Mary Fragedakis (Ward 29) joined friends and workers at the unveiling of the Children’s Community Garden Mural at the East York Community Centre Saturday. It has a wonderful 3-D look. Drop by and see it at 1081½ Pape Ave.
A woman motorcyclist is dead after her machine was in collision with a car, according to TPS Operations. The accident occurred on the Bayview Avenue extension near the Brick Works at around 8:15 p.m. The rider was admitted to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre without vital signs and was pronounced dead a short time later. One other person was treated by paramedics for a minor injury from an airbag. At 10 p.m. southbound Bayview was closed at Pottery Road and the northbound at the Don Valley Parkway.
Mystery continues to surround the death of 18-year-old Alix Sagriff of Belleville who died Thursday while on a graduation trip to Cuba with classmates. Neither authorities nor her family seem to have much information. A family statement says that the first concern is bringing Alix home. She was found dead in her hotel room in Varadero while on a trip organized by S-Trip, a student trip company. She had just graduated from St. Theresa Catholic Secondary School in Belleville and was to attend Loyalist College in the same City this fall.
Two young men have drowned in Georgian Bay after their inflatable boat overturned at Wasaga Beach Saturday. The victims were in their mid 20s and came from Collingwood and Caledon, police said. Witnesses saw them floundering and crying out for help before they disappeared in choppy waters. Their bodies were found about 2 p.m., an hour after the accident.
RABIES BAIT DROP SET FOR MID-JULY
Thousands of green-coloured capsules containing rabies vaccine will be dropped by air in the western half of Toronto starting in July as a preventive move against outbreaks among raccoons, skunks, foxes and bats. The program will cost about $4 million. There have been no confirmed cases of what is known as fox strain or raccoon strain rabies in Toronto wildlife since December 2015.
MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT
A motorcyclist, 19, is in hospital with serious injuries from a wipe-out at Kipling Avenue and The Westway Saturday about 7 p.m. As many as four vehicles were involved in various ways in the loss of control by the young man aboard the bike. Police are looking at speed as a cause.
Try Tulowitzki went 2-for-4 with a three-run homer Saturday against the Astros at Rogers Place. The final score was Jays 7 and Astros 2. Tulowitzki connected on his seventh homer — a three run beauty — to provide the Blue Jays with some insurance runs in the winning effort.
Here is a graphic report on what the black-shirted anarchists are doing and saying in Hamburg. They are here to protest Trump. Does that mean they would have stayed home if he hadn’t been here? Doubtful. As NBC says, they came looking for a fight.
There is one winning ticket for the $23.6 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw, and it was purchased somewhere in Ontario. The location has not been announced.
Toronto fire personnel extinguished a two-alarm fire in a shed on Glen Cedar Road south of Eglinton Ave. W. and Allen Rd Saturday. No injuries are reported.
Here we go, starting with Toronto painter Amanda PL who says “phooey” more or less to the new prohibition on painting like someone else. It’s a recent invention called cultural appropriation. Amanda says she guesses a few people might have been influenced by Picasso. Do you think? Below that, charcoal-flavoured ice cream is now available at a place called Little Damage in San Francisco. Nuff said. To the right, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is being seared in this composite for going to riot-torn downtown Hamburg to address a left-wing rally hours after an NYPD policewoman was assassinated by a bullet through the window of her vehicle. Lower left, Ivanka Trump briefly got to sit in for her father at the G20 meeting in Hamburg and seems to have enthralled seat-mate Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund. To the right of that, a rather beat-up looking “hybrid” car with a Fiat badge seen on a Dupont St car lot. And finally, Ya Hoo from the Calgary Stampede, 105 years old this week.
The new footbridge stretching across Queen St. West between The Bay and the CF Eaton Centre has been fitted into place overnight Saturday. The eye-catching structure will open later this year. Queen is closed between Yonge and Bay Sts. for the weekend.
Track work has caused a break in the Yonge subway service between Lawrence Ave and Bloor Street but those stations are open and trains southbound and northbound will reverse from these points. The work goes on all weekend with buses running between the two stations.
A Vancouver police officer is seen and heard shouting at a woman who left her children, six and three-and-a-half, in a car while she grocery shopped for about 20 minutes this week. The BC ministry of children is now involved in the case which prompted a number of 911 calls and a full response by police, fire and medical personnel. “You don’t seem to understand the danger you put your children in,” the officer says. “The windows were up, it’s hot out. Your children could have died.” It is a reminder again to parents to think of their children and also that many others are concerned about them as well, and will call 911.
