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Health Canada is recalling President’s Choice chicken nuggets over possible Salmonella contamination. It says PC brand pub recipe chicken nuggets should not be consumed and should either be thrown away or returned to the store. No illnesses have been reported.

At Dentonia Park August 7

Celtic fiddler at market

Scallions

The Canada-Bangladsh Festival will be held on Civic Holiday (Monday, August 7, 2017) at Dentonia Park from noon to 9 p.m. Facebook The East York Farmers Market continues its summer run each Wednesday at the Civic Centre at 850 Coxwell Ave. It is always a lively scene.

A service will be held at the Humphrey Funeral Home on Bayview Ave. on Wednesday, July 19 for former Crown Attorney Llewellyn John Applegath. Mr. Applegath led a distinguished life as a lawyer, husband and attentive father to his three sons. He was a skilled poker player among many interests. His obituary notes his father’s business known as Applegath Hats, a firm which did business in the Hobberlins Department Store at 155 Yonge St starting early in the 20th Century. Obituary

Thursday will be chillier in the morning but warm weather will return for the weekend. Weather Network.

The sound and fury at the Pizza Pizza near the corner of Queen St. and Broadview Ave. signifies impaired pizza complaining. Public intoxication is alleged. Video #2 as taken by late night spectator Paul Michaels shows the theatrical nature of the moment as customers enjoy their pizza while the struggle goes on in the pizzeria doorway. Mr. Michaels, 23, reportedly said the melee began when a woman entered the store and complained that her pizza was late. Video #1 has 165,000 views Wednesday evening.

New research seems to indicate that coffee is quite good for you. In studies led by the Imperial College of London and the UN International Agency for Research on Cancer, 520,000 people in 10 countries were tracked for 16 years. Some 200,000 of these were in the US. They found that men who drank three cups of coffee per day were 18% less likely to die during the study period than people who drank no coffee. Women had an 8% reduced chance of death. As in all things, the addition of cream and sugar would be cause for concern. Also, in this day of promoted research and fake news, skepticism is present. However there is no evidence that this research is sponsored by Starbucks.

As expected, the Bank of Canada has raised its overnight rate by 0.25 percentage points to 0.75 per cent. It is the first increase in seven years and will impact, however slightly, all forms of borrowed money including mortgages, lines of credit and credit cards

Phin Park fun

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Phin Avenue Parkette at 115 Condor Ave

Residents of the Pocket neighbourhood (south of the Danforth between Jones and Greenwood Aves.) have raised $2,000 in a crowd funding campaign to save a popular free community art program called Art in Phin Park. In so doing, they ensured the fourth annual edition of the community event. As reported by Joanna Lavoie of the Beach Mirror the Pocket Community Association (PCA) was told this Spring that it would not be receiving the much-valued grant from the Toronto Arts Council. The community group needed the funding to purchase art supplies as well as hire artist-in-residence Jerry Silverberg and other special guest artists. You have to admire the proud people of the Pocket.

Sahar Abdalla

Yiqiao (Cindy) Chen

William Chinnery

Three Leaside High School graduates have won scholarship awards sponsored by the TD Bank for their selfless leadership in helping others. The TD Scholarships for Community Leadership are valued at up to $70,000 and are awarded to young grads who make a difference. This year’s winners are from all across the country but, remarkably, LHS grads won three awards from among 20 shining faces named by TD Bank on its scholarship website.

SAHAR ABDALLA

Sahar Abdalla became a Youth Director on the Flemingdon Park Parent Association. She started a drop-in homework centre for students from grades 4 to 6 and applied her French skills as one of the volunteer tutors. She organized leadership workshops and a soccer house league, in which she managed coaches and planned schedules. She also edited her student newspaper and was active on the school robotics team. Sahar plans to study software engineering at the University of Toronto.

CINDY CHEN

Yiqiao (Cindy) Chen tutored a blind teenager in Beijing and founded Vision Exchange, a non-profit program matching sighted English-speaking mentors with blind Chinese buddies for online classes and conferences. The program grew to 120 participants in three countries, helping Chinese blind people overcome their limited education options and fulfill dreams. Cindy also ran music theory and science youth camps at the Victoria Park Hub community centre and founded her school’s first business club. She will pursue Engineering Science at the University of Toronto and seek a career in education or economics.

WILLIAM CHINNERY

Leaside winner William Chinnery was inspired by volunteers as he himself faced cancer. William designed an online test registration process to help Special Education students register for support during tests which has been adopted by other schools. He helped organize events in aid of mental illness and help students cope with stress. He also introduces children with disabilities to technology and robotics at a children’s rehabilitation hospital. He will attend Ryerson University in Business Technology Management. With TD Bank website

Four young men have vanished in a wealthy section of Pennsylvania over the weekend. Now authorities are conducting a massive search of a large farm in Bucks County about 40 miles north of Philadelphia. They are holding a fifth young man in custody on an unrelated charge but say he is a person of interest. Then, Israel is proposing an artificial island off the shore of Gaza which would be full of shipping facilities and even an airport designed, says the Jerusalem government, to try to improve the lives of Palestinians. Below that, counting people and projecting the world population. Quite a lot of food for thought there. And finally, the European Court of Human Rights has upheld the Belgian ban on the full-face veil. Food for thought there too.

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A man has been freed from between two walls barely eight inches apart on Sherbourne St. near Queen St. E. Tuesday night. Firefighters used pneumatic drills to go through a wall from the inside of one of the buildings after getting permission from the landlord. They created a hole large enough to permit the man to get out of his narrow predicament. The man claims he fell about nine metres from the roof of 123 Sherbourne St. around 3:15 p.m., a story which stretches belief. At its narrowest, the space is 20 centimetres wide or less than eight inches. “How the man went down there, nobody knows,” says building owner Donald Lee. Authorities suggested the man was trying to retrieve something from between the walls and was then unable to get out. He complained of a lack of circulation in his arms and legs and was further constrained by a steel reinforcing bar which somehow became wrapped around his legs. The ordeal lasted five hours with the fire service spending nearly three hours on the scene. Mr.Lee is asking who will pay to repair the damage done to get the man out. He may already know.