Power has been restored to Leaside High School and classes will resume this morning (Friday November 28, 2014). The word was tweeted overnight by Ryan Bird at TDSB Media Relations.
Can new mayor fix TTC “dead zone” on Bayview?
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John Tory spoke Thursday (November 27, 2014) promising to restore service to certain bus lines which were reduced during the time of Rob Ford. Two of the lines to lose vehicles in 2011 were the 11 Bayview and the 81 Thorncliffe. The mayor-elect did not list the lines that will be restored. He was flanked at City Hall for “state-of-the-City” remarks by Andy Byford, chief general manager of the TTC and City Manager Joe Pennachetti. Mr Tory talked about how the city is coping under “severe fiscal pressures” and the challenges he faces as mayor in the next four years. He touched on growing poverty and unemployment, as well as rising demand for housing and shelter solutions. He mentioned the deteriorating infrastructure and how it’s leading to more basement flooding. “It’s a big problem affecting thousands of people,” Tory said. The new mayor seemed intent on casting the issues as crisis-like. As to transit, Mr. Tory said the TTC is still “reeling” from the cuts made by the Ford administration. In South Bayview neighborhoods like South Leaside, Bennington Heights, Moore Park and Deer Park many may feel renewed hope from the remarks. They seek a bus service to provide access to the Bayview Ave. shopping neighborhood. The absence of service from residential areas south of the stores and businesses around Bayview and Millwood Rd. has been a long-time source of dissatisfatrion. Such a service would benefit merchants and seem to be an important matter for the as-yet unformed Business Improvement Association. South Bayview bus routes hit by cuts A fix for the TTC dead zone on Bayview Ave.
Ryerson U sends “chaperone” with hockey team
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Ryerson University has assigned what is being called by some a chaperone to accompany its hockey team on the road this season following a drinking incident last year. An atheltics co-ordinator, Brian Shantz, now travels with the team. The players are said to be taking it fairly well. National Post (may have paywall)
Work to go on all night to fix power at LHS
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The latest update from Ryan Bird the school board about the power outage at Leaside High came at 4 p.m. Thursday (November 27, 29014), Ryan says the work is still going on and will apparently take all night. The best he can say is that he will be tweeting early tomorrow on the situation. There may not be classes Friday. Keep tuned to the TDSB Media Relations Twitter account
Doug Ford will not run for leader of Ontario PCs
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Doug Ford will not run for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party and instead will support Christine Elliott for that job. Ms. Elliott is the wife of the late finance minister Jim Flaherty. Mr. Ford said the decision not to run was among the most difficult he has ever had to make. “I think my priority, well I know my priority’s my family.” Ford said at a news conference. He said he may yet run in a general election as a candidate for MPP.
Leaside Lions Club seeks charter members
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There will be meeting on Sunday November 30, 2014 to sign up Charter members to the Leaside 100 Lions Club. The club needs 20 charter members to form an official Lions Club with Lions Clubs International located in Oak Brook, Ill. The meeting be will in the Common Room at 1387 Bayview Avenue, at 2 p.m. This is the residences building on the southeast corner of Bayview and McRae Drive. For more information please contact Raija Rosenthal at 416-932-3470.
Suzanne Cote named to the Supreme Court
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Six apartments flooded on Lascelles Blvd
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Power failure at LHS cancels classes today
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Ryan Bird of TDSB Media Relations has tweeted this morning that all clases are cancelled at Leaside High School because of a “massive power failure.” Updates should be available at TDSB Media Relations on Twitter
9-storey “mixed use” bid for South Bayview Ave.
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A company known as the Brown Group has consolidated property on the west side of Bayview Ave. between Soudan Ave. and Hillsdale Ave and is proposing to build what it says would be a nine-storey mixed use structure there. A notice was circulated in the neighborhood in recent hours. It states that a meeting is scheduled to tell residents about “the rationale for the proposed design” of the building. It says the developer is looking for feedback. A building of nine storeys would require changes to the official plan and the residential nature of the block between the two side streets. The development would take out the properties between 1674 Bayview (the Hillsdale Apartments) and 1684 Bayview. As well, it would remove 720 Hillsdale and 701 to to 713 Soudan. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, December 3, 2015 at 7 p.m. in the Leaside Library on McRae Drive. A phone number and contact names are provided in the notice: Laura MacCormick or Sherman Brown at (416) 222-0344 extension 122.
Unassuming Leaside father honoured at LPOA
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Roger Cattell was honoured by the Leaside Property Owners Association for his leadership and tireless work in creating and executing the “Slow Down” lawn sign campaign. This initiative was wrought out of the painful death of Georgia Walsh in July. At its meeting Tuesday night (November 25, 2014) the LPOA made the unassuming Leaside father an honorary member. Mr. Cattell spoke briefly to the meeting and recalled the late afternoon on which Georgia died. He did not know what had happened but he heard the sirens and knew there was trouble. Nor did he know that a death had occurred at the intersection he expressed concern about to the councillor a few months previously. When his own children got home, he recalled his relief. After the accident there was an overwhelming sense of the need to do something. Mr. Cattell said the sign campaign, which he spearheaded and which has become a sort of city-wide movement, was intended to represent a pledge by each person who planted a sign on his property. “I was asked by a reporter why a sign? A sign changes nothing,” Mr Cattell recalled. “I told him that the sign changes me,” he replied. It was his hope that it changed all those who took a sign and by their example made things better. It was, he said, a promise to ourselves to do better.
Slavens finds tenant for double store on Bayview
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The large double store at 1685 Bayview Ave just north of Riz restaurant has apparently been leased. Paul Slavens is the agent. This interesting property seems to have set records over the years for long vacancy It was most recently leased in 2013 by an ill-fated fine furnture store and the Danbury liquidiation sale which followed the store’s demise. The building also houses the offices of Dr. Dennis Bader, Optometrist.