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MAY 2018 | VOLUME 5 NATURE OVERLOAD | [email protected] | WWW.NORTHENDBREEZES.COM | @NORTHENDBREEZES | FACEBOOK.COM/NORTHENDBREEZES LET’S GET DISORDER ISN’T A GOOD REAL THING - Andrea THINGS 440 Main St E 289.700.4264 ontariondp.ca/andrea @AndreaHorwath BUT NATURE DEFICIT Horwath DONE! DISORDER IS... for Hamilton Centre SUBMITTED BY CANDY VENNI mative. Learning some Nature Deficit Disorder is a real thing. Please feel free of natures secrets and cy to look up various definitions online. The title is fairly cles, aka spending time flopped out in a meadow, self explanatory and I’m hesitant to start my little gar - den musings this way because we’re all weary of being forged a deep connec tion within me, to our bombarded by new ailments, labels for assorted human CANDY & BABE place on and as part of conditions, and to be honest, weary of bad news about - ourselves and our environment. this world, an ease with Childhood is absolutely imperfect –the nobody woods needs that is any missing In my opinion, further shaming isn’t helpful or engaging; - one else telling them how to raise amore child and and more I would for city If I present a problem I always want to offer solutions. not dare to presume but here are somedwelling solutions humans. I hope So stick with me for a few paragraphs – I’m going some can benefit all creatures on earth. After all, an earth with where with this. out caring humans who consider all the other creatures My childhood was half urban downtown kid, living in a will become an increasingly disconnected and desperate warehouse and half farm freedom, tree climbing, snake place (many studies show that trees and time spent out - catching, muck filled fun. Like many – I thought this was side/near to nature as well as ‘free play’ are highly bene how other kids were living (except the warehouse part, ficial to everyone). - naturally I wanted to have in a ‘real’ house like other kids Please go outside, please pack drinks & food to spend - and did not appreciate the ‘cool factor’ of climbing up a time wandering a trail, exploring a waterfall and if you ladder to a platform built from scaffolding to get to my bring a plastic bag use it to pick up garbage if you see FOLLOW THE BREEZES TWEET US AT APRIL bed). - @NORTHENDBREEZES 2018 | VOLUME 4 LIKE US AT FACEBOOK.COM/NORTHENDBREEZES “WHERE FAITH | [email protected] | WWW.NORTHENDBREEZES.COM | @NORTHENDBREEZES | FACEBOOK.COM/NORTHENDBREEZES BUILDS COMMUNITY” ANNUAL RAIN any – instilling a responsibility to care for wild places FEBRUARY 2018 | VOLUME 2 | [email protected] | WWW.NORTHENDBREEZES.COM | @NORTHENDBREEZES | FACEBOOK.COM/NORTHENDBREEZES ST. LAWRENCE CHURCH SATURDAY,BARREL MAY 5, 2018 SALE on November 23 AND THE NORTH END at 10am. It was 9:00 am – 1:00 pm THE AREA WE LIVE IN: THE GOLDEN HORSESHOE thethird Catho- 468 James Street North lic church in the ProceedsParking to fundraise lot behind for HomeFront The Breezes SUBMITTED BY BRIAN ROULSTON REPORTED BY ROBYN GILLIM city of Hamilton and the only one port on the Great Lakes which handles greenbelt is also a protected water belt that protects As reported in the last iss built with a hall waterways such as wetlands, lakes, valleys, streams, hall meeting was held at St. Lawrence in February almost 30% of all cargo that passes for community in- to discuss its future in light of the Catholic Diocese through the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence rivers and important ground water reserves. This area volvement. Seaway. By land from the Ambassa- is permanently protected under the Ontario Growth of Hamilton’s study of th dor Bridge in Windsor to Quebec City Plan first created in 2006 as a result of widespreaddowntown parishes. The high attendanceue of The andBreezes, intense “The hall has pro- it is one of the most heavily traveled quarry activities, urban sprawl an d large industrialdiscussion that took place at that event highlights the vided a place for - deep connections of St. Lawrence with its parishio- the community to corridors used by the trucking industry growth concerns. ners as well as the North End as a whole. in North America. The border cities of e viability of some smaller a town get together, with Moving a large population of both people and goods amenities such as Fort Erie and Niagara The beautiful red brick church building with its bell in an area slightly larger than Prince Edward Island a gym, bowling al- Falls are too, heavily tower and memorial garden is a North End landmark is a monumental task for any jurisdiction. A series ley and a stage for and its social and outreach activities play not only traveled by both ship- of expressways known as the 400’s do just that. The plays and concerts. a central role in the lives of its members but in the ping and tourist alike. backbone being the 401 is one the widest and busiest It is also used for continuing vitality of the neighbourhood. Many of its When our family hit the road to leave the city and drive and enjoy them simultaneously. Kindly let your children The Greater Golden expressways in the world. The Toronto Transit Com- parishdinners, parishioners are from families w Horseshoe area is also dances, bingo, tur- mission (TTC) is the largest in the Goldensince the Horseshoe beginnings of the North End in the mid 19th home to Canada’s bus- key rolls, the Nib- and is currently the only operator ofcentury. a rail based Who betterrapid to present their community his- iest air cargo/freight ble and Bids auction and penny sales. The parish has transit system. The TTC has planntoryed major than the expansions parishioners themselves? Here it is in hub located at Hamil- also been involved in the St. Vincent de Paul Society, over the next 10-year period. Othertheir cities own inwords: the Gold- ton International Air- Holy Name Society Men’s Club,MEMORIAL Catholic GARDEN Women’s AND RECTORY In a speech on January 12th, 1954 to en Horseshoe have also approved or built some form HERBERT H. ROGGE port (YYH) with UPS, “St. Lawrence church was built in 1890 underho thehave been here League (CWL), Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce of rail transit systems. Kitchener-Waterloo with its Ion FEDEX and other air direction of Bishop Dowling on the site called Bay- bowling leagues and, from 1944 till 1999, a cred- outlining the future of industrial devel- light rail system. Hurontario light rail in Mississauga side Hill, also known as St. Lawrence Ward, at the it union to help parishioners. The hall was used by opment in Southwestern Ontario, Herbert H. Rogge, transport companies frequently flying in large bodied & Brampton. It is projected by Metrolink, the operator aircraft. The GGH will also greet many domestic and cost of less than $2000. It was built in less than eight the Bennetto School students after the school fire President of Canadian Westinghouse Company Lim- of Hamilton’s Light Rail Transit system will be opera- in 1965, until a new school was built. The hall was international travelers through Canada’s busiest pas- months. The official opening of the church was held ited was credited with the first use of the phrase ‘The tional by 2024. The average person takes 82 minutes to used each Wednesday from November to March for senger airport by volume, Lester B. Pearson Interna- ioners and North Enders together. The parish has Golden Horseshoe’. It is an area we call today ‘The commute to and from work within the Greater Golden the Out of the Cold program. The bingo was moved always maintained a working relationship with our tional Airport in Toronto. Horseshoe. to a bigger location in 1974 and is still active today in Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH)’ which comprises own Catholic Separate School in preparation of the Due to the GGH’s moderate climate, rich soil and maintaining the church. of Halton, Peel, York, Durham, Niagara Regions and This area is hom e to almost 9 million people and ex- Sacraments such as First Communion, Confirmation, abundance of freshwater, this area is one of the largest of course The City of Hamilton. Originally the Golden pected to swell to 11.6 million by 2031 and 13.5 mil - “The Turkey Roll, as we know it today, started in and religious programs. St. Lawrence’s also has an Horseshoe was 150 miles long and 50 miles wide tak- and finest food production and farming areas in North lion by 2041, This is 68% of Ontario’s population and 1964 and has been an annual event in our commu- excellent literacy program for the childr ing in numerous cities and towns. America. One million acres located within the Greater over a quarter of Canada’s population making it the nity ever since. With the help of parish committee ish every week. Golden Horseshoe produce at least 200 different farm- The word ‘Golden’ was used to represent the regions largest and the fastest growing region Canada by pop- and volunteers, it has brought new and old parish- ing commodities such as fruits and wine in the Niagara “Over the years donations from our faithful parish- wealth & prosperity while ‘Horseshoe’ was derived ulation in not only Canada but North America as well. Peninsula and vegetables in the Holland Marsh. ioners and other donors have helped greatly to cover out to ‘the farm’, a rented brick house with fields and from the area’s shape with Hamilton positioned in Under the new Anti-Sprawl policy created to protect run through a meadow or play in the ravine (definitely parish needs and maintenance.