I was passing by with my kids on Thompson and saw 4 fire trucks coming from all directions and 3-4 ambulances rushing somewhere off Thompson and Hepburn and Thompson and Clark. Towards metro side of the Thompson.

So worried. I hope everyone’s okay!

Hey all, I got a ticket for "Parking on private property without authorization" in the visitor parking directly in front of my house last night. The visitor parking area was completely empty except for me, I temporarily have some material taking up space in my driveway so can't park there. It's section 2 by-law 12-81. It's not a huge fine but to ticket a resident in their own neighbourhood feels a little unfair. Anyone have experience with this, anything I can do here or do I just have to pay?

EDIT: I don't live in a condo, it's a townhouse

Edit: based on feedback in the comments I may be wrong about these hills being drumlins, as google Streetview from about 15 years ago show this area being flatter. If we have any experts in this field who can shed some light, would be good to learn where the drumlins actually are.

Hey everyone,

I was walking around the green space behind the Milton District Hospital the other day, and I got curious about those massive, smooth rolling hills back there. I always assumed they were just dirt piles left over from developers or deliberate park landscaping.

Turns out, they are thousands of years old and have a pretty wild history!
I did a bit of digging, and those mounds are actually drumlins—which are physical footprints left behind by the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last Ice Age, roughly 13,000 to 15,000 years ago.

A few cool facts if you're a geography nerd or just like local trivia:
How they formed: Imagine a two-kilometer-thick sheet of ice moving across Ontario like giant sandpaper. It crushed up rocks, gravel, and clay, and the intense weight naturally sculpted the debris into these smooth, streamlined, egg-shaped hills.
The "Basket of Eggs": Geologists literally call this specific layout a "basket of eggs" topography. Because the glaciers shaped them, they all run parallel. The steeper, blunt side points northeast (where the glacier came from), and the gentle tail points southwest (where it was moving).
Why they are still here: Early settlers found them incredibly hard to plow because the dirt inside them (glacial till) is packed tight with heavy stones and dense clay. So, they were mostly left alone as pastures.
The view: Because they give you a bit of elevation, if you stand on top of them on a clear day, you get a completely uninterrupted view of the Niagara Escarpment to the west.

Pretty cool piece of Milton (pre)history!

Is anybody else hearing fireworks by Metro tonight @ 11p.m.? What’s the occasion?

Does anyone know when the roundabout on Savoline and Gordon Krantz will connect with Louis St Laurent?

Or where to get that information from?

Thanks!

Ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling,” the bells came from the street. The year is 1988, or 1978, or 1968; it’s summertime and many young boys and girls across Canada hear them and immediately make a speedy dash. First to their unsuspecting parents for some money, then if successful, to the street, to meet up with the origin of the bells…the Dickie Dee ice cream seller. Like a siren calling Odysseus and his crew in Homer’s The Odyssey, the Dickie Dee bells were a call for all the young boys and girls across the country to come get some delicious ice cream. 

“The minute I heard those bells, I knew I had to get a move on and ask my parents for some money before he was gone,” says longtime Dickie Dee enthusiast Joe Kelsey in regards to the the Dickie Dee ice cream bikes that traversed the residential streets in his hometown of Oshawa, Ontario. “I probably only had about a 30% success rate in chasing those bikes down!”

Millions of kids over the decades experienced this ritual every summer; a hot day, the bells ringing, then rushing out to catch the riders. It was a national Canadian tradition for decades. Dickie Dee was founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the early 1950s by entrepreneur Syd Glow. In 1959, the company was sold to the Barish family, who transformed it into one of North America's largest mobile ice cream vending businesses. 

At its height, Dickie Dee had approximately 1,500 operators serving communities across Canada and parts of the northern United States. Dickie Dee's success was supported by an extensive network of distributors, ranging from small family-run operations to larger warehouse-based centres. 

“My involvement with Dickie Dee spans 35 years,” says Joe Kelsey. “Beginning as a rider in 1991, later becoming a distributor and business owner, and continuing over the years through buying, selling, restoring, and working with Dickie Dee equipment long after the original company ceased operations in 2004.” 

In 1992, the company was acquired by Unilever and became part of Good Humor-Breyers, which continued operating the brand until the early 2000’s. Although the original corporate structure no longer exists, many former distributors and employees continue to preserve the legacy of one of Canada's most iconic ice cream brands.

“Nostalgia is big right now,” Kelsey explains. 

“I'd run out and ask my mom, who was often out gardening,” he fondly recalls when he’d hear the Dickie Dee ice cream seller coming. “She'd say, ‘Go ask your father,’ then I'd have to find my dad, and he'd often say, “Go ask your mother.’ Sigh.” 

Dickie Dee sparks a sense of childhood enthusiasm in Canadians of a certain age; an innocence and remembrance, attached to a simple ice cream tricycle, that only a past smell or song or photo could rival. The sounds of the bells and the memories of the various ice cream products, like the “Phantom,”  the “Space Shuttle,” and “Fudgsicles.”

These recollections strongly continue on to this day, in people middle aged or older by now, but occasionally still kids at heart.

“Finally, I'd get the money and get yelled at for running outside in my socks, but I knew I had limited time,”  Kelsey adds. 

”Eventually, we started keeping money on top of the fridge so we could avoid the whole song and dance with my parents. “

(Photo of the Kelsey family taken in Milton, ON, 1983, courtesy of Joe Kelsey)

Was anyone flying a drone this week in the Coates area? Found on a trail.

A neighbour keeps telling their guests they can park on my driveway overnight. I've told them a few times to move their cars and not to park there but it keeps happening so now I want to tow them. Police say to call a tow truck and tow trucks say I need parking enforcement and parking enforcement says the home owner would need to pay for the tow truck.

How is it the home owner's expense to have an illegally parked car removed from their driveway in Milton?

I want to get general reproductive health evaluated and find if there is any link between me being anemic and my periods. Which clinic would you recommend within Milton or newrby? My doctor is in Toronto and i recently moved here. He has asked me to find a clinic i want to be referred to.

Thanks