A Simcoe, Ont. woman has been charged with assault with a weapon after spraying her neighbour with a water gun.
“I’ve cried myself to sleep many nights,” Wendy Washik informed Ontario Chronicle.
The 58-year-old academic assistant stated she was enjoying with some youngsters at a yard barbecue on Sept. 1.
“Because I love kids and work with kids, I asked [one] if he had any water guns and he said: ‘Yeah.’”
Washik then chased the kid from the again of the home to the entrance of the house, and by accident sprayed a neighbour.
“I was trying to figure out how the water gun was working. It’s not like I play with water guns at my age,” she defined on Tuesday. “I was going through the gate and it accidentally hit the neighbour that was maybe three feet away, [who was] cutting his grass.”
Washik stated she tried to apologize.
In keeping with Ontario Provincial Police, a Norfolk County officer was referred to as to Woodway Path after a neighbour dispute resulted “in the victim being physically assaulted.”
Washik was taken into custody.
Due to this incident, the academic assistant has been placed on depart by her faculty board.
“It just blows my mind that this has happened to me,” Washik stated. “The mental and financial stress that has been put on my family, my children and my husband, is not right and is not fair.”
Three teenagers have been arrested for an armed theft at a Kitchener jewellery retailer after witnesses caught and detained the suspects till officers arrived on scene.
A number of individuals reported the theft at Highland Hills Mall round 5 p.m. Friday.
Waterloo Regional Police stated three males went into the jewellery retailer, used hammers to smash show circumstances and stole merchandise.
As they have been operating away, witnesses chased after them and held them in a mall hallway till police may take over.
Video of the moments after the theft have been shared with Ontario Chronicle.
It exhibits three individuals, dressed all in black, operating away from MT Jewellers & Goldsmiths with hammers in hand.
A separate photograph exhibits individuals holding down them down on the ground, corroborating the data shared by police.
Investigators stated the three suspects arrived on the mall with a fourth particular person in a SUV that had been stolen in Peel Area two days earlier.
No accidents have been reported through the theft or arrests.
Police stated a 15-year-old, 16-year-old and 18-year-old have been charged with theft with a weapon, disguise with intent, possession of a weapon for harmful goal, possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000.
All three are from Brampton.
An island has appeared in the course of the Grand River but it surely’s not a pure formation.
Residents who stay alongside the water in Galt say the man-made construction has been rising for weeks.
They’ve seen at the least two individuals gathering rocks from the banks of the Grand River, wading by the water and stacking them up in a pile.
The mound is sufficiently big that somebody has additionally added a wagon and Canadian flag on prime.
One resident informed Ontario Chronicle she first noticed the man-made island about three weeks in the past and has seen bonfires there. She additionally shared video of two individuals stacking stones.
The lady thinks the island must be disassembled.
She worries that it might set a harmful precedent.
“Grown men out there, doing something that’s needless, silly and dangerous,” she stated. “I don’t want my tax dollars spent saving somebody who’s out there doing a foolish act and then they slip and fall and are taken down the river. If kids see that little island over there, who’s to say they won’t try to get across.”
The lady stated she’s already contacted Waterloo Regional Police and was informed that they’re working with the Grand River Conservation Authority to resolve the scenario.
Man-made island within the Grand River in Galt, Ont. (Dan Lauckner/ Ontario Chronicle)
There have been tears of pleasure Friday because the Airpark hangar storage opened in Guelph, Ont., revealing a household heirloom and piece of aviation historical past.
Roberta Lau and Evelyn Sue Wong noticed, for the primary time and in particular person, the aircraft their father made almost 90 years in the past.
The Pietenpol Sky Scout was in-built 1935 by brothers Robert and Tommy Wong. They have been youngsters on the time, and it’s believed they discovered the directions in {a magazine}.
“It was in the early 30s. Everyone wanted to fly,” Wong defined.
With their dad and mom’ blessing, the brothers constructed the plane of their Vancouver, B.C., condominium.
“It was a huge experience for the whole family,” stated Lau. “Exciting! Bolts, nails all over the place I’m sure, because that’s what they said. It just filled the room.”
Different members of the family helped with the ultimate meeting, which was performed at a close-by Boeing manufacturing facility.
Robert, who constructed the aircraft even earlier than getting a pilot’s licence, took to the skies for a number of months to construct up his flying hours.
Ultimately, he needed to promote it when he moved out east.
Robert and Tommy went on to change into the founders of Central Airways, a flight faculty and constitution enterprise in Toronto, changing into important figures in Canada’s aviation historical past.
Robert’s daughters recall how, previous to his dying within the late Eighties, he tried to seek out out what had occurred to the aircraft he constructed with Tommy, but it surely was troublesome in a pre-social media period. He did, nonetheless, discover that there was no report of it being in an accident.
Then, in 2020, a self-described treasure hunter from Stoney Creek, Ont., took it upon himself to trace down their home-built airplane.
Don MacVicar had already situated one plane that was as soon as owned by the Wong brothers and, with further time on his palms through the pandemic, launched an intensive search.
Becoming a member of him on that quest was Cam Harrod, an vintage plane restorer.
It took two years however the pair ultimately tracked it all the way down to the Sky Scout in Saskatoon, Sask., the place the proprietor was storing it in a truck trailer.
Harrod then bought the plane and introduced it again to Ontario.
Roberta Lau and Evelyn Sue Wong with their father’s Sky Scout aircraft in Guelph, Ont. on Sept. 13, 2024. (Krista Simpson/ Ontario Chronicle)
The streets of Port Dover roared to life on Friday for a convention that has been happening for many years.
Motorcyclists and their admirers descended on the small Ontario city to have a good time Friday the thirteenth with a bike rally like no different.
Chrome gleamed beneath a sizzling solar as bikes lined virtually each avenue locally whereas members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) made positive the day remained enjoyable and protected for everybody concerned.
Devoted bikers make the pilgrimage to Port Dover each Friday the thirteenth, it doesn’t matter what Mom Nature has in retailer.
Whereas previous occasions have been held by stormy skies, wild winds and even frigid winter temperatures, Friday’s showcase happened beneath sunny skies.
A mix of the gorgeous climate and alluring attraction of the occasion was anticipated to attract hundreds to the neighborhood, though an official depend will not be but out there.
“That’s always the first question to be asked: ‘How many people will be attending the event.’ We’re looking at possibly 100,000 people coming into Port Dover for the day,” OPP Constable Andrew Gamble stated. “Last October, around 50,000 people [were here] at its peak, but it really boils down to time of year and the weather.”
Mayor Amy Martin informed Ontario Chronicle it’s a longstanding custom in Norfolk County.
“It started in 1981 as a grassroots, organic event and I don’t think you could stop it even if you tried. There’s a lot of pride. There are some community members that don’t love the day, it’s not for them, but its one day out of the year. You make your arrangements and your preparations the day before and you’re okay.”
A Harley Davidson motorbike is parked on the facet of the road in Port Dover throughout Friday the thirteenth celebration on September 13, 2024. (Shelby Knox/ Ontario Chronicle)
