It’s said that many people go to air shows anticipating an accident. It is a grim idea and unworthy of the thousands who attend praying for a happy outcome. With the 2015 Air Show days away and two dreadful crashes in two days at shows in Europe, 680 News has prepared a history of air crashes and how they were seen on local television.

Players from the Go-Green Cricket Field may want to show up tomorrow (Monday August 24, 2015) for the City of Toronto sponsored co-ed cricket event for young people at Ashtonbee Reservoir Park in Scarborough. The park has three cricket pitches. This excellent-sounding event also offers attendees a free barbecue.They will also get free TTC tickets and Pan am shirts while they last.  Registration starts at 2:30 p.m. and the event, running until 7:30 p.m., includes pick-up games, youth cricket league games and a session for youth and families on how to play cricket. Ashtonbee Reservoir Park isat 21 Ashtonbee Rd. and is closest to a TTC stop 1900 Eglinton Ave. E. Go Green Cricket Field opened by Premier 

The story is a little vague but there’s no doubt that the first one was served at the CNE in 1940. That makes the unpretentious but somehow heavenly Ice Cream Waffle a plump 75 years old. It could be its sheer simplicity or that “everybody likes ice cream and everybody likes waffles and when you put them together, it’s perfect,” as “wafflier” Kathy Hunter told the CBC. Legend has it that midway employee Sharole Levan (later crowned the “Waffle Lady”) hopped off the Conklin Shows carnival train at The Ex and brought with her the ice cream waffle concept. The CNE says carnival king Patty Conklin partnered with her and the rest, as they say, is history.

The snout of one of two giant panda cubs pokes out of the hand of a veterinarian at Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, Aug. 22, 2015. The two were born yesterday after zookeepers got suspicious about a month ago that the mom Mei Xiang was pregnant.Video below is of the delivery but doesn’t show cubs emerging. Lots of sounds though.

Hyundai previewed the look of their coming Genesis Coupe with a new concept, dubbed the Vision G, in a debut at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in California. The two-door, four-seat concept is described as Hyundai’s “inspiration for their family of future premium products” and designed in the US influenced by design boss Peter Schreyer. Its styling is described as “understated”. Among the new technologies fitted to the car is a system that opens the doors automatically when the driver approaches.

A pilot made a fatal mistake at the British airshow crashed Saturday and slammed into cars on a main highway. Seven are known to be dead. More than a dozen were injured. The Hawker Hunter fighter jet, which was participating in the Shoreham Airshow near Brighton in southern England. The pilot clearly misjudged and the capability of the aircraft. Hard to watch.

The little semi-detached house at Moore Ave. and Mt. Pleasant Rd. has been slammed by flying vehicles twice in less than a month. Friday (August 21, 2015) two vehicles came flying across the sidewalk on Mt.Pleasant and smashed the fence and little storage shed where the occupant’s 7-year-old daughter kept her bicycle. Like the fence its ruined too.

Three recklessly set arsons bring back memories of the multiple cars fire in Bennington Heights May 9, 2014. They have still not been solved. Since then there have been other instances of car fires and now these arsons including a pair of vehicle fires on Weston Road north of Highway 401.  A cube van was set on fire at 2932 Weston Rd. just before 4 a.m. The truck was gutted by the flames and the house sustained some damage when the fire spread to the garage. While crews were putting out that fire another was set in a vehicle a few hundred metres north at 3030 Weston Rd. It was destroyed. On Stephenfrank Road near Brimley Rd.  and Lawrence Ave  E.  area) a pickup truck in the carport was set on fire just before 5 am. causing extensive damage to two adjacent houses. It is this really criminally careless behaviour that threateded lives in Bennington Heights.