No. 57 / February 2017
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How can old batteries save a life? Ask North Leasiders Lauren & Helena Friends Lauren Essaye and Helena Giamos with their collection efforts
Leaside’s own Celebrity Teen Chef Pg 8
THE CHURCHES OF LEASIDE
St. Augustine’s “transitional design” was built in four stages
KATHERINE ROSS
By ALLAN WILLIAMS
By KARLI VEZINA If you knew that every AA battery had enough zinc to save the lives of six children, you might think twice before disposing of your used AAs. Lauren Essaye and Helena Giamos are two 11-year-old North Leasiders who learned this last fall and didn’t take the news lying down. The “Zinc Saves Lives” Battery Recycling Campaign started with Teck Resources, a B.C. mining company which teamed up with WE Day for a good cause. A project dedicated to a better tomorrow, WE Day celebrates youth leadership and inspires tens of thousands of students across Canada, America and England to continue making positive change. Helena attended WE Day Toronto last October and
became inspired by a local girl who had collected 10,000 batteries to help save children in developing countries. That night Helena came home and told her friend everything. By morning, Lauren was on board and their plan to start their own Zinc Saves Lives campaign was underway. Zinc deficiency affects two billion people globally, and nearly 450,000 children die annually due to complications from lack of zinc. Each year since 2011, Teck Resources has donated the equivalent value of zinc from all batteries donated to UNICEF which in turn provides zinc tablets to children in need. This year, all zinc donations will go to children in Kenya. GIVING BACK, Page 27
Like Northlea United, profiled in the January issue of Leaside Life, St. Augustine’s Anglican Church is a product of the optimism and postwar boom of the late 1940s. It began as a mission of St. Cuthbert’s to serve the rapidly growing population in North Leaside, with the first service held in the basement of Northlea School on April 28, 1946, the first Communion service a month later on May 26th – St. Augustine’s Day – and the parish formally created and given that name in October. A house at 38 Donlea Drive was purchased as a rectory the following year for $12,500, and, in June, a young priest, the Rev. H. Newman Bracken, arrived with his wife and daughter to begin what turned out to be a 35-year tenure as rector. The diocese had already purchased land on which to build a new church at the northeast corner of Bayview and Broadway. To prepare the plans, Canon Bracken and his church wardens engaged the architectural firm Bruce Brown and Brisley – the same firm which six years before had designed Leaside United and would two years later design the expanded (current) Leaside Presbyterian Church.
CHURCHES, Page 16