Mature beyond her years

Faith Dickenson, 14

An inspiring 14-year-old girl from Peterborough has received the Princess Diana Award from the hands of Prince William for her compassionate efforts to comfort those suffering from cancer. Faith Dickenson was off to the ceremony honouring 20 young people for similar selfless decency at St. James Palace in the British capital this week. It happened almost without a word being said to her friends at school. Many thought Faith was off school because of illness. Faith has spent much of her young life repeating a kindness done for her sick aunt. She made the woman a blanket to ward off the chills that accompanied treatment for Stage 4 breast cancer. That was five years ago and as reported by the CBC, Faith has since sent 3,500 fleece blankets around the world through her non-profit organization, Cuddles for Cancer.

Join us for Leaside Smokedown 2017 supporting @HBKidsHospital – BBQ by @Grill_Bill, music by Community Soul Project https://t.co/7wPWHEoVRW pic.twitter.com/76NxsXrZ2J

— Amsterdam Brewery (@amsterdambeer) May 18, 2017

Police sent a bulltin at 6.45 p.m. Friday that the mother and son are located and are all right.

Former Brick

Alpha and Omega

Welcome to Alpha and Omega on the north block of South Bayview. This women’s accessories shop occupies the north half of the former Brick Mattress location. The symbols are not unfamiliar but if you haven’t brushed up your Greek recently you might be a bit at sea. Also new in the north block, Royal Beauty. Good luck to all.

A number of fans were on social media Thursday night asking just where the Blue Jays game had gone. It was fairly easy to speculate that there was a rain delay in Atlanta, but it seemed a well-kept secret on Sportsnet. The game resumed about 9 p.m. without, of course, Kevin Pillar. He was out for shouting an epithet at an Atlanta pitcher. It was the other F-word with LGBTQ insinuations. Pillar has been suspended for two games.

Michael Bliss has died at age 76. Bliss was an award-winning historian, author and long-time resident of Bessborough Drive in Leaside. Bliss was known as one of the country’s leading intellectuals and wrote 14 books on an array of subjects, from business to politics, including the Governor General’s Award–nominated Plague: A Story of Smallpox in Montreal. His published work also includes biographies of legendary figures in the medical community, such as Harvey Cushing, William Osler, and Frederick Banting. Bliss retired from U of T’s department of history in 2006 after a nearly four-decade career during which he earned the elite rank of University Professor, an honour “conferred upon less than two percent of tenured faculty,” according to the school — CBC  Acclaimed Canadian historian, author Michael Bliss dies at 76

Police want to talk to a woman aged between 20 and 30 about car break-ins taking place between May 2, 2017 and May 6 this year. This was in the Lake Shore Boulevard East and Logan Avenue area.  She was operating a 2010-2013 grey Range Rover Sport. She is described as wearing a green raincoat, black pants, black canvas shoes with white soles.  Police are requesting assistance from anyone who may be able to identify her.

Roger Ailes has died at the age of 77, a year after being fired from Fox New Channel, the enormously successful all-news service he created and shaped for nearly 20 years. Death also came to Chris Cornell and there is a suspicion that the AudioSlave rocker may have taken his own life. Below that, young Clair Eccles is “only a girl” but the 19-year-old has a killer knuckle ball that the manager of the Victoria Harbour Cats is betting will baffle batters in the previously all-male league. And finally, how long is a cat? The answer is as long as Omar. He’s an Australian tabby who stretches all the way from here to there.

Smiley”s now closed

Resident speaks with Global’s Catherine McDonald

Metal capping glints in sun

Contractor was on roof say merechants

Merchants on Danforth Ave. say a contractor was working on the 1922 brick facade over Smileys Restaurant and Deli Wednesday when it collapsed onto the sidewalk patio at the Danforth and Main Street. The operator of Hakim Optical next door to Smiley’s he had been approached by the owner of the Smiley’s building to share the cost of metal replacement “capping” for brickwork on the restaurant at 2543 Danforth Ave. Residents walked by the closed restaurant with care Thursday and told of how the eating establishment’s awning probably saved the life of one man, now in hospital. His name and condition have not been released. Dozens of bricks rained down on the street trapping those on the patio and sending others running for safety.

Central Tech arson suspect

Tarp set on fire

TTC and bank branch robbery suspect

Hitting bank at Old Kingston and Military

Police photos have been released related to criminal matters. Left, police wish to speak to this man about the fire on Monday at Central Tech Stadium, 725 Bathurst Street. To the right, a photo of a man wearing a surgical mask as a disguise when fled a robbery of a TTC collector at the Midland station, then far right in an earlier stick up at a bank at Old Kingston Rd. and Military Trail. These incidents occurred in February and December last.

This week saw the screening of the film Forgotten, the story of 100,000 British children who came to Canada as indentured labourers and domestics. Such assignments were made among orphaned or abandoned children right up until 1939. The evening was held at the Amsterdam Brewery on Esandar Drive by the British Home Child Group International. Many in the audience were descendants of children in the program.