Canadian firm to sell genetically modified salmon in U.S.
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Not quite the same Tim’s as customers kicked out at noon
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All in all it doesn’t seem to be quite the same old Tim Horton’s. Customers in New York and Maine were surprised Wednesday when the lights went out about midday and whoever was left in the place was told to leave. Employees said they had just learned of the closings. The company has had little to say but a TV station in Bangor reported the that the chain “is pulling out of New England”. It appears that 21 shops have closed in the two states.
Rosedale’s Holly Berry once again graces South Bayview
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Brass, silver, glass and Fran Deacon’s famous baked ham
Today (Saturday) will see the annual Holly Berry Fair rocking beautiful Rosedale United Church at Roxborough Rd. and Glen Rd. It will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m Saturday, November 21, 2015. This time-honoured community event has many traditions upheld and new opportunities offered in 2015. As the energetic Diane Thomson tells us in the video below, there is a Santa’s workshop fresh this year for children to talk Christmas-giving with the St. Nicholas man. The lovely items seen above are representative of the fine homes from which parishioners donate treasures and the unique vendors selling goods of all kinds. Diane also mentions Fran’s Delicatessen the legacy of Frances Deacon. Still an active 92, Fran created the idea of the scrumptious baked ham (18 of them this year right out of the church’s own ovens) and famous egg salad sandwiches (but watch out because the egg salad goes quickly). As for the ham, there’s never a scrap left as the cooks and servers sell it in sandwiches, on plates, wrapped to take home and (hey) how about a ham bone for making soup. Listen to Diane.
If police are called, don’t please mention Kensington Market
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The Kensington Market BIA is asking reporters to delete the name from stories when they are about crime. The request will bring a smile to many. Too many people think of Kensington Market as synonymous not with crime but with dirty streets. Sorry. A press release issued yesterday said stories that name Kensington Market are “a smear on the good name of everyone who lives and works here.”
HAS ANYONE EVER LIED TO YOU?
Maybe, but crime is everywhere even in South Bayview. At least no one has ever lied to them in Kensington Market about a 60-bed homeless shelter staffed by three super alert volunteers in order to entrap people and get a little cheap publicity. That was a crime. Maybe several crimes.
Confused information about possible self-inflicted wound
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A curious call Thursday night to a shooting at Coxwell and Sammon Aves was really about an incident at Gerrard and Sackville Sts. Police have not explained the details yet but it appears a man was shot — or perhaps shot himself by accident — and then drove himself to hospital. We’re guessing the hospital is East General at Coxwell and Sammon. The injuries are apparently fairly minor. November 19, 2015
Blue Jays Josh Donaldson American League MVP
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CBC list of 18 recognizable Bell Media names now gone
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Some have been published here, some not. CBC
Canadian miner discovers largest diamond in a century
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1,111 carat diamond
Canadian diamond miner Lucara Mining says it has found what is thought to be the second largest diamond in history. The stone measures 1,111 carats, a gem the size of a tennis ball. TSX-listed and Vancouver-based Lucara said in a Wednesday it had found the enormous stone on the south lobe of the company’s Karowe Mine in Botswana on Monday. It is described as “gem quality, Type IIa,” and its dimensions are 65 by 56 by 40 millimetres. One caret is equal to a fifth of a gram, so Lucara’s 1,111-carat diamond weighs 222 grams. This would make newly-found stone the biggest gem-quality diamond discovered since the famed Cullinan diamond measuring more than 3,000 carats was found in South Africa in 1905. The Cullinan was subsequently cut into smaller pieces, with the two largest portions incorporated into Britain’s Crown Jewels. “The significance of the recovery of a gem-quality stone larger than 1,000 carats, the largest for more than a century … cannot be overstated,” Lucara CEO William Lamb said. On Thursday, Lucara announced it had found two more large diamonds, one measuring 813 carats — the sixth largest ever recovered — and another measuring 374 carats in the same vein.
Weather staying warmer than normal to month’s end
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Temperatures stay abnormally high in the Toronto area with generally fair weather expected through to the end of the month. There will however be some rain or wet snow on Sunday. Weather Network
Wildcats win 9th game of season having played only 12
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Leaside Wildcats registered their 9th win of the season yesterday in Aurora when they defeated the Panthers 3-0. This Saturday the Wildcats meet Mississuaga in Missy returning to Leaside Arena on Sunday for an 3.40 p.m. tilt against Stoney Creek Sabres. Along with their nine wins, Leaside owns one loss and two ties. They stand seventh in the league with 20 points but have played only 12 games, the fewest of any squad in the 20-team league. Standings
MT PLEASANT: Litter-bin-of-steel meets plastic rubbish
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At Mt. Pleasant Rd. and Soudan Ave. the City’s litter bin program has taken remarkably different forms on opposite sides of Mt. Pleasant. On the east is a tough-looking black container, apparently of all-steel construction, while on the west side of the street is the familiar broken-down plastic rubbish made by Astral.