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Monday is Civic Day but what does that mean?

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:35 GMT

The Civic Holiday is one of Canada’s oldest public holidays which happens every year on the first weekend of August. Many across the country are looking forward to having a day off work, but many also don’t know why Toronto observes this holiday. Adam Wynne is a heritage advocate researcher and has studied the significance behind this day. “It was a municipality that originally proposed this holiday, and it spread from the municipality to the provincial level and across Canada and then over to England and then more broadly the British Empire,” says Wynne. “So John Carr was a local alderman, a councillor in this district of Toronto in the 1850s, 1860s and 1870s. And he was the person who actually brought forward the proposal to city council to make a holiday. ” John Carr’s home still stands in the city and is located near Alexandra Park.“This I think is quite unique for that period in that he, within the motion, said that it would specifically be an opp...

Foundation partners with Chicago food pantries to hand out smoke alarms

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:35 GMT

CHICAGO — The Chicago Fire Department Foundation is teaming up with local food pantries to get working smoke detectors to people who need them.The National Fire Protection Association found the risk of dying in a home fire is significantly higher when there are no smoke alarms or they don't work. Casa Central hosts back-to-school event on West Side "The working smoke alarm is absolutely critical," Chris Hasbrook, the co-founder of the Chicago Fire Department Foundation, said. The program launched two years ago and is now working with eight local food pantries to get more smoke detectors in homes."Part of our mission is to educate and help serve the needs of fire safety in Chicago and we've bene working to find partners to donate smoke alarms," Hasbrook said. "They know the need of the people who need smoke alarms and need that kind of help."Nourishing Hope fights food insecurity in Chicago and provides the equivalent of four million meals every year. AileyCamp wrap up summer wit...

Adoptees, birth parents prepare for Minnesota birth records to open

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:35 GMT

Mary Jo Lindeberg is 81, but she has never stopped wondering: Who is she, really?She was born in St. Paul, just weeks after Pearl Harbor. She was adopted by an oral surgeon and his office nurse. They changed her name from Carol Louise to Mary Jo and raised her as their own.And for most of a century, she’s carried unanswered questions.“As a kid, I remembered having the fantasy of — oh, I bet my real mom was probably a beauty star and my father was probably a leader of industry,” she said. “Well, we all know that’s probably not the case.”She just doesn’t know.It’s a story common to many families — a secret birth, a new identity and a new love for a child — but also often decades of speculation and separation. For children born in Minnesota, adoptees get a new birth certificate and the details of their actual birth are sealed — their disclosure subject to a parental veto or to secrecy clauses in decades-old adoption agreements. It’s happened thousands of times a year in the past.But a ...

Hits hard to come by as Saints fall 2-0 to Clippers

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:35 GMT

Brent Headrick was slated to start for the St. Paul Saints on Sunday for their afternoon game against the Columbus Clippers, but plans changed for the Saints when Headrick was recalled by the Twins ahead of the game.St. Paul turned to the bullpen and got terrific efforts from four relievers, who allowed just three hits, but they weren’t enough as the Saints mustered just three hits themselves in a 2-0 loss at Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio.Trevor Larnach had two of the Saints’ three hits, going 2 for 4 with a double, while Gilberto Celestino had the other, a single that helped set up the Saints’ best scoring chance in the third inning. But the Saints (18-15) never found a way to break through.Kody Funderburk got the start after Headrick was recalled, putting in 2 1/3 innings of work and holding Columbus (16-16) to one run on one hit. Patrick Murphy allowed the other run in the sixth inning, a solo home run from Bryan Lavastida. He pitched the final three innings...

Matt Wallner’s walk-off homer puts happy ending on Dallas Keuchel’s return

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:35 GMT

Dallas Keuchel’s road back to the majors made its biggest stop on Sunday when the veteran left-hander started a big league game for the first time in nearly a year.MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA – AUGUST 06: Matt Wallner #38 of the Minnesota Twins celebrates his walk-off two-run home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks as he rounds the bases in the ninth inning at Target Field on August 06, 2023 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Twins defeated the Diamondbacks 5-3. (Photo by David Berding/Getty Images)Keuchel, 35, didn’t get the decision in his first start since Sept. 2 — or provide the biggest bang — but he was a big reason the Twins swept the Arizona Diamondbacks with a 5-3 victory in front of an announced crowd of 24,778 at Target Field.Rookie Matt Wallner and Max Kepler supplied the game-winning power, Kepler tying the game with a leadoff home run off right-handed reliever Paul Sewald and Wallner winning it with a two-run, walk-off homer to nearly the same spot over the scoreboard i...

Authorities investigate death of 2-month-old baby in Covina 

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:35 GMT

Authorities are investigating the events that led up to the death of a baby in Covina early Sunday morning. According to the Covina Police Department, officers responded to a residence in the 1100 block of North Conwell Street around 6 a.m. and found an unresponsive child. Assisting Los Angeles County Fire Department paramedics performed CPR on the 2-month-old child, but the infant was pronounced dead at the scene. The child was being watched by a babysitter while their mother was out of state, police said. It is unknown if the babysitter is related to the children.Two other children were at the residence at the time — a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old. They were confirmed to be the deceased infant's siblings, Covina police said.Authorities investigating the death of a 2-month-old baby in Covina on August 6, 2023. (KTLA)Authorities investigating the death of a 2-month-old baby in Covina on August 6, 2023. (KTLA)A Covina Police Department squad car pictured on Sunday,...

Loved ones search for missing Inglewood woman

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:35 GMT

Authorities are searching for a missing woman who disappeared in Inglewood earlier this week. The woman, identified as Robyn Jeannette De La Torre, 27, was last seen on Aug. 2 around 9:30 p.m., according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Her last known location was on the 5000 block of Lennox Boulevard in Inglewood.De La Torre is described as a Hispanic woman standing 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing 130 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.She was last seen wearing a black shirt, black pants, and a black backpack. She may also be wearing eyeglasses.Loved ones say De La Torre suffers from seizures and requires medication. Her family is concerned for her well-being and is asking for the public’s help. 2 arrested for deadly shooting in Irvine neighborhood Robyn Jeannette De La Torre, 27, in an undated photo from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.Anyone who may have seen De La Torre or knows of her whereabouts is asked to call the LASD’s Homicide Bureau at ...

SF Giants swept by A’s, choke away three-run lead to MLB’s worst team

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:35 GMT

OAKLAND — Alex Cobb sat and stewed.All he could do was watch as the Giants’ lead evaporated in the sixth inning of an eventual 8-6 loss Sunday afternoon to the Oakland A’s.Removed with one out in the sixth, after throwing only 77 pitches, the Giants’ All-Star starter watched from the bench in the first-base dugout as Brandon Crawford bounced a throw to first base. He rested his head in his hands as Luke Jackson, called on to relieve him, walked back-to-back batters, forcing in a run.Cobb remained there for all of it, unable to do anything about it, as the ugly inning culminated in a go-ahead base hit from Shea Langeliers, unloading the bases with a line drive over the glove of a leaping J.D. Davis, after manager Gabe Kapler refused to pull his erratic reliever from the game.All told, the Giants (61-51) wasted one of their best offensive performances of the past month-plus, as well as both of their best opportunities to pick up wins before beginning a daunting stret...

Oakland A’s legends watch team even Bay Bridge Series behind Allen’s home runs

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:35 GMT

OAKLAND – Before Sunday’s game against the San Francisco Giants, the Oakland A’s inducted five legendary Athletics into the team’s hall of fame.Jason Giambi, the 2000 AL MVP who hit 241 home runs in eight seasons in the East Bay, was among those honored.If one had to pick a current A’s player to replicate one of Giambi’s moonshots, 5-8 Nick Allen would probably not be near the top of the list.But after hitting just a single home run in his first 59 games, Allen tripled his season total, slamming two over the left field wall with a who’s-who of A’s legends in attendance.His surprising home runs keyed an 8-6 Oakland (32-80) win that tied the two-game series against the Giants (61-51). While the pregame was all about celebrating the past, great performances from young players gave the fans a glimpse into what could be a bright future.The Oakland offense’s unexpected shot in the arm from light-hitting Allen was even more surprising given his splits and who he was facin...

Giambi, Henderson opine on Oakland A’s likely relocation to Las Vegas

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:35 GMT

OAKLAND — A warm applause greeted Jason Giambi as Tony La Russa introduced him as the Oakland A’s latest Hall of Fame inductee. It was a bit surprising given the way Giambi left a 102-win Oakland team for the New York Yankees and a lucrative contract 12 years ago.Giambi fleeing town was a slap in fans’ faces, so his comments in March that the team’s potential relocation to Las Vegas would “be amazing” served as a gut punch. Giambi doubled down on his pro-Vegas thoughts in the minutes before the A’s Hall of Fame ceremony on Sunday afternoon prior to the final Bay Bridge Series game against the San Francisco Giants.“If you’re a fan, you’re going to follow your team no matter what,” Giambi said. “That’s the part that’s exciting, the buzz in Vegas. There are a lot of great players that have come out of there. (Bryce) Harper, (Joey) Gallo, Kris Bryant. It’s not just California that has great baseball, a lot of great baseball is ...