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Ontario Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services Yasir Naqvi displays a proper smoke detector while greeting the crowd during the 12 Days of Holiday Fire Safety event inside Scarborough Town Centre on Tuesday.
Toronto Fire Services offi cially launched the 12 Days of Holiday Fire Safety campaign Tuesday in Scarborough.
The launch of the fourth annual provincial campaign took place at Scarborough Town Centre and featured the largest-ever public assembly of Ontario
fi re inspectors.The 101 fi re inspectors joined
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Past inhabitants of Scarboroughs Rouge Valley were said to have buried weapons under a white pine to signal a conflict was over.
Around two weeks ago, politi-cians who supported the federal Conservative position on what the Rouge National Urban Park should be made a gesture of their own.
They wrote to Cather ine McKenna, the new Liberal govern-ments environment minister, and Brad Duguid, the Ontario cabinet minister who withheld 9,000 acres of provincial land from the park.
They politely asked McKenna and Duguid to meet them, and to trans-fer those lands to the new national park as soon as possible.
peace offering
The letters were a peace offering to the new federal government from people who have worked to protect the Rouge Valley for decades, said Scarborough Centre Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker, adding he and other signers were also offering their services.
Signers of the letters include Conservative MP Peter Kent, who announced the Rouge NUP as Canadas environment minister in 2012, Conservative MP Michael Chong, former Scarborough Progressive Conservative MP Pauline Browes, and Scarborough East Councillor Ron Moeser.
They, and the Friends of the Rouge National Urban Park (NUP) organization that sent the letter, had vigorously defended plans the Conservatives had for the park much of it to be declared a pro-tected agricultural area where tenant farmers would not be dis-placed by trees from Duguids
refusal to allow the transfer until the October election.
Friends of the Rouge NUP kept urging people to question Duguid and the provinces stance against the land transfer, calling it politi-cally motivated. The group also said the $170 million the Conservatives promised the park was much more than the province ever invested.
political catfight
But all this was a relatively small disagreement that turned into a political catfight about who thought they knew best for the park, said De Baeremaeker, a former full-time campaigner for Rouge Valley preservation who now hopes some of that partisan fric-tion will disappear.
The letter-signers also asked Duguid to submit comments on behalf of Ontario on the Rouge Park management plan drafted by Parks Canada under the Conservative regime.
In an interview last week, Duguid said he wants the land transferred as expeditiously as possible, but the park legislation, and therefore the plan, must first be rewritten to make environmental protections for the Rouge Valley as strong as they are today, if not enhanced.
That was the challenge the (Stephen) Harper government let us down on, said Duguid, arguing the letter-signers, perhaps feeling a little sheepish now, are the same people who urged me to sell out our commitment to protection in order to build the park faster.
Though Duguid said he welcomes their support, he said hell work more closely with environmental groups such as Friends of the Rouge Watershed (FRW), which stood by our efforts and made submissions to the previous government that were ignored.
Duguid, who was able to stop the provincial land transfer because he was Ontarios infrastructure minis-ter, said hell connect with McKenna when she returns from the Paris climate change conference.
Both governments now share the same perspective on the Rouge, but still have work to do amending the park legislation and management plan, he said.
Supporters of the Conservative position have said their plan which introduced armed park wardens provided stronger protections.
Those on the other side said existing protections must include policies that put the watersheds ecology first and construct a wide corridor of forests through the park in Markham.
De Baeremaeker said he still believes the Conservative govern-ments legislation was better for the park, and the provinces refusal of it was a bit of a jaw-dropper to me.
Still, he said he hopes the bicker-ing is over, and the 9,000 provin-cial acres can be handed soon to a park getting a federal investment at least as big as the Conservatives promised.
add more land to park
The councillor said he will also press the federal Liberals to dedi-cate 10,000 more acres of land in Durham Region to the park. Now is an amazing opportunity, he said.
Jim Robb, general manager of FRW, said hes looking forward to the two governments fulfilling their agreement the park would meet or exceed current protections.
Im very optimistic now, Robb added after he and a few other mem-bers of non-government groups met Duguid late last month.
Though she wasnt re-elected in Scarborough North, former New Democrat MP Rathika Sitsabaiesans private members bill for amending the park legislation is a good starting point for the federal Liberals, Robb suggested.
The legislation, if they want to, should be able to go through in a year, but investigations Parks Canada must do before the land transfers, judging from the past, will take longer, he said.
peace in the valley closer after federal liberals elected
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communIty bREAKfAst
From top: Children get a photo session with St. Nick during Breakfast with Santa at Coucelette Public School Saturday; Michael Fortier, left, serves up some pancakes and syrup for Lisa Mitchell; Courcelette Public School students perform at the event, which was a benefit for Birchmount Bluffs Neighbourhood Centre. In addition to the pancake breakfast, the event featured two bands, raffles, crafts and a visit from Santa Claus himself.
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Toronto has been in fiscal denial, off and on, since it was amalgamated in 1998. That was when Mel Lastman was elected mayor, promis-ing to freeze property taxes for the first three years of the new mega-city. He pulled it off, but not in a fiscally responsible way. Rather than finding internal efficiencies and cutting services, most of the citys financial problems were deferred down the line in the service of a tax freeze.
When David Miller took over two terms later, the city and council did better, but it was a tooth-and-nail fight to implement the land transfer tax and vehicle registration tax, which let council get away with more minor efficiencies and modest property tax increases thanks to a booming real estate market.
Those taxes and a municipal workers strike sent Rob Ford into the mayors office and while that regime made some mostly unpalatable cuts, once again ambitious spending and timid revenue-seeking put Toronto back in the hole.
The early months of John Torys time in the mayors
office seemed to continue this unrealistic mash-up of promises of frugality with big-ticket commitments. For a time, it looked as though the reconstruc-tion of the Gardiner Expressway, SmartTrack, the Scarborough subway and countless other enhance-ments were going to bankrupt us all.
Thats why were happy to see that Tory has effectively abandoned his promise to keep property tax increases at or below the rate of inflation. Its not that we think higher taxes are a good idea. But the alternative planning to build a city the size of Toronto on an unsustainable fiscal plan is folly. Torys plan to charge a 0.5 per cent a year levy to build transit and housing is at least a step toward erasing that folly. The tax increase is relatively small: $13 a year for the average homeowner, for five years, on top of whatever inflationary increase they see on their tax bill. By itself, it is neither a great burden, nor the complete solution to Torontos needs. There will have to be more revenue grabs. But thats for another day. For now, we can at least applaud that the days of denial seem to be done.
Mayor John Torys property levy tax shows good financial planning
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Mayor John Tory has defied early expectations when it comes to governing a complex TorontoJohn Tory can be a tough mayor to interview.
Thats not to say that our mayor is evasive, or dishon-est, or, like the last one to hold the job, openly hostile to journalistic prying.
Tory is none of those things. The problem, rather, is the opposite: Tory thinks aloud, considering all points of view and in the end, states nearly all of them in addition to agree-ing with the premise of the question in case that hadnt come up in one of the other answers.
It can be frustrating work, trying to parse the mayors views from all that. A lead becomes a multiple choice question.
From that, one might conclude that the mayor is simply unprincipled and by a narrowly political definition of the word, that might be so.
Tory does not hold fast with the principles of one
faction or another of our political spectrum. He might have done so in the past. But now, Tory seems content to take his pick.
This he has demon-strated ably over his first year in office. For a time, it seemed as though Tory might be of a piece with councils right-wing intel-ligentsia: he championed a costly rebuild of the Gardiner Expressway favoured by Conservative members of council, and held fast on the costly Scarborough subway for which former mayor Rob Ford took credit.
He has sung the praises of the private sector and made jokes about the folly of big government as well as any right-wing pol might be expected to.
But as the year has gone on, hes defied those expec-tations.
After talking with busi-ness leaders and sport boosters, he backed the city away from another Olympic bid.
He used another meet-ing with the blue-blooded business crowd at the Economic Club of Canada to unveil plans for an annual tax hike to pay for a major round of construc-tion and repair of public affordable housing and transit infrastructure.
He flew to Paris right after that, to huddle with world leaders trying to find ways to battle, halt and possibly reverse climate change and when he came back, he announced plans to help Toronto recycle more garbage, consume less energy and get around on foot and on bicycles.
This is not the sort of thing youd have expected
from a guy named Tory.Now some of this might
be written off as evidence of a shifting of the politi-cal winds. Prime Minister Justin Trudeaus Liberals came to power on a wave of progressive policies and right-wing repudiation.
I would buy that more easily if I hadnt been exposed so early and often to the push-me-pull-you dynamic of Torys psyche.
And while its a frus-trating psyche to try and codify, it might actually turn out to be a healthy one when it comes to govern-ing a big, complex place like Toronto, where public mood and social reality can shift in a heartbeat.
Vision, clear and consis-tent and predictable, might well have had its day.
David Nickle is Metroland Media Torontos city hall reporter. His column runs
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Scarborough native The Weeknd continues to domi-nate the international music scene, scoring seven Grammy Awards nominations for his album Beauty Behind the Madness.
The nominations were announced early Monday, Dec. 7. The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, is up for some of The Grammys biggest honours, including album of the year and record of the year.
The former West Hill Collegiate Institute student will face off against Alabama Shakes, Chris Stapleton, Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift for album of the year.
Cant Feel My Face, the third single from Beauty Behind the Madness, will take on tracks from DAngelo, Ed Sheeran, Mark Ronson and Taylor Swift for record of the year. The single is also up for
best pop solo performance. Earned It, also on the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack, was nominated for best R&B song, best R&B performance and best song written for visual media. Beauty Behind the Madness was nominated for best urban contemporary album of the year as well.
The Grammy nods cap a whirlwind couple years for Tesfaye, who has quickly gained international popular-ity and acclaim since releas-ing his first studio album, Kiss Land, in September of 2013.
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Kiss Land debuted at number two on Billboards top 200 chart, while the follow up, 2015s Beauty Behind the Madness, debuted at number one, spending three consecu-tive weeks in the top spot.
Cu r re n t l y s i t t i n g a t number five, Beauty Behind the Madness has spent 13
weeks on the chart since its Aug. 28 release. Twelve of the albums 14 tracks have hit the Billboard hot 100 chart, with Cant Feel My Face and The Hills reaching number one and Earned It climbing to number three. During the week of July 25, 2015, the singles occupied the top three spots on Billboards hot R&B songs chart, making Tesfaye the first artist to hold all three of its top spots at once.
He hit the Billboard hot 100 charts as a guest on sev-eral other artists songs too, including his duet with Ariana Grande, Love Me Harder, which reached number seven. He also appeared on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack.
Earlier this month, Spotify announced Beauty Behind the Madness was its most-streamed album of 2015, with 60 million listeners. Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number five in its Best Albums of 2015 list.
Scarborough native The Weeknd scores seven Grammy nominations
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Kwanzaa celebrationsset for ScarboroughThe Afr ican Canadian Heritage Association hosts its annual Kwanzza celebration this Saturday at Alexander Sterling Public School in Scarborough.
The free community event goes from 1;30 to 5:30 p.m. and features cultural enter-tainment and an African market place.
The ACHA will also provide a free communal feast.
Everyone is welcome to attend, and the doors open at 1 p.m.
Donations of canned or dried food items for local food banks, and donations of gently used shoes for the Kenya Project will be accepted.
Alexander Stirling P.S. is located at 70 Fawcett Trail.
Kwanzaa is a week long cel-ebration honouring African
heritage and culture.For more information,
email [email protected] or call 416-208-3149.
w Desserts by LampLight sLateDThe Scarborough Museum h o s t s i t s D e s s e r t s by Lamplight this Saturday from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Participants can take part in an evening of lamp-lit rooms, decadent desserts and carollers.
Space is limited for this museum fundraising event.
Tickets cost $25, which includes tax. Pre-registration only. Early bookings are rec-ommended.
Scarborough Museum is at 1007 Brimley Rd., just north of Lawrence Avenue in Thomson Memorial Park.
For tickets, call 416-338-
8807 or online at https://scarboroughmuseum.stream-intickets.com/purchaseProd-uctSP.
w me/CFs/Fm support meeting tonightA community meeting for the ME/CFS FM Support Group in Scarborough is set for tonight.
The meeting goes from 1 to 3 p.m., and takes place at the McGregor Park Community Centre, 2231 Lawrence Ave. E.
The support group is intended for those dealing with ME (myalgic encepha-lomyelitis), CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) and FM (fibromyalgia).
There is no charge to attend.
New members are welcome to attend.
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Strip malls. Back yard fences along wide streets. Apartment towers ringed by parking lots and lawns.
Its not so bad, right? And we can work with it, says New Suburbanism, a Scarborough-born movement to study the history of our suburbs and plan their future.
New Suburbanists must do this in front of experts who blame suburban plans and lifestyles for contributing to obesity, climate change and certain Arcade Fire songs, but that doesnt bother Morgen Peers.
These are really satisfying places to live, said Peers, a planner and founder of the Institute for New Suburbanism. They need to be engaged on their own terms.
The institute is organiz-ing a 2017 conference at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and will host a lecture Jan. 19 on what New Suburbanism is about.
Peers said a popular design
movement, New Urbanism, says our suburbs are problem-atic, improper forms of com-munity.
Hes trying to steer that con-versation using positive lan-guage, so we look at a suburb such as Scarborough as not something that needs to be corrected, but something that needs to be worked with and matured.
Suburban planning is about things being more spread out, and suburbs are a necessary broker between urban and rural landscapes, Peers said.
These arent easy times for defenders of the suburban dream in Scarborough and other spread-out parts of greater Toronto.
After its city council voted to refuse a $1.6-billion light rail line last month, one Toronto newspapers architecture critic wrote Brampton had been turned into little more than an arrangement of highways and parking lots interrupted by malls and subdivisions.
The writer, Christopher Hume, said rejecting the transit line was in character. The sub-
urban ethos, after all, is one of disconnection and separation. It rejects the urban ideal for something that, though it adds up to less, demands less.
Another critic, John Bentley Mays, earlier this month declared Scarborough a target for downtown urban-affairs writers these days because of the perceived wasteful nature of its proposed Bloor-Danforth subway extension to be lit-tered with bad building art of recent vintage: bleak concrete apartment slabs, and senti-mental, pseudo-historical new homes and townhouses.
Still, Peers maintains he sees the public shifting from talking about the suburbs as a problem to them being a naturally occur-ring part of an urban region.
His conference organizing group met for the fi rst time in October, and Peers said it will be open to opinions from resi-dents and professionals alike as the three-day event comes together.
The third day of the confer-ence will be tours or moving workshops using the buildings and vistas of Scarborough as a laboratory for problem-solving or ideas, he said.
Peers wrote research papers for the Scarborough Community Renewal Campaign, which was sponsored by local Rotary clubs.
The campaigns fi nal report last January called, among other things, for a Scarborough Business Association, formed since, a re-branding campaign to shift external perceptions of Scarborough, a tourism board to spotlight the areas hidden gems, and a new hub in Scarborough for music, arts and culture.
Also on the list was a plan-ning conference on neo-subur-ban ideas, including some that could improve future develop-ment in Scarborough.
New Suburbanism doesnt really have anything to do with New Urbanism, said Andre Sorensen, chair of the depart-ment of Human Geography at UTSC, arguing Peers wants to change the image of the suburbs, trying to get people to think of them and Scarborough in particular as attractive places that arent in decline.
Many people in Canada have stereotypical ideas about the suburbs, but they are much different places now then when fi rst built, with more workplaces and complexities, Sorensen added.
Before you make changes to a place or policies, you have to understand it; that will be a focus of the conference on suburbs, he predicted.
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Mayor John Tory returned from Paris with plans to put Toronto back into its old leadership role on climate change plans that include speeding up the
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Tory made the comments December 7, after arriving home from attending the international climate change summit in Paris, France. There,
Tory said he met with mayors from major cities from around the world, including New York Citys Michael Bloomberg, and came back with a suite of ideas to push Toronto forward.
Among them: the phasing out of the extra-large garbage bin that according to city solid waste staff is mostly used by lazy homeowners to throw waste that could either be recycled or composted.
We have to spend more energy rewarding good behaviour and weve got to discourage bad behaviour, said Tory. Right now residents using the extra-large bins, people are putting items in those bins they shouldnt be. Seventy five per cent of things in large bins should be in the blue bin or the green bin. I will be asking my colleagues for looking at the potential for phasing out the extra large bins.
Tory said hell also push to increase the citys budget for tree planting, and also for showcasing green con-struction practises.
I will be looking for an early opportunity to showcase the construction of a truly carbon neutral building, he said.
The city will also look for ways to partner with the federal government on making Toronto Community Housing buildings more energy efficient.
And in 2016, Tory said he will work to launch a smart commute congestion plan. He made the announce-ment in Liberty Village, because the local business improvement area organization has been launching initiatives there to encourage people to commute more intelligently.
Currently, a quarter of the people in the west-end Toronto neighbourhood walk to work or cycle, aided by bike lockers and bike paths strategically placed.
The challenge now is to expand these programs across the city, said Tory.
Tory vows Toronto will be leader in fighting climate change
PortsToronto officially scrapsplans for jets at island airportPortsToronto will stop work on expanding the Billy Bishop Airport, officially killing the prospects of jet aircraft taking off and landing from the airport on Torontos waterfront.
The announcement comes nearly a month after new Federal Transportation Minister Marc Garneau made it clear Ottawa has no interest in opening the tripartite agreement that would allow the airport to be expanded.
Porter Airlines, which flies turboprop aircraft from the island, has since 2013 been asking that the ban on jet aircraft be lifted so it could extend the range of its services.
In a statement, PortsToronto CEO Geoffrey Wilson said that is no longer a possibility.
PortsToronto will complete the technical work currently underway, but will not proceed with further public engagement-related activities pertaining to the Porter Proposal to introduce jets, he said. As such, the studies will not be finished. PortsToronto will make data and information gathered to date available to the City of Toronto and stakeholders that may be helpful in the Bathurst Quay Neighbourhood Plan currently being led by the City of Toronto.
Until Tuesday, PortsToronto had been silent on how it would respond to the statements from Garneau, which were initially released via his Twitter account.
PortsToronto (formerly the Toronto Port Authority) had been working on three studies at the request of Toronto: an Environmental Assessment, a Preliminary Runway Design, and a Master Planning Exercise. The agency had also asked Waterfront Toronto to conduct a peer review of the Environmental Assessment.
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A report on the future of hos-pitals in Scarborough and west Durham hospitals will be released soon, provincial officials are saying.
Ontario Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins received the report on Nov. 3.
Hoskins appointed eight experts in April, giving them six months to tell him how to deliver hospital services in both Scarborough and Durham.
Panelists were also told they could advise the minister on whether new hospital facili-ties may be needed in either area.
The Rouge Valley Health System and The Scarborough Hospital, which abandoned a proposed merger last spring, have asked the province to
launch a full study on their infrastructure needs.
In August, during the only meeting with panelists open
to the public in Scarborough, residents were told to expect the report will be released publicly.
When that will be is up to Hoskins, said John Ronson, a panel member who said pre-vious reports to the minister were made public within a few weeks.
None of us are interested in having a report on a shelf, gathering dust, Ronson added at the meeting. If there isnt action, Im going to be very, very angry.
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The crash happened on Kingston Road east of McCowan Road at 8:38 p.m.
Police reports said a westbound Saturn Vue hit the back of a parked Hino delivery truck for reasons not yet determined.
The driver of the Saturn was pronounced dead at the scene. This is the citys 61st fatal collision of the year.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 416-808-1900.
w IndustrIal accIdent Injures manA 48-year-old man suffered serious injuries in an indus-trial accident at a Scarborough lumberyard Monday.
Police said the incident happened at Home Lumber
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There was a forklift that was moving some of the lumber around and the lumber fell off and fell onto the victim, Const. Craig Brister said.
Hes suffered from several broken bones. We turned the scene over to the Ministry of Labour and they are currently conducting their investiga-tion.
The victim was taken to a trauma centre for treat-ment. His injuries are not life-threatening.
w arrest made In dIstractIon theftToronto police have arrested a 34-year-old woman in con-nection with a distraction theft earlier this year in the Victoria Park and Lawrence avenues area that targetted a 96-year-old victim.
According to police, the victim was walking in the area on Sept. 9 when she was approached by a woman driving a car who offered her some gold jewelry for sale.
The victim was then driven to a bank to get money to buy the jewelry. The accused put the jewelry on the victims neck and then removed her gold necklace, police alleged.
The woman after taking the victims necklace and selling her costume jewelry, police said.
On Sunday, police arrested a Toronto woman and charged her with theft under $5,000.
Police believe there may be other victims of similar distraction thefts targetting seniors and their jewelry.
Anyone with information should call police at 416-808-4100 or Crime Stoppers at 416-222-8477.
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The international year in review stories have already started coming out in full force, so I thought Id focus on just the promi-nent local goings-on in 2015.
It seems as if everything is now being recorded on somebodys cellphone. For what its worth, the person next to me filming this is nodding in agreement.
It is mandatory for every newspaper article to include some mention of social media. (Glad I got that out of the way. Nice to have the pressure off.)
It is also officially impossible to buy anything without being asked if you have a points card.
Whenever you round a bend youre greeted by a condo you swear you dont remember seeing the day before.
If youre about to take the subway to work and youre in a hurry because youre late, its closed and you have to take a shuttle.
If youre driving to work
and take the highway and youre in a hurry, your entrance and exits are both closed.
The guy sitting next to you at work comes in every day whining that his favourite major league baseball team refused to pay only $15 million or only $20 million or only $30 million for free agent so-and-so and says only at the top of his lungs over and over and over. Then after moaning and groaning he asks if you can lend him a buck a buck hell never pay back so he can get a chocolate bar at Dollarpalooza.
Prices went up for every-thing this year. Some went up more than once. For everything, that is, except your paycheque, of course.
When at least two people meet for whatever reason, a selfie is now
required to mark the occa-sion.
Anybody walking around singing Drakes Hotline Bling must do the moves along with it.
Finally, when you forgot a password, which we all did regularly in 2015 because were saddled with way too many to pos-sibly keep track of, you had to email the company in question to request a new one.
The user friendly one they sent you this year so you can get back into your account lickety-split? Read it and weep: XLRab258_gy_y976-GfSd_ yourmothersmaidenname_ ivHN_335/BVZzvb- 2468whodeappreci-ate/wsTA@159Mdu_ bobsyourcuncle/! JXsnf_32Ki...etc., etc., etc., adnauseam
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Its just incredible the amount of commitment and generosity that people are stepping up with, Bernhardson said. Some people ran a small drive themselves in their neighbourhood or collected at work.
The Clothing Drive is working with sponsor groups to help refugee families, who could either visit the storefront location to shop for free or order by phone and have the clothes delivered.
Were focused on getting the winter clothing out on the floor, Bernhardson said. Our goal is to equip a family whos coming here with probably nothing to be able to make it through a winter, but we do have spring and summer donations,
too, so were sorting those out and keeping them aside, and that will be the next phase.
Four families have so far made use of the donated clothing.
We have enough clothes for the time being, Bernhardson said. We need volunteers to help us operate and get in touch with the sponsor groups, so if people want to get involved, thats the best way to help out right now.
Dozens of volunteers inspected, sorted and sprayed the donated clothing on Tuesday.
Jonathan Janisse was one of them.
It makes me feel like part of the community, like Im doing something to make a difference, he said.
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Clothing drive will help outfit Syrian refugees for winter
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The Clothing Drive founder Laura-Jean Bernhardson examines some gar-ments that are being collected in support of Syrian refugees, on Tuesday at the campaigns Victoria Park Avenue facility.
Residents can help support Torontos Syrian refugees by donat-ing new and gently used clothing to New Circles Community Services, which runs a free clothing service in Flemingdon Park and Thorncliffe Park called GLOW (Gently Loved Outfits to Wear).
New Circles is working with Lifeline Syria and other agencies to provide Syrian refugees with clothes for up to two years, and is asking community members to join in and assist its effort.
Donations can be dropped off at 161 Bartley Dr. between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday to Wednesday and Friday, or between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. Thursday. The centre will be closed from Dec. 23 to Jan. 4.
New Circles collects clothing for refugees
For more information, email [email protected]
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Drop in, call (416) 281-GRIN (4746) or visit www.centenarydental.comConveniently located at the entrance of Centenary Hospital (Rouge Valley)
Welcoming neW patients all aspects of dental care
Evening and weekend appointments available Emergency walk-ins FREE PARKING with