A 15-story construction crane being lowered to safety in a snow squall plummeted onto a Lower Manhattan street Friday, killing a Harvard-educated Wall Street worker and leaving three people hurt by the debris scattered by the rig’s lengthy boom. The accident occurred in the City’s TriBeCa district, a section of town that has become fashionable in recent years and is being redeveloped. TriBeCa stands for Triangle Below Canal (Street).
Readership of the South Bayview Bulldog has seen galloping growth among unique users, the metric most often used by online advertisers to measure the reach and effectiveness of an advertising platform. The term unique visitors is also used to describe these online consumers. The Bulldog numbers seen here are collected by the recognized and independent statistics measuring firm StatCounter. As the graph above shows, interest in the South Bayview news service has grown from a modest 14,760 unique users in 2012 to more than 328,800 in 2015. The publishers confidently expect that 2016 will be another record year. Most importantly for those considering advertising, the four-month average of unique users (see graph below) over October, November, December and January is 35,666. Take a look at The Bulldog’s reasonable advertising rates. It is possible to place an ad in this dynamic daily news website for less than 85 cents a day prepaid over six months.
Three people have died and at least 15 others are in hospital following a fire at a seniors’ building in Scarborough. CBC
Two elderly people were rescued from their overturned car by firefighters who cut open the vehicle with power saws. Injuries were minor. The accident occurred when the vehicle hit a pole at Bathurst and Frontenac Ave. in front of the Bank of Montreal just south of Lawrence Avenue.
Leaside Gardens is jumping Friday afternoon as kids lugging hockey equipment and moms and dads throng the place. There is pandemonium in the dressing rooms downstairs. Upstairs the main hall is cluttered with concession tables selling everything from hockey cards to costume jewellery. The Lea Room is packed with silent auction offerings ranging from a bicycle to gift baskets. Down at the north end, the board room is full of volunteers keeping track of wins and losses then taping them (on paper) on the plexi that overlooks the ice. Both pads are ringing to the sound of hockey featuring kids of varying ages. Through the front door comes more platters of wrapped sandwiches and hot dogs from Andy Elder’s meat shop to be dispensed at the food table in the Lea Room. And it will be this way until Sunday morning. Hot dogs, bacon sandwiches will fuel kids at Select Tourney
Carol Eby
Carol Eby of Leaside is the publisher of a new glossy “family-oriented” magazine that will arrive at homes in Leaside and Bennington Heights in March. The magazine is called Neighbours of Leaside and Bennington Heights and will be delivered to 3,595 homes by Canada Post. Each issue will have a cover story about a Leaside family, Ms. Eby told The South Bayview Bulldog. It is a publication created in collaboration with Best Version Media. The firm prints many such eight-and-a-half by eleven publications and has found considerable success in Canada (where it is said to have 50 such magazines) and in the U.S where it originated
This weekend will be clear with temperatures around freezing as much of South Bayview plays hockey and gets ready for Valentine’s next Sunday, February 14, 2016. Those with little children should look in on the Valentine’s card making class at Bamboo Bay arts and craft school at Bayview Ave and Millwood Rd. Leaside Gardens will be busy as a subway station at rush hour all weekend. The Leaside Select Invitational Hockey Tournament is on all weekend. And the Leaside Jr. Wildcats are over in Burlington Saturday night to play the Barracudas of the Provincial Women’s Hockey League. The Wildcats sit in second place in the league and the women have high hopes of taking the cup. Go Cats
ST CUTHBERT’S REFUGEE FAIR
St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church will hold its Refugee Sponsorship Information Fair tomorrow morning (Saturday, February 6, 2016). It will open at 10 a.m. at 1399 Bayview Ave. Lorna Krawchuk notes the church has made an application for sponsorship and is looking for people willing to give a hand. Please drop in and see what you can do to make the transition of these newcomers easier.
Danier Leather will close its stores in Toronto malls if it cannot sell them. Danier announced Thursday that it has begun insolvency proceedings under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. The stores remain open and all creditor claims are on hold pending the outcome of the proceedings The company has suffered losses over 24 months and sought to refinance in June. In July, Danier hired an investment banking and financial advisory firm to explore strategic alternatives. Analysts are not optimistic.
The City has received the “No Board” report regarding its outside workers in CUPE Local 416 There are 4,200 such employees with the most important being those who collect the garbage. The arrival of the report sets a clock ticking to 12:01 a.m., or one minute past midnight, on the morning of Friday, February 19. At that time the City may lock out the union and/or the union may strike. But a stoppage is not inevitable. The news release linked states generalities and says nothing about the half of Toronto that has privatized garbage collection nor has anyone at in the government said anything about that. City News Release
Conrad Black’s estate on the Bridle Path will be auctioned to the highest bidder on March 8, 2016. The home has been in Black’s family for 65 years. It is 23,000-square-foot and sits on a 6.6-acre lot. The home has nine-bedrooms and 11-bathrooms. The mansion has a caretaker suite and a converted coach house guest apartment. It is valued at $21.8 million. Black’s house was built in six stages and has undergone extensive renovations by New York architect Thierry Despont, who has also designed and built homes for Calvin Klein, Bill Gates and the late Greek shipping tycoon Stavros Niarchos. “It is a big house for two people,” Black said in a statement. “We will be abroad a good deal and moving to a more manageable home will be a convenience to us now as our careers have evolved.” Concierge Auctions will handle the sale.
This is a touching story from Aaron Saltzman of the CBC in Orangeville, where everything is pretty much Anglo-Saxon. So the school board gave a Syrian refugee brother and sister tablets loaded with Google Translate. Watch for the light of understanding in the kids’ faces.
