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Sixteen winners were recognized for work in their community FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Hero. A small word that has a big meaning.

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Created by Metroland Media Toronto in 2009, which publishes the Mirror, Guardian, and Villager newspapers, this year saw 65 nominations submitted by the public in eight categories: Arts, Business, Education, Environment, Good Neighbour, Health, Social Issues, and Sports. Eight winners were selected by Metroland Media Toronto staff, and for the first time, the awards included a ’People’s Choice’ online voting round, which saw another eight nominees with the most votes across the categories declared People’s Choice winners.

Some 16,000 unique votes were cast.

Surrounded by supporters and well-wishers, each winner received a framed write-up, which resembled the front page of a newspaper, highlighting their accomplishments during a threecourse dinner at York Mills Gallery on Leslie Street, south of Hwy. 401.

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Left, recipients of the 2017 Urban Hero Awards gather for one final hurrah following the ceremony at York Mills Gallery last Thursday Sixteen people/organizations were honored for their good deeds and impact made in their communities across Toronto. The categories included: Arts, Business, Environment, Education, Social Issues, Good Neighbour and Sports. Right, Sharon Nyarko was honoured in the category. She managed to take a picture with her award at the beginning of the evening, before having to sneak out to write a university exam. lisher of Metroland Media Toronto, noting each winner made a difference to the people in their neighbourhoods.

Dikema Etto doesn’t place much value on being an Urban Hero.

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For the past eight years, the Scarborough resident has picked up and distributed food and care items twice a month to homeless people downtown through StreetFeed.

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He also created A Fresh Start, a drive to distribute personal care items to Syrian refugees in Canada.

Used car dealership owner Nasser Rad and his staff were looking for ways to help people in need when his wife came up with an idea: why not give away cars to people who could otherwise not afford one?

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Rad, who won the People’s Choice for Business, isn’t a stranger to hard times. He arrived in Cana-

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José Alberto Flores credits his mother for his resilience.

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Kahlon Family Holdings Ltd., was later charged with failing to comply with an order to fix five property standards deficiencies, he said.

Sraga said these included broken windows, plus failure to maintain in states of good repair the motel grounds, exterior steps, exterior light fixtures and exterior finishes of the building and roof.

Sraga said the owners’ next scheduled court appearance is Dec. 15, when the Kahlon family can argue before a justice of the peace why there shouldn’t be a trial. Sraga said MLS won’t drop the charge even if the building is sold.

Visitors at the East Side this month were shown holes in suite ceilings and in walls of vacant suites, but no one, Sraga said, has called his office to complain about interior conditions.

"If it’s where they live, we don’t have the rights of entry," he said last week, acknowledging tenants may fear inviting investigators

MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com The City of Toronto’s municipal licensing and standards division sent investigators to Scarborough’s East Side Motel last August, and later charged its owner with not keeping up the building’s exterior.

But it isn’t true MLS declared part of the building "uninhabitable," as was stated in a Metroland Media Toronto story earlier this month, says Mark Sraga, the city’s investigation services director.

Tenants who a reporter spoke to at the Kingston Road motel, which the city intends to expropriate and demolish, said suites in one section are no longer rented because of extensive roof damage there.

Sraga said MLS, which enforces property standards, visited and photographed the motel exterior after receiving a complaint last August.

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plaint by a previous occupant of unsanitary conditions in a motel room" and determine whether they constituted a health hazard, Rajesh Benny, a TPH spokesperson, confirmed.

The suite’s new occupant, however, didn’t give the inspector permission to enter, said Benny.

During the last two years, TPH staff were sent to the motel, where many tenants have stayed for months or years, on four other occasions.

In March 2015, TPH found unsanitary conditions "related to the tenant and the specific room in which they resided and were not related to the overall maintenance of the premises," Benny said.

Two years ago, Gary Crawford, the local councillor, announced the city intended to buy or expropriate the East Side as part of a plan to convert the former Comfort Inn East next door into a shelter for homeless seniors.

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Parts of the roof at the East Side Motel in Scarborough are falling apart. People living at the Motel on Kingston Road face eviction within weeks as the City of Toronto moves to either buy or expropriate the property. the motel or expropriation "until we see some path to a resolution" with the city.

It would be inappropriate, meanwhile, to disclose information which might harm a resolution, Di Monte said.

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Despite inquiries, the Kahlon family hasn’t responded to Metroland Media’s stories about the motel. On Tuesday, Patrick Di Monte, their lawyer, said the family won’t comment on

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Ontario colleges at a crossroads The strike that hit Ontario’s 24 community colleges and cancelled classes for 230,000 full-time students is not your run-of-the-mill labour dispute.

Yes, there are two widely diverging and entrenched sides. But this particular labour dispute is extraordinary for one big reason. The 12,000 striking college professors, instructors, counsellors and librarians have an ambitious, far-reaching goal that goes far beyond wages and benefits. They want nothing less than to change the business model for the province’s community college system so there are more full-time professors with more power. Represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees’ Union, they’re calling for a drastic reduction in the percentage of part-time instructors at the colleges and an increase in the number of full-time teaching positions.

In recent years, colleges have increasingly turned to cheaper, part-time instructors to save money. The union says part-timers now make up 70 per cent of all college teachers and want that number reduced to no more than 50 per cent. The college’s bargainers - the College Employer Council - see things differently and makes its calculations based on the number of teaching hours, not the number of teachers. By their measure, half the teaching is already done by full-time professors. Only 30 per cent is done by contract instructors while part-time employees, who are also union members, account for a fifth of the teaching.

Whatever numbers you pick, the fact remains the union wants more full-time professors. And meeting its demands would carry a hefty price tag - $250 million more a year, according to the Employer Council.

Now the question for Ontario is not simply whether the strikers deserve what they want. It’s whether those demands will deliver a better education for college students and justify spending an additional $250 million more a year on them.

If the answer to those last two questions is "yes," someone has to figure out where to find the money. No one can expect tuition fee hikes to cover all or even most of that higher cost. Clearly, the provincial government read taxpayers - would have to contribute more. The province is far more generous in funding universities than colleges. Yet the distinction between the two has blurred. Colleges now grant degrees and their professors conduct research.

Meanwhile, in this era of new, disruptive technologies, when the very nature of Canada’s economy is in flux and the challenges facing young people trying to enter the workforce are huge, community colleges have a greater role in the education system.

College management can’t fix everything on its own.

Whatever happens in the current strike, the Ontario government needs to rethink the province’s colleges system and how it is supported.

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Final year of council’s term to be quiet... by design At this time next year, Torontonians will have selected a new mayor, and a new city council.

A year is, or ought to be, a long time, a long enough time for a lot to happen.

But if I may make a prediction, by this time next year there is a good chance that not very much will happen at all, at least at Toronto City Hall.

There’s sure not much on the horizon.

In a term where council committed - and recommitted - billions of dollars to a one-stop subway line to Scarborough and the reconstruction of an elevated highway at the Gardiner Expressway and the Don Valley Parkway, dipped toe in the Rail Deck Park, another billion-dollar-plus project, and bravely tried -

DAVID NICKLE The City and failed - to implement road tolls to start paying for it all, the last year looks quiet.

Perhaps, indeed likely, this is by design. Mayor John Tory has made it clear that he’s aiming for a second term, and his 2014 second-place opponent Doug Ford has made public that he’s aiming to win that election for himself.

For Tory, now is no time

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to take risks and pick potential fights.

Indeed, I’d bet that the mayor’s last big fight - and it won’t really be that big will come in his decision to back making the Bloor Street bike lane pilot project permanent when it comes to Toronto council next month.

If that goes smoothly, then the only other hurdle on the horizon will be the 2018 operating and capital budget, which if history is any indication, is always fraught in the making but reasonably acceptable in the finale.

And the mayor and council can get on with their shortened re-election campaigns, starting in May this year rather than the usual January.

If it’s to be a two-way

battle between Tory and Ford, keeping a low profile in 2018 is a good strategy.

Ford has ammunition to take on Tory, but there’s a finite amount of it and he tipped his hand with his early campaign launch.

To win, all Tory has to do is keep his head down, and keep it civil.

David Nickle is a reporter and columnist covering Toronto City Hall for Metroland Media Toronto. He can be reached at dnickle@insidetoronto.com

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Combating child hunger one student at a time JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com With roughly one in three Toronto kids living in poverty and 40 per cent coming the school hungry every day, it’s nearly impossible for far too many youngsters to be at their best throughout the school day.

Hunger is a serious problem that affects grades, behaviour and graduation rates, and with Toronto holding the dubious title of Canada’s child poverty capital two years running according to a study released last year by a group of social service agencies, the issue seems unlikely to abate.

There is some hope through programs such as the Toronto Foundation for Student Success (TFSS), which provide meals through student nutrition programs to help all students start their school day on equal footing.

Abigail Taylor, a Grade 8 student at D A Morrison Middle School, noted that the program helps ensure she and her classmates are sure to start their day fed - something that might not be the case for far too many otherwise.

"Some people don’t eat breakfast, and (the nutrition program) has things like pancakes and oatmeal," she said. "It fills my stomach so I won’t have to wait for lunch. That helps me focus in class."

Fellow D A Morrison student Kiona Auld-Lewin uses the school’s breakfast program some days, when she wasn’t able to eat from home for whatever reason.

"You get more energy and you feel better the whole day in school," she said.

Student nutrition programs aren’t simply for kids whose families’ budgets are stretched. Some have parents who are pressed for time, work difficult hours or otherwise have trouble ensuring their kids have full stomachs before they walk out the door. All told, roughly 200,000 Toronto students partake in the more than

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Students at Rose Avenue Junior Public School enjoy a healthy meal through a student nutrition program.

"It will help get rid of the stigma. And in such a diverse city, when you’re playing in the playground with someone you sat next to at breakfast that morning, you’ve already broken bread with them and you’re going to see new friendships." – Sandra Best, TFSS 800 student nutrition programs city-wide.

Child hunger is a problem that has been addressed head-on by many other developed nations, where student nutrition programs are a fact of life.

"Canada is the only G7 country that doesn’t have a national child nutrition program," said Sandra Best of the TFSS. She argues that such programs should be present in all schools, not just those in less affluent neighbourhoods, and that all students should be encouraged to join.

"It will help get rid of the stigma," she said. "And in such a diverse city, when you’re playing in

the playground with someone you sat next to at breakfast that morning, you’ve already broken bread with them and you’re going to see new friendships."

Catherine Parsonage, executive director and CEO of the TFSS, noted there is a marked difference when kids start their days off with a healthy and nutritious breakfast every day. In elementary school, students can focus more.

According to studies conducted by the organization, that leads to a nine to 12 per cent increase in literacy, a 10 per cent increase in math scores, and a whopping 18 per cent increase in science marks.

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Behavioural problems also decrease as students are generally more content, and incidents with law enforcement go down.

More needs to be done to ensure all students enjoy those benefits, however. While a healthy breakfast provided through an inschool program only costs about $1.66 per student, the City of Toronto and the province only provide about 26 cents of that. Corporate and private donors contribute greatly to many student nutrition programs, but there is still a need for more funding.

"On average, students only have milk four times a month," Parsonage said.

She added that, of the 40 per cent of students who go to school hungry, 20 per cent don’t have lunch, either. Dinner too often consists of processed or fast food due to the fact that it tends to be cheaper and more convenient than healthier alternatives.

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"Hunger is a need in and of itself, but kids who eat can focus more on school, learn better and have more self-esteem," he said.

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Malvern, Scarborough’s northeastern neighbourhood, needs an "action plan" and Saturday, Oct. 28 is the time to get it started, says local councillor Neethan Shan.

Shan has reserved space at Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute that day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the first Malvern 2025 Summit.

"It’s going to be a start of us planning together as a community," said Shan, who won a February byelection to become Ward 42’s councillor.

Participants can try looking forward on topics such as arts and culture, business and employment, community safety, community services, education, housing, parks and environment and transit.

Shan hopes people form working groups on each subject.

Other groups have tried to mobilize Malvern, including one, 42 Voices, working from Malvern Family Resource Centre.

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Over 40 parks in Toronto will glow orange on Nov. 1, including some in Scarborough.

Jack-o-lanterns will light up several parks during its annual pumpkin parades.

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In most cases, there was no glass broken and no alarm activated, so the vehicle owner had no idea of the theft at the time.

The spike in auto thefts began early this year.

"We’ve implemented several different strategies and we have seen a marked reduction in the past two weeks as part of our ongoing efforts," said Heaney.

The efforts have included community outreach, including "protect your vehicle" seminars.

Police are tracking the recoveries of the stolen vehicles and are trying to identify whether there is a connection to organized crime.

Some arrests have been made in connection with stolen autos but police believe those responsible for the bulk of the thefts remain at large.

"We want people to be extra vigilant," said Heaney. "That’s getting an after-market alarm, that’s having (the car) in a bright area, that’s having other vehicles block it in the driveway."

Police also urge motorists to: • Completely close and lock car doors and windows; • Turn wheels to the side to make the vehicle harder to tow; • Park in a locked garage whenever possible; • Back rear-wheel-drive cars into the driveway and park frontwheel-drive cars front-end first; • Always set the emergency brake; • Never leave ownership and insurance cards in the vehicle; • Never hide a spare key in the vehicle because thieves know where to find it; • Drop business cards or address labels inside doors to help with vehicle identification.

Anyone with information should call 42 Division police at 416-808-4200 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).

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For decades it has been the landing spot for immigrants, and as a result, diversity is one of the area’s most valued strengths.

The majority of the present population, is composed of immigrants and descendants of immigrants who’ve arrived since the 1970s.

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Christelle moved to Toronto from Cameroon last August and became pregnant a few months later.

“After giving birth, alone with my husband and without any family in Toronto, I was lost, especially because it was my first baby,” writes the woman, a client of Scarborough’s Taibu Community Health Services whose last name wasn’t released.

Fortunately, the community health centre on

Tapscott Road in Malvern now has French-speaking staff, including Myriam Innocent, a nurse practitioner who visited Christelle at home twice.

At Taibu, said Christelle, she felt “listened to” and her needs were understood in her language.

On Friday, Oct. 13 Taibu, which already had a mission to serve Greater Toronto’s Black communities, was recognized as a French language service provider.

The announcement, attended by local MPPs and Francois Boileau, Ontario’s French Language Services commissioner, followed three years of efforts under guidance of the Coali-

tion for Healthy Francophone Families in Scarborough.

Born in Montreal to Haitian parents, Innocent said Taibu’s French initiative has bought in hundreds of new clients, some from as far as Bowmanville.

“We didn’t realize at the time that we had so many French-speaking clients in Scarborough,” she said this week.

Francophone de Toronto, a hub now located on Richmond Street West which includes a health clinic, is far from the city’s east end.

“I have to take three or four buses to see the doctor,” Innocent said, is a common complaint from her French-speaking cli-

ents.

Not every CHC or hospital can provide interpretative services, and things “fall through the cracks,” Innocent said, when it comes to explaining mental health, or illnesses such as diabetes, to Francophone patients.

Taibu has also hired a registered practical nurse, a health promoter and a social worker specializing in diabetes who are French speakers.

Sylvie, another client whose surname wasn’t released, said Taibu’s French services let her ask the right questions about her health, helping “to allay my fears and unnecessary suffering” while diagnoses are made more quickly.

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Parks Canada is free to create a management plan and spend what the federal government promised Canada’s first "urban" national park, $170.5 million over 10 years and $10.6 million each year after that.

Parks Canada now controls 80 per cent of the 79 square kilometres of land pledged to the park, including 5,000 federal acres, previously banked for a Pickering airport, pledged in the last days of Stephen Harper’s government.

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Environmental Defence and Ontario Nature, meanwhile, look forward "to working with the government to ensure the new management plan will mean the watershed is protected for generations to come."

In a joint release, the groups said it is "critical" Parks Canada adopts a "strong" management plan "which builds upon the pre-existing plans" concerning the park.

In an interview, Anna Baggio of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Wildlands League said compromise is required to ensure the park is completed as planned.

"There are definitely challenges, but the point is to put nature first," said Baggio, director of conser-

Rouge tributary in Markham many considered vital for strengthening the Rouge’s ecology.

Most of the area is leased for tenant farming which, as a provincial release on Saturday said, "will also continue to be an important and protected activity in the park."

Jim Robb, FRW’s general manager, is now one of the few environmentalists who insist the park legislation should be further amended to require the park to "meet or exceed" existing provincial plans and legislation.

Liberal MPs were elected around the park after promising nothing less, and Liberals in Ottawa have "back-peddled" on their pledges, he has said.

Robb also warns against allowing agricultural tenants to sign 30-year leases before it’s clear how Parks Canada will carry out plans for restoration in the park.

few "entirely inconsequential" words.

"They were waiting for the election in Ottawa, because they didn’t want to transfer when Conservatives were in power."

A national park was a dream of Browes and others since before 1990, when Ontario’s Liberal government said it would protect the Rouge from the Oak Ridges Moraine to Lake Ontario.

The original, informally-managed Rouge Park never had a large budget or enforcement powers necessary to stop abuses like illegal hunting or dumping.

But groups such as Ontario Nature, Environmental Defence and Friends of the Rouge Watershed expressed alarm when the park legislation didn’t require Parks Canada to "meet or exceed" plans for the original park.

One of these was a 600metre-wide "ecological corridor" along the Little

ed the "ecological integrity" of the Rouge from a federal Conservative government whose park legislation, passed in 2015, didn’t ensure the ecosystem’s future health.

In 2012, Harper’s Tories announced a vision of a "people’s park" where farming, concentrated north of Steeles, would enjoy equal weight with the watershed’s fragile ecology.

Then Justin Trudeau’s Liberals took power, and the park legislation was amended by June to put "ecological integrity" above other considerations.

Pauline Browes, a former Conservative MP from Scarborough who’s also a longtime advocate for preservation of the Rouge, considers the province’s decisions politically motivated.

"It’s absolutely disgusting," Browes said on Friday, arguing changes to the legislation amounted to a

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vation planning for the group’s Ontario chapter, who attended the announcement. "It’s important to establish a baseline and work with Parks Canada to improve conditions over time."

A federal commitment was urgently required because of the unique nature of placing a wilderness area within a large urban area, said Baggio, adding federal protections could mean closing roads or other urban infrastructure if it negatively impacts the park.

Completing the urban park is critical toward satisfying a federal commitment to designate 17 per cent of Canadian land and water as conservation areas.

Currently, the number stands at just over 10 per cent, well below the global average of 15 per cent, said Baggio.

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To many college faculty, life is a hamster wheel of multiple contracts, as they pursue full-time status offered to them less and less.

"Even 10 years ago, it was a very different story," Ryan Mercer said on Monday, as picketers watched entrances to Centennial College’s Progress Campus in Scarborough.

Colleges "hold out that carrot" part-timers hope to get, but full-time postings are few, and many part-timers take on multiple contracts, spreading themselves thin to make ends meet, said Mercer.

"It’s a hard, exhausting life."

When his children were young, Mercer sacrificed additional contract money to spend time at home, but the decision brought him closer to poverty, he said.

Teaching English at Centennial, Mercer got fulltime status in 2013, after a few years, but said he knows instructors who have been on contract for decades.

As the strike by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union entered its

second week, Mercer, who grew up in Scarborough, said he knows students’ lives are being disrupted, but hopes they can see the bigger picture.

Their younger siblings or children, he argued, will have a lower quality of education unless the system is repaired by lowering proportions of contract and part-time employees.

Centennial says 72.6 per cent of its teachers aren’t full-time, "slightly less than the Ontario college system average." This includes 589 part-timers and 298 "sessional" part timers, who aren’t unionized.

The college also has 373 unionized "partial load" staff, who work seven to 12 hours a week on contract, and 476 unionized full-time faculty.

Chris Brown, a full-time math and statistics professor with 18 years at Centennial, said dependence on part-time and contract faculty has "reached quite a dire proportion."

He blames "an almost generation-long decline in the province’s support of the college system."

Brown remembers the 2006 faculty strike, which continued for three and a half weeks. He said the government can do more than encourage bargaining teams to return to the table.

"I think they have the right to demand it."

Centennial says it will try keeping students in field placements during the strike, and students on coop work terms shouldn’t be affected.

Most in-class and online part-time courses will continue, and "we will do all we can to keep the impact of the strike to a minimum," the college said on its website.

Though some express support with the #standwithfaculty hashtag, other students were voicing anxiety and frustration about the strike.

An online petition demanding refunds for each day the strike continues hit 105,000 supporters on Tuesday, and its organizers, tired of "being held hostage by this work stoppage," posted a message saying they would meet three provincial parties this week, telling them "this impasse is unacceptable."

Centennial, meanwhile, said refunds are up to the province to decide, but the college "does not calculate your tuition daily."

Saying students "are feeling increasingly helpless and frustrated," the College Student Alliance plans a rally at Queen’s Park, on Wednesday, Nov. 1 to demand both sides make a deal "immediately."

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Last year’s event raised $50,000 for the hospital and entertained 200 guests.

"It’s a great way to pick up Christmas presents early," McKelvie added.

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Scarborough’s Women of Philanthropy are on a mission to support women’s health, and a Nov. 9 gathering in Guildwood will certainly do that.

Sip, Shop and Celebrate Women, Scarborough’s Women of Philanthropy’s (SWP) signature event, returns on Thursday, Nov. 9 with at least 20 local vendors and a wide selection of auction items and draws at the newly restored Guild Inn Estates.

Scarborough and Rouge Hospital is a centre of excellence for breast imaging, and diagnostic imaging departments at its General and Centenary sites "use cutting-edge digital mammography systems that allow for clearer images and faster results," says Jennifer McKelvie,

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Halloween Scavenger Hunt WHEN: 4:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m WHERE: Toronto Public Library Highland Creek Library, 3550 Ellesmere Rd, Toronto CONTACT: Highland Creek, 416-396-8876 Boo! Join for a scary, howling time looking for scary items around the library.Drop in.

Scottish Country Dancing WHEN: 7:00 p.m - 8:30 p.m WHERE: Fallingbrook Presbyterian Church, 31 Wood Glen Dr, Toronto CONTACT: 416-266-3609 COST: $6 per class Come and make new friends, get exercise and learn a new dance style.All are welcome. No partner, no problem, we will have a partner for you. l Saturday, October 28 Malvern 2025 Summit WHEN: 10:00 a.m - 4:00 p.m

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Mistletoe Marketplace WHEN: 9:00 a.m - 1:00 p.m WHERE: St. Paul’s United Church, 200 McIntosh St., Toronto CONTACT: 416-261-4222 Lots of vendors, penny raffle, bake sale, treasure room and a lunch counter.

Christmas Bazaar WHEN: 9:30 a.m - 2:00 p.m WHERE: St. Margaret in-the-Pines Anglican Church, 4130 Lawrence Ave. E, Toronto CONTACT: 416284-4121 Baked goodies, craft table, collectible table, books and DVDs, jewelry table, Internet Café and Lunch room, and more.

Annual Fall Sale WHEN: 10:00 a.m - 1:00 p.m WHERE: Knox Presbyterian Church, 4156 Sheppard Ave. E., Toronto CONTACT: Christine Lincoln, 416-293-0791, fusciaflamingo@yahoo.ca COST: Baking, books, treasures, jewelry, Christmas items, knitting, silent auction, and more.

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NIGHT OF DREAD: Wear your best black-and-white "dreadful" attire and join Clay and Paper Theatre, towering puppets, stilt walkers, fire-spinners and more as they walk Toronto’s streets Saturday, Oct. 28 from 5 to 9 p.m. at Dufferin Grove Park.

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HAUNTED HIGH PARK: Enter High Park after dark and discover the chilling legends and ghostly tales that have been spooking visitors of the park for decades and walk inside the candlelit rooms of the historic Colborne Lodge Oct. 27 to 29 at 7:30 p.m. in High Park. $32.50 per person.

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Autism programs for South Asian parents get funding MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Lakshmi Solomons’ young son Kevin wasn’t speaking, so his family couldn’t understand what he wanted.

"This led to severe behaviours which we did not know how to handle," the Scarborough woman told an audience at the South Asian Autism Awareness Centre on Ellesmere Road.

Newcomers to Canada two decades ago, Kevin’s parents felt isolated and confused, and this is without the language barrier South Asian people like her often have, Solomons said.

For families of a child with autism, parenthood comes with a greater degree of stress, and to support the child, you must support the families too, said Geeta Moorthy, SAAAC’s executive director.

If the caregivers - often New Canadians dealing with a cultural stigma placed on autism in Greater Toronto’s South Asian community - aren’t helped with the stress, they "can spiral into crisis," Moorthy said.

On Oct. 23, the province said it will spend $530,000 over two years on programs supporting SAAAC parents, an announcement Moorthy, who started the agency in her own home in 2008, called both a milestone and a powerful message.

One program, called Assessment, Development, Empowerment, will help parents find autismrelated services and learn basic behavioural teaching strategies.

The other, SAAAC Cares, will provide emotional post-diagnosis support and counselling to parents, in partnership with the Scarborough and Rouge Hospital.

"I know you are making a difference" Ontario Children and Youth Services Minister Michael Coteau told some of SAAAC’s 250 member families at a news conference.

Parents served by the organization "are not passive recipients," but an active volunteer base which put in 42,000 hours of service last year, said Dr. Lindy Zaretsky, SAAAC’s board president. "See this gym? They built it."

At SAAAC, Solomons said, parents felt needed and comfortable. "They could speak things they couldn’t speak outside.

That itself is a great relief," she said.

"We ultimately created a community."

Funding the support programs will make parents stronger and better equipped to take on the challenges autism poses, said Solomons, whose son, now 23, comes for SAAAC’s day program

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South Asian Autism Awareness Centre parent and single mother Anisa Ramji (left) feels her 10-year-old son Asim is doing well as a client at the centre, and she doesn’t hesitate to tell people he has moderate autism. "We need to teach society," she says. and learns life skills.

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Parents compare their children to others, so acceptance of an autism diagnosis is hard, she said.

"Once you accept it, it’s easier on you and easier on your son."

In spite of the stigma, Ramji has no problems telling people she meets that her son has moderate autism. "We need to teach society," she said.

From its small beginnings, the charity has grown to include 250 families, 150 volunteers and 14 staff.

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The plan is intended to ensure that recreation facilities’ growth keeps pace with Toronto’s population, which is expected to grow by 450,000 people over the next 20 years. That means making sure that existing facilities are maintained and expanded, and building some new facilities.

Staff have identified three areas that need it: downtown Toronto, central Etobicoke and southwest Scarborough, Ward 36 in particular.

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It will still be some time before any work starts. At this point, staff told the committee members that no specific location has been found for any of the new facilities and there is no plan to fund any of the improvements until 2019.

And it comes with a price tag: $2.1 billion over the next 20 years, with an annual investment of $37.8 million.

Ward 36 Councillor and budget chief Gary Crawford was cautious in supporting the plan.

"37.8 million doesn’t seem like a lot over 20 years, but it adds up when you look at the bigger budget context," he said. "This sounds great ...

It’s something we need to do, but then we bring it back to the budget and look at it in the context of our other priorities. There are those who say we have to raise taxes to make this happen. Well we don’t need to raise taxes to make this happen - we need to be working smarter."

Ward 21 Councillor Janet Davis said the city must find the money, as the city has already allowed much of its recreation infrastructure to degrade.

"We have to put up or shut up when it comes to building the kind of city we want, when it comes to making decisions around the budget," she said.

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Whittamore’s closing pick-your-own business After 60 years, farm will move to general crops SIMON MARTIN smartin@yrmg.com Gilbert Whittamore wanted to grow strawberries. He had a bought a 50acre farm on Steeles Avenue in 1952 with his wife Evelyn, and by 1957, he had a pretty good strawberry crop. The only problem was the weather conspired against him. A big rain came the July 1 weekend.

"We couldn’t commercially pick the strawberries anymore," he said.

While many of the berries were damaged there were still some that were in decent shape. Whittamore didn’t want to see them go to waste so he put a sign up on the road, pick-your-own strawberries.

A number of people saw the sign and came to take part. "We did a pretty good salvage job," Whittamore recalled.

The next year conditions weren’t ideal again.

"It wasn’t wet. It was dry.

The patch dried up after one picking," he said.

There were still some nice berries to be had here and

there so he put the sign up again and raised the price slightly.

Again a good number of people stopped to harvest the crop themselves.

"There was this one lady that was quite happy to chat with me," he said.

"She said, ’Gee this has been fun. You should do it every year’." That advice stuck with Whittamore and by 1959 he was selling strawberries to the public.

Fast-forward 58 years and Whittamore’s is the preeminent entertainment farm in the GTA. That’s why it was a shock when the farm announced earlier this year that 2017 would be the last year the farm is open to the public. The Whittamores will continue to own and farm the land, but the farm shop, Fun Farm Yard, pick-your-own and Pumpkinland facilities will no longer be operational.

On a sunny October weekday, the parking lot was jammed with school buses and cars as people made one last visit to the farm before it closes to the public Oct. 31.

A multi-generational customer is the norm not the exception when it comes to Whittamore’s.

People like Norman and

Margaret Hughes have been coming to the farm for more than 20 years.

"We’re sorry to see them go," Norman said. "It’s good crops. Very fresh with good service." Margaret used to make chili sauce and rhubarb jam herself.

But now she just comes to Whittamore’s to get her fix.

It’s much the same story for Helen McCubbin and Joanne Cleator from Scarborough. "We try to make it twice a year," McCubbin said. They have been coming to the farm for around 20 years and are sad to see it go. "They’ve always made good pie," Cleator said.

Laura Naumann came as a kid from Scarborough.

"It’s going to be really missed," she said. Having come to the farm as a kid, Naumann was happy for the chance for life to come full circle before it closed.

Toting a stroller with her baby, the family was about to set out for a journey in Pumpkinland. "It’s really nice that I get to bring her," she said.

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Oct. 31 will be bittersweet for Whittamore family l Continued from page 24

busy fixing up a driveway on the farm as customers poured in. At the end of the month, Frank, wife Suzanne and his brother Mike Whittamore will encounter a new reality. "It’s been a lot of fun," Frank said. "But it will be nice to make some changes and pursue new things."

When the family made the announcement that 2017 would be their last season in the spring the outpouring from the public was overwhelming, Frank said.

The Whittamore brothers are the ones who built up the farm as many know it now.

March 2, 1972 is a day many farmers won’t forget in the area. Gilbert Whittamore rhymed the date off like it was yesterday. That’s when it was announced his farm would be expropriated along with many in Pickering and Markham for the proposed Pickering Air-

port. After that decision, Gilbert ramped down his farming operation as he no longer owned the land. It wasn’t until the early 1980s that Whittamore’s ramped up operations when Mike and Frank told him they wanted to grow strawberries. "They wanted to grow 25 acres," he said. "Holy smokes. That’s an awful lot of strawberries." Gilbert said what you see of Whittamore’s now is a credit to his sons. They are the ones who had a vision to grow the business.

People visiting the farm are all Frank or Mike ever remember. "I was parking boy at eight-years-old," Mike said. "I remember July 1 thousands of people coming to the farm." Over the years, customers’ interactions with the farm has changed. With the food supply system greatly improving since the 1970s, Mike said there is much less preserving done. "There’s a lot less people doing 30 jars of

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As Oct. 31 approaches, Frank said the moment is bittersweet for the family.

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CONSUMER FEATURE

Global Kingdom Ministries celebrates Trinity Ravine Towers ground breaking Global Kingdom Ministries celebrated breaking ground on Oct. 19 for its Trinity Ravine Towers project.

Councillor Glenn DeBaeremaeker and representatives from MPP Mitzie Hunter and MP John McKay’s offices joined Global Kingdom Ministries and the community to mark the start of construction on the condominium.

In addition to the ceremony, guests enjoyed refreshments, goody bags and speeches from Global Kingdom Ministries Pastor Bob Johnston, Trinity Ravine Towers CEO Pastor Kern Kalideen and DeBaeremaeker.

The two tower condominium community is designed to house residents ages 55+. Pricing ranges from

$272,900 to $640,000 for suites from 527 sf to 1,189 sf, making options affordable to many.

Each suite features a full kitchen, a full or Juliet balcony, walk-in bathtubs, and access to medical support and 24hour emergency response. Also available are packages that include housekeeping and laundry services.

“A lifestyle with no lawn care or snow clearing and services that adapt to residents’ changing needs help allow residents to age in place, surrounded by their peers and within a welcoming environment for their friends and family,” says Kalideen.

The community will feature a library, media room, workshop, craft

room, salon, convenience store, coffee bar, computer labs, wellness centre, shuttle to Olympic-sized swimming pools, and more.

“Trinity Ravine Towers prioritizes the needs of its residents,” says Kalideen.

“The Reinders & Rieder architectural team that designed our classically inspired, light stone towers has been building its impressive portfolio since 1967, including churches, fitness and leisure complexes, commercial and industrial projects, and private schools, which has given them a thorough understanding of how personal evolution changes how people relate to their physical environment.”

Global Kingdom Ministries was

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that cares and shares.” The ministry made the move to 1250 Markham Rd. in 2008 and adopted the name Global Kingdom Ministries.

For more information, visit 1250 Markham Rd. or call 647-876-5433. To see floor plans and learn more, visit www.trinityravine.ca

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The work or act for which a nomination is being made must have taken place in the last five years. Posthumous nominations can be made for good work done in the past 10 years.

For the first time, the awards program included a ‘People’s Choice’ voting round, whereby the public could vote for their favourite nominee once a day between July 7 and Aug. 13. The eight nominees with the most votes across the categories were declared People’s Choice winners.

Another eight winners were

selected by Metroland Media Toronto staff, and assessed based on the following criteria: Impact – How their contributions have made a lasting difference to a person, a group or an issue in the community.

Inspiration – How the person serves as a role model or inspiration to others.

Challenges – What obstacles (social, personal or other) the nominee has overcome to make an impact in their community.

The final 16 award winners were officially announced at a gala event Oct. 19 in Toronto. For more information or to submit a nomination for next year, visit www.urbanheroes.ca

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It’s been exciting to see this concept grow. We at Metroland Media Toronto created the awards program in 2009, first in Etobicoke, and then expanded it in subsequent years to North York and Scarborough. This year, in conjunction with Canada’s 150th anniversary celebrations we decided to “go big or go home.” We merged our local awards programs into one, opening nominations to everyone in the city.

It was our most successful awards program to-date, with 65 very deserving nominations submitted by our readers, partners and contacts. For the first time, we hosted a ‘People’s Choice’

vote online that saw an incredible 16,000 unique votes cast for our nominees.

That an awards program like this can garner this kind of support, speaks to the value of recognizing our everyday heroes.

It was our intention to put the spotlight on our neighbours, our teachers, coaches, business leaders and volunteers – to seek out the people who make a real difference in our communities.

Those people serve as inspiration to the rest of us, and we feel it’s our job as a community news organization to bring those stories to light.

I offer my congratulations to our winners, and my thanks to the nominators for identifying this great group of citizens. Well done!

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Oksana Hrycyna brings cultural education to Ukraine

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t has been 10 years since Oksana Hrycyna went to Ukraine for the first time, as a volunteer counselor with the Toronto-based charity Help Us Help The Children.

For two weeks each summer, the high school teacher has been running a two-week summer camp helping orphaned children and refugee children from the war learn the skills and self-esteem that they will need when they leave the orphanages where they have spent their lives.

And in the 10th year, Hrycyna is more attached to the program than ever.

"Every summer I get a new family," she said. "I make it very clear to them that’s how I feel about them. And I have some counselors who come back (after having been campers) for the first time to volunteer, they refer to me as mama. I look at them with such pride."

Hrycyna got involved with the work in Ukraine young, coming out of the Ukrainian-Canadian community’s scouting program. Of Ukrainian descent herself, she volunteered through Help Us Help The Children, and eventually came to administer camps that help children who for one rea-

son or another are without parents or guardians engage with the world.

"The program is very intensive - it’s a two week program where every day they go through four different workshops," she said. "This includes candlemaking, leatherworking workshops, workshops in pottery.

Ukrainian culture is very rich so we teach a lot of folk art."

The young people in the program, aged six to 18, often have little connection to their own culture - and often no experience outside the walls of their orphanage homes. Some are refu-

gees from eastern Ukraine, displaced because their parents were killed in the war. But most are social orphans in state care because they may have family members but they are incapable of doing so.

"A lot are feeling the anxiety of having to leave an orphanage where everything’s been done for them and they’ve been treated with kid gloves, then they’ll be tossed into the world and having to fend for themselves," Hrycyna said.

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They do have their mama -- Oksana Hrycyna.

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Oksana Hrycyna has spent the past decade helping orphans in Ukraine develop life skills and explore their creativity through the Toronto-based Help Us Help The Children.

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A trained dancer, choreographer and television producer, Garfield has helmed Arts Etobicoke, growing the already thriving community arts organization into a very public presence in Toronto’s west-end neighbourhoods.

"I wanted very much to continue the legacy of my predecessor, Christine McIvor, while at the same time bringing fresh eyes to the organization," said Garfield, who retired from her role as executive director over the summer.

Garfield’s fresh perspec-

tive brought big, but evolutionary changes. The community arts council has been operating in Etobicoke since 1973 - and has been providing support through programs such as the President’s Legacy Scholarship Fund, which helps 16 young artists a year pursue an education in the arts.

Garfield maintained those programs, but also brought Arts Etobicoke face to face with the community.

She established the organization’s Storefront Gallery in Islington Village - which helped bring more west-end artists into the community.

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banNOISE, an urban arts youth training program and festival, and QMAP (Queer Media Arts Program) for LGBTQ youth in Rexdale.

"We created a ’gallery’ of

public art through the production of four human rights murals in collaboration with Amnesty International, and a fleet of 15 art-wrapped vehicles with Art on the Move,"

said Garfield.

The word "we" is crucial in Garfield’s lexicon.

"All of this work was done in collaboration with many, many artists, arts organizations and community groups, which only points to the vibrancy and dedication of the community arts sector in Etobicoke," she said. "I hoped we strengthened and

deepened people’s experience with artistic expression wherever it found them along their life’s journeys."

Garfield also brought people to local government, and was among the strongest of advocates for increased arts and culture spending.

But Garfield never forgot who was most important: the young artists, many of whom she mentored as they found their voices.

"In my view, mentorship is a precious, generous exchange between experience and ambition," she said. "In great mentorships, the learning flows both ways and can become one of the deepest, longest lasting relationships in one’s life."

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Nasser Rad gives away cars and hope

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asser Rad can’t solve all your problems, but he can provide you with a free ride.

Through his used car dealership Autorama, Rad gives away vehicles to individuals and families unable to afford the expense.

Through an online vote, he was selected as a 2017 Metroland Media Toronto Urban Hero in the field of Business.

"We try to make one of their problems go away," said Rad about the free car program for which he was honoured. "The main consideration is; can we help someone?"

The program started in 2015, when Rad and his staff at the dealership sought a way to offer direct assistance to people in need, beyond a monetary donation. As of September, Autorama has

awarded 10 free cars. Past Care to Share winners include a young Ajax woman who overcame a learning disability and bullying, to get into college and needed a vehicle to get to her summer job, counselling kids with developmental challenges. Other recipients are single mothers, new Canadians and others who could use a little bit of help.

Rad can relate.

Having arrived in Canada from Iran 27 years ago as a refugee with no money and only obstacles to success. Today, Autorama generates more than $20 million in annual sales, has sold more than 12,000 cars and has an inventory of 250 vehicles at its North York location, employing 20 people.

Every applicant is thoroughly interviewed and vetted by staff members work-

ing on their own time. In order not to influence the process, Rad doesn’t get involved until the very end.

Each winner undergoes a special "ceremony" for which everyone at Autorama pitches in to get the vehicle ready.

Every car must be certified for safety, cleaned and prepared. These are not $20,000 luxury rides, but practical vehicles durable, well-maintained and 100 per cent ready for the road. Applicants pay nothing out of pocket, save insurance. Each winner is treated like a regular customer.

Being in a position to help others acts as validation for Rad’s decision to immigrate to this country, he said.

"I wasn’t able to afford a car and now I can give them away for free," he said. "This could only happen in Canada."

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Hicks and the staff of Canadian Tire #192 located at 1019 Sheppard Ave. E. are certainly experts when it comes to fundraising. To date, the team has raised thousands of dollars for North York General Hospital’s ongoing campaign to replace 426 patient beds.

For his and his team’s efforts, Hicks and the Canadian Tire Store #192, have been nominated by the hospital and named Metroland Media Toronto’s Urban Hero.

An experienced fundraiser, Hicks said the personal touch helps in attracting donors, whether they’ve given in the past or not. He reached to his own contact base of businesses and individuals with personal entreaties for monies to support the hospital.

“You need to make them feel like they’re a VIP, especially the long-time sponsors,” Hicks said. “You acknowledge the importance of giving and look to build more relationships.”

“You really learn to rely on the community.”

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“Some have had children born there, so it didn’t take much convincing to help out.”

Sitting on the foundation board has convinced Hicks of the continual need to solicit more donations to help pay for out of pocket expenses, like new beds, equipment or capital expansions. It gives him motivation to keep coming back to long time donors in the hopes they will have a little bit more to spare.

“It’s always rewarding to see the money raised go to something which will really help.”

played a pivotal role attracting sponsors to the hospital’s own fundraising events like the Masters Golf Tournament and Heart of Fashion. He also challenged his staff at Canadian Tire to organize their own efforts.

Customers at the store were encouraged to donate by cashiers, who were coached on the fine art of the “soft sell”, Hicks said.

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Urban Hero Martha Nyame started school in Ghana

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t was as if God spoke to her.

Martha Nyame was back in Abosamso, a village in Ghana’s Ashanti Region, building her family a house.

As the roof was being attached, Nyame, who had left for Canada eight years before, decided she would give the house to poor children she didn’t know.

Her parents were farmers, and poor, so Nyame, a 2017 winner of Metroland Media’s Urban Hero Award in the Good Neighbour category, never attended school.

One of eight children, she grew up "sad", she remembers, "because my mom don’t [sic] have money".

Returning to Ghana in 1994, she saw many children who faced a childhood like hers. They were "outside, crying and hungry," she says.

In those moments, "I feel pain. Something happens to me."

The following year, she opened the Abosamso Charity and Orphanage International, a free school and an orphanage which originally welcomed 75 children. Some arrived there as infants.

There’s a government school in Abosamso where most local children go, but like Nyame’s parents, many families can’t afford the fees or the costs of uniforms, books, and stationary.

During her first years in Canada, says the Rexdale resident, she felt just going outside was difficult, because she couldn’t speak or count in English.

"I didn’t know my left from my right," she says.

The school kept expanding. Nyame hired qualified teachers and a cook. Meanwhile, in Cana-

da, she did factory jobs and earned extra money sorting mail for a courier company.

Always, she sent whatever she could to Abosamso, but in 2003, Nyame was told she had fibromyalgia.

The condition has worsened, and now she has arthritis too.

Since 2013, she hasn’t been able to work. Children with parents at the school had to go home; now only 18 remain, all orphans or abandoned.

Nyame still sends them whatever she can, but worries it’s not enough. She is disbanding the school, because she can’’t pay its teachers their wages.

Her charity (www.abosamso.com) can still use any form of support for the orphans which remain in her care, including gifts of clothing and other items, or donations as small as $5.

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very day is a new day for doing good," says Dikema Etto, a 2017 winner of Metroland Media’s Urban Hero Award in the Good Neighbour category.

Everything he does is founded on one principle: "All is given to me by my Creator."

First thing each morning, he asks that Creator to open his eyes, so he can see the needs of other human beings, and Etto asks for a chance to do something to help them.

"We are each called to be a blessing, period," he says in his home in Scarborough’s Woburn area.

That’s why, when Etto celebrated his 40th birthday in downtown Toronto with chefs and musicians in 2015, he invited people who were homeless.

It’s why he created A Fresh Start, a drive to distribute personal care items to Syrian refugees in Canada. People he had never met gave and donated space to store items.

People are eager to get involved in charity work; you just have to ask, Etto says.

For instilling his instinct to give, which "follows me hand and foot, like a shadow," Etto credits his mother Veronica - a "Bible

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Urban Hero Dikema Etto has been recognized for his work collecting bread and other items for Toronto’s needy. Etto says he needs to practice what he believes in. "Every day is a new day for doing good," he says. lady" who passed last year but taught him from an early age to visit the sick and feed the hungry - and his wife Noreen, who "makes my engine run" and is mother to their five children.

At 34, tired of "vain things," Etto got rebaptised and examined his life, asking the Creator to help him make the best use of his remaining years.

He practices what he believes in, and takes a hands-on approach, he says, since nothing beats meeting the people you’re serving.

"I have no love of writ-

ing cheques," says Etto, who for eight years has picked up and distributed food and care items to homeless people downtown through StreetFeed.

He knows StreetFeed’s early-morning appearances, made whether or not it’s raining or snowing, give desperate people hope.

People call Etto, who is educated as a paralegal, but works as an independent wealth manager, to offer food, and he brings it to neighbours, food banks, and other places.

His goals include teaching financial literacy.

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Johann Fisch of Etobicoke stands in the forest he started by planting five trees in Broadacres Park in 1981. For his dedication to the environment and to beautifying his community, Fisch has been recognized with an Urban Hero Award.

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or the past 36 years, Etobian Johann Fisch has been turning Broadacres Park into a quiet, forested oasis.

The German-born Fisch first gained a passion for environmental issues as a nine-year-old boy in his native country. An old man - 60 years on, Fisch does not recall his name - helped foster a love of all things green, which led to Fisch eventually planting trees in the Etobicoke park in 1981.

"I was thinking of the future and the environment and I found the perfect spot to plant some trees and show people it’s possible," said Fisch, who is hearing impaired, through his son and interpreter, Chris.

While the city typically

frowns on civilians planting trees in public parks, no one stopped Fisch, and over the years the forest in Broadacres Park has grown to impressive proportions with thousands of trees and other plants.

To this day, he can be found planting every Earth Day, and he regularly drops by the forest he started to clean up or tend to a small vegetable garden he started there.

"Anyone is free to use the (vegetable) garden," he said through his son. "Anyone who is struggling to find food is free to take some."

Fisch said that while awareness of environmental issues has grown, not enough is being done to protect the planet.

"I’ve lived in the past,

seen what it’s like the present - it’s getting a little worse - and I’m worried about the future," he said. "I feel like the future’s very bleak . over 60 years, I’ve seen the changes for myself."

Having single-handedly started a forest in the city, he knows it’s possible for every single person to make a difference, though he notes that more hands in the soil will make for lighter work.

He is happy to join up with volunteers, either for his Earth Day plant or to help maintain the forest by cleaning up litter that collects there.

He can often be found in the heart of the forest, where he planted his first five trees 36 years ago.

"This is where my heart is," he said.

he depth and breadth of Alice Cheng’s work on environmental issues would be impressive for anyone; but, given her youth, what she has accomplished is nothing short of astounding.

A Grade 11 student in the international baccalaureate program at Victoria Park Collegiate Institute, Cheng has started up her own not-for-profit social venture that aims to serve as a one-stop hub where young people can learn about sustainability and monitor their consumption habits. The initiative, Global Figure, also serves to support other youth-led initiatives.

"Ideally, I want to make youth rethink the way we consume things - everyday products or even media," she said. "In an urban setting, it can be hard to keep track of what you’re consuming."

Global Figure also sells sustainable products, with Cheng using the funds raised to support other grassroots youth-led initiatives.

"It’s a way to get youth more involved and to recognize youth out there who are making a difference in the world," she said.

In addition to starting up Global Figure at the age of 15, Cheng has served as copresident of the Toronto

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"In school, you can be so focused on upcoming projects that are due, you don’t always have time to think about the big issues," she said. "It’s not that youth don’t care about these issues. It’s that they often don’t have time to address them."

Cheng acknowledges that despite her vast work in the environmental field, she still has a lot to learn herself.

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osé Alberto Flores is paying it forward.

The educator and People’s Choice Urban Hero Award winner for Education experienced first-hand how having caring teachers could make all the difference between young people sinking or soaring in the classroom.

When Flores moved to Toronto from El Salvador 24 years ago, there were many teachers who took time to get to know and support him in his studies, he said.

"They wanted me to give 200 per cent," he said.

"They were strong role models who pushed me

and supported me. Just because I came from humble beginnings didn’t mean doors would close."

Flores just wrapped up five years as vice-principal of St. Mother Teresa Catholic Academy in Malvern, where he was known for his compassion toward students and getting to know them as people.

"I wanted to give the community all they needed," he said. "If a student is not motivated to come (to school), I would take time to talk with them. Each student has a story."

Flores, who is now viceprincipal of Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary

School and Regional Arts Centre in Bloor West Village, would pay for breakfast and bring it to class for students who couldn’t afford to buy it on their own, and if they were falling behind with the workload, would help organize their studies.

"We’re a team in the school with the parents as well," he said. "I want the students to be successful.

They need structure and if they don’t get it, we fail them as a system."

Flores spent years building trust with students by being transparent and having an opendoor policy, he said.

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and need to be treated with respect," he said.

"Yes, I’m vice-principal, but I’m also a role model

and I need to model with respect. At the end of the day, I want you to be in school and I want you to

graduate."

He takes care of paperwork at the end of the school day so he can spend time during the day chatting with students on their spares and visiting classrooms.

"I ask their opinions on school life," he said. "I’m not a vice-principal who disciplines. I’m a caring adult who supports you."

Park Lane school staff honoured for their dedication

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"Everyone is so unique and has so many strengths," she said.

"They’ve taught me to live one day at a time, to love everyone around us, and to see everyone from a different perspective and not to judge; to be open and have an open heart."

Leung Tou has been principal of the school for developmentally disabled students for four years. Recently, she and her staff were named winners of the

Urban Hero Award for Education by judging panel.

"It’s definitely an honour," she said. "I think of us as a whole family. This is an amazing attribute to the hard work my staff puts in every day."

The Leslie Street and Lawrence Avenue area school enrols 70 students aged four to 21 who have development disabilities.

Some 55 staff members help support students, ranging from teachers to nurses to occupational therapists.

"We follow an alternative curriculum focused on communication and functional life skills," Leung

Tou said. "Students come from all over Toronto. We teach students how to manage themselves and care for themselves."

Daily activities include an emphasis on hand and face-washing, setting the table, eating independently and preparing food, she said.

"Some students are nonverbal, so we teach them picture symbols," she said.

"We try to give students as much as a voice as possible."

Building independence is not only done on campus, but throughout the outside world, Leung Tou said.

"We take walks around the area, we go on TTC buses, we go swimming," she said. "We try to give them real-life, authentic experiences outside of the school.

We go out to concerts or bring concerts to the school."

And just like other schools do, the national anthem is played every day just at a different time.

"One student sings O Canada at the end of the day, as opposed to the start," she said. "We have a staggered entry at the start of the day, but at the end of the day, we are all together."

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Park Lane School principal Esther Leung Tou (centre) and members of the staff have been selected Urban Heroes.

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Nyarko, who has also won one of Metroland Media Toronto’s Urban Hero awards for health, said the film she directed and produced earlier this year was originally meant for a psychology course she was taking in university.

"We were instructed to make short videos on anything we learned throughout the course, and I decided to focus on depression," the 19-year-old digital storyteller and second-year university student said.

"The film shows how immensely trivialized mental illness is, and why it shouldn’t be so."

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niversity of Toronto Scarborough student Sharon Nyarko wants to challenge the misconceptions surrounding the scope, causes and effects of mental illness, and to generate a platform for discussion on the issue.

And her short film Beyond Words was aimed at doing just that.

In May, the film came in first place in a monthly film competition put on by Art With Impact, a California-based organization aimed at promoting mental wellness through art and media.

health is an issue that’s dear to her heart.

"I have myself been depressed and I know so many people who have gone through depression or some other form of mental illness," she said. "In some ways . I was talking to people whom I addressed during that period, my episode, vicariously through that video."

In the film, said Nyarko, she got to address issues that have been bottling up.

"It was refreshing letting those thing out," she said. "People began to speak up and share their own stories with me, so I didn’t feel alone."

Nyarko noted it was her "great support system" and faith that got her through her ordeal.

"The stigma and isolation are in many ways more debilitating than the illnesses themselves because they stop people from seeking help and seeking supports," she said. "Mental health and illness is not something that should be trivialized because it’s so real."

Nyarko said "it’s very touching" to be recognized as an Urban Hero.

"I hope to keep doing this (mental health advocacy work) for as long as I can," she noted.

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Sharon Nyarko is a winner of an Urban Hero award for health. She has done work in the de-stigmatization of mental illness through the medium of film.

North York surgeon goes beyond patient care

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"If I can spend six hours playing sports on a Saturday, why can’t I divide that in half and spend three hours playing sports, three hours doing something academic?" he said, adding he began working hard to improve his grades.

And when Gooden began to apply himself, he realized he had an interest in science.

"I just absorbed the material. . It felt natural," he said. "I had a science teacher who at one point said, ’You are really good at this.

You should consider becoming a doctor.’"

In university, Gooden said, his interest in medi-

verton Gooden’s career had a humble beginning.

As a student at York’s George Harvey Collegiate, he was focused on sports, not academics.

"I was struggling. I was getting D’s and C’s," said Gooden, a winner of Metroland’s Urban Hero Award for health. "I was barely keeping my head above water."

But in Grade 10, Gooden said he had a "light bulb moment" during a conversation with a school guidance counsellor.

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tivating his colleagues to also support the cause.

Gooden, a resident of the Lawrence Park neighbourhood, is also an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s faculty of medicine.

"It is sometimes challenging trying to fit everything into a calendar, but I absolutely enjoy it," Gooden said of his busy schedule. "I can’t think of a more rewarding profession. . I learn a lot from the patients that I meet on a daily basis and I find that opportunity to meet so many different people and learn from so many different people a real privilege."

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Social Issues Architect mentors youth through Community Design Initiative

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trailblazer is what Riverdale architect Paul Dowsett hopes to be when it comes to mentoring youth in the city of Toronto. He’s been doing just that for the past eight years through his Community Design Initiative, which led him to become one of two recipients of the Urban Hero Awards for social issues.

"It’s a weird feeling. It’s proud and humbling all at the same time. I’m a professional architect, so to be recognized as an urban hero for social issues is kind of interesting," Dowsett told Metroland Media.

"I don’t think most people in the world see architects as operating in the social realm. It’s something more architects should do and could do; it’s really part of our job description."

Mentoring youth has been a passion for Dowsett for the past 30 years, but it was in 2009 when he had the idea of mentoring youth in the Kingston Galloway/Orton Park east Scarboroughcommunity.

It began after he participated in a design charette with disadvantaged youth of the Scarborough community who were tasked with redesigning the East Scarborough Storefront community centre.

"We got to the end of that charette and we saw the enthusiasm of this youth, and the way they’ve latched on to it was so infectious that we could not let it stop there," Dowsett explained.

"So, we said ’let’s keep this going and mentor them through the process of design thinking and teach them about architecture

and sustainability.’"

Along the way, youth were also taught presentation, organizational, and leadership skills. It was also a career catalyst for many youth. Dowsett said he’s proud to say many of the participants have pursued university careers in engineering, architecture, urban planning, social development, and international affairs. Before the project, Dowsett said, for many, university wasn’t even on "their radar".

"I can’t count the number of kids who have gone to university and I feel like we had big part in that, and I don’t mean that in a boastful way," he said.

"Without this learning, they may not have gone on to university; it gave them a step up to think bigger and it’s great."

Paul Dowsett created the youth design project, known as Community Design Initiative, to help youth learn about design and make real decisions about their community centre. Paul and his team, through mentorship, made a lasting impact on the lives of youth.

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wo years ago, north Toronto resident Nicole German and her family were struck by tragedy with the sudden death of her 14-year-old daughter, Madeline "Maddie" Grace German Coulter.

Maddie was an advocate for youth mental illness and after her death, her mother became one too, which is why she created the Maddie Project.

"The Maddie Project is a legacy to my daughter and speaks to a wish that she’d expressed. She wanted to change the way youth access mental health care," said German.

"When she passed away, there was an up swell of the community wanting to do something. The work that I’ve done has really been a community effort, so it’s hard for me to take full credit because I look at this like a coming together of community for a common cause."

German is one of two Urban Hero recipients in the social issues category for her dedication to channeling her grief into something good for the community through the Maddie Project, which helps other teens across the country battling with mental health issues. The project’s goal is to create awareness by reducing the stigma and sparking conversations be-

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Nicole German is the founder of The Maddie Project, a grassroots movement focusing on opening a dialogue about youth mental health. tween youths, youths and their parents, teachers or coaches. It also aims to increase access to support for youth suffering from depression and mental health concerns.

She’s also partnered with North York General Hospital, the place where Maddie spent three months of her life in acute care. The Maddie Project has become the biggest community supporter of the Phillips House, the home of children and adolescent outpatients seeking mental health programs. Together they’ve raise over $1 million

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to create the 1.2-acre therapeutic healing garden named after her daughter.

"Maddie’s Healing Garden is really appropriate for her. She loved the outdoors and being physically active," German added.

"So it’s not only a wonderful legacy and an inspiring place, but it’ll give really tangible results in how it will be helpful to youths and their families in their journey through mental health issues. So it’s really around the fulfilment of her wish, and when she passed away, it was a natural area for us to contribute to."

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Toronto Argonauts’ Jamal Campbell remains humble to home

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oronto Argonauts’ offensive lineman Jamal Campbell keeps Toronto’s Jane and Finch neighbourhood close to his heart.

"Growing up in Jane and Finch is just like other communities. Obviously, it has its social problems, but my experience growing up there was a positive one because it created a lot of character," the 23-year-old said. "In terms of Jane and Finch as a community, I love the community."

The six-foot-seven-inch Canadian Football League sophomore remains humble to his home, which is

why he still lives there and continues to be a mentor for youth even after being drafted 22nd overall by the Argos in 2016.

"Growing up, I’ve seen so many of my friends and just kids I went to school with just not having the right guidance," he said.

"So when I talk to kids, students, I try to mentor them; I try to be the voice that I never heard and the voice that I also heard, you know, just trying to keep them, make them see the bigger picture."

He grew up mainly playing basketball at courts in the area and across the city, but it was only when

he was in Grade 11 at C. W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute when he discovered football through an Argos’ community program.

He said it took him some time to get used to the game, but once he got the swing of things, post-secondary schools came calling and he was off to York University, staying close to home.

"Being in Toronto, I was able to just stay involved in my community and stay involved in my family," he said. "It was just wonderful."

Campbell’s humbleness and his community outreach work, such as his

speaking at schools and other community events, are just some of the reasons why he was nominated for an Urban Hero award by his close friend’s older brother, Paul Nguyen.

"I think he has a really bright future and I’m looking forward seeing him go even further," Nguyen said.

Although his career is young, Campbell hopes he will be remembered as a respectful player and person.

"That’s all I really want," he said. "I want to be the best version of me on and off the field."

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Toronto Argonauts’ offensive lineman Jamal Campbell has won an Urban Hero Award in the People’s Choice sports category. The Jane and Finch native still lives in the area and continues to give back to his neighbourhood despite his new found fame.

Jennifer Smith helps girls, women enjoy playing hockey

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ennifer Smith loves everything about hockey.

Growing up, she would watch the sport on television and play lots of it on the rink and on the street.

But she never played organized hockey until she attended the University of Toronto and joined a women’s intramural league.

"I played for four years and really didn’t think I’d play hockey after that," she said, until she found out about a women’s recreational league starting up in 1992.

"I’ve played ever since," she added.

Now 49, Smith is the president of the Toronto Leaside

Girls Hockey Association, which operates out of the city’s east end.

She became involved with the organization back in 2003 as an assistant coach of her daughter’s hockey team.

"I don’t think I would have ever imagined in 2003 that 14 years later I would have had this incredible opportunity to help with our board, with our hundreds of volunteers, to shape and grow this organization in the way that we have," she said.

Founded in 1974, it was established to create opportunities for girls and women, regardless of their skill lev-

el.

Currently, the association operates a wide-range of programs with over 1,600 members.

"Creating a solid, positive

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Toronto Leaside Girls Hockey Association president Jennifer Smith settles in for another night at Leaside Memorial Community Gardens, as the Toronto Leaside Junior Wildcats practise behind her.

Smith has been selected as an Urban Hero in the sports category in recognition of her dedication to girls’ hockey.

environment for these athletes is important," Smith said.

Her commitment and passion for helping women in hockey is what earned

her a nomination for an Urban Hero award from her colleague June Smyth.

"She just wants every girl who’s interested in playing to be able to play at the best

level for them and to love the game," Smyth said. "I’ve always admired Jennifer and looked up to her because not only is she dealing with a difficult position, but she manages it with grace and understanding and really tries to help people."

Smith said she’s happy being recognized for her work, but she said she can’t do it alone.

"There’s 13 of us on this board, and there are hundreds of volunteers in this organization . I’m just one person; it takes many volunteers to put 1,600 players on the ice every week," she said.

"This is lovely, but really, it’s a team award."

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Groups of volunteers women, faith leaders, others - helped with construction, and will complete the next two townhouse blocks within two years.

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