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Yashvini (centre left) and sister Bharradhi Mathivasan get encouragement to sing a song from Alan Bell of the Markham-Stouffville Hospital Foun-dation (from left), Markham Mayor Frank Scarpitti, their dad, Mathi Seenivasagam, and Councillor Logan Kanapathi. They helped launch Help for Love, a 48-hour fundraising musical event at the Markham Civic Centre and the Flato Markham Theatre later this month, by the Bavatharani’s Ever Giving Foundation to benefit the Markham Stouffville Hospital. See story, page 2.
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Sing for the moment — or 48.Next week, that’s what more than 100
youth will be doing; singing for 48 hours straight.
Yesterday, Bavatharani’s Ever Giving Foundation announced its latest youth focused fund raiser — Help for Love: 2012 Band-a-thon.
Starting at noon, Sept. 21 through to noon, Sept. 23, more than 100 youth will be singing as part of the 48-hour, non-stop event at the Markham Civic Centre and the Flato Markham Theatre, simultaneously.
Proceeds from the event will support the Markham Stouffville Hospital expansion project.
“This event is about giving whatever you can,” said Markham Ward 7 Councillor Logan Kanapathi.
“Everyone can give something. You are never too young to start or too old to stop giving to your community.”
The musical marathon will feature musi-cians and singing groups performing in sev-eral different languages.
The goal is to help raise $100,000 for the hospital expansion — a $400 million proj-
ect expansion that includes an expanded emergency room, enhanced mental health unit and programs and eight new surgical rooms.
“We always think it’s easy to get involved,” Mayor Frank Scarpitti said.
“But you add linguistic and cultural chal-lenges along with moving to a new country and it’s not so easy. But these youth are doing their part to make a difference in the Tamil community and in the Markham commu-nity.”
The first Hope for Love in 2008 was 24 hours and raised more $39,000 for the Rouge Valley Heath System Foundation and anoth-er $15,000 for the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation.
For more information, visit helpforlove.org
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tary activities to protest the prov-ince’s controversial new law that freezes wages and circumvents normal collective bargaining.
Jesse Levy, 17, said she and other students arrived at Stephen Lewis Secondary School Thursday morn-ing to see the athletic association’s bulletin board covered with notices for various teams with a message from teachers: “We regret to inform you there will be no team this year”.
Teachers told them not just sports, but other activities, too, would be cancelled including field trips and talent shows, and there would be no more extra help at lunch or after school, Ms Levy said.
“This is going to affect every sin-gle student,” she said.
Word spread through text and Tweets and by noon Thursday, most students were chanting outside the school.
Students from Richmond Green High School started a Facebook page calling on all York Region students to wear team uniforms, articles of clothing from clubs or councils, or athletic wear and gym uniforms to school this Wednesday “to show how important these extra-curricular activities are to us students and to say that the reactions to this act are not putting students first”.
Licinio Miguelo, spokesperson for the York Region public school board, said he wasn’t aware of how many activities had been cancelled.
“Extracurricular activities are vol-untary. They always have been,” he said. “I understand some have made the decision not to take part, which is their right to do so .... It is an indi-vidual choice and it could change tomorrow.”
Ms Levy said teachers told her Stephen Lewis was just the first school to experience a withdrawal of extracurriculars but others are expected to follow.
Meanwhile, other parents were learning this past week that, if school sports were still happening, they were coming at a price.
Bruce Girdler received shocking news when he learned it would cost his daughter, a Grade 9 student, $500 to play for the Markham District High School junior girls’ basketball team this season.
If she wanted to play for the school volleyball team later this year, it would cost another $300.
Provincewide, schools are feeling
the pressure following Ontario edu-cation ministry guidelines on sup-plementary fees, released last spring that curtailed extra fees for supplies or materials for in-school studies, forcing schools to implement user fees for varsity sports teams to offset costs, such as transportation and the hiring of game officials.
York Region Athletic Association athletic co-ordinator Steve Shantz said the change has had a greater impact on the public board.
User fees vary depending on how each school board allocates funding for extracurricular activities, includ-ing sports and music.
“Depending on the school, the majority or all of the funding is taken away from sports. If you want to play, you’ve got to pay,” Shantz said in summing up the bleak situ-ation. “We’re talking about massive increases in user fees as compared to what youngsters were paying in the past.”
For the upcoming YRAA fall cam-paign, that includes sports such as football, boys’ soccer, cricket, volley-ball, girls’ basketball and field hockey and co-ed cross country. Shantz said there could be as many as 29 fewer
senior and junior boys’ and girls’ varsity teams.
“If you have kids who play mul-tiple sports, that could add up to a big chunk of change,” Shantz said. “We could be pricing some kids out because of their inability to pay.”
In fact it already has.Richmond Hill High School
announced several varsity sports, traditionally offered during fall, will not run, including its junior and senior football teams, boys’ soccer and cricket and one girls’ basketball team.
In the case of boys’ soccer, 80 stu-dents attended the first day of prac-tice. But when their coach informed them a $200 user fee had to be lev-ied, only 12 said they could afford to play this year.
Shortfalls could be addressed through school fundraising, but crit-ics may argue that will lead to ineq-uities between affluent and disad-vantaged communities.
“Now, I might be able to pay for one or maybe two teams, but there aren’t many people, I imagine, in the same boat,” Mr. Girdler point-ed out. “How many schools will have clientele that will not be so
fortunate?”York Region District School
Board’s spokesperson Christina Choo-Hum acknowledged public secondary schools face a challeng-ing situation.
“It’s hard,” she said. “We don’t want to reduce funding. But it’s hap-pening across Ontario and in many different ways.
“We (York Region public board) only have so much funding available and we have to support mandatory costs to get students to graduate,” she said, adding the board encour-ages schools to find creative solu-tions so students can participate in extra-curricular activities.
“We have partial subsidies, but not the amount that it used to be,” Ms Choo-Hum said.
“The alternatives could come from sponsorship or fundraising. People have to be resourceful. Every school is different.”
Meanwhile, though, parents and students were still holding their breath wondering whether the teacher boycott of sports and extra-curriculars would spread to other schools this coming week, making the cost of taking part a moot point.
lunches and whatnot.”Current cash fare for all York
Region Transit riders is $3.50.In the hopes of lessening tax-dol-
lar impact and improving the cost-recovery ratio for the transit service, the proposed fare hike asks for a 25-cent increase for the cash fare to $3.75 and 20-cent increase for tickets.
In addition, 41 bus routes have been identified for restructuring and service adjustment and eight GO shuttles and high school special routes are being recommended for cancellation.
While a student pass will go up to $95 from $85, a senior/child pass will jump to $59 from $50 and adult pass to $125 from $115.
The average increase is about 7 per cent across the board.
However, the proposed student and senior pricing will jump as much as 18 per cent, because these two categories didn’t see an increase in 2007 and 2008 while the adult fare did.
All fares increased in 2009, but none changed in 2010 and 2011.
The current fare increase that went into effect earlier this year was approved two months prior to the start of the lengthy transit strike last fall.
While the YRT boss couldn’t say whether or not the fare increase would be contemplated at this time if the strike didn’t take place, Richard Leary said the two issues are sepa-rate.
That being said, he said their expected incremental ridership growth is about a year behind due to the strike, despite a two-month post-strike offer of free rides.
YRT’s projected ridership for the year is 21 million rides.
If there were no strike, the projec-tion was supposed to hit 22.5 million, which is now next year’s target.
Mr. Leary said ridership will go up once rapid transit ways open, new residents move in and tran-sit network and route services are expanded.
In the meantime, York taxpayers are paying 64 per cent of transit costs this year, even though fare revenue for YRT and Viva has risen steadily for the past five years.
“We do heavily subsidize transit today,” Mr. Leary said. “You need to recognize that everything is going up. It’s necessary.”
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Students from St. Brother Andre CHS get on the York Region Transit bus in front of their school. It’s been an eventful week for students in York Region as they returned to class. Many schools have cancelled sports and extracurricular activities under a teacher protest against the provincial government. Other students have learned the cost of taking part in schools sports has climbed dramatically thanks to new regulations, with many teams folding. Now the students face a YRT fare hike that could be approved this week.
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Student pass may go to $95Sports, trips, talent shows threatened
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I am wondering, at a time when Premier Dalton McGuinty is trying to freeze the wages of teachers, doctors and government employees, why our mayor is willing to gamble hundreds of millions of dollars on an arena.
If the mayor’s payment plan should fail, will it fall on the backs of the taxpayers? We know publicly funded facili-ties have been tried before and failed.
The cost of this arena is $325 million, of which the city of Markham is responsible for half the cost.
The infrastructure and park-ing are estimated to be another $500 million. And don’t forget the interest on the loan.
Then according to a recent article, another $750 million to $1 billion is required for an NHL franchise. Who will pay that?
On markhamvillagecity.com, residents can sign a peti-tion requesting that this arena be privately built and owned.
If residents don’t sign the petition, the mayor is assum-ing taxpayers agree with his plan for the arena.
I urge residents to read about the issues and then to voice their opinions. Write to all the councillors to make them aware of your position and attend the meetings at city council regarding the arena.
I have attended enough meetings to know the mayor believes this arena would be very good for the city of Markham.
What I don’t understand is why the mayor is so passion-ate about the city owning this arena as opposed to it being privately owned.
If it is such a great idea, why wouldn’t businesses be vying for the opportunity to build it?
B. SampSonMARKHAM
Ask taxpayers if they agree on arena debt
After attending public meet-ings, reading many reports, publications and Regional Councillor Jim Jones’ com-ments in regards to the pro-posed arena, the more strongly I feel this arena should be 100
per cent privately funded. Yes, the media usually sen-
sationalize stories, but it is their duty to make sure they research a subject before printing it for all to see.
BCE Inc. and Rogers Com-munications paid $1.3 billion for 75 per cent of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Ltd.
MLSE has two home teams (Leafs and Raptors with 41 home games each).
The Air Canada Centre hosts around 50 other events a year, but the profit is mostly from the sports events accord-ing to experts in the business. We know there are big corpora-tions out there who can easily fund $325 million, if they feel it will be a profitable business.
We have seen only the reports of the GTA Sports & Entertainment team. Why does the city not have its own inde-pendent consultants giving us a full report about traffic and parking issues?
How much does Markham have to spend on additional infrastructure and parking?
Also, are there any other studies by an independent consultant regarding the viabil-ity of the arena with just more than 100 events without an NHL team?
Insiders believe that with-
out a team, they need to host at least 200 events.
The biggest question for many people is how is the arena going to benefit the common people?
Parking and seats will be too expensive and congestion will be horrendous.
Most of the visitors will not take transit to come to a sub-urban event without a subway in place.
Many residents in Markham are professionals and well-educated people who under-stand very well the ramifica-tions of this deal.
Markhamites were called “docile” by the Toronto Star, but we are not naive. Property values may not go up, when they hear about the future gridlock.
Some residents already indicate they will move away from Markham Centre when the arena will be built.
I ask city council to consider getting every resident involved in the decision-making before voting “yes” to the proposed arena.
Ask all taxpayers whether they would like Markham to start a debt to pay for this arena.
E. TanUNIONVILLE
dodging ham-fisted drivers and cars.
Your reporter asked GO to comment and they “tongue-in-cheek” said their surveys say people are satisfied.
Maybe the question should have been, are you happy with the parking lot? You may have received a different answer.
Solutions or recommenda-tions to the chaos by both your newspaper and the GO people would be appreciated.
I have several times offered design solutions to GO. They continue to attempt to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear by only adding more spaces and not addressing the root cause of the chaos – the entrances and exits.
This is similar to both Markham and York Region’s approach to the traffic on local roadways as they stuff more houses into every plausible space and ignore the effect of more vehicles on the streets.
F. SaSha ZupanSkyMARKHAM
Take steps for cyclists, pedestrians to co-exist
Re: Sidewalks for walking, letter to the editor, Sept. 8.
Like Linda Bradley, I, too, have had cyclists come up behind me on the sidewalk, narrowly missing an accident on some occasions.
However, I do not agree they should be completely banned from sidewalks.
Having driven along Hwy. 7, there are sometimes cyclists driving along the road, caus-ing concern for their safety on such a busy street.
At the same time, I have noticed the sidewalk is com-pletely empty for as far as the eye can see.
In the interests of every-one’s safety, cyclists should be allowed to use the sidewalk where there is no pedestrian traffic, but if they see a pedes-trian in their path, they should be required to stop, get off their bikes and walk them past the pedestrian.
It seems like a pretty simple solution for all.
Bicycles should also have licence plates so a pedestrian has recourse if the cyclist is not operating the bike responsibly.
margarET ElkinSMARKHAM
There is an alternative to GO station dash
Re: GO riders dash to beat chaos in parking lot, Sept. 8.
I was disappointed your article on the sprinters at Unionville GO station failed to mention an alternative avail-able to people who commute downtown on the GO train and don’t like the parking situ-ation.
YRT offers the 202 bus that is a shuttle to the GO station in the morning and it picks pas-sengers up at the GO station in the evening. At 75 cents a ride, it’s a small price to pay to avoid the aggravation of parking at the GO station.
I no longer drive to the GO station and use the 202.
J. CloughlEyMARKHAM
Time to exit GO chaosRe: GO riders dash to beat
chaos in parking lot, Sept. 8.While your article was
descriptive in nature, it did not offer any solutions to the chaos and potentially danger-ous situations.
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In an effort to curb east-west congestion, Markham wants to extend and realign Miller Avenue.
Earlier this week at the development ser-vices committee, staff updated council on the status of the Miller Avenue environmental assessment.
After working nearly three years with various agencies, including Hwy. 407 ETR, the provincial transportation ministry, GO Transit, CN Rail, Hydro One and the region, Markham staff are now prepared to move ahead with an environmental study.
The city recommended studying the Mill-er extension between Woodbine Avenue and Rodick Road and between Warden Avenue and Kennedy Road.
The existing area between Rodick and Woodbine zigzags and has to circumvent hydro towers, making it difficult to establish a preferred alignment. Instead, the city wants to review the need for the extension.
“It’s complicated,” Regional Councillor Jack Heath said. “I’m not sure if we can find a solution. But I don’t want to wait until 2031 when it’s needed. I want to keep pushing for-ward to find a solution.”
While the first portion is a relatively straight connection, the main focus is War-den Avenue to Birchmount Road to address traffic within the proposed Markham Centre, where the area population is expected to reach close to 29,000 by 2031.
“We need proper infrastructure where intensity is going to happen,” Mayor Frank Scarpitti said. “We can’t rely on a road grid that was built 100 years ago as our only road network. We cannot not do it. Without a
proper planned road system this could be a planning disaster.”
This extension is not a direct result of the proposed GTA Centre, Ward 2 Councillor Howard Shore said.
“This will happen with or without the (GTA) centre,” he said. “Many are tacking on these extensive improvements and every-thing else to the GTA Centre.”
The Warden to Birchmount extension has an estimated cost of $9 million.
But building more roads is not the solution to the congestion problem, Ward 1 Council-lor Valerie Burke said. Instead, the city’s focus should be on transit.
“That money is not well spent,” she said. “Small road projects are put on hold because there are no funds. We talk about transit, we say we believe in it. Then we come across something like this. We need to take a serious look at the direction of this council.”
Staff also plan to compare the need for the Miller extension if Enterprise Boulevard is sufficient.
“Extending Enterprise (Boulevard) is less technical and more political,” Markham engineering director Alan Brown said.
That begs the question if both are needed, Regional Councillor Jim Jones said.
The Miller environmental assessment, which will include realignment between Woodbine and Rodick and extension between Warden and Kennedy, is expected to be com-plete and filed with the provincial environ-mental ministry by February.
Staff will bring another report back to development services committee Oct. 23 with more details about how the Miller exten-sion will play a part in the overall Markham Live road network.
Council weighs road expansion
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Two Markham youths have been elected to the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Youth Advisory Council.
Daniel Ng and Irene Lai will take part in the first meeting of the council on Monday, where the members will be greeted by Their Royal Highnesses, The Earl and Countess of Wessex, and The Honourable Lieutenant Governor David C. Onley.
The event will take place at Corus Quay on Dockside Drive in Toronto.
Charged with providing an important perspective on Games planning and in implementing a youth-focused initiative, the council will get to work right away.
“Inspiring and engaging the next genera-tion of leaders is central to the vision of the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games,” said Ian Troop, chief executive officer of TO2015. “We want the Games to touch as many people as possible and this council will be the driving voice to ensure the Games are youth-focused and inclusive.”
After receiving an overwhelming amount of interest and applications, TO2015 selected 34 members — 16 advisors and 18 ambassa-dors — aged 16 to 24 from across the Games footprint who demonstrated leadership, vol-unteerism and community engagement.
The Youth Advisory Council will create a youth-focused project that supports the Games.
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Julia Gartha is one yellow brick further along on the road to Oz.
The Unionville High School stu-dent has learned she is one of 10 young women selected to be part of the new reality TV show Over the Rainbow.
Starting Sunday, she and the other hopefuls will compete for the right to play Dorothy Gale in the upcoming Canadian stage produc-tion of The Wizard of Oz.
“It means the world to me. It feels like I still haven’t woken up,” Ms Gartha says between rehearsals in Toronto this week.
The 17-year-old was among a short-list of performers invited to try out for Andrew Lloyd Webber at his home in Barbados.
“I would never have imagined; I was just chilling in his living room,” she says. “It’s a gorgeous piece of land that overlooks the ocean. It’s a memory that will always be with me.”
The Dorothy wannabes sang in groups and solos for Mr. Webber and choreographer Arlene Phil-lips, performing not on stage but in the Barbados home of the musical theatre impressario, something Ms Gartha still can’t believe.
“It sounds pretty ridiculous, but
yeah, that’s how it went.”It was a nerve-wracking experi-
ence, she says, but deep breathing and self-talk helped.
“I kept telling myself, ‘This only comes once in a lifetime’. I thought, ‘Don’t freak yourself out, but you can’t mess this up’.”
She found out later that day she was one of the 10 winners, a group ranging in age from 16 to 21 from across the country.
“I was ecstatic. Couldn’t stop smiling. My face actually started to hurt. I probably looked like a goof but I’ve never been so happy in my entire life.”
The show airs on CBC Sunday. The first hour will reveal what’s hap-pened so far — with the Dorothy Farm for 20 girls on call-back, which included Nobleton’s Sarah Forestieri — followed by live performances by the 10 hopefuls.
“That will be pretty freaky. I’ll be singing for all Canada.”
Canadian viewers will be asked to vote for their favourite, and on Mondays, the two contestants with the least votes will battle it out in a sing-off. The judges will save one and send one home.
The musical, starring the win-ning Dorothy, opens at the Ed Mirv-ish Theatre this December.
Mr. Lloyd Webber predicts the
nationwide search for a star will be a life-changing experience, and Ms Gartha agrees.
With one more year to complete high school, theatre has been a big part of her life, performing in pro-ductions of Peter Pan, Willy Wonka, Cats and Fame as part of the Union-ville Theatre Company.
Her biggest inspiration, she says, is her older sister Isabelle who was born deaf in both ears and attends Alexander Mackenzie High School in Richmond Hill.
Ms Gartha isn’t sure what’s got her this far, but she has been told she has a knack for connecting to the lyrics in a song.
“It’s my job to make the audi-ence feel something,” and she does so by trying to “emote” and tell a story when she sings.
“I’m learning so much here, not just performance-wise but back-stage, all the effort that’s not seen on camera.”
She says she is prepared for whatever happens next.
“I’m going to just take it and run with it. I am a happy girl. How can you not be stoked?”
The eight-week series begins with a two-hour performance show Sunday, Sept. 16 at 8 p.m. and a results show Monday, Sept. 17 at 8 p.m.
Markham’s Jamie Hoffeldt, 23, is get-ting ready for the roar of the crowd.
After initially thinking she had fin-ished in second place, it turns out the University of Western Ontario kinesiol-ogy graduate had outdanced more than 200 applicants for the last spot on the Raptors Dance Pak.
“This is unreal,” she said. “This is very exciting. There is a lot more pressure. But all the training is worth it.”
The contest closed at the end of August and winners were to be announced that day.
Ms Hoffeldt was in second place at the close of online voting. However, contest officials went through all the online votes, delaying the outcome by several days, Ms Hoffeldt said.
But her optimism didn’t falter.“I wasn’t going away,” she said. “It was
going to be either a celebration or full of sorrow. But I was constantly optimistic.”
Officials wanted to ensure all votes were legitimate and after recounting the votes, Ms Hoffeldt was bumped up to first place.
Ms Hoffeldt has been training three times a week with the dance pak this past week in preparation for the Raptors first pre-season home game Oct. 8.
“I’ve danced in front of a crowd before,” she said. “But I’m not thinking about it. I have to make sure I know all the moves before I can think about danc-ing at the Air Canada Centre.”
Dancer joins Raptors’ pack
Markham’s Jamie Hoffeldt has won her way onto the Toronto Raptors’ cheerleading squad after placing first in an online contest.
Julia Gartha is a finalist in the CBC’s new reality TV Show, Over the Rainbow, which starts Sunday. She is competing for the chance to play Dorothy in the Canadian stage production of the Wizard of Oz.
Teen over the moon about Over the Rainbow“I kept telling myself, ‘This only comes once in a lifetime’. I thought, ‘Don’t freak yourself out, but you can’t mess this up’”
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The Markham Union-ville Minor Basketball Asso-ciation sent their under-16 boys’ team to Santa Susan-na, Spain for the 2012 Tro-feo Santa Susanna com-petition, and they enjoyed every minute.
The MUMBA contin-gent hooped it up in a town located some 100 kilometres east of Barce-lona by winning the title, capped off with a 61-39 victory over Turkey.
Khalil Prescod led the MUMBA offence with 18 points while Brett Preston added 11 and Nick McKee and Nathaniel Malcolm each had 10.
In reaching the final, MUMBA won their first game over Malgrat, Spain 52-27.
Preston was high scorer for MUMBA with 14 points while Othniel Spence added 12.
Facing France in their second game, MUMBA was powered by a 15-point effort from Luke Graham and 11 from Keith Rajku-mar en route to a 61-32 win.
With Preston scoring a team-high 16 points, MUMBA then defeated Turkey 57-31.
Powered by 14 points from Graham and 11 from Jackie Liang, MUMBA reached the final with a 61-20 win over host Santa Suzanna.
Carlos Sousa, MUMBA manager, said the club was there for an eight-day period, primarily to play basketball. Sousa said they also had four free days to do some sightseeing.
“The kids had a great experience in seeing a dif-ferent culture and were able to spend time at the beach, sightseeing in Barcelona and play bas-ketball,” he said. “The highlight for the kids was when they were waving the Canadian flag at the opening and closing cer-emonies.”
Coached by Septon Spence, Jisaih Spence and Rohan Forde, other team members included: Mar-vin Barias, Karthic Gane-san, Abraham Girmay, Tyler Svadjian, Roman Kartofelnikov and Matt Arora.
Basketball squad returns from successful Spain trip
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Paul Poirier was part of a Cana-dian contingent chosen by Skate Canada to take part in the 2012 U.S. International Figure Skating Classic, a senior international com-petition to be held in Salt Lake City from Sept. 12-16.
The 20-year-old Unionville resident will team up with Piper Gilles, 20, of Toronto and Colora-do Springs, to compete in the ice dance competition.
Competing for the first time together in 2012 under the coach-ing from Carol Lane and Juris Razguliaevs, the pair won bronze at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships.
Poirier and Gilles are one of two Canadian entries in the ice dance category.
Rower earns honours
Although Ben Murphy came up short in his quest to earn a berth on the Canadian men’s under-23 row-ing team, he did earn some indi-vidual honours this past summer when he took part at the RowOnt-ario Championships in Welland.
The Markham resident won the under-23 singles’ sculling event.
Also competing at the Royal Henley Regatta, which was held in St. Catharines, Murphy was the top Canadian in the under-23 singles’ sculling event finishing second behind a rower from Argentina.
Murphy will continue rowing competitively this fall as he’s com-peting at the Canadian University Rowing Championships to be held in Burnaby, B.C. Nov. 3-4 and the National Rowing Championships in Victoria from Nov. 9-11.
Coach’s squad undefeated at national championships
Markham resident Jodi Gram spent plenty of time pacing the hardwood court sidelines and exhorting her charges as she direct-ed the Ontario women’s under-17 team to the gold medal at this year’s national championships held in Fredericton, N.B.
During the tournament, the Ontario team directed by Gram went undefeated.
With little time to dwell on that accomplishment, Gram, a Markham District High School graduate and current teacher and senior girls’ basketball coach at Bill
Crothers Secondary School, also served as an apprentice coach and manager for the Canadian under-17 women’s cadette national team that took part in the world cham-pionships held in Amsterdam and claimed the bronze medal with an 84-77 win over Japan.
This marked the first time Can-ada medalled in the women’s world championship age group event.
Rugby men and under-18 girls tackle victories
The Markham Irish Canadian Rugby Football Club men’s firsts received one try each from Pat Laf-fan and Joe Beare to edge the Auro-ra Barba 22-16 in Ontario Rugby Union Marshall Division action at Fletcher’s Field Saturday.
John Sargeant booted two con-verts and one penalty goal to round out the scoring for Markham, now 5-6-1 on the season.
The Markham men’s firsts and seconds are scheduled to play Toronto Scottish at Fletcher’s Field today starting at 1:30 p.m.
In women’s action, the Markham under-18 girls finished their Toron-to Rugby Union campaign by defeating Balmy Beach 12-5 to end the year in third place.
Fredrique Rajotte and Vanessa Santolin each scored tries, and Rajotte kicked one convert.
Darts event takes aim
The Ontario Chinese Darts Association is joining forces with the Canadian Liver Foundation to introduce a fundraising and health awareness event Sept. 22.
A charity sale and darts show will be held at Centre Stage, Market Village (4390 Steeles Ave. E) starting at noon.
Proceeds from the event will go to support liver health research and education programs.
The Ontario Chinese Darts Association is a non-profit orga-nization that’s been in existence since 2003. Their mission is to pro-mote darts sports within the Chi-nese community.
Markham Stouffville atom A Stars shine in North York
The Stouffville-Markham Stars atom A girls skated off with the gold medal from the North York Storm Earlybird Tournament after defeating the Leaside Wildcats 3-1 in Sunday’s championship final.
Victoria Bullock netted a pair of goals and Jillian Hutton added one.
Samantha Wong played a sound game between the pipes to help preserve the win.
Competing in a division with AA and A teams, the Stars finished the round-robin portion undefeated with four victories.
Coached by Mark Sumi, Jason Hutton, Dave Arsenault and Ray Simmons, other team members included: Cori Nickerson, Lisa Mat-thews, Grace Sumi, Sophie Sim-mons, Taylor Burton, Olivia Prid-ham, Kerri Dunlop, Chloe Freeze, Caitlin Hollands, Asiah Taylor-Wal-ters, Meghan Arsenault and Sierra Tohana-Belisle.
The Stars are scheduled to take part in the Oakville Hornets Tour-nament Sept. 21-23.
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RINAS, LiwanagPeacefully at
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on Thursday, September 13, 2012,
in her 80th year. Liwanag,
beloved wife of Walter. Loved mother of Jennifer and Paul, and dear Lola of Lili and William. Loving sister of Efren, Naty, Nene, and Corazon. Auntie and friend to so many. She will be cherished by all. Friends and family will be received at Chapel Ridge Funeral Home, 8911 Woodbine Avenue, Markham, ON, on Monday, September 17th, 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral service will be held on Tuesday, September 18th at 11a.m. at Unionville Alliance Church, 4898 16th Avenue, Markham, Ontario. Interment to follow at Bethesda Lutheran Cemetery on Kennedy Rd, north of 16th Ave.As expressions of sympathy, donations to The Heart and Stroke Foundation or The Canadian Lymphoma Foundation would be appreciated. Liwanag means "light" in Filipino. Mom lived up to her name as her inner and outer beauty was a light to all. "The Lord is my light and Salvation" Psalms 27, one of mom's fave bible verses till the end. We will miss you so much, but your light shines on in our hearts forever and we know you are so happy today with your Saviour in Heaven.On-line condolences may be made at
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ARMSTRONG, Ruth We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of a wonderful Mom, Grandmother, Sister, Aunt, & Step-mother. Ruth passed away peacefully and with dignity at Markham Stouffville Hospital on Sunday, September 9, 2012.She joins her beloved husband Bill, who passed away in 1989. She leaves behind her devoted & loving daughter Linda McVicar, grandsons Chris (Jessica) and Brad McVicar and her special sister June Mowatt (Stan). Stepmother to Gloria Smith, step-grandmother to Ron Brown, sister-in-law to Fred Armstrong (Marilyn), Faye Alderson (Bob), Joy Abbey and many nieces and nephews. Pre deceased by her brothers Grant, Keith and Ray. Her determination was inspirational, as well as her love of reading, crafts, gardening and bridge. A private family Celebration of Life will be held in the future. In lieu of fl owers the family has re-quested donations be made to the Ca-nadian Lung Association, CNIB or Canadian Hearing Society or a charity of your choice. Arrangements entrust-ed to DIXON-GARLAND FUNERAL HOME.
DAWSON, Lionel Philip (Member and past Master of
Markham Union Masonic Lodge #87 A.M. & F.M.)
Passed away peacefully on Thursday, September 13, 2012 in his 83rd year.Beloved husband and friend of Floris for 55 years. Loving father of Brenda, John (Penny) and Paul (Tracey). Cherished grandpa to Tyler (Leanne), Bradley and Jeffrey. Dear brother of Neville, Howard, Betty Violet (Jack) Steele, Penny, Hilary (Paul) Drinkwater, Angela (Barry) Baylis, Kathy (Robert) Klompstra, Alan Stiver, predeceased by Gerald and Shirley Tovell and many nieces and nephews.Friends will be received at the DIXON-GARLAND FUNERAL HOME 166 Main Street North (Markham Road) Markham on Monday, September 17 from 2:00 to 4:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Funeral Service will be held on Tuesday at Bethesda Lutheran Church, 20 Union Street, Unionville at 1:00 p.m. Interment to follow at Bethesda Lutheran Cemetery on Kennedy Road in Unionville. Reception to follow at Bethesda Lutheran Church. In lieu of fl owers, the family requests donations to Bethesda Lutheran Church or the Canadian Lung Association.
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