An Iowa grandmother, Lerynne West, choked back tears Monday as she pledged to do good above and beyond her family with her $343,900,000 Powerball lottery winnings. She has created the Callum Foundation, named after a grandson who was born at just 24 weeks and died after one day. Also CBS News
Toronto Police have found Yin-Hing Hsiao. The search was centred in the Mount Pleasant Road and Eglinton Avenue East area. TPS thanks the public for its help.
East York Town Centre says it is hoping to re-open the food court the Overlea Blvd mall by the middle of the month. Much of the mall has been closed since a fire in the banquet hall caused smoke damage which required cleaning. At the same time, an A&W franchise among new stores in the east wing of the mall on the parking lot is nearing completion. Sources at the mall said a dialysis centre, run by St. Michael’s Hospital, is expected to open by early next year in space previously leased by Target.
A post to the Facebook account Leaside Community links to a story by journalist Naomi Buck in the Globe and Mail about the 2017-18 stay of a homeless young man named Bernie in a corner of Davisville Public School on Millwood Rd. It tells of the friendship offered by many staff, including Principal Shona Farrelly, and of kindergarten students, who accommodated Bernie until he moved on to perhaps a better home. Story is here.
A man, 22, came knocking on the doors of the fine homes on Oakville’s Maple Grove Drive about 3 a.m. Monday. He told a story of an “accident” which somehow or other saw his car residing in Lake Ontario. Remarkably, he was more or less okay. But police say a passenger in the same car was not so lucky. The body of another young man was found when police located the vehicle. “Officers were called to a report of a male banging on a residence. Upon attending, they found the male who was soaking wet at the back of a residence,” Det.-Const. Martin Dick said at the scene.
It has taken Lowe’s, the US hardware and home goods chain, not quite three years to decide it really doesn’t want the Rona stores for which it paid twice the going stock value in early 2016. Lowe’s Companies announced Monday it will close 31 Canadian stores including the 27 mostly Rona locations. Nine are in Ontario, nine in Quebec, six in Newfoundland and Labrador, two in Alberta and one in British Columbia. Lowe’s says it expects to close the impacted stores by the end of the company’s 2018 financial year, Feb. 1, 2019. Lowes was a persistent suitor of Rona from 2012 up until the purchase made in February of 2016. Lowes pays double the stock price to buy Rona outright
The Leaside Garden Society meeting is scheduled for Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. at the Leaside Library, 165 McRae Dr. at Rumsey Rd. The guest speaker on this occasion will be Jodie Roberts of the David Suzuki Foundation who will speak on the Homegrown National Park Project.
Two small planes collided in mid-air near Ottawa Sunday morning causing one to crash, killing the pilot. The other plane, carrying two people, landed safely at Ottawa International Airport. No names have been released. The incident occurred over the suburb of Carp. The plane which crashed went down in an open field. The Ottawa Citizen reports that a plane told the Ottawa airport it had been struck at the Carp airport, saying, “Somebody ran into the bottom of me, I didn’t see them.” “Roger, are you declaring an emergency at this time?” the terminal responds. “Not at this time, I’ve got a 1,000 pounds of fuel, two souls on board,” the plane says. Following that, it landed safely at the airport, the newspaper says
Can this bright Sunday morning possibly make up for the gloom we will feel at about 5 p.m. as we are plunged into darkness by Standard Time? There appears to be much sound argument that the semi-annual time change is an abuse of our bodies and minds.
A ticket sold in Ontario claimed Saturday night’s $9.6 million Lotto 649 jackpot, while the draw’s guaranteed $1 million prize went to a ticket holder in Quebec. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Nov. 7 will be approximately $5 million.
At upper left, the breakfast and brunch renaissance in South Bayview continues with preparation to open at Eggstatic, 1568 Bayview Ave., next door to Verdi Trattoria. This makes the fourth such happy arrival here after Green Canoe on Millwood Rd., Brunch Story at 874 Eglinton (at Laird) and the enormously busy Sophie’s Kitchen at 1614 Bayview. Still in the top gallery, on the east side of Bayview new businesses Beauty Bloom and Aytac Fashion are a welcome sight. In the lower gallery, the progression of La Muse (now at 1592 Bayview) to its soon to be completed new home at 1610 Bayview. That’s the former home of Horticultural Design. As reported here in June, owner Michael Renaud closed his business at the end of August after 27 years to accept a position with Summerhill Nursery and Floral on Poplar Plains Road.
