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Pavla Horsak holds up photos of her son David (right) and husband Zdenek (left) after a violent and chaotic interaction with York Regional Police at their York Region home.

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SOME THOUGHTS ON YOUR EXECUTOR One of the most important estate planning decisions you can make is the choosing of the executor who will look after your estate, when you pass away. Essentially, your executor is the person appointed to make sure that your will is properly carried out. For instance, among other things, your executor is responsible for arranging the burial, making any claims on behalf of the estate, paying legitimate debts and taxes of your estate and satisfying the gifts made in your will. You should choose one or more persons well suited to the duties required. In making this choice, you should consider whether it is advantageous to select one executor, or several co-executors, as the case may be.

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• You should consider whether the person you are appointing as executor has the time to take on the task. An executor may be trustworthy, but he or she may be unwilling to accept the appointment. Executors have the right to decline the appointment at the outset when they find out they have been named. • If you are considering appointing an executor who lives in a foreign jurisdiction, you should discuss this with the lawyer preparing your will. Make sure you tell your lawyer that your executor lives in a foreign jurisdiction, so that she can address concerns regarding the requirement for your executor to post a bond. For example, the law of Ontario provides that there is no necessity for an executor to post a bond, if that executor lives in a jurisdiction within the British Commonwealth. • Your executor will have to make some management and business decisions. He or she will also have to deal with your grieving family. You should be aware that even though your executor may not have detailed business and management knowledge, he or she can hire professionals such as lawyers and accountants to deal with any complicated issues. • If you do not think that your children will get along with each other after your death, you may decide not to appoint any of your children as executors. Instead, you might wish to choose a neutral person or financial institution. • It is always a good idea to appoint one or more back up executors, in case your first executor has predeceased you, or if he or she is unwilling or unable to act. • If you are appointing three or more co-executors, such as three of your adult children, you may consider inserting a majority clause in your will to allow two of the three to make a binding decision.

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New York Region storytelling program brings multicultural groups together KIM ZARZOUR kzarzour@yrmg.com It sounded like "do you speak Turkish". The older woman spoke mostly Farsi, and Englishspeaking Caryn Colman struggled to understand what she was saying. Much miming and guessing later, the elder’s eyes lit up: Colman had figured it out. "Oh, you want to know if I cook turkey!" And so the idea was launched to gather, for the first time ever, two groups of isolated senior immigrants for a holiday feast like none other. Amid dreidels and Christmas decor, Persian music and klezmer, the seniors noshed on foods from Russia, Iran and Canada, then danced long into the evening. For the organizers, it was proof that their pilot project was onto something good. There’s just something about food. The aromas, the familiarity, the direct link to early memories - it touches something deep inside of us. It is that connection that is working magic at the Story Café. The program was first launched through the York Region Food Network this fall, targeting isolated seniors from diverse cultures living in a York Region Housing complex. Colman, a food educator and community activator, has spent the past two years working with elders. She and the network’s executive director, Joan Stonehocker, came up with the

idea of using food to document seniors’ life stories, practice English and build stronger connections to the community. With help from an Ontario Seniors’ Secretariat community grant, they joined with Making Connections Storytelling York Region (CHATS, CIVICYork and York Region District School Board) to launch Story Café. The project began with a simple flyer - "Tell, listen, cook and eat" - words the seniors could understand even if English was not a familiar language. For those interested in Persian food and storytelling, the meetings would take place Tuesday afternoons, twice a month. The Russian food/story sessions would be held Thursdays. The idea proved surprisingly popular. Each week the seniors gathered around the table to share their memories as they snacked on food from their homeland. At first, the groups met separately. Colman brought ingredients to create a plate from Iran or Russia and as she prepared the food, the residents helped, advised, shared their stories and became friends. Recipe chatter segued into life stories - a relative who was a good cook, a dinner date that ended in marriage. One woman, tasting a bowl of borscht, recalled childhood meals in Russia, how her family had so little food, they could only eat potato peels. Another talked about her special serving platter, one of many cherished be-

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Above: Workshop facilitator Caryn Colman, standing, centre, joins a group of Russians telling their stories over Russian-style snacks and appetizers during Story Cafe, a program that brings together elderly, isolated newcomers to share life stories and family recipes. Right: Bruce Carmody and Roxanna Bhzadpor watch a video of Bhzadpor’s story about her childhood, part of Story Cafe that encourages memory-sharing over food. longings left behind when they fled strife-torn Iran. Each new story brought laughter, tears, nods of understanding and applause. And then, in late December, a request from the seniors that both groups join together, as one, for a multicultural holiday meal. Everyone brought a potluck offering and the mingling and dancing stretched

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long into the evening. "It was amazing, these two groups in the building who had never before come together," Colman said. "We discovered their similarities are bigger than their differences. The Persians are mostly refugees. The Russians fled during World War II. They are both culturally displaced and don’t have the language skills to

fully integrate into our system. "Food smooths the way when language sets up roadblocks. "When we sit around with a meal, we don’t always talk about food, but we share stories and it’s through those stories that we get to know one another. It feels like we are mitigating loneliness."

In broken English, Tetyana Shatokhina struggles to express her gratitude. "Life without language is like being blind." Shatokhina explains that Story Café has brought her new life, giving her a reason to leave her apartment and share memories with others. "I need people. Need activity. Without it, I’m dead. This, to me, is like breathing." Professional storyteller Bruce Carmody has also joined the groups to share his techniques and impress upon the elders the importance of sharing memories. "The stories we have when we are young live in us," he told them, through an interpreter. "But when we are gone, who will share them with future generations?" Those stories are hidden in everyone, he explains later. "It’s just helping them, pulling the finger from the dike and they pour out." In January, organizers introduced videotaping and translators to preserve the stories. They will record the stories to enable the elders to leave a lasting legacy. Now, as the pilot project draws to a close next month, the organizers are looking for donors to extend the program to include other multicultural groups in other communities. "These people have amazing stories. Like Holocaust survivors and veterans, once they’re gone, their stories will be gone," Colman says. "Whatever else happens we have succeeded already in bridging cultures."

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There’s a troubling trend taking place in the political discourse of late. The news media is in the crosshairs and coming under increasing fire by those who would prefer to be the subject of propaganda instead of public scrutiny. The latest salvo came Friday when U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a double whammy, with White House press secretary Sean Spicer barring a number of news agencies, including the New York Times and CNN, from the daily briefing and the commander-inchief himself again referring to the media as "the enemy of the American people" in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference. It’s an escalation of a campaign intended to sow distrust in the media that’s been ongoing since Trump’s election campaign, with Orwellian terms such as "alternative facts" and "fake news" now entering the lexicon. A free press is an institution so integral to a functioning democracy that Thomas Jefferson is famously quoted as having said: "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." That’s among the reasons why many academics and experts have expressed concern with the Trump administration’s repeatedly adversarial stance toward the media with retired Navy Admiral William McRaven, leader of the 2011 operation that killed Osama bin Laden, calling it "the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime" and Republican Senator John McCain cautioning that suppressing the press is "how dictators get started." While the hostility toward the media is not as prevalent here in Canada, it’s becoming more common to see eerily similar rhetoric dotting the comments sections of news websites and social media feeds. A big part of the news media’s role is holding elected officials, at all levels of government, to account for their actions and the decisions they make and to protect your right to know. At the same time, we’re accountable for our coverage to you, the public. It’s OK for politicians and the public to disagree with the manner in which a story is covered or offer additional information that can make the narrative more clear but there’s a massive difference between that and allegations of fabrication and deliberate falsehood. By all means, don’t hesitate to critique and question news stories, we welcome it but let’s also be careful not to shoot the messenger.

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• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR • Affordable housing shouldn’t be at expense of communities Re: Vaughan poised to legalize secondary suites by fall 2017, Feb. 14. Interesting how the media only reports criticism from those who think the city’s proposal ’comes up short’ regarding legalizing in-house apartments, instead of the criticism from those who think it’s actually ’gone too far.’ The whole provision of ’safe and affordable housing’ has now become the responsibility of the taxpaying homeowner by virtue of Liberal provincial policy mandated down to the municipalities, via Bill 140, or the Strong Communities through Affordable Hous-

ing Act, 2011. First, the shortage of "safe and affordable housing" is the direct result of the very restrictive Residential Tenancy Act which limits the annual increase in rental units to a mere 1.5 per cent, making it absolute nonsense for any investor that knows how to use a calculator to ever think of building, or ever wanting to own, rental units. Many of those that do own them wish they could sell them, but no savvy and experienced investor will buy them. That minimal annual increase doesn’t even come close to covering the maintenance costs of rental buildings as they age. Hence the shortage, clear and simple. And how about the vast majority of homeowners in Ontario who purchased their homes on land that

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was municipally dedicated to single family residential zoning, which included the contractual covenants imposed by the developer, and who were also expected to abide by municipal bylaws which prohibited any secondary suites? Now, because of social engineering, and the political appeasement of special interest groups with very vocal advocates, the provincial government has decided to rescind long established zoning, and force the legalization for the accommodation of transient renters into our long-established neighbourhoods, at the expense of taxpaying homeowners. Where in this article does it describe the added traffic congestion, parking issues, strain on municipal services, the deterioration of property maintenance,

the change in demographics, the resulting decreased property values, and the constant turnover of transient renters and associated community safety issues? Am I against affordable housing? Not in the least. However, it shouldn’t come at the expense of existing communities that legally agreed to (and paid for) a specified zoning, and then, are fraudulently duped into living in another type of zoning, with no opposition permitted. Here’s the hypocrisy: think of the billions of dollars that have been wasted and mismanaged by our provincial government. Conrad Virdo Vaughan

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SIMONE JOSEPH sjoseph@yrmg.com Donald Cousens was more icon than mayor - a fixture in the Markham community. The former Markham mayor and member of York Regional Council died Feb. 23 at Markham Stouffville Hospital. "Don will be remembered for his commitment to public service and genuine ability to lead change," York Regional chairperson and CEO Wayne Emmerson said in a statement Friday. "As one of the founding members of the Character Community Foundation, his dedication and belief that good character makes a positive difference in building strong communities will live on." Cousens was 78. He served as a mentor to Markham deputy mayor Jack Heath. "I am really going to

Former mayor Don Cousens died Feb. 23. miss Don," Heath said in an e-mail Friday. "The first Mayor I worked with he offered guidance and leadership to me as a new councillor when I came on council in 1997. A super guy, always working to better Markham". According to Heath, Cousen’s biggest contribution was getting the IBM research facility to relocate to Markham on Warden Avenue, south of Hwy. 7 in about 2000. "He negotiated with IBM to ensure the facility

would be located in Markham. We were in competition with several places around the world," Heath said. Having IBM in the community meant jobs and economic development. Cousens also helped create Markham District Energy, Heath said. Cousens also played a large part in creating York Region’s character community concept. This concept was conceived at an international education symposium hosted in 2001 by the York Region District School Board. At that symposium, Cousens took on the challenge of hosting a forum about building cities of character. But Cousens did not work on serious concepts, like building character all the time. It was pretty easy to tell when Cousens was having fun, according to Heath. "On occasion, he would say something which you

would think was outrageous and then you wouldglance over and he was quietly chuckling at his joke", he said. Heath also recalls how Cousens was constantly counting votes on important issues in council. "When I sat next to him from 2003 to 2006, he was always making little lists of who was for and against." Cousens represented Markham and York Regional council for 12 consecutive years, from 1994 to 2006. "Don Cousens was a real force at the York Region District School Board, the Province of Ontario and here in Markham," said Markham Mayor Frank Scarpitti. An ordained Presbyterian minister, an officer of the Canadian Forces, Cousens had also been an executive at Honeywell Ltd., before entering politics in 1972.

Cousens was elected to the Ontario Legislature in 1981 and re-elected in 1985. He was past chair of World Vision Canada and was involved in the founding of the York Technology Network, now known as TechConnex. On June 1, 2006, Cousens announced that he would not seek re-election as mayor of Markham due to on-going health problems related to the need for a kidney transplant. His first transplant was in August 2004; the second in October 2006. While waiting for a donation in 2004, he spent several months on dialysis. When his kidney failed, he was back on dialysis for eight months. But Cousens was thrilled when this issue began attracting more attention in Markham. The town proclaimed April 18 to 25 as National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week.

Cousens was proud of the Don Cousens Public School because of his interest in education. "It’s an honour he took to heart, more than anyone knows," Cousens’ son Paul said. Paul says he admired his father’s ability to maintain work-life balance, calling him "an amazing dad. He was so present and engaged," he said. "Going to baseball games, Mary’s skating and playing cards. He had a neat balance. He didn’t miss a thing," Paul said. He admires his father’s character, saying people have come up to him since his father died and talked to him about what an honest, stand-up guy his father was. Paul pointed out this is a tough reputation to attain in politics. A book of condolences has been set up in his honour in the Great Hall of the Markham Civic Centre.

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Canada from the former Czechoslovakia. "We had to use our life savings to pay for legal fees to fight the charges," she said. "We hoped the trial judge would clear our names and find the officers acted without justification ... Instead, The Crown dropped the charges." Now they’re hoping to recoup their losses by suing York Regional Police, Chief Eric Jolliffe and a number of the officers involved, for conspiracy to injure and malicious prosecution, among others. It was after 9 p.m. on April 21, 2013, when police were called about a vehicle driving erratically. When officers reached the licence plate’s corresponding address, they met David and attempted to ask him questions. David grew angry almost im-

mediately. However, when two officers, Const. Mark Kowalchuk and Const. Melinda Finn approached him, Kowalchuk told the court he observed no signs of impairment. It was then and multiple times throughout the night that David told the officers to "get the f *** off my property". Finn said David lunged at her, attempting to choke her, his hand making contact with the left side of her neck. David denies this. Zdenek arrived on the scene and also told the officers he wanted them off his property, explaining his son was not drunk, just tired and returning home from work, an assertion the family maintains. At this point, David ran inside the house and locked himself in the upstairs bathroom. When officers tried to follow him, the temperature rose.

Kowalchuk would later describe what happened next as the "scariest night of his life." He called for backup about 90 seconds after arriving. Four more officers, including Const. Earnest Carmichael, arrived at the home. Police say Zdenek pushed one officer in the chest to keep him from moving farther into the home. Zdenek denies this. Kowalchuk and another officer took Zdenek, now 67, to the floor but couldn’t get his hands in cuffs until Carmichael kicked him in the head two or three times, according to his professional standards hearing. The focus then shifted back to the David. Pavla was begging officers to let her speak to her son to calm him down while he remained in the bathroom.

However, officers insisted they needed to arrest David then and there. "His behaviour didn’t seem rational ...," acting Sgt. Royce Ng testified during the Horsak’s trial. "I don’t know what we’re dealing with here, I don’t know if he’s on drugs, if he has a weapon or a violent history." In his testimony, Ng said the door was ordered opened by his superior 16 minutes after officers arrived on scene, explaining that, at this point, David lunged forward with a mix of "fear and anger" in his eyes. David denies this. It was at this point Ng shot David with a taser, suggesting he tasered him again in the meaty part of his thigh as a "distraction". In the ensuing melee, David’s ribs and orbital bone were broken. After his arrest, David

was not charged with impaired driving, the police suggesting there were no grounds to give him a breathalyzer. David’s cellphone, with which he’d used to take photographs of the incident with police, was later found in the toilet by the Horsaks. The family is unsure how it got there. David and Zdenek were charged with assault and resisting arrest. In October 2016, after 20 days of trial, the charges were dropped. "We are disappointed and disheartened by the criminal justice system, which has taken everything from us without giving us justice in return," said Pavla. "We hope that justice will be served in the civil action." David’s defence lawyer admitted that while his clients engaged in "rude behaviour," he said this was a "normal incident" that

"spiralled way out of control," laying the responsibility for that at the feet of the police. "All of this could have been averted by trained officers, who knew how to deal with someone who is agitated," he said. York Regional Police said the service won’t be commenting about a civil matter in the newspaper. "This is a civil matter before the courts and we are not prepared to litigate it in the media," Const. Andy Pattenden said. For his part in the incident, Carmichael pleaded guilty to assault and received a conditional discharge, 12 months probation and 100 hours of community service, according to the SIU. He was also demoted for nine months after being convicted of discreditable conduct in a York Regional Police professional standards hearing.

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has not been filled (and) the behaviour continues," he said. Adams-Luchowski’s complaint came about three weeks after he and DeBartolo received a letter from Parappally about Carruthers. In his letter, Parappally said on March 24, 2015, Carruthers asked him to appoint her "without competition" to the vacant position of senior manager of board and trustee services, a job that in 2014 paid $140,844. "Additionally, during this meeting, Trustee Carruthers, said that if I appoint her, I would ’not have to worry about my position as director’," he wrote. Parappally was hired as director in 2014 under a standard four-year contract. However, he was given what has been called an unusual and unprecedented 10-year contract several months after he said he was approached by Carruthers about the job. Following his meeting with Carruthers, Parappally said he brought his concerns to human resources to get legal advice. HR staff advised Carruthers her proposal was "problematic," said Parappally, adding the job remains vacant as it would be unfair for a successful candidate to come into the situation. Parappally was so concerned about the issue, he raised it last summer with the Ombudsman’s Office. "Two occurrences over the last month, which I believe are tied to (Carruthers’) request, mean that I must now bring this forward despite my fear of reprisal or ’worry about my position as director.’ First, Trustee Carruthers, during the Oct. 5, 2016 in camera (private) meeting of the board, in front of almost all of the senior team, openly questioned the operational leadership of the board," he said in his letter. "Secondly, and more importantly to me, on Oct.

18 2016, before the board standing committee and after the property management committee, Trustee Carruthers approached another member of the senior team and openly questioned his professionalism and integrity in his capacity as an employee of this board. Out of fear of reprisal, I have been reluctant to address this issue. However, now that it is evolving to include others that report to me and not to trustees, I am compelled to bring this forward." Carruthers said she was approached two years ago by the board’s former chair, who encouraged her to consider whether she could better serve the board as a staff member if a job became available. "On her advice, I had a very short informal conversation with the director about whether I would even be eligible for such a position when I was no longer a trustee. In the end, I decided not to pursue this matter beyond those informal conversations," she said in an email. "At the time and for the next year and a half, no one involved ever suggested that anything had been done that was even remotely inappropriate. While I do find it curious that this issue was only raised as a concern 10 days before a closely fought and well-publicized election for chair of the board last December, I appreciate the opportunity to state that I have never used my position as trustee in any way other than with integrity and careful respect for our governing rules and procedures. Indeed, I believe it is because of my reputation for integrity that I was elected as the new school board chair with a mission to help shepherd our board through the reviews we know are necessary to restore public confidence by improving transparency, accountability and fiscal responsibility."

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In the Estate of Allen Badalov Date of Death: January 14, 2017

In the Estate of Lola Jean Thompson Date of Death August 6, 2016

I the undersigned, propose to distribute the assets of the Estate of Allen Badalov, late of the Town of Richmond Hill, in the Regional Municipality of York, Retired Businessman, and will be responsible only for claims of which I have notice and which are received by me on or before the 2nd day of April, 2017.

WE, the undersigned, propose to distribute the assets of the Estate of Lola Jean Thompson, late of the Town of Richmond Hill, in the Regional Municipality of York, Retired Banker, and will be responsible only for claims of which we have notice and which are received by us on or before the 2nd day of April, 2017.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS In the estate of Larry Richard Judd, Pensioner, Deceased All persons having claims as creditors against the estate of the above mentioned, late of the Town of Richmond Hill, in the Regional Municipality of York, who died at the said Town of Richmond Hill, on -XQH DUH UHTXLUHG WR Ă&#x20AC;OH SURRI RI VDPH ZLWK WKH undersigned on or before May 1, 2017.

DATED at Richmond Hill this 23 day of February, 2017.

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