Strawberry Moon

June 29, 2026

 

Fatal accident on 401, near Milton

Car slide under trailer. I think the Mansfield bars (named after Jayne Mansfield, who died in a similar way) had crumpled. It was on a Saturday near Milton, Ontario so I think the guy wearing a cowboy outfit was called in on the weekend. 1990s

 

Brenda Elliott, MPP for Guelph Wellington

Brenda Elliott, Member of Ontario provincial parliament, sometime after 1995, probably in Guelph.  Held seat as Progressive Conservative from 1995 to 2003.  Minister of Environment and Energy and  Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs.

 

August 25, around 1996, double suicide on tracks near Baden

There's no way of stopping a train quickly - it takes about 1/4 of a mile at least. The engineer saw what he thought were trash bags on the line ahead of him, then one sat up and tried to run. Since the crime scene was 1/4 mile long there were about 50 officers searching for clues. They found a busted cassette tape but no player. It was a young man and a woman. The engineer wasn't able to talk. 

One thing I remember was seeing a tagged evidence bag of bloody rags on the trunk of a cruiser right next to a box of Timbits (donut holes),

The Star usually didn't publish suicides, but it wasn't known when they assigned me it,

 

Fairy Ring

  Fairy Ring Champignons (Marasmius oreades), le Marasme des Oréades, Faux Mousseron, Bouton de guêtre, Cariolette.

Form in a ring of green grass about four feet (1.2 metres) across 

Purdon 2026

Showy Lady's Slipper Orchids are in full bloom at Purdon Conservation Area, near Lanark, Ontario

Et maintenant?

                                                    Jocelyn Forgues, (left) director of  "Et maintenant?", speaks at Aultsville Theatre in Cornwall

 "Et maintenant?" is about a musician dealing with cancer. Shot in eastern Ontario, including a house in Lemieux that must have been abandoned when the town was closed in 1990 before the landslide that destroyed the land where it was. I liked  Debbie Lynch-White, who played the bubbly volunteer driver.