Mixed Emotions on Remembrance Day Students Are Involved in the Entire Process from Field Two Women Veterans Share to Table
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YO-YO MANIA TEARING UP ROADS More than 1,000 come to Ongoing construction in world record event at zoo Scarborough See page 7 See pages 4 and 5 THE EAST TORONTO OBSERVEROBSERVER • Friday • November 12 • 2010 • • PUBLISHED BY UTSC/CENTENNIAL COLLEGE JOURNALISM STUDENTS AND SERVING MALVERN, HIGHLAND CREEK AND WEST HILL • •TORONTOOBSERVER.CA• Farmers sprout at Bendale AMANDA KWAN The Observer Amid the steady stream of cars and looming highrises, 26 raised garden beds are waiting to be harvested for the last time before winter arrives. The market garden, on the front lawn of Bendale Business and Technical Institute near Midland and Lawrence Avenues, gives students the opportunity to try their hand at urban agriculture. The project is a joint venture between the school and FoodShare, a non-profit food organization in Toronto. FIONA persauD/The Observer “It got started just as an idea that we could grow Lest we forget our own food,” horticulture Members of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 258 pay tribute at a Remembrance Day service at Scarborough Civic Centre on Nov. 6. teacher Shane Jones said. Bendale Market Garden is believed to be the first school-based market garden in the country. Mixed emotions on Remembrance Day Students are involved in the entire process from field Two women veterans share to table. They even sell the produce at an on-site farmers’ stories and memories of WWII market. Small beginnings KIRSTEN PARUCHA small city outside of London. The Observer “I didn’t like being apart They started with two from my husband, but there small “footprint” gardens at Not all veterans celebrate wasn’t anything I could do the back of the school. After Remembrance Day. Mary about it,” Rainville said. reciving a provincial grant, Rainville, a female veteran of Fortunately, Rainville they expanded the project to the Second World War, is one and her husband were never the front lawn. of them. in the midst of the war, but “It’s also highly visible, “I stay away from Remem- there were several close calls. which is what we wanted,” brance Day,” Rainville said. When asked if her husband Jones said. “It’s about “It brings back too many sad had any encounters with building awareness and memories. I used to, but then the Germans, Rainville was showing people that they can it got too hard for me.” again overwhelmed by tears. build their own gardens, they Rainville, 86, stopped at- “He was in a basement can grow their own food.” tending Remembrance Day with some Americans when KIRSTEN PARUCHA/The Observer Students planted a variety celebrations after her hus- German troops arrived,” Ra- During the Second World War, Mary Rainville (left) was a clerical worker stationed in of vegetables — carrots, swiss band died 14 years ago. How- inville said. London, England. Mary Chadwick, was a naval nurse stationed in Nova Scotia. chard, bok choy, callalou, ever, she still wears a red and “They weren’t supposed to cucumber and tomatoes — black poppy. be fighting, so the Americans settled in Thessalon, Ont., said. “I liked being a nurse. It devastated when she got the into 26 raised beds. “It means a lot,” she said told them not to shoot their and raised two kids. Rainville was a good experience.” news,” Chadwick said. “But I Co-op student Anton when asked what the poppy guns. So they tried to leave currently resides in the Tony Chadwick’s three years of bit the bullet and tried to carry Crawford got involved with means to her. She intended through gullies in the basement. Stacey Centre for Veterans service weren’t all filled with on. I celebrate Remembrance the garden after his guidance to say more, but was over- At the end of the gully was a Care in Scarborough. happy memories. Day with him in mind.” councillor asked him if he whelmed by tears. “It makes dead German. He was missing Another female veteran at “One of my brother’s ships Chadwick returned home wanted to do something me proud,” was all she could the lower half of his body.” the centre had slightly more was torpedoed by the Ger- from the war in December hands-on. muster. Rainville was first recruit- positive tales to retell. mans on the coast of Iceland,” 1945. Born and raised in To- “I really like it because During the war, Rainville ed in 1943, and returned to Mary Chadwick, 91, joined Chadwick said. “William was ronto, Chadwick returned to urban gardens are really good was stationed in London, Eng- her hometown, Quebec City, the Canadian navy in 1942. 22 years old when he died.” the city. She eventually mar- for the environment,” he said. land, as a clerical worker for just before the war ended. As a wren, she was sta- Chadwick received the ried and raised two sons. “Food is grown closer to the Canadian Air Forces. Her When she returned, Rain- tioned in a naval hospital in news of the death of her el- home and you actually know husband, Vincent Rainville, ville and her husband moved Halifax and Cornwallis, N.S. dest younger brother via a F or more of what is on your vegetables. was an army engineer who from Quebec City to North “I absolutely loved work- government telegram. their stories, visit I never knew it was so fresh served in France and Kent, a Bay, Ont. They eventually ing in the hospital,” Chadwick “My mother was really torontoobserver.ca and good-tasting food.” PAGE 2 - The East Toronto Observer, November 12, 2010 NEWS Hospital welcomes stem cell bank Butt Initiative allows new parents to save umbilical cord blood for future treatment causes KIMBERLEE The new partnership pro- NANCEKIVELL motes the availability of cord The Observer blood banking and educating blaze families on the uses of cord The Scarborough Hospital blood through information COURTNEY ROBERTS has partnered with Inscep- sessions. The Observer tion, Canada’s largest cord “Banking your child’s um- blood banking program to bilical cord blood is painless The blaze that broke out at bring a different kind of and it’s not going to take a lot 41 Kimbermount Dr. on Oct. health insurance to the wider of effort,” Scott said. “Ev- 30 was likely an accident community. ery year and every month caused by a cigarette, According to Barbara Mi- they’re coming up with new officials say. lana Scott, the hospital’s ma- treatments to use these stem “A mattress is a highly ternal newborn and childcare cells.” combustible material,” program patient care director, Ochab said Insception also Toronto Fire Capt. Randy stem cells harvested from works to keep health-care Piercey said. “A cigarette cord blood can be used in providers informed so they smolders, sets the mattress treating about 75 diagnoses, can offer the latest informa- on fire and then the mattress including some childhood tion to their patients. erupts into flame.” cancers, leukemia, juvenile A couple of weeks into the Twenty-year-old Ying Tang, diabetes and cerebral palsy. partnership with Insception, a Centennial College student, “Currently about 82 per Scott says the numbers of pa- and another unnamed woman cent of all of the stem cells tients deciding to bank their died in the fire. Yuanjie that are harvested — whether newborn’s cord blood is be- KIMBERLEE NANCEKIVELL /The Observer Guan, 22, remains in critical it be cord blood or bone mar- ing tracked to determine the Michael Bachour (right) shows new son Elisandro to Scarborough patient care condition with severe burns. row — are from Caucasian success of the initiative. director Barbara Milana Scott. Bachour and his wife banked their son’s cord blood. Crews arrived on scene people,” Scott said. “So the “I’m hoping to see that after dispatchers received chances of members of di- more patients that belong to to walk out of our doors and spend hundreds of dollars blood harvesting to parents a call from a concerned verse communities finding a the diverse community are say, ‘I didn’t know and I wish on the best strollers, the best who cannot afford it but who neighbour who saw smoke match if they need it are very actually benefiting from the that I did know.’ ” highchairs, the cutest outfits. show a need. clouds coming from the slim.” option of banking their cord She said on average the If we gave up something, we “Our hope is that any pa- residence. Both Scott and Geralyn blood,” Scott said. procedure costs $1,100 for could afford this insurance tient who truly wants and Officials found Guan Ochab, vice-president of Scarborough residents harvesting, treatments and policy on our child,’ ” Scott needs this, there would be standing on the front lawn sales and marketing for In- have always had the oppor- the first year of storage, plus said. some sort of option in terms with burns to his feet, legs, sception, said the hospital’s tunity to bank their children’s an average of $100 for every Another new program, of a payment plan,” Scott arms and head. He was taken diverse patient base was key cord blood, Scott said, but year the family chooses to Wings of Hope, has been said. “We don’t want to see to Sunnybrook hospital in the decision to form a part- many were not aware of it. store the blood after that. launched as part of the part- any patient turned away be- where he was placed in an nership. “We don’t want one patient “Our moms will say: ‘We nership. It provides free cord cause of a financial burden.” induced coma with burns to 60 per cent of his body.