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At long last, the Triple Crown drought is over. American Pharoah led all the way to win the Belmont Stakes by 5 lengths on Saturday, becoming the first horse in 37 years to sweep the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes — one of the sporting world’s rarest feats. “Wow! Wow!” jockey Victor Espinoza said moments after crossing the finish line. “I can only tell you it just an amazing thing.” The bay colt with the unusually short tail defeated seven rivals in the grueling 1 1/2-mile race, covering the distance in 2:26.65 to end the longest stretch without a Triple Crown champion in history — FOX News.

A large and elderly Maple tree collapsed overnight June 5-6 on Roxborough Street West just west of Yonge Street yesterday afternoon following the rainy onslaught. Top picture is courtesy of resident Bill McLaughlin and was first published in the Yonge and Roxborough News. Traffic light is at Yonge. Lower left is the tree as seen by Google in September of 2014 and at lower right is the cleanup operation near Paul Hahn Lane courtesy the same Roxy Blogger.

Carolyn Armstrong with family at Millwood and Bayview

Carolyn Armstrong is asking fellow residents to join her and her friends at the southwest corner of Bayview Ave. and Millwood Rd. Saturday morning to visit a pop-up lemonade stand in aid of Camp Huronda. The camp is a Diabetes Association facility for children with Type 1 Diabetes. This is a City-wide campaign apparently. The location is outside epi bakery. The stand is there from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and again Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m. It’s called Put A Squeeze on Diabetes. The campaign goes next weekend too when the pop-up lemonade stand will be at Lexus on the Park. Carolyn asks that if you are unable to attend, buy a virtual glass of lemonade here. Facebook 

Busy at work and (below) and the whole gang

This week saw South Bayview area students painting over graffiti as part of 53 Division Toronto Police Service to clean up such sites. More pictures 

Can American Pharoah win the triple crown?

The pitcher glances at third, steps off the mound to find a new ball in the red can

Kamakaswa Camp made a late comeback to defeat the Eyes First Optical squad at June Rowlands (Davisville Park) Friday evening. The consistent performance of the pitching machine was greatly appreciated by the youngsters, who tend to get a little tuckered out pitching seven innings. Here we see the machine keeper loading up in the final at bat for Kamakaswa Camp in which they scored three runs to win 9 to 8. Well done all.

Police have released pictures of three men who hang around banks watching for people to withdraw money. They are distraction con artists who tell a victim all kinds of stories to get close enough to steal the cash. They might throw money on the ground and say you dropped it. They have been known to follow potential victims in a car. They will stop the victim and tell him or her there is something wrong with their car or clothing.  Once a victim is distracted, the men will work together to steal the money the person has just taken out of the financial institution  If you see people hanging around a bank, tell the staff.

Police say that a car struck a cement truck and caused it flip over at Parliament and Richmond Streets shortly after 11 a.m. on Friday. Two people were taken to hospital but it is believed their injuries are not serious. Please be careful when you drive into a cement truck. They’re quite tippy apparently.

A new exhibition of interactive play has opened at the Ontario Science Centre on Don Mills Road. It is a spinoff of the CBC program Mythbusters. Looks like fun.

Canadian employment figures in May have greatly exceeded expectations. Canada added 58,900 jobs in May, Statistics Canada said today (Friday, June 5, 2015) well above market expectations for an increase of 10,000 jobs. The national unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.8% in May, matching market expectations. You gotta love it.