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Volume XLIV, <strong>Issue</strong> 8 chronicle.durhamcollege.ca March 6 - 12, 20<strong>18</strong><br />
Meet<br />
UOIT's<br />
new<br />
top dog<br />
Photograph by Austin Andru<br />
page 3<br />
Teams participate in<br />
'Coldest Night of the Year'page 8<br />
Skate Canada<br />
comes to Oshawa page 22<br />
Photograph by Kirsten Jerry<br />
Photograph by Shanelle Somers<br />
Photograph by William McGinn<br />
See our Land Where We Stand stories, pages 14-<strong>18</strong>
2 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> March 6 - 12, 20<strong>18</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Campus<br />
BACK<br />
of the<br />
FRONT<br />
DC journalism students look at Durham College and UOIT,<br />
and beyond, by the numbers and with their cameras<br />
Just doing<br />
some light duty<br />
Photograph by Heather Snowdon<br />
Photograph by Connor McTague<br />
A worker fixes a street light at DC Oshawa campus by the parking lot.<br />
Super reading girl<br />
Emily MacPhee, a library technician student at DC, is promoting literacy at<br />
the Oshawa campus.<br />
Oshawa Music Week nominations open!<br />
Oshawa Music Week, formerly known as Reel Music, is taking<br />
nominations for local Durham Region musicians for this year's<br />
Award Show.<br />
There are five awards up for nominations including lifetime<br />
achievement, best artist or band, best live venue, emerging artist<br />
and industry leader. Nominations are open until March 9.<br />
You can nominate community members by visiting their<br />
website www.oshawamusicweek.ca<br />
Oshawa Music Week, an annual event run by DC music<br />
business administration students kicks off April 5 with World<br />
Music Showcase in the Pit.<br />
There are events planned on and off campus from performances<br />
to panels with industry professionals like Sum 41's Dave<br />
Baksh.<br />
Follow the <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
on Twitter<br />
@DCUOIT<strong>Chronicle</strong>
Campus chronicle.durhamcollege.ca March 6 - 12, 20<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 3<br />
UOIT gets new president<br />
Austin Andru<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
The new president of the University<br />
of Ontario Institute of Technology<br />
wants to ensure the final<br />
word in the school’s name continues<br />
to be its focus.<br />
The board of governors chose<br />
Dr. Steven Murphy to replace Dr.<br />
Tim McTiernan, who has served<br />
for the last six years. Murphy officially<br />
took office on March 1.<br />
Murphy says he sees himself<br />
as a mentor and a coach for the<br />
university and wants to make sure<br />
technology is being utilized in all<br />
programs.<br />
“I’d like to see us accelerate in<br />
terms of how every faculty views<br />
what they’re doing in a lens of<br />
technology,” says Murphy. “We<br />
really should be producing the<br />
best teachers who are able to use<br />
the latest technologies.”<br />
Murphy has spent the last<br />
four years as the dean of the Ted<br />
Rogers School of Management at<br />
Ryerson University and five years<br />
as an associate professor at Carleton<br />
University. Murphy has published<br />
more than 100 academic<br />
papers.<br />
Murphy says after talking to<br />
students and alumni, many of<br />
them indicated the one-on-one<br />
experience with the professors is a<br />
Dr. Steven Murphy, the new president of UOIT, took office March 1.<br />
major strength for the university.<br />
“I think that’s a huge strength,”<br />
says Murphy. “We have to make<br />
sure we preserve it.”<br />
UOIT’s campus partner is<br />
hoping to build his one-on-one relationship<br />
with Murphy.<br />
“Anytime somebody new<br />
comes, they come with an energy<br />
and a vision and I look forward to<br />
seeing where he wants to take the<br />
university and how we can be a<br />
Photograph by Austin Andru<br />
part of it,” says Don Lovisa, president<br />
of DC. “I’ve worked with<br />
two presidents now—this will be<br />
my third one. And they’re all different.”<br />
"Steven has a great track record<br />
at Ryerson,” says Lovisa.<br />
Murphy says the greatest challenge<br />
facing students is how to<br />
positively use social media.<br />
He says older students have<br />
the maturity to understand what<br />
people put on social media is just<br />
a “snapshot” of their life that<br />
they’ve chosen to show, younger<br />
students don’t realize this.<br />
Murphy says some younger<br />
students see what others are doing<br />
on social media and think to<br />
themselves, “Geez, my life isn’t<br />
like that.”<br />
Murphy says going forward it is<br />
important for faculty to talk about<br />
the benefits of social media, but<br />
also the negative aspects of it.<br />
Murphy says when he was a<br />
student things were different.<br />
“Sure there was expectations<br />
in my life but I didn’t have to<br />
worry about social media on top<br />
of things.”<br />
Murphy says young people are<br />
often pressured too early. Murphy<br />
says not enough people are saying<br />
to young people, “it’s OK.”<br />
“You can learn and you can<br />
fail,” says Murphy.<br />
“You’re going to have many<br />
jobs and you’re going to be able<br />
to pivot many times, and you can<br />
take many different degrees and<br />
you don’t have to know everything<br />
at <strong>18</strong>.”<br />
DC, UOIT campuses:<br />
Are we in any danger?<br />
Cassidy McMullen<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
With the recent high school shooting<br />
in Parkland, Florida, where<br />
<strong>17</strong> people were killed, it begs the<br />
question – how safe are the Durham<br />
College-UOIT campuses?<br />
The director of campus safety<br />
at Durham and UOIT suggests<br />
people are more likely to be hit<br />
by lightning than to face a violent<br />
incident like the shootings at<br />
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High<br />
School.<br />
“The FBI has suggested that,<br />
and this includes schools in the<br />
States, an individual is more than<br />
likely to be struck by lightning<br />
twice before they would be involved<br />
in an active threat on campus,”<br />
says Tom Lynch, who has<br />
been responsible for campus safety<br />
for the past six years.<br />
According to CBC News, Canada<br />
has had 12 deadly school<br />
shootings since 1965.<br />
America has had <strong>18</strong> school<br />
shooting this year as of Feb. 20<br />
with 10 resulting in injury or<br />
death.<br />
Last year there was a reported<br />
65 school shootings says Everytown<br />
for Gun Safety, a gun safety<br />
organization in the United States.<br />
“We have a risk register at the<br />
campus of safety, things that from<br />
a very imperial standpoint we are<br />
at risk at,” Lynch says. “Active<br />
threat shooter isn’t even on the<br />
front page, and these are scientific,<br />
imperial studies, a plane missing<br />
Oshawa airport (and crashing on<br />
campus) is higher on the list.”<br />
If there was an active threat,<br />
someone posing a danger to the<br />
campus, we would go into lockdown,<br />
says Lynch, who spoke<br />
about campus threats to Durham<br />
College journalism students recently.<br />
Lynch answered questions on<br />
the subject of lockdowns and what<br />
to do in the case of one.<br />
What is a lockdown?<br />
A lockdown is a planned response<br />
to an active threat. In the<br />
event of an active threat, the campus<br />
would be put into a lockdown<br />
which means services and activity<br />
on campus would stop while students<br />
and faculty find a safe place<br />
to wait for police to respond.<br />
How will we be alerted?<br />
An announcement would come<br />
over the public address system<br />
(PA), along with the electronic displays<br />
around campus and an exterior<br />
alarm would sound alerting<br />
anyone in or around the building<br />
of the lockdown.<br />
An alert would also be visible<br />
on the DC’s and UOIT’s website<br />
and it would be posted on the<br />
schools’ social media platforms.<br />
What do we do in a lockdown?<br />
In the event of a lockdown, you<br />
have two options - hide or leave.<br />
“Never discount the opportunity<br />
to leave,” Lynch says. “You<br />
have a lot of exits here.”<br />
If you are close to an exit and<br />
do not see or hear any disturbances,<br />
it might be better to leave<br />
the campus altogether. If you<br />
aren’t, it’s time to hide.<br />
“We want to make time and<br />
distance away from the active<br />
threat,” Lynch says.<br />
If it takes police six minutes<br />
to respond to an active threat,<br />
Lynch says, then you want to put<br />
that amount or more of that time<br />
or distance between you and the<br />
active threat.<br />
For example, if you move from<br />
The Pit, if that was the location<br />
of an active threat, and go to a<br />
classroom you have put distance<br />
between you and the threat.<br />
Another example would be<br />
when you are in the classroom<br />
you lock or barricade the door like<br />
campus security suggests. There is<br />
not more distance, but an obstacle<br />
that will take more time for the<br />
threat to get through, Lynch says.<br />
Campus security also suggests<br />
finding a room with few windows.<br />
If there are any windows in<br />
the room, cover them if you can or<br />
hide where you wouldn’t be visible<br />
through them. Turn off the lights<br />
as well.<br />
In the event of a lockdown, turn<br />
your phone on to silent. If you are<br />
going to be communicating with<br />
someone, message or text them.<br />
Should I plan beforehand?<br />
Lynch says while having a plan<br />
in mind is fine, “the plan needs to<br />
be fluid.”<br />
While you’re in your classrooms<br />
or work environment on<br />
campus, it’s good to think about<br />
what you might do in a lockdown<br />
situation.<br />
However, that might not be<br />
where you are if a lockdown is<br />
called, Lynch points out.<br />
“Let’s try this, you’re in line<br />
at the Tim Hortons where I see<br />
you all the time and they go lockdown,”<br />
Lynch says. “What’s your<br />
plan?”<br />
Having one set plan doesn’t<br />
work in these situations because<br />
the individual causing the threat<br />
is going to have a fluid plan, just<br />
like you.<br />
“We cannot create a response<br />
because the active threat is a human<br />
and humans adapt to what<br />
Photograph by Cassidy McMullen<br />
Tom Lynch is responsible for campus safety at DC and UOIT.<br />
we do,” Lynch says.<br />
The best way to prepare is to<br />
observe your surroundings. Keep<br />
in mind where exits are, if doors<br />
lock and where they are located.<br />
“If you understand your environment,<br />
you’re already a step<br />
ahead,” Lynch says.<br />
Is an active threat likely?<br />
The north Oshawa campus<br />
of DC and UOIT has had lockdowns<br />
called before.The most recent<br />
was in 2015, where someone<br />
had brought a replica weapon to<br />
campus.<br />
“I believe I have been involved<br />
in instances that had a potential to<br />
put my community at risk, three<br />
times,” Lynch says, recalling his<br />
six years on campus. “And none of<br />
come into fruition.”
4 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> March 6 - 12, 20<strong>18</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca<br />
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DCSI election winners should focus on issues they can change<br />
The legendary Chinese philosopher<br />
Confucius once said, “the<br />
man who moves mountains begins<br />
by carrying away small stones.”<br />
Wise words—especially if politics<br />
is your passion.<br />
The newly elected leadership<br />
of Durham College Students Inc.<br />
(DCSI) should keep that adage in<br />
mind as they enter their roles and<br />
begin to develop a game plan for<br />
which campus issues to tackle and<br />
which to forget.<br />
During last week’s frantic campaigning,<br />
a variety of promises<br />
were heaped upon the student<br />
body.<br />
Those platform items ranged<br />
from the mundane (better policies<br />
for booking study spaces around<br />
exams) to the massive (complete<br />
overhaul of the parking lots on<br />
campus).<br />
Students should know that the<br />
chances of our new student leaders<br />
following through with every single<br />
facet of their platform is slim to nil.<br />
The same is true with any newly<br />
elected government, big or small.<br />
However, if DCSI leadership<br />
hones in on things they can change<br />
and ditches promises out of their<br />
control, they have a much greater<br />
chance of achieving their goal of<br />
forming an effective student government.<br />
It is important to note student<br />
governments are not powerless.<br />
They play an important role in inclusive,<br />
forward-thinking schools<br />
and can provide many services to<br />
students.<br />
That said, the power is far from<br />
limitless.<br />
Would students like lower parking<br />
fees and more guaranteed<br />
spaces? Of course they would,<br />
but that decision is out of DCSI’s<br />
hands.<br />
Such a decision would be<br />
made by two entities: DC/UOIT<br />
and Precise Parklink, a private,<br />
for-profit company separate from<br />
the school.<br />
In some ways, DCSI leaders hold<br />
some amount of influence on college<br />
brass, mostly through advocating<br />
for change on students’ behalf.<br />
But the college is in no way<br />
bound to the will of the students,<br />
and any negotiations around parking<br />
would also have to include Precise<br />
Parklink, and their financial<br />
interests.<br />
Creating significant changes to<br />
the parking system would likely<br />
take far longer than the one-year<br />
term student leaders at DCSI are<br />
afforded, and would therefore be a<br />
waste of time and resources.<br />
Another of these arduous goals is<br />
the whimsical promise to re-open<br />
E.P. Taylor’s, the recently-closed<br />
campus pub.<br />
DCSI leaders would be well-advised<br />
that the campus pub was sold<br />
some time ago, and no longer belongs<br />
to DCSI or UOIT’s student<br />
union, USU.<br />
Currently, the ownership lies<br />
with DC, who is searching for a<br />
third-party operator to renovate<br />
and re-open the facility.<br />
Again, advocating for more urgency<br />
in finding that third-party<br />
could only go so far, and unless<br />
anyone from DCSI knows someone<br />
in the market to buy a pub, would<br />
achieve very little.<br />
Instead, our elected officials<br />
should give priority to the host of<br />
more sensible issues raised during<br />
campaigning—things like increasing<br />
seating options in common<br />
areas, new events for students to<br />
unwind and have fun, and heightening<br />
visibility for DC’s clubs and<br />
societies.<br />
Smaller commitments are easy<br />
to stick to and yield positive results<br />
for the student community.<br />
Make promises that are too lofty<br />
or unrealistic and voters could turn<br />
on you the instant those vows are<br />
broken or plans fizzle out.<br />
Moving mountains isn’t easy.<br />
Neither is running a student association<br />
which represents thousands<br />
of individuals across three campuses.<br />
But by moving one pebble at a<br />
time, gradually making changes,<br />
those mountains can be reduced<br />
to mere molehills.<br />
John Cook<br />
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chronicle.durhamcollege.ca March 6 - 12, 20<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 5<br />
Opinion<br />
Protect historic buildings, they are the city's foundation<br />
Aly<br />
Beach<br />
The following piece is the opinion of<br />
the Durham College journalism student<br />
whose name and picture accompanies this<br />
column.<br />
We’ve all heard stories of prestigious,<br />
historic homes such as the<br />
Parkwood Estate, and the people<br />
who lived in them, in the case of<br />
Parkwood, Robert Sam McLaughlin.<br />
Historical buildings are the<br />
foundation of our heritage and culture.<br />
So why isn’t more being done<br />
to preserve them and the memories<br />
they hold?<br />
Like the house at 195 Simcoe<br />
St. N, which has recently been<br />
proposed for demolition.<br />
It belonged to industrialist Robert<br />
McLaughlin who founded Mc-<br />
Laughlin Carriage Works, which<br />
became General Motors (GM)<br />
under the management of his son,<br />
Robert Sam McLaughlin.<br />
The house, built in the late<br />
<strong>18</strong>80s, was designed in the Classical<br />
Revival Style. McLaughlin lived<br />
there for almost twenty years, from<br />
1901 to 1919. In the 60s, it became<br />
office space for doctors and dentists.<br />
It is currently empty.<br />
Heritage Oshawa, Oshawa’s<br />
heritage council, has asked city<br />
councillors that the building be<br />
designated as an important historical<br />
building, which would offer it<br />
more protection.<br />
Heritage Oshawa advises city<br />
council on heritage-related issues.<br />
Heritage Oshawa has a list of<br />
historically significant buildings<br />
called an inventory.<br />
If they feel a building on the inventory<br />
is especially significant,<br />
they can try to have it designated,<br />
which gives it extra protections to<br />
help conserve it.<br />
McLaughlin and his family had<br />
a major influence on Oshawa. This<br />
influence can still be felt today,<br />
thanks to GM.<br />
Heritage houses are sometimes<br />
slotted for demolition to make room<br />
for townhouses and apartment<br />
buildings. That is understandable.<br />
But when these homes are demolished,<br />
part of history is erased.<br />
In 2016, another house on Simcoe<br />
St. N. was torn down. It belonged<br />
to a woman named Harriet<br />
Cock. She was one of Oshawa’s<br />
first female land owners.<br />
Her house told a story from a<br />
female perspective. By demolishing<br />
her house, she was forgotten.<br />
Not only was her legacy completely<br />
erased but so was a historical<br />
perspective, one which is often<br />
ignored.These people and houses<br />
are part of what makes Oshawa,<br />
Oshawa. It is important to protect<br />
both the houses and by extension,<br />
the stories they tell. There needs<br />
to be better, more impactful ways<br />
The Marvel Cinematic Universe should put the R in Marvel<br />
Shana<br />
Fillatrau<br />
The following piece is the opinion of<br />
the Durham College journalism student<br />
whose name and picture accompanies this<br />
column.<br />
Since the Marvel Cinematic Universe<br />
(MCU) first started with the<br />
premiere of Iron Man in 20<strong>08</strong>, the<br />
darker and grittier side of Marvel<br />
comics hasn’t been shown enough.<br />
Even when Fox was in charge of<br />
the X-Men, for the most part, the<br />
mutants weren’t given the dark<br />
storylines they’re known for and<br />
that didn’t do the comics justice.<br />
In the nineties, Marvel sold the<br />
film rights to many of their characters<br />
because they were having<br />
financial issues. This includes the<br />
rights to the X-Men and Deadpool.<br />
December of last year, Marvel<br />
acquired the film rights for the<br />
X-Men back from Fox.<br />
In terms of team movies, the<br />
X-Men vs. the Avengers, the<br />
X-Men won in terms of grit, just<br />
like they do in the comics, though<br />
there could always be improvement.<br />
In the first X-Men movie, it’s<br />
mutant vs. mutant. The X-Men vs.<br />
the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.<br />
While in the first Avengers movie,<br />
it’s the Avengers fighting aliens.<br />
In the last two years, Fox has<br />
dipped into Marvel’s potential.<br />
There’s so much more to Marvel<br />
comics than the high-morale Captain<br />
America and Scott Summers.<br />
It’s more than the average and<br />
simple super-hero storylines where<br />
everything turns out fine and the<br />
hero saves the day with no deaths<br />
and no blood shown.<br />
So, fans were elated to find out<br />
that not only was there going to<br />
be a Deadpool movie, it would be<br />
rated R. The studio was, at some<br />
points, not going to sign-off on an<br />
R-rated film. For a little while, fans<br />
thought they would have to see the<br />
censored and watered-down Deadpool.<br />
Last month, the Deadpool 2<br />
trailer premiered. Deadpool combines<br />
the fun humour and raw violence<br />
that isn’t seen in any other<br />
Marvel films.<br />
Deadpool is the most accurate<br />
Marvel-portrayed character. He’s<br />
self-deprecating, meta, humorous,<br />
while still being sad and violent.<br />
Last time Marvel tried to portray<br />
the Merc With a Mouth, fans<br />
were subjected to the worst comic<br />
character depiction in recent years.<br />
This came in Wolverine: Origins.<br />
The filmmakers wanted a Deadpool<br />
that wasn’t rated-R. They did<br />
this by literally sewing Deadpool’s<br />
mouth shut so he couldn’t swear,<br />
make lewd jokes or generally, be<br />
himself. The censorship of these<br />
violent characters is nearly impossible,<br />
especially with Deadpool.<br />
Even Deadpool made fun of his<br />
past depiction in his own movie.<br />
The only character this did work<br />
for, in some ways, was Wolverine<br />
himself. Then came Logan.<br />
After more than 15 years of seeing<br />
a not-quite-there Wolverine,<br />
fans got a look at the true character<br />
come to life but unfortunately<br />
just for the farewell film of Hugh<br />
Jackman playing the character one<br />
last time.<br />
Before Logan, fans only had a<br />
censored, cleaner version of their<br />
clawed mutant.<br />
He couldn’t impale or decapitate<br />
people. Bloody carcasses weren’t<br />
laying at his feet. Instead, they focused<br />
less on the violence and more<br />
on the romance, which isn’t Logan<br />
Howlett.<br />
Out of all 10 films in the X-Men<br />
movie franchise, Logan received<br />
the best Rotten Tomatoes score,<br />
showing how much fans and viewers<br />
in general, appreciated the raw<br />
to protect our historical buildings.<br />
Heritage Oshawa can only recommend<br />
what they think should be<br />
done with a building. Oshawa City<br />
Council has the final say on what is<br />
designated and what is demolished.<br />
Perhaps Heritage Oshawa should<br />
have more of a say, or citizens<br />
should have more power in making<br />
these decisions. Either way, more<br />
must be done to preserve Oshawa’s<br />
history for future generations. As<br />
the Durham Region undergoes tremendous<br />
growth and development,<br />
this issue is increasingly important.<br />
If you see a building that should<br />
be preserved, speak up. Talk to<br />
Heritage Oshawa, learn about the<br />
building, fight for its survival. Citizens<br />
saved the Henry, Guy and<br />
Robinson Houses which are now<br />
home to the Oshawa Museum.<br />
Let’s save the home of Robert<br />
McLaughlin, one Oshawa’s most<br />
influential figures.<br />
truth of who these characters are.<br />
Logan is also the first superhero<br />
film to be nominated for an Oscar<br />
in the best adapted screenplay<br />
category. It is also the first major<br />
nomination for any superhero film,<br />
excluding<br />
Heath Ledger’s posthumous win<br />
for supporting actor with his role as<br />
the Joker. Other nominations are<br />
for technical categories, like hair<br />
and makeup or visual effects.<br />
With these films leading the way,<br />
there are so many other potential<br />
characters to be adapted. These<br />
include Moon Knight, Carnage,<br />
Fantomex, Mystique and so many<br />
more.<br />
Marvel needs to focus on the<br />
examples of Logan and Deadpool<br />
in particular and continue where<br />
Fox left off. Even though they have<br />
their more mature Netflix shows<br />
like Daredevil and The Punisher,<br />
their movies remain lighthearted.<br />
All in all, there isn’t an “R” in<br />
Marvel for no reason.<br />
Bringing 'Johnny Football' to Hamilton is a bad fit<br />
Cameron<br />
Black-<br />
Araujo<br />
The following piece is the opinion of<br />
the Durham College journalism student<br />
whose name and picture accompanies this<br />
column.<br />
College football star and 2012<br />
Heisman Trophy winner, Johnny<br />
Manziel, broke his silence about<br />
his struggles with alcohol and other<br />
issues earlier this month on Good<br />
Morning America, but the Hamilton<br />
Tiger-Cats should stay as far<br />
away from the 25-year-old athlete<br />
as possible.<br />
Manziel took the sporting world<br />
by storm at the age of 19, when he<br />
became the first freshman to win<br />
the Heisman, awarded to the best<br />
player in college football.<br />
The legend of “Johnny Football”<br />
was born.<br />
That was the peak of his football<br />
career as his final year at Texas<br />
A&M University and his two-year<br />
stint in the NFL were plagued with<br />
off-field issues including domestic<br />
violence charges filed against him<br />
in 2014.<br />
The Tiger Cats confirmed in<br />
January they had made an offer to<br />
the quarterback but it’s now over<br />
a month later and Manziel has yet<br />
to accept.<br />
That may not be a bad thing for<br />
These people and houses are part<br />
of what makes Oshawa, Oshawa.<br />
the Tiger-Cats.<br />
Art Briles was fired as Baylor’s<br />
football coach in May, 2016, after<br />
over 30 of his players were accused<br />
of committing over 50 sexual assaults.<br />
Just over a year later, in August,<br />
the Tiger-Cats hired Briles,<br />
his first job since leaving Baylor,<br />
just to reverse the decision 12 hours<br />
later after backlash from fans, the<br />
media and sponsors.<br />
“It was a poor decision, in<br />
retrospect, that we shouldn’t have<br />
made,” said Tiger-Cats CEO, Scott<br />
Mitchell. “Everything we do demonstrates<br />
great community will,<br />
everything we do in the community<br />
we’re very sincere about it and I<br />
think, clearly, we missed the mark<br />
in terms of the message we were<br />
sending.”<br />
Five months have passed and<br />
it looks like the Tiger-Cats’ CEO<br />
may be missing the mark again.<br />
Manziel has been accused of domestic<br />
violence, has openly abused<br />
alcohol and drugs, sometimes even<br />
through his own social media and<br />
was even seen at a Las Vegas nightclub<br />
sporting a fake moustache,<br />
wig and glasses the night before<br />
skipping his concussion protocol<br />
in Cleveland, according to ESPN<br />
Las Vegas.<br />
This doesn’t sound like the way<br />
to make it up to a community after<br />
a “poor decision.”<br />
On Good Morning America,<br />
Manziel also stated the end goal of<br />
his comeback is an NFL contract,<br />
confirming the CFL would just be<br />
a stop along the way. It’s not worth<br />
it for the team to take such a risk<br />
on a player who publicly said he<br />
has no intentions of staying long in<br />
the league, if he even comes at all.<br />
Manziel said earlier this month<br />
he is no longer drinking alcohol<br />
and is making mental health a<br />
priority in his life.<br />
He also says he’s taking medication<br />
for bipolar and is working<br />
hard to make sure he doesn’t fall<br />
into another depression.<br />
His father said in 2016, he’d be<br />
surprised if his son makes it to his<br />
25th birthday. While the sporting<br />
world was glad to see Manziel surpass<br />
that in December, there would<br />
be nothing better than to see him<br />
complete his comeback.<br />
Just somewhere outside Hamilton.
6 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> March 6 - 12, 20<strong>18</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Campus<br />
Stories of strength, courage and vision<br />
Tracy Wright<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
Black Canadian women and their stories of<br />
strength, courage and vision were celebrated<br />
during Black History Month at Durham College.<br />
These stories were shared on Feb. 21<br />
in the Student Services Building at Durham<br />
College by Whitby MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes,<br />
Esther Forde owner of Cultural<br />
Expressions Gallery in Ajax and Uchechi<br />
Ezurike-Bosse, author, speaker and TV host.<br />
Caesar- Chavannes, shared her vision. A<br />
vision to build bridges between communities.<br />
In the end we are building bridges between<br />
Canadians and discussing the inclusion we<br />
need to work towards, says Caesar-Chavannes.<br />
True inclusion appreciates expression<br />
and brings value to the table, she says.<br />
Esther Forde, shared her courage, her love<br />
for the arts and her decision to open an art<br />
gallery 11 years ago in Ajax.<br />
Her courage was shown as she had no<br />
business experience and was not part of the<br />
established art community. But she wanted to<br />
engage the community with a diverse background<br />
in the arts.<br />
She brought the arts with a distinct colour<br />
from Africa to Canada. Her gallery features<br />
art from 20 to 30 different countries.<br />
Ezurike- Bosse, talked about strength.<br />
The first woman she saw to show great<br />
strength was her mom.<br />
Seeing her work hard, as a single mom raising<br />
three daughters instilled hard work in her.<br />
Her mom did what she had to do working<br />
three jobs to put food on the table and make<br />
sure her children got an education. With this<br />
knowledge she names five key things to help<br />
Black history is<br />
Canadian history<br />
not about separating<br />
groups.<br />
towards having no labels or limitation in life.<br />
Among her keys: take time, show belief, act<br />
and expand outside the comfort zone, surrender<br />
your vision to a higher power and last<br />
know you are not alone when you rise.<br />
In wrapping up Caesar-Chavannes said<br />
“Black history is Canadian history it is isn’t<br />
about separating groups.<br />
This is about recognition that we have a<br />
painful past in this country. And that truth<br />
supersedes anything else, we have to pay<br />
attention to that truth.”<br />
Allison Hector-Alexander, Durham College’s<br />
director of diversity, inclusion and<br />
transitions says, “Black History really is<br />
Canadian History.” “When we act as a community<br />
and we act as allies for each other we<br />
get the recognition.<br />
Where other people are acknowledging,<br />
it’s authentic and it helps the community to<br />
know that they do have allies.”<br />
The event ended with poems from local<br />
artist Greg Frankson, who says “Black History<br />
Month is the month to be really cool,<br />
black and artistic.”<br />
Photograph by Tracy Wright<br />
(Left) Allison Hector-Alexander, Durham College's director of diversity,<br />
inclusion and transition and Whitby MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes at Durham<br />
College's Black History Month celebration.<br />
The universal educational experience<br />
International<br />
experience<br />
helps stand out<br />
to potential<br />
employers<br />
I would definitely<br />
recommend it to<br />
anyone and everyone.<br />
Shana Fillatrau<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
When Kyle Stiliadis first got to Ireland he<br />
didn’t have a cellphone. When he got to his<br />
residence at IT Carlow, there wasn’t anyone<br />
in the office.<br />
He later ran into someone who he knew from<br />
Durham College, and was able to stay with<br />
him for the night.<br />
He was nervous to be studying abroad at<br />
first, but once he got acclimated, he loved it.<br />
Stiliadis went on to receive a student of<br />
the year award from his partner school in<br />
Carlow, Ireland.<br />
Stiliadis attended Durham College for<br />
Music Business Management.<br />
After graduating, he attended Brock University<br />
before going to IT Carlow in Ireland.<br />
At IT Carlow, he finished his final year<br />
and graduated with Bachelor of Business degree,<br />
all through the help of Durham College’s<br />
International office.<br />
Stiliadis said he made lifelong friends, volunteered,<br />
travelled Europe, played basketball<br />
and much more while studying abroad.<br />
The experience has also helped him career<br />
wise. “I’ve gone through a couple of different<br />
interviews since I got back, and having that<br />
Photograph by Shana Fillatrau<br />
Eoin O'Brien (left), international coordinator from IT Carlow, presents Kyle<br />
Stiliadis with student of the year award.<br />
abroad experience has been great for my resume,”<br />
he says.<br />
“It’s an easy conversation starter and seems<br />
like a more knowledgeable about more than<br />
just Canada”<br />
It was difficult for Stiliadis at first since he<br />
was away from his family, but technology was<br />
helpful to stay in touch with them.<br />
“They’re proud of you,” he said. “They<br />
want you to succeed too, so all in all, it was<br />
a great experience. No regrets.”<br />
Stiliadis enjoyed his time abroad and felt it<br />
helped to make him who he is today.<br />
“I would definitely recommend it to anyone<br />
and everyone,” he said.<br />
“You’re nervous at first. The first couple bit<br />
is always tough to do, but once you get your<br />
foot in the door, don’t be shy.”<br />
Mike Lafleur, Durham College’s international<br />
education abroad assistant, agrees.<br />
He says it’s important for Durham College<br />
students to consider the bridge and pathway<br />
programs that DC offers because gaining<br />
international experience makes them stand<br />
out to employers.<br />
“I think for students, having the opportunity<br />
to go abroad is a platform for people<br />
to grow personally and professionally – to<br />
broaden their perspectives and to gain intercultural<br />
effectiveness and the ability to adapt<br />
and work well with people from different cultures<br />
is pretty important in the globalized<br />
world,” said Lafleur.<br />
Lafleur came to see Stiliadis receive the<br />
award from IT Carlow’s international coordinator<br />
Eoin O’Brien.<br />
Stiliadis won student of the year for Level<br />
Seven. In Ireland, schooling goes by the<br />
framework of qualifications.<br />
In this framework, level one is compared<br />
to kindergarten and Level Ten is a PhD. In<br />
Stiliadis’ case, Level Seven is a degree.<br />
“I’m delighted to be on site in Durham to<br />
award Kyle from last year, who was our Level<br />
Seven student of the year,” said O’Brien.<br />
“So, it’s a great achievement and a big<br />
achievement.<br />
He should be proud of it.”<br />
With a smile on his face, Stiliadis received<br />
his medallion and award certificate.<br />
“It was a great honour to get that award,<br />
and I couldn’t be happier that I received it.<br />
Well earned, I believe.”
Campus chronicle.durhamcollege.ca March 6 - 12, 20<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 7<br />
A friendly face at DC<br />
Constantinou<br />
feels at home<br />
on campus<br />
Heather Snowdon<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
Day in and day out he’s at Durham<br />
College (DC). A friendly face,<br />
beaming at students as they enter<br />
the school. He normally sits in The<br />
Pit, surrounded by students, who<br />
wave as they walk by. He is ambitious<br />
and ready to take on the day<br />
with a positive attitude. Micheal<br />
Constantinou, 28, started working<br />
for DC as a special events assistant<br />
in Sept. 20<strong>17</strong>, when he realized DC<br />
was the right place for him.<br />
“I love my job,” he said with a<br />
smile.<br />
He works part-time at the college<br />
and even when he’s not working<br />
he’s still at the college.<br />
“I just come and visit the school<br />
to see how everyone is doing,” he<br />
said.<br />
Constantinou was born and<br />
raised in Pickering. He has fond<br />
memories of hanging out with<br />
friends and meeting new people in<br />
the area.<br />
After studying culinary arts<br />
in the Community Integration<br />
through Co-operative Education<br />
program at DC for two years, he<br />
was compelled to stay on campus<br />
and was determined to work at<br />
Durham.<br />
“The people at the school have<br />
given me so much that I wanted to<br />
give back,” he said.<br />
He recalls the good times in<br />
school and all the friends he has<br />
made. The people at DC won him<br />
over and this was the main reason<br />
Constantinou was compelled to<br />
stay.<br />
“The school is like my second<br />
home,” said Constantinou.<br />
After graduating from DC in<br />
2012, he wanted to further his<br />
passion and took another culinary<br />
arts program in Whitby at Liaison<br />
College.<br />
He graduated from there in 2013.<br />
Photograph by Heather Snowdon<br />
Micheal Constantinou, 28, has been working at Durham College since 20<strong>17</strong> after graduating<br />
from the school. He works as a special events assistant at DC and comes to visit even when he's<br />
not working.<br />
“I loved culinary so much,” he<br />
said.<br />
Constantinou, worked part-time<br />
at Sunset Grill in 2015 for one year.<br />
Then accepted a seasonal job at<br />
Cosco, during the winter months in<br />
2016.During the summer of 20<strong>17</strong>,<br />
he considered taking a job in the<br />
cafeteria at DC to practise what<br />
he had been studying, but found<br />
solace working in the sports sector<br />
of the school.<br />
Helping students be the best they<br />
could be.<br />
“I love motivating students, it<br />
makes me feel better as a person,”<br />
he said.<br />
Constantinou attends sporting<br />
events with students and does whatever<br />
he can to show support and<br />
rallies for his team by giving away<br />
free T-shirts.<br />
“I’d get them going…make some<br />
noise I’d say,” said Constantinou.<br />
“I give them motivation, which<br />
is the most important thing.<br />
They get my company and motivation<br />
and I’m there as a friend<br />
if they need it.”<br />
Taylor Reddings, a part-time DC<br />
student in 2016, met Constantinou<br />
in The Pit.<br />
“He walked over and introduced<br />
himself to me, we talked for a short<br />
while…after that every time we saw<br />
each other we would stop and talk,”<br />
said Reddings.<br />
Students frequently stop to chat<br />
with Constantinou.<br />
“As soon as they mention Mikey<br />
(Constantinou), they say they know<br />
him,”said Reddings about how<br />
Constantinou is well-liked and<br />
known throughout the school.<br />
“Mikey (Constantinou) has made<br />
such a positive impact on me and I<br />
always love to see him around campus,”<br />
said Reddings.<br />
Constantinou travels frequently,<br />
visiting Cyprus, where his family<br />
his from.<br />
He enjoys his time there.<br />
“I visit my family most of the<br />
time when I’m down there,” he<br />
said.<br />
Constantinou plans to stay at DC<br />
and further his career here, or as he<br />
calls it, his “second home."<br />
“It’s the people at Durham that<br />
make the school what it is.”<br />
No more street smart kids after safety village closure<br />
Safety village<br />
is closed<br />
for repair<br />
William McGinn<br />
The Chroncile<br />
As children leave the safety of their<br />
homes and guardians a few hours<br />
a day to go to school, they are at<br />
an age where learning the ways of<br />
safety in the streets is a must.<br />
The Kids’ Safety Village of<br />
Durham Region was built to do<br />
just that.<br />
The Kids’ Safety Village is located<br />
in Whitby, sharing grounds<br />
with Sir William Stephenson Public<br />
School and is operated by the<br />
Durham Region Police Service.<br />
Activities include how to cross<br />
the street and dialing 911, with<br />
working traffic lights, yield signs<br />
and park benches, but that is not<br />
what the Village is limited to.<br />
The village also includes battery-powered<br />
miniature cars, bicycles,<br />
and small buildings, one<br />
with a working road barrier.<br />
However, business is currently at<br />
a standstill.<br />
At the moment, the village is<br />
under construction in order to<br />
renovate its current main facility,<br />
because it “is very outdated and<br />
small,” said Corey Walsh, a Durham<br />
Regional Police community<br />
service officer.<br />
Expansion<br />
will have an<br />
additional<br />
classroom.<br />
“The expansion will have an<br />
additional classroom that will be<br />
utilized to teach a fire safety program.”<br />
The village has been closed since<br />
November and its reopening date<br />
is currently unknown.<br />
When in operation, the village<br />
is visited by about 15,000 students<br />
annually. According to Jim Olson,<br />
retired Durham District School<br />
Board principal, all students from<br />
all over Durham Region are welcome,<br />
including as far away as<br />
Beaverton, Port Perry and Uxbridge.<br />
The village is, according to Olson,<br />
funded by Durham Region,<br />
the school board and the police,<br />
and the only cost is students have to<br />
pay three dollars each for bus fare.<br />
Other than that, visits are free.<br />
“Classes currently include bike,<br />
road safety, pedestrian safety, Internet<br />
and anti –bullying programs<br />
as well,” says Walsh, adding it is for<br />
kids from Grades 1-6.<br />
The village used to teach vandalism<br />
laws and legal graffiti but<br />
the lesson was removed after Walsh<br />
took over.<br />
Commentary from children and<br />
adults alike on the teachings and<br />
experiences of the village have been<br />
positive, according to Walsh.<br />
“Kids always enjoy being able<br />
to explore the village and get to<br />
practice what they have learned in<br />
class out in the village. We receive<br />
a lot of positive feedback from both<br />
parents, teachers and students.”<br />
The village was built in 1995<br />
through donations of $25,000 from<br />
local businesses and citizens.
8 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> March 6 - 12, 20<strong>18</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Community<br />
The ‘coolest’ night of the year<br />
Kirsten Jerry<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
What do fundraising, weather and<br />
bunny ears have in common? The<br />
Coldest Night of the Year walk in<br />
Oshawa.<br />
Although organizers figure<br />
a Feb. 24 walk will bring with it<br />
cold temperature, it was a relatively<br />
warm 4C and sunny on when<br />
registration opened at 4 p.m. at<br />
Lviv Hall located at 38 Lviv Blvd.<br />
Oshawa’s walk was hosted by<br />
The Refuge, an organization dedicated<br />
to helping homeless and atrisk<br />
youth.<br />
Clarence Keesman, 43, executive<br />
director of The Refuge, walked<br />
in goalie gear because he promised<br />
to do so if the $70,000 event goal<br />
was met and it was surpassed.<br />
Donations can be still be made<br />
until March 31.<br />
Roughly 450 people attended<br />
the event.<br />
At the same time, 122 other<br />
Coldest Night walks were held<br />
across Canada to raise funds for<br />
various charities. The host charity<br />
is the one receiving the funds.<br />
Oshawa MP Colin Carrie, Oshawa<br />
MPP Jennifer French and<br />
Oshawa Mayor John Henry each<br />
gave a short speech at the opening<br />
ceremonies at 5 p.m.<br />
Attendees could walk alone or<br />
in teams.<br />
Lauren Oak, 19, and Laura Oak,<br />
55, of Bowmanville, who were<br />
together, and Charlie Genge, 20,<br />
who came alone and lives downtown,<br />
all volunteered as route marshals<br />
for the walk.<br />
A route marshal, Genge said, is<br />
responsible for keeping everyone on<br />
course and keeping up the energy<br />
during the walk.<br />
One team at the walk, the Majestic<br />
Goddesses, had six members,<br />
each wearing a pair of bunny ears.<br />
Three members, Lindsay Code, 38,<br />
Benieta Santiago, 39, and Angela<br />
Santiago, 37, all walked for the first<br />
time.<br />
Angela Santiago said that besides<br />
coming to help homeless youth the<br />
team was there to “raise money.<br />
Go out have a good walk, get some<br />
exercise. Have fun, put some bunny<br />
ears on, you know?”<br />
Oshawa women<br />
fleeing from abuse<br />
find self-worth<br />
Shanelle Somers<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
The Majestic Goddesses team at the Coldest Night of the Year walk.<br />
Located in Oshawa’s YWCA Durham,<br />
is a little vintage store named<br />
Adelaide’s Attic. Ironically the attic<br />
is located in the basement.<br />
Adelaide’s Attic located at 33<br />
McGrigor Street Oshawa Ont. is<br />
staffed by female volunteers who<br />
have received help and guidance<br />
from YWCA Durham.<br />
The YWCA Durham works to<br />
build self-worth in abused women<br />
through volunteer opportunities.<br />
Domestic abuse within Durham<br />
Region has been rising over the<br />
years.<br />
According to Wendy Leeder,<br />
co-executive and shelter services<br />
director of the YWCA Durham,<br />
Durham Regional Police Services<br />
are responding to about 22 domestic<br />
abuse calls a day.<br />
The second-hand store is not<br />
only making a profit but, it is transforming<br />
the lives of Oshawa women<br />
fleeing abuse.<br />
The vintage clothing and houseware<br />
store allows women to buy<br />
what they need at a reasonable<br />
price. Adelaide’s Attic also provides<br />
the opportunity for women<br />
to gain retail and customer service<br />
experience.<br />
They are not paid, but in return<br />
for their hours, they are given gift<br />
cards to use at Adelaide’s Attic towards<br />
their needed purchases.<br />
Debra Mattson, manager of<br />
communications and fund developer<br />
at the YWCA, says the goods<br />
within the store are only about one<br />
to two dollars each.<br />
In 2016, Adelaide’s Attic – which<br />
is open eight hours per week - supported<br />
1,976 volunteer hours.<br />
“Our number one goal is to<br />
empower people and for them to<br />
have their own voice. That’s the<br />
mission of the work that we do,”<br />
says Leeder.<br />
This non-for-profit organization<br />
also offers a women-only emergency<br />
shelter called Y’s WISH<br />
Shelter, recreational programs, an<br />
EarlyON Centre for children up to<br />
the age of six, interim second stage<br />
housing, counselling, and volunteer<br />
positions.<br />
The YWCA has recognized a<br />
need for a 24-hour emergency shelter<br />
equipped with trained counsellors<br />
on staff, long-term mentorship<br />
Clarington Regional Councillor,<br />
Willie Woo, 64, of Newcastle also<br />
walked in the event. He walked<br />
once before four years ago when<br />
the event was held at a local school.<br />
“I’ve put myself on the Youth in<br />
Policing team. At least my donation<br />
is for that team,” said Woo.<br />
He remembered also seeing the<br />
team at his previous walk, adding<br />
a police presence to the event. “So,<br />
it doesn’t surprise me that Youth<br />
in Policing are here today. I think<br />
they’ve always been good supporters<br />
of The Refuge and what they<br />
do.”<br />
The Youth in Policing program<br />
meets at Durham College on Wednesdays.<br />
In an interview, program coordinator,<br />
Wahaj Arshad, 21, described<br />
the program as “an employment<br />
opportunity for youth<br />
in Durham Region and (we)<br />
work alongside with the Durham<br />
Regional Police.”<br />
Supervising team leader Jasmine<br />
Singh, <strong>17</strong>, said the students in the<br />
program are all in high school, in<br />
an interview. The age range for the<br />
program is 15--<strong>18</strong>.<br />
The students fundraise through<br />
Debra Mattson of the YWCA shows off the inside of Adelaide’s Attic.<br />
support and outreach programs.<br />
Unfortunately, the YWCA Durham<br />
needs the community’s help<br />
more than ever to continue its efforts<br />
in helping abused women and<br />
their children.<br />
Donations account for 80 per<br />
cent of the YWCA’s operational<br />
costs, according to Leeder.<br />
But, donations are down considerably,<br />
she says, adding the<br />
YWCA needs more funds to keep<br />
up their building maintenance and<br />
Photograph by Kirsten Jerry<br />
bake sales, car washes, events at<br />
their respective schools, and even<br />
by paying a toonie to wear casual<br />
clothes instead of a uniform for a<br />
class.<br />
Natalie Vellapah, 19, who is also<br />
a supervising team leader, said each<br />
member was given a minimum $75<br />
fundraising goal.<br />
The Youth in Policing team<br />
raised the most of any team - almost<br />
$8,000 for The Refuge.<br />
Because there was fair weather<br />
French ended her speech by saying,<br />
“it may not be the coldest night of<br />
the year, but it is the coolest.”<br />
Photograph by Shanelle Somers<br />
run other services.<br />
“Money is the thing all charities<br />
are competing for,” says Leeder.<br />
But, the YWCA is hoping that<br />
their current ‘Love Shouldn’t Hurt’<br />
campaign will help with their finances.<br />
It is a national campaign<br />
for YWCA that will be launched<br />
shortly.<br />
But Leeder says individuals often<br />
open their chequebooks and help<br />
the YWCA.<br />
“Someone donated $15,000 recently.<br />
That was enough to cover<br />
our entire grocery budget for one<br />
year,” says Leeder.<br />
They hope the new campaign<br />
will provide more opportunities<br />
and support for women who have<br />
experienced abuse and for women<br />
who have already gone through<br />
the most traumatic part of their<br />
journey.<br />
If you would like to get involved or<br />
donate money to help finance their<br />
efforts, visit www.ywca.org.
Campus chronicle.durhamcollege.ca March 6 - 12, 20<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 9<br />
Poor eating<br />
hurts students<br />
in classroom<br />
Aly Beach<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
Post-secondary students are known<br />
to be busy but not great eaters,<br />
hence terms like ‘freshman 15’,<br />
referring to the pounds added by<br />
someone in their first year at college<br />
or university.<br />
But are poor eating habits impacting<br />
students’ mental health?<br />
According to the Dieticians of<br />
Canada and a Durham College<br />
nutritionist, the answer is ‘yes’.<br />
“The increased incidence in<br />
mental health conditions such as<br />
depression over recent years might<br />
be linked to the change in our diet<br />
over the same time frame, with<br />
shifts away from a diet based on a<br />
wide variety of whole foods to one<br />
that emphasizes more processed<br />
foods.”<br />
Sylvia Emmorey, Durham College’s<br />
nutritionist, agrees.<br />
“A lot of times people are skipping<br />
meals, going to class on an<br />
empty stomach, you can’t think as<br />
well, your memory is impaired,”<br />
says Emmorey.<br />
Over the years, Emmorey says<br />
she has noticed an increase in<br />
students not eating often, lacking<br />
energy, having poor memory and<br />
being tired. She says not eating<br />
frequently enough, or not eating<br />
well, can negatively affect blood<br />
sugar, and in turn affect one’s mental<br />
health.<br />
“Managing the blood sugars,<br />
regulating the blood sugars is very<br />
important for proper brain function.<br />
People can have a lot of mood<br />
imbalances if they go without food<br />
as well,” says Emmorey.<br />
Emmorey advises students to<br />
avoid unhealthy fats, such as cookies<br />
and doughnuts, as they interfere<br />
with signalling in the brain.<br />
She also mentions it has been<br />
shown in studies that people who<br />
eat more unhealthy fats are slower<br />
learners and have memory challenges.<br />
“Eating a lot of unhealthy foods,<br />
junk foods if you will, can lead to<br />
depression because it depletes vitamins<br />
and minerals in the body. It<br />
also increases stress,” says Emmorey.<br />
She says when people are<br />
stressed, they tend to crave unhealthy<br />
foods. They also sometimes<br />
drink alcohol, which damages the<br />
A lot of times people are skipping meals,<br />
going to class on an empty stomach.<br />
Sylvia Emmorey, Durham College's nutritionist.<br />
brain.<br />
Omega 3 is found in healthy fats,<br />
such as avocados or fish.<br />
It helps support the synapses in<br />
the brain that connect the neurons.<br />
Omega 3 deficiencies have been<br />
shown to cause an increased risk of<br />
ADHD, bi-polar disorder, dyslexia,<br />
depression, dementia and schizophrenia.<br />
To avoid a deficiency,<br />
Emmorey recommends eating a<br />
variety of foods every day.<br />
“The more colourful, the better,”<br />
she says.<br />
Emmorey recommends starting<br />
a food diary or journal to help keep<br />
track of what and how much students<br />
are eating.<br />
“You can look at it, link it to how<br />
you’re feeling and make changes<br />
or come to me so I can guide you<br />
through the changes slowly,” says<br />
Emmorey.<br />
Photograph by Aly Beach<br />
Emmorey emphasizes being<br />
mindful of what and how you’re<br />
eating.<br />
“I’ve coined the term ‘the gobble-and-go<br />
generation’ because<br />
people eat their food so fast.”<br />
She says being aware of how<br />
much you’re eating and how you’re<br />
eating helps with digestion.<br />
It can help students avoid things<br />
like acid reflux and some digestive<br />
disorders.<br />
Emmorey says she understands<br />
changing eating habits can be<br />
difficult, but after she works with<br />
students making baby steps, she<br />
notices a difference.<br />
“I think a lot of the things that<br />
I see from students is a change in<br />
energy, first of all when they start<br />
to eat healthy and decrease some of<br />
the unhealthy foods, and that kind<br />
of sparks their interest in continuing<br />
on.”She advises students to prioritize<br />
grocery shopping and meal<br />
prep.<br />
For a student on a budget, Emmorey<br />
suggests buying frozen fruits<br />
and veggies, cans or bags of beans,<br />
lentils, tuna and shopping for deals.<br />
Emmorey has been a part-time<br />
teacher at Durham College for<br />
more than 10 years.<br />
She’s available to speak to students<br />
about healthy eating, eating<br />
with certain health conditions,<br />
weight loss or gain. She describes<br />
it as “nutritional counselling.” She<br />
is available Thursdays 12 p.m. to 2<br />
p.m. in room C111.<br />
“Basic healthy diet with some<br />
more variety is very beneficial for<br />
students and will get them - I think<br />
- through school with a diploma in<br />
their hand and not too much stress,<br />
hopefully,” says Emmorey.<br />
The benefits of a smoothie breakfast<br />
Kaatje Henrick<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
Exercise, diet and human interaction<br />
alter the brain and body,<br />
according to the National Institute<br />
of Health. But diet is a big factor for<br />
people’s all-around health. Breakfast<br />
is one meal people tend to skip,<br />
even though it has been called “the<br />
most important meal of the day” by<br />
many experts.<br />
Some people skip breakfast because<br />
there’s not enough time, or<br />
are too tired to bother to make anything.<br />
A common route is to grab<br />
an apple on the way out the door<br />
and stop at the local coffee shop for<br />
a hot beverage.<br />
Medical News Today says skipping<br />
breakfast lowers concentration<br />
levels as well as energy levels, and<br />
also slows the metabolism. The<br />
body needs a certain amount of<br />
energy to make it through the day<br />
without feeling tired or going limp.<br />
There are ways to avoid skipping<br />
breakfast: just make it quick. Some<br />
quick breakfast ideas are: high fibre<br />
cereal/bagel or toast, protein shake<br />
or smoothie, or a bowl of fruit with<br />
oatmeal.<br />
A raspberry banana smoothie<br />
is a quick and healthy choice for<br />
breakfast. It’s also a great source<br />
of vitamins and minerals.<br />
Raspberry Banana Smoothie:<br />
1 cup of raspberries<br />
1 ripe banana<br />
¼ cup of freshly squeezed orange juice<br />
¼ cup of yogurt<br />
1 tablespoon of honey<br />
Put all ingredients in a blender and mix until smooth.<br />
Add more honey if desired.<br />
Vitamins and minerals are important<br />
for the human body because<br />
they help heal wounds, boost<br />
the immune system. They also help<br />
with growth and development<br />
Raspberries are known as nature’s<br />
candy for their sweet, all-natural<br />
taste. They are packed full of<br />
antioxidants, which include: vitamin<br />
A, C or E.<br />
Those three vitamins alone help<br />
protect the body against illnesses<br />
and also strengthen teeth, gums<br />
and bones. Antioxidants are used<br />
to protect the body’s cells from<br />
damage.<br />
Raspberries are full of fibre and<br />
potassium, which lowers blood<br />
pressure as well as cholesterol levels.<br />
They also keep the body regular.<br />
Bananas contain potassium and<br />
fibre. Medical News Today states<br />
that bananas help reduce the risks<br />
of asthma, cancer, high blood pressure<br />
and diabetes.<br />
Yogurt comes from milk, which<br />
is a great source of Vitamin D. Yogurt<br />
is also known as a probiotic,<br />
which is the body’s “friendly bacteria.”<br />
It is filled with protein which<br />
gives your body the energy it needs,<br />
as well as speeds up your metabolism.<br />
Yogurt is also full of vitamin<br />
B12 which can help prevent heart<br />
disease.<br />
Starting the day with a delicious<br />
and healthy snack will keep you<br />
energized for a day full of activities.<br />
According to Canada’s Food<br />
Guide, eating a healthy breakfast<br />
jump starts metabolism, energizes<br />
the body, and improves the immune<br />
system.
10 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> March 6 - 12, 20<strong>18</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Community<br />
A tropical paradise?<br />
A warning to travellers<br />
who are going to Jamaica<br />
Heather Snowdon<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
Walking into your nearest travel<br />
agency, you’re probably looking<br />
forward to a warm and sunny vacation.<br />
But as you make your plans<br />
and choose your destination, you<br />
realize your dream getaway in Jamaica<br />
may fall short.<br />
An ongoing crime wave in the<br />
country has caused the Canadian<br />
government to issue a warning to<br />
people considering a trip to Jamaica.<br />
“Exercise a high degree of caution<br />
in Jamaica due to the high<br />
level of violent crime and the state<br />
of emergency in St James Parish,”<br />
says the warning on the Government<br />
of Canada website.<br />
Lerrone Galloway, 26, lived and<br />
worked in Montego Bay, Jamaica<br />
until 2013 when he left to work on<br />
a cruise ship. Galloways says it’s a<br />
challenging situation for tourists<br />
because “you don’t know war is<br />
going on because you can’t see it.”<br />
A curfew was put in place in<br />
Montego Bay and Kingston in<br />
January of this year, after a state<br />
of emergency was announced by<br />
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew<br />
Holness. Due to recent crime, all<br />
shops, stores, bars and nightclubs<br />
close at midnight.<br />
Galloway was born in Trelawney<br />
Parish, Jamaica and moved to<br />
Montego Bay when he was a teenager<br />
to work as a housekeeper in a<br />
resort called Iberostar Rose Hall<br />
Suites.<br />
“Tourists are more safe than Jamaicans,”<br />
he says, regarding how<br />
tourism is one of the country’s main<br />
industries. Tourists are normally<br />
not targeted because they provide<br />
jobs to Jamaicans through the tourism<br />
industry. He says visitors who<br />
do experience violence “are usually<br />
in the wrong place at the wrong<br />
time.”<br />
“It’s a turf war,” he adds, regarding<br />
gangs, drugs and guns in<br />
Jamaica. “It’s all for money.”<br />
Galloway left Jamaica in 2013<br />
to work on a Carnival cruise ship<br />
as a waiter, until moving to North<br />
Carolina in the United States in the<br />
summer of last year to work with<br />
his brother delivering furniture.<br />
Alison VanLoosen, a travel consultant<br />
at Bowmanville Travel – a<br />
division of the Kemp Travel Group<br />
says, “there are no restrictions in<br />
where we book…but the clients<br />
don’t want to go there,” regarding<br />
tourists wanting to go to Montego<br />
Bay. VanLoosen believes travellers<br />
are deterred because of the curfew<br />
in place. Some travellers are even<br />
waiting for refunds after going to<br />
Jamaica, but not wanting to leave<br />
the resort on excursions, even<br />
though they had already paid for<br />
them.<br />
“They’re waiting for refunds,”<br />
she says, “and many people are<br />
steering clear of Montego Bay.”<br />
But Galloway says, “it doesn’t<br />
affect tourism…we protect our<br />
tourists because they are important<br />
to us. Only if you live in the<br />
community is it bad for you.”<br />
According to Jamaica’s minister<br />
of tourism, travellers are safe<br />
in Jamaica. However, a state of<br />
You don't know a war is going on<br />
because you can't see it.<br />
emergency was put in place after<br />
an elderly couple from Winnipeg,<br />
Man. were found dead in their<br />
vacation home in St. Thomas, Jamaica<br />
on Jan. 9, 20<strong>18</strong>. No arrests<br />
have been made and the investigation<br />
is ongoing. If you do choose<br />
to travel to Jamaica, use caution<br />
and stay informed, says VanLoosen.<br />
You may want to wait until the<br />
state of emergency and warning is<br />
lifted and tourists can once again<br />
feel free to wander Jamaica’s adventurous<br />
landscape, without a worry,<br />
she adds.<br />
'Juilliard' program for secondary school students<br />
All Saints school unveils<br />
new art, media program<br />
Claudia Latino<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
This fall, Whitby will have its own<br />
‘Juilliard’.<br />
All Saints Catholic Secondary<br />
School will launch a new arts program<br />
for the coming school year.<br />
The Regional Arts and Media<br />
program offers students from<br />
Grades 7 to 12 across Durham<br />
Region the chance to incorporate<br />
the arts into their secondary school<br />
curriculum.<br />
The new program will run<br />
alongside with the comprehensive<br />
program at the school with students<br />
specializing in one or two of the six<br />
disciplines.<br />
Tish Sheppard, 54, is the teaching<br />
and learning consultant for the<br />
Durham Catholic District School<br />
Board (DCDSB) for implementation<br />
of the Arts and Media program.<br />
She said the school board didn’t<br />
want to lose Catholic secondary<br />
schools in Whitby because of decreasing<br />
enrollment.<br />
“We thought, what can we do to<br />
help one of the populations flourish<br />
a little more?,” said Sheppard.<br />
“Our senior admin team did<br />
some research and we decided that<br />
a regional arts program was something<br />
that was necessary.”<br />
The program offers visual arts,<br />
dance, drama, vocal music, instrumental<br />
music, and media arts. Students<br />
in Grades 7 and 8 can choose<br />
to enroll in any discipline, except<br />
for media arts.<br />
Grades 9 through 12 students are<br />
able to choose from all six.<br />
According to Sheppard, students<br />
who combine the arts into their<br />
education can excel in any career<br />
path they choose.<br />
Which is why an arts program<br />
would be beneficial for the Catholic<br />
school system.<br />
“The value of creativity is a huge<br />
thing for students. We need creativity<br />
in our world. People are looking<br />
for 21st century skills when they are<br />
hiring, so having an arts program<br />
will fill that need,” said Sheppard.<br />
To apply, students have to go<br />
through an interview and audition<br />
procedure for the discipline they<br />
want. The ideal candidate receives<br />
an acceptance letter and will not<br />
have to apply again.<br />
Fifteen students will be chosen<br />
for each category. Students enrolled<br />
for the September 20<strong>18</strong> school year<br />
have already completed their auditions<br />
and those selected have<br />
received their letter of acceptance.<br />
Students don’t have to be experienced<br />
in the arts to apply, but<br />
Sheppard says it is an asset.<br />
Students who are Catholic or<br />
non-Catholic across Durham Region<br />
can apply.<br />
Transportation is finalized and<br />
will be offered to students who live<br />
outside of Whitby.<br />
“We will be providing some form<br />
of transportation.<br />
It is going to be a central location<br />
where students can be picked up,”<br />
she said.<br />
Grades 7 and 8 students who are<br />
accepted will still complete their<br />
required elementary curriculum<br />
will leave their elementary school<br />
and become part of the All Saints<br />
community.<br />
Including wearing the required<br />
uniform.<br />
The school’s third floor will soon<br />
be dedicated to these students and<br />
those in Grade 8. They will still<br />
have their school trip and graduation.<br />
“I think we are preparing them<br />
for a great opportunity in high<br />
school to get a great education<br />
experience,” said Sheppard. “The<br />
arts are going to help them flourish<br />
in whatever way they need to in<br />
their post-secondary choices whether<br />
it’s college or university.”<br />
Photograph by Claudia Latino<br />
Tish Sheppard (left), is in charge of introducing the new art and media program at All Saints<br />
school to students and staff. Johnny Soln (right), is a drama teacher and chair of the program.<br />
The value of creativity is a huge<br />
thing for students.
Campus chronicle.durhamcollege.ca March 6 - 12, 20<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 11<br />
How DC's president left the pack behind<br />
Aly Beach<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
Smoking is bad for you - and quitting<br />
is hard. It’s a well-known fact.<br />
Leave the Pack Behind can help<br />
smokers quit.<br />
Durham College (DC) president<br />
Don Lovisa smoked for about<br />
20 years. He sat down with The<br />
<strong>Chronicle</strong> and Leave the Pack Behind<br />
(LTPB) representative Kimberly<br />
Buckeridge to talk about his<br />
smoking experience and how he<br />
quit.<br />
Lovisa, 60, started smoking<br />
sometime in Grade 8, as it was a<br />
norm back then to experiment with<br />
smoking.<br />
“At that time a lot of people<br />
smoked and it really wasn’t thought<br />
to be bad for you. Your doctor<br />
smoked and your dentist smoked<br />
and people around you smoked and<br />
you smoked, right?”<br />
He says he probably felt dizzy<br />
from the nicotine and probably<br />
questioned why he was doing it in<br />
the first place.<br />
“The ‘why’ was probably peer<br />
pressure - try something different,<br />
be part of the group. I think as<br />
young people, we do a lot of things<br />
based on peer pressure, don’t we?”<br />
says Lovisa.<br />
He says he probably didn’t start<br />
smoking regularly until Grade 10,<br />
but remembers how he used to try<br />
to hide his early smoking habits<br />
from his parents and teachers at<br />
Saint Mary’s school in Fort Frances,<br />
Ont., near Thunder Bay.<br />
“Behind the gymnasium there<br />
was a brick that was loose and we<br />
would hide our cigarettes behind<br />
that brick. So, your parents could<br />
never know, your teachers could<br />
never know,” says Lovisa. “So<br />
many people smoked, they probably<br />
didn’t notice it [the smell of<br />
cigarettes].”<br />
He quit cold-turkey when he was<br />
around 34-years-old after a health<br />
scare, where he spent three days in<br />
hospital in the Intensive Care Unit.<br />
“It really changed my perspective,”<br />
says Lovisa.<br />
Lovisa describes smoking as<br />
“part addiction, but also part habit.”<br />
During his quitting period, cravings<br />
crept up on him, when he ate,<br />
drank, and was out with friends. He<br />
says it’s “not just the addiction, but<br />
Durham College president Don Lovisa tells the story of how he quit smoking.<br />
also the changing of your norms.”<br />
Despite the difficulty, he was determined<br />
to beat it.<br />
“But there was always something<br />
in the back of your mind that would<br />
say ‘well if you don’t do this, you’ll<br />
be dead pretty early in your life’,<br />
so that’s not something I wanted<br />
to be.”<br />
According to Lovisa, quitting<br />
changed a lot of things in his life<br />
for the better, including his health.<br />
“When you quit when you’re<br />
younger, your body has a chance to<br />
heal. The longer you smoke, the less<br />
likely your lungs are going to heal.<br />
But you’re healthier, you feel better,<br />
you sleep better,” says Lovisa. “As<br />
time went on our society changed<br />
and it became easier to function in<br />
society. I didn’t have to go find my<br />
place to go have a cigarette.”<br />
When telling his story, Lovisa<br />
describes things that would be<br />
outlandish to some students today.<br />
“I’m trying to remember if there<br />
was still smoking in bars then -<br />
there probably was. Restaurants<br />
would be divided in half. Half<br />
would be smoking, half would be<br />
non-smoking,” says Lovisa.<br />
“I remember being on airplanes<br />
and behind row seven, you<br />
could smoke, but from row seven<br />
to one, you couldn’t smoke. The<br />
non-smoking section was the first<br />
seven rows.”<br />
He describes a time where one<br />
could smoke in class and in the<br />
hallways at school and where cigarettes<br />
and menthol cigarettes were<br />
prescribed by doctors for certain<br />
ailments like sore throats.<br />
“People would walk into your<br />
office and the first thing you do is<br />
‘do you want a cigarette?’ sit down<br />
and have a cigarette, and have your<br />
meeting and a cigarette. It was just<br />
part of the norm,” says Lovisa.<br />
Peter Garrett, director of DC’s<br />
Students Inc., was also present to<br />
talk about smoking on campus. DC<br />
Students Inc. is DC’s new student<br />
association that oversees services<br />
such as the student health plan and<br />
Riot Radio.<br />
He mentions how years prior<br />
to the Tuck Shop closing, it sold<br />
cigarettes. He says this was a major<br />
money-maker for the shop and<br />
when it stopped selling them, they<br />
started showing a loss in profit.<br />
Lovisa notes it is not as socially<br />
acceptable to smoke now and the<br />
science supports the negative side<br />
effects of smoking. Due to this, as<br />
DC president, he has wondered<br />
about the possibility of completely<br />
Photograph by Cassidy McMullen<br />
banning smoking on at least one<br />
DC campus.<br />
“One of the things we’re wondering<br />
about here is ‘is it possible<br />
to go to a non-smoking campus?’.<br />
It’s being tested by some other institutions<br />
now but, is it possible to<br />
maybe start with our Whitby campus,<br />
which is a smaller campus, and<br />
go non-smoking and through doing<br />
that, it’s our way of saying ‘it’s not<br />
acceptable, socially acceptable, on<br />
campus and we have these tools<br />
for you to help you quit smoking<br />
if you’re a smoker’,” says Lovisa.<br />
While DC could ask the Ontario<br />
government to step in and regulate<br />
smoking on the premises, Lovisa<br />
wonders if it is the best idea.<br />
“That’s the debate: do we really<br />
want to go to the government and<br />
say ‘put a regulation here’ and have<br />
the heavy-handed government<br />
cause the change or do we want to<br />
be socially responsible and try to<br />
do something on our own?,” says<br />
Lovisa.<br />
LTPB is a tobacco control program<br />
funded by the Ontario government.<br />
It offers free personalized<br />
supports to people who are trying<br />
to quit smoking. These supports<br />
include free nicotine replacement<br />
therapy such as nicotine patches<br />
and gum, quitting resources, contests<br />
and referrals to the Smoker’s<br />
Helpline.<br />
LTPB targets young adults because<br />
statistics show that one in<br />
four smokers has their first cigarette<br />
after the age of <strong>18</strong> and if they<br />
quit before the age of 30, they reduce<br />
the increased risk of health<br />
problems.<br />
“It’s a good program. It’s much<br />
like MADD for drunk drivers.<br />
Look at the incredible impact this<br />
program had on people’s lives in<br />
the instance of people not drinking<br />
and driving anymore and the<br />
consequences have gone up. There<br />
are no consequences like that with<br />
smoking, except for your health<br />
but there are consequences socially<br />
now where you can’t smoke anywhere,”<br />
says Lovisa.<br />
Lovisa describes the program as<br />
two parts - health risk awareness<br />
and the enforcement of the lack of<br />
social acceptance for smoking in<br />
today’s society.<br />
“So I think the messaging is the<br />
right decision and they understand<br />
that what they’re doing is harmful<br />
to them,” says Lovisa, “and the<br />
campaign can get them to do that<br />
through understanding and a little<br />
bit of pressure. People start to look<br />
at what they’re doing and try to<br />
find ways to quit.”<br />
Quitting is a personal choice,<br />
Lovisa says, adding it is difficult,<br />
but smokers have to ultimately<br />
choose to accept the fact that it is<br />
bad for them and then make the<br />
decision to do something about it.<br />
“You have to find your own motivation<br />
and your own tools. It’s a<br />
personal choice. As much as we<br />
can tell people that it’s bad for you,<br />
and ‘you must quit,’ it’s a personal<br />
choice,” he says.<br />
“But when you’re ready to have<br />
that conversation, find the tools,<br />
find Leave the Pack Behind, find<br />
the support you need. Go to your<br />
family and friends and ask them to<br />
support you.”<br />
To learn more about LTPB, go<br />
to the Campus Health Centre or<br />
check out their website: http://<br />
www.leavethepackbehind.org/.<br />
“I would never tell somebody, because<br />
I did smoke, that ‘you must<br />
stop smoking.’ It’s more important<br />
just to say to somebody if they ask<br />
you, ‘this will help you stop smoking’,”<br />
Lovisa says.
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Cannabis in the workforce<br />
Future<br />
legalization<br />
has<br />
businesses<br />
happy<br />
Kaatje Henrick<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
Some beer companies are planning<br />
on switching to cannabis-infused<br />
beers instead of hops, according to<br />
the Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation,<br />
one of the four companies<br />
who participated in a recent Q and<br />
A session at Durham College.<br />
By the end of this year cannabis<br />
can be purchased legally in<br />
store or online in Canada.<br />
That doesn’t mean that anyone<br />
can grow it or sell it, though<br />
Tom Ritchie, director of training<br />
at Ample Organics, says there will<br />
be strict rules for producers and<br />
participants.<br />
“Take any job anywhere, and<br />
you will not find more stricter<br />
regulations than what the government<br />
has planned for licensed<br />
producers. It is the most regulated<br />
industry that the world has ever<br />
seen,” said Ritchie.<br />
The federal government will<br />
continue to oversee all operations,<br />
which means a licence will still<br />
have to be purchased to distribute<br />
cannabis.<br />
“Not all provinces have the<br />
same distribution process. Ontario<br />
producers will be strictly<br />
run by the government, unlike Alberta<br />
where they are planning on<br />
letting private retailers distribute<br />
cannabis,” said Saperia.<br />
According to Saperia, there are<br />
90 licensed producers of cannabis<br />
across Ontario with 235,000 patients<br />
who purchased medical marijuana<br />
last year.<br />
There are a variety of professional<br />
jobs that will be available<br />
when cannabis is legalized, including<br />
growers, quality control,<br />
operations and security and much<br />
more, according to Barrie Smith,<br />
a recruitment consultant with the<br />
Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation.<br />
Employers are looking for<br />
people who want to work within<br />
the industry, but not necessarily<br />
want to work hands-on with<br />
cannabis. Other jobs within the<br />
field include financial advisers,<br />
retail managers, and heating and<br />
energy efficiency technicians.<br />
Many other industries will also<br />
be affected by legalization of cannabis,<br />
according to Smith.<br />
Evio, a Canadian cosmetic<br />
company, plans to sell 23,000<br />
tubes of topical products that contain<br />
cannabis, such as eye liner,<br />
lipsticks and many other kinds of<br />
make ups, shortly after legalization.<br />
A tech company will also sell<br />
a virtual reality stimulator that<br />
will enhance the feeling of “being<br />
high” without ingesting cannabis.<br />
Even Statistics Canada is getting<br />
involved. The agency has<br />
hired a contractor to test wastewater<br />
to manage THC levels, so the<br />
government can access the most<br />
accurate data to identify how<br />
much cannabis is being used and<br />
consumed in Canada.<br />
Smith says employers will be<br />
looking for professionalism within<br />
in the industry. They are also<br />
looking for transferable skills.<br />
“We want to know your skills,<br />
and talents and how we can translate<br />
them into the workforce of the<br />
cannabis industry,” says Smith.<br />
Durham College is one of the<br />
first schools to have the Medical<br />
Cannabis Fundamentals for Business<br />
Professionals course. Amber<br />
Johnson is an instructor.<br />
She says the course consists of<br />
learning about the plant itself, the<br />
history of the plant, and helping<br />
people prepare for interviews for<br />
Photograph by Kaatje Henrick<br />
Valerie Penney, who works at the Peace Pipe in Oshawa, is excited for the legalization of cannabis.<br />
jobs within the industry.<br />
The legalization of cannabis<br />
will have a positive impact<br />
on Canada because people have<br />
been using it for years for health<br />
and leisure purposes, according to<br />
Johnson.<br />
“Hemp, which is a strain of<br />
cannabis was the first plant grown<br />
in Canada. Humans have been<br />
using cannabis as a medical treatment<br />
for more than 26,000 years<br />
and we’ve forgotten that,” said<br />
Johnson.<br />
The course will be available<br />
at Durham College on March 24<br />
and 25. The course is $450.
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14 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> March 6 - 12, 20<strong>18</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Community<br />
Appreciating sports in Oshawa<br />
The land where we stand is the traditional<br />
territory of the Mississuagas<br />
of Scugog Island First Nation. Uncovering<br />
the hidden stories about our<br />
community is built on is what the<br />
<strong>Chronicle</strong>'s newe feature series, the<br />
Land Where We, is about.<br />
Pierre Sanz<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
The Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame<br />
has been inspiring athletes since<br />
it opened in 1986. It began in<br />
1982 when Oshawa City Council<br />
made a request to open the Hall<br />
of Fame and the Oshawa Civic<br />
Auditorium Corporation formed<br />
a committee to make it happen.<br />
“How it all started was back<br />
in 1982,” explains Dan Walerowich,<br />
the current chairman of<br />
the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame,<br />
“there was a city council at the<br />
time and they made a comment<br />
about how it would be nice to<br />
have a Hall of Fame in Oshawa<br />
that would recognize the accomplishments<br />
of athletes in the<br />
community.”<br />
In 1983, the founding Board<br />
of Governors for the Oshawa<br />
Sports Hall of Fame were approved<br />
by Oshawa City Council.<br />
The Council also approved<br />
a constitution with a mission to<br />
recognize and honour the great<br />
achievements of individual athletes<br />
and teams in Oshawa who<br />
have accomplished excellence<br />
and notoriety in sports and have<br />
also made a huge influence to<br />
the expansion of sport.<br />
Terry Kelly, who was the<br />
chairman of the founding Board<br />
of Governors in 1986, was approached<br />
about making the Hall.<br />
He put together an induction<br />
committee to get the creation of<br />
the Hall going. The committee<br />
had Eric Wesselby, Charles Pell<br />
and Steve Keating, to name a<br />
few.<br />
On May 21, 1986, the Oshawa<br />
Sports Hall of Fame was<br />
officially opened by name, the<br />
chairman of the Canada’s Sports<br />
Hall of Fame. The Oshawa Civic<br />
Auditorium was the home of<br />
the Hall of Fame when it first<br />
opened.<br />
A total of 34 inductees were<br />
honoured during the first ceremony.<br />
Ever since then, an annual<br />
induction ceremony with free<br />
admission has been held on the<br />
last Wednesday in May.<br />
A few of the first inductees<br />
back in 1986 were Barbara<br />
Underhill (skating), Bill Dell<br />
(football), Eddie Westfall (hockey)<br />
and Andrew Stewart (baseball).<br />
All of them were born in<br />
Oshawa.<br />
From day one, Walerowich<br />
says the Board wanted to open<br />
a museum and showcase athlete<br />
memorabilia.<br />
The first logo the Hall of Fame<br />
adopted lasted from 1986-2006<br />
then a new logo was released.<br />
The new logo, which was unveiled<br />
once the museum opened,<br />
has four pillars in it, which represent<br />
ability, sportsmanship,<br />
character and contribution.<br />
After the Hall of Fame was<br />
located at the Oshawa Civic<br />
Auditorium, in 1997 the Board<br />
of Governors wanted to move<br />
the location from its corridors to<br />
a 2,100 square foot fitness room<br />
adjacent to the box office lobby<br />
at the facility.<br />
On April 7, 20<strong>08</strong>, mayor John<br />
Grey approved the move into the<br />
General Motors Centre. When<br />
the GM Centre was changed to<br />
the Tributes Communities Centre,<br />
the Hall of Fame was not impacted.<br />
The Oshawa Sports Hall of<br />
Fame had a big impact on Nick<br />
Springer. Springer is an inductee<br />
from 1992 for his achievements<br />
in soccer.<br />
Springer is a Hungarian native<br />
who arrived in Oshawa in<br />
1958. He is the founder of the<br />
Oshawa Turul Soccer Club,<br />
which has over 3,000 members.<br />
Thanks to his work in founding<br />
the club with his organizational<br />
abilities, Springer was granted<br />
three outstanding National<br />
Achievement Awards.<br />
Once the Hall opened in<br />
1986, Springer always thought of<br />
being inducted as a dream. What<br />
helped him achieve his induction<br />
was his contribution to local<br />
soccer, along with his success.<br />
Springer led the Oshawa Turul<br />
under 19 team to gold at the Sao<br />
Paulo Cup in 1985.<br />
He was recognized with the<br />
1987 Olympic Celebration Medal<br />
as a coach.<br />
Springer was always a very<br />
modest guy. “I don’t know if I<br />
deserve to be here,” he said in an<br />
Oshawa This Week article after<br />
his induction in 1992.<br />
The history of the Hall of<br />
Fame will continue to grow and<br />
become richer every year as new<br />
athletes get inducted. The next<br />
induction will take place Wednesday,<br />
May 30, 20<strong>18</strong>.<br />
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Serving the community for over 150 years<br />
The land where we stand is the traditional<br />
territory of the Mississaugas of<br />
Scugog Island First Nation. Uncovering<br />
the hidden stories about the land<br />
our community is built on is what the<br />
<strong>Chronicle</strong>'s new feature series, the Land<br />
Where We Stand, is about.<br />
Claudia Latino<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
The church's walls have seen and<br />
heard all that has transpired.<br />
“If you ignore history, it will reach<br />
out, grab you, and shake you, and<br />
say ‘Hey, pay attention!’.<br />
Whitby assists that natural impulse<br />
for history to come back to life and<br />
to not be forgotten,” said Donald<br />
Orville-Merrifield at Heritage<br />
Day. St. John’s Anglican<br />
Church has been standing since<br />
Whitby was a grain shipping village<br />
in <strong>18</strong>46.<br />
It is now the headquarters of<br />
Durham Region.<br />
The church has had many people<br />
worship within its walls over the<br />
last <strong>17</strong>6 years. Marjorie Sorell, author<br />
of What the Walls Have Seen and<br />
Heard During the last 165 years, and<br />
active member of the Port Hope<br />
and district, wrote the book to commemorate<br />
the church’s 165-year<br />
anniversary.<br />
“Indeed, the church’s ‘Walls have<br />
Seen and Heard’ all that has transpired,<br />
the parishioners’ prayers<br />
and dreams, and have been witness<br />
to the changes in the community,”<br />
writes Sorell in the introduction.<br />
Though many people spend<br />
their weekends within the Anglican<br />
church, once a year, the church’s<br />
community and residents of the<br />
town come together to celebrate<br />
how far the church has come on<br />
Heritage Day.<br />
The one-day event takes place<br />
on 201 Brock St. S, in downtown<br />
Whitby. The community vendors<br />
cover four blocks of downtown<br />
along Brock Street where hundreds<br />
of long time and new residents<br />
come to share their passion for<br />
Whitby’s heritage.<br />
People walk up and down the<br />
street, listening to music from The<br />
Whitby Brass Band, eating cotton<br />
candy and popcorn while looking<br />
at organizations of what the town<br />
brings to its community such as<br />
The Farmers’ Market vendor, selling<br />
homemade baked goods and<br />
fresh produce.<br />
The event has been a part of<br />
Whitby since the late 1980’s and<br />
has been a yearly tradition to this<br />
day.<br />
Brian Winter, 70, a retired archivist<br />
of Whitby, attends the event<br />
St. John's Anglican Church present day.<br />
every year. He is part of the architectural<br />
committee called ‘Heritage<br />
Whitby’.<br />
He and others sit at a booth behind<br />
a desk, displaying historical<br />
architectural photographs of Trafalgar<br />
Castle, St. John’s Anglican<br />
Church, and other buildings that<br />
Photo illustration by Claudia Latino<br />
Before and after picture of St John's Anglican church.<br />
Photograph by Claudia Latino<br />
are still standing since the <strong>18</strong>40’s,<br />
while selling Winter’s own book<br />
called<br />
<strong>Chronicle</strong>s of a County Town: Whitby<br />
Past and Present that was published<br />
in 1999 and has been selling copies<br />
ever since.<br />
Winter has been researching<br />
the town’s history since he was 13<br />
years old. He became archivist for<br />
Whitby in 1968, retiring in 2012.<br />
He decided to write an updated<br />
book since the last book written at<br />
the time was back in 1907.<br />
Wil Stonehill, the minister of St.<br />
John’s Anglican Church, has been<br />
part of the church’s community<br />
since 2012.<br />
He says people who were part of<br />
the church’s community reflect on<br />
how St. John’s impacted their lives<br />
through Sunday School picnics,<br />
member meetings, and marriage.<br />
Stonehill wants the residents of<br />
Whitby to understand the church<br />
still stands today because of them.<br />
“The people in this town hold a<br />
significant place in their lives and I<br />
think that’s really special,” he said.<br />
“We as a church community want<br />
the people to know we care about<br />
them. We want to show them we<br />
are interested in their lives, how<br />
their families and children are doing,<br />
their celebrations, and their<br />
struggles.<br />
These people who are part of our<br />
community are truly good, caring<br />
people.” Stonehill was inspired to<br />
become a minister ever since he<br />
involved himself in a church community.<br />
He met his social circle through<br />
a church setting and is still friends<br />
with them today. “Most of my<br />
friends today I made in church.<br />
We hung out together, we went<br />
out for dinner after church, and<br />
after youth group. We went out<br />
to bars at night together,” he said.<br />
“We became really close friends<br />
even though we are all spread out<br />
through North America. We still<br />
keep in touch and pray for each<br />
other. That’s what a church’s job<br />
should be, to keep the community<br />
connected in the interest of other<br />
people’s lives.”<br />
Heritage Day distinguishes the<br />
connection between its history and<br />
people. Brian Winter describes the<br />
event to be important towards the<br />
newer residents of the town to acquaint<br />
themselves to the history –<br />
especially St. John’s.<br />
Winter explains the church looks<br />
the same as it was when the church<br />
opened in <strong>18</strong>46.<br />
On the corner of Brock and Victoria<br />
Street, the church was built<br />
out of limestone from Kingston,<br />
Ont.<br />
“A man named John Welsh who<br />
was a store keeper in Windsor<br />
Bay, now called Port Whitby since<br />
<strong>18</strong>47. He shipped grain from Whitby<br />
Harbour and when he went to<br />
Kingston, he got limestone that was<br />
cut by the Quarries. He brought it<br />
back to Whitby and built a store out<br />
of the limestone,” he said.<br />
“John also had enough limestone<br />
to build a church, the St. John’s<br />
Anglican Church.<br />
Christine Elliot and her husband<br />
Jim Flaherty’s house on<br />
Garden Street is also built out of<br />
the same limestone used to build<br />
the church.”<br />
Winter says after Welsh passed<br />
away, he was buried in the cemetery<br />
behind the church and<br />
his tombstone can be viewed by<br />
residents today.<br />
The stained glass windows lying<br />
against the grey limestone walls<br />
and important figures buried in<br />
the cemetery that he researched at<br />
the age of 13, inspired him to one<br />
day walk out of the church’s great<br />
black doors, hand in hand with the<br />
love of his life.<br />
In 1976, 29-year-old Winter<br />
did get the chance to marry in the<br />
church he always saw himself getting<br />
married in – with a girl who<br />
happened to be a member of St.<br />
John’s Anglican Church.<br />
The land where the church<br />
stands and the church itself is a<br />
concrete reminder of the town’s<br />
history and community.<br />
On September 30, 20<strong>17</strong> at Heritage<br />
Day, Winter describes Whitby<br />
in three words. “Beautiful heritage,<br />
that’s two words. No I meant to say,<br />
a very beautiful heritage. That’s<br />
three words,” he said.<br />
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Photograph provided by ERA Architecture<br />
Photograph by Aly Beach<br />
The Harriet House before it was demolished.<br />
The land, on which the Harriet House used to sit, as it looks now.<br />
The land where we stand is the traditional<br />
territory of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island<br />
First Nation. Uncovering the hidden<br />
stories about the land our community is<br />
built on is what the <strong>Chronicle</strong>'s new feature<br />
series, The Land Where We Stand,<br />
is about.<br />
Aly Beach<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
Once upon a time, there was<br />
an old, decrepit house on Simcoe<br />
St. North, in Oshawa. The<br />
windows were boarded, the door<br />
creaked open and slammed shut.<br />
The greenery had begun to overtake<br />
it. The house was surrounded<br />
by a massive construction site and<br />
seemed out of place. One day it<br />
was there. The next it wasn’t.<br />
This house was located at 2300<br />
Simcoe St. North, just past Durham<br />
College and UOIT, until<br />
around 2016. It originally belonged<br />
to Harriet Cock, affectionately<br />
known as “Granny Cock” by<br />
relatives and local archivists. She<br />
was one of Oshawa’s first female<br />
landowners.<br />
Being a female landowner was<br />
unusual in the <strong>18</strong>00’s, as was being<br />
independently wealthy. Unlike<br />
most women during that time,<br />
Granny Cock could vote before<br />
Confederation. The requirement<br />
for voting prior to Confederation<br />
was to be a landowner. This ‘loophole’<br />
was closed after confederation<br />
in <strong>18</strong>67.<br />
Granny Cock immigrated to<br />
Canada from Cornwall, England<br />
in <strong>18</strong>46 with plenty of money,<br />
her daughter, son-in-law and her<br />
prized mahogany table.<br />
Granny Cock was born in<br />
<strong>17</strong>87. She amassed her fortune<br />
when both her father and husband<br />
died. Her father was a wealthy<br />
barrel maker who also owned a<br />
barrel factory, and her husband<br />
was a prosperous grocer.<br />
Soon after immigrating,<br />
Granny Cock started buying land.<br />
Over the course of her lifetime, it<br />
is estimated she owned over 250<br />
The Harriet House<br />
acres of land in north Oshawa and<br />
the Georgian Bay area.<br />
Granny Cock built herself a<br />
house, ran a successful farm and<br />
lived a comfortable life in Oshawa.<br />
She died in <strong>18</strong>84, at the age of 97.<br />
She is buried in Union Cemetery.<br />
In her will, she gave her house<br />
to her grandson, William Guy,<br />
a member of Oshawa’s influential<br />
Guy family. It is unclear who<br />
owned the house directly after<br />
him. In recent history, the house<br />
was property of Windfields Farm<br />
until 2009. The land was then purchased<br />
by Canada’s largest real estate<br />
investment trust, RioCan, in<br />
2012. And so began the battle over<br />
Harriet’s House.<br />
RioCan was ordered by Heritage<br />
Oshawa to produce a report of<br />
the house, to see what the preservation<br />
options were.<br />
In 2012, RioCan hired Toronto-based<br />
company ERA Architecture<br />
to consult on the house and<br />
do the report.<br />
The report, presented to Oshawa<br />
City Council in April 2012,<br />
stated Cock’s house “is a rare example<br />
of early vernacular architecture<br />
in the Oshawa area likely<br />
dating from the <strong>18</strong>30’s.” This was<br />
based off studies of the Guy House,<br />
which is very similar in architecture<br />
and general style. It was discovered<br />
not long after the report<br />
that the time-period was wrong,<br />
and the houses were actually from<br />
the <strong>18</strong>40’s. This error was based<br />
off misinformation given to the<br />
Oshawa Museum, where Guy<br />
House is located.<br />
According to the ERA report,<br />
Harriet’s House “was found to be<br />
in sufficiently good condition to<br />
enable it to withstand the impact<br />
of relocation.” It was decided by<br />
Heritage Oshawa that RioCan<br />
could relocate the house for between<br />
$40,000 and $45,000.<br />
Four years later, nothing had<br />
happened. The house was still<br />
where it had always been. In 2016,<br />
the developers deemed the house<br />
was deemed too decrepit to move.<br />
Joel Wittnebel, editor of The Oshawa<br />
Express, pointed out in an<br />
article from 2012 that Harriet’s<br />
House had managed to survive<br />
for over 150 years, but apparently<br />
those four years did a number on<br />
it.<br />
“The impression I get is that<br />
it just didn’t fit into the overall<br />
scheme of what they wanted,” says<br />
Jennifer Weymark, archivist at the<br />
Oshawa Museum. She has lived in<br />
the area since 1999.<br />
In 2013, Oshawa city council<br />
carried a motion that approved<br />
the move proposed by Heritage<br />
Oshawa and suggested to make<br />
it part of Windfields Farm, and<br />
designate it as a historic building.<br />
In the request to demolish the<br />
house, RioCan added in a $15,000<br />
donation to the city of Oshawa for<br />
Windfields Farm preservation.<br />
The money would go to Oshawa<br />
Heritage Week at Oshawa Fire<br />
Hall 6.<br />
Harriet’s House holds a special<br />
place in Weymark’s heart. She<br />
would have liked to have seen the<br />
house survive, because its presence<br />
changes the historical narrative of<br />
the area.<br />
“I think she’s a really interesting<br />
aspect of our early history that<br />
we don’t celebrate enough,” says<br />
Weymark, who believes when we<br />
talk about history we often focus<br />
only on the male perspective.<br />
Weymark says the fact this<br />
house exclusively belonged to a<br />
woman changes the story. The<br />
house could tell a story driven by<br />
an influential woman. The bulldozing<br />
of the historic Cock house<br />
brings about many questions: How<br />
could it have been saved? Should it<br />
have been saved? What could have<br />
been done to prevent this?<br />
“Obviously preserving buildings<br />
that have historic value; It<br />
comes from the citizens of community<br />
that really rally behind<br />
and say ‘this is a building we think<br />
needs to be saved’,” says Weymark.<br />
“It was those citizens who<br />
saved these three buildings, particularly<br />
this one [Henry House],<br />
Guy House and Robinson House.<br />
It was a citizen effort that had<br />
them preserved,” says Weymark.<br />
Heritage Oshawa Chair Laura<br />
Thursby says, “We seek out properties,<br />
some with cultural significance<br />
and some with interesting<br />
architecture.”<br />
Heritage Oshawa is Oshawa’s<br />
municipal heritage committee.<br />
They are not truly advocates, but<br />
advise the City Council on matters<br />
related to heritage.<br />
They have a list of historical<br />
significant buildings called an<br />
inventory. If a building on the inventory<br />
is being changed, Heritage<br />
Oshawa can step in and make<br />
recommendations about how the<br />
changes can implemented to conserve<br />
the heritage aspects of the<br />
building. They are also notified<br />
if the owner of a building on the<br />
inventory applies for a demolition<br />
permit.<br />
If Heritage Oshawa feels like<br />
a building on the inventory holds<br />
notable historical significance, especially<br />
if it is threatened in some<br />
way, they will ask for a report on<br />
the property. Based on the recommendations<br />
outlined in the report,<br />
Heritage Oshawa can recommend<br />
to Oshawa city council that building<br />
should be designated. This<br />
gives it extra protections and helps<br />
conserve the building. However,<br />
designation does not necessarily<br />
mean that it is completely safe<br />
from demolition.<br />
Heritage Oshawa simply gives<br />
recommendations to city council<br />
about what they believe should be<br />
done with the building. Ultimately,<br />
all final decisions are made by<br />
council.<br />
It is important to mention when<br />
Heritage Oshawa makes their recommendations,<br />
they do not consider<br />
the current state of the house,<br />
only the historical significance of<br />
the building.<br />
Thursby says it can be disappointing<br />
when historical buildings<br />
are destroyed, such as Harriet’s<br />
House, as once demolished<br />
they can never be brought back.<br />
“It can be frustrating, but our<br />
job is simply the heritage side,”<br />
says Thursby. Recently, there have<br />
been two places Heritage Oshawa<br />
has tried to protect.<br />
The first one is downtown’s<br />
Memorial Park. Heritage Oshawa<br />
recommended it should be added<br />
to the inventory for its heritage significance<br />
and protection. Council<br />
vetoed the recommendation.<br />
“It is a public space that is valued<br />
by citizens,” says Thursby.<br />
Harriet’s House was also recommended<br />
for designation in 2012<br />
and was vetoed.<br />
The second is the Robert<br />
McLaughlin’s house on Simcoe<br />
Street. McLaughlin was father to<br />
Sam McLaughlin, the man who is<br />
credited with the creation of General<br />
Motors of Canada.<br />
Heritage Oshawa is in the process<br />
of trying have it designated as<br />
a historical building.<br />
“We consider it significant in<br />
the heritage landscape of Oshawa,”<br />
says Thursby.<br />
“These buildings are central to<br />
Oshawa culture. They both contribute<br />
in different ways and they<br />
both have value,” says Thursby.<br />
Weymark explains there are<br />
many historical buildings that can<br />
be worked into a modern setting,<br />
while also enhancing their history<br />
and the area surrounding it.<br />
While all of this may have been<br />
avoidable, Harriet Cock and her<br />
home are now a lost piece of Oshawa’s<br />
History.<br />
Currently, RioCan is beginning<br />
to build a shopping centre<br />
where Harriet’s House once stood<br />
and have agreed to install a plaque<br />
to signify who once owned the<br />
land. Granny Cock has become<br />
yet another historical woman who<br />
will be forgotten.<br />
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Community chronicle.durhamcollege.ca March 6 - 12, 20<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> <strong>17</strong><br />
The importance<br />
of the post office<br />
Photograph by Heather Snowdon<br />
40 King Street used to house Oshawa's first stand-alone post<br />
office, which was torn down in 1957. Today the property is<br />
home to a burger joint, income tax and jewerley store.<br />
The land where we stand is the traditional<br />
territory of the Mississauga’s<br />
of Scugog Island First Nation. Uncovering<br />
the hidden stories about the land<br />
our community is built on is what the<br />
<strong>Chronicle</strong>’s new feature series, the Land<br />
Where We Stand, is about.<br />
Heather Snowdon<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
When Bryan Jacula was ten years<br />
old his parents, Mary Nee Rudka<br />
and Michael Jacula, owned a store.<br />
Located on King Street and Westmount<br />
Avenue in Oshawa, it was a<br />
sub post office, which means it was<br />
a post office as well as a general<br />
store. Now in his fifties, Jacula still<br />
lives in Oshawa.<br />
“It’s been so long since I’ve<br />
thought about that store,” says<br />
Jacula.<br />
It was <strong>18</strong>35 when Edward Skae<br />
came to Oshawa.<br />
Back then it wasn’t known as<br />
Oshawa, the town was small and<br />
was just starting to grow.<br />
Skae was well liked by residents<br />
and the town became known as<br />
Skae’s Corners.<br />
As Skae’s Corners grew, there<br />
was a need for a post office and in<br />
<strong>18</strong>42 Skae sent in an application<br />
to Home District in parliament, a<br />
form of government at the time,<br />
asking for one.<br />
In the <strong>18</strong>00s, it was common for<br />
residents to go to general stores to<br />
pick up mail.<br />
Many small towns didn’t have<br />
stand-alone post offices.<br />
Sub post offices, located in general<br />
stores, were the norm.<br />
To avoid confusion, parliament<br />
told him he could have a post office<br />
if Skae’s Corners changed its name<br />
since there were too many towns in<br />
the area with the name ‘corner’.<br />
The townspeople held a meeting<br />
and many wealthy residents in<br />
Skae’s Corners were in attendance,<br />
Moody Farewell was one of them.<br />
He was a farmer and large hotel<br />
owner in Oshawa.<br />
Legend has it he asked his native<br />
friends what the name of the town<br />
was and they told him it was called<br />
Oshawa.<br />
Another legend says Farewell was<br />
angry with the natives for coming<br />
to the meeting and there was a confrontation<br />
between them.<br />
Jennifer Weymark, archivist at<br />
Oshawa’s Community Museum,<br />
says one of the legends is likely true.<br />
The natives named the town<br />
Oshawa, which was translated<br />
from Ojibwa, an Algonquian language,<br />
means to portage or to take<br />
the canoe out of the water and go<br />
over land.<br />
Other translations include the<br />
crossing of the stream where the<br />
canoe was exchanged for the trail.<br />
Skae opened Oshawa’s first post<br />
office in <strong>18</strong>45, known as a sub post<br />
office, because it was located in his<br />
general store.<br />
He became Oshawa’s first post<br />
master.<br />
Skae was post master for three<br />
years, following his death at the<br />
age of 44.<br />
In the <strong>18</strong>00s, mail was delivered<br />
by sleighs and stage coaches, which<br />
are horse drawn carriages.<br />
Before that, men on horseback<br />
delivered mail from Kingston to<br />
Toronto on what we now know as<br />
Highway 2 or King Street.<br />
It took <strong>18</strong> days for mail to reach<br />
Quebec from Pickering, Ontario.<br />
Lake Ontario became a lifeline<br />
to early settlers who used it as their<br />
only means of transportation, and<br />
in <strong>18</strong>22 settlers began to establish<br />
themselves along Highway 2.<br />
I'm glad we were<br />
a part of it.<br />
It wasn’t until the <strong>18</strong>50s that<br />
Canada would start the Trans-Atlantic<br />
mail delivery and in <strong>18</strong>56<br />
Canada opened the Grand Trunk<br />
Railway and mail was no longer<br />
carried by stagecoaches or on<br />
horseback.<br />
The closure of Skae’s post office<br />
sparked a change in Oshawa.<br />
In <strong>18</strong>72, a new sub post office<br />
was opened on King Street.<br />
As Oshawa continued to grow,<br />
there was a need for a larger post<br />
office.<br />
In 1907, Oshawa acquired its<br />
first stand-alone post office, located<br />
on 40 King St. E.<br />
It was running until 1950, when<br />
the City of Oshawa decided to sell<br />
it.<br />
A fire in 1955 left no one to bid<br />
on the property and in 1957, the<br />
first stand-alone post office was demolished<br />
and left Oshawa forever.<br />
The actual whereabouts of Oshawa’s<br />
first sub post office, in Skae’s<br />
General Store is unknown.<br />
Myths surrounding its location<br />
suggest the building was put on the<br />
corner of King and Queen Street<br />
in <strong>18</strong>25.<br />
According to an archival article,<br />
written in 1949, by Oshawa’s Daily<br />
Times Gazette, was torn down for<br />
a grocery store in the early 1950s.<br />
There was a demand for a post<br />
office in Oshawa after the closure<br />
of the 40 King Street’s post office<br />
in 1950.<br />
In March 1951, the Jacula family<br />
opened a sub post office in their<br />
convenience store, located at 399<br />
King St. W.<br />
“It was a tight fit, putting the<br />
post office in the convenience<br />
store,” says Jacula.<br />
According to an article provided<br />
by Eva Saether, local history<br />
and genealogy librarian at Oshawa<br />
public libraries, in 1950 two<br />
residents living on Church and<br />
William Street in Oshawa were<br />
asked to vacate their homes for a<br />
new post office.<br />
In 1952, the new stand-alone<br />
post office was built. But it was only<br />
temporary.<br />
Many postal closures happened<br />
in 1986.<br />
In Oshawa, there were 5,955<br />
rural and urban post offices.<br />
By the 1990s, there were 93<br />
urban and 1,442 rural post office<br />
closures, leaving 14,000 workers in<br />
the postal services without jobs.<br />
From 1989 to 1992, 2,250 rural<br />
post offices closed and there were<br />
153 urban closures from 1992 to<br />
1993.<br />
Canada Post fired an average of<br />
47 workers per month in 1992.<br />
Canada Post was planning to<br />
shut down public post offices by<br />
1996, saying it would make sense<br />
economically to have one public<br />
post office.<br />
A new post office was opened at<br />
47 Simcoe St. S. in 1954.<br />
This building is still being used<br />
today, and this location is the implemented<br />
plan from Canada Post.<br />
In Oshawa, there is now only one<br />
public post office.<br />
Bryan Jacula says his parents<br />
were adamant about the importance<br />
of having a post office in<br />
Oshawa.<br />
“I’m glad we were a part of it,”<br />
says Jacula.<br />
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<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> March 6 - 12, 20<strong>18</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Community<br />
The Regent Theatre's legacy<br />
The land where we stand is the traditional<br />
territory of the Mississaugas of<br />
Scugog Island First Nation. Uncovering<br />
the hidden stories about the land our community<br />
is built on is what the <strong>Chronicle</strong>'s<br />
new feature series, the Land Where We<br />
Stand, is about.<br />
Michael Bromby<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
“Oshawa in the 1920’s was never<br />
fancy,” says Louise Parkes a former<br />
city councillor. Then the Regent<br />
Theatre opened.<br />
Louise Parkes is one of many<br />
individuals who contributed to<br />
the history of the Regent Theatre<br />
throughout its years of operation.<br />
The elegance and magnificence<br />
of Hollywood came to Oshawa<br />
when the doors opened to the Regent<br />
Theatre in 1921.<br />
Famous Players Canadian Corporation<br />
opened the Regent Theatre<br />
in the rural town of Oshawa,<br />
which lead to the town becoming a<br />
city in 1924 due to the popularity of<br />
the Regent Theatre.<br />
In 1921, the Regent Theatre<br />
saw sold out shows almost every<br />
night because of the celebrities<br />
who were performing. Judy Garland<br />
performed various shows at<br />
the Regent Theatre, but she was<br />
not alone. Other celebrities such as<br />
Lucille Ball, Charlie Chaplin, and<br />
Bob Hope performed at the theatre.<br />
Jennifer Weymark is the archivist<br />
at the Oshawa Museum, she says<br />
the Regent Theatre brought in a<br />
sense of community.<br />
“It gave them opportunity, it had<br />
a chance to do musicals and movies,”<br />
says Weymark. “Those who<br />
came got the chance to be part<br />
of the larger world in ways they<br />
couldn’t before.”<br />
Leon Osier was the general<br />
manager of the theatre during the<br />
1920’s and into the 1940’s. Frederick<br />
Kinton was hired to be the<br />
first projectionist in Oshawa after<br />
he returned home from the first<br />
world war with wounds which later<br />
caused his death.<br />
During the second world war,<br />
Osier began playing videos and<br />
clips about the second world war<br />
on the big screen. Communities<br />
across Canada sent materials to<br />
make guns and ammunition which<br />
included tin foil, and scrap metal.<br />
Osier helped the Canadian men<br />
by allowing people to donate their<br />
recycled metals which were sent<br />
overseas to help the war.<br />
“They collected tinfoil for the<br />
war efforts, so it became a community<br />
hub,” says Weymark.<br />
As the times changed, more<br />
brand name cinemas such as Cineplex<br />
moved into Oshawa. This took<br />
business away from the historic theatre.<br />
Throughout the 1970’s and<br />
into the 1980’s, the Regent Theatre<br />
struggled to make money. The theatre<br />
closed its doors in 1989, but was<br />
given an adrenalyn rush in 1997.<br />
In 1997, four local business men<br />
purchased the theatre from Famous<br />
Players Canadian Corporation and<br />
turned it into a night club. The<br />
night club, Adrenalyn Rush, never<br />
took off, despite being in the heart<br />
of downtown Oshawa.<br />
In 1999, the owners closed the<br />
night club and applied for a permit<br />
to have the theatre demolished.<br />
“The theatre was threatened with<br />
demolition and supposed to be a<br />
parking lot,” says Parkes.<br />
The historic building was almost<br />
replaced with asphalt but Heritage<br />
Oshawa got involved. Louise<br />
Parkes, a member of this committee,<br />
decided this was not going to<br />
be the end for the Regent.<br />
“We all have passion projects and<br />
this is one of mine, saving the theatre,”<br />
says Parkes.<br />
Parkes moved to Oshawa with<br />
her family in 1988 and remembers<br />
seeing shows at the Regent throughout<br />
her childhood. The theatre became<br />
a passion in her life and she<br />
wanted to see it grow.<br />
Parkes is the owner of Parmac<br />
Relationship Marketing in downtown<br />
Oshawa. She also helps her<br />
husband Darryl Sherman run Wilson<br />
Furniture in Oshawa.<br />
Parkes wanted to have the old<br />
theatre turned into a performing<br />
arts centre. The city turned her<br />
down and sold the theatre to Mike<br />
Burley, a 21-year-old man who was<br />
given a five-year contract in 1999.<br />
Burley owned Hourglass Theatre<br />
Productions and used the Regent<br />
Theatre as a space to host his group.<br />
“The opportunity was lost, which<br />
motivated me to come onto council,”<br />
says Parkes.<br />
Parkes was elected as a city councillor<br />
in 2000, she continued to advocate<br />
for the theatre. She brought<br />
in Janis Barlow, who specializes in<br />
the design management of theatres<br />
across North America.<br />
Barlow wrote a report to the city<br />
explaining how this was the best location<br />
in Oshawa for a performing<br />
arts centre. However, the bad luck<br />
continued for the Regent as the city<br />
council voted no.<br />
Parkes became frustrated with<br />
the city council and began working<br />
with councillor Kathy Clarke to<br />
find a different approach in saving<br />
the theatre.<br />
“You have to do things eventually<br />
or else people are going to leave the<br />
city,” says Parkes. “When I came on<br />
council there was not a new public<br />
building in Oshawa for 26 years.”<br />
Burley failed to keep the theatre<br />
open due to the cost of running it.<br />
The city bought it back in 2001. It<br />
remained closed because the theatre<br />
needed construction work before<br />
it could be re-opened.<br />
To bring life back to the theatre<br />
in 2007. Parkes and Clarke got the<br />
city to negotiate a deal with theatre<br />
expert Glyn Laverick of Toronto.<br />
Laverick was the CEO of the<br />
Danforth music hall in Toronto.<br />
He has worked with Oshawa theatre<br />
company Dancyn Productions<br />
which is run by Joan Mansfield.<br />
Photographs by Michael Bromby<br />
(Top) Former city councillor, Louise Parkes, in the Regent<br />
Theatre. (Bottom) View of the Regent Theatre stage.<br />
Laverick made her his artistic<br />
director at the Regent Theatre in<br />
Oshawa during his time of ownership.<br />
The city agreed to give Laverick<br />
$700,000 to re-construct the entire<br />
building, but it had to be complete<br />
by the end of 20<strong>08</strong>.<br />
“Glyn Laverick restored the front<br />
and made it into what we see today,”<br />
says Parkes.<br />
The theatre opened in October<br />
of 20<strong>08</strong>, however, Laverick failed<br />
to meet his deadline. During the<br />
movies or live performances, construction<br />
equipment was visible<br />
throughout the theatre.<br />
The Regent failed to take off<br />
once again, and it closed in January<br />
2009.<br />
Laverick failed to complete work<br />
on the theatre and contractors were<br />
left without money.<br />
Lawsuits were filed against Laverick.<br />
Complainants owed the contractors<br />
money for work, many said they<br />
lost up to $200,000.<br />
Parkes decided to focus on her<br />
business, which she shares with<br />
her husband Darryl Sherman, and<br />
gained the courage to go back to<br />
school.<br />
“It bothered me every day of my<br />
life not finishing school, so I decided<br />
if not now when?” says Parkes, who<br />
completed her degree in history at<br />
Trent University in Oshawa.<br />
She is planning on going back for<br />
her master’s degree in history later<br />
this year.<br />
While Parkes was furthering her<br />
education, a new owner took over<br />
the theatre.<br />
The city was in possession of the<br />
Regent Theatre and decided to sell<br />
it to the University of Ontario Institute<br />
of Technology (UOIT).<br />
The remaining construction was<br />
completed and the theatre opened<br />
once again in 2010.<br />
“The city and the University<br />
have made an effort to change the<br />
downtown and bring culture and<br />
art back,” says Weymark who has<br />
been with the Oshawa Museum<br />
since 1999.<br />
UOIT uses the Regent for lectures<br />
and educational studies for<br />
students, while also putting on<br />
throwback movie nights featuring<br />
“Barefoot in the Park”, and live performances<br />
such as “Abbamania and<br />
Night Fever.”<br />
One of the live performers coming<br />
to the Regent Theatre is Canadian<br />
singer Shania Twin, she has<br />
spent 20 years of her life impersonating<br />
Shania Twain.<br />
However, this is her first time<br />
performing in Oshawa.<br />
Donna Huber currently lives<br />
in Cobourg Ont. but is on a tour<br />
across North America. She is performing<br />
at the Regent theatre on<br />
March 4th but this show is going<br />
to be special for Huber.<br />
“It hits close to home, I have a<br />
ton of friends who are always asking<br />
me when I am going to play close to<br />
home, and now I am,” says Huber.<br />
“I am excited and I hope we pack<br />
the place.”<br />
Shania Twin is just one act you<br />
can see at the Regent Theatre.<br />
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chronicle.durhamcollege.ca March 6 - 12, 20<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 19<br />
Entertainment<br />
Bringing bands to Riot<br />
William McGinn<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
Durham College student Jeremy<br />
(Jay) Hartwell, 20, is in his fourth<br />
semester studying video production,<br />
but has been a fixture on Riot<br />
Radio the entire time, where his<br />
hard work and exuberance for music<br />
and independency is on display<br />
in his show ‘Sub-Terranean.’<br />
The point of the show is to bring<br />
underground music to life, introducing<br />
local Ontario rock bands<br />
who are performing in restaurants<br />
and contests as they build up their<br />
reputation. He was inspired by independent<br />
music station Indie88<br />
bringing artists together and the<br />
band A Fistful of Vinyl.<br />
The bands perform live on his<br />
show at Durham and talk about<br />
their origins, inspirations and lives.<br />
Whenever Hartwell is unable to<br />
find someone, he instead plays<br />
some of his favourite tunes and<br />
talks about them. However, more<br />
than 80 per cent of the time, Hartwell<br />
has managed to have a guest<br />
on his show. During his 38 episodes,<br />
he has successfully managed<br />
to have 28 individual bands on his<br />
show since he began in 2016, three<br />
of them returning for encores.<br />
Some of the bands Hartwell<br />
has brought to his show are: Ghost<br />
Town Architects, Death by Carl,<br />
Backyard Riot, Scudfux and Xephyr.<br />
He also occasionally brings<br />
independent performers.<br />
His favourite guest performers<br />
are The Cardboard Crowns, coincidentally<br />
the first one to perform<br />
live on his show.<br />
“They’re good friends of mine<br />
at this point. I [even] drove out to<br />
Kingston to see them at one show.”<br />
How does he find out about all<br />
these bands?<br />
“Finding different shows and<br />
stuff is moreso about finding venues<br />
where those bands perform,”<br />
he said, citing the Hard Luck Bar,<br />
Photograph by William McGinn<br />
Durham College student Jeremy (Jay) Hartwell has brought dozens of local bands to perform<br />
live on his Riot Radio show.<br />
Smiling Buddha, Atria Bar and the<br />
Moustache Club as examples.<br />
“I usually average five contacts<br />
[of bands] at one time. Planning up<br />
to two months ahead sometimes,”<br />
said Hartwell. He once travelled to<br />
Ottawa for one of these concerts.<br />
In addition to video production,<br />
he was also in the game development<br />
program at Durham.<br />
“It's always been hard balancing<br />
all aspects between the concerts<br />
going to shows getting home<br />
at 2 a.m. and waking up at 6 a.m.<br />
for an 8 a.m. class, but I'd be lying<br />
if I said it wasn't worth it.”<br />
Hartwell is also a musician. He<br />
plays the violin, trombone and<br />
is now learning how to play the<br />
drums and has worked for bands<br />
in the past.<br />
During one episode, Hartwell<br />
and Billy Oyster a.k.a. Dustin Kornegay,<br />
a guitarist who has been on<br />
the show twice, had a discussion<br />
on songwriting.<br />
“In order to write a song, there’s<br />
a singularity of intent that carries<br />
through the whole song and then<br />
you expand it like an accordion<br />
into a particular image, and you<br />
have to have that continuity the<br />
whole way through,” said Oyster.<br />
What Hartwell does is make<br />
up lyrics that appear in a situation<br />
and with the help of the band,<br />
‘Frankenstein’ it together. One example<br />
is the chorus: “My reckless<br />
behaviour, something to savour”<br />
and then you patch another lyric<br />
on top, such as “just like your last<br />
cigarette” or “just like the whiskey<br />
on your breath.”<br />
If all goes according to plan,<br />
Hartwell will graduate this semester<br />
and go on to make music videos,<br />
most likely for a film studio.<br />
Warcross novel a great tech and economy story<br />
New York Times bestselling<br />
young-adult author Marie Lu’s<br />
Warcross, released in 20<strong>17</strong>, is set<br />
in a world situated around a virtual<br />
reality game of the same name.<br />
This world Lu has come up with<br />
does not feel far-fetched. It feels<br />
realistic.<br />
For starters, how does the game<br />
work? It all begins with the Neurolink:<br />
wireless glasses with metal<br />
arms and earphones. You know<br />
how whenever you have a dream<br />
you believe it’s real? Hideo Tenka<br />
uses this premise to create virtual<br />
reality.<br />
The Neurolink glasses help<br />
your brain render virtual worlds<br />
that enable you to do things like<br />
fly around and travel through ice<br />
caves.<br />
Jobs are also created through<br />
Neurolink. One character, named<br />
Hammie, explains that because of<br />
her Ma being good at playing Warcross,<br />
she is able to buy a house<br />
and send her daughter to university.<br />
The protagonist of Warcross,<br />
Emika Chen, lives in New York<br />
and tries to make a living by locating<br />
hackers of the Neurolink. This<br />
is a real job because there are so<br />
many hackers in the world, officers<br />
are too busy to locate all of them.<br />
The Neurolink also allows<br />
downloads, kind of like how we<br />
William<br />
McGinn<br />
have Netflix and iPhones.<br />
But the dark side is a network<br />
called ‘The Dark World’, which<br />
allows people to trade notes for<br />
drugs, weapons and even illegal<br />
power-ups to the game, some of<br />
which were invented by outside<br />
coders.<br />
A sophisticated set of code is<br />
needed for your character to be<br />
invisible or else your entire profile<br />
on your Neurolink, from your<br />
name, address and even bank information<br />
can be compromised.<br />
There are also auctions for assassins,<br />
promising reward money for<br />
contract killers, sometimes for personal<br />
reasons like revenge, or for<br />
authority figures like politicians.<br />
[SPOILER ALERT]<br />
Tenka found out the brain capabilities<br />
of the glasses are able to<br />
locate when someone might have<br />
a violent desire and manipulate<br />
the brain to prevent it, and Tenka<br />
would dictate what constitutes this<br />
manipulation. Not only would<br />
an abusive past give a person the<br />
desire to make crime preventable,<br />
but if this idea came up in<br />
politics there would be two sides<br />
that would oppose the other’s side<br />
entirely. This is because there are<br />
some who prefer freedom of expression<br />
over violence, and vice<br />
versa. For example, when Chen<br />
was in high school, she fought back<br />
against a classmate who was bullying<br />
a friend of hers but if the technology<br />
were to be implemented,<br />
the desire to save her friend would<br />
be negated.<br />
Photograph by William McGinn<br />
The Warcross cover, next to other novels for teens that William McGinn recommends.<br />
Marie Lu’s Warcross creates a<br />
realistic technological world that<br />
channels the desire of humans,<br />
creates understandable jobs, and<br />
has a hidden evil. You can find<br />
Warcross in the teen section at<br />
your local library or bookstore.
20 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> March 6 - 12, 20<strong>18</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Entertainment<br />
Photograph by Cristina Nikolic<br />
Members of the band Excuses Excuses (from left) Jason Nicoll, drummer, Kyle<br />
Wilton, singer, Trevor Bowman, bassist, plastered in paint.<br />
Photograph by William McGinn<br />
(From left) Fynn Badgley, Emily Phillips and Sara Aldsworth rehearsing for the<br />
UOIT/DC Drama Club's upcoming play.<br />
DC band making a<br />
name, no excuses<br />
Pierre Sanz<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
Making it into the music industry is a big<br />
challenge but three local guys are doing<br />
their absolute best to make their dreams<br />
come true. Excuses Excuses is an alternative<br />
punk rock band based in Oshawa that writes<br />
music about mental illness, drug use and the<br />
uncertainty of the future.<br />
The band has been together for two years<br />
and is a group of three: lead singer Kyle Wilton,<br />
21, drummer Jason Nicoll, 21, and bassist<br />
Trevor Bowman, 21.<br />
Wilton and Bowman have played in<br />
bands together since they were 15. The<br />
pair grew up just outside Waterloo and have<br />
known each other since the age of three.<br />
The band formed while studying in<br />
Kingston. Wilton was studying engineering<br />
at Queen’s University while Nicoll and Bowman<br />
were at St. Lawrence College studying<br />
musical production and electrical engineering.<br />
Wilton and Bowman recorded their first<br />
EP with a different drummer. But the band<br />
took shape when Bowman and Nicoll started<br />
hanging out at school.<br />
“After our other drummer left, we went<br />
through a couple people and nothing seemed<br />
to work out and then out of nowhere Trevor<br />
and Jason started hanging out at their college,”<br />
said Wilton.<br />
After the band formed, the three of them<br />
relocated to Oshawa, where Wilton is a second-year<br />
Music Business Management student<br />
and Nicoll is a second-year Video Production<br />
student. Bowman currently works<br />
full-time for Clark’s Basement Systems.<br />
The band’s first EP, Frame of Mind, was<br />
released in November 2016. Wilton says the<br />
band draws inspiration from Canadian music.<br />
“We definitely think that Canadian music<br />
is some of the most powerful music out<br />
there right now and it’s highly underrated<br />
throughout the rest of the world and we<br />
definitely want to be part of changing that,”<br />
said Wilton.<br />
Growing up, the three had similar musical<br />
influences. Wilton grew up listening to<br />
AC/DC and Black Sabbath, while Nicoll<br />
and Bowman both grew up with bands such<br />
as Led Zeppelin and Queens of the Stone<br />
Age.<br />
After growing up into a rock music atmosphere,<br />
the band created its music with influences<br />
such as Billy Talent, Hollerado, Mother<br />
Mother and July Talk - all Canadian rock<br />
bands. The band frequents the Moustache<br />
Club in Oshawa and has a big following in<br />
Waterloo and Kingston.<br />
Away from making music, Wilton is an<br />
avid skateboarder and has been since he<br />
was 11. Nicoll likes to spend his time doing<br />
digital production and Bowman spends the<br />
majority of his time at work.<br />
“Drinking beers, hanging out, spending<br />
time together and getting to know one another<br />
is what we like to do together, while<br />
listening to music,” Wilton said.<br />
While the band is working hard to make<br />
music a full-time job, Wilton and Nicoll are<br />
still in the works of graduating from Durham<br />
College this year and Wilton says it’s<br />
difficult to manage time between class and<br />
practicing.<br />
“It’s totally a balancing act for me. A lot<br />
of what I do in school I can apply to the<br />
band, but I have to do it separately,” Wilton<br />
said. “Finishing assignments and getting in<br />
as much practice time as we need is quite a<br />
difficult process, but it’s definitely do-able.”<br />
The band is working towards a new EP<br />
and is hoping for a June release.<br />
“The new EP is a lot more mature, the<br />
lyrics mean a lot to us and our sound has<br />
grown,” said Nicoll.<br />
Wilton also says Nicoll plays a huge role<br />
in the band’s music becoming more developed<br />
than what it used to be.<br />
“With Jason as our drummer we’ve inherited<br />
more of a rock sound and we feel like<br />
our music has matured a lot in two years,”<br />
said Wilton.<br />
Although Nicoll and Wilton are full-time<br />
college students, Wilton says the band hopes<br />
to tour full-time in March and April across<br />
Ontario on weekends.<br />
After school, Wilton believes anything is<br />
possible for the band.<br />
“The future for the band is to bring this<br />
together as a full-time career option, which<br />
is a lot easier said than done,” Wilton says.<br />
As for what’s next, the band will continue<br />
to try to get signed to a record label and will<br />
be touring across Ontario all summer - and<br />
hopefully across Canada, with a dream to<br />
make it across the world and spread the passion<br />
that come from their music.<br />
Drama Club's play<br />
going a little Grimm<br />
William McGinn<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
After a year’s hiatus, the UOIT/DC Drama<br />
Club is planning to stage a play.<br />
But when exactly The Brothers Grimm<br />
Spectaculathon will be performed has not<br />
been firmed up yet.<br />
According to Sara Aldsworth, who is currently<br />
in charge of the Drama Club and the<br />
play, it will be performed in UP 1500 on a<br />
date to be announced.<br />
The last play performed by the group was<br />
Superficial in 2016.<br />
The cast of the Brothers Grimm Spectuaculathon<br />
includes Aldsworth, Emily<br />
Phillips, Christopher McGowan, Megan<br />
Graichen, Carl Pilon, Fynn Badgley, Trevor<br />
Nieuwohf, Alistair McNamara and Kailey<br />
Haskell. Jacob Neil is in charge of sound.<br />
Written in 2007 by Don Zolidis, the<br />
premise is two narrators are trying to come<br />
up with a play combining all 209 of the stories<br />
published in Grimm’s Fairy Tales from<br />
the 19th century, and in the process they<br />
spoof the collection.<br />
The actors debate how the play should be<br />
written and choreographed, which is part of<br />
the actual live performance.<br />
The play, billed as a raunchy comedy, includes<br />
everything from gore to mockery of<br />
today’s pop culture.<br />
The play is currently in development and<br />
rehearsal, but the club has been in a struggle<br />
to get it done, in part because casting has<br />
been bumpy. According to Aldsworth, at one<br />
time there were 12 actors but three of them<br />
had school schedules that conflicted with rehearsal<br />
times. Despite the changes, the production<br />
has managed to move forward.<br />
Last year, casting problems cancelled<br />
their planned play altogether. The club attempted<br />
to do an adaptation of the play<br />
Pure Nectar by Paul Howard Surridge but<br />
not enough people signed up for roles.<br />
“I chose the [Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon]<br />
script because the problem with last<br />
year was we had a script where we needed<br />
four women and only three women auditioned.<br />
So we couldn’t fill the cast,” said<br />
Aldsworth. “With this script we actually only<br />
need five people, and lots ended up auditioning.”<br />
Getting funding to properly promote the<br />
performance has been a bigger problem<br />
than casting, however.<br />
The club has not put up posters for the<br />
show.<br />
Aldsworth said getting enough posters to<br />
put around the whole campus is too expensive.<br />
They have Durham College’s TV monitors<br />
playing 10 seconds of an advertisement<br />
on hallway televisions, but nothing else. The<br />
Drama Club is looking for more people to<br />
help sponsor and advertise the play.<br />
The stage production is bare bones.<br />
“As for the sets, it’s very minimal,” said<br />
Neil. “We’re mostly just using black backdrops<br />
and the actors are going to be running<br />
on with contextual props and wigs. [The<br />
bare] background gives a lot more focus on<br />
the story, which is something that, with our<br />
cast of actors, definitely benefits the production.”<br />
Tickets are available at the door. They<br />
are free, but with an optional $5 donation.<br />
Go to the UOIT/DC Drama Club! Facebook<br />
page for updates on the play’s production.
The <strong>Chronicle</strong> March 6 - 12, 20<strong>18</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca21<br />
Sports<br />
Young Jays ready for next step<br />
Bichette,<br />
Guerrero<br />
want to<br />
make an<br />
impact in<br />
20<strong>18</strong> and<br />
beyond<br />
Conner McTague<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
How do the best teams in baseball<br />
maintain their success? By acquiring<br />
and stockpiling young, talented<br />
players who can make an impact at<br />
the major league level.<br />
Toronto Blue Jays fans got<br />
a glimpse of their future at the<br />
team’s Winter Fest in January.<br />
Among the top young players<br />
who appeared at Winter Fest<br />
were Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and<br />
Bo Bichette, Baseball America's<br />
number four and number eight<br />
prospects, respectively. Outfielders<br />
Dalton Pompey and Anthony<br />
Alford, pitching prospects Sean<br />
Reid-Foley, Ryan Borucki, Tom<br />
Pannone, Jordan Romano, and<br />
infielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr. appeared.<br />
While Guerrero didn’t speak,<br />
many fans showed up at the Rogers<br />
Centre to see him.<br />
He took photos with fans<br />
and signed autographs for season-ticket<br />
holders. The <strong>18</strong>-yearold<br />
third baseman hit 13 home<br />
runs and drove in 76 runs while<br />
batting for a .323 average, a .425<br />
on-base percentage and a .485<br />
slugging percentage in 119 games<br />
between low-A Lansing and<br />
High-A Dunedin.<br />
Bichette was equally impressive.<br />
The 20-year-old shortstop<br />
led the minor leagues with a .362<br />
average. He also had a .423 onbase<br />
percentage and a .565 slugging<br />
percentage in 110 games in<br />
Lansing and Dunedin. Bichette<br />
says he “can’t wait to get up here<br />
(Toronto). “<br />
Pompey is the most experienced<br />
of the group. The 25-yearold<br />
Canadian has played 59 major<br />
league games and was a post-season<br />
factor in 2015 as he appeared<br />
as a pinch-runner in five games<br />
and stole four bases.<br />
Pompey appeared to finally secure<br />
a roster spot last year, but he<br />
suffered a concussion while playing<br />
for Team Canada at the 20<strong>17</strong><br />
World Baseball Classic and only<br />
managed to play 13 rehab games<br />
before a knee injury ended his season.<br />
Despite the lost year, he's<br />
motivated to stay healthy and<br />
make an impact in 20<strong>18</strong>.<br />
"The only goal I have this year<br />
is just to try and stay as healthy<br />
as possible,” he said. “Because if<br />
I'm not healthy, then I can't help<br />
myself and I can't help the team.<br />
That's going to be my focus."<br />
Top prospect Anthony Alford<br />
also dealt with injuries, breaking<br />
his wrist in just his fourth major<br />
league game.<br />
This limited him to 77 games<br />
between the minors and majors,<br />
but he still managed to have an<br />
average of .299, an on-base percentage<br />
of .390 and a slugging<br />
percentage of .406 across all-levels.<br />
Alford said he hopes to make<br />
an impact at the big league level<br />
in 20<strong>18</strong> and also spoke about getting<br />
help from former Blue Jays<br />
outfielder Devon White.<br />
"He's very passionate about<br />
what he does, he really cares<br />
about the guys and he's helped a<br />
lot defensively.<br />
When he passes information<br />
onto me, I really don't take it for<br />
granted," he said.<br />
To help make up for lost time,<br />
Alford played with Charros de Jalisco<br />
of the Mexican Pacific Winter<br />
League during the off-season.<br />
It was "very beneficial and I<br />
wanted to go make up time for the<br />
Photograph by Conner McTague<br />
Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson is a free agent after the 20<strong>18</strong> season. If he leaves the Jays could begin to rebuild.<br />
at-bats I lost. I think it helped me<br />
a lot getting to face those veteran<br />
pitchers," he said.<br />
Alford will likely start the season<br />
at Triple-A Buffalo because<br />
of the time he lost last season, but<br />
with a strong start he could be<br />
among one of the first called up in<br />
event of an injury.<br />
While the Jays have a crowded<br />
outfield with Steve Pearce, Kevin<br />
Pillar, Curtis Granderson and<br />
Randal Grichuk; Pompey and<br />
Alford have enough talent to push<br />
for playing time and if they can<br />
stay healthy throughout the duration<br />
of 20<strong>18</strong>, the Blue Jays could<br />
turn what many think is a weakness,<br />
into a potent outfield with a<br />
mix of speed, patience and ability<br />
to hit to all fields.<br />
WWE NXT takes over Peterborough<br />
A good night<br />
of wrestling<br />
with family<br />
bonding<br />
Angela Lavallee<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
There was no shortage of hoots<br />
and hollers as the fans were treated<br />
to WWE NXT night at the<br />
Peterborough Memorial Centre<br />
(PMC).<br />
The Feb. 24 event drew hundreds<br />
out to watch wrestling in<br />
the raw.<br />
The first to appear from behind<br />
a black curtain and hit the<br />
ring was Ricochet and Buddy<br />
Murphy. Both tried to stare each<br />
other down and when that didn’t<br />
work, Ricochet lifted his opponent<br />
up and slammed him to the ring<br />
floor.<br />
This didn’t bother Murphy too<br />
much who wanted nothing more<br />
than to take Ricochet out. After<br />
14 minutes of sparring, Ricochet<br />
beat Murphy in the end.<br />
The crowd went wild when<br />
Kill Dawn and Marcel Barthel<br />
entered the ring. Dawn, who resembles<br />
the character from Harry<br />
Potter, took on a crazed look as he<br />
beefed an upper cut to Barthel,<br />
who was taken aback at the size of<br />
his opponent.<br />
But towards the end of the<br />
match Barthel took another hard<br />
smack to the chops and the match<br />
was over, giving Dawn the win.<br />
Fans couldn’t get enough.<br />
Brothers Shane Rosenberg and<br />
Lucas Gilmour drove from Lindsay,<br />
Ontario to watch their favourite<br />
WWE wrestlers and with floor<br />
seating they were able to get up<br />
and close to the dynamic bunch.<br />
“This is quite the show and<br />
this is my sixth time seeing WWE<br />
NXT,” said Rosenberg. Gilmour<br />
says it was a good time to be out<br />
with his older brother.<br />
“This is brother time, and this<br />
show is amazing and superior to<br />
watch,” he says.<br />
Longtime fan WWE NXT fan<br />
Craig Foster and a Peterborough<br />
resident couldn’t get over at how<br />
close he was to the ring.<br />
“This is so much better than<br />
on TV. I can actually hear the<br />
smacks and hits. This is what we<br />
came for,” says Foster.<br />
Photograph by Angela Lavallee<br />
WWE NXT took over Peterborough Memorial Centre on Feb.<br />
24.
22 chronicle.durhamcollege.ca March 6 - 12, 20<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> Sports<br />
Twist, twirl and whirl<br />
Skate<br />
Canada<br />
comes to<br />
Oshawa for<br />
competition<br />
Shanelle Somers<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
As the world watched in awe of<br />
Canadian Olympic figure skaters<br />
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, another<br />
competition was in the works<br />
on the home front in Oshawa.<br />
Skate Canada’s 20<strong>18</strong> Synchronized<br />
Skating Championships<br />
attracted more than 4,000<br />
spectators to the Tribute Communities<br />
Centre Feb. 23-25.<br />
Teams from all over Canada attended<br />
to compete for the opportunity<br />
to represent Canada at the<br />
ISU World Synchronized Skating<br />
Championships Apr. 6-7 in Stockholm,<br />
Sweden and the ISU Junior<br />
Synchronized Skating Championships<br />
Mar. 16 -<strong>17</strong> in Zagreb, Croatia.<br />
As more than 800 skaters<br />
graced the usual home of the Oshawa<br />
Generals, one team stood<br />
out among the rest. NEXXICE’s<br />
senior team of 22 skaters from<br />
Burlington, Ont. took the ice displaying<br />
beautiful symmetry in<br />
raised lifts and technical spins.<br />
Due to the wear and tear of 40<br />
teams’ skates on the ice, the ice<br />
had to undergo repairs delaying<br />
the competition two hours. The<br />
ice was so bad Quebec team Nova<br />
was given an opportunity to reskate<br />
their performance after a<br />
team member fell on a bad patch<br />
of ice.<br />
After a two-hour wait due to ice<br />
repairs and Nova getting a second<br />
chance, NEXXICE dressed in<br />
blue told a story of a river and<br />
wowed the judges with its skate<br />
choreography.<br />
The team was awarded gold<br />
after achieving an overall score of<br />
202.72.<br />
NEXXICE will represent<br />
Canada at the ISU World Synchronized<br />
Skating Championships<br />
in April along with the silver<br />
medallists, Les Supremes-Senior<br />
team from Quebec.<br />
“It felt really good, I mean we<br />
had to fight through a lot of adversity<br />
through the two-hour wait<br />
but we did a lot of things to stay<br />
focused on ourselves and I think<br />
it made the performance come<br />
alive,” says Kelly Britten, senior<br />
captain of NEXXICE. “I think<br />
our greatest element is our opening<br />
and our creative intersections.<br />
It sets the mood really nicely.”<br />
NEXXICE and Les Supremes<br />
junior teams also qualified to<br />
compete at the ISU World Junior<br />
Synchronized Skating Championships.<br />
Terry Sheahan, Skate Canada’s<br />
senior director of marketing<br />
and events, says both teams “are<br />
(a) dominant force in this sport<br />
Photograph by Shanelle Somers<br />
The Nexxice senior team won gold at the Skate Canada championships and will be going to Sweden for the ISU synchronized<br />
championships.<br />
and they performed exceptionally<br />
well.”<br />
NEXXICE and Les Supremes<br />
were not the only winners over the<br />
weekend.<br />
The City of Oshawa also benefited<br />
economically.<br />
Hundreds of young men,<br />
women and their families flooded<br />
the streets spending their money<br />
in downtown Oshawa at local<br />
businesses, hotels and the Oshawa<br />
Centre. Skaters and their families<br />
were also given coupons and attraction<br />
lists to explore Oshawa<br />
by Tourism Durham.<br />
Lori Talling, sport tourism coordinator<br />
at Sport Durham says<br />
“that is really one of the main focuses<br />
for us. To make sure people<br />
are enjoying the community while<br />
they are here visiting and beyond<br />
that is getting our residents to<br />
come and see this amazing, captivating<br />
event right here in their<br />
own backyard.”<br />
Talling says with an event like<br />
this being held in Oshawa there is<br />
usually around a $1 million economic<br />
impact.<br />
The City of Oshawa hopes to<br />
secure another skating event and<br />
build on their event resume to attract<br />
more economic growth.<br />
Les Rythmiks finished third place in the intermediate circuit.<br />
Photograph by Shanelle Somers<br />
The Nova team finished third place in the senior circuit.<br />
Photograph by Shanelle Somers
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