HAZARD:
Yonge St + Briar Hill Av
-20 foot sign above store
-About to fall
-High winds may be a factor
#2060815
^dh— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) November 20, 2016
Archive photo of Yonge and Briar Hill
There was no winning ticket sold for the $9 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. The $1 million guaranteed prize was however claimed by a ticket holder in Ontario. The jackpot for the next 649 draw on Nov. 23 will be $13 million.
South Bayview awoke Sunday to the awful reality that the balmy autumn is over. Here’s a front window sight in Moore Park. There is said to be a 70 per cent chance of flurries on the Santa Parade.
A woman cyclist has been seriously hurt in a hit and run accident Saturday evening at Kennedy Road and McNicoll Avenue. So far there is no description of the vehicle.
Premier Wynne went before the Ontario Liberal Annual General Meeting Saturday in Ottawa and called high electricity prices her “mistake.” Canadian Press reporter Allison James said Ms. Wynne sounded “a note of contrition” on the politically damaging cost of power in the province. She called evidence of her of her personal unpopularity the “elephant in the room.” She is quoted as saying: “I think that people look at me and many of them think, ‘She’s not who we thought she was. She’s become a typical politician. She’ll do anything to win,”’ Wynne said. “Frankly, I may have and I think I sometimes have given them reason to think that.” Wynne said part of convincing Ontarians that she wants to do what is in their best interests is admitting when she has made a mistake.
The Saturday afternoon meeting of Donald Trump and Mitt Romney has taken place at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Listen to Romney after the meeting.
Magazine profiles women who shoot to score, it seems
An entertaining post on the Leaside Chit Chat Facebook page carries a photo (above) of the Leaside ROCs Women’s Hockey (ha) Instructional Skills Group. Go ROCs. The story is published in the Neighbors of Leaside and Bennington Heights magazine.
The wet weather Saturday seemed to drive local residents to the Holly Berry Fair at Rosedale United Church. The Bulldog looked in at shortly after 1 p.m. and found the lunch room hopping with plates of the fair’s trademark baked ham and egg salad sandwiches. A visit to the bake counter found some chocolate chip cookies for the office. But it was shoulder to shoulder in many rooms of the spacious old church at Roxborough Drive and Glen Rd.
A shoot for a film called Molly’s Game will be underway at and near the corner of Bayview Ave. and Belsize Drive next week from Monday to about Wednesday, November 30, 2016. The film crew will employ 1560 Bayview, with its perennially vacant downstairs, both as a backdrop and for an interior shot or two. More interior shots will be done in January. The film is set in Los Angeles, New York City and Colorado. No indication about which of these Bayview Ave. will be portraying.
THIS MAY HURT
Molly’s Game will see trucks and vehicles parked on the north or south side of Belsize from Bayview to Cheston Rd., the east or west side of Gresham Rd. between Belsize and Manor Rd. and the west side of Bayview Ave between Manor Rd and 100 feet south of Belsize Drive. Once again retailers may wonder if the trickle-down benefit to the economy of foreign film making will find its way to South Bayview as customers flee in dismay. City Hall wants to nuke trucks making deliveries because it causes congestion but the sky is apparently the limit for film making.
STARS
For some it will be enough to star-watch or merely thrill to the presence of Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba and Kevin Costner somewhere out there among us. Molly’s Game is written by Academy Award winning writer Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, Moneyball, The Social Network) and tells the story of an athlete with dreams of achieving Olympic status. She turns the misfortunes of a sporting accident into financial fortune as she rises to fame as a host of an elite high-stakes poker game.
Strange advertising: Come on (left) leads to ad (right)
Want a good scare? Try landing on a Facebook ad come-on like the one left above where splashes of what look like blood spot the face of dot-com winner and present-day Shark Kevin O’Leary. It’s just an ad for a ho-hum way to make money (sure) but the first thing you see makes you think O’Leary has been bludgeoned. It also suggests he has died. This is a fairly common practice on the part of whomever runs ads on Facebook. You can find questions on the Internet from readers wondering why Facebook keeps saying famous people have died when they haven’t. Strange, to be sure.
A malfunction at a hangar at Mineta San Jose International Airport resulted in the release of fire retardant foam that flooded surrounding streets. San Jose fire department warned people to not touch the foam, as it can cause skin irritation.
Firefighting foam released from back of @FlySJC hangar is blowing around in the wind. It looks like soap, but I wouldn't advise touching it. pic.twitter.com/fDI3j0gmP7
— Jonathan Bloom (@BloomTV) November 18, 2016
Long-time Leaside resident Dorothy Jane Livey has died at the Donway West Home on Wednesday, November 16, 2016. Dorothy Livey was a nurse, mother and wife, grower of fruit in her Leaside backyard and a member of the Northlea United Church choir. Her obituary in full is at the site of the Humphrey Funeral Home
