Those who occasionally visit Las Vegas will know the elegant Bellagio Hotel, even if they don’t stay there. Clark County firefighters battled a fire on the roof of the hotel’s retail shops late Thursday into Friday morning. Nobody was injured and there was no mass evacuation.
Easter Saturday fun at Regent Theatre, Rowlands Park
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Shirley Breen @shirleybee123 is tweeting an invitation to Davisville families to the Easter Saturday (April 15) collaboration of Meridian Credit Union, where she is manager, and AppleTree Markets. They are welcoming everyone to a screening of Hop at the Regent Theatre starting at 11 a.m. Hop belongs to the entertaining genre of animated movies for children and adults seen in recent years. Check the trailer. Then from 1 to 2.30 the Easter egg hunt will unfold in June Rowlands Park with many familiar characters like Mr. Bunny who will bring snacks. Could be good.
Good Friday services set for morning with flawless forecast
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Join us 1030am GoodFriday service. Seeking Peace. Choir will perform #FaurésRequiem a beautiful piece that expresses a deep longing for rest pic.twitter.com/KSdXebg6KM
— Leaside United Church (@LeasideUnited) April 14, 2017
Good Friday services will be held across South Bayview Friday, the holiest day in the Christian calendar. The weather is predicted to be near perfect — clear with a high of 12 Celsius.
Councillor asks City to check fence safety at “Lake Leaside”
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Jon Burnside (Ward 26) has asked City staff to check the safety of fencing at the water-filled excavation on Wicksteed Ave. where future retail is planned. Work at the site, which has been called Lake Leaside by residents, was begun in 2014 but has been stalled for reasons unknown for about a year. Reader Wilmar Kortleever was prompted to write to the Councillor following a prosaic post here about the delays. Geoff Kettel wondered if the excavation should be filled in and about the chemical safety of the water. Mr. Burnside said that he has driven by the site, found it “absolutely a concern” and said he would ask City staff to check it as soon as possible.
You can smoke it but the rules may make you dizzy
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The Cannabis Act, as it’s to be called, will permit legal smoking of dope for fun for the first time ever. But ministers were issuing a lot of anxious warnings about how rigidly marijuana will be controlled. The exercise seems a lot like trying to have it both ways. There is even federal legislation about impaired driving. This is provincial jurisdiction so presumably the federal law is about enabling the provinces. Read the Bill CBC Below we have (left) the news conferences of many ministers who discussed this bill Thursday in Ottawa. To the right, the ongoing concern of doctors, especially about how marijuana permanently dulls the intellect of young people.
45 Donegall Drive sold for $1,830,000 in six days in winter
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45 Donegall Drive
Sydnia Yu in the Globe and Mail reports Thursday on the sale of 45 Donegall Drive for $1,830,000 a price well above the listed figure of $1,495,000. It was on the market for six days and last sold in 1998 for $445,000. Yu says that “many buyers filed through this detached house for nearly a week early this year. Eight visitors were serious enough to write formal bids.” She says lack of listings is a factor in space-race pricing.
People are a nuisance when it comes to running a subway
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The CBC has seen the enemy when it comes to delays on the Toronto subway system and he is us. And it seems likely that students of human behaviour will find it quite easy to understand. The TTC says that most of the things that cause delays are unpredictable. Depends on what you’re expecting, we say. The appearance of passengers who are drunk and disorderly, people walking on the tracks for the fun of it and litter causing fires are not unknown to the species. Read it and weep (or laugh).
Shocking moment as boy falls between train and platform
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Boy’s head is seen vanishing into gap
Whither Loblaw? Food giant intends to “adapt to changes”
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Loblaw says it will open 30 new stores and renovate more than 500 in an indeterminate period as it “continues to adapt to changes in the food retail sector.” It’s not clear where this initiative fits into other expansion announcement in recent years. The new release speaks of a continued roll out of its Click & Collect e-commerce, improved health and wellness services, and the inclusion of fresh food at select Shoppers Drug Mart locations.
Woman driver dead, man hurt as car hits bridge abutment
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A woman, 25, driving east on Cummer Ave. missed a curve in the road and smashed into a bridge abutment about 1.45 Thursday morning. The vehicle, a Mazda, was wrecked.. This was at the Don River crossing west of Craigmont Drive. A man. who was a passenger, was thought to be close to death but is now reported as stable. The story is developing.
City about face gives Island bicycle stand back to Rao family
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Toronto has reversed itself on the Centre Island bicycle concession after the new contractor bailed out of a deal to run the service. Now the City will return the concession to the Rao family, which has operated the bike rental for years but which had been told it was outbid by the other offer. “(It’s) just overwhelming. It feels like we went to the pits of the roller coaster and now I feel like we’re on another high,” Priya Rao told the Star. Her parents have co-owned the Toronto Island Bicycle Rental for the past 32 years.
Sunnybrook CIBC moving up Bayview to 1820 says reader
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Reader Virginia Lennox Kelly has messaged that the new branch of the CIBC planned for a storefront in the office building at 1820 Bayview Ave will replace the long-standing CIBC in the Sunnybrook Plaza. Customers of the branch may know this but The Bulldog learned of it through planning documents. The branch will be a loss for Sunnybrook landlord RioCan as it waits out the period before work begins on its residential-commercial makeover of the plaza. The space has been a CIBC branch since the day the bank was created by a merger in 1961. Before that, it was a branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce from the day Sunnybrook opened in 1952. The new location is on Bayview between Roehampton and Glazebrook Aves. Also coming to 1820 Bayview is the Endeavor Sports Clinic which will open on the second floor of the building.
CIBC MOVES BELOW THE TRACK
And CIBC is moving its headquarters south on Bay Street below the railway to towers to be built at 81 and 141 Bay. The connected spires will rise 49 floors each and are known together as Bay Park Centre.. One building is scheduled to be finished in 2020, the other in 2023. CIBC will leave behind Commerce Court built in 1962 and the 1930s Bank of Commerce building which at 34 storeys was once the highest building in the British Commonwealth.