Bamboo Bay extends drop in times for PA Day
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•Do you know this downtown bank robbery guy?
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•Welcome words on the congestion phobia
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•South Bayview Ave. storefront soundings
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•Gas leak capped on Merton St. about 4.25 p.m.
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•An apartment building was evacuated and a number of streets closed off after a large gas leak occurred on Merton Street at Pailton Crescent Thursday morning. It has been a complicated job to cap this leak but at about 4.25 p.m. Enbridge tweeted word that the leak has been stopped.
Aga Khan jokes about playing for Team Canada
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•Aga Khan signs guest book |
96 vehicles in snow squall pileup on Highway 400
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•OPP report a staggering series of rear-end collisions on Highway 400 this morning between Highway 9 on the north and the Innisfil Beach side road on the south. As reportage continues, it is confirmed that only three people have been injured. They have been taken to hospital for treatment of minor injuries. The dozens of other drivers and passengers involved in this wreck are being loaded into City of Barrie buses to keep them warm. They will be taken to accommodation in the reception area of a local race track where there is also space to bring the vehicles. Police must separate and make of a record of the cars and trucks of all sizes and provide the owners with information about their condition and location. This process will be facilitated by a numbering system which matches up drivers with the vehicles. The accident was caused by a large snow squall that swept across the area in the mid-morning hours and caused white-outs and slippery roads. It is a known and frequent hazard of driving on main highways in Ontario in winter. White-outs are a profound hazard — periods of blindness in which drivers have no orientation as to where other vehicles may be located or their speed. It is nothing short of miraculous that so few people were hurt in this accident.
Blue Jays start training with a win over Phillies
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•Sorel Etrog dead at 80 in his adopted Toronto
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•Works illuminate Davisville |
Sorel Etrog, the immigrant sculptor who left his mark on a city and on the world, has died in Toronto, his adopted home of 50 years. He was 80. The Toronto Star’s visual arts writer Murray Whyte is saying tonight (Wednesday, February 26, 2014) that Etrog’s gestural figurative style allied him with giants of Modern art like Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. He leaves a legacy of public sculptures, many of which illuminate Davisville Avenue on the properties owned by Greenwin Inc. Whyte reports that the Etrog will spirit live on in a sculpture centre which is set to open soon at Mount Sinai Hospital. It will feature more than 100 of Etrog’s works designed, as the hospital’s chief of psychiatry describes it, “a place of intervention.” Ertrog’s near-lifetime of creating works in bronze and other metals around Toronto will be particularly familiar to those who live and work in the Davisville Ave and Balliol Street neighborhood between Yonge St. and Mt. Pleasant Rd. His work became a kind of signature for the Greewin developments in that area when principals of the company commissioned a number of pieces in the 1960s. Murray Whyte