Cats defeat Sens 3-1

Looking good

Blueblood truffle

Empty on Brentcliffe

Huh?

The Leaside Jr. Wildcats landed in Ottawa ready to play Saturday. The red, white and black squad whipped the ranking Lady Sens 3-1. The box score tells of a short-handed goal by Kristin Della Rovere assisted by Quinn Johnston. All right ladies. To the right, Creeds Coffee and Dry Cleaning at 1595 Bayview is showing off its new awning. Centre left, Avoca Chocolates on Millwood Rd. is making tempting sparkly-sugar blue coloured truffles for the  Blueblood Steakhouse at the Casa Loma. You can get them at the Avoca shop too. Below that, empty stores are piling up at the Dawsco Plaza where the owners hope to build high-rises. Finally, the Bayview Ave. award for obscure front page of the month goes to NOW.

Fibe box on Millwood at Sutherland

Surprise!

2014 at Bayview and Millwood

Many readers are commenting on Leaside Community this Saturday in response to a man who came home to find a large cable spool in his backyard. He believes there’s an easement for Bell and others to work back there when necessary. But he wondered just what was happening. It appears to be the arrival of fibre optic cable (fibe) in Leaside. A crew was busy Saturday morning installing a fibe box on Millwood Rd. at Sutherland Dr. outside the little plaza in the 900 block. At right, we see the unholy blockage caused in 2014 at Millwood and Bayview Ave. when fibe came to the Davisville side.

Josephine Dugas, 21

A post to the Twitter account of Toronto Police Operations (TPS Ops) is asking for help to find 21-year-old Josephina Dugas.She was last seen at 10 p.m. on Friday in the area of Pape Ave and O’Connor Dr. Police believe she may be in the company of a man and are concerned for her safety, but were not releasing any names as they investigated the matter. She is described as 5’3” tall with a medium build and dark-blond, shoulder length hair. She was last seen without shoes, wearing a black jacket and black yoga pants. Anyone with information about her location is asked to call police at 416-808-5500 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 4416-222-8477, or to leave a tip online at www.222tips.com.

Friday saw homicide and forensic personnel bringing additional and heavy equipment to the address known as 53 Mallory Cres just behind the commercial plaza at 325 Moore Ave. The home sits on the secluded side of Mallory Green, a large island of grass. The rear of  the property faces south with exposure to the long hill that leads down to the Crothers Woods Trail. What’s buried there? Police seem determined to find out.

Man in his 30s seriously injured in crash between dump truck, minivan https://t.co/V8HCaifsjV pic.twitter.com/x8ZPmLHrHG

— CBC Toronto (@CBCToronto) January 27, 2018

A man in his 30s has ben seriously injured in a crash of a dump truck and a minivan early Saturday at Victoria Park Avenue and Eglinton Ave. The intersection has been re-opened.

Photo: Josh Matlow/Facebook

Photo: Josh Matlow/Facebook

Photo: Josh Matlow/Facebook

Friday night saw members of Maurice Cody families at the Hodgson Public School outdoor rink for the Cody Family Skate. Here we see Councillor Josh Matlow (Ward 22) with his daughter Molly. The event was sponsored by realtor Jethro Seymour.

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The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party will hold a leadership race ahead of the June general election, the party’s executive committee announced Friday. Earlier, the caucus appointed North Bay MPP Vic Fedeli as interim leader. All 200,000 members of the party will vote on March 24 on a new leader to challenge Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne. But officially, the race hasn’t started yet. Party president Rick Dykstra said the time frame will be established later. The move contradicts an earlier decision by the party’s caucus that MPP Vic Fedeli would serve as permanent party leader through the upcoming election on June 7.

No tariffs on C Series in US

Super Bowl commercials

Chase me

Bombardiers has dodged a nearly 300 percent tariff on its C Series commercial jetliner as the U.S. International Trade Commission rules in its favour. The commissioners voted unanimously that Boeing did not suffer harm from prospective imports of the C Series. Bombardier called the decision “a victory for innovation, competition, and the rule of law.”

SUPER BOWL ADS

Canadian viewers will still be able to watch American ads when they watch the 2018 Super Bowl on American channels February 4. In a ruling dated Jan. 24, the Supreme Court of Canada rejected Bell Canada’s request for a stay of a CRTC regulation allowing U.S. ads to be shown on Canadian airwaves during the NFL championship game. That means the CRTC decision will almost certainly stay in place for this year’s game, pitting the New England Patriots against the Philadelphia Eagles.

L.A. CAR CHASES

The New Yorker Magazine is cluck clucking about how TV exploits car chases in Los Angeles while producing this entertaining mini-doc on the modern-day phenomenon said to have been embedded in the culture by O.J. Simpson.

Vic Fedeli, 61, a former mayor of North Bay who has been an MPP since 2006, has been chosen by the PC caucus as interim leader. He will lead the party into the June election, it is said. Wikipedia

The Ontario PC caucus is meeting Friday morning with much sentiment in favour of picking an interim leader who will take the party into the June election. City News interviewed Vic Fedeli, a former mayor of North Bay said to have an inside track. To the right, those “clean food” people Panera, are making quite a fuss in the US about the definition of an egg. And yes, we’d like our food to be clean rather than dirty. Below that, stunning images from Israel of Starlings. A must watch for birders. And lastly, watch these Chinese railway workers build a large section of track in mere hours.

Capital weekend ahead

Community bus

EYHS meeting

town Hall February 5

LOL in Leaside

LUC Pancakses

St. Luke’s Pancakes

Spirit Winners at TNO

The Leaside Jr. Wildcats will swing through Ottawa and Nepean this weekend with games Saturday against the Lady Sens and Sunday against the Nepean Wildcats. Two wins for Leaside please. To the right, the East York Historical Society Evening is January 30 with a celebration of Black History and a surprise guest, they say. Centre left, the TTC “community bus” has started running in four neighborhoods including East York. It is a smaller vehicle like Wheel-Trans but anyone can board. When will we see this service in South Bayview? Below that, Councillor Burnside will hold his Leaside Town Hall February 5 in the Lea Room in the Leaside Arena. Then ,the pancake suppers will soon be upon us. Shrove Tuesday is February 13. And finally, at the bottom, here are the United Way Spirit Award Winners at the Thorncliffe Neighborhood Offices Thursday night.

Former Postal Station K will be Montgomery Square/Rockford Group

Butcher and restaurateur team up.

The owner of Terroni restaurants, Cosimo Mammoliti, and the Cumbrae’s butcher, Stephen Alexander, owner of the enormous Bayview Ave meat and sandwich shop, will join to open a 20,000 square foot store and restaurant in the soon to be completed Montgomery Square development on the corner of Yonge St. and Montgomery Ave. It is the site of the former Postal Station K, a heritage building saved by forward-thinking builder the Rockport Group. The 1936 landmark is seen in a Rockport depiction. The luxury rental building, still unfinished, will rise 27 storeys above Yonge at the site. Patrons of the as-yet unnamed Terroni-Cumbrae’s enterprise will be able to stroll about on the softly lighted square shown here. Book a reservation in the Spring of next year. Previous post.