Black SDA 'Superman' in Toronto Praised

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Full text.. http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2006-10-26/news_story.php

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If there's any silver lining at all to the gang violence that's pummelled the city, it's got to be the fact that more black 20-somethings are braving the political arena.

With guns and safety top of mind among voters, there's suddenly keen interest in a hulking Seventh Day Adventist youth worker in Ward 12, York South-Weston, one of T.O's poorest areas, currently represented by two-termer Frank Di Giorgio.

Ward 12, which runs from a bit south of Eglinton to the 401 and from just west of Caledonia to Jane, has more single mothers, more families living below the poverty line and more first-generation immigrants than the municipal average. About one in five residents is black.

While the city has identified 13 priority neighbourhoods for focused investment, not one of them is in Ward 12. Enter Keith Sweeney, Superman enthusiast and anti-poverty campaigner.