Here’s more on the Morning Glory Cycling Club and Gears Bike Shop 3rd annual bike drive on Sunday October 5th, 2014, It will go again in the parking lot the East York Town Centre from 1 until 4 pm,  The organizers aim to provide more than 150 bicycles to children and young adults from Thorncliffe Park. The cycling club notes that Olympic medal winner Curt Harnett is supporting the efforts and will be at the event with his medals in hand.  The bikes have been generously donated by MGCC members, friends and the community at large.  Each bike received has been tuned up by Gears to be ready for donation. Each recipient will also receive a helmet and lock for their bike, and be instructed about road safety and bike maintenance by volunteers from Evergreen Brickworks. The club is also thanking the Toronto Police Service which will be onsite to help run the event. Thorncliffe Park is a high density neighbourhood with limited resources. Almost one quarter of the population of Thorncliffe Park is under the age of 14 and it is home to North America’s largest elementary school with more than 1500 children in Kindergarten to Grade 5. The Morning Glory Cycling Club is a community of riders who love to see the sun rise. 

Residents are asked to observe caution in today’s sweltering temperatures. Dr. David McKeown, Medical Officer of Health, has issued a Heat Alert. The alert will be in effect until further notice. During a Heat Alert, the public is encouraged to call or visit family, friends and neighbours, especially isolated adults and seniors who are at greater risk of suffering from heat-related illness, to make sure they are cool and drinking plenty of fluids. 

Well, this is the big day. The 39th annual Toronto International Film Festival is on and seldom have more thrilling dreams been spun of unlocatable and unattainable “galas” or of standing behind barricades to watch for people you don’t know. Would you like them if you did?  This is interesting from NOW magazine. It is about something called Wet Bum, Dry Humour. Cute, cheeky title.  Also, King Street West will be closed between Peter Street and University Ave.  Really, TIFF dillys, knock yourselves out.  Twitter

There appears to be a small window of opportunity to fill up at a somewhat better price on gasoline in Toronto. Prices for regular blends stand at about 129.9 c/L Thursday morning (September 4, 2014) but are expected to go up again this evening. 

Family restaurant Mr. Greenjeans in the Toronto Eaton Centre has closed down. In shutting the doors after 34 years the owner Maury Kalen sounded a somewhat sour note. He told the Hamilton Spectator: “The Eaton Centre has no Eaton’s, it has no Sears, it has no anchor.”  The Spectator 

FaceBook was down this afternoon for an estimated 18 minutes and as we have come to know, it made the lives of the FaceBook generation something slightly worse than death by a thousand cuts. Users began reporting the social network down around 3.30 p.m., bringing interaction on both Facebook’s website and mobile apps to a grinding halt. “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can,” read an error message on Facebook’s desktop site. According to reports, the outage appeared to affect users in the U.S. and Canada, as well as other parts of the world.  Later, in a statement, Facebook said: “Earlier today we encountered an error while making an infrastructure configuration change that briefly made it difficult for people to access Facebook. We immediately discovered the issue and fixed it, and everyone should now be able to connect.” Facebook had major outages in May, June and August. TechCrunch’s Josh Constine estimates Facebook loses at about $22,453 every minute it’s down around the globe. Mashable put the total downtime at 18 minutes.