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KIM ZARZOUR kzarzour@yrmg.com Tucked behind the overgrown bushes on a busy suburban highway, windowsills rotting, mouldy old Christmas decorations dripping off the back porch, Patrick Cooney’s house has seen better days - but better days may be ahead. A half-dozen city workers, politicians, planners and activists waded through the Markham property’s thigh-high weeds last week, swatting mosquitoes and staring up at the wreckage with enthusiasm. Could this be the place? The ad hoc group of visionaries, pragmatists and idealists were gathered at the 150-year-old farmhouse on Major Mackenzie Drive to work on a dream - one that Patrick Cooney, immigrant, labourer and father of six children, might approve. Michael Braithwaite led the group’s tour July 25. Executive director of Raising the Roof, a national organization seeking long-term solutions to homelessness, he described his vision of repurposing vacant heritage homes across the country for affordable housing. The way he sees it, developers, government and local municipalities could donate or provide longterm lease agreements - at a price of $1 for 10 to 20 years - for unused buildings like the old Cooney homestead, which could then be renovated for rental housing with construction help from marginalized, unemployed youth. It’s an idea he and Toronto and Region Conservation Authority’s Darryl
Gray came up with at York Region’s Human Services Planning Board recently after partnering on a similar project last fall, converting a TRCA-owned home on Mill Street in Markham to a three-bedroom dwelling for at-risk youth. They believe their new venture, which they’ve dubbed "Reside," can tackle two issues at once: the affordable housing shortage, and at-risk youth. Rather than focusing on building new housing, which is a major financial, time and ecological investment, Braithwaite and Gray propose an alternative solution: transforming the existing stock of empty buildings into affordable homes. There’s plenty out there. The conservation authority owns 118 homes across the GTA watershed, obtained as part of the acquisition of natural heritage land and green space; municipalities, in their quest to preserve historic buildings, also end up with vacant homes needing purpose. Nobody likes a vacant building - not the neighbours, who worry about vandalism and deterioration, nor the developers or municipalities responsible for maintaining them. The homes would be renovated with through Building Up, a nonprofit social enterprise that trains and employs marginalized youths to keep them from experiencing homelessness themselves. Similar initiatives have been successful in the Netherlands, Sydney and the U.K. But first, the Reside team needs to find a building to showcase their idea.
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Marc Soberano of Building Up (from left), Markham Councillor Karen Rea and Michael Braithwaite of Raising the Roof help launch a new initiative piloted in York Region - hiring at-risk youth to help renovate vacant homes and turning them into affordable housing like this one in Markham. Last week they visited the Cooney house, the 100year-old Raymer Wambold house on Markham Road, and a former church house in Caledon. Local councillor Karen Rea helped lead the factfinding tour in Markham. "We have a huge issue here with the price of houses, and rental rates are astronomical. We need to stop passing the buck, saying it’s not a municipal issue, saying it’s the region’s issue or the province’s. It’s everyone’s." A member of the heritage committee, Rae said the city has 65 vacant heritage homes and, like most municipalities, an ongoing struggle with "demolition
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Court ruling shows anti-SLAPP law working as intended Participating in the discussion about any number of issues of public interest should feel just a little bit safer thanks to a court ruling handed down by an Ontario judge last week. The case in question saw Stouffville teacher Katie Mohammed on the receiving end of a $120,000 lawsuit launched by United Soils Management over comments she had posted to a pair of Facebook groups in September 2016 expressing concern that fill being deposited in a pit on a United Soils-owned property on Ninth Line could contain harmful contaminants. Shortly after Mohammed made her posts, a lawyer for United Soils sent a letter demanding she retract and apologize for her statements, which she promptly did out of fear of litigation. Despite this, United Soils proceeded with legal action anyway. In his written decision released July 25, Justice Thomas R. Lederer questioned United Soils’ pursuit of a lawsuit even after having received its demanded apology and concluded it was "a continuation of its desire to intimidate." "The proceeding is not only without substantial merit. "There is no merit," he added. Lederer also awarded $7,500 in damages to Mohammed via the province’s anti-SLAPP legislation. It’s the first time damages have been awarded to a defendant under the relatively new law, according to Sotos LLP who represented Mohammed, and may set a precedent for future cases. Ontario’s Protection of Public Participation Act came into effect in November 2015 with the intent of permitting the province’s residents to take part in the public discourse without the risk of governments, corporations or powerful individuals using the courts to intimidate and/or censor them with strategic litigation against public participation, or SLAPP, suits. Given that waging a battle in the courts - even a justified one - is almost always an expensive proposition, the spectre of being hit with a SLAPP can have a chilling effect on free speech and prevent civic-minded citizens from getting involved in the process. Numerous examples exist in Ontario, and beyond, where politicians and large corporations alike have turned to the courts and litigation to silence vocal critics and discourage others from getting involved. When this happens, democracy suffers. That’s why this victory for Mohammed isn’t simply a case of a single citizen triumphing over an attempt by a corporation to silence her, but a demonstration the antiSLAPP law is working as it should. And that’s good for all of us. The justice system is about just that: justice. It’s not a cudgel with which the wealthy and powerful can stifle legitimate criticism.
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• LETTERS & COMMENTARY • Garbage, speeding irksome in Thornhill Woods Re: LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Traffic safety, garbage of concern in Vaughan, July 16. I live in Thornhill Woods area and unofficially renamed it to Garbagehill Woods for the following reasons: People put all kinds of garbage - heaps of it - on the curb any time they feel like it even if it is a day or two after the bi-weekly garbage collection. So we have to drive by, walk by and observe these monumental heaps of garbage waiting for the raccoons to rip apart for the next two weeks, or pose a safety hazard to children and pedestrians who have to avoid something falling
on them or possibly cutting them. People here must live like pigs; I would hate to see inside their homes. They don’t care and must be very proud of their mounds of garbage displayed for everyone to see. Yes, I inform bylaw enforcement, and they respond almost a week later. What is the use? People also do not compact their blue box waste and on windy days, their debris is everywhere and you just drive by it knowing that it was theirs that blew away. Then there was a comment as to why there is no garbage containers beside park benches. Well initially there was, but the containers get filled and never get emptied, so the containers were removed because there are
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unsightly. I know for a fact that some residents, repeat offenders, have been fined, but doesn’t seem to help. Then there is the post box areas. Some have blue boxes for the junk mail, but never get emptied, thus another mess everywhere. Why can’t the waste collection people stop and empty these blue boxes weekly? It is not additional volume as it would have been picked up at each home anyway! I might as well add one more off topic: speeders. I observe more vehicles do not stop at stop signs whether turning left or right or straight through cars, trucks, tow trucks, buses, yes buses, just in a hurry to get to the next stop sign if they can stop for it. Yes, I report this to the
police, and they tell me to go online and register the incident. They ask for the licence plate ID, yeah right, at those speeds, not happening. There is no place online to complain about multiple ongoing complaints and does not allow you to proceed to send the report, so I put as a plate ID as 2fast2C. Anyway, nothing appears to resolve the problems on our streets, the police just can’t be everywhere all the time, I understand that. Welcome to Garbagehill Woods. Alex Szkabarnicki Thornhill
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Major Investment in Public Golf with Launch of Copper Creek Golf Group Iconic Copper Creek Shares its Signature Excellence at Public Golf Clubs in GTA and Niagara (Kleinburg, ON) - There hasn’t been much growth in public Golf in Ontario for some time, but that is now changing. The newly formed Copper Creek Golf Group has made significant investments to offer exceptional conditions at four playable courses in Greater Toronto and Niagara, and they are all open to the public. “Copper Creek is renowned for its high quality experience on the links, in our clubhouse, and in our dining and banquet rooms. We are now sharing that signature excellence through the Copper Creek Golf Group,” announced John Young, Chief Operating Officer of Copper Creek Golf Group. “We’re growing and investing in public golf in Ontario. That is something that hasn’t happened for some time.” Watson’s Glen in Pickering, Upper Unionville in Markham, Peninsula Lakes in Niagara, and Copper Creek in Kleinburg are the four founding clubs of the Copper Creek Golf Group. The public can enjoy the same high standard of superior conditions and appreciated extras, regardless of the price point.
“The courses are all beautiful and they are playable. We also offer appreciated extras, like courtesy practice balls. We respect and value people’s time by booking in 10 minute tee time intervals, meaning you can play 18 holes in under 4 – ½ hours,” explains Mr. Young. While Watson’s Glen focuses on the pure golfer, with licensed clubhouse, cart and new professional food service trailer at the 10th tee, the other three clubs all have beautiful lounges, restaurants and banquet rooms, offering the public the chance to experience the picturesque views and culinary excellence. “Copper Creek hosts incredible weddings and functions and while the other clubs are smaller, the same high standard can be experienced. If you have never visited these clubs or haven’t been to one in a while, come by, either for a round of golf or a fabulous meal. It’s the experience you want, where you want it, in the time you have.” Go to www.ccgolf.ca for bookings.
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Charges have been dropped against all suspects who had been accused following a lengthy OPP fraud investigation. The OPP’s anti-rackets branch health fraud investigation unit launched the investigation in March 2014 after receiving a complaint from the Ministry of Health’s assistive devices program regarding a registered vendor of mobility aids and several registered authorizers. Police alleged the vendors and authorizers were colluding to pre-
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person, Mark Nesbitt, said the ministry alerted police when it suspected a concern but that’s where its role ended. "Though the charges related to this investigation have been dropped, an official notice has not yet been provided. The ministry will not comment on ongoing legal proceedings," he added in an email. Nesbitt did not respond to questions about whether the ministry has or will take steps to improve its rules. In addition to Redjvani, charges were dropped against Inna Dainov, of Thornhill, Darlene Robinson, of Barrie, Tetyana Sadova, of Toronto, Anand Santhagunam, of Toronto, Arvind Gupta, of Mississauga and Inderneet Arora, of Toronto. -with files from Jeremy Grimaldi
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PARENTS WITH YOUNG CHILDREN The Wills Lawyer Since I have started my wills practice, I have done many wills for couples with young children. One couple, in particular, had such an impact on me that I decided to write an article about what parents with young children need to know about wills. While I was taking notes in our first meeting, the wife looked at me and said “we have been wanting to do this for so long, but we put it off, and now I can finally sleep at night.” The husband then said “since our first child was born, Michelle Kotzer we’ve always been worried about what would happen to our children if we were in a catastrophic accident. We feel so much better that this is being done.” What happens if you pass away without a will leaving young children? Firstly, there is no executor in place to look after your estate on your death. Secondly, there is no guardian named who can look after your children. In fact, there could be a custody battle between your family and your spouse’s family over who should raise the children. As far as inheritance, your children will inherit everything you own at the age of eighteen. Remember how you were at eighteen. Do you think you could have handled a large inheritance? By law, your children would automatically receive their inheritance at eighteen regardless of their level of maturity. These are only some of the issues that occur, if you pass away without a will. No parent wants to leave a mess for their family.
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When making a will what are some things you should consider? First, who should you appoint as your executor? You can appoint your spouse as your primary executor. In fact, this is what is usually done. What about the back up executor? Who will look after your estate in case your spouse is not alive when you die? You can appoint someone else you trust like your parents or siblings. You should also consider whether the person you are appointing as executor has the time to take on the task. An executor may be trustworthy, but he or she may be unwilling to accept the appointment. Executors have the right to decline the appointment at the outset when they find out that they have been named. It is advisable to obtain your executor’s consent. What about the guardian? If you have minor children your will should appoint a guardian to look after them in the event that you and your spouse both pass away before your children reach the age of majority. Be careful about appointing a married couple as guardians. You should feel very confident about their ability to get along together before concluding an appointment of this nature. If they get separated or divorced, who will have custody of your children? For example, if you appoint your brother and his wife as guardians, and after your death they separate, will there be a custody battle for your children? To solve this, it might be prudent to appoint your brother alone. Your parents are not always the best choice as guardians because they may not out live you, and if they do, they may be elderly and unable to act.
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I am a wills lawyer at the office of Fish and Associates, 7951 Yonge Street, Thornhill, Ontario. You can contact me directly at 905-881-1500 (Ext. 22) or email me at mkotzer@fishlaw.ca or visit www.michellekotzer.com.
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have not been tested in court, but are the police’s record of their investigation and interviews. The documents state: – One staff member witnessed three alleged sexual abuse incidents but did not notify anyone for at least eight months. – After learning of the accusations, Mackenzie Health waited a month to contact some family members. – A manager told family members the hospital was "not obliged" by law to contact police unless the patient had been shot. – Once an official police investigation was underway - because of a complaint from a patient, not the hospital - some managers asked police not to contact family members of the alleged victims as it might "jeopardize the reputation of the hospital" and could result in the hospital being sued. – The hospital refused to give information, including the name of the staff member accused and the hospital’s investigation records, to officers. As a result, police were forced to go through the courts to get that information. – After he was fired from Mackenzie Health, Zadeh was able to seek new employment in the industry and was accused of additional assaults. The investigation prompted Police Chief Eric Jolliffe to stress to residents that they can’t rely on others, including public organizations, to share information with police. "Citizens . cannot always rely on others to report criminal offences," he wrote in an email to yorkregion.com about the case. PLEA DEAL On May 31, Zadeh walked away from Newmarket courthouse with a threeyear probation order after he pleaded guilty to slapping a patient on the rear end. Justice Joseph Kenkel granted Zadeh, 53, of Newmarket, a conditional discharge, finding that he had already served more days in
jail - four in all - then he would have received for that offence. The Crown said despite going through lengthy pretrial motions and scheduling five weeks’ worth of trial, it had reviewed the 13 charges and found there was little chance for conviction. Crown lawyer Erin Thomas said they agreed to the guilty plea in part because some of those expected to testify had "frailties". Zadeh worked at the Richmond Hill hospital from May 12, 2014 until he was fired Oct. 19, 2015. Between March and October 2015, his co-workers told police they witnessed or were told by patients that Zadeh engaged in several troubling incidents, including inserting his thumb in an elderly lady’s anus, rubbing another patient’s vagina in the shower and according to at least one unconfirmed account, rubbing and sucking on a woman’s breasts. According to the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, there is no legal obligation for PSWs to report incidents of sex assault or other forms of patient abuse to police unless working in a "long-term care facility." Zadeh was also accused of assaulting two more patients - one at Hadley Grange, an assisted living facility in Aurora, and another in the patient’s home. FAMILY CONTACTED POLICE Police were contacted by a victim’s daughter on Dec. 19, 2015, hours after she was told by Mackenzie Health executives that her mother had been "touched inappropriately" by a PSW. "When I first heard that, I thought someone had hit her" the daughter told yorkregion.com. When she asked if police had been contacted, director of quality and risk management Wendy Hooper told her "We’re not mandated to do that unless it’s a gunshot wound." "I said I can’t fathom this," she said. "You have an obligation, at least a moral obligation to tell the police." In January 2016 police filed the first of a series of
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Soja Zadeb, accused and cleared of sexually assaulting elderly patients at Mackenzie Health, walks into the Newmarket courthouse in May. ITOs. It states there were four suspected victims, but the patients were not identified by name. According to court documents, although Hooper instructed staff not to share victims’ names with police, the hospital’s patient care manager Charmaine Ambrose gave the names to police. During her interview with police, Ambrose refused to say that Zadeh’s patient care was "sexual in nature," instead choosing to call it "inappropriate and rough" - even though she signed a letter to Zadeh months earlier that stated patient care was "sexual and inappropriate in nature." Const. Stephanie Couture noted in her sworn statement that she thought Ambrose was afraid of "civil liability."
Hooper told police that Ambrose gave police the victims’ names contrary to her instructions. When Hooper was advised police would contact patients, she "attempted to persuade the detective to not contact them, as it would jeopardize the reputation of the hospital," the documents state. Hooper then told police she would be calling patients or their families to advise them police would be contacting them. The investigator asked her not to do so as it would compromise an ongoing criminal investigation. "(Hooper) did not acknowledge she would comply with the request," the document states. NON-DISCLOSURE ORDER As a result investigators sought and were granted a legally binding non-disclo-
sure order from the courts to prevent her from giving information to the victims. Hooper also told police "she could not remember" if there was a requirement for hospitals to report allegations of a criminal offence. "If given the chance to do things over in this incident, Wendy Hooper would not do anything differently and would still not contact police in regards to the sexual assault allegations," Couture concluded in her statement. Interviews by police with patients and staff indicate key members of the hospital’s leadership team were made aware of the allegations after staff spoke to a complainant, who asked that police not be notified. This included president and CEO Altaf Stationwala, executive vice-president Susan Kowlek, operations director for emergency, medicine and critical care Heather Riddell, manager of employee relations and diversity Julie Cook and human resources director Ashton White, according to the court document. For one patient’s daughter, the ordeal has been a harrowing one, which has left her mother weaker and her questioning not only the Canadian medical but legal system. "It’s really too hard to say what the effects have been," she said. "My family is going through feelings of guilt, they have to look at her daily knowing this. I feel like I’ve been victimized twice, I first had to hear someone violated my mother then I had to hear that he was convicted of nothing." She said she is now taking legal action against the hospital. Mackenzie Health issued a written statement June 15, 2016 and would not provide further comment after repeated requests.
The statement says if Zadeh was a member of a professional college, like a doctor or nurse, the process would have been to report to the college. REVISED PLAN "As PSWs are not a legislated health profession, we were unable to follow this process," the statement reads. "In light of these events, Mackenzie Health has taken the important step of revising the hospital’s police investigation policy to strengthen our ability to share information and report incidents to police." The hospital refused to provide specific details of that revised plan. Hooper did not respond to repeated requests for comment. The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term care said it does expect hospitals to "notify police of any potential criminal matters involving patients that take place within their facilities." However, it stops short of mandating it, explaining that reporting takes "control away from the victim on how they wish to be treated." "The ministry is considering its options with respect to the development of a mandatory registry for PSWs," the ministry said in a written statement. "A mandatory registry will ensure oversight and accountability of this professions and will ensure that patients, their families and employers can be confident that their PSW is qualified and provides safe care." Mackenzie Health operates the Richmond Hill hospital, the under-construction Vaughan hospital, long-term and interim longterm care facilities in partnership with UniversalCare, as well as a regional stroke centre and kidney disease program.
NEXT WEEK The headlines this summer have been jolting - from the Mackenzie Health PSW accused of sexually assaulting elderly patients, to an elderly Ottawa man punched by his PSW, to ex-nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer killing seniors in her care – but advocacy groups, and those who work in longterm care, say it’s just the tip of the iceberg. We look at how predators slip into our health care system and what must be done to make vulnerable seniors safe.
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TIM KELLY tkelly@yrmg.com The 44-year-old Vaughan father of three sons who was killed in a horrific car crash on Hwy. 48 July 27 is remembered as "a great friend to everyone". Steve Peticca of Woodbridge leaves behind his wife, Kristine, and sons Connor and Thomas. "This is really terrible and shocking to know that Steve is no longer with us," said Brice DSouza in an online tribute to Pettica on Monday. Peticca was called "a smart, kind, helpful guy that everyone loved," by Leigh-Ann Sysiuk, who said that she worked with him at Oracle for a short time. "Kristine, I can’t even imagine what you are going through right now." "Steve was someone you could always count on, a great friend to everyone, who was funny and fun to be around. We have lost
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him too soon and will miss him terribly," said Sharon Lobo and Jim Staios, who plan to plant a tree in his honour. Peticca was killed along with Oleksander Shutov, 34, of North York in the crash near Sutton that involved three gravel trucks, a cube van and an SUV. Shutov was a passenger
in the cube van and Peticca was the driver of the SUV. An adult and child were hospitalized after the crash. The child has been released from hospital and the condition of the adult is unknown. At the time of the crash, OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said the crash was the worst he’d seen in a while.
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Father of 2 killed in crash called ’great friend to everyone’
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(Above) A multi-vehicle fatal crash July 27 on Hwy. 48, north of Old Homestead Road, involved several transport trucks, commercial and passenger vehicles. Steve Peticca (left), 44, a Vaughan father of three, was killed in the crash. Crash reconstructionists are still trying to figure out what led up to the incident. Visitation will take place at the Vescio Funeral Home Woodbridge Chapel at 8101 Weston Rd. on Aug. 2 from 6 to 9 p.m. and Aug. 3
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Guess what? Vaughan has 115 languages TIM KELLY tkelly@yrmg.com He loves to tell everyone who will listen that Vaughan is home to more than 325,000 people who speak over 99 languages. But, according to 2011 official census data, it seems Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua may actually be understating that number - at least the number of languages, that is. When you factor in every language - including American Sign Language - indicated on the census for Vaughan, the total in 2011for the city was a whopping 115 languages. And, coming up in August, we’ll have an even clearer picture of just how many languages are spoken in Vaughan. That’s when the latest Census Canada data comes out with a precise breakdown of how many languages are spoken in the city and who speaks them. The total responses were 286,950 and English was the runaway leader at 131,765. Numbers two through 10
were Italian (40,405), Russian (18,705), Spanish (7,365), Punjabi (4,835), Tagalog (Filipino) (4,675), Hebrew (4,620), Persian (Farsi) (4,600), Chinese (4,465), and Portuguese (4,450). Numbers 11-20 were Urdu, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Korean, Tamil, Arabic, Romanian, Mandarin, Gujarati, and Polish. Numbers 21-30 were Semitic languages, French, Greek, Hindi, Turkish, Hungarian, Yiddish, Albanian, German, and Croatian. Numbers 31-40 were Ukrainian, Serbian, Armenian, Macedonian, Khmer (Cambodian), Ilocano, Bengali, Bulgarian, and Kurdish. Numbers 41-50 were Lao, Akan (Twi), Maltese, Slovenian, Dutch, Sinhala (Sinhalese), Japanese, Cushitic languages, Niger-Congo languages, and Malay. Numbers 51-60 were Slovak, Lithuanian, Chaochow (Teochow), Somali, Amharic, Pashto, Hakka, Sindhi, Bisayan languages, and Czech. Numbers 61-70 were Ma-
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EVENTS l Thursday, August 3 Choir seeking voices WHEN: 12:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m WHERE: Private residence, To be revealed after audition, Thornhill CONTACT: 905-731-8318 COST: Newest chamber choir in York Region, Chorisma, requires a few voices, particularly sopranos. Call for an audition. Next concerts: Oct. 14 and Dec. 4. l Friday, August 4 What Does Canada Mean to You? WHEN: 2:00 p.m - 3:00 p.m WHERE: Bathurst Clark Resource Library, 900 Clark Ave. W., Thornhill CONTACT: Bathurst Clark Resource Library, 905-653-7323, Librarian.Librarian@vaughan.ca, http://www.vaughanpl.info COST: Produce and shoot a movie that we will enter into the "Here’s My Canada" film contest. For ages seven to 12. Pre-register at the service desk. l Saturday, August 5 Al-anon, for anyone affected by someone else’s alcohol use WHEN: 11:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m WHERE: St. Mary’s Anglican Church, 10030 Yonge St., Richmond Hill CONTACT: Dave, 647408-7832, dave.m.mccann@gmail.com
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WHERE: St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 9860 Keele St., Vaughan CONTACT: 905-8322061, https://sites.google.com/ site/standrewspresbmaple/ home/vbs-2017 Four-day camp - teaching, music, visual arts, games, sports and snacks. l Wednesday, August 9 Free one hour family law advice WHEN: 8:30 a.m - 4:30 p.m WHERE: Community Legal Clinic of York Region, 21 Dunlop Street, Suite 200, Richmond Hill CONTACT: 905-508-5018 Do you live in Markham, Vaughan or Richmond Hill? Free family law advice every Wednesday afternoon. Please call for an appointment.
Markham Classic Cruisers Cruise Nights WHEN: 6:00 p.m - 10:00 p.m WHERE: Markham Museum, 9350 Markham Rd., Markham CONTACT: Eileen Baron COST: Everyone welcome. Come and enjoy an evening of classic, modified and unique vehicles.
5 things to do this weekend l Friday, August 4 What Does Canada Mean to You? WHEN: 2:00 p.m - 3:00 p.m WHERE: Bathurst Clark Resource Library, 900 Clark Ave. W., Thornhill CONTACT: 905-653-7323 Produce and shoot a movie that we will enter into the "Here’s My Canada" film contest. For ages seven to 12. Pre-register at the service desk. l Saturday, August 5 Aurora Farmers Market and Artisan Fair WHEN: 8:00 a.m - 1:00 p.m WHERE: Aurora Town Park, 49 Wells St., Aurora CONTACT: theaurorafarmersmarket.com Come see us on Saturdays at 8 a.m. - rain or shine. Parking is available at the GO Station. l Sunday, August 6 Dinner With Canada: Viola Desmond Edition WHEN: 4:00 p.m - 6:00 p.m WHERE: Old Town Hall, 460 Botsford St., Newmarket CONTACT: Alex Karolyi, alex@shadowpaththeatre.ca, https:// www.eventbrite.ca/e/dinner-withcanada-tickets-34020827210 COST: $18-$26
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Dinner with Canada is a pop-up theatrical dinner party reflecting a proud moment in Canadian history!Celebrate Nova Scotian business woman and civil rights pioneer, Viola Desmond - the 1st Canadian women to be featured on Canadian currency. l Monday, August 7 Celebrate Simcoe Day WHEN: 12:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m WHERE: Main Street Unionville, Main Street Unionville, Markham CONTACT: 905-477-0117
Spend the day on Main Street Unionville, with live music, entertainment, wagon rides. Blood Donor Clinic * Civic Monday * WHEN: 1:30 p.m - 7:30 p.m WHERE: Holiday Inn Express and Suites Newmarket, 100 Pony Dr., Newmarket CONTACT: 888-2366283, elaine.stpierre@blood.ca Summer donors needed to help hospital patients at this special holiday blood donor clinic! Appointments at #GiveLife.
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