It’s a frequent issue at this corner, Rchmond West at Duncan. Winter, summer — the water mains break.

A three-alarm fire has destroyed an auto repair shop on Kelfield St. Saturday night. This remarkable picture was taken by freelance journalist Monika Moravan who tweeted that she had to leave the scene because of heavy smoke. The blaze is at A1 Auto Repair near Dixon Rd. and Highway 27. There are apparently no injuries. Toronto Airport has been radioing aircraft about the smoke in their flight paths. Monika on Twitter 

According to HollywoodLife.com Kate MIddleton, 33, “can’t wait” to have a third child before she is 35, so she can have “even more” babies before she 40. As inside information goes, this purported peek into the royal psyche is a doozy. Of course, it may just be more “rubbish” as the rival gang called Gossip Cop like to say. “Kate has only just had her second baby, but she’s already thinking about number three! She definitely wants a third baby by the time she’s 35. That way she can have even more before she’s 40,” a royal insider tells HollywoodLife.com. “Kate grew up with two siblings, so she likes the idea of having another soon. But to be honest, she doesn’t want to stop there and has talked about having four children before she’s all done” We’ll keep that in mind.

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Twenty-four cadets have been treated for concussions, and other injuries including a broken nose, dislocated shoulder and a hairline fracture to the cheekbone after the annual “pillow fight” between upper classmen and freshmen (known as plebes) at West Point Military College in New York State last week. The pillow fight is not dissimilar to events at many universities in which the new arrivals are confronted in some form by the second year class.  It is said that in 2012 the confrontation carried on after the pillow fight and that 60 people were injured.

Work is under way on six town homes to be built on the site of the former Glebe Presbyterian Church on Belsize Drive. The property sits officially on Belsize but the church’s door was at the corner of De Savery Crescent and Thurloe Ave. The design for the homes seemed attractive but it is said to have run into trouble because of the common underground garage with 13 parking spaces. The matter was referred to the Ontario Municipal Board and the City lost. Today the property is fully-fenced and work has begin on grading. The old church sign remains in place and overgrown behind green screening.

Margaret was helping out at the Rotary Club of Leaside table on South Bayview today (Saturday, September 5, 2015). She was selling tickets to the Charitable Foundation Raffle which is on again as the Rotary Corn Roast approaches. It is at Trace Manes Park as usual on Sunday, September 20, 2015. The draw is at 5 p.m. There are six great prizes: $500 gift certificate at McDowell’s valu mart, $200 gift certificate at McDowell’s valu mart, two purple tickets worth $160 to a Leafs game, $75 gift certificate at Against the Grain Restaurant, $50 certificate from Longo’s on  Laird and another $50 gift certificate from Longo’s on Laird. The tickets are $5 or three for $12.

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Fairly self-contained report from CNN tells of a concept from Goodyear in which tires would somehow create energy to help re-charge electric car batteries.

Kevin Ronald Brooks

A nasty character with a tattooed tear drop coming out of his right is on the loose somewhere in Canada after figuring out how to remove a court ordered tracking anklet. Kevin Ronald Brooks, 28, was released from prison in June, after serving every day of a seven-year manslaughter sentence behind bars. Because authorities consider Brooks a high risk to re-offend, they issued a public warning about his release and obtained a court order requiring him to wear an electronic ankle bracelet and submit to daily curfew checks. He was serving time for the manslaughter death in April 2007 of Kevin Palmer in Saint John, N.B. The two men were sitting in a car in a city park when Brooks shot Palmer, 29, with a sawed-off shotgun he said he carried for protection due to a drug debt he owed. Brooks is white, 28 and has an elaborate tattoo on his neck. He has criminal convictions in a variety of places and could be anywhere.