Taste of The Danforth begins Friday August 5 at 11

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Taste of The Danforth on Danforth Ave. from Broadview Avenue to Jones Avenue started Friday and will close roads into the thoroughfare and require re-routing for traffic which normally used the main street. The closures will last from Friday, August 5 at 11 a.m. to Monday, August 8 at 3 a.m. The following through streets remain open for residents looking to travel by car: Mortimer Avenue to the north, Gerrard Street East to the south, Jones Avenue to the east, and Broadview Avenue to the west.

HOSPITAL BED RACE

And the 10th annual Michael Garron (East General) Hospital Danforth Dash Bed Race, presented by the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113, will turn the Danforth into a make shift Emergency Bed Track as teams kick off the Krinos Taste of the Danforth festival. Some 21 teams will be competing for the coveted 2016 Gold Bed Pan Trophy in a bed race that will feature teams from corporate Toronto, our emergency services and Toronto’s mascots. Personalities at the race will be NHL players Brad Boyes and Cody Hodgson, Olympic medalist Deidra Dionne, Olympic athlete Martin Reader, Councillors Michael Ford, Mary Fragedakis and Jon Burnside and Toronto’s mascots.

New shipment of Ontario peaches Friday at Badali’s

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The early Ontario peaches for 2016 have sold out in a few days at Badali’s on Bayview Ave. but a new shipment is expected Friday. This year’s peaches are small, a result of the lack of rain. Growers say the hot weather however makes the stone fruit delicious. We’re hoping.  Ontariotenderfruit.ca 

Baseball to return to Olympics for Tokyo games in 2020

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Four new sports and an old favorite, baseball, will be played at the 2020 Tokyo Games the IOC decided Thursday. The extreme sport karate in being introduced to the world’s biggest athletic event along with skateboarding, surfing and climbing. Baseball and softball will return after being eliminated in 2012 ahead of the London games. The new sports are an effort to attract young spectators and baseball, which has a worldwide following in the billions, will no doubt see classic matchups again between the U.S., Japan and other lands.

DUBAI: Jump! Jump! Jump! Leave your bags behind

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Video taken by passengers shows the chaos aboard an Emirates 777 as the urgent evacuation took place. At one point a crew member urges people to leave bags behind.

The Keefe clan of Mt Pleasant’s Granite Brewery

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240 Rose Park Drive at Welland is getting a stone face

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The new home under construction at Rose Park Drive and Welland Ave. is being given a stone facing this week. The cutting of stone is shattering the quiet of the Moore Park corner but at least work is proceeding.

Updates on Hydro One project August 9, 10 and 17

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Hydro One Community Relations
t: 416-345-6799
e: Community.Relations@HydroOne.com

August 9, 2016
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Stan Wadlow Community Centre
373 Cedarvale Avenue

August 10, 2016
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Leaside Arena, William Lea Room
1073 Millwood Road

August 17, 2016
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Stan Wadlow Community Centre
373 Cedarvale Avenue

“Pay me or I vote for Trump” giggle from CNN jokester

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Muralist Phlegm’s Yonge and St. Clair Muse completed

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53 Division CRU volunteers paint away graffiti tagging

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53 Division Community Response Unit made up of officers and volunteers were busy over the weekend cleaning up the neighborhood in Leaside.

Rail Deck Park to stretch from Bathurst to Rogers Centre

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Rail Deck Park is a visionary 21-acre vision which will cover the GO tracks and railway lands from Bathurst street mo the Rogers Centre. The exciting concept was announced today by Mayor Tory and various City officials. However like a lot of nice ideas this one is still out there somewhere. A staff report on Rail Deck Park will come to Executive Committee in September. No cost estimate is available just yet, but it’s expected to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

NO DEATHS: Emirates 777 crash lands, burns at Dubai

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An Emirates flight en route from southern India caught fire after apparently skidding as it landed at Dubai International Airport Wednesday. Video showed a burst of flames and then thick black smoke billowing from the stricken Boeing 777 shortly after it came to a standstill. One commentator said it appeared a land gear had failed and subsequent heat from the landing has caused a fuel tank to explode. Remarkably, there are said to be no fatalities among the 282 passengers and 18 crew members on board. “Emirates can confirm that today, 3 August 2016, flight EK521 traveling from Trivandrum International Airport in Thiruvananthapuram, India to Dubai has been involved in an accident at Dubai International Airport,” the airline said in a statement.