The South Bayview Bulldog

Annie Billy has posted this shot of her signature Oreo Cookie Cake to Leaside Community in hope of creating some interest in her new baking business. Good luck Annie. At upper right we see former Blue Jay Rob Butler with Leaside ball legend Howard Birnie (centre). That’s announcer Dana McKiel at right. Centre right is a promotional shot for Baskin Robbins Into the Sea Ceature Creations. They’re giving 31 cents to the Boys and Girls Club of Canada for every one sold. Lower left is a reminder about this Sunday’s clean up of the Don Valley. All able-bodied friends of the Don should be there. At lower right is a reminder from that friend of Leaside Susan Scandiffio in support of the Thorncliffe Food Bank

A Leslieville resident is asking Tuesday if anyone knows the man who sneaked onto his porch in the middle of the night and then took a sniff of his daughter’s sneakers before making off with the thoroughly used shoes.

Famous names among obituaries as the week begins are Jean-Paul Belmondo, 88, “Wire” star Michael K. Williams, 54, and Patricia Hitchcock, daughter of the famous director at 93. Other obits are here.

Toronto Fire extinguished a two-alarm blaze in a garage in the lane that runs behind the stores on the north side of Eglinton Ave Monday afternoon. The raging fire was seen by G Coleman from Sutherland Drive before the TFS arrived. His Twitter post is here. Below is video from 2016 when a police-sponsored graffiti paintathon took place in the lane. It was called Go Big or Go Home

Leslieville residents and others are commenting at length on the Canadian International Airshow underway this weekend. Saturday saw a jet fly past Rob Stewart’s balcony at Park Lawn Rd and Lake Shore Blvd West. Is that okay? FB

The OPP Highway Safety Division has posted pictures of an overturned car in a river off of the QEW east of Skyway bridge. A woman driver is said to have been rescued from this scary incident. Below is a picture from a distraction accident on Highway 401 eastbound near Dixie Road. A trucker apparently ran into a guardrail. This information has prompted twitter readers to complain that truck drivers are occupied with everything from cooking dinner to watching movies while they are at the wheel.

Some residents of the Mt Pleasant West neighbourhood and beyond are applauding the demolition of the building at 55-65 Broadway Ave. The address became notorious in recent months as the location of a City-operated shelter. It was the scene of many criminal incidents.

 

Hamilton police continue their search Friday for 84-year-old Peter Ashby. His boat was washed up near the Burlington lift bridge overnight. He was last seen leaving the Queens City Yacht Club on Toronto’s Algonquin Island.

The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board says August home sales slowed from the frantic pace seen earlier in the year, but market conditions have tightened as supply fell by 43 percent and prices rose yet again. The Ontario board announced Friday that 8,596 homes were sold in August, a 19.9 percent drop from 10,738 at the same time last year and an eight percent fall from 9,368 in July. New listings in the region fell to 10,609. That was down 43 percent from 18,599 last August and 15 percent from 12,551 in July.

Toronto Fire Service has extinguished a two-alarm fire in an apartment residence on Penrose Rd. between Mt. Pleasant Rd. and De Savery Crescent Wednesday morning. Some 20 units responded and Penrose was closed for a period. Fire personnel at the scene said no one was injured.