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Bayview Ave is under repair at Millwood, Moore

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Our beloved South Bayview is singing the winter blues. At the “downtown” intersection of Millwood and Bayview (above) Hydro is up to its old tricks. Nothing to do with the weather, they say. But it’s cold all the same. There’s enough cable on that reel to stretch to Muskoka. It is even slower down at Bayview and Moore  Ave as once again Father Frigid Finger has broken the traffic lights. With no lights and parked trucks it is very tricky getting in and out of any of the businesses there. Police are on duty. 

HEARTBREAK: Boy 3 dies in bitter Toronto cold

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Elijah Marsh, 3, has died in the most tragic way, lost on the street of a bitterly cold City and unable to help himself.  The lad was seen on security video around 4 a.m. leaving his grandmother’s apartment on Neptune Drive. He was clad in very light clothes and was not found until after 9 a.m., despite the furious efforts of police. He was finally discovered in the snow about two blocks from his home. The address is in the Bathurst and Highway 401 area. The temperature overnight was about -19C, but strong winds made it feel closer to -30. The police search was desperate as cops scrambled over garbage bins and through garages in an attempt to locate the boy. 

Shrove Tuesday comes wth pancake games

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St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church Shrove Tuesday supper was held this evening (Tuesday, February 17, 2015).. The annual marking of the approach of Easter comes with entertainment including the ominously named Pancake Jeopardy. Above we see Reverend Beth testing Oliver at a match of pancake flipper Badminton. The gentleman in the blue shirt was fine with it all. As usual Diane Gray and Betty Crichton cooked up a delectable meal of pancakes and sausages for a goodly crowd. Tomorrow is of course Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. The devout traditionally have made a cross of ashes on their foreheads. Not so much since we stopped burning coal. Below, there was a nice turnout for the pancake supper at Northlea United at 125 Brentlifffe Road. Councillor Jon Burnside (right) enjoyed the meal.

Shrove Tuesday pancakes at church tonight

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Shrove Tuesday is upon us and pancake dinners are planned at two Leaside churches and probably many others. St Cuthbert’s Mardi Gras Party and Pancake Supper will be this evening starting at 5.30 p.m. in Lamb Hall. There will be crafts, relays, flipping contests, Pancake Jeopardy and Mardi Gras surprises for all ages. Tickets are $6/person, $18 for the whole family. Tickets can be purchased ahead through the church office at (416) 485-0329.  St. Cuthbert’s Church is at 1399 Bayview Ave. at St. Cutbert’s Road. And Northlea United Church, 125 Brentcliffe Road, is promising a delicious pancake supper  at the church tonight between 6 and 7 p.m. All welcome. 

Water pipes, fires plague fed up, frozen city

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Burst water pipes, broken water mains, fires and a determined deep freeze have pretty much worn down the spirit of Torontonians. At one point today, it was reported that there were more than a dozen broken mains. Tonight residents of a high-rise at 33 Orchard View Blvd. are dealing with water that flooded their units from a burst pipe on the roof of the building. Orchard Park is the westward continuation Roehampton Ave. west of Yonge. It sits next door to the garage ramps for the Yonge-Eglinton Centre. Television news has a number of stories from the location. Tenant Anika Reza has kept up an account on Twitter. “I can hear water flowing down between walls this is so scary,” she wrote. In Rosedale, fire has badly damaged a 1900-era rooming home at 29 Maple Ave. across the street from Branksome Hall. Firefighters worked to bring the blaze under control all day. They said the place appears to have tenants but none were there. The picture below shows the dramatic smoke from the from north up in Moore Park. Right, the house before the fire courtesy of Google.

Lesley Gore captured angst, spirit of 60s teen girls

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Singer-songwriter Lesley Gore has died in New York at the age of 68 from cancer. Gore burst onto the charts in 1963 with a pounding wall-of-sound wail that topped the charts for eleven weeks. It’s My Party (And I’ll Cry If I Want To) became the single that launched a series of teen girl declarations including the vengeful Judy’s Turn to Cry and the feminist anthem You Don’t Own Me.  Hear about that bad boy Johnny once again below. CBC Twitter 

Cynical forced closure of shops on Family Day

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Once again on Family Day large influential retail operations like the Eaton Centre have been permitted to remain open while small shops are threatened with fines if they dare to sell a thing. This legal abomination sits technically with the City. It’s a power Council has had since the Toronto Act invested it with the means to manage an embarrassing convention that Queen’s Park no longer wanted to shoulder, at least not in this great metropolis where people expect to be able to shop every day. There are many reasons why this unfair practice continues, all of them bad. Powerful realty companies and Lord’s Day hangover lobbies are two. The government will say it’s all about families and the fear that a parent won’t be able to spend time with a child. We have a hot flash. Thousands of parents are at work on Family day in exempted occupations ranging from theatre ushers to salt miners. Never mind the countless people at the shops in the Eaton Centre who would rather have a day off but are forced to work. It’s all as phony as Dalton McGuinty’s maudlin complaint that he just had to declare a mid-winter statuary holiday because he hadn’t spent enough time with his late father. What rubbish. There is a thing called the Ontario Labour Standards Act. It is perfectly suited to make sure that employees are dealt with fairly.  Those who don’t want to work can have it their way. Those who want to work should be permitted. Spare us the bogus concern about our families.