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Spring Sweep the Street volunteers clean South Bayview

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Great turnout for South Bayview clean up

Sweepers well-known and well-liked formed up at Bayview Ave. and Millwood Rd. Saturday morning to participate in the Bayview Leaside BIA Spring Sweep the Streets event. The annual clean up saw these volunteers do a thorough job of picking up cigarette butts and other litter, sweeping the gutters and bagging the trash for pickup by the City. On the BIA Facebook page Cecelia Pye writes that the BIA has received a New Horizens Grant for Seniors of $16,000 to further support the Bayview Pixies volunteer gardeners keep the street flowered and beautiful.

Dog stolen, dog found plus bear and killer whale cuties

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The video wheel spins a City News report on a dog stolen from in front of the McDonald’s on Bloor near Mt. Pleasant. We worry about the theft of the wonderful dogs often seen outside Starbucks on South Bayview. Then, Cooper the Labradoodle, a West Jet delivery famously fumbled on his way from Halifax to Deer Lake Nfld. is happily found in Hamilton. All’s well it seems even after an escape at the airport while being walked. Next, a bear cub naming project at the zoo in Columbus, Ohio. There is no denying this bearlet is definitively cute. And in San Antonio a killer whale is born at the Seaworld park.

200,000 expected to take part in 1,100 clean up events

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Mayor Tory too
City supported clean up weekend

As many as 200,000 volunteers are expected to sweep, pick up and bag litter and trash across Toronto this weekend as part of the City’s clean up program. Volunteers from neighborhoods in South Bayview are on the business district Saturday morning along employees and business operators. CBC

Caps surge ahead 3 games to 2 with 2-1 win in Game 5

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Ont. VW diesel owners to get $5,100 to $8000 settlement

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Courts in Ontario and Quebec Friday approved a class action settlement with Volkswagen Group Canada which is expected to see lump sum payments to diesel owners of from $5,100 to $8000. The action arose from the 2015 scandal over exhaust testing. Ontario owners of the 2-litre VW desiel models effected may begin submitting claims for compensation on April 28. CBC

Bluebells create magic Spring in Belgium’s Hallerbos Forest

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In Belgium’s Hallerbos Forest, about 25 km from Brussels, an annual Spring marvel is occurring again in that ancient woodland. It is a breathtaking moment and makes anyone wish to walk there and smell the Bluebells too. The report is from Agence France Presse

Lots of cleaning to be done so where will you help out?

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Prncipal Shona Farrelly and friend
These kids cleaned — will you?
How about it?

This is Clean Toronto Together Weekend. Shona Farrelly (left above) principal of Davisville Public School and her friends and pupils were busy with School Cleanup Day today. How about you? You can help clean up South Bayview with other friends Saturday beginning at 9 a.m (see link below). And there is a recycling station courtesy of Toronto-Leaside Rotary at East York Town Centre both Saturday and Sunday. Volunteers are also needed for the cleanup of the Todmorden Mills Wildflower Preserve at 67 Pottery Road at 10 a.m. Sunday. Call Paula at (416) 423-1504. All events

Countdown to opening underway at Whole Foods Bayview

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Staff is working full-time inside the second-floor Whole Foods at 1860 Bayview to meet the 8.45 a.m. deadline Wednesday April 26, 2017. Sign in picture at the right says Grown Responsibly.

New build by Ivy Glen Homes at Bessborough, Parkhurst

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Bessborough and Parkhurst
Ivy Glen Homes builds new home on corner

A new structure is rising at Bessborough Drive and Parkhurst Blvd near the renovated heritage Elgie home. The knock down was on Parkhurst but the new one could face either street.

At 91, Her Majesty The Queen carries on with a smile

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Good times at the Radford’s Leaf Shack on Hanna Road

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The party goes on at 75 Hanna Road (at Millwood Rd) as Doug Radford and his family host neighbours for the Leafs playoff games. Flashback to the 2013 series

Horror story of $10,000 trip missed over AC seat bump

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The CBC reports that a Toronto woman,Vicki Russell, was bumped from an Air Canada flight taking her to a $10,000 Galapagos cruise after she had checked in and been given a boarding pass for her fully-paid fare. It makes compelling reading. But is it simply evidence again that the airline industry is so perilous that the business model can never be fixed? Airlines go broke, merge, create bargain-basement carriers and abuse their customers because the economics of flying are irrational. Overbooking isn’t a mean-spirited decision to hurt people, it’s a desperate act of survival. CBC