Over the dinner hour on Sunday, June 7, 2015, the Toronto Hydro outage map showed an outage in South Bayview. It ran north from Broadway Ave and Blythwood Rd., west of Bayview over to Yonge, up the uneven northeast boundary formed by the Don River ravine.  It included York campus at the end of Lawrence E. The outage map said that fewer that  50 customers were effected by this outage so something, the map or the statistic, seemed a bit out of whack. A lot of territory includes Mt. Hope Cemetery. and Sherwood Park. It appears that Sunnybrook Hospital was on its alternative power supply briefly as well. The map was taken down by 7 p.m.

The first Mac and Cheese Festival in Liberty Village has left residents and organizers disappointed. It was a huge attraction, mind you (look at the lineup). But this morning the streets were filthy with food, paper and, according one woman, vomit. Organizers promise to do better next year and say they were ambushed by a number of people calling in sick.

These follow-up pictures from Yonge and Roxborough News reveal the effect of the fall of a Maple on a car and truck on Roxborough St. W. early Saturday morning. Previous pictures

The Charter Meeting of the new Leaside Centennial Lions Club was held Saturday night at St Clement of Ohrud Macedonian Church on Overlea Bvd. A guest list of 120 friends old and new met to celebrate the new chapter and plan their public-spirited work into the future. The dinner program began with a welcome from Past District Governor Raija Rosenthal of Leaside. It was a pleasant coincidence that the Forest Hill Lions Club was represented at the meeting. In his remarks, Forest Hill President Eric Feldbloom called it a pleasure for his club to have sponsored the new Leaside chapter, and he remembered how in 1952 it was the Leaside Lions Club that sponsored the Forest Hill Club into existence. The new chapter’s Certificate was presented by Past International Director Terry Graham to Leaside’s Charter President Tulsi Dharel. Mr. Graham then gave the keynote address. The meeting heard in writing from many dignitaries with well wishes. They included Prime Minister Harper, Premier Wynne, MPP John Carmichael, Mayor John Tory and Councillor Jon Burnside.  Lion’s Club International President Joe Preston also wrote to congratulate members and to remind them of the organization’s “rich tradition of service”  dating back to 1917.

These new photos were taken by the Duchess of Cambridge. Sky News

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At long last, the Triple Crown drought is over. American Pharoah led all the way to win the Belmont Stakes by 5 lengths on Saturday, becoming the first horse in 37 years to sweep the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes — one of the sporting world’s rarest feats. “Wow! Wow!” jockey Victor Espinoza said moments after crossing the finish line. “I can only tell you it just an amazing thing.” The bay colt with the unusually short tail defeated seven rivals in the grueling 1 1/2-mile race, covering the distance in 2:26.65 to end the longest stretch without a Triple Crown champion in history — FOX News.

A large and elderly Maple tree collapsed overnight June 5-6 on Roxborough Street West just west of Yonge Street yesterday afternoon following the rainy onslaught. Top picture is courtesy of resident Bill McLaughlin and was first published in the Yonge and Roxborough News. Traffic light is at Yonge. Lower left is the tree as seen by Google in September of 2014 and at lower right is the cleanup operation near Paul Hahn Lane courtesy the same Roxy Blogger.

Carolyn Armstrong with family at Millwood and Bayview

Carolyn Armstrong is asking fellow residents to join her and her friends at the southwest corner of Bayview Ave. and Millwood Rd. Saturday morning to visit a pop-up lemonade stand in aid of Camp Huronda. The camp is a Diabetes Association facility for children with Type 1 Diabetes. This is a City-wide campaign apparently. The location is outside epi bakery. The stand is there from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and again Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m. It’s called Put A Squeeze on Diabetes. The campaign goes next weekend too when the pop-up lemonade stand will be at Lexus on the Park. Carolyn asks that if you are unable to attend, buy a virtual glass of lemonade here. Facebook 

Busy at work and (below) and the whole gang

This week saw South Bayview area students painting over graffiti as part of 53 Division Toronto Police Service to clean up such sites. More pictures