Here are the ticket drawings for the six prizes in the Leaside Rotary Charitable Foundation Raffle drawn Sunday, September 20, 2015 at the close of the corn roast. The information is a bit sketchy but the winners who gave only a phone number can still catch up with their prizes. Video
Youths demand “right to transportation” on closed street
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53 Division police have posted this video on their site as an example of what the police must manage.
St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church takes 2015 “family picture”
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Members of the congregation of St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church had an added duty today (Sunday, September 20, 2015). They filed out of the morning service to stand on the front steps and have their picture taken. It’s always a popular moment. The Rev. Beth Benson and Assistant Curate, The Rev. Jonathan Turtle, led the worshippers. This is the 125th Anniversary of St. Cuthbert’s and the gathering stood in front of newly refurbished doors, an anniversary capital project. Parishioners of all ages were there, some families with grandkids, parents and grandparents joyfully together. In all, there were about 100 church members posing for Anglican Journal Photographer Michael Hudson. His exploits on Bayview Ave. are seen below as he (left) tries to stop cars (centre) “drivers just don’t get it” and (right) Michael finally gets off several shots. Do you have an event in South Bayview? Write to The Bulldog
Toronto 12th costliest city in the world says Swiss bank
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Toronto is the 12th costliest city in the world, according to the Swiss bank UBS. Much media has been tempted to juice this statistic a bit. But whether Toronto is “one of the most expensive cities in the world” or just the 12th such community the driver of the cost metric is housing. It is not clear if UBS understands that in Shanghai there are only two places to send your precious children. They are Toronto and Vancouver and quite often we buy them a house. But what a value it is to buy and operate a car in Toronto. It is surely better than any other great city – great city mind you. Try buying a Lexus in London. Ugh.
Rotary Corn Roast sees large turnout at Trace Manes
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See later post
Terry Fox Run remembers courageous young Canadian
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Terry Fox
Runners were tweeting from Wilket Creek Park that Premier Wynne, Mayor Tory, John Carmichael and Four Seasons founder Isadore Sharp are present with many others for the 35th Terry Fox Run today (September 20, 2015) Communities across the country are taking part in the run. In 1980, Terry Fox started his Marathon of Hope run across Canada in support of Cancer research. Fox ran 26 miles a day, gaining more and more public support and media attention along the way. A decision by CTV News to broadcast a national telethon in support of Fox as he approached Toronto led to huge public interest. The Cancer amputee was forced to stop his run in Northern Ontario when his cancer returned. Fox ran for 143 days, 3,339 miles.
Burnside: No reason for condo traffic to use arena access
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The little parking lot with the broken pavement at 3 Southvale doesn’t see traffic anymore. But the entry to the six or eight parking spaces there is off the grand new driveway into Leaside Arena. Shane Baghai, developer of a proposed eight storey condominium at 3-5 Southvale, thinks this modest approach should be the main access to the building and presumably to underground parking. Members of the arena board, which include Councillor Jon Burnside, are fighting to stop the additional traffic this would mean for cars entering and leaving the arena. The volume of vehicles created by the 98-unit residence has a potential to swamp the driveway, especially during the long red lights that bottle up cars trying to leave. Mr. Burnside has been quoted as saying that there is no upside for the arena to provide an access point to an adjacent condominium. Mr. Baghai says the arena driveway is a public road which has always had an entrance onto the property he now owns. The condominium height is contentious too. The precedent (so described) of 2 Laird Dr. has returned to haunt Leasiders. At seven storeys 2 Laird was fiercely opposed. But residents lost the height battle because the OMB concluded that access to Laird Drive justified the size of the development. Southvale is a much less busy residential street. Shane Baghai proposes eight storeys at Southvale-Millwood
NDP’s Jennifer Hollett has large lead in University Rosedale
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Jennifer Hollett (left) leads Chrystia Freeland
Residents of Moore Park, Summerhill and other easterly bits of University Rosedale (UR) are hearing for the first time how their new riding might vote in the general election October 19, 2015. A Forum Research poll shows the NDP candidate Jennifer Hollett with a substantial lead over Liberal Chrystia Freeland. Ms. Freeland was the incumbent for Toronto Centre before it was cut in two and the top half lumped into UR. Some political cynics call UR an after thought riding. The electoral commission had all these unrelated neighborhoods left over so they bundled them into UR. It stretches from the corner of Welland and Moore Aves (Moorevale Park) all the way to the CPR overpass on Ossington Ave. north of Dupont St. As it turns out, that includes a lot of NDP country. The random sampling of public opinion taken by Forum was done among 528 voters. Close to half say they will vote for NDP candidate Hollett (46%) compared to a third who will vote for Ms. Freeland (32%). The Conservative candidate, Karim Jivraj, has less than a fifth of the vote (17%). Mr. Jivra is no doubt an estimable man but he has no name recognition. In other South Bayview area ridings, MP John Carmichael is battling it out with the man he defeated in 2011, Liberal Rob Oliphant in Don Valley West (DVW) The joker in the pack may be the movement of the DVW boundary west from Bayview Ave to Mt. Pleasant Rd. This was the territory of Carolyn Bennett, the perennial Liberal winner in St. Paul’s. Up in Eglinton-Lawrence, Finance Minister Joe Oliver is facing Liberal Marco Mendicino.
Thorncliffe Park Tennis Club opens new outdoor courts
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Thorncliffe Park Tennis Club is inviting the public to attend the grand reopening of its new outdoor courts at 1 p.m. today (Saturday, September. 19, 2015). There will be a ribbon-cutting and party at the club which is located at 15 Leaside Park Dr. just off Overlea Blvd near Millwood Rd. There will be free tennis lessons, cake and refreshments along with a round-robin tournament, 50/50 draw and silent auction. Christine Barachina, club president, said she hopes the $70,000 revamp will help the club continue to grow.
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Quota on sales: Ontario tippy-toes into beer sales in stores
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The Ontario government is tippy-toeing into the sale of beer in food stores and one of the requirements will be that grocers stick to a quota of sales. Who knows. But, if they pay a penalty they can exceed the quota. Robert Benzie has a ton of chapter and verse on this so very very Ontario initiative but you may or may not feel much enlightened at the end. Toronto Star
Shelley Laskin comment on Maurice Cody School plan
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In response to interest in the plan to convert Maurice Cody School to a junior facility as early as 2017, Ward 11 Trustee Shelley Laskin says studies to do this are not finalized. The Toronto and District School Board (TDSB) studies “are not finalized until the process is complete.” She remarks that the decision to send Grade 6 to 8 children to Hodgson School in 2017 is “not confirmed.” She said, “it may be earlier with other neighboring schools moving to K to Gr. 5 in 2016. She said “the timing remains dependent on planning numbers.”
Plan to convert Cody school to Grades 1 to 5 only by 2017
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School Trustee Shelley Laskin (Ward 11) has confirmed a plan to make Maurice Cody Pubic School a junior school with classes topping out at Grade 5 as early as the 2017 academic year. The plan is devised because of a growing school population in Midtown Toronto. Cody children in Grades 6 to 8 will transfer to Hodgson Senior Public School. It is no secret that the South Bayview neighborhoods south of Eglinton Ave. are highly prized by young families Readers of the The South Bayview Bulldog, who sounded the alert on this story, say they purchased homes near Bayview Ave. because of Maurice Cody’s good reputation.
2020 CAPACITY ESTIMATE 750
At present, Cody has some 709 children enrolled but projections on the trustee’s website suggest that number would rise to 750 by 2020. Cody has an official capacity of less than 700. Hodgson has a present enrolment of about 350 but it would still require an addition in order to accommodate the children from Maurice Cody. Parents who are objecting to the change say the addition cannot be finished for 2017. They say the school board intends to build temporary buildings..
HODGSON NEEDS AN ADDITION
Ms. Laskin spoke to the Maurice Cody parent council yesterday and said these changes were being proposed by the school board’s Central Accommodation Team (CAT). Those writing to The Bulldog say they are greatly distressed by the plan. They claim there is no indication of when construction might begin on a finished addition to Hodgson School. The century-old school is said to be in need of repairs. It is recalled that in the 1970s and 80s when empty nesting was beginning to change Davisville Village, the school board tried to close Hodgson. Ms Laskin said that recommendations have not been finalized but did confirm the date of 2017 for Cody to change to Grades 1 to 5. She said the accommodation planning effects many schools including Eglinton, Oriole Park, Davisville and Forest Hill. Write to the South Bayview Bulldog