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ALPAUGH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-03-08 published
MEHARRY,
Margaret "
Pearl"
Peacefully at the Hamilton General Hospital, surrounded by her
children, on Saturday, March 5th, 2005. Pearl
MEHARRY in her
79th year. Beloved wife of the late John
MEHARRY.
Dearly loved
mother of Maggie
SMART and Isabel
MEHARRY and her husband Peter
ALPAUGH.
Loving
Nana of Andrew, Jeff, James and Katie. Will be
sadly missed by Friends Ed
MURPHY,
May
ELLIOT/ELLIOTT and Mary
HUNTER.
Friends may call at the Marlatt Funeral Home and Cremation Centre,
615 Main Street East (east of Sanford) Wednesday, March 9th,
2005 from 1-3 p.m. Memorial service to follow at 3 p.m. in the
Marlatt Memorial Chapel. In lieu of flowers donations to the
Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated by the family.
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ALPHA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-12-12 published
Bill OWEN, 61: Street-level crusader
Bill OWEN fought to make Toronto more accessible
Patient, pragmatic teacher led battle for sloped curbs
By Catherine
DUNPHY,
Obituary
Writer
Bill OWEN left his mark on every street corner in this city.
He was the paraplegic powerhouse who brought reluctant City Hall
bureaucrats around to a commitment to install sloped curbs. A
cautious, graduated commitment, but a commitment.
It was 1970 and for wheelchair users it was huge.
"It was the one thing we really wanted to get done," said Bill
STOTHERS, then a journalist who worked with
OWEN on behalf of
a fledgling organization known as
ALPHA -- Action League for
Physically Handicapped Advancement.
"We really wanted to be able to get around, but back then you
would have to go down the block to find a driveway to get across
the street and dodge traffic and then find another driveway."
OWEN, who died of cancer October 13 at 61, was a teacher at Ryerson
who had a very logical, focused, strong but non-confrontational
style.
He never took his issues to the streets. He took them to meetings,
many meetings, where he would present papers and listen and negotiate
a way through, around and over any objections to installing curbs
featuring a slope instead of a drop to the street.
"They had never seen someone like Bill at City Hall -- alert,
well prepared, highly educated and articulate and they didn't
like it. Nobody wants to change. They were forced into it. Bill
pushed them," said his wife
Lucille
OWEN.
There were many thousands of uncut curbs in the city. A pragmatic
OWEN proposed to bureaucrats they install the slopes gradually,
as old curbs were being replaced.
"Toronto was the first major city in North America to have a
curb program like this," said Lucille. "Now they are useful for
everybody, for mothers with strollers and people with those wheeled
walkers."
It was the beginning of a coming of age for people in wheelchairs.
Society was in the midst of dynamic change, led by the women's
and black equality movements, which had thus far eluded people
with physical handicaps.
Lucille thinks that was because all kinds of medical personnel
from doctors to occupational therapists -- had been the traditional
spokespeople for them and that consequently many with physical
handicaps were uncomfortable speaking up for themselves.
STOTHERS said many people in wheelchairs didn't appreciate what
he and his friend were doing either.
"People were very concerned about that at that time. They still
are in a lot of places. Nobody wanted people to be rocking the
boat," he said from his home in California, where he is deputy
director for the Center for an Accessible Society. "We were known
as the two Bills, as the troublemakers."
And they weren't about to quit while they were ahead. In October
1971, they organized another first -- a transportation conference
featuring politicians from the three levels of government. At
first, it looked as if it might falter --
STOTHERS says he remembers
a local politician at the time remarking that maybe people in
wheelchairs just shouldn't come downtown -- until an editorial
in the Toronto Star endorsed the conference and its agenda of
developing a system of transportation for the physically handicapped.
That weekend, they debated the merits of a para-transit system
or a completely accessible subway and bus system and decided
to opt for the para-transit while working long-term for a fully
accessible system.
Initially to be used only for work and medical appointments,
Wheel-Trans eventually expanded its services to include transportation
for any purpose.
"Bill started using it for work the minute it was operational,"
his wife said.
He had been paying $35 for cab fare to get to work before. But
there were others whose physical limitations prevented them from
even using a cab. Wheel-Trans meant they could tell a prospective
employer that, yes, they did have reliable transportation. It
was easier for them to get work. It became easier for them simply
to go out more.
"You were just free to go," said Lucille.
Newfoundland-born
OWEN was 22 and working outside Fredericton,
New Brunswick, at a summer construction job between his first
and second years of grad school at Queen's University when an
air compressor got away and rolled over him.
He'd been a keen hockey player in high school and university,
president of the Arts and Literary Society, associate editor
of the newspaper and co-editor of the yearbook at Mount Allison
University. But he used to say the day after his injury he realized
he'd become a second-class citizen, unable to enjoy any of the
rights and freedom he used to have.
His family was supportive and Queen's was willing to make all
kinds of modifications to accommodate him. "You get those solutions
prior to the days of realizing that these were rights and that
the university should be prepared to handle disabled individuals
on a system-wide basis, to anticipate (that) people with disabilities
will come to university," he wrote later.
In the same article, he wrote about how people expected him to
be able to do wheelies in his chair to negotiate curbs. "You
coped with your disability by incorporating yourself into the
community without making changes to it."
He came to Toronto to complete his graduate degree and moved
into one of the few apartments in the city that could accommodate
wheelchairs -- for the most part. He had to remove his bathroom
door and replace it with a curtain to get in.
He used to say circumstances had necessitated he become a professional
disabled person with a more aggressive personality than came
naturally.
But he was persistent, serving for many years on a mayor's task
force on the disabled and the elderly, of which he was also the
chair, as well as being on the board of the March of Dimes, and
the Canadian Paraplegic Association, among other organizations.
OWEN also threw himself into his academic pursuits, travelling
and living at the University of Kentucky for a while to work
on his doctoral dissertation on the early American writer James
Fennimore Cooper, his other great passion.
He retired from teaching in 2000.
"Thanks to Bill, we're a lot better off," said Lucille. "This
is not just a wife talking. He was the driving force behind the
curb cuts. He transformed our lives."
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ALPHEN o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-02-02 published
VISSER,
James
At London Health Sciences Centre, University Campus on Monday,
January 31, 2005 Mr. James
VISSER of Vanastra in his 70th year.
Beloved husband of Hilda
VISSER.
Loving father of Norman and
Marcia VISSER of Ingersoll, Angela and Peter
SIKKEMA of Ridgetown,
Mel VISSER and Margarita
TERI of Fergus, Marian
VISSER and Greg
ROBERTS of Newmarket. Loving grandfather of Derek, Anna, and
Adrian VISSER,
Joel,
Sarah and Christy
SIKKEMA, Curtis and Josh
McEACHERN,
Owen and Talia
VISSER-
ROBERTS. Dear brother of Mike
VISSER, of Toronto, Griet
EELKEMA of Holland, Anne
VAN
ALPHEN
of Wainfleet, Bill
VISSER of Stratford, Andy
VISSER of Cambridge,
Mary KLUMPENHOWER of Listowel, Norm
VISSER of Guelph, Dick
VISSER
of Guelph and Ria
FOLKEMA of Ingersoll. Predeceased by one brother
Minnie in infancy. Friends will be received at the Vanastra Christian
Reformed Church on Thursday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. where a funeral
service will be held on Friday, February 4, 2005 at 1 p.m. Interment
Clinton Cemetery. As expressions of sympathy, donations to the
Christian Reformed World Relief or the Christian Reformed Missions
would be appreciated and can be made through the Falconer Funeral
Home Ltd., Clinton (519-482-9521).
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ALPHONSO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-01-03 published
Scarborough man charged in woman's fatal stabbing
By Jeff GRAY/GREY,
With a report from Caroline
ALPHONSO, Monday,
January
3, 2005 - Page A10
A Scarborough man faces a second-degree murder charge after a
woman was found dead in her home on New Year's Day.
Jacek ZAJACZKOWSKI, 45, appeared in court at Old City Hall yesterday.
He was arrested after police were called to townhouse near McCowan
Road and Eglinton Avenue East, where they found the body of a
woman.
A postmortem examination of the victim was conducted yesterday.
In a statement last night, police revealed that Krystyna
ZAJACZKOWSKA,
44, died from multiple stab wounds sustained to her neck and
torso.
Police reportedly believe that Ms.
ZAJACZKOWSKA was killed on
New Year's Eve.
Television pictures showed investigators wheeling the body, draped
in black, out of the home's front door on New Year's Day.
Icicle-style Christmas lights hung across the doorway.
One neighbour told reporters that police had been previously
called to the address, on Castethorpe Drive, in the summer and
that a man had been taken away in handcuffs.
A family of four is said to live in the home: a couple and two
daughters.
One daughter is in her 20s and the other in her teens.
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ALPHONSO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-03-11 published
Teen killed after being struck by van in Brampton
By Caroline
ALPHONSO,
Friday,
March 11, 2005 Page A8
Toronto -- A 14-year-old girl is dead after she was struck by
a cube van on her way home from school, Peel Regional Police
said yesterday.
Cierra MCINNES/MCINNIS was crossing Queen Street, around West Drive in
Brampton, around 3: 30 yesterday afternoon when the van hit her.
She was taken to hospital and pronounced dead, Staff Sergeant
Stu CAMPBELL said.
Police are investigating. No charges have been laid.
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ALPHONSO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-10-03 published
Murder charge filed after man stabbed on lawn
By Caroline
ALPHONSO,
Monday,▼
October 3, 2005, Page A11
A 46-year-old man was fatally stabbed while cutting the grass
and a woman injured on a quiet street in Scarborough this weekend.
Police say a man drove his car onto Rod
ALLPRESS's property and
attacked him with a knife Saturday afternoon. The suspect then
fled to a nearby driveway and allegedly attacked a 49-year-old
woman.
Mr. ALLPRESS was taken to Sunnybrook and Women's College Health
Sciences Centre, where he was pronounced dead. The woman was
treated for non-life-threatening injuries at the hospital and
released.
Ross AGATHOS, 36, has been charged with second-degree murder
and attempted murder.
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ALPHONSO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-11-28 published
Police seek witnesses: in fatal stabbing
By Caroline
ALPHONSO,
Monday,▲
November 28, 2005, Page A11
Police are appealing for witnesses: to come forward after a man
was fatally stabbed this weekend in the city's east end.
The man, who has been identified as 24-year-old Mohamed
HUSSIEN,
is the city's 71th homicide of the year.
Police were called to McGregor Road after a fight broke out.
They found the victim on the driveway. He was taken to Sunnybrook
and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, where he was pronounced
dead.
A second victim, a woman, was taken to Scarborough General Hospital
with non-life-threatening facial injuries.
An attacker was seen running from the house, police said.
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ALPORT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-08-05 published
LANGLEY,
Vernon▼
On Wednesday August 3rd, 2005 at Toronto East General Hospital,
Toronto, Ontario at age 74. Last surviving member of his immediate
family. He was the
son of the late Edward and Lillian
(GAY)
LANGLEY.
Predeceased▼ by one sister June
FANNING, and 3 brothers Brenton,
Cyril and Orville. Missed by many aunts and cousins in Nova Scotia
and by 12 nieces and nephews; Zane
FANNING,
Sharron▼
GROTEGUT,
both of Moncton, New Brunswick, Dawn
CHAISSON,
Allison▼
FANNING
and Penny MATTHEWS all of Newcastle, New Brunswick, Eric
LANGLEY
of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Brenda
SUTHERLAND of Port Hood, Nova
Scotia, Teddy and Jay
LANGLEY, of Toronto, Ontario, Paul
LANGLEY
of Bancroft, Ontario, and Debbie
ALPORT and Karen
TURCOTTE both
of Kingston, Ontario; 2 sisters-in-law Elizabeth
HOLLER, of Bancroft,
Ontario and Nan
LANGLEY of Antigonish, Nova Scotia; 18 grand
nieces and nephews, Jeff, Bev, Todd, Bobby, Jason, Dustin, Alisha,
Zachary, Melissa, James, Jeremy, Joel, Shannon, Sara, Adam, Darrell,
Stephanie, and Maggie; 8 Great grandnieces and nephews Brenton,
Monica, Dawson, Ryan, Meagan and James, Bryan and Paige and by
cousin Dorothy
MILLS of Etobicoke, Ontario.
Vernon was a member of St Michael's Cathedral where he served
as a Eucharistic Minister and provided Drug and Alcohol counseling.
He was an addiction counsellor for Alpha House and was the first
fulltime counselor with Just For Today. He specialized in dual
diagnosed clients and was instrumental in developing many of
their programs they use today. He was involved with the St Vincent
De Paul Society, an active Alcoholics Anonymous member associated
with many groups and on the Board of Directors for Birtch Place
Co-operative Homes. Cremation has taken place. A memorial service
will be held Saturday, August 20th, at 10: 30 a.m. at St. Michael's
Cathedral, 65 Bond St. Toronto. A memorial service and interment
of cremated remains will take place at a later date in Port Hood,
Cape Breton. Memorial donations in Vernon's memory may be made
to the charity of choice. Arrangements entrusted to Morley Bedford
Funeral Services, Toronto.
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ALPORT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-08-10 published
LANGLEY,
Vernon▲▼
On Wednesday August 3rd, 2005 at Toronto East General Hospital,
Toronto, Ontario at age 74. Last surviving member of his immediate
family. He was the
son of the late Edward and Lillian
(GAY)
LANGLEY.
Predeceased▲▼ by one sister June
FANNING, and 3 brothers Brenton,
Cyril and Orville. Missed by many aunts and cousins in Nova Scotia
and by 12 nieces and nephews; Zane
FANNING,
Sharron▲▼
GROTEGUT,
both of Moncton, New Brunswick, Dawn
CHAISSON,
Allison▲▼
FANNING
and Penny MATTHEWS all of Newcastle, New Brunswick, Eric
LANGLEY
of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Brenda
SUTHERLAND of Port Hood, Nova
Scotia, Teddy and Jay
LANGLEY, of Toronto, Ontario, Paul
LANGLEY
of Bancroft, Ontario, and Debbie
ALPORT and Karen
TURCOTTE both
of Kingston, Ontario; 2 sisters-in-law Elizabeth
HOLLER, of Bancroft,
Ontario and Nan
LANGLEY of Antigonish, Nova Scotia; 18 grand
nieces and nephews, Jeff, Bev, Todd, Bobby, Jason, Dustin, Alisha,
Zachary, Melissa, James, Jeremy, Joel, Shannon, Sara, Adam, Darrell,
Stephanie, and Maggie; 8 Great grand nieces and nephews Brenton,
Monica, Dawson, Ryan, Meagan and James, Bryan and Paige and by
cousin Dorothy
MILLS of Etobicoke, Ontario.
Vernon was a member of St Michael's Cathedral where he served
as a Eucharistic Minister and provided Drug and Alcohol counseling.
He was an addiction counsellor for Alpha House and was the first
fulltime counselor with Just For Today. He specialized in dual
diagnosed clients and was instrumental in developing many of
their programs they use today. He was involved with the St Vincent
De Paul Society, an active Alcoholics Anonymous member associated
with many groups and on the Board of Directors for Birtch Place
Co-operative Homes. Cremation has taken place. A memorial service
will be held Saturday, August 20th, at 10: 30 a.m. at St. Michael's
Cathedral, 65 Bond St. Toronto. A memorial service and interment
of cremated remains will take place at a later date in Port Hood,
Cape Breton. Memorial donations in Vernon's memory may be made
to the charity of choice. Arrangements entrusted to Morley Bedford
Funeral Services, Toronto.
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ALPORT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-08-13 published
LANGLEY,
Vernon▲▼
On Wednesday August 3rd, 2005 at Toronto East General Hospital,
Toronto, Ontario at age 74. Last surviving member of his immediate
family. He was the
son of the late Edward and Lillian
(GAY)
LANGLEY.
Predeceased▲▼ by one sister June
FANNING, and 3 brothers Brenton,
Cyril and Orville. Missed by many aunts and cousins in Nova Scotia
and by 12 nieces and nephews; Zane
FANNING,
Sharron▲▼
GROTEGUT,
both of Moncton, New Brunswick, Dawn
CHAISSON,
Allison▲▼
FANNING
and Penny MATTHEWS all of Newcastle, New Brunswick, Eric
LANGLEY
of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Brenda
SUTHERLAND of Port Hood, Nova
Scotia, Teddy and Jay
LANGLEY, of Toronto, Ontario, Paul
LANGLEY
of Bancroft, Ontario, and Debbie
ALPORT and Karen
TURCOTTE both
of Kingston, Ontario; 2 sisters-in-law Elizabeth
HOLLER, of Bancroft,
Ontario and Nan
LANGLEY of Antigonish, Nova Scotia; 18 grand
nieces and nephews, Jeff, Bev, Todd, Bobby, Jason, Dustin, Alisha,
Zachary, Melissa, James, Jeremy, Joel, Shannon, Sara, Adam, Darrell,
Stephanie, and Maggie; 8 Great grand nieces and nephews Brenton,
Monica, Dawson, Ryan, Meagan and James, Bryan and Paige and by
cousin Dorothy
MILLS of Etobicoke, Ontario.
Vernon was a member of St Michael's Cathedral where he served
as a Eucharistic Minister and provided Drug and Alcohol counseling.
He was an addiction counsellor for Alpha House and was the first
fulltime counselor with Just For Today. He specialized in dual
diagnosed clients and was instrumental in developing many of
their programs they use today. He was involved with the St Vincent
De Paul Society, an active Alcoholics Anonymous member associated
with many groups and on the Board of Directors for Birtch Place
Co-operative Homes. Cremation has taken place. A memorial service
will be held Saturday, August 20th, at 10: 30 a.m. at St. Michael's
Cathedral, 65 Bond St. Toronto. A memorial service and interment
of cremated remains will take place at a later date in Port Hood,
Cape Breton. Memorial donations in Vernon's memory may be made
to the charity of choice. Arrangements entrusted to Morley Bedford
Funeral Services, Toronto.
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ALPORT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-08-05 published
LANGLEY,
Vernon▲
On Wednesday August 3rd, 2005 at Toronto East General Hospital,
Toronto, Ontario at age 74. Last surviving member of his immediate
family. He was the
son of the late Edward and Lillian
(GAY)
LANGLEY.
Predeceased▲ by one sister June
FANNING, and 3 brothers Brenton,
Cyril and Orville. Missed by many aunts and cousins in Nova Scotia
and by 12 nieces and nephews; Zane
FANNING,
Sharron▲
GROTEGUT,
both of Moncton, New Brunswick, Dawn
CHAISSON,
Allison▲
FANNING
and Penny MATTHEWS all of Newcastle, New Brunswick, Eric
LANGLEY
of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Brenda
SUTHERLAND of Port Hood, Nova
Scotia, Teddy and Jay
LANGLEY, of Toronto, Ontario, Paul
LANGLEY
of Bancroft, Ontario, and Debbie
ALPORT and Karen
TURCOTTE both
of Kingston, Ontario; 2 sisters in law Elizabeth
HOLLER, of Bancroft,
Ontario and Nan
LANGLEY of Antigonish, Nova Scotia; 18 grand
nieces and nephews, Jeff, Bev, Todd, Bobby, Jason, Dustin, Alisha,
Zachary, Melissa, James, Jeremy, Joel, Shannon, Sara, Adam, Darrell,
Stephanie, and Maggie; 8 great grand nieces and nephews Brenton,
Monica, Dawson, Ryan, Meagan, James, Bryan and Paige and by cousin
Dorothy MILLS of Etobicoke, Ontario. Vernon was a member of St.
Michael's Cathedral where he served as a Eucharistic Minister
and provided Drug and Alcohol counseling. He was an addiction
counsellor for Alpha House and was the first fulltime counselor
with Just For Today. He specialized in dual diagnosed clients
and was instrumental in developing many of their programs they
use today. He was involved with the St. Vincent De Paul Society,
an active Alcoholics Anonymous member associated with many groups
and on the Board of Directors for Birtch Place Co-operative Homes.
Cremation has taken place. A memorial service will be held Saturday,
August 20th, at 10: 30 a.m. at St. Michael's Cathedral, 65 Bond
St. Toronto. A memorial service and interment of cremated remains
will take place at a later date in Port Hood, Cape Breton. Memorial
donations in Vernon's memory may be made to the charity of choice.
Arrangements entrusted to Morley Bedford Funeral Services, Toronto.
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