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The Yonge extension: will it ever happen?

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Freeman tries to make sense of the Yonge sub-way extension saga in “Is the subway on track?”. One thing he notices: citi-zen push for the extension up Yonge isn’t as easy to find as he hoped.

Can’t get much more local this: Mary Fran McQuade looks at gar-den edibles in “In your

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Saucy transit issues have been drawing headlines south of Steeles recently, but anyone still following transit issues further north will notice something: the Yonge subway extension that tickled the imagination of Vaughan residents when the province declared it a “top transit priority” in 2008 is only incrementally closer to reality in 2010.

The study to merely examine the feasibility of the project, originally due to be completed in 2009, is only expected at the end of this year. Locked in battle with the province over fund-ing for his own Transit City plan, Toronto Mayor David Miller recently felt comfortable enough to state the Yonge extension was not a project he could see happening in his lifetime.

“You’re talking billions and billions and billions of dol-lars and it’s not the right solution for long-distance travel,” Miller said at an editorial board with Vaughan Today and its partners. “I don’t believe, as a knowledgeable transit advocate, that the Yonge subway extension is going to happen, not in this context.”

On a recent stop at the Promenade Bus Terminal, Transportation Minister Kathleen Wynne made few promises about the plan.

“We know it’s very much on the agenda. It’s something that York Region is interested in and it’s something that needs to happen. Can I tell you exactly when and how much money and when we’re going to do it? I can’t give you that information, but it’s something we continue to talk about,” Wynne said in true politi-cian style.

For now, talk may be as good as it gets. Sensing a change in the weather when it comes to funding transit projects in Ontario, Vaughan city council recently tabled a motion seeking support from all levels of government “to investigate alternative funding models” for the subway project. In other words, no one expects the province to be kicking in the cash any time soon.

It’s no secret that the mayor of Toronto is not a fan of the plan and it will surprise few that the wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly, especially the wheels of several bureaucracies, as is required for the subway extension project.

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from the scene when it comes to this crucial transit project for the region: the citizenry. Gone are the posters around Vaughan restaurants calling for the provincial government to make good on its promises, absent are the protesters at Transportation Minister Kathleen Wynne’s office, and gone even is the website of the once-visible group called “Yonge Subway Now.”

An informal survey of transit users at the Promenade Bus Terminal reveals some people are not even aware there’s a plan to try and build a subway, never mind concerned about how late it is. One might justifi-ably ask: Who cares about this project?

“People have lost sight of how important this project is,” says Ward 5 Councillor Alan Shefman, who concedes the subway extension has lately fallen out of the public eye.

But although citizens may not be taking up picket signs to voice their displeasure about the project being shoved to the backburner, it doesn’t mean they don’t care, says Shefman.

“One of the most common questions I get as a councillor is ‘what’s happening with the Yonge Street subway?’”

Other Vaughan councillors report similar interest in the project, if not actual involvement.

“There’s a huge will (for the project),” says Ward 4 Councillor Sandra Yeung Racco. “I don’t believe there’s enough engagement. The people along Yonge know about it, but certainly we need more engagement about it.”

She points to the possibility that some businesses along the path of the new subway may have been shaken after witnessing the fiasco with the St. Clair right-of-way construction. Although they haven’t voiced opposition to the project, they may not be sure whether or not to get behind it.

Despite the lack of overt support, some maintain that citizens merely won’t speak up until they feel they’re about to be hurt in some way.

“Although some transit or development initiatives tend to attract people in support of it, you usually hear the biggest outcry when there’s something going in that people don’t want,” says Brian Shif-man, executive director of Smart Commute North Toronto-Vaughan, an organization that encourages people to make use of smarter transit options. “What people need is a sign that there’s a real initiative.”

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He adds that his company’s survey data con-sistently shows people are interested in afford-able and efficient transit options.

If it’s a sign citizens need to push them to be engaged, they may soon get one. Convinced that the province is no longer on-board (“It’s almost silliness to think the province is going to fund this project right now,” says Shefman), Yonge Subway Now — now called Yonge Subway North Committee —has recently been revived.

Although the group orig-inally formed in order to oppose the idea of implementing bus lanes instead of a subway, it was dormant until this past March when mem-bers began holding meet-ings again, says Shefman, who is involved along with Markham councillor Valerie Burke.

Shefman stresses that although the group is still working on its organi-zational structure, it is a

grassroots initiative that shows the community cares about the subway project.

“Essentially it’s being organized by mem-bers of the community… We’ve got probably 25 people who are gung-ho at this point,” says Shefman. He says the group will push for alternative funding options, such as lobbying

the federal government or exploring mixed public-private options. Although he concedes the grassroots effort still has lots of work ahead, such as figuring out an organizational struc-ture and getting the website up and running to replace the current group email mode of com-munication, Shefman is optimistic.

“We’re going to be going public shortly …

We will be making this a significant issue over the next number of months. We want to get people focused on transit again,” he says.

One can only hope that those who care about the fate of the Yonge subway extension will join in once they get the chance. Because unfortu-nately, sometimes will alone just isn’t enough to get your way.

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Quick: do you think working out is fun?If you’re groaning at the thought of your next

appointment with the treadmill, you may want to rejig your attitude towards getting in shape.

Having fun with your exercise regime can be good for the head and the bod, says YuMee Chung, a Toronto yoga instructor who says her fitness routine these days is less and less about going to the gym and more about play.

Aside from the sheer fun factor, play and laughter tend to go hand in hand, Chung says.

“I think of laughter as a way to release stress while massaging the organs and strengthening the core from the inside out.”

Though Chung says she isn’t anti-gym, she calls exercise as play an antidote to modern living. Most of us are required to be hyper-efficient, detail-oriented perfectionists who are highly structured at work, she says, and when we get home we need to drop that away.

Formerly a lawyer, Chung says she was accus-tomed to being hyper-critical all day long, and she was the same way when she came home at night. It wasn’t fun for her or anyone around her, she says.

She’d work out at the gym all the time, but started incorporating play into her workout after visiting a downtown park with her young nephew.

Soon she was hanging from the monkey bars and climbing the jungle gym.

Since moving north to Lake Simcoe, Chung says she regularly hangs out at the playground by the water. And speaking of hanging out, climbing trees is one of her favourite workout pastimes in the country.

Hoisting oneself up branch by branch is fun, but Chung says tree climbing also gives her a different kind of workout that exercises muscles the upper body. It’s an area women don’t always target enough.

“As women we don’t do pull-ups.”The physical benefits of play can be the same,

she says — it just depends on the intensity of what you are doing.

“Adults have to get away from the notion of fitness,” Chung says. “It just draws the joy out of it.”

So why aren’t we seeing more grown-ups turn-ing cartwheels across the greens in the local park?

Most people don’t discover parks as a place they can exercise until they have kids, she says. But play, she says, isn’t the birthright of the under-10 generation.

Even in more formal fitness settings, like the yoga classes she teaches, Chung encour-ages her students to try handstands on the grass

instead of in the studio against the wall.Kids do it all the time in parks, she says,

and the worst thing that could happen is you fall.

“No one ever died from trying to do a handstand.”

Sure people stare, she says, but you have to get over the embarrassment fac-

tor.“We have to shift our definition of

what’s normal,” she says, and learn to move and exercise in more unconven-tional ways

The only way exercise as play is going to work is if you don’t treat it like

work, she says. “Don’t be competitive,” says Chung. “That’s not

the point.”No need to watch the clock to see if you’re getting

your 20 minutes of cardio, either. If you’re out doing a fun activity with family and friends, such as helping with a Habitat for Humanity project or playing with pooch in the park, you’ll be having too much fun to watch the time, she says.

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Although lots of people strive to stay sharp, Jake Brunott has made a career out of it.

For over 30 years, the Thornhill native has been sharpening skates full-time, first in his father’s basement shop and since 2004, in his own store, Jake’s Figure Skate Sharpening.

And after three decades in the skate sharpening business, Brunott has amassed himself quite a following. Enter through the door of his small store, tucked away off Langstaff Road, just beneath Highway 407, and you’ll immediately notice a wall of pictures with a veritable who’s who of the figure-skating world.

“Katarina Witt, Toller Cranston, Kurt Browning and Shae-Lynn Bourne are just a few,” says Brunott, a tall man with an obvious enthusi-asm for the sport he services.

More recently, he’s added 2010 Olympic gold medalist, Kim Yu Na to the list, as she’s been training in Toronto for the last few years.

“A big part of this is trust: They trust me. When they come here they know I’m sharpening the skates because I don’t have anyone else work-ing here. So they get consistency,” Brunott says.

While on their last tour of the U.S., British ice dancers Torvill and Dean sent him their skates via Fed-Ex, he recalls.

If his customers appreciate his consistency, they owe a debt to his attentiveness. Far from a one-size-fits-all approach — he says automatic skate sharpening machines are about as good as sticking your head in a hair cut machine — Brunott tries to anticipate how each customer will adjust to the sharpening.

“If you have a dull skate and then you get a really, really sharp skate, it can be a hindrance, so I try and take that edge off a little bit,” he says. “That’s where the skill comes in — to have a feel for that: how sharp are these blades and how sharp should I make them? I want them to be comfortable within 10, 15 minutes to a half an hour. It shouldn’t take you more than half an hour to get used to a figure skate sharpening.”

Ice time and coaching time are expen-sive and shouldn’t be wasted finding your feet, Brunott says.

Long-time customer Lynne Pulenzas puts her trust in Brunott.“He does a very good sharpening, very precise,” says Pulenzas, the

mother of three competitive skaters. “My daughters wouldn’t skate with anyone else sharpening their skates.”

Her daughters are very particular and like precise sharpening before they skate, she says. The family visits Brunott for sharpening at least every two weeks. “It’s always nice to have a visit and catch up with Jake and know how he’s doing,” Pulenzas says. “We have a lot of trust in Jake.”

It’s surprising that a man who spends so much time worrying about the skating experiences of others didn’t take up the sport himself until he was 25.

“My father was a professional figure skater in Europe and South America, but for some reason he didn’t get me into it when I was young,” says Brunott. “When I was 25, I realized I was going to be in this business for a long time and I thought, ‘Ya know what? I should know more about what’s going on with the blades when they skate on them.”

Since then, Brunott typically hits the ice three to four times a week, often as a volunteer coach at the Thornhill Figure Skating Club. He also rides his bike to and from work every day. “I lead a very active lifestyle. There’s no better way to start and end your day than on a bike,” he says.

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However, enough of his time is occupied with figure skates that he doesn’t need to try too hard to fill it. In fact, Brunott only sharpens figure skates, citing the unique challenges of the figure skate as his passion.

It’s perhaps that particular niche that makes the whole job worthwhile for Brunott. He says that what the hot stove is to hockey, his store is to figure skating—a place for those who love the sport to congregate and discuss it.

“The biggest thing is the rapport I build with my clients, the social aspect, actually. It’s wonderful. Sometimes I’ll have a four or five people in there and everyone’s chatting,” he says. “It’s my passion.”

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The name of Kleinburg’s new bakery, the Cookie Crumble Café, does not do the business any justice.

From cookies, cakes and cupcakes, to fresh sandwiches, salads and British high teas, the café has much more than cookie crumbs to offer hungry visitors.

“It has always been a dream of mine to open my own café,” said Frances Pullano. “I love to bake. I started baking for the family and that lingered on to friends who asked me to bake biscotti.”

Pullano worked in the financial sector for years before she turned her dreams into a reality.

Pullano opened a little café in the heart of Kleinburg.

“I thought I’m going to do this and I didn’t want a traditional bakery because we have a lot of those in Woodbridge,” she said. “I wanted it to be old-fashioned traditional and I wanted something quaint. The café goes with the heri-tage of Kleinburg.”

Kleinburg is a quiet and small town, but locals and tourists have been keeping the café occupied, she said.

“It’s crazy here and we love it,” Pullano said. “We’re keeping very busy.

What makes this café stand out from other bakeries is the gourmet food it has to offer, Pullano said. Everything in the café is made on the premises, with the exception of nut-free products and specialty cakes.

“We bake the real homemade way,” she said. “Our food, cookies, cakes, cupcakes are all made from scratch and no preservatives. We use pure, natural ingredients. Fresh is what makes a difference.”

The café also provides bake goods that are gluten-free due to rising dietary concerns, as well as a variety of fresh breakfast and lunch items.

Pullano is preparing for a busy summer. Her summer specialty item is homemade chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches, which can be enjoyed on the patio outside the café.

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4. The local library – hours of fun!Books. Movies. Games. Crafts. And lots more.

Make a visit to your local library part of your weekly routine. You and the kids can read books together onsite and then pick one to take home. There’s also a ton of summer activities planned, like “It’s a Jungle in Here”, “Monkeying Around” and other kids programs as well as storytime. You can check them out at www.vaughanpl.info

5. You belong in a zooSpend the night in an African Savanna without ever getting on a plane!

Every summer from May to September the Toronto Zoo hosts the Serengeti Bush Camp, where adventurers can get acquainted with the zoo’s furry residents while camping out in a safari style canvas tent. Included in the cost is zoo admis-sion, a full program, buffet style dinner and breakfast, and snacks. The bush camp is not recommended for children under 5. For details, visit torontozoo.com.

Prefer to park your sleeping bag indoors? The Royal Ontario Museum hosts sleepovers where participants can get exclusive access to the museum overnight. For more info, visit rom.on.ca. and click on Families and Kids.

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We all know we should appreciate our dads every day of the year. But on Father’s Day this June 20, give your father, father-in-law or father figure

some extra love and attention. Here are some ways to show your pop a good time this Dad’s Day, or in the days leading up.

Cars and barbecue, what more could dad want?Vonn Cycles and Number Seven Bar and Grill are teaming up to host an auto

and motorcycle exhibition on Sun., May 30 at Vonn Cycles on Woodstream Boulevard near Martin Grove Road. Check out some nice rides and enjoy some good eats, all in support of Vitanova Foundation, a local drug treatment centre. For more information call Claudio at Vonn Cycle, 905-264-7735.

Tee off together:Spend some quality time with dad on the links at the 4th Annual

Vaughan in Motion – Fore the Cure to Cancer Golf Tournament at Red-Crest: Cardinal Golf Clubs, 17700 Keele St., Kettleby. June 10. For more information on this event contact 905-832-8298, email at info@vaughanin motion.com or visit www.vaughaninmotion.com.

For the eco guru:Go green with dad this month at the Windfall Ecology Festival at Fairy

Lake in Newmarket, June 12 and 13. Learn about new environmentally friendly products, try local and organic foods or take in a few workshops. There’s a Kids Fun Zone, buskers and more. For more information visit www.windfallcentre.ca.

For the footy fan:Treat your pops to some soccer stadium fun. Toronto FC plays a couple

home games at BMO field this month: June 2 against Vancouver, June 5 against the Wizards and June 26 against the LA Galaxy. Go to torontofc.ca for ticket info and game times. For footy fans who want to stay a little closer to home, the recently renamed York Region Shooters of the Cana-dian Soccer League play at St. Joan of Arc field on June 6 and June 20, both at 6 p.m. Visit italiashooters.ca for details.

Home, sweet Home (Depot):K, who doesn’t love a trip to Home Depot? I know my dad

certainly does. Actually, it’s a Father’s Day tradition for my sisters and I to go to the friendly neighbourhood Depot

with our daddy. It’s not usually for anything in par-ticular, just for some father-daughter time and a look around. Take your dad on a shopping trip to Home Depot followed by lunch or a DIY project and he’ll be boasting to his buddies for sure. 140 Northview Dr. Woodbridge or 2375 Steeles Ave. West.

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Thurs., June 3Peace Tree Day celebrations at North Thornhill Community Centre. Annual festival for children and families to celebrate peace and diver-sity. Featuring Errol Lee, displays and refreshments as well as other performances. 9:30 a.m. to noon. 300 Pleasant Ridge Ave., Thornhill. For more contact Mirella Tersigni at 905-832-2377, ext. 7429 or by fax at 905-832-6726 or by email at [email protected].

Starting June 12Woodbridge Farmers’ Market seeks a bakery vendor or a person to sell bakers’ goods as well as food and health product vendors. Contact Martha Bell at [email protected] or Jamie Maynard at [email protected]. Commu-nity groups can book stalls for just $10 a Saturday. The market runs June 12 to Oct. 9 at Market Lane in Woodbridge. 9 a.m. –1:30 p.m.

Sun., June 13Play for Peace Soccer World Cup and Cultural Food Fair. Sample different foods from various cul-tures that represent Vaughan and enjoy soccer games in celebration of the upcoming World Cup Soc-cer Event. Noon –2 p.m. Dufferin Clark Community Centre, 1441 Clark Ave. West, Thornhill. Contact Cindy Furfaro-Benning, council executive assistant, Councillor Sandra Yeung Racco, Ward 4, Con-cord/Thornhill at 905-832-8585, ext. 8198.

Thurs., July 1Celebrate Canada’s 143rd birthday at Vaughan’s Canada Day bash. Free Kidz Zone with inflatables, face painting, arts and crafts and more. Food will be available for purchase. Free entertainment kicks off at 4 p.m. with a Jonas Brothers tribute. Karl Wolf is set to take the stage at 5 p.m. Mackenzie Glen District Park, 220 Cranston Park Ave. 3–8 p.m. Parking not avail-able on site. A free bus shuttle from local lots will be available. 905-832-8585, ext. 8200.

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Joanne Dice says you don’t have to be a professional fashion designer to learn high fashion skills.

You just have to have passion. Dice, a fashion designer and

teacher, started her own fashion arts and design school to give people the opportunity to learn. She believes fashion is not just for those in the industry, but people who want to learn a new hobby.

Haute Couture Fashion, Arts and Design in Woodbridge offers courses in pattern-making, sewing garments, and tailoring to name a few. The classes are semi-private, making it easier for the design teachers to pay equal attention to each student.

Fashion interested Dice from a very young age.

“The earliest moments of my life is me sitting down designing, work-ing with needles, pins, and machines as young as four years old,” she said.

When Dice was just 10 years old, she was designing and making tops, skirts and dresses.

“I figured it out on my own,” she said. “I just loved it. I didn’t even care if they came out horrible.”

She soon realized fashion was indeed her calling. After graduat-ing from Sheridan College in 1986, she began a two-year apprenticeship with a Canadian bridal designer. She later started her own company and designed bridal gowns, communion dresses, as well as entire wardrobes.

Teaching was not the focus of her

career at this point. It happened to fall into her lap when her mentor fell ill and needed someone to take over her classes. This inspired Dice to open her own school and provide even more education and learning to students.

“So many kids are starving for the arts,” she said. “They are gifted and need that creative output.”

The school, now open for over 10 years, also specializes in art and fash-ion portfolio development, giving students a greater chance of getting into very difficult design programs offered by universities and colleges in North America.

Students in each class work hard to finish garments and portfolio piec-es throughout the course. At the end of the year, Dice organizes a gala for the parents of students to see what their children have accomplished.

This year’s gala is set for Wed., July 14 at Le Jardin Banquet Hall. At the event, guests can check out student-designed pieces of artwork showcased in the hall lobby. Custom-made awards are given to students in each age group.

For Dice, it is just another way to show how hardworking and deserv-ing her students are.

Designers then model their own creations for the crowd in a fashion show after dinner.

Dice says she’s always so proud of her students and how much they accomplish.

“Maybe I’ve just been really blessed because I’ve had the most amazing group of kids,” she said. “It’s not impossible because I see something beautiful in them.”

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Concerts in the Park905-832-8585 ext. 820016th annual series of professional summer concerts presented by TD Canada Trust Music. • Tues., June 22, 7:30 p.m. Toronto All-Star Big Band. York Hill Dis-trict Park, 501 Clark Ave. West.

McMichael Canadian Art Collection10365 Islington Ave.Kleinburg, 905-893-1121

• Following in the Footsteps of the Group of Seven. • Sunday Concert Series: June 6, Vivace Chamber Players, classical chamber ensemble; June 20, Darren Sigemundson, jazz trombone. 1:30 p.m. (Free with admission)

City Playhouse Theatre 1000 New Westminster Drive, Thornhill, 905-832-8585 ext. 7320

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Be entertained

Children deserve an interactive musical experience, say members of Leading Notes.

The band of university students perform at York Region schools throughout the year, teaching children the importance of music and the joys associated with it.

York Region residents Michelle Eisen, Alex Morley, Erica Ellis and Erica Coutts strive to show kids in kindergarten through grades 4 how much music can enrich their education and overall experience in school.

The four met last September in the University of Toronto’s Institute of Child Study program.

In January the group started performing as Leading Notes as a way to reach out to children but also further their own love of music.

“All of us have a passion for teaching and interacting with children,” Eisen, 25, says. “Music has always had such an important role in our lives since we were really young.

“The kids are so engaged in what we are doing.”Eisen, who used to perform with the Thornhill Commu-

nity Band, plays the keyboard, flute, guitar and sings. Morley, 24, performs the banjo, electric and acoustic guitars and con-certina — a small piano. Ellis, 22, plays the guitar and does vocals while Coutts, 24, is on percussion and vocals.

A few months back, Leading Notes introduced children to Lewis, a handheld puppet and fifth member of the group.

If that’s not enough, they are thinking of introducing the fiddle and saxophone to their ensemble.

The band teaches children about math and English skills through a mix of original and classic songs.

Eisen says the songs are geared to the youngsters but

aren’t at all babyish.Leading Notes has performed at 1,000 schools in the GTA. Eisen says they hope to release a CD in 2011 covering

some of their biggest hits.“I’d love to continue it well into the future,” Eisen says.

“Each of us are involved in the band as much as possible.”Morley says it is important to reach kids at an early age.“It is a great way to bring music (to kids) in a very organic

way,” he says.They are also performing later this fall at a downtown

Indigo.Morley says more often than not, traditional music class-

rooms are stiff and not relaxed.“We like to play and share music together,” he says. “It is

a great education tool.”And so far, kids seeming to be loving Leading Notes.“I was lucky I was born into a musical family,” Eisen says.

“The second I was born I was sitting at a piano.”Not all kids are that lucky, she says.But they hope to change that. One classroom at a time.

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ERICA ELLIS is one of four members of Leading Notes, an educational music group in York Region.

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We’re sitting in a gorgeous restaurant and the chef is flipping pieces of egg off a spatula toward the customers. Really!

The aim is to catch the egg in your mouth. I miss, but another man, daring enough to risk an omelet-decorated shirt, actually makes the catch. A minute ago we watched the chef get an egg spinning on his spatula, toss it in the air and gracefully catch it on the edge of the spatula as it descend-ed, neatly splitting it in two and spilling its contents onto the hot grill.

Another guest agrees to have a try at this – and succeeds! Call me juvenile, but all this is fun and it gives a whole new meaning to “eater-tainment”.

At first glance, Yang’s Teppanyaki is a study in understated chic – cool white seats and tables, glass shelves and cappuccino-coloured louvering. But at the back are three giant teppanyaki tables and that’s where the fun begins.

Teppanyaki is a Japanese method of cooking — teppan, which means iron plate, and yaki which means grilled or pan-fried — with the guests essentially sitting around a huge hot table on which the food is prepared. More importantly, it is the antics of the chef that make this such a neat experience. It starts with the chef cleaning off the grill with some oil and setting it alight. Lovely big flames. Then he slices and stacks the pieces of a large onion to create a mountain. Into its heart he pours some liquid and lights it. More lovely big flames.

Actually, lovely big flames are a regu-lar occurence. And it is fun. The chef slices a neatly rolled omelet (the rolling is an art in itself) and the guests clap along as he chops faster and faster, finishing the last few at lightening speed. I want to shout “Opa!” No wait, that’s Greek isn’t it? There should be a Japanese equivalent.

I hear you ask, what about the food? The way teppanyaki works here is that you choose the proteins you would like — anything from chicken and beef to black cod and lobster — and they are incorporated into the meal. My guest chooses chicken, shrimp and scal-lops ($26), and I choose, for contrast, the assorted root vegetables, which comes with six pieces of cucumber and avocado sushi ($21). The price includes the entire meal!

We start with an 8-ounce bottle of cold Hana lychee sake ($16). I know sake purists will deplore this flavoured version, but it is crisp and delicate and delicious. We sip it throughout the meal.

The first dish to arrive is a small covered bowl of miso soup. This is sipped from the bowl – very refreshing – though eating the seaweed at the bottom is a challenge sans spoon. My sushi seems to have lots of cucumber and avocado in the roll. It’s so tasty, I’m glad there are only six pieces (which we share) or I might be tempted to fill up on this. The final starter is a salad whose dressing is so zesty, I forgive the enormous pieces of boring iceberg lettuce. My attention, at any rate, is on the chef.

The first dish he prepares for us all is a stir-fried blend of different mushrooms (lots of oyster mushrooms, yum!), red peppers and zucchini, cooked on the hot table and dexterously served to each of our platters (there are eight of us around the counter) using two spatulas. While we nibble these, he starts on the proteins and for one guest, rolls two paper-thin slices of red snapper, each around an asparagus spear.

As they’re prepared, the proteins and my root vegetables are added to the platters. These sit atop the raised counter separating us from the hot cooking area and we either eat directly off these or transfer some food to our smaller plates. My guest’s platter fills up with three enormous shrimp, a sliced scallop and a generous portion of chicken done in a slightly sweet sauce. We watch him cook these and the beef for some of the

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FLAMING ONIONS: Just one of many treats at Yang’s that delight food critic Liz Campbell.

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One of the world’s first-known spices, cinnamon is mentioned in the Bible; Moses is ordered to use sweet cinnamon to produce a holy oil to anoint the Ark of the Covenant.

Most of the cinnamon we use in North America isn’t really cinnamon but cassia, imported from Indonesia. True cinnamon is made from the bark of the tree Cinnamomum zeylanicum; it comes from Sri Lanka and has a slightly different, milder flavour. But in recent years, Vietnam has become a huge grower of another close relation, Cinnamomun loureirii. Often called Saigon Cinnamon, it has a robust flavour and aroma and many chefs consider this cinnamon to be the finest available.

It’s no small wonder cinnamon was prized. In so many dishes – from traditional stews and sauces to puddings, cakes and even coffee – it adds immeasurably to the richness of the taste. More importantly, cinnamon is a neutraceutical — a food that actually has health properties. Just a half teaspoon has as many antioxidants as half a cup of raspberries or strawber-ries! There also seems to be some evidence that it helps those with Type II diabetes control sugar levels. And cinnamon is known to have antibacterial effects.

Use cinnamon to add zing to different foods. Sprinkle it on a peanut butter sandwich, French toast, rice pudding or add a dash to your favourite muffin recipe. Plain yogurt and fruit get a distinct kick from a dash of cinnamon. And the next time you make a stew, try adding a 1/4 teaspoon to the pot – you’ll be amazed at the lift it gives the gravy.

And then, of course, there’s the cinnamon bun — rich, sweet dough, redolent with aromatic cinnamon. When they’re baking, they scent the whole house with the rich aroma of sugar and spice. I tried cinnamon buns at several bakeries and found two who do it really well, but if you want a taste at either, get there early. So popular are these that they’re sold out in a couple of hours.

At Goloso Bakery in Woodbridge, owner Clement Rodrigues makes fat pinwheels of sweet dough filled with cinnamon. These aren’t overly sweet but have a wonderful cinnamon aroma — the perfect accompaniment to cof-fee. He brushes the dough with a sugar glaze before dusting with cinnamon and rolling it up. Before baking he brushes the buns with an egg wash and sprinkles with sugar, so the glaze is sweet and shiny.

Joe Bozzo, chef and owner of St. Phillips Bakery in Maple, makes a firmer, sweeter cinnamon roll with a crisper surface. His rolls are dusted with icing sugar.

Is your mouth watering now? Visit www.VaughanToday.ca for an easy recipe for delicious cinnamon buns.

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My main course consists of two slic-es of pumpkin, taro root, sweet potato and some asparagus stalks, all cooked (rather boringly minus the flames) with some seasonings on the same grill as the meat. This might prove a problem for a true vegetarian.

There’s sweet mustard sauce for dipping but the food is so good, it’s unnecessary. My guest enjoys dipping the vegetable pieces in it. “What a really nice way to eat,” he comments. “It’s very civilized.” He’s right. Small bites of meat or vegetable, each one brimming with flavour — it’s quite wonderful.

Finally, cooked rice is tossed on the hot table with onions, green onions, the omelet pieces and even some salmon

shreds. My rice comes sans salmon — vegetarian you see. The rice is the final savoury course and despite being fairly replete at this point, we both enjoy it. The chef packs up and leaves — a real anti-climax! I want more theatrics!

The final course is ice cream: a choice of mango, green tea, vanilla or chocolate. Who chooses vanilla? We try mango and green tea — a refresh-ing finish.

Would we return? Absolutely. I want to try that asparagus and snapper roll. Besides, where else can you get this much fun and good food for these prices?

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The small garden is the book’s big message. “Just grow a few things you like, don’t plant things in rows,” Day told Vaughan Today in a recent interview.

“Put in one tomato, two or three beet plants, some chives, a little bit of lettuce and maybe one zucchini, if you have a square metre of space, just because it’s fun to watch it grow.”

She also warned against jamming too many things in a small space. “I’m a great fan of ventilation and space around plants. Planting things too closely brings disease and bugs.”

An organic gardener, Day doesn’t fuss with fertilizing her food plants. Instead, she gets them off to a good start by enrich-ing the soil ahead of time, working in bagged, composted sheep manure. Container gardeners should look for soil mixes marked “suitable for vegetable growing,” she advises.

Day likes a garden to be productive, which is how she got into growing veggies in the first place, so you’ll find many of her favourite recipes in the book, too.

Work with what you haveIf you have a real passion for food growing, dig into Grow

Great Grub. Like many gardeners, author Gayla Trail didn’t start out as a veggie specialist.

“I’m an equal-opportunity gardener,” she told Vaughan Today. “I like everything, but food is definitely a focus for me.”

Take her rooftop garden. A lot of folks pretty up their roofs

with trees and vines and dainty flowers in containers. Trail has some of that, but the stars of the show are her crops: tomatoes, beans, squash, a herd of herbs and lots more.

It’s all the more impressive since she doesn’t have a water supply out there. The wet stuff has to fall from the sky or be toted by hand. No wonder one of the many do-it-yourself proj-ects in her book is making a self-watering container.

Working with what you have—space, knowledge, soil, containers—is a theme that runs throughout the book.

“The focus is on small spaces, especially unusual, difficult sites,” Trail said. “One of the myths about growing food is that you need a particular type of space for it. I wanted to encourage people to use the space they have.”

Of course, she writes for everyone who wants to grow veg-etables, providing plenty of use-ful details like the marvels of mulch, how to re-use container soil, do-it-yourself organic fer-tilizers and specific how-to’s for dozens of lovely edibles.

And Trail truly believes veggies are lovely. “That’s another myth, that veg-etable plants are ugly. You can even get a variegated-leaf tomato that’s beauti-ful, though not the tastiest. And lettuces are wonderful to look at. I grow lots of varieties with different leaves, different colours. They’re very architectural when they bolt [go to seed], and then I have seeds for next year.”

One last memorable message from Trail: Grant yourself permission to learn by messing up. “Failure is a big part of the experience. Everyone kills plants sometimes. Gardening isn’t about controlling; it’s about observing and adapting.”

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In your own backyard

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now executive director of the Toronto Botanical Garden.

Finely chop 3 or 4 cloves garlic. Sauté in about 2 tbsp/25 mL of olive oil until just tender. Do not brown. Cut a big bunch of chard, rinse well, but don’t whir in salad spinner. Trim off coarse ends and chop leaves and ten-der stems into smallish pieces (about 1.25 cm). Add to pan, sauté on gentle heat, covered, until leaves are tender, stir-ring occasionally—about 10 minutes.

The chard leaves will yield up water, which is good, because next you will whomp in as much blue cheese as you dare. Stir it in until a yummy sauce forms and coats the gar-lic and chard leaves. Taste for salt (likely unnecessary). Serve on cooked pasta with a generous grinding of pep-per. Optional: add a splash of colour with a handful of grape tomatoes on top, or maybe a little parsley.

(Used with permission from Incredible Edibles: 43 Fun Things to Grow in the City, by Sonia Day, p h o t o g r a p h below by Bar-rie Murdock

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Who says miracles don’t happen? Take some earth, water, sun and seed or tiny roots, and… you get a strawberry. Think about it—a strawberry (or tomato, lettuce, sweet peppers, whatever) coming from nothing but earth, water, sun and a seed or slip of green stuff.

You can perform the miracle yourself, in your own backyard or wherever you have a spot of sun.If you need a nudge, two new books by local author/gardeners can help: Incredible Edibles: 43 Fun

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When the Senate gets attention, it’s almost always negative: the appointment of another batch of senators who will cost the taxpayers mil-lions; exposés of privileges; very public scandals (including a senator who lived in Mexico); prime ministers putting their lackeys in the Senate to do as they are told; or, conversely, senators delaying legislation sent to them by the democratically elected members of the House of Commons.

This was not what the founders of the country had in mind. The Senate was established as an indispensable branch of the Canadian parliamen-tary system, along with the House of Commons and the Governor General, who acts on the advice of the prime minister and cabinet. No law can be enacted without the consent of all three parties.

Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, saw the Senate’s role as both ambitious and modest. It was to be a safeguard against hasty legislation coming from the House of Commons, but it must never violate the clear wishes of the people.

The Senate was a crucial element in the nego-tiations that brought together the British North American colonies to create Confederation in 1867. Central Canada had so many people that it was bound to dominate the House of Commons, based on the principle of representation by popula-tion. The Senate was to protect the smaller prov-inces and ensure a voice for regional concerns, at the same time guaranteeing French-speaking Quebec a fixed number of senators. Without the Senate, there would have been no Canada.

The founders designed the Senate as a place of calm second thought: stable, independent and conservative. Senators were appointed for life by the Governor General on the advice of the prime minister. Only men of property, owning land in the province they represented, could be considered for membership.

The Senate was soon dismissed. Senators, the critics said, were unelected friends of the govern-ment. They were out of touch — two senators managed to pass the age of 100. The cabinet and the courts turned out to be better protectors of the

regions and the provinces. It seemed an almost universal view that the Senate was a backwater that ought to be abolished, or at least reformed to reflect the popular will of Canadians.

“I have today signed my warrant of political death,” said a once powerful cabinet minister about to disappear in the Senate.

Today, there are 105 seats in the Senate, rep-resenting seven regions: 24 members each from Ontario, Quebec, the Maritimes, and the western provinces; six from Newfoundland and Labrador; and three from the north. Women have served since 1930, and as of 1965, senators must retire at the age of 75.

The Senate is not powerful, but it is important. This is demonstrated in a study of recent Senate activities by C.E.S. Franks, a noted authority on Canada’s Parliament. Franks uncovered a Senate where House of Commons legislation was care-fully revised and improved in committees. Nor is the Senate a swamp of privilege. Its banking committee responds as often to the concerns of consumers as to big business and industry.

“I found myself time and again surprised and even taken aback,” Franks concluded, “by the thoroughness, level-headedness, insight and thoughtfulness of the Senate’s review of legisla-tion and investigations into a wide range of social,

economic, and other issues.” Franks distinguishes between the dismal public

image of the Senate, which has undermined its credibility, and the real work of the institution, characterized by efficiency, responsibility, and non-partisanship.

Embedded in a constitution that is very difficult to amend, the Senate is likely to be with Canadians for a long time. Senator Joyal insists that senators take very seriously the responsibilities given them by the country’s founders. The record suggests that he is closer to the truth than the Senate’s many critics.

Norman Hillmer is Professor of History and International Affairs at Carleton University. Fur-ther Reading: Serge Joyal and C. E. S. Franks defend the Senate in Joyal’s Protecting Canadian Democracy: The Senate You Never Knew (Mon-treal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003), while the case for the prosecution is made by Larry Zolf, Survival of the Fattest: An Irreverent View of the Senate (Toronto: Key Porter, 1984) and Claire Hoy, Nice Work: The Continuing Scandal of Canada’s Senate (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1999).

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Holy Cross Hawk Stephen Ciampa is trying to help rebuild the base-ball program into a contender again.

The grade 12 student has been taking the younger players on the team under his wing to help them understand the game.

Since graduating a handful of players from last year’s squad, the Hawks have had to start over bringing in a number of grade 9s, some of whom haven’t played the game before. Ciampa has taken a leadership role, helping guide the younger players throughout the season.

“I am just trying to help them with their swings and help them develop as players,” he says. “When you come in as a grade 9, you really haven’t played much baseball. There is a lot of adjustments they need to make because they are using wooden bats now, which is a lot harder to hit than aluminum because you have to hit it square.”

There is one common flaw he finds with the younger hitters.“A lot of grade 9s aren’t aggressive at the plate,” he says. “They will

take the first two strikes and by that time it is almost too late, especially if the pitcher throws a breaking ball or an off-speed pitch.”

Having players like Ciampa step up and take an active part in the coaching process has helped head coach Peter Harrison out.

“We are dependant on our leaders this year,” he says. “It’s an important part of the game having our leaders step up and help out the younger players on the team because once they come through our system, they will be looked upon to provide assistance to those younger players.”

Ciampa can relate to what the younger players are going through and he hopes they can continue contributing to the team.

“In Grade 9 we had a good team and we made OFSAA,” he says. “Every year we continue developing our players. Our grade 9s have stepped up, whether they are helping us in the field or helping us out on the bench cheering us on.”

Making the transition was easier for Ciampa.“I have been playing baseball since I was nine-years-old. Before that

I was always playing my brother’s friends who were four years older than I was,” he says. “I have always been around baseball and didn’t discover it until I was the bat boy for my brother’s team.”

One of the strongest parts of Ciampa’s game is his ability to hit the ball and get on base.

“I am usually a consistent hitter with gap power,” says Ciampa. “I am not a big home run hitter. I contribute a lot of singles, doubles and the occasional triple. I am trying to build up my body so I can continue

to hit with power and build my arm up, but it is going pretty good so far.”

The guidance of senior players on the squad has helped the Hawks earn a 2-2 record through four games this season. Both of their wins have been come-from-behind thrillers. Ciampa hopes the experience will help propel the Hawks into the post-season.

“Our first game was a walk off win in the bottom of the seventh, but our other games have been close,” he says. “We could have easily been 4-0 right now, but if it were not for a couple injuries here and there. We are set up to make the playoffs right now, so we just have to continue building towards the post-season then anything can happen.”

Once this season is finished, Ciampa will be setting his sights on playing baseball at the university level.

He has applied to two universities, the University of Calgary and Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C.

“As long as I keep my marks up where they need to be, then it shouldn’t be a problem,” he says. “The coaches have already told me they want me on the team.”

Harrison believes the experience Ciampa has gained this year will help him develop quicker at the next level.

“He is really patient with the kids who have come in this year,” says the coach. “He is like a second coach and that will help him when he gets to university because he will have a greater understanding of how the game is played.”

Hawks hit hard

BY Jim humphreY



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