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RACE RESTART: Lambton-Kingsway Junior Middle School’s Mary O’Reilly has a tumble at the start of the 800-metre race at the Toronto District School Board’s Track and Field City Championships Tuesday at Birchmount Stadium. The race was restarted and O’Reilly got redemption – placing fourth in the city. For more sports, see pages 39-42.
Break-ins could be linked: police CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com The Toronto Police Sex Crimes Unit is currently investigating whether two recent breakand-enters in 22 Division can be tied to the same suspect
wanted in connection with a spate of sexual assaults in south Etobicoke over the last two summers. “Right now we’re still evaluating whether or not they’re connected, but right now they are being investigated that
way,” confirmed Det. Steve McIlwain. The two latest break-andenters under investigation occurred an hour-and-a-half apart in the early morning hours of Saturday, June 7 in the Royal York Road and Evans Avenue
area. During the first, it was reported that a man gained access to the home of a 63-yearold woman through a window at around midnight, and once inside, the man sexually >>>KEEP, page 12
The George Hull Centre for Children and Families will soon be birthing its own Million Dollar Baby. It’s not a Las Vegas title fight. But its move to new, larger custom-renovated offices in south Etobicoke in early August shares with the 2004 Hollywood blockbuster film the themes of overcoming challenge and adversity to reach for your dreams. George Hull is an accredited non-profit children’s mental health agency in operation since 1985 that serves approximately 4,500 children and youth ages zero to 18 in turmoil and families in crisis annually freeof-charge. Lanterra East Mall Limited is proposing to demolish the existing building of retail stores and offices, including George Hull, to build two, 24-storey apartment buildings and an 11-storey residential commercial complex on the northwest corner of The East Mall and Rathburn Road. Lanterra’s redevelopment appli>>>NEW, page 21
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