It’s often said it takes a village to raise a child. On Sunday, a community helped say goodbye. A steady stream of neighbours walked down 2nd Avenue East in Owen Sound to the Jubilee Bridge just before 1 p.m., flowers in hand, downcast eyes and solemn faces. At the middle of the bridge, organizer TracyLee […]
In memory of beloved Owen Sound librarian Andrew Armitage, there’s a call to the community to create a repository of all published works related to Grey-Bruce. Armitage, 82, died last November and on Sunday, friends, neighbours and other admirers shared stories about him, read some poetry and played a song. There were old photos and […]
Organizers of Monday’s vigil for the Afzaal family that was rained out 15 minutes after it began are planning to make the rest of the evening’s program available online. “We’re actually in the process of making plans to record the speeches we didn’t get to (Monday) evening,” said Selma Tobah, one of the organizers with […]
A city still in mourning but determined to fight back came together in dozens of ways Monday to honour a London Muslim family killed a year ago in a collision police allege was intentional. Morning and evening prayers book-ended a sombre first-anniversary day of events that included London students symbolically completing a walk the Afzaal […]
After falling off-and-on since the late afternoon, the rain began in earnest at the corner of Hyde Park and South Carriage roads in Hyde Park just before 7 p.m. Within 15 minutes, the downpour had turned torrential and the evening vigil planned to honour the memory of the Afzaals – who have come to be […]
A promising young artist, 15-year-old Yumnah Afzaal would spend hours working on her hand-painted mural in the basement of the London Muslim Mosque. But the piece was “never celebrated,” Hanni Shahatto, Yumnah’s Grade 7 home room teacher, said Monday as a temporary art exhibit honouring the teenager and her family, killed in a collision a […]
Thousands of flowers, notes of love and pain, candles and other small tokens covered the corner of Hyde Park and South Carriage roads after the deadly hit-and-run that claimed the lives of three generations of the Afzaal family on June 6, 2021. When the sprawling impromptu memorial was finally removed weeks later, the bouquets were […]
Six days of community events in London to honour the Afzaal family continue Tuesday and Wednesday with special workshops: TUESDAY: Anti-Islamophobia workshop (open to the public, registration required) What: Open conversation and in-person workshop about Islam and Muslims, titled Islamophobia: Recognize, Resist, Respond. Organized by the Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration, Islamic […]
Teenagers shouldn’t have to plan vigils. But that’s what Muslim youth in London have done to pay tribute to a friend and her family who were killed nearly a year ago in a hit-and-run that police allege was a deliberate attack on their faith. Four members of the London’s Afzaal family — Talat Afzaal, 74, […]
The report calls for $150,000 in one time funding to create a permanent memorial for the Afzaal family at Hyde Park and South Carriage roads,