A woman is in critical condition after a fire broke on the 27th floor of 77 Huntley St. at Bloor and Jarvis Sts Thursday. The victim was said to be without vital signs but she was revived. The Ontario Fire Marshal is investigating.

BOYS BURNED BY TAR THROUGH SCHOOL ROOF

Two boys have been burned by falling tar in a strange case of roof repairs gone wrong at Derrydown Public School near Keele St and Finch Ave. in North York Wednesday.

Recovering

Jeremiah Azeriah, 8/Family photo

Burned hair

One of the lads, Jeremiah Azeriah, 8, is recovering at the Hospital For Sick Children. His mother
says she feels the board failed to provide a safe place for her son to learn.

BRAMPTON SHOOTING

Two people have grave wounds from a shooting in Brampton Thursday. It occurred at around 9 p.m. in the area of Clementine Drive and Pergola Way.

Amelia Thompson, 12

Abducted groom

Einstein and wife “flying”

Amelia Thomson, 12, is going to the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle May 19. Amelia came close to losing her life in the Manchester Arena attack last year. She has asked the grandmother of a girl who did die in the atrocity to go with her. Nice kid. Then, Doug Ford says he will fire the president of Ontario Hydro if he’s elected. That’s the fellow who makes $6 million. No doubt Hydro runs so much better because of such tax largesse. Below that, who knew they were abducting young men in India and forcing them to get married? The sulky-looking fellow above tells what it’s like. Finally, Albert Einstein and his second wife Elsa are said by reports of the day to have “laughed  loud and long” as they pretended to fly about at a stunt studio in Hollywood in 1931. The film was unknown until it was discovered in the archives of the late inventor of Kodachrome.

This is Jersey Day in Canada. Unknown numbers of people will wear a bit of gold and green to somehow express their solidarity with the families and friends of the Humboldt Broncos. As well, a poignant cartoon shown here is touching millions with its simple message. CBC morning host Heather Hiscox interviewed the artist Bruce MacKinnon of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald.

Diperie now open on Yonge. Are those pretzels? / Instagram @misstastytourist @laurentlussier

Jillian Peters, 9, with hospital staff. (Ed Middleton/CBC)

Summer can not be far off when ice cream and Gelato bars are opening with invitations for investors to buy a franchise. The latest is the Quebec-based Diperie at 3264 Yonge Street north of Brookdale Ave. We’re not sure what the above photos show except it seems like you can have pretzels with your choco freeze. To the right of that, the tireless 132nd Scouts are offering their garden supplies again.  Buy online. Centre left, the Leaside High School Council is presenting the Kyla Fox Parent Workshop April 19. Then a reminder of this Monday’s (April 16) Community Open House at Michael Garron Hospital. At bottom, the expansion of Holland Bloorview Hospital is being celebrated in this photo of patient Jillian Peters, 9, with Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital staff  You may wish to give.

Dean Psarras has posted a photo of a letter to North Leaside residents from Councillor Burnside about the cul-de-sac traffic calming proposal for Glenvale Blvd, Broadway Ave. and Craig Crescent. The ultimate result, if the scheme leaps all the hurdles, is to shut off traffic on those streets into (and out of) Leaside at Bayview Ave. The meeting is set for Wednesday April 18 at 7:30 p.m. at Leaside Memorial Gardens. The is the work of the North Leaside Traffic Committee, an unofficial body appointed by the Councillor.  The plan would not happen quickly and there are many requirements. An informal survey of some 750 people in the area found 69 percent supported the idea.

LRT WORK A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME MISFORTUNE

This was to be followed by a formal poll of perhaps 3,000 residents in which at least half will be required to participate in the vote for it to be valid. Of these, 60 percent would have to agree to the closures. Further hurdles await at Community Council and with caveats about traffic obstruction which such closures might cause elsewhere. The pilot, if approved, would last nine to 12 months, Mr. Burnside told a town hall in February. The concept is seen by many non-Leaside residents to the west as quite radical. Mr. Psarras’s post on Leaside Community elicited a few posts worrying about the diversion of traffic to the south. The discussion of this plan is occurring in the middle of the LRT convulsion, a once-in-a-lifetime misfortune, that has created what can fairly be called a nightmare of traffic issues for all of Midtown.

Part of letter posted by Dean Psarras

The Crosstown LRT Twitter account is warning that the northbound left turn at Bayview and Eglinton Aves. will be restricted Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.and from 7 to 11 p.m. The dedicated northbound left turn lane will be converted to the southbound lane. This will be useful to some who still go there but many have put such corners on  Eglinton on permanent avoidance. Twitter

The Party For A Purpose planned by the South Leaside Monday Group has been cancelled. A release on Instagram says simply that this is because of unforseen circumstances. The notice says that refunds for tickets will be made.

Okey-dokey-smokey

RioCan plaza at 2480 Gerrard

Toronto’s first government marijuana store will be in a RioCan plaza at 2480 Gerrard St. E. at Victoria Park Ave. The new Ontario Cannabis Store will have neighbors like Tim Horton’s and Buck N Up. It is one of four locations announced Wednesday. The others are in Guelph, Kingston and Thunder Bay. It is easy to see why operators of now illegal pot shops think there will be plenty of room for them in the new world of okey-dokey-smokey.

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Faith Dickinson is a winner of the Diana Award (Photo: diana-award.org.uk)

A Peterborough girl, Faith Dickinson, 15, has been invited to the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on May 19. Faith is one of seven winners of the Diana Award who will be on the grounds of Windsor Castle for the wedding, according to a news release. The Diana Award, created in honour of the late Princess of Wales, is given to young people who are “changing the world… through kindness, compassion and service.” The Peterborough teen was summoned to St. James’s Palace last year to receive the award for her charity, Cuddles for Cancer. She started the project when she was nine, after her aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her aunt suffered cold and shivers during treatment and told Faith of her affliction. The girl set out to make her aunt a fleece blanket. At the Diana ceremony, she said “Prince William told me that I was just doing such an amazing thing. And Prince Harry told me that I was the most impressive redhead there tonight.” Faith has now made more than 3,500 personalized blankets, which have been sent across the world, and she’s raised more than $30,000 to have them delivered. Most recently, the CBC reports, she began delivering the blankets to soldiers returning home with injuries or suffering from PTSD.

Dayna Brons

Dayna Brons, 24, the athletic therapist for the Humboldt Broncos has become the 16th person to die in the crushing tragedy near Humboldt, Saskatchewan. Relatives of the young woman said they will always remember her “joyful smile.” Ms Brons died Wednesday at the Saskatoon hospital which received so many injured from the bus-truck collision last Friday night. Across the nation formal services and personal acts of remembrance are taking place in every community. Hockey sticks and candles sit outside many front doors as people try to offer strength to others and find some themselves. Canadian Press says Brons was surrounded  “by those she loved and those who loved her” at her death. Details of what happened remain fragmentary. It appears however that the semi either did not stop at a stop sign, or pulled out into the path of the bus. The bus is said to have struck the truck and had much of the upper portion flattened, thus causing the dreadful death and injury.

Highway 335 showing stop sign at Highway 35

The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority has announced a plan to turn 16 kilometres of hydro right of way in Toronto into parkland called the Meadoway. It will be a collaboration among the the Conservation Authority (TRCA), The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, and the City of Toronto  A news release Wednesday describes the scheme but makes no reference to just how the towers and high-tension wires are integrated into a park. It will stretch from the Don River Ravine in Midtown to the Rouge National Urban Park  This appears to be the stretch of land now known as the Gatineau Hydro Corridor, although again, the news release doesn’t name it. As seen on a map showing urban trails, the Gatineau stretches from near Leaside to the northeast. News release.

Rookie the Beagle/South Bayview Bulldog

Drainage advice/Co-operators

Gordon A. Brown Middle School @GABrownMS_TDSB/Twitter

ABCRA

Rob Oliphant

Hey Rookie, you howling Beagle pup. We know you love this plug for the Park and Bark Dog Show here in the South Bayview Summary. See you there on May 5 in the parking lot at Yonge and Davisville. Upper right, Alok Tomar’s Leaside Insurance has advice about keeping rainwater away from the house. Below that, a great-looking Pink Day Cake at East York Memorial Arena where kids will play hockey to mark this anti-bullying Wednesday. Lower left, our friends in Summerhill are reminded of the ABC Residents Association clean up day in Ramsden Park April 21. ABCRA takes its name from its boundaries west of Yonge St. being Avenue Rd., Bloor St. and the CP tracks. Lastly for today, Rob Oliphant’s Youth Career and Job Fair Thursday. Get that kid over to 1100 Millwood Rd. for his/her own maturity. South Bayview Bulletin Board