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Plane on collision course — or merely Venus?

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The high excitement of travel is never totally free from peril. The government’s air safety board has concluded that a sleepy Air Canada co-pilot first mistook the planet Venus for an aircraft, and then sent his airliner diving toward the Atlantic to prevent an imaginary collision with another plane. It’s an event to start the fail-safe experts heading back to the drawing board in their quest for safety. The picture above shows a sparkling Venus. If this is what the pilot saw as he woke up it would be frigthening indeed. Sixteen passengers and crew were hurt in the January 2011 incident, when the first officer rammed the control stick forward to avoid a U.S. plane he wrongly thought was heading straight toward him. Bloomberg

Garden Court Nurseries property site for sale

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The Garden Court Nurseries 1466 Bayview, an institution for homeowners in surrounding neighborhoods, is on the market. The strip of land on the north-west corner of Davisville Ave. and Bayivew Ave is 95.5 ft by 25 ft and  is zoned Commercial or Commercial-Residential. The asking price is $829,000.  The obvious question will be what use could be made of a piece of land this size? The notice in HomeFinder.ca invites potential buyers to “Build Your Dream Business” on the site. Garden Court has reigned as the place to go for generations of families seeking bedding plants each Spring and Christmas trees in December. It’s safe to say that over the decades millions of trips have been made to Tremblett’s Valu Mart lot next door to Garden Court. It’s not known if there has been any discussion with Trembleltt’s about this piece of property adjoining the grocery store.  

Townhouses begin at $642,900 at “Scenic”

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Townhouses at the Scenic on Eglinton development just east of Brentcliffe Road are priced at between $642,990 to $755,990 for possession in 2014.  An article in the National Post today notes the prices. Ccnstruction is underway on the first of two towers for which sales also are in progress.  The townhouses ranged from what is called two storey structures with two-bedroom-plus-den and three bedroom plus den.designs

74 Donegall Drive sold for $831,000

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Donegall Drive is a typically active street for re-sales and renovations. A recent sale at 74 Donegall reveals again the value of these homes. This two-storey, three bedroom  property is just south of Fleming. Bonnie Byford RE sold the home for $831,000. That’s 109% of list.  Picture on right shows a selling feature — fine wood and glass detail. 

Bayview Starbucks to close for updates April 23

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The Starbucks on Bayview Avg at  Belsize Drive will be closed for a week or ten days beginning Monday, April 23, 2012. Renovations will bring the venerable coffee parlour a fresher look. And we didn’t want to say it, but the place is looking a little tatty. 

Garage sale features ancient typewriter

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It’s the season for garage sales and they got off to a good start at 221 Moore Ave today. The owners had been out of the country and when they returned they realized how much stuff they had accumulated over the years. 

The day the Bessborough trees turned green

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Hope you were looking around today as you went about your business. It was the day the trees turned green all over South Bayviewland.  Here we see the exhilerating sight on Bessborough Drive at mid-afternoon. 

Chai on Bayview open Saturday evening

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Chai on Bayview will open for dinner tomorrow night, Saturday, April 14, 2012. As reported earlier, Chai will then open for dinner on Thursday, Friday and Saturday beginning next week. (416) 932-0294

Todays Menu now open at 850 Millwood

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As scheduled, the prepared meals business known as Todays Menu has opened at 850 Millwood Rd., at the corner of  Rumsey. The small shop has a simple set up of order desk and freezers with entrees available for those who wish to pop in and buy a few. The kitchen is off site. The main business however is delivering meals to area residents. As reported here earlier, Todays Menu specializes in prepared meals which are delivered according to requirement. Hours of business are Monday to Friday 11 to 7 and Saturday q0 until 5. Todays Menu delivers GTA wide Monday to Saturday and you can order online at http://todaysmenu.ca  Previous post. . 

Houses torn down on Laird Drive

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Two tumbledown old houses (inset) on Laird Drive have been demolished at the location known as 127-129 Laird Drive. The site will become Gyro Hyundai, a new dealership operated right across the street from Gyro Mazda by the same owners. Other demolition remains to be done on the site, which is owned by DEL Truck Equipment  As we noted in. January of 2011, a Hyundai dealership will be a good start to bringing back authorized car service to South Bayviewland and surrounding area. There was to have been a large auto plaza built on the old railway site at Laird and Esander Dr but the owners bailed out when the crash of 2008 occurred. The bankruptcy of General Motors removed both Brennan Pontiac on Bayview and the Saab -Chevrolet dealer on Eglinton east of Brentcliffe Rd.  Previous post.

China between a rocket and a hard place

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China, a key diplomatic ally of North Korea, has so far been silent after Pyongyang launched a long-range rocket, which failed shortly after blastoff. The official Xinhua news agency, China’s mouthpiece, quoted media reports from other countries regarding the launch. But China’s foreign ministry had yet to make a statement more than two hours after the launch was confirmed. China on Tuesday called on all parties to “exercise restraint” and avoid an escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula ahead of the planned launch. The launch has been condemned by the US, UK, Germany, Japan, South Korea and other western countries. The UN Security Council has called an emergency session for today. China seems at odds with itself about how to deal with the North Korea, which is offically known as the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. It wants peace and stability to help sustain its economy, but it has historic ties with the north.  And above all, it seems,.China fears a collapse of the DPRK and the inevitable flood of refugees it would send into China. 

“Push this button to add drama”

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