A 2-2 tie was the outcome Friday night at Preston Memorial Arena in Cambridge as Leaside Wildcats met the Cambridge Rivulettes. Leaside slipped a ranking to fifth in the 20-team Provincial Women’s Hockey League after tonight’s play. Tomorrow, Leaside meets the Bluewater Hawks in Strathroy. PWHL summary of the game is here.
Leaside High alumni thinking about school’s 75th year
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Lynda Potts has posted a heads up about the 75th anniversary of Leaside High School which she hopes will rock the community in 2020. Yes, the friendly old building at 200 Hanna Rd. was built in 1945. Leaside was booming and there was a baby boom coming. Lynda says there is a “small amount of money in the reunion fund” to get things started. But much more will be needed if alumni want a bang up reunion. She asks that everyone including undergrads and their families step up to the plate for the 75th reunion. We hope so too Lynda.
Glebe Manor clubhouse demolished for park, town house
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Deal with developer will see a park on most of the land. Photo Derek Tilley
The Glebe Manor Lawn Bowling Club clubhouse on Manor Road has been torn down as work begins on a single town house and a City-owned park. That’s Hillsdale Ave E. you’re looking at on the other side. GLEBE LAWN: Partial win for City but the smell remains
Service for lawyer Bob Conway at St. Anselm’s Church
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Bob Conway
A service for Toronto lawyer John Robert (Bob) Conway was held Thursday at St. Anselm’s Roman Catholic Church on MacNaughton Road. Mr Conway died January 18, 2016, at Sunnybrook Hospital after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 68. Bob Conway was well known for his prosecutorial work at the Law Society of Upper Canada and for the Ontario Government. He was a committed athlete and had completed the Boston and New York Marathons. His obituary recalls that he was an avid skier and frequent wintertime visitor to the slopes of Colorado. He taught skiing to children with disabilities through the Track 3 program as a volunteer over many years. Bob’s other passions included automobiles and photography. He leaves wife Galina and her sons Alexi and Alex Kuznetsov, his brothers Tom (Reine), Gerry (Diane), nephews and nieces Danelle, Jason, Scott, Sarah, Kerry and many friends.
Summerhill Market is selling cricket pie, other lovely insects
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Cricket pie
It may or may not be the way to get a leg up on Whole Foods, but Summerhill Market has decided to stock insects. The owner of Summerhill, at Summerhill Ave. near Glen Road, has told the CBC that the long-time fine food retailer to the rich is now offering BBQ, Moroccan-spiced and honey mustard flavoured insects ($1.69 per two-gram pack) to get ahead of the current trend. What trend? Anyway, Christy McMullen notes that insects are eaten all over the world, even though there is no discernible demand in Toronto for this type of food. However, because such notions as sustainability are fashionable with consumers, and eating bugs meets that demand, Summerhill is taking a chance. “They’re low in fat, high in iron, high in calcium [and] they come with nine essential amino acids,” said McMullen. Some of the items the store sells: mealworm protein balls, chocolate covered crickets and cricket pie. To make the key lime pie, cooks make cricket flour, and it’s topped with chocolate-covered crickets. “With the pie, you wouldn’t even notice, the bugs are all ground up,” said McMullen. All the insects, including salt-and-pepper seasoned mealworms ($1.69 per two-gram pack) and organic cricket flour ($15.99 per 113-gram bag), are from Entomo Farms in Ontario.
FOOD EXPERT: Grocers trim cauliflower prices out of pity?
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Imported produce continues to be expensive by historic standards but even with the Canadian dollar at its lowest levels in years, many people find tomatoes and other essentials worth the price. One exception to that elasticity of demand was cauliflower which was said to have risen to $8 a head in places. There was no market. Now however as the Toronto Star reports, the price has come down. You won’t guess the reason. A food expert from Guelph University Sylvaine Charlebois says grocers have been impacted by stories about high prices and are now actually selling cauliflower at a loss. In some stores it can now be had for something under $2 a head. But that may not last. Otherwise, we are sure that consumers are indifferent to U.S newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post declaring how awful it is that Canadians can’t find food they can afford. But it is always good copy in Toronto when The Times notices Canada.and absolute nirvana when it notices Toronto.
New York stores run out of road salt as storm looms
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Round table to keep people alive in Toronto traffic
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Jaye Robinson
It may be hard to imagine that there is anything to be said about road safety that hasn’t already been repeated a million times. But there is no more important matter than keeping people alive so Ward 25 Councillor Jaye Robinson will be holding a round table at City Hall next Monday (January 25, 2016) to seek a Road Safety Strategic Plan. It will be held from 10.30 to 12.30 noon in the Council Chamber at City Hall. It is a short period of time to address this issue but perhaps the speakers will be professional people who can speak briefly to the point. The news release telling of this meeting says: “The Road Safety Strategic Plan is looking to identify the contributing factors related to road safety in our community and identify potential safety initiatives that can be implemented to help reduce transportation-related deaths and serious injuries on Toronto’s roads.” Councillor Robinson says there is room for improvement. The conversation will focus on areas such as:
• pedestrian and cyclist safety
• aggressive driving
• distracted driving
• safety in school zones
• safety for seniors
BREAKING: Not guilty in Twitter harrassment case
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U.S. east coast facing heavy snow, disruption this weekend
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A large storm is beginning to dump snow on the southern and eastern United States today (Friday, January 22, 2016) with flight cancellations and emergency conditions in five states. As much as 60 centimetres may fall in Washington. The National Weather Service said the winter storm could rank near the top 10 to ever hit the region. NWS meteorologist Paul Kocin compared it to “Snowmageddon,” the first of two storms that “wiped out” Washington in 2010, but he said the weekend timing could help limit deaths and damage. New Yorkers are battening down as well. The snowfall is expected to continue from late Friday into Sunday and could cause more than $1 billion in damage and paralyze the eastern third of the nation, he said.
Syrian Refugee Hub to open Saturday at 1803 Danforth Ave.
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East Toronto Families for Syria will officially open a community hub tomorrow (Saturday, January. 23) between noon to 6 p.m. The Hub’s storefront was donated by Remax Hallmark Realty and the Danforth East Community Association’s Pop Up Shop Program, after East Toronto Families for Syria received an outpouring of donations from the community. Donations will be collected and offered for Syrian refugees at The Hub, just east of Danforth and Coxwell, until March 31.
Wynne, Notley meeting at Legislature building Friday
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Premier Wynne, the member for Don Valley West, met Premier Notely of Alberta at the Legislature building this morning (Friday, January 22, 2016) CBC