It’s a busy day around South Bayview today

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Here are some events taking place in South Bayview today 
• Hollywood Gelato’s 3rd Annual Fundraiser event for the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
• Tori and Cate’s Cupcakes is unveiling their brand new Bakery Café serving all day breakfast
• Leaside Kids At Play “Slow Down” lawn signs available at front doors of three Leaside schools this evening between 6:30 and 8 p.m.
• Grand Opening celebrations at The Leaside Pub 180 Laird Drive from 4pm – 11pm. 
• And don’t forget to vote for your favourite burger in Leaside’s #burgerbattle

Ted (Teeder) Kennedy is honoured by the Leafs

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Ted (Teeder) Kennedy, the unassuming and gentlemanly native of Port Colborne who helped the Maple Leafs win five Stanley Cups, will be honoured with a statue outside Air Canada Centre. Kennedy’s name was revealed this morning as the kickoff to the Leafs program that will depict in bronze a number of Toronto players. The names of the others are secret for the moment. Kennedy played for the Maple Leafs through the team’s glory years spanning a 15-year period from 1942 to 1957. He was team captain for eight of those years, a job he inherited from his hero, Syl Apps. They are seen at right when Kennedy was Apps assistant captain. Toronto Star Ted Kennedy Wikipedia 

Morning Glory drive to collect bikes for kids

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Once again this year, the Morning Glory Cycling Club and Gears Bike Shop are asking anyone with an old bicycle to donate it to Thorncliffe Park kids who have no bike.  Bicycles can be dropped off at Gears on Vanderhoof Ave. They will be tuned up and made street-worthy. Then on Sunday, October 5, 2014, the Morning Glory Rally will kick off with the distribution of bikes to needy kids in Thorncliffe Park. That will be held as it was last year in the parking lot at the East York Town Centre.

Slow news days create “news conference” airtime

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These are slow news days in Toronto and that may play into why CP24 is able to clear so much time for Mayor Ford. Today (Thursday, August 14, 2014) the mayor held a “news conference” to make what was an election speech. The big flash? He’s going to cut spending. It’s the third time in recent days the mayor has called a conference. Afterwards the mayor took questions which were really media quibbles on matters that barely enlighten. But it’s airtime for Mr. Ford and he is smart to take it.  It may be surprising that other candidates aren’t lining up for their share of the “news conference” freebie going on over on Queen St. West.    

19-year-olds adrift with merely a cell phone

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Two 19-year-olds have been rescued off Lake Ontario tonight because, while they had no safety equipment in their little dinghy, they did have a cell phone. And it was still nip and tuck because there are no reference points on a dark lake. But cops worked a triangulation on the cell signal and were able to zero in on the two. Tonight they were brought ashore at Ashbridge’s Bay. CTV

Toddler crawls through farm fields before rescue

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Little Susanna Martin was missing from her home at dusk down near Stratford Tuesday night. She was missing even though everyone knew in general terms where she was. Susanna had slipped into a huge field of seven-foot-high corn while playing with four other children. It’s perimeter is just a few feet from her home. Her parents, aunt and uncle, dozens of firefighters and police knew she was in there somewhere. But overnight they could not locate her despite the presence of a helicopter with a heat-detecting device. Remarkably the little girl had blindly fought her way through the 80-acre cornfield and an adjoining soy field before entering the hayfield of a neighbor, Gerard Steenbeck. It would be all night and until 10.30 a.m. Wednesday morning for the happy moment of her discovery. Steenbeck said he spotted the child exhausted on the ground. She got to her knees, held out her arms and began to cry when she saw him. He grabbed Susanna and held her close. She quieted down in a moment.  She was weary, hungry and had a few scratches but was generally okay. She was taken to a local hospital and checked out before going home

Have a nice Bitcoin Day if you can find them

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Today we have the Canadian Bitcoin Exchange placing “Bitcoin ATMs” around town so you can buy, sell or dream about this largely imaginary money. You can go to the Bitcoin ATM and “buy Bitcoins”. But you have to pay for them in Canadian money, apparently. Uh-huh. Then you can place your Bitcoins in your imaginary Bitcoin “wallet” and at some point trade them for other invisible Bitcoins. Oh, those metal Bitcoins you see on the web are made by a guy in Salt Lake City. His name is Mike Caldwell (inset making Bitcoins). Sure, it’s not the Canadian Mint but Mike’s a nice name. He makes the coins himself. They contain some kind of code or something that certifies they are genuine physical digital bitcoins. Trust Mike. But last year at the big hackers convention in Las Vega, the hackers took those hardly money metal Bitcoins all apart and made them worthless. Have a nice Bitcoin Day everyone. 

John Parker calls for extension of Redway Rd.

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John Parker (Ward 26) has told Mike Adler of the East York Mirror that the Redway Road extension should be built now. He has brought a motion to the Public Works Committee to this effect. The Redway proposal would extend the road from the CPR overpass at Millwood Rd. to the Bayview extension at Nesbitt Drive. In the past, the proposed road has been resisted by Rosedale residents who fear more traffic through the north end of the neighborhood coming and going from the Mt. Pleasant extension  But there have been renewed concerns about Leaside traffic since the death of Georgia Walsh at the corner of McRae Drive and Millwood in July. Mr. Parker told the Mirror that the need to take action could not be clearer. At present, Redway Road ends at the Loblaws store.  East York Mirror

Hang on as City ponders Nelson Mandela Ave.

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Members of the Public Works Committee led by Kristyn Wong-Tam (Ward 27) and Pam McConnell (Ward 28) have asked staff to give advice to Council on how the City’s “Honourific and Street Naming Policy” can be amended to implement a changing of the name of University Ave (or part of it) to honour Nelson Mandela. The online poll in the Toronto Star (above) is running 76 per cent against this idea. The intent of the councillors is said to be to somehow dedicate University Ave. to Mr. Mandela which would add signage but not change the name of University.