She shoulders 60 lbs of gear and goes to firefighter school
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Two South Bayview homes selling quickly over asking
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The Toronto Star’s popular feature What They Got features two South Leaside homes. The first is 152 Hillsdale near Yonge St which sold for $1,330,000. Its sale price in 2009 was $849,000. The semi-detached home is approximately 1,600 sq. ft. with a 600 sq. ft. finished basement It sits on a 133-ft. lot with a single-car attached garage and private drive The home sold in seven days. Asking price was $1,299,000.
279 LAIRD
279 Laird Dr. This semi-detached home north of Eglinton sold for $787,015, a nice bonus on the asking price of $678,800. It is small place at 874 square feet but it is said to have three bedrooms. It has no garage but there is a mutual drive with two asking spaces. Again, it sold very quickly being on the market seven days.
Corporation taxes up but still no sales tax in NDP Alberta
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Why on earth are the Dutch so tall? Genetics of course
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East York’s Parkview Hills Festival open Saturday morning
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Parkview Hills Community Association will hold its 25th annual Festival tomorrow, Saturday, June 20, 2015. Events begin at 11 a.m at Presteign Heights Elementary School. That’s at 2570 St Clair Ave. E. west of O’Connor Drive. More than 500 people are expected to attend the Festival with proceeds community campaign for the Toronto East General Hospital Foundation. A release from Justin Van Dette notes that Mayor John Tory will be dropping in shortly after noon. The Parkview Hills Community Association also supports a number of other charitable causes including True Davidson Meals on Wheels, Presteign Heights Elementary School, East York Collegiate Breakfast Program, Presteign Woodbine United Church and the 54 Division Community Police Liaison Committee.
Many festivals of food, music and art this weekend
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Leaside’s CGS Adventure Camp fun for kids: ARRGH!
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Buccaneers believed to be from the area of Hanna Rd and Eglinton Ave. E.
Masked and wanted (by their parents) and a gathering of water rascals
Nothing but laughs with good pals
Super Hero Day (for sure) and Canada’s sport on hardwood
Friends at work and happy card makers
CGS at Eglinton Ave.E and Hanna Rd is just half way through its summer camp. Everyone is having fun and is very busy.
Driver who killed Georgia Walsh is forgiven by her parents
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Parkdale fire drama seen through phone video across City
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Black smoke from a rooftop fire in Parkdale added drama to evening
Toronto firefighters were finally able to access the roof of this apartment on Springhurst Avenue, near King Street West, to bring this fire under control. This shot is from the phone of a motorist on the Gardiner about 6 p.m. Inset shot was tweeted by John Podolec of CTV.
NDP minority “government-in-waiting” seen in recent poll
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Mukherjee resigns as head of police services board
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Alok Mukherjee will resign as chair of the Toronto Police Services Board effective July 31. Andy Pringle. a board member, is expected to take over as the interim chair of the board until a permanent chair is found. Mukherjee has served as chair for ten years and plans to take on a teaching position at Ryerson University. The board is meeting today to discuss carding. .
Three weird things from the amazing world of weird things
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So now we know it isn’t a hockey cup bomb
A funny thing happened on the way to the Stanley Cup final this week. They x-rayed the Stanley Cup. You know, just to make sure it wasn’t a hockey cup bomb. It is now history that the Chicago Blackhawks won this treasured sports relic Monday night for the first time since 1938 on home ice. But that’s not weird. How about the New York Mets. They must have been jinxed when their play-by-play guy Ron Darling did a quick whip around through the roof at Rogers Stadium and spotted the Sky Needle. Yes, it’s hilarious. But then, the Blue Jays have had incoherent broadcasters too. The Mets lost 8 to 0. One writer said they neglected to show up. More likely they got hurt by the Sky Needle. And then we have the lookalike stakes of a lifetime. Below on the left is Robert Downey Junior next to a Calgary man, Steve Venegas. This is photo-shopped for clothes and hair but the news agency swears that the faces were not altered.
