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TERRY FOX’S VISIT TO SCARBOROUGH REMEMBERED
Basement flooding a priority for community DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Owners of hundreds of homes whose basements were flooded with raw sewage this summer in southwest Scarborough’s Ward 36 could be getting some assurance that it won’t happen again, after Toronto’s public works and infrastructure committee voted to add the community to a list of priorities for dealing with basement flooding issues. The committee voted to make Ward 36 the 33rd community in the city to queue up for remedial work on the aging sewers, after local councillor Gary Crawford spoke to the committee on Wednesday. He pointed out that the city had already completed an environmental assessment in the ward in 2007 so the matter would be relatively easy to advance. After the meeting, Crawford told The Scarborough Mirror that as far as he could tell, leaving Ward 36 off the list was a simple oversight. RELIEF NEEDED
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READY FOR THE RUN: Verla Fiveash, left, Sandy Flint, Walt Davis, Sharelee Neilly, Toronto councillor Paul Ainslie and Ken Pearson take a closer look at the Terry Fox photo gallery in the Scarborough Civic Centre rotunda yesterday. The photos remember Fox’s July 1980 visit to the civic centre. This year’s Terry Fox Run takes place on Sunday. For more on the runs planned for Scarborough, please see page 22.
Scarborough seeks to be speed-hump free MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Speed humps might be welcome “downtown” but don’t belong in Scarborough, local councillors
declared this week before voting to banish the traffic-calming asphalt devices from a street where they have sat for eight years. The humps are hazards that won’t prevent speeding and the city
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should investigate whether they work or are just “used as a political tool,” Michelle Berardinetti said at Scarborough Community Council’s meeting this week. People with children “have a @SCMirror
false belief that these things work. It’s a false sense of security,” she said, describing humps on Fairfax Crescent in her ward as “the bane” of her Scarborough Southwest con>>>SPEED, page 2
And he said that his residents needed relief as much as any neighbourhood hit with basement flooding. “If my area’s deemed to be one of the priority areas then we have to deal with it fairly,” he said. “You’re talking 33 instead of 32 communities — and the cost of repairing my ward is $9.4 million out of an $800 million water budget.” Crawford generally found sympathetic ears on the committee. Parkdale-High Park Councillor >>>SOUTHWEST, page 5
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