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Although it is on the distant horizon, King residents are battling a long-range plan to widen and extend 15th Sideroad to Hwy. 400.

“If this comes to pass, if this matter is approved, it would be a foreseeable, severe unmitigated environmental disaster,” Frank-lin Moskoff, co-chairperson of the Kingscross Estates Ratepayers’ Association’s committee to stop the extension of 15th Sideroad, said.

The committee has been working on the issue with York Region and King Township officials for at least 22 years, but residents are not satisfied their environmental concerns have been addressed, he said.

“Not only to the homeowners, it’s not a question only of not in my backyard, but to the particular environment that this pro-posed extension would cover. Not only on top of the ground, but the aquifer underground and all our wells,” Moskoff said.

“We’ve been through all of the motions, all of the assurances and you’ll forgive me if I’m a little bit skeptical as to the assurances.”

Moskoff was one of seven people who asked York Region councillors at a commit-tee meeting last week to reject plans for the road or, at least, conduct a full environmental assessment on the potential impacts.

Construction plans for the road are includ-ed in the region’s proposed transportation master plan coming to council June 23.

The master plan is attempting to address the region’s top priority of traffic congestion as the population grows by about 630,000 res-idents to 1.8 million and the number of jobs in the region increases by more than 322,000 by 2041, Stephen Collins, York’s director of infrastructure management and the project management office, said.

“I want to assure council and residents this is a long-term project. We do have this as a recommendation, because our master plan has identified it as being needed, but it is in the long-term section of our master plan, which means we do not propose to do any-thing with this project until the 15 to 25-year time period,” Collins said.

“And, not withstanding the recommenda-tion in the master plan, there are still extensive studies that would need to be done before we could proceed to a design and construction of this project. We need the environmental, public consultation and the social and health impacts of a road project such as the 15th Sideroad extension.”

But the environmental impact of the road widening and extension could be devastating on wetlands in the area, Julie Nevin, co-chair of the ratepayer association’s committee and the association’s treasurer, said.

Residents fight long-term plans to extend 15th Sideroad

“The environmental impact would be on the flora, the fauna, the noise, the night sky loss, the dirt, the dust, the fish, the agricul-tural lands and especially on the wetlands and our water,” she said.

“The Oak Ridges Moraine, as we all know, is one of the most significant natural features in Ontario. It’s the province’s largest moraine and the rolling terrain of the Oak Ridges Moraine sustains the most significant and distinctive woodlands and wetlands in the GTA. The moraine also contains the only con-centration of kettle lakes and wetlands and they comprise some of the best examples in the province.”

In addition to the deputations at the com-mittee meeting, several residents wrote let-ters opposing the project.

“By way of this email, we want to express our very strong opposition to the extension of the 15th Sideroad. Aside from arguments of environmental sensitivity, which I’m sure others are making, (there is also) impact on wells of those living in Kingscross and safety issues,” John MacLennan said.

“We believe that having two connections to Hwy. 400 so close to one another is not pru-

dent. The King Vaughan Townline is by far the most prudent choice of routes. Truck traffic in and around King is already too much — it should be forced south to a less developed area. We know that this route was proposed many years ago and was dismissed at the time. There is even more reason to abandon the plan now.”

Brother Paul Koscielniak, the local supe-rior of the Augustinian community at Mary-lake, also expressed concerns.

“Marylake has been a place of refuge and peace for our community for 75 years. One of the Augustinian missions is to continue to provide a place of solitude, peace, retreat, pilgrimage and spiritual prayer,” he said.

“Further development on our property’s borders will not only erode our mission, (but) also erode the pristine and untouched eco-system we hold dear in our hearts.”

Plans for the 15th Sideroad amounts to urban infrastructure being imposed on a rural area to facilitate the region’s growth, King Mayor Steve Pellegrini said.

“We’re 26,000 people currently. We’re going to 34,900. It’s because we are protected by the Oak Ridges Moraine and the greenbelt. We are

the largest municipality by land size, but we have the smallest growth,”’he said.

“But one of the things is we are always burdened by is the infrastructure that sup-ports (urban areas) around us...’There’s no homes, stick it there.’ That is the concern people are having. It’s not for them. It’s for the greater good of York Region, but it’s not going to support their quality of life. I’ve been strug-gling with this because traffic flow is a major concern in York Region.”

Since the project is so far in the future, Pel-legrini suggested removing the 15th Sideroad from the transportation master plan.

But other councillors argued that would be a big mistake.

“We have all had to deal with situations where we regret decisions were not made 20 years ago and we’re having to live with those in communities, not just in our local commu-nities but right across the region,”’Markham Mayor Frank Scarpitti said.

“While I hear the concerns of (King) resi-dents, these are concerns echoed in three or four or five other projects across the region.”

Instead, councillors agreed to make plans for the road a special study area.

King’s Cross Residents’ Association’s committee co-chairs Frank Moskoff and Julie Nevin want to stop the extension of the 15th Sideroad.

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There were Stonemill Bakehouse breads, cour-tesy Engels & Volker, Italian hand-made breads courtesy Dorio’s Kettleby Italian Bak-ery, cucumbers courtesy a Marsh grower and carrots, onions, parsnips and cau-liflower donated by Hillside Gardens.

All of this is distributed over and above the usual amounts of food, pet food and bathroom tissue, as well as food cards. Miscel-laneous produce is arriv-ing at the Nobleton Centre courtesy Alloro Fine Foods, and the Food Bank extends thanks for their top of mind awareness of hunger in King.

King Township Food Bank will hold its regular distribution June 18 from 9 to 11 a.m. If you did not attend last month and did not contact the Food Bank, they need to hear from you if you plan to come in June. Otherwise your food boxes and cards will not be available. The Food Bank assumes that non-atten-dance means a registrant no longer needs assistance.

For returning and new registrants, please call 905-806-1125 or email ktfood-bank@gmail.com.

Several volunteers from RBC King City attended the depot to pack boxes, giving the pack team the summer off. These volun-teers arrived in addition to the platinum sponsor-ship secured by RBC King City for the Food Bank. Big thanks go to Raffaele Inno-cente and his great team.

King City Secondary School has been hold-ing more than one event to help combat hunger in King. Their dodgeball tour-nament — Dodging Hun-ger — came from a student initiative to help. The con-cept was so popular that those students extended the project to a classroom food drive based on a list of particularly needed items.

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from receiving corporate or union donations in municipal elections.

On Monday, the Ontario government passed Bill 181, which prohibits corporate or union contributions dur-ing municipal election campaigns.

That puts a slightly different twist on the upcoming municipal election in 2018, should several candidates who chose to run in 2016, run once again.

Councillors Linda Pabst and Bill Cober, both re-elected a number of times, took numerous corporate donations in 2014 – to the tune of over $4,000 each – and argued strongly to keep the prac-tice in place in future at a recent council meeting.

But both councillors, should they run again,

will have to do so without corporate financing.

On the other hand, councillors Debbie Schaefer, Avia Eek and Cleve Mortelliti, who all strongly oppose cor-porate donations and argued at that same meeting against the practice will be fine with Monday’s decision.

Mayor Steve Pellegrini said at the May council meeting he would be OK with no corporate or union money in munici-pal politics as long as it applied to all councils across the province. And with Monday’s law passed in the legislature,

it does.And Councillor David

Boyd, the only new-comer to council, who had some corporate and some personal donations as part of his donation mix, argued his corporate contributors were friends and neighbours. Presum-ably they will contribute next time, just not in a corporate way, but rather with personal donations.

The whole idea is not to remove money from politics, but corporate and union influence from politics.

Campaigns will still require donations, but the hope is that the aver-age voter with his $25, $50 or $100 donation will make up for the $750 per shot donation that busi-nesses typically hand over.

Will it work? We’ll get a chance to see in 2018.

Tim Kelly is a reporter with The King Connection newspaper. Reach him at tkelly@yrmg.com

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A wonderful, flawed friendknow I’ve shared this story before, about how when I was a kid I wondered if Americans think our red and white flag is inspired by what

Canadians look like after miles and miles behind the wheel with the window down, left arm resting on the door, left side of the face exposed to the sun.

That’s what my father looked like for most of my summers in the days before air-conditioned cars, as the driver on camping trips to exotic spots in the U.S. (although these days with our weak dollar, maybe that’s a trip for some time in the future).

Or at least we thought of the trips as exotic. I imagine we often just looked tired or grumpy.

In a long trip in a cramped car, you’re soon reading each other’s thoughts — particularly my moth-er’s, who not far into each trip was thinking, “Never again! Why am I doing this? I must be mad!”

After the first day, Dad looked like a lobster that had been held over a pot and cooked on one side.

Eventually he developed a “half-tan”, as we called it, the kind of braising you get when you’re a Canadian piloting a station wagon on great adventures of cultural and geographic exploration across the United Steaks of America.

We saw North and South Dakota, North and South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and all its awe-inspiring federal buildings, Ken-tucky, Tennessee, Ohio and Michi-gan, and many points in between. The Kennedy Space Center, muse-ums, arenas and roadside eateries.

There was Wisconsin, known for its dairy farms, with an odour to match. We once saw a bumper sticker that read, “Smell our dairy air.” You didn’t need to be in French immersion to get the joke.

More than just the scenery, the history and the smells, it was the people we met that made the trips fascinating.

We like to believe that Ameri-cans are all the same. But on those trips I often found the opposite to be true — that if we met travellers from Halifax or Winnipeg we all seemed to find ourselves to be very similar. But the Americans were different from us and each other.

Regional accents, how people dressed, how loudly they spoke, the expressions they used.

Like the Kentuckian named Kyle who called me “ya’ll”. I’d be turn-ing around to see who else he was speaking to. And the people from “Bah Haba, Mayin” (Bar Harbor, Maine) I understood even less.

I still think of America these days in the belief it has to be the great-est country on the planet — no offence to my fellow Canadians and Canada, my beloved home.

At the same time, America is like one of those wonderful, big, loud, inspiring and yet flawed people you might meet in life, who has all these great qualities yet some type of weakness that always knocks them back a notch or two in life, despite all the steps they take forward.

Or someone whose strength is also their weakness.

For the Americans it’s a stead-fast belief in freedom and the Constitution protecting the rights of individuals from the whims of government. “Live free or die”, as you will see on licence plates in the northeast.

I firmly believe the freedoms we have in Canada are possible because Americans stand up for them on behalf of the free world.

But included in that Constitu-tion is the right for people to bear arms. Which may have made sense 200 years ago, in the time of mus-kets with a small population of colonists in revolution against Eng-land, but can be a problem today, in the era of high-powered assault rifles, big cities, and fanaticism.

The Orlando shooting was actu-ally one of dozens of mass shoot-ings in the U.S. this year, reports say. It was the worst, so far.

It would be wonderful if it were also the last, but something funda-mental would have to change for that to happen.

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More than two dozen King City Secondary Students gave their green thumbs a workout last week at Cold Creek Conservation Area.

The outdoor education class, fresh off a canoe trip in Algonquin Park, spent a few hours planting hundreds of trees in the Nobleton natural area. It was part of a community service environmental project in association with the Township of King and LEAF, a non-profit organization dedicated to improvement and protection of the urban forest.

Bill Schoenhardt, who teaches the outdoor ed class at KCSS, said his students do some sort of community service project each year.

“It was nice to do it at Cold Creek. We use this facility for our winter camp out and our spring practice camp out before we head to Algonquin Park,” he said.

“It’s nice for them to give back to the environment. We use the outdoors for a lot of our activity. Here, they get to learn how to plant a tree properly,” he added.

For Melissa Williams of LEAF, the concern is the spread of the emerald ash borer across York Region. The bug is taking down a lot of ash tress, so it’s impor-tant to replenish the forest.

“We need to replant and get more trees planted across the region. So, today, we have KCSS students planting a wide variety of native species — white pine, eastern white cedar, silver maple, tamarack — because if you get the emerald ash borer or other pests coming through killing one species, if you have a good mix you’ll lose fewer species,” she said.

Sam Karabin, a 17-year-old from King City, said it’s “nice to give back to the community and it’s not hard to do.”

His thoughts were echoed by Avery Larsh, 17, of King City, who said she had done some tree-planting before.

“It’s quite cool to give back,” Larsh said.For Simone Manning, 16, of King City, “It’s a really

cool thing for the community to go out and just be a high school student, not used to planting trees, to learn about nature and about conservation.”

King City students plant 100s of trees

Nick Darker joins classmates in digging holes for new trees as students from King City Secondary School do their part by planting native trees and shrubs in Cold Creek Conservation Area last Wednesday.

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t comes as absolutely no surprise when Gail Stephenson shows a visitor her breathtakingly beautiful backyard, full of flowers and other flora.

One would expect nothing less from one of Woodbridge’s leading horticultural-ists. With her late husband Al, who passed away on New Year’s Day in 2015 at age 78, Gail is known for her dedication to keeping Woodbridge beautiful.

It’s impossible to separate the two, so it was fitting a plaque placed on the Wood-bridge bridge last October in memory of Al also recognized Gail for the efforts the pair has made over the decades to make Wood-bridge shine.

To honour Al’s efforts, a tree was also planted in his honour last summer in Arm-strong Park, near the bridge, and a plaque that says, “Al Stephenson, a friend and gar-dener,” is seen on a nearby rock in the park.

In October 2015, members of Vaughan council turned out in force to pay tribute to the couple when the plaque was unveiled on the bridge where the pair had placed beautiful flowerpots over many years.

The plaque reads: “In appreciation of Al and Gail Stephenson and the Woodbridge Horiticultural Society’s ongoing effort to make Woodbridge a more beautiful place.”

It’s clear, based on the feeling in her voice and the scrapbook she proudly shows a visitor, that Gail is pleased with the tribute, especially to Al.

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“One of the things I heard from so many people at the (funeral) service was all the things he did for them.” said Gail.

For instance, Al would make trips to pick up bottles of maple syrup that he brought with him on his journeys to watch NASCAR races in the United States. He gave the Cana-dian delicacy to American buddies in places such as Charlotte and Michigan.

Another thing Al liked to do, said Gail, was order 30 or 35 loaves of cherry bread every year from a Port Perry bakery and sausages from an Elmira butcher and give

the food away to friends.“He did a lot of different things that peo-

ple would tell me about later. He was very generous like that, helping others,” she said.

Gail said one of Al’s closest friends tells of the time the pair was in the U.S. south just before the American Thanksgiving when Al asked a waitress what she was doing for the traditional holiday. When she said she wasn’t doing anything, he reached into his wallet and gave her all the money she needed to buy a turkey and all the fixings for a family dinner.

Gail and Al enjoyed travelling, though Al didn’t like the big cities.

“He loved towns and villages and just chatting with the local people in the post office,” Gail said.

In the 18 months he has been gone, Gail said it has been hard, because, “we always did everything together,” but, “I have to keep it going, otherwise I would go crazy.” She says that, “friends and family have been great and the stories people have told about Al have really helped.

“We had such a wonderful life,” she said.

Gail Stephenson shows a photograph of her late husband, Al, and his beloved Model A. On the back wall is his extensive collection of firefighter paraphernalia that the 35-year Toronto firefighteraccumulated over the years.

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