Actually these photos of St. Clair Ave looking West from Yonge St. were taken just a whisker under 107 years apart. The top one was shot on October 25 1911 and the bottom was recorded in July of 2018. That’s Sellers Hotel at the left. OldTO
Interesting City News story on the theft of a pair of Stanley Cup Championship rings from a west Toronto home. It appears the thieves took the safe which held them.
A lost Girl Guide sash found in the snow at Trace Manes Park belongs to a member of the 198th Toronto Guide Unit which meets at Leaside United Church across the street each Monday evening. A neighbor who found the sash is taking it to the church where it is hoped the owner will be found.
A Broadway Ave. resident has posted video of a person opening her car and looking around at about 10.30 Monday night. The FB author has a different twist on preventing losses. She says leave the car open so the window isn’t broken but of course, remove all valuables. Not sure about that. Sadly the video doesn’t show much but it is a reminder again of how much theft there is from cars.
Upper left in this mid-week summary of local news, there’s Vladimir Guerrero Jr. with some pals from the Blue Jays organization keeping fit with stones and brooms at the Leaside Curling Club. Sweep, sweep. At right, MP Rob Oliphant presents Colette Bright with the Canada Citizenship Award for 17 years of faithful service to the St. Anselm Catholic School as head secretary. Well done, madam. Centre left, the Wildcats are promoting sales to the Canada vs USA Rivalry Series February 14 at Scotiabank Arena. Looks like fun. Centre right, a Remembrance toonie like the one seen here was once the precious possession of a Moore Park kiddo until it rolled under the baseboard and disappeared. Many people are offering to come to the rescue with a new toonie for the kiddo. Then a couple of poster reminders. The St. Cuthbert’s Potluck Dinner is Saturday and Davisville Public School Kindergarten Night is next Tuesday.
Just kidding. We knew that Fan Food wouldn’t make it into the new Canada Food Guide. Keeping in mind that there are limits to a chickpea regimen, it seems fairly straightforward. You can only expect so much from a Bulldog.
Snow tonight and early Wednesday morning with risk of freezing rain late Wednesday morning then followed by strong winds and rain.
A Colorado low will track northeast across Lake Huron and Georgian Bay Wednesday, bringing a dramatic change in weather with it.
A band of snow will move through the regions tonight with most areas getting 2 to 5 cm of snow except 5 to 10 cm snow near Lake Huron. The snow will change over to rain near noon Wednesday or in the afternoon with the passage of a warm front. Risk of freezing rain is also possible during the transition.
A brief thaw will arrive with temperatures soaring several degrees above freezing.
Strong southwesterly winds gusting to 70 or 80 km/h are also expected later Wednesday.
Environment Canada is closely monitoring this situation. Freezing rain warnings may be required as this event draws closer.
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Dozens of residents of the 33-storey St. James Town high-rise at 260 Wellesley St. are out of their homes tonight because of a burst pipe in the building’s electrical room. The situation is being watched by Toronto’s Office of Emergency Management but there is apparently no time-frame for a return of power. CP24 says the building is managed by the same firm that is responsible for an apartment building on Parliament Street that was the site of an electrical fire in September. That fire displaced 1,500 residents and those people have not yet been able to move back into their units. As reflected in the tweets, there is little information available to the tenants.
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A man has died in a fall from a construction site at Yonge and Wellesley Sts. Tuesday. Police said the man is believed to have fallen from one of the higher levels of the building. Sculptured tower emerges on Wellesley between Yonge/Bay
Toronto Fire Service is cleaning up at Detroit Eatery, 389 Danforth Ave. at Chester Ave. Tuesday after a four-alarm fire hit the small all-day breakfast restaurant. Danforth Ave has been re-opened shortly after 1 p.m. The fire was noticed at after 6.49 a.m. There do not appear to be any injuries. The CBC says that the Children’s Circle of St. Barnabas, a daycare located near the fire, had been closed because of smoke. Parents whose children attend the daycare have been told that the air quality would have to be checked before the daycare was deemed safe for children to return. Becker’s Bridal and another adjacent business also sustained smoke and water damage. Fire authorities said the fire appears accidental.
If you’ve visited me in Toronto, there’s a 100% chance I took you to @DetroitEatery. It’s impossible to categorize. The people – from all walks of life in parallel universes – are what makes Detroit so special. The Danforth will rally to support Chris in a mind-blowing way. pic.twitter.com/2qvPWHxf5W
— John Sharkman (@JohnSharkman) January 22, 2019
Staff and students at Children’s Garden School on Eglinton had some special visitors last week, Natalie from Metrolinx and Krista from Crosslinx. They were at the school to talk to staff and students about the building of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. The children loved it. They learned about cut and cover construction and how much more efficient the LRT will be at moving people across the City. They also learned about how the construction of the LRT is being managed, how tunnels are built, what it’s like for construction workers labouring underground and much more. Did you know that the digging of the tunnels goes for 24 hours a day, every day, or that it takes 15 minutes to walk the stairs back to the surface if the workers need to go to the bathroom or make a phone call? Natalie and Krista created a great presentation, totally appropriate for preschool to grade three children. The JKs and SKs even played Construction Worker Hokey Pokey. The children asked great questions and left feeling inspired about how things are made and how important public transit is. Metrolinx is on target to open for September 2021. We all look forward to the completion of the project so people can start moving freely along Eglinton again. There are plans to beautify Eglinton and add bike lanes as well. The videos here show work at Laird Station. This behind-the-scenes look is exciting. Interested in a Metrolinx presentation at your school? Contact Natalie.
The Meridian Credit Union, a rapidly-expanding financial services company based in Niagara Falls, has secured naming rights to the Sony Centre and the Toronto Centre for the Arts in North York. Beginning in September, the Sony Centre on Front St. will be called Meridian Hall and the North york theatre will be called the Meridian Arts Centre. The deal is worth $30.75-million to the City. Civic Theatres Toronto, which consists of three City-owned facilities — the Toronto Centre for the Arts (with four theatres), St. Lawrence Centre (with two theatres) and the Sony Centre theatre — secured the strategic partnership and naming-rights agreement with Meridian Credit Union. Ambitious Meridian CU to spark business on Mt. Pleasant
