 Revolution girls made a big impression on the U.S. volleyball world recently by winning a silver medal in the 15 Open division at the Capitol Hill Classic, held in Washington, D.C. last weekend. With more than 900 teams participating, the Classic is one of the largest and most competitive tournaments of its kind run during the U.S. indoor season.

in the U.S. that allow for higher nets, greater position specialization, and older players at U15, it is difficult for Canadian teams to be competitive, yet Revolution defeated some of the best American teams in the east. Set for Provincials

Advance to final Revolution advanced to the championship match by defeating NVVA (North Virginia), Set Point (North Carolina), Club Integrity ( P h i l a d e l p h i a ) , B AVA (Maryland), Dulles (Virginia), Triangle (North Carolina), Brandywine VC (Delaware) and Sports Academy (North

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The Scarborough Titans U15 Revolution girls volleyball team took home the silver medal from the Capitol Hill Classic in Washington, D.C. recently.

Carolina). While the Scarborough girls were upset in the final (24-26, 25-21, 8-15) by East Coast Power (Pennsylvania),

they were lauded by their competitors and tournament organizers for their incredible achievement. Given the rule differences

Revolution has now ended their OVA regular season in Ontario having medaled at every tournament they have entered at both U15 and U16 levls. They will play OVA Provincials in both age categories in April, and U15 Nationals in May. The team is coached b y A n d r e w D ’ A n g e l o, Nadia Gregoire and Carley McIntosh. Visit Scarboroughtitans. ca for information about the club.

opens at Pan Am centre Toronto is starting off a Sports Hall of Honour this week in Scarborough with Milos Raonic and Johnny Bower among the first inductees. Scarborough East Councillor Paul Ainslie will open the hall at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre at a 6:30 p.m. ceremony tonight. Like the Morningside Avenue building on the Un i v e r s i t y o f To r o n t o Scarborough campus, the Toronto Sports Hall of Honour is a legacy of the city’s 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Games. Raonic, a tennis player and contender at the Rio Olympics, will be recognized as its first male athlete of the year. Road cyclist Vaune Davis will be honoured as female

athlete of the year, paracyclist Shelley Gautier as female athlete of the year with a disability and sledge hockey player Anthony Gale as male athlete of the year with a disability. Legendary Toronto Maple Leafs goalie Bower and Marilyn Bell Dilascio, who swam across Lake Ontario in 1954, are among those to be inducted as sports legends. Fourteen individuals and one team will become part of the hall, which the city said “celebrates the exceptional contributions and accomplishments of those who have inspired (and) brought recognition to the City of Toronto through sport.” – Mike Adler

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