DOWN, L. Jean

Peacefully at the Provincial Palliative Care Centre on Tuesday, July 3, 2018 of L. Jean Down (nee Hamm), age 96 years. Beloved wife of the late Ross Down and loving mother of Jon (Carolyn) of Devon, AB, Janet (Wayne) MacQuarrie of Stratford, and Kathy (Rob) Mackay of Lake Cowichan, B.C. Also fondly remembered by grandchildren Andrew (Carla), Nathan (Jenifer), Marcus (Maureen) and Jonathan (Cynthia) Down; Matthew (Amber) MacQuarrie and Kate (Colin) MacBeath; Scott (Kathryn) and Daniel (Halley) Mackay; great-grandchildren, Holden, Augusta and Indra Down; Caleb MacBeath and Addison Cutchey-Mackay; and her sister, Betty McLaine. She was predeceased by parents Charles and Clara (Carver) Hamm. Resting at the Hennessey Cutcliffe Charlottetown Funeral Home from where the funeral service will be held in the funeral home chapel on Wednesday, July 11, at 11 a.m. Interment will follow in the Hazelbrook Baptist Cemetery, Hazelbrook. Visitation will be held Tuesday, July 10, from 4-7 p.m. If so desired, memorial contributions to the PEI Cancer Treatment Centre - QEH or Lymphoma Foundation Canada would be appreciated. On-line condolences may be made at www.islandowned.ca

Bradford Smith, a NASA astronomer who acted as planetary tour guide to the public with his interpretations of stunning images beamed back from Voyager missions, has died.

Smith’s wife, Diane McGregor, said he died Tuesday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, of complications from myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disorder. He was 86.

Smith led the NASA team that interpreted pictures taken by Voyager space probes as they passed Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and then presented the images to the public. He was a retired professor of planetary sciences and astronomy at the University of Arizona and research astronomer at the University of Hawaii in Manoa.

At NASA press conferences on Voyager discoveries following their launch in 1977, Smith was a star, and known for a certain dry wit. At a press conference showing a multi-colored, pockmarked moon of Jupiter called Io, Smith quipped, “I’ve seen better looking pizzas than this.” A video of the conference ran on national broadcast news and his quote was on front pages around the world.

A comedian and actor said a racist incident he saw on the streets of Toronto on Saturday was not representative of the Canada he wants to live in.

Andrew Phung had dropped his family off at Rogers Centre for a Blue Jays game, parked his car nearby and was walking to the stadium when he says he saw a police officer tell a driver to “go back to your country.”

Phung, who stars in the CBC sitcom “Kim’s Convenience,” de- scribed the alleged incident in a series of tweets Saturday after- noon and a phone interview Saturday evening. Toronto police said they’re investigating.

He said he was waiting to cross the downtown street with a group of about 20 other people when the light changed, and a driver he described as a person of colour hesitated to pull through the intersection.

Phung said an on-duty police officer shouted at the driver to proceed, which the person did, but as the officer was walking back toward the sidewalk, Phung said he heard the cop say, “If you can’t drive, go back to your country.”

Phung said he responded by shouting, “That’s not cool.”

“Two men beside me then said, Andrew Phung poses on the red carpet at the 2017 Canadian Screen Awards in Toronto.

‘Nope, totally cool. If you can’t drive, go back to you f---ing country.’ The comedian in me then burst out and then I proceeded to ask them why they thought driving ability equated citizenship in this country.”

Phung said he thinks the driver hesitated because the intersection had two sets of lights that were close together, and the other set of lights was red.

“I think as a whole we can all agree that we’ve all been confused before in Toronto traffic,” Phung said.

“It was just so disappointing to see this coming from a police officer,” said Phung.

“They’re the moral backbone of our community, they uphold the law. So when you see a police officer doing that, it empowered two other people to join in on that racism.”

“We have spent the evening gathering information so we can investigate what happened,” said Mark Pugash, spokesman for Toronto police, on Saturday.