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The Moore Park Residents Association (MPRA) will hold its 2021 Annual General Meeting Wednesday, May 26, at 7:30 p.m. by video conference. Guest speakers will include Councillor Mike Layton. MPRA  members will receive email with details and a Zoom link. Current members (or new members) of the MPRA can vote at the AGM. Among the many issues of interest raised in a newsletter Sunday is concern that people are breaching the construction fences at the new playground at Moorevale Park. And Past President Chris Lowry has written an account of some of the neighbourhood’s notable residents over the years.

As the application process for Moore Park to become a Heritage Conservation District is ongoing, it’s interesting to think about the remarkable history of our neighborhood. Everyone who lives in this area enjoys the rich variety of houses and gardens, representing 130 years of evolving architectural taste. Moore Park’s remarkable heritage homes have attracted a wide variety of famous people to live here, from rock stars to members of the royal family, including: actress Gina Lollobrigida, literary scholar Northrop Frye, physicist and educator Ursula Franklin, World War One flying ace Billy Bishop, co-discoverer of insulin Sir Frederick Banting, Lady Iris Mountbatten (granddaughter of Queen Victoria), sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wylie, composers Healey Willan and Haygood Hardy, the photographers Ashley and Crippen, and, when they were children, both Jim Cuddy (Blue Rodeo) and one of our most famous Canadians, Neil Young (between Omomee and Winnipeg, enroute to L.A.).

Thorncliffe Park vax clinic Sunday/Frank Gunn

Hundred of residents of Thorncliffe Park and Flemingdon Park stood in the rain Sunday to get vaccinated against the Covid virus. Shots were given to people over the age of 18. These pictures were tweeted by Frank Gunn (Frank Gunn@frankgunnphoto)

Photo: Frank Gunn

There were no injuries but absolutely nothing left after this fire north of Newmarket. Check NewmarketToday for 17 pictures taken by Paul Novosad of the conflagration.

The incredible Indiana Jones franchise will see Harrison Ford, 78, cast beside Phoebe Waller-Bridge, 35, in the fifth such epic. Hope she’s plays his daughter. Really.

Musk’s monkey plays video games

They say Elon Musk can visualize bringing prehistoric creatures back from centuries of extinction. But for the time being, he’s implanting chips in the brains of monkeys to give them superb game-playing skills. Will this pan out as well as the electric car?

Hilarious Melissa and the crab arms

Melissa McCarthy’s infectious humour is so entertaining it can make people giggly about crab arms. Have a good weekend.

Metrolinx has announced it will build a large maintenance and service facility (MSF) for the Ontario Line trains on Overlea Blvd near the Thorncliffe Park Costco store and across the road from the East York Town Centre.

Proposed location of new maintenance and service facility for LRT trains

Metrolinx calls the new MSF “a critical component of the Ontario Line.” The chosen site is a 175,000-square metre tract. Once completed, it will become the central location for the upkeep, repair and resting place for the subway trains. Release

A pop-up vaccination clinic at a Thorncliffe Drive mosque Friday ran out of vaccine before closing time at 5 p.m. The clinic had what appears to be a very long lineup and one tweet said people were waiting five hours before the noon start. Saturday, another clinic will take place around the corner outside Iqbal Food Market starting at 9.30.

Two pop-up vaccination clinics are set for Friday (today) and Saturday in Thorncliffe Park. Friday’s site is the Masjid Darusallam Mosque at 4 Thorncliffe Park Drive. Saturday’s is outside Iqbal Halal Foods. Get over there.

Prince Philip, the Queen’s consort of more than 70 years, passed away at Windsor Castle on Friday, Buckingham Palace has announced.

Detour on Lake Shore Blvd Thursday

Traffic is snarled on Lake Shore Blvd Thursday because of a road closure between Newfoundland Drive and New Brunswick Way. Police say a pedestrian bridge has unspecified damage and poses a potential threat to cars below.

Britain’s highest court has awarded a man some £2 million (about $3.5 million Canadian) with costs after a long court case over whether a flaw in a digital blackjack game was enough to negate the jackpot win. The judges said “nope”.

BC cherry blossoms in full bloom

Lada-dee-dah in Havana

Cuba is famous (or notorious) for broken-down old cars but here’s a report on the Havana Lada Club and the love these drivers have for the world’s most unreliable car.