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City tries to force auto wrecker out of Rouge Park: business owner Councillor wants to ban parking on Sewells Road BY MIKE ADLER June 12, 2008 04:42 PM Owners of a Scarborough wrecking yard say their customers are not to blame for the frequent illegal dumping along a road in the Rouge Park. Read More...

- June 11/2008 Anti-littering signs delayed for Rouge Park Scarborough Community Council has voted to defer a plan to post "no stopping" signs along Sewells Road, part of an effort to stop the illegal dumping of garbage in Rouge Park. The signs are supposed to discourage people from sneaking into the park to unload trash, especially near the site of an auto wrecking facility. Read More...

- June 10/2008 City looking at tough measures to control Illegal dumping in Rouge Park A Scarborough auto-wrecking business that regularly wins environmental awards says it has been put in a difficult position — opposing proposed measures to clean up Rouge Park. Read More..

David Gold Receiving Member of the Year Award.		Automotive Recyclers Association Member of the Year Award 2006 (First Time to a Canadian Auto Recycler) October 31, 2006 Star Power Canadian Recyclers take home two of the ARA's highest honours. Up until this year's ARA general convention in Indianapolis, no Canadian Recycler had ever taken home any of the ARA's prestigous Star awards for auto recycling excellence, handed out every year at their convention. However, that all changed this year, as two of the five awards were won by Canadian recyclers.
David Gold of Standard Auto Wreckers in Scarborough, ON was named ARA member of the year for his tireless work and dedication toward the promotion of many of the ARA's core causes. Read Full article here. Click here to read the ARA Press Release Sept 2006

Ken and David Gold at the Toronto Facility		Parts Locator Magazine Article "Pure Gold" UpFront July August September October 2006 PURE GOLD Canadian Recycler Opens New Facility Ken Gold founded Standard Auto Wreckers with three employees in the Toronto suburb
of Scarborough, Ontario, in 1979. Back then, he never thought about the United States as a source for salvage vehicles or as a market for his recycled parts. Read the full article here.

		Cyber-Salvage e-Commerce: a Virtual Reality The Internet is shaping up to have the greatest impact on the recycling industry since the creation of the Hollander interchange. With nearly half of all salvage being purchased online, those recyclers that learn how to effectively navigate the cyberspace universe will live long and prosper. Read the full article here.

David Gold giving the ARA E-Commerce Report		ARA E-Commerce Report The E-Commerce Committee is a very active and engaged committee. Our productive group consists of ARA members and professional stakeholders in our industry, who have varying perspectives and opinions, and who have been instrumental in the advancement of the initiatives for which our committee has been tasked. This committee was tasked with establishing very important E-Commerce related ARA standards, that will prove to be instrumental in furthering our parts sales initiatives to our most important customers, the Collision Repair Industry. Read the full article here.

Standard Auto Wreckers Toronto Ontario		October 4, 2006 Gold Standard Standard Auto Wreckers has led by example since 1979 When Ken Gold purchased a large plot of land in the Rouge River valley, just north of the Metro Toronto Zoo in Scarborough, ON
in 1979 to create an auto recycling facility, it had to be progressive, he had no choice. Standard Auto Wreckers was built on top of a greenbelt with strict environmental guidelines placed upon it."Our mission has always been to protect our land and keep it from being polluted," says David Gold, who owns Standard Auto Wreckers together with his father. Read the full article here.

		Auto Recycling at the Zoo? Toronto Zoo is featuring a special project from June 29, 2004 to September 30, 2004. Ian Lazarus and Badanna Zack designed the "Serpentine Mounds" as part of the Zooarts projects. Standard Auto Wreckers provided the cars for the environmentally theme display. Click on the picture to more about the ZooArts project.

Front Ends in the New York Warehouse		November December 2007 Issue of Automotive Recycling Magazine Spotlight on Standard Auto Wreckers When former lawyer Ken Gold purchased an eleven-acre site in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, Ontario in 1979 and launched Standard Auto Wreckers, he planned to be very successful... Click here to read the article.

Articles written by the owner David Gold have been featured in the Collision Repair Magazine. Missed them? Click below to read some of David's articles.

Parts Challenge Recycling Has Evolved Creating a Win/Win Whose Fault is it?	ABC's of Parts Grading Price of Steel Ideal Situation Working Together	Saving Cars, Saving Money Salvage Dilemma Why Buy Used SalesStar (OEM Sales Person)