Friends and neighbors are rallying around as Mimi and Phillip try to put things back together at Leaside Cleaners. The electrical fire of last week has destroyed the interior of the store and contents– machinery, records and customers clothes. The insurance companies work slowly and the best guessing is that it will be a few months, perhaps as long as a year, before Leaside cleaners can re-open. But those have read their sign (right) know that the owners are determined to get back in business.

Here we have a fairly elaborate concept for Halloween. The owner of this house in Riverside California creates a light show each year. As usual, the show gets more elaborate each year. It consists, he says, of four singing pumpkin faces, tombstones, hand carved pumpkins, strobes, floods and thousands of lights. Most all lights have been changed from incandescent of past years to RGB LED so power consumption is a lot less. Oh sure, but what about the neighbors?

New temporary traffic lights are being installed right on the tricky turn on the Bayview extension. According to homeowners in the area, they lights are to assist in traffic control during unspecified construction at the location. They will also permit kids from the local school to cross a dangerous street. They would seem to be a good permanent fixture. These lights are just below the exit that takes northbound drivers to Moore Ave and also to the adjoining parking lots for Loblaws and the Pharma Plus/TD Bank strip of stores.