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O T N O TOR L I C N U CO HALF-WAY XT E N E H T O T ELECTION
A SPECIAL REPORT PAGE 8
SCARBOROUGH COUNCILLORS LOOK AT PROGRESS SINCE THE LAST ELECTION AND WHAT THE REMAINDER OF TORONTO COUNCIL’S TERM HOLDS
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Donation made to Danzig Street MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Akanimo Udofia, international entrepreneur, was in his Yorkville apartment watching television the night of July 16. What he saw broke his heart. The lead late news item that night was the Danzig Street mass shooting, and the Nigerian-born Udofia was moved, recalling in a release this week “the inevitable images of young black men and women, being carted away on stretchers reinforced what Akanimo knew he must do.” The Harvard University Business School graduate, who “commutes back and forth to Nigeria and all over Europe,” had no connection to the shooting scene, a townhouse complex in Scarborough’s West Hill
area its housing authority landlord calls Morningside Coronation. But Udofia, reflecting on the street-party violence there that left two people dead, and 23 others including a toddler wounded, said every life should matter. That’s why he’s giving the Danzig townhouse community $150,000 over the next three years. “I choose to be a role model, to show these kids that there’s a big world out there. Canada presents them, if they choose to and are motivated, the opportunity to acquire skills that are much sought-after around the world,” said Udofia’s release, adding “the emerging economies of Africa can use a skilled, talented and reformed youth from the Danzig community in Toronto >>>UDOFIA, page 10
Police seek witnesses to fatal hit and run Toronto Police are hoping autopsy results, witnesses and a piece of wreckage from the scene can tell them the make and model of the vehicle someone drove away from a fatal accident on Midland Avenue. A 42-year-old man crossing the road Tuesday at 5:20 p.m. was struck by a northbound Ford Freestar van turning into Kilcullen Castle Gate, a small street connected to Silver Star Boulevard north of Finch Avenue. The collision threw the man into Midland’s southbound passing lane, where he was hit again by another vehicle. That vehicle failed to remain at the scene, and the pedestrian was pronounced dead. Police asked the public to help find the missing vehicle, which they say is likely to have some front-end
damage. “We do have witnesses. We are looking for more,” Cons. Clinton Stibbe of traffic services said Wednesday. Stibbe said police are investigating whether the level of street lighting on this stretch of Midland may have played a role in the accident, and said pedestrians crossing such roads should be aware at all times. The pedestrian, a Toronto resident, attempted to cross Midland from west to east just a few metres south of Kilcullen Castle. There is a set of traffic lights at the intersection of Silver Star and South Shields Avenue, about 300 metres to the south. Anyone with information should call police at 416-808-1900 or Crime Stoppers at 416-222-TIPS.
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