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COMMUNITY In wake of massacre, York LGBTQ community shows loveBY LISA QUEEN ANd KIM ZARZOUR
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Amid the hatred and violence, there is love and hope.
As members of York Region’s lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgendered and queer (LGBTQ) com-munity and their supporters struggle this week to absorb the searing shock of the massacre of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando early Sunday, they are also speaking of their determi-nation to forge stronger ties of understanding with the greater community.
The shooting by a lone gunman at the Pulse nightclub, which left 49 victims dead and anoth-er 53 injured in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, came just before a series of Pride events in the region this week, including flag raisings in Vaughan and Georgina, a vigil in Markham and the annual Pride parade in Richmond Hill.
At Vaughan’s flag raising Monday morning, Amanda Knegje, the York Region president of PFLAG Canada, the only national organization that helps Canadians with issues of sexual orien-tation, gender identity and gender expression, recalled watching the horror of the shooting on her television the day before.
“It was horrific, it was on the news, it was everywhere. We have these moments in our lives we will always remember where we were. And as a proud gay woman, in Canada, in York Region, to be sitting there with my son, enjoy-ing the liberties that I have in so-called safety, to
hear something like that and just the magnitude of it, rocked me to the core,” the Richmond Hill resident said.
“The reality is we have a sense of safety but I’m sure the people in Orlando had a sense of safety as well. It reminds us that hate exists and is prominent and it’s scary. I will certainly always remember that moment of hearing about the loss of life and the loss of the feeling of safety and knowing we have so much more work to do.”
Knegje is struggling to understand where such hate can come from.
“Hate exists in groups, it exists in a lot of dif-ferent sectors. But, for me personally, I would like to believe that kind of hate is the random act of one individual that had obviously suffered from something inside because that kind of act
See ‘LONG WAY’, page 18.
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Anouchka Lewis and friends enjoy the trails inside Jefferson Forest at Bayview and Stouffville Road, but a ‘clotheslining’ incident worried all riders.
‘One person does not represent any one group. We can’t be fighting
homophobia with Islamophobia.’
Rope hazards on bike trails
‘not malicious’BY KIM ZARZOUR
A group of mountain bikers who ride in York Region thought malicious forces were at work when ropes were found strung along the trails last week in Richmond Hill’s Jefferson Forest.
It turned out to be a question of good inten-tions gone wrong — but the cyclists say it could
See ROPES, page 26.
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Man faces stunt driving charges in Richmond Hill
A man faces stunt driving charges after a York Regional Police officer spotted a motorcycle travelling 117 kilometres per hour over the speed limit in Richmond Hill.
Just before 10:30 p.m. Sunday, the officer was conducting speed enforcement in the Hwy. 7 and
Hunters Point Drive area.The officer heard, then saw
the blue Yamaha motorcycle on Hwy. 7.
A speed measuring device showed the bike was travelling 197 km/h in the 80 km/h zone.
A 21-year-old Vaughan man is charged with dangerous driving, stunt driving and speeding. His motorcycle was impounded for seven days and his licence was suspended.
Police encourage anyone who spots dangerous driving practices to call 9-1-1. Try to note the vehi-cle’s location, direction of travel, make, model and licence plate number, and a description of the driver.
Just last month on the same section of Hwy. 7, near Hunters Point Drive, three drivers were hurt in a multi-car collision, including a York Region Police officer.
- with files from Kim Zarzour
Richmond Hill man faces impaired driving charges
A Richmond Hill man faces impaired driving charges stemming from an incident June 10 on Hwy. 35 in Minden.
OPP received a call of a car mov-ing erratically at 6:07 p.m.
An officer responded and fol-lowed the car, a Mazda 3, onto South Lake Road.
The officer got the car to pull over and determined the driver had been drinking. He failed a roadside test and was arrested.
Brian Connell-Tombs, 54, of Richmond Hill, is charged with driv-ing with more than 80 milligrams of alcohol in blood and impaired driv-ing. His licence was suspended for 90 days and his vehicle was impounded for seven days.
Connell-Tombs is scheduled to appear in court Aug. 3 in Minden.
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Barrie housing draws buyers from GTA, overseasBy Jenni Dunning
Between a “rundown shack” for $700,000 in Toronto or a two-storey home with modern finishings in Barrie, the choice was easy for Aleksandra and Marek Krupa.
The former Brampton couple moved to Barrie in December – part of a wave of homebuyers flee-ing north from the Greater Toronto Area’s higher housing prices.
The Krupas say many of their friends in their 30s are getting married and want to buy houses, but options can be limited if their bank accounts are not bulging.
“Some of them have bought condos that cost more than our house,” said Aleksandra.
“For $600,000, $700,000, they’d get basically a rundown shack,” added Marek. “There’s still a men-tal block about Barrie. I don’t know why. Once they start having kids, that little one-bedroom condo won’t be so nice.”
The Krupas have friends and family members who also recently moved to Barrie because the homes are less expensive, bigger and newer than many of those
available in the GTA. And with their first child due in
September, Barrie also offers more nature and outdoor living for the couple’s active lifestyle.
They both work from home, so commuting is not a problem, but Hwy. 400 makes the GTA easily accessible.
“(Friends) say, ‘Barrie is so far.’ Then they say, ‘Oh, how much do you say houses are?’ once they see the prices in Woodbridge and Maple,” Marek said.
“The new house gave us every-thing we wanted.”
But buying your dream home in Barrie and parts of Simcoe County is not as easy as it once was, partly because of competition from buy-ers leaving the GTA seeking more affordable housing options, said Mark Faris, CMO and broker of Royal LePage First Contact Realty The Faris Team Brokerage.
Anyone seeking to buy a house
in the Barrie area, for example, can expect to pay at least $5,000 to $10,000 over the asking price and potentially face bidding wars on multiple homes before mak-ing a deal, he said.
“The higher-end market is seeing movement … and there’s a whole lot more confidence in the entry market. That’s where you see bidding wars,” he said.
“Typically now, the list price is where you start. I’ve seen any-where from $20,000, $30,000, even $40,000 over list.”
For the past 10 years, Faris said, it took local agents an aver-age of four months to sell four months’ worth of inventory. In the past year, that changed to less than two months to sell the same number of units.
“If you’re comparing homes to 2015, it’s not the same mar-ket. Even (compared to) January (2016).”
In Barrie, the average price is now $275,000 to $350,000 for a townhouse, $425,000 for a three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom detached home and $600,000 to millions for an estate home on the water, Faris said.
Areas such as Vaughan are becoming pricier, so many peo-ple are looking north, he said.
“Newmarket prices, Bradford prices are starting to get to a level that Barrie is seen as affordable,” Faris said.
“There’s a perspective change (among) people living south of here that Barrie is a cool place to be.”
In April, Barrie’s housing mar-ket tied with Toronto for having the third-highest year-over-year price increase in Canada, accord-ing to a recent Re/Max survey
by Leger, a market research firm. Housing prices jumped 14 per cent in the Barrie and District area and in Toronto during the first quarter this year, behind Fraser Valley and Greater Vancou-ver in B.C.
“The ripple effect on the hous-ing markets outside of Toronto and Vancouver is quite significant when you look at the Canadian housing market overall,” said Elton Ash, RE/MAX of Western Canada’s regional executive vice-president.
The markets in Vancouver and Toronto created competition among buyers and potentially discouraged sellers from listing their properties, he said. That led to a lower inventory, which may have impacted the numbers.
The same thing is happening in Simcoe, according to Barrie and District Association of Real-tors president Michael Douglas.
“Sometimes buyers are hav-ing to bid on four or five homes before they get one,” he said.
“It’s never been like this in Barrie, as far as my recollection goes. The bottom line is, there an imbalance between the inventory and the number of buyers.”
He said sellers love the market right now, but buyers are having a tough time finding homes in their price range.
According to the survey, the Barrie and District area saw the
selling price of the average home jump from $352,124 in 2015 to $401,801 this year.
“The interest rates are quite low, which means people can afford reasonable mortgages,” Douglas said.
“But there’s not enough prop-erties for sale to accommodate that many buyers.”
Douglas said the market should eventually balance out, but he isn’t sure when that will happen.
Along with new buyers from the GTA and lower inventory and interest rates, the low Canadian dollar is also attracting interna-tional buyers, with more people from Europe and China snapping up Barrie-area properties, said Faris.
This means greater competi-tion for buyers and for real estate agents, who are increasingly expanding marketing strategies and using online tools to show-case homes, he said.
“Gone are the days you take a shot of the house and stick it up online. You can’t just stick a sign on your lawn and expect maximum dollar,” he said, adding tools such as 3D tours, videos and live chats with real estate agents are being used.
“(Barrie has) been a mar-ket that hasn’t seen the kind of increases our southern brothers have recorded. Now, it’s starting to see increases,” Faris said.
“Barrie deserves it.”
Award-winning realtor with 30 years experience predicts housing
market ‘correction’ is coming.
See story on page 11.
By Janis [email protected]
Cleaning, purging, pitching and decluttering are the best moves you can make once you decide to put your house on the market.
And there are a few other tricks you can use now to improve your chances of selling, say real estate agents.
“You need to have an immacu-lately clean home and home staging is also important,” said Ian Osborne, part of The Curtis Goddard Team with Re/Max Chay Realty. “Staging doesn’t mean replacing your furni-ture. It means adding flowers and decluttering, working with what you have.”
Owners considering a move this spring always hope for a quick sale and to ensure a smooth process, Osborne has advice for sellers.
It might mean changing paint colours and storing away that tribal mask collection, sports team memo-rabilia or hobby items.
“Smell is also important. Take any pets out during any showing.”
Finishing off those incomplete DIY projects is also key.
“Wrap up those half-finished projects and make sure the big things are done,” Re/Max Chay real estate agent Curtis Goddard said. “Those are the things that will come to light in a home inspection, like a
furnace, roof or electrical.”He added while a new roof or
furnace might be expensive, you can fix it for less than a buyer who wants to take the cost off the closing price.
“You want to do anything that will stimulate the buyer’s confidence in your home and you’ll get multiple offers,” Osborne said.
But the big part of doing any-thing to your home is calling in the professionals, said Barrie and Dis-trict Association of Realtors presi-dent Mike Douglas.
He said most homes in today’s market are staged, which has increased homebuyers’ expecta-tions.
“You only get one chance to make a first impression,” Douglas said. “If people want to see your home a second or third time, they’re looking at the home’s function. They wouldn’t be there again if they didn’t like it.”
His tip is to clean off every sur-face, including countertops, dressers and tables.
“People react better if it gives the appearance there’s lots of space. If you have a bookshelf that can hold 30 books, only put 10 in it.”
While kitchen and bathroom renovations tend to add value to homes, Douglas added this time of year, landscaping is a big selling fea-ture. “Curb appeal matters a lot.”
Make your home realty ready
Aleksandra and Marek Krupa moved to Barrie from Brampton, in large part, because prices are lower there. They say friends think Barrie is far away, until they compare more afford-able Barrie prices to those in Vaughan.
Staff Photo/Jenni Dunning
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Upcoming MeetingsTuesday, June 21 – Committee of the Whole – 4:30 p.m.Wednesday, June 22 – Special Council – 5:30 p.m.Wednesday, June 22 – Council Public Meeting – 7:30 p.m.Agendas for all meetings are available on the Town’s website under theCouncil section“Meetings and Agendas” tab. Council meetings will be heldat the Municipal Offices, 225 East Beaver Creek Road, 1st floor.
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FARMERS’ MARkET – ELGIN BARRow ARENAVern Dynes Way will be closed for the Farmers’ Market being held at theElgin Barrow Arena on Sunday, June 19, 26, July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, August7, 14, 21, 28 and September 4, 2016 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
oAk RIdGES FAIRRoAd CLoSURE
Sunset Beach Road will be closed between Bayview Park Lane andthe cul-de sac to the north. Barricades will be placed on the northleg of Sunset Beach Road/Bayview Park Lane intersection. The roadclosure will be opened to residents that reside on Vanek Park Road andemergency vehicles for access. All parking regulations and by-laws willbe strictly adhered to.
TEMPoRARY RoAd CLoSUREJUNE 18, 2016 – 1:30 To 3:15 P.M.
Yonge St. between Major Mackenzie Dr. and Crosby Ave. as well asLorne Ave. between Yonge St. and Church St. will be closed on SaturdayJune 18, 2016 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. for the Pride Parade.Barricades will be placed at the following locations:
Yonge Street & MajorMackenzie Drive
Yonge Street &Richmond Street
Yonge Street &Bedford Park Avenue
Lorne Avenue &Church Street S
Yonge Street &Arnold Crescent
Yonge Street &Wright Street
Yonge Street &Dunlop Street
Yonge Street &Centre Street West
Yonge Street &Crosby Avenue
Yonge Street &Centre Street East
The Town of Richmond Hill has the following employment opportunitiescurrently available:• Lifeguards & Swimming Instructors• School Crossing Guards• Fitness Instructor• Financial Management Consultant• Senior Systems Analyst• Systems Analyst (contract)For detailed information about these and other positions, includingapplication instructions, deadlines and file numbers, please visit theTown’s Website at RichmondHill.ca/Employment or view the publicbulletin board at any one of the Town’s community centres.
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Richmond Hill Town Council will hold a Special Council meeting onWednesday, June 22, 2016 at 5:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers of theMunicipal Offices, 225 East Beaver Creek Road, 1st Floor, Richmond Hill,Ontario.This meeting is being held pursuant to Section 12 of the DevelopmentCharges Act, 1997, to present and obtain public input on the Town’sproposed development charges by-laws and underlying backgroundstudies. Copies of the proposed by-laws and background studies will beavailable at the Office of the Clerk, Ground Floor, 225 East Beaver CreekRoad, Richmond Hill, Ontario, commencing on Wednesday, May 11, 2016,as well as on the Town’s website at www.richmondhill.caAt this meeting, Council will hear any person who makes representationsrelating to the proposed By-laws.Stephen M.A. HuyckeDirector, Council Support Services/Town ClerkE-mail: [email protected] THIS 9th DAY OF JUNE, 2016
PUBLIC oPEN HoUSE: HUMBER FLATS ECoPARkRAINTREE CRESCENT PLAYGRoUNd
You’re invited to a Public Open House to review the proposedreplacement plans for Humber Flats Playground, located betweenRaintree Crescent and Deerwood Crescent, north of HumberlandDrive and east of Bathurst Street (see location map).If you can’t make it, visit our website atRichmondHill.ca/Parksdesign after June 27th to see theproposed concept and provide comments.Please join us for an informal discussion with Town staff.date: Monday, June 27Time: 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.Location: Oak Ridges Community Centre, 12895 BayviewAvenue, Program RoomFor more information, please contact James Condron at905-771-2486 or [email protected]
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Sheep StringS Café – the Knitting SoCial ClubAttention all avid knitters: pack up yourknitting projects, ideas and sense of humourand enjoy the evening with others whoshare the same craft. A great opportunity totrade patterns, share ideas or just socializewith new friends. A facilitator will be onhand to offer assistance with your project.Coffee and Tea provided.Date: Thursdaystime: 7 - 9 p.m.location: Heritage Centre, 19 Church Street SouthCost: $6This is a drop-in program, registration is not required. For more information,please contact the Richmond Hill Heritage Centre at 905-780-3802.
publiC open houSenew parKette
You’re invited to a Public Open House to review the proposed design fora new parkette located between Anchusa Drive and Denarius Crescent,east of Bayview Avenue (across from Oak Ridges Community Centre)and south of Bethesda Sideroad (see location map). The proposed designincludes a natural playground with swings, shade structure, pedestrianlighting and planting.If you can’t make it, visit our website at richmondhill.ca/parksDesignafter June 21 to see the proposed concept and provide comments.Please join us for an informal discussion with Town staff.Date: Tuesday, June 21time: 6 – 7:30 p.m.location: Oak Ridges Community Centre, Program Room 2,
12895 Bayview AvenueFor more information, please contact Kristina White at 905-747-6397 [email protected].
publiC open houSegraCe lawrenCe parKette
You’re invited to a Public Open House to review the proposed designfor Grace Lawrence Parkette located east of Yonge Street, south of 16thAvenue, east of Dalemount Gate and Ellesmere Street (see locationmap). The proposed improvements include new junior and senior playequipment with swings, sand play area, seating, and additional planting.If you can’t make it, visit our website at richmondhill.ca/parksDesignafter June 28 to see the proposed concept and provide comments.Please join us for an informaldiscussion with Town staff.Date: Tuesday, June 28time: 6:30 – 8 p.m.location: Langstaff CommunityCentre, Yorkshire Room, 155 RedMaple RdFormore information,pleasecontactKristina White at 905-747-6397 [email protected].
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Stop sign violations problem, tooRe: 13 drivers charged with impaired, June 2.
Since 2002 my family and I have travelled across Canada and have admired the coun-try and its warm, friendly and polite people.
Ontario in general, and Toronto in particular, stood out for people’s extreme courtesy and discipline while driving, and to my mind the safest.
However, of late, even in Richmond Hill — until now perhaps the safest of them all — I am beginning to observe blatant disregard for stop signs and overall reckless and dangerous driving, especially while making a left turn.
No doubt impaired driving can be dangerous and some-times fatal, too, but the above trend also can lead to injuries and fatal accidents and hence needs to be stopped before it becomes a habit.
I am confident the law enforcement authorities will take urgent steps to prevent such flagrant violations.
Phiroze AmroliwAllARICHmOND HILL
Only ‘real’ Canadian sports countRe: Wider tennis group not consulted, letter by Mike Bowcott, May 26.
I share Mr. Bowcott’s dis-may over the announcement of $27 million to be thrown on yet another arena, when Richmond Hill has only six under-equipped and worn-out tennis courts of decent quality and not a single year-round municipal facility [for tennis].
But let me explain how things are done in this town.
First, there is no need for “lengthy public consulta-tions”. After a first meeting with local residents [on the new arena] it couldn’t get worse for this idea. The pub-lic unanimously rejected the project.
But you must understand that it does not really matter. What matters is a checkmark:
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“public consultations took place”. That was the one and only reason for the meeting.
Secondly, after the shock-ing tax hike this year on the grounds that the town is basi-cally broke, the town should demonstrate fiscal restraint rather than go on another reckless spending spree.
Thirdly, being so environ-mentally zealous, the town should know what carbon footprint is in the making.
I could go on and on — on excessive traffic, on the demographic cliff, on sky-rocketing costs and health problems related to hockey and figure skating etc.
But in the end it all does not matter, when uncon-trolled taxation meets strong special interests and both demand — the hockey and skating lobby — and supply — well-connected construc-tion companies — determine that only hockey and figure skating are “real Canadian” activities.
This unholy union is suc-cessful because we, the peo-ple, are gullible and apathetic, which makes us so adorable to all levels of government.
igor BilyRICHmOND HILL
Fix long lineups at Service OntarioOpen letter to MPP Moridi:
I write as a constituent with far too much experience standing in line at the Rich-mond Hill, contractor oper-ated Service Ontario office.
It is shameful that custom-ers are expected to line up often or usually in excess of an hour for basic government services. (Checking online one discovers Richmond Hill is not alone.)
The office has been too small for years and is overwhelmed by current demand.
Ironically, inside the door of this shabby-looking office, there is an Ontario Govern-ment sign indicating that employees and customers are to be treated respectfully. People the day I attended reached that sign after stand-ing outside in line for over half an hour. Some respect!
There is another half hour wait after the sign is reached.
Many are not fit and healthy, yet physical dis-abilities and age are appar-ently not a concern. There are three chairs one finally reaches inside, but once the line moves, the opportunity to sit is lost.
Is it respectful to ask any customer to stand for an hour or more for service?
The staff seem to do their best, but I am afraid they are at risk of significant abuse from frustrated customers who finally reach them.
Canada Post has given us good accessibility to postal services at many small postal outlets in drug stores. Why is the Government of Ontario so uninventive that it can stand back and witness the man hours of time wasted all day long at Service Ontario offices such as the one in your constituency? It really is quite abusive (not just disre-spectful) of customers.
As for the authorized dealer, it is badly configured and overwhelmed. It could triple in size and offer “take a number” seating after a receptionist assists custom-ers to make sure papers are in order.
I invite you to meet me at this Richmond Hill office and line up as all the other people who pay for their government in various ways, including fees to Service Ontario.
Have one of your staff conduct an exit interview of everyone leaving that office in any particular week. Ask: how long was the wait? Mul-tiply that by the number of customers any week and you realize the hundreds of hours spent waiting for service.
These are probably all your constituents. Please do something to protect them; otherwise you might want to rename the office “Dis-ser-vice Ontario”.
DonAlD e. CrABBeRICHmOND HILL
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A wonderful, flawed friendknow I’ve shared this story before, about how when I was a kid I wondered if Americans think our red and white flag is inspired by what Canadians look like
after miles and miles behind the wheel with the window down, left arm resting on the door, left side of the face exposed to the sun.
That’s what my father looked like for most of my summers in the days before air-conditioned cars, as the driver on camping trips to exotic spots in the U.S. (although these days with our weak dollar, maybe that’s a trip for some time in the future).
Or at least we thought of the trips as exotic. I imagine we often just looked tired or grumpy.
In a long trip in a cramped car, you’re soon reading each other’s thoughts — particularly my moth-er’s, who not far into each trip was thinking, “Never again! Why am I doing this? I must be mad!”
After the first day, Dad looked like a lobster that had been held over a pot and cooked on one side.
Eventually he developed a “half-tan”, as we called it, the kind of braising you get when you’re a Canadian piloting a station wagon on great adventures of cultural and geographic exploration across the United Steaks of America.
We saw North and South Dako-ta, North and South Carolina, Flor-ida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wash-ington, D.C., and all its awe-inspir-ing federal buildings, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio and Michigan, and many points in between. The Kennedy Space Center, museums, arenas and roadside eateries.
There was Wisconsin, known for its dairy farms, with an odour to match. We once saw a bumper sticker that read, “Smell our dairy air.” You didn’t need to be in French immersion to get the joke.
More than just the scenery, the history and the smells, it was the people we met that made the trips fascinating.
We like to believe that Ameri-cans are all the same. But on those trips I often found the opposite to be true — that if we met travellers from Halifax or Winnipeg we all seemed to find ourselves to be very similar. But the Americans were different from us and each other.
Regional accents, how people dressed, how loudly they spoke, the expressions they used.
Like the Kentuckian named Kyle who called me “ya’ll”. I’d be turn-ing around to see who else he was speaking to. And the people from “Bah Haba, Mayin” (Bar Harbor, Maine) I understood even less.
I still think of America these days in the belief it has to be the greatest country on the planet — no offence to my fellow Canadians and Cana-da, my beloved home.
At the same time, America is like one of those wonderful, big, loud, inspiring and yet flawed people you might meet in life, who has all these great qualities yet some type of weakness that always knocks them back a notch or two in life, despite all the steps they take forward.
Or someone whose strength is also their weakness.
For the Americans it’s a stead-fast belief in freedom and the Constitution protecting the rights of individuals from the whims of government. “Live free or die”, as you will see on licence plates in the northeast.
I firmly believe the freedoms we have in Canada are possible because Americans stand up for them on behalf of the free world.
But included in that Constitution is the right for people to bear arms. Which may have made sense 200 years ago, in the time of muskets with a small population of colonists in revolution against England, but can be a problem today, in the era of high-powered assault rifles, big cities, and fanaticism.
The Orlando shooting was actu-ally one of dozens of mass shoot-ings in the U.S. this year, reports say. It was the worst, so far.
It would be wonderful if it were also the last, but something funda-mental would have to change for that to happen.
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A York Regional Police traffic cop was left red faced Sunday morning after his SUV rear-ended the very car he had just pulled over.
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Moritsugu is now the Deputy Commander of Canadian Forces Intelligence Command and the Director General Military Signals Intelligence.
His family moved to Richmond Hill from Toronto in 1968.
He is a graduate of Richmond Hill High School, and prior to high school attended both Beverly Acres Public School and O.M. MacKillop Public School.
He is an alumnus of 778 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Cadets, being part of that Rich-mond Hill-based cadet group from 1977 to 1982.
A release from National Defence commu-nications notes that Moritsugu’s career has taken him to many interesting places around the world, including postings to England and to Washington, DC, and deployments to Iran and Afghanistan.
Moritsugu has earned a bachelor of sci-ence degree in physics and computer science from Royal Roads Military College, Victoria, and three masters degrees: master of science in defence technology from Cranfield Univer-sity, England; master of international service from American University, Washington; and master of hemispheric security and defense from the Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires.
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“Parents are selling their homes and they’re getting such a large amount, they’re helping their kids go buy something.”
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He starred in a popular TV show, Top Million Dollar Agent, and even achieved a lifelong dream of speak-ing on stage with motivational speaker Tony Robbins.
But what gets him most excited is his mission to carry on his father’s legacy.
“My father taught me to always help others. He died last year on Father’s Day at the age of 92 and he was one of my best friends and my mentor... Father’s Day will never quite be the same.”
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“I love what I do. I have a true passion. I work a lot of hours, but to me it’s not work.
“When I was younger it was more about my ego, but as I get older ... it’s more about how much of a difference can I make for fami-lies and others.”
Social media may have altered the profession, but he believes real-tors still play an important role.
“You still need people to negoti-ate, people to market, people to take them across the threshold to sell the property.”
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Realtor Daryl King of Royal LePage Your Community in Richmond Hill, has witnessed huge changes in the real estate business over more than 30 years in the business. He says home ownership is still ‘a Canadian dream’ for all, but worries young people can’t afford to buy in their own communities.
the United States happen here.“I’m not saying we’ll have a crash,
but there will be a correction.”The concern, he says, is that
you may make a killing when you sell your house, but you still need somewhere to go.
“Local communities are chang-ing dramatically ... You sell your house, want something bigger, you have to move a little further north. “And the kids have no chance — we’re pricing out our kids out of the our economy, out of their local own communities.”
“We are leaving, and our kids are leaving.”
King sees a bright side, though.“I believe the economy is well
driven because of what’s going on.”
For every home sale, he says there’s a spin-off of 50 jobs — mov-ers, window covering and appli-ance companies, lawyers.
And older homeowners are dis-covering they’ve built up surprising equity for retirement.
“I just sold a 65-year-old couple’s house, $381,000 over asking price. It’s like winning the lottery for them. She was doing the happy dance in my office. They never expected that kind of money. It’s going to go a long way towards their retirement.”
That may also offer hope to the next generation, he says. Young people may need to start saving early and lower their expectations, but their dreams of home owner-ship may get a boost from their
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When Daryl King first ventured into the world of real estate in 1982, the average Canadian house cost $72,500, interest on five-year mort-gages hovered around 21 per cent and realtors kept all their listings in a thick, closely guarded MLS book.
It’s a different world today — for better and worse.
King, a longtime, award-win-ning real estate professional in York Region, has watched his profession change — and now, thanks to sky-high prices, he is watching com-munities change, too.
Last week’s warning from the Bank of Canada about the sizzling housing market’s unsustainability did not come as a surprise to the busy realtor.
King says most listings sell over asking price, often to foreign buy-ers and no matter where you go, the housing market is the topic of conversation.
In the “old days”, he says, agents used MLS books that they could not share outside the office and most offers were put together face-to-face.
Today, the Internet — social media in particular — has ramped up the speed and exposure for home sales, creating better-edu-cated buyers and sellers than ever before.
“The market changes daily,” he says. “It used to change every 30 days, but in this market, you have to be on the heart pulse to know what’s going on.”
Offers are commonly signed and
sent by email or DocuSigned via cellphone, and “people can spend hours every day online looking at properties,” he says. “They’re sup-posed to be working, but they’re looking at properties. People do it as a hobby. Everybody has a vest-ed interest in real estate because everybody wants to live in their own home one day. It’s still a Cana-dian dream.”
A dream that’s increasingly out-of-reach, for young people espe-cially, he says.
“Prices have gone so high, we’re pricing locals out of their own communities. The Canadian dol-lar is very weak compared to other currencies. People from outside Canada have much more buying power.”
One third of homes in Vancou-ver are sitting empty and that’s hap-pening to a lesser degree here in the GTA, he says.
“It’s creating a problem, because they don’t have those people at the gas station or the grocery store or schools or mall. They’re not putting money back into the economy.
“The government is challenged by these things right now,” he adds. “I don’t know what they’re going to do but they’re going to have to step up and do something, because if the market stays at this pace it creates a lot of infrastructure problems.
“There will be a correction, I don’t know when ... when interest rates change, when the Canadian dollar changes, when they limit the number of foreigners that can come into the country. Problem is, we don’t want to see what happened in
After 30 years, top-selling realtor has witnessed and embraced change
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Metroland MediaMONTREAL: It was more just a homecoming for Nickolas Latifi - it was the dream of a lifetime.
The 20-year-old Canadian is a test driver for the Renault Sport Formula One team and was on hand at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal this weekend.
It is the first time a Canadian driver has been in F1 in a decade.
Montreal-born Latifi is currently working on gain-ing his Super Licence, which will allow him to take part in at least one Free Practice session during this year’s F1 season.
He has already been told he has met all the crite-ria necessary to have the licence that allows him to compete at the highest levels of motorsports.
A busy man, Latifi is also a driver for the cham-pionship-winning DAMS squad in this season’s GP2 Series, which is the main feeder category into F1.
He has competed in two GP2 races this year start-ing with Barcelona where he finished a strong sec-ond near the end.
“The race was shortened by one lap,” he said. “If not, I’m sure that I could have won.”
In the second race at Monaco on the grand prix weekend, he was not so lucky but is now focused on the next race June 17-19 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
At 20, it’s hard to believe his professional racing career officially started in only 2009, but he has cov-ered a lot of ground since competing in karts, For-mula 3, the Toyota Racing Series, the Porsche Car-rera Cup and Formula Renault 3.5 racing in Canada, Italy, Great Britain, New Zealand, USA and Europe.
While he was born in Montreal, his family moved to Richmond Hill when he was six months old.
“I have good memories of Richmond Hill,” he said. “I can still remember my address.”
He attended the Toronto Montessori School in Richmond Hill before the family moved when he was eight-years-old to North York which he still calls home.
Latifi says his plan is to concentrate on GP2 for the next two years and, with luck and solid driving, move up to F1.
When asked what it would be like to drive a F1 car in Montreal, he said, “Of course it’s a dream but I’m confident I can do it.”
Here in Canada, Infiniti sees Latifi as a wonderful way to bring the recognition of the excitement of F1 to a Canadian audience and, more to the point, the Infiniti Canada dealer body.”
“I speak on behalf of everyone at Infiniti Canada in congratulating Nicholas Latifi on his new role for Renault Sport Formula One Team. We are absolutely thrilled to see a Canadian driver on the roster,” said Stephen Lester, managing director of Infiniti Canada.
“Formula One quickly evolved into a cornerstone of our business strategy since Infiniti first partnered with Red Bull Racing in 2011.
“Having Nicholas on the Renault Sport Formula One Team for the year ahead is an exciting prospect, as Infiniti continues to grow its presence in Canada with an expanding lineup, and now a Canadian driver with boundless talent.”
Latifi comes to the team which sees Infiniti as the technical partner of Renault which means Infiniti is using its expertise in performance hybrids to help in the co-development of the Renault Energy F1 Power Unit’s Energy Recovery System (ERS), which incorporates two motor generator units, the MGU-H and MGU-K, and a battery.
In return, Infiniti will use the experience from the F1 ERS system to further enhance its hybrid power-trains for road cars.
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MONTREAL: Renault/Infiniti will be on the F1 podium within the next two years according to Jerome Stoll, president of Renault Sport Racing.
“We are not here to be a player,” he said during an interview on qualifying day at the Montreal Grand Prix. “We are here to be on the podium.”
Stoll forthrightly said the situation the team finds itself in today is the result of shifting circumstances within the super competitive world of Formula One start-ing with the last engine formula with Re-nault V8 engines powering Red Bull cars and defeating all before them.
“With the last engine, we were under huge pressure by Red Bull…to keep win-ning,” Stoll said.
But by doing that, too little focus was placed on preparing for the current hy-brid engine format. When the switch came, Renault found itself far behind Mercedes-Benz and Ferrari.
“But now the engine is competitive and I think, more so than Ferrari,” he said.
However, Stoll said a winning package involves three crucial factors – engine, chassis and drivers.
The reason Renault and its powertrain partner Infiniti lag behind most of the field is the chassis, a 2014 design inherit-ed when Renault took over the bankrupt Lotus team.
In fact, Red Bull, which uses the same Renault/Infiniti based hybrid engine, was sharing rows two and three with Ferrari during qualifying this weekend due to a strong driver combination and a leading edge 2016 chassis.
Stoll believes, that with a winning chassis and the right drivers, that podium in two years is attainable.
“We have fixed the engine issue and chassis development is ongoing,” he said. “Next year we have the news chassis reg-ulations and we will be concentrating on that.”
“You have to remember it took Mer-cedes five years to get on the podium and we are in our third year.
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An interesting sidelight occurred when the subject of Formula E, the all-electric racing format, was broached and how much Renault and Infiniti are putting into it.
“This only the second season but it is relevant to be involved,” Stoll said.
“We want to be a leader in the electric car business and putting cars on the road using what we have learned from racing for range and economy is important.”
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The proposed new roadcrossingwould providean additional link in theroad network andwill helpmanage congestion.
York Regionwill review the EA study area and identify potentialimprovements to accommodate existing and future transportation needs forpedestrians, cyclists, transit users andmotorists.
York Regionwill be asking the public, residents and stakeholders forfeedback throughout the EA study. Information about open houses andupdates will be published in this newspaper, on york.ca/ea and onYork Region’s social media channels, Facebook and Twitter.
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By Jeremy [email protected]
Nick Bagerzadeh walked into a Newmar-ket courtroom Monday shackled at his wrists and ankles, swaying back and forth with each step.
Hours later, the 20-year-old, charged with second-degree murder, walked out of court on bail.
Justice Michelle Fuerst ordered his release on $250,000 bail to his mother’s Richmond Hill home after his defence lawyer convinced her that Bagerzadeh was a candidate for release.
The packed courtroom featured plenty of tears as the details of the murder that took place outside Luxy Nightclub, in Vaughan, on Feb. 6, 2016, were read out to the court.
It was during this night when Gianluca Cellucci, 22, from Richmond Hill, was stabbed to death in an Interchange Way parking lot.
After Justice Fuerst announced her deci-sion and Cellucci supporters left in tears, Bagerzadeh’s friends and family, some also
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His conditions include remaining in the home between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m., never leav-ing unless in the care of a surety and comply-ing with his GPS monitor bracelet.
He is not allowed to consume alcohol, be in contact with certain witnesses or victims and was made the subject of a weapons ban.
Justice Fuerst warned Bagerzadeh there was “no scope for deviation ... no room for error”, before explaining that if didn’t comply he could be arrested again.
Although a number of sureties were made available, Justice Fuerst ordered that he only have two: Bagerzadeh’s father put up $50,000 as one surety and his mother put up $200,000.
Bagerzadeh faces life in prison without parole for 10 years if found guilty.
Markham man gets six years for $10M tax refund fraud
A Markham man has been sentenced to six years in jail and a fine of nearly $150,000 in the wake of a fraud conviction related to federal tax refunds.
The Canada Revenue Agency said Law-rence Watts was sentenced in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Newmarket to six years and a court-imposed fine of $149,129.
On Oct. 22, Watts was found guilty by jury of one count of fraud over $5,000 under the Criminal Code.
A 28-month CRA investigation revealed that Watts, owner and operator of Fiscal
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For those involved in tax protester schemes, the CRA will reassess income tax and interest, and charge penalties. If con-victed of tax evasion, the court may fine them up to 200 per cent of the tax evaded and sen-tence them for up to a five-year jail term.
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Since I have started my wills practice,I have done many wills for coupleswith young children. One couple, inparticular, had such an impact on methat I decided to write an article aboutwhat parents with young children needto know about wills.
While I was taking notes in our firstmeeting, the wife looked at me andsaid “we have been wanting to do thisfor so long, but we put it off, and now Ican finally sleep at night.” The husbandthen said “since our first child was born,we’ve always been worried about whatwould happen to our children if we werein a catastrophic accident. We feel somuch better that this is being done.”
What happens if you pass away without a will leaving young children?Firstly, there is no executor in place to look after your estate on your death.Secondly, there is no guardian named who can look after your children. Infact, there could be a custody battle between your family and your spouse’sfamily over who should raise the children. As far as inheritance, your childrenwill inherit everything you own at the age of eighteen. Remember how youwere at eighteen. Do you think you could have handled a large inheritance?By law, your children would automatically receive their inheritance ateighteen regardless of their level of maturity. These are only some of theissues that occur, if you pass away without a will. No parent wants to leavea mess for their family.
When making a will what are some things you should consider?First, who should you appoint as your executor? You can appoint yourspouse as your primary executor. In fact, this is what is usually done. Whatabout the back up executor? Who will look after your estate in case yourspouse is not alive when you die? You can appoint someone else you trustlike your parents or siblings.
You should also consider whether the person you are appointing as executorhas the time to take on the task. An executor may be trustworthy, but he orshe may be unwilling to accept the appointment. Executors have the rightto decline the appointment at the outset when they find out that they havebeen named. It is advisable to obtain your executor’s consent.
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I would be pleased to offer a free will consultation, if you do not have a willand do not know where to start. I also offer a free will review for those thathave a will and want to make sure it is up to date and not a recipe for afamily disaster.
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against humanity, against the LBGTQ com-munity, against people in general, it’s mind-boggling to think it could be part of some-thing greater,” she said.
“But the reality is, again, that hate exists and there are probably many people who feel the same way. And it’s scary but it’s important to say that because it’s important to recognize we do have work to do.”
Knegje emotionally described how mean-ingful it was to proudly raise the Pride flag as 200 people looked on a day after the shooting.
“I’m obviously so upset and saddened and shocked at what happened in Orlando and reeling from that and the emotions from that. To be able to have an event like we had with strong support from the community and the ability to raise the flag and to show the strength of the community and to show recognition of the victims ... it just felt important, it felt right to do something today,” she said.
“As much as there is great sadness and sor-row, I just think it was a wonderful opportunity for us as a community to come together and ... continue to fight for basic human rights and for safety.”
Vaughan Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua spoke movingly of the love and acceptance he has for his 28-year-old gay son, Jean-Paul.
“This is a very important day, as we rec-ognize while many advances in human rights have been achieved, there’s a long way to go. There’s a long way to go and I can tell you this personally as the father of a gay man. The gay community faces many challenges,” he said.
“I went through it, I went through it person-ally. There’s a lot of confusion I know my son went through during his life. But there is only one way to deal with that, that was with the power of love, which, I think, is the resource that is required whenever you are dealing with individuals who are being treated unfairly.”
Bevilacqua spoke of sitting in a church and his heart was filled with a sense he had to reach out to his son.
“At that period of time, I did not know that my son is gay. But I wrote him a text right there in that church and I talked to him about how I was so proud to see parents and children together at that church, children whose par-ents had actually rejected them, and then at that moment they came together,” he said.
“I wrote that note to my son and a couple of weeks later, my son came out as a gay man. I don’t know where that message came from but I know I had to reach out to my son back then and I’m happy I did. The last thing you want for a human being is to deny who he or she really is, to live the life of a lie ... inconsistent with their very essence as people. There are tens of thousands of people in this region that are faced with the same challenges..”
The region’s annual Pride parade, Saturday at 2 p.m. in Richmond Hill beginning at Yonge Street and Crosby Avenue, is usually a day of celebration, but this year’s event will be over-shadowed by the Orlando shooting, York Pride Fest director of development and communica-tions, Jacob Gal, said.
“Everyone is trying to get into the mood but
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it’s hard to celebrate when so many people have died,” he said.
The board of the Pride parade dis-cussed how the weekend’s tragedy would change their strategy.
In light of what happened in Flor-ida, board members say they want to re-focus on engaging the commu-nity, making their group more visible and increasing dialogue with diverse groups to break down barriers.
“We have queer Muslims in our group and we have to remember that one person does not represent any one group,” Gal said.
“We can’t be fighting homophobia with Islamophobia.”
Gal hopes people will get more involved with Pride and help spread respect, support and comfort.
“Orlando is a big reminder about why we have Pride.”
Donna Smith, a member of Rich-mond Hill United Church, said she is more keen than ever to participate in the Pride parade Saturday.
“I am even more determined to march with my friends and (I’m dedi-cated to) witnessing my commitment to being an inclusive and loving per-son,” she said.
“I just don’t understand such hate.”
Tragedy ‘reminder why we have Pride’
From page 18.
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If you own property in York Region, you probably already know that your investment has grown in value in recent years — and if you own in Richmond Hill, Whitchurch-Stouffville and Markham, you have done especially well.
Richmond Hill homeowners, however, are at the top of the heap — in the region and across the entire province — when it comes to increases in residential values, according to the latest report from Municipal Property Assess-ment Corporation (MPAC).
The average residential assessment increase in York Region for 2017 was 10.1 per cent.
Richmond Hill led the pack with 11.8 per cent, followed by Whitchurch-Stouffville at 11.5 per cent and Markham at 11.4 per cent.
The region outpaced the rest of the prov-ince; Ontario-wide values rose an average of 4.5 per cent in each of the past four years.
Richmond Hill property owners saw an average assessment increase of more than 47 per cent since 2012, according to MPAC’s Natasha Dawood.
The Market Trends report released this week for Richmond Hill says several factors are fuel-ing the municipality’s increase, including its “proximity to Toronto, significant investment in transit infrastructure and local and foreign investment”.
The planned extension of the Yonge-Uni-
versity subway line into the Richmond Hill Centre is also contributing to an active resi-dential market, the report said.
Neighbourhoods with the highest increase were located in an area north of 19th Avenue, west of Leslie, south of the railway (17 per cent) and east of Leslie Street (15 per cent).
Thanks to new development around Lake Wilcox, value of waterfront homes also soared — 16.3 per cent compared to 4.9 per cent for waterfront homes elsewhere in York Region, Dawood said.
Lowest increases in Richmond Hill were found in the southeast corner of Stouffville Road and Bayview Avenue and southeast of Bloomington Road and Yonge Street — both at 9 per cent. (see charts on facing page)
This year’s valuations are based on the property’s assessed value of Jan. 1, 2016.
Official notices of assessment change were mailed to York Region homeowners this week, but the change does not mean your taxes will automatically increase.
Whether your taxes go up as a result of an assessment increase is dependent on how your assessment change compares with the average change across the municipality.
A video explaining the process can be found at richmondhill.ca. To see more market trends, visit about-myproperty.ca
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The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation provided this chart of the assessment changes for each ward in the Town of Richmond Hill. See story on facing page.
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This Sunday, June 19, Richmond Hill Phil-harmonic Orchestra closes its successful 2015-2016 concert season with Last Night At The Proms.
As part of the featured lineup, the orchestra welcomes Chorus York, York Region’s newest performing arts group, to the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts stage to help celebrating summer, family weekends and the power of orchestral music.
The Last Night At The Proms is an orchestra tradition, inspired by the British tradition of promenade concerts where audience mem-bers promenade, or stroll, in some areas of the concert hall during the concert. During the orchestra’s concert on Sunday, audience
members are invited to participate in various elements of the concert experience.
A Proms concert features lighter pieces with popular classics. At past concerts, audi-ences have waved flags and sang patriotic songs, a tradition that we are continuing.
“The annual Last Night at the Proms con-tinues to be a wildly popular event,” said Dr. Jessica V. Kun, artistic director and con-ductor of the Richmond Hill Philharmonic Orchestra.
“This concert promises to brighten any-body’s June with a new docket of symphonic delicacies to complement the standard prom repertoire, all with a twist.”
Chorus York is an auditioned community
choir which formed in February 2016. Already grown to 30 voices, Chorus York is setting out to inspire the growth of choral music in York Region through the performance of a variety of choral music. Passion for music, harmony and singing is at the core of this performing arts ensemble.
“The orchestra and Chorus York partner-ship started at the Town of Richmond Hill’s Cultural Summit,” said Catherine Clarke, cre-ative director of the orchestra.
“Richmond Hill’s vibrant arts community allows for these partnerships to flourish, bring-ing together artists for one common purpose — to enrich our lives through professional, cultural experiences rooted in the talent of our
local community.”The Last Night At The Proms concert is
at 7:30 p.m. at the theatre at 10268 Yonge St. Audience members are invited to attend a pre-concert talk at 6:45 p.m. to learn more about the musical selections.
Also during concert, the orchestra will announce its 2016-2017 season, a celebration of classical music and innovative musical per-formance experiences to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary.
Tickets are $29 for adults, $24 for seniors and $9 for children aged 12 and under (accom-panied by an adult). Call the box office at 905-787-8811; for more on the orchestra, visit www.rhpo.ca
Philharmonic orchestra celebrates prom season with chorus
For the 11th year of operation, Oak Ridges Fair is returning to the beautiful, redesigned Lake Wil-cox Park this weekend, June 17 to 19.
While the park has undergone renovations, the fair has been held at an alternate location, but this year returns to its roots.
This year, the volunteer fair organization is under new leadership, bringing arts and cultural activities to the traditional attractions and mid-way rides on this Father’s Day weekend.
Visit the live sculpture making by the docks before the entrance of Lake Wilcox Park and see the artist exhibitors.
New this year: Friday night goes live, featur-ing an all-ages, diverse live performance evening with local musicians and performers ages 15 to
80. Hear the amazing George St. Kitts band play Motown/funk at the end of the evening with his eight-piece band.
Throughout the weekend enjoy the range of musicianship from Oak Ridges classical fla-menco guitarist Roman Smirnov, to the Fringe Festival award-winning comic actress/singer Rebecca Perry. Listen to emerging talents of local and Toronto bands Samara York, The Fis-cals, Commander & Thief or the Speaker Box Series, which features youth comedy, beat box and spoken word.
For children there are dry dragon boat races (on the grass), creative crafts, games, martial arts, storytelling, draw your father (Sunday), hoop acrobat Isabella Hoops, ice cream and, of course,
midway rides.Lake Wilcox Brewing Co. is the fair’s sole spon-
sor for the beer garden located beside the main stage.
Parking is limited, so organizers encourage fairgoers to walk, ride your bike, or take the bus.
The north parking lot of the nearby Oak Ridges Community Centre will be reserved for patrons/pass holders of the centre. The south parking lot nearest to the midway and the parking lot of Lake Wilcox Public School will be designated fair park-ing lots.
Visit Oak Ridges Fair’s Facebook site and web-site, www.oakridgesfair.com, for a map, hours, and program information.
- Jonalyn Aguilar
GOOD TO KNOW:Oak Ridges Fair is generously supported by the Town of Richmond Hill, and numerous local supporters, including Cosmo Music, BAIF, Garden Homes, JKO Planning, Oak Ridges Marketplace, Off the Hook, Sarpa Res-taurant, Oak Ridges Retirement Community, Armour Heights, Evans Planning, Heathwood, North Star, Arnold Crescent Animal Hospital, Gramma’s Oven, Burlmann Construction, Micatoni’s, Lago Bakery and more.
This year Oak Ridges Fair partners with York Region Festival Alliance, spreading publicity about the fair beyond Richmond Hill. Fair visitors can even win a trip to China.
Oak Ridges Fair fun returns to Lake Wilcox
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Tee up for madd York Region at upcoming golf tournamentMothers Against Drunk Driving (madd)
Canada’s York Region chapter invites you to their third annual golf tournament, Golf Fore madd, set for Aug. 25.
Golf Fore madd is a fun fundraiser to raise money to go directly towards the sup-port of madd’s mission “to stop impaired driving and support victims of this violent crime”.
The annual golf tournament will be held at Redcrest Golf Course at 17700 Keele St., west of Newmarket.
Groups of four golfers will play 18 holes
starting at 8 a.m. on one of Canada’s top golf courses. Each hole is sponsored by a different company with many prizes to be won.
Continental breakfast, green fees, shared carts, free use of the driving range, buffet lunch and prizes, will all be included with registration.
Cost for a foursome is $500; an indi-vidual can play for $125. Register by June 30 to be entered into an early-bird prize draw to win the use of a Hummer golf cart for the day.
Registration and payment must be received by July 30.
A grassroots organization, madd Canada is committed to stopping impaired driving
and supporting the victims of violent crime. It includes not only mothers, but fathers, friends, business professionals, experts in the anti-impaired driving field, and con-cerned citizens who want to make a differ-ence in the fight against impaired driving.
Register online at maddchapters.ca/york/golf-fore-madd.
For more information, email York Police Sergeant Karen Hodge at [email protected], or 1-866-876-5423 ext 7706.
- Jonalyn Aguilar
Oak Ridges girls run for good cause
Under cloudy skies, more than 50 girls from Oak Ridges’ Bond Lake Public School set off on a five-kilometre run Saturday morning to give girls half a world away an opportunity to learn.
The girls, in grades 5 to 8, are members of the school’s FitSpirit club, which promotes healthy and active lifestyles for girls in Ontario and Quebec.
They organized the Girls that Care community run through their neighbourhood to raise money for Confident Children out of Conflict, which aims to give girls in South Sudan educational opportuni-ties. The country is plagued with “one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world,” according to the United Nations.
“We wanted to host this event in order to act as global citizens and to help make a change in our world,” said Lotem Tomsinsky, a Grade 8 student.
For full story go to yorkregion.com
This energetic and enthusi-
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nized a com-munity charity 5 km run from
their Bond Lake Public
School Satur-day. The school club promotes healthy active
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Those were the words of warning from Loren Freid, CEO of the Alzheimer Society of York Region, as he introduced a guest speaker June 2 to mark the society’s 30th anniversary.
Dementia is expected to increase by more than 40 per cent across the province over the next seven years — but in York, it’s predicted to grow by more than 57 per cent, Freid said.
That’s because the region’s senior population is mushrooming — and aging is a key risk factor when it comes to demen-tia.
The CEO was addressing an audience of about 100 people who had come to hear from respected dementia expert
June Andrews, director of the Dementia Ser-vices Development Centre at the University of Stirling, Scotland.
Andrews, author of When Someone You Know Has Dementia, said those who have the disease often experience a quick decline until they are very dependent on others for care.
Alzheimer expert issues warning, tips for York residentsThose years of dependence are expensive
for the state and individual, she said.“It’s quite clear our society can’t afford peo-
ple to be in care for even as long as they cur-rently are now.”
While it is not possible to cure dementia (whether caused by Alzheimer or other dis-eases) it may be possible to prevent it, or at least slow its progression, she said.
With her quick wit and a lilting Scottish accent, Andrews shared her knowledge with families and caregivers at the Aurora head-quarters of the Alzheimer Society, warning against biased news and headlines that aren’t backed up by real science.
“There’s a real moral problem when people are having their hopes raised by quasi results,” she said.
There is good evidence, however, that some things can be done to protect your brain or slow down its decline:• Exercise — If you exercise moderately, even in middle age, you can protect your brain, slow down cognitive decline and reduce the risk of mini-strokes that cause vascular dementia.• Take care with alcohol — Women who drink even “in moderation” increase their risk of mild cognitive impairment. Binge drinkers, male and female, are also more at risk. But research shows those who enjoy one glass of red wine a day (or champagne) may experience beneficial results. Green tea and coffee may also help.• People who have had untreated or uncon-trolled depression are more likely to go on to develop dementia.• Having a higher level of education (or being bilingual) won’t protect you from getting
“York Region is ground zero for what is about to come — and for what has become.”
JUNE ANDREWS
For more information, visit Alzheimer-york.com
dementia, but it will help you cope with the damage that hap-pens inside your brain, if you do develop dementia.• Choosing a Mediterranean diet — rich in nuts, fish and veg-etables with less high-fat dairy and red meat — may make you less likely to develop dementia. Increasing your fiber intake can also help protect you.• Enjoy games and puzzles that make you think and challenge yourself with something new, every day. Explore, read, volun-teer, join a club or take a class. Research shows social stimula-tion can help your brain.• Work on getting quality sleep and try meditation, slow walking or relaxation techniques to help you get a handle on stress.
Doctors used to think it wasn’t a good idea to tell people about a dementia diagnosis because there wasn’t anything that could be done, Andrews said.
While it’s true the disease can’t be cured, much can be done to help cope with the symptoms and much of it has to do with adapting environment and lifestyle, she said.
Andrews recommends creating a “demen-tia-friendly” home that considers the per-son’s special needs — choosing less reflec-tive surfaces to help with vision, for example, and kitchens with open cupboards to help with memory. There’s even something called a Magiplug that will drain a sink if the tap is accidentally left on.
More suggestions on designing a dementia-friendly home can be found at bit.ly/1AJOlaL
There has been much discussion lately about the use and abuse of anti-psy-chotics in dementia care. Anti-sedative medication, with its severe side effects, is particularly problematic when there is no ongoing measurement to determine whether it’s making a differ-ence, she said.
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“Ninety per cent of people in care homes have dementia. You’d actually be better building a non-dementia wing,” she said. “Once people move into a dementia wing, they become more calm because staff have been trained in how to prevent problem behavior.”
Increasing the amount of light in a room, for example, or decreasing noise level can reduce stress for the person with dementia. Music, pets and aromatherapy can also help.
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The cyclist found other ropes in the area and cut them down, but he warned his fellow mountain bikers to beware.
“Someone is going to get seri-ously hurt if the jackass keeps doing that. If I had been going any faster I would have been down for the count.”
Word spread quickly among the tight-knit biking community and along with it, a wave of alarm that the popular trails may have been booby-trapped.
“What the hell is wrong with people?” posted one forum mem-ber. “I remember when the Dagmar North trails were being built, there was a few local land owners that would harass the builders for vari-ous reasons. OP is lucky to have only sustained minor injuries. This kind of crap could easily kill someone.”
“Keep photo evidence and call the cops each time you find some-thing despite what they say,” advised another. “Tell others to do the same. Be diligent in finding this person. You owe them some payback and could save someone else’s ass in the process.”
Canadmos said he had called police, but was disappointed with the response.
“They said to call the conserva-tion authority or whatever.
“I’ve crashed and broke bones on my bikes, but this was by far the scariest thing to happen as I had absolutely no idea what the hell happened. One second I’m rid-ing along, listening to the birds and then boom, on the ground without a helmet.”
Word also spread to local high schools and several public and sep-arate schools sent notices home, warning students to be cautious.
MISUNDERSTANDING
But it all seems to have been an unfortunate — if alarming — mis-understanding.
The conservation land is con-sidered part of the Oak Ridges Cor-ridor Conservation Reserve, owned by the Toronto and Region Conser-vation Authority, and cyclists have
been using the trails there for years. Cycling is permitted along marked trails.
An adjacent parcel of land at the northeast corner, near Bayview Avenue and Bethesda Sideroad that abuts the property, is called the Swan Lake Outdoor Education Cen-tre and is used by the York Region public school board.
The trails at the education centre are not to be used by the general public, they are just for the students, said Elizabeth Oakley, spokesperson for the conservation authority.
After hearing about the ropes, the conservation authority investi-gated immediately, she said.
POLICE SEARCHED TRAILS
York police was alerted to the problem via Twitter and last Wednesday, officers searched the trails on mountain bikes and ATVs, said Const. Andy Pattenden.
Turns out, staff at the Swan Lake field centre may have been trying to coral the kids with rope barricades – not realizing the danger it posed.
In an effort to control stu-dent safety, they had strung ropes between a number of trees. Signs were placed to let users know the area was prohibited, but they had been vandalized, Oakley said.
All of the ropes have now been removed and the employees that placed the ropes were advised of the potential hazard it caused, Pat-tenden said. “There was no mali-cious intent and the area is safe for all to use.”
Licinio Miguelo, spokesperson for the public school board, said that going forward, the board will continue to work with the conserva-tion authority to find a different way to close the trail.
Those who biked in the area this week did so with extra caution as seasoned cyclists recalled similar instances, where trails were booby-trapped by those who didn’t want them spinning their wheels there.
Dave, a cyclist from Keswick, expressed concern that an anti-bike “terrorist” was at work trying to scare them away from the land.
In his 60s now, he said he has been mountain biking since the 1980s and still carries scars from barbed wire strung along a booby-trapped trail years ago.
“A lot of the trails wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the work cyclists do maintaining them,” he said. “The space is precious and it’s shared and all trail users have got to get along.”
Oakley said the conservation authority wants the same thing.
“We want all trail users to be safe and enjoy themselves. They are beautiful spaces and they should be enjoyed by everyone with no fear.”
Statement from the trCa: TRCA is aware of the reports of an incident involving a cyclist coming in contact with a rope strung across a trail at the Oak Ridges Corridor Conservation Reserve recently.
As owners and managers of the property, we go to great lengths to ensure the safety and enjoyment of all visitors to the park and
take reports of incidents like this very seriously. We will cooperate with authorities and will conduct our own investigation with the intention of ensuring that incidents such as the one reported do not occur.
Mountain biking is a permitted activity on marked trails on this park. We will continue to be vigilant in keeping our conservation areas safe and welcoming to all users.
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NOTICE OF STUDY COMPLETIONHighway 404 from 407 ETR to Green Lane (W.O. 03-20024)
Class Environmental Assessment and Preliminary Design StudySTUDY
The OntarioMinistry of Transportation (MTO) has retainedMMMGroup Limited to undertake the ClassEnvironmental Assessment (Class EA) and Preliminary Design Study for the 26 km section of Highway404 from the 407 ETR to Green Lane, in the Regional Municipality of York. The study area is shown onthe key plan.
The objectives of the study are to assess and identify rehabilitation, operational and safety improvementsthroughout the study corridor and develop a plan that includes contract staging and sequencing for futureconstruction projects.
The recommended plan includes the following:
• Proposed widening of Highway 404 to accommodate an additional High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV)lane in each direction. The widening will occur within the existing median between the northboundand southbound lanes.
• Proposed interchange improvements at 16th Avenue and at Mulock Drive.• Carpool lot and ramp reconfiguration at Major MacKenzie Drive.• Proposed bridge improvements to accommodate widening.• Additional illumination will be provided as required.• Storm water management and drainage improvements.
THE PROCESS
This study followed the approved environmental planning process for Group ‘B’ projects under the ClassEnvironmental Assessment for Provincial Transportation Facilities (2000). The Preliminary Design study hasbeen completed and a Transportation Environmental Study Report (TESR) has been prepared. The TESRdocuments the details of the recommended plan, the anticipated environmental and property impacts,proposed mitigation measures, and a summary of consultation undertaken throughout the study.
The TESR is available for a 30-day public review period from Thursday, June 16, 2016 to Monday, July 18,2016 on the project website (www.hwy404eastudy.ca) and during regular business hours at the followinglocations:
Ministry of TransportationCentral Region - Building D - 3rd FloorPlanning and Environmental Office159 Sir William Hearst AvenueToronto, ON M3M 0B7Mon – Fri: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
York RegionAdministrative Centre17250 Yonge StreetNewmarket, ON L3Y 6Z1Mon – Fri: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Town of East Gwillimbury19000 Leslie StreetSharon, ON L0G 1V0Mon – Fri: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville111 Sandiford DriveStouffville, ON L4A 0Z8Mon – Fri: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Newmarket Public Library438 Park AvenueNewmarket, ON L3Y 1W1Tues – Thurs: 9:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.Fri & Sat: 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Sun: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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City of MarkhamMarkham Civic Centre101 Town Centre BoulevardMarkham, ON L3R 9W3Mon – Fri: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Town of Richmond Hill225 East Beaver Creek RoadRichmond Hill, ON L4B 3P4Mon – Fri: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Interested persons are encouraged to review the TESR and provide comments during the 30-day review period, which will end on Monday, July 18, 2016. If, afterconsulting with MTO and the consultant, you have serious unresolved concerns, you have the right to request the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change(11th Floor, Ferguson Block, 77 Wellesley Street West, Toronto, ON M7A 2T5) make a Part II Order (Bump-up) for this project. A Part II Order may lead to the preparationof an individual environmental assessment. The Minister of the Environment and Climate Change must receive your Part II Order request by Monday, July 18, 2016.A copy of the request should also be forwarded to the MTO and the consultant at the addresses below. If there are no outstanding Part II Order requests at the endof the 30-day review period, which will end on Monday, July 18, 2016, the project will be considered to have met the requirements of the Class EA.
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For additional details, please visit the project website (www.hwy404eastudy.ca) or contact one of the Project Team members below.
Mr. Neil Ahmed, P. Eng.Consultant Project ManagerMMM Group Limited2655 North Sheridan Way, Suite 300Mississauga, ON L5K 2P8tel: 905-823-8500, ext. 1241fax: 905-823-8503e-mail: [email protected]
Ms. Rebecca Palys, P. Eng.Senior Project EngineerMinistry of Transportation - Central Region159 Sir William Hearst Avenue, 4th Floor, Building DToronto, ON M3M 0B7tel: 416-235-5566fax: 416-235-3576e-mail: [email protected]
If you have any accessibility requirements to participate in this project please contact one of the Project Team members listed above. Comments and informationare being collected to assist the MTO in meeting the requirements of the Ontario Environmental Assessment Act. Information will be collected in accordancewith the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the Access to Information Act. With the exception of personal information, all comments willbecome part of the public record.
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The 35-year-old, who takes to the sand court with fellow Richmond Hill resident Sam Schacter, received some good tidings recently to assist in his quest.
Athletics Canada and Investors Group included Binstock as one of 20 athletes who will each receive financial assistance totalling $5,000 through its Team Investors Group Amateur Athletes Fund bursary.
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Binstock’s recent sport accom-plishments included a silver medal at both the 2016 FIVB Cincinnati Open and the 2015 PorecčGrand Slam. He competed at the 2012 Olympics with Martin Reader and at the PanAm Games in Toronto with Schacter.
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Hwang finished 10 strokes ahead of his nearest rival, Sai Aadi Ganju of Oakville.
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Reporter finds it’s easy to get marijuana from dispensaries, but illegal
By Jeremy [email protected]
It was after a Toronto police crackdown on pot dispensaries that I began to wonder: just how easy is it to buy pot in York Region now that the police have moved in?
Turns out it’s pretty easy, yet not as simple as you might think.
The debate around weed in Canada has never been more intense.
After the Justin Trudeau Liberals’ election victory, in which they promised to make pot legal, but still haven’t done so or spelled out exactly how it will be sold, cannabis dispensaries began popping up all over the country.
According to those running these shopfronts, they’re not just selling weed, but providing easy access to those who want to consume the plant for medicinal purposes, but don’t want the hassles of going to a doctor.
In Vancouver, where the trend started, there are more than 100 cannabis dispensaries.
Toronto saw more than 45 busted by police at the end of May.
Vancouver and Victoria have taken a much lighter approach and say closing down the dispensaries, also called “compassion clubs,” is low on the police prior-ity list.
Indeed, when Toronto police completed their bust, there was a backlash from legalization cam-paigners, wondering why the force was putting so many resources into taking down shops — involving 90 arrests and 186 charges — where sellers and ‘patients’ accessing the pot are other-wise law-abiding citizens.
Chief Mark Saunders suggested the raids were about where the marijuana is coming from and where the funds are going.
There were two dis-pensaries in York Region, each on Yonge Street in Richmond Hill, but they’ve since been closed.
So I Googled pot dis-pensary in Richmond Hill.
I came to a site called
Leafly.com and a specific location called Farmacy Toronto, located at Toll Bar Park, Richmond Hill.
I called the 1-800 num-ber listed and spoke to a nice young woman.
The website had eight reviews from customers, including: “Excellent cus-tomer service. Quality bud. No complaints.”
The woman advised me that to buy marijuana, including brands listed on the website such as Afghan Kush, Fruity Pebbles and Grape God, and edibles including white chocolate, granola bars and gummy bears, I could not attend the Richmond Hill location, as this was just a “ware-house” for mail orders, but I could do it online with a staff member.
Two weeks later, after sending a photo of my driver’s licence to the com-pany and initialing a docu-ment online promising not to resell or share the weed, not to transport it out of Canada and acknowledg-ing that this was not a “Medicinal Cannabis Card” issued by Health Canada and that it was still illegal for me to have the pot, I got an appointment.
It was on a Saturday, just after 1 p.m.
I signed onto Skype and was contacted by a woman who said she was a regis-tered nurse. She was wear-ing scrubs and sitting in a hospital-type setting.
She asked me why I needed cannabis. I lied and told her I have anxiety.
She asked me if I have any allergies. I said yes, to penicillin.
She asked if I’d ever had a negative experience with cannabis. I said no.
We then ended our one-minute chat and I was officially a “member” of the club and could buy some marijuana.
Once I sent an email money order, I could get anything listed on the web-site.
I did not purchase any marijuana, which remains illegal in Canada.
Read the full story and watch the video at yorkregion.com
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Friday, June 17The Oak ridges Fair returns to renovated
Lake Wilcox Park June 17 through 19 with mid-way rides, artist exhibits, musical entertainment, magicians, dragon boat races, and more. Free entry; fun starts Friday 6 to 10 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; and continues Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Park at south lot of Oak Ridges Community Centre or nearby Lake Wilcox Public School; go to oakridgesfair.ca for details.
Saturday, June 18The grand
opening of Lake Wilox Park’s play-ground, splash pad and picnic areas is June 18 at 55 Olde Bayview Ave. in Oak Ridges between 10 a.m. and noon with free family activities. Official ceremonies at 11 a.m.; events include musical entertainment by Team T & J, bubble dance party, Isabella Hula Hoops performance and display of environment services. Rain or shine; parking limited; go to RichmondHill.ca/parko-penings or call 905-771-8800 ext. 2424.
Enjoy york region’s Pride Parade June 18 in Richmond Hill, presented by York Pride Fest. Colourful parade starts at 2 p.m. from intersec-tion of Yonge Street and Crosby Avenue, travel-ling south to Lorne Avenue, past Elgin Barrow Arena to the Town Park. All afternoon, from noon to 5:30 p.m., enjoy Pride in the Park, with food, drink, live entertainment and interactive kids zone. Park in lot between Town Park and the arena, For more, visit yorkpridefest.com
Polo for Heart continues Saturday and Sunday, June 18 and 19 at the Gormley Polo Centre, 13401 Leslie St., Richmond Hill, north of Stouffville Road. Enjoy polo matches, half time shows such as Canadian Showgirls,
skydivers, champagne divot stomps; each day features Kids Zone, silent auction, art walk, and contests. Bring a picnic or purchase lunch, wear a fun or pretty hat; proceeds from tickets go to Heart & Stroke Foundation and Southlake car-diac programs; for more visit poloforheart.org.
Richmond Hill Cen-tral Library, 1 Atkinson St. at Yonge and Major Mackenzie, presents free movie screening of Zoo-topia June 18 at 2 p.m. Tickets handed out 15 minutes prior in the walk-way on east side; limit of 80 tickets. An adult must stay with all children under 8; children under 11 must be accompanied to program room. Bring a nut-free snack. For details, go to rhpl.richmondhill.on.ca
Sunday, June 19Bring family and friends to the downtown
richmond Hill Farmers Market, opening June 19 and running Sundays until September from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in a new location — behind Elgin Barrow Arena, 43 Church St. S. Enjoy fresh produce, baked goods, food trucks, family entertainment and Father’s Day craft activity, handcrafts and more. For details, visit www.RichmondHill.ca/FarmersMarket
MOnday, June 20A Ward 5 residents community meeting will
be held June 20 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Rich-
mond Hill Room inside Elgin Barrow Arena, 43 Church St. S. Topic: OMB - Past, Present, Future - Reform, Revision and Re-direction. Councillor Karen Cilevitz welcomes all Richmond Hill resi-dents to this meeting; for details, email [email protected]
Subsidized housing information session presented June 20 by the Housing Help Centre at Thornhill Community Center, 7755 Bayview Ave., from 1-3 p.m. in both Farsi and English. All welcome; no registration required. For details, contact Suzan Mousesian at 647-267-5319 or visit www.shhc.org.
WedneSday, June 22Orientation to Ontario Workshop, a joint
program of Markham Public Library and Centre for Immigrant and Community Service York Region, June 22 from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and June 23 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Milliken Mills Library; program in Cantonese and English. Smooths transition of newcomers or senior citizens by providing access to community services in Ontario; participants interact with other newcomers. Cost and registration free; go to www.orientationontario.ca or call Dilys Hung at 905-305-4101.
tHurSday, June 23Enjoy free French language conversation
group in Richmond Hill, Thursday, June 23 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Covernotes Tea and Coffee House, 10268 Yonge St., beside Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. Adults from York Region welcome to put French conversation skills into
action (from francophones to beginners). For details, go online to bit.ly/partagez_conversa-tion or email [email protected]
Free seminar on naturopathic solutions for irritable bowel syndrome, presented by Rahim Habib, naturopathic doctor at Four Seasons Naturopathic Wellness, 305 Carrville Rd., Rich-mond Hill, June 23 at 6:30 p.m. Food dona-tions welcome for food bank. RSVP at 905-597-7201 or at www.familynaturopath.ca.
An Open House regard-ing the new Oak Ridges Library will be held June 23 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the current library branch, 13085 Yonge St, unit 12 in Oak Ridges. Architects on hand to discuss informally features of new library design; for details, visit rhpl.richmondhill.on.ca
Richvale Lioness Club hosts a Strawberry Supper June 23 at Langstaff Community Cen-tre, 155 Red Maple (corner of Bantry), Rich-mond Hill from 4:30 to 7:30P p.m. Roast beef, ham, turkey, assorted salads, desserts, straw-berries and more. Adults $15; children under 10 $7; pay at the door. All welcome; proceeds support community projects.
Sunday, June 26Free nordic Pole Walking clinics offered at
David Hamilton Park, on Valleymede Drive in
Community Calendarsouth Richmond Hill, June 26 for an hour and a half. We will lend you a set of poles, teach technique and walk with you. For schedule, benefits and details, go to www.peterhdennis.com/Nordic_Pole_Walking.php, email [email protected] or call 905-771-1543.
WedneSday, June 29Vaughan Concerts in the Park moves to York
Hill District Park, 501 Clark Ave. W., Thornhill June 29 at 7:30 p.m., weather permitting, for Johnny & The Cruizers, a tribute to 50s and ‘60s that will have you dancing and laughing. The Concerts in the Park series is presented by TD and event sponsors are CN, Tim Hortons and TransCanada. For details, visit vaughan.ca/concerts
tHurSday, June 30If you are over 50 and single, join the york
Singles Club June 30 at a new member infor-mation session at the Royal Canadian Legion, 233 Centre Street E., Richmond Hill, at 7 p.m. Activities include sports, cards, games, parties, dinners, movies, theatre and pub nights. Email: [email protected].
Free seminar on naturopathic solutions for hormonal health offered by Rahim Habib, natur-opathic doctor, at Four Seasons Naturopathic Wellness, 305 Carrville Rd., Richmond Hill June 30 at 6:30 p.m. Learn about naturopathic strategies to help resolve acne, infertility, PMS, endometriosis, thyroid and adrenal disharmony. Donations welcome for food bank. RSVP to 905-597-7201 or at www.familynaturopath.ca.
The Liberal welcomes submissions of upcoming events from non-profit community organizations. Every effort is made to include all submissions; there is no guarantee of publi-cation. E-mail items to [email protected]
Did you know you can add your own items to our online calendar? Visit: www.yorkre-gion.com/yorkregion-events/
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TanenbaumCHAT is a coeducational community Jewish high school that offers anexciting and extensive educational experience both inside and outside the classroom. Our rigorous General and Jewish Studies curriculum prepares students to attend the
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Our Front Office Assistant serves as the face of our business. We need a customer- service oriented and personable individual who is a capable, innovative problem- solver. S/he must be both an excellent communicator and strong administrator, and feel comfortable interacting with individuals of all professional levels when handling problems and complaints. For more details, please look at the employment opportu- nities page on our website.
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PART TIME ACCOUNTANTRichmond Hill business requires an experienced accountant for A/P, A/R, GL, F/S, as well as reconciliations, using computerized systems such as Traverse. Ideal candidate would be a retired accountant who is looking for 5hrs a day, 3 days a week.
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Peacefully at the I.O.O.F. Nursing Home, Barrie on Wednesday June 8, 2016 at the age of 86. Louisa Kirby, beloved wife of the late Frederick Kirby. Loving mother of Brenda Kirby (predeceased), Russell Kirby (Karen), Wanda Peirce (Tim Veitch), Robert Kirby (Wendy) and Fred Kirby. Loved by her grandchildren Eric, Andrew, Ryan, Hope, Mac and Joshua and by several great grandchildren. Cremation has taken place.
The family received relatives and friends at the Doolittle Chapel of Carson Funeral Homes, 54 Coldwater St. E., Orillia, (705) 326-3595 on Monday June 13, 2016 from 4-6 P.M. with a memorial service to celebrate Louisa’s life beginning at 6 P.M.
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Sadly missed by his longtime partner Ida Tobey. Beloved father of Michelle (James Adams) of Oshawa and grandfather of Audrey. Cherished son of Willie (nee Deriet) and of the late Matthew (2014). Dear brother of Joan (Marty Shilling), Mary (John Loponen) and John (Patty). Bill will be missed by many nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. A Celebration of Life will be announced at a later time. Donations to the Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated. Sign an online book of condolences at www.mwbeckerfuneralhome.com
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