DECEMBER 2019 | VOLUME 3 ISSUE 12

Debell-Skitt Family: The Art of Pursuing Your Dream

COVER PHOTO BY STOREY WILKINS PHOTOGRAPHY MARK ARNSTEIN Hello Neighbours,

Publication Team December is a time for celebrating the holidays with family, friends and colleagues. It’s also nice to wind down the year with a break from our busy work lives. Publisher: Many of us will be enjoying delicious Christmas treats such as fruit cake and candy canes, and Carol Eby potato latkes for Chanukah, another holiday that takes place later this month. is decked out in full holiday regalia, with decorations throughout the city and in and around our homes. I hope you enjoy this festive season, and I wish you and yours a Happy New Content Coordinator: Year! Heather Rosen Heather Rosen is a writer who has worked in corporate communications, direct marketing and advertising for over 20 years. Her interests include Designer: writing about environmental and green-energy issues, attending film festivals, Brittany Buckle bird-watching, and checking out what’s happening in and around Toronto, her favourite city.

Contributing Photographer: Heather Rosen, Content Coordinator Storey Wilkins [email protected]

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THURS. DEC. 5 poutine will be available at midnight, followed by a dessert buffet featuring some of the CN Tower's Art Show & Studio Sale sweetest creations. Dress code: Casual Cocktail. Local abstract artist Fiona Debell hosts ‘Arty Party', her Time: 9pm–2am second annual Studio Show and Sale at 91 Melrose Cost: $200 per person; advance tickets required. Avenue. Drinks & nibbles will be served. All are Includes access to the LookOut and Glass Floor levels, welcome! food stations and passed hors d’oeuvres. Cash bar; Time: 6–9pm access limited to guests aged 19+. Admission: FREE cntower.ca fionadebell.com THURS. NOV. 14 – SUN. DEC. 22 CONTINUING THROUGH SUN. JAN. 5, 2020 It’s Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art from the Toronto Christmas Market Kirk Hammett Collection at the Famous guitarist Kirk Hammett of heavy metal band Enjoy the tradition, heritage and charm of an Old-World Metallica has created one of the world’s most SUN. DEC. 1 European Christmas Market, right in the heart of impressive collections of classic horror and sci-fi movie Toronto’s Chanukah Market Toronto. Set in the Victorian-era Distillery Historic posters. This exhibition of 130+ works examines the – at Artscape Wychwood District, this month-long event celebrates the sounds, connection between artistry, emotion, and popular sights and scents of Christmas. Experience the work of Barns culture through a selection of works adapted from local craftspeople, musicians and artisanal food-makers 20th-century cinema. NoshFest, Toronto’s Jewish while you sip on mulled wine and European-style Times: Visit rom.on.ca for museum hours, including Food Festival, is proud to Christmas cocktails. Cozy up by the fire, or take in special holiday hours present Toronto’s Chanukah performances by carollers, brass bands and authentic Cost: Adult ROM General Admission+ It's Alive: $31; Market, a celebration of Jewish European dancers. Don’t miss the giant Christmas tree! Child ROM + It’s Alive: $18; Senior/Student/Youth ROM food and culture with a holiday Times: Tues./Wed./Thurs.: 12–9pm; Fri.: 12–10pm; Sat. + It’s Alive (with ID): $24; theme. Enjoy traditional Jewish 10am–10pm; Sun.:10am–9pm. Closed Mondays. rom.on.ca/en/exhibitions-galleries/exhibitions/ cuisine, shop for holiday gifts Cost: FREE admission Tuesday to Friday (entry before its-alive-classic-horror-and-sci-fi-art-from-the-kirk- and housewares, check out the 6pm); $6 admission (all ages) beginning at 6pm on hammett-0 cooking demos, and enjoy live Friday evenings, and on Saturdays and Sundays. musical entertainment. Perfect tochristmasmarket.com for the whole family. Message from Jaye Robinson, City Councillor, Ward 15 Time: 10:30am–4pm TUES. DEC. 31 Cost: General Admission: $10 + Serving the Greater Fee + HST; FREE admission for New Year’s Eve at the CN Tower Dear Friends and Neighbours, Ring in the New Year at Toronto’s top attraction. Dance Toronto Area for over children under 12 years of age. I would like to extend my warmest wishes to you and your families this holiday season. noshfest.ca the night away on the famous glass floor to Top 40 hits 30 years. selected by a professional DJ. Dig in to delicious local I hope you are able to relax and spend time with loved ones during this busy time of year! cuisine, including roast beef tenderloin, artisanal charcuterie & cheeses, bao buns, tacos, and Over the last month, my family and I have received an outpouring of support from across passed hors d’oeuvres and sweets. Party favours and Ward 15, and I want to take this opportunity to sincerely thank you for the kind words and well wishes. Your support means the world to me as I begin my journey to recovery. One year ago, I was elected as your City Councillor in the new, amalgamated Ward 15 – . From local road safety improvements to city-wide policy changes, we've accomplished a lot together in the last year. 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PHOTO PROVIDED BY FIONA DEBELL

PHOTO PROVIDED BY FIONA DEBELL

results, as the paint would peel in a matter of months. Determined to Husband Nic also shows artistic promise; Fiona gave him a clay- overcome this obstacle, she began researching how to refinish furniture sculpting course at Freehand School of Art as a present, and he really at the library (pre-Internet), then set about buying the appropriate enjoyed this creative outlet, although his busy work schedule leaves supplies. She began experimenting with colours and techniques until little time for hobbies. she found the right way to refinish furniture. Since becoming a full-time artist, Fiona has exhibited in several People began noticing the pieces displayed at her home, and offered shows, selling a large proportion of her work each time. Her most recent to pay her to do similar refinishing work for them. Through this process, show was in October of this year, as part of the Group she gradually became more confident in her creative abilities, and even of Artists (www.ntga.ca) Fall Show and Sale. She recently placed 1st taught workshops for a few years. – Best In Show – and also won the People’s Choice award at the 2019 In Toronto, she raised her children, applying her background in sales Yonge Lawrence Village BIA Artwalk. and training to a new career working with paint companies, training Her final sale of 2019 will take place on December th5 , when she their retailers to run creative workshops and market their products. will hold an ‘Arty Party’ & ‘Studio Sale’ at her home. (Please see the In 2016, she stopped teaching and refinishing furniture, making the Calendar of Events listing for details). Fiona is also a founding member scary decision to concentrate full-time on her career as a working artist. of the Lawrence Park Art Collective, a group of artists and fine art photographers based in her adopted community who meet on a BY HEATHER ROSEN | PHOTOS BY STOREY WILKINS PHOTOGRAPHY Having quietly painted and privately sold large abstracts for many years, the ability to be 100 per cent dedicated to sharing and selling monthly basis to share ideas. Fiona Debell and her husband, Nic Skitt, live in Lawrence Park with three years. However, Nic’s job had changed: the company that had her art was a natural move. Family and extended family remain in the UK, with the exception of their son, Laurie, 13, and daughter, Jemima, 11. They have a rescue originally brought him to Toronto had been sold in 2015, and he and Fiona’s brother, who resides in Switzerland. Most years, the Debell-Skitt cat, Ivy, and Molly, a two-year-old Cockapoo. Fiona is originally from one of the original founders of that company founded a new website, Fiona said, “Art is a very personal endeavour. I share my emotions in my work, and that can leave me feeling exposed. I think that is why family makes spur-of-the-moment visits to Europe to reconnect with Harrogate, which is located in Yorkshire, England, and Nic hails from moneywise.com. The site is packed with articles, resources and tools it took me so long to ‘go public.’ loved ones. They also enjoy family-friendly cruises, and hope to have Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands; the family arrived in Canada in covering a range of financial topics, including credit cards, investing, the opportunity to explore more of Canada in the future. early 2014. insurance, and smart money-management tips. “I spent too many years listening to the voice in my head that Fiona graduated with a BA (Hon’s) in Law and Politics from the As a 17-year-old, Fiona was discouraged from pursuing an artistic said I wasn’t good enough,” she added. “I was too scared to be a University of Wolverhampton in the UK. After graduation, she worked career by an art teacher who found her style ‘rough’ and too different ‘professional’ artist, despite the fact that I had been selling my work in in a variety of sales and training roles. The couple met at work in from others in the class. She wanted to be an abstract artist, but found the UK for years. I have learned that if you want to become an artist, Birmingham in 2001, when he was the head of Tech and she was such criticism a major stumbling block. After much thought, she put grow a thick skin and follow your dream. Creating is a compulsion, so working in sales. her dream of becoming an artist on hold – forever, or so she thought being able to support myself through art is very fulfilling.” Nic was blessed with a facility for technology, and became Chief at the time. Fiona describes herself as an abstract artist on her website, which Technology Officer (CTO) for a web development company when In England and in Canada, throughout her successful sales and showcases her colourful artwork. She sells her work, and also takes he was in his early 20s, after working for his father in a similar field training career, Fiona never lost her interest in painting and decorative commissions. Her client base loves the scale of her pieces, which look throughout high school and university for roughly 10 years. art. She says her penchant for art came from her mother, who enjoyed fabulous in both modern and more traditional settings. An interesting flower arranging, china painting and sewing. fact about her artistic process is that while she is painting, she listens In late 2013, Nic was offered the opportunity to work as CTO for a to either podcasts or audio books, and the tone of the broadcast Toronto-based web publishing company. After what Fiona says was Her return to painting was born of a foray into an unrelated field influences her choice of either a dark, complex palette or a lighter a five-minute discussion, they took a leap of faith, packed up their back in the 1990s: furniture refinishing. She started buying what she series of paint hues! children, the dog and their belongings, and first settled in Burlington, describes as ‘distressed’ pieces of furniture, and began refurbishing Ontario. them using free sample pots of paint offered up by local paint retailers, Today her motto is: “Comparison kills creativity.” She applies it to later working at her craft while her young children slept. her own artistic creations, but also repeats it to her two children, who “It was culture shock, at first,” mused Fiona. “But we knew one thing are in the process of discovering their own creativity. Laurie displays for certain – we loved Canada!” Fiona’s early attempts, starting with a used side-table, produced work a talent for pencil drawing, while daughter Jemima is a budding actor By early 2019, the family had been living in Lawrence Park for over in the then-popular ‘shabby chic’ style, but did not yield long-lasting and videographer.

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In their spare time, the couple and their children enjoy rugby. TDSB School Trustee Update – New Ways of Laurie has been playing since the age of four, and is now joint captain of the U13 team for Toronto City Rugby Club. They are avid winter-sports participants (with a brother in Switzerland, how could they not be?). Both kids participate in the Snowhawks ski Commemorating Remembrance Day in Our Schools and snowboard programs. Fiona and her family have built a wonderful life here. Since By Rachel Chernos Lin, School Trustee for TDSB, Ward 11 their move to Canada, they have lived in several homes; when the first Lawrence Park house they were renting was set tobe As I sit down to returned home and had to adjust to everyday life, and it also reminds demolished, they were forced to find a new house outside the area. write this article on the us of the importance of supporting our soldiers today. During the They were delighted when, at the end of their lease, their current morning of Halloween, assembly, students will watch a video of Ella explaining the inspiration home became available and they could return to the area that felt schools are busy as for and meaning of her song. most like home. ever. I have spent quite Since Northlea is a large Kindergarten to Grade 8 school, a second a bit of time in Ward 11 “I love living in Canada,” says Fiona. “Here, people love to program has been planned for older student leaders in Grades 5 schools this week, and celebrate other people’s success.” through 8 (student members of socially-conscious clubs such as Me as always, was amazed to We, Be the Change, Well-Being Ambassadors, Eco-Club and the The special nature of Lawrence Park, with its great atmosphere by the sheer amount of Glitter Squad). These students will have the opportunity to participate and amenities, drew her back. “We missed the community when we activity – vibrant clubs, in a workshop for student leaders led by The Friends of the Simon briefly lived elsewhere,” Fiona adds. “We love our neighbourhood sports teams, charitable causes being championed, tests being taken, Wiesenthal Centre, where they will learn about and work on developing and our neighbours! The kids love to hang out and cycle to each students working on group projects – the list goes on. And yet, amid the their leadership skills. They will also have a chance to meet a veteran other’s houses. And we love the shops in the area.” bustle of this time of year, I am also aware that all of our schools take a whose voice of experience will deepen their understanding of what it pause in November to honour the tremendous sacrifice of our veterans. means to be a leader. For more information about Fiona’s artwork, please visit Remembrance Day in our schools has always been a sombre www.fionadebell.com. By the time this article lands on your doorsteps, these events will occasion. Choirs sing, poems are read and veterans often attend the For more information about the Lawrence Park Art Collective, obviously have taken place. However, the lessons learned will continue, ceremonies. However, our veterans are getting older, and fewer and e-mail [email protected]. we hope, well into the future. I encourage parents to ask their children fewer are available to join our students at these events. As a result, about what they learned about in their classes for Remembrance Day. our administrators and teachers are looking for new ways to learn and It’s not only a great way to connect with our kids as we all reflect on reflect about the significance of this day, and to weave these lessons this important part of Canadian and world history, but as we move into into the work they do with our students each and every day. Do you know a neighbour who has a story to share? Nominate your neighbour to be the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, a strong reminder of how Looking across our Ward, we can see an impressive number of ways fortunate we are to be living in a country free from war. featured in one of our upcoming issues! Contact us at [email protected]. our schools commemorate Remembrance Day, both on the actual day itself, and during the month of November. 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On Saturday, October 5, members of the Leaside and Lawrence Park communities came out to the 2nd Annual Leaside Block Party at ND Trace Manes Park. Throughout the day, 2,000 guests came together LEASIDE to support their local children’s hospital, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. Almost $50,000 was raised and proceeds are THE 2 being used to support highest-priority needs at the Hospital such as our family support fund, art and music therapy, spiral garden and more! BLOCK PARTY The gorgeous autumn weather was the perfect backdrop for a fun- filled day, allowing attendees to indulge in the inflatable maze, carnival games, mini-golf, button-making, a scavenger hunt and wheelchair basketball, and visit with Skye from PAW Patrol. On top of all the family- AT TRACE MANES PARK friendly activities, one lucky winner took home over $1,000 from the 50/50 raffle, generously donating half of the winnings back tothe ANNUAL hospital. The event was hosted by Holland Bloorview, but would not have been possible without all the amazing sponsors. A special thanks to the event sponsors, Access Storage, Crowe Soberman LLP and Spin Master; our friends of Holland Bloorview, Carol Wrigley, Laird & Son, Interior Care, Heaps Estrin, Humphrey Funeral Home and Valu-mart; and all the outstanding vendors that were present that day. Holland Bloorview truly appreciates the Leaside community for their continuous warmth and support. For more information about the event or hospital, or to check out the event supporters, please visit www.leasideblockparty.ca.

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Devices can be either open (refillable) or Let’s start with some “burning” questions… closed (non-refillable). Best Version Media does not guarantee the accuracy of the statistical data on this page. Vaping devices come in all shapes and sizes to appeal to a wide Any real estate agent's ad appearing in this magazine is separate from any statistical data provided which is in no way a part of their advertisement. consumer set. These devices include e-cigarettes (designed to resemble cigarettes), vape pens (they look like fountain pens), and MODS (modified device – can be customized to the consumer preferences for batteries, size, etc.). Other terms used include e-hookahs, tank systems, and ENDS (electronic nicotine delivery systems). Currently, the most popular vaping device used is called the JUUL. The JUUL is small, appears cutting-edge (looks like a USB drive), and is seemingly available at every corner store. These small, clever devices are easily hidden and can be loaded with several nicotine cartridges of a LAWRENCE PARK variety of enticing flavours (even fruits or crème brûlée!), thus making it an alluring choice for young teenagers – what a perfect recipe for a teenage smoking storm. 3. Why is vaping a concern? As e-cigarettes infiltrated the market, many consumers touted it as a safer alternative to smoking cigarettes. They were deemed “pure” and “cleaner.” Recent concerning health reports have challenged this notion. Alarm bells were raised due to: 1) the rise of vaping amongst youth (an increase of as much as 74%); 2) concern regarding acute reactions to high doses of nicotine/other substances contained in the device; and 3) concerns Jay Banks*, Geoff Joyner*, Jim Burtnick**, Richard Silver*, regarding brain development in youth when exposed to nicotine. Celia Alves*, Erin Haas* and Oliver Craven* At the time of writing, numerous case reports emerged from the United States and Canada documenting severe pulmonary illnesses following vaping, some of which resulted in death. The American FDA, Health Canada and CDC are now actively and aggressively trying to understand Your local and international the possible link between these tragic cases and vaping device use. Such concerns were severe enough for President Donald Trump to propose a real estate team for 2020 ban on all unregulated vaping devices. Health Canada has since issued similar warnings and has launched massive campaigns to educate youth regarding the potential harms associated with vaping. Happy Holidays WE ARE TORONTO, WE ARE GLOBAL YOU ARE AN 4. How do I discuss vaping with my children? There is no doubt that having a discussion with your children about Wishing you and yours all the best this holiday season TORONTOism.com | 416.960.9995 INDIVIDUAL. vaping is essential, particularly with the allure of sleek devices, ready YOU DESERVE A SCHOOL THAT access, and promotion via social media by popular “influencers.” Health Canada has a wonderful resource site on vaping, including a E&O.E: This information is from sources which we deem reliable, but must be verified by TREATS YOU LIKE ONE! prospective purchasers and may be subject to change or withdrawal. *Sales Representative, hand-out to assist parents in having a calm and evidence-based discussion **Broker. Sotheby’s International Realty Canada, Brokerage. Independently Owned & with children: www.canada.ca/en/services/health/publications/healthy- Operated. Not intended to solicit properties currently listed for sale. BLYTHACADEMY.CA/LAWRENCE-PARK • 416-488-9301 living/talking-teen-vaping-tip-sheet-parents.html. Also refer to Toronto Public Health or the CDC for updated information.

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