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Golden Years

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traw poll for readers living in Kleinburg: How many of you think of yourselves as Vaughanians? Straw poll for readers living in other parts of Vaughan: Did you even know Kleinburg is part of Vaughan? I ask because I suspect the answers you give now will be quite different from replies of future Kleinburg and Vaughan residents in general to the same questions. Kleinburg has always seemed apart from the rest of Vaughan, tucked into the northwest corner of our conglomerated city, buffered by acres of pristine greenery and sporting cute boutiques, the famed McMichael gallery, and wedding photo backgrounds. I’ve always thought of it as one of those quaint little villages that time has forgotten, like the settings in those pastoral British mysteries like Midsommer Murders. Without the murders, of course. But time catches up. As Vaughan develops and intensifies, it is bringing every corner of the city along with it. It is inevitable the ’burg will pass through its own transformation and become a more integral part of the larger, bustling metropolis. Our hope — whether we are Klein-

Eric McMillan, Editor-in-chief burg insiders or observers — is that it may do so without losing its villagelike appeal. Which is why the questions raised in the feature on Kleinburg in this issue are so important — a feature, by the way, suggested to us by Kleinburg residents. Meanwhile, another serious implication of changing times in Vaughan has also been brought home to us recently, this time by Statistics Canada. Which you can also read about in this issue once you turn the page. Change is upon us whether we like it or not. Such fun.

Figures show our senior contingent booming amid the city’s still growing youth population

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Golden Years of Vaughan? Our city’s youth population is still growing strongly— but our seniors are positively booming, according to the latest census By Omar Mosleh

Things are booming in Vaughan. But not quite the way you might expect. It’s well established Vaughan is a burgeoning economic powerhouse. Now Statistics Canada’s 2011 Census on age and sex shows Vaughan also faces both an upsurge in youth and a drastically aging population due to baby boomers reaching retirement age. Vaughanians have been keeping the storks busy. At 21.2 percent, a significant portion of Vaughan’s population is under 14, compared to 17.5 percent nationally and 16.3 percent in Toronto. At the other end of the age spec VAUGHAN ToDAY JULY 2012

trum, the proportion of seniors as part of Vaughan’s population is slightly below that of the national average. However, a closer look reveals Vaughan’s population is aging at an astonishing rate. The numbers of seniors in the municipality are lower to begin with, but the growth is rapid. Between 2006 and 2011, the percentage of seniors over 65 increased by 38.3 percent. For those 80 and over, the number increased by a whopping 62.2 percent. The CEO of Human Endeavour (a Vaughan-based social agency that focuses

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on seniors among other groups), Noor Din, attributes the change to a number of factors. “It certainly could be a combination of aging seniors and the mix of newcomers,” he said. “It could be that the baby boomers, the old Italian seniors, they’re now (reaching or getting close to) 65.” Currently, only 10.7 percent of Vaughan’s population is over 65. But by 2030, that number is expected to double, said Din. That’s going to present obvious challenges to Vaughan’s healthcare system.

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“The way things are, they’re not sustainable,” Din said. “The senior population is going to put a lot of a burden on the healthcare system, which is already unmanageable.” And while the hospital is on its way, it won’t meet the long-term health concerns of seniors, said the executive director of the Vaughan Community Health Centre, Isabel Araya. “That’s acute care, and what that provides is an intervention for a specific case, for an emergency,” she explained. “What the government needs to have in place are organizations to help people maintain

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evin Wong decided to trade his suburban life at Vaughan Secondary School for something quite different — a tough two-year International Baccalaureate program at Pearson College’s isolated, rustic campus overlooking an emerald green bay on Vancouver Island. Pearson has offered a unique experience for Wong. It provides a glaring contrast with Vaughan high schools, which — although mini United Nations with young people of diverse races and cultures studying together — don’t always fulfil the promise of improving student knowledge and respect for their diversity, he says. “As much as we pride ourselves in being an open multi-cultural society, there is an expectation of assimilation,” Wong says. “Particularly if you are young growing up in a community that is trying to foster a certain teenage identity. At Pearson we are free of those restrictions because there is an openness and a propensity to discuss real issues.” When a Canadian student finds himself or herself rooming with three others from any of over 80 countries, lessons in international understanding come easily. This is the raison d’etre of the college, the vision of Nobel Peace Prize winner Lester Pearson. Lessons in intercultural awareness are everywhere. Wong, a third generation Chinese-Canadian, has first-hand appreciation of the Arab Spring thanks to his roommate Esmail Sharafuddin, a second-year student from Yemen.

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Last summer Sharafuddin went home to help clean up after the fighting just down the street from his parents’ home in Sana’a. Wong also has an intimate appreciation of the situation in Syria, as another of his roommates, Layth (Leo) Yousif is from that violent country. “Syria will be the same in 10 years,” Yousif once proclaimed loudly during a conversation at lunch about his country’s future. Wong also received a surprising benefit from getting to know students from mainland China. “[At home] I did not have many Chinese or Asian friends,” he says. “There is a big difference between third-generation and immigrants’ values and what they believe. I have come to terms more with my Asian identity here. The Chinese students here have strong culture. They have regional dinners and social events and for them it is cathartic. They helped me reconnect with my heritage.” Pearson is also designed to be different.

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hat a night it was for Vaughan Today and its sister publications Toronto Today and Town Crier newspapers in May as the publications received a personal best 10 awards in seven different categories at the annual Ontario Community Newspapers Association Better Newspapers Awards. Leading the pack was reporter Shawn Star who took home first place in the Arts & Entertainment writing category for a story he wrote for this magazine on guitarist Dom Polito who relearned the instrument after an accident destroyed two fingers on his right hand. Judge Chris Foulds praised Star’s story as much for its community nature as for the quality of the work. “Star’s writing is refreshingly straightfor-

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short distance from Vaughan’s super highways, megamalls and the massive roller-coasters (and parking lots) of Canada’s Wonderland sits the historic Village of Kleinburg. In addition to being one of Canada’s wealthiest neighbourhoods (According to Canadian Business magazine, in 2010 the average net worth was $2.5 million), Kleinburg’s picturesque walking trails, rustic buildings and acclaimed McMichael Canadian Art Collection have prompted some to call it “The hidden jewel of Vaughan.” “It is kind of hidden away, in this vast city called Vaughan, but it’s absolutely beautiful when you find it,” said Ward 1 councillor Marilyn Iafrate. “And you don’t have to drive 100 kilometres to get there.” But, one word of advice — don’t call it a “hidden jewel” in front of its residents. “Kleinburg’s only hidden if you want it to be,” snaps Antonietta Raviele, program coordinator for the Kleinburg-based Empowerment Through Achievement Vaughan Women’s Shelter. “We’ve been asking the city for more attention for years,” she adds. It would appear Raviele and village residents have had their wish fulfilled, as Kleinburg is currently in the midst of an economic development strategy spurred on by the city. It’s also experiencing a surge in residential development. The city’s plans include a revitalization of the village’s main street, Islington Avenue, as well as encouraging development and marketing Kleinburg as an “outdoor recreation paradise.” But change in Kleinburg is not always welcomed with open arms. One of the questions is how to encourage inten-

sification, which is required by the province’s Places To Grow Act, while retaining the character of the village. Kleinburg was originally settled in 1848. It’s changed a lot since then, but still maintains an idyllic charm. The village has an eclectic mix of businesses, such as a rock store (of minerals, not music) and a vintage barbershop, but it lacks a convenience store. They are currently in the process of being connected to Lake Ontario water.

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“Where can you really go in Vaughan and find a place like Kleinburg?” asks developer and resident Frank Greco. “We have something unique and the question is how do we keep it that way? “How do we evolve the village without losing our special character?”

Many in Kleinburg are asking the same question. Major developments are taking place to the north and south of the village, such as the 3,000 homes of Nashville Heights and more in Kleinburg Hills, currently under development at Major Mackenzie Drive and Highway 427. But what worries residents even more is intensification in the village core, which falls within Vaughan’s Kleinburg-Nashville Heritage Conservation District. “We get a lot more nervous when someone says they want to intensify in the village,” says Bob Klein, founder of the Kleinburg and Area Ratepayers’ Association. Greco points to three vacant properties in the village core, one of which advertises itself as a great condominium site. CONTINUED Page 14

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SIGN OF CHANGE: A roadside notice signals big potential changes to the area’s bucolic landscape.

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“If another builder comes around who doesn’t know anything about Kleinburg, they’re going to come build five-, six-, seven-storey condos,” he says. That concerns Greco, who is quick to point out Kleinburg currently has no high-rise buildings. He wants to keep it that way. “When there’s new development in an established neighbourhood like Kleinburg, there’s always a lot of apprehension…. Some people will tell you the province is forcing this development upon us,” he says. Forced or not, intensification is unavoidable, says Iafrate. “I know some people are kind of resistant to it, but it will go a long way to ensuring and sustaining the vibrancy of the community,” she said. “Because you need people. That’s the whole thing.” But with more people comes more infrastructure. Currently, the northern swath of Major Mackenzie Drive is slated for expansion, with similar plans for Highway 27. Apart from traffic concerns, Greco says this could hurt the village aesthetically. “All of a sudden that nice rural drive through CONTINUED Page 17

“Where can ... you find a place like Kleinburg?”

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Teston Road won’t be so rural anymore,” he says. “And I think that worries a lot of people.” In addition to attracting more people, the economic development strategy also aims to attract more commercial investment in Kleinburg. Small, independent businesses have sprouted in recent years, but by far the most controversial incident was the coming of Starbucks. To Iafrate, the coming of the multinational chain was the start of revitalization for Kleinburg’s business core. “You have no idea what it took us to get that Starbucks,” Iafrate says. “Because it was a historic home, we almost lost it twice.” But it seems to be a success. On a sunny June afternoon, residents seemed right at home as they lazily sipped coffee on the shop’s patio. Inside, the Starbucks is a strange hybrid of old and new. The shop is uniquely Kleinburg, with its redbrick fireplace and vintage wooden beams stretched along the ceiling, while still retaining Starbucks’ ubiquitous corporate layout. “When Starbucks came in, people were like ‘What? You can’t bring Starbucks to Kleinburg,’” Greco recalls. “But they’ve been great for the village.” And while the shop has added vibrancy to the business core, it also contributes to another problem facing Kleinburg (and all of Vaughan): traffic. Many like to stop to grab a coffee on their way to Highway 400. “Kleinburg seems to be, in a lot of cases, the shortest route to the highway,” Greco said. “So everyone’s driving through it.” Iafrate predicts the extension of Highway 427 will help ease traffic in the area. But she also expects Kleinburg will still be a destination for years to come. “People shouldn’t be going through Kleinburg,” she says. “But quite frankly, if they do go through there, it’s probably because they enjoy going through that little village so much and it relaxes them. “That’s part of the problem — it’s so nice, you want to drive by,” she adds. “Even in your dump truck.”

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e’ve explored bagels in the past. New York, Montreal, Toronto — who makes the best ones? Now I have a new contender. Kiva’s bagels are crusty on the outside, but soft enough for a baby on the inside. They are definitely geshmak (which I’m reliably informed means delicious in Yiddish). But the bagels are only the start at this Vaughan eatery. I heard (same reliable informant) that Kiva’s is a great spot for brunch, so we find ourselves on a Sunday morning, waiting for a seat in this hive of activity. A large number of staff are rushing about — all of them wearing shirts with either “Bagel Power” or “Get your bagel on” across the front. Not sure what to make of that last one. Our Spanish waitress is warm, helpful and a mine of information. She brings coffee as soon as we sit down. It’s good coffee, freshly brewed. Curiously, there is no charge on the bill; it’s included with our specials. The menu is so extensive that we are both overwhelmed by choice. I’d like to try the make your own salad — pick from lists of ingredients, cheeses, meats, greens, etc. — but that doesn’t seem a brunch sort of meal. There’s a special of eggs and kippers that the waitress tells me are from Scotland — another big temptation. But in the end, I opt for a self-designed omelette. The waitress offers me the option of making my three egg omelette with just egg whites — are you kidding? My omelette has roasted red peppers, artichoke hearts and asparagus with goat cheese ($13.99). My guest jumps on the waitress’ suggestion — egg white pizza — because, she tells him, “It’s one of our most popular dishes.” This proves to be an egg white omelette, topped with pizza style sauce and lots of mozzarella cheese which has been nicely melted over the top ($10.99). The cook wins no points for presentation — the tomato sauce has slopped over the edge of my guest’s plate and there isn’t so much as a sprig of parsley to garnish the unrelieved expanse of mozzarella. But the taste is another story. The egg white omelette is firm and nicely browned and the sauce is zesty

tomato with plenty of mushrooms and green peppers. The mozzarella is nicely chewy. It comes with a bagel of choice — sesame in this case — and butter. Interestingly, there is no jam to schmear on the bagel. For those not au fait, this is the technical term for spreading things on bagels, though some insist that schmear is reserved for cream cheese. My full-egg omelette has fallen apart in the presentation, and the generous portion of goat cheese is evident in the middle. It could be my own fault — I have been a little greedy in my fillings so it’s fully loaded with artichoke hearts and roasted peppers, and while there are lots of asparagus segments, only one spear comes to light. It’s light and tasty and almost too much to finish. That’s because my poppy seed bagel is so good, I keep eating it instead. I notice a sign for freshly squeezed juices so I order a Ruby ($5.50). A blend of beets, carrots, apples, ginger and lemon, this juice is aptly named. A rich, ruby in colour, it has a great ginger kick. Between my healthy omelette and the juice, I feel so virtuous, I head straight into the bakery and destroy all the good I have done by buying blueberry filled Danish, some almond biscotti (known in Yiddish as mandelbrot), more bagels and a loaf of raisin challah. Hey, when in a Jewish restaurant, you have to nosh. I recommend the blueberry bun. The bakery also sells traditional Jewish fare like herring, gefilte fish and latkes. There’s a cheese shop, but the cheeses are mainly bulk cheeses; I don’t see any artisan offerings. The sign over the cheese counter reads, “You are not allowed to buy our marvellous cheeses without tasting them beforehand.” Kiva’s has been around since 1979 when Kiva the Baker and Al “The Dump” Sugar, got together. The original name is intriguing — Kiva’s Bagel Bakery Restaurant & Appetizers. Don’t most restaurants have appetizers? And there are two doors — to the bakery which also has some seats, and to the restaurant. You want the latter. This spot isn’t going to win gourmet awards, but for well-prepared and tasty meals, you can’t beat it. Apparently half the population of Vaughan already knows this. They were lined up to get in. Now that I’ve told the other half, you better get there early. Kiva’s Bagels, 1027 Steeles Ave. 416663-9933. They’ve recently opened a new location at 15 St. Clair Ave. W. 416-960-5482. Be prepared to wait on weekends and bring a big appetite.

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s there any depths a food writer won’t plumb for a story? Apparently not. I’m finding it hard to believe, but I’m actually about to drink neat gin containing a toe. Yes, a real human toe. No, I haven’t turned cannibal or discovered some new crazy sect. Well, perhaps crazy isn’t an entirely unapt description of a community that not only embraces this drink, but also offers a dog ball high ball (ingredients obvious if you think about it for a minute) each year in March. This canine cocktail celebrates the beginning of the winter thaw and is sold to raise funds for the Humane Society in Dawson City, Yukon. Why am I going to drink a Sourtoe Cocktail? To prove I’m not simply a Cheechako (incomer to the Yukon) but I have the grit in me to be a real Sourdough (Yukoner). Proving you’ve got the stuff to be a true Sourdough is a tradition that goes back a long way. In 1906, “Stroller” White, editor of the Whitehorse Star, desperate for something to fill the pages of his newspaper, waxed poetic about ice worms. In response, a local bar created an ice worm cocktail, containing an actual worm. Yukon’s bard, Robert Service, who could never resist a joke, made the drink legendary in a poem about a hapless major from England who was bullied into drinking one containing a four-inch long ice worm. In the words of Service: “And with a roar the mob proclaimed: ‘Cheechako, Major Brown, Reveal that you’re of Sourdough stuff, and drink your cocktail down’.” The major did, but didn’t keep it down. And Service reveals the truth in the final lines of his poem: “For that ice-worm (so they told him) of such formidable size Was — a stick of stained spaghetti with two red ink spots for eyes.” However, while the ice worm is a fake, the toe currently confronting me is very real. Its own history started with a prospector (this is, after all, the home of the Klondike Gold Rush) who lost his big toe to frostbite — a not uncommon occurrence. But he dropped his into a bottle of rum to preserve it. After

he died, the next owner of his small cabin, Cap’n Dick Stevenson, who had migrated here from New Brunswick, found himself with a pickled toe. And this, folks, is where Northern insanity takes over. His friends bet him that he wouldn’t drink a cocktail with the toe in it. He did. And a tradition, the Sourtoe Cocktail, was born. Stevenson printed up a bunch of certificates and offered the challenge to any visitors to the bar who wanted to qualify as a real Sourdough. One has to admire the entrepreneurial spirit of the good captain. For $5 he lets you add the toe to your drink — which must be neat alcohol — and presents you with a certificate of achievement. The only qualifier is the toe must touch your lips. In a land where the ground remains firmly entrenched in permafrost, and the sun hardly shines for at least half the year, such apparent lunacy doesn’t seem quite as mad. It’s only later, when I return to Toronto and tell friends about it, that I realize just how crazy it is. And if the inherent lunacy of consuming this drink isn’t enough, consider this: While the original toe is long gone, (there’s a story that someone actually swallowed it!), many others have donated their own frostbitten toes to the cause. When I visit the charming little cemetery outside town, I find myself wondering which of its inhabitants are minus a big toe. So here I am, in the Downtown Bar in Dawson City, with my own Sourtoe Cocktail, about to accept the challenge. Apparently I’m in good company. More than 40,000 people have downed one of these — my certificate says I’m no. 44,120. Add up those $5 bills 40,000 times and you can see that one needn’t dredge the earth for gold in the Yukon. What’s a Sourtoe Cocktail like? Frankly, the neat gin is far more distasteful than the toe which does, indeed, touch my lips. When his turn comes, another customer holds it cigar style, between his teeth. But I’m content with my small effort ... and my certificate. The point of this tale isn’t simply to

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WHAT A SOURDOUGH! Our travel writer takes a swig of gin with a human toe in the glass (pictured above), making her a true Yukoner.

boast of my achievement; well, perhaps it is, just a little. But it’s a small illustration of the sorts of wacky and wonderful characters you will find in a kind of distillation from every part of the world. In a population that numbers less than 2,000 in winter and quadruples when the sun warms the place up and the summer staff and tourists fill the town, Dawson boasts more than its reasonable share of eccentrics. And meeting them is a large part of the fun of a visit. In the shops around town, I meet incomers from Holland, Germany, Switzerland, the US and other parts of Canada. Each has a unique and often hilarious reason for being in the Yukon, and each invariably adds in some form, “I love living here. There’s nowhere else on earth like it.”

I visit the little, two-room cabin, once inhabited by Robert Service. Here, Canada’s bard immortalized the characters of the Gold Rush, most of whom went home with pockets filled with iron pyrite (fool’s gold). I sit in Service’s rustic wooden chair on the front porch and read The Cremation of Sam McGee. It’s an entertaining tale but, beware, most of it is also pure pyrite — only believed by fools. But Dawson itself is pure gold — a treasure trove of characters, history and some of the most spectacular scenery in Canada. And then there’s the fact that this is the only place you can test your mettle on a genuine Sourtoe Cocktail. Can you do it? JULY 2012 VAUGHAN ToDAY 23

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A GOAL IN MIND: The Kleinburg Nobleton Soccer Club Lions were named BMO Team of the Week for April 20 and could win $125,000 if they are voted the 2012 Champions.

Team on a journey Kleinburg soccer club named BMO Team of the Week By Daniel Rosen

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he Kleinburg Nobleton Soccer Club Lions boys are going for a different kind of goal, and so are 15 other teams from across Canada. The team won the Bank of Montreal Team of the Week award for the week of April 20 and is competing with the 14 award winners from across Canada for the title of BMO Team of the Week 2012 Champion. The team has already received $500 for winning the weekly award, which it decided to donate to Giuliano’s Journey, a charity set up by team member Giuliano Todaro, who was diagnosed with leukemia in May 2011. He established the charity to help his fellow leukemia patients at Sick Children’s Hospital. The grand prize is $125,000, which would go to refurbishing their soccer field, as well as an additional $5,000, which would also be donated to Giuliano’s Journey.

Drive in Vaughan Secondary School’s Rashone Roberts (white jersey) drives the lane against a member of the school’s alumni in the 15th annual alumni versus current roster game. Though it was a hard fought affair, the current squad couldn’t handle their elders and dropped the game 139–130.

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Team coach Gennaro Lombardi says his team deserves the prize. “This team of young boys came together five seasons ago through a love of soccer and ended up being a support system for each other,” said Lombardi in a written statement on the team’s website. “We’re a family both on an off the field and we’ll continue to represent Kleinburg Nobleton as this week’s BMO Team of the Week.” Final voting begins August 13, and the 2012 champion is to be decided by the votes of the Canadian public at community.bmo. com/soccer. If the Lions do take home top prize, it would be the second time a team from Vaughan is crowned champion. The 2011 winners, The Glen Shields Sun Devils, donated their $5,000 to the Canadian Paralympic Foundation.

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