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Archbishop of Toronto, Thomas Collins, left, shares a moment with Josephine Genova at West Park Healthcare Centre on Sunday.

The archbishop led Sunday mass in the centre’s auditorium during the 40th anniversary of West Park hosting pastoral services.

As a relentless rain showered the city on the early morning of Father’s Day, residents of West Park Healthcare Centre, adorned in their Sunday best, poured into the main building’s auditorium awaiting the arrival of the Archbishop of Toronto, Cardinal Thomas Collins.

Collins came to West Park to celebrate 40 years of pastoral services at the healthcare centre at 82 Buttonwood Ave. “This is a great place, where a real community joins together,” Collins said.

“There are many, many places like healthcare centres where people are really cared for. There’s a great deal of love in the people here and the people >>>cardinal, page 2

Alumni visit St. John the Evangelist one last time HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

Name tags above missing hooks where children once hung their jackets peel off the wooden frame in an empty kindergarten classroom on the first floor of

St. John the Evangelist Catholic School.

“It’s like déjà vu,” said Kim Karbin, 26, who came back to see her school one last time before it’s torn down and reconstructed.

“This was my old kinder-

garten classroom,” she said, her eyes wandering around the now empty, hollow room.

Alphabet borders still line the room near the ceiling. “There’s a lot of memories here.”

St. John the Evangelist opened its doors to celebrate

its 160 years of education of children in kindergarten to Grade 8 Saturday, June 15. The building is slated to be demolished. The school closed more than a year ago and students were transferred to St. Josaphat Cathedral C.S. at 55 Pelham

Ave. and will remain there until the new school is finished in approximately two to three years.

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This is the first cardinal to come to West Park in its 109 years in Weston, and residents weren’t about to miss the opportunity of a lifetime.

About 50 residents, some in wheelchairs and motorized wheelchairs, came from their respective rooms across the centre to join the cardinal in prayer. As they waited, the hymn Sent Forth by God’s Blessing seeped through the speakers as volunteers positioned residents around the room. The podium was transformed into a church altar, with a flower arrangement of red roses and yellow tulips perched in front of it.

Candles were placed on either side as a wooden cross stood in the centre.

Collins wore a lime green and gold robe. Those who could stand did as they sang How Great Thou Art. “Welcome to Sunday mass at West Park, Sunday, June 16,” said Colleen Dodds to the crowd of people. Dodds has been volunteering at West Park for 40 years and is the driving force behind getting the cardinal to come down in honour of the celebration.

She admitted she thought it was a long shot.

“We didn’t dream for a moment that he would actually come,” Dodds said. “But we sent off the invitation back in December. Three days later his secretary phoned me at home and said ‘the Cardinal

would be delighted to come, but the first Sunday he has off would be June 16. Would that be alright?’”

To which Dodds replied with an enthusiastic “Yeah!”

For Dodds, Sunday service, with or without the cardinal’s presence, is an important part of the residents’ lives.

“This isn’t a general hospital where you go in for a few weeks and you go back home.

This is their home and they’re here for good many of them,” Dodds said.

“Sunday mass for them is often the only thing that even relates to what they used to do in their former life. It’s important for a person of any religion to still be able to worship as they are accustomed to.”

Sunday’s mass focused on the theme of forgiveness.

“May we all reflect and think about our own frailty and we can all be forgiven,” said Collins to the crowd.

During the service, those who wished could receive communion from the cardinal himself. They lined up along the left side of the auditorium, stretched out their hand to receive the wafer. After the service, Collins went up and down the rows greeting those in attendance and posed for pictures with residents, their family and volunteers.

“This (volunteers) is a really beautiful thing. They always say that you receive more than you give, but the giving is so important,” said Collins,

referring to the volunteers, many who have been lending their services for more than 25 years.

“It makes a difference in life, I know many of people who give their life just to care for others and in doing that you’ll find the purpose to your own life. It’s our mission as Christians.”

Once Collins finished taking the last set of photos, he was set to tour the Chronic Assisted Ventilatory Care centre to visit some of the residents who couldn’t make it to the service.

Once he was finished at West Park, he was set to attend another parish in Mississauga. He often visits three or more different centres, schools and churches in a typical day.

“I travel a lot, my area covers from Oshawa to Mississauga to Lake Ontario to Georgian Bay,” Collins said. “That whole area, there’s about two million Catholics in my community.”

Trish Godin, came with her mother-in-law Pat, who uses a respiratory machine, and her son Connor, who got to take a picture with the Cardinal and chatted with him about Angry Birds for a little bit.

“It was insightful,” she said with a laugh. “He said he plays it as a stress reliever…This was definitely an opportunity of a lifetime.”

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Westminster United hosts its final service HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

committee that voted unanimously to close down the church, a decision he said was difficult for the congregation.

“It’s never easy for people who have been here a long time,” said Street. “You’re talking 155 years, that’s a heck of a lot of history here.”

Westminster United Church has been a congregation since 1858. In 1865, Westminster was built but was called Westminster

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n the front lawn of the Westminster United Church in Weston, stands a red and white For Sale sign. Its larger than life stature carries with it the inevitable: the closing of community’s church.

This is what brought dozens of people from around the Weston community through Westminster’s arched doorways Sunday: At 2 p.m., Rev. Douglas Varey led the church’s final service.

Under the church’s wooden roof, people of all ages gathered to sing seven traditional hymns and say their own goodbyes to a church that has been a constant not just in their community, but in their family history, too.

“I will go on and worship in another church, but it won’t be the same. I’ve been here all my life,” said Victoria Ashborne, the fourth-generation Ashborne to call Westminster her family church.

“It’s a long line in one church. For my kids, who would be the fifth generation, this is the only church they’ve come to.

I was baptized here, they were baptized here. They

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When we saw the (for sale) sign go up it was a rude awakening. But we feel very blessed and very grateful for what we have shared here.

– Laura Thomas

There are tears, but they are tears of memory and reflection rather than grief.

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Top, Westminister United Church Rev. Douglas Varey exits the sanctuary Sunday at the conclusion of the church’s final service before the house of worship is shuttered for good. The property has been put up for sale. Left, Theo de Leon, centre, joins in a hymn. Above, Estela Abad, left, and Biedad Merchem sing along with the rest of the congregation.

– Rev. Douglas Varey

had their confirmations here.”

The church, at 69 William St., was not only a place for Sunday service, it doubled as a meeting place for neighbours.

“I think one of the hardest things (about the church closing) is that you get to know people and this is where you get to know them from,” said Ashborne.

“If you don’t see them again you want to know how they’ve been doing,

how their kids are, all that sort of thing.”

It was last October when the congregation decided to close the church due to lack of funding. The option to merge with another church was on the table, but Varey, who has been with Westminster since 2009, said this ultimately wasn’t possible.

“Merging or what we call amalgamation is very challenging, it means both

churches have to become a new church,” said Varey.

The closing of the church was a long time coming for Varey and although he’s sad about it, grief isn’t the dominant feeling he has towards the situation.

“It’s been working to celebrate the life of the congregation and the beautiful building and also to do pastoral work for those who are really strug-

gling,” he said.

“I think most people are in that situation. There are tears, but they are tears of memory and reflection rather than grief.”

According to Barry Street, the church’s trustee, the main reasons for the closure are the lack of money and a dwindling congregation.

“We’ve been living basically on the rent from the daycare itself and money

dealt to us through estates and wills,” said Street.

“It’s been more of a borrowed time for the church. We were going to go sooner or later.”

Since the sign has gone up, Street admitted there have been a few inquiries about the property.

“There are potentials, but we’re leaving that up to our real estate agent right now,” said Street.

He was a part of the

Free Church and was originally where Weston Presbyterian Church is located – at 11 Cross St. Along with the closing of the church is the closing of Weston Village Childcare Centre, which has called the church home for more than a decade.

It’s still unclear as to where the daycare will relocate. No arrangements have been made to send the program elsewhere and the daycare officially closes at the end of the month.

Laura Thomas, who helped set up the daycare many years ago, has been coming to Westminster for almost 30 years.

“It’s been difficult,” she said. “When we saw the sign go up it was rude awakening. But we feel very blessed and very grateful for what we have shared here and our presence in the community.”

Thomas attended the service that, to her, “felt like a funeral.”

“It’s a necessary thing to go through,” she said.

“This afternoon is bittersweet.”

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Here’s the scoop: The tale wags the dog

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o, I was over at Peter and Jill’s house for a barbecue last night and Rover was the center of attention as usual.

Rover is their dog, not one of their children, in case the name didn’t tip you off.

Anyhow, Rover spent the majority of the evening in my lap – his usual modus operandi when anybody with a lap drops by – and the conversation eventually drifted to how come I don’t have a dog.

There’s no mystery there, folks.

It’s the picking-up-thepoop thing.

I just can’t wrap my mind, let alone my hands, around it.

I should qualify that last remark.

Inside the house, I’m in favour of it, of course.

Let’s face it, you’ve got no choice. You don’t pick up dog poop inside, the neighbors will start gossiping

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY behind your back. Maybe even go on the Dr. Phil show to rat you out. Who needs that?

But outside, it just doesn’t make any sense to me to pick up their stuff.

Birds, squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits, foxes, raccoons and skunks are all pooping away like there’s no tomorrow and I don’t see anybody rushing around to pick up after any of them.

Their poop has got to be way worse for the environment than a dog’s.

What can they possibly be eating? Fast food wrappers, cigarette butts? And that’s if they’re lucky.

On the other hand, most dogs I know have very nutritional dietary habits these days. Heck, many probably eat better than

their owners. How can their healthy poop be bad for the grass?

But, there’s an even more critical issue in play here.

I think we’re jeopardizing the mental health of our dogs with the mixed messages we’re sending them.

Take Rover.

When he poops inside the house, he gets a stern scolding. Heck, when he merely passes gas he gets a glare.

Ah, but outside, he’s treated like he just won the lottery.

The moment he so much as assumes the familiar squat, he gets a standing ovation. We’re talking a huge one here, too. Bigger than Carrie Underwood gets when she returns to American Idol.

Then, after Rover is finished doing his business, Peter and Jill wrap up the evidence with more care than a five-star restaurant packing up your leftovers

for you to take home.

What’s Rover supposed to think? Inside it’s a no-no, outside he’s treated like a celebrity. All that’s missing is the pooparazzi snapping his picture.

I tell ya, the poor boy is this close to seeing a shrink.

But the truth is, my biggest concern isn’t how we’re messing with the minds of pooches, it’s the pecking order around here.

Last I checked we were the top dogs on the planet, not them. We shouldn’t be picking up their poop. If anything, they should be picking up ours.

Mind you, it should begin and end there.

We can live without the standing ovations. They’re way over the top.

Jamie Wayne is a lifelong columnist, who takes writing very seriously. The topics?

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Cuban trumpet player soaks up Toronto culture HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

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lexander Brown was born and raised in Cuba and at 11 years old he knew he wanted to play the trumpet.

His mother, however, had other ideas.

“Mom more wanted me to be a guitar player,” said Brown in a thick Cuban accent. “But I wanted the trumpet. It was the instrument I fell in love with.”

His mother, rather than fight it, accepted his passion for the instrument and encouraged him to take lessons.

As he got older he pursued music in school and in 1997 graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte, a prestigious university in Cuba, and taught trumpet there until 2005.

It was around that time Brown realized

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York resident Alexander Brown will be performing at the Pure Spirits Patio in the Distillery District June 22.

Cuba’s trumpet scene was crowded.

“Cuba has a lot of percussionists, but it has good

trumpet players there, too,” he said. “It’s very popular.”

And with that realization Brown decided to come to Canada to start his music career, more specifically a jazz career. He had a gig at the Ottawa Blues Fest that year and about five years later moved to Toronto.

He’s lived in the Dufferin Street and Eglinton Avenue area for three years and this will be his second time participating in the TD Toronto Jazz Festival.

The nine-day festival, which starts June 20, will see more than 1,500 musicians performing across Toronto.

“It’s about the opportunities to play the music I love, in this case jazz,” said Brown, who pronounces jazz, “yazz” “I’ve had the opportunity to play the music that I wasn’t able to play in Cuba, here I’ve played Indian and

Greek. But I also wanted more exposure.”

Brown began adopting other sounds around 2002, when he started his own quartet and started composing music himself.

“I’m being allowed to see so many other cultures so much more. I’m seeing so many other great players, great composers…I’m interacting with them, asking, learning.”

Brown has become one of the most important Latin trumpet jazz players in Toronto, according to the TD Toronto Jazz Festival.

This year Brown will be performing his sound at the Pure Spirits Patio in the Distillery District Saturday, June 22 at 6 p.m.

He’s working on an eighttrack album titled Process that he hopes will be ready for release by the end of June.

“With this album my

focus is in the composition,” Brown said.

“Behind every song you can hear the beat of the conga and the Cuban rhythm always. But the way I compose is thinking in the Cuban root, but trying to put on top of it experiments of different harmonies and rhythms.”

Brown encourages Torontonians to open their ears and minds to the possibilities of the festival and soak up the sounds.

“It’s a great party, so many people come from United States, Europe all over the world,” he said.

“People who love jazz see it, people who want to know more come see it.

For me it’s one of the best opportunities for musicians here in town to play and get exposure.”

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Building Connections: Women Achieving Personal Growth Together WHEN: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: North York Women’s Centre, 2446 Dufferin Street CONTACT: North York Women’s Centre, 416-781-0479, info@nywc.org COST: Free Connect and network with women who have similar goals, access information and resources to help you move forward and take steps toward getting what you want and need.

Greenhills Neighbours Night Out Barbecue WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Greenhills Park, 1A Paulson Rd. CONTACT: Larry Colle, 416-452-2016, lcolle@ sympatico.ca COST: Free Join the Greenhills Community Association and Toronto Police Service’s 12 Division for a free barbecue featuring folk music.

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International Film Friday WHEN: 1 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000, COST: Free This Friday we screen ‘Welcome,’ the story of a Kurdish boy who will do anything to reach his girlfriend across the England channel. No registration required.

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Canada Day party at Silverthorn Legion WHEN: 2 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Silverthorn Legion Branch 57, 605 Rogers Rd. CONTACT: 416 653 6757, branch57@gmail. com COST: Free Come out and celebrate Canada’s birthday at the Silverthorn Legion.

Music, barbecue of hamburgers and hotdogs at 57 cents each. Meat toss darts game (nominal fee), shuffleboard and maybe even a friendly game of euchre available. Everyone welcome. Entertainment by DJ Rob Martine.

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Weekly Barbecue WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-767-0231, legionbr31@yahoo.com COST: Free All 19 years and older are welcome.

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Giant Book Sale WHEN: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Weston Library, 2 King St. CONTACT: Weston Branch, 416-394-1017, westaff@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free The Weston Public Library is holding its annual summer book sale. There will be adult fiction and children’s books, hardcovers and paperbacks for a fraction of the price.

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Roselands Horticultural Society: Organic Gardening WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Church of the Good Shepherd, 1149 Weston Rd. CONTACT: roselandshs@gmail.com COST: Free Shari-Lyn Safir will be the guest speaker.

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Wednesday Afternoon At The Movies WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Weston Library, 2 King St. CONTACT: 416394-1017, westaff@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Join us on the last Wednesday of every month for a film: classics, new releases, foreign films and documentaries.

Trains and Vibration in Mount Dennis WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: Simon Chamberlain, simonbchamberlain@gmail.com COST: Free A public meeting with GO Transit and Mount Dennis Community Association to discuss issues and solutions.

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or years, Doug Ford has been saying that his brother Mayor Rob Ford needs a bodyguard. The events of last weekend, in which Mayor Ford was doused with a frozen drink at a public event, might be considered supporting evidence for that idea.

One shouldn’t take such a dousing too lightly.

As a 27-year-old yoga instructor has learned to her peril, allegedly tossing a drink in a gentleman’s face fits within the legal definition of criminal assault. The cup could as easily have been filled with a more harmful substance – or it could have been a knife, or a gun.

It wasn’t this time. And the mayor and his nonsecurity staff reportedly proved more than capable of chasing the woman down, apprehending her and turning her over to the criminal justice system.

It’s understandable that the mayor might have been reluctant to include

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an actual bodyguard on his staff until now. It paints an unfriendly picture of a mayor who prides himself on personally dealing with constituents’ problems.

But the time might have come to reconsider that.

During his recent troubles, the mayor has availed himself of city hall security – the department that is on hand to look out for the security of City Hall itself and the safety of the public – to ensure his own comfort and safety as he moves about the building.

And while so far he’s been hit by nothing worse than a frozen beverage and impertinent questions, it would be fair to suppose that he’s raised more ire than your typical mayor.

Still, a bodyguard added to Mayor Ford’s staff might be more than he needs.

One addition that might be helpful, however, would

be another one that his brother Doug, as well as his deputy mayor Doug Holyday have also been suggesting for many years: a driver.

They raised that matter most vociferously in 2012, when Mayor Ford was photographed reading speaking notes while driving along the Gardiner Expressway. If he’d had a driver then, Mayor Ford could have studied his notes riding shotgun.

A driver might also be helpful on some of the mayor’s other issues — specifically, his frequent tardiness when attending public events. And a driver might also provide the level of protection that our mayor demonstrably needs, while being prepared for various emergencies, medical and otherwise, to lend a hand.

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“I’m sad to see it go, but I’m happy we’re going to get a new facility that can meet the needs of the community,” said Femia, who admitted that at first there was some resistance to the idea of joining with another school in order to rebuild St. John the Evangelist.

“Although the transition was a difficult one, things worked out really well. People have adjusted and we’re pretty happy there.”

The three-storey building is outdated. Wooden cupboards and shelves in the classrooms give the building a 1950s feel. Each empty room held a memory for those who came back for a final visit.

Kabin said not much has changed since she was a student there, only the paint.

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of green.”

“I know they’ve been trying to get a new school since I went to this school, so it’s about time,” she said.

She also recalls coming home early from school many times after scarping her knees, or spraining an ankle on the school’s concrete back yard. There isn’t a lick of green space to be seen back

there, a factor Kabin hopes they consider with the new school.

One group of kids in their teens videotaped each other writing good-bye messages on the blackboard: Goodbye SJE. Mrs. Ludlow class of 2009=Best class ever!

A couple of women were busy writing Class of ’98 in a heart on one of the boards.

The pair met here in Grade 4 and now, in their late 20s and married, they’re still close friends.

“I had just moved here from Lithuania,” said Rusa Butrimas. “I didn’t speak a word of English, but somehow we became friends.” Butrimas and MacKenzie Howie shared a lot of memories and “firsts” within these school walls.

“I had my first kiss here,” recalled Butrimas.

“I’m friends with him on Facebook,” Howie said – upon hearing the boy’s name – and they both explode into a giggling fit.

For Howie, she’s glad the school is getting the makeover it deserves.

“It needed to be torn down when we were here,” Howie said.

Children can be heard speeding up and down the hallways, an act they weren’t allowed to do when class was in session. Two boys run past Michelina Ciociola; she taught French, ESL and grades 1 to 3 there from 1985 to 2008.

She was also Butrimas’s ESL teacher.

“She was good she was really good,” Butrimas said.

“I distinctly remember her handwriting. I loved her handwriting. Always in red pen marking up my spelling.”

Ciociola met a handful of her former students. “Many of them are in their 20s and

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Having taught for 23 years, Ciociola has seen the school evolve from having only one telephone to installing several dozen computers into the library and classrooms. She remembers the winter fair the school would put on, and every spring each class would take care of caterpillars until they became butterflies and released them once they were ready.

“It was a wonderful experience, the children were really well behaved, we had a great academic group.”

Behind the school young children played soccer together, parents spoke with custodial staff and teachers while others caught up with former classmates and chatted about what the new school would look like.

“We’re all looking forward to moving back in to the community,” said Femia.

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The answer to that question: the fourth annual Weston Multicultural Festival.

Latin band Pablo Terry and Sol de Cuba took to the stage Saturday in Little Avenue Memorial Park and serenaded the crowd for a portion of the afternoon, until the Ghanian African dancers took the stage as well as the Nritya Kala Madir Bollywood dancers.

According to Weston Village BIA chair Masum Hossain, it is about time Weston had a multicultural festival.

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both Hossain and Marion O’Sullivan, who noticed about four years ago that there wasn’t much celebrating the community’s diversity.

“The demographic has changed big time in Weston,” Hossain said.

“We have everyone here, people from Somalia, people from India, people from Vietnam, all over the place.”

Along Weston Road, community members set up booths selling everything from handmade jewelry to used books to honey.

In fact, Oliver Couto, an urban beekeeper and member of the beekeepers co-op of Toronto, brought along a portable beehive for the occasion.

“If you put your ear to the sides of the box you can hear the worker bees buzzing away,” said Cuoto, an instructor of urban beekeeping at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington.

The beehive, about the size of a laptop bag, drew a lot of attention from passersby. According to Couto, there are 30 beehives across the city and one of them is on the roof the Royal York Hotel.

“They use the honey for their restaurant and go to the Distillery District and get their honey lager made at the Mill Street Brewery,” Couto said.

The festival closed with Bobby Dreadful and band serenading the audience with its own brand of funk music.

“You want to see multicultural, you have to come to Weston,” Hossain said.

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Merit Award Bursary Program raises $30,000 this year Seventeen York students named recipients HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

“In the past we’ve relied mostly on individual donations. This is the first time we’ve done something like this. It was a great idea.”

The bursary program helps high school seniors with their post-secondary education goals. Initially, the awards program offered bursaries to 20 high schools in the former city of York, but the program has expanded its reach to 45 secondary schools across Toronto.

In previous years, the money for bursaries came from corporate donations, said Smeenk, adding that the program often runs on a shoestring budget and had given awards to students before the money was raised.

Seventeen students from five York schools are the latest recipients of the Merit Award Bursary Program thanks to the Bowling for Bursaries fundraiser.

More than $30,000 was raised in one night of bowling at The Ballroom downtown late last month. Tickets were $75 for guests who wanted to only attend the party, and bowling teams of up to five people paid $1,000 to contribute to the cause. A total of 18 teams participated.

“It was our biggest and best fundraiser to date,” said Brian Smeenk, president of the Merit program.

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“Once people find out how great these kids are it makes it easier to raise money to help

them go to school,” he said.

“It’s not that hard once you get to know about some of these

kids, they’re great kids.”

Bursaries range from $500 to $2,000. Students returning to high school next year receive a $500 bursary, while those attending university or college will receive $750 to $2,000. Of this year’s 149 recipients, 13 will receive new laptops donated to the program by Google.

Awarding the bursaries didn’t rely on having the top marks; students had to explain how they overcame life’s challenges, as well. “Some kids have overcome serious illnesses on their own part or on the part of their family members,” said Smeenk. “Some are also very dedicated and we like to help them as well.”

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Police extend Pixels for Pistols gun amnesty program More than 100 guns, 4,000 rounds of ammo surrendered CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com The Toronto Police Service has extended its Pixels for Pistols gun amnesty program until June 30.

Originally slated to run until June 17, the gunsfor-cameras program was extended by nearly two weeks as a result of continued community interest – with more than 100 firearms and 4,000 rounds of ammunition turned over to police since June 3.

“And we’re not done yet,” Deputy Chief Mark Saunders said Monday at a press conference announcing the Pixels for Pistols extension.

“What we’re doing today is we’re launching another appeal and we’re hoping that members of the community

will be encouraged to bring any of the unwanted firearms that you may have in your possession to this program so that we can successfully destroy them.”

Under the Pixels for Pistols program, all residents of Toronto who turn in a firearm to police will receive an Olympus digital camera and Henry’s Camera School of Imaging gift certificate – worth a total of $175.

The process of surrendering your unwanted guns, Saunders said, is really “quite simple.”

“All you have to do is contact Toronto police at 416-808-2222 and a police officer will arrive at your address and will take that firearm,” he said, cautioning the public against bringing their firearms in to a police

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The Pixels for Pistols gun amnesty program has been extended until June 30.

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“This program is designed primarily for those honest folks who have firearms legally but, for whatever reasons, no longer want to have those firearms in their

possession and are willing to render those firearms over to our amnesty program.

By doing so, you will guarantee that that firearm will not get within the criminal element.”

Of the more than 100 firearms so far surrendered to police since June 3, Bruce Finn, an officer with the integrated Gun and Gang Task Force, said some look to be army surplus or historical firearms brought back as souvenirs from the war (some dating back as far as the early 1900s), while others are non-restricted hunting rifles and shotguns.

Like Saunders, Finn cautioned residents against keeping such guns in their possession unless safely stored.

“It’s very important to take advantage of this program,” he said at Monday’s press conference. “Even if people want to keep them as a family heirloom – whether a grandfather has brought it back or

owned it – sometimes (these firearms) unexpectedly they get misplaced or lost during a move, and then they could possibly turn up in a crime scene. Let’s just get them off

the street, out of the way, and not have it tracked back to you.”

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How the Pixels for Pistols program works If you have an unwanted gun you’d like to surrender to Toronto police for safe disposal, call 416-808-2222 between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. before June 30 to be eligible for the Pixels for Pistols program.

Please note: firearms CANNOT be brought into any police facility and CANNOT be exchanged at any Henry’s location.

Those who participate in the gun amnesty program and turn in an operational gun will receive an Olympus VG-160 PLUS

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Metrolinx updates progress on Union-Pearson electrification plans RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Work on a provincial study examining how to electrify a future rail connection to the airport is proceeding on schedule, said a Metrolinx spokesperson earlier this month.

Karen Pitre said the provincial transit planning agency is making progress on a provincial environmental

assessment (EA) examining how to best convert the Union-Pearson (UP) Express air rail link from diesel to electric. Currently under construction, the link will be the city’s first fixed rapid transit connection between Pearson International Airport and Union Station when it comes online as of the 2015 Toronto Pan American Games.

While the study won’t be completed until 2014, pre-

liminary design work on UP is continuing on potential industrial locations along the Kitchener GO rail corridor for transformer and switching stations, said Pitre.

“We’re making progress and we are at the point where we have enough information for people to understand the nature of project,” said Pitre, Metrolinx’s executive director for electrification.

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The update was part of four meetings Metrolinx has organized for UP consultations, which will run as an express business class train service on the GO Kitchener

rail corridor. Other events, including one in Mount Dennis June 12, were also held.

Davenport city councillor Ana Bailao attended the Metro Hall event, where enlarged presentation slides were set up with technical information regarding the project and several Metrolinx officials were on hand to speak in more detail about the work.

“For many years people have called for electrification so I think there’s a step in the right direction with the EA,” said Bailao. “However, the next step is taking a long time to happen and I am certainly hoping sooner rather than later the provincial government comes out with a firm

date for building, rather than planning, electrification.”

Pitre promised more public consultations but cautioned it would be difficult to visit every neighbourhood along the rail corridor as the EA continues.

No date has been set for electric conversion of UP, and the provincial ministry of transportation has been firm on initially running diesel trains along the link.

Metrolinx has listed electrification as a priority transit project with 2017 a preferred date for completion. No final costs for the project will be known until the results of the EA are known.

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Hundreds turn out for meeting on Gardiner Expressway Rahul Gupta rgupta@insidetoronto.com When it comes to the future of the Gardiner Expressway, Gloria Cornell is concerned.

Cornell, a volunteer driver for seniors, relies on the expressway at least a couple of times a week. The Queens Quay resident said she accepts that the Gardiner needs major improvements, but was “terrified” it will eventually be demolished.

“You can’t just rip it down, there will be thousands of cars with nowhere to go,” warned the pensioner at a meeting on the expressway’s future last Thursday.

“Clean it up, make it safe, make it look nicer, that’s fine.

But we need the Gardiner.”

Cornell was one of hundreds to attend the meeting at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

Organized by Waterfront Toronto and the City of

Toronto, the event was billed as a first opportunity to view design proposals as part of an environmental assessment study of the Gardiner’s elevated eastern portion from Jarvis Street to the Don Valley Parkway, and Lake Shore Boulevard.

During the meeting, a panel made up of Waterfront and city staff outlined the six commissioned designs depicting possible visions for the elevated section of the Gardiner.

Those visions ranged from beautifying the crumbling expressway to tearing it down completely.

The designs, some of which propose elevated public parks and vibrant underpass marketplaces, are intended to be the first opportunity for the public to provide feedback which will then be incorporated in the Gardiner East study, said Waterfront Toronto’s Christopher Glaisek “The point is to show key

ideas and get people talking about them,” said Glaisek, the body’s vice-president for planning and design.

Brendan Pine was impressed by the plans on display, but concerned they weren’t incorporating enough transit integration.

“They seem like expensive design ideas,” said Pine, who lives in East York. “But it’s all about people and where they’re going to live and how they’re going to move around.”

The study, which is about one quarter complete, was resumed earlier this year after a two-year hiatus.

Its findings will not affect nearly $500 million of funded repair work scheduled to take place in the next 10 years, said deputy city manager John Livey.

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The last subway train from a fleet dating back to the 1970s made its final journey in the TTC system last week. The H-5 trains, which were manufactured by Hawker-Siddeley, were characterized by orange and brown seats and yellow interior doors.

When they began service in 1977, they were the first subway cars to have air conditioning. At noon hour on Friday, the final H-5 train left Wilson Station on the YongeUniversity-Spadina line for one last trip – but only made it to Eglinton West Station before it was taken off-line for good.

TTC spokesperson Brad Ross said the train will eventually be shipped to Lagos, Nigeria to join other H-5s providing service there.

Woodcock to find the mysterious station located on the Sheppard line that is likely the TTC’s least-visited subway destination.

“I am going to Bessarion Station to prove to myself it exists,” says Woodcock during the six-minute long video.

He adds, “I have no idea what I am going to see there.”

Does Woodcock ever find Bessarion?

You’ll have to watch the video. It has already been viewed by nearly 14,000 people since it was released on YouTube June 11.

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Championships held at Eglinton Flats

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The Cosburn Middle School girls Grade 6 soccer team not only won their Toronto District School Board (TDSB) championship in the top division one – they did it without allowing a single goal all year.

The East York school won the championship game earlier this month 1-0 in sudden death overtime at Eglinton Flats, over Bedford Park Public School from north Toronto.

The East York team scored the ‘golden goal’ two minutes into the extra frame.

DIEFENBAKER ALSO TOPS The Cosbur n girls weren’t the only soccer champs in the building, however. Attached to Cosburn Middle School (which offers grades 6, 7 and 8) is Diefenbaker Elementary School, which offers JK to Grade 5.

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And the Diefenbaker boys Grade 5 soccer team also won their championship at the top division one level.

Diefenbaker defeated Rosethorn Junior School from Etobicoke 3-0 in the championship game.

And, finally, the girls Grade 7/8 championship, at the top division one level, was won by Riverdale’s Earl Grey Senior Public School. The team won their championship game 2-1 over North York’s Windfields Junior High School.

CITY RESULTS, Boys’ divisions wgirls Here are complete results from this month’s TDSB elementary school soccer championships: BOYS GRADE 7/8 DIVISION ONE: Glenview (midtown) 2,

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A Diefenbaker Elementary School player keeps his eye on the ball while being surrounded

by Rosethorn Junior School players during elementary soccer city finals last week at Eglinton Flats. Diefenbaker defeated Rosethorn 3-0.

CR Marchant ( York) 1, in overtime penalty kicks.

DIVISION TWO: JG Diefenbaker (Scarborough) 2, Lambton-Kingsway (Etobicoke) 1 GRADE 6 DIVISION ONE: Williamson Road (Toronto Beaches) 2, Forest Manor (North York) 0 DIVISION TWO: Avondale (North York) 2, Blythwood (North Toronto) 0

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GRADE 6 DIVISION ONE: Cosburn (East York) 1, Bedford Park (North Toronto) 0, in extra time DIVISION TWO: Blythwood (North Toronto) 4, Humbercrest (York) 0 GRADE 5 DIVISION ONE: John Fisher (North Toronto) 5, Sunnylea (south Etobicoke) 3

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Understanding just why these divorces are taking place and taking proactive steps to alleviate some of the divorce triggers can be a recipe for a happy marriage that continues throughout a couple's golden years.  Increase accountability. Ours is a transient society where families no longer bat an eyelash over moving great distances away from other family members. As a result, Boomers may feel like they are not connected to children or grandchildren. With this in mind, they may feel less attached to their marriage or their respon-

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For the second straight year, the pothole strewn street topped the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) annual Worst Roads survey.

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announcement Tuesday morning at the intersection of Dufferin Street and Finch Avenue in North York.

Dufferin beat out Burlington Street East in Hamilton for the dubious honour, the CAA said.

In all, four Toronto streets made the 2013’s Top 10 list including Finch Avenue West (third),

Bayview Avenue (fifth) and Lawrence Avenue East (sixth).

More than 10,000 respondents took part in the online poll, said South Central Ontario CAA spokesperson Faye Lyons.

“Voters have spoken loud and clear,” said Lyons at the press conference.

“Over 90 per cent of the comments CAA received

were concerns about potholes and poor infrastructure. Their concerns reflect the fact that municipal infrastructure is in decay.”

Lyons estimated it would cost around $2 billion a year for repairs to all the streets on the list.

She said the money for the work should come not from cash-strapped municipalities but from

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