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Niklas Chandrabalan is the administrator at Extendicare Bayview, one of many aging long-term care homes in Toronto in need of renovation.
‘Time ticking’ on long-term care homesMIKE ADLER [email protected]
From the road, Extendicare Bayview looks a lot like a motel.
A single-story square around an open courtyard on North York’s Cummer Avenue, the home was built more than 40 years ago, a time when some
seniors moving into long-term care could still drive.
Now, they’re much older, frailer, and sicker than they were then, but the architecture of Extendicare Bayview remains much as it was.
The long-term home near Bayview Avenue – like many other aging facilities similar to it in Toronto – is patiently waiting
its turn to be rebuilt.“Every space in this home
is being used for something,” said Niklas Chandrabalan, the facility’s administrator for the past four years.
“Things are challenging right now because we are a home that’s designed for code 30 years ago.”
Ontario’s Liberal government
brought a spark of hope to the long-term sector last month by announcing it will renovate 300 homes in the province over the next nine years.
But the announcement named just six homes, and only one of those, Bloomington Cove Care Community in Whitchurch-Stouffville – vis-
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Police in 55 Division have released details about a recent spate of commercial break-ins along Danforth Avenue.
Last week, several businesses along the strip had windows smashed and property stolen one night over a three-hour period.
Surveillance video
Police were called and can-vassed for video surveillance from surrounding businesses.
The footage they obtained showed images of some of the entries and in one instance even showed a burglar wind up like a major league baseball pitcher before throwing a rock at a window. Other videos caught the perpetrator walking to and from the scene of the crime.
Investigators then used this footage to identify a suspect. One person has been arrested and charged with a number of related offences.Police are urging business owners to con-sider using video cameras for security purposes.
Anyone with information should contact 416-808-5500, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com, or text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637).
Man arrestedin string ofbreak-ins onDanforth Ave.
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featuredw Saturday, May 28 & Sunday, May 29Central Connection Art Show and SaleWHEN: 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday; 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday WHERE: Withrow Park Clubhouse, 725 Logan Ave. CONTACT: www.centralconnection.ca, [email protected] COST: FreeCentral Connection is a group of established and emerging Toronto artists who have been painting together since about 1990. The group meets weekly to draw and paint from the model. Their work can be found in individual and corporate collec-tions, as well as Toronto galleries and shows.
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it’s happeningw Thursday, May 19Plant SaleWHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Stan Wadlow Clubhouse, 373 Cedarvale Ave. CONTACT: Susan Bartlett, 416-668-7872, [email protected] COST: FreeSlideshow of some club members’ gardens, and a short talk. A few spe-cial plants will be auctioned off, and the plant sale will follow. Plants are all grown by members. Cash only.
w Friday, May 20Entertainment at the LegionWHEN: 8 p.m. to midnight WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-425-3070 COST: Free
w Saturday, May 21Family StorytimeWHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7720 COST: FreeStories, songs and rhymes for chil-dren from birth to age six and their caregivers. Drop in.
Steve Burrows and Jack BattenWHEN: 3 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Sleuth of Baker Street, 907 Millwood Rd. E. CONTACT: http://sleuthofbaker-street.ca COST: Free
Mystery authors Steve Burrows and Jack Batten discuss their new books.
Live Music at the BranchWHEN: 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, [email protected] COST: Free
w Sunday, May 22EuchreWHEN: 12:30 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, [email protected] COST: $6All welcome.
Karaoke WHEN: 5 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, [email protected] COST: Free
w Monday, May 23After School Maker’s ClubWHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. WHERE: River-dale Library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7720 COST: FreeFor children aged nine to 12. Regis-tration is required.
CribbageWHEN: 7:15 p.m. WHERE: Royal
Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, [email protected] COST: $6
Drop In DartsWHEN: 7:30 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, [email protected] COST: $5
w Wednesday, May 25Mixed Snooker LeagueWHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-425-3070 COST: Free
w Thursday, May 26Presteign-Woodbine Heritage GroupWHEN: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: Presteign-Woodbine United Church, 2538 St. Clair Ave. E. CONTACT: 416-755-8352, www.presteign-woodbineuc.com, [email protected] COST: $7 per presentationEnjoy historical presentations about Ontario, Toronto and the surround-ing areas - little known facts, the darker side of Toronto the Good, cultural history and more.
Walk With Your DocWHEN: 1:30 to 3 p.m. WHERE:
Mosaic Home Care Services & Com-munity Resource Centre, CNIB, 1929 Bayview Ave., Suite 215H CONTACT: 416-322-7002, [email protected] COST: FreeDr. Scott Levine from the Vita Health Clinic will be doing a presentation on the benefits of walking, which can help heal the body, stimulate the brain, and improve energy.
w Saturday, May 28Kew Beach Lawn Bowling Club Open HouseWHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: 103 Ferrier Ave. CONTACT: Fay Hen-derson, 416-466-6598, [email protected] COST: Free
Diefenbaker Fun FairWHEN: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Diefenbaker Elementary School, 175 Plains Rd. Fun for everyone: inflatables, video game bus dance party, selfie photo booth, silent auction, face painting, Toronto Maple Leaf Fan Zone, and much more.
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ited on that day by a local MPP and Dipika Damerla, Ontario’s associate minister of health and long-term care – is in Greater Toronto.
Which means the government still has to find a way to rebuild nearly half of its 626 licensed long-term care facilities.
Candace Chartier, CEO of the Ontario Long Term Care Association, said the situation is urgent.
“You’ve got these old buildings that are starting to fall apart,” Chartier said last month. “Time’s ticking, and all these licenses are expiring in nine years.”
Modernizing these older homes, many of them built to the design standards of the early 1970s, is long overdue, said Chartier, whose group represents facilities with 70 per cent, or some 54,000, of Ontario’s long-term care residents.
Most older homes still have some four-bed rooms, or have two-bed rooms with bathrooms shared by four residents.
Around 62 per cent of the residents have Alzheimer’s or other dementia, said Chartier, and they may be wandering, or calling out at night – and you can imagine the effect of this on someone just trying to get a good night’s sleep.
“People don’t want to put their loved one in an older home,” she said.
Chandrabalan has no doubt renovating will increase quality of life for his residents.
Some of its 203 men and women and their families like Extendicare Bayview’s one-floor design, he said, but you don’t find many homes like it anymore, and the complexity of care for residents is growing.
The home, meanwhile, has bought some time by learning how to use spaces for multiple purposes – a dining room for physiotherapy
and exercise, for example – but there are only four spaces in which to program activities for everyone.
Extendicare, which owns 34 long-term care (LTC) homes in Ontario and manages others, took over a long time ago.
Newer homes have only single and double rooms. There are no narrow hallways crowded with equipment, and no cafeteria-type spaces, but instead smaller and more intimate dining areas.
Extendicare Bayview’s largest dining room serves close to 90 residents, and close to 80 go to the next dining room across a hall.
There are no locked units. Memory boards, at the entrance to each room, display images from long ago, something residents can relate to their past, not short-term memory.
The washrooms are meant for people who can walk, not for the wheelchairs used by 60 per cent of residents, who need one or two staff to assist them.
Their tubs, Chandrabalan said, have been unused for 20 years, but the cost of removal would be too much.
The home has only one three-bed room, but 64 other double rooms share one bathroom through sliding doors.
These basic rooms don’t have a lot of space. Chandrabalan said.
“At the end of the day it comes down to care, and the best we can do with it.”
Toronto, divided by the province into local health integration networks, or LHINs, has some areas where the need for bed renova-tion is greater.
The Central LHIN, which includes North
York and York Region, has the shortest long-term bed supply of all LHINs. Most of its beds to be redeveloped are in North York – 1,620 of them.
But the Central East LHIN, which includes Scarborough and Durham, has the largest number of beds scheduled for redevelopment, including 2,149 (slightly more than half) of 4,234 beds in Scarborough alone, where 12 of 22 of long-term homes could be on the list.
Since 2003, the ministry has created just more than 10,000 new nursing home beds, and 13,500 have been redeveloped, but more than 30,000 in those 300 older homes remain.
Chartier thinks there will be a need for the province to build new beds, too, given Ontario’s aging population and a 83-day aver-age wait time for an LTC bed.
She said the renovation program – giving homes a construction subsidy of $16.65 per bed per day over 25 years – is enough, if it could work for everybody.
Right now, the program works for some members of her association, she said, but not all. A 60-bed home in a rural area can’t afford redevelopment, and with land prices so high in downtown Toronto, homes there may have to look at building elsewhere, she said.
Some older homes won’t want to rebuild; the ministry may take a couple of years to count who does or doesn’t, Chartier said.
In an interview last week, Ontario New Democratic Party Leader Andrea Horwath argued the province’s long-term care system “has been pretty much ignored” over the past 13 years of Liberal government, which Horwath said “has a lot of catching up to do.
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Farewell to theo’Connor BowlA bit of East York history fell to the wreck-ing ball last week as the O’Connor Bowl building was demolished. The bowling alley on O’Connor Drive near Bermondsey had provided bowling fun for generations of East Yorkers for more than 65 years before its closure last year. The site is expected to be the home of a mixed-use residential and commercial building. To read more about the O’Connor Bowl, its history and the impact it had on East York residents, see our story at http://bit.ly/1TWdgON
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A long weekend is just about here, and many of us will hit the road for this Victoria Day holiday.
No matter when or where you go – be it in the city or on a longer road trip to a cottage or to pitch a tent – your main focus should be arriving at your destina-tion alive.
The excitement of having a few days off from the everyday sometimes causes people to throw common sense out the window (along with some litter – don’t do that by the way). While you and other drivers snake through slow traffic, you can expect the Ontario Provincial Police to be keeping a close eye on how you drive.
Last year, 27 motorcyclists and four passengers died, with 17 of those motorcycle drivers reported as driving properly at the time of the crash, the OPP
reports. While speed and loss of control
also played a role in the deaths, the OPP is cautioning both motorcyclists and other drivers to do a better job of sharing the road.
These weekends away from our routine don’t have to be reckless.
Speeding, careless lane changes and unnecessary risk-taking can cause more than a rush – it can end your life or someone else’s.
If you follow the rules of the road, and the person driving next to you does the same, along with the vehicle ahead of you and the other trailing a safe dis-tance behind, there’s no reason this shouldn’t be a holiday to remember – for all the right reasons.
And if you want to celebrate the birthday of the late Queen Victoria with fireworks, be safe about it.
The Canada Safety Council believes it’s best to enjoy fireworks at a show put on by professionals such as the City of Toronto set for Monday night at Ashbridges Bay Park.
But if you’re going to be your own pyrotechnic protege, follow these tips:
• Read the instructions, cautions and warnings on each firework item.
• Set up outdoors in a clear, open space. Light fireworks on a hard, flat and level surface to ensure stability.
• Spectators should be at a safe distance.• Only adults (18 years or over) should handle the
fireworks.• If you are impaired, do not handle fireworks.Visit www.canadasafetycouncil.org for more safety
tips.
Be safe this Victoria Day long weekend
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Share the road and be firework safe
Council needs to make Toronto sustainableIf recent history has taught us nothing else, let us remem-ber this: that left to their own devices, Toronto’s political leadership is about as good with a budget as a pack of 12 year olds with their parents’ credit cards.
It had always been so, at least within the lifespan of amalgamated Toronto.
In 1997, Mel Lastman was elected the city’s first mayor on a promise of a three-year property tax freeze – deliv-ered at the same time as the city was reconstituting itself into the largest municipality in the country at the behest, but without the support of, the provincial government.
Lastman’s first term set a tone that subsequent councils have maintained: namely, that marginal prop-erty tax increases are the most injurious thing a gov-ernment might inflict upon homeowners – about an equivalent evil to reducing services upon which those homeowners had come to rely and limiting promises of improved service to come.
And so over the years, council has approved proj-ects, maintained services, and kept property tax increases slim to none.
This week, Toronto’s city manager Peter Wallace brought out another in what is developing into a series of despatches, delineating what to many has been obvious for years.
Toronto has been able to maintain the fiction of a growing city and a low property tax environment thanks to factors that are either entirely beyond its control (a booming real estate market that pours in revenue through the munic-ipal land transfer tax) or measures of which council should frankly be ashamed (approving capital projects for future years with no means of financing).
At some point, very soon, the boom’s going to end and the projects will have to
be built.Wallace first pointed
this out to councillors in the fall shortly after he took the job. That early report gave Mayor John Tory a small amount of political cover, to propose that the city maintain a 0.5 per cent levy on the property tax bill currently in place to help finance the Scarborough subway, to finance more transit infrastructure.
This report, coming to next week’s Executive Committee, provides an imperative for more of the same: a debate on what other ways we might find to support ourselves in the style to which we’ve become accustomed. To whit: revenue tools.
These conversations haven’t gone well in the past. In the last term of council, politicians balked at supporting any revenue tools, even as they voted to go forward on subway expansion in Scarborough.
Former mayor David Miller was able to get a couple of major revenue
tools through council, but the battle over the land transfer tax and vehicle registration tax nearly broke council.
Will it be any different now? It’s not encouraging.
Toronto council this term has shown just as little appetite for long-term financial planning as ever. Under the leadership of Tory, council approved a billion-dollar rebuild of the Gardiner Expressway’s elevated lanes, against expert advice.
The Scarborough subway, absent all but one stop, remains on the books. And this week, Tory made it clear himself that one thing he won’t support is any significant increase to Toronto’s bargain-base-ment property tax rates.
There’s no doubt about it: the arrested 12 year olds on Toronto council have a lot of growing up to do.
David Nickle is Metroland Media Toronto’s city hall reporter. His column runs
every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @DavidNickle
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Two public meetings are coming up this month to discuss transit proposals for the waterfront.
Waterfront Toronto and city officials will present preliminary design and planning concepts for pos-sible new, yet currently unfunded, transit routes that may include the East Bayfront LRT.
Two meetings are scheduled for the study, with the first taking place Wednesday, May 25 at Brigantine Room inside Harbourfront Centre start-ing at 6 p.m.
Another meeting takes place in Mimico the next day at John English Junior Middle School at 95 Mimico Ave. at 6 p.m.
wLAST CHANCE TO TAKE IN TUNNEL VISION
The Tunnel Vision subway exhibit is down to its final month.
The installation inside St. Lawrence Market fea-tures photographs, maps, and other artifacts from
nearly 100 years of transit planning, dating back well before the opening of the city’s first subway stations.
Organized by the Toronto Transportation Society, the exhibit, which opened in February, closes June 11.
wMOVE OVER UBER, HERE COMES APPLE
The legalization of Uber is well at hand, but could another tech giant one day enter the ride-hailing market?
It certainly seems like Apple is interested, with the company announcing last week it is investing $1 bil-lion in a Chinese competi-tor of Uber, and acting as a “strategic” investor to the company, Didi Chuxing.
It’s certainly conceivable Apple will never operate a ride-hailing service on its own.
But the company’s deep pockets combined with the burgeoning growth of the industry could mean there’s a day when Apple-branded vehicles are providing pri-vate rides in this city, and rivalling Uber in popularity.
wLONGTIME TTC HEAD OF PLANNING HAS RETIRED
The TTC’s longtime head of planning has finally called it a day after a career spanning more than three decades.
For 21 years of his career with the city, Mitch Stambler was the com-mission’s chief planning official, having a hand in developing transit expan-sion projects and plans.
Stambler had a direct role creating the Transit City light rail network plan, and he was also part of planning for the Spadina subway extension.
Rahul Gupta is Metroland Media Toronto’s transportation and infrastructure reporter. His
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In my private library, one of my treasures is a wonderful book called The Complete Book of Garden Magic.
It was originally written for the amateur gardener in 1935 by American Roy E. Biles (1888 – 1941) and was reprinted with updated information for 20 years after his death.
Even though it has been out of print for more than 40 years, it is still considered to be a primary source of useful information, and contempo-rary abstracts and references on gardening still list it.
One of the key points Biles makes is that there is a law of creation contained in every garden that must be respected if we are to see it bloom, grow, and prosper.
Biles was by no means a mystic or a crank, otherwise his ideas and techniques would never have been accepted and practised by as many people as they have been.
He used science, chemis-try, biology, and mechanical engineering extensively within his practice, and encouraged others to do the same.
However, what makes his techniques still worth practis-
ing today lies in the fact that he advocated preventing problems before turning to chemical pesticides.
Pests, Biles had found, were simpler to control when one took the time to understand them, and prevent their occurrence, than by using a confusing multiplicity of “one-type-fits-all” commercial pesticides.
Biles was not averse to using garden chemical sprays and powders, but in a controlled manner, fully respected the fact that these were poisons designed to kill insects and disease.
More importantly, Biles believed that many “modern” pesticides were not as effective as traditional garden chemi-cals such as copper, sulphur, lime, and nicotine.
He found many proprietary pesticides simply did not jus-tify the price and only added unnecessary complication to gardening. What was needed, according to Biles, was to
keep your garden clean and healthy through proper care and maintenance.
Biles also used a range of natural and mechanical prod-ucts in his control of pests. These included soaps, diluted glue, ground tobacco, and juice for pesticides, destroy-ing insect eggs before they hatched, using wire mesh to keep animals out, and the proper turning of soil to expose pests to natural predators.
Likewise, Biles was a strong advocate of building feeding stations to encourage birds to stay in a garden and help keep them clean off pests.
Toronto City Council has wisely banned the use of pesti-cides, a policy the province has followed. Ontario now has the most comprehensive pesticide ban in North America, which is a progressive move.
Ironically, we have simply caught up with wisdom that was also scientific knowledge and general garden practice 80 or so years ago.
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Joe Cooper is a long-time East York resident and com-munity activist. His column
appears every Thursday. Contact him at [email protected]
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888888888888888 GREAT THINGS TO DO THIS VICTORIA DAY WEEKEND
It’s Victoria Day weekend, the fi rst long weekend and the unoffi cial kick-off to
summer. If you are planning to stay in the city, there are plenty of things to do. Visit www.insidetoronto.com/
toronto-events for more.
VICTORIA DAY FIREWORKS
The City of Toronto hosts Victoria Day fi reworks at 9:45 p.m. Monday at Ashbridges Bay Park at Lake Shore Boulevard East and Coxwell Avenue. Thousands of
people are expected to take in the 14-minute show to unof-fi cially kick off summer. People are encouraged to keep the car at home as parking is limited. Bus service will be increased between Queen Street East and the Bloor-Danforth subway line. The event goes rain or shine. Visit www.toronto.ca
HARBOURKIDS CIRCUS
This year’s HarbourKIDS: Circus Festival has been re-imagined. Organizers have teamed up with circus artists and curators to offer circus acts that will have
you gasping in awe, doubling over with laughter and even joining in. The event takes place Saturday to Monday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 235 Queens Quay W.
BEASLEY BEAR’S TEDDY BEAR PICNIC
Beasley Bear’s Teddy Bear Picnic is a free event at Centreville on Centre Island that combines outdoor fun with physical education to teach school-aged children
about the importance of living a healthy lifestyle. Lots of fun activities and free hugs from Beasley Bear. Must purchase Ride Passes. Visit www.centreisland.ca/cent-reville/rides-attraction
THE ULTIMUTTS STUNT DOG SHOW
The Ultimutts Stunt Dog Show is a circus-style show jampacked with non-stop tricks to wow the audience and keep them on the edge of their seats. Comprised
of rescued animals, these dogs love to work and perform, the show runs at 1, 2:30 and 4 p.m. at PawsWay, 245 Queens Quay W. Visit www.pawsway.ca/victoria-day-ultimutts-2016
NORTHERN HEAT RIB SERIES
Rib fest and barbecue bash feature what organizers say are the best rib teams in Canada along with bar-becue foods from different cultures. Runs Friday and
Saturday, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
FRANKIE VALLI AND THE FOUR SEASONS
The original Jersey boy himself, Frankie Valli is a true American pop icon. His incredible career with the Four Seasons, as well as his solo success, has spawned
countless hit singles. The concert takes place Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Sony Centre For The Performing Arts, 1 Front St. E. Tickets range in price from $95.39 to $168.39.
OUTSIDERS: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM
Documenting American life in all its startling complex-ity and diversity, the photographers and fi lmmakers featured in the AGO’s latest exhibition, Outsiders:
American Photography and Film, 1950s – 1980s, present compelling images of individuals and communities on the perceived margins of society. The show runs until May 29 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St. W. Various prices and hours.
WORLD FIDDLE DAY TORONTO
Join workshops, listen to a concert with Dan MacDonald (Cape Breton Fiddle), Mark Marcyk of Lemon Bucket Orchestra (Hutsul Fiddling from Ukraine), Rosalyn
Dennett (Appalachian Fiddle), Yosvai Castaneda (Latin Violin) and a community “Around-the-World Jam”. The event takes place Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Fort York National
Historic Site, 250 Fort York Blvd. Free.
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Officers from 55 Division have been working on a number of community safety initiatives in recent weeks.
Operation Signal, a traffic safety campaign run by members of ‘D’ Platoon, is focusing its efforts on vehicles speeding at intersections on Danforth Avenue, specifically at Broadview and at Donlands avenues.
The creation of this operation was prompted by a record high number of pedestrian fatalities in 2015, and the fact that high speeds means less
reaction time and an increase in the severity of injury.
Danforth Avenue is an arterial road with many retail shops and restaurants, many vehicles exceed posted speed limits eastbound on Danforth from the Bloor Street Viaduct and often rush the light at Broadview, which is heavily used by pedestrians. Lastly, the intersec-tion of Danforth and Donlands is T-shaped with a 7-11 store frequently used by pedestrian.
From March 29 to April 25, mem-
bers of ‘D’ Platoon conducted a proj-ect called Keep Gerrard Safe.
For this operation, officers focused on pedestrian safety at crosswalks and on sidewalks along Gerrard Street from Coxwell to Greenwood avenues. It also focused on cyclists and e-bike riders illegally using the sidewalks. A total of 60 hours were devoted to the project, which resulted in 131 charges laid and 28 warnings issued.
An extra bonus of the project was that a suspect in recent break and
enters was identified by an officer in this project, leading to an arrest being made and 15 charges laid.
Lastly, an initiative from 55 Division’s front line workers called “Sober down and stick around – if you booze, use your shoes” targeted impaired drivers. At least one person was arrested for impaired driving in this initiative.
The east-end division has also recently revamped and relaunched its bail compliance unit, which is now known as the Warrant Task
Force. The mandate of this unit is to conduct compliance checks on offenders released on bail.
At this time, officers are monitor-ing about 15 offenders, who have been identified as high risk to reof-fend based on current charges and previous convictions. The task force is also working to locate offenders wanted on outstanding warrants and is working with other police services who have offenders on bail and living within 55 Division.
– Joanna Lavoie
Police in 55 Division involved in number of safety initiatives
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East-end residents are still reel-ing from the sudden closure of the Rocca’s No Frills grocery store at 269 Coxwell Ave., just north of Gerrard Street East.
Last Wednesday morning, the supermarket posted a note on the front and back doors of the store indicating it had closed its doors for renovations for an undetermined, albeit
extended, period of time.“We have served this com-
munity for decades. We hope to serve the community for decades more,” it read. “To do that, we need to modern-ize the store. This will include improvements to the building and renovations that will make your shopping experience even better.”
To assist those who rely on No Frills for their groceries, parent company Loblaws
said it would be looking into providing a shuttle bus to the Dave and Charlotte’s No Frills store at 449 Carlaw Ave., north of Gerrard.
Three days later on Friday, May 13, the free service was launched and is running every 15 minutes between 8 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. daily with a break between 1 and 2 p.m.
Carrie, a 30-year area resi-dent, came by the store early Friday afternoon to find out
more about it. “I think the shuttle is a nice gesture but they should have forewarned us also (about the closure). They should have done a better job preparing the com-munity,” she said.
Carrie, who doesn’t drive and expects she’ll have to make a number of trips if she has to buy big or heavy items, admitted she’s skeptical about how long the shuttle will be offered.
Therese Cowie also dropped by the east-end No Frills to buy some items for dinner and was surprised to find it closed.
“I’m just inconvenienced,” said Cowie, who opted to try out the free shuttle bus.
Cyclist Cindy also hoped to pick up a few things at the store but was stunned to learn it’s now closed. “This is going to be a nightmare. Lots of people who live around here
don’t have vehicles,” she said. Resident Coreen Barton also said she’s not too sure where she’ll go for her grocery shop-ping.
“As a neighbour, I’ve been here for 12 years and I got no notice. I saw the manager the other day and nobody said a word,” she said. “This is where I go to shop. Where am I going to go to shop now? There’s nowhere nearby to go.”
A cashier from the now-shuttered store stopped by to pick up a few items she’d left behind Friday afternoon.
The part-time employee, who asked not to give her name, said she found out about the store closing from a co-worker. “I was shocked to find out but management told me they would try to help me find a job at another location,” she said, adding she was also promised a position at the new
store once it reopens.She said she was told the
store would be closed for eight to 10 months.
In an email to The Mirror, Ke v i n G r o h , L o b l a w s Companies Ltd.’s vice-presi-dent of corporate affairs and communication, said the Coxwell Avenue No Frills would only be closed temporarily, and the store’s employees are being taken care of.
“What I can tell you is that the owner of Rocca’s No Frills and the No Frills team are doing everything possible to identify employ-ment opportunities at other No Frills locations during the closure. In the interim, employees will be provided financial support in excess of employment standards,” he said, adding all employees will be welcomed back when the store reopens.
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A sea of hundreds of Toronto fire-fighters wearing their dress black and white gloves stood solemnly with family and friends Monday morning to pay final respects to their colleague Sara Rosen, whom one remembered as “genuine, selfless, smiling and full of life.”
Mourners packed Benjamin Park Memorial Chapel on Steeles Avenue West near Keele Street in North York for Rosen’s 90-minute funeral.
Jackie Gaistman, Rosen’s partner, called her “my compass.”
“Sara is the fiercest, most genu-ine, brutally honest, inspirational, joyful, free-spirited, soulful, gen-erous, strong, determined, feisty,
loyal, courageous person I’ve ever met,” Gaistman said, calling her his wife. “Sara loved her parents and her brother Mark with every ounce of her heart. Mark is living testament to Sara’s love, generosity, caring and courage. She was, and still is, such a hero.”
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Twelve years ago, Rosen donated her kidney to her brother, Mark. Since then, the siblings would cel-ebrate an additional “birthday” every year marking the date of the trans-plant, said Rosen’s father, Allan.
Rosen, 38, was a 15-year Toronto firefighter, who worked out of Station 443 on Islington Avenue in central Etobicoke. She had planned to take
a year’s sabbatical from her job this September to attend law school on a full scholarship.
Rosen died last Thursday in a mountain biking accident while out riding with a colleague at Kelso Conservation Area in Milton, Ont.
Gaistman called his life with Rosen a “magical journey” because of Rosen’s “joy of life, excitement and passion. You made everyone around you laugh, feel happy, feel worthy, feel respected. You made everyone want to enjoy life. You always fought for what was right.”
A strong sense of self, determina-tion, and a spirit to fight for what was right were themes woven throughout the stories Rosen’s father told from his daughter’s life. “Nothing would stop Sara,” Allan Rosen said.
Many mourners wept when Allan Rosen closed his eulogy by saying, “I won’t hear my daughter say ‘I love you’ anymore. Goodbye, Sara. I love you.’”
Rabbi Tina Grimberg read American poet Mary Oliver’s poem, “When Death Comes” because it spoke to Rosen’s mark on the world, she said. “When it’s over, I want to say all my life/I was a bride married to amazement... I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world,” Grimberg read. “Sara Rosen did not simply visit this world. She was a bride married to amazement.”
Frank Ramagnano, president of the Toronto Professional Fire Fighters’ Association, shared mes-sages of condolence offered by Toronto firefighters.
“Sara was powerful and fierce. People like Sara make you want to do more in the world to help others,” one firefighter said.
Another offered: “She was honest, caring and full of life. She was always looking to make things better.”
Rosen’s firefighter jacket, helmet and boots stood outside the chapel where mourners signed condolence books.
Memorial donations may be made to the Sara Rosen Memorial Fund, which benefits organ transplants at Toronto General Hospital, mental health causes, and The Positive Space Anti-Bullying Campaign.
Donations may be made c/o The Benjamin Foundation, 3429 Bathurst St. Toronto, M6A 2C3. Visit www.ben-jamins.ca or call 416-780-0324.
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The city could be spending $16 million a year on bicy-cling infrastructure to put its 10-year bike plan in place, but studies on major cycling
corridors like Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue would be postponed for at least two years.
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