2009 KARA DIRECTORS

KARA MEETING

BRIEFS

COMMUNITY SPOT-

LIGHT: VAUGHAN

HEALTH CAMPUS

OF CARE

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KARA ACTION CORNER

THOUGHTS ON

ANONYMITY

‘ACTION SITE’ ON

THE EAST HUMBER

WALKING TOUR

BOOKLET COUPON

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COMMUNITY

EVENTS AND CLUBS

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In this issue:

www.KARA-inc.ca June 2009

K L E I N B U R G A N D A R E A R A T E P AY E R S ’ A S S O C I A T I O N

The SPIRITThe SPIRITKARA® — community volunteers working on behalf of Kleinburg, Nashville, Purpleville and area residents

SPRING CLEAN UP RESCHEDULED!!!

KLEINBURG NEW FOREST(North-East Corner Major Mack/Islington)

Thursday JUNE 4th7:00 p.m. — 8:30 p.m.

BRING YOUR RAKES, GLOVES, & BOOTS!

Refreshments Served!

Fun for the

whole family!

Student Volunteer Hours Available!

Help Keep

our Forest

Beautiful!

For more information call:Betty Silver, Event Coordinator

905-893-1910

CALLING CARING

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS!

Come join us and have some fun

helping to improve our beautiful communities!

The following KARA committees

are seeking volunteers:

Vision and Events

Green Space and Heritage

Send your email to-kara@kara-inc.ca

event planning, marketing and sales, and information technol-ogy systems. Here are your eighteen 2009/2010 directors:Kathryn Angus 905-893-1333Tim Arnott 905-893-0794Anna Bortolus 905-893-3539David Brand 905-893-1254Diana Chari 905-893-9946Iain Craig 905-893-1323Bob Klein 905-893-1765

KARA’s volunteer board is made up of your friends and neighbours with representation from each Kleinburg and Nashville area. These volunteers give freely of their time solely for the benefit of our communities. The pro-fessional expertise on the KARA Board is extensive: teaching, real es-tate, law, transportation planning, en-gineering, administration, business, entrepreneurship, banking, health, safety and environmental protection,

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Introducing Your 2009 KARA Directors:Albert LaRocca 905-893-3204Michael Mancini 905-893-0949John McMahon 905-893-3014Ian Mitchell 905-893-1738Ken Nieuwhof 905-893-1948Sid Preece 905-893-3807Donna Rotondo 905-893-7555Ken Schwenger 905-893-0929Betty Silver 905-893-1910Claudio Travierso 905-893-3655Marie-Louise Wcislo 416-435-7547

Highlights from KARA’s Board Meet-ing on May 21: KARA held our second annual Tellers Committee Appreciation Dinner for our 2009 AGM volunteers from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Thanks to Mirella Zeppieri for donating a deli-cious lasagna and to KARA directors for their culinary contributions! Kleinburg New Forest Spring

Clean Up is rescheduled for Thursday June 4th from 7:00-8:30 p.m. as our May 10th day was cancelled due to inclement weather. KARA sent a letter and pro-vided a deputation in support of the Vaughan Campus of Care to the City of Vaughan for the Spe-cial Budget Meeting held on April 27th. It was well-received. A Membership Committee

has been created by KARA to undertake a yearly plan to in-crease our membership. David Brand will chair this committee. Director Iain Craig reported that the TRCA will be desig-nating a large part of the Hum-ber watershed in Vaughan a “Community Action Site”. KARA continues to seek sponsorship opportunities from local businesses.

How many of us in Kleinburg and area have had to face an anxious trip to a hospital only to ask ourselves which one should we go to? How bad is the traffic? How sick is my pre-cious child, parent or spouse? How long will we wait to be seen? These worries will hopefully be behind us in a few short years thanks to the passion, commitment and heart of the staff and volunteer Board of the Vaughan Health Campus of Care(VHCC) and Vaughan Health Care Foundation(VHCF) and their exten-sive efforts to bring a hospital to Vaughan- now the largest City in Can-ada without one. “We continue to make great strides towards reaching our goal. This is truly a momentous accomplishment which will propel us forward through the next planning stages.” said Mi-chael DeGasperis, Chair of the VHCC and VHCF as Vaughan’s Committee of the Whole last week voted unani-mously in favour of the financial sup-port necessary for the local share of building a new hospital at the pro-posed site at Hwy 400 and Major Mackenzie across from Canada’s

Wonderland. The 80 million dollars (or $60 per average Vaughan household per year) represents part of the municipal funding required by the Province. Local communities are expected to pay 100% of purchas-ing land, and funding furniture, fixture, and equipment costs for new facilities while the Province pays for 90% of the construction capital. The VHCF was incorporated in 2004 and they’ve been single-minded in their health care campus vision ever since! This volunteer Board has shepherded a compre-hensive process to date which in-cludes health services needs assess-ments, stakeholder negotiations with the Province and Local Health Integration Network, extensive community consultations, opening of the Vaughan Community Health Centre in Maple, and an externally-reviewed professional site selection process. With the local funding in place they can now move on to the Prov-ince’s requirements for the Master

Program and Plan for the hospital site. “This is where we build our community’s vision for better health care from the ground up. The time has arrived where our vision will take shape and become reality” expresses DeGasperis. While they are off and running on their next task, Michael De-Gasperis isn’t too busy to say thanks to the local community and community groups, including KARA, who came out in force to support the Campus of Care “We’re very grateful to the com-munity and our elected represen-tatives for such a strong show of support for this initiative. Resi-dents recognize that a hospital for Vaughan is an extremely impor-tant investment in our future.” Five or so years from now, when our trip to our local hospital is 6 minutes instead of 22 minutes or even 60 minutes away, we’ll be shedding tears of joy for lives saved thanks to the efforts of vol-unteers like these in our commu-nity. THANK YOU VHCC AND VHCF!

Community Spotlight: Vaughan Health Campus of Care

KARA Meeting Briefs

Vaughan Health Care Foundation’s Volunteer Board Executive (L-R)Steven Del Duca, Michael DeGasperis, Quinto Anni-bale, Louis Greenbaum, and Robert Bradbury

We thank you!

KARA’s 2009 AGM

Think of the most important docu-ments in your life—sealed by your signature; your wedding contract, home purchase, latest job offer, or last will and testament. When you sign your signature it is your commit-ment that you stand behind the words you have just written or the contract you have just signed, knowing that your honour depends on it. So what is the value of a signed document? It tells the reader who created it and thus helps the reader understand potential underlying per-spectives. It says to the reader that the writer might have to substantiate his or her claims, if necessary in a court of law. What about anonymous communi-cations? Anonymous communica-tions rob the reader of context. All sorts of things might be said without the fear of accountability or responsi-bility. Imagine if you yourself were the target of an anonymous posting or flyer, where someone libelled you and made false accusations against you. It wouldn’t be fair, but unfortu-nately there would be precious little you could do about it. Post Office policy is they don’t “censor” the mail. Forums in on-line newspapers are filled with anony-mous people posting comments with-out fear of reprisal. As for KARA’s communications, you know where they come from–community volunteers working on behalf of local residents. KARA stands behind what is done and said in its name. We do our best to foster community spirit and engagement, and to provide accurate and timely information that we hope is of inter-est to you!

Summary of some of the activities carried out by your volunteer KARA Directors dur-ing April and May:April 6:OMB Hearing City Hall– PostponedApril 7: Meeting with Hill AcademyApril 14: Ward Boundaries City HallApril 15: Development Committee Mtg.April 16 : KARA Board MeetingApril 21: Old Boys Interview and PhotoApril 27: Deputation at City Hall in sup-port of the Vaughan Campus of CareApril 29: Pierre Berton Committee MtgMay 4(week of): Preparation for Clean-

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Up at Kleinburg New ForestMay 9: Pierre Berton Discovery Centre discussion at Kline HouseMay 9: Meeting at Binder Twine Park with Tennis Club and CityMay 10: Spring Clean Up Day Post-poned until June 4th at 7 p.m. due to inclement weatherMay 21: KARA Tellers Committee Appreciation Dinner at Kline HouseMay 21: KARA Board MeetingMay 25: Pierre Berton Com. MtgMay 29: Publish June “The Spirit”

KARA Action Corner

Kleinburg and Area Residentsare invited to obtain A Free Copy of the new

‘A Walking Tour of Kleinburg’ Booklet

Exchange this coupon from May 21 to June 21for your free copy ($4.95 Value) at one of the following merchants:

Artista, Hawthorne House, Here’s My Baby, Kleinburg Pharmacy, Violets and Dahlias

Learn about the history of Kleinburg by reading this book.This is a Kleinburg Old Boys Project. One free copy per household , please.

Name: _______________________________ Address: ____________________________________

Community Action Sites, estab-lished by the Toronto and Region Con-servation Authority, are specific loca-tions of environmental interest, where community partners focus resources to achieve common objectives. A proposal presented to several TRCA staff members, to establish a large Community Action Site on the East Humber River, has been given the approval to proceed. The area in ques-tion would include the East Humber River valley, and some associated ta-bleland, from the King-Vaughan Townline, down the East Humber to Pine Grove. This Action Site would include Kortright and Boyd Park. Over the past decade, a small group of Kleinburg and area residents have been concerned with what is, and what is not, happening in the East Humber River valley. Some of the issues, or areas of concern, are minor - naming new bridges over the East Humber, for example. Several of the issues are of real concern to area residents – transfer-ring the ‘right of way’ through Boyd Park from the City of Vaughan to the

TRCA, completing the William Granger Greenway south into Boyd Park, completing the Pierre and Janet Berton Trail in Boyd Park, etc. It seems that there are too few people, and a growing list of items that we, as residents, need to be concerned about. Our list of issues has grown to 16. The East Humber River Valley is perhaps the last, and largest green space in Vaughan. It needs protection as urban sprawl gobbles up open space. If you are concerned, and would like to be involved, there is a meet-ing at the Kortright Centre on June 17 – exact time has not been set (but it probably will be about 7 p.m.). This is a public meeting to establish our next steps. We will need people to be on committees, and we will need people who will be willing to come out and do some fieldwork. If you need more information, you can call Iain Craig 905-893-1323, or e-mail craigers@rogers.com

Thoughts on Anonymity

“ACTION SITE” on the East HUMBER

REMINDER!OMB

HEARING REGARDINGPROPOSED

CONDO COMPLEX AT 10360/10384

ISLINGTON

POSTPONED UNTIL

AUGUST 31st at 10:30 a.m.

at CITY HALLCOUNCIL

CHAMBERS

East Humber River

Kleinburg and Area Ratepayers’ Association Inc.PO Box 202Kleinburg, ON, L0J 1C0

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The KARA Board generally meets on the third Thursday of each month in Kline House, 8 Nashville Road, at 7:00 p.m. If you would like to attend, or make a presentation, this can be arranged with the courtesy of a request in advance.

Local organizations are invited to submit material for publication in the Community Events and Community Clubs sections. Please include the name and phone number of a contact for follow up. Material will be edited to suit the newsletter and cannot be returned.

Do you have community news? Let us know and, if space permits, we will include it.

Next Issue: August 2009Submission deadline: July 15, 2008Email to: KARA@kara-inc.ca

Published by: KARA® - Klein-burg and Area Ratepayers’ Association Inc.

Kleinburg Euchre GroupWe play on Fridays at 7:30 pm. in Kleinburg United Church basement. Beginners especially welcome! Cost $2.00. Kleinburg Church Women Please join us on Tuesday June 9th for a tour of the old Ebenezer Pioneer Chapel. We will meet at 7 p.m. in the Kleinburg United Church parking lot to carpool to the Old Chapel, located at the south-east corner of Gore Road and Ebenezer Road. Our tour begins at 7:30 p.m. The Kleinburg Church Women is a community organization and everyone is wel-come. For more information, please contact Lorna Stairs (Secretary, KCW) at 905-893-1488Annual Binder Twine Festival Raffle QuiltComing soon to Jeremy's is this year's Binder Twine Festival Raffle Quilt. This year's queen size Raffle Quilt is a 'Great Grandmas' themed sampler. We are paying to tribute to all our Grandmothers, especially those who taught us how to sew and quilt and also for the Grandmas who have a favourite quilt square pattern. The quilt's colours are pink, burgundy and green. The annual raffle quilt is made with the entries from last year's Quilt Square Contest (www.bindertwine.ca) and quilted by the Nobleton United Church Quilters. Tickets for the raffle quilt are also avail-able at participating Kleinburg Merchants for $2.00 each or 3 for $5.00.Kleinburg Binder Twine Festival - Quilt Square ContestFabric bundles and information sheets for this year's Quilt Square Contest are available for pick-up from the Kleinburg Public Library by May 1st, during regular business hours. This year's fabric selection is Christmas themed in the traditional colours of green, white and red. Categories for the annual Quilt Square Contest are; Pieced, Appliquéand Pieced & Appliqué. This year's additional category is Christmas. The due date for completed quilt squares is Saturday August 15th. Quilt square entries will be judged and prizes will be awarded for the top four squares in each category. For more information contact Norma Curtis (905.893.1382).

Community Events and Clubs

Gallery Open 10-4 p.m. Daily. Call 905-893-1121 x 2228 to register for all programsCurrent Exhibitions:Yousuf Karsh-Industrial Images– Until June 28‘Karshed’: Yousuf Karsh Selected Portraits-Until June 28A Brush with War: Military Art from Korea to Af-ghanistan Until June 14The Arctic Image-Until June 7, 2009Child’s Play– Until September 27, 2009Upcoming Exhibitions:Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast-June 27-Sep10Charles Pachter and Margaret Atwood: The Jour-nals of Susanna Moodie—July 18-Oct11Diana Thorneycroft:Canada Myth and History– July 18-Nov 29Public Programs: Call to registerAdult Programs and Tours:June 21– Canadian Stories-The Art of First PeoplesJune 28-Artchat– Pere Raquette-Travels with A.Y. JacksonSunday Concert Series:June 7– Veronique Mathieu, VoilinistJune 21– Barbara Fris, SopranoFamily Sunday:June 14– Summer Magic– Experience the magic of summer– Poynter Family will dazzle the audience with magic and comedy show.Canada Day: Special Exhibition Opening Cele-bration—Join us as we celebrate Canada Day and the opening of our blockbuster summer exhibition-Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast.ArtVenture Summer Art Camp:July 6– August 21, 2009Register your child ages 4-15 for our summer art camp. Visit www.mcmichael.com for the registration form and details.

Thank you to the 2008/09 Sponsors of The Spirit:KARA®, Kleinburg and Area Binder Twine Festival Committee, Avenue Market Café*, Barrett's Garden Cen-tre*, Chartreuse Restaurant, Hawthorne House, Kalthoff Decorators*, Kleinburg Pharmacy*, McMichael Cana-dian Art Collection, Royal Bank Financial Group, The Doctor’s House (* denotes new sponsors for 2008/09)

McMichael Canadian Art Collection

6th Annual Child Find Fingerprint and Identification Day!Free Kid’s ID Kits/ BBQ/Face Painting/Loot Bags

Saturday June 13th 11a.m.– 3 p.m.Location: Re/Max West Realty Inc.

#9-1 Queensgate Blvd, Bolton (Shoppers Drug Mart Plaza)