The much awaited horse-drawn ride for Bayview moms, dads and kids was a rousing success Saturday. To accommodate traffic, the ride followed a route along Davisville to Cleveland, north on Cleveland to Soudan and south on Bayview back to the LCBO south of Millwood. South Bayview Bulldog photos by Richard Byford
Leaside Jr. Wildcats defeated the Bluewater Hawks 4-2 in a rock ’em sock ’em home game that saw 15 penalties. Even so, each team scored only one power play goal and Leaside’s fourth marker came on an empty net play by Emma Pye with 18 seconds left in the game. Leaside and Bluewater stand 10 and 11 in the 20-team Provincial Womens Hockey League and it showed in the shots on goal — each fired 26 at the other. Box score.
Evergreen’s Winter Village: Dec10 to Jan 8. From Davisville station, take the 28 Bayview eastbound to Evergreen Brick Works.
— TTC Customer Service (@TTChelps) December 10, 2016
There is a meeting scheduled for today (Saturday, December 10, 2016) between north Leaside neighbours of Sunnybrook Plaza and members of the Leaside Property Owners Association about the still-confidential deal as to what Sunnybrook Plaza will look like after its redevelopment. The eagerly-awaited (and possibly feared) results of this negotiation at the Ontario Municipal Board will establish the height of towers previously proposed at 13 and 19 floors. The City was a party to this deal as was the LPOA. Just what has been done, no one knows, but the details are expected to be released by or on Monday. As this goes on, retailers in the plaza will be waiting for notice of just what time remains for them in locations that many have had for decades. In particular, area residents will want to know where they will be banking at the CIBC, where the Rexall Pharma Plus will go and what on earth they will do for a good neighbourhood hardware store.
The Manor Road United Church Pancake Breakfast was a happy and tasty event Saturday. The church is celebrating its renovation and re-opening this weekend. There is a Christmas concert and carolling Saturday night and worship celebration Sunday at 10.30 a.m. followed by an open house at 11.45 a.nm.
A woman drove into the rear of a taxi on the Gardiner at the Spadina ramp early Saturday morning. Police say they suspect impaired driving. The cab flipped over but the occupants all survived with minor injuries. And .two men in their 20s have non-life threatening injuries after a stabbing encounter on Pembroke Street at around 1:15 a.m.
The Toronto Police Service Divisional Policing Support Unit, in partnership with community group, Heroz 4 The Homeless, is holding a used/new clothing and footwear drive on Sunday in the south parking lot of Fairview Mall. Donations from the initiative will be distributed to shelters in Toronto for the homeless. Officers and community members will be collecting donations from 9 to 10:30 a.m. For information, contact Constable Patty Retsinas at 416-808-0126 or email patty.retsinas@torontopolice.on.ca.
The whimsical decision of two neighbours in 2013 to place a couple of 14-foot inflatable Santas on their front lawn has grown into a grand tradition for residents of Inglewood Drive in Moore Park. The Canadian Tire Santas ($250 each) line the lawns (with few houses not participating) from Mt. Pleasant Road to Rosedale Heights Drive. This weekend neighbours will have a street gathering with hot chocolate and such. Those attending are asked to bring a food donation for the Daily Bread food Bank. Organizer Amy Westin says the neighbors have a goal of 500 lbs of food.
The Dollarama store at 732 Mt. Pleasant is buzzing with preparations for the opening on Tuesday, December 13, 2016.
Saturday December 10 will see the re-opening of Manor Road United Church after its renovations. There is the annual pancake breakfast Saturday and special services Sunday. Also Saturday, horse drawn carriage rides will be operating on Bayview Ave. for shoppers and the kids. And the Winter Village is underway at Evergreen Brickworks.
LEASIDE MATTERS
The Leaside Community group Leaside Matters will be selling T-shirts outside of the LIT coffee shop on Bayview. The shirts show a map of the town and sell for $20. There are also maps and a cultural heritage of Leaside pamphlet to be had.
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Outgoing U.S. Vice President Joe Biden hailed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Angela Merkel as genuine leaders during a time when they are in short supply at a state dinner in his honor in Canada on Thursday night. Biden said he’s never since Europeans engaged in as much self-doubt as they are now and said there are more challenges to the liberal international order in any time since the end of World War II. “The world is going to spend a lot of time looking to you Mr. Prime Minister,” Biden told a crowd of Canadian dignitaries. “Viva la Canada because we need you very, very badly.”
PARK IMPEACHED
The South Korean parliament has voted to impeach President Park Geun-hye. It is a stunning and swift fall for the country’s first female leader amid protests that she had permitted a friend, Choi Soon-sil, to extort money from business. Soon-sil and two other former presidential aides were accused of bullying large companies into providing tens of millions of dollars and favours to foundations and businesses Choi controlled, and enabling Choi to interfere with state affairs.
RUSSIAN DOPING
And more than 1,000 Russian competitors across more than 30 sports were involved in an institutional conspiracy to conceal positive doping tests as Moscow ‘hijacked international sport’, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) SAYS. Canadian sports lawyer Richard McLaren provided exhaustive evidence of an elaborate state-sponsored doping scheme operated by Russia’s Sports Ministry.
Putin with discredited athletes
