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Vaughan councillors have reason for optimism, but admit they’ve never seen a public backlash such as meted out by Thornhill residents last week opposing redevelopment of the Sobeys plaza. “Go back to the drawing board”. This was the message residents had for RioCan at a public hearing at Vaughan City Hall June 21. The hearing related to the redevelopment of Springfarm Marketplace, known as Sobeys plaza at the corner of Clark and Hilda Avenues in Thornhill. RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust is the largest real estate investment trust (REIT) in Canada with ownership interests in more than 350 retail properties throughout North America.

RESIDENTS PACKED CITY HALL Residents packed council chambers, with some having to sit on steps, stand in the aisles or gathered in an overflow room. During deputations, residents were critical of RioCan’s development application. They critiqued the suggested closing of the plaza’s Hilda Street entrance, the height of the proposed 20-storey condo building and what they said was a failure to abide by Vaughan’s official plan and existing bylaws. They also lamented the conduct of RioCan, saying the company did not listen to public feedback on proposed changes to the plaza. After presentations from the public, David McKay, a planning consultant for RioCan said “some aspects, we didn’t realize or look at. We will work together on the proposal,” adding “They (RioCan) are here to stay.” Meanwhile, one resident complained RioCan does not appreciate the cultural uniqueness of the plaza, which has a kosher supermarket, restaurants, a Jewish bookstore and gift shop and more. “It has become essential for a way of life,” said Phil Weintraub, adding that this Sobeys is the only kosher supermarket in the chain

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RioCan wants to redevelop the Sobeys plaza and build a 20-storey condo project. and the Second Cup is the only kosher one in that chain. “RioCan has not taken the time or the effort to learn about the community,” he said. “The uniqueness of the plaza must be respected.” “Reject the proposal. Send RioCan back to the drawing board,” he said to applause. Sandra Zeggil has been a Thornhill resident for 27 years and suggested zoning at the site does not allow for a 20-storey condo. While she is not against re-development, the proposed condo would “overwhelm the plaza”, she said. The development application violates bylaws and the city’s official plan with its height, density and how far back it is on the property, said Pamela Levy-Taraday, president of the SpringFarm Ratepayers Association. She presented a petition, representing 2,500 residents who are against the current development application.

Marina Dykhtan spent months looking for the perfect home in Vaughan. At the top of the nature lover’s list of must-haves was that the house back onto a ravine. So when a two-door-garage home in Maple came on the market in 2007, the mother of three jumped on the listing, and loved what she saw: a backyard that blended in with a thick forest behind it, the sounds and sights of rare birds flying overhead, and chipmunks peeking in from beyond a chain fence. Before she sealed the deal, Dykhtan says she did her due diligence and asked the city about the likelihood of development on the neighbouring property, which she knew was privately owned. Dykhtan and other neighbours said they were told by the city’s planning department that such a notion was far-fetched. “It’s environmentally protected land. It won’t be developed for 99 years,” Dykhtan said she was told. A decade later, the 4.5-hectare environmentally sensitive property at 230 Grand Trunk is at the centre of a development saga that residents say has left them feeling “betrayed” by the city. Developer Cam Milani is proposing

to build 105 townhomes on Oak Ridges Moraine land that is believed to contain a number of endangered and rare species. Earlier this year, an Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) settlement was struck between the developer, the city and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) that allows some of the land to be developed based on further environmental studies. The city says the details of the settlement can’t be made public because of confidentiality provisions. Milani did not respond to requests for comment about the development. Residents say they feel misled by the city, and don’t know what to believe anymore. Dykhtan said she was “shocked” when she saw a sign for the development proposal on the property late last year. “For me, it’s like my whole belief was destroyed because . . . the only reason why we moved there was I, personally, wanted to be closer to nature and I wanted to see the trees and the birds,” she said. The property was previously owned by landowner Eugenio Iacobelli, who spent much of his life trying to see the land developed. He appealed the city’s designation of See SENSITIVE, page 11.

‘WITHIN OFFICIAL PLAN’ “The community will accept change. Development must be within official plan and bylaws,” she said. Long-time resident Fred Winegust is concerned too many parking spots will be lost during construction. He pointed to a parking survey that found 88 per cent of the people using the plaza take cars to get there. If it’s inconvenient to shop, people will go elsewhere, he said. Towards the end of the public hearing, Councillor Sandra Racco provided optimism: “There’s no reason RioCan won’t work with you. I believe they will,” she said. Councillor Alan Shefman remarked on the passion of the residents, saying in the 12 years he has been councillor, “I’ve never seen reaction to any proposal like I’ve seen around this. The passion people express about what is being proposed is unique.” McKay said “the application got a strong reaction,” adding, “I’ve got my work cut out for me.”

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n Friday, July 1, we Canadians pause to celebrate another year as just that: Canadians. We have been able to do that for 149 years now, and let’s be honest: it feels good. We’re a good country, after all. We look after each other, and try to extend that compassion abroad. We have bad days — who doesn’t? — but on balance we’ve lived our 149 years well, and we look pretty good for our age. The same can’t be said for the rest of our family of nations, and it’s tempting to feel smug about that. The United Kingdom, to whose Queen we still swear allegiance, is not doing well at all. In an ill-managed referendum, its people have voted to take it from the European Union, in the process throwing its economy, and the world’s economy, into turmoil. The vote to leave was decisive but not universally so, and now the UK is on the verge of fragmentation, with Scotland poised to hold another independence referendum, not two years after it narrowly voted to remain in the

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here should be a special punishment for people who perpetrate scams on the elderly, the same way we might dish out extra punishment to someone who committed a crime against a child. For there is something uniquely cruel about stealing money from an older person, money they likely spent their whole life saving. Money they need, now that they are retired and don’t have the income afforded by a job. Not that all older people are susceptible to this kind of thing. But some are. Whether it’s a decline in their cognition, an inclination as they age to be trusting of authority figures, or an ease with which they can be bullied because physically they may feel frail, I’ll leave that to the experts. My first experience with this phenomenon was in a newsroom, when a call came in from a man in Waterloo (I was in North York, where he’d lived 20 years earlier — he remembered the name of the paper and looked it up) telling me how he had been sold a

vacuum by a door-to-door salesman. His wife had passed away. He was living on his own. He wasn’t thinking very clearly. He was also sad. He probably should have been in a long-term care facility. And that’s when the vacuum salesman appeared at his door. Talked to him. Did some demonstrations. Told him his old vacuum was no good. And sold him a new vacuum — for $3,600. Unless it was a vacuum that also did dishes, cooked his meals, projected 400 Bernie TV channels in highdefinition and he O’Neill could fly around the neighbourhood in it, like it was a helicopter, it was not worth $3,600. “You know you can buy a vacuum at the department store for maybe $300,” I told him. “And that’s a really good one.” He knew this. Or was remembering

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It is with great excitement that we announce our 40th anniversary celebration party this coming Saturday, July 9th, 2016 at the VAUGHAN GROVE SPORTS PARK on the grounds of the Woodbridge Soccer Club complex.

The club would also like to note that it will be associating itself with SAFEHAVEN which helps kids with physical, development and complex medical needs right here in our Woodbridge community and the greater GTA area.

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Concerts in the Park - The St. Royals WHEN: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: North Thornhill Community Centre (Outdoor Ampitheatre), 300 Pleasant Ridge Ave. CONTACT: Access Vaughan, 905-832-2281, accessvaughan@vaughan.ca COST: Free The City of Vaughan’s 22nd annual Concerts in the Park series featuring FREE professional concerts are held on select Wednesday evenings from June to August at 7:30 p.m.

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the land as natural areas within the Oak Ridges Moraine to the OMB. “The land had always been protected as open space,” said Councillor Sandra Racco, who added the city even considered buying the property to protect it, and had plans to defend the land at the OMB hearing. That’s the city position the residents remember. “It was clear the city always told us they were on our side,” said resident Furio Liberatore. Residents say that changed after April 2015, when Milani’s Dufferin Vistas bought the property from Iacobelli’s widow for nearly $4 million, according to land registry papers. According to a condition of the sale, the final payment would be made in the first week of October 2015, once the outstanding OMB hearing was over — and under the condition the land could be developed. The hearing never happened. On Sept. 30,

of attending an OMB hearing in opposition to the proposed land use designation without the support of the provincial, municipal and regional partners,” said Kathy Stranks, a manager in the CEO’s office, in a letter about the development. “The normal process is that the TRCA and the municipality work together . . . and in this situation we were on our own to make sure the environmental policies were implemented,” said Carolyn Woodland, senior director of planning, green space and communications with the TRCA. The OMB settlement divides the land into an eastern portion that contains significant wetland and endangered species that will not be developed, a middle portion that requires further study, and a western portion, where the woodlot once stood, which has been approved for lowrise development. In a motion passed in May, the TRCA said

any further settlement would have to include 11 the involvement of all levels of government and consider all environmental policies. Extensive studies are needed before development be approved, Woodland said. Racco says she has convened a working group of residents to sit down with Milani and find a mutually agreeable plan for how development takes shape. She wants to avoid the matter ending up at the OMB again, and the possibility of “losing control,” she said. The property still needs to be rezoned. At a hearing this week, the TRCA said studies submitted by Milani were “incomplete” and “deficient.” Liberatore says it’s the “responsibility of the municipality to protect and conserve environmentally sensitive lands. I feel that the municipality is failing in this respect,” he said. “I hope the city has the best interests of the residents moving forward.”

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residents were told in a letter from the city that the OMB settlement had been reached. Residents were shocked when they received the notice of settlement — and have been searching for information ever since. “I don’t know how we got to this,” said resident Codruta Papoi, speaking at a TRCA meeting. “Everything has changed since this developer took over.” Residents wonder how a piece of land considered off-limits for decades managed to get a stamp of approval from the TRCA and the city. The city says it “appeared at the OMB in support of a settlement,” with Milani. “We cannot specify the nature of the settlement negotiations with the appellant or discussions that took place in closed session in respect of the settlement as that would breach confidentiality requirements.” The TRCA says it intervened on behalf of the environment. At a heated TRCA meeting last month, the conservation authority blasted Vaughan for leaving it “alone at the altar” to protect environmental features. “TRCA was placed in a unique situation

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CITY OF VAUGHAN NOTICE OF PASSING OF AREA SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT CHARGE BY-LAW

Edgeley Pond and Black Creek Channel Works TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the City of Vaughan passed Development Charge By-Law No. 079-2016 on the 7th day of June, 2016 under subsection 2(1) of the Development Charges Act, 1997, S. O. 1997 c 27. Any person or organization may appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board under Section 14 of the Act, in respect of the Development Charges By-law, by filing with the Clerk of the City of Vaughan on or before the 18th day of July, 2016 a notice of appeal setting out the objection to the by-law and the reasons supporting the objection. As the appeal date falls on a Sunday, appeals that would otherwise be due on or before July 17, 2016, will be accepted on Monday, July 18, 2016, pursuant to the Legislation Act, 2006. The description of lands to which the by-law applies, and the schedules of development charges imposed by the development charge by-law, which comes into effect on July 1, 2016 are as follows: Area Specific Development Charge Edgeley Pond and Black Creek Channel Works By-law 079-2016 Service

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If concerns regarding the revisions cannot be resolved through discussions with the City of Vaughan, a request may be made to the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change to make a request for the project to comply with Part II of the EA Act (referred to as a Part II Order). This request must be made in writing to the Minister at the address below and copied to the City of Vaughan before the end of the 30 calendar day review period. If there are no outstanding Part II Order request received by July 22, 2016, the City may proceed to design and construction as presented in the planning documentation. Minister of the Environment and Climate Change 11th Floor, Ferguson Block 77 Wellesley Street West Toronto, ON M7A 2T5 Please note that information related to this study will be collected in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. With the exception of personal information, all comments received will become part of the public record and may be included in the study documentation prepared for public review. This Notice issued: June 23, 2016

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The Dance Zone, now in their 19th year of helping children of all ages reach their creative dreams though the expression of dance; have put on a another year end recital of epic proportions. Championed once again by instructor Debbie Favot, this year’s recital was nothing short of a stellar performance. Debbie has been dancing since the age of four. She has trained in the arts of Baton, Tap, Jazz, Acrobatics, Ballet and Modern. Debbie, as well as her students have won numerous “High Score” and “Achievement” awards at a wide number of competitions. The Dance Zone operates out of two Vaughan locations and has continually won year after the Vaughan Citizen’s Readers Choice Award for “Best Dance Studio” in Vaughan. To find out more about The Dance Zone and how you can discover your child’s hidden artistic talent, please visit www.thedancezone.ca for more information.

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Leonard Celli loved baseball, football and Italian roots

By Simone JoSeph

sjoseph@yrmg.com aura Celli-Henriques still remembers the time she found her father, Leonard Celli, slumped over, face planted on a computer keyboard, fast asleep. The president of the Maple Minor Baseball League was in the midst of co-ordinating teams, organizing umpires and planning tournaments. In essence, he was running the league he had founded in the early 1990s. Sleeping on a keyboard rather than a pillow was pretty common for him in those days, Celli-Henriques says. Ex-wife Pina Celli agrees. “You have no idea how many hours he put into it,” she says. “He had a real passion for baseball.” Leonard Celli was born on Oct. 6, 1954 in Abruzzo, Italy. While he ended up settling in Canada and raising his family here, most of his own family remained in Italy, save for one sister who lived in Canada. Celli-Henriques remembers her father not only as a minor baseball league president, but also as a model TTC employee — never late for work and rarely taking vacation. He was a TTC operator, driving buses and subways, working for more than 26 years. Celli-Henriques can still remember her father’s gruelling routine, starting with his work shift, which began at 4:17 a.m. each day. He would finish at 1:06 p.m., come home, take a nap, then pick his two daughters up from school and then cook din-

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ner — always a gourmet meal, she says. The minor baseball league became a family affair, with Celli working as president, his wife doing plenty of work for the league, too, and the children pitching in. Celli-Henriques knows her parents’ motivation for starting up the league: “Let’s do it for our kids and everyone’s kids,” they had said. Celli explains her ex-husband’s motivation: “He wanted to get children off the streets,” she said, keeping them out of trouble and helping them make friends. Celli’s interest in his children’s activities extended beyond baseball. Celli-Henriques remembers one of her favourite dad moments from when she was about eight years old. She had finished dancing in a recital in a hall that was so jampacked, the audience was seated three or four rows high. Her dad was seated way up at the top. As she was leaving with her mother, she heard her father yell: “Hey squirt!” She looked up and her father threw down a big bouquet of flowers. Little Laura caught it. “I had the biggest smile on my face,” she remembers. Today, she can also reflect on how much her father enjoyed another important role — that of grandfather. While living at his daughter Jennifer’s house, he engaged in a special ritual with his granddaughter, Victoria. Each day, when Victoria went to school, he ran out and bought her a chocolate toy Kinder egg

Leonard Celli enjoyed spending time in his native Italy, almost as much as he enjoyed volunteering, coaching and managing in the Maple Minor Baseball League for many years. Other passions included football and his family. so she could have it when she returned home. The Celli family ran the Maple Minor Baseball League for about eight years, featuring 19 teams from T-ball to juvenile, plus an “old timers” division. In 2012, Celli suffered a heart attack during a visit to Italy to see family. On Dec. 23, 2012, he died where he was born, in Italy.

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“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.”

When Celli-Henriques visited Italy after her father death, she made a point of gathering every memento of him she could, now stored in a special room in her Maple home as a kind of shrine to him. It features his cellphone, his Marlboros, his camera and his Pittsburgh Steelers jacket, which reminds her of all of the Sundays 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.

she spent watching football with him. Her favourite item in the room is his pajamas — “In Italy, that’s what he wore all the time.” There is also a physical representation of his love for baseball. It is a plaque, which he earned for coaching a children’s team — her team. “He left too early,” she said of his untimely death at age 58.

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Product of USA

Corn

ea 5pk

2/$

Pr Product of USA

blueberries 2/$ Full Pint

Product of USA Product of Mexico Organic Organic ea Avocados kale

¢ea

6 x 170g

899 ea

399

Snacks 8pc

Fresh Deli-Sliced Saputo

Provolone Cheese

/100g

Maple Leaf Prime Oven Baked Whole

bbq Chicken Over 1kg

bAkERy

Product of Italy Bauli Assorted Varieties

Croissants 6pk 300g

199 ea

Saputo Fresh Assorted Varieties

179

bocconcini Cheese

/100g

179

/100g

From Our Hot Table Choose

1 Entre & 2 Sides

899ea

999ea

ChEESE Rudolph’s Assorted

Rye breads 500 - 680g

99 ea

Wonder White or Whole Wheat

Product of Italy

Grana Padano Cheese

1199

/lb 2.64/100g

Grated 12.49 lb

Pecorino Romano Cheese

999

/lb 1.98/100g

bread

675g

199

ea Wonder Hamburger or Hot Dog

buns

Burgers, Strips, Nuggets

Product of Italy Ferrero, B-ready 8pc

Vita Sana

Mastro

Made From Scratch From Our Chef, CFM Own 1.2kg

Product of Italy Regina Molisana

8pk

199 ea

Fresh

Nutella Fudge brownie 450g

99 ea

Grated10.49 lb

Santa Lucia

Sharp Provolone Cheese

999

/lb 2.20/100g

Saputo Mini

Friulano Cheese 500g

799 ea

Tre Stelle

Mozzarella balls 340g

Sales Starts Wed. June. 29th Ends Tues. July. 05th 2016

399

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