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Municipal politicians from across the prov-ince were in Markham Saturday for a summit on Ontario Municipal Board reform.
The pending provincial review of the OMB has spurred municipalities to voice their hope for change in the process. More than 80 have
passed motions on OMB reform.“Many of us are frustrated by the lack of pre-
dictability in land use planning,” organizer and Aurora Councillor Tom Mrakas said. “We never know if a municipal council decision will stand or be appealed and overturned at the OMB.”
A spirited roundtable discussion at the event included former mayor of Kingston and Chair
of the OMB Helen Cooper, author of A Law unto Itself, John Chipman, York Region chief planner, Valerie Shuttleworth, Aird and Berlis municipal and land use planning lawyer Leo Longo, Keith West from the Preserve Glenway Association and CEO of Ontario Home Builders
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Adam Wylde places the captain’s ‘C’ on organizer Sasky Stewart of the Clarkson Cupcakes as the Canadian Women’s Hockey League hosted a Pave The WayBall Hockey tournament at Angus Glen Community Centre in support of women’s hockey and the CWHL’s initiatives to #GrowThe-Game for the next generation of hockey hero-ines. See more, page 31.
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Residents in the southeast area of Markham will have to wait another year before enjoy-ing services at the state-of-the art southeast community centre and library.
The facility – at the southeast corner of Middlefield Road and 14th Avenue – was initially sched-uled to open last fall, but now it’s not expected to open until June 2017.
The city hosted a ground break-ing ceremony in 2013, said Coun-cillor Logan Kanapathi, in whose ward the centre is located.
After the ground-breaking cer-emony, the project was temporar-ily put on hold as a result of the December 2013 ice storm.
“Ever since, there has been a great expectation for this facility,” Kanapathi said. “Local youth who started high school are already graduating without seeing this facility. They have been waiting for this facility year after year.”
Now the centre will not be com-plete until June 2017 with city pro-graming starting in the fall.
The city’s project manager, Gary Adamkowski agreed it’s not good news. “It’s like my golf swing, with
a long trajectory.”According to a city staff report
discussed this week during general committee and again at council, construction is about three-quar-ters complete.
The complicated, unique roof design, along with weather and soil testing, were major contributing factors to the delay.
The roof is an irregular shape that sits on the outer shell so the laminated wood beams in intricate triangular patterns are exposed to the interior of the building.
Work is being done to com-plete the outer wall and ensure it is watertight before work on the interior can start.
Along with construction delays, there is also a $2.5-million con-struction shortfall, which coun-cil approved to fund from city reserves.
Initially, the construction bud-get for the new facility was set at $66.5 million, but after the tender process the budget was reduced to $63.2 million.
The additional $2.5 million will be added to the project’s contin-gency fund, which still puts the project under the initial budget.
More than 80 per cent of the initial $2.38 million contingency
fund has been spent to date, Adamkowski said. “The contractor is burning contingency funds at a high rate. This magnitude far exceeded our expectations.”
Co-ordination with sub-trades, more than 200 change order requests, design changes, unknown site conditions, product substitutions and erection com-plexities contributed to high contingency spending.
Several councillors questioned why the city would foot the bill for contractor issues, such as lack of co-ordination between sub-trades. They debated the issue in an in-camera session at both general commit-tee and later again in council.
Council emerged from its in camera session after midnight Tuesday.
Soil, weather, intricate roof delay city’s new community centre
Construction on the Southeast Community Centre has been delayed by about two years, city says. STAFF PHOTO/MIKE BARRETT
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there is a sense of accountability in Islam that after we die, before we go to either heaven or hell, that God will account for us,” he said.
“Death challenges us to morally elevate ourselves above our mun-dane existence because death is connected to accountability.”
It is important for people of dif-ferent faiths to come together to talk about meaningful issues such as death, Natalie Doucet, a pastoral associate at St. Luke’s said.
“In a world defined by pluralism, the need for interfaith dialogue is now greater than ever. A true dia-logue is aimed at gaining under-standing and acceptance in spite of differences of opinion and convic-tions,” she said.
“Genuine dialogue leaves itself open to other people’s views, while, at the same time, exploring our common ground and building on that. I believe that events such as the one we are having today pro-motes genuine dialogue and is one of the most effective weapons in the struggle against ignorance, preju-dice, intolerance and fanaticism…In the end, we are one human fam-ily under God.”
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FORM 6 | Municipal Act, 2001
SALE OF LAND BY PUBLIC TENDERTHE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF MARKHAM
Take Notice that tenders are invited for the purchase ofthe lands described below and will be received until 3:00p.m. local time on June 8, 2016, at the Clerk’s Department,City of MarkhamMunicipal Office, Main Level, 101 TownCentre Blvd., Markham Ontario.
The tenders will then be opened in public on the same dayas soon as possible after 3:00 p.m. at the City of MarkhamMunicipal Office, 101 Town Centre Blvd., Markham.
Description of Lands:Roll No. 19 36 020 136 60640 0000; PIN 03047-0723(LT);Block 70, Plan 65M3459; Markham; File No. 14-32
Minimum Tender Amount: $8,291.57
Roll No. 19 36 020 111 24000 0000; Steelcase Rd W,Markham; PIN 03004-0024(LT); Parcel S-1 Section M1707;Block S Plan M1707; S/T MA90250; S/T LA603664 Markham;File No. 14-70
Minimum Tender Amount: $8,566.49
Tenders must be submitted in the prescribed form andmust be accompanied by a deposit in the form of a moneyorder or of a bank draft or cheque certified by a bankor trust corporation payable to the municipality andrepresenting at least 20 per cent of the tender amount.
Except as follows, themunicipality makes norepresentation regarding the title to or anyother matters relating to the lands to be sold.Responsibility for ascertaining thesematters restswith the potential purchasers.
This sale is governed by the Municipal Act, 2001 andthe Municipal Tax Sales Rules made under that Act. Thesuccessful purchaser will be required to pay the amounttendered plus accumulated taxes, HST if applicable and therelevant land transfer tax.
The municipality has no obligation to provide vacantpossession to the successful purchaser.
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BY LISA [email protected]
Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
That provocative issue was part of an interfaith discussion, at times purposeful and other times lighthearted, exploring the mean-ing of death and immortality from the perspective of Christian, Jewish and Muslim religions.
Hosted by Mosaic Interfaith, a group of York Region residents of many religions including Christi-anity, Judaism, Islam, Sikhism and Zoroastrianism, and the Organiza-tion for Islamic Learning, the event Monday night at St. Luke’s Catholic Church in Thornhill included about 100 people of all faiths.
It featured guest speakers Rabbi Michael Stroh, rabbi emeritus with Temple Har Zion, Rev. Canon John Hill, a presbyter with the Anglican Archdiocese of Toronto, and pro-fessor Liyakat Takim, the Sharjah Chair in Global Islam at McMaster University.
Death and immortality are issues that touch a nerve with people like no other, Stroh said.
“There is no other topic that raises as much anxiety and ambiv-alence other than a discussion of death,” he said.
“We all find ourselves in a battle of the forces of life against the forces of death… There is a tragic dimen-sion to life because, at least appar-ently, death always wins. Everybody and everything dies.”
The discussion comes as York leaders try to address the issue of what to do about the region’s dead.
About 232,000 York residents will die over the next quarter century.
While there is enough cemetery land overall to accommodate them, a cemetery needs analysis by con-sultant LEES + Associates Architects and Planners flagged a number of concerns.
Newmarket is in urgent need of new cemetery lands. Georgi-na, East Gwillimbury, Aurora and Richmond Hill will soon reach a critical stage, according to the report, which some in the cemetery industry praised as possibly the first municipal comprehensive review of cemetery lands in Canada.
Some religious communities, notably Roman Catholics, are run-ning out of dedicated cemetery lands, the analysis said.
Adding to the pressure is the fact Toronto is running out of graveyard space and more residents will have to be buried outside the city.
Given the fact it takes more than a decade to locate land, get approvals and build a new cem-etery, experts in the field are grow-ing increasingly concerned about
running out of graveyards.While experts have praised the
region for taking the lead on the issues, they have also expressed frustration towns don’t plan for cemeteries as they do with houses, hospitals, schools, recreations cen-tres and other amenities that sup-port growing communities.
Because graveyards don’t pay property taxes, cemeteries aren’t welcome the same way other types of development are, they said.
As far as we know, humans are the only living creatures aware of our mortality, Stroh told the audi-ence Monday night.
There is “a naïve certainty
that when we die, our life
will simply carry on in
some new, comfortable,
resort-like setting, accom-
panied by relatives, at
least the ones we like, and
perhaps a pet dog…It’s
painful, in fact, to imagine
the end of relationships.
It’s difficult to imagine
simply ceasing to exist.”
“Everything that we do is shaped in the face of death. Death is not something that happens at the end, we’re always conscious of it. That’s why we take out insurance, that’s why we look when we cross the street,” he said.
Do concepts of the afterlife change things.
“If you believe that in some way you will live forever, does that remove the tragedy of death? Does it become OK?”
People experience an enduring sense of longing on Earth at what we are missing here and what is hinted at after we die, Hill said.
“Heaven is not actually another
place like a distant galaxy…Heaven is where God dwells eternally…We like to hijack the notion of heaven and turn it into a place of wish ful-fillment,” he said.
“It also turns into a contrivance for denial, our mortality. This com-monly takes the form of a naïve certainty that when we die, our life will simply carry on in some new, comfortable, resort-like setting, accompanied by relatives, at least the ones we like, and perhaps a pet dog…It’s painful, in fact, to imagine the end of relationships. It’s difficult to imagine simply ceasing to exist.”
We are mortal, made of dust and to dust we shall return, Hill said.
“Only trust in God can really quell our fears of death. Mere spec-ulations about heaven are a pretty flimsy foundation for hope,” he said. “For Jesus, heaven was cer-tainly not a place to escape to while this world goes to hell in a hand basket.”
However, over the centuries , the Christian church has hijacked the idea of heaven by using it as an instrument of control, Hill said.
“When the Jesus movement became part of the establishment,
the hope of heaven and the fear of hell became the perfect tool for terrifying people into conformity,” he said. “‘Unless you believe what the church teaches and do what the church commands, you’re going to hell.’ Of course, nobody could prove that, but, then again, nobody could disprove it either, which made it a perfect tool for social dominance.”
The most important thing that Christians learned from Jesus is how to die because He died coura-geously, trusting that the sacrifice of His life would unlock the prison of fear in which humanity is locked, Hill said.
For Muslims, death is not extinc-tion, but an alternate state of being, Takim said.
When someone dies, the first words Muslims say is “From God we come and to Him we shall return. That is meaning a return from where we came,” he said.
The Qur’an sees death as an encounter, not with God, but with angels, Takim said.
“Death is a continuation of life in a different form. The reference and reminders of death are sim-ply to take death seriously because
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
MPP should weigh in on serious subjects
Re: Milestones marked at schools in our community, column by MPP Dr. Helena Jaczek, May 5.
Mine wouldn’t be the first letter to the editor suggest-ing the Economist and Sun stop providing a platform for Oak Ridges-Markham MPP Helena Jaczek for her self-promoting fluff pieces in your paper.
Instead I would encour-age allowing Dr. Jaczek the occasional article if you insist she discuss the real issues and concerns of the people living in this riding.
Should Dr. Jaczek have writer’s block on what these may be, I offer the following topics as consideration for her next article.
Dr. Jaczek could explain why she has always remained mute and ultimately com-plicit in each and every scandal the Liberal Party of Ontario has inflicted on the
people of Ontario. Does she not feel as
equally disgusted as her constituents with the stench in the Ontario Legislature to do something about it?
I would be keen to have her explain why our elec-tricity bills have risen 70 per cent since 2008 with no end in sight?
Perhaps Dr. Jaczek could update everyone on the $242 million spent by her Ministry of Community and Social Services in November 2014 on a problem plagued computer system riddled with serious problems.
I’d certainly be interested in reading if the minister was incompetent or just ignorant of what was going on to have allowed this to occur.
So how about it? If our MPP is prepared to
write about serious subjects, I’m prepared to read them.
Otherwise I’ll just turn to the next page.
Karl GreeneMARKHAM
Housing crisis for seniors, too
How long is too long for an over 70-year-old senior to obtain a subsidized apart-ment in York Region?
A person I know has an annual income of less than $15,000 and a 50 per cent rent [housing subsidy] application was made eight years ago.
Since that time 202 units came about at The Hub, as well as more units in another building on Major Mackenzie Drive East in Richmond Hill.
There is much aware-ness made about homeless youths, but it would seem there is a crisis to provide low-income seniors with affordable accommodation in York.
Dorothy lowRICHMOND HILL
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COLUMN
Bernie O’Neill
Alternative censusinge filled out the census form the other day, that much ballyhooed poll of who lives in
our home, what our relationships are, how we get around, what we do for a living.
Having these stats tallied is considered vitally important for our country’s future. The previous government was much criticized for cutting back on the long-form census, making it voluntary, and so on.
So now all is right with the world and you better answer all those queries from the stats people or else.
While it is so kind of them to ask, did you notice all the really, really looong questions, such as — Is anyone listed in step B a farm operator who produces at least one agricultural product intended for sale? For example, crops, livestock, milk, poultry, eggs, greenhouse or nursery prod-ucts, Christmas trees, sod, honey, bees (odd juxtaposition - honey and/or bees ... or honey bees? Can’t have honey if you don’t have bees!), maple syrup prod-ucts, furs, etc.
So we get it already! A farm product!
Likewise I was relieved to determine what my relationship is with “Person 1 and Person 2”: Opposite-sex husband or wife of Person 1; Son or daughter of both Persons 1 and 2 (it’s like Dr. Seuss! Thing 1 and Thing 2!); Sweetheart, hockey teammate or dentist of Person 3; Off-leash dog park acquaintance of Person 4; Guy who held door at Wendy’s for Person 5.
Yes, I am exaggerating. But some of the questions do seem a little odd.
Personally, if I had my own census to write up, I might have been a little more nosey, to find out how we really feel about each other and the relationships in our lives. Perhaps the government would consider them next time:
Q: When it comes to your use of public transit in York Region, do you travel by:
1. Car2. Pickup truck3. SUV4. Minivan?Q: Fill in the blank. Your cur-
rent employer is...1. Wonderful!2. Probably monitoring my
computer so I can only say so much.
Q: Of all the persons living in your home, who do you wish was actually living there?
1. Not everyone but you don’t want to say who?
2. Is it unkind to single out my mom?
3. Quit “dropping by”. And get your own food and cable! You know who you are.
4. If people wouldn’t flip off their socks all over the place, I would quit wishing they lived on the street.
Q: Which person in the home do you have the deepest feelings for?
1. Confession: I like my grand-kids better than my own kids.
2. Anyone who has a job.3. When you say “person” does
that include cats?Q: Describe your relationship
with your spouse.1. Happily married.2. Happily unmarried.3. Still somewhat happy most
Fridays, every second month dur-ing even numbered years.
4. We live near an LCBO; that helps.
5. Even on good days, I won-der what I saw in him in the first place. On bad days, be afraid. Be very afraid.
6. Every moment together with this person is like having the den-tist drill out a cavity.
So there you have it, folks. The alternative census.
Either way, I hope you have completed your form and I hope the info is useful — to someone. And I hope you have someone you can count on to call on the phone, message on your comput-er, or check off in a box as being your friend.
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We picked these items to feature this week because they travel well, shouldtravelling be in your weekend plans. For some, it will be digging in the garden,but a lot of folk will be cottage-bound. Wherever you are, just don’t forget dessert!
STRAWBERRY-RHUBARB PIES! Allow me to digress a bit; I planted a fair bitof rhubarb at my home last year, and it’s growing like crazy………so watch for it!Anyway, these will be available with a lattice top or crumble, and in either frozen,not yet baked, or freshly baked. Ingredients are the strawberries and rhubarb ofcourse, apples and orange zest, and some flour and sugar! Reg. $12.95 each
QUEEN ELIZABETH CAKE!....this is a butter cake heavy with dates andpecans. Half way though baking, we pierce the surface, top it with a coconut glazeand further bake it till the top is caramelized and the coconut is toasted…..and likea lot of things, it gets better as it ages. There will be two sizes, $14.95 and $24.95
PAN SQUARES in 4 STYLES! The first is Cathy’s request; these aretraditionally known as ‘Matrimonial Squares’, but better known today as DATESQUARES. They were named Matrimonial Squares because they are the perfectmarriage of two items (in this case dates and oats) that exist in delicious harmony.Our date squares are made with a layer of slow-cooked date filling sandwichedbetween layers of buttery oatmeal crumble. Reg. $9.99 The second type thatwe will feature are Topless Brownies. These are our chocolate brownies in theirnatural state without ganache glaze or drizzle. They are super-rich because themain ingredient actually is chocolate, in this case a mix of pure unsweetenedand dark, and further, they are just slightly underbaked, so you have the texturehappening as well…..OMG, I am so hungry right now! Reg. $10.99. The thirdtype are equally decadent…..APRICOT FRANGIAPANE! We start here with abuttery shortbread base, and bake the apricots into an almond butter filling, andthen glaze it just to be sure! Reg. $10.99 as well. And finally, the fourth…..a newS’MORES BAR. We start with a graham crust that has been generously filledwith milk and dark chocolate chunks and loads of marshmallows, and we bake ituntil the marshmallows are nicely toasted golden. This will be regularly $10.99,too! As I write this I am thinking that you will be reading many food ads beforeor after you read this, but you just will not find ‘Homemade” anything like this,or even at all, no matter how the ad-writers would wantyou to think.
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No, these are not made with Moose, but rather thatvenerable Down-East Beer. Best to grill these, andI’m thinking topped with the relish………..and aside order of Moosehead would work well for sure!Reg. $5.99/lb, featured at 25%
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This weekend we’ll be featuring a sandwich thatwe’ve been making since we first moved to ourpresent location and opened the cafe. Our Chickenand Goat Cheese Sandwich is loaded with slices ofCajun roasted chicken breast (we use ‘real’ chicken,not that nondescript loaf ofprotein you might see in otherdelis), crumbled Canadian goatcheese, grilled red peppers, mixedgreens and pesto mayonnaise.
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As is usual, we’ll feature two items from our frozensection this week. Let’s start will our Meatball Soup.What you get here are those small little meat balls,almost every vegetable known to man, and noodles,too. This is a chicken stock-based soup, and it’s hearty.Our second item will be our Chicken and SpinachLasagna in the 8" x 5" foils. Follow the directions here,it will need some warming. Verydelicious! Regulars are $8.95and $17.95, and both will befeatured this week at 25%
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Let's dive right in with our usual Long Weekend Feature, Doreen’sRed Potato and Egg Salad. What you get are new-crop red andwhite potatoes, in this case from Florida, with fresh hard-boiledeggs, celery, herbs, and a mayo-based dressing. Don’t eat thisstraight from the fridge; let it temper a bit before you dive in!Reg. $1.89/100g, and as usual, it will be
We’re still making soup because some evenings can be cool yet, and inthis case we’ve made Cream of Red Lentil Soup. Ingredients are redlentils of course, with sweet onions, carrots, celery, potatoes, turmeric,garlic and butter. Feature price will be
Coming next will be Sweet and Sour Pork. It’s made with diced porkloin, with sweet peppers and onions, pineapple and garlic in a sweet andsour sauce. Feature will be
Next up is a trio of House-Made Sauces, starting with our Pineappleand Rum Salsa, and it’s made with our sweet pineapples, sweet onionsand peppers, pickled red onions, sweet chili sauce, ginger and spices.Next is our Jack Daniels BBQ Sauce, and lastly will be our JerkMarinade Sauce. The deal is
Our SOUS VIDE feature this week will be ourGrilled Beef Tenderloinin a Green Peppercorn Sauce. You know the expression….“if you canboil water, you can have great steak!” Just follow the directions andvoila!....an impressive steak done med-rare. Deal is
Let’s get dressed for the occasion, and this week it will be my BlueCheese Dressing. This is just great on almost any salad, but especiallygood on a grilled Romaine Salad……….directions will be available, butit’s an easy-to-do salad that will get folk talking. 250ml size, feature is
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For this week, we’ll have sliced GOUDA andJARLSBERG to make your burgers exciting, andcrumbled BLUE and crumbled GOAT to makeyour salads equally exciting.It’s all happening at the cheesearea at the front. Reg. $3.99 to$4.49/100g, and they will all befeatured this week at
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These are not the most tender cut that we sell, but they do have flavour, and…since they will be PRIME Grade (best in Canada), they will be more tender andflavourful than any others. You can have these cut either really thick for ‘FamilySteaks’ which are slow-grilled then cut in slices, or individuals…you let us know.Reg. $12.95/lb. Featured at
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If you were to take a chunk of this, slice it lengthwise and take a good look atit, you will definitely see all the ham that we use, but you won’t see the garlicand spices, you’ll have to taste that! Now once you cut this in half, just put iton the grill, just like that, and warm it through, get it onto a bun with Nance’sMustard, and you’ve got a big treat happening. Reg. $1.99/100g, and the deal isand even better, there will be samples!
The store is buzzing with summer items ready to makeour first holiday weekend look and taste delicious. Checkout our new summer placematand tablecloth collections! TheUrban Patio acrylic tablewareand cutlery sets are beautifullyreduced at 25%
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PIZZA PIZZAZZZ!We start with our Jack Daniel’s BBQ Sauce as the base and pile ona mound of our mouth-watering pulled chicken. Then we put somemozzarella on top with peppers and caramelized onions. This is someseriously delicious eating! Featured at
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At this time of the year,Swordfish comes fromCentral America as ours won’tbe ready till mid-summer offNova Scotia. Until then, thisis next-best, but very goodnone-the-less, and if you arehankering for a slice or twoon your newly dusted-off grill,it’s time tojump.Featuredthis weekat
It looks to me that the unruly weather is now behindus and that we are good-to-go. What has arrived are ahuge selection of hanging baskets including some thatwill like more shade, Mandevillas and Diplodenas in a 2’and 3’ height…..many colours including yellow, PassionFlowers in the same size also in a few shades, lots ofsingle Geraniums, a load of Mother Geraniums, the firstfew Patio Pots for the sun, Coleus in splendid colour,one of my faves which are ‘Pentas’, a bright little star-shaped sun-loving flower, a couple hundred Hydrangeas,a selection of perennial grasses, coral bells, and the last lotof the 6” dahlias which grow very nicely in the sun. MoreHerbs will be here on Thursday, more Patio Pots onFriday, and to show you that we have faith in the forecast,we are beginning to plant our gardens here at the store onin earnest on Friday. I get asked many times “who doesyour gardens at the store!”, short answer is the crew fromUnionville Property Care, and especially Theresa.
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We just received three full trucks of plants, including aselection of Non-Stop Begonias both in individual potsand in Hanging Baskets. Many colours to work withhere. Next, our whole garage is full of Hanging Basketsfor sun and shade, many colours, and honestly, the bestthat I have had from this particular grower in 20 years.Amazing! Lastly, another shipment of Hangers in conebaskets, wicker buckets and a few larger as well. Oursidewalk is now officially FULL!SWORDFISH
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poses, the board can be very difficult for municipali-ties and regions to navigate, Shuttleworth said.
“We always have this OMB threat that the big bad developer is holding over our head,” she said. “There is no such thing as a friendly appeal to the board.”
The reality facing munici-palities is Ontario’s growth plan, with its ambitious intensification targets, is going to dramatically change the community, Vacarro said.
“Communties are chang-ing. That’s the mandate,” he said. “(The OMB is needed because of) the inability of politicians to make tough decisions.”
He said there are many examples where local coun-cils go against its own plan-ning staff’s recommenda-tions because it’s unpopular.
It was an unpopular opin-ion in the room full of elected
officials.While there was much
debate at the event, one thing people were able to agree on was that the current form of the OMB is not a palatable solution moving forward.
“We are trying to advo-cate to improve the process,” King Mayor Steve Pellegrini said.
Municipal representatives continually talked about making changes at the OMB so the scales weren’t so tilted in the developers’ favour.
“It’s not on a level playing field right now,” Markham Ward 4 Councillor Karen Rea said.
Shuttleworth talked about the frustration from a plan-ner’s perspective, especially in regards to a municipal-ity’s Official Plan. So much consultation and work goes into forming an official plan, yet even after it’s passed by the province, it’s constantly appealed to OMB by devel-opers.
There was broad support from the assembled crowd to bring back the sanctity of the Official Plan. For Pellegrini
it was the most important issue moving forward. “If there is an approved Official Plan it should not be appeal-able to OMB,” he said.
If developers want to make changes they should have to make them in the consultation phases, Pel-legrini said. “Once it’s passed then it’s done.”
This would bring more predictability to the pro-cess for residents and local council, he said. The high density housing area in town wouldn’t all of sudden change.
Other suggestions from the group included enhanc-ing mediation before a hear-ing occurs, having more qualified board members and recognizing the need for a different process for large and small municipalities.
A working group is tak-ing all the suggestions from the weekend summit to work towards recommendations for the province to try and change the system.
“We are elected official who all feel passion about this issue,” Mrakas said.
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Led by artist/educator Jessica Deng, hands-on workshop celebrates Asian Heritage Month and Varley Art Gallery exhibition Visualizing a Culture for Strangers: Chinese Export Paint-ings from 19th Century. $10. Materials incl. 7 to 9 p.m. Angus Glen Library. www.econnect.markham.ca use EZ Reg Barcode 290098.
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MAY 29openInG reCeptIon For eXHIBItIonSOpening remarks and refreshments for sum-
mer exhibition season at Varley Art Gallery (216 Main St., Unionville). “Visualizing a Cul-ture for Strangers: Export Paintings from the 19th Century” and “On Your Mark: F.H. Varley, Ed Pien, Kate Wilson”. 2 to 4 p.m. Free admis-sion. Artist talk by Ed Pien, whose work is in “On Your Mark” 1 to 2 p.m. Free admission. Call 905-477-7000 for more information.
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You can soon help aban-doned cats while you shop.
The Markham animal advisory committee is host-ing an online auction to help support the Cat Adoption and Education Centre (CAEC).
The city’s cat adoption centre opened earlier this year in the Thornhill Commu-
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Four men, including one with a gun, robbed a Markham gas station May 13.
At about 2:45 a.m., the suspects entered the station, in the area of Major Mackenzie Drive East and Markham Road, and one of them pointed a silver handgun at the employee, demanding cash from the till.
Another suspect remained at the door, while the other two stole other items from the store.
The suspects fled with cash, cigarettes and food.
The employee was not physically injured.All of the suspects are black males. One is
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Suspect No. 3 is also described as thin and was wearing a black hoodie, black pants and black gloves.
Suspect No. 4 is described as thin and was wearing a black hoodie, sweat pants, white shoes and black gloves.
Anyone with information is asked to con-tact the York Regional Police Hold-Up Unit at 1-866-876-5423, ext. 6631, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS, by leaving an anonymous tip online at 1800222tips.com, or by texting the tip to CRIMES (274637) starting with the word YORK.
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Karen Merk, LPPOC, PMP, and award winning York Region photographer, recog-nized 11 outstanding leaders from York Region for their contribution in giving back to their local community.
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Fireside Lounge from May 6 to 27.
The exhibit will continue to travel across York Region until November.
An award-winning phi-lanthropist, Bell understands the true value of giving back.
Having worked in the hos-pitality business, Bell earned a reputation for being a hands-on owner with a cus-tomer-focused approach.
He brought those skills and focus to his work with the Markham Stouffville
Hospital Foundation where he serves as director, com-munity relations and corpo-rate sponsorship.
Having been touched by clients who were diag-nosed with breast cancer, Bell became involved in a fundraising golf tourna-ment, benefiting Markham Stouffville Hospital.
People began to take note of his passion and commit-ment and soon after he was approached by the organiz-ers of CIBC Celebration of
Hope where he continues to contrib-ute his contagious energy to help-ing raise funds and awareness to support the Canadian Breast Cancer Association.
With the success of Celebration of Hope and Bell’s commitment to the cause, in 2006 the Markham Stouffville Hospital realized their vision of a new Breast Health Cen-tre.
In 2012, Bell was the recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee for his significant contribution to the com-munity.
Bell continues to devote his life to supporting breast cancer initiatives in memory of his sister and her brave struggle with breast cancer.
Bell strongly believes that his background in hospitality is what lead him to where he is today.
Bell’s passion for improving health care for his community and the ones he loves is evident to everyone who works with him.
Portraits of Giving is on display at the Markham Village Library, 6031 Hwy. 7, featuring inspiring portraits and stories, by photographer Merk and writer Melony Teague.
Part of the proceeds from this year’s Portraits of Giving initiative are being donated to our York Region Hospitals: Southlake Regional Health Centre, Mackenzie Health and Markham Stouffville Hospital.
Portraits of Giving exhibit celebrates healthcare advocate
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Application is open and to be done online, through the Infiniti Engineering Academy website, to apply to be a part of the class of 2016, visit http://academy.infiniti.com.
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Camaro ZL1’s Hydra-Matic transmission is a ‘Perfect 10’With faster upshifts than a dual-clutch transmission and a wider overall gear ratio spread to optimize performance and efficiency, the all-new available Hydra-Matic 10-speed automatic transmission sets a new performance standard in the 2017 Camaro ZL1 and raises the bar for the segment.
The ZL1 is expected to be the first volume pro-duction car to offer a 10-speed automatic.
It builds on the established legacy of Hydra-Mat-ic eight-speed transmission family offered on other Gen Six Camaro models, to deliver higher thresh-
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are due primarily to the 10-speed’s wider 7.39 overall gear ratio spread, which enhances off-the-line performance with an aggressive first gear ratio of 4.70.
Smaller steps between the gears also help the engine maintain the optimal speed for maximum power at almost all vehicle speeds, especially when exiting a corner on a track.
Chevrolet testing has shown the ZL1 with the
available 10-speed has faster shift times than the Porsche PDK dual-clutch transmission.
In fact, the 1-2 upshift is 36 per cent quicker than the PDK, while the 2-3 and 3-4 upshifts are 27 per cent and 26 per cent quicker, respectively.
Hundreds of hours were spent integrating the 10-speed’s shift performance with the unique power band of the ZL1’s supercharged 6.2-litre LT4 engine, which is estimated at 640 hp and 640 lb/ft of torque.
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Five plants that grow anywhereEvery region in North America has its own specific weather quirk, whether it’s freezing winters, scorch-ing summers or heavy rainfall. It can be a daunting task to plan a garden when Mother Nature is so unpredic table, so here are some plants that will sur-vive every season’s tests.
1. PeoniesYou could forget entirely about these beauties in
your garden and they’d still probably find their way back year after year. Even if mould or weather gets the best of them in the summer, you can still expect an encore next spring.
2. HollyHolly is often associated with Christmas time,
and for good reason: it looks great all winter! With more than 400 varie ties, you’re sure to find a type of this berry-yielding plant that suits your garden.
3. DayliliesThese cheerful yellow flowers can withstand ex-
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These perennial bulbs are very easy to grow and care for. There are endless varieties, and thus tulips can be grown in many different colours and sizes. Gardeners delight in picking their hardy spring flowers. Plant bulbs in the fall and enjoy the show for many years to come!
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Here’s good news if you’re planning on putting your house up for sale.
The average price of a resale home in York Region increased by 13.5 per cent in 2015 to $777,927, Paul Bot-tomley, York Region’s man-ager of policy, research and planning in the economic development department, said during a presentation on the state of the region’s economy.
That has jumped from $491,883 for the average resale home only five years ago.
Meanwhile, the price is almost 70 per cent high-er than what the province deems is the maximum affordable homeownership threshold for the region.
That stood at $459,000 in 2015.
“There is an increasing gap between this affordable threshold and the average resale price, with the gap increasing considerably over the last few years,” Bottom-ley said.
If the price of new homes
were included, which sat at an average of $987,106 at the end of 2015, the gap between the affordable housing threshold and the cost of buying a home in York would be even higher.
The typical price of a resale home in the region is 25 per cent higher than the Greater Toronto Area, where the average is $622,217.
Showing Strength
The region continues to show strength in the residen-tial resale market, record-ing the highest number of resales ever in 2015, at more than 19,100 sales, Bottomley said.
“All in all, going back over the last few years, the resale market continues to be very strong in York Region, which has reported above 16,000 resales annually since 2009.”
The average price of a resale single detached home in York in 2015 was $943,411, up 15 per cent over 2014.
For a semi-detached home, the average price last year was $606,779, up 13.8 per cent over the year before.
The average townhouse cost $575,427, up 12.2 per cent.
The skyrocketing prices can be attributed to a num-ber of issues, including a lack of houses for sale compared to demand, resulting in more competition and aggressive offers, Bottomley said.
Housing prices have been driven up by a lack of “ground-level” housing such as detached, semi-detached and townhouse homes, Jason Mercer, director of market analysis with the Toronto Real Estate Board said.
“I would say the biggest story over the last year has been the short supply of listings. There aren’t a lot of homes out there for people and when that happens, you see price growth.”
All those inflated housing numbers may not be good news if you are purchasing.
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Hot housing market drives resale homes through roofincredible amount of money just to stay housed,” said Mary Ann Proulx, executive director of York Region’s Citi-zens for Affordable Housing.
“The average one-bed-room apartment rents for $1,000 a month in York Region, and try and find that. We’re in a housing crisis. I don’t know what the solu-tion is, but something’s got to give.”
Building permits were issued for 9,546 new houses in York last year, a 51-per-
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Across Canada, York is fifth in the number of resi-dential building permits issued last year, behind Greater Vancouver, Toronto, Edmonton and Calgary.
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• Markham grew by 8,000 residents last year, a 2.3-per-cent increase. The majority of growth is in Markham, Rich-mond Hill and Vaughan.
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The long simmering feud involving tax-payers, emergency response budgets and car insurance premiums has opened a new battlefront, with personal injury lawyers now angry at York Regional Police, which is
attempting to trim its budget.Last month, by mere happenstance, York
Region lawyer Heikki Cox-Kikkajoon looked through a stack of bills and came across a police accident report invoice from YRP for more than $500.
“I couldn’t believe it,” he said. “It really burned me under the collar.”
The bill was for a document Barrie-based Cox-Kikkajoon had ordered in relation to a relatively minor car crash that occurred on Leslie Street in Newmarket in 2015.
Instead of the customary $43 charge he said he continues to receive from the OPP’s Aurora detachment, this York police motor vehicle accident report was $553.70.
Cox-Kikkajoon said what upset him more than anything else was what he considered to be the simplicity of the document the police were charging that kind of money for.
“I am questioning the actual cost,” he said. “How did they come up with that cost?”
The one-page accident report, which involves an “eight-centimetre by 10-centi-metre” diagram and information, including which direction the vehicles were travelling, would likely take 30 minutes to fill out, but certainly no more than an hour, Cox-Kikka-joon said.
The document is a standard provincial report that all police forces are mandated to complete in a timely manner following atten-dance at or investigation of a car crash.
This report differs greatly from a “level-four” reconstruction report, which is com-pleted when there is a major crash involving significant injury or death, leading to closed roads, Cox-Kikkajoon said.
“Those reports are pivotal and it costs a lot,” he said. “In those documents, they ana-lyze skid marks and do detailed study, glean-ing speed and witness reports. I don’t mind paying money for them, but this is different.”
York police insists it is simply trying to recover an ever-increasing cost through avenues other than the region’s taxpayers, essentially saying motorists should cover the costs of car crashes, rather than the entire tax base.
The $490 fee, plus HST, “accurately reflects the cost of investigating and administering” the reports, according to a statement from York police.
“A report investigated by the major colli-sion investigation unit includes scene mea-surements, field sketches and notes, vehicle crush measurements, scale diagrams, speed, time and distance calculations, opinions and conclusions,” it adds.
However, Cox-Kikkjoon says these sorts of costs are too much burden to put on those who suffer from collisions and, at the end of the day, all motorists are likely to bear the brunt. “Someone bears the cost,” he said. “At the end of the day, it comes back to the people who pay insurance costs.”
The price hike was implemented at a York Regional Police Services Board meeting late last year, as both the police and regional chair Wayne Emmerson took steps to keep the police budget increase under 3 per cent.
York police, whose budget will reach $300 million in 2017, said they’d been losing mil-lions writing up mandated reports for insur-ance companies that were going unused.
The police force also decided to start charging homeowners for each false alarm that requires police to attend a residence.
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Detecting food allergens and an organic water puri-fication system have earned students from Seneca Col-lege and from India first and second place, respectively, in a recent entrepreneurial competition in Markham.
Seneca students faced India’s College of Engineer-ing Pune (CoEP) students during a Dragons’ Den style health care pitch challenge at Seneca’s Markham Campus last week.
Of the five teams, Seneca entrepreneur Travis Clem-ents-Khan took first place for his pitch called Canary, a point-of-consumption device that allows users to detect potentially harmful allergens in food.
CoEP’s Siddharth Telgote and Sufi Shahi’s Dreaming Leaf Co. earned second for their plan to purify drinking water in developing countries using banana and orange
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“The experience provided us with networking opportu-nities and contacts who are willing to collaborate with us,” Telgote said.
The competition placed three startups from Seneca’s Health Entrepreneurship and Lifestyle Innovation Xchange
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The competition was created following a memo-randum of understanding signed by Markham, Seneca and CoEP during the Pre-mier’s February trade mis-sion to India.
The goal was to support youth entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs win top honours in Dragons’ Den style competitionwhile promoting a global view and exposure of their ideas to potential venture capitalists and angel investors. Each team presented a five-minute pitch to a panel of judges, including representatives from ventureLAB, Ontario Centres of Excellence, control sys-tems hardware company Quanser, and the City of Markham.
Mayor Frank Scarpitti, who attended the event, said he was impressed. “Our edu-
cational institutions and our cities, and in particular our youth have to work closely together,” Scarpitti said. “It’s great to witness moments like this when we can stare our future eye-to-eye and be inspired by what the future holds.”
All teams involved won a cash prize.CoEP plans to host the next pitch com-
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Mayor Frank Scarpitti (left); Dr. Madhuri Karnik, associate professor in mechanical engineering, CoEP; winner Travis Clements-Khan; Seneca Business Dean Michael Sparling.
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Tony Gil captured the 2016 CN Future Links Pacific Junior Boys Championship after finishing the three-round event at 16 under 200 (66-68-66) at The Dunes at Kam-loops course in Kamloops, B.C. Sunday.
The 18-year-old former
Markham resident who currently resides in Vaughan and is a Team Canada Men’s Development squad member matched his opening round six-under 66 with another six-birdie performance in Sunday’s final round to win the competition by 10 strokes ahead of his nearest rival Conaire Kehoe of Calgary.
With the victory, Gill earned an automatic entry into the 2016 Canadian Junior Boys Champion-
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The event had added signifi-cance as he noted this was his final CN Future Links event.
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Markham is taking a stand against human trafficking.
During this week’s council meet-ing, council voted unanimously in favour of the Save the Girl Next Door Act, an anti-human traffick-ing act awaiting royal assent from the provincial legislature.
Markham is not without cause, said Regional Councillor Nirmala Armstrong, who brought forward the motion.
In recent years, there have been several Markham residents charged in alleged human trafficking rings.
Earlier this year, charges were laid in a juvenile prostitution case involving a Markham teen, she added.
Since 2014, there have been close to 150 occurrences of human trafficking that have led to more than 350 charges in the Toronto area, Armstrong added.
The act calls on the province to establish a special provincial task
force consisting of police, prosecu-tors and victim services in an effort to co-ordinate investigations.
Mayor Frank Scarpitti, who is also the chairperson of the York Region Police services board, took the time to mention notable activ-ity by YRP.
Since 2008, more than 400 arrests have been made in the com-mercial sexual exploitation realm and more than 200 victims rescued, Scarpitti said.
“York Regional Police have been
recognized nationally and interna-tionally for their proactive work and for their victim-centred efforts.”
Members of YRP have been asked to assist other police forc-es across the country and in the United States to develop human trafficking victim screening prac-tices for first responders as well as practices on how to deal with juvenile prostitution based on YRP best practices.
To tackle the human traffick-ing issue, police have taken a more
holistic approach, working with the Children’s Aid Society as well as other service providers and the hospitality business industry.
The provincial act also calls for human trafficking to be an includ-ed offence under the Ontario sex offender registry program.
Another component of the act also allows for police to issue a three-year protection order for human trafficking victims. Markham wants to see stronger wording to rescue victims under the age of 18.
City hall takes stand vs. human trafficking, citing local incidents
Along with hosting an afternoon celebration, Markham council honoured the British Empire’s longest reigning monarch with an official “Happy Birthday” this week.
During this week’s council meeting, in a recorded and unanimous vote, Markham
council, on behalf of Markham residents, passed a motion to send warm regards on the occassion of Her Maj-esty Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th Birthday Celebration.
The city will be sending a book of congratulations signed by members of the community as well as some
Markham memorabilia to commemorate the occasion.
The Queen ascended to the throne in 1952 and is the longest reigning British monarch, surpassing Queen Victoria who reigned for 64 years between 1837 and 1901.
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Haynesley Benn, Consul-General of Barbados at Toronto, signs a book of congrat-ulations during Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birth-day celebrations Tuesday at Markham Civic Centre.
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Learn more. Have your say.
Enersource Hydro Mississauga Inc., Horizon Utilities Corporation, and PowerStream Inc. have applied to the OntarioEnergy Board for approval to amalgamate to form LDC Co. Approval is also requested for LDC Co. to purchase theshares of Hydro One Brampton Networks Inc. for $607 million subject to certain adjustments, and then to amalgamateand continue as LDC Co. The applicants say that ratepayers will not pay the costs of these changes or the premiumfor the purchase of Hydro One Brampton Networks Inc. The applicants say that electricity rates for customers of eachof Enersource Hydro Mississauga Inc., Horizon Utilities Corporation, PowerStream Inc. and Hydro One BramptonNetworks Inc. will remain separate for ten years from the date the proposed transactions are completed.
As part of this application, the applicants are asking for approval for:
(a) Enersource Holdings Inc. to buy the shares of Enersource Hydro Mississauga Inc.
(b)PowerStream Inc. to transfer its existing shares of Collus PowerStream Utility Services Corp., to LDC Co.
(c) The transfer of Hydro One Brampton Networks Inc.’s distribution system to LDC Co.
(d)The transfer of the distribution licences and rate orders of each of Enersource Hydro Mississauga Inc., HorizonUtilities Corporation, PowerStream Inc. and Hydro One Brampton Networks Inc. to LDC Co.
THE ONTARIO ENERGY BOARD IS HOLDING A PUBLIC HEARING
The OEB will hold a public hearing to consider the application filed by Enersource Hydro Mississauga Inc., Horizon Utilities Corporation, andPowerStream Inc. We will question the companies on the case. We will also hear arguments from individuals and from groups that representthe customers of each of the utilities to the proposed amalgamation. At the end of this hearing, the OEB will decide whether to approvethe application.
The OEB is an independent and impartial public agency. We make decisions that serve the public interest. Our goal is to promote a financiallyviable and efficient energy sector that provides you with reliable energy services at a reasonable cost.
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You have the right to information regarding this application and to be involved in the process:
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Our file number for this case is EB-2016-0025. To learn more about this hearing, find instructions on how to file letters or become anintervenor, or to access any document related to this case, please select the file number EB-2016-0025 from the list on the OEB website:www.ontarioenergyboard.ca/notice. You can also phone our Consumer Relations Centre at 1-877-632-2727 with any questions.
ORAL VS. WRITTEN HEARINGS
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This hearing will be held under sections 86(1)(a) and (c),86(2)(a) and (b), and 18 of the Ontario Energy Board Act,1998, S.O. 1998 c.15(Schedule B).
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Do you have a ticket for speed-ing, not wearing your seat belt, being drunk in a public place or selling alcohol or cigarettes to a minor that you figured you could just blow off?
Think again.With $46 million in unpaid fines
on the books, York Region is about to crack down on people who don’t pay their provincial offences penalties.
Regional council is expected on Thursday to approve what it is calling “aggressive steps” to make deadbeats pay their tickets.
Allowing people to not pay their fines “makes a mockery of the whole justice system,” Markham Mayor Frank Scarpitti, chair of the region’s police services board, said.
“We have to do whatever it takes to get this money into our coffers. It’s about increasing the revenues, but it’s about increasing the revenues because we’ve spent a lot of money to make sure our bylaws and the Pro-vincial Offences Act are adhered to.”
Regional chair Wayne Emmerson agreed.
“It is important all steps are taken to ensure offenders live up to their responsibilities and pay court-ordered fines,” he said.
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The Canadian Women’s Hockey League hosted a Pave The WayBall Hockey Tournament last weekend in Markham in support of women’s hockey and the CWHL’s initiatives. Here, national team player Laura Fortino (clockwise from left) and Clarkson Cup-cake teammate Sasky Stewart go up against Natalie Spooner (in white), also of the national team; Rachel Harvey is the official intermission zamboni pave-ment cleaner for the tournament and Erica Howe of the Mighty Ducks team cheers after scoring.
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Phil Soltysiak rode the waves to a first-place finish in the slalom competition at the U.S. Windsurfing Nationals in Corpus Christi, Texas, last weekend.
Competing against windsurfers from the United States, France, England and Turkey, the 28-year-old Markham resident finished first overall in the Slalmon Fleets A and B Division.
In Long Distance Fleets A and B, Soltysiak was fifth in the Fleet A division and overall, placed fifth.
Making Soltysiak’s feat even more reward-ing was that he normally competes in the freestyle discipline on the Professional Wind-surfing Tour.
“Competing in racing is something I only do occasionally and have little practice,” he said. “I surprised myself and others by win-ning and beating racers who train in this discipline year round.”
Said Soltysiak: “I opened up the first day winning the first elimination on my 7.8 NX and 114 ISonic and taking fourth in the sec-ond elimination. I was pretty stoked with leading after the first day because I haven’t spent much time on slalom gear this winter.
“After that it was a waiting game for enough wind to continue with more eliminations, but more wind never materialized. Unfortu-nately that also meant not enough wind for freestyle, so we’ll have to save the moves for the next event at Rio Vista,” he said.
Soltysiak said he will remain in the U.S to train and do a few national level competi-tions before flying to Spain in July to compete on the world tour in freestyle once again.
Markham men firsts tackle Oakville
The Markham Irish Canadian Rugby Foot-ball Club men’s firsts kicked off its Ontario Rugby Union Marshall Division campaign on a positive note with a 58-15 drubbing of the Oakville Crusaders at Austin Park Saturday.
Mike Thorne and Joe Beare each recorded a pair of tries for Markham while Jon Sheri-dan, D.J. Bott, Kurt Gibbons, Paul Van Thiel and Brandon Black each added one.
Marko Ilic kicked three conversions and two penalties.
In the men’s second match, Markham battled Oakville to an 8-8 draw.
Jordan Lofthouse accounted for Markham’s points with a try and penalty kick.
The Markham men resume league play on the road at Waterloo May 28. The women begin their Toronto Rugby Women’s Premier Division regular season against Oakville at Fletcher’s Field May 28 at noon.
Two join York U. men’s hockey team
When the York University Lions men’s hockey team starts the 2016-17 Ontario Uni-versity Athletics season, they’ll have two play-ers on their roster with Markham ties.
Forwards Daniel Nikandrov and Aaron Spivak will be among the new faces to suit up with the Lions, head coach Chris Dennis announced Monday.
A fourth round draft pick of the Sarnia Sting in 2011, Nikandrov, 21, joins the Lions after a five successful years in the OHL.
He set a career high in points in 2014-15, with 16 goals and 33 assists en route to finish-ing second on the team in scoring.
He was named captain prior to 2015-16 after serving as assistant captain for two sea-sons and finished up his OHL career with the Peterborough Petes after being traded by the Sting 18 games into his overage season.
“He’s a hard-working, well rounded player, who will be able to play in all situations for us,” Dennis said on the York University Lions’ website of Nikandrov. “He is a leader both on and off the ice and we think he has the chance to really excel in the CIS.”
A Thornhill resident, Spivak, 21, played this past season with the Markham Royals.
Serving as team captain, Spivak set a career high withy 60 points (19 goals, 41 assists) in 53 games and was the club’s second-leading scorer. In the postseason, Spivak amassed four goals and four assists in nine tilts.
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storiesifeL A celebration of lives well livedand people well lovedRead more Life Stories on yorkregion.com
By Teresa [email protected]
herry Webster’s notes will continue to ring true in the hearts of those who knew her.
To some, she was a loving wife and devoted mother of two. To others, she was a dedi-cated teacher and the commu-nity will remember her forever as the organist who played at the Ray Twinney Complex during Newmarket Saints games. She was an energetic and encour-aging spirit who will never be forgotten by those who were for-tunate enough to have crossed her path.
“She was a unique person,” her husband, Bill, said. “She was mystifying, talented, smart, funny and shared my love for music.”
They first met at the “Jolly” Miller Tavern in Toronto more than four decades ago. Both were musicians and teachers who were just beginning their careers. It was only six months later that the couple married. In 1974, the couple moved to New-market, a move they called the great white north at the time.
Over the years, Cherry taught primary and junior grades, music, special needs children and French at Park Avenue Pub-lic School, at schools in Aurora, but spent the majority of her time at Prince Charles Public School in Newmarket.
“The students who needed most, just gravitated toward her because of her empathy and because she was so giving,” he added. “She was just an amazing person in everything she did.”
Cherry juggled her teaching
Cherry Webster loved by students, friends
Ccareer, raising her children, Dar-ryl and Kim, and teaching private piano lessons. On top of that, she decided the Newmarket Saints games needed a certain spice so, for every game, she would lug her equipment, plus her children, to the second floor of the recreation complex to rev up players and fans.
“I still meet people today who knew my mom as the Leafs’ farm team organist,” Darryl said. “I have been to some faraway places and people know who my mother was; a beautiful person.”
But closer to home, he remem-bers his mother being someone who always put everyone else first, almost to a fault, as he won-ders if she ever had time for her-self. When he was 12, he attended a goalie school in Orillia, but was too shy to spend the night at the camp, so his mother crammed his hockey equipment into her IROC Z28 at 5 a.m. three times a week to allow him to have the experi-ence.
“She would encourage any idea we had,” he laughed. “I wanted to travel with a band that made no money and she never discouraged me.”
When his sister, Kim, moved to Manchester, Cherry never discouraged her and remained close with her daughter.
Cherry always enjoyed travel-ling to see her daughter and felt very much at home there.
Her empathy for others began well before her family was estab-lished or before she became a teacher. When her classmates were choosing to go to Paris as part of French studies, she went to Africa where she could do mission work on top of teaching French.
In addition to her other talents, Cherry had written a children’s book, but had never done any-thing with it until she was diag-nosed with a brain tumour that claimed her life in April. With help from her family, the book, The Amazing Adventures of Squeaky and Vashy, has been published.
The family is currently working on organizing a life celebration to be held in August.
“We want the celebration to be as unique as she was,” Bill said.
It will be a celebration with music and memories to pay trib-ute to a life that was taken too soon.
Cherry Webster was a bright light in many people’s lives:
“She was my first teacher when I started at Prince Charles, she made me feel comfortable and she was one of the best teachers I had.
“I still think of her often and, like a lot of others, have men-tioned I, too, still use her songs to help aid my own children in their mathematical journey.”
—Melanie Walsh-Boland
“I wouldn’t have survived my first few years of teaching at Park Avenue without her as a mentor and shining guide. She was such a dedicated and hard-working teach-er. Her sensitivity to others, enthu-siasm, positive approach, creativity
and kindness were appreciated by everyone.”
—susan collett
“Mrs. Webster was my Grade 4 teacher and a teacher I will never forget. I still remember, to this day, the songs she taught us to help with math.
“I have also used these to help teach my children. I remember days of going to the Newmarket Saints hockey games and being more excited that my teacher was the musician playing on her key-board. Thank you for the wonderful memories. You will never be forgot-ten.”
— Jennifer Gillison
“Adored by children, universally respected and an inspiration to her peers, Mrs. McCluskey was a tireless volunteer, quick to defl ect the praise heaped on her.”
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Notice to creditors in the estate of Michaeline Bennet, deceased, late of the City of Markham, in the Regional Municipality of York, who died February 13, 2016. Take notice that all persons having claims upon the estate of the above named must file with the undersigned by June 5, 2016 a full statement of their claims and of securities held by them.Executors and their contact information:Ollie J. Zern,58 Victor Avenue,Toronto, Ontario, M8V 2L9(416)251-4839 Susan Bennet,7 Chemin Wallace,Chelsea, Quebec, J9B 1M9(819)593-1115.
HODGES, Ruth IdellaMarch 16, 1939 - May 17, 2016
Ruth passed suddenly at Markham Stouffville Hospital with family by her side.She will be lovingly remembered and missed by her brothers Bill Hodges (Susan), and Kenneth Hodges. Nieces Margaret Hodges (Harry Ivanic), Bev Hodges, Wilma (Mike Chambers). Greatly missed by nephews/nieces Tyler, Amanda, Cassandra, Gerald and baby girl Chambers. Will be lovingly remembered by Pat McGeachie (Art Parratt), Dylan Gott (Alexis), MacKenzie Gott (Sebastien). Dear friend to Cathy Holden.Ruth worked at Cheeseborough Ponds, retired from Giant Tiger, Stouffville. She was with Markham Vets Hall, most recently Richvale Lioness and Markham Fair. Stouffville Lions will miss her great smile and big hug.In lieu of flowers please donate to “Lions Club Camp Kirk”Thru Lioness/Lions Clubs in A-16 in memory of Ruth.Family and friends are welcome to a Celebration of Life at Claremont Legion, Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 4 p.m. with a Lioness Service at 6:30 p.m.
MOORE, Margaret Patricia(nee Green)
In her 91st year, Margaret passed peacefully on Monday, May 9, 2016 surrounded by her family at Country Home, Stouffville.
Margaret was predeceased by her beloved husband, Kenneth F. Moore (2006). Cherished mother of Pamela, Diana (Ron White) and Fred (Magda). Loving grandmother of Ken, Melissa, Brian and Shannon.
Our family is forever grateful for the love and extraordinary care provided by the caregivers at Country Home.
Memorial service to be held at Grace Anglican Church, Markham Saturday, June 4th at 1:00 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alzheimer Society, York Region.
JEFFREY SCOTT NIHDANovember 10, 1967 to May 17, 1986
It has been 30 long years since we lost Jeff to drinking and driving. There is not a day that goes by that we don’t
wonder how good he would have turned out as a full adult and a Father.
We miss you and love you Jeff, as now your mother Jeni has joined you in heaven. May you live on through
your street named for you in Markham, Jeffrey Nihda Crescent.
With much love forever!From your family and friends.
Alexander BrownMay 23, 2015
Your life was a blessingYour memory a treasureYou are loved beyond wordsAnd missed beyond measureYou are always close to our hearts
Love your wife Beverley, children Carol, Elizabeth, Robert, Susan and Robert, your grandchildren and great grandchild.
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