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It was my great pleasure to attend the Best of Vaughan Awards on

Sept. 22 and meet so many of our city’s dynamic and innovative entre-preneurs.

As a publisher, I have had the privilege of meeting and interacting with people from all corners of the globe, but when it’s all said and done nothing gives me a greater sense of belonging than my home, my family and my community.

Proudly the community of Vaughan has been my community for over 10 years now.

When I think of Vaughan I think of a vibrant community of people whose commitment, vision and hard work have made Vaughan the fast-est growing city in Canada. Many of our small businesspeople were at the awards presentations because Vaughan residents — their consumer base — wanted to recognize them as outstanding businesses and entrepre-neurs that continue to play a vital role in Vaughan’s successes.

The Best of Vaughan Awards were created through the efforts of Vaughan Today and as an extension of another program we launched in Vaughan called “Shop Local” at the onset of our global economic down-turn. We understood then that small business owners were left to fend for themselves.

How does what we do as a com-munity publisher relate to you, and why do we feel so strongly about local economies? We are at the grass-roots, we understand community, we understand the importance of niche markets and we wholeheart-edly understand what small business owners across Canada bring to their local economies. In aggregate, they represent and are the backbone of Canada’s economy.

As a general rule, they work long hours, take great risks and don’t always have access to capital to grow. They tend to live in the com-munity they serve and are continu-ously reinvesting in that same com-munity. Every time a local business is displaced, the economic and social impact on the community can be quite devastating.

The impact of our consumer base shopping outside our local economy can have equally devastating effects, albeit over a longer period of time.

And not just on our retailers — inde-pendent local businesses shore up and make use of an array of sup-porting services including insurance brokers, architects, cabinet makers, lawyers, advertising agencies, real-tors and much more. Every dollar spent at community-based businesses creates a multiplier effect in the local economy.

Local businesses tend to use more locally produced goods and services than nationally based franchises and chain stores, which means more jobs locally.

Small business owners also tend to support local causes and they are essential to the advancement of their community.

Small businesses also help define our sense of who we are in this com-munity they add character to the city and provide a diversity of choices.

We may each have our personal favourite stores, coffee shops, res-taurants and corner stores, but let’s remember their health depends on our continued patronage.

While much progress is being made in support of small businesses, we at Vaughan Today believe strong-ly that more should be done and for this reason we are committed to coming up with programs that allow consumers and businesses to connect better.

We look forward to working close-ly with both our readers and small businesses in Vaughan to achieve this in the weeks and years to come.

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IT’S A BIRD, IT’S A PLANE, IT’S SUPERHIGHWAY: Arching over Vaughan and neighbouring cities is the corridor through which the roadway is expected to run.

Critics warn it could cause damage, but proponents say Vaughan needs it anyway

A superhighway is being planned for Vaughan though both advocates and opponents of the plan say there’s nothing super about it.

Both sides agree the highway, known officially as the GTA West Corridor, will do nothing to allevi-ate the overwhelming amount of traffic congestion in the city.

Both sides also agree the highway’s location — right through the region’s protected green belt — is an unfortunate location.

But while some say the project isn’t worth the damage it will do to Vaughan’s natural environment, others say a highway is a necessary first step to update the city’s inadequate infrastructure.

The purpose of the highway is to link Vaughan with cities to the west such as Burlington as well as other highways that reach south toward the Niagara peninsula and the rest of the Greater Toronto Area.

The GTA West Corridor will begin at Highway 400 at the King/Vaughan line and will stretch west from that point.

Currently, Vaughan is serviced by north-south corridors, Hwy. 427 and Hwy. 400. People looking

to move east or west across the city are forced onto local roads or onto the toll road, Hwy. 407.

The provincial plan for a highway is at the very early stages and is years away from final approval.

However, the plan caught people’s attention this past June when the city passed a resolution support-ing the highway instead of asking the province to consider an alternative route.

Nonetheless, the resolution asks that the Min-istry of Transportation provide information that proves the planned route will have a minimal impact on the environment and socio-economic conditions of the area.

But for Antony Niro, a professional engineer and voice behind the Web site Time for Change Vaughan, the biggest concern is alleviating traffic congestion.

Niro supports the construction of the high-way but he has accused the city of building too fast, approving housing developments that bring in thousands of people to the area before building the appropriate infrastructure to support the increase in traffic.

An example is a development in the north end of

Maple known as Block 27, an area that will expand the town by 10,000 homes and 20,000 cars. The city approved the expansion this past January.

Niro said in order to improve congestion in the future, the city “needs to stop repeating mistakes from the past.”

“We need a highway plus-plus-plus,” he said in a telephone interview with Vaughan Today. “The highway is a necessary first step. We need to improve the current infrastructure and public transit. It’s a balance and we need to come at it from all sides.”

The local activist said as an engineer, he knows the highway alone will not help ease traffic in the area.

“I’ve studied this,” he said. “If you’re gross under capacity, adding more capacity will not alle-viate congestion. It will just affect all the pent-up congestion.”

Sony Rai, a local environmentalist who fronts the group Sustainable Vaughan, agrees and cites other studies that have proven exactly that.

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highway’s development. “The highway is not supporting

residents of Vaughan, just new growth employment areas but in order to do that, they’re sacrificing the green belt,” Rai told Vaughan Today, days after hosting an information session for the community on the issue.

He quoted the first part of the envi-ronmental assessment of the highway plan. It came out in February and Rai said it was missing a key component.

“It provided scenarios for differ-ent options of having the highway go through the area and not through the area,” he said. “But it never accounted for the loss of the green belt and what that means economically.”

Furthermore, the assessment showed that by expanding the capacity on the current highways in Vaughan, trans-portation would be served just as effec-tively as a new highway.

“But that’s not being pushed forward because it doesn’t serve new growth area,” he said. “We’re sacrificing the green belt to serve employment lands that are already on highways.”

Rai said he’s skeptical of the pro-cess for several reasons. One of those reasons is the language being used to present the plan to the public.

“(Ontario) has been deceptive call-ing the highway a corridor and splitting it up in two pieces — a north and south

part,” he said. “They are using language to mask the issue and by dividing it, they’re hoping to divide and conquer.”

But the so-called “divide and con-quer” strategy hasn’t worked so well.

Rai and Sustainable Vaughan have joined a larger group fighting the high-way called “Stop the Escarpment High-way Coalition.” The coalition is made up of community groups from across the GTA who will be affected by the proposed corridor.

Playing politics The coalition has managed to con-

vince the province to halt their study into the southern portion of the pro-posed highway. The southern portion would have extended the highway south, linking Niagara Falls to Burling-ton via Hamilton, putting the escarp-ment at risk.

“Vaughan is a city that has gotten to a point where it needs to focus on infra-structure within its own boundaries,” Rai said. “I don’t think (city council) has a grasp on the infrastructure needs that’s going to come with growth in the next 20 years.”

Both Rai and Niro say this proposed highway has become a huge issue for them — one they spoke to candidates about during the provincial election.

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It’s been a year since she left office, but Linda Jackson still feels the sting of her turbulent tenure as mayor of Vaughan.

Speaking by phone in a rare interview in late September, Jackson told Vaughan Today that although she has moved on with her life, finding fulfill-ment in a new career and at home, she’s still trying to pick up the pieces left in the wake of her difficult four years at the helm of Vaughan council.

The perspective that comes with a year’s time has not softened the pro-tracted blow of four years of backlash and fighting.

“I was treated shabbily,” Jackson said. “It was very difficult and it was very hard to get anything done.”

It’s been a year since Jackson unsuccessfully sought a second term as mayor.

Her defeat marked the end of a term of council marred by controversies, including an expense audit, in-fighting and court battles.

Often the blame for council’s constant bickering and inability to work cohesively was laid squarely on Jackson. In December of 2008, her colleagues on council turned on her, calling a press conference in which all eight councillors called for her resignation.

She refused to step down, but the damage was done. On election night last October, former Vaughan MP

Maurizio Bevilacqua sailed to a landslide win, defeating runner-up Jackson by almost 35,000 votes.

Today, Jackson is trying to put it all behind her. In January, she started her own consulting firm, LDJ

Consultants, and says she’s working on contracts throughout the province. The company specializes in government rela-tions, public consultation and land development — not a far stretch from her work on council.

“I enjoyed that aspect of the job, I didn’t particularly enjoy all the BS that came along with the politics of it,” she said with a laugh. “I enjoyed being able to see a project come to fruition.”

Jackson said she’s not currently working any projects in Vaughan, nor does she have any intention to.

“That’s a very proactive decision at the present time,” she said. “I just wanted to spread my wings and look at other areas and other jurisdic-tions.”

These days she hasn’t been following Vaughan council closely, Jackson says, though she remains in contact with some councillors.

“From what I have gathered from a few friends things seem to be a lot calmer which is good because you need that, and a council needs to support their mayor,” she said.

Respect from her colleagues, she said, was something she didn’t feel she was granted.

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According to Costa, the feed-in tariff program began in 2009 as a means of encouraging solar energy production in Ontario. Participants of the program pay to have solar panels installed atop their home or business and then are able to effec-tively sell some of the power they generate back to the province for the next two decades.

Ontario Power Authority pays residential participants 80.2 cents per kilowatt hour of energy pro-duced and 71.3 cents to commercial projects.

“Our systems are designed to have a payback period of less than five years and the program with the Ontario Power Authority is 20 years,” Costa said.

DuRock now receives about $1,600 a month from their $100,000 solar panel system. Their system though generates a larger yield than most because of the reflective white coating applied to the rooftop, which reflects sunlight back toward the panels.

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“Ontario has become one of the most desirable markets on earth right now for solar because we have the advancements from the Green Energy Act, the feed-in tar-iff program and just the fact that we have a lot of open land and a lot of rooftops,” Costa said.

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Liberal MPP Greg Sorbara said he knows the highway is getting people talking.

“Congestion is among the top issues in Vaughan and we’re working as dil-igently as we can to make sure we have resources for infrastructure,” he

“I can’t say all of them, but the majority of the council wanted to see me falter so anything good they would overshadow it (with) something bad, that was the norm,” she said.

But, she doesn’t act the part of the wounded puppy.

“Of course, you’re the one who sits at the highest office — they’re going to point the guns at you but I knew that going in and I accepted that and I tried to work with what I had.”

Looking back, she and her family are proud of her council tenure, which included her 2002-2006 term as a regional councillor. One big accomplishment, she says, was quashing a proposal to build a power plant in Woodbridge while she was regional councillor.

“I’m very proud of that because if we hadn’t fought long and hard the province would have just shoved it down our throats,” she said.

Even when things were rough, she said, she never lost the support of her family.

“On election night this past year when I got up and I gave my speech after I realized I had lost, my father said he had never been prouder of me. ‘

And Jackson says, she’s relishing family life today.

She said not many people knew at the time but just before Jackson was elected in 2006, she and husband Mario Campese took custody of Jackson’s step-grandson, Stefano. Now nine years old, Stefano keeps Jackson busy at home. With two grown daughters,

Jackson says she’s experiencing the joys of parenting a child all over again, and she loves being able to tend to her garden.

“Even just to be able to say, ‘hey, I’ve got nothing on this weekend’,” she said with a laugh.

Jackson has no current plans to re-enter the politi-cal arena. However, she hasn’t totally closed the book on politics, or a possible future run for provincial or federal representation.

Above all, she said she’s hopeful for the future, and coming to terms with the past.

“That was a chapter of my life, I enjoyed it, I’m very proud of my time and I’m now opening a new chapter in my book.”

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told Vaughan Today from Queen’s Park.

“We can’t just look at the corridor but at alter-nate modes of transit as well. The most significant piece will be the subway that is being built to the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre,” he said.

Sorbara said he will await the final findings of the environmental assess-ment before he decides how he feels about the higway’s proposed loca-tion.

Sorbara’s rival Tony Genco, a Liberal turned Progressive Conserva-tive, said he’s listening to all sides of the debate.

“Transportation is a critical part on how (the PCs) want to see the province renewed. I don’t think the Liberals have done enough to improve traffic in the region.”

Genco said the PCs would keep an open mind on what residents want and don’t want.

But on the proposed location of the highway, Genco echoed Sorbara.

“We do want trans-portation networks and that the infrastructure is useful and not reaction-ary, but the jury’s out on whether or not the road should be there,” he said. “One has to follow pro-cess in its entirety to find out.”

Paul Donofrio, a long-time community activ-ist and NDP candidate, said he’s most concerned about the impact the highway will have on the environment, though he

stopped short of saying he objected to the cor-ridor being built.

“If they’re going through with this high-way they have to make sure it’s not detrimental to the environment,” he said. “I’m not a big fan of the highway going through there but if it has to go through there then the proper environmental measurements need to be put in place.”

Another Spadina Expressway?

Vaughan’s mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua said although there is still a lot of discussion to be had regarding the high-way, one thing is certain: to reach its full potential as a city, Vaughan needs the corridor.

“Because we’re gener-ating jobs in York Region and Vaughan, these cor-ridors are required to accommodate not only the people but the trans-portation of goods and services as well,” he said during a recent telephone interview.

“A corridor is required,” he continued. “Population growth is what it is in the region. Whether it’s that particu-lar corridor or an alterna-tive, then it’s a solution.”

But Rai likened Vaughan’s current situa-tion to that of Toronto’s in the ’70s when local politicians at the time thought the Spadina Expressway was essen-tial for the city’s growth.

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Vaughan’s entrepreneurial spirit was on full dis-play at the Best of Vaughan Awards on Sept. 22 as Vaughan Today and Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua recognized businesses from across the city for their outstanding services.

Business owners, chosen by Vaughan Today read-ers from more than 80 categories, were awarded at the first annual Best of Vaughan event at Le Jardin Conference and Event Venue in Woodbridge.

Thousands of readers voted to select the nomi-nees and choose the winners in an online poll on the VaughanToday.ca site.

Before making the presentations, Bevilacqua said Vaughan has a strong foundation as a city that sup-ports local business.

“One of the things that we’re really rich in is the entrepreneurial culture in this city,” Bevilacqua told 250 guests at the awards. “Twenty years ago, when the city was first incorporated and our population was 100,000, we had within that population … entrepre-neurs that spurred that economic growth.”

The mayor shared his own background in small business, mentioning his father was a businessperson who worked long hours on behalf of his family.

“As a child I learned that entrepreneurs are special people,” he said. “That they care about the service they provide, professional or otherwise. They care about the jobs they create and the families they feed.”

Bevilacqua warmly thanked business owners and operators for contributing valuable services to

Vaughan residents. “It is incumbent on me as mayor of this city to

express my gratitude to them,” he said. “Because we are in this together.”

Top honours were granted to those businesses who were named “Outstanding” for receiving the most support in each of six broad categories, while leaders in each of the 80 specific categories received recognition as gold, silver and bronze award win-ners.

The owner of 911 Roadside Assistance & Service, an Outstanding winner, said while he did not expect to win, he was happy with the outcome.

“It was very pleasing, knowing you’re doing a good thing,” Antonio Di Crescenzo said. “I run an honest business and it’s nice to be rewarded like that.”

Di Crescenzo attributed his business’s success to the fact that as a local business offering towing and repair services in Vaughan, it has a reputation for providing help to customers who need it quickly and effectively.

“If we say estimated time of arrival of 30 minutes, then we’re usually there within 30 minutes,” he said. “Other companies outside of the area of Vaughan can’t really provide the same service.”

The former Vaughan resident said he initially decided to base his business in the city because he recognized it was a growing municipality.

“I know with growth there’s always opportunity,” he said.

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Best of the best take a bowThe city’s favourite businesses recognized at first annual Best of Vaughan Awards

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COME ON DOWN: Winners are applauded by 250 attendees as they make their way to the podium to receive their Best of Vaughan awards on Sept. 22.


SURPRISED BUT PLEASED: Antonio Di Crescenzo, right, said he was gratified to receive his Outstand-ing award from Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua who praised Vaughan’s entrepeneurial spirit. Continued Page 14


When Ginette Guimond started the Maple Acad-emy of Dance 14 years ago it consisted of two staff members, 80 students and one dance studio.

Today the company has grown to encompass 12 instructors, including several former clients, an office clerk, over 400 students and a state of the art facility home to four studios.

And it has just been named both an Outstanding business and Gold winner in the Best of Vaughan Awards.

“I opened in Maple where it was still a very small community and I thought it would be a good way to begin a business,” says Guimond, who has been danc-

ing since the age of three. “I knew it was expanding so it gave me a lot of opportunity to grow.”

The academy offers competitive and recreational dance classes for children and adults in jazz, tap, bal-let, acrobatics, hip hop and musical theatre.

“I’ve been dancing all my life,” she says. “I knew from a very young age I would open up a dance stu-dio one day.”

She credits part of her success over the years to her certified co-workers and building a good reputa-tion.

“They’re amazing and I think we make a great team and I think that’s really important,” she says. “We offer great classes and you know word of mouth

is a big thing and we’ve had some really successful shows and some successful competitive years so we’re able to showcase that to our clients.”

Guimond, who has also performed at NBA, NHL and NFL games and appeared in movies like Jail Bait and Half Baked, won the top honours at the Best of Vaughan awards in the dance academy category.

“It means a lot, it really does,” she says after accepting the award. “It just means that people are satisfied with what we’re offering, what I’m offer-ing.

“This award is not just for me as the studio owner but it’s also for my staff, it’s for all the students that are part of it and to all of us and it means a lot.”

Watch for continued coverage of Vaughan’s top businesses through the coming year. Each month we will be profiling more award winners, as well as highlighting the challenges facing local entrepreneurs and their achieve-ments in developing the Vaughan economy.

Friends Melissa Caiazzo and Milea Rollo teamed up to open Haven Salon and Spa on October 12, 2010.

“It was something we wanted to do for years,” says Rollo, adding that she’s known Caiazzo for 13 years. “We worked at another salon together and

we decided that it was time for us to go off on our own and make it happen.”

Almost a year into running the salon, which offers services like hair-cuts, colour, extensions, waxing, mani-cures, pedicures, facials and laser treat-ments, Caiazzo and Rollo say their passion for the industry has been key

to their success.“We love what we do, number one,

first and foremost,” says Caiazzo. “It’s amazing to work with your best friend and being in the service industry just to make people happy.”

They say they chose to open up their business in Vaughan because it

was the right fit.“It’s a growing city and we felt

that it was the best area, especially our location with the medical centre, it’s growing and it keeps on getting better,” says Rollo.

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when they heard they were the recipi-ents of the Outstanding Award for best service in the hair salon category, which was based on readers’ votes, at the Best of Vaughan Awards.

“It’s a very amazing accomplish-ment,” says Rollo. “We were very shocked by it actually… it means a lot.”

The pair also took home a gold

award in the hair salon category and silver in the health category.

“We worked hard to open the salon and I guess it’s just a testament to what we worked hard for and our clients, how they love what we do for them,” adds Caiazzo. “We love what we do and we just hope we can continue to make people smile.”


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Winning gold was also good news to Woodbridge Curves owners Gail Gourley and her daughter Cassie, who purchased the business a year ago. The franchise has had a Vaughan location for about 12 years.

“We were absolutely thrilled, because this is our first year in business,” she said.

She said she feels readers selected Curves Woodbridge because it’s distinct from many health facilities because it offers both an exercise and diet plan.

“Curves is very different,” she said. “Our Curves circuit has a Zumba fitness (program), it gives women a complete and strength training workout, and it only takes 30 minutes, which fits for busy women.”

In a later interview with Vaughan Today, the mayor outlined some of the reasons as to why he feels Vaughan is a city that not only welcomes business and entrepreneurship, but also fosters it.

“I think there’s an inner force within people that live in this city, that always drives them to better themselves, deeply rooted in the fact that many people that reside in the city of Vaughan have strong immigrant roots,” he said. “When people come here to build their dream and to realize their dream, they are always willing to go that extra mile, to take that extra effort . . . to do the very best they can for their families.”

He pointed out how Vaughan has one of the fastest growing economies in North America and said it’s reflective of city council’s commitment to creating commerce.

“The numbers speak for themselves,” he said. “People want to come here because it’s a great community with a very vibrant entrepre-neurial spirit, that is a driving force behind the great job cre-ation numbers that we have.”

Bevilacqua said a number of factors have contributed to a strong business climate: for one, he says businesses and investors have strong confi-dence in the government.

“Our ability to keep taxes at a level that is very competi-tive, not only in the Greater Toronto Area but in North America, speaks to our com-mitment,” he said.

The mayor pointed out the city’s diversity and strong sense of inclusion also work to make Vaughan an ideal place to conduct business.

“We have become a city that welcomes people, that speaks over 70 languages,” he said. “That type of social cohesion and harmony is great for business.”

Bevilacqua closed his speech to the attendees by thanking Vaughan’s businesses and entrepreneurs for helping make the city one of North America’s pre-miere locations to conduct business.

“You truly are the heartbeat of this city,” he said. “And for that, I thank you.”

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Exchanging studentsHow studying abroad can open up the world

Even though they live on opposite ends of the globe and in differ-ent time zones, Julia Nakanishi and Milly Allan still remain good

friends.Through a partnership between Havergal and

Barker Colleges, Allan spent a month in Toronto last October and Nakanishi spent a month in Sydney last February.

Allan, who is now in grade 11 at Barker College, spent her time in Toronto boarding at Havergal during the week and living with her host family during the weekend.

She says she jumped on the opportunity to go on exchange when she found out through her school there was a spot available in Toronto.

“I love to travel and I had never been to Canada before so I really wanted to see what Toronto was like,” she says. “Exchange is a really great way to travel as you get to go to school in another country and experience another culture.”

On top of seeing all the sites like the Toronto Islands, CN Tower and Niagara Falls, she says it was an amazing experience to learn about Thanksgiving traditions because the holiday doesn’t exist in Australia. She also enjoyed the atmosphere in the city during Halloween, which she says is barely celebrated in Sydney.

“This experience allowed me to grow, expe-riencing new cultures and ways of life that I had never seen before,” says Allan, adding that she gained a sense of independence, growth and maturity by travelling without her family. “I will cherish the friendship that I built with Julia.”

Nakanishi, who is currently in grade 11 at Havergal College, says she also gained more of an appreciation for Toronto while hosting Allan.

“I found new places to go in the city and even learned new historical facts about my home-town,” she adds.

Part of the fun of the exchange program,

Allan says, was being able to reciprocate and show her new friend around Australia a few months later.

Nakanishi, who split her time down under living with Allan’s family and boarding at Bark-er College, says she decided to go on exchange because she loved travelling and learning about people’s lifestyles.

“Exchange seemed perfect because I would have the chance to experience Australia from an Australian’s point of view who was my age,” says Nakanishi.

Rather than just going on vacation and admir-ing the countryside, Nakanishi knew she would benefit more from living, learning and experi-encing culture the way locals do.

“Exchange is an amazing way to experience the world,” she says. “It makes you a more inde-pendent and adjustable person and it gives you an opportunity to build friendships with people so far away, people whom you probably never would have met otherwise.”

Kaylan Schwarz, the global experience pro-gram coordinator at Havergal College, says they connect with 16 schools in seven countries around the world including France, Germany and Mexico.

She says the girls benefit from the program because they are fully immersed in the lives of others and learn how to develop relationships effectively.

“Exchange students develop confidence in their ability to communicate with others effec-tively, while realizing the important role that culture plays in our understanding of the world,” she says.

Nakanishi says she enjoyed her exchange experience so much she would do it again.

“The combination of school life, boarding life and family life, along with main sightsee-ing trips and seeing the day-to-day culture of Toronto with an amazing host family made my exchange experience to Toronto one that I will never forget,” says Allan.

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FAST FRIENDS: Havergal College’s Julia Nakanishi, left, had fun showing off Toronto, including the Toronto Islands and CN Tower, to her exchange partner, Milly Allan from Barker College in Australia. Julia taught Milly about Thanksgiving, which isn’t celebrated down under.

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Beyond worry

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Ways to quell the angst that can come from school

Along with those students suffering from back-to-school blues because the lazy days of sum-

mer and sleeping in are over, are a number of teenagers and children who truly dread the new school year.

Kids Help Phone counsellor Shan-non Freud says they receive an aver-age of 1,000 calls per day with that number growing toward the beginning of the school year.

She says many callers are worried about hazing, being bullied and start-ing high school.

“We get some pretty heavy calls,” she says, adding the callers range in age from kids who barely know how to use a telephone up to 20-year-olds. “Kids are worried about going back to school and the transition from elementary school to high school … The whole idea of getting bullied is starting to settle in for them, so they’re wondering how to deal with that.”

Chartered psychologist Lesley Lacny, who offers child, adolescent and family counselling services, says the most common school-related con-cerns are not having friends, not fitting in, being teased or bullied and feeling pressure to perform academically.

“When we enter into a new situa-tion, we do not know what to expect,” she said. “It is normal to fear the unknown, although not everybody shows it in the same way.”

Her advice to anyone starting at a new school is to remember it’s normal to feel nervous and to focus on the good that could come out of the situ-ation like making new friends and the chance to learn new activities.

Freud says kids need to work through their problems instead of run-ning away from them. For example if they were bullied at their last school, they need to figure out what caused the problem and how to deal with it.

“We say that you teach people how to treat you, so if you come across as someone who is very quiet and really insecure then people are going to see that vulnerability and they’ll go right for it,” she says.

Lacny says parents should also be on the lookout for warning signs and any changes indicating their children are having problems or a difficult time adjusting.

“Young people may not want you to fix it for them,” she says. “But for you to be supportive and to offer gentle suggestions for what they can do or what you can do to help.”

Freud’s final piece of advice for combating school anxiety is to stress the important of reaching out to reli-able people for support and encour-agement.

“If they feel like they don’t have anyone to reach out to or they don’t trust anyone in their lives, they can call us and talk to us about what’s going on,” she says.

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She’s a real lakerJade Scognamillo of The Country Day School

Swimmer Jade Scognamillo went from her community centre pool in Woodbridge to the Great Lakes in one stroke.

The Country Day School alumna set three world records after two marathon swims in 2008 and 2009.

At 14 years old, she swam across Lake Erie from Sturgeon Point, New York to Crystal Beach, becoming the youngest ever to do such a feat, and also registered the fastest time of 5:40:30.

“It was pretty awesome, I have to say, because I went in with a goal of just finishing,” she said. “(Erie) was my first experience with marathon swimming.”

A year later she would become the youngest to swim across Lake Ontario.

Swimming since the age of five, Scognamillo didn’t start thinking about large bodies of water until she moved to Canada from London, England in 2005. It was here she started to think outside the lane.

“Marathon swimming was actually something I’ve never really known much about,” she said. “It was more kind of, I wanted to see how far I could swim.

“I wanted to raise money for charity too,” she con-tinued. “It’s not something people do every day.”

During her two races, Scognamillo planned to raise $35,000 for a new incubator at Sick Kids hospital. Years later, she ended exceeding that goal, netting $58,000 for the hospital.

Still, as a teenager, spending so much time in the water, one would question if her academics would prune up along with her fingertips.

“I always found it hard balancing my swimming with school,” she said. “It’s such a big commitment.”

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The 17-year-old Scognamillo is taking communi-cations, after Gambino inspired her.

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My guest loves the chickpea puree that comes with fresh, crusty bread. To my palate it’s a little too garlicky, but she happily finishes every mouthful. I content myself with a few sips of California White Zinfandel ($8.50 per glass) from the large wine list. A deep blush, it’s sweet and crisp.

My guest begins with grilled calamari, described as served with a balsamic reduction glaze, olives and tomatoes ($13). I think the chef forgot and went back to his older menu. Online it’s described as served in a delicate white wine and lemon sauce, which appears to be what my guest is served. Two large calamari come in a mildly flavoured sauce that serves little useful purpose. It’s too creamy and bland to benefit the squid which is rubbery rather than tender. When we ask about the sauce, the waiter reports the chef had drizzled balsamic reduction on the squid in the sauce. We must have missed that!

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The good news continues. My guest orders gnocchi with fresh lobster and king crab finished with a light Prosecco and truffle emulsion ($25). The gnoc-chi are firm and the sauce redolent with the earthiness of truffles. My guest sniffs happily and sighs, “I love truffles.” There’s a half lobster atop the pasta from which she scoops tender meat, but she’d like more lobster. Nonetheless, the gnocchi in its rich, velvety sauce gets the thumbs up. We have found chef Franco Poletti’s forte — a great touch with pasta and risotto.

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As such the Quest made its exit from the Canadian marketplace in 2009 where it was powered by the same engine as the Maxima and Altima along with others in the Nissan fleet producing 240 hp. It’s suspension was tuned a bit stiffer like the rest of the Nissan line and provided a ho-hum driving experience.

This year the fourth generation Quest was introduced, built at Nissan’s Shatai Kyushu plant in Japan. The sporty feeling has given way to a much more enjoyable softer suspension and the athletic feel of the interior and exterior has been replaced with a comfortable and smooth ride.

The front seats could double as your livingroom sofa. They’re super comfortable and coupled with the premium audio system featuring Bose technology found in the SL and LE trim levels, the Quest makes for the best drive-in vehicle on the road today. And that’s not even considering the fold up rear seats.

The 2012 Quest has also received a new 3.5-litre engine that produces 260 hp and 240 lb/ft of torque. It has comparable get up and go to the 248 hp engine found in the Honda Odyssey and makes for an out-standing 11.1 L/100 km in the city and 8.1 L/100 km on the highway.

Unlike the Toyota Sienna and Honda Odyssey, the Quest only offers seating for seven (the others offer seating for eight) but entering into the rear seats or folding them up doesn’t require a PhD in physics like its contemporaries.

Honda and Toyota’s models have a series of latches and straps that require infographics explaining which one to pull in which order to fold seats flat into the floor or move the middle seats out of the way to enter the rear. The Quest’s mechanics are easy and can be done one-handed; a big plus when you’ve got groceries and kids in tow.

The Quest’s appearance is a bit deceiving as it almost looks like a longer wagon or stumpy SUV. On a trip to the mall, a person in the parking lot thought it might be the new Honda Element.

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There’s electricity in the air over St. Joan of Arc.

A storm is brewing and it’s all about rivalry for the Thunder as they hit the gridiron in the 2011 season.

Coach Fabio Brusco is charged by all the excitement, from proving the team’s worth against Toronto’s Chaminade in pre-season to their opener against Bill Crothers Colts and their subsequent homecoming against Newmarket Raiders.

For the past few seasons, St. Joan has been a middle-of-the-pack squad, juking between fourth and fifth spot out of a nine-team division.

“You have to remember Vaughan, up until recently, we’ve never trained football players,” Brusco said. “We’re

going up against the Markhams (Marauders), the Huron Heights of Newmarket, etc.

“Those kids have been playing football since eight.”

But the hope lies in the future. With Brusco helming the Vaughan Football Association, the seniors will have a great supporting bench.

“It looks like we have a lot of depth and a lot of skilled players at positions,” Brusco said. “Another thing that helped was more kids are staying in open football during the off-seasons as well.”

Returning to the squad this season are linemen Todd Hickey and Eric Iaboni as well as senior quarterback Gianfranco Schiarripa.

But the seniors aren’t the only

focus, as the juniors have piqued interest.

“We’re thinking highly of some of the juniors that are making the major-ity of the team right now,” Brusco said, adding the Vaughan Football Association hasn’t seen the fruits of a league formed in 2008.

One promising junior, at the full-back position, is Andrew Anichini. He also looks to pull his weight on defence as linebacker.

For the 16-year-old, graduating to the senior team poses new chal-lenges.

“I just want to make my playing better and get back into football mode because I’ve been playing rugby all summer,” he said, adding the larger opponents are a daunting task but

he’ll adapt.“I’ll make sure that any fear is out

of the way and my technique is a little better so I can actually block or hit the person that’s a bit bigger,” he said.

Brusco admits the strength of the team lies with the juniors.

What they do against the top three teams in York Region — King City, Huron Heights and Markham — will be key to proving the Thunder are on the “uptick”.

At present, St. Joan’s target is not the top three, though. They want to defeat their on-field rival.

“Our nemesis at this point is G.W. Williams,” Brusco said. “We can’t beat them.

“Last year we lost to them with one second left on a questionable call.”

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BIG SCORE: A cheque for $125,000 for a field upgrade is presented to the BMO Team of the Week 2011 Champion, the Glen Shields Sun Devils 2000, at an event in Vaughan, Sept. 17.

The under-11 girls of the Glen Shields Sun Devils 2000 soc-cer team are still excited about recently winning the Bank of Montreal’s Team of the Week contest.

“When we got picked as the winners the kids were just ecstatic,” said Sun Devils coach Paul Dell’Aquila. “We’re still taking the kids from the sky and bringing them back to Earth.”

This spring, Canadians were able to enter local youth soc-cer teams in the contest intended to grow support of grassroots soccer in this country. The Sun Devils were one of 15 finalists judges selected based on demonstrated team spirit, commu-nity involvement and passion for the game. On Sept. 17, it was announced the team won the contest after garnering 72, 677 votes out of a total of 286,388 nationwide.

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will receive three prizes. The Bank of Montreal is sending the team to Vancouver on Oct. 22 to watch a professional soccer match between the hometown Whitecaps and the Colorado Rapids. The bank is a sponsor of the Whitecaps as well as the Montreal Impact and Toronto FC.

“(The Bank of Montreal is) going to really show the kids a good time there,” Dell’Aquila said. “They’ve got the kids doing just all kinds of different events.”

The bank also made a $5,000 donation to a charity of the team’s choosing. The young team also opted to support domestic sports and decided to give the money to the Canadian Paralympic Foundation.

“We talked about different charities and they thought the paralympic athletes demonstrate determination, commitment and a strong work ethic and these are all the qualities that good athletes have to have,” Dell’Aquila said. “So we though that from athlete to athlete it was a good fit.”

The contest’s grand prize was a cheque for $125,000 to go toward a new field or field refurbishment. Currently, the Glen Shields Soc-cer Club plays matches on 27 different pitches throughout Vaughan, Thornhill and Concord.

According to Dell’Aquila, the club plans to build a new turf field near the Racco Parkway and is seeking approval of city coun-cil.

“The idea of the contest is to further support soccer in Cana-da so that’s going to be a permanent improve-ment to a community,” said Susan Bundy, director of corporate sponsorships with the Bank of Montreal.

In order to gain enough votes to win these prizes though, the Sun Devil girls campaigned harder than some political candidates do.

“These girls, they were so imaginative with promoting themselves and the team and going out into the community and asking for sup-port,” Bundy said.

The Sun Devils organized a blitz of busy businesses in Vaughan including Wonderland, Vaughan Mills Mall, Wal-Mart as well as local coffee shops and grocery stores. The players were also involved in several charitable activi-ties such as the Peace Tree program and the Vaughan in Motion walk for cancer.

Although they have already won this year’s contest, the girls are planning to continue their philanthropy by volunteering at the Villa Columbo long-term care facility.

“We said that we were going to go in there and clean their buses for them so that’s some-thing that we’d like to do,” Dell’Aquila said.

The coach said the team’s work in the com-munity was a rewarding and valuable experi-ence for his players, but none of it would have been possible if it were not for the enthusiasm of their parents.

“The parents are leading the way and the kids are following,” he said. “I’m very pleased that when we presented all this to the mothers and fathers of the girls on the team they were all very receptive to it and they’ve been sup-portive.”

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The community rallied and halted an extension to what is now known as Allen Road.

Rai pointed out Toronto hasn’t built a highway since then, and the city hasfocused on expanding public transit.

“The source of the problem is you built the city car with dependency,” he said. “You have to draw a line in the sand.”

Niro says he’s not convinced public tran-sit or toll roads on their own are the answer in Vaughan.

“The only way to control congestion on a road is to put a toll on that road but that doesn’t help the bigger situation because people just won’t use that road,” he said. “(Highway) 407 is a perfect example. It’s always empty.”

Niro said the first step is to change the behav-iour in Vaughan, steering people away from their cars with several options for transportation.

“The corridor will not solve the current traffic problem by itself, he said “It’s a piece of a larger solution that includes public transit and changes to infrastructure.”

Vaughan’s Official Plan, an extensive and com-prehensive document detailing the city’s growth strategy, calls for all those things. Niro says the problem is they just didn’t start planning for it soon enough.

But Bevilacqua says it’s never too late for Vaughan to become an entrepreneurial hub and it’s

in the province’s best interest to support growth in the region.

“We have a deficit in infrastructure and this is something the province needs to make up very seriously,” he said. “We’re in a strategic posi-tion to generate jobs for the province. This is an entrepreneurial city and Vaughan’s voice is very important.”

Part of being an “entrepreneurial city” means an increase in traffic, both in business and on the road.

“I don’t mind that 14 to 16 million people visit Vaughan Mills (Shopping Centre) and are exposed to the city of Vaughan,” he said. “Frankly it’s flat-tering.

“But as long as people move and don’t live their lives in one particular area, we will always have travel,” he continued.

“It’s unreasonable for us to think that somehow we are exempt from North American space. We need to have an economy that has people mov-ing.”

Keeping people moving is exactly what Niro hopes will happen once the corridor is built and the City of Vaughan has caught up with where it needs to be in infrastructure.

“There will be impacts to everybody,” he said about the corridor.

“We can only move forward and avoid making the same mistake twice.”

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