Month: September 2013
Smoking zero-tolerance is an uncharted land
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•Pan Am executives are singed by Toronto Sun
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•New signage ordered for Bonnie Byford RE
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•Raps hire rapper Drake to help re-brand, re-wrap
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•Charlie the Sheltie found caught in cemetery fence
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•Girl, 15, robbed of cell, wallet at Bayview-Eglinton
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•Teen victim of terror attack now in Sunnybrook
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•Dheeman Abdi |
Two Canadian teens injured in the barbaric attack on a Nairobi shopping mall have returned to Toronto with their father. The elder, Fardosa Abdi, 17, has undergone surgery at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre for a seriously injured leg. She and her sister, Dheeman, 16, were hit by both gunfire and grenade shrapnel during the attack. Dheeman was interviewed earlier in Nairobi where she spoke to the CBC in chilling detail about what happened. Her right hand has been injured by grenade shrapnel. One finger is broken and another “had a lot of meat torn off”” she said by the same grenade that grievously injured her sister. Dheeman also calmly noted that she had been shot through the thigh. Of the attackers she said dispassionately, “They aren’t normal.” Saturday officials were talking about seeking assistance from a special funding arrangement of the foreign affairs department for Canadians in distress. The Toronto Star names Mohamed Dubet, a friend of the family, who said he saw Fardosa Sunday night after she got out of surgery. He said her leg was “shattered.” Kenya has arrested 12 people since the attack but three have been freed, Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said during a press conference. He declined to say if any of those arrested had been in the mall during the attack. Investigators have also identified a car used by the gunmen, from the Somalia-based Islamist group al-Shabaab, and found in it “an assortment of illegal weapons,” said Lenku. Pictures (top) Dheeman and Fardosa together and (bottom) Dheeman as she was interviewed by the CBC in Kenya.
Farm market added at Manor Rd. United Fall Fair
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•Ms. Rosetta Stone of the South Bayview Starbucks
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•Sweet semi on Soudan Avenue sells in one day
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•A sweet little semi has sold in one day on Soudan Avenue for $629,000. The home is at 264 Soudan on the north side just a few doors east of Mount Pleasant. It has, as reported in the National Post, an English garden, decks and patio. The agent said the home had been “impeccably cared for.” A double closet in the foyer, a bay window and a walkout to a deck from the open-concept living and dining room and a centre island in the kitchen were some of the features. The master suite, which has a double closet, shares the second floor with a family room and a four-piece bathroom. The upstairs family room can be easily converted back to a second bedroom.