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caption:Former Ontario Lt.-Gov. James Bartleman, left, accepts a $10,000 cheque from Rotary Club of Toronto West president Brian Hicks for his Club Amick, a book club for aboriginal children ages five to 10.
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caption:A new Centre of Excellence for Women and Newcomers at 200 Consumers Road, in the Sheppard and Victoria Park avenues area, was officially opened recently by MicroSkills, a multicultural, non-profit, community-based organization committed to assisting...
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caption:Chair of Little Asia 2007 Anh Vuong receives an envelope from OASIS Fruit Juice marketing and business manager Ron Morrish during the OASIS Neighbourhood Challenge prize recognition ceremony at the Mon Sheong Foundation, Oct. 22.
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caption:Former Toronto Maple Leaf great Doug Gilmour, left, checks out his service with some help from McDonalds' Leslie Street and York Mills Road location manager Gordon Bradshaw during McHappy Day events May 9 to benefit Ronald McDonald House.
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BRIEFS
Pizza Nova raises dough for Variety
Pizza Nova's That's Amore Pizza for Kids fundraising event last month raised the largest amount of dough in its nine-year history.On May 13, more than 100 Pizza Nova locations across Southern Ontario participated in the annual event to benefit Variety - The Children's Charity. Throughout the all-day event, medium pepperoni pizzas were served for $3.99, and Pizza Nova donated $1 from each pizza sold to Variety.
Thousands of customers lined up out the doors at Pizza Nova locations across the province to demonstrate their support for a good cause. Pizza Nova handed a $99,005 cheque to Variety Village on May 21, exceeding the goal by $19,000.
Pizza Nova is a family-operated business founded in Toronto in 1963.
Top marks for Schulich in global ranking
York University's Schulich School of Business is ranked No. 1 in Canada and 23rd in the world, according to Time Warner business publication Expansion.Expansion, based in Mexico, published its global MBA school ranking list May 12.
Schulich was one of only two Canadian business schools to make the ranking, with the Rotman School of Management, at the University of Toronto, placing 29th.
Schulich ranked ninth among business schools outside the United States and 15th among North American business schools.
Stanford claimed the top spot, followed by Harvard. Wharton and London Business School tied for third.
The ranking, established by Expansion in 2006, rates leading MBA programs worldwide using a broad range of criteria, including academic quality, return on investment and global value.
Schulich plans to establish satellite centres in Mexico City and Sao Paulo, Brazil, during the next year. The school has satellite centres in Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, Mumbai and Moscow.
Daniels Donates to U of T architecture
Architect John Daniels, a well-known University of Toronto graduate and his wife Myrna, a former professor, have donated $14 million to the facility's school of architecture.The funds will be used to help renovate and expand the school's third and fourth floors and add a fifth floor to the building. The upgrade project has an estimated bill of $20 million. Construction is expected to begin within the next three years.
The College Street facility has now been renamed the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design.
A portion of the donation will also fund a scholarship with preference on a student who is the first in their family to attend university.
Daniels, who is also a real estate investor, has spearheaded several notable Toronto landmarks notably the Eaton's Centre and the Toronto Dominion Centre.
This donation is the largest private contribution to a Canadian architecture school to date.
Yonge Street Mission patrons receive free books
Regent Park residents will be immersed in literature Thursday and Friday.Brookfield Properties' Epic Book Drive has allowed midtown Toronto's Yonge Street Mission to donate more than 10,000 books to the community.
Hundreds of Yonge Street Mission patrons - including community members who have benefited from literacy programs such as ESL writing, multi-media classes and the after-school club - will be attending the fair May 29 and 30.
In addition to free books, award-winning author and storyteller Aubrey Davis will be reading to children May 29 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Davis is best known for his latest book Bagels for Benny, and has written for children four to eight. On Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Afroculture, an African arts troupe, will be performing storytelling and African drumming.
The event takes place in Regent Park.
For more than 110 years, the mission has worked to meet the needs of people living in poverty. Visit www.ysm.on.ca for details.
Area businesses win green awards
Two local businesses are among the 11 winners of the city's 2008 Green Toronto Awards for their efforts to make Toronto greener and cleaner.Locally, The Living Wall Inc., a unique business that uses willow shrubs native to North America for soundproofing and privacy screening, received the Green Design Award.
Located on Leslie Street near the port lands, the eco-friendly business' special "walls" provide photosynthesis, help filter pollution and stabilize the soil. The product is also 100 per cent recyclable.
Local Food Plus, an award-winning, non-profit organization that brings together local farmers and consumers, received the Market Transformation Award.
The environmentally and socially responsible national organization is based on Queen Street East in the Beach.
The fourth annual awards ceremony took place April 25 during the Green Living Show at the Direct Energy Centre.
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