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Young artists’ expressions at York University: summer workshops reach out 3 In pictures: Junior Caribana and its colourful costumes at Downsview Park 16
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Don Valley East Councillor Shelley Carroll and York Centre Councillor James Pasternak are each celebrating cycling path success stories in their communities.
Interestingly, the two tales appear to mirror what a North York cycling advocate says is typical for the progress of cycling paths in North York.
Proponents have gained little traction securing on-road cycling lanes while the creation of off-road bike trails
is picking up speed, said Ron Hart, chair of the North York Cycling and Pedestrian Committee.
Carroll is looking forward to construction next month of a short on-road bike lane that will stretch just one block
FANNIE SUNSHINE [email protected]
For several years, Ryan Hawken toyed with the idea of auditioning for YTV’s talent series, The Next Star.
Music had always been a part of the DVP and Lawrence Avenue resident’s life and being the last year he could try out for the show, the 15-year-old decided to go for it.
His risk-taking paid off as Ryan competed against 4,000 hopefuls to land a Top
12 spot following nationwide auditions.
The Next Star, which pre-miered its fi fth season July 16, will narrow the fi eld down to six on Aug. 6. From there, the judging panel, made up of Juno Award-winning singer Keshia Chante, record label executive Mark Spicoluk and country musician Tara Oram, will help mentor the finalists before a winner is crowned during the live fi nale at Canada’s Wonderland Sunday, Sept. 23.
A tractor-trailer hauling lead-acid batteries burst into fl ames on Hwy. 401 in North York Tuesday.
The fi re erupted in the east-bound collector lanes between Allen Road and Bathurst Street around 10:40 p.m.
“It was stubborn. We were there for a number of hours,” Toronto Fire Services district chief Stephan Powell said.
“We notifi ed the Ministry of Environment because the water coming off the fi ght-
ing of the fire was possibly toxic.”
There were no injuries. Smoke blew over a nearby residential street, prompting police offi cers to go door to door to ensure residents had their windows closed.
One home on Marquette Avenue was reportedly evacu-ated.
The eastbound collector lanes were closed until about 6 a.m. Wednesday for the inves-tigation and cleanup.
Ryan Hawken, 15, makes it to Top 12 on YTV talent show
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Clockwise from top left: Darya Zonoozi, 18, right, watches fellow ensemble mates Samantha Harrison, 19, and Dale Domian as they rehearse a cello quartet during Fine Arts Summer Intensive at York University earlier this month; Kendra Kozlowski, 17, centre, dances with hip hop groupmates Ana Drechsler, 15, left, Shaina Gibson, 15, and Julia D’Addurno, 17; Kendra, dances with her hip hop group; Kendra, centre, and Shaina warm up; Dr. Mark Chambers rehearses with the cello quartet; Shaina, left, dances with Julia.
University campus opened to young artistsFANNIE SUNSHINE [email protected]
To help attract potential stu-dents to the under-utilized campus during summer,
York University introduced the Fine Arts Summer Intensive (FASI), a new community outreach and continuing education initiative of the Faculty of Fine Arts.
Elizabeth Asselstine, chair of the department of theatre and co-producer of FASI, along with film department chair Amnon
Buchbinder, put together a pro-posal last year to use the campus in the summertime and consulted
York’s art departments for sug-gested courses.
FASI launched in May with a two-week workshop on lighting design for performance, tailored specifically to high school stu-dents. Thirty-five young people from York Region took part.
Throughout July, various work-shops and boot camps in dance, design, visual arts, film, music and theatre were offered to high school students, ranging from two days to three weeks.
“Students from York Region or
in the city’s north end don’t have to go downtown for this type of pro-gramming,” Asselstine said.
Workshops include contem-porary drawing and sculpture, street dancing, digital filmmak-ing, gospel, acting for film and television, cello and Shakespeare exploration.
“We really want to make York a place for people to come to,” she said. “It’s nice to be able to have students experience the campus.”
Vanessa Jane Kimmons taught six young women the art of street
dancing over five days. “I try to give the real history
of street dancing and I’ve taken everything I’ve learned and brought it to the studio,” she said.
A dancer for 23 years, Kimmons began with ballet, jazz and tap before discovering hip hop danc-ing in high school.
“I think the intensives are a fab-ulous idea,” said Kimmons, who is working on her master’s in fine arts for dance choreography at York University. “It’s really important for these girls to get a feel for dance.”
From street dancing to Shakespeare, York U. summer workshops reach out to teens
‘Students from York Region or in the city’s
north end don’t have to go downtown for this type of programming.’
– Elizabeth Asselstine
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Like many issues in Toronto, cycling and where it takes place has become one pitting the political left and right against each other. They are battling
it out on the floor of council, and sadly also on the streets of our city.
As North York Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong told Toronto Community News in our special feature on cycling in the city on pages 10 and 11 of today’s news-paper, the main bone of contention is lack of space on Toronto’s streets.
“Because there’s a limited amount of geography, pedestrians, cyclists and motor-ists are all competing for the same space,” he explained.
And nobody seems willing to give up any ground.
There are two kinds of cyclists in Toronto, those who ride to commute and those who ride for recreation. What we don’t want to see is the political battles ending up costing either groups of riders.
We need good and safe cycling routes along our streets for those who depend on their bikes to move around. We also need recreational runs that all can enjoy at a relaxed pace. And we don’t need one at the expense of the other.
As part of our feature today, we decided to take a look at nine bike rides that recreational riders across Toronto could enjoy. All these rides are on bike paths, separate from city roads and free of cars for almost their entire routes.
These are runs that both experienced riders and those who are new to cycling can enjoy by themselves or with their families, confident that they won’t have to negotiate through busy traffic or dangerous intersec-tions.
Hopefully readers will try one of these rides for themselves.
There are some great choices and they highlight much of Toronto’s natural, and far too often hidden, beauty.
Valleys make up so much of our city’s landscape, and planners have not been shy about running cycling (and pedestrian) paths along them. There are some beautiful runs through Taylor Creek, along the Don River and Highland Creek that have riders thinking they are miles away from Canada’s largest city. The fea-tured rides also focus on the close connection between the city and Lake Ontario. While it is not yet possible to ride along the lake from one end of Toronto to the other only on a bike path, large sections are accessible.
There are no shortages of great, safe rides in the city and we encourage our readers to try one of the runs we’ve highlighted today.
Olympic opening ceremonies are a capital idea
Balance needs of all cyclists
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Recreational and commuter cyclists must be considered
Are you as psyched as I am for the opening ceremonies of the
2012 Summer Olympics tomorrow night in jolly old London? What can I say? They always reel me in like a prized tuna.
The best part of the festivities for my money is when the athletes enter the stadium.
As soon as I hear each country introduced my mind goes into overdrive, just like it used to when I was in public school.
Back then, whenever I heard a country name I would blurt out the capital city faster than Jesse James on steroids. I swear I knew every capital when I was a kid. (For the record, I swear I didn’t swear as a kid.)
My favourite capital was Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. It was always my numero uno because it was fun to say. I still get a kick out of saying it.
I also knew that the capital of Paraguay was Asuncion and the capital of Uruguay was Montevideo and I never confused them.
Today? The capital swag-ger is gone. With good reason. There are 204 teams in these Summer Olympics. How can I be expected to know 204 capitals when I didn’t know there were that many countries?
There aren’t, as it turns out. There are actually only 196 independent countries. Three of them are newer and don’t have Olympic national bodies yet, so only 193 will be represented in London.
The balance of the teams
is made of 11 territories. Needless to say, considering I didn’t know there would be 11 territories competing in London I couldn’t possibly know their capitals, either.
There’s another reason remembering capitals isn’t as easy as it once was is because many capitals themselves are not what they used to be.
There have been several capital city name changes over the years. I couldn’t tell you what they all are, I haven’t kept up.
Still, I’ll give it my best shot Friday.
Another area I’ll be focus-ing on is flag identification. I used to be pretty good at that, too. But, like capitals, many flags have changed.
And, as usual, I’ll be testing my knowledge on national anthems. I like to see if I can hum the appro-priate national anthem when each contingent of athletes walks in, but I seem
to know fewer and fewer anthems these days, also.
Trying to predict who the flag bearers are for each country is always a good time, as is trying to pick out countries just by looking at the teams’ outfits.
Lastly, I always try to see if I can come up with an official sponsor from each country – such as the Official Burrito of Mexico, the Official Souvlaki of Greece, the Official Pasta of Italy, and so on.
One official sponsor I never have to guess at is ours. That’s because, unlike capitals, anthems and flags, it never changes over the years – the Official Excuse: Lack of government fund-ing.n Jamie Wayne is a life-long columnist, who takes writing very seriously. The topics? Not so much. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at [email protected]
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To the editor:Despicable. At all levels of
government, the right wing in this country is mount-ing a concerted effort to demoralize working people and their unions simply to please their friends on Bay Street.
It’s not enough they sit idly by and watch what is left of the middle class erode before their eyes. They are vehement in their ideology to put unfettered control of the workplace back in the hands of the country’s employers.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Conservative leader Tim Hudak, Mayor Rob Ford and others are badly underestimating working Canadians.
It’s true, as it relates to most things political, that we are a passive society, however, try stripping away a worker’s hard-earned wages, pension and benefits and all hell will break loose.
Canadian workers won’t stand idly by and let that happen.
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A 14-year-old girl was seri-ously hurt Tuesday after being struck by an SUV at a North York intersection where traffic lights are scheduled to be installed in September.
The accident happened on Finch Avenue at Milady Road, east of Islington Avenue, at 7:48 a.m. Tuesday.
“We all knew that this was going to happen,” said the local councillor, Giorgio Mammoliti.
The councillor, who rep-resents Ward 7 (York West), said he’s been working with residents for a couple of years to get traffic lights at the intersection.
“It was finally approved by council about two-and-a-half months ago,” he said.
“But it goes to show you that the residents are always right about safety issues and city hall and bureaucrats are typically last to agree with the residents.”
Police said the teen was crossing Finch, possibly to catch a bus, when she was struck by an eastbound 2007 Toyota RAV4 driven by a 32-year-old woman.
Kevin Poyer, 33, was driv-ing by when he saw the col-lision. “(The victim) saw the bus and crossed the street,” he said. “She didn’t see the car coming. I called 911. An ambulance and police cars came quickly.”
The girl was taken to the Hospital for Sick Children with serious but non-life-threatening head injuries.
Const. Tony Vella said the victim was crossing Finch from the south side.
Police closed eastbound Finch at Islington for more than three hours as they investigated.
Anyone with information is asked to call the traffic ser-vices unit at 416-808-1900.
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A Toronto police officer examines the scene of a serious accident Tuesday morning on Finch Avenue. A 14-year old girl was hit by a vehicle.
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NO INJURIES REPORTED: A firefighter looks at the damage to a vehicle after it crashed into Karats Jewellery on Leslie Street south of Cummer Avenue Monday afternoon at 1:38 p.m. No injuries were reported.
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A woman is recovering after the vehicle she was in plunged into Newtonbrook Creek at Bayview and Finch avenues Sunday afternoon.
“The car broke through many trees and bushes, ended up upside down in a small creek,” Toronto Fire Services district chief Stephan Powell said.
“There was no danger of the person drowning.”
The driver managed to free herself from the vehicle.
Firefighters secured the woman to a stretcher basket and pulled her up to street level.
S h e w a s t a k e n t o Sunnybrook hospital for treat-ment of bumps and bruises.
Powell said the vehicle trav-elled about 50 feet.
“It was quite a distance,” he said.
“The trees definitely must have slowed the vehicle going
down.”The forestry department
was called to cut back trees in order to get the vehicle out.
Police are investigating the cause of the crash.
n Man chargedA 44-year-old man has been charged after a 12-year-old girl was sexually assaulted at the Dennis R. Timbrell/
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Police said the incident happened just before 3 p.m. at 29 St. Dennis Dr.
Mohamed Vepari , of Toronto, was arrested and charged with sexual assault.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 416-808-7474 or Crime Stoppers anony-mously at 416-222-8477.
Woman recovering after car crashes through ravine into Newtonbrook Creek
Emergency services personnel attend at the scene Sunday afternoon after a driver crashed her car into a ravine behind 3200 Bayview Ave. just north of Finch Avenue.
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Hosted by Degrassi: The Next Generation actor Adamo Ruggiero, The Next Star was open to contestants aged 15 and under.
“I’ve always been inter-ested in music,” Ryan said.
“It’s my passion and I hope to pursue it in the future. This was the last year I was able to try out for the show so I thought, might as well. Making the Top 12 is defi-nitely really exciting and it’s good to know I made it this far.”
Ryan, who sang a song he penned for his audition titled Can’t Touch the Ground, described his singing style as somewhere between pop and rock and named John Mayer and Hedley among artists he admires.
A graduate of the Claude Watson School for the Arts and current Earl Haig Secondary School student, Ryan grew up in a musical family and, along
with singing, also plays guitar, drums, piano, saxophone and clarinet.
Though he has auditioned for school shows, this was the first time Ryan tried out for a television talent show, he said.
“I didn’t know what to
expect with a live audition,” he said. “It was stressful and nerve-wracking. Now I’m relaxed.”
As for his competitors, Ryan said the group has grown close.
“We got to know each other well,” he said. “It’s cool spend-ing time with like-minded people. We play and jam together.”
While only one will ulti-mately take the crown, each of the Top six singing hopefuls will record an original song – which will be available on iTunes – and also star in their own music video.
Viewers can cast votes for their favourite Top 12 finalist via text message or by visiting YTV.com.
The winner will take home the coveted title, along with a prize package that includes two songs to be released on Sony Music Canada and a $5,000 spending spree at Sears.
Talent show contestant has ‘passion for music’>>>from page 1
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Ryan Hawken is a contestant on ‘The Next Star.’
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Motorists, pedestrians, cyclists all competing for limited space
DAVID NICKLE [email protected]
When Rob Ford was elected Mayor of Toronto in 2010, one
might be forgiven for thinking that bicyclists’ time had passed.
As a councillor, Ford famously compared cycling in traffi c to “swimming with the sharks,” adding, “Roads are built for buses cars and trucks, not for people on bikes. My heart bleeds
for them when someone gets killed, but it’s their own fault at the end of the day.”
At council’s inaugural meet-ing, the mayor’s chosen keynote speaker Don Cherry arrived in a hot pink suit, which he said he wore for “all the pinkos out there that ride bicycles and every-thing.”
The new administration sig-nalled early that it would take a very different route than the pre-vious crew under David Miller, which favoured separated bike lanes on roads.
In short order, city council had removed bike lanes on Pharmacy and Birchmount avenues in Scarborough at the request of the local councillor, and another, higher-profi le bike lane on Jarvis Street despite the protests of the
local councillor there.The shift was a result of more
than the will of a mayor more comfortable on four wheels than two. Since before amalgamation, cars and bicycles have had an uneasy relationship on Toronto’s streets.
Don Valley East Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong, who chairs the city’s works commit-tee, said the confl ict is only natu-ral, “because there’s a limited amount of geography — pedes-trians, cyclists and motorists are all competing for the same space.”
As works chair, Minnan-Wong has carriage of the Ford admin-istration’s cycling plan, which in broad strokes is about separating motorists from cyclists wherever possible.
Ford ran on creating a Bikeway Network, which includes 100 kilometres of off-road recre-ational bike paths. Some of those paths running along Hydro corridors were approved by the previous administration.
Minnan-Wong has pressed the issue further, and the city embarked on a plan to make some separated bike lanes in the downtown – initially on Wellesley and Sherbourne Streets, and eventually along Richmond and Adelaide streets in the core.
“Everybody has a different opinion,” said Minnan-Wong. “But I think it makes for a safer arrangement for cyclists, and I think the majority of cyclists prefer it.”
Scarborough Centre Councillor Glenn De
Baeremaeker chaired the works committee during Miller’s term, and has made a point of making a 20-kilometre commute from his home in Scarborough to city hall by bicycle.
He said the separated lanes are a good idea, but maintains that the mayor’s plan focussing on off-road cycling doesn’t help the growing number of utilitarian cyclists in the city.
“Separated bike lanes are good, and every cyclist and driver should welcome them,” he said.
“Those lanes are complicated things to do, I encourage the bike community and Denzil Minnan-Wong. But one kilometre of sepa-rated bike lane doesn’t make up for cancelling 100 kilometres of bike lanes on roads.”
Cyclist-driver confl ict only natural in Toronto
Special Report
Lake Ontario
Etobicoke
York
Bloor West
North York
Centre
Parkdale
9 RIDES
Across Toronto
1 ETOBICOKE: From the Humber River Pedestrian Bridge, cyclists have two options: head up the river path to the
northern reaches of Etobicoke, or west along Etobicoke’s picturesque Lake Ontario waterfront.
The latter, two-kilometre option is the more scenic, and has the added bonus of no traffic – unless, of course, you consider the steady stream of cyclists, in-line skaters, dog walkers, and family picnickers out for some fresh air and exercise.
For the hardcore cyclists, the waterfront trail boasts separate, paved lanes for bikes, while for those out for a more leisurely ride, there are plenty of stops along the path – take in some history at the Palace Pier
monument, rest on the benches at Home Garden, hand-build an inukshuk along the shoreline, admire the monarchs at the Humber Bay Butterfly Habitat or wander the paths through Humber Bay Park.
2 YORK: While plans are in the works to eventually close what is an approxi-mately one-kilometre gap between
Crawford-Jones Memorial Park (near Weston Road and Hwy. 401) and Cruickshank Park in Weston, local riders in York can still enjoy a pleasant ride.
However, the gap prevents Rexdale and west North York residents from being able
to use what is otherwise an essentially uninterrupted off-road path running from Steeles Avenue to downtown Toronto via the Humber and Martin Goodman Trails.
The route from Cruickshank Park to Lake Ontario, save for a small stretch through local, residential streets near the Humber Marshes, is relatively unimpeded and takes, on average, an hour to complete one way.
3 BLOOR WEST: For cyclists living in the downtown west end, who not only use their bikes for pleasure, but also
for every day transportation, the most pleasant ride is one free from cars.
And that is what makes the West Toronto Railpath a popular and pleasant shortcut between Parkdale and the Junction. The two-kilometre trail begins at
Cariboo Avenue, just north of the Dupont and Dundas intersection, and runs south-east to Dundas Street West at Sterling Road with various access points.
Built on abandoned railway beds, the West Toronto Railpath was completed in 2009. It is an asphalt path lined with greenery, indigenous plantings and brick buildings.
4 PARKDALE: For cyclists looking to head north from Parkdale to the Junction, or just looking for a pleas-
ant car-free ride, the West Toronto Railpath offers a two-kilometre trail between Sterling Avenue at Dundas Street West and Cariboo Avenue, north of Dupont Street.
But for many bike enthusiasts, the dream is to see this tree-lined trail, winner
of an Urban Design Award of Excellence, extended south along the GO train tracks to south of Queen Street West toward downtown Toronto.
If completed, the Railpath would give more than 250,000 Toronto residents living in the west end and travelling downtown a sustainable transportation link with the downtown core.
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Lake Ontario
City Centre
East York
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Scarborough
9 SCARBOROUGH: The ride from Greenvale Park, just north of Kingston Road across from the Guildwood GO
station, through the Highland Creek Valley and along the shores of Lake Ontario to the Port Union Village Common Park, is a run of approximately 12 kilometres which takes in a wide variety of features and parkland through southeast Scarborough.
The run starts with a steep hill and a warning for cyclists to dismount at the Greenvale Park entrance, but levels off nicely. It is a bit smelly, due to sewers run-ning underground near the Lawrence bridge, along the creek into Morningside Park. After that it rolls through the University of Toronto Scarborough campus.
Cyclists cross under Old Kingston Road and continue along beside the creek all the way to Lake Ontario.
There’s lots of opportunity to see wild-life on this ride, a pair of deer were spotted by the Morningside bridge, and it’s a fun run for kids with mostly level riding and lots of sites to see.
Dedicated bike trails preferred over on-road options
7 EAST YORK: The bike path winding through Taylor Creek Park has long been a favourite family biking route.
After a mid-July rainstorm this year, the shady route seemed more of an Iron Man family biking route.
Running 3.5 kilometres from Victoria Park Avenue to Don Mills Road and the Don Valley Parkway, the route was slick
with mud, and several bridges have now been washed out. Just past Lumsden Avenue, a downed tree called for a cyclist ‘portage’ through the branches.
Two of the wooden bridges are washed out, and two others have the safety railing snapped off. It’s a reminder that even in well-groomed Toronto parks, nature still reigns supreme.
8 BEACH: On most weekends, taking a bike to the Beach is an exercise in frustration: just the same as is taking a
picnic, a volleyball, a pair of roller blades or an automobile is.
Everyone else has the same idea. On weekdays, it’s a different story; the run east from Leslie Street will take you a good five kilometres, past the new TTC vehicle storage facility, a skateboard park, and the millen-
nium-project Woodbine Park into the Beach proper.
It’s good manners to stay off the Boardwalk – there are still a few visitors taking a stroll – but it’s a nice, safe ride through Woodbine Beach, Kew Gardens and Beaches Park. The bike route officially ends around Balsam Avenue; but a few hundred metres further east, and you’ll end up at the stunning R.C. Harris Water Filtration Plant.
5 NORTH YORK: The five-kilometre ride between Edwards Gardens and Taylor Creek Park is an easy run—for the
most part. However, even experienced cyclists will
want to get off their bikes and walk the wooden foot-bridge that curves over the CNR tracks cutting through the valley.
Otherwise, it’s a gentle ride, uphill from Don Mills, through valley lands that snake behind the Ontario Science Centre, past Sunnybrook Park, and deep north through the lush, thick woods lining Wilket Creek.
Once you arrive, you’ll have to dismount as bicycles are prohibited in the gardens. But there are bike rings and benches.
6 CITY CENTRE: There’s a long and rewarding ride ahead for cyclists who want to brave the Lower Don River
trail, that stretches eight kilometres from Don Mills Road and the Don Valley Parkway south along the Don to Lake Shore Boulevard.
At the best of times, it’s a good idea to bring water. But the ride is rich with sights
and landmarks, and worth the trip. The Prince Edward Viaduct is at its most impres-sive seen from the saddle of a bicycle below, and urban wildlife abounds. Heading towards the new crossing at Pottery Road, a lone chipmunk tempts fate crossing the path. Further south, where the trail dips underneath Eastern Avenue, a flock of geese stand guard.
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along Shaughnessy Boulevard, north from Sheppard Avenue to Glenworth Road.
“I fi nally have my fi rst bike lane,” she laughed.
“I know on paper it (such a short lane) will seem strange but what it does is open the door. If we do more and more of these, it will seem less strange.”
Carroll wants to see more on-road cycling lanes in North York and other suburbs.
“When people are on a bike instead of a car, they engage more with the street,” she said, adding the lack of on-road lanes is a con-cern for newcomers to Canada.
“We’re bringing people here from a nation of cyclists and when they come here, they stop using bikes. We’re pushing them into cars.”
But Carroll acknowledges many are leery of on-road bike lanes.
“We have so little of it in the sub-urbs, it is viewed with suspicion,”
she said.“We need to normalize it and
then institutionalize it. It becomes iconic. And a thing like that raises property values.”
Meanwhile, Pasternak is thrilled with last month’s opening of the Finch hydro corridor multi-use trail between Yonge and Dufferin streets.
“The residents were entirely excited about its development, about it opening. They’re asking for more,” he said from New York, where he was attending a confer-ence on urban parks.
While some residents voiced concerns about sharing the trail with cyclists, Pasternak said fami-lies tell him they want safe off-road options for cycling.
Pasternak wants to create an uninterrupted trail connecting G. Lord Ross Park to Earl Bales Park.
On the other hand, he opposes on-road cycling lanes, arguing they
are expensive, dangerous and add to traffi c congestion.
Pasternak’s attitude reflects the traditional mindset of North
York council-lors, who have shunned on-road lanes even on streets that could accom-modate them, Hart said.
Praising the Finch hydro trail as “fabulous,” Hart is thrilled with the growing
number of off-road trails.But he’s disappointed cycling
advocates continue to spin their wheels trying to convince politi-cians to increase the number of on-road lanes.“Mostly, you look around and say it really hasn’t changed at all,” he said.
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Eric Avadive and Sherry Benshabat cycle along the Finch hydro corridor bike path Monday afternoon.
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One councillor whose ward encompasses Eglinton Avenue West said he isn’t ready to endorse a plan to close off part of the Allen Expressway in order to chop construc-tion time of the Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown light rail transit line by a full year.
Josh Colle said he remains undecided on a joint proposal from the TTC and Metrolinx to close off northbound access to the Allen from Eglinton Avenue West for all of 2014.
He’s worried no other alter-natives to closure have been seriously discussed.
“I’ve read their report, and I’m not convinced it’s the only option,” said Colle last Friday.
The TTC and Metrolinx have said closing the Allen is necessary to provide more space for construction stag-ing for tunneling eastward underneath Eglinton for the underground portion of the LRT. It would open in 2020 if the plan is approved by city
council in the fall. But Colle says he’s spoken with local residents and business owners who are worried the plan could result in a traffic nightmare for Lawrence Avenue West, which lies to the north, which would remain open.
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Caribbean Costumes:: Clockwise from left: Participants parade in costume at the toronto Caribbean Junior Carnival Parade on saturday through Downsview Park; Faith Hermelijn, 13, is decked out in her costume, Crystal Jewelled brooch; Kaia Cassels, 9, portrays Queen elizabeth during the parade; Demeko minott, 16, in an elaborate costume; spectators enjoy the colourful sights.
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Sometimes referred to as black gold, compost is simply
decomposed organic matter.
Creating compost in your backyard reduces your environmental footprint and keeps your garden healthy. Composters don’t take up too much space and your garden will reap the rewards.
Compost bins are available at nurser-ies, garden centres or through the City of Toronto website, and an enclosed container will keep rodents and birds from invading.
Good aeration, level ground and some amount of sunlight are recommended for your compost site. A hose nearby is preferable as the composter needs water to allow for quick decomposition. The compost should feel moist, more like a wrung out sponge.
Easy access from the house to the composter is important to maintain the compost bin regu-larly. As a base layer, pile sticks or plant stalks to about a six-inch depth. Then add your nitrogen or green layer: kitchen scraps, eggshells, coffee grounds, grass clippings and plant trimmings. The top layer is called a carbon or brown layer: raked leaves, straw, wood products and paper.
Start with these three layers or add another three but keep the carbon layer on top to discourage flies. Try to keep an equal balance between the carbon and nitrogen layers.
It’s simple to compost if you follow some gen-eral guidelines.
Avoid putting the following in your com-poster: diseased plants, meat, fats, dairy prod-ucts, bones, weeds gone to seed and fish. The
best things to compost are fruit and vegetable scraps, egg shells, coffee grounds, tea bags and shredded newspapers.
To boost the nutri-tional content in your compost use coffee grounds for nitrogen, banana peels for potas-sium and egg shells for calcium.
You will know your compost is ready when it looks dark brown and crumbly (no sign of food scraps), and it smells “earthy”
Compost is gener-ally ready between four months to one year. It’s usually dependent upon a balance between the carbon and nitrogen.
If your composter emits a bad odour, it may be a sign that the compost pile is too wet. Simply air out the com-post pile and add some dry materials like straw or shredded newspaper.
It’s fun to create a compost tea mixture for your plants. It’s east to make: just fill your water-ing can with water and add a trowel filled with compost from your own backyard and let it steep overnight. Your perenni-als will flourish with this “compost tea” the next morning.
Improve the quality of your garden soil, reduce landfill waste and mini-mize your environmental footprint by creating your own compost.
n Marilyn Pomer is a landscape architect who writes about seasonal gardening. Her column appears every second Thursday. Contact her at [email protected]
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Free drop-in swimming class Sunday at the YMCA
YMCA locations across Toronto, including North York’s, are offer-ing free drop-in swimming classes this Sunday for National Drowning Prevention Week.
The Swim to Survive lessons are designed by the Life Saving Society and offer basic survival
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The North York event, at 567 Sheppard Ave. E., runs from 1 to 3 p.m
North York location one of four in Toronto hosting educational event
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Albin Choi, who once helped North York’s Northview Heights Secondary School to a provincial team golf championship in 2008, added yet another prestigious golf trophy to his mantle this month by winning the 2012 Ontario Amateur golf cham-pionship at Richmond Hill’s Summit Golf and Country Club.
But, with all due respect to the field he vanquished at the Ontario amateur, he’ll have a lot tougher time win-ning his next tournament, this one at the Hamilton Golf and Country Club starting today and going until Sunday.
That’s because the tourna-ment in question, the RBC Canadian Open, is this week’s PGA-tour stop, and features among its field last week’s British Open winner, Ernie Els.
One of Canada’s top ama-teurs, Choi, 20, who won the 2010 Canadian amateur championship as a teenager, got his feet wet at last year’s Canadian Open in Vancouver, missing the cut by just two strokes.
Also making a name for himself in U.S. college play, he wrapped up his second year at North Carolina State University by finishing tied for 37th at the U.S. college championships, after winning the regional championship.
His recent success, how-ever, has been bittersweet having lost his mother in the past year.
“It’s been a rough couple of months. It’s been really hard for me and my family to deal with it, but I got back on my feet and this one is for her,” he said, following his Ontario Amateur win, in an interview
on the Golf Association of Ontario website.
BENTHAM AT WOMEN’s OPEN
While Choi is about to enjoy his second exemp-tion into a PGA-tour event, a fellow member from the 2008 provincial high school championship team from Northview Heights is a full-time player on the women’s tour.
Rebecca Lee-Bentham, 20, who qualified for the PGA-Ladies tour by finishing in the Top 20 in a gruelling five-round qualifying tournament last fall, has won more than $16,000 through nine tourna-ments so far this season.
The Northview Heights grad is also set to play the Canadian Women’s Open in Vancouver Aug. 23 to 26.
–Norm Nelson
Northview Heights grad Toronto’s lone entrant in RBC Canadian Open
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Metrolinx’s board now has three new members, the transit planning agency announced last Friday.
Marianne McKenna, Bonnie Patterson and Howard Shearer were appointed by the Ontario govern-ment to serve on the regional transit co-ordinator’s board of directors for an initial term of three years.
McKenna is an internationally recognized architect and a found-ing partner of Kuwabara Payne
McKenna Blumberg Architects, based in Toronto. She has done work on several prominent Toronto buildings including the Royal Conservatory’s TELUS Centre for Performance.
Patterson, an academic, is the president and CEO of the Council of Ontario Universities and the former dean of business for Ryerson University.
Shearer currently serves as chair-man of the board for Hitachi Power
Systems Canada.“Metrolinx is delighted to wel-
come Marianne McKenna, Bonnie Patterson, and Howard Shearer to our board,” said Metrolinx Chair Robert Prichard in a press release.
“They are outstanding citizens and their experience and skills will help Metrolinx fulfill its mission to trans-form transportation in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.”
–Rahul Gupta
Metrolinx names McKenna, Patterson and Shearer to board
Food carts to offer more optionsToronto street-meat epicureans will have more to chew on down the road, now that council has loosened up the regulations gov-erning food carts.
Toronto council voted at its July meeting to add a bit of variety to food carts best known for selling hotdogs and sausages to hungry pedestrians. Under the new rules, vendors can sell pre-packaged cut fruits and vegetables along with non-cream-based dips, whole fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds and soups that are pre-packaged, coffee and tea, and veggie burg-
ers.Under the plan, the food carts
must pass inspection to ensure that they’re safe to sell the food by officials from the city’s health department. And they can’t serve anything that might support the growth of pathogens.
Council ignored pleas to allow food carts to sell their goods in commercial parking lots because of concerns that the food trucks would provide unfair competi-tion to existing restaurants in the area.
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FINCH/ ISLINGTON Available
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EMERGENCY? Clogged drain,
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Licensed/ Insured credit card accepted
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PLUMBING REPAIRS
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