Singers on Bayview Ave

Free shopping bags

The Bayview-Leaside BIA’s shopping weekend continues Sunday with events all up and down the business district.

Early morning greeting/Ted Rogovein

It’s funny how we predict the inevitable, but Twitter bugs were in a good mood about Sunday morning’s snow. This is Ted Rogocein’s backyard but there are many other pictures off of balconies and in the street. There is more snow predicted for Sunday but it will be quite mild at midweek.

The lights are on at City Hall. Mayor Tory counted down the moment of illumination for the annual Cavalcade of Lights festival. It runs from November 27 to January 2 at Nathan Phillips Square.

Pop up Tuesday

Enter on St Cuthbert’s Rd

St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church is having an outdoor sale of baby blankets, baby hats, adult hats and various preserves on Tuesday, November 30 from 2 pm to 5 pm. It’s a great chance to pick up a treat for giving or yourself. Come to the St. Cuthbert’s Road entrance.

Ryan Spitzer

The 2021 Thorncliffe Park PS running shoe collection conducted in recent years by a young man from Leaside has once again produced a bumper collection of shoes. Ryan Spitzer has posted a picture of some 171 pairs of shoes donated by area residents. They will be donated to kids in need of footwear for athletic and recreational activities. Well done Ryan. The running shoe collection was begun in 2014 by then-student Mackenzie Bier of Leaside.

Leslieville man snapped sunset and dubs it Torontohenge/Dave Bottoms

A photo posted on the Leslieville Facebook page shows a recent sunset during that special time of the year when the sun is aligned with east-west streets. Over the years, many people have commented on this phenomenon as it can be seen a little further west on Moore Ave. between Bayview Ave and Mud Creek. The photo above was shot by Dave Bottoms who called his work “Torontohenge”. That’s a play on the murky practices of the Druids at Stonehenge. FB

Ashley Jackson

Aida

Rachel and Tom Sullivan

To say that Ashley Jackson’s mom and dad are proud of the Chatham girl hardly begins to tell you how highly they think of her. Ashley, a graduate of the University of Ottawa, has been chosen as a Rhodes scholar to Oxford where she will study Oncology. At the US Thanksgiving Day Macy’s Parade in New York, a number of new balloon floats were seen. This is Aida, a young cartoon scientist. Finally, Tom Sullivan loves to cook. Now he and wife Rachel have begun Adopt-A-College-Kid. They feed students in need.

Toronto will see the beginning of the snow season Friday with flurries predicted on and off all through the coming week. Weather Network

Renovated Massey Hall

Massey Hall will reopen Thursday night after a major renovation that lasted three years. Gordon Lightfoot will be the first musician to grace the stage tonight. Massey Hall tweets

Mockup of renovated Massey Hall

The legendary career of Lightfoot, a native of Orillia, has been marked with a declaration by Mayor Tory.

Mayor Tory’s declaration of Gordon Lightfoot Day

Area scouts are selling Christmas trees. The 132nd Toronto Scouts are selling online this year. Over in the Glebe, you can drop in at the lot of the 58th Scouts in the parking lot of the Church of the Transfiguration at 111 Manor Rd.

Steps from St. Cuthbert’s Rd

Steps from Bayview in two flights/Bulldog

Work goes on at St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church, 1399 Bayview Ave., to create an easier and more welcoming front-door approach to the venerable old place of worship. Here we see new steps from St. Cuthbert’s Rd and Bayview.

Michelle Hanson

Kaden Young

Michelle Hanson has pleaded guilty to criminal negligence in the drowning death of her son, Kaden Young, 3, after she drove her vehicle into the raging Grand River near Orangeville in the middle of the night in 2018. Ms. Hanson also admitted to being impaired when she drove around signs intended to stop drivers from entering the flooded road. She said she had taken Kaden on a 1 a.m. drive because he was not sleeping. The boy was swept from the car and his body was not found for weeks. Toronto Sun