YORK m@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2003-10-11 published
ROSS /
YORK -- Joan
ROSS and Dr. Henry
ROSS are delighted to
announce the engagement of their daughter, Shawna Jill, to Marvin
YORK, son of the late Morris and Bessie
YORK.
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YOULTON,
Terry and
Mary
Jane - 50th Wedding Anniversary
Family and Friends are invited to an Open House at 12 Kyle Dr.,
Ridgetown 1: 00-4:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 15th, 2006. Best Wishes
Only or Donations to the Rotary Club of Ridgetown, Bareilly Limb
Camp project would be appreciated.
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YOUNG m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2003-06-14 published
YOUNG /
MAZUR
Suddenly on June 7, 2003. Cheryl, the daughter of David and Becky
YOUNG and Heath, the
son of John and Wanda
MAZUR joined as one
in a private service.
Special thanks to Roger, RuthAnne, Nicole, Pam and Pastor Mark
HALL.
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YOUNG m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2003-06-21 published
Gay men moved to marry
Special to The Free Press
Toronto -- It was not a boyhood dream to be bathed in confetti
after tying the knot, but a grown-up reality that led Toronto
councillor Kyle
RAE to wed his decade-long partner yesterday.
The pair decided to get married after watching another gay couple
get their licence on television.
"He said, 'I don't want people to think I died an old single
man. I've been in a loving relationship for years. I want a record
of that wonderful relationship.' That just moved both of us,"
RAE said after his short ceremony.
He and artist Mark
REID had tears in their eyes when they were
pronounced married by Ontario Court Justice Bruce
YOUNG at a
gallery in the heart of the gay village where
REID has had his
paintings exhibited.
The couple, who have been together since "the first night we
met" nine years ago, never put much emphasis on marriage.
"I thought marriage was something that never happened to gay
people and anyway -- who cares?" said
REID.
"But as it got close I became excited."
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SOFTLEY /
YOUNG
The parents and families are proud to announce the forthcoming
wedding of Kristen
SOFTLEY and Eric
YOUNG.
The
Ceremony will
take place at Saint John's the Evangelist Church, London, Ontario,
October 4, 2003.
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YOUNG,
Paul and Linda - Happy 25th Anniversary
June 14, 1980
Love Matt and Ashley
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YOUNG /
SCOBIE
Marian and John
YOUNG of London are happy to announce the engagement
of their daughter Erin Jennifer
YOUNG to Michael John
SCOBIE,
son of Wendy and Gary
SCOBIE of Windsor.
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YOUNG /
SCOBIE
Marian and John
YOUNG of London are happy to announce the engagement
of their daughter Erin Jennifer
YOUNG to Michael John
SCOBIE,
son of Wendy and Gary
SCOBIE of Windsor.
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HUSSEY /
YOUNG
John and Anne
HUSSEY of Saint Thomas are pleased to announce the
forthcoming marriage of their daughter Jenna Lynn to Scott Rushton
YOUNG, son of Rick and Brenda of London on June 17, 2006. Stag
& Doe will be held for the couple on Saturday, April 1, 2006
at 7: 00 p.m. at the Shedden Keystone Complex, Shedden. For tickets
please call 432-7426 or 769-2388
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YOUNG /
FIGLIOMENI -- Marriage Announcement
Surrounded by Friends and family, Lorene (Rene) and Frank exchanged
wedding vows on June 17, 2006. The couple will reside in Lambeth.
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BOYES /
YOUNG -- Engagement
Allan and Diana Young are pleased to announce the engagement
of their daughter Danielle
YOUNG to Steve
BOYES
son of Gord
BOYES
and Vicki FRATTI.
Congratulations to the happy couple.
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YOUNG,
Jeff and Teresa - Happy 25th Anniversary
May 21st, 2008 Our Love and Best Wishes, Congratulations from your
families.
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YOUNG m@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-09-24 published
Jan WOODEND and Ken
VINCENT -- Match
By Judith TENENBAUM,
Saturday,
September 24, 2005, Page M4
Ottawa resident Janice Norma
WOODEND, a contented single parent
of four for almost a decade, was secure in her family-law practice.
Yet, in the spring of 2003, nostalgia had her logging on to Classmates.com
to explore the possibility that alumni from her Etobicoke Collegiate
Institute graduation class had organized a 25th reunion. Also,
curiosity about a former sweetheart and aspiring artist, Kenneth
David VINCENT, tugged at her memories as she scanned for his
name.
"I visited my parents' home regularly and I thought maybe I'll
see Ken's name in the newspaper in a show at some gallery," Ms.
WOODEND recalls of her Toronto visits. "But I was unaware that
he had not stayed in that field."
A graduate of the Ontario College of Art, Mr.
VINCENT had married
a fellow artist, and decided to pursue a new career with the
realization that two starving artists couldn't live more cheaply
than one. He attended George Brown and Fanshawe Colleges respectively,
and went on to become a technologist in the physics department
at the University of Toronto.
By the time he posted a personal profile on Classmates.com, he
was divorced.
Gingerly, Ms.
WOODEND made a move and e-mailed Mr.
VINCENT.
His
warp-speed response was the portent of long dormant feelings.
"It's a bit scary because you're thinking, 'Is this the real
thing, or am I just reliving some fantasy from the past? ' So
you have to spend some time straightening that out in your mind,"
Ms. WOODEND says.
But all the while her heart was aflutter. "I don't think I got
any work done for the next three weeks," she adds. "Every time
that e-mail thing would beep, I'd rush to see if it was from
him."
She was planning to visit her mother in Toronto for Easter, so
when Mr. VINCENT responded, the two arranged to meet. "I remember
thinking at the time, 'What if he still likes me, and then, oh
no, what if he doesn't?' " she recollects. "We got together for
coffee, he smiled at me and the whole rest of the room disappeared."
"Your mind is racing back to all those old memories and you're
almost in a dream," Mr.
VINCENT recalls. "Jan was very smart,
knew her own mind, and different from any other girl I knew in
high school." Back in the 1970s, he says, "I hardly understood
the female species, and could never actually figure out if we
were a steady couple."
As romance deepened, they managed to get together almost every
second weekend. "But the long distance was problematic," Ms.
WOODEND says, and they pondered where and how they could possibly
merge their families and lives.
That contemplation was cut short, however, by the remarkable
surprise that the couple became expectant parents on a Paris
vacation in the spring of 2004.
This prompted a family conference. "We had all the kids together
at my place in Ottawa in July," Ms.
WOODEND says. "We wanted
to tell everyone about it at the same time. Needless to say,
dinner didn't get eaten we were all so excited."
After some deliberation, the couple decided to live in Toronto,
where Mr. VINCENT worked and Ms.
WOODEND had strong family ties.
Her legal skills were portable and, as a full-time mother, she
would have the opportunity to focus on their new child. "I like
a balance between work and family life," she notes. The following
month, they started house hunting. One home was priced beyond
their budget, but, Ms.
WOODEND says, "we went in, looked at each
other and said we have to live here." She is positive their decision
was destined. Her grandfather had built the subdivision in the
Bloor West Village area: The street was named after her aunt
and uncle, and another, two blocks away, was named after her
mother.
Living arrangements for the family, which now includes little
Ethan, who was born on February 16 this year, were a logistical
challenge. Mr.
VINCENT's daughter Emma, from his first marriage,
alternates weeks with her mother. Ms.
WOODEND's eldest daughter,
Jennifer, attends the University of Guelph and is happy that
she can now see her mother more frequently. Eric, in Grade 12,
packed his bags for Toronto. But his younger sisters, Julie,
and Sarah, dedicated to dance classes and Friends, opted to remain
with their father in Ottawa. (They come to Toronto by train on
convenient weekends and spend summers with their mother.)
Clearly, though, the children connect in a concrete way at Ms.
WOODEND's family cottage in Wasaga Beach where she summered when
she was young. On the dining-room wall, striated markings of
annual growth spurts now include notches for Emma and baby Ethan.
Of course, the couple bonded in an even more meaningful way on
July 2, when they were married at Windermere United Church, the
site of the bride's baptism, before an intimate group of 30.
The couple's daughters were in dreamy "floaty chiffon" dresses
each had chosen from Queen Street's cheeky Misdemeanors. Eric
escorted his mother to the altar where the Reverend Kate
YOUNG officiated.
Then, the youthful entourage paraded in their finery through
Bloor West Village to a garden reception at the newlyweds' home.
In 2028, when their class holds its 50th reunion and people ask
the inevitable question, "Whatever happened to...? the
VINCENTs
will need a little time to explain their story.
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Ashley Ann
THAKE and Jeffrey Douglas
WILSON -- Match:
By Judith TENENBAUM,
Page▼ M6
If proposing marriage is akin to traversing a portal, Jeffrey
WILSON had his choice of 7,503 draped gates when it came time
to kneel before a stunned Ashley
THAKE at the Christo and Jeanne-Claude
exhibit, The Gates, in New York City's Central Park.
"I didn't think engagement, whatsoever. I was in absolute shock,"
Ms. THAKE recalls of the magical moment. "It was an exhibit we
really wanted to see. Spectacular, in the dead of winter -- the
trees bare, snow on the ground and a sea of saffron [fabric]
moving with the wind through the gates.
"Apart from the wedding, it was the best day of my life!"
In February, 2005, with conspiratorial help from his fiancée's
employer, Mr.
WILSON whisked Ms.
THAKE to New York for the weekend.
"I went through an unending series of metal detectors, from the
airport to the top of the Empire State Building," recalls Mr.
WILSON, who was sure he was going to be called upon at any moment
to pull out the ring he had tucked away in his pocket. Rejecting
the ubiquitous proposal site on the observation deck of the Empire
State, he was drawn to the dazzling exhibit in Central Park.
Fortuitously, parents of a friend were in New York a short while
later, when the exhibit was dismantled. As a result, explains
Ms. THAKE, they have a framed scrap of the saffron material displayed
on their mantelpiece, "and we get to reminisce all the time.
"Saffron is now my favourite colour, New York my favourite city
in the world, and it will still be our romantic rendezvous when
we are 89 years old," she says.
The couple's odyssey began in 2000, when Mr.
WILSON, who is now
30, saw a photo Christmas card that Ms.
THAKE, a graduate of
the University of Western Ontario and an account executive at
the Discovery Channel/CTV, had sent to his roommate.
"That was my first time meeting her -- without meeting her,"
he recalls.
Even though their circles frequently intersected, however, it
would take another year before they connected at a friend's party.
A few days later, they were sipping martinis in Little Italy
and comparing notes on what they had in common.
For Ms. THAKE and Mr.
WILSON, family was the linchpin. Both halves
of the couple had parents who had been married for nearly four
decades, were youthful, fun-loving and slightly off-centre. "It
was uncanny," Ms.
THAKE, now 34, remarks.
Her parents fired the first welcoming salvo, inviting the elder
WILSONs to the "First Annual Fossil Fest, so us old folks could
meet and get to know one another."
"They were like four peas in a pod," Ms.
THAKE says of the prospective
in-laws. "They now get together without us and have dinner dates."
The College Street couple cycle about Toronto, enjoying its amenities.
She is tentative about inconsiderate drivers; he is a " a road
racer" and often bikes the 150 kilometres to her old cottage
in the village of Sturgeon Point.
It was there, as they lay snuggled in a hammock facing the lake,
that the pair first realized they were destined to be life partners.
But for Mr.
WILSON, a Trent University graduate who is a project
co-ordinator for CitiCapital, it would take three-plus years,
waiting while "the stars finally aligned," in order to launch
his Manhattan project.
Grandeur and proximity made Hart House, at the University of
Toronto, the choice for the January 21, 2006, nuptials, at which
Justice of the Peace Tony
YOUNG officiated. One hundred and eighty
guests gathered around the Great Hall's massive fireplace to
savour hors d'oeuvre and take to the dance floor at a cocktail
reception that followed the vows. "It was phenomenal," exclaims
Ms. THAKE, who will now be known as Mrs.
WILSON.
At the Park Hyatt on their wedding night, a photo of their four
parents loomed at close range -- placed on the bedside table
by the concierge. "Keeping an eye on things," the bride's father,
Richard THAKE, says, laughing.
"So on their wedding night, there we all were, the
THAKEs and
the WILSONs, starting off together."
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Shelagh Melinda
GUSTAVISON and Christopher Patrick
CUMMINS --
Match:
By Judith TENENBAUM,
Page▲ M5
Despite her love for Christopher
CUMMINS, after four years of
dating, Shelagh
GUSTAVISON felt stranded in never-never land.
"Shelagh sat me down at dinner and gave me some pretty stern
words, upset the commitment hadn't come," Mr.
CUMMINS remembers.
Ironically, their friend Nicole
YOUNG had endorsed his choice
of a diamond only three hours earlier. His somewhat audacious
feint to Ms.
GUSTAVISON was, "It's not going to happen in the
next three days -- or on our upcoming vacation." Thus without
a zephyr of hope, and flaunting the fact she could paddle her
own canoe, she set out in mid-August, 2005 -- sans Mr.
CUMMINS
and flanked by girlfriends -- for five days on the Chiniguchi
Waterway near Sudbury.
Meanwhile, Mr.
CUMMINS had a plan. Which included chartering
a float plane and enlisting one conspiratorial girlfriend --
to identify the paddlers' location. Sadly, those plans threatened
to unravel when the pilot of the float plane, a Peterborough
friend, became skittish. Unflappable, Mr.
CUMMINS pressed on.
He recalls that he spoke "with most helicopter and float-plane
companies and aviators in Northern Ontario," before being referred
to a gentleman known as J.R., who was stirred by the romantic
pleadings and agreed to fly Mr.
CUMMINS.
With blessings, and a gift of champagne, from Ms.
GUSTAVISON's
parents, Mr.
CUMMINS headed north, arriving in Sudbury at 3 a.m.
to find every hotel room booked. Sleepless and stuck in his car,
he recalls e-mailing Friends from his BlackBerry with the champagne
chilling in the back seat. Then at 7: 01 a.m. he dashed into the
local Starbucks, ordered lattés extra hot, changed his shirt
in the washroom, floored it to J.R.'s and they took off.
On the women Friends' fifth day out, concerned after the waving
of a fellow tripper had a plane tipping its wings and landing,
Ms. GUSTAVISON paddled at Olympic speed to shore -- assuming
the pilot had misinterpreted the enthusiastic wave as an S.O.S.
There, she was startled when Mr.
CUMMINS emerged from the cabin
and quipped, "Good morning, I brought you coffee."
Immediately after which he became unglued. "Tongue-tied, laboured
breathing, stressed," he says, recalling how he felt. "Shelagh
thought, 'Chris is nuts -- this is something he might do.' "
However, he adds, she wasn't thinking along engagement lines.
When she took off with the pilot for an aerial spin, Mr.
CUMMINS
readied champagne and clued in the Friends, who hid with cameras.
Then, as Ms.
GUSTAVISON deplaned, he grasped her hand: "Was that
flight an adventure?" he asked. He followed that with the question,
"Would you like to go on more adventures with me?" Then he knelt
and offered the ring.
Ms. GUSTAVISON, now a Branksome Hall teacher, and Mr.
CUMMINS,
an executive recruiter at Brock Placement Group, first clicked
in March, 2001, when she returned from a teaching stint in New
Zealand. But their romance seemed likely to be sidelined until
his job offer with a medical products company in the United Arab
Emirates disappeared. "We knew in the fall that we were not going
to be separated, and [then] the relationship sky rocketed," she
says, beaming.
At Rosedale United Church, on March 11, Rev. Doug
NORRIS wed
the pair. The reception venue, the same as it had been for the
bride's parents, and grandparents' 50th anniversary, was the
Granite Club.
The new Mrs.
CUMMINS, 33, also serves on the advisory board of
Hilde
Back
Education Fund. Mr.
CUMMINS, 32, who volunteers as
a community educator for the Heart and Stroke Foundation, says:
"I am a sales guy. We go until we can't go any more!"
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YOUNG,
James and Joan - Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary. You have
been there for each other always. Thanks for showing us how it's
done. Love Joan, Steve, Carley, Melissa and Cathy.
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