A ticket holder in Quebec won Saturday’s $27 million Lotto 649 jackpot. The draw’s guaranteed $1 million prize also went to a lottery player in Quebec. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Mar. 17 will be an estimated $5 million.

The fire marshall has found there were no smoke alarms in the home at 95 Gainsborough Rd when fire killed four people there on January 29. Then, so much personal sound flowed from the cassette player invented by Dutch inventor Lou Ottens 65 years ago. He has just died at the age of 94. Below that, two employees of a retirement home in Alliston are on leave at home because of their silly decision to go shopping without masks and then post their giggles on social media. Foolish but rather harmless. Give them a break. Lastly, it seems that the Amazon warehouse in Brampton has been an absolute beehive of virus reproduction. What do they do, spit on each other?

Cute and then some

East-end nature photographer Colin Mcconnell has posted the latest in his open-ended Dogs in the Hood series. This absolutely adorable pup is off the cuteness scale.

Tammy Mallett, manager of the Valu-Mart at 1500 Bayview Ave, has published pictures on the Davisville Parents FB account which she says show a break-in underway this week at the store. Some of the apparently teenaged people in the pictures may be identifiable. And at Leaside Community, a long thread discusses why the pictures were taken down by the admin.

Facebook appeal to find lost snake

And then there’s the Saturday morning appeal for the return of a lost snake in Little India. One reader asks how you lose a snake. Do they roam free?

Outside Food Basics on Pape Ave/R Belgrave City News

Two women escaped serious injury Friday evening when they were struck by a vehicle on Pape Ave near the Food Basics store near Gamble Ave. The incident occurred at about 7 p.m.

Eight teen boys in retail crime wave

Toronto Police report Saturday that six teenage boys are apprehended and two more sought in a string of retail robberies across the GTA. Five of them are minors and one is just 15. The eldest is 19 and he is named in the release.

Summerhill Market at 484 Eglinton West on the Eglinton Way

Summerhill Market has completed a two-year expansion from one store to four with the opening of its new location at 484 Eglinton Ave. West. The two-storey, 7,200 sq ft space is well known to Forest Hill residents and many will recall it as the former home of Edo, the Japanese restaurant. The store features hundreds of unique delicacies for which Summerhill is famous. These wonderful items are now made at the company-owned commissary on Railside Road in North York. The Summerhill growth has been carefully planned.

We Spring Forward early Sunday and the annual return to Daylight Saving Time costs us an hour’s sleep. A worthwhile post from WebMD has some advice on keeping alert at the wheel and at work.

Bernice Nantanda Wamala, 3

The Toronto Sun says it has been told that the investigation into the death of a three-year-old Scarborough girl, Bernice Nantanda Wamala, is focussing on the breakfast cereal eaten by the child and her friend last Sunday. The friend was sick after breakfast but survived. The cereal is called Golden Morn and is an African product made with corn and soy that is produced by Nestle. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is analyzing the contents of the cereal box.  Golden Morn

Vehicle rolled several times/OPP

This accident appears to be in Clarington in Durham Region at Hwy 401 and Mill Street, east of the intersection of Highway 401 and Highway 115. The driver, a woman of 69, has serious injuries. Twitter

Dozens of Toronto drugstores including many in South Bayview are making appointments to give people aged 60 to 64 the AstraZeneca vaccine. These include the Shoppers on Mt Pleasant and at 1860 Bayview Ave (at Broadway). But there are many others as well. Check the pharmacy list  There is also this list from City News which has good readability. It lists some 165 drugstores across Toronto.

Starting Friday, March 12, approximately 133,000 individual COVID-19 vaccination appointments for people age 80 and over will be available at the City of Toronto’s mass immunization clinics. The announcement was made late Wednesday.

• Toronto Registration Page
• City of Toronto online COVID-19 vaccination booking for residents born in 1941 or earlier

Also Wednesday, Premier Ford said that 120 mass vaccination sites set to open by the end of the month will allow the province to administer up to 150,000 doses per day, depending on supply from the federal government. That pace will allow the province to meet its goal of immunizing all eligible Ontarians by June 20, Retired Gen. Rick Hillier, who chairs the province’s vaccine distribution task force, said.

Others asked not to overwhelm the system

With the province’s appointment booking system coming online on Monday, Hillier cautioned residents who aren’t currently eligible — those under 80 years of age — not to call and overwhelm the system. “If you’re not 80 years old on Monday, or if you’re not representing somebody who’s 80 years old or older, please do not call the customer service desk, do not go online,” Hillier said. “If the (appointment) portal crashes, don’t panic,” Ford said. “We’ll get it back up.

The cost of Internet and/or cable service is the subject of a lively thread at Leaside Community FB. And indeed, the relative costs of the traditional services against lesser-known companies are remarkable.