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York Memorial built in memory of 47 students LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Nov. 11 is a particularly poignant day for York Memorial Collegiate Institute, its students and staff.

The Eglinton Avenue and Keele Street-area high school serves as a memorial to the 47 school seniors who fought and died in the First World War. The

council of the Township of York decided to build an institute of higher learning dedicated to the men who lost their lives in the Great War. “The act of Remembrance takes on special meaning because this building is a memorial to those who died,” principal Suzana Greenaway told her audience that had >>>three, page 5

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Dinner helps Frontlines tackle poverty in Weston DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com Finding quality work in Toronto’s Weston community is hard and for many in the community, providing for their family is even tougher.

But a non-profit local organization has, for nearly the past 30 years, worked to ensure children of struggling families have access to safe, supervised fun, have access to nutritious food and have a place where they can learn after school. The same

organization also strives to give young adults in Weston a leg up in entering the workforce, a community where finding employment is tough.

Residents can help this organization continue its mission through an upcoming dinner, which is its biggest fundraiser of the year.

Sowing the Seeds of Hope in support of Weston’s Frontlines happens Saturday, April 23 at the Weston Golf and Country Club, 50 St. Phillips Rd., in >>>living-wage, page 13

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grassroots effort: Bonnie, left, and Gord Burch have their hands full picking up rubbish during the Mount Dennis Community Association’s community cleanup last Saturday in the ravine near Somerville Avenue and Glenvalley Drive. A total of 11 volunteers collected approximately 15 garbage bags of trash, plus some oversized items. The next cleanup in the series happens this Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon along Dora Spencer Road, at Weston Road. See more photos on page 12

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Family Time WHEN: 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: Richard, 416-3941006 COST: Free Stories, songs and rhymes for children age infant to five years old, with their caregivers. Call register.

Karaoke WHEN: 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-767-0231, www. facebook.com/mountdennislegion, legionbr31@yahoo.com COST: BBQ food available at reasonable prices Weekly barbecue from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Karaoke with Peter DeBruin begins at 8:30 p.m. Cash Bar. All 19 and older are welcome.

w Saturday, April 16

Dora Spencer Clean-Up WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Dora Spencer and Weston roads, 1400 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416614-3371, cleanups@mountdennis. ca COST: Free Help MDCA clean up Dora Spencer Road and Emmett Avenue. Volunteer hours, supercoffee vouchers, bags and gloves provided. Meet at Weston Road and Dora Spencer roads

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Niagara Falls Casino Day Trip WHEN: 9:45 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-766-0231, legionbr31@yahoo. com COST: $10 Casino bus trip to Niagara Falls. Board the bus in branch parking lot at 9:45 a.m. Bus estimated return to branch is 6:30 p.m.

WHEN: 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416394-1000 COST: Free Voluneteers provide one on one tutoring for students in grades 7 to 12. Drop In.

w Tuesday, April 19

After-School Club WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: Valeriya, 416-394-1006 COST: Free Join them after school, every Tuesday, for fun at Evelyn Gregory Library. Show off your skills with Lego challenges., or just chill out with board games, chess, cards, colouring and music. Call to register.

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Resume Building Workshop WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE:

Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416500-6225 COST: Free North York Community House will be at the library to teach you how to create a professional and job ready resume. Participants will receive a comprehensive resume building package listing how to build a resume from start to finish.

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A Night to Support DPNCHC’s Adult Literacy Program WHEN: 7 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Davenport-Perth Neighbourhood and Community Health Centre, 1900 Davenport Rd. CONTACT: Kate Fane, 416-656-8025, ext.

208, kfane@dpnchc.ca COST: $60 Join for a fun-filled celebration of DPNCHC’s Adult Literacy Program.

Local beer and wine, hor d’oeuvres, a live jazz trio, a silent auction, interactive photobooth, and art and writing creations. Proceeds will support DPNCHC’s vital programming. Tickets available at the door, or at bit.ly/1RRygrv

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Pedestrian Safety WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Library, 1123 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-394-1008 COST: Free Presented by Toronto Public Health.

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Toronto’s selfie magnet will stay put – for now DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com The big glowing TORONTO sign that made its debut at Nathan Phillips Square last July could become a permanent fixture in Toronto’s downtown — along with other, more abbreviated signs, that would travel around the city for special events.

Toronto’s economic development committee voted April 12 to approve the plan to make the sign permanent and come up with another, more portable version.

Committee Chair Norm Kelly said the sign, which has become a fixture since it was created to promote the 2015 Pan Am Games, has turned into a promotional signpost for the city.

“I can tell you that people around the world have responded very favourably. It also helps to highlight City Hall. One of the most retweeted photos of Nathan Phillips Square is the sign – an iconic City Hall with explosions and fireworks going off in the background said Kelly.

Indeed, according to city staff the sign has taken flight on social media, with 122 million social media impressions since it was installed July 5, 2015.

Staff said that it influences “the

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The selfie staple at Nathan Phillips Square - also known as the TORONTO sign - may stay put and a portable version may be created to travel to various events.

cultural zeitgeist.”

And according to Mike Williams, Toronto’s General Manager of Economic Development, its success took the city by surprise.

“We built a sign we thought would last a couple of months and we hit a home run,” he said.

The committee approved a plan

to allocate $150,000 to keep the TORONTO sign up and running for the remainder of the year. Next year, the sign’s future will be decided through the budget process.

As well, council will consider the creation of a mobile sign that can travel to various events.

It likely wouldn’t be a full spell-

ing of TORONTO, as staff said that storage and maintenance of all seven letters would be prohibitively expensive.

Staff are considering signs such as “The 6”, “T Dot” and “T.O.” In addition, the plan would see the sign be registered as a City of Toronto Mark.

Time to flex your public speaking skills at Ebony Toastmasters York-based Ebony Toastmasters is hosting motivational speaker Farley Flex on Monday, April 18.

Flex is a motivational speaker, talent executive, a former judge on the now-defunct Canadian Idol talent-search TV show, and a recipient of the Bob Marley Community Role Model Award and the Urban Music Association of Canada’s Special Achievement and Media Personality of the Year Award.

He will be sharing advice on building a public speaking career with the Toastmasters.

The event will be at St. Matthew’s Bracondale House, 707 St. Clair Ave. W., at Christie Street. It runs from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. General admission costs $25.

For tickets, visit http://bit. ly/1S4FFSI The group has been in existence for 10 years. It boasts 30 members and is always looking for more. The group meets Mondays at 6:45 p.m. at the location listed above.

If you’re interested, visit www. ebonytoastmasters.org

Bump, thump, thump, bump: sounds like your morning commute?

CAA launches its annual worst roads campaign; nominations open until April 29 RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Caroline Grech won’t hazard to guess which Ontario road will receive the dubious honour of Worst Road for 2016.

Grech, of the Canadian Automobile Association’s South Central Ontario chapter (CAA SCO), announced the launch of the CAA’s annual Worst Roads campaign, which allows anyone to nominate and vote for the most pothole-strewn, congested or plain unsafe road, bridge or highway in the province. The campaign runs until April 29.

“Last year I tried to guess the worst road, and I was completely wrong,” said Grech on Wednesday, April 6. “It could be a Toronto road, outside the GTA, anywhere.”

Two thousand roads were nominated as part of last year’s campaign, and this time around you can nominate individual sections, Dufferin Street from Bloor Street to Dundas Street for example, in the

case of larger roads, Grech said.

“A lot of streets cross multiple municipalities, they’re so long,” she said.

“Even within Toronto there are stretches of streets which are so big, which may have fixed and unfixed sections. “It’s a little more specific, and that will also help us when we go to municipalities (to advocate for repairs).”

Last year’s worst road was Algonquin Boulevard in Timmins, and Dufferin finished third joined

by Bayview Avenue which rounded out the top 10.

Grech said she wouldn’t be surprised to see the same streets make this year’s list although significant roadwork on both Dufferin and Bayview was completed last year, with further work scheduled for 2016 and beyond.

Even so, Grech pointed to past problem streets like Steeles Avenue which made the Worst Roads list six times in a row, but has since dropped off.

“It’s a dubious distinction, people

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Traffic mounts at the intersection of Park Lawn Road and Lake Shore Boulevard during rush hour in November 2015.

don’t often like to (be associated with) the worst road, and now it doesn’t even register. No one votes for it, it’s been fixed,” she said.

Tens of billions of dollars in new infrastructure funding is required to fix the province’s worst roadways, said Geoff Wilkinson from the Ontario Road Builders Association (ORBA).

While the ORBA meets with municipalities and regions across the province regularly to discuss

road infrastructure improvements, Wilkinson said it was up to groups like CAA SCO to push for better funding.

“We look at the deficit that’s there with municipalities in terms of their transportation infrastructure deficit,” he said. “There’s a significant amount of work required, and when we look at what the provincial government spends on an annual basis, tens of billions is a huge number in comparison,” he said.

Wilkinson said ORBA’s research shows there’s a definite link between traffic congestion and roads in dire need of maintenance.

“It affects speed limits, commute times, the routes which are chosen to travel,” he said. “We’re seeing there are people who will definitely stay away from certain roads, which causes congestion in other areas.”

To vote or nominate a road, visit www.CAAworstroads.com

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new pilot project that allows library patrons to borrow a musical instrument simply with their library card is a big step in the right direction.

The Sun Life Financial Musical Instrument Lending Library officially launched this past week at the Parkdale library, now giving the opportunity for aspiring musicians to sign out instruments ranging from violins and guitars to a full-size keyboard and a banjo.

It’s a step in the right direction in making music more accessible to the community especially for the youth as well as those who can’t afford to buy goodquality instruments.

Just as several organizations have seen the value in youth playing sports by subsidizing expensive equipment, this program shines a light on the value of youth playour view ing music to enrich their lives.

It’s also a step in the right Pilot project direction in making Toronto a opens music to music city by cultivating homegrown talent. everyone It was fitting that in attendance at the launch event were two successful Canadian musicians – Juno Awardwinning artist Chantal Kreviazuk and her husband, Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida.

Maida told Metroland Media Toronto that he didn’t have access to musical instruments until his brother bought one when he was 12 years old.

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Residents can donate their own gently used or new musical instruments to this pilot program, which runs until the end of 2017, and help it grow and expand to libraries across the city.

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Calls have already come in from people wanting to donate such instruments as bongo drums, French horns, flutes, erhu (Chinese fiddle) and midi controllers.

Library staff noted more diverse instruments from different cultures are welcome.

Call 416-393-7686 for details or to donate.

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NDP crisis has been a long time in the making Last weekend, the New Democratic Party membership did what is unthinkable among mainstream Canadian party politics and ousted their leader Tom Mulcair. The shockwaves carried across the land: the NDP, stalwart voice of Canadian progressive thinking, is in crisis!

Of course, the NDP has been in crisis for years and particularly for those of us watching from Toronto.

Although you certainly can’t blame the late Jack Layton, it’s easy to mark the beginning of that crisis with the former federal NDP leader’s electoral success and then his death, both in 2011. The NDP was briefly the Official Opposition in Ottawa. As Stephen Harper’s Conservatives used their majority government to alienate much of the country, the NDP became a de-facto government in waiting.

But it wasn’t just that collection of newly elected MPs that walked away with expectations raised. Layton

david nickle the city himself offered inspiration from his death bed. Love, he told the country, is better than anger. Hope is better than fear and optimism, better than despair.

New Democrats at least politically, cherry-picked: Optimism and hope, that the party that had traditionally been a third-party left-of-centre conscience, might persuade voters to allow them to lead; and also fear, that if they led too much with their leftof-centre conscience then they’d never win.

It was a bad and selfdestructive lesson. The Ontario NDP forced a costly provincial election in 2014, rejecting in conscience the most left-ofcentre provincial budget that a Liberal government had ever put forward.

Leader Andrea Horwath made some gains for the

party, but in Toronto lost some of the party’s most historically secure seats.

The same year, Olivia Chow turned a commanding lead in the polls to a thirdplace finish in the Toronto mayoralty race, with a campaign that did tack more to the left, but was timid and unambitious. And last year, Mulcair did much the same thing federally, when he led the party to a place somewhat to the right of the Liberals, and predictably, collapsed. It was enough to wipe the slate clean for New Democrats in Toronto. Now there seems to be strong interest in the grassroots of the party in turning back to its progressive roots, embracing as many members have, the so-called Leap Manifesto, which urges the party to return to its environmentalist, socially- and economically-inclusive roots.

But don’t count out the lure of power to eclipse conscience. Alberta New Democrat Premier Rachel

Notley is still providing a lone successful example of the pragmatism that has proved so toxic to the party. At the convention, she provided a reminder the only way to make that stick for more than one term is to lighten up on the pipeline opposition.

You’d like to think that in this age of surging U.S. presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and “Sunny Ways” Justin Trudeau, the original Canadian party of hope and social justice and change would be in an unambiguous position to capitalize on the mood, and maybe use that to take their shot at forming a serious progressive government one day.

Instead, the NDP is tangled in its own ambitions.

Disentanglement will take time, and when it’s over, who’s to say what will be standing in its place?

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Three plaques commemorate city’s contributions to war effort >>>from page 1 gathered last Friday for a Heritage Toronto plaque unveiling ceremony in the school’s auditorium.

During the event, Heritage Toronto representatives, local politicians and Toronto District School Board spokespeople unveiled three new plaques that commemorate Toronto’s connection to the First World War. They included a plaque that will be erected at the school.

York South-Weston school trustee Chris Tonks’ grandfather was a student at York Memorial in 1930.

“He came here as a Grade 9 student. He only experienced one year. At the time, it was the Great Depression so my grandfather had to assist the family by going to work,” Tonks said. “When you talk about history and legacies, I hope all of you learn and appreciate the past and the reasons why (the war) happened so we don’t repeat it again in your lifetimes or your children’s lifetimes.”

There was no other city in Canada that supported the First World War so enthusiastically, Heritage Toronto’s Sean Kheraj said.

“War is not something we celebrate, but commemorate,” he said.

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Scotiabank’s Srinivasan Iyengar, left, Heritage Toronto’s Sean Keraj, Toronto-Danforth Councillor Mary Fragedakis, Ward 6 school board Trustee Chris Tonks, York South-Weston MP Ahmed Hussen, Councillor Frank Di Giorgio and MPP Laura Albanese help unveil three historical plaques at York Memorial Collegiate on Friday. The plaques mark the school’s connection to events surrounding the First World War.

One of the other three plaques recognizes the contribution made to the war effort by the Earlscourt neighbourhood. The St. Clair Avenue West and Caledonia Road-area made

the most significant contribution.

As many as 2,500 residents of the then-predominantly British working class neighbourhood served in the Canadian Armed Forces between

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Another plaque acknowledges a particular two days in August of 1918 when more than 50,000 people

rioted in the streets of Toronto, looting and damaging Greek-owned businesses, demonstrating their frustration towards the Canadian government’s treatment of soldiers who had returned home from war and Greece’s neutrality during the conflict.

Nicole Huynh, York Memorial student council president and a Grade 12 student, shared how proud her fellow students are to attend a school that serves as a monument to the First World War. “Let us never forget the significance of the effort,” she said. “These men died for what they believed in, for our freedom and for Canada.”

The April 8 event also brought out the likes of York South-Weston MPP Laura Albanese, Councillor Frank Di Giorgio, and MP Ahmed Hussen.

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Do you know a Hero?

Nominate a Special Caregiver for a Heroes in the Home Award Today Every day, ordinary people go to extraordinary lengths to improve the lives of those limited by age, illness and disability.

The Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) wants to recognize the unsung heroes who help others live with comfort, dignity and independence in its third annual Heroes in the Home caregiver recognition program.

This program recognizes all types of paid and unpaid caregivers, including family members, neighbours, friends and health care workers who selflessly provide skilled and compassionate care. Nominees might include a wife caring for her chronically-ill husband, a son helping his elderly mother live independently, or a personal support worker whose home visits are essential to a person with disabilities.

Caregivers such as these are the everyday heroes in our midst – and Heroes in the Home is an opportunity to recognize them for their contributions.

It’s easy to nominate someone special and you can acknowledge as many individuals as you like. All nominees will receive an invitation to attend a recognition ceremony and a certificate of appreciation.

Nominations can be made until April 22, 2016. For more information or to nominate a special caregiver, please visit http://healthcareathome.ca/torontocentral or call 416-217-3820, ext. 2506.

Heroes walk among us. Nominate the heroic caregivers you know today!

The Caregiver Show provides support for family caregivers Looking after a loved one who is suffering from dementia or other conditions can be extremely stressful for family members involved, and an upcoming show in North York aims to offer them some help and relief.

Statistics from the Alzheimer Society of Canada show that in 2011, 747,000 Canadians were living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias – that’s 14.9 per cent of Canadians 65 and older.

Between two per cent and 10 per cent of all cases of dementia start before the age of 65. The risk for dementia doubles every five years after age 65.

The Caregiver Show is slated for Friday, May 6, at the Ontario Science Centre from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The show helps raise awareness of how many family members are involved in caring for loved ones in need.

This year’s The Caregiver Show is sponsored by The Mobility Shop and CanniMed, and is brought to Toronto residents by Metroland Media Toronto and Downsizing Divas.

More than 20 exhibitors are already scheduled to take part in the show.

As the Alzheimer Society of Canada notes, caregiving is a critical issue for people living with dementia and for Canadians in general. One in five Canadians aged 45 and older provides some form of care to seniors living with long-term health problems.

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Jays still in the sports spotlight Not only has Blue Jay fever picked up right where it left off last year, but huge numbers of new fans continue to keep coming aboard, if my email message box is any indication. It has been absolutely flooded with questions from bandwagon-hoppers since the season started.

I suspect NHL and NBA queries will take over once their playoffs begin (yesterday for the NHL and Saturday for the NBA), but until then, baseball will continue to own the spotlight.

Q. I have literally been going crazy hanging on each and every pitch. I’m already a basket case. Do you think I’ll be able make it through the season?

– Jittery on Jameson A. You’ll be fine. There are only a measly 155 games left. Add on an extra month of playoffs – hopefully – and it’ll all be over before you know it.

Q. I can’t remember exactly which game against the Red Sox at the Rogers Centre last week that it took place in, but

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY something happened on the field that made manager John Gibbons come running out of the dugout. Being a newbie to the sport I was clueless as to why. But the guy sitting next to me said it was because Gibby was appealing. What’s your take?

– Curious on Carlaw A. I’ve never given the matter much thought before, but now that you mention it, I have to agree, he is cute.

Q. If a player hits .300 he is considered to be an all-star.

But if I hit .300 on my job I’m immediately put on probation. Any suggestions?

– Peeved on Parklawn A. Head straight to human resources and request a move to the bullpen so you never have to bat.

Q. What does RBI stand for?

– Inquiring on Inglewood A. Run batted in.

Q. That’s what I thought.

Yet they alway say the plural of RBI is RBIs. That makes no sense. All you’re doing is adding an “s” at the end. So that would make the translation read Run Batted Ins, wouldn’t it?

– Still inquiring and still on Inglewood A. It should, in fact be, RsBI. But don’t expect that change anytime soon.

Q. I was listening to one of the Jays games against Tampa and the commentator said Josh Donaldson was served up with what was very colourfully described as a juicy, big, fat meatball. I was surprised to hear that goes on during a contest. Where on earth would Donaldson have been given that in the middle of a game, for heavens’ sake?

– Stumped on Sheppard A. Where else? Smack dab in the middle of the plate, of course.

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The map posted by Sky View Suites finds, not surprisingly, units near downtown subway stations have the most expensive rents on average. For example, you could pay $1,800 for a one-bedroom condo near King station, but under $1,000 for the same kind of unit by Main Street station.

One surprise is the relative affordability near Union Station where apparently a two-bedroom unit condo can be rented for no more than $2,500.

Sky View says it calculated the average asking price based on a year’s worth of condo rental data, assuming rents and property values will continue to rise per year.

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Black Creek Sanitary Drainage Area Servicing Improvements Municipal Class Environmental Assessment Study Notice of Public Information Centre # 1 Please join us at our first Public Information Centre to learn about the problems and opportunities for the Black Creek SanitaryTrunk Sewer Drainage Area Servicing Improvements Study (see study area map).

The purpose of the study is to assess capacity issues of the Black Creek SanitaryTrunk Sewer (STS) system and develop a plan to: • Ensure the trunk sewer system in the study area has capacity to service projected future growth • Better manage flows in the Black Creek STS system during wet weather events • Reduce combined sewer overflows to Black Creek • Reduce stormwater entering the Black Creek STS You will have an opportunity to view the display boards and speak one-on-one with study team members about the study’s problems and opportunities and potential solutions to be considered in the next phase of the study. Details are as follows: Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Location: Brookhaven Public Elementary School - Gym 70 Brookhaven Dr. - enter from parking lot (Lawrence Avenue West, west of Black Creek Drive) Date: Thursday, April 28, 2016 Time: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Location: Grandravine Community Centre, Room 105 23 Grandravine Dr. (Keele Street, north of Sheppard Avenue)

Background

Built around 1960, the Black Creek STS is a 15 km sanitary trunk sewer that services the 5,700 hectare Black Creek Sanitary Drainage Area.Three combined trunk sewers carry flows from the local combined sewer system to the Black Creek STS.The Black Creek STS is a tributary to the Humber STS and ultimately conveys sewage to the Humber WastewaterTreatment Plant.

During major storms, flows in the Black Creek STS have exceeded the design capacity of the trunk sewer in some sections. This has caused overloading and surcharging of the Black Creek STS. Also, during some storms, combined sewer overflows are released from the combined trunk sewers to Black Creek, which need to be controlled according to Ministry Of Environment and Climate Change criteria. Over the next few decades, a significant population increase is expected to occur within the Black Creek sanitary drainage area, which may increase capacity constraints on the Black Creek STS.

We would like to hear from you Public consultation is an important part of this study. Visit the project website for more information or contact us if you want to be placed on our mailing list for updates.

Mae (Rigmea) Lee Public Consultation Unit, City of Toronto, Metro Hall, 19th Fl. 55 John St., Toronto, ON M5V 3C6 Tel.: 416-392-8210 Fax: 416-392-2974 TTY: 416-338-0889 E-mail: rmlee@toronto.ca Visit: toronto.ca/blackcreekstudy Issue Date: April 14, 2016

Information will be collected in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. With the exception of personal information, all comments will become part of the public record.

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Davenport Diamond Grade Separation Metrolinx, an agency of the Province of Ontario, is working to transform the way the region moves. As part of plans to use GO rail corridors as the backbone of an electrified rapid transit network that connects communities and people through a reliable, frequent rail and light rail service, we are looking at ways to remove the Davenport Diamond rail-to-rail crossing to increase reliability and safety.

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Music group SoundCheck will perform at this year’s Frontlines Annual Fundraising Dinner, held at the Weston Golf and Country Club April 23.

Living-wage work is scarce in Weston: event organizer >>>from page 1 Etobicoke. It starts at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $80.

Frontlines provides programs at 1844 Weston Rd. to children and youth between the ages of eight and 21 and recently started its free Catering Careers 12-week culinary program for those aged 18 to 29 that aims to get participants straight into the workforce upon completion. So far it’s working. In its two cohorts, it has a 100 per cent employment rate, and a third group of students started this week.

“It is hard to find living-wage work in Weston,” said Diana Stapleton, Frontlines board chair and event co-organizer. “Yes, there are jobs, but the good-paying jobs left a long time ago.”

Stapleton, a Weston resident who volunteers for Frontlines and the Weston Area Emergency Support food bank, which share a building, was among the many in the community to lose their jobs when Kodak closed. She, however, found other employment, while many others have not.

She said many people in Weston end up with minimum-wage, parttime work, which is not enough to support a family. Many of the kids who come to Frontlines have parents who visit the food bank. The two organizations often share resources and run joint programming. Frontlines also includes a food component in all of its programming.

It runs after-school programs five days a week, it has a homework club that has helped improve students’ grades and its nutrition programs start at the youngest age group and continue right through to the oldest group.

“Our role is to help train them in nutrition starting at a young age, help show them how to cook their

own food so if they’re home alone, rather than grabbing a piece of bread they might make themselves something that’s a little more healthy,” Stapleton said.

The Catering Careers program is a continuation of the same, and it aims to get local youth employed.

“Many of the children who come to us, school becomes less important to them as they get older, they maybe don’t finish high school, or they finish high school but don’t have the support – financially and personally – to go on to post secondary. So a lot of them, after high school, struggle with employment,” Stapleton said.

Graduates of the program receive a Safe Food Handler’s certificate, which helps them get hired, even without prior work experience.

Graduates generally enter the hospitality industry upon completion, which Stapleton admitted is not always well paying or stable. But some can end up in stable environments such as kitchens at institutions such as hospitals and nursing homes.

And most of all, it gives graduates work experience, where they learn to listen to a boss, come to work on time, dress appropriately and more.

Frontlines is a place where children learn to respect themselves and each other, and that when you work hard you can be successful.

More than 100 people are expected to attend this year’s dinner. Last year, it raised about $14,000. There will be a dessert auction and silent auction, with prizes provided by local businesses. Musician Joel Reid, who teaches music at Frontlines, will perform with his group SoundCheck.

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As a unique piece of rail infrastructure, options to remove the crossing have been reviewed and previous meetings have focused on the feasibility and community impacts from the reviewed options. Over the past year, meetings were held to assist in improving the design with continued input from the community.

Come and Learn More As part of the Transit Project Assessment Process initiated on January 28, 2016, this meeting will include a presentation of the results of the environmental studies. This meeting will also give the community an opportunity to ask more questions in advance of the start of the formal 30-day public consultation period.

Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Location: St. Sebastian Elementary School 717 Brock Avenue Toronto, ON M6H 3P1 * This location is accessible.

Stay Connected All comments and feedback received will be documented and will help inform the Transit Project Assessment Process and the Environmental Project Report that will be submitted to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. Stay up to date on the project by connecting with Metrolinx by: • Visiting metrolinx.com/RERDavenport • Contacting us at RERDavenport@metrolinx.com and signing up for the electronic project

newsletter Davenport Diamond Grade Separation c/o Georgina Collymore Senior Advisor – Environmental Assessment Communications & Community Relations tel: 416-202-4921 e-mail: RERDavenport@metrolinx.com Metrolinx is working to provide residents and businesses in the GTHA with a transportation system that is modern, efficient and integrated. Find out more about Metrolinx’s Regional Transportation Plan for the GTHA as well as GO Transit, PRESTO, and Union Pearson Express, divisions of Metrolinx, at www.metrolinx.com.

Pour recevoir cet avis en français, veuillez communiquer avec nous au 416-202-4921 ou à RERDavenport@metrolinx.com Para obter esta informação disponível em português, favor contatar pelo telefone 416-202-4921 ou RERDavenport@metrolinx.com Per ottenere queste informazioni in italiano, chiamare il 416-202-4921 oppure contattare RERDavenport@metrolinx.com 如需获取简体中文版通知, 请致电416-202-4921 或电邮至 RERDavenport@metrolinx.com 与我们

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Mortgages/Loans

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Mortgages/Loans

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Flooring & Carpeting

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Home Renovations

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Appliance Repairs/ Installation

Appliance Repairs/ Installation

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Decks & Fences

Decks & Fences

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