The Brownstones of Leaside project is featured on the planning website Urban Toronto and is also an advertiser in The South Bayview Bulldog. The 3 and 4 bedrooms starting from $1.5 M up to 2900 sq. ft.will be constructed in the centre of Leaside at Sutherland drive and McRae Drive. The map shows the location. Urban Toronto
It’s furniture sale day at Leaside United Church and the event goes on until 2 p.m. Here we see Bob Lister helping a customer with her treasures. Nice chairs. The church is full of great pieces donated by generous friends and it has to be moved out to make room for the Awesome Sale in May. Take a look. LUC is at Millwood Rd. and McRae Drive. LUC furniture sale is TODAY
Nicole DiCarlo
Nicole DiCarlo is sunshine and light as she reports from the wild and crazy corner of Bayview and Eglinton about the demolition of the McDonald’s. Nicole is the Crosstown Team Lead for Community Relations at the Metrolinx office in the remnants of Sunnybrook Plaza while demolition work is taking place to make way for the future Leaside Station. Hey Nicole. YouTube Tearing up the McDonald’s at Bayview and Eglinton
Mike Crawley, the CBC’s man at the Legislature, has exposed a galloping misuse of a fundraising loophole by the Government. Now Premier Wynne says she will make reforms.
It has been confirmed by The Bulldog that Cumbrae’s butcher shop has taken a lease on the large space at 1591 Bayview Ave and will move its South Bayview store to that location in the months to come. At present, Cumbrae’s is a veteran of the street with its busy store located at 1636 Bayview. Senior staff say they have been told that over a period of several months, the dynamic high-end meat and specialty food retailer will convert the large space, which was once a TD Bank branch, to the complex environment needed for a sophisticated butcher shop. Immediate speculation has centred on the use of space and such things as a loading dock, the placement of generators and storage facilities for perishable meat.
Cumbrae’s is owned by an area resident, Stephen Alexander, a butcher by trade as was his father. Alexander is Australian by birth and started his first store on Church Street. Now there are four locations including the original on Church as well as 714 Queen Street West and 26 King Street West in Dundas, a location that trades with affluent families in Ancaster. Mr. Alexander (inset above) has been called a “dashing figure” by the Globe and Mail for his style and enterprise.
The decision by Cumbrae’s to expand on Bayview will be an important boost for the street as a destination for local shoppers and those from further afield. Next door to 1591 is Badali’s Fruit Market, the longest standing business on the street. The owner, Sal Badali is delighted with the idea of a Cumbrae’s next door He laughed that it would have been good 20 years ago. The name Cumbrae is Scottish in origin but it is not known how that applies to the store name. Two islands off the western coast in the Firth of Clyde are known as The Cumbraes.
The venerable Leaside Lawn Bowling Club at 190 Hanna Road will hold its annual open house on Friday May 13 from 7 to 9 p.m. and again on Saturday, May 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Organizers invite all to take a little exercise and fresh air, refreshments and fun. Parking is free and more information may be found at leasidebowls.ca.
This picture is a capture of security video on the Bloor/Danforth line. A woman says the man seen in it put his hand in her lap twice after he sat down beside her. It happened in March at midday as the woman, 23, was heading west on the subway. The man then got off the train at Kipling Station. He is described as between 25 and 35 years-old with brown hair in a ponytail. He was seen wearing beige pants, a black jacket, brown boots and a beige baseball cap worn backwards. He was carrying a black computer bag. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-2200, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com, text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637). Download the free Crime Stoppers Mobile App on iTunes, Google Play or Blackberry App World.
An hour-long exhibition of bad behaviour on the road in Los Angeles ends with no one hurt. Did someone say drugs, alcohol? The traffic reporter is Stu Mundel.
Let’s Talk. An East York woman has been handed a large bill for a broken water pipe and water services caused by Bell Canada when it dug up her lawn in February and left a mess. Juixiang Liu of St. Clair Ave E. found the horror when she came home from work and since then has been asking the City and Bell do the right thing. Among other things, she received a bill from the City, which apparently approved Bell’s digging, for $267.72 including an $82 fee to shut off the water. CBC
Photographer Mira Budd has a nice collection of photos from a recent exhibition game between the Leaside Junior Wildcats and Cambridge Rivulettes on her site. These appear to be from one of their recent exhibtion games played at Iceland rink in Mississauga. You may find someone you know in these shots.
The website MarketWatch has published the surprising value of the money that customers have loaned to Starbucks by packing money onto their pre-loaded cards. As of the firm’s most recent Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing, Starbucks currently has $1.4 billion sitting on its balance sheet, representing cash consumers have loaded onto apps and gift cards that hasn’t been spent yet. That’s an enormous free loan to the firm — it’s roughly one month’s global revenue — and the amount is growing about 20% annually.
A Gucci advertisement featuring “unhealthily thin” and “gaunt” models has been banned in the U-K by the Advertising Standards Authority. The ad on The Times website — which appeared in December 2015 — included stills at the end of a video of two models — one sitting on a sofa, and another leaning against a wall wearing a long, printed dress.
