The South Bayview Bulldog

Summerhill Market at 484 Eglinton West on the Eglinton Way

Summerhill Market has completed a two-year expansion from one store to four with the opening of its new location at 484 Eglinton Ave. West. The two-storey, 7,200 sq ft space is well known to Forest Hill residents and many will recall it as the former home of Edo, the Japanese restaurant. The store features hundreds of unique delicacies for which Summerhill is famous. These wonderful items are now made at the company-owned commissary on Railside Road in North York. The Summerhill growth has been carefully planned.

We Spring Forward early Sunday and the annual return to Daylight Saving Time costs us an hour’s sleep. A worthwhile post from WebMD has some advice on keeping alert at the wheel and at work.

Bernice Nantanda Wamala, 3

The Toronto Sun says it has been told that the investigation into the death of a three-year-old Scarborough girl, Bernice Nantanda Wamala, is focussing on the breakfast cereal eaten by the child and her friend last Sunday. The friend was sick after breakfast but survived. The cereal is called Golden Morn and is an African product made with corn and soy that is produced by Nestle. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is analyzing the contents of the cereal box.  Golden Morn

Vehicle rolled several times/OPP

This accident appears to be in Clarington in Durham Region at Hwy 401 and Mill Street, east of the intersection of Highway 401 and Highway 115. The driver, a woman of 69, has serious injuries. Twitter

Dozens of Toronto drugstores including many in South Bayview are making appointments to give people aged 60 to 64 the AstraZeneca vaccine. These include the Shoppers on Mt Pleasant and at 1860 Bayview Ave (at Broadway). But there are many others as well. Check the pharmacy list  There is also this list from City News which has good readability. It lists some 165 drugstores across Toronto.

Starting Friday, March 12, approximately 133,000 individual COVID-19 vaccination appointments for people age 80 and over will be available at the City of Toronto’s mass immunization clinics. The announcement was made late Wednesday.

• Toronto Registration Page
• City of Toronto online COVID-19 vaccination booking for residents born in 1941 or earlier

Also Wednesday, Premier Ford said that 120 mass vaccination sites set to open by the end of the month will allow the province to administer up to 150,000 doses per day, depending on supply from the federal government. That pace will allow the province to meet its goal of immunizing all eligible Ontarians by June 20, Retired Gen. Rick Hillier, who chairs the province’s vaccine distribution task force, said.

Others asked not to overwhelm the system

With the province’s appointment booking system coming online on Monday, Hillier cautioned residents who aren’t currently eligible — those under 80 years of age — not to call and overwhelm the system. “If you’re not 80 years old on Monday, or if you’re not representing somebody who’s 80 years old or older, please do not call the customer service desk, do not go online,” Hillier said. “If the (appointment) portal crashes, don’t panic,” Ford said. “We’ll get it back up.

The cost of Internet and/or cable service is the subject of a lively thread at Leaside Community FB. And indeed, the relative costs of the traditional services against lesser-known companies are remarkable.

The City of Toronto is making the case against Doug Ford’s decision to eliminate half of its wards in 2018. Canadian Press carried Tuesday’s testimony.

Frances joins Canuck top brass

Boy safe after hanging off ski lift

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre will construct a mobile field hospital in a nearby parking lot as it prepares to deal with a possible third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be a giant, reinforced tent. A similar structure was built at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington but it has seen little use. In mid-Janury, at the height of the second wave, it had 14 patients and 73 empty beds. Nonetheless, governments are taking a cautious approach to the idea of a third wave of infection. Some have suggested that the tent hospitals might be used as vaccination centers.

Field hospital at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington

Quebec will ignore the federal government’s vaccine committee and give the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to over 80s. In that respect, it is following the lead of the UK, and latterly of France, in deciding that the urgency of the pandemic is more important than trying to tailor specific vaccines to age groups. In fact, the AZ jab seems to be proving just as effective as other vaccines. In Ontario, the AstraZeneca vaccine cannot be given to anyone over 65.

• Ontario to receive 194,000 doses of AstraZeneca Tuesday, vaccine will be administered in pharmacies