Month: February 2017

Leaside Select Tourney fun rolls on for weekend

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Silent auction
Conveners love the work
Tense moments in the seats
Checking picture of son
Looking good

The Leaside Select Invitational Tournament 2017 at Leaside Memorial Gardens is happening this weekend. 2100 players, relatives & friends have descended upon the Leaside rinks (and area arenas too) for some great hockey, food (from Grilltime!) and fun! The The South Bayview Bulldog was there to check out the action.

CIBC CEO Victor Dodig at Core Pilates on Millwood Rd.

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Victor Dodig, CEO of CIBC, visited Kelly Dolson’s Core Body Science Pilates & Training Studio on Millwood Rd. near Rumsey Rd. in Leaside on Friday. He was on one of his regular tours to see personally the businesses of successful CIBC clients. Dodig was shown around the busy studio by owner Kelly Dolson, the former emergency room RN, who with her husband, has become a business anchor in the strip of stores on the north side of Millwood. He posed with Erika Topp and Kelly Dolson in the newly-added indoor cycling room, Leaside Indoor Cycling. Topp is a neighbour of Dolson’s and has taken the space for ten new Schwinn AC Performance Plus machines just delivered. The machines are said to mimic outdoor riding to give indoor rider an authentic cycling experience. Dolson says she is delighted with the addition to the complementary service provided at her studio

Leaside bank robber hits Scotiabank at Laird and Eglinton

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A bandit who police say is seen on surveillance captures here robbed the Bank of Nova Scotia on Thursday, November 17, 2016, at 2:45 p.m. and made off with some cash. He was disguised with a black wavy wig, dark sunglasses, and a baseball cap, he produced a hold-up note to the teller, indicating he was armed with a gun. He discarded an Exco Jean jacket as he fled east on Eglinton. It is further reported that on Thursday, December 1, 2016, at 7:10 p.m., the same man entered another bank in Leaside. He was disguised with a hat, hooded jacket and dark sunglasses and he again produced a hold-up note to the teller, indicating he was armed with a gun The man is described as 5’9″ – 6’, medium build. A security camera image is now available.

FORGET IT: No keeping politics out of coffee, food

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Starbucks in the US (and probably Canada) will hire thousands of refugees in an apparent response to Donald Trump. Wow. The figure mentioned is 10,000 over five years. This is the most recent jab from Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz after his letter to Trump condemning the travel ban orders was met with the Twitter hashtag #BoycottStarbucks. Starbucks drinkers and friends hijacked the hashtag to reverse its intention.

ROLL UP THE RIM

This is non-political. Tim Horton’s has brought back the Roll Up The Rim contest. The coffee giant teased the return of the contest on Twitter on Tuesday, and made it official Wednesday morning. Those who purchase coffee or other hot beverages at participating locations will have the chance to win one of more than 49 million prizes. Prizing this year includes 40 grand prizes of the new 2017 Honda Civic Coupe EX-T, as well as 150 55″ LG 4K UHD Smart TVs, 100 $5,000 CIBC prepaid cards, 24,000 $100 TimCards and millions coffee and food prizes. Tim Horton’s also noted that Wednesday marks exactly 150 days until Canada’s 150th birthday.

ADS TARGETING KIDS?

And the Heart and Stroke Foundation is calling on the federal government to restrict online marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages aimed at children and teens, saying that high-volume promotional tactics are setting up young people for obesity and lifelong health problems. The foundation is calling for the elimination of marketing of all food and beverage products to children and youth under age 17.

Gerry and Heather new “tenants” at Laird and Wicksteed?

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Indigo Books
Rusting remains at Wicksteed and Laird
Brick discussions mentioned
Gerry and Heather

The choice corner of Laird Drive and Wicksteed Ave. is the source of widespread local interest. For decades it was the junkyard and fix-it-up home of the venerable Ricci brothers, now moved to their alternative location on Canvarco Road where there is a grand selection of 70s cars. The property was sold last summer for $10.7 million to owners who are really not acknowledged anywhere. One principal is said to be a local man who attended Leaside High whose family business hopes to build a commercial-retail centre there. Further whispers say that among those who have sat at the table as prospective tenants in recent days are the Indigo Books operation and mattress bosses The Brick. Nothing is settled of course but in matters of enormous public interest people will be people and talk. They would like to know. Certainly an Indigo store would be an attractive addition to South Bayview.  We can just see the sign on the corner. Nothing like a sign on the street to grab business. Indigo is operated by Heather Reisman, wife of Gerry Schwartz, the unimaginably wealthy (and philanthropic) owner of Onex, a private equity investment firm and holding company. They are Rosedale denizens. Indigo is, in a way, a gift to the community too because the perennially money-losing firm could not be sustained by just anyone. No doubt there are accounting considerations. We’re rooting for an Indigo.