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FEDERAL ELECTION
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Riding snapshotA few fun facts about King-Vaughan riding
EVENTS
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Make sure you voteTim Kelly: no reason we can’t improve voter turnout
OPINION
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Staff photo/Tim Kelly
Provincial and King Township municipal politicians celebrated the opening of the new King GO 72-place parking lot last Friday. From left: councillors David Boyd and Cleve Mortelliti, Mayor Steve Pellegrini, Minister of Transportation and Vaughan MPP Steven Del Duca, Oak Ridges-Markham MPP Helena Jaczek, and King councillors Avia Eek and Debbie Schaefer.
BY TIM [email protected]
You’ll have more room to park it in King City when you get on the GO from now on.
Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca announced the opening up of 72 new
parking spaces at the King City GO Station last Friday. The spaces were officially ready for use this past Tues-day.
They’ll be followed up by a further 60 new spaces in an adjacent lot to be built and
opened next spring reduc-ing the stress on surrounding streets.
“King City is a very busy station. In fact approxima-tetly 1,000 customers use this
More room for parking at King City GO
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BY TIM [email protected]
King Township Mayor Steve Pellegrini made no apologies for the high cost of build-ing new housing in King Township, as revealed in a Fraser Institute survey of Greater Golden Horseshoe homebuilders.
“I think it’s good news actually,” said Pel-legrini when asked about King’s ranking as the most expensive place to build a home among 23 municipalities in the Greater Gold-en Horseshoe.
The Fraser Institute study found obtaining approval for construction costs a typical resi-dential developer in King Township $57,500 per individual dwelling unit. As an example, that turns out to be more than three times as much as in Hamilton, the community with the least costs and fees.
But Pellegrini had an explanation for the high costs of development charges and associ-ated costs and fees for home building in King Township.
“We have the Oak Ridges Moraine and the Greenbelt, so 99 per cent of King Township is highly protected and regulated from develop-ment,” said Pellegrini.
Pellegrini on Fraser survey:
‘I think it’s good news, actually’
Greenbelt, ORM protection part of high building costs
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The Kleinburg Nobleton Soccer Club has passed the ball on to a new technical director with deep roots in the English professional game.
Jason Beckford, who emi-grated to Canada three years ago and most recently was working with the Newmarket Soccer Club, spent nine years playing with eight different
clubs in England including Manchester City, Blackburn Rovers and Birmingham City, scoring four goals in 53 matches.
Beckford, 45, was forced to retire in 1996 after a knee injury cut short the 5-foot-9 forward’s career. But he went on to become a student of the came turning his sights on to management. He took over Mossley and helped lead the club to a pair of promotions from 2003-2007.
Married to an accoun-tant who has family in York Region, Beckford said he and his wife decided to come to Canada a number of years ago “because of the lifestyle here.”
As technical director of KNSC, he’ll have oversight of all soccer operations including recreational, competitive and high-performance including Ontario Player Development League (OPDL).
That includes 1680 players includes and approximately 160 coaches.
He had been working for the Football Association, “back home in the Man-chester area, as an adjudica-tor and sports lecturer at a college,” when the bug bit to come to Canada.
Just lifestyle, not football at all. I was already work-ing for the FA back home, as an adjudicator in the Man-chester area, licensing coach-
es for them and I was a sports lecturer at the local college; my wife is an accountant so we both had good jobs.
“I reached out to the Ontario Soccer Association and they pointed me in the right direction,” said Beck-ford, who was happy to con-tinue coaching and teaching.
He did notice a huge dif-ference between coaching soccer in England and coach-ing in Canada.
“No disrespect to any-body but the quality’s differ-ent because obviously we’re dealing with the best players in the northwest of England or in the Manchester area, so we were getting the cream as it were and I was working in a
professional environment.“Here, you’re dealing with
a lower level and that took some adjusting to, and also, I was coaching girls, and that was something I’d never done before until I came here. All those things need adjusting to,” said Beckford.
He is quick to say there is talent in York Region, how-ever. What he does find lack-ing is quality in the coaching ranks.
“The weakness tends to be in the coaching. No doubt, we do need better coaches and there has to be a pathway and environment for players to develop in,” he said.
Beckford has also noticed that here in Canada there is
too much emphasis on team first, skills later. He said the reverse is necessary.
“People want to develop teams here, but you have to develop players first and foremost, as a byproduct of that you will get better teams because your players will be better. If parents are looking for a conducive environment for learning – I don’t mean soft – but a competitive envi-ronment where players get the opportunity to make mis-takes, that’s what I’ll be doing at our club.”
Kleinburg Nobleton Soccer Club introduces new technical directorJason Beckford has
deep roots in English pro game
ONLINE: For more information, visit www.knsc.ca
By Tim [email protected]
It’s almost as entertain-ing listening to Hall of Famer Dale Hawerchuk talk hockey as it was watching him play the game.
The smooth-skating, play-making centre, who piled up 1,409 points in 1,188 games over an 17 season-career, spent mostly with Winnipeg and Buffalo, told a few tales about fellow pros last Wednes-day morning.
Hawerchuk, 52, was guest-hosting the Paul Coffey Cap-tain’s Breakfast to promote the Coffey Celebrity Classic Hock-ey Tournament coming up in Vaughan early next month to benefit Easter Seals.
Coffey, called away on a family emergency, tapped his fellow Hall of Famer Hawer-chuk, a King Township resi-dent, who was more than happy to step in at Cara Foods in Vaughan.
He told the group of classic team captains, who are gath-ering players for their own charity teams for the classic, about some of the players he
played with and against and all of whom have said they will take part in the Nov. 13 event.
Hawerchuk on:• Islanders Hall of Fame
goalie Billy Smith: “You saw him but we felt him.”
• Former Leaf captain Wendel Clark: “I always knew where he was on the ice. If he hit you, you might not wake up for a while.”
• Former Leaf and Capital defenceman Al Iafrate: “When you see him, you’ll see he’s a mountain of a man and you’ll wonder how anyone ever got around him.”
• Former Leaf captain Rick Vaive: “He was just a great sniper and a guy you’ll want on your team.”
• Former Flame, Hab and Leaf defenceman Ric Natress: “He sure has the gift of the gab. He’ll be great in your dressing room.”
• Former Leaf and Flame winger Gary Leeman: “He’s just a great all-round athlete.”
In addition to Coffey and Hawerchuk, former Leafs Tom Fergus and Dave Ellett as well as 60-plus goalscorer Dennis Maruk, are tapped to
play with more players to be announced.
Hawerchuk, who retired after the 1997 season, now is head coach of the Ontario Hockey League’s Barrie Colts, where his son Ben is a player.
He said the players on the team are great impacted by their involvement with chil-dren who have been helped by Easter Seals.
“The Colts do a lot for Eas-ter Seals in Barrie. Those kids come to the games and we
see some of the things that are able to happen for them, whether it’s wheelchairs and it just makes their lives that much easier. These kids, they’re inspirational. They have some hardships but they come to the game, they come down to the dressing room after and they’re a real hoot, it’s good to see if you can help their lives a little bit,” Hawer-chuk said.
He added the Colts play-ers, aged 16 to 20, who are in
their youthful prime, learn a lot from seeing young people with a physical disability.
“We’ve had so many kids come through the room and they get to know all the guys (Colts). We’ll see them at char-ity golf events, at some other charity events and they feel like they’re part of the group so it’s great,” he said.
Tai Young, a Grade 6 stu-dent in Markham who was born with spinal cord injury, is an example of all that Easter Seals can mean.
The 11-year-old leads an extremely active life, has attended an Easter Seals camp, and is very well-spoken about what he feels Easter Seals means.
“Easter Seals is important because it helps raise money for kids’ physical disabilities all across Ontario and it gives them the equipment they need to do fun activities -- say they like tennis -- it helps them fund that, or say they need a lift for their house, it helps fund that,” said Tai.
Hawerchuk said he always enjoys watching the amateurs try their luck with the former
NHLers.“The guys that play in it,
they have a blast anyways with all the former pros. We always get a kick, us former pros, all the guys, who say ‘Yeah, that guy, he could have made it.’ We understand to make it, you need to have the full package, you can have all the talent in the world, but that just doesn’t get it done, so, everybody has fun with that for sure,” he said with a good-natured grin.
The push is now on for more teams to take part in the tournament that guarantees three games per team. Each player must raise $400 in order to participate and teams have to have a minimum number of players to take part. Each team has one former NHLer on it, selected in a draft party the night before the tourna-ment on Nov. 13 at the Sports Village in Vaughan. Last year’s event, the second annual in Vaughan, raised $180,000 for Easter Seals.
SPORTS
ONLINE: For more information, visit easterseals.org
Submitted photo
Tai Young, 11, and Dale Hawerchuk.
Dale Hawerchuk gives an assist to Easter Seals event
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Childrens’ Safety Is Not Something to Bargain With
Personalinjury law
DarcyDarcy is a lawyer withBoland Howe LLP, TrialLawyers for the Injured,and can be reached at905.841.5717www.bolandhowe.com
Canadian LawyerMagazine hasrecognized BolandHoweas one of the Top 10Personal Injury lawfirms in Canada.
DearOntarioSecondarySchool Teacher’s
Federation (OSSTF) andschool boards across theprovince:Since Monday, October 6,2015, the front doors andcontrolled entry systemsof Halton’s and Ottawa’spublic English elementaryschools have been turnedoff as part of negotiationstrategies between theunion and the provincialgovernment.City News quotes Jo Dean,an executive officer withthe OSSTF as saying thatthe task of controllingaccess in schools “hasbeen downloaded on [thesecretarial staff] and itjust interrupts the dayconstantly.”The CBC interviewedCindy Dubue, the vicepresident of the OSSTF,who downplayed therisk faced by students bysaying “there are schools
in Ottawa that don’t havebuzzer systems.” She alsoblamed the Ottawa CarltonDistrict School Board fornot finding an alternativeonce the secretarial staffstopped controlling access.And she argued that halfsecurity measures werebetter than a completestoppage of schoolservices.Regardless of the deeplyheld positions at playin the negotiations, Iencourage you to reverseyour decision pertaining tothe safety of the students.Keep schools locked andchildren safe.Everyone knows fromwatching our U.S.neighbours that elementaryschools are vulnerabletargets for the nefarious.And everyone knows thatwhile the prevalence islow, the outcomes arehorrifying.In Ontario, police stations,courthouses and federalParliament have wellcontrolled access. It wasonly October 22, 2014 thatthe nation was shocked bya series of shootings onParliament Hill, and theease with which a gunmanwas able to enter CentreBlock. Schools in Canadahave not been immune toatrocities. The potentialoutcomes to the familiesshould be enough for sucha negotiating tactic to beunthinkable.If that is not enough, thenconsider how the lawwould treat unions andschool boards if the worstcase came to pass? Bothorganizations owe duties tothe children for whom theyare entrusted. That duty isa high one. It is a fiduciaryduty, of utmost good faith.In law, teachers and schoolboards are considered tobe in the position of eachchild’s parent.
Should the worst come topass, it is not an answerto say that some schoolshave buzzers and othersdo not. It is not an answerfor both parties to blamethe other and leave thedoors open. It is not ananswer to suggest that theinconvenience of a staffmember justifies exposingchildren to such harm.The scope of potentialclaimants could be as largeas the entire family ofevery student at the school.After a court strugglesto quantify the loss toeach discrete family andvictim, the court wouldthen consider punitivedamages. These damagestarget not loss, butconduct. The defendant’swrong is considereddirectly and separatelyin order to assess itsseverity and, accordingly,the appropriate degree ofpunishment. The otherforms of damages look tothe loss of the plaintiff,but punitive damages referessentially to the degreeof culpability of thedefendant’s action. Thepunitive damages wouldbe precedent setting.How large? In the seminalcase of Pilot vWhiten, theSupreme Court of Canadaupheld a $1,000,000punitive award against aninsurance company thatalleged its insured was anarsonist,when the evidenceshowed the opposite. Thatwas one family and oneinsurance company, overdamage to a reputation.How much greater wouldthe punitive damages befor the avoidable ruin of acommunity.This is not a case thatsociety ever wants to seehappen.Please, please, reconsider.
The advice offered in this column is intended for informational purposes only. Use of this column is not intended toreplace or substitute any professional, financial, medical, legal, or other professional advice.
There will be a refugee sup-port/sponsorship community information night on Friday at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Maple.
The meeting is set to begin
at 7 p.m. and end at approxi-mately 9 p.m. The meeting is open to anyone who is inter-ested in helping to donate or support bringing refugees to Canada. You can learn more
about the process, local orga-nizations and efforts to bring refugees to this country.
St. Andrews Presbyterian Church is located at 9860 Keele St., Maple.
Refugee community information night in Maple
COMMUNITY
With Election Day on Oct. 19, we provide a quick snap-shot of local ridings. Here’s King-Vaughan.Boundary Changes: Was formerly part of old Oak Ridges-Markham riding (elected Paul Calandra, Conser-vative in 2011) and old Vaughan riding (elected Julian Fantino, Conservative in 2011).
Running: Ann Raney: Green Party; Natalie Rizzo: New Democratic Party; Deb Schulte: Liberal Party; Konstan-tin Toubis: Conservative PartyFun Fact: Voters will be electing a rookie MP as none of the candidates running in this election has ever held federal office before.
OCT. 19 eleCTiOn: Riding snapshOT
The regular monthly dis-tribution of the King Town-ship Food Bank will take place from 9-11 a.m. this Saturday at three locations covering King Township--Nobleton, King City and Kettleby.
If you could use a bit of help, and are not registered with phone right away, so KTFB can be sure to ship enough food this week to the centre you plan to attend. KTFB has added fruits and vegetables to the non-perish-able foods always provided, to help with fresh and healthy options for meal prepara-tion.
There are more details at www.kingtownshipfood-bank.ca and call the dedicat-
ed line and leave a message for a confidential chat at 905-806-112.
King Township is grateful for the monthly donation of produce from Hillside Gar-dens, which aligns perfectly with the Focus on Fresh proj-ect. In addition home gar-deners brought apples, zuc-chini and tomatoes to share in September.
KTFB thaks Hermanns Contracting and The Stone-mill Bakehouse for donating several dozen loaves of freshly
baked premium breads that are the healthiest you can find. Food Bank registrants are enjoying more and more healthy options that don’t drain their food budget.
The King City Fire Fighters and Nobleton Lions are also thanked for donating tur-keys for Thanksgiving again this year. Food drives have been completed at Country Day School and St. Mary in Nobleton. And the Thanks-giving Drive at Foodland in Schomberg has brought a landslide of the most-needed items to replenish the shelves. Food Bank volunteers are so inspired by the generosity of the community of King and beyond!
Food Bank distribution this Saturday
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❚ Thurs. OCT. 15JuNIOr C hOCKEY: Midland Flyers at schomberg Cou-garsWhEN: 8:30 p.m. WhErE: Trisan Centre, 25 Dillane Dr. (Hwy 27 & Hwy 9) CONTACT: www.schombergcougars.com COsT: Adults $8, Seniors $5, Youth 6-17 $3; kids 5 and under freeThe Schomberg Cougars host the Midland Flyers. Also Oct. 22 versus Huntsville Otters (same start time).
❚ sAT., OCT. 17Live Music from First World War eraWhEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WhErE: King Heritage and Cultural Cen-tre, 2920 King Rd., King City CONTACT: [email protected], 905-833-2331 COsT: $15 in advance, $20 at the doorYou’re invited to the Heritage and Cultural Centre at 2920 King Road in King City to enjoy an evening of live music from the First World War era. It’s all part of the opening of the First World War exhibit. King’s own “Diva in the Rough,” Catherine Hughes, will perform, there will be a sing-along feature and refreshments. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Apple Pie Bake-OffWhEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WhErE: King City United Church, 50 Elizabeth Grove, King City CONTACT: [email protected], 905-833-5181 COsT: FREEYou’re invited to an unbiased pie judging and auction. This event will include a bobbing for apples contest with all funds raised going toward King Township’s Christmas in King event. To enter an apple pie, you need to bake two pies -- one for the judges and one for selling. Several categories available.
❚ FrI., OCT. 23Friday Fun ClubWhEN: 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. WhErE: Trisan Centre, 25 Dillane Dr. (Hwy 27 & Hwy 9) CONTACT: Colleen Beswick,
[email protected], 905-833-5321 ext. 5238 COsT: $20 for first child, $10 for each additional siblingKids are invited to en-joy a Friday Fun Club for ages 6-12. Included is a pizza dinner, games, activities and a movie. Register online at king.ca or in person at Nobleton Arena or at the Trisan Centre using code 20394.
❚ uNTIL OCT. 24reflections of KingWhEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday to Saturday WhErE: King Heritage and Cultural Cen-tre, 2920 King Rd., King City CONTACT: www.artssocietyk-ing.ca COsT: FreeThe Reflections of King Exhibit, presented by Arts Society King in partnership with King Township, is at the King Heritage and Cultural Centre, until Saturday, Oct. 24. You can check out original artwork from artists from King Township. All art is available for purchase.
❚ sAT., OCT. 24Music in KingWhEN: 8 p.m. WhErE: Kingbridge Conference Centre and Institute, 12750 Jane St. CONTACT: www.artssocietyk-ing.ca, 905-939-9957 COsT: Advance tickets $35 for adults, $20 for students. At door, $40 for adults, $25 for students. Music in King Concert is fast approaching and spotlights the music of Carole King and Paul Simon as played by the King Studio House Band. The band features Tahirih Vejdani and Siobhan Duffy and musical directory John Ebata.
❚ Thurs. OCT 29-FrI. OCT. 30Cold Creek haunted ForestWhEN: 7-10 p.m.. WhErE: Cold Creek Conservation Area CONTACT: Magda Potoczna, 905-833-5321 ext. 5228,
[email protected] COsT: $7, which includes bucket of candy.Halloween is coming and it’s time for the Cold Creek Haunted Forest once again. Enjoy treats and have a scare in the Boo Room, the Creepy Maze and the Haunted Trail or take a trip on the tractor ride.
❚ FrI. OCT. 30haunted King Bus TourWhEN: 6:45 p.m. WhErE: Cold Creek Conservation Area CONTACT: 905-833-2331 [email protected] COsT: $10 for children under $12 and $15 for adults.Take part in a Haunted King Bus Tour that is sure to leave
chills down your spine. It all starts from Cold
Creek Conser-vation Area at 6:45 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30 and goes
from 7 to 10 p.m. Some
of the sites famous as haunted spots in King are included on the tour.
❚ WED., NOv. 4Arts society King AGMWhEN: TBA WhErE: TBA CONTACT: www.artssocietyk-ing.ca COsT: FreeArts Society King will hold its annual general meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 4. The event is open to anyone who wishes to attend and meet the incom-ing ASK board of directors, learn more about ASK and enjoy some refreshments. Time and location TBA (anticipate 4-6 p.m. in King City).
❚ GET LIsTEDInterested in submitting events to The King Connection? Visit bit.ly/yorkregioncalendar to find out more and to download instructions for submitting to our online community calendar. You can also email [email protected] or [email protected]
Need to curb speed on King Road
A serious accident is just waiting to hap-pen on King Road. Think about the 70,000 vehicles per day that cross King Road and the high level of large trucks and their speed, especially between Dufferin Street and King City Secondary School and Keele and Jane streets.
We cannot be far from a similar event as happened on the 401 earlier this month.
It’s time for serious action to curb speed-ing not only in the centre of town but through the entire length of the 50 km/h zone.
The question was asked a few weeks ago: how many speeding tickets are written in a day with 70,000 vehicles passing through per day? If one per cent of the vehicles were caught speeding that would equal 700 tick-ets.
Large vehicles that are empty or fully loaded require a much greater distance to stop. Shall we just wait for the next serious accident or take positive action to control the speed through the entire zone from Dufferin to Jane?
Art LArmAnKing City
Schomberg Arena selectionEd. Note: The Connection has received a
number of letters on the recent Schomberg Arena decision. Excerpts of some of these let-ters follow. Lengthier versions of these letters are online at yorkregion.com
...Firstly, I resent that the Township would spend such an amount of money
on a “temporary” solution and secondly that they would think it is acceptable to build an extension to their Works Department in the centre of Schomberg, a small residential village. Are they not aware that this location borders on homes where there are children who could be in harm’s way of Township vehicular traffic?
mike ShAckLefordSChomberg
...Schomberg is a village, not an industrial area and should remain as such. Introducing an essentially industrial operation into a vil-lage is outrageous and simply unacceptable even on a ``temporary` ̀ basis as has been suggested.
BiLL SALterKing
...There are hectares and hectares of land throughout King Township, including many acres zoned industrial as highlighted in the recent King Official Plan review that would be more than suitable--why not put a parks depot on that type of property? Or perhaps at the site of the old Holy Name school, which will be our future Town Hall and includes acres of extra property? Any of these seem more logical than using space in the heart of Schomberg, which is far more rare and valuable Village-designated land.
Simon LLoydSChomberg
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Bernie O’Neill
Finally, democracy made easyoday I bring you the traditional pre-election column encouraging you to get out there and vote. Which always struck me as on odd
thing to write about, since if you regularly vote, well then you’ve already stopped reading (“I vote alright already! Sheesh!”).
And if you don’t vote, well the last thing you want is a sermon. And besides, you’re really not that interested.
And I could tell you about how millions died in wars so we could be free, choose our own govern-ments, wear what we want, say what we want, cheer for what baseball team we want (Let’s Go Blue Jays!) yadayadayada.
Or that even today, in other parts of the world, people still fight and die in their quest to live free from tyranny. (Or, I guess, to impose it.)
And you could say the tradi-tional lines like: “It doesn’t matter who gets in, they’re all the same.” “They make all these promises, but never keep them.” “The person I vote for never gets in.” “I’m too busy.” “Haven’t been following it.” “I thought Obama had four more years.” And so on.
Others may have a phobia related to church basements or school gymnasiums (something about getting passed over for the volleyball team, or choir) that keeps them away from the polling station.
With iPads, iPhones and other iNstruments of iSolation, some of us may no longer know how to wield a pencil to mark the X. Or is it a checkmark? Yet another intimi-dating, confusing aspect of this whole process.
Why do they keep talking about how many seats they have? What are they, renting a tour bus? A ban-quet hall? I just don’t get it.
Yes, all so confusing, and a real challenge for the average lazy, disinterested Canadian who does not appreciate how good we have it here in the true north strong and free and the democratic rights we have, and how if we don’t use it, eventually we may lose it. (And sure, we could have Internet vot-ing, but I suspect Edward Snowden would advise against it.)
To solve these problems, I have come up with ways to make sure we are all able to vote on the big day. Yes, it will require a veritable army of election workers, but that may help the unemployed or those seeking a reason to get out of the house. (You know who you are.)
First, on Monday (Oct. 19 being federal election day in Canada, in case you were not aware), a hidden microphone is placed in the light above the dinner table. Say “pass the ketchup” and you have voted Liberal, “pass the relish,” you’ve voted Green, “Oh, blueberries! How nice!” and you voted Conservative and “I just love having slices of Orange with my bacon and eggs!” and you voted NDP! See! It’s easy!
Or gas up the car on voting day, and when the pump prompts you to select the grade of fuel, regular (87), mid-grade (89) or high octane (91), it can also ask you to pick NDP, Liberal or Conservative. It’s just one simple extra step. Just takes a few seconds. Really.
(If you go to the electric charg-ing station, or simply top up the air in your bicycle tires, your vote will be registered for the Green candidate.)
But you’re not on the voters list, you say?
There’s a solution for that. With the supervision of another family member who is already awake, an election worker places a special card on your alarm clock. The alarm goes off, you reach over to turn it off and bingo, you touch the card, you are now registered!
Proceed to the sink to brush your teeth where an array of dif-ferent coloured toothbrushes will be displayed. Just reach for the one that matches your party of choice and your vote will be recorded accordingly.
So hardly a need for you to lift a finger! Happy Democracy!
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If you didn’t cast a ballot this past long weekend, make sure you go to the
polls Monday.You’ve got 12 hours – 9:30
a.m. until 9:30 p.m. – to vote, so plan to do so.
After all, you’ve had since Aug. 2, 75 days and count-ing, to consider all the alter-natives. That’s twice as long as the last 37-day campaign in 2011.
The voter turnout was just 61.1 per cent four years
ago, when nearly four out of 10 eligible voters chose not to vote. It was up from
58.8 per cent in 2008 but well down from 67 per cent in 1997 and way down from the 75.3 per cent who turned out in 1988 and 1984.
We can and should do a lot better these days than barely breaking 60 per cent.
There will always be a core constituency who decide no party or leader or local candidate suits its taste. And there is an apathetic slice of the population who either don’t know or don’t
care an election’s on.You can bet it’s clear one
in four voters won’t cast a ballot bringing the best number we can possibly ever get would be about 75 per cent.
That presumes a highly engaged, informed and excited electorate in a heated race. That’s what we had in the 1980s when free trade was a big issue and the Progressive Conservatives, Liberals and NDP fought
it out.We’ve never had a better
three-way national battle than we have this election. And early returns show advance voting is up 16 per cent 2011. That may signal an improved voter turnout in 2015.
Let’s hope younger voters take part in greater numbers in 2015. If democracy is to mean anything in future years, it has to rely on those 18-24, most voting for the
first time. Turnout among this group was just 38.8 per cent in 2011, though that was actually two per cent higher than in 2008. Hope-fully the number will be a lot higher this time around as young people become more engaged and take a more active role in the system.
Tim Kelly is a reporter with the King Connection. Reach him at [email protected]
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Election voter turnout: we can and should do better
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Our Joint Anniversary Ser-vice with Schomberg United is on Sunday, Oct. 25, at 11:15 a.m. in Nobleton. We are inviting all of the community to celebrate. St. Alban’s Angli-cans are invited to admire our stained-glass windows and to reacquaint with their
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station every day, making it the fourth busiest station on the Barrie GO line,” said Del Duca, in making the announcement at the sta-tion.
He was joined by Oak Ridges-Markham MPP Hel-ena Jaczek, who represents King Township as well as Mayor Steve Pellegrini and a number of King Town-ship councillors at the announcement.
“Since 2003, our govern-ment has added 31,000 parking spaces to the GO
system, overall making it easier and more conve-nient to take GO Transit,” said Del Duca, MPP for Vaughan.
He said the added park-ing spaces would help take pressure off the stations just south of King City, Maple and Rutherford in Vaughan.
“Not that many months ago I was at the Maple GO Station and we announced some additional parking spaces there… I think this will help. It will help people here in King, it will help people in the vicinity of the Barrie line with more
options. Our work here is not done,” he said.
Pellegrini called the new lot, a “success story. It’s a great partnership between the Township, the province and Metrolinx. We’re excit-ed that even more parking’s coming here.”
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King City fourth-busiest GO station on Barrie line, says Del Duca
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Staff photo/Mike Barrett
Scotiabank King City celebrated grand opening recently at 1700 King Rd. (King Road-Dufferin Street). From left Maria Foti, Manager Customer Service, Fulvia Cantarutti, District Vice President, Mayor Steve Pellegrini, Denise Yeomans, Branch Manager, Councillor Cleve Mortelliti and Councillor Debbie Schaefer.
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If the Schomberg Cougars are going to roar this season, they’ll do so on the backs of their veteran players.
It will take the likes of hometown boy and cap-tain, Declan Lampe and a cast of other second-and third-year players to carry the club to success, said coach Jim Egerton in a recent interview.
The Cougars, who are
chugging along at four wins, four losses and a tie in the early going of a 40-game Jr. C season, earned a win and a loss over the weekend.
The loss came in a 2-1 over-time defeat at the Trisan
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The Cougars charged back to claim
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each and Joseph Mete adding a single. Ryley Egerton had a pair of assists in the win.
For coach Egerton, “a lot of the veteran guys are out injured. We thought we would have started a little better than this, but .500 hockey is not a bad thing.
The new players are try-ing to adjust to older players and trying to adjust to the league. It takes 10-15 games for everybody to get comfort-able,” he said.
The core group returning includes Egerton, Crescen-zi, McIntosh, Mete, Lampe,
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“Those are my second- and third-year players; one’s a four-year player. They play on special teams, we have seven rookies and two rookie goal-ies,” said Egerton.
There are four veterans out the lineup right now and Egerton said he usually goes with four lines and six defence but has been forced to go with five defence and three lines with two forwards forced to play as defencemen.
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looking to pick up player. As the NHL teams send down OHL kids, the OHL sends kids down to the OJHL and from there they come town to us. There are always kids that become available. You have to get lucky sometimes,” Egerton said.
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The swing of Things
Above, Mark Weinberg of Westmount Colle-giate tees off at the YRAA golf championship at King’s Cardinal Golf Club last Wednesday. Jake Fromowitz, also of Westmount, chips to the green. Visit yorkregion.com for updates on how the contenders fared.
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“The other thing is our growth is so little, we’re going roughly from 24,000-25,000 to 35,000. We don’t need to rush this. We want it to be right. When people look at the number of units and look how quick King City’s chang-ing, it is changing a bit, but we put out 400 units a year, other municipalities put out thousands of units.
Our growth is so small, it’s noticeable, but we’re taking our time and we want things right and we don’t have to
account to the builders for that,” added Pellegrini.
The mayor said develop-ment charges have just been raised recently to account for the real cost of develop-ment.
“Our fees were too low, we missed out on develop-ment charges that we should have gone after back in 2009. They will be appealed by the builders and will go down slightly so the (Fraser) report is slightly inaccurate,” he said.
He said development in King would continue to be
strictly regulated to protect what current residents want to see in the municipality. And he said charges and fees reflect their wishes.
“It’s (charges) for the services and the vision that people want. They want the beautification and the vital-ization of the village cores that come with quite a cost to urbanize the corners. I don’t see (the report) as a bad thing. King is most regu-lated spot, that’s not from us, that’s from the province. We value our greenspace and we value our way of life.”
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REGIONAL NEWS
Fraser home-building report: results vary across York Region
‘We value our way of life’
By Lisa [email protected]
Too much red tape makes King Township the worst place to build new homes in the Greater Golden Horse-shoe, a new report from conservative think tank the Fraser Institute says.
But while many people might think putting hurdles in front of developers is a good thing, the result is less affordable housing in the Golden Horseshoe commu-nities with the most oner-ous regulations, according to report co-author Kenneth Green, the institute’s senior director of natural resource studies.
“If people really do want more affordable housing, as they say, then the supply needs to be increased and to increase the supply, one of the ways to do that would be to decrease the amount of red tape that slows down
development and construc-tion of new housing units that are more affordable,” he said.
“All of these things (including red tape and high fees) basically suppress the housing supply and housing supply, of course, is what sets the price. So, if you sup-press your housing supply, your price is higher and it makes housing less avail-able for those who are not quite as well off or maybe are starting off in the work-force or are getting their first house and are ready to settle down and have children.”
The report, called New Homes and Red Tape: Resi-dential Land-Use Regulation in Ontario’s Greater Golden Horseshoe, is based on a survey of developers and homebuilders.
It compares municipal-ities on a number of fac-tors, including construc-tion approval times, density
opposition, regulatory costs and fees and the effect coun-cil and committee groups have on development.
King is the most regulat-ed, earning low marks with its fees and its approval time of 20.2 months, compared to the average of 17.5 months. In Burlington, the approval time is 13.8 months.
In King, regulatory fees on a typical home are $57,500, more than three times those of Hamilton’s $17,500.
But King Mayor Steve Pel-legrini made no apologies for the high cost of building new housing in King Town-ship.
“I think it’s good news actually,” said Pellegrini when asked about King’s ranking.
Pellegrini had an expla-nation for the high costs of development charges and associated costs and fees for home-building in King Township.
“We have the Oak Ridges Moraine and the Greenbelt so 99 per cent of King Town-ship is highly protected and regulated from develop-ment,” said Pellegrini.
The report ranked 23 municipalities in the Gold-en Horseshoe from least to most regulated.
While King came out worst, Burlington was the best and Brampton came in second.
Bradford West Gwillim-bury was third, followed by East Gwillimbury at fourth.
Other York Region munic-ipalities on the list were Whitchurch-Stouffville at sixth, Newmarket at eighth, Vaughan at 12th, Markham at 13th, Richmond Hill at 16th and Aurora at 20th.
Not enough information from Georgina was col-lected to include it in the rankings.
– With files from Tim Kelly
Ed. Note: To see more local reaction, see our story on the front page of this paper, con-tinued at the bottom of this page.
ONLINE: To download the report, visit our story at yorkregion.com
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Get ready to pay more to turn on your tap, flush your toilet or use your dishwasher or washing machine.
If approved by York Region council as expected Thursday, water and wastewater rate hikes will increase April 1.
The rates on the average household will jump $93 next year, $101 in 2017, $110 in 2018, $120 in 2019, $131 in 2020, $45 in 2021, $47 in 2022, $48 in 2023, $29 in 2024 and $51 in 2025.
At the moment, the aver-age household bill for water and wastewater, including regional and average munici-pal charges, is $1,032 a year.
The region argues the increases are needed to cover operating costs, meet expens-es, including payments to Toronto and Peel and Durham regions for water and waste-water services, maintain $5.3 billion worth of infrastructure now and in the future and build up its infrastructure reserves.
The increases are also necessary because the region failed to charge consumers the true cost of providing water and wastewater services in the past, regional chairperson Wayne Emmerson said.
“Our water rates were way too cheap years ago and I think that’s the reason why people are saying, ‘Why is water so
expensive (now)?’ We did not charge enough money 20, 30 years ago and that’s why we’re in this predicament today,” he said, adding provincial regula-tions have also contributed to the region’s increased costs.
“I’m hoping you’ll see this, I believe, as something we need to do and make sure we do get our rates the way that they should be for the future of York Region. Because it is very important for us to have this because we do want to have great water for everyone, but we also need to make sure our infrastructure is put in the ground and for repairs and for everything.”
Although councillors approved the increases at a committee meeting last Thursday and are expected to adopt them at this week’s council meeting, many said the hikes would come as a blow to residents.
The region seems to be playing catch up too quickly, Newmarket Councillor John Taylor said.
“I would assume we’re in the position we are today,
making this decision today, because of either not fully understanding the level of investment we needed to make or under-investing in the past or both, perhaps going back 10, 20, 30 years,” he said.
“If the problem has been created over 10,20, 30 years…it seems like we’re putting quite a burden on one gen-eration at one period of time when this has probably been created over a longer period of time.”
The region can’t turn back the clock and correct past wrongs, treasurer Bill Hughes said.
“We can’t fix history. In the past, it is quite clear that people were paying water rates that were too low and we weren’t setting aside the amount that we need for good asset management,” he said.
“So, we can’t fix that, but we can fix the future.”
Markham Councillor Jack Heath shared Taylor’s con-cerns.
“When a household gets into financial difficulties, with too many credit cards and buying a house that’s too big or
expensive would be the word, you don’t
recover overnight,” he said.
While Markham Mayor Frank Scarpitti said he sup-ports “paying our way” for infrastructure, arguing falling behind just costs more in the
long run, he questioned if try-ing to make up for lost ground too quickly could be too great a burden on residents.
The rate hikes could hurt people on fixed incomes, Richmond Hill Councillor Vito Spatafora added.
But Vaughan Mayor Maur-izio Bevilacqua argued coun-cil should bite the bullet and charge the necessary rates.
The region is moving toward financial sustainabil-ity while providing clean and safe water to 1.1 million resi-dents, maintaining $5.3 bil-lion worth of infrastructure, complying with complex pro-vincial regulations, building reserve accounts and moving toward full cost recovery, he said.
“The fundamental ques-tion I ask myself is how quick-ly do you want to get the job done? That’s the fundamental question. You can delay. But I don’t want any consumer out there thinking they are paying less if we are delaying. We’re just not achieving the objec-tives we’ve set out in a quicker way,” he said.
“I’d like to get the job done as quickly as possible.”
Although regional staff rec-ommended a more aggressive rate increase, which would have seen rates jump by $154 in 2016, $154 in 2017 and $81 in 2018 before dropping to annual increases between $42 and $51 until 2025, councillors agreed to the less harsh option.
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Citizens for Affordable Housing York Region, a non-profit agency established in 1994, is now helping lower-income families save for their children’s post-secondary education.
Agency executive direc-tor Mary Ann Proulx said her organization has partnered with education savings advo-cate SmartSAVER to offer a new online Canada Learning Bond application called Start My RESP.
“I’ve worked with social ser-vices and low-income families for 35 years and when there’s an offer like this, you always ask, ‘What’s the catch?’” she said of the newly launched federal initiative. “Well, there is none.”
Under the program, eli-gible Canadian households can access the bond, designed to help each child with up to $2,000 in contributions toward a registered education savings plan.
Due to low awareness, more than 1.4 million chil-dren across Canada – 70 per cent of those eligible — have not yet received their bond, Proulx said.
The agency is not only promoting the Start My RESP process, which makes it easier for families to access federal education money; they are ready, willing and able to help York Region residents with the application at their Richmond Hill offices.
“For low earners, this is a
wonderful opportunity,” she said. “It’s $2,000 that a student won’t have to borrow.”
You are eligible if your child was born in 2004 or later and you have ever been eligible for the national child benefit sup-plement as part of the Canada child tax benefit, known as the family allowance.
All eligible children receive at least $500 and will receive $100 more for each year they’re eligible, up to age 15 or a maximum of $2,000.
SmartSAVER can help you apply for the bond and start an RESP with zero dollars when you use the Start My RESP online tool.
You’ll need a social insur-ance number for yourself and your child to complete the
application. There is no cost and you don’t need to con-tribute any money to get the bond.
The bond can only be used for education after high school or later in life. This includes part-time or full-time studies at college, university or other qualifying schools in Canada or outside the country. Your child has up to 36 years to use the money.
For more information and help applying, call Citizens for Affordable Housing York Region, 905-508-1877, 1-888-447-9602 or visit housinghelp-centre.org.
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By Chris [email protected]
he extraordinary life of Kazimierz Chomko ended Oct. 3 at age 103. His lega-cy, however, lives on.
The Richmond Hill resident’s interesting and eclectic life began in Poland. By age 12 he left home to keep accounts for his aunt, who ran a cafe in Czerna Bia-lystock, in the east of Poland. Kaz, as his friends knew him, became a police officer. When the Second World War broke out, he served as a tank troop commander with the Canadian Army, where he made a pact with his men to kill no one, but only take prisoners.
Twice during the war, he was captured and escaped.
Anna Carling’s book about Kaz’s war years, titled Drop Your Weap-ons — the Kaz Chomko Story, was published in 2011, for Kaz’s 100th birthday. Not wanting to return to a communist Poland after the war, Kaz immigrated to Canada, where he first worked near Richmond Hill as a farm labourer.
Later, he sold life insurance to loggers in Northern Ontario. It was during that time he met his wife, Doris, who was teaching in Tim-mins. In the early 1950s, the family moved to a small farm near Lake Ontario between Whitby and Ajax, where he grew strawberries and raspberries and later raised pigs. A
Chomko embodied genuine spirit of civic hero
Kazimierz Chomko.
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skilled carpenter, he built a house, barn and garage for the family, all of which stand today.
In 1967, when a fall and injury meant he could no longer con-tinue farming, the family moved to Oshawa, where Kaz sold real estate. He decided to retire and devote himself to helping run the St. Vin-cent de Paul’s Marygrove Camp for
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disadvantaged girls. Later, Doris also retired and joined him at Marygrove in Penetanguishene.
It was during this time when the Toronto Archdiocese started a program to train lay deacons. Doris encouraged Kaz to participate and helped him with his studies and homework. He was then about 65. After Kaz graduated, he and his
wife moved around a lot, doing missionary work in the Caribbean and British Columbia, before set-tling down in Ontario.
Eventually, in 1991, they moved to Hesperus, an elder community near Richmond Hill, where Kaz lived until his death. Doris died in 2006.
When the Second World
War broke, out he served
as a tank troop
commander with the
Canadian Army, where
he made a pact with his
men to kill no one, but
only take prisoners.
In 2014, the Civic Hero Award for Ward 4 was presented to Kaz by Vaughan council. He was rec-ognized for his leadership, peace-making and community volunteer-ism during his time as a soldier in the Polish Army, under the Cana-dian flag, and his years serving as a deacon and community volunteer.
“Kazimierz Chomko is an indi-vidual that truly embodies the gra-cious character and genuine spirit
of a civic hero, and we are very for-tunate for the contributions he has made to the Vaughan community,” Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua said. “Mr. Chomko has taken the story of his life as a soldier, deacon and community volunteer and trans-formed it into a message of peace and hope that inspires us and enhances our sense of civic pride.”
“Mr. Chomko is a true ambas-sador for peace and he is wonder-ful example of volunteerism,” said Ward 4 Councillor Sandra Yeung Racco, who nominated him for the award. “He is dedicated to improving the community by help-ing students develop their literacy skills and he uses his message of peace to motivate others to remain actively involved in civic life.”
The award is presented annu-ally to one resident from each of Vaughan’s five wards. The awards recognize outstanding achieve-ment and individual contributions to the community.
Kaz is survived by his two sons, Richard and Robert, and by their wives, Elisabeth and Lisa, and their children, Sylvia, Erik, Jona-than, Katrina, Sarah, Dominic and Theresa, and great-grandchildren Rebecca and Jessica.
Kaz’s funeral was Oct. 7 at St. Mary Immaculate Church in Rich-mond Hill and his body was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, next to that of Doris.
“Adored by children, universally respected and an inspiration to her peers, Mrs. McCluskey was a tireless volunteer, quick to defl ect the praise heaped on her.”
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