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Just out of high school, our Athlete of the Year By ALLAN WILLIAMS
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It’s a good thing Ayanna Badali broke her ankle when she was 13 years old. If not she might have become a hockey player and never taken up the sport where she is making a name for herself. Instead she has become Leaside’s Athlete of the Year, just five months out of high school, named to the honour for her speed skating accomplishments by the Leaside Sports Hall of Fame. She won Ontario short track speed skating titles in 2013 and 2014, and competed for Team Ontario in the Canadian championships in Prince George, BC. The broken ankle happened a day before hockey camp where she was to try out for a high grade competitive team. At practice she lost her footing and crashed into the boards. The forced time-out made her and her parents think about what she could do while waiting for a new hockey season. They decided to look at speed skating and found a club, the Toronto Cyclones, offering a Learn to Speed Skate program that started just a few weeks later, when her ankle would be healed. Ayanna signed up. “I enjoyed it right away,” she says. “I could feel the wind whizzing by my ears. You can actually hear the wind!” After that first session, her mother, Denise MakovacBadali, recalls, “She had the biggest smile I’ve ever seen.” ATHLETE, Page 20
Argo CEO keynote speaker at Nov. 21 induction Ayanna Badali, named Leaside’s Athlete of the Year by the Leaside Sports Hall of Fame, will be honoured at the 2nd Annual Leaside Sports Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Community Reception at Leaside Gardens on Friday, Nov. 21, along with this year’s Hall of Fame inductees Jack
Caffery, Joe Krol, Christine Pellerin and Dr. Sidney Soanes, who were profiled in last month’s Leaside Life issue. Keynote speaker will be Chris
Rudge, executive chairman and CEO of the Toronto Argonaut Football Club. Rudge was formerly the president of the Canadian Olympic Committee. Tickets are available through any of Leaside’s sports associations, at the arena or at www.leasidesports.com. ■
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At least one Leasider, Paul Robert, Mallory Cres., answered the call back in July from the Great War Attic to share stories about what Leaside grandparents did during World War I. At the Todmorden Mills Heritage Site early in October Robert talked about his great uncle, Paul F. McLaughlin, who enlisted in the Princess Patricia’s Infantry in 1915 and ended up in the Ypres area of Belgium. He became what was called a “bomber,” which meant that during attacks on enemy lines he carried grenades for throwing at their trenches. In mid-June of 1916 he went missing in action. That is the only notice his family received. No remains were ever identified and nothing came from the searches, through the Swiss Red Cross, of prisoners in German camps. During his military career, McLaughlin sent many letters home
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ArteMbassy, 28 Industrial St. Ste. 219: Christopher Hume, architectural critic for the Toronto Star, hosts two lectures on Toronto in the 21st Century, Wednesdays, Nov. 5 & 12, 78:30 p.m. $35/lecture, wine and light snacks. 416-998-5045, info@artembassy.ca. Leaside United Church, 822 Millwood. How to understand world religions, Brian Carwana, based on the work of James Windland. Tuesday, Nov. 25, 7-9 p.m., $10 at the door. Leaside Community Food Drive, Saturday, Nov. 29, 9:30-noon. Leave non-perishable food donations on your doorsteps to be distributed to food banks run by various church denominations. Volunteers needed Saturday, Nov. 22, 9:30 a.m. to noon to distribute flyers to promote the drive, or on Nov. 29 until noon to pick up food donations from Leaside homes. Route maps for both tasks available from Leaside Presbyterian Church at Hanna and Eglinton. Ted Krawchuk, 416-425-4431. St. Cuthbert's Christmas Fair, Saturday, Nov. 8, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Treasures, toys, and more, plus a sit down luncheon and silent auction.
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Putting local students and local businesses together brought Sarah’s Food Drive to a new high in its 7th year. Sarah Jordan, 12, and her sister Claire, 8, raised 68,000 pounds for the Daily Bread Food Bank, bringing the total since the drive began to 150,000 pounds, says their mother Lynda Debono. This year the school challenge, involving 12 schools and 6,000 students, brought in 28,000 pounds, and 20 businesses, which were part of a challenge this year for the first time, brought in 10,000. The public donated the rest. Hampers and bags were put together at the valu-mart on Bayview on Oct. 11. Sarah started the food drive in grade 1. The last couple of years Claire has become more involved and this year she’s been speaking about healthy foods when the sisters visit schools. ■
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Signs of early success for Cheryl Vanderburg’s Adopt-A-Park and Leaside clean-up program, announced in Leaside Life in the September issue: Vanderburg was out of the city for three weeks in September and October, therefore unable to do her usual daily clean-up in Trace Manes Park. When she returned the park was clean. It's clear her neighbours have caught her passion. Vanderburg has also been contacting businesses where she's found litter problems. Most, she says, have committed to reducing or eliminating the problem once they've been made aware of it. And she recently received an email from a 40-year resident of North Leaside that said, “Just read of your accomplishments in Leaside Life. Maybe it was the damp summer and cool weather or more likely your efforts, but Leaside has never looked better!” While the Adopt-a-Park program is still in the developmental stage at city hall, Vanderburg would appreciate hearing from you at 416-425-3022, or cheryl.vanderburg@gmail.com. ■
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U.S. dollar saves September from a loss By WILL ASHWORTH September was a losing month on the markets both north and south of the border. For the first time since the Leaside Stock Index was established in February, both benchmarks were in negative territory. The S&P/TSX Capped Composite Index Fund (XIC.TO) was down 4.8 percent while the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) dropped 1.8 percent excluding currency. Meanwhile, the LSI managed to eke out a small gain of 0.8 percent excluding currency. The big news in September wasn’t an individual stock but rather the U.S. dollar, which appreciated by three cents on the month. As a result the LSI got a huge boost when it comes to the performance of its 10 American stocks which gained 1 percent excluding currency, but factoring in the exchange were up 3.8 percent in September. More importantly, the American stocks entered positive territory for the first time on a year-to-date basis. Overall, the LSI gained 2.3 percent in September including currency and is now up 8.6 percent since February. The Canadian stocks had a mediocre month registering a 0.6
percent gain. However, I shouldn’t be too hard on them because they’re up 18.9 percent year-to-date. In addition, the Canadian ETF benchmark lost 4.8 percent in September so on a relative basis they actually did quite well. They’re a big reason why the LSI went from trailing the benchmarks by eight percentage points at the end of August to less than four on Sept. 30. A trio of stocks had noteworthy gains in September: Best Buy (BBY), Alimentation Couche-Tard (ATDB.TO) and Vitamin Shoppe (VSI), up 5.3 percent, 10 percent and 13.3 percent respectively. Best Buy continues to chip away at its stock price decline from earlier in the year. This month it benefited from an earnings report that saw the troubled electronics retailer beat analyst expectations along with investor speculation how it might benefit were RadioShack (RSH) to declare bankruptcy. That has not happened as of yet; some see Amazon (AMZN) stepping in to buy its 4,200 stores. Not sure where this all is headed but as long as Best Buy continues to execute its turnaround the stock should continue higher. Next up is Alimentation Couche-Tard, owners of Mac’s Milk and convenience stores all over the world.
These guys integrate acquisitions better than almost any company in North America. It doesn’t matter whether it’s buying 100 stores or 1,000, it gets them into its system effortlessly. Up 36 percent year-to-date, it’s the second-best performing stock in the LSI behind only Tim Hortons (THI.TO). Working on a sixth consecutive year of stock market gains I have to wonder if 2015 will see its momentum come to an end. It can’t keep going up -- can it? Lastly, Vitamin Shoppe gained a whopping 13.3 percent in September cutting its loss for the year by more than half. News that activist investors were pushing the company to sell itself to GNC (GNC), its biggest rival, had investors scooping up Vitamin Shoppe shares midmonth. The potential cost savings from a merger in this situation are significant. Another possibility is one or more private equity firms making a bid to take Vitamin Shoppe private. Either way good things should continue to happen for VSI stock. Heck, it might even make it into positive territory in the near future. As I write this the markets are getting pounded into submission; it appears that a market correction (possibly severe) is underway. We’ll know more by the time the December issue is out. ■
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Nearby Costco could be boon to Leaside business My colleague Geoff Kettel made a well-considered argument in October’s issue outlining the reasons he feels the proposed 14,752 square metre Costco store to be built on the former premises of Coca-Cola Canada in Thorncliffe Park is a frontal assault on Leaside’s already overburdened traffic patterns. He might be right. But before we march down to city hall and demand planners toss this proposal in the dumpster, I believe it makes sense to examine the other side of this coin: Could the additional 2.24 million vehicle trips Geoff says will flow into Thorncliffe Park on an annual basis (he knows his stuff so there’s no argument from me on the actual number) as a result of the new Costco, at least in part on Leaside roads, actually be beneficial to businesses both on Bayview Ave. and Laird Dr.? I think Bayview’s future success is significantly enhanced with Costco’s presence. The shops on Bayview have struggled to remain relevant in recent years. This summer has seen a move by property owners and tenants to create a business improvement area (the result is expected in November/December after we have gone to press) as a means to fight a united war against other better funded shopping districts, including Laird Dr. It’s long overdue. Recently I had the pleasure of shopping in Ottawa’s Westboro Village. I was there to buy a tie for a wedding my wife and I were attending in the capital. I went to the local BIA website (http://www.westborovillage.com), entered “menswear” in the search field, and lo and behold up popped E.R. Fisher, in business since 1905. It was easy as 1, 2, 3. While I wouldn’t want to speculate about how Westboro businesses would feel if Costco opened a few kilometres from their shopping district, I suspect they’d welcome the additional traffic. The City of Ottawa studied Westboro’s parking situation in 2011 and found pay parking wasn’t necessary because there’s plenty of free, one-hour parking along the main Richmond Rd. corridor. Not surprisingly, the BIA promotes this fact on its website. I realize Ottawa isn’t the same kettle of fish as cash-starved
Will Ashworth The business of Leaside Toronto, and it’s likely we’d sooner see Doug Ford as mayor than we would free parking on Bayview, but retail businesses depend on foot traffic for their very survival. Denying Costco potentially takes money out of the hands of Bayview businesses that need every leg up possible. There’s a perception that not enough parking exists on the street — I say “perception” because I often see more than a handful of empty parking spaces at the Green P south of TD — and therefore additional traffic would only make things worse for retailers, not better. Despite this conundrum I believe most businesses would welcome the increased car traffic (and potential spinoff foot traffic from people unfamiliar with the shopping on Bayview) that’s expected from areas north of Eglinton and west of Bayview that are passing through on their way to Costco. Why? Because Costco’s customers have an average household income of $95,800 with 41 percent earning $100,000 or more. A Costco in Thorncliffe Park would see customers from Lawrence Park, Rosedale, the Bridle Path and other more affluent neighbourhoods make the trek through Leaside when previously they would have visited stores in Downsview or Scarborough. With Costco’s customers visiting once or twice a month, Leaside businesses are being presented with a marketing opportunity unlike anything they’ve seen before. If the BIA sees the light of day one of its first projects should be to lobby for a new Costco at 42-46 Overlea Blvd. Like Walmart, many consider Costco to be a category killer interested in only one thing – driving its competition out of business. That’s not the case. Costco provides one of the few examples of a big box store that actually makes a positive contribution to the communities in which it’s located. COSTCO, Page 19
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A great deal is known and has been written about the old Lea and Elgie homes in our community but very few of us are aware of the story of 422 Heath St. East in Bennington Heights. Built about 1910 or 1911 by
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and purchased it as it was as described above, from the Joseph Daniel’s estate, for $14,000. Prior to moving in the Bacques did extensive renovations, which included wiring, heating, plumbing and insulation as well as gutting the kitchen and enlarging the living room. Of course the renovations didn’t stop there but have continued up to the present day. Does this sound familiar? James (Jim) Bacque wrote many of his books in this house. The Bacques sold 422 Heath in 2009 after owning it for 49 years. Today there is a large new home at 428 Heath where the log home in which Joseph Daniel was born once stood, but apart from an added garage the exterior of 422 is much the same as it was in 1911. ■
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A pilot project announced in February will see Costco’s 20 stores in the GTA partner with Ready, Willing & Able, an initiative of the Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL) that’s designed to help employers hire and support youth and working-age adults with developmental disabilities. Michael Bach, executive vice-president for CACL, has said, “Fostering and growing a relationship with Costco Wholesale within this pilot will certainly lead to increased employment opportunities in the Greater Toronto Area.” Axing the Overlea Costco not only throws 250 full- and part-time jobs out the window, it deprives those with developmental disabilities an additional opportunity to find gainful employment with a corporation whose willingness to hire them is of public record. Unemployment in Toronto hit 10 percent in August. Thorncliffe Park is one of the hardest hit communities anywhere in the city when it comes to joblessness. These $12 per hour jobs might not matter to residents living on Bessborough but they’re a godsend to those living closest to the proposed store. ■
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She had always loved speed in skating, starting when she was 5 or 6 years old learning to skate at the Hodgson outdoor rink near Davisville and Mt. Pleasant. “I saw these two older kids skating around the rink in speed skates and thought, ‘That looks really cool – I want to try that.’” But she took up hockey first, playing in a girls’ league in North York and at Bessborough school where for three years, in grades 6, 7 and 8, she was the only girl on a team of boys. She was good, playing on increasingly competitive teams, and always the fastest skater. “What I liked most was going fast. I cared more about that than stickhandling or shooting,” Ayanna says. “When they were doing drills in practice,” her mom says, “the coach used to hold her back to give the other kids a head start.” When she switched to speed skating she focused on short track events and began winning regional golds almost immediately.
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Where did this seemingly natural talent come from? Ayanna’s parents say they knew she would be athletic from the time she was a toddler. “She was always a super-physical kid,” says her mom. “She would climb up my arm, over my head and down the other arm,” says her father Paul Badali. “Her physical prowess has always stood out – she has a lot of power behind her athleticism.” That made her very different from her sister Kalila, 2 1/2 years older, her parents say . “She was the more active one,” Kalila says. “I mostly wanted to tell stories.” Her father remembers walking with his two daughters to Bessborough school every morning from their home at Bayview and Fleming. “But from the time she could walk Ayanna would never ride in the stroller. She always insisted on walking.” Paul Badali, (whose father Gus Badali was the former player agent for NHL greats like Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Steve Yzerman and Paul Coffey) is an athlete himself, holding a 4th degree in jujitsu and competitive in mixed martial arts (MMA). He began training both his daughters from an early age in jujitsu and kickboxing. Ayanna also participated in MMA, competing against the guys, even after taking up speed skating. “I’m naturally competitive and MMA brought it out. I always wanted to beat the boys. And it shaped how I did things in speed skating.” “My parents have been extreme supporters,” says Ayanna, each in different ways. “I’ve been the more pragmatic one,” says her mother, “getting the equipment, taking Ayanna to practice, registering her for events. Paul’s been in the background with the mental game.” Which makes sense since he’s an exercise psychotherapist in addition to being an athlete. “We would discuss how the mind, body and brain connect,” he says. “Competitions are tough: mentally taxing and physically taxing. In hockey there’s a team but in speed skating all the pressure’s on you – you need a strong mental game.
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after that.” Denise and Paul Badali, members of the Leaside Badali family, are eager to acknowledge the support of the Justin Eves Founda- 21 tion and of Isabel Bassett for the scholarship which has enabled Ayanna to attend McGill University and pursue her training in Montreal. “It’s a costly sport,” says Denise Badali, “and we’re extremely grateful.” ■
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“Ayanna’s really great at balancing training with social, school, family life, and sleeping, all in a way that is healthy,” adds her dad. So her parents don’t seem unduly worried about Ayanna living away from home for the first time. After four years at Leaside High, Ayanna moved to McGill University in September to pursue a bachelor of education in health and physical education. In Montreal she trains at
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Low flying noisy aircraft make music to my ears Leaside Life, November 2014
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on the sidewalk and on top of fences. From there you could talk about the hundreds of cigarette butts on the sidewalks or the trash on top or beside the city garbage cans. Having lived on Manor Rd., Hillsdale, Broadway, etc. I must say east of Bayview is a deplorable place to live if you like having a tidy and neat lot not littered with McDonald’s cups and Pizza Pizza containers. Brian Sinclair, Parkhurst Blvd,
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As a newbie to Leaside (eight months, $1.4m poorer) I think you should do a story about the pigs that live in Leaside who throw their trash wherever they please. You could probably start with Leaside high school students and their lunch purchases strewn all over lawns on Bessborough, Donegall, Parkhurst, etc. Maybe a shout out to the parents for doing a bang up job of raising these filthy creatures. Then you could move on to the people that leave bagged dog feces
In the latest even greater issue of Leaside Life I am struck most by the total disparity of priorities in two significant items. In one, we read of the ultimate tragedy feared by so many of us residents that, not until one of our precious children is killed, will proper attention be paid to the looming traffic catastrophe occasioned by our pathetic municipal and provincial agencies’ stands on big-box store and directly related traffic issues.
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Then I hear at our door our local councillor bleating that city plans dating back to the early 2000s could never be changed. Earlier I had heard he had applauded a pittance given by the largest unwelcome box store towards a new hockey facility. While our very personal safety and real tranquility are being so threatened by the city’s thirst for tax income and its apparent continued inaction on this deadly issue, I read that the issue of aircraft overflight, which I happen to enjoy, especially watching the beautiful Dreamliner, has occasioned such disproportionate local citizens’ pressure, that this apparently totally destructive issue has reached the level of intervention by our federal MP and the responsible federal cabinet minister wielding her power over relevant industries. Having been involved professionally in ministerial and federal cabinet deliberations, I can imagine the stir this issue, arising in the great metropolis of Leaside, Ontario, is causing –such a waste of ministerial time and taxpayer funds for an issue that has absolutely no possible lethal consequences. Seems to me that not even our local MPP/premier has been invited into the Leaside traffic fray. I find it difficult to comprehend such an overall exercise in absurdity if not futility by our so-called responsible bodies even as our community becomes a killing field. Ted Ward Broadway Ave.
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The mediation has ended, the Ontario Municipal Board has approved the result and we can now announce what will happen at 262 Bessborough (the Thomas G. Elgie Farmhouse). There will be two additional houses on the lot, and the Elgie Farmhouse will be moved some seven metres forward on the lot. So the developer got all it asked for? No, I don’t think so, but we need to recognize that in a mediation “everyone loses a little,” as the mediator said. There was a possibility we might have lost everything in a winner take all situation, as the OMB hearings tends to be. There are a number of “wins” for the neighbours and the community: • Certainty with respect to conservation of the heritage house, city heritage staff will be able to review and approve the alterations. A heritage conservation easement and a heritage landscape plan will be approved for the entire property. • About a 10 percent reduction in overall massing. • Better siting of the heritage building in terms of topography (crest of hill) and part of the building will be in situ, better separation between buildings and more front lawn preserved. • An improved plan that maintains the "oneness" of the former property and the new houses will have architecture that is both compatible with Leaside and differentiated at the same time. • Additional site plan improvements negotiated that would not otherwise have been possible, including new trees planted on abutting neighbours’ properties, screening of decks, and improvements to the blank side wall of new houses and limitations on windows placed on abutting neighbours’ side walls. • Better working relationship with the applicant and assurance of security of the heritage building; So watch for more on the various plans that are to be submitted by the owner.
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I am now also free to disclose that I was the representative of the Leaside Property Owners’ Association in the mediation and Renee Jacoby (for Parkhurst) and Sheila Murray (for Bessborough) represented the immediate neighbours. The LPOA was accorded full standing as a party at the mediation. The city agreed to share the costs of an expert witness hired by the LPOA (because there was no planner available). And the neighbours agreed to contribute 50 per cent of the LPOA’s cost. This type of cost sharing arrangement may serve as a model that would work in future OMB cases, provided that both neighbours and the community are willing to step up to the plate with financial support. The revenues from LPOA membership fees do not cover the costs of mounting a strong showing at the OMB. â–
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Rolph Road School children from using the courts even during school hours, if the courts have been prebooked by other players currently on a waiting list elsewhere. The Rolph Road schoolyard has already been reduced in size by recent construction and portables. The very busy daycare at the school also has its own exclusive playing area. At press time, we have no information regarding how much Wilmington’s refurbishment of the tennis court, let alone building a club house, would further reduce available recreation space for both students and the community at large such as Little League baseball, soccer, and other sports activities. How would having to pre-book playing time affect Leaside residents who spontaneously may want to have a casual game of tennis? On weekends and evenings, Rolph’s tennis court is currently open to all, for free. Who would get preference in booking court times? Local residents? People from other parts of the city? What would the fee be, to prebook playing time? Who oversees the scheduling? How much money would the TDSB be making from the Wilmington proposal? According to Wilmington, at this time, there is no discussion about winterized bubbles such as the one at Central Tech Collegiate Institute (you may recall the significant neighbourhood pushback it has received), but the proposal still raises questions that thus far have not been answered. Before the TDSB makes a decision, we need answers: first, on the principle of private versus public use of school yards/city property; second, on the actual revenue benefits and disbenefits; and third, on both the immediate and long-term impact on recreational use by Rolph Road School students and all Leasiders. How do the Rolph Road home and school people feel about this proposal? What is the opinion of the community at large? Surely the community should be part of the process before the TDSB makes a decision.
Put this date into your calendars! The LPOA’s Annual General Meeting takes place on Tuesday, Nov. 25, in the William Lea Room of Leaside Gardens, at 7:30 p.m. In municipal election years such as this one, we traditionally invite the elected/re-elected councillor for Ward 26 as our speaker. Be sure to join us. ■
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By JETHRO SEYMOUR Prices have been rising so steadily and for so long in Leaside and Bennington Heights that it’s getting almost boring. Briefly, here is the latest good news. Compared to the 12 months from September 2012 to the end of September 2013, the last same 12 months show an increase of 10.6 percent in all home sales through MLS. The average selling price also rose by 8.6 percent to $1,346,440. Comparing this past September with the last September, 24 homes sold this past month compared to 17, and prices rose 16.2 percent to $1,352,908. ■Jethro Seymour is a broker at Johnston & Daniel. All figures are from the Toronto Real Estate Board’s Multiple Listing Service.
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A chiropractor in Leaside, a Morning Glory member, mentioned the bike drive to a client. She passed on the word to her son, Matthew Shade Silver, a grade 10 student. MacEachern says he might be responsible for about 100 of the bicycles donated. There were about a dozen kids from Thorncliffe Park recruited by Masood Alam, chair of the Thorncliffe Safety Committee working with Toronto Police’s 53 Division. Other assistance came from Evergreen Brick Works, who did bike sizing, from Pedalheads who gave a short course on bike safety and helmet fitting, and financial assistance from a Morning Glory member who bought helmets and bicycle locks to be distributed. Toronto Police from 53 Division made sure each bike was registered with them. Apex Public Relations, wanting
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