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Let’s start with a couple of items referenced on the cover of this issue:

1 Where in Vaughan does this seeming tribal warrior live?

(Bonus points for naming the sculptor behind the work.)

2 What chain recently caused a stir when it arrived in Klein-

burg?

Now a civics lesson:

3 What was the rid-ing of Vaughan

called before 2004?

4 Which Vaughan politician had

his family’s real estate office raided by the RCMP?

5 Once it’s built, what is

Vaughan’s hospital to be called?

6 Who or what is this Major Mackenzie anyway?

And at last the fun stuff:

7 What are the two latest and humongous roller coasters at

Canada’s Wonderland?

8 Scenes from what 2006 thrill-er remake starring Michael

Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland and Kim Basinger were filmed at the McMichael Canadian Collection in Kleinburg?

9 Which former Vaughan poli-tician’s daughter performs in

the musical group Dragonette?

10 Which Canadian sports Hall of Fame is located

within our borders?

11 Which Dolce Vita celeb-rity chef is a Vaughan

native?

12 The death of what athlete and philanthropist was

mourned across the country this

year, but perhaps nowhere more personally than at the local school named in his honour?

Answers below. How’d you do?If you got even half of

them half right, you can continue on the website, VaughanToday.ca.

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Answers: 1 Sculpture Garden at McMichael Canadian Collection in Kleinburg. (The artist is Ivan Eyre). 2 The incursion of Starbucks, which has been a

hit with caffeine imbibers who like to hang around the shop on Islington Avenue, annoyed residents who wanted to keep the town’s smalltown feel. 3 Vaughan-

King-Aurora, what a mouthful. Big improvement. 4 Greg Sorbara was Vaughan MPP, a cabinet minister, and rising star in the Liberal party when an investigation

was launched in 2005, leading to his resignation from cabinet. He was subsequently cleared of any wrongdoing and reinstated. 5 Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital.

Hmmm. 6 It’s a who. Addison Alexander Mackenzie was a soldier, politician and Woodbridge-area farmer who died in 1980 and gave his name to Major Mack-

enzie Drive running across Vaughan. 7 Those monsters are called Leviathan and Behemoth. Be afraid. 8 The Sentinel was filmed here. Too bad it was a boring

stinker — don’t blame the exciting locale. 9 Greg Sorbara again. His daughter Martina is the popular group’s vocalist. 10 The Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame

is in south Woodbridge. (You were expecting lacrosse?) 11 David Rocco. Sweet. 12 Herb Carnegie, a former hockey player who founded the Future Aces

program, died on March 9 and was remembered by the staff and students of Herbert H. Carnegie Public School in a ceremony later that month.

If you’re typical you probably know some things about Vaughan, but not everything.

Sure, you know Vaughan was formed a few decades ago from the merger of several local centres (what Wikipedia quaintly calls “hamlets”). You might even be able to name the main five components as Wood-bridge, Maple, Kleinburg, Concord and a chunk of Thornhill.

But did you know the town and later the city got the name Vaughan from a road that doesn’t come here any more?

You know the current mayor is Maurizio Bevilac-qua — he’s seemingly everywhere in Vaughan, both in person and in media. But we bet you couldn’t spell his name without looking it up (as we did and do every month).

You know it’s a great place to live, raise a family,

but do you really know everything the vast and spread-out Vaughan has to offer? Or are you ghettoized into your own familiar corner of the big burg?

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When Alyshia Van Veen’s father Malcolm died two years ago in a car accident, she never thought anything positive could arise from such a tragic event.

But Van Veen’s father was a registered organ donor and his lungs, kidneys and corneas ended up saving three lives and restoring sight to two others.

“It was really comforting for our family to know that was happening,” Van Veen said. “While we were getting the worst news of our lives, there were three other families get-ting the best news of theirs.”

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gina resident is leading the York Region Municipal Organ Drive Challenge — so other families don’t have to go through the same experience of losing a loved one.

“There are 1,500 men women and children waiting for an organ transplant in Ontario,” said Trillium of Gift of Life’s vice president of operations, Versha Prakash.

“Every three days we lose one of them because they are not able to get a transplant in time,” she added.

York Region has fewer registered organ donors than almost all other municipali-

ties in the province and is well below the municipal average of 22 percent of the population. In Vaughan itself only nine percent of the are registered donors.

The top municipalities on the list, such as Garson and Hanmer, are small towns with registration rates of 50 percent in some cases.

“The trend in larger cities is big city anonymity and less of a tight-knit community,” Prakash said. “Also cultural, racial, or religious diversity may add to it.”

Van Veen is hoping her group’s efforts will encourage 11,000 new registrations, or an

increase of one percent in York Region.

“Ideally it would be four or give percent, but if we were able to bump it up even by one percent, that would be huge,” she said.

Vaughan Council endorsed the challenge and the mayor hailed the initiative as a worth-while cause.

“We know that by educat-ing residents and making them

more aware of this issue, we can raise the donor rate in the City of Vaughan,” Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua said in an email to Vaughan Today.

Potential donors also shouldn’t be discouraged by their age.

“In last fiscal year, 10 per-cent of our donors were over the age of 70,” Prakash said. “So we need to debunk this myth.”

N ewly elected Vaughan MPP Ste-

ven Del Duca will be bringing a 905 perspective to the budget table as the minister of finance’s newest parlia-mentary assistant.

Del Duca said he’s excited to work with Minister of Finance Dwight Duncan on Ontario’s next budget as he’s known the minister for about 16 years.

“He is a man who knows these departments in and out, so having the chance to apprentice with him, for me, is a huge honour,” Del Duca said.

With the minister’s two other assistants hailing from Etobicoke and Ottawa, Del Duca said it makes it all

the more important for him to bring a voice from one of the province’s fastest growing regions.

“I think [the premier] recognizes … that I, on behalf of the hundreds of thousands living in Vaughan, bring an important 905 perspective to the table,” he said.

Del Duca attended his first trea-sury board meeting in November where he was briefed on the minis-ter’s key priorities.

“Right now the focus is on prepar-ing for the budget,” Del Duca said. “It’s a really crucial time.”

Del Duca will be busy until the new year, as he’s also co-chair of the provincial Liberal leadership con-vention.

Photo courtesy alyshia Van Veen

GIFT OF LIFE: Alyshia Van Veen, right, lost her father, left, in a car crash but his organs went on to save three lives and restored the sight of two others.

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Imagine baking cookies for someone only to have the recipient refuse to eat them.

It happens to Gioia Grandinetti and her cousin Daniela Nicosia all the time.

They’re co-owners of the Cookie Messenger, a Woodbridge shop that creates bouquets made from cookies.

“Everyone says they’re too good to eat,” Grandi-netti said. “It’s edible artwork. I think that’s what sets us apart. It’s more than just a cookie.”

The 23-year-old Grandinetti got her start by mak-ing a cookie bouquet for the desert table for the chris-tening of Nicosia’s daughter.

That bouquet was a hit and the pair decided to turn the idea into a business and opened up shop in October 2011. Grandinetti said it’s a popular gift because it can be highly personal.

“It tells a story just on its own,” Grandinetti said of the hand-decorated cookies. “The person sending it has really thought about it and it’s not an after thought.”

Customers can request specific shapes and art-work or choose from pre-designed bouquets.

The cookies, made from 100 percent natu-ral ingredients, come in many flavours including gingerbread for the holi-day season.

Not only are their cookie bouquets being noticed in Vaughan, but so are their most recent innovation: cookie sculp-tures.

In May, the shop

made a peacock sculpture for the Springhill Suites Art Show, in association with the McMichael Art Galley and the Norman Felix Gallery.

“We thought we would do art, but just a differ-ent kind,” Grandinetti said. “We were surrounded by paintings and then there was our peacock sculpture.” The sculpture included over 200 edible cookie feathers and was about three feet tall.

Then in June, their work was featured at Universal Music Canada’s gifting lounge where they created a sculpture that included portraits of Universal artists.

“Kardinal [Offishall] was taking pictures of his cookie because he thought it was the coolest thing,” Cookie Messenger’s creative director Teresa Pileggi said.

They also took photos of celebrities, including Cody Simpson and members of Hedley, that were then printed on cookies for them to take home.

As for possible competitors, Pileggi said they’re not scared.

“No one will put the amount of detail that we would into our cookies,” Pileggi said. “No one will sit there for over an hour to paint someone’s face on a cookie, but if someone wants it, we do it.”

At the end of the day, Grandinetti said the most rewarding part is making people happy.

“I love doing creative things,” she said. “I think I appreciate this so much because everyday is dif-ferent. I can be creative, I can have an outlet to express myself.”

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I n 2010, the Windeler family of Toronto

was startled by the news their eldest son Jack had committed suicide in his Queen’s University dorm room.

The tragedy prompted his father Eric to start The Jack Project in partnership with Kids Help Phone and the Men-tal Health Commission of Canada. The program promotes mental health and wellbeing for youth transitioning from high school into university, college or independent living.

During the 2011–2012 school year, 22 Ontario high schools — including Royal St. George’s College, Upper Canada

College, Crescent School and 12 post secondary institutions — were part of a pilot year for the mental health education and awareness outreach program.

Although the pilot is currently in the process of being evaluated, UCC coun-sellor Susan Boeckh says the project’s interactive presentations for faculty, par-ents and graduating students were well received by her school’s community.

“The focus was on education and prevention and included tips regard-ing having tough conversations with students, peers and one’s teen children about mental health,” Boeckh says.

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tal health awareness for youth but also involves adult figures like parents, family members and educators. The focus is on promoting mental health literacy, chal-lenging stigma and encouraging youth to get help and build support networks.

“Mental health awareness is so important as many students are vulner-able or know someone who is,” Boeckh says. “And heightened knowledge about available supports, as well as warning signs, can keep our youth safer and bet-ter attuned to their own and their peers’ wellbeing.”

A recent Ontario Child Health Study estimated one in five Ontarians under the age of 19 are affected by a mental health problem severe enough to affect their daily functioning, making it difficult to learn or behave appropriately. On a daily basis, this means in an average class-room an estimated 20 percent of students are experiencing a mental, emotional or behavioural disorder.

“No one is immune from mental health struggles,” Boeckh says. “We all exist along a continuum of mental health, from optimal to severely strug-gling and can shift where we are on the line with different life stages and circumstances.”

When it comes to mental health, Crescent School and Royal St. George’s College counsellor Andrea Kaye feels it is her job to go beyond solely providing counselling and support. Her goal is to change how boys perceive mental health issues and how feeling overwhelmed and vulnerable is often associated with being soft and “not manly,” she says.

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struggle is and mental health issues come under a wider umbrella of vulnerability and struggle,” she says. “Mental health issues, like all other issues, need to be normalized and students need to feel that they’re able to talk about difficult times that are often overwhelming.”

Developing a sense of how to deal with these emotions and understanding how they can affect thoughts and behav-iour is a key to success in their adult life, Kaye says.

“Emotional intelligence, which includes understanding and dealing with emotions and understanding other peo-ples emotions, has been well researched as being a very fundamental part of suc-cess in adulthood,” she says.

While her schools have formalized programming, including The Jack Proj-ect, they also have other mental health initiatives like peer-counselling sessions at Crescent School, she says.

“The students tell their vulnerable stories to other students, which includes mental health issues and it’s probably one of the most powerful programs that I’ve been involved in,” she says.

Kaye focuses on supporting older boys, especially influential social lead-ers, to share their stories about the perils of high school life, aiming to change the existing culture and stigma surrounding mental health.

“The boys in grade 9 who hear the grade 12 story, when they get to grade 12 are wanting and willing to share their stories because they have remembered the impact,” she says.

Initially students were open to sharing mistakes about sex, drugs and violence, which the boys didn’t perceive as weak-

nesses but rather as part of manhood and growing up, she says. But over time the boys became more willing to talk about mental health issues, stressing family situations and being in a high-pressured academic environment, she says.

“Boys really learn from each other that being vulnerable isn’t weak and having periods of sadness, anxiety, being overwhelmed in any way is helped by being authentic rather than be masked,” she says.

“The most powerful situations come from boys who seem as though they’re in charge of their lives and vulnerability doesn’t even seem like an option, but as I have been able to engage those boys it has allowed opportunities for them to give credibility to being vulnerable.”

UCC has also developed initiatives like the addition of a support group for gay or questioning students, a mental health curriculum and a mental health week with activities like yoga classes, a laughter and comedy workshop, a lunch-time drumming circle and a workshop on stress and anxiety.

“Anxiety and depression are com-mon,” Boeckh says. “And we also see instances of students dealing with a sleep disorder, a bipolar illness, a family member’s health or mental health issue, significant stress regarding relationships and school pressure.”

One of the challenges of recognizing students are suffering from anxiety, sad-ness and depression is they exhibit char-acteristics, symptoms and behaviours similar to normal signs of adolescent angst and development, Kaye says.

“If we think about bouts of isolation from family, eating badly, sleeping badly,

being moody, dark thoughts, disinterest in leisurely pursuits, that sort of sounds like most parents’ view of their teenager or their middle school student,” Kaye says. “So it often goes unnoticed and depression and anxiety can be masked by substance use and other risky behav-iours that are not seen as out of the norm either, though it often goes undiagnosed and not discussed.”

According to Children’s Mental Health Ontario, these characteristics and behaviours may be signs of underly-ing mental health disorders if they are intense, persist over long periods of time, inappropriate for the child’s age and interfere with the child’s life.

Although some families with identi-fied mental health issues want to keep it under wraps so youth don’t get treated differently, Boeckh says parents and stu-dents often realize disclosing the infor-mation to school staff, elicits support, compassion and accommodation.

Rather than faking it, more emphasis needs to be put on showing students it’s okay to have moments of struggle and talk about issues and what’s bothering them, Kaye says.

Through her experience with the peer counseling sessions, she feels students want to be given permission and the opportunity to be real with each other, which allows other students to open up and share what they are going through, she says.

“Once we normalize it then it actu-ally doesn’t become any bigger of a deal than asking for extra help in math,” she says. “As we name it and normalize the struggle, we give permission and accep-tance.”

It is estimated that 10 to 20 percent of Canadian youth are affected by a mental illness or disorder.Approximately 5 percent of male youth and 12 percent of female youth, age 12–19, have experienced a major depressive episode.

The number of 12–19-year-olds in Canada at risk for developing depression is 3.2 million.Canada’s youth suicide rate the third highest in the industrialized world.

4,000 people die each year by suicide; suicide is among the leading causes of death for Canadians between the ages of 15 and 24, second only to accidents.Schizophrenia is youth’s greatest disabler as it strikes most often in the 16–30 year age group, affecting an estimated one person in 100.

In Canada only one out of five children who need mental health services receives them.About one percent of Canadians will experience bipolar disorder or manic depression.

Almost half (49 percent) of those who feel they have suffered from depression or anxiety have never gone to see a doctor about this problem.Source: Canadian Mental Health Association

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On a second-floor classroom at Upper Canada College, a debate is heating up over the merits of allowing food vend-ing machines in schools.

The dueling voices of dissent and approval belong to a lively group of grade 8 students, who have traveled by school bus from The Elms Junior Mid-dle School in North York to the Forest Hill-area school to receive debating tips from their mentors — students only a few years older than them-selves.

This is week two of the Horizons program, a collaborative partnership between UCC and publicly funded schools across the city. In this environ-ment, the adult teachers take a back-seat, and youth become the classroom leaders.

At the head of the classroom are four upper school UCC students — they pose questions to the students in an effort to spur discussion and ideas. Hands shoot up in the air. Later, the students break into smaller groups to

practice their debating skills. Extracurricular mentoring and

tutoring programs like Big Brothers and Big Sisters have a long tradition in Toronto, but just within the past decade schools like UCC have begun adapting mentorships for educational purposes within the classroom.

The eight-week program, which partners with the Toronto District School Board and its Catholic board counterpart, involves UCC Upper School students gathering weekly to teach academic subjects, as well as sports, digital media and the arts with those from other schools. The mentoring sessions take place either at UCC or the participating public school, depending on the arrangement between the administrators.

Based on the U.S. model, Hori-zons launched at Nelson Mandela Park Public School back in 1998, with 30 students. It’s grown to help over 400 students from high-needs communities each year.

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Continued from Page 10Horizons program director Jyoti

Sehgal says the program is an eye-opener for youth, who learn more about the demographics of communi-ties beyond the borders of their own school. It’s why UCC adopted the Horizons model in the first place.

“This is a chance for them to develop leadership skills and to devel-op empathy,” Sehgal says. “They’re very kind and lovely with the younger [students].”

Arlene Dixon, a Toronto District School Board guidance counsellor who supervises the mentoring ses-sions says the program gives students the opportunity to supplement their

regular studies. Students who partici-pate in the extracurricular activities become noticeably more engaged in class, she says.

“This pulls them up into thinking more like an adult.”

Sometimes, it’s not just good study habits that the public school students gain — a snack is provided prior to the lesson, which recharges their bat-teries, Dixon says.

At Mississauga Private School, mentorship is embedded in the music curriculum. Grade 11 and 12 music students receive school credit if they are enrolled in a co-op music class, where they teach younger peers enrolled in mandatory music courses

in grades 7 and 8. Students work both one-on-one

and as a class. Their collaborative efforts are showcased at a school music night every April.

Music director John Alonso says the program has a positive “double-whammy effect” in that students receive more one-on-one guidance, and the student mentors develop skills on public speaking, classroom man-agement and strategizing.

“What these kids who are teaching are gaining from this is just a tremen-dous sense of responsibility,” he said.

Students are motivated to keep up their model behavior, Alonso says.

“What they understand is, they

can’t behave one way in the hallway and then expect to walk in front of a class and have those kids respond to them in an appropriate way if their own behaviour when they’re not in the class is wrong.”

The result of mentorship programs, say teachers like Seghal and Alonso, is that they have lasting effects. Seghal says graduates of the Horizons sum-mer program have returned to Upper Canada College to teach in the very same program, telling her they want to give back to something that played a part in enriching their education.

Says Alonso of his students men-tors: “They learn how to become good citizens.”

Crescent School’s Dick Howard

For the love of soccer

D ick Howard’s days may be long, but he says it’s worth it.

With training sessions beginning as early as 7 a.m. and running as late as 7 p.m., the director of soccer for Crescent School spends many hours teaching and mentoring the school’s young soccer players.

“It’s great because of the enthusiasm,” said Howard, who taught at Upper Canada College, and served as Crescent’s athletic director from 1972 to 1986. “I work closely with [current athletic director] Fraser Bertram, making sure that the teams have enough practice time. We don’t just want them to play games, we want them to practise.”

With the absence of a football program, Crescent fields 17 teams with hundreds of participants every year, some beginning to play in grade 3. Along with volleyball and cross-country running, soccer is one of Crescent School’s more popular fall sports.

At its busiest, two or three of the team’s squads would share the cozy field throughout the day, some staying as late as 8 p.m.

“It makes for a long day, but it’s great because the kids enjoy the sport, we got some talented players,” said Howard, who noted that many kids remain in the soccer program until they graduate from high school. “We obviously want them to continue playing the game once they leave school, when they go to college, university, or beyond.”

Crescent’s soccer tradition dates back to the 1920s, but the school has strived to push the envelope, and it beats to the heart of Howard’s influence.

Five years ago, Crescent Headmaster Geoff Roberts approached Howard, a soccer broadcaster and former national team player, requesting help to reno-vate their field.

“He said, ‘look, we’re looking at putting an artificial surface into the school fields, rather than rely on good weather and getting away from the days of mud and waterlogged fields,’ ” Howard said.

With the help of Howard’s soccer connections — Howard is also a techni-cal advisor with FIFA — a German company installed a new artificial turf field with floodlights.

As the changes were implemented over the year, Howard stuck around, and has continued to work to bring the soccer program to a level of excellence.

Crescent currently works with local soccer clubs, including the North Soc-cer Club and private academies, to increase the presence of soccer on the field and perhaps recruit local kids to enroll at Crescent.

“We try to make it a win-win situation,” said Howard, who notes the num-ber of FIFA seminars and clinics at Crescent of late. “It’s more than a school. When you pass by in the evening, and you see the boys that use the facility, and when you come during the day and you see the school classes and school teams using the field, it’s great to see all that activity and involvement.” Photo courtesy crescent school

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“I believe that children learn to appreciate food by eating whatever the family eats,” said Jones. “But I’ve been experimenting with many other kinds of cuisines as well.”

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“I hope I can play with them and help them,” said da Silva, the young nephew of the Lashers’ current president, Frank Iannuzzi. “I even bought a chair to start playing. I hope I can help them in tour-naments. My uncle said he’s going to bring me with him to one.”

Da Silva has been around wheel-chair basketball since he was a very young, and his presence at practice is distinct. As he is scrimmaging with the team at Vellore Woods Community Centre, he tenaciously grabs rebounds, and drains baskets in the paint.

“I thought it was cool,” he said. “[The first] time I came out I had blis-ters on my hand, but I had a lot of fun.

The Lashers, in its second year of operations, is a mosaic of ages and skill levels.

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“I saw this sport from chairs that were adapted from those hospital chairs,” Benoit said. “The weight was 45 pounds, and we were cutting the brakes, the armrest, cutting everything that was not necessary to play ball, and to make the chair as light as possible.”

The benefits of the sport are pro-found for Benoit.

“You’re getting yourself better and better physically, technically, and men-tally,” she said. “This is good, it’s a passion. It’s cool to play.”

The Lashers — named in honour of the late David Lash, a loved long-time teammate with the team’s prior incarnation, the Toronto Spitfires — are coming off a successful first season in the Canadian Wheelchair Basketball League. They finished the regular sea-son 8–2.

Despite regular season success, the Lashers were booted quickly from the playoffs.

“It went well, we played strong at the beginning, and just at the end, we couldn’t bring it together,” Iannuzzi said. “We were just starting off the team, so we didn’t have full attendance. We’re [now] getting a few more regular

players coming out.”Topping last season’s success will

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“My shoulders are shot, so at the end of a practice like this, I pay for it for at least a day and a half,” said Iannuzzi, jokingly.

The Lashers’ edge comes in the form of leadership and experience. Their coach, Jerry Tonello, also coaches the national men’s wheelchair basketball team — who won Paralympics gold in London this past summer.

Their core group, including Benoit and Reg McClellan, also bring a wealth of knowledge of the game, and look to influence the likes of da Silva and grow the sport.

“I’d like to think that the [game’s leaders] across this country have taken a role in involving everybody in the game, creating a situation and environ-ment where everyone was welcome to play,” McClellen said. McClellan and others hope to continue working to be more inclusive, to strengthen the Lash-ers, and beyond.

Vaughan City Lashers begin play in late November.

Winning first season stopped short in championshipsBy perry king

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LOOKING FOR THIS? Vaughan Lashers basketball team scrimmage during practice at Vellore Woods Community Centre in Woodbridge. Led by president Frank Iannuzzi, pictured here with ball, the Lashers finished 8–2 against competition last season, their first year in the Canadian Wheelchair Basketball League.

Lashers look to rebound

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TEE’D UP: Forward Adam Fillier fin-ishes a layup drill while practising for the Vaughan City Lashers.

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