Many will call them the history of Toronto, never mind the Maple Leafs. Two fine gentlemen, Darryl Sittler and Johnny Bower, join the late Ted (Teeder) Kennedy on Legends Row. Bower was chipper as always at today’s event even as he nears the age of 90 in November. 

At a ceremony Saturday morning the Leafs announced that Darryl Sittler will be honoured with a statue in his likeness added to the outdoor hall of fame known as Legenda Row. at Air Canada Centre. Sittler is the second such legends added. Several tweets suggests that the historic goalkeeping figure Johnny Bower will be the third. The Sittler statue will join that of Ted (Teeder) Kennedy, the first Leaf announced for this honour some weeks ago. Twitter

As reported here Tuesday evening, Penrose Fish and Chips is closing up shop after more six decades. The news has swept across the city and brought a whole new tone to lunch at at Penrose during its last weeks in business. Here we see Audra Brown of City News as she prepares a report for the 6 p.m. news. You can see her story here. Previous post 

A 7-year-old girl has been flown by EMS chopper to Sunnybrook Hospital after she was hit by a car while riding her bicycle in Marhkam around 4:55 p.m. today (Friday, September 5, 2014) near McCowan Road and Coleraine Avenue. Ornge airlifted the girl to hospital. Police say the collision reconstruction team will be investigating. The child is said to have life threatening injuries. 

You have to wonder if Bill Murray thinks of Ghostbusters (1984) as his own real-life Ground Hog Day (1994). That’s because, even on this TIFF-inspired Bill Murray Day, it is hard to think of Mr. Murray without thinking first of the Columbia Pictures lunacy written by Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis. Even in safe, loving Toronto, Murray was presented (left) on his day with a Stay Puft marshmallow man. Right, Ghostbusters toast (like for real) the malevolent Stay Puft monster  

A building project which is well followed in Moore Park is making news. One of two homes built on the 60-foot lot at 308 Rose Park Drive has sold for $2,800,000. That’s $5,000 over list. The 1920s home that had occupied the site sold in October of 2012 for $2,150,000. It had been listed for $2,495,000.  The original building was said to be in good condition but largely unimproved. The new home is known, at least for the moment, as 308B Rose Park and sits to the east side of the wide lot. The other new home is designated 308A and its status is not immediately known. These transactions indicate however the undiminished growth of prices in the neighborhood and the kind of margins builders can achieve with a good two-for-one densification project.