ARGOS FOOTBALL STILL RUNNING Argos get great reception Terry Fox Run For Hope at Scarborough practice enters third decade See page 8 See pages 4 and 5 THE EAST TORONTO OBSERVEROBSERVER • Friday • September 24 • 2010 • • PUBLISHED BY UTSC/CENTENNIAL COLLEGE JOURNALISM STUDENTS AND SERVING MALVERN, HIGHLAND CREEK AND WEST HILL • •TORONTOOBSERVER.CA• Community mourns slain UTSC student SARAH DEMILLE The Observer held. The service began with the Principal’s message of The flag flew at half-mast condolence to the school at the University of Toronto community and Leung’s fam- at Scarborough campus on ily and included speeches Sept. 18 in memory of a stu- made by family and friends dent killed in the August bus of the young woman. hostage at- “She was an amazing indi- tack in the vidual, full of ambition and Philippines. determination,” Almas Sul- Doris tan, a fourth-year health stud- (Chung ies student at UTSC said. See) Leung, “She was involved in vari- 21, was ous events around the cam- killed along pus and always put other’s with her DORIS LEUNG needs far ahead of her own,” father Ken A Facebook group was Leung and her 14-year-old created by UTSC students in sister Jessie Leung on Aug. memory of Leung. 23. The family was on the “I created this group to let Manila tourist bus when it other students know about was hijacked by a former po- the loss that our campus un- liceman. derwent, and to let those who Leung, who was entering knew her well appreciate the her fourth year of under- valuable impact that her life graduate studies at the UTSC had on theirs,” said Rupom campus, was remembered by Rahman, a third year inter- FIONA PERSAUD/The Observer her fellow classmates in the national studies and student memorial held in the cam- at UTSC. pus’s Student Centre. Over the coming months Gardeners cultivate their skills Pictures of the young the community will honour woman and bouquets of the young woman’s memory Anette Hurlihey shows off her prize-winning Chinese lantern plant at the Scarborough Garden and Horticul- flowers surrounded the room in several ways, according to tural Society annual flower show. Story on page 7. in which the memorial was the Facebook page. Candidates clash over city’s accessibility tain times. reation funding proposed Prospective mayors debate Only Rocco Rossi made for the 2015 Pan-American a commitment on the issue, Games. funding for needed facilities saying if he is elected mayor, Rossi said that the money disabled people on social as- would come from city spend- EMILY HUNTER ple with disabilities, located sistance will receive a dis- ing on daycare, recreation The Observer on Danforth Avenue. The counted fare. and skills development – all Toronto’s next mayor is facility’s nearest bus stop is Variety Village, a centre of which Variety Village of- more willing to construct a currently a ten-minute walk that supports 3,350 disabled fers. single bus stop for disabled away and difficult to reach people, has asked for annual Thompson says the solu- people than commit to fund- for the disabled. funding from the city. The tion to Variety’s funding is to ing for special-needs facili- “We need all the stops to EMILY HUNTER/The Observer centre is facing operating reorganize municipal govern- ties. be wheelchair accessible and George Smitherman (left) and Rocco Rossi are among deficits and had massive lay- ment spending Every major candidate has more of them,” spectator Pe- candidates looking to appeal to special needs voters. offs in 2008. Overall, no candidate com- promised to construct a new ter Athanasopoulos said. Pantalone says the prov- mitted to funding Variety Vil- stop in front of Variety Vil- He says there is a “two- ince should provide funding, lage, leaving the center more lage, where the mayoral de- tier” system in Toronto, with plans to expand the TTC’s the bus anywhere. but offered to use his name in accessible with the bus stop, bate over disability was held only half the transit system reach by developing the sub- Rob Ford says disabled in- charity events. but funding still out of reach. Sept. 16. But the candidates accesible. way route with road tolls. dividuals and seniors should Ford says he could get the were less straightforward “If we can make any wins “We have to build a city ride for free, but didn’t make private sector involved to do- For the full story and about finding funding for Va- in the mayoral election, it that is fully accessible.” any commitments. nate money, to listen to an interview riety itself. would be to improve trans- Joe Pantalone says he George Smitherman’s plat- Smitherman says there with the Canadian Papra- Variety Village is a fitness portation for the disabled.” would make sure disabled form also includes making could be assistance with palegic Association, go to and life-skills centre for peo- Sarah Thomson says she people are allowed to get off transit free for seniors at cer- the $15-million special rec- torontoobserver.ca PAGE 2 - The East Toronto Observer, September 24, 2010 NEWS Road repairs smooth over complaints Lawrence Avenue East remains open during reconstruction AMANDA KWAN “We invest a lot of money The Observer into these roads,” Moeser said. “The last thing you need is for A portion of Lawrence people to cut into them again.” Avenue East is being rebuilt When a new property is after years of complaints built, developers have to from residents about bumpy dig into the road to install road conditions. underground services. Lawrence Avenue East Moeser said several from Kingston Road to subdivisions have been built RISHMUC A L KNAUTH/The Observer Beechgrove Drive is to be along Lawrence Avenue, Teacher Stephen Tong leads one of Agnes McPhail Public School’s new all-day kindergarten classes in a song. dug up, given a new base and creating a patchwork of repaved. uneven asphalt. The street has been in A new Seventh Day Adventist disrepair for Church is Expanding days to expand minds many years, We invest a lot currently being says Ward 44 of money into built across Educators okay with longer kindergarten hours starting this month councillor Ron from the 43 Moeser. these roads, the Division police RISHMUC A L KNAUTH introduce all-day kindergar- program is off to a great start surplus of teachers, this does “It’s almost last thing you station, which The Observer ten, you’ve now increased in her school, which current- not mean more jobs for edu- like going need is for peo- is within the that school by however many ly has two all-day kindergar- cators. through a reconstruction The start of all-day kinder- kindergarteners are at the ten classes. “Part of the criteria for speed bump,” ple to cut into area. garten in Ontario’s schools school. “The fact that the teacher Phase 1 was low overheard he said. “I them again Moeser said this month has some educa- “Some schools are scram- can have more time in the costs,” Harrison said. “In had so many -Ron Moeser the roadwork tors excited about the added bling trying to find extra program to consolidate those other words, find schools that complaints and teaching time despite the space — coat hooks and basic skills through different can accommodate the classes about it.” subsequent moratorium added strain to the system. cubbies, stuff like that — be- means, different activities, is with little to no construction The first phase of prompted the church to Thirty Scarborough schools cause now a big help,” costs, start-up costs.” construction, from start building. now offer all-day kindergar- they’re go- It’s an exciting said Yu. All-day kindergarten is not Beechgrove Avenue to “I said, ‘If you don’t get ten in the first phase of the ing to be According mandatory and parents have Bennett Drive, started in your hookup for the services province’s five-year plan. there for the initiative and I to the Minis- the option of enrolling their August 2009 and finished in and water, you’re not going Seven more will offer it next whole day.” think the ministry try of Educa- children part time. The pro- November 2009. to be able to do it for five year. Even with and the board tion, about gram is provided at no added “ space con- 600 Ontario cost to families, but before- The second phase, from years,’ ” he said. Before the start of the pro- Bennett to Kingston began The busy street will be open gram, every two kindergar- straints, have done their schools now and after-school programs this year in August and is during the reconstruction, teners equalled one full-time the benefits best to get this offer the pro- will be offered at school-spe- expected to be completed in Moeser said. student. Schools are now of all-day program up to a gram. That cific fees, some of which will November. But this means the roadwork faced with double the num- learning number is set be subsidized. Once complete, no roadwork has to be done in portions. ber of kindergarteners. have already wonderful start to increase to “It’s still early,” said Har- can be done along that stretch “It’s tough on residents,” he “We have schools in cer- been identi- -Priscilla Yu 800 in 2011. rison. “It just started a week of Lawrence Avenue East said. tain pockets of the city that fied, he said. Every ago so I think everybody is for five years.