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SCREAMING FINISH

The rain couldn’t keep the crowds away from Toronto’s favourite fes-tival.

The annual Taste of the Danforth event attracted close to 1.3 mil-lion people from Friday to Sunday

despite rain Friday night and Saturday.

The weather did clear on Sunday allowing the popular festival to end on a high note.

The Taste of the Danforth

has grown in its 19-year history to showcase not only the Greek culture, but a variety of music, entertainment, food and special activities.

The event also raises money for

the Toronto East General Hospital Foundation with a portion of the proceeds going to support the hospital.

To date the GreekTown on the Danforth BIA has donated $1.5

million to the TEGH foundation. This past fall the BIA pledged an

additional $250,000 towards the hospital’s new pediatric clinic.

For photos from the event, see page 3.

Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon is inviting Ward 32 residents to join her for four upcoming Family Movie Nights Under the Stars.

■ RioThe fi rst screening (Rio) will take

place tonight at 8:30 p.m. at East Lynn Park, south of Danforth Avenue and west of Woodbine Avenue.

■ Kung Fu Panda 2 The second movie night, featuring

Kung Fu Panda 2, will be held Aug. 22 at 8:30 p.m. at Fairmount Park, south of Gerrard Street East and east of Coxwell Avenue.

■ TintinThe third screening (Tintin) is set

for Aug. 26 at 8:30 p.m. at Jonathan Ashbridge Park, south of Queen Street East and east of Coxwell Avenue.

■ TintinThe final movie night of the

season (Shrek the Third) will be held on Sept. 15 at 8 p.m. at Stephenson Park, south of Danforth Avenue and west of Main Street.

For more information, call McMahon’s office at 416-392-1376.

Despite rains the Taste attracts 1.3M visitors

Olive Dodds celebrates her 102nd birthday DANIELLE MILLEY [email protected]

Few have witnessed as much in their life as Olive Dodds. Fewer still can sit down and recall those memories.

There was the invention of the television, the advent of commercial aviation, the creation of the personal computer and don’t even get her started on the changes in nurses uniforms.

Dodds said the changes in fl ying have been the biggest change in her life.

“There were just little two-winged planes when I was a kid during the war,” Dodds said.

That would be the First World War, which Dodds said she can remember bits of.

Born in England on Aug. 12, 1910, Dodds celebrated her 102nd birthday this week with an English tea with family Sunday afternoon and a surprise party at Toronto East General Hospital (TEGH) where she has been a volunteer for 27 years – almost as long as she’s lived in

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Toronto’s dry summer was interrupted with some much-needed showers over the weekend but certainly not enough

to dampen the spirits of the 19th annual Taste of the Danforth, which again attracted thousands of hungry visi-tors to one of the city’s signature events. These photos are

from the final day of the three-day festival - Sunday. Above, Christine Paskalis from U&99@629’s serves up the sweets; top right, Cristo Kirkos from Athens Restaurant works the grill;

at right, Ananthi Gianopoulos, centre, dances to the music at main stage; below, Jasmine Allen, 7, tries her hand at marsh-mallow archery; bottom middle, Toronto Community News,

which publishes the East York Mirror, is represented by Grace Pecson, left, Drew Green, Andrea Dayco and Jane Dempsey; bottom right, Bonnie Vass bites into a gyro.

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How well do you recycle? Do you ensure every-thing that should go into your green bin makes it in there?

The merits of public and private garbage collection systems in Toronto will continue to be debated. It’s a debate that was renewed last week when the resi-dential portion of the city from Yonge Street to the Humber River officially switched to a private system of collection.

This now means about half of the city – west of Yonge – has privatized collection (Etobicoke has had its residential waste collected privately since before amalgamation).

The remainder of the city continues to have its resi-dential waste collected by city employees.

But let’s think beyond the method of collection. Let’s think about what we, as residents, are doing.

Residents must use this time as an opportunity to embrace better habits when they put out their waste for collection. Are we doing all we can?

Doing all we can means ensuring residential waste is properly diverted into garbage, recycling and green bins.

This may mean taking a bit of sorting time before-hand. Refer to your waste collection calendar or use the Waste Wizard online tool to get more information if you’re unsure about what goes where.

According to figures from the City of Toronto, our recycling has a 20 per cent contamination rate (refer-ring to items that can’t be recycled). Reducing that number is a meaningful and achievable goal.

Ultimately, waste that’s properly sorted before col-lection means more efficient collection. That’s ulti-mately better for the taxpayer. That’s the benefit.

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The first week wasn’t perfect for the new service pro-vider, as reports of delays surfaced.

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To the editor:Everybody talks about

gridlock, but those in charge are obviously not interested in the extra work it may need.

Years ago I contacted my councillor about syn-chronizing traffic lights on major routes in the GTA. He referred the matter to one of the fellows in charge for our district.

Just consider the amount of pollution we can avoid by not forcing all vehicles to a continuous stop and go. How much pollution does a single truck emit in this system? And how much less expensive is this sugges-tion, compared to building subways? There is no guar-antee drivers will switch to subways and the big trucks will still have to deliver their loads.

The word “synchronizing” has recently appeared when we talk about gridlock, but has the possibility been dis-cussed seriously? Lend your support to this idea whose time came long ago.

Herb Kucera

Synchronized lights could ease gridlock

While many of us are in “holiday mode” thanks to it being

August, the problems and issues that are facing East York don’t take a vacation.

Many people use the summer period in order to take time off from their commitments to the com-munity by focusing more on their personal and family life.

However, there are still many issues taking place that need your full attention.

Since amalgamation, East York has changed in many significant ways and if you travel around the streets of the former borough you can see how the character of the community has changed.

We have gone from being a large unified community making up old East York, Thorncliffe Park, Leaside and Governor’s Bridge into one that is divided.

What the small municipal

government structure of the former borough once pro-vided was a forum for a wide range of interests that could be voiced.

Those individual points of view could be acted upon by local politicians and a dedi-cated civil service in a direct and efficient way.

If there was one thing that could be said about East York it was that no matter what your background, social status or income, you had a voice in the gover-nance of your community.

This month we have come to see the results of this lack of a coherent com-munity focus as politicians

from all three levels of gov-ernment point their fingers at one another rather than working for our interests.

The sad effect is that the different neighbourhoods that once made up a very healthy and dynamic com-munity are drifting apart.

It is no big secret many politicians and bureaucrats outside of East York have wanted to see this happen, with the result being the deliberate erasure of our identity.

If we don’t reverse the drift and begin to re-unify – at least to be able to discuss and co-ordinate solutions to our own problems – then politicians outside of our community will continue make our decisions for us.

What we need to do is to keep the discussions about municipal reform in Toronto focused on real benefits to the community and not on useless topics such as coun-

cillor’s budgets.The new city of Toronto

once had encouraged a policy of building stronger communities, but that seems to have lost its focus since the election of Mayor Rob Ford.

When city council recon-venes in the fall we have to speak up loudly and clearly once again for our com-munity’s best interests. It is either that or be resigned to forever live within the limitations of the bad policy decision that amalgamation has turned out to be.

East Yorkers have been uncharacteristically quiet during this time. Don’t wait for others to speak for you, because it is your job to take care of your community.

n Joe Cooper is a long-time East York resident and community activist. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at [email protected]

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S haring newcomer expertise with Austrian visitor DANIELLE MILLEY [email protected]

With a history of helping newcomers, WoodGreen Community Services shared its expertise with the Austrian State Secretary for Integration last Thursday.

On his two-day visit to Canada, Sebastian Kurz met with Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird before a short visit to WoodGreen’s Danforth Avenue offi ces.

One of Toronto’s largest social services organiza-tions, WoodGreen has many programs to help newcom-ers including its five-year-old program for newcomer youth.

LEARN FROM SUCCESS

In the last few decades Austria has seen the number of immigrants rise and it hasn’t implemented program-ming to help them integrate so Kurz and his delegation came to Canada to learn from its experience.

“We have a lot of work to do. We had a lot of immigrants in the past few decades, but not a lot of work was done. We didn’t do much to foster the integration process so a secretary of integration offi ce was created to do some work,” Kurz said.

Austria has a population of 8.5 million and 20 per cent of its people are immigrants; that number rises to 40 per cent in the capital of Vienna. Immigration has increased in recent years as Austria has a strong economy compared to most of Europe with an unemployment rate of just six per cent.

Each year 140,000 people

immigrate to Austria.“There are a lot of children

who are very new (to Austria) and who have problems with the German language so we’re looking for new ideas to help these children get a good education,” he said in an interview.

YOUNG PEOPLE

Kurz said 50 per cent of young people in Vienna were born outside the country.

His offi ce was created 16 months ago and he said the situation has steadily gotten better, but they’re still looking for new ideas.

WoodGreen’s newcomer youth program sees on aver-

age more than 100 youth a month of whom 80 per cent have been in Canada less than three years with 40 per cent having arrived in the past year.

Anwesha Sen came to Canada from India with her family 13 months ago; she’s been a part of the program at WoodGreen for a year.

“There are ups and downs to being a newcomer,” she said. “( WoodGreen) has been a constant outside of my home family.”

Kurz spoke with Sen and several of the other youth who were at WoodGreen for its summer program. (Some even asked for the politician’s autograph.)

Staff photo/DANIELLE MILLEY

Austrian state secretary for integration Sebastian Kurz, left, talks with Uzma Hassan at a visit to WoodGreen Community Services’ Newcomer Youth Summer Program last Thursday.

“It gave me a lot of con-fidence coming here and talking to people who have similar stories,” she said of the program.

Shaida Addetia, manager of settlement services, said when the program fi rst started the staff would go into schools and try to make connections with youth.

They quickly learned students wouldn’t come to the program to speak with

counsellors about issues they were experiencing, but if the program was organized around a variety of clubs or activities such as trips to the Royal Ontario Museum, they would begin to attract youth who in turn would begin to trust the staff and open up.

“They forgot that they did not belong because they do belong here and then they start sharing,” Addetia said.

“This is a safe place for

them. They know this.”WoodGreen also has a

homework club to help the youth with school and they help get youth involved in volunteering to foster citizen-ship. It’s best practices such as these that Austrian offi cials wanted to learn about.

“We have learned you have to work hard to foster the integration process,” Kurz said. “It doesn’t happen by accident.”

A jewelry store in Little India was robbed by a group of people wearing disguises Thursday, Aug. 9.

The robbery happened at NW Gujrat Jewellers, 1425 Gerrard St. E., at about 2:40 p.m.

Police report one female and four males wearing disguises entered the store and approached the counter before producing hammers and removing a quantity of jewelry from the display cases.

The suspects then fl ed the scene in a vehicle northbound on Hiawatha Road.

The victims, one 29-year-old male employee and two female employees of an undetermined age, were not injured.

T h e f i r s t s u s p e c t i s

described as a female, about 23 years old, 5’5” and 119 pounds with a medium build and shoulder length dark brown hair.

The second suspect is a male, about 23 years old and 5’10” with a thin build.

The third suspect is a black male, about 23 years old and 5’7” with short black hair.

The remaining two suspects are only described as males, 23 years old.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-5500, Crime Stoppers at 416-222-TIPS (8477)

■ Armed robbery Police are looking for a male wanted in connection with the armed robbery of an Upper Beach convenience store.

The incident happened

Aug. 9 at Sak N Run, 165 Main St., at about 8:45 a.m.

Investigators report a male entered the store and approached the counter before producing a knife and demanding a 65-year-old employee hand over cash and cigarettes.

The clerk complied and the suspect then fl ed the scene on a bicycle eastbound on Gerrard Street East.

T h e v i c t i m w a s n o t injured.

The suspect is described as a white male, about 27 years old, 5’10” and 165 pounds with a medium build and black hair.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-5500, Crime Stoppers at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com

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ing many from her knitting group, staff and Dodds’ family – daugh-ter Kate Parley and granddaughter Jane – joined in the party, which overwhelmed Dodds.

“This is the biggest surprise I’ve ever had,” she said.

Dodds was feted with cake and tea, flowers and balloons.

The retired nurse lived in Newcastle, England, through two world wars. It is where she met her husband, Ernie and raised their daughter Parley. Dodds was content in England until the death of her husband so she decided to move to Canada where Kate had settled.

She arrived in December 1984 to live with her daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren in the Kingston Road and Woodbine Avenue area. By January she was volunteering with TEGH after being introduced to the hospital by Parley’s neighbour, who was a volunteer.

“Once a hospital is in your blood...hospital life is very attrac-tive,” she said.

Dodds began her career in health care when she was 17; she

would take a break once she got married, but when her husband went to serve in the Second World War, she went back into nursing at the Royal Victoria Infirmary.

After the war, she and her hus-band started a family with the birth of Parley.

They had a normal family life that included holidays around the country; Cornwall was their favourite destination. She said she didn’t travel abroad much - most travel was done by trains in her day.

Her move to Canada wasn’t a big adjustment; she was happy to be with Parley, her son-in-law Alec and grandchildren Jane and Andrew.

“Canada has been very kind to me,” Dodds said. “I like the people.”

Parley believes her mother’s commitment to staying active and her outlook on life has con-tributed to her longevity.

“She loves to be out and social-izing,” Parley said. “She’s inter-ested in life. She’s interested in people. She wants to know what’s going on in the world. She’s not content to sit and vegetate.”

Dodds attends a lunch club Mondays and plays euchre on Thursdays in addition to knit-ting dolls for the hospital’s gift shop and clothes and hats for newborns. She plays games on the computer and went through a Game Boy phase in the early ’90s when she was into Tetris.

“I have an iPad and I’m trying to keep it from her or I’ll never see it again,” Parley joked.

Dodds contributes her making and surpassing the century mark to both her attitude and good gene’s on her dad’s side - where many relatives lived to their 90s.

To be happy and content with your life,” she said is the secret. “To accept what you have.”

Being happy with what you have is the key to a long life>>>from page 1

Staff photo/DANIELLE MILLEY

Olive Dodds, right, celebrates her 102nd birthday Monday with her daugh-ter Kate Parley, family members and friends at Toronto East General Hospital. Dodds has been a volunteer at the hospital for 27 years.

“I have an iPad and I’m trying to keep it from her or I’ll never see it again.”

- jokes her daughte Kate Parley

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JOANNA LAVOIE [email protected]

As with all creative types, Sarafin is inspired by the things around her and her

life’s experiences.A writer and illustrator, the

two-year Upper Beach resident who prefers to not share her real name because of the sensitive and controversial topics she sketches and explores in the comic strips she creates, recently released her first graphic novel titled Asylum Squad Side Story: The Psychosis Diaries.

Sarafin’s book, essentially a back story for characters she intends to explore in her future graphic novels, was launched last month during a gathering of The Secret Handshake, Canada’s first peer-run, non-clinical support group for those with schizophrenia and schizoaffec-tive disorder.

Asylum Squad Side Story: The Psychosis Diaries, which Sarafin characterized as experimental fiction written in a stream of consciousness style, takes many of its cues from the “dread-ful” year or so she spent at Queen Street West’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

(CAMH) after being diagnosed with schizophrenic affective disorder, a serious yet common mental illness that includes both a loss of reality and mood problems.

“The strips have special meaning to me because of what they were about and what they were sharing.

BomBarded with info

“The storyline is reflective of my journey. I wanted people to know what it’s like to be constantly bombarded with information,” she said, adding the story isn’t entirely autobio-graphic as it’s not her intention to expose her entire life in a graphic novel.

“This is sort of my self-appointed project to return my ability to draw and write.”

So far, Sarafin said she’s received a lot of support for her project from friends, family members, fellow psychiatric sur-vivors as well as medical profes-sionals in the field eager to gain some insight on their patients’ experiences.

Sarafin’s initial incarnation of Asylum Squad was more of a “superhero romp with medi-

Writer, illustrator releases first graphic novelSarafin explores young characters struggling with visions, delusions and ‘psychiatric incarceration’

cated teenagers.” After leaving CAMH, she con-

nected with an art mentor who helped her revamp her work into a more substantial graphic novel.

In the years since her 2006 diagnosis and time spent at CAMH in 2008, Sarafin said she’s chosen to get well and take con-trol of her life, crediting her sup-portive friends and family, her healthy lifestyle and her artwork.

“My art helped me get through it. You can take something negative and make an incred-ible piece of art out of it,” said

Sarafin, whose next major goal is to land a publisher.

Her ultimate dream would be to see her work turned into an animated film.

“Now my creative juices are flowing more than ever. Remembering the voices and visions I experienced adds to my creativity, comic designs and storylines. I won’t have a cre-ative block for a long time,” said Sarafin, who is about 70 or so pages into her second graphic novel, a plot narrative she hopes to complete by next summer.

“I feel I’ve got lots of content from personal experiences and stories people have shared with me. I could fill at least three to five more books.”

Whereas her first book ends at the hospital, Sarafin said her second begins with characters meeting at the fictional St. Dymphna’s mental health insti-tute.

“If you can imagine Breakfast Club in the loony bin, that’s what it’s like,” she said.

Making art for as long as she can remember, Sarafin drew her first comic when she was about nine years old.

“I was the kid in class who was doodling when the teacher was talking. I’d doodle on my homework. I wasn’t the best stu-dent because I was in my own little art world,” she said.

Her artistic abilities were evident from an early age and Sarafin went on to major in visual art at the Etobicoke School of the Art.

Half self taught and half pro-fessionally trained as an artist, Sarafin also worked in prop making for a time after complet-ing her high school studies.

She’s also studied animation and even considered a future in fashion for a time.

Over the years, Sarafin’s also done various random artwork projects, including designing the logo for Mad Pride Toronto, an arts, culture and heritage festival created by psychiatric survivors and people the world has labelled “mentally ill”, and those in solidarity with them.

Deep down she’s always known illustrating and writ-ing comics was her passion. “(Making) comics is something I decided that I love enough that I’ll always do,” said Sarafin, who does comic strips full time while holding down a part-time job to make ends meet.

Staff photo/JOANNA LAVOIE

Writer and illustrator Sarafin recently launched her first graphic novel, ‘Asylum Squad Side Story: The Psychosis Diaries’. It features young characters struggling with visions, delusions and ‘psychiatric incarceration’.

‘I was the kid in class who was doodling

when the teacher was talking. I’d doodle on my homework. I wasn’t the best student because

I was in my own little art world.’

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In January 2008, Laura Reinsborough sat around her kitchen table with friends and strangers talking about the beginnings of an urban tree har-vesting project for Toronto. She had no idea what she was getting herself into.

Today, Not Far From The Tree (NFFTT) is in the middle of its fifth anniversary harvesting season with hundreds of volunteers descending on fruit trees right across the city, collecting everything from mul-berries and apricots to apples and pears.

Reinsborough remains an inte-gral part of the organization as its founder and co-ordinator – or the “fruit lady,” as she is routinely recog-nized as in her neighbourhood.

The time was right was the proj-ect: homeowners signed up their fruit trees, organizations came on board to benefit from the bounty and volunteers lined up to pick.

The accolades also started piling up, including an Environmental Award of Excellence from the City of Toronto, an Urban Leadership Award from the Canadian Urban Institute,

and, most recently, a Green Toronto Award in the local food category.

Reinsborough, herself, has been named a GreenHero, an Agent of Change by the Centre for Social Innovation and last year she received an Women of the Earth Award from the Yves Rocher Foundation.

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“I feel really honoured to be a part of it. I feel really grateful to play the role I have in shaping it, to build and grow the project,” she said. “I also feel humbled because this is the work of so many people. It is the 1,200 people who volunteer, the 850 tree owners. It’s been embraced with open arms in Toronto.”

NFFTT began in Ward 21 St. Paul’s in the summer of 2008. It has since grown to 14 wards across the city.

The fruit harvesting program works by having homeowners reg-ister their tree then volunteers arrive for the pick and the fruits of their labour are divided into thirds with a share going to the homeowner, a share to the volunteers and a share

to local social service organization, such as Wychwood Open Door.

Kathy Biasi is the manager of this day-time drop-in centre that serves homeless and socially isolated people. It’s been a partner since the beginning.

“I was fascinated. I thought, what a great idea,” Biasi said.

She lives in St. Paul’s and has seen the bounty a tree can produce.

“There was always more than what we could use and it was such a shame to let it go to waste,” she said. “To me it made a lot of sense.”

The people served by Wychwood Open Door have limited funds to buy fresh food for themselves so the donation was welcome.

“It was really nice because it came from the neighbourhood,” Biasi said. “They were being acknowledged by the neighbourhood.”

As NFFTT expanded to other neighbourhoods it found partner-ships with local service groups in each neighbourhood – 30 in total – so the fruit stays in the commu-nity.

Volunteer picker Jenna Hossack likes the community aspect of NFFTT.

“When I’m labelling my jars of jam I always name it after the street I picked it from so I remember where it came from,” she said.

The St. Paul’s resident first began volunteering two years ago and loved it so much she signed up to be a supreme gleaner, which is a volunteer in charge of a pick.

“I jumped at the chance to be more involved,” she said. “I liked meeting new people and being outside.”

Being a supreme gleaner means she picks three or four times a week. And it means she has a better chance of getting in on a pick, which are a hot ticket in the city.

“What’s most overwhelming is there’s interest in every single neighbourhood,” Reinsborough said. “We’ve grown quickly but still we’re nowhere near able to keep up with the demand.”

The pick notices go out through an evite and fill up within minutes as there’s room for just half a dozen volunteers. Reinsborough likes that NFFTT can take credit for some of the growing awareness about urban fruit. “One comment we used to get is, ‘Is it safe to eat?’. We don’t really get asked that anymore.

Now we’re starting to show by doing that the food in your backyard is safe,” she said. NFFTT continues to look for sustainable funding to expand the project, while helping mentor programs throughout the country and world.

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Kevin Sack has a message for motorists who feel they need to constantly text or make calls while on the road: use transit instead.

“That’s a good idea,” said Sack, a vice president of com-munications for 407 ETR, which owns and operates the 407 toll highway.

“I don’t think anyone has something so important they have to take their own life, or the life of others, just because they have to communicate.”

Sack, who was once a spokes-person for the City of Toronto, was part of a group of helmeted volunteers earlier this month demonstrating the dangers of distracted driving, some of them texting from a phone while attempting to maneuver an electric go-kart along a racetrack at Grand Prix Kartways, located inside Downsview Park.

“You can’t concentrate on both texting and driving, you just can’t,” he said afterward.

“Maybe if you’re stationary or at your computer, but not oper-ating a vehicle.”

The demonstration was part of a press conference for the Missing Anti-Distracted Driving Campaign, organized by the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA), the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), the pro-vincial ministry of transportation and a traffic safety coalition

made up of various organizations formed to spread awareness of the dangers of driving while dis-tracted, which was the cause of 53 deaths in Ontario last year.

The four-week campaign, which began officially earlier this month, highlights the important milestones of life like graduating

high school or getting married that could be lost forever thanks to the careless actions of dis-tracted drivers, who are 23 times more likely to suffer a serious automobile accident if texting, said Don Bell of the OPP.

“If you drive while distracted you’re putting yourself, your passengers and members of the public at risk,” he said.

Bell, chief superintendent of the OPP’s highway safety divi-sion, said the force investigated more than 7,500 collisions on provincial highways in 2011, all of which were caused by the “irresponsible” choices of driv-ers.

He urged drivers to refrain from any activities that averted their attention from the road, from brushing their hair to fid-dling with the radio.

“Even a moment’s distraction can be dangerous,” he said.

Teresa Di Felice from the CAA said the Missing campaign was designed to focus on all drivers.

“It applies to everybody, every age group,” said Di Felice, direc-tor of government and media relations.

“It’s about focusing on your own behaviours and what you

can do to change them.” She said CAA was examining

current enforcement of the ban on hand-held devices while driv-ing, which was introduced by the Ontario government in 2009, but not prepared at this time to lobby for higher penalties.

“We’re always open to discuss-ing if there should be changes, but the issue is not easy to enforce,” she said. “Education is the first step in actually being able to reach people.”

The current fine for using a hand-held device while driving is $155.

Despite the slow speeds of the go-karts, driver Joanne Banfield said her heart was racing as she took part in the demonstration.

“We’re in a controlled environ-ment so the potential is low for injury,” said Banfield, a manager at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.

“On the road, we don’t often drive at 15 kilometres per hour. People who are texting might, but they’re definitely not paying attention.”

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Staff photo/Dan PearceJoanne Banfield, manager of trauma injury prevention at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, demonstrates the danger of texting and driving during a news conference by CAA, the ministry of transportation and the OPP on distracted driving earlier this month at the Grandprix Kartways.

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The Projection Booth East celebrates one yearJOANNA LAVOIE [email protected]

Just more than a year ago, Nadia Sandhu, Jonathan Hlibka and Euan Mowat took a chance on a struggling single-screen theatre in the heart of Leslieville.

Twelve months later, the trio’s “labour of love” – Projection Booth East at 1035 Gerrard St. E. at Jones Avenue – is a thriving movie house known across the GTA for its art, schlock, indie and foreign films.

“We never imagined we’d get into running a theatre. It’s a crazy scheme that actually worked out. It’s our very own film adventure,” said Sandhu, who alongside Hlibka, co-owns Studio Film Group, a Leslieville-based film distribution, marketing and production company.

The duo handles the day-to-day operations of Projection Booth East, while Mowat, a local entrepreneur who owns the neighbouring Grinder Coffee, takes care of food conces-sions and any logistic details for the 280-seat cinema.

“We’re all passionate about it and we’re having a hell of a great time. It’s really rewarding. We hope we’ll see some of the films we’ve screened

here win Academy Awards,” said Sandhu, during a recent interview inside the lobby of the 101-year-old repertory theatre.

She said the idea of opening their own theatre was a bit of a pipe dream at first as she and Hlibka were facing a lot of challenges finding locations

to screen the films they were trying to promote for their clients.

“I’d been eyeing the space for some time. I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if we walked to the end of the street to see a movie?’” laughed Sandhu, admitting they both had no idea how much work was required

to run a theatre. “It’s been a lot of fun. That’s why

we do it. It’s been a great ride. You just have to expect the unexpected and roll with it sometimes.”

Aside from a lot of hard work, Sandhu said it was also a case of being at the right place at the right time as well as having a little bit of good luck along the way, which included connecting with charis-matic local entrepreneur, Mowat, who is passionate about improving the local retail strip.

“I guess the timing was right. The (former) Gerrard Cinema wasn’t doing so well. Everything just fell into place,” she said, adding the key to success at Projection Booth East has been having an open mind when it comes to programming and booking the space.

“Anything is possible. We’re will-ing to give things a try. We can try out whatever we want to reach our market,” she said.

In the past year, the cinema has held Bollywood Basement nights on Sundays, playing retro south Asian films found in the theatre’s basement.

They’ve programmed Monsters & Martians sci-fi film nights, a con-

cept so well-received it’s now being rolled out as a four-day film festi-val, the first of its kind in Canada, this November at Projection Booth East.

They’ve screened retro cartoons for kids Saturday mornings, Super Punch kung-fu nites on Saturday evenings and monthly horror film “Fright Nights,” and a Monty Python-a-thon, to name just a few.

“We’ve done some crazy stuff. We’re learning along the way and lis-tening to feedback,” Sandhu said.

“We’re open to people coming and pitching us their ideas and we’ll see if we can make it work. So far there hasn’t been a night we couldn’t do. You name it. The sky’s the limit.”

This spring, some interesting clues about the century-old the-atre’s past came to light with the discovery in May of two “secret” storage rooms.

Inside those dusty spaces, were a veritable treasure trove of film paraphernalia from bygone eras including pieces of sets, a Union Jack flag, posters from silent film serials and several piano rolls for silent films (the oldest one dates back to 1915).

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Co-owners Euan Mowat, left, and Jonathan Hlibka in the Projection Booth East last year. The movie house has been open just more than a year.

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Young people with an interest in local community issues and municipal governance have the opportunity to run for the City Youth Council of Toronto.

All youth interested in running for council, or those who just want to connect with peers from across the city, are invited to attend the Passport to Change workshop at the North York Civic Centre Aug. 25.

Here, potential candidates and volunteers can attend informative sessions covering election rules and processes, how to become a candidate

and register voters, the struc-ture of youth council, how to run a campaign, and how to create meaningful change.

The general election runs from Oct. 15 to 19, when 44 youth aged 14 and 22 will be elected to represent every city ward. Those elected are expected to attend monthly meetings in council chambers at Toronto City Hall where community issues will be addressed and key recommendations will be passed on to politi-cians and city decision makers. Youth coun-cillors will also have

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The Passport to Change event is hosted by the non-profit City Youth Council of Toronto and will begin at 1 p.m. Aug. 25.

– Laura Booth

Wanted: youth with passion for politics for City Youth Council of Toronto

The first ballot for the Gerrard Woodbine Neighbourhood Association’s Name the ’Hood contest is now com-plete.

Members of the dynamic grassroots group that aims to strengthen and beautify the neighbourhood have chosen their Top 10 favourite names: Beach Hill, Gerrard Woodbine, Gerrard Woodbine Village, Upper Beach, Upper

Beach Hill, Upper Beach Village, Upper Gerrard Crossing, Upper Gerrard Village, Woodbine Corners and Woodbine Hill.

The group’s members now have until Monday, Aug. 20 to vote on their Top 3 picks for the neighbourhood’s new name.

The final ballot is set to take place from Aug. 22 to Sept. 6 with the winning

name being announced on Saturday, Sept. 8 during a casual bring-your-own-pic-nic social. In case of inclem-ent weather, the event will be moved to Sunday, Sept. 9.

For more information about the Gerrard Woodbine Neighbourhood Association and its Name the ’Hood contest, visit www.gerrard-woodbine.com or email [email protected].

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Athletes for the Ontario Summer Games are now in TorontoERIC HEINO [email protected]

After two years of preparation, the Ontario Summer Games (OSG) is now on.

The opening ceremony of the bi-annual Olympic-style competi-tion is at 7 p.m. tonight at Varsity Stadium.

About 2,500 athletes from across the province will be competing in sports from rugby and sailing to fencing and softball Aug. 16 to 19. Eighteen sports are being held at 19 venues across Toronto.

Canoe/kayak is being held in Welland, cycling will take place in Albion Hills, skeet shooting is held in Oshawa, sporting rifle will take place in St. Catharines and the tri-athlon is in Brampton.

Organizing committee chair Rahul Bhardwaj and his team began preparations for the Toronto event only a few months after the completion of the 2010 Games in Sudbury.

The challenge is to take all that planning and make it a reality, he said.

“It is truly remarkable what we have built with these Games,” he said. “The organizing committee

has been working for 18 months and now thousands of volunteers are also operating to help the Games. So many people are civically engaged and want to be the best host to their province. They are doing an enor-mous amount of work right now.”

The bulk of the athletes are arriv-ing today.

In addition to preparing 13 ath-lete villages and 22 sporting venues, organizers are also ensuring proper food preparation, making transpor-tation arrangements and managing the opening ceremony.

Mental training

The athletes have a lot to do as well, focusing their minds and making final preparations for what is, for some, the highest level of competition of their lives.

Every athlete approaches the

competition differently, but Lana Perry knows the feeling.

A former archery competitor, coach and current administrator with the OSG, Perry understands even the most stoic archers can get high strung, but have to focus on pre-games training.

“Some younger athletes will actually taper their training off so they don’t hurt their muscles and some will amp it up to get more endurance. A lot of what we do becomes mental training. It really differs depending on athletes,” Perry said.

Athletes also need to fine tune their equipment in preparation for the event.

Even though everyone is coming from Ontario, the humidity and weather in Toronto can alter the functionality of equipment, Perry said.

Restringing bows, tweaking rifle sights and double-checking bicycle tires can be the difference between standing on the podium and watch-ing from the stands.

The Games are seen as a gateway to further national and international competition, acting as qualifiers for most of the sports featured during the event, said Crystal Peiris, a games consultant with Sport Alliance of Ontario, the organization in charge of running the Summer Games for the provincial government.

‘Stepping Stone’

“The Ontario Games are a step-ping stone for athletes to compe-titions like the nationals and the Canada Games, for example.”

The Games play a vital role in the long-term development of Ontario’s sports organizations and foster “unmatched” life skills and values that an athlete wouldn’t necessarily pick up in a classroom, Peiris said.

Blair McIntosh, a former direc-tor of Games for Sport Alliance of Ontario and the director of sport for the 2015 Pan American Games, said the provincial Games teach “discipline, socialization, diversity,

acknowledgment... it changes an athlete’s life.”

“We have seen many of our athletes go from playground to (Olympic) podium and then go on after their athletic careers to accomplish great achievements in life,” said McIntosh. “And in almost all cases, they relate who they are and who they have become as a result of competing in sport.”

However, for many of the athletes, the Games is more than just com-peting, they are also excited about the social experience of meeting like-minded athletes.

“A lot of the time they come away having met some very great people,” said Perry.

“Even just wandering around in the dormitory, they are wearing different uniforms and they get to know each other. Being teenagers, they are very social anyway.”

Tickets are available at each venue for $5. Tickets give people access to all venues for that day only. Pins are also available at each venue for $25, which gives holders access to all venues for the entire competition.

~ with files from Michele McLean and

Sean Durack

‘Some younger athletes will actually taper their training off so they don’t hurt their muscles and

some will amp it up to get more endurance. A lot of what we do becomes mental training...’

~ Lana Perry, former archer and administrator with the Summer Games

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Cleaning Up Our Waterways:The Don River and Central Waterfront ProjectMunicipal Class Environmental Assessment - Notice of Study Completion

The City ofToronto has completed a Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (EA) Study to advance the recommendations of the City’sWetWeather Flow Master Plan (approved by City Council in 2003) to capture and treat polluted stormwater and combined sewer overflows(CSO’s) that are discharged to the Don River and CentralWaterfront. This will help to improve water quality and our environment. In addition,necessary upgrades have been identified to the City’s critical sanitary trunk sewer infrastructure within the study area to improve operationsand service future growth.

The study has defined the problems/opportunities, identified and evaluated alternatives, and determined a preferred solution and design inconsultation with the City ofToronto, regulatory agencies, and the public.The City has accepted the consultant’s recommendations regardingthe preferred solution and design, including the following project components:

SanitaryTrunk Sewer Systeml A Lower Don/Coxwell BypassTunnel that will be used on a contingency basis as a bypass to the existing Coxwell SanitaryTrunk Sewer

(STS) allowing for periodic maintenance and any necessary repairs of the Coxwell STS,l Four underground storage tanks for offline storage of peak sanitary flows where additional capacity is needed.l Upgrades to the NorthTorontoTreatment Plant (NTTP).

Wet Weather Flow Collection and Storage Systeml Three integrated tunnels (Lower Don/Coxwell BypassTunnel,Taylor Massey CreekTunnel, and Inner HarbourTunnel) connected to an

equivalent of 15 underground vertical storage shafts that will collect and store wet weather flows and convey these flows to a new wetweather flow treatment facility.

l Three underground storage tanks for offline storage of wet weather flows from four remote outfall locations.

Treatment of Collected Wet Weather Flowl A new wet weather treatment facility that will provide high-rate treatment of wet weather flows and will be located on future lakefill in the

waterlot south of the existing Ashbridges BayTreatment Plant.l A new pumping station in Ashbridges Grove Park with forcemains connecting to the new wet weather flow treatment facility.l Retrofit of an existing CSO tank at the NorthTorontoTreatment Plant.

Opportunities for ReviewThe study was carried out following the requirements for Schedule ‘C’ projects under the Municipal Class EA. An Environmental StudyReport (ESR) has been completed and placed on public record for a 45-day review period starting August 10, 2012 and ending September 24,2012.The ESR will be available for review on the project website at www.toronto.ca/cleanwaterways and at the following locations:

Beaches Library Leaside Library City Hall Library St Lawrence Library2161 Queen St. E. 165 McRae Dr. 100 Queen St.W. 171 Front St. E.416 393 7703 416 396 3835 416 393 7650 416 393 7655

If you have any outstanding issues about this project, please address them to the City staff listed below and we will attempt to seek amutually acceptable resolution.

JamesYacoumidis, Policy, Planning and Project ConsultantCity ofToronto, Metro Hall, 18th Fl., 55 John St.,Toronto, ON M5V 3C6Tel: 416-392-8834 Fax: 416-338-2828 TTY: 416-397-0831E-mail: [email protected] or Visit: toronto.ca/cleanwaterways

If concerns regarding this project cannot be resolved in discussion with the City ofToronto, a person or party may request that the OntarioMinister of the Environment make an order for the project to comply with Part II of the Environmental Assessment Act (referred to as a Part IIOrder), which addresses individual environmental assessments.

The Minister must receive the request in writing by September 24, 2012 at the address below, and a copy must also be sent to the City contact.If no requests are received by September 24, 2012, the City may proceed with this project as outlined in the Environmental Study Report.

The Honourable Jim BradleyMinister of the Environment77 Wellesley St. W., Ferguson Block, 11th Fl.,Toronto, ON M7A 2T5

Issue Date: August 2, 2012Information will be collected in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.With the exception ofpersonal information, all comments will become part of the public record.

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■ Friday, Aug. 17Free Summer Newcomer Youth ProgrammingWHEN: 9 a.m. WHERE:WoodGreen Community Services, 815 Danforth Ave. Suite 300 (at Donlands subway station) CONTACT: Youth Coun-sellor, 416-645-6000, [email protected], www.woodgreen.orgCome out until today for sum-mer programming, including: computer camp, job search workshops, fashion/sewing club, volunteering, badminton, soccer, and more. Call to register.

Blind Draw Double/Teams Dart TournamentWHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, www.facebook.com/groups/4651583595, [email protected] COST: $10Blind draw doubles or teams (depending on turnout). All skill levels welcome and you don’t have to be a member to join in.

■ Saturday, Aug. 18Garage Sale and Penny Drive for the Cure!WHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Woodmount Ave., 231 Woodmount Ave. COST: FreeUnload your unwanted pennies and browse selected treasures: books, DVDs, comics, toys and so much more. New luggage set is available. All funds raised will go toward the Weekend to End Womens Cancers.

Taylor Massey CreekWHEN: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Victoria Park subway

station, 777 Victoria Park Ave. CONTACT: Margaret McRae, www.torontofi eldnaturalists.orgNature walk with Toronto Field Naturalists. Bring lunch.

Park YogaWHEN: 10 a.m. WHERE: Riverdale Park, Broadview and Gerrard CONTACT: Trixie Montanile, 416-466-8152, info@thefl yingyogi.ca, www.facebook.com/parkyogatorontoFree outdoor yoga continues through the summer, weather permitting. No charge but donations welcome; a portion of the proceeds from the col-lected money goes to support Nellie’s Shelter and programs for women and children. Meet at the south end of Riverdale Park off Broadview Avenue near the statue of Dr. Sun Yat Sen.

■ Sunday, Aug. 19Park YogaWHEN: 10:30 a.m. WHERE: Jimmie Simpson Park, Booth Ave. CONTACT: Trixie Montanile, 647-993-9644, info@thefl y-

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Weekly MeditationWHEN: 7 and 9 p.m. WHERE:Centering Space, 59 Cambridge Ave. CONTACT: Hugh McBride, [email protected], www.torontomeditativein-quiry.com/Weekly meetings include sitting and walking meditation, shared readings, and group dialogue. The group is not affi liated with any religion, and there is no liturgical or ritualistic aspect to our meetings. Persons from all

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■ Monday, Aug. 20Drop in DartsWHEN: 7:30 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, COST: $5Blind draw doubles dart shoot. All skill levels welcome.

Monday Night CribbageWHEN: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, [email protected] COST: $6Everyone welcome.

■ Tuesday, Aug. 21East York Farmer’s MarketWHEN: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: East York Civic Center, 850 Coxwell Ave. CONTACT: Ruth Abbott, 416-429-9684, [email protected] Ontario fruits, vegetables, breads, baking, preserves, honey and more is available at this weekly farmers market. Email for details.

Complaints ChoirWHEN: 1 to 2 p.m. WHERE: WoodGreen Commu-nity Services, 815 Danforth Ave.Suite 300 (At Donlands subway station) CONTACT: 416-645-

6000, ext. 5235Join the WoodGreen Complaints Choir lead by Geoffery Butler, which meets Tuesdays. Partici-pants sing about issues around aging and ageism. Refreshments and TTC tokens provided.

■ Wednesday, Aug. 22 Gary 17’s Acoustic Open StageWHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Hirut Restaurant, 2050 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: Gary 17, 416-424-1743, [email protected] Weekly open stage 7:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. or later, with feature act at 10 p.m. All genres wel-come. A house guitar and piano are available to those who wish to play.

■ Thursday, Aug. 23Embrace Autism Summer Bowling For KidsWHEN: 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Thorncliffe Bowlerama, 45 Overlea Blvd. CONTACT: Deb-bie Grounds, 416-396-2375, [email protected], embraceautismontario.comSummer Bowling for Kids Em-brace Autism - George Webster Family Support Group would like you to attend summer bowling for kids seven to 12. Join the fun, make new friends and get active. Thursday evenings. Cost is $5 per bowler, per week (shoe rental included).

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Back this year are the Ambassador of the Fairs com-petition, the PeeWee Baseball Tournament and the midway. New initiatives and ventures include The CNE Sky Ride and a zipline.

The popular Bandshell

will feature Big Sugar, among others, while exhibits includes the military history of the CNE grounds and a tribute of 50 years of The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and The Beach Boys. The CNE runs until Sept. 3.

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The London Olympics are now his-tory, and there were plenty of ath-letes from Toronto on the Canadian team including two with ties to the east end.

Here’s a brief snapshot of how they fared. Visit insidetoronto.com for a complete list of how Toronto athletes did.

Aaron Brown, 20• 200m: missed out on the 200-

metre fi nal by fi ve one-hundreths of a second and placed ninth overall in a new personal best of 20.42 seconds, fi nishing fourth in the same semifi -nal heat as eventual gold medalist Usain Bolt.

“I was much more relaxed,” Brown said in an interview on the Canadian Olympic Committee website. “It was great chasing Usain Bolt, he pulled me to a personal best. I never thought I would get this close to the fi nal, I was just looking for that per-sonal best and to not fi nish last.”

Brown qualifi ed for the semifi nal with a third-place fi nish in his heat in a personal best time of 20.55s

“I was so nervous, it is crazy out there,” he said on the Athletics Canada website. “...At around 120m I felt the lactic acid, but I said no way, man, this is the Olympics and just found another gear, ran guys down.”

Brown grew up in the area of Coxwell Avenue and Gerrard Street, attending Bowmore Road public school before heading to Birchmount Park Collegiate in south Scarborough for their exceptional athlete pro-

gram. He was a star in both track and

football in school and is attending the University of Southern California on a track scholarship.

Khetag Pliev, 28• wrestling, 96kg: knocked out in

the quarter-fi nal round by eventual gold medalist Jacob Stephen Varner of the U.S.

“I’m not very pleased with the result. Obviously with the next match I could’ve competed for a medal, but I’m still happy that I came and I am here,” said Pliev in an interview on the Canadian Olympic Committee website. “I performed and the overall experience was great. It’s been a long road to get here and I am very proud to represent Canada.” Pliev won his opening round of 16 match over Javier Cortina Lacerra of Cuba.

Four years ago, Pliev, who wrestles out of Team Impact club at Broadview and Danforth, was a homeless person sleeping on a bench in the southwest corner of Toronto’s Allan Gardens.

“I never entirely gave up on the dream, even when I was on the bench...” he said in an interview.

Born in Ossetia, Russia, he ulti-mately made Canada his permanent home in 2005, settling in Toronto.

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Former Bowmore Road public school student Aaron Brown came close to making the Olympic 200m final.

Photo/ARMANDO VILLAVONAMADE IT: David Sutton crosses the finish line in the Distillery District Sunday morning at the conclusion of the Canada Running Series Toronto 10-Miler.

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Midsummer Night’s Run SaturdayEnjoy a Midsummer Night’s Run Saturday.

Billed as Toronto’s premier 30/15K, the 30K begins at 5:30 p.m. and the 15K at 6:45 p.m. This year there is also a 5K race and family fun run.

The course uses a tiny portion of Lake Shore between Leslie and Coxwell, dipping down into both Ashbridges Bay Park and Tommy Thompson Park. Visit www.amid-

summernightsrun.caOn Sunday, the action is on

Toronto Island for a 5K and 10K racewalk event. Races start at 10:30 a.m. and participants are asked to board the 8:45 a.m. ferry to Hanlan’s Point. The races include the 24th annual Canada-U.S. junior chal-lenge, featuring the top junior racers from both countries, as well as open men’s and women’s races. Visit www.ontarioracewalkers.com

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A summer’s stretch for Nellie’sPark Yoga, a free summer time outdoor yoga event that has taken place in Toronto’s east-end

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