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Thornhill’s Lillian Golden celebrated a milestone 100th birthday earlier this month. Here, she enjoys a dance with her son Niel as her granddaughter Lani Billard and daughter Beverley look on. Lillian says she still loves to dance. Family and friends honoured her at a big buffet party featuring a photo slide show, dating to the time she was just 2 years old.

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Thornhill vice-principal arrested St. Robert Catholic High School community in shock

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Parents at a Catholic high school in Thornhill have been left stunned after the arrest of a vice-principal under suspicion of sexual assault and exploitation of a

male student. Paul Patterson, from St. Robert Catholic High School, was taken into custody by York Regional Police Tuesday and was expected to appear before Newmarket court yesterday to be formally charged. As hundreds of teenagers exited the Leslie Street school Tuesday, parents shared their shock at hear-

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ing the news. Fred Tehrani said the news had left him wondering what sort of steps the school’s administration and the York Catholic board will take in the wake of the investigation. “I am pretty shocked by this. It’s terrible for the school name, especially a Catholic school,” he

said. “I hope they are taking some serious steps.” Another parent of a Grade 9 female student said she is just hoping it’s not the vice-principal in charge of her program. “It’s concerning, there are a lot of children in this school, about See ‘REALLY SHOCKING’, page 7.

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he McMichael Canadian Art Collection is marking its 50th anniversary this year and as part of the celebration, it’s breaking out the fine china, so to speak. The Kleinburg gallery’s newest exhibition On Paper, which opened last month and runs until May 1, will give visitors a glimpse at a selection of rarely seen works on paper from the McMichael’s permanent collection. “What’s special or of particular interest with respect to this exhibition… is that these works, because they’re works on paper, are only suitable for temporary exposure,” said Chris Finn, assistant curator at the McMichael. “We need to be able to exhibit them only for short periods of time and then they have to go into dark storage for an extended period of time just to balance out how much light exposure they actually get.” Among the pieces on display, is Emily Carr’s 56-page diary and sketchbook produced in 1903 during a visit to Europe and England, when she wound up hospitalized for 18-months to treat a persistent illness An iPad has been installed alongside it allowing visitors to scroll through its entire contents. The exhibition also boasts stunning watercolours by Group of Seven member A.J. Casson. “You can see different strategies that Casson was working with in terms of certain pre-planning,” Finn said. “You can see some of the graphite lines that were laid out in terms of establishing the composition, but he certainly did have the mastery and control of the medium.” There’s also a series of unique watercolours by David Milne, including Morning Paper, which has never been publicly exhibited and was recently promised as a gift to the McMichael gallery. “He worked in a wide variety of media — he was doing oil painting as well as drypoint etchings – but this series of watercolours is really quite an interesting handling of the media,” Finn said. “A very atmospheric and very controlled application of the paint and colour.” Group of Seven fans may also enjoy the series of seldom displayed, playful drawings by Arthur

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Lismer of Tom Thomson and members of the iconic group of Canadian landscape painters. “Lismer, according to comments Lawren Harris made, was always carrying pencils and papers

and was this inveterate sort of draftsman who continued to produce works wherever,” Finn said. “We have do have works in the collection where he’s taken a theatre program from a performance

at The Arts and Letters Club and started sketching out a caricature of Lawren Harris. So he would draw on anything.” On Paper also features Clarence Gagnon’s original fifty-four artworks for Maria Chapdelaine, a novel written in 1913 by the French writer Louis Hémon based on his experiences in the Lac Saint-Jean district of Québec. Éditions Mornay, a book publisher in Paris, commissioned Gagnon to create the first colour illustrations for a new edition of the novel. “He originally resisted agreeing to this commission because of the amount of time required for producing these kinds of limited edition books because he was active as a painter and as printmaker,” Finn explained. “It took a lot of encouragement and constant pressure from the publisher to get Clarence Gagnon to actually commit to doing this series.” It wound up taking Gagnon five years of intense work to complete the illustrations. “He would spend months and months and months developing

studies before he reached a final work that would serve as the illustration in the book,” Finn said. The Maria Chapdelaine display also includes copies of the original limited-edition Éditions Mornay novel as well as the 1931 French periodical L’Illustration, which promoted the book. One of the first Maria Chapdelaine films, produced in France in 1934 and directed by Julien Duvivier, and a hand-drawn lithographic poster promoting the film, are part of the exhibition too.

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It was a little darker than normal across York Region Saturday night. Thousands of residents throughout the area powered down during Earth Hour March 19. NewmarketTay Hydro reported electricity consumption dropped by 4.7 megawatts across Newmarket, a 6.1-percent decrease when compared to a typical Saturday night in March. That’s the equivalent of taking 145 Newmarket homes off the grid for an hour, Newmarket-Tay representatives said. During the hour, town staff turned off all lighting at most municipal facilities and operated the remaining ones with reduced lighting needed for safety. “This is our ninth year participating in this annual, global event,” Regional Councillor John Taylor said. “Newmarket residents continue to impress me with their enthusiasm in participating in Earth Hour by sending off a powerful message that it’s possible to take action on climate change. Switching off our lights and electrical power is just

one simple action we can take to help make a difference.” The town held several Earth Hour activities to encourage participation in this year’s event, including the War of the Wards, where residents pledged to power down for one hour and the ward with the most pledges earned a party. Wards 1 and 7 submitted the most pledges, 422 pledges each. In total, 1,313 pledges were received town-wide. Many PowerStream customers in Aurora, Bradford West Gwillimbury, Markham, Richmond Hill and Vaughan also reduced consumption. Aurora powered down by 5.9 per cent (2.98 MWs), Bradford dropped by 7.8 (1.66 MWs),

Markham and Richmond Hill lowered consumption by 4.1 (11.07 and 5.67 MWs, respectively) and Vaughan decreased by 3.7 (12.04 MW), when compared to usage patterns on similar types of days. PowerStream serves more than 375,000 customers in nine York and Simcoe County municipalities. Its control centre reported a service territory-wide 4.2-per-cent consumption reduction, down from the six per cent achieved during last year’s Earth Hour. The 2016 PowerStream results represented a total savings of 43 megawatts in peak demand, or enough electricity to power 1,303 average-size homes over a 24-hour period. “Earth Hour is a symbolic and meaningful event for residents to demonstrate their support to help fight climate change and shed light on how we can all make a difference by reducing our electricity consumption,” Vaughan Mayor and PowerStream board chair Maurizio Bevilacqua said. “We are pleased with our customers’ response as participants in this global event.”

Vaughan celebrates Earth Hour A Vaughan man and his son bonded over a car at, of all things, Earth Hour Saturday night. Mind you, it was an electric car and a high-concept Tesla at that. Rob Triffo and son Josh, 10, couldn’t stop talking about the car made famous by inventor Elon Musk, and some facts they learned at a display at Vaughan City Hall. Several hundred Vaughan residents joined the Triffos — mom Jennifer and daughter Rachel, 8, were also in tow — for Earth Hour events at City Hall Saturday. They mingled among energy-saving displays and then went outside at 8:30 p.m. as the lights were turned out for an hour. A small bonfire was lit and then residents who wished to brave sub-zero temperatures went on a half-hour guided lantern walk. Leanne Shapiro of Vaughan brought along her 10-year-old daughter, Natasha, and twins Dina and Justin, 6. “We celebrate Earth Hour every year, always have. This is the first year the

twins were old enough. Natasha’s come a few years to Earth Hour,” Shapiro said. “We have learned about some products and some hands-on things about what we can do at home to conserve energy.” She said solar shades and LED lights were high on her list for energy conservation. Prior to the lights going out, Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua welcomed the crowd and thanked them for coming. “Earth Hour is about future generations… it’s a way for us to manifest our love and affection of all things that speak to the future,” Bevilacqua said. “We are here together, we need to leave this Earth better than we inherited it and that’s our responsibility,” he added. The mayor presented a $5,000 cheque from his annual gala to Earth Hour Vaughan. Vikram Singh of PowerStream told the crowd Earth Hour resulted in “reduced power in our service territory by 61 megawatts last year. That’s enough to power 76 homes for a month.” This year’s reduction was slightly less than last year, PowerStream reported.

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bought a radio this week. For our kitchen and those who spend time there. It’s a wooden box, really, smaller than a shoebox, with a very good speaker. Simple, with a couple of dials. Just as the online reviews promised, the sound is amazing, with rich bass and a sort of texture I had not heard in years. It almost made me sad to think we’d gone without these kinds of sounds in our kitchen for so long. Our old kitchen radio was made of plastic, which I guess was strike one. Before it died last year, a speaker had fried, so it played one side of songs recorded in stereo. You heard parts and instruments you’d never really heard before. Which is kind of fascinating at first. Later on it’s just weird. And, of course, move around a bit in the kitchen and your body interfered with the signal and then some oldies station turned into “alternative pop” or a fact shared on a newscast was drowned out by static. Enjoying this song? Don’t move! “This just in to the news desk....”? Everyone freeze! The new radio tunes precisely. In the last couple of days I’ve tried a jazz station, a classical station, classic rock, an all-news station, CBC, an AM talk radio show. All sound great, even if the golden age of radio is long past. Don’t tell them that. When you’re an iffy cook, like myself, and it’s your turn to whip up some grub, you spend a lot of time in the kitchen getting your masterpieces sauteed and fried and boiled and whipped and strained and mashed — and the dishes cleaned. You start cooking at 5 and dinner is ready at 7:20 and you’re not sure where the time went and how everything turned out just sort of “OK” rather than wunderbar the way it does when your wife or just about anyone else you know cooks. And how did I dirty so many pots and pans? So it’s good to have a good radio there with you, to listen to music, the news, baseball games. Then your time in the kitchen was

Bernie O’Neill not spent in vain. Until last year when the Jays had their run, I kind of forgot how great it is to listen to a baseball game on a radio broadcast, as you let your mind fill in the blanks, draw the pictures, of your hero at bat with two men on and down two strikes and he belts one into the left field seats. Or the pleasant surprises of just listening to what someone else has chosen to play, rather than what you’ve chosen thanks to “bluetooth options and wireless streaming of your favourite music” — offered on another radio I didn’t buy. People say they don’t like listening to the ads, but I don’t mind. Ads are the price you pay for listening to a lively radio broadcast for free, the same way ads pay for what we read in a newspaper or see on TV (after the cable charge) or our computer screens (after paying for Internet). I write about this, I guess, because I surprised myself. People still buy radios? It wasn’t somebody’s birthday. Christmas is long past. I just wanted it, for my family. For myself. There are a lot of ugly things going on in the world right now and it’s nice to have something you can just turn on that’s beautiful and listen in for free. And listen with someone else, share the experience, instead of standing there alone with headphones or earbuds and “your” songs. The radio actually looks like a larger radio we had when I was a kid. Maybe it’s designed to look that way — old school, with new technology inside, playing the sounds of more carefree times. You kind of wish you could tune in and hear times are good, and there is peace and prosperity in the world. But then it’s a radio, not a time machine.

We need to stop the Viva Busway on Bathurst from Hwy. 7 to Centre Street. During and after its construction, it would result in total gridlock for north-south traffic in York Region. Already, it is excrutiatingly slow to travel from southern York to northern York, due to the paucity of north-south roads. Digging up Bathurst would degrade an already unbearable traffic situation into a nightmare gridlock. Good transit is appreciated, but not at expense of making it impossible to drive. There are hundreds of thousands of drivers of cars, trucks, school buses and emergency vehicles, who simply cannot use public transit, even if they want to. For example, medical or industrial enterprise staff, who need to be at work at 7 a.m. or at midnight, for example, including Sundays and statutory holidays, working at facilities in York Region that are many kilometres from any bus stop. And, even if workplaces are on a bus line, there are almost always no bus departures and connections that would allow arrival at work locations when work starts at 7 a.m. or at midnight. Putting Viva on Bathurst would not only constitute an assault on drivers, it would actually be a diversion that slows public transit. The fast way for Viva — supposed be “rapid transit” — is to use Hwy. 7 to go from the Richmond Hill terminal to York University, without detouring onto Bathurst and Centre. Destroying the ability to drive in York Region while digging up Bathurst and Centre to “un-rapidify” Viva is insane. For all wishing to help stop this disaster-in-the-making of bus lanes construction on Bathurst and on Centre, please email me at gooduser@sympatico.ca or call 647882-7236.

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Canada is poised at the edge of a massive financial precipice. A recent TD Bank forecast of a $150 billion deficit in five years stands in stark contrast to a predicted balanced budget in four years Justin Trudeau’s Liberals anticipated just months ago. Canada is in serious financial trouble. Many worthy causes are anticipating promised infrastructure funding: roads, bridges, sewers, all forms of transit, Aboriginal housing and education, social housing, etc. Any one of these could absorb the $10 billion or so that Trudeau can safely commit this year. Drastic problems demand drastic solutions. Consider this idea. Canada should tap into the greatest source of wholly unearned, often unexpected, wealth we’ve ever experienced. The inexorable rise in home prices in many regions has created virtual fortunes for many homeowners. Two examples: my family purchased a home in the far north end of Toronto in 1968. We were stunned at the price — $40,000 — exactly double what we received for our Winnipeg residence. This despite being in a thinly populated area with gravel roads

SEND A LETTER: Email letters to mbeck@yrmg.com and barns and livestock still evident in nearby fields. This home recently sold in one day for $900,000. Friends made an early purchase in Don Mills for about $15,000. Lesser homes on their street are now selling for just over $1 million! My suggestion — an assessment of perhaps 10 per cent on such gains made on homes sold in designated regions of Canada. There were four different owners of our North York home after we sold it — an average gain of $200,000. A special levy of $20,000 should still leave them smiling and would — cumulatively and progressively — provide the funds all levels of government so desperately need. Toronto reported about 100,000 homes sold in 2015. Just do the math. Of course, there will be market changes over the coming years, but as long as Canada remains such a desirable country of destination, major immigration will continue and as will rising home prices in most areas.

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1,800 or so,” she said. “This is really shocking to hear this.” The parent of a 15-year-old Grade 10 male student said the news is very bad, but added that it can happen anywhere and this news will not cause him to lose faith in the school. “Nobody likes this, that’s for sure,” he said. “But it doesn’t change the school, this kind of

thing can happen anywhere ... in any community.” Patterson is one of three vice-principals at the school, which is located near Leslie Street and Hwy. 7. York Regional Police said they will release a statement about the arrest only after Patterson appears in court. The York Catholic District School Board has not yet responded to a request for comment.

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Police were called to the scene of the collision in a parking lot near Pasadena Drive and Lake Drive in Keswick just before 3 p.m. March 19. The boy sustained minor injuries and was taken to hospital. Police smelled alcohol when speaking to the boy’s father and

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A finding of not guilty in a criminal court does not automatically mean a sexual assault did not happen. This has been repeated often by advocates for sexual assault survivors over the month since fired CBC personality Jian Ghomeshi’s trial on four counts of sexual assault and one count of choking to overcome resistance ended. “People believe that if it goes to this universal system such as the law, the truth will prevail. That is not necessarily the case with sexual violence,” says Nicole Pietsch, coordinator of the Ontario Rape Crisis Centres. Parts of the story may be missing, there may not be enough evidence to proceed with charges, or, at trial, to reach the standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. “Just because there was no charge, or the charge didn’t stick, it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen,” Pietsch said. In the Ghomeshi case, during which he did not testify, the judge’s decision rests almost entirely on the testimony of the three complainants, which the defence argued cannot be trusted because they each demonstrably lied under oath about their contact with Ghomeshi following the alleged sexual assaults. Ontario Court Justice William Horkins will deliver his ruling today (Thursday) on five charges related to incidents that allegedly occurred between 2002 and 2003. Although they were part of the same trial,

the judge must consider the charges separately — a similar-fact application was not made by the Crown, likely due to evidence of communication about the allegations between two of the complainants. After entering his pleas of not guilty before an in-camera third-party records application, Thornhill native Ghomeshi did not say a word in court except in whispers to his defence team, and to his mother and sister who sat behind him in the public gallery. Defence lawyer Marie Henein dramatically produced correspondence between two complainants and Ghomeshi, that she argued contradicted their testimony — that the first complainant never contacted Ghomeshi again after the second alleged sexual assault, and that another complainant never sought a romantic relationship with him. The third complainant only admitted to police shortly before her testimony in court that she had had a sexual encounter with Ghomeshi on a night following the alleged sexual assault, Henein said. The defence also argued during closing submissions that the Crown failed to prove absence of consent beyond a reasonable doubt in one complainant’s case, based on the content of emails and a handwritten letter she sent Ghomeshi in the days after the alleged sexual assault. Crown prosecutor Mike Callaghan urged the judge not to rely on stereotypes about the way sexual assault victims should behave

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or how they interact with their attackers. He added that the woman’s correspondence with Ghomeshi after the assault does not mean she consented to being slapped or choked. “Notwithstanding vigorous cross-examination, all three Crown witnesses were unshaken in their allegations that they were sexually assaulted by Mr. Ghomeshi,” Callaghan said. “The evidence on these key points, the very offences being alleged, was steadfast.” Ghomeshi faces another trial in June on

another charge of sexual assault that allegedly happened in the workplace. Two sexual assault charges concerning two women were withdrawn prior to the current trial because the Crown found no reasonable prospect of conviction. But many of the allegations against him of violence and harassment have been made through the media, beginning with a Toronto Star investigation, and have not been reported to the police.

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While the federal Liberals are trumpeting their first budget as an investment in Canadians’ futures, critics complain the financial document, at best, fails to deliver on key promises and, at worst, leads the country down the road to ruin. In his budget, called Growing the Middle Class, Finance Minister Bill Morneau laid out a spending spree that will see the government spend $11.9 billion on infrastructure, bring in a child benefit that will lift thousands of children out of poverty and help middle-income families, and kick-start the economy. But the budget also made a laughing stock of an election promise to keep the deficit at less than $10 billion. This year’s deficit will hit almost three times that benchmark at $29.4 billion. And while Morneau hopes to balance the books in five years, he didn’t put that in writing. The budget reflects the message Canadians have given the government to help families and make investments in the future, he said. “What we’re also going to do is be prudent along the way,” he said. Investments in infrastructure include $3.2 billion for public transit, with $2.41 billion of that coming to Ontario and Quebec, $2 billion for clean water and wastewater and $3.4 billion for social infrastructure, such as housing, child care and recreation facilities. But although $1.48 billion is earmarked for affordable housing, Richard Lyall, president of Vaughan-based Residential ConstructionCouncil of Ontario or RESCON, doesn’t think the funding will make much of a dent in the lack of affordable housing in York Region. “This budget on housing is a real mess. I like the parts on seniors’ renos, homelessness and shelter. Other than that, it lays a massive bill in the hands of millennials without dealing with the real problems,” the Newmarket resident said. Housing affordability is a huge problem, particularly in York Region, and is having a significant impact on economic development as young people struggle to afford places to live. That dynamic is stopping businesses, looking for a ready workforce, from setting up in the region, Lyall said. Fewer than 50 rental units have been built in York in each of the last three years, he said. The federal budget will merely put a BandAid of “drop in the bucket” limited funding on a housing market bogged down in systemic challenges, including new housing taking about 10 years to get through the development approvals process and construction. York Region chair Wayne Emmerson congratulated the government on its budget, pointing out Ottawa has committed more than $120 billion over the next 10 years to improve and expand

public transit, increase affordable housing, modernize water and wastewater infrastructure and enhance broadband service in rural and remote communities. Emmerson and several mayors and regional councillors met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and federal officials on a bus trip to Ottawa last month to lobby for a number of York priorities, including the extension of the Yonge subway to Richmond Hill, advancing all-day, two-way GO service serving Markham, Stouffville, Vaughan, King, Aurora and Newmarket, completing the final four Viva rapidway segments, addressing affordable housing needs and the Upper York Sewage System. “Clearly, our federal partners listened, as our priorities align very closely with the priorities of the government of Canada,” Emmerson said. But unlike Conservative infrastructure programs of the past, the Liberal budget doesn’t appear to invest in big-ticket, job-creating initiatives, such as subways, roads and bridges this time around, Thornhill Conservative MP Peter Kent said. Instead, funding appears to be going toward supporting existing transit stock, he said.

‘NIGHTMARE BUDGET,’ SAYS KENT The Liberals’ decision to break its promise to keep the deficit below $10 billion will kill jobs and plague future generations with massive debt, Kent said. “We’re characterizing the budget as a nightmare budget. It has more than $100 billion in undisciplined spending projected and there’s no plan to balance the books,” he said. While he praised the government for spending money on affordable housing and affordable rental housing, which will benefit York Region, he said it will take a long time to actually get the units built. The Canadian Taxpayers’ panned the budget as a reckless dive into unnecessary deficits and increased public debt. “If this government held a contest to pick a title for this budget, the winner would probably be Spendy McDebtface,” director Aaron Wudrick said in a statement. “The Liberals campaigned on real change, but this plan bears a striking resemblance to the last government’s ill-advised choice to plunge the country into a long string of deficits. The biggest change on offer here is absolutely no plan to get back to a balanced budget.” Meanwhile, the taxpayers’ federation did welcome several measures in the budget, including the shift to the meanstested child care benefit. Families with incomes of $30,000 will receive a maximum of $6,400 for each child under age six and $5,400 for each child between the ages of six and 17.

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Peizheng Qiu, 28, of Toronto has been charged with first-degree murder and indecent interference with a dead body after police discovered a grisly crime scene at a Thornhill home late Sunday. The investigation began after two men walked into a Scarborough division of Toronto police at 6:30 p.m. Sunday to report a body at Laureleaf Road, in the Bayview and Steeles area. One of those two men was charged, while the other was interviewed. Early Monday morning, York police pulled five body bags from the home, explaining to reporters that reports of a dismembered body are accurate and consistent with the charges the man faces. The victim will not be identified until next of kin is notified, police said. YRP Const. Andy Pattenden said the scene was “grisly and challenging” for all officers, including veteran homicide investigators. He added that the accused was to appear in a Newmarket court Monday and again on Friday, April 8. One neighbour said the home has switched hands a number of times over the last few years. Since the last time, he said he has seen suspicious activity in the home, including people coming and going at all hours of the night. There were a number of high-end cars at the site the previous night. The home has been under construction for significant period of time, he added. Another resident, who did not want to be identified, has lived in the community 50 years, confirmed his neighbour’s statement saying he witnessed a number of “weird” people in the house. “We’re so shocked,” she said. “We’ve seen all kinds of things going on in there of late.” She said a number of the homes in the area are under construction lately because of the large lot sizes in the area.

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Police seek help in Vaughan theft Crime Stoppers has issued an appeal for help in a Vaughan theft investigation. According to police, on Nov. 11, 2015 at 5:59 p.m., an unknown male suspect entered the Canada Computers at Rutherford Road in Vaughan. The male suspect selected a MyGica ATV380 Android media player.

The suspect removed the security feature and concealed the player inside his pocket, police said. The suspect then left the store without making any attempt to pay for the item. The suspect is described as: a white male in his late 20s. He is about 5’8”, 180 lbs, with dark hair and a beard. He was wearing a black North Face brand jacket

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The operator of an unlicensed daycare in Vaughan begged for mercy last week before being sentenced for breaking provincial law by running a crowded and unsanitary daycare at which a two-yearold child died from unconfirmed causes. Olena Panfilova was also charged by York Regional Police with manslaughter March 17 in connection with the 2013 death of Eva Rakovich, 2, at Newmarket court. In relation to the provincial charges at the Tannery court in Newmarket, she received a jail term and fine along with her co-accused. Panfilova, her husband, Ruslan Panfilova, and her daughter, Karyna Rabadanova, each received a 30-day sentence, which they are able to serve on weekends, along with three $15,000 fines. “I was trying to help the parents, people who were not able to pay large amounts of money,” she said through an interpreter while fighting back tears. “It was my beloved work. I was involved in that for 27 years. All the money I made I was

putting it into my business and not in order to become rich. Because of everything that occurred, I am in a very poor situation and my daughter is under stress. I have lost my health. I am in a very bad place and I really didn’t want it to happen. I beg you to understand me.” She said this despite Justice of the Peace Marie-Christine Smythe noting during her sentencing that the three were making between $700 and $850 a month for each of the 28 children split between two houses. This was not the only damming evidence, Smythe told the court, explaining that, at one point, a witness saw Panfilova unable to walk straight and smelling of alcohol while at the daycare. Another witness said Panfilova showed her documents alleging that they were a licensed facility and yet another claimed Panfilova told them to be careful as they were “being watched”, as authorities began looking into the conditions during an initial investigation at the two houses on Yellowood Circle in Vaughan. No action was taken as a result of that investigation.

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Olena Panfilova at Newmarket court, September 14, 2015 However, her lawyer said the daycare was little more than good intentions, gone awry. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions,” paralegal Phil Bouranov said, after the hearing. He said the houses acted as more of a cultural centre, where the kids could be around their Russian culture, insisting the money they made was ploughed back into the business, including buying Russian books for the children. Panfilova started taking care of five children, but the number grew and grew before she eventually had almost 30 staying in two houses, he added.

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Officials said they found deplorable conditions in the houses. Some 28 children, all under the age of 10, were being kept at two separate houses, located at 343 and 345 Yellowood, along with some 14 dogs and only three adults supervising the situation, the court heard. The houses were said to have smelled of urine, in a report drawn up by inspectors, and had filthy cribs, crammed conditions and fermenting food in the fridge. There were rooms with seven cribs and six playpens, including one in a closet with a child’s scribble on the wall. There was also listeria found in the home, in chicken stew, cooked grains and deli meats, according to the report. “We would like to stress that it’s very traumatic for them and they are very remorseful,” Panfilova’s lawyer, J. Richard Forget, said. “The death of a little child is a tragedy. I am sure they will never make a similar offence, I am sure they have learned their lesson.” A completed coroner’s report into the cause of Eva’s death has not been released because of the ongoing investigation.

The Day Nurseries Act allows home daycares to operate without a licence only if they look after no more than five children with uncommon parentage. Patrick Brown, the lawyer representing Eva’s parents in their multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the province and daycare operators, said the prosecution came a step too late. “Although the operators were found guilty, this type of prosecution should have been brought by the Ministry of Education well before Eva died,” he said. New legislation passed in the wake of Eva’s death stiffened penalties and regulations for unlicensed daycares. The Yellowood daycare operators were charged under the old rules. Although the Crown asked for the trio to be banned from running or working as child-carers, the defence said they should be allowed to work around children under supervised conditions. There has been no ruling on that as of yet. Panfilova and her daughter also face obstructing justice charges.

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THE MOST ANTICIPATED ELVIS EVENT OF THE YEAR Mark your calendars! Paquette Productions is proud to be bringing you the most anticipated Elvis show of the year, ‘’A Tribute to Elvis in Concert’’ featuring two of the worlds most coveted Elvis Tribute Artists known today: pete paquette from Toronto and Chris Connor from the United Kingdom. Readers can buy the book from AuthorHouse.com, Amazon.ca or BarnesandNoble. com. For more information on her books or to contact Phillips go to the website: sharelynnephillips.com; e-mail Sharelynne@gmail. comor on Facebook: facebook.com/sharelynne — Simone Joseph with files from The Liberal

ON NOW AT THE BRICK!

Supporting this dynamic duo will be the “Rockin’ Royals Show Band, accompanied by the “M.I.B. Horns” and the sensational “Tonettes.” Canada’s Premier Elvis Tribute Artist, pete paquette, who has toured across Canada, will set the stage with his explosive energy, recreating a performance of two of the Kings’ most defining moments of his career, from his early Rock & Roll years to his electrifying 1968 Comeback Special in his famous Black Leather outfit. Direct from the United Kingdom, Chris Connor, within a few short years, has skyrocketed himself to becoming one of the most popular and sought after Elvis Tribute Artist in the world. His natural looks and voice astounds his audiences at every concert. Chris delivers a powerful tribute to Elvis in the Concert Years which will leave you mesmerized from beginning to end. This will be your one and only chance to see Chris Connor on stage in Ontario Canada. His shows sell out across the world. A tribute to Elvis in Concert will be an 8 city tour in Richmond hill, guelph, Milton, Oakville, Chatham, Oshawa and Ottawa.

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Sunday, March 27 Celebrate Easter, The Joyous Day of Resurrection, March 27 at 10:30 a.m. at Richmond Hill Presbyterian Church, 10066 Yonge St., just north of Major Mackenzie Drive. Music will soar with resurrection joy, baptism and affirmation of baptism will be celebrated as we rejoice with fellow Christians around the world. For more, visit richmondhillpresbyterianchurch.org St. Matthew’s United Church, 333 Crosby Ave., Richmond Hill presents two services on Easter Sunday, March 27, with Rev. Val Noakes. A sunrise worship service is held at 7 a.m., followed by light breakfast. Join in family worship at 10:30 a.m., to celebrate Easter Sunday in a traditional family service. All warmly welcome. Call church office at 905-884-3606 for details.

Tuesday, March 29 On March 29 at Temple Har Zion, 7360 Bayview Avenue, Thornhill, Daytime Speaker Series presents Ian Leventhal on Jewish migration in exciting new program called Suitcases. Bring your lunch for 12 noon; program starts at 12:30 p.m. Members $3; community guests $6. For more, visit templeharzion.com Markham at the Movies screens My Internship in Canada March 29 at 7 p.m. at Flato Markham Theatre, 171 Town Centre Blvd. Directed by Philippe Falardeau, this satirical film focuses an on independent MP, a backbencher and former hockey player, who finds himself in an uncomfortable spotlight. His young Haitian intern, has a keen interest in the Canadian system. Film delivers laughs and civic pride. Subtitled. For info: 905-415-7500 or markham.ca

First Link Memory Café presented by Mosaic Home Care Services & Community Resource Centre, at Shops on Steeles and 404, 2900 Steeles Ave. E., Suite 218 March 29 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Free for those concerned about memory related issues; individuals diagnosed with early Alzheimer’s or related dementias, and their care partners. Share stories, socialize with others. To register, call 905-597-7000. For more, visit mosaichomecare.com

Thursday, March 31 Join us for A Night of Bond to help Evergreen Hospice at Angus Glen Golf Club, 10080 Kennedy Rd., Markham March 31 at 6 p.m. for cocktails, dinner at 7 p.m. Attire black tie optional. Enjoy casino games (for fun), live and silent auctions, door prizes and dancing. Jazz singer June Garber and friends will play selections from Bond films and jazz classics. Evergreen aids people of all ages in Markham, Thornhill and Stouffville touched by a life threatening illness or grief. Tickets $175 each; contact Evergreen at 416-499-2185 or hmak@ evgcares.org or go to evgcares.org. Enjoy free French language conversation group in Richmond Hill, Mar. 31 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Covernotes Tea and Coffee House, 10268 Yonge St., beside Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. Adults from York Region welcome to put French conversation skills into action (from francophones to beginners). For details, go online to http://bit.ly/partagez_conversation or email Partagez.York@yahoo.ca

Dr. Habib, naturopathic doctor, offers free seminar at Four Seasons Naturopathic Wellness, 305 Carrville Rd., Richmond Hill March 31 at 6:30 p.m. Learn about causes and naturopathic methods to help children and adults with ADHD and learning disorders. Donations accepted for local food bank. RSVP at 905597-7201 or familynaturopath.ca.

Friday, April 1 Open Doors, Open Minds, a lecture and community dinner, is April 1 at Temple Kol Ami, 36 Atkinson Ave, Thornhill. Speaker is Samira Kanji, president of the Noor Cultural Centre, a centre of Islamic learning and culture. Event begin with potluck Shabbat dinner at 6:30 p.m. (vegetarian/dairy and nut free) with members of Noor Cultural Centre, followed by Friday Shabbat service at 7:30 p.m. RSVP to jaykowal@gmail. com for dinner only; for more, visit kolami.ca Participate with your baby in sensory activities and exploration of books, music and games at Markham Wesley Community Services Centre, 22 Esna Park Dr., Markham, Fridays from April 1 to June 3, 11 a.m. to noon. Stimulate your baby’s brain development and motor skills; for ages 3 to 13 months; children must be accompanied by adult at all times. For info/registration call 905940-3688 ext. 254 or 905-940-5234 ext. 226.

Saturday, April 2 The York Region branch of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation has booked all lanes at World Bowl Richmond Hill April 2 at noon and invites members of the community

to donate $20 to the fundraiser to help bring a Syrian refugee family to York Region. For details, go to www.d16.osstf.ca/refugeesponsorship.

Monday, April 4 Ladies 16+ are invited to Chabad Flamingo at 8001 Bathurst St., Thornhill April 4 at 7:30 p.m. for Zumba for DANI (Developing And Nurturing Independence of adults with disabilities). Three teachers help participants move to Latin, hip hop, oldies and more; have fun while raising funds for good cause. Register online at danitoronto.com or call Susie at 905-889-3264 ext. 226. Parya Resources for Immigrant Media Education (PRIME) presents Social Media Training Workshops, a joint program with Markham Public Library, Mondays from April 4 to May 30 at Thornhill Community Centre Library, Bayview and John streets. For newcomer seniors to learn to use of social media tools such as Facebook, YouTube and Google. Class runs 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for 8 weeks. Free; open to all seniors with basic knowledge of PC and keyboarding skills and English language proficiency. To register, call Neda at 647-8644337 or email Neda.azarmipour@parya.org. Also offered at Milliken Mills Community Centre Wednesdays starting April 6.

An interactive workshop on How to Combat Anti-Semitism on University Campuses will be offered April 4 at 7:10 p.m. at Temple Har Zion, 7360 Bayview Ave., Thornhill. Universities are increasingly becoming places of unrest and fear for Jewish students; workshop open to students as young as Grade 7 and their parents. For more, go to templeharzion.com or cjce.ca

Wednesday, April 6 Pathways to Success, Series 1: Volunteerism and Future Career Choices, a joint program of Markham Public Library and CICS Immigrant Youth Centre, runs Wednesdays, April 6 to June 8 from 4 to 6 p.m. (10 sessions plus one-day event) at Thornhill Community Centre Library, Bayview and John streets. Aim is to support immigrant youth, 15 to 21, to create better opportunities through volunteer and job opportunities. Free; to register call Ophelia Xavier at 905-294-8868 ext. 203 or email Ophelia. xavier@cicscanada.com Brain Power Enrichment presents a special evening with CBC Radio host Terry O’Reilly, April 6 at 7:15 p.m. at 9600 Bathurst St., Suite #313, Thornhill Vaughan (Schwartz Reisman Centre, 3rd floor, Joseph and Wolf Community Campus). O’Reilly will share his personal story to success and the ultimate secrets of persuasion. Event is free and open to all; seating limited; for more, visit brainpower.ca

The Liberal welcomes submissions of upcoming events from non-profit community organizations. Every effort is made to include all submissions; there is no guarantee of publication. E-mail items to mbeck@ yrmg.com Did you know you can add your own items to our online calendar? Visit: www.yorkregion.com/yorkregion-events/

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AURORA CENTRAL, 1 bedroom, $1100 inclusive. Available immediately. 2 bedroom $1200 inclusive, May 1st. AC, parking, laundry. No smoking/ pets. 905-841-1060.

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Kate Coen helps people battle cancer

By Chris simon

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ate Coen was a cancer warrior. The Newmarket woman founded KC’s Cancer Cushion Fund in an effort to help other people battling the disease pay for treatment or living expenses. While Kate succumbed to cancer in June 2008, her legacy thrives and the fund has raised almost $500,000. To this date, the fund is largely run by her family and friends. Coen was a stay-at-home mother of three, who experienced first-hand the financial hardships brought on by cancer. Her husband took a good amount of time off work while she was sick, to take her for treatment. “We all tried to pitch in, but we all had jobs too; most of the time, it was left up to (him) to take her and it was really hard on them, financially,” KC’s vice president and Kate’s niece, Jen Haines-Brett said. “But when she started to meet people she was going through chemotherapy with, she’d hear how horrible it was for them. She met a woman who was a hairdresser and a single mother. She used to take the bus or subway for chemotherapy and would go to work right after. “Time she should have spent

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with her son was spent at work trying to pay bills. That was sickening to my aunt.” Haines-Brett says Coen’s death still stings. She kept many of Coen’s emails and goes through them every once in awhile. Coen referred to Haines-Brett as her ‘little sis’, ‘friend’ and ‘daughter’.

‘Time she should have spent with her son was spent at work trying to pay bills. That was sickening to my aunt.’ “She was a very special person,” Haines-Brett said. “She was kind of my hero. She was only 12 years older than me and she lived with my parents for quite some time. She was more like a sister and became my best friend. She talked to everyone; whether you wanted to or not, you made a friend by the time you left. She would try to make a party out of everything. Nothing really sums her up.” Kelly Pickard-Lefterys, a longtime friend and current president of the fund, also taught Coen’s oldest child at school. “The people she really connected with were these other women, like herself, who were going through chemo,” she said. “She was someone who didn’t leave it to someone else to step

Kate Coen (right), and her niece, Jen Haines-Brett enjoy a holiday hug. in. She was very action oriented. She tried to take a very difficult experience and create some meaning out of it.” Coen was also quite positive, even as her health declined. “She firmly found her faith later in life,” Haines-Brett said. “I could never understand how she could be so positive about her prognosis. It made me sick. She wanted to help

Celebrate a life well lived!

“Adored by children, universally respected and an inspiration to her peers, Mrs. McCluskey was a tireless volunteer, quick to deflect the praise heaped on her.”

every person she could. Se was a people person and involved in everyone’s life.” The fund will host its 10th annual pub night May 14 at Newmarket Community Centre and Lions Hall, at 200 Doug Duncan Dr. Pogo Rodeo, featuring Barenaked Ladies drummer Tyler Stewart and Newmarket High School graduates Tom Gibson and Derek and Duncan Swain, Your community newspaper is celebrating the achievements and contributions of everyday, ordinary people, who have affected the lives of others in extraordinary ways. Leaving a lasting impression on the community, our award-winning journalists will write a fitting tribute in memory of those who have a special story to share. Through your community newspaper and LifeNews.ca, we celebrate those no longer with us and remember the memories we share.

will perform. Several sponsorship opportunities are available and organizers hope to raise $50,000. Admission is $30 per person and tickets can be purchased at cushionfund.com. For more information, visit the cushion fund website or Facebook page or follow the organization’s Twitter handle, @ cushionfund.

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