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Toronto police Supt. Heinz Kuck from 11 Division reads a book aloud for students during the Carleton Village Junior and Senior Sports and Wellness Academy's Martin Luther King Day celebration assembly on Monday.

Carleton Village students share their dreams School assembly honours the life and accomplishments of Martin Luther King Jr. LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Andrea O’Rourke’s Grade 1 class at Carleton Village JS Sports and Wellness Academy were busily creating booklets about their dreams; not just any dreams,

but those inspired by civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophies. The junior kindergarten to Grade 8 school in the Davenport Road and Osler Street-area marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday with a

morning assembly followed by activities and lessons in individual classes. O’Rourke’s students shared sentiments like, ‘Everybody is different;’ ‘We are all together’ and ‘We have to show kindness to everybody,’ in their booklets and then added

their handprints on the cover. “To work with our students, it’s so inspiring,” principal Lorelei Eccleston said. This is the second year the school has marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day with support from police officers at 11

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Social Planning Toronto seeks input for city’s future priorities Social Planning Toronto (SPT) is set to host a series of four community meetings this month to discuss its future direction and priorities. “We all know that social planning is important to the future of the city and the wellbeing of its residents. We also know that the city is changing,” organizers from SPT said in a statement. The organization’s mission includes a commitment to “building a civic society in which diversity, equity, social and economic justice, interdependence and active civic participation are central to all aspects of life.” “What does this mean for SPT? What do we want to change? What impact do we want to have? What should we focus on in the next five years?

How should we do our work?” the organization asked. Residents from all across Toronto are invited to attend one of the following four meetings SPT is holding to solicit local thoughts and ideas about its planning process for the next five years. The meetings will be at:

Etobicoke/North York n Thursday, Jan. 21 at 5:30 p.m. Thistletown Multi-Service Centre, 925 Albion Road (one block east of Islington Avenue), Ted Hodgson Room, 3rd FloorRegister at http:// sptconsultationetobicokenorthyork.eventbrite.ca

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York n Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 10 a.m. Social Planning Toronto Office, 1652 Keele St. (at Rogers Road) Register at http://sptcommunityconsultationyork. eventbrite.ca For questions about the upcoming meetings, contact Caryl Arundel at carundel@ sympatico.ca For more information about SPT, go to www. socialplanningtoronto.org/ about-us

York residents ‘a bit impatient’ as construction continues on the $30-million rec centre

taking shape ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com Construction activity will soon be replaced with recreation activity at Black Creek Drive and Eglinton Avenue. That’s where the York Community Centre is taking shape. The $30-million, 6,500-squaremetre facility is set to open this June. The project, which was plagued by delays, has been in the making for more than two decades. “That community centre has been in the books to be built prior to amalgamation,” York South-Weston Councillor Frances Nunziata said. “It was a really long, long process.” The site that was chosen was originally owned by the province, and it took years for the city to acquire the vacant land. The official ground breaking was held in December 2012, with completion expected in the fall of 2014. However, that schedule was revised because of challenging soil conditions coupled with delays due to material delivery. “It’s the biggest community centre that the city has built in a long time,” Nunziata said. It will also be the very first community centre in the former City of York. “All the parks and recreation programming that we have been doing in the (former) City of York have been through the schools,” Nunziata said. “That was one of the biggest complaints we always received, that there was no centre for recreation.” When the centre opens, residents will have a one-stop shop for recreation programs.

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Above, the York Community Centre is currently under construction and is expected to open in June. Left, an artist’s rendering of what the centre will look like upon completion; bottom left and right, the centre will include basketball facilities and a swimming pool with seating for spectators. Courtesy images

And because the facility is designated a priority centre, all cityrun programs there will be free of charge. The centre will feature a double gymnasium, a running/walking track, a six-lane 25-metre indoor training pool, an indoor leisure pool, two multi-purpose rooms and weight, aerobic and dance rooms. There will also be 126 seats in the aquatics centre. “We wanted to have it built so that it could accommodate seating if there were swim meets being held from the swim clubs,” Nunziata

said. The centre will also provide much-needed space for community groups, said Judith Hayes of the Mount Dennis Community Association. “Community groups are making inquiries about whether they can book meeting rooms,” she said. Hayes was a member of the community consultation group that was formed in 2007 to make recommendations for the project. “Initially they were asking what are the needs of the area,” she recalled. “We also went and looked

at various other community centres throughout Toronto and right out as far as Oshawa.” Hayes pushed for the running/ walking track to be in the facility. “We don’t have an indoor mall to go to where seniors could go to walk in the winter,” she said, adding the closest mall to York is Yorkdale near Dufferin Street and Hwy. 401. Hayes hopes the centre will improve the image of York and attract people to the area. But she noted area residents are growing “a bit impatient” given the delays.

“We would’ve liked to have it operating a couple of years ago,” she said of the facility. Ward 12 Councillor Frank Di Giorgio said the centre will be “heavily-utilized.” “My biggest concern is trying to be able to cater to all of the competing demands,” he said. “There are a lot of groups that will want to permit the space, and we’re going to have more demand than we can service.”

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Budget balancing continues along in haphazard way If all goes through as planned, it looks as though Mayor John Tory will have passed two out of two unsustainable annual city budgets by February. In 2015, you may recall, Toronto’s budget committee found itself in a panic over the end to pooling grants from the province, that had helped Toronto deal with the cost of social housing that is much higher here than in other GTA municipalities. City officials thrashed about trying to find a way to fill the $86-million hole and eventually approved a complex plan to loan itself money from its capital reserves — a move that might, absent another robust year of land transfer tax-collection, have squeezed the city for years to come. As it was, surpluses and reserves helped minimize the debt that Toronto will eventually have to repay to itself. That was a lucky break. And maybe there will be another lucky break, after Toronto Council gets through

david nickle the city with this year’s budget. This time, there’s no unexpected trouble that’s shown up to mess up a perfectly balanced budget. Rather, the city administration has made it clear that Mayor Tory and Toronto Council have created pressures that a simple balance-sheet budgeting exercise can’t resolve. To whit: an inflationary property tax increase as Mayor Tory has insisted on can’t deal with either the growing cost of simply standing still, or the many enhancements and improvements that council and the mayor approved and announced this year. Politicians, the city manager said, would have to come up with solutions. So this past Monday, budget chief Gary Crawford brought forward a solution. It involves an old-fashioned raid on reserves, recalibrating

various revenue projections to more optimistic numbers, and demands on big-ticket agencies like the Toronto Transit Commission and the Toronto Police Service to simply do more with less. It is not exactly what happened in 2015, but it is in the spirit of it. Toronto will dig into its rainy-day reserves and ask for an arbitrarily large amount of economizing from its management staff, and keep the city lurching along for another year. It’s easy to shrug when you look at this, because so many Toronto budgets have been balanced in exactly this haphazard way — hoping that a booming economy will keep the land transfer tax revenue high, dipping into savings, stretching staffing resources— and things always seem to have turned out OK. Roads are more or less fixed, programs in one form or another are delivered, and life in Toronto’s many neighbourhoods goes on.

So why not simply continue along this route? When erosion is this slow in its effect, is it erosion at all? The short answer is yes. The long answer is that with the declining dollar and sluggish economy, at some point the land transfer tax — which has above all else kept the city afloat — is going to plateau and decline along with real estate sales. If Toronto isn’t prepared for that with a reasonable attitude toward taxes and revenues, that erosion will quickly turn into a collapse. That may happen by Mayor Tory’s third budget given the indicators. And that will mean that this one will be the last time that councillors can avoid making the difficult choices they should have made long ago. When that time comes, they’d better have a plan B.

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Humber College is hosting its annual Trucking Career Day recruitment fair. The event, set for Saturday, Jan. 30 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Humber Centre for Trades and Technology, is geared to anyone mulling a career change or a new employer. For more information, visit www.humber.ca/trucking Rahul Gupta is Metroland Media Toronto’s transit reporter. His column appears every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

TTC needs another $400M to finish Line 1 subway extension RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com The TTC needs an additional $400 million to finish the Toronto York Spadina Subway Extension (TYSSE). The money, 60 per cent, or $240 million of which needs to come from the City of Toronto, won’t account for extra construction work for the northern extension of the Spadina line, which isn’t projected to open until late 2017 at the earliest. Instead, said TTC CEO Andy Byford, it’s for settling outstanding legal claims made against the project, which now has a budget of $3.2 billion. “That amount of money needs to be put aside for known claims that we know have merit and do need to be funded, and also potential exposure to claims,” said Byford last Friday following a media tour of the York

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University station site currently under construction. “As with any major project, (TYSSE) has received a number of claims from contractors, and we think there are a number to come.” Byford will present his funding request to the TTC board at a meeting planned for next week, the second request for additional fund-

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Family Literacy Month: Book Binding WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free Kids ages eight to 13 can make their very own sewn books. Learn the art of creating hand crafted books and take yours home. Robbie Burns Supper & Dance WHEN: 5:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: legionbr31@yahoo. com COST: $25 Scottish Highland dancers, traditional Scottish supper with haggis, pipes and drum performance, music with DJ Steve Wilson, door prizes, and cocktails.

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Students create projects around King’s well-known phrases >>>from page 1 King Jr.’s legacy is not isolated to the U.S. It is global,” Eccleston told her audience of students, community members and parents. “We are here to think about how we can keep his words and work alive.” Grade 1 student Kyannah Coutain captivated everyone with her self-penned speech about King’s family life, career and humanitarian work. “Martin Luther King Jr. wanted everyone to be treated equally and not be judged by how they look,” she said. “He wanted to make the world a better place for you and me.” Eleven Division police Supt. Heinz Kuck spoke of the civil rights activist’s early life and leadership, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat on a bus to a white person, and King’s shooting death on April 4, 1968. Born Jan. 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, King had an older sister and a younger brother. “He grew up in an extremely loving, but strict home; he loved

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