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ometimes you just have to make a statement.

And with this, The York Guardian’s first-ever themed edition, we’re recognizing the importance of the work at The Hospital for Sick Children – or SickKids – in pursuing the goal of healthy and happy children in our community.

Inside today, along with your regular package of York news, you’ll find stories, photos and other information related to the good work of SickKids.

It’s Healthy and Happy Month at SickKids and we encourage you to visit their healthyandhappy.com website. >>>keeping, page 2

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Jan Kroker, right, with his family Leanne Davies, left, Mabon Kroker and Kenton Kroker at the family’s York home Sunday. Read more about Jan’s treatment at The Hospital for Sick Children on page 10.

Fondness for Fergy at public memorial HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

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When officials from the Learning Enrichment Foundation (LEF)

were asked to host a public memorial service for Fergy Brown, they couldn’t have been more honoured.

“This was Dad’s second

home,” said Fergy’s son, David Brown, who gave an eloquent and succinct speech about his father at Tuesday’s event.

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mentioned that of all the things he ever did, or helped build or promote, he really identified personally with this one. It just >>>FAMILY, page 16

Fergy Brown, former mayor of the city of York, died on April 3.

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Keeping children healthy, happy a significant commitment >>>from page 1 Along with the stories on the important work of SickKids in this edition, we’ve collected stories on a number of other community programs and efforts that also contribute to healthier, happier children.

It’s all to show how integral the important goals of SickKids are in our neighbourhoods, our community

and, frankly, around the world.

For The York Guardian, it’s all about contributing to the building of better communities.

And what a better place than to build a partnership with SickKids.

Please read our editorial today (page 4), for more

about SickKids and a list of some important SickKids resources – including links to an important game which brings child mental health issues to the forefront.

For a collection of stories we’ve published today across the city in Metroland Media Toronto’s nine newspapers – reaching nearly 500,000 door-

steps – please visit bit.ly/ SickKidsedition Here at Metroland, we have a growing partnership with SickKids – and you’ll find on a monthly basis, we’ll be presenting a calendar of events in the community to benefit SickKids.

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Lilah survives rough start, is now cancer-free Neuroblastoma program sees about 20 patients each year HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

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n the day she was born in 2004, at eight pounds, three ounces, Lilah Petersiel was diagnosed with neuroblastoma.

Before Lilah was born, a routine ultrasound showed she only had one kidney. Following her birth a scan revealed a tumour the size of a golf ball on one of her adrenal glands, and she was diagnosed with the rare and deadly cancer.

She immediately began treatment at The Hospital for Sick Children and spent the majority of the first year of her life there.

“We certainly had a rude awakening into parenthood,” said Tami Moscoe, first-time parent with husband Erik Petersiel.

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... other parents are wondering, is my kid eating or sleeping propery. I’m worried about my kid thriving and surviving.

– Tami Moscoe

“(While) other parents are wondering, ‘Is my kid eating or sleeping properly,’ I’m worried about is my kid thriving and surviving.”

Neuroblastoma is the third most common pediatric cancer after leukemia and brain tumours. According to the National Cancer Institute, neuroblastoma usually can be

found in the adrenal glands that sit on top of the kidneys, which is where Lilah’s cancer was found. These glands are responsible for making hormones that help control heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar, and the way the body reacts to stress.

It often affects children under the age of five.

Between 50 and 60 patients are diagnosed with neuroblastoma each year, according to Dr. Meredith Irwin, a clinician scientist at SickKids and Lilah’s oncologist.

“Most of the time it’s in the abdomen, below the chest… half the time it spreads to other parts of the body and when it spreads the survival rate is not great,” said Irwin.

“We estimate for kids that have neuroblastoma who are less than five years of age, about less than 50 per cent of them will survive.”

Once it spreads it gets more challenging to treat because different therapies are needed for the body, said Irwin.

There’s no way to prevent neuroblastoma, according to Irwin. There’s no screening test that can be done to catch it before it starts, either. The only option is to either remove it or treat it once it’s found.

In Lilah’s case, the cancer was caught early and was removed. However, it came back three months later in a different spot.

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Lilah Petersiel, 9, relaxes at home in York last week. She is a former neuroblastoma patient who is cancer-free and was treated at The Hospital for Sick Children.

“That was a little unusual,” said Irwin. “Most of the time when we remove it we’re good.

And everything looked very good under a microscope.

(But) she did require some chemo and further surgery.”

According to Moscoe, the surgery and rounds of chemo was about a six-month process.

Irwin and a team of doctors are part of an active research program at SickKids that focuses strictly on neuroblastoma. The downtown hospital sees about 20 such patients a year, according to Irwin. The program also works with a team of surgeons, nurses, nurse practitioners, social workers to provide a complete care system to its patients.

Irwin also does research for neuroblastoma in the Cell Biology Program and the

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We estimate for kids that have neuroblastoma who are less than five years of age, about less than 50 per cent of them will survive.

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JamesFund for Neuroblastoma Research Labs, and is in the process of testing new drugs on mice with neuroblastoma.

Irwin, along with the other doctors, is trying to pinpoint the genes that cause it and make it spread.

The program was established in 2007 and is working on becoming a more specialized centre to have all patients with this particular cancer to be treated there.

“The neat thing that we do here is what we like to call our

bench-to-bedside research, where we actually get cells from our patients (with neuroblastoma) and bring them over to the lab, with permission of course,” said Irwin.

By getting those cells from patients, Irwin and her team are able to test on the most resistant cells to find out why the cancer is so persistent.

The funding for most of her research comes from Lilah’s Fund, a charity established

by Lilah’s parents to raise money for neuroblastoma research. The couple, who live near Oakwood Avenue and Vaughan Road, got the inspiration from another family from Peterborough whose son, James, went through the same thing and created the JamesFund.

It’s been seven years since its establishment and according to its website, has raised

$660,000.

Moscoe said Lilah is aware of what’s happened to her when she was a baby, but she hasn’t let that define her.

“She always knew about it on a very high level. Its just that her understanding of it has grown more sophisticated because there’s pictures of her,” said Moscoe.

“She went from looking like a monkey with hair everywhere to being as bald as a ping pong ball. We never tried to hide it from her.”

Lilah has been cancer-free for eight years and goes for a routine check-up at SickKids every six months.

“There was never any question that we weren’t being treated by the top experts in the field,” said Moscoe.

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child is registered in the emergency department at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) every nine minutes.

That tells you how critical the work of SickKids is in your neighbourhood, the City of Toronto and beyond.

May is Healthy and Happy Month at SickKids and the goal is to raise funds and awareness for childhood health issues.

This year’s emphasis is an issue we often fear to talk about – children and mental health.

It’s an essential conversation.

Some 10 to 20 per cent of youth are affected by a mental illness or disorder. Now silently, repeat that number to yourself and reflect on what that means.

Now remember only one in five children who needs mental health services actually receives them.

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among youth. That shouldn’t be.

Every child deserves to be our view healthy and happy.

Please support children’s We must have health this month and visit two special websites set up by these essential SickKids: conversations www.healthyandhappy.com – May is the SickKids Healthy and Happy Month. This website offers many opportunities for interaction and discussion on any number of childhood illness topics, with an emphasis this year on child mental health. It’s a great place to start looking for mental health information. And there’s even a quiz on the website that visitors can take. www.aboutkidshealth.ca – This wonderful resource is essential for every parent. It’s a collection of health information from A-Z, along with news, stories and discussion of issues facing today’s youth. There are stories, video, instruction – and even a newsletter for you to sign up. You may not need parenting information.

You know someone who does. Let them know about this site.

SickKids is not a secret.

More than 265,000 donors raised $111.7 million in 2012. You’ll find an impressive list of fundraising events in a calendar in today’s newspaper. Many events were initiated by community members.

We are very fortunate to have SickKids as a resource.

Between health services and the largest child health research facility on the country, we need to recognize this great resource and take advantage of its community outreach.

As they would say at SickKids, every child deserves to be healthy and happy.

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Working up a hearty playoff appetite with these menu items

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t’s May, the NHL playoffs are underway, the Maple Leafs are alive and the whole town is buzzing.

Ah, but where to go to catch the games?

One of my favourite spots is a popular hangout for hockey fans called Toothless Joe’s. In anticipation of a huge Leaf crowd for round one they’re offering a special menu specifically tied to the team’s aggressive, hardnosed style of play.

So bring your playoff appetite if you decide to drop by to see the lads go paw to paw with the big bad Bruins.

Here’s just a sample of a few of the tasty items.

APPETIZERS Battered Shrimp Smoked Salmon SIDE DISHES Face-Plant On Ice

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY Arena Squash Creamed Asparagus A LA CARTE Muscle Shells Thai Domi BLUE PLATE SPECIALS Knuckle Sandwich Left/Right Combo ENTREES Chicken On Skewers What’s Your Beef Wellington Keep Your Head Up Meatball BEVERAGES Hawaiian Punch Orange Crush AWARD-WINNING DESSERT Pound Cake

HOUSE WHINE How come all the wimps sitting at the tables always sprint to the TV screens near the bar and block everyone’s view every time the players drop their gloves.

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Or, if you really get in the spirit, you can just pay by CHECK. Jamie Wayne is a lifelong columnist, who takes writing very seriously. The topics?

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Suburbs not necessarily OK with a downtown casino To the editor: Re: ‘Limiting casino debate a bad move,’ Editorial, Our View, April 16.

I live in Etobicoke, but that doesn’t mean I am OK with a casino downtown.

You assume some of us are uncaring about people spending money they can’t afford, will run heavily into debt or that some have gambling problems.

I can’t speak for others, but I am concerned about a casino going anywhere, especially where it would make it easy for people to get to.

Do not assume those who live in the suburbs would be OK with a casino downtown.

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Living A Healthy Life: Diabetes Self-Management Workshop WHEN: 1 to 3:30 a.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Library, 1123 Weston Rd. CONTACT: Karima, Health Promoter at Unison HCS, 416 653-5400, www.tcsmp.ca, smp@srchc.com COST: Free Six-week workshop helps people living with diabetes (or at risk of diabetes) or caring for someone with diabetes to manage their health and quality of life with confidence.

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A Celebration of Asian History WHEN: 11 a.m. to noon WHERE: Forest Hill United Church, 2 Wembley Rd. CONTACT: 416-783-0879 COST: Free Special service with guest Mae Lyne Abrenica speaking about the church at work in Korea and the Philippines.

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Dance Traditions of the Philippines WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free Learn and watch the rich history and exciting techniques of Philpino folk dance with performer Liza Fernandez.

Liza was artistic director at the University of the Philipino Dance company. She currently guest lectures at York University. Call to register.

Sophie’s Studio: Linda Granfield WHEN: 4 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Library Branch, 1123 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-394-1008 COST: Free Linda Granfield, author of history books for children, will have kids creating their own art and postcards.

Kids will get a fun history lesson, and maybe even invent a secret code. For ages 10 to 12. Space is limited. Call or visit the branch to register.

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Jane’s Walk in Mount Dennis WHEN: 1 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: Keelesdale Park, 2801 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: mountdennis.ca, mike@ mountdennis.ca COST: Free MDCA-led Jane’s Walk visiting the LRT launch site and other places of interest, with opportunity to speak with walk leaders about the projects.

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Roselands Horticultural Society: Made for the Shade WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Church of the Good Shepherd, 1149 Weston Rd. CONTACT: roselandshs@gmail. com COST: Free Roselands Horticultural Society’s monthly meeting will feature a talk by Heinke Thiessen on gardening in the shade. Learn what plants to use to create a fantastic shade garden.

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Greenhills Community/Ravine Cleanup WHEN: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Greenborough Community Church, 2000 Keele St. CONTACT: Larry Colle, 416-452-2016, lcolle@sympatico.ca COST: Free

of the Good Shepherd, 1149 Weston Rd. CONTACT: Schuyler Brown, 416766-1887, schuyler.brown@utoronto. ca COST: Free Using the text ‘Anglicanism’ by Bishop Stephen Neill, Schuyler Brown will lead Tuesday evening sessions in May.

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Kids are invited to see ‘the art in everything’ Uth Daze festival takes place May 25 to 26

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With the theme of “the art in everything,” Kanika Ambrose took the opportunity to

make the third annual Uth Daze youth arts festival an unconventional one.

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Christie St., is aimed at youngsters aged three to 13 and will include live performances, visual art, workshops, a play and wrap-up party.

“Last year we had a good attendance and a wide variety of activities going on at all times,” said Ambrose, who wasn’t curator at the time.

“This year, I wanted to do unconventional art pairings, like a guitarist with a this beat boxer. community We have an story art installa- inspired by tion, which the goal is done out of having of recycled happy, material, healthy and a workchildren shop using tires and car parts. The theme was already chosen when I came on board and I thought about what does it mean, the art in everything? Maybe it means a food artist, or using different items that would not be considered art.”

The festival will launch with pOP-UP ART from 10 a.m. to noon, with live performances by youth and emerging artists, including poet Lishai Peel.

The All Day Experience May 26, to run from noon to 5 p.m., will feature visual art including workshop Tread On It!, using recycled car parts with Jeff Mann; performances by Sara Farb, Akiva Romer-Segal and Colleen Dauncey’s Bremen Rock City musical; and multiple art workshops.

From 6:30 to 8 p.m., the Uth main stage will bring out a 14 and over audience for The Burning, a new play by Soothemysisters Productions, followed by the festival wrap-up party from 8 to 10:30 p.m.

All events are free, except the Uth main stage, which is pay what you can.

“Uth Daze would be great for everyone,” Ambrose said.

“In Jeff Mann’s workshop, you make art using car parts.

Kids might find that cool.

You use pieces of the engine and paint. We will have a kite making workshop with plastic bags, so kids who might want to learn how to make a kite might find it interesting.

We will also have a live installation made from recycled material and invite people to participate and add to it.

The main aim for the festival is to just get youth and young people to view art in a different way. I’m really excited about the festival and hope people come out, even if it’s just for a few minutes.”

Uth Daze will feature more than 50 artists of all ages and experience levels.

Other activities include Shakespeare workshops with actor Marcel Stewart, stilt walking by Swizzlestick Theatre and face painting with Christopher Pinheiro.

Uth Daze will be presented by The reConnexion Collective.

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Police seek suspect in attempted kidnapping Police are looking for a man wanted in an attempted kidnapping investigation.

Police said the victim was in the Weston Road and Lawrence Avenue area on April 25 when he was approached by two men around 1 p.m. After a brief conversation, the two men attempted to force the victim into the rear of a vehi- Eric CoplinDuran cle. A struggle started and the victim was repeatedly kicked and punched, police said.

The assault was interrupted by a passerby who called out to the suspects, prompting the two men to flee from the vehicle.

Eric Coplin-Duran, 18, is wanted for conspiracy to commit indictable offence, assault, and attempt kidnapping.

Police consider him dangerous. If spotted, call 911.

Police have not yet identified the other man allegedly involved in the attempted kidnapping, described as a black male, but are requesting the assistance of anyone who knows him.

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Family of brain tumour patient grateful for care HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

A

t six-years old, instead of running around playing sports or Pokemon video games with his older brother Mabon, Jan Kroker was undergoing life-threatening brain surgery.

Neurosurgeons at The Hospital for Sick Children found a tumour five centimetres in diameter growing in the centre of his brain.

“It was like a balloon was being blown up inside of his head,” said Kenton Kroker, Jan’s father.

Jan has a benign brain tumour called craniopharyngioma. According to the National Cancer Institute, it’s a rare tumour usually found close to the pituitary gland.

It’s part solid mass, part fluidfilled cyst and often starts off as a cyst, but doesn’t always become a cancer.

Jan needed five surgeries, which included two craniotomies due to the tumor. He spent seven weeks at SickKids and another three weeks at Bloorview Rehabilitation Hospital.

“He did physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy,” said Leanne Davies, Jan’s mother.

“He just started going back to school last June.”

Jan, who is now eight years old, attends Rawlinson Community School, takes French immersion classes and is enjoying art, drawing and music. He’s not the size of an average third grader; he’s actually smaller because the surgery caused him to lose pituitary function. He will need to take synthetic hormone injections six times a week for the next 10 to 12 years.

“What was unusual is that you have a child that doesn’t have special needs and then overnight they become a child with special needs,” said Davies.

“You have to rethink your family life and goals for that child. Everything became very different very quickly for us.”

Jan’s road to recovery was a long one to get to the point where he is today, an eightyear-old boy who is not only aware of his own life struggles but can comprehend it – right down to listing all his medications by their proper medical

‘When I was going into the operating theatre, Mom was very worried about me.’

– Jan Kroker, 8

Staff photo/Nick Perry

Jan Kroker at the family’s home in York on Sunday.

names without stumbling.

Jan first started showing warning signs in the fall of 2011, when he had recurring stomach flu.

“Lots of kids had it and he was starting school so it was going around,” said Davies.

“But what we noticed is that he would start to get better and then get sick again.”

He missed his brother’s birthday party and Halloween, too. Jan was supposed to be an astronaut that year.

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What was unusual is that you have a child that doesn’t have specail needs and then overnight they boecome a child with special needs.

– Leanne Davies

A couple of days after Halloween, Davies noticed one of his eyes was starting to turn inwards. Both Davies and Kroker thought Jan was just developing a lazy eye, so she took him to their optometrist.

By then his flu-like symptoms had faded.

“She took a look at the back of his eye for quite some time,”

said Davies.

“Then she told us, ‘You need to go straight to SickKids, Jan has swelling on both of his optic nerves. Don’t go home, just go straight to the hospital.’”

The optometrist explained the swelling was due to pressure on the optic nerve.

“As soon as she said that I knew what was happening, or what it could be,” Davies recalled.

She took Jan to hospital after a quick stop at Indigo Chapters to get him a toy to play with because waiting times in hospitals can be dull for children.

“I got a bomb bird key chain from Angry Birds!” chimed in Jan. When they got to the emergency room the doctor had Jan go in for a CT scan.

“At this point, I was really, really scared. I was just hoping it wasn’t a mass.”

Davies was later joined at SickKids by her husband and older son. They sat in front of a computer as a neurosurgeon explained that Jan had craniopharyngioma, a large brain tumour, about the size of a tangerine, sitting on his pituitary gland. The family was told the tumour had likely

been growing in Jan’s brain for years.

Doctors reassured the parents that their son’s tumour was a result of a birth defect while the embryo was still forming, and had nothing to do with something they had or hadn’t done.

In the next couple of days, Jan had the first of five surgeries. The doctor’s installed a ventricular-peritoneal (VP) shunt to release fluids from his brain to help with the pressure on his optic nerves.

“It’s a bump that takes fluid from my brain…it goes in my neck and goes all the way to my belly…it’s right here,” explained Jan, lifting up his red shirt to show the scar just beside his bellybutton.

By bump he means valve, said Kroker.

“Once they installed the shunt and he came to, the difference was like day and night,” said Kroker.

Jan’s eyes immediately began to straighten out and he no longer had double vision.

But the young boy still had a few more hurdles to overcome and the experience was already overwhelming for both Kroker and Davies. But the care at SickKids was a reassuring presence during their

journey.

“I never once had any hesitation about the quality of care we were getting,” said Kroker.

“One of the best things about the care we got is that I never thought once that they were selling us something.”

It was still a “bewildering experience” at times, and Kroker admitted that having to see radiologists, neurologists, neuro-oncologist, dietician ophthalmologists and nursing staff made the couple unsure of who they should be seeing at any given point in time.

“There’s no quarterback,” said Kroker. “As one of the social workers said to us, ‘You’re the quarterbacks.

You’re the ones directing the care.’ Because everybody sees a little piece, some see a few pieces…nobody sees the whole thing.”

Jan’s first craniotomy took place Jan. 25, 2012 and about 30 per cent of the tumor was taken out; four weeks later, Jan had his second craniotomy lasting eight hours.

Before Jan’s second surgery the list of risks associated with it were weighing heavy on Davies.

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One of the best things about the care we got is that I never thought once they were selling us something.

– Kenton Kroker

“When I was going into the operating theatre, Mom was very worried about me,” Jan recalled.

At the time he was having a hard time speaking because of the first surgery but managed to let her know one thing.

“I held her hand and I said: It’s ... O ... k.”

Thankfully, the second surgery was successful and the tumor didn’t spread further. Post-surgery, Davies and Kroker visited Jan in shifts while in the hospital, Kroker at night and Leanne during the day.

“The surgery was necessary and the surgery saved his life, but it also caused damage,” said Kroker.

Jan was in a wheelchair for a month, he couldn’t hold a pen to draw or write his own name

it shook so much. He also had difficulties speaking.

“There are massive cognitive problems – he couldn’t remember anything,” said Kroker.

“It was terrifying how he struggled to remember and how he would get the simplest words confused.”

For Mabon, one of his big fears was Jan wouldn’t remember him after the surgery. He thought his brother was going to have a brain transplant and wouldn’t be the same. But despite his fears Mabon said he visited Jan at least 10 times while he was in the hospital.

“I felt really bad for him because when he was in the hospital he seemed really tired and a bit depressed,” said Mabon.

“I wasn’t in there for very long, but they meant a lot to Jan. I couldn’t imagine spending two months in the hospital.”

Since recovering from his surgeries Jan has caught up with his school work, is playing baseball and starting to catch up physically to his peers.

Jan has a another cyst growing in the spot where the last tumor was removed.

It was found in November; by February, doctors confirmed that the cyst is, in fact, craniopharyngioma but can’t be treated right now.

“It’s very small and not causing any symptoms,” said Davies. “It’s just growing.”

They’ll continue to monitor it with regular check-ups at SickKids.

“I don’t know what we would do if we didn’t live in Toronto so close to SickKids,” said Davies.

History It all began way back in the spring of 1875, when a group of Toronto women led by Elizabeth McMaster rented an 11-room house in downtown Toronto for $320 a year, set up six iron cots and declared open a hospital “for the admission and treatment of all sick children.”

– www.sickkids.ca

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TCDSB to staff mental health and addiction nurses in schools Toronto’s Catholic school board will soon staff mental health and addiction nurses in its schools, thanks to a new partnership with the Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre this (CCAC). community “The story board rec- inspired by ognizes that the goal approxiof having mately 20 happy, per cent healthy of young children people in the province are living with mental health challenges,” Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) chair Ann Andrachuk said in

a statement. “We are pleased to be working in partnership with CCAC to provide supports to these young people as early as possible so that these children have more opportunities for success.”

The CCAC has designed effective services to help staff, students and their families with mental health and addiction issues.

The mental health and addiction nurses specifically dedicated to TCDSB schools will: assist students transitioning to and from psychiatric treatment facilities and hospitals; assist and support school board staff and families in understanding medication effects and how they may

impact behaviours and needs in the classroom; assist and support schools and students in seeking appropriate treatment for drug use, abuse and dependence; and assist and support the school board in mental health promotion and education on an ongoing basis.

Dipti Purbhoo, senior director of client services at Toronto CCAC, said they’re “delighted” to bring their expertise to TCDSB students.

Funding is provided by the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care.

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George Syme Breakfast Club helps students focus HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

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very day, students at George Syme Community School get snacks delivered to their classrooms thanks to the Student Nutrition Program (SNP).

The snack includes items from three food groups: this fruits and community vegetable, story grains, and inspired by dairy. the goal “That’s of having the universal happy, program,” healthy said Mena children Paternostro, co-ordinator for the Student Nutrition Programs with the Toronto District School Board.

“We’re finding that students that have the morning meal in the classroom, there’s a 100 per cent participation rate.

Kids are more inclined to eat because they see other kids eating,” Paternostro said.

About 40 per cent of children go to school hungry, according to The Toronto Foundation for Student Success (TFSS), which helps support nutrition programs like the SNP by providing children and teens with more than 147,000 meals every day a child is at school.

There are 380 schools within the TDSB participating in the program, Paternostro said.

The funding for the program depends on parent contributions, private donations and grants from the provincial and municipal governments. It recently received $1.4 million from the City of Toronto, which has allowed 19 more schools to adopt the program.

George Syme, at Jane Street and St. Clair West Avenue, also offers a Breakfast Club that kids can sign up for at the beginning of the year. They come in between 7:30 and 8:45 a.m. to receive the hot breakfast of the day, which can be waffles, pancakes or

fit,” said Sequeira, who has been helping out with the SNP for eight years.

Sequeira is also in charge of preparing the breakfast in the classroom portion of the program, where students help distribute snacks to all classrooms between 9:30 and 9:45 a.m.

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Abigail Lavin, centre, Gisela Pinto Calderon and Javid Jakeer deliver morning snacks to fellow students at George Syme Community School Monday.

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“I like working with kids and food, for me it’s a good

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He also eats at the Breakfast Club.

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Sequeira also does all the grocery shopping for the George Syme breakfast program and has to stay within budget. She’s all about giving the children variety. At one point, students had 10 different healthy cereals to choose from, she said..

“When they have a variety they choose what they want to eat and are more likely to eat it all. That’s a good thing,” said Sequeira.

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Family, friends share memories of Fergy Brown

>>>from page 1 seemed like a natural place to have it.”

Fergy died Wednesday, April 3 at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He suffered from pulmonary fibrosis.

Born on Oct. 31, 1923, Fergy had a long and full life. He immigrated to Canada at the age of five with his parents.

“It’s hard to believe the sleek gray-haired man we all know came to Canada as a carrottop covered in freckles with an accent so thick his Grade 1 teacher could not understand him,” recalled Brown.

As photos of Fergy in his younger days (still sporting the gray hair) with his wife Marjorie played on a loop on a giant projector screen in the LEF building at 116 Industry St., more than 100 people were ushered in to honour the memory of the former city of York mayor from 1988 to 1994.

To many, he never acted like a politician, but an ordinary man – a man for the people.

Marjorie was absent from

the service; she suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and is in West Park’s long term care centre.

Brown explained to the crowd that Marjorie is healthy and happy, but often gets stressed when not in her regular environment.

“She just simply wouldn’t understand the significance of today and in a way I think the rest of the family almost envy her of that,” he said.

The ceremony began with the Toronto Police Pipe Band playing the bagpipes as Royal Canadian Air Cadets Flag Party marched in past three framed photos of Brown. The emcee for the service was none other than his best friend Alan Tonks, who said a few words.

Mike Sullivan, MP for York South-Weston, Mike Colle, MPP for Eglinton-Lawrence, and Toronto City Councillor for York South-Weston Frances Nunziata also spoke of their fondness for Fergy.

People from all the different facets of Fergy’s life came together to celebrate the

Staff photo/Dan Pearce

Constable Julie Brown helps unveil a room named after her grandfather Fergus (Fergy) Brown at the Learning Enrichment Foundation Tuesday during a memorial service for the former York Mayor who died April 3.

life and times of “Mr. York,” including the membership chair of the Royal Canadian Legion, Mount Dennis Branch Lee MacNeil.

She personally dealt with Fergy’s transfer request when he was switching from Branch 75 to the Mount Dennis Branch 31. She’ll always remember

Fergy anxiously awaiting the Robbie Burns dinner, his favourite event of the year.

“He’d always say months in advance, ‘Save me ten tickets,’” MacNeil recalled.

Lilian Lonsdale, a coordinator with the Legion who helped with the Robbie Burns dinners, also had fond

memories of Fergy around that time of year.

“He never missed our Robbie Burns, he did it every year,” said Lonsdale. “This year in January he was so ill, but he came anyway. He was fabulous, everyone always waited for his speeches and poems he read.”

After the memories from political figures, David Brown and Fergy’s daughter, Judy Ventura, were shared, as well as readings and prayers, LEF unveiled to the audience its contribution to Fergy’s legacy by naming one of their halls The Fergy Brown Hall.

“I was surprised,” said David Brown. “The first meeting I had with LEF after dad passed they asked if they could do that and I said ‘Oh my God, we’re honoured,’ and they said, ‘No, no, no, it’s the other way around, we’re honoured.’”

The ceremony ended with the playing of the Last Post, followed by two minutes of silence and a reading of Act of Remembrance.

LEF executive director Peter

Frampton was pleased with the event turnout as well as the service.

“I thought it was an incredibly appropriate memorial for Fergy, celebrating community and having a formal side, which was important to him, too.”

Just before wrapping up his speech, David Brown gave the audience a glimpse into how the Brown family has been dealing with their father’s death this past month.

“When people express their condolences to any of us we generally say the same thing.

We’re profoundly sad and we’ll all miss Fergy, but we’re not devastated,” said Brown. “Dad was 89. He had a wonderful life, he had a family that loved him and he did so much good work in the community. He left us peacefully on a spring afternoon after a short stay at Sunnybrook. We can’t ask for more than that.”

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‘Zombies’ highlight need for proper transit funding RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com A lack of adequate public transportation has transformed Toronto-area commuters into a mindless, shuffling zombie mass according to a new online video.

Stop the Zombie Madness depicts the senselessness of getting to work in a gridlocked region. Produced by Pembina Institute, the one minute and five second video clip, which debuted last week on YouTube, shows a desolate urban landscape inhabited by undead commuters stuck in traffic or waiting for a bus that never comes.

Zombie makeup aside, it’s an all-too-familiar experience for the millions of exhausted residents who feel a little deader each day struggling to get to work, says Cherise Burda, a spokesperson for Pembina, an environmental think tank.

“Transit, for a lot of people in this region, is a really slow

bus they wait half an hour to catch,” said Burda, transportation policy director for Pembina.

Since it debuted on the group’s YouTube channel last week, the video has generated over 4,000 views.

It also contains a link to a web portal leading to information on the Metrolinx Big Move transportation plan and an online pledge created by the Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance for new transit funding.

Burda said the project was an effort to engage a broad audience in advance of funding recommendations to pay for the $50billion Big Move to be released by provincial planning agency Metrolinx at the beginning of June.

Pembina had originally planned to canvas commuters about their nightmarish travel experiences, but opted for a short film on zombies, whose current pop-culture relevance according to Burda would help draw in people not overly familiar with the

A media awareness campaign for better public transit, created by environmental research group the Pembina Institute, compares commuters to the living dead. Stop the Zombie Madness, which launched in late April, calls on rapid transit investment to ‘bring Toronto back to life.’

particulars of the transit funding debate.

“What people are missing is the backstory. Our video was one way of trying to reach people using a type

of medium they can relate to,” said Burda. “And if they like the video they might become interested in the issue and understand it’s more complicated than it

might seem.”

While recent polls have shown residents are torn over he idea of new revenue tools, she said Pembina’s research indicates people will sup-

port new taxes and fees if the collected revenues are dedicated to a specific issue or project.

In British Columbia, for example, a carbon tax to reduce green gas emissions was initially unpopular with voters. But Burda said polls taken two years after the tax was introduced showed widespread support for the measure.

“If people can see the revenues are going somewhere, and are transparent, we see approval ratings increase after implementation,” said Burda, pointing to similar examples in Sweden and Norway.

Judging on the success of the campaign, she said Pembina may employ more pro-transit ad campaigns involving the living dead.

“You might start seeing zombie flash-mobs on the subway,” she said with a laugh.

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The transit agency had already committed to installing Wi-Fi on subway platforms on a pilot basis, but the locations of the stations were not known. In a tweet last week, TTC spokesperson Brad Ross said Bloor-Yonge and St. George will be the first stations to receive the ad-supported Wi-Fi, which is provided by the telecom company Broadcast Australia.

GO Transit is also running a pilot Wi-Fi program and plans to expand to more locations within six months.

Support for closing Pape during reno A recent TTC survey shows 85 per cent of respondents support closing Pape subway station for an extended amount of time to complete renovations quicker.

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An urban advocacy group wants to make local employment a requirement for contractors bidding for light rail construction contracts.

The Toronto Community Benefits Network (TCBN) wants Metrolinx to make local employment a requirement for some of the estimated $4.6 billion worth of construction contracts the provincial transit planning agency is handing out for the completion of the Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown and Scarborough LRT lines.

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wheeling along weston road

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touring the humber: Above, Toronto police Const. Dave Michaud, left, leads the Mount Dennis Bike Ride along Weston Road on Saturday. Top right, Michaud teaches some road safety tips to participants before setting out Saturday from the Learning Enrichment Foundation on the Mount Dennis Bike Ride along the Humber Valley Trail. At right, Andre Bernardo, left, and Jason DaSilva look over the route map with Michaud before setting out along the trail.

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Not a Boring Walk explores Mount Dennis York has to have one of the best names for its Jane’s Walk, a free annual worldwide event named in honour of deceased urban activist and writer Jane Jacobs who advocated pedestrian-friendly neighbourhoods.

Not a Boring Walk, being held Saturday, will give participants a chance to explore a number of major infrastructure projects in Mount Dennis.

Highlights include visits to the Eglinton light rapid transit (LRT) tunnel launch site, a bridge over Black Creek, the York Recreation Centre, Kodak Heights and the Mount Dennis Public Library.

The walk gets under way Saturday at 1 p.m. near the Chris Tonks Arena at Keelesdale Park, south of Eglinton Avenue between Keele Street and Black Creek Drive, and wraps up two-and-a-half hours later at the library.

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montage hosts a family party petting zoo: Right, James Carvalho, 6, feeds the goats and sheep during Montage Support Service’s Family Party and Petting Zoo on Oakwood Avenue recently. Below, Isabel Mazzotta, left, paints Busqualina Cuzzolino’s face.

Far right, Megan Graham tries on a Burmese python for size.

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MP launches bid to ‘re-protect’ Humber River LISA QUEEN lqueen@insidetoronto.com Wearing rain boots while standing in the Humber River in Cruickshank Park Tuesday, York South-Weston NDP MP Mike Sullivan said he would introduce a private member’s bill the following day aimed at protecting the river.

The legislation would undo a threat created last December by the federal Conservatives when they amended the Navigable Waters Protection Act, he said.

“With one stroke of the pen” the Conservatives removed hundreds of thousands of lakes, rivers and streams from federal protection, Sullivan said.

Now, only 62 rivers, 37 lakes and three oceans, which total less than two per cent of Canadian waterways, are covered by the federal law, he said.

While lakes and rivers can be protected by provincial and municipal governments,

there’s no guarantee those cash-strapped lower levels of government will be able to, he said.

Under the amended legislation, the Humber River, which is a federal heritage river, is only covered from Lake Ontario to Bloor Street, Sullivan said.

He called the Conservatives’ decision to protect only a small part of the river “sneaky.”

Removing the Humber, and other waterways, from federal protection leaves it vulnerable, Sullivan said.

“What does it mean that it is not protected? What it means is that unbridled and unencumbered development can occur all along its length,” he said.

“The development can take water from the river, can put in houses, buildings, etc., can put in bridges, can siphon water, can redirect the flow of water, all without federal oversight, all without any kind of environmental

source of much of Toronto and the five million people in the GTHA (Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area),” he said.

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It is our intention to re-protect this water, to re-protect this wonderful piece of Canada...

– Mike Sullivan

Staff photo/Lisa Queen

York South-Weston MP Mike Sullivan climbs out of the Humber River on Tuesday, the day before he was to introduce a private member’s bill in Parliament to protect the river.

protection.”

Having the river protected under the legislation would mean the federal government would be responsible for conducting environmental assessments if there are proposed projects that threaten the quality of the water, Sullivan said.

While Sullivan acknowledged it is difficult to have an opposition private member’s bill adopted in a majority Conservative government, he said it is worth trying.

“It is our intention to re-protect this water, to reprotect this wonderful piece of Canada that is the water

Sullivan’s bid to have the Humber covered under the legislation from Lake Ontario to its source in the Oak Ridges Moraine and Niagara Escarpment is part of a larger NDP initiative launched on Earth Day, April 22, to restore protection to Canada’s rivers and lakes under the legislation.

“It is our intent, the NDP, to re-protect these waters,” he said.

The Toronto and Region

Conservation Authority supports his bid to protect the Humber, Sullivan said.

Authority and executive committee member Mike Mattos, who attended the press conference, said having the Humber covered by federal legislation is a crucial part of a multi-leveled approach needed to protect the river. “ This is a ver y good opportunity to do a holistic approach and save the Humber for the next generation,” he said.

Weston Historical Society president Mar y Louise Ashbourne, a former member of an authority subcommittee to have the Humber recognized as a federal heritage river, said while it is important to protect all waterways, heritage rivers in particular should be covered by federal legislation.

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