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he first reaction to being told that some of our neighbours in the city are raising livestock in their backyards — even if it’s just chickens — might be “Ewww”. Thoughts of dirty animals, feathers flying about, unearthly cackling, barnyard smells and, of course, bird poop everywhere. The reality is far different, however, as shown in this month’s feature about at least one family’s experience with urban poultry. With rising food costs, keeping such animals is an option that several municipalities have wrestled with and many more might face in the future. On one hand, we are all concerned about potential health risks. Animals have been known to pass diseases on to humans (though mainly from creatures in the wild, not farm animals, some insist) and animals’ pens or yards would seem to be places you would not want children using as playgrounds. And certainly we would want any food products destined for human consumption to be carefully inspected and regulated. On the other hand, advocates might argue we could reap benefits other than economic in having such animals living among us. One theory

Eric McMillan, Editor-in-chief about the modern rise in allergies is that they are due to city folks’ lack of contact with such creatures at ages when they could develop immunities. It might also be mentally healthier for our citizenry to be raised in environments involving productive animals — “pets with benefits” as some wags have termed it (soon to be a movie featuring Justin Timberlake and an as-yet unnamed co-star). Joking aside, there are serious cases to be made here — though I suspect the result will depend more on the “Ewww” or “Wow” factors.

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A visit to one urban backyard in Vaughan where hens are kept for the eggs they produce for the family By Karolyn Coorsh

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n a steamy evening in July, chickens are on the loose in a Thornhill backyard. No overturned poultry truck here. For Cinnamon, Cutie, Gold and Ginger, this private patch of grass and concrete patio near Bathurst Street and Clark Avenue is home. The plucky foursome meander about, pecking on some feed laid out by Matt, their owner. Dinner is interrupted when Matt’s three daughters playfully chase their pets underneath a backyard trampoline. In a wooden coop the chickens rest and lay an egg a day. A peek inside reveals two cream-coloured eggs sitting neatly on a ledge. The chickens have been providing a protein breakfast for Matt’s family since April, when he picked them up from a farm two hours north of the city. It’s been a positive experience so far, he says. Beyond what he says are the health and taste benefits of eating non-processed eggs, the chickens are docile, amiable pets. “It’s so easy to take care of chickens,” says the father of four. “They’re clean, they’re quiet.” He points out a compost bin, which his pets contribute to with waste, and notes they help with pest control by eating bugs. It doesn’t faze him that keeping backyard chickens is illegal in Vaughan (although he prefers to leave his last name out of publication so as to avoid bylaw inspectors at his door). Matt hasn’t reinvented the notion of urban agriculture. There’s a growing crop of urban dwellers in Ontario municipalities who keep chickens as a means of bringing local, unprocessed food to the kitchen table. Some cities, including nearby Brampton, permit backyard chickens, but usually with provisions that limit number, space and distance from other properties. In Surrey, B.C., for instance, up to 12 heads of poultry, excluding roosters, are allowed for every one-acre lot. Other cities are not as warm to the idea. Earlier this year, two Toronto councillors called for a study into legalizing backyard chickens, but a licensing committee buried their inquiry indefinitely. If there’s currently a Vaughan contingent keeping chickens (and, according to Matt, there is), they’re flying under the radar. Thornhill councillor Alan Shefman says as far as he knows, Vaughan council has never debated the matter, which means it’s likely no one has ever seriously contested the fowl prohibition. A city spokesperson says Vaughan’s Enforcement Services is not aware of any attempts to change the bylaw, but they don’t keep a record of residents who may have requested one. He noted in previous years bylaw officers have been called in several time on complaints about backyard chickens, and once warned, residents complied with the bylaw. Shefman himself clucks at the idea of backyard chickens. While there’s some merit to the discussion, serious issues around cleanliness could arise, he says. “If you’re a bit of a slob and you don’t clean up after animals, there’s potential for mice and all sort of stuff being

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ther municipalities have lobbied their governments to legalize backyard chickens, with varying degrees of success:

Kingston is in the midst of a pilot project allowing residents to keep up to six backyard hens. Keepers must apply for a permit, pay a license fee and follow a slew of rules, including a curfew: chickens must be in their coop between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. When residents in Windsor could not successfully change the bylaw to permit backyard chickens, they built a chicken cooperative just outside the city. In 2011, Waterloo council voted against lifting a ban on city chickens but coops created before the ban was put in place could remain. associated with chicken coops,” Shefman says, adding he “would have some serious reservations about supporting it in most parts of the city.” Vaughan government may not be receiving an earful from residents about a bylaw change now, but that doesn’t mean they won’t in the future, says Joan Stonehocker, executive director of the York Region Food Network. Compiling data with a survey, the charitable organization is in the midst of developing of a food charter that would guide the region’s food policies and prioritize programming needs. Along with community kitchens and food co-op programs, the survey lists backyard chickens as one of several initiatives that could be supported by the food charter. Stonehocker says in shopping the survey around, they’ve found that people in various York Region

municipalities are taking a keen interest. Stonehocker, who once kept backyard chickens herself, supports the effort. “There’s nothing better than fresh, homegrown, free-run eggs,” she says. Matt says having previously worked as a food inspector, including what he referred to as two major egg facilities, he isn’t enamoured with processed eggs. “Your eyes really open wide just about the chemicals they use,” he says. It’s important to him and his wife to consume local and organic food, wherever possible. “I’m not an extremist, I just think this makes more sense,” he says. “If it was really a danger to society, a health hazard, I would never do it.” CONTINUED Page 6

After receiving a fine for keeping backyard chickens in 2010, East Gwillimbury resident Jason Froats launched a constitutional challenge to the town’s municipal bylaw. However, he withdrew the challenge due to legal representation costs and because it would set an “unhelpful precedent” for future cases if he were to lose, Froats says. In Alberta, a Killarney man is taking his constitutional challenge to court. According to news reports, Paul Hughes is challenging the city’s responsible pet bylaw that prohibits livestock unless the property is zoned for agricultural use rather than residential. According to a March 2012 article in the Calgary Sun, Hughes says he is willing to take his fight all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, if need be.

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Matt rebuffs the suggestion the chickens could carry disease, but Carolyn Young, of Sustain Ontario says concern over the avian flu is one reason why the backyard chicken debate is so controversial. “Depending on who you talk to, that is an outcome of largescale industrial farming, and some will say it’s from wild game,” says Young, adding those are only considered theories right now. She said other reasons governments are reluctant to tackle the matter is because it can be framed as an animal rights issue, and because backyard chickens is considered a “fringe issue,” one that would cost time and money to regulate. “But some might argue … this is something that’s happening anyway and by not having a registration process chicken-keeping will incur risk,” Young says. At a local level, Stonehocker suggests some city councils aren’t eager to broach the subject because it could lead to disputes. “I think municipal councillors spend a lot of their time fighting fires between neighbours and they don’t want to add another thing that is going to create problems that they’re going to have to deal with.” Some municipalities are looking at ways of being proactive. Stonehocker points out Kingston is currently undergoing a pilot project for backyard chickens that requires residents to make neighbours aware that they’re applying for a coop. While that may help offset the potential for neighbourly dispute, Matt says his neighbours love his chickens, and he adds, there’s a misconception that chickens cause odours and noise. “I think there’s better issues that the city could go after than the whole backyard chicken ban.”

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Animals prohibited from being kept in residential Vaughan, according to By-Law 53-2002: alligators, anteaters, armadillos, badgers, bats, bears, cattle, chimpanzees, cobras, cougars, coyotes, crocodiles, ducks, elephants, emus, flying foxes, fowls, foxes, geese, goats, gorillas, hares, hyenas, kangaroos, kiwis, leopards, lions, mink, mongooses, opossums, ostriches, otters, pheasants, pigs, porcupines, raccoons, rattlesnakes, scorpions, sheep, skunks, sloths, swans, screamers, tarantulas, tigers, turkeys, wallabies, weasels, zebras Matt, who said he’d seriously consider lobying for a bylaw change at city hall, briefly struggled with the idea that keeping the chickens illegally was setting a bad example for his kids. But ultimately, the good outweighed the potential for

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el to ensure that each student receives the attention he or she needs in order to grow and learn. Classes include lessons in their Street Safe/Bullies 2 Buddies programs, which teach non-physical self defence techniques and strategies. Both locations feature large training areas with wall-towall padded safety flooring and plenty of training equipment for all participants. Canada’s Best Karate is located at 2535 Major Mackenzie Dr in Maple (tel: 905-8798008) and 5100 Rutherford Rd in Woodbridge (tel: 905-893-3342).

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Kleinburg revisited

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WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED: All sorts of unique opportunities lie in Kleinburg, including this 200-year-old structure that boasts both food and shopping.

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here are not many places where you can eat lunch at a restaurant called the Doctor’s House, then go shopping for décor in a nearly 200-year-old former log house. You can in the historic Village of Kleinburg. Tucked away in the city’s northwest quadrant, Kleinburg is located in a narrow section of hilly land between two branches of the Humber River. Many say its odd location is the reason it has resisted heavy-duty development in recent years (the prospect of which I wrote about in the last edition of Vaughan Today). That’s certainly reflected in the pristine, natural feel of the village. Development has centered on Islington Avenue, preserving the surrounding walking trails for which Kleinburg is known. In fact, one of the first things I noticed about the village is how walkable it is. For someone far more familiar with Vaughan Mills than the wood mills of

Kleinburg, I was shocked to discover the entire village could be traversed in less than an hour. Islington Avenue sees constant foot activity, and for once, it’s not just people walking back to their cars. This gives the village a dynamic, vibrant feel, while still maintaining its homely appeal. But while you can be perfectly comfortable living in Kleinburg without a car, leaving is another story. The village is surrounded by sprawling highways and is not easily accessed via public transit. This is one of the many challenges Kleinburg faces in its journey for intensification, as catalogued last month. Apart from its walking trails and rustic buildings, Kleinburg is visited by a steady stream of tourists for its eclectic businesses. Some of the shops feel frozen in time, such as the vintage Kleinburg Barber Shop, where you can receive traditional tonsorial services with a dash of “authentic old world refinement” for good measure.

One of my personal favourite stores is the Kleinburg Rock Shop, a business in operation for more than 30 years, thriving solely from selling rocks, gems and “assorted spiritual gift items.” It’s also home to a cat named Smokey. A shop by the name of Terracotta Home & Garden also caught my eye while I was visiting the village. But it’s not so much the contents and history of the shop that intrigued me. You’ll find out why in a separate article I wrote on it for these pages, along with several other businesses profiled by other writers. I predict we’ll be writing about Kleinburg development and business for some years to come, as the local BIA is working to attract more commercial enterprises to the area and possibly to expand the village boundaries to accommodate a growing shopping and visitor industry. More to come.

Transplanting heritage By Omar Mosleh

ow does one haul over a 182-year-old log house from Jane Street and Major Mackenzie Drive over to Kleinburg? Very carefully, it turns out. The Murray-Diceman House is often considered one of Kleinburg’s landmarks and appears on the village’s postcard. Currently serving as the structure for Terracotta Home & Garden, it was previously the home of the Kleinburg Book Company. Pennsylvania Dutch United Empire Loyalist Isaac Diceman built the structure as a timber cabin in 1830. Kleinburg resident Paul Reinhardt stumbled upon the building, which was in a serious state of disrepair, at a CONTINUED Page 17

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A LOG WHILE: The Murray-Diceman House, built in 1830, was brought to Kleinburg in the mid-’90s.

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the popular Kawartha ice cream, which Pullano says customers line up for. “It’s been really busy,” she says. “People always want to come have breakfast and sit on the patio.” Other than the vast assortment of homemade food, Pullano adds that Kleinburg’s history has driven great traffic to her café. “Everybody comes here because of the heritage,” she says. After visiting the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, which features works of lauded Canadian artists like Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, gallery goers usually stop by for cappuccinos and homemade pies. Open until 12 am on weekends and 10 pm on weekdays, Cookie Crumble Café also offers catering services for corporate events.

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on Bons and Brittle isn’t your average candy store. With candies from Britain, Holland, Australia and France, owner Giovanna Luciani-Lamb is trying to create something different from the convenience store candy rack. “The welcoming feel we try to bring people when they walk in the doors is something unique,” she says of the shop she owns and operates with her family. “The store is sort of like an extension of myself and my experiences.” Bon Bons and Brittle, located at 10426 Islington Ave., is a specialty candy store, focusing on imported and gourmet candies from around the globe. “I just have a passion for candy,” she says. “It’s always been a passion of mine. I know there’s a niche to fill for people who want this sort of experience, and no one was catering to it in Kleinburg.” NOT JUST Page 17

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t starts as soon as Isla (nearly 3 years old) spots three bronze wolves near the entrance. She heads straight over to make friends, climbing on the back of one. Our visit to the McMichael Canadian Art Collection is already a success. Further along the path to the entrance, it takes only a minute of studying Bill Vazanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pictographic granite block for her to find an enormous turtle image on its surface. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intrigued. And right in front of the gallery, she comments the mama bear is talking to the baby. The sculptures leading to the galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s front doors have already captured this little girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest. Capturing the hearts of children and adults is the point here. Set in beautiful natural surroundings visible from many of the galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s large windows, the McMichael has to be one of Can-

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based artist Michele Karch-Ackerman and several volunteers, in commemoration of Canadian soldiers who fell in World War I.Â Titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Lost Boysâ&#x20AC;?, a reminder of Peter Panâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s companions, the idea is that these fallen too, will never grow old. Seeing a small child next to this display is particularly poignant for me. Children and art galleries are a great mixture. And nowhere is this more significant than at the McMichael. The colour and vibrancy of the paintings of the Group of Seven and those of artists like native artist, Norval Morriseau, are particularly appealing to children. And through their eyes, we can often see colours, shapes and patterns we might have missed. As we inspected A.Y. Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s painting â&#x20AC;&#x153;Red Mapleâ&#x20AC;?, Isla casually comments, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Look, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lots of water.â&#x20AC;? And I was just looking at the maple! I watched a grandmother standing in front of the same painting with a five-year-old in tow ask the child, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do you think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s summer time?â&#x20AC;? The little girl looked carefully and pronounced firmly, â&#x20AC;&#x153;No, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the fall. See, those leaves are red.â&#x20AC;? The point is that children can develop an early appreciation of art if we take the time to expose them to it. The McMichael makes a special effort to include families in their programming. Family Sundays â&#x20AC;&#x201D; usually the second Sunday of each month â&#x20AC;&#x201D; offers family activities like guided nature walks, building a campsite, painting in the woods, and more. There are even performances â&#x20AC;&#x201D; this weekend, Duffelbag

Theatre presented Robin Hood. These are all free with admission. In August, Family Sunday is part of the Toronto IndigenUs Festival and will include an Aboriginal ceremony, story-telling by an Anishinabe elder, and canoe rides (weather permitting). While the ages of children vary for different activities, they are undoubtedly a wonderful way to introduce little people to art and the process by which art is created. Indeed, if you choose a Sunday when the Ontario Plein Air Society set up their easels on the McMichael grounds and paint, (Aug. 26 this month), your family can watch artists in action. Become a member of McMichael and you can return to the grounds and gallery as often as you like. A cool walk through the colourful galleries is a wonderful weekend activity on a hot summer day. And these paintings can toss a palette of colours into the bleakest winter day. A family membership ($85) provides unlimited free parking and access to all the galleries and many programs for two adults and up to four children for a whole year. At the end of our visit, Isla stops again at the three wolves. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s patently taken with these three huge sculptures, and announces gravely, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to stay with the woofs.â&#x20AC;? McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 10365 Islington Ave. Kleinberg. 905-893-1121. Check at www.mcmichael.com for exhibition and activity information. Note that the Fashionality exhibit is only on until Sept. 3.

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rriving on the scene with the task of turning a meager soccer program into a reputable professional one, Sam Medeiros is already making strides. As director of the youth academy for the York Region Shooters, in July alone, Medeiros has organized sessions with professional scouts from Barcelona football club, Liverpool football club, Croatia’s Dinamo Zagreb, and Italy’s Empoli football club. “Not only are we going to deliver a good program between the four lines — instead of us sending you guys overseas, and being a small fish in a big sea — we’re going to bring the sea to you,” said Medeiros, who is also a regional coach for the Ontario Soccer Association. Leveraging his UEFA and FIFA scouting contacts, Medeiros brought in the scouts to provide analysis on fitness and technique, and set realistic expectations for the youngsters. As well, coaches from Barcelona, credited with developing Lionel Messi and Xavi Hernandez, held a soccer camp for the Shooters — the first for the Shooters in their 14-year history. “It strengthens the players — their characteristics, their abilities, their beliefs — to say ‘you know what, I can play on the first team.’ Or ‘I don’t have to go overseas now, because the Shooters are offering an opportunity to be seen here,” Medeiros said. The York Region Shooters are in the midst of a soccer renaissance. After the acquisition of the Shooters — and a renaming from Italia Shooters — in 2010, Tony de Thomasis echoed many owners in the league by urging his club to elevate the quality of football in the region. “I’ve been on and off working with [de Thomasis] for the last 15 years, I’ve been the technical director for different clubs,” Medeiros said. “This is what’s happening, we have a league of our own. Let’s come in and develop a whole youth program. I want to take charge and develop and give these guys an opportunity.” Juan Pablo Herrera, 16, is taking his opportunity. Herrera, who participated in the scouting session with the 26 VAUGHAN ToDAY AUGUST 2012

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Barcelona coaches, “learned things that usually no other kid would even imagine.” An academic standout at St. Joan of Arc school, Herrera takes to heart one key tip from the session. “I would say thinking what’s going to happen in another two or three seconds before the ball gets to my feet. “When the ball does get to your feet, you already should know what’s going to happen once it leaves your feet, what’s going to happen when it leaves your teammate’s feet,” he said. “To read the game, three or four seconds before it really happens, is really the key.” Herrera is eyeing a chance to play professionally, either abroad or in Canada. Medeiros has also worked with coaches to strengthen the Shooters’ first team, which competes in the

Canadian Soccer League. His focus has been on maintaining a strong reserve team. The challenge was coping with losing two guys from last year. “Every time you lose something, you gain some knowledge,” he said. “One thing that we did this year with the Shooters, from the Reserve team down, we went with a lot of guys for the sole reason that, next year, we can bring those guys back to the first team,” he said. And, the kids are playing well. Halfway through this season in the Canadian Soccer League, the Shooters’ are fifth in the tables, but constantly challenge for first place. The key to their success has been simple. “Limit the goals scored at us, and try to get the best results possible,” said Andre Windross, a striker for the first division squad.

For the time being, the first division squad is fighting for supremacy in the 16team Canadian Soccer League. Windross, who sat out the 2011 season with an ankle i n j u r y, expects success will come, but the team needs “to improve, finish out the season strong, get a full season under my belt, and [keep] the team’s confidence high as we work hard together — and hopefully finish in the top three going into the playoffs.”

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