Members of Team Epping from the Leaside Curling Club are seen posing with the Ontario Tankard following their victory Sunday in Cornwall. The team now heads to the Tim Hortons Brier. It runs from February 29 to March 8 at the Leon’s Centre in Kingston. Tankard Results
Security video shows a man taking a hand-made silver-plated trumpet valued at $4,500 from Cosmo Music in Richmond Hill about a month ago. City News
Leaside Ladies Night Out has filled the Leaside Pub for the second annual event held Thursday. Principals Ann Brown and Becky White sold 175 tickets to rock the old pub to the rafters. This weekend Ann and Becky are saying how proud they are of the many women who joined them. Proceeds are helping to plant yet more goodwill with friends in Thorncliffe Park. Funds have purchased seeds and tools for the TP Urban Farmers at 71 Thorncliffe Park Dr. Funds will also help facilitate the building of raised beds which permit better drainage and lush growth. Leaside Chit Chat
No winning ticket was sold for the $5 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the draw’s guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a Prairie ticket holder. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Feb. 5 will be approximately $7 million.
Sheppard Ave. East has re-opened at Warden Ave. following a two-alarm fire in a high-rise apartment building at Sheppard Ave East and Palmdale Drive Saturday afternoon. It was reported at about 4.40 p.m.
Thousands of kids hit the ice at the Leaside Hockey Association Select Tournament this weekend. The Leaside Arena is a focus for family fun with players, moms, dads and relatives thronging the concessions, silent auction offerings as well as Andy Elder’s newly-located food stand. He’s now at the west end of the main concourse. Games and activity continue into Sunday.
An indignant post at BlogTO has retold with its own special spin how a TTC operator used the public address system to explain that there was very little he could do to remove a passenger who “smelled bad.” His comments were translated by one passenger and the blog as “shaming.” Maybe. But comments on the post reveal overwhelming support for the operator. There’s no way of knowing just how filthy this passenger really was. All sorts of images can be conjured. But the operator’s broadcast appears to have been in response to complaints from other passengers. Will he now fall victim to cancel-culture vengeance? Among comments vindicating the operator are:
“If you smell bad, do something about it”
“Good for the driver”
“A big no to bad smells on the subway”
Oh, unfeeling Toronto. Why can’t you just cuddle up to filthy people next to you on the subway?
The Dow slumped more than 600 Friday, apparently driven by coronavirus fears. Toronto was down about 172. CBC
The UK has at long last ended its nightmare of indecision about Brexit. The country formally left the EU at 11 p.m. Greenwich time (midnight in Brussels). This is a streamed special broadcast from Friday night.
The case of coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been confirmed in a patient in London, Ontario bringing the total in the province to three. Toronto Medical Officer of Health Eileen de Villa said the news does not change the situation in Toronto where two cases are confirmed. “I will let you know directly if this changes,” said the MOH. “I want to remind Toronto residents that, at this time, the risk to our community remains low.”
Geoff Kettel, co-president of Leaside Residents Association, says that RioCan Inc. will give $19 million to the City as a form of compensation for its large development planned at the southeast corner of Laird Drive and Eglinton Ave. The area has been known as RioCan Leaside Centre and among other businesses contains a Canadian Tire store. The money will be spent to build a daycare centre for the area and other as-yet undecided services to support the increased population in east Leaside caused by the development. The cash is part of an overall settlement resulting from mediation which saw two towers originally planned at 36 and 38 storeys reduced to 34 and 29 storeys. The development will contain increased commercial space and parkland.
The Leaside Hockey Association’s Select Invitational Tournament is underway this weekend at the Leaside Arena and nearby rinks. As many as 2,000 boys from local and distant teams will compete for supremacy in their division. The action at Leaside’s Millwood Rd. arena is fun for families too. Have Saturday or Sunday and browse the silent auction and concessions.
