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February 2012

HOW VAUGHAN LEADS THE WORLD The sometimes surprising things we can boast about (and a few we don’t dare)

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4THAT’S BRAGGADOCIOWhat we have to brag about in Vaughan

8NEW CHAPTER FOR READERS While other cities cut libraries, we’re building one

15GRADING REPORT CARDSParent-teacher communication is changing

19CULTURE CLASHMixing Jewish and Italian in homegrown film

24THE TEAM THAT PLAYS TOGETHER ...is heading for OFSAA success, St. Liz boys hope

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In this issue of Vaughan Today, we are focusing on the areas in which this city excels. We’ve compiled a list of of some of the ways in which Vaughan is the best in the region, country, and perhaps the world.

But also in this issue, we report on the city’s tax outlook — namely, an increase this year of under 3 percent. This is comparable to what that other municipality to our south has deter-mined for its property owners.

But what a difference in getting to this point. Toronto has gone through a year of turmoil and rancorous debate. Services and social programs have been threatened, and some actu-ally cut. The demands of delegations and demonstrations have become a daily part of political life, along with equally boisterous denunciations.

Around the world, in fact, 2011 was marked by protests over cut-backs and political posturing over the purported need for governments to radically reduce spending.

But here in Vaughan, where past experience would lead one to expect the most political opposition, the budget appears to have been arrived

at in relative peace, sticking to mod-est increases in line with inflation and without massive cuts in any pro-grams people care about.

Part of the explanation has to be that young and booming Vaughan has a contnually explanding tax base to keep paying for its future.

This won’t always be the case, but for now it helps make us almost unique in a way that isn’t listed in our main feature this month.

� VAUGHAN ToDAY FEBRUARY 2012

By ERIC McMILLAn

Braggadocio[brag-uh-DOH-chee-oh] noun1. boasting; bragging. 2. a boasting person; a braggart.

Origins: Braggadocchio, a boastful character in Spenser’s Faerie Queene, apparently a pseudo-Italian coinage based on brag

Do Vaughanians have braggadocio?After all, we used to call our municipality “The

City Above Toronto,” accent on the Above. Now we’re “The Place to Be,” which implies it’s better to

be here than elsewhere. We must think we have some measure of bragging rights.

Perhaps the question comes down to whether our pride in Vaughan is justified. What do we have to boast about? In particular, what do we have here that’s the best around — the biggest, tastiest or otherwise most noteworthy in the GTA, in the province, in the country or even in the world?

We asked residents, business people and politicians. We checked websites, statistics, books and news publi-cations. And then we put together this list — including some of the more obvious contenders, mentioned by

everyone, as well as a few more obscure achieve-ments dug up by Vaughan fans.

And, of course, along the way we got a few rather dubious items — cer-

tain categories in which we rank highly, though we may not

want to brag about them.

For better or worse, here are some of Vaughan’s greatest distinctions.

n We are very amusedThe first “greatest” that rolls off almost everyone’s lips is Canada’s Wonderland, known widely as the country’s largest amusement park. And no wonder, with its 330 acres of rides, games and food.

Did you know there are at least six amusement parks called “Wonderland” in North America. But we know ours is the best, right?

For one thing, it has the widest collection of roller coasters in Canada, and it keeps adding them. Rolling into place this year is the latest, the Levia-than, which promises to be the seventh tallest and eighth fastest in the world, outstripping the previ-ous holder of that rank, the Behemoth — also at Canada’s Wonderland.

n That was some growth spurtIt’s become a cliché of civic dialogue that Vaughan is the fastest-growing municipality in Canada. That claim is based on Statistics Canada figures showing we doubled our population in the 15 years up to the 2006 census.

It may still be true. But people in the know have recently started dialing back that particular bit of braggadocio. Another census is coming up and, while Vaughan is still booming, no one knows what other young whippersnapper of a community is set to challenge us for the title. It’s easier to grow by huge percentages when you’re just a tyke and more difficult when you’re mature.

But we won’t know if we’ve been replaced as population growth until the government has dis-seminated the next batch of statistics. So, in the

meantime, we feel fully justified in throwing this boast around.

(Leaving aside the nagging questions of whether such rapid growth is an

altogether fine thing and how we

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n See you in churchVaughan is arguably the most reli-gious city in Canada, although Sas-katoon may give us a run for the honour, as it has more churches relative to population size.

But Statistics Canada does say we have the lowest number of peo-ple in Ontario who check “non-affil-iated” beside Religion on the census forms — which you may consider a positive or negative achievement, depending on your own beliefs.

Leading the religious demograph-ics are Christians, mainly Catholics, in the majority, followed by Jews who make up over 18 percent of the citizenry.

Coming up quickly, though, may be Muslims, especially since the building of North America’s largest mosque — another local first — here in 1992. The development of Peace Village, also known as Ahmadiyya Village, around the mosque has brought an influx of Islamic wor-

shippers to the area.But the religions get along

very well in Vaughan, says Dr. Aslam Dawoud, general secretary for the Baitul Islam

Mosque. Religious leaders are always inviting each other to interfaith events to share their common aims, he says.

So why is Vaughan so religious? “It’s a faith-based community,” Dawoud says. Mainly because it is largely made up of immigrants — from Italy, Asia, Southeast Asia and other religious parts of the world, Dawoud says.

n Speaking of diversity...In fact, we may be the most cultur-ally diverse municipality in — well, anywhere.

Toronto gets the attention, per-haps because of its gross numbers. But percentage wise, we have it beat, starting with nearly 44 per-cent of our population having Ital-ian heritage — giving us the high-est concentration of Italians in any Canadian city (another top ranking for Vaughan).

That figure may be slipping in recent years, but the difference is being made up by sizable Jewish, East Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, Russian, and Polish communities.

n Our good, cold tastesAlmost everyone mentions the

food in Vaughan, especially the cui-sines associated with our diverse cultures. Our espresso-based coffees also have their fans, who consider them as good as any to be found in Toronto’s Little Italy.

But the food vendors winning the most plaudits are our gelato places.

“Best in Canada!” our frozen dairy aficionados keep

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n Painting the town“It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to paint it,” comedian Steven Wright says. But if he did want to paint it, he could get all the supplies he needed in Vaughan.

Within our boundaries is the self-proclaimed largest paint store in Canada. Steeles Paint on Steeles Avenue West has roughly 20,000 square feet of floor space.

Off the tops of their heads, man-agement couldn’t say exactly how many gallons of paint are sold every year, but by our estimate it musty be about 20,000 / 4.43 * 365 x 0.6667 * 1/πR2 = enough to paint every house in Vaughan and have some left over to touch up all of Wonderland’s roller coasters.

n The game we playQuick, which city in Canada hosts the hall of fame?

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The hall is looking to expand, given the growing popularity of the sport in Canada, both for playing and spectating.

“The national teams doing so well, especially the women, has given it a boost,” Watson says.

Mot gratifying for her is having young people view the displays of Canada’s great players on the wall and saying, “I’m going to be there.”

n We’re Party Central“We like big parties,” says Lorenzo Catuzza, legislative assistant for Vaughan MPP Greg Sorbara. “Big fat Italian weddings.”

That’s one explanation for an odd category in which Vaughan excels: We have the most banquet halls for a city our size.

It’s hard to get precise figures to back up this claim, even from the business associations. It depends on what you count as a banquet hall, whether you include restau-rants and hotels, and what capacities you include. But most listings have Vaughan among the top four or five banquet centres in the country — along with our GTA mates Toronto and Mississauga. One, for example, named 17 banquet halls in Vaughan, double that number in Mississauga, and five times that number in Toronto. But, given that Mississauga is three times our size by

population and Toronto is 10 times our size, we come out ahead on a per capita basis.

We especially beat other locales in the large sizes: venues for over 1,000 guests, Catuzza says. That’s why so many large Toronto events migrate to locations north.

Apart from our enjoyment of big parties, a reason why we excel in hosting banquets is that we have the room, Catuzza notes. It is easier to build big facilities in the open spac-es of a young area like ours than in already densely developed centres.

n Vaughan, heal thyselfAll right, there’s no way to avoid this one, since we’ve been discuss-ing it forever: Vaughan is the largest city in Canada without a hospital.

Or, putting it in terms of another depressing superlative, Vaughan is the only one of the 10 most popu-lous municipalities in Ontario not to have a hospital.

But we may be turning this around. We’ve now got all necessary levels of government on board and we have local teams working on the building and program plans.

So next time we do this list, one of our boasts may be “Vaughan is the largest city in Canada to build its first hospital.” Woo hoo.

n Calling Radio Vaughan Another negative: Vaughan has got to be the only city its size without a professional radio station.

We do have a licensed station though. RAV-FM 90.7 is broadcast from Vaughan Secondary School as part of its radio broadcasting course — one of only six high school sta-tions in Canada. It has a limited range, reaching mainly the southeast corner of this city.

But it has the right to call itself “Vaughan’s #1 hit music station.”

So to turn this one around, let’s just boast Vaughan’s “voice” is the youngest for any city of this size.

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While the city below Vaughan was discussing closing libraries or reduc-ing their operating hours, Thornhill residents were creating a wish list for the new library that should open up within a year.

At a meeting held at the North Thornhill Community Centre at 300 Pleasant Ridge Ave. on Jan. 18, nearly 50 members of the community attend-ed to talk about how they plan to use the library and how it should look after being built as an addition to the centre.

“We wanted to get input from the community about what they want in their library,” said Margie Singleton, CEO of Vaughan Public Libaries. “We had a great big piece of paper and we asked people to write down their big ideas for the library.”

Among the requests were free wi-fi access, self-checkout stations and the inclusion of multicultural magazines and literature, according to Ward 4 councillor Sandra Yeung Racco, who attended the public consultation.

“I think it was probably the most uplifting meeting I’ve ever attending,” she said. “There were absolutely no complaints at all.

“From listening to the suggestions around the table, really people want programs for younger kids as well as study areas for students.”

Vaughan city council approved the development in April 2011. Both Yeung Racco and Singleton said a library in the Dufferin Street and Ruth-erford Road area is long overdue.

Vaughan currently has seven public libraries, with the closest to the neigh-bourhood being the Dufferin Clark Library and the Bathurst Clark Refer-ence Library. Neither one is within

reasonable walking distance of the area around the North Thornhill Commu-nity Centre.

“It’s populated by a tremendous amount of young families,” Singleton said. “We know there’s about 4,000 school-aged students in that area so we know there’s a high density of potential library users in that neighbourhood.”

Although architects and developers have yet to be hired for the project, Singleton said the budget has been set at $3 million, 90 percent of which will be paid through redistributed develop-ment charge funds.

Construction should begin this spring and should be completed by the end of the year. The library will be connected to the north end of the com-munity centre and will likely be around 7000-8000 square feet in size.

“It’s a neighbourhood library so it’s bigger than Kleinburg and smaller than Dufferin Clark,” Singleton said.

One of the original ideas to come out of the Jan. 18 consultation was that of a reading garden, which could be enjoyed during the warmer months.

“They’re hoping to get a commu-nity garden so that on nice days you can sit outside and be able to utilize the wi-fi as well,” Yeung Racco said.

Two further public meetings are to be held which will be aimed spe-cifically at elementary school and high school students respectively.

Both Singleton and Yeung Racco seemed proud to be able to announce plans for a new library while other municipalities grapple with closing some of theirs.

“In Vaughan we are growing very fast and many, many young families are moving into Vaughan,” Yeung Racco said. “We need to be able to meet their needs.”

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READ ’EM LIKE A BOOK: There were no complaints from those who attended a public consultation about the new Vaughan library to give their wish list.


Vaughan residents will be paying more in property taxes this year.

While that may not be the news most homeown-ers want to hear, they can take solace in knowing the city is trying to save for a rainy day.

Council is poised to approve this year’s budget with a 2.95-percent residential tax hike. The figure was cut from 4.6 percent at the budget’s launch in November.

Regional councillor Gino Rosati said he would have preferred no tax hike, but acknowledged it is unrealistic given the budget pressures of a rapidly growing municipality like Vaughan.

“There are always things that come our way,” he said. “There are more requirements we have to meet. That means more cost in order to meet those requirements.”

Infrastructure projects, of which there are sev-eral in this year’s budget, are mostly funded through development charges but, as budget chief Alan Shef-man points out, the real cost is in operating those facilities once built.

“Ultimately, when we build these wonderful facilities we also have to support them going for-ward,” the Thornhill councillor said.

So does this mean residents will be stuck with an ever-growing tax bill as Vaughan continues to build parks, fire halls and community centres?

The opposite is happening, Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua said. The city is saving so generations to come can afford to live here.

“We’re driven by a very important contingency approach to budget-making,” Bevilacqua says, not-ing the average municipality in Ontario has reserves of $835 per capita while Vaughan has about $2,000.

“The reason I insist that we continue to put money aside for the future, is because one day we will have to repair and rebuild some of these roads,” he said.

Keeping an election promise, Bevilacqua also conducted a program review, a line-by-line approach to finding service efficiencies.

Vaughan also now conducts multi-year budgeting in anticipation of future pressures like new facili-ties.

“It’s ensuring we’re doing that in the right way and starting to plan for the ultimate replacement of those assets at the same time,” says Barb Cribbett, Vaughan’s city treasurer.

“It’s a maturing city. We have a new kind of urban development taking place that will be new for the city of Vaughan.”

The result is a tight rein on the purse strings. But Vaughan will dig deep this year for, among

other things, land acquisition for the relocation of a fire station.

The budget is to be finalized at a special council meeting this month.

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By Ann Ruppenstein

Wearing four-inch heels while baking cakes and cupcakes has helped Adrienne D’Amico and Cat D’Agostino make a name for their company.

In 2009 the friends teamed up to open We Bake in Heels, which sparked public interest in their fashion sense in addition to their baked goods.

“For a long time and still probably on a weekly basis people just come in and see if we are wear-ing heels,” says D’Agostino. “We’ve almost bro-ken our necks probably 125 times and it’s worth it though. We still refuse to put on running shoes.”

“People are often more interested in what we are wearing than our products,” adds D’Amico. “They want to see how high our heels are.”

Since setting up shop on Weston Road north of Highway 7, they added a kiosk in Vaughan Mills this summer — where they are currently in the process of opening a full-fledge storefront — and are looking into franchising their business.

“Since we’re opening a new location we’re going to be developing all kinds of recipes and Cat works on that all the time,” says D’Amico. “We offer all kinds of cupcakes, custom cakes, French macarons and some cookies.”

D’Amico, a former advertising executive, and D’Agostino, a graphic designer, both quit their day jobs to start the business. They decided to open in Woodbridge because they wanted to be somewhere less saturated than downtown Toronto and in an area where similar goods weren’t offered.

“We make small batches, really high-end quali-ty and it’s just impossible to find anywhere around here that’s for sure,” says D’Amico, adding they

also deliver across the GTA.D’Agostino says she loves the science behind

baking and tries to test out new recipes on a weekly basis. Although their red velvet has been a best seller, she says their Nutella-filled Ferrero Rocher has also been popular in the area.

“We eat cupcakes everyday,” she says. “But we share them, which makes us, in our minds, feel less guilty for eating cupcakes everyday, but we try to exercise and stuff just so we can have excus-es to eat cupcakes and cookies all day long.”

As for the name, they say they came up with it more as a joke and didn’t realize it would be taken so literally.

“We were saying if we opened up a bakery we wouldn’t be like bakers, we would be fancy and we definitely wouldn’t wear running shoes,” says D’Agostino, who has 20 pairs of heels to her name, not including boots or sandals. “Then we said ‘We Bake in Heels’ and we laughed about it, but the more we thought about it, the more it stuck.”

D’Amico says her goal is for their customers to take away great service as well as an amazing product. She says she enjoys receiving feedback that clients devoured every last piece of cake, which she says doesn’t always happen with other wedding cakes.

“One of the greatest parts is that we are in a business that makes people happy,” says D’Agostino. “People come to us to celebrate, which is amazing that we get to come into work and our job is to add to people’s parties, their milestones in life and their celebrations with their families and friends and loved ones. That in itself is a highlight.”

Woodbridge’s Blinds to Go manager Ognjan Pavlovic has worked across Canada and the United States but says the citizens here stand out for their candidness.

“Sometimes it’s hard get to people to open up about what it is and why it is that they’re looking to put certain things in their windows,” he says. “It’s hard sometimes to talk about personal things of that nature and it hasn’t been a problem for us in Woodbridge and it makes it easier for us to

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More than 35,000 cyclists have arrived at the foot of Mont Royal just before 9:30 a.m. on a beautiful Sunday morning. Seeing this number of cyclists assembled in one place is impressive. We’re here to join in the 50-km ride around the island of Montreal, though there is a shortcut that shaves off half the distance. The crowd includes teams from various companies, family groups, seniors, friends and neighbours, as well as the inevitable serious riders bent on being first across the finish line. What astounds me is the number of parents trailing toddler carts; it’s all I can do to haul myself around the course!

The gathering is like a big party. One group of women has arrived from Vermont. They have come every year since 1997 to take part in this event. Mary-Clare Gagnon’s roots are French but the 65-year-old has lived in the U.S. all her life. She points to two other women, both from Quebec, sporting bright red shirts

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We’re all raring to go, ready to tackle this year’s brand-new route, crisscrossing 11 boroughs and munici-palities around the western part of the island — a wonderful way to get a little view of a lot of the city. The roads are closed to traffic and people line the route, cheering on the riders. As I start pedaling up from the bottom of a steep underpass, I’m tempted to hop off my bike and walk. But the voices of onlookers are shouting in both French and English, “Come on! You can do it. Just a little more! Encore un peu!” And I find new heart to keep pedaling. It’s actually a huge high!

The Festival begins on Friday with the Tour la Nuit – a night ride that starts as the last rays of the sun set. Some 12,000 cyclists join in this shorter, 20 km ride. On the streets, lights illuminate the route, but through the parks, occasional temporary spotlights create long shadows as the cyclists pass through. I stop to watch the long trail of red taillights ahead, winding through the park like a neon snake. The snake is multi-hued on its back because many riders sport glowing bands, decora-tions and even colourful flashing lights.

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Montreal is a city reasonably well set up for cycling. Many of the bike lanes are separated from the other traffic by small, raised concrete barriers. Brilliant! Unlike the case in many other cities, cars cannot infringe on this space while driving or park on the bike lane. Rush hour in Montreal has almost as many bicycles as cars and, according to Vélo-Quebec, the move to this emission-free mode of transport is growing 10 percent each year.

Bixi, a system of public bicycles available for rent by the day, week or month, now has more than 10,000 subscribers. These are conveniently located (often near subway stations) all over the city for riders to pick up, then drop off. Bixi is also a useful way for visitors to see the city — all that magnificent architecture is easily missed zipping by in a car.

In fact, Montreal is an architectural feast with a blend of modern and classic. Stop to look care-fully as you ride. You’ll find spectacular struc-tures like I.M. Pei’s cruciform Place Ville Marie (with fabulous shopping at its base) and Art Deco classics like Montreal’s own Empire State Building, the Aldred Building in Place d’Armes Square in Old Montreal. In the same Square, the gothic turrets of Notre Dame Basilica reach dramatically for the heavens, while on his monu-ment, Sieur de Maisonneuve victoriously lifts his own banner skyward.

Probably the most remarkable of Montreal’s buildings is another icon: St. Joseph’s Oratory. A church constructed on top of another church, a visit inside reveals dusty rows of crutches abandoned by those cured by Brother André, the tomb of the devout monk himself, and remark-able stained glass windows. While a less common sight than in former days, it’s not unusual to see pilgrims kneeling their way up the 233 steps to the entrance.

Grab a Bixi bike when you get to the sub-way stop at Côte des Neiges to ride to the Ora-tory. Indeed, hopping on and off bikes and public transport is probably the most convenient way to explore this busy city.

The Tour slowly winds its way back to Mont Royal and as we return, the blare of live music greets us. The chatter around me is both French and English and there’s a shared camaraderie. After all, we’ve all arrived at the finish line and I, for one, am delighted to have made it. I don’t even mind that the lady pulling her toddler in a bike trailer got here before me. Now it’s party time.

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It can be tiresome to read the same cookie-cutter comments on report cards term after term, when try-ing to gauge your child’s successes and failures. That’s why some schools are taking steps to make understanding a child’s progress more personal-ized.

Having personalized comments enhances the instructors’ abilities give both students and parents a better understanding of the student’s progress and how they can build upon their strengths, says Marilena Tesoro, prin-cipal of Holy Name of Mary College School.

“Our teachers com-pose and use personal-ized comments focusing on what the student has learned, while identifying significant strengths and next steps for improve-ment, typically describing what the students know and can do,” she says. “The personalized com-ments on our report cards provide meaningful feed-back.”

Upper Canada College has found another way to bring children’s progress to parents’ attention: after a three-year process, the school will be giving par-ents the option of view-ing their children’s grades online, IT director Jim LaPlante says.

“We’ve tweaked our reporting process a bit, so it’s the first year of two being mailed and two being online,” he says, noting the midterm reports would be online, while the final reports would still be mailed. “For this year, we didn’t actually do it online, but we did use all of the online tools to produce the report cards, which makes it easy next year just to kind of flip

the switch and put them online.”

While online report cards aren’t unique to his school you aren’t likely to find them in the publicly funded schools, LaPlante says.

“(The public school) systems usually aren’t as customizable as ours are,” he says. “But if you polled the local indepen-dent schools … they’re all kind of dabbling in it, working with the parents, seeing what works and what doesn’t.”

Communicating with parent groups is key to finding what works best, and for his school it has shown them that flex-ibility is the way to go, LaPlante says.

“You get some people who are saying we should do them all online, we get some parents who say they would like them all mailed right to them,” he says. “We try to give them as much flexibility in these kind of things as we can give them.”

For those who are concerned about their children’s grades being posted online, LaPlante says the site is secure in the same manner as email or banking is.

“We don’t post any information that’s not authenticated. We’re giv-ing a unique username or password to the parent, so it’s as secure as the parent will keep it. We can see when they come in, we can monitor what’s going on that way.”

While some schools are changing the way report cards are written and distributed, Coun-try Day School’s Junior School is changing par-ent-teacher interviews so students now make pres-entations to their parents and teacher.

Student-led conferenc-es are a real role revers-al compared to parent teacher interviews, junior school director Ann Wild-berger says.

“It’s a shift for parents, it’s a shift for teachers and it’s a shift for chil-dren,” she says. “They all play a different role in the student-led than in the traditional one, but in this model, it’s child-centred and it’s strength-focused and it builds self-esteem for the children.”

Wildberger says she sees the need not only to include the child, but to have the child lead the conference simply because no one under-stands a child better than the child him or herself.

“Most children know exactly where they are,” she says. “Children know where they’re struggling, how they’re struggling, what’s causing their strug-gle, and it’s very empow-ering for them to talk

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“I think a child feels more empowered, I think a child feels there’s more purpose to what they’re doing and why they’re doing it because it’s more focused on the goal as opposed to the mark,” she says. “You put the child in control of their learn-ing.”

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The only way to achieve success is to see a problem as a challenge that we can overcome. So, how do we teach young people to solve problems? When you break it down, artistic creations are born through the solving of problems. How do I turn this clay into a sculpture? How do I portray a particular emotion through dance? Without even realizing it, kids who partici-pate in the arts are consistently being challenged to solve prob-lems.

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Do your kids spend more time texting and tweeting than talking? Many young people do not have the communication skills to express themselves effectively. On The X-Factor we hear Simon Cowell tell-ing contestants to express the emotion of the song, so they can connect with the audience in a way that gives them goose

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This one is simple. The arts teach you how to play. They can help manage stress and provide an outlet for expres-sion. I, myself, am a dancer and nothing fuels my creativity and releases stress more than hit-ting the dance floor. If children become accustomed to having an outlet for expression and release for frustration when they are young, they are more likely to adopt these important habits as adults.

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What happens when a young Italian-Canadian brings over his Jewish girl-friend to meet the family?

If you’re from Vaughan, you may already know.The City of Vaughan is known for its large Jewish and Italian-Canadian

populations so it seems fitting that Pizza Bagel, the most recent short film by Vaughan-based Roulette Pictures, centres around these two backgrounds.

“It’s culture clash,” said director and founder of Roulette Pictures, Joe Mari.

In addition to big names such as Gino Cafarelli, from Big Fan and The Sopranos, and Canadian comedian Carla Collins, the movie also features Maple’s very own Michael Pillarella.

Pillarella co-wrote the script along with Mari. However, until last year the 21-year-old’s acting experience had been limited to high school drama class and an independent documentary. He landed his first major role last year when he was cast as the lead in Mari’s directorial debut, Stealin’ Home.

“I was pretty much like a fresh face, almost like a rookie, in Stealin’ Home,” Pillarella said. “I was learning on set. It was my first time being on set with cameras, lighting, make-up.”

Although they later discovered part of Pillarella’s family knew Mari from the North Toronto area where he grew up, the duo had not met before audi-tions. Still, their dynamic on set worked and their first film found almost immediate success.

The short film Stealin’ Home, which essentially pits a greaser-style street-gang against an invading group and extra-terrestrials, earned Mari an invita-tion to the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in France and landed Pillarella a role at Roulette Pictures as project manager and creative consultant.

Actors in the industry took notice of the pair’s talents as well. After tak-ing Stealin’ Home on the festival circuit, Roulette Pictures kept rolling. They filmed another short, Brain Freeze, which sees Pillarella on screen with local talents Rick Campanelli, Carla Collins, and the Rezza Brothers, a couple of up and coming producers from Vaughan.

In October, the Rezza’s called Roulette saying Cafarelli wanted to get on board their next project.

“Getting a call out of nowhere saying Gino wants to work with you guys we were just like ‘we got to do something here,’ ” Mari said. “So Mike and I put our heads together and that’s when we came up with Pizza Bagel.”

The film follows what happens when Pillarella’s character brings his Jew-

It was a long time coming, but the cold weather finally sent me scurrying for my crock-pot. The brand name Crock-Pot has become a generic name for all slow cookers, but the first genuine Crock-Pot was born 40 years ago, from a redesign of a simple bean cooker. It was bright red.

Canadians fell in love with crock-pots, using them for slow-cooking tougher cuts of beef or pork, or making baked beans.Between 1975 and 1980, crock-pots outsold can openers! I wonder, did canned baked bean sales decline then too?

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“Vaughan has a very, very strong Italian community,” Pillarella said. “If you go over to any of their houses the first thing they’re going to do is have that big, big spread for you and go over the top and make you feel welcome like you’re part of the family.

“This film is really a showcase of what a traditional Italian family will do when guests come into their house.”

Despite playing the role of Pillarella’s seducer in Brain Freeze, Collins is quite comfortable playing the mother of his girlfriend in Pizza Bagel, accord-ing to Mari.

“Carla jokes about that a lot when she does her stand up,” he said. “She calls it ‘versatility’.”

Although post-production on the Pizza Bagel short is still in its final stages, Mari and Pillarella are already preparing to shoot the feature length film.

“We were hoping to start in July of this year to coincide with the Euro Cup that will be going on,” Mari said. “We’ll try and get some of that footage there to use for the film.”

Roulette’s moviemakers said they will likely upload the short version to Youtube after it finishes its turn on the film festival circuit. They said they’re hoping to show festivalgoers how far they both have come in the past year.

“Our goal this year is to really make an impact in New York,” Mari said. “Gino, last year he won best actor for the short film he was in in the New York International Film Festival so coming back now this year with their best actor in our film, it’s really exciting for us.”

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PLOT TWIST: Joe Mari, left, and Michael Pillarella show a more literal version of their short film Pizza Bagel, which they are preparing to shoot as a feature.

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We installed a set of Blizzak DM-V1’s on a 2010 Ford F-150 and headed north where there was snow to see if we could notice any difference.

Bridgestone’s Blizzak winter tires have been consistent top performers in the winter tire seg-ment and have a lot of technology built in to them. Sipes on tires refer to the diagonal slits cut into the rubber, which gives the tires better traction. Blizzak tires have what they call 3D zig-zag sipes that provide multiple biting edges, and thanks to the varying angles throughout, the tire tread maintained their stiffness and helped prevent sliding even with an empty bed.

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One ticket gets you into both events, though one day probably won’t be enough to get your fill of all the exhibits and info on offer. So if you have the stamina for it, two-day passes are also available.

Twice the funThis the first time the two events have joined

forces, and some garden purists are skeptical of the outcome. Organizers insist the move isn’t a merger, but a “co-location” that brings similar interests under one roof, for the benefit of show-goers.

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Direct Energy Centre at Exhibition Place will be packed with exhibits and vendors from both shows. Canada Blooms display gardens and floral/horticultural displays will take over the west end of the building. The home show will fill the rest, with the ever-popular Dream Home set off in the northern extension. The Blooms Marketplace will take a new position in the middle ground of the Heritage Court.

Restore, renew, refreshEach show will have its own programming.

Time on the big Celebrity Stage, however, will be shared by speakers from the two shows.

National Home Show programming wasn’t finalized in time for this column. Some of the things visitors can expect, though, include:

• The 2012 Dream Home, called R-House and designed by Probuilt/Michael Upshaw. The ultra-modern 3,600 sq. ft. house spotlights ener-gy efficiency, sustainable luxury and the latest in home-building technology.

• Celebrities from the field of home design and building appearing on the Celebrity Stage (where gardening celebs will also speak). Look for presentations by Bryan Baeumler (of Disas-ter DIY), Jim Caruk (of Real Renos), Jane Lock-

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• The Destination Renovation hub, where visitors can talk shop with some of the GTA’s top contractors and builders.

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• A discussion of 2012's new furniture trends, presented by Interior Stylist Janette Ewen.

Stop and smell the flowersAt Canada Blooms, flower and garden fans

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Royal Wood.On the Celebrity Stage, crowd-pleasers

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In addition, smaller meeting room sessions will cover subjects such as easy-care native plants, roses, invasive plants, herbs and lots more.

Make it a stay-cation

Garden groups and societies will again have their space in the Gardeners Fare section. And of course, there’ll be plenty of goodies to buy at both shows, from refrigerators to sunrooms to spades and garden boots.

Even if you’re not headed away for March break, you can still have a fab stay-cation at this year’s combo Canada Blooms and National Home Show. (Bring your camera!)

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But it was the day after a successful 4-2 in over Jean Vanier Jaguars on Jan. 12 that coach Dom Cugliari gave Vaughan Today a look into his squad’s turnaround from a mid-season stumble.

Winning their first three games against Jean Vanier, St. Jean de Brebeuf and Father Bressani, they were battered by St. Theresa de Lisieux Lions in back-to-back matches, 8-1, and 6-1.

“As the season progressed, we were dealing with some chemistry issues, and I think some discipline issues on the ice,” Cugliari said. “That sort of held us back a bit.

“I know they’re a lot better now, and the team is playing better than what we saw in November.”

Panthers captain, Joey DiNardo confirmed the brief split in teamwork.

“We had to overcome suspensions, a few injuries but we’ve managed, as they say, to come together as a team and work hard to fight through those things,” he said. “We started off pretty strong, then we lost two games to a team we should have beaten, I think.”

With the newfound fusion, the Panthers have won their last two games and look to finish off the season with a match against their nemesis Father Bressani.

“It’s never (easy) against that team,” Cugliari said. “They’re sort of our rival, and they always play well against us, even in the first game we played them this year.”

The edge for the Panthers in the Jan. 17 tilt was their top line of DiNardo, Christian Teti and Michael Cuddemi, along with grade 11 Justin Gullo between the pipes.

Gullo has been with the senior squad since his freshman year, waiting in the wings patiently to be the team’s starter.

“He’s a quiet leader, and very good,” Cugli-

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Gullo’s story is much like that of Patrick Roy’s waiting in Sherbrooke for his time to replace Doug Soetaert.

“When he was in grade 9 we had two out-standing goalies so he didn’t play much and he came to all of our practices, great attitude and a great work ethic and he has become our number 1 goalie,” Cugliari said. “It speaks volumes that in grade 9 he knew he wasn’t going to play, he was still coming out and practising with us.”

With that talent in mind, the next step is OFSAA. With Brother Andre the reigning pro-

vincial champs, two teams from the YRAA will have a shot.

“I’m hoping,” Cugliari said. “In order to get to that point you’ve got to be good — and we are but you’ve got to be lucky as well.”

DiNardo and company are ready to hit the ice, skating full-force.

“I think we all feel we can make it to OFSAA this year,” he said. “We’re all pretty confident enough and we have the skill level and work ethic.

“I don’t think there’s any doubt in our minds that we can’t and it’s pretty much ours to lose.”

By Brian Baker

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A GOOD PERSPECTIVE: Emmanuel Acquaviva, front, and Michael Cuddemi are all smiles during a Pan-thers’ practice Jan. 17. St. Elizabeth’s senior boys hockey team claimed the fourth seed in Division 1.

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As the boys basketball season winds down, Maple High School’s seniors are revving up for a strong finish.

Coach Azam Khan said his team is preparing to follow through on their solid play after a respectable showing at the HoopDome High School Boys Basketball Tournament on Jan. 13-14.

“Everybody wrote us off — but we didn’t,” Khan said of their final game. “We were down 11 points with 1:10 left and we just kept pressing, got a couple of key steals and we ended up winning by three.”

Although the Timberwolves’ 2-1 record in the opening round was not enough for them to advance, Khan said he was impressed with the heart and hustle his squad showed.

“Overall for us it was a good perfor-mance,” he said. “We came up a bit short from where we wanted to be, but the end

of it was positive for us if we can take that momentum.”

Khan described the Timberwolves as a shooting team and his players have cer-tainly been able to put up points in previous tournaments. At the Griffins Classic in early December, Maple made it to the quarterfi-nals where they lost by four to host Cen-tral-Peel. Maple’s senior swingman Tyrell Thomas was named a tournament all-star after averaging 19 points per game.

“He’s our emotional leader and really helps step it up on the defence and scor-ing,” Khan said of Thomas. “When we need more push and more support he’s the guy.”

The T-Wolves also won the champion-ship at the fifth annual Maple Blue ‘n’ Blue Tournament, which they hosted in mid-December. This time, Thomas was named Defensive MVP while his teammate Phillip Osbourne earned Most Valuable

Player overall. “He’s had several 25-plus point games,”

Khan said of his big man Osbourne. “He’s got a lot of really good guard skills and he’s smart on the floor.”

Maple’s only loss dur-ing the regular season came at the hands of basketball powerhouse Vaughan Sec-ondary. In this, his 10th year coaching the team, Khan said he hopes they make a deep playoff run.

“The last few years we’ve been able to push and get into the quarterfi-nals for York Region Tier One,” he said. “We’re still trying to push past that quarterfinal hump and hopefully this is our year and we can push further.”

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SHOOTING PAST QUARTERS: Maple High’s senior boys basketball team seeks a better finish than just quarter-final action when it comes to the York Region Athletic Association’s playoffs. Their only regular season loss came to Vaughan Voyageurs, but coach Azam Khan said the Timberwolves will be ready for them.

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