Whistlers at Broadview and Mortimer

Friendly pub

Grilled scallop, prosciutto and fresh melon fromAndy Elder

Davisville Thunderbird (?) head-scratcher

Whistler’s Grille and Café-Bar and will close its doors for good at the end of this year as development takes the valuable corner of Mortimer and Broadview Aves. The Mastoras and Kanopoulos families shared the news with customers, employees, neighbours, and friends. The friendly bar (top right) was a great place to catch a pint. Centre right, Andy Elder, fine meat merchant and caterer, reveals this delicious-looking mouthful of grilled scallop, prosciutto and fresh melon. Yes please. And below, a Davisville driveway holds this 50s head-scratcher as tweeted by Michael Szego, Managing Director of The Scout Innovation Network.

Still with the service, according to City News and others.

Tax dollars spent on the prime minister’s few days in the Bahamas with the Aga Khan earlier this year were about double the figure given in Parliament, according to the CBC. A lot of the cost was related to security but it’s all just Beaver Bucks in the end,  an estimated $215,000 of them. CBC

Earl Beatty mud . Photo John Rieti CBC/Twitter

Parents of kids at Earl Beatty Junior and Senior Public School have been promised that the new turf playing field they raised $100,000 to buy and install will be completed by the end of October. But right now they have mud. The galling part is that the field has been fenced off and ready to be replaced since July. The Toronto and District School Board says the  delay has been caused by rain. Earl Beatty is at 55 Woodington Ave. near Danforth Avenue and Coxwell Ave.

Premier Wynne will be long way from Leaside Wednesday as she takes the stand in Sudbury to testify at the bribery trial of a former top adviser and a Liberal fundraiser. Pat Sorbara, Wynne’s former deputy chief of staff and Liberal campaign director, and Gerry Lougheed, a local Liberal organizer, are charged under the Election Act. Both have pleaded not guilty at the trial in Sudbury, Ont., to offering would-be candidate Andrew Olivier a job or appointment to get him to step aside for Wynne’s preferred candidate in a 2015 byelection in the city. That preferred candidate was then-New Democrat M-P Glenn Thibeault, who ended up winning that byelection for the provincial Liberals and is now energy minister. Thibeault has previously denied he sought anything that would be seen as a bribe in exchange for running and is not charged with any offences. Wynne faces no charges, but will be likely asked to testify about what she told Olivier and what conversations she had with Lougheed and Sorbara prior to their conversations with Lougheed and Sorbara prior to their conversations with him.

l to r Josh, Tate and Jacob Golden, Will and Mike Reilly./Photo Susan Scandiffio

Varsity Blues nip Junior Wildcats in exhibtion

Pee Wee Wildcats chomping gold

The return of the hockey season prompts another look at this photo of Jacob Golden and Will Reilly (with siblings) who this summer were selected in the National Hockey League Draft, Golden by the Minnesota Wild and Reilly by the Pittsburgh Penguins. Both have graduated from a well-watched growth as youthful players in Leaside junior hockey. The young neighbors are defencemen and are preparing for their coming challenge with humility.  They bring honour to themselves and their proud parents. No wonder siblings were happy to pose with them for Susan Scandiffio in this group shot. Good luck in the big leagues men.

WILDCATS FUNDRAISER WEDNESDAY

Then to the right, Leaside Junior Wildcats first exhibition game of the season was a tangle with the Varsity Blues down at the U of  T Tuesday. Even with much turnover from last year and older opponents, the Wildcats finished respectably. It was 1-0 Blues. There is a fundraiser for the Juniors at Leaside Arena Wednesday from 4.30 to 7.30 p.m. Finally, the girls biting down on their gold medals are the Leaside Pee Wee Wildcats (11 and 12). The dubloons were well-earned in the Caledon Coyote Tournament.

Scene at 9 p.m. at St. Clair and Inglewood

Looking west from Inglewood

Crews are working as late at 11 p.m. daily to replace pavement on both sides of St.Clair Ave E. from Inglewood Drive to Mt. Pleasant Rd. by a contract-finish date of September 24. The work has reduced traffic to one way in each direction all the way west to Avoca Ave. The job specifies new road first on the south side of St. Clair, then beginning next week, the north side. Find another way downtown.

The Toronto Police Service is now accepting applications for the position of Cadet-in-Training. The new recruits will support community-centric policing, diversity and inclusion. Job posting

Apple has unveiled an expensive new phone and other consumer-incentive products at a choreographed event that was not unlike the gathering of a cult  It opened in a darkened auditorium in Cupertino, California with only the iPhones of those present visible in the murk. A message said “Welcome to Steve Jobs Theater.” Then came a voiceover from Jobs himself, Apple’s co-founder who died in 2011. Finally, there was the next guru of Appledom, CEO Tim Cook. “Not a day that goes by that we don’t think about him,” Cook said. “Memories especially come rushing back as we prepared for today and this event. It’s taken some time but we can now reflect on him with joy instead of sadness.” Even in death, Jobs was selling the iPhone it seemed. The world had to wait until after the revelation of the new iPhone 8 and a larger 8 Plus with upgrades to cameras, displays and speakers before hearing about the iPhone X. That’s “ten” to you in Roman numeral talk. Whether $999 US is a conscionable price for the phone is another question. It has no thumb button. Face recognition will open and close it. The screen bleeds to the outer limits of the phone so presumably the screen contains the casing.

A No to Brownlow yard sale will be held Saturday, September 23, 2017 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Soudan Ave. between Mt. Pleasant Rd. and Redpath Ave. near the site of the much-opposed rental development. It is a community yard sale with donated items from more than 15 households. The organizers are promising “treasures and bargains” the sale of which will raise funds to oppose 18 Brownlow. This is described as 25 and 20-storey towers rising from a shared podium fronting Soudan Avenue, replacing the low-rise homes currently occupying the site. An existing 19-storey slab apartment tower would be preserved if the project were built.  The sale organizer ask for “no early birds please.” The rain date is September 24. Watch Twitter and Facebook. The South Eglinton Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association and the NO to Brownlow Community Group is organizing this community yard sale to raise funds for NO to Brownlow.

Here’s some adventurous flying, especialy for a 79-year-old. The Connecticut man is fine after his plane crashed into a tree Monday near Plainville, Conn. The tree cushioned the descent into a parking lot.

Clint Stibbe/TPS

A woman, 39, was taken to hospital with a serious leg injury after she and her bicycle were pinned under a garbage truck at Donlands Ave. and Cosburn Ave. during rush hour Tuesday. She was trapped underneath the vehicle for a period of time and suffered bleeding, according to paramedics.

WOMAN’S REMAINS FOUND AT OSHAWA

Durham Police say a woman’s torso has been found in Oshawa Harbour Monday. Homicide detectives are on the job.