The Junior Wildcats lost a tough one Sunday bowing 3-2 to the K-W Rangers in overtime at Leaside arena. It was a hard-fought game featuring a total of ten penalties, five per side. The match was touch and go all afternoon for Leaside as Waterloo scored twice in the first to lead 2-0 going into the second. Kristin Della Rovere scored for Leaside in the second and Emma Pye evened it at 2-2 in the third.

POWER PLAYS

That goal came during a hotly disputed penalty by Waterloo fans against K-W’s Megan Fergusson for slashing Cats netminder Shanna Dolighan. It was an omen of how penalties hurt. The Rangers won it on a another power play goal by Megan Rolph a mere 11 seconds after Leaside’s Mariah Hinds was sent off for interference during sudden death. The Rangers played above their standing. The teams are #7 and #9 respectively at the end of play Sunday.

SATURDAY

Anti-inflammatory

Pills in ice cream

Niagara police are reporting a complaint about the discovery of eight Advil pills mixed in with French vanilla ice cream purchased recently at either Food Basics or a local Freshco store. The ice cream in question is Iceberg brand. The complainant said she was about to serve the ice cream to children when she saw the pills and called police. The front of the container has the numbers 16279 08:55. The UPC Code on the side of the container contained the numbers 7 7427611724 2.

Week to come

A low pressure system from the U.S. midwest might bring some freezing rain to Toronto but the latter part of the week is going to be warm by January standards. Fingers crossed.

Thorncliffe Park Drive at Overlea

UD: Water Problem – Thorncliffe Park Dr b/w West Don River Trail / Overlea Boulevard, East York (3 Trucks)

— Toronto Fire South (@tofireS) January 15, 2017

Thed Ringling Brothers Circus will close this Spring after 146 years of roadshow entertainment.

And the vice chairman of Samsung is caught up in the influence-peddling scandal that has brought down the president of South Korea. His loss will no doubt not be as serious to his employer as the exploding Note 7. Lastly, the visit of the president of Taiwan to San Francisco recalls the shabby treatment that this brave democracy has received from the world. China says it’s just another part of China  and has wrung a concession on that point from the United Nations and most of the world. But Taiwan is a model of civil order and prosperity that has put Beijing to shame with its freedom for decades.

Medical (Unconscious) – Rolland Road b/w Bessborough Dr / Hanna Road, East York (2 Trucks)

— Toronto Fire South (@tofireS) January 15, 2017

Curtis McElhinney turned away a barrage of 35 shots on goal by the Senators to give the Leafs a 4-2 win Saturday. CBC

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Watch CTV news at 6 tonight to see the Wildcats talking about the impact Hayley Wickenheiser has had on our game…. https://t.co/S2nVwH24P7

— Toronto Leaside Wildcats (@TorontoLeaside) January 14, 2017

Ryerson professor of mathematics, physics and computer science David Grimshaw died January 3, 2017. He was 76.  John David Clifford Grimshaw was a graduate of North Toronto C.I. With his wife of 40 years, Roberta Imboden, he became a world traveller. His lifelong passion was chess and he became a Canadian Junior Chess Champion in 1959. He was a committed leftist, attending countless demonstrations with Roberta. He retained an avid interest in politics and world events, often recounting facts from the past with his own sly sense of humour. He studied mathematics, physics and chemistry at the University of Toronto, where he also earned a Master’s degree in nuclear physics. A service was held Wednesday, January 11 at the Humphrey Funeral Home A.W Miles-Newbigging Chapel. The obituary may be read here.

Porter Airlines resumes flights following system outage affecting about 400 passengers https://t.co/Bft1jgUqxS

— EIN Presswire: Airlines Newswire (@EINAirlineNews) January 15, 2017

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Elevator parts lifted into Davisville apartment

The arrows of Eglinton Ave. E.

New colours for bus

On Balliol St. traffic was blocked on the west side at Mt. Pleasant as a sky crane lifted replacement elevator parts to the mechanical room atop the roof of a Davisville Ave. apartment. Upper right we see the arrows of Eglinton Ave E. These flashing right, left, right pointers near Forman Ave. signal the serpentine route required to keep from falling into an LRT excavation. Lower right is a freshly out-shopped TTC bus in the new livery. This paint job deletes the 45 degree angle in the belt-line and colours the top of the bus red, it seems. But will it, as one wag wondered, make it arrive on time?