Beth Parker writes to say the Leaside Garden Society will present Gardening from a Hammock with Author and Master Gardener, Dan Cooper. He discusses low-maintenance gardening for sun and shade. Thursday. March. 13, coffee at 7.15, presentation at 7.30 Leaside Public library. Dan’s writing and photographs have appeared in publications all over the world. His specialty, “shade gardens” is a perfect topic for many of the gardens in Leaside and surrounding community.
“Democracy” vote an odd council breakdown
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The vote has been taken and there will no byelection to replace Doug Holyday in Etobicoke Ward 3. It was an odd breakdown with some of the mayor’s allies like Denzil Minnan-Wong voting against him. Another joker in the pack was the absentee list. It includes Josh Matlow (Ward 22). It’s summer. John Parker (Ward 26) voted in favour of a byelection along with the mayor, his brother and eight other councillors. Jay Robinson (Ward 25) a one-time Ford ally (not so much now) also voted for a byelection. Karen Stintz (Ward 16) voted for appointment as did Krystyn Wong-Tam (Ward 27) The motion was to appoint the replacement. Previous post.
Yes: 22 Paul Ainslie, Ana Bailão, Shelley Carroll, Josh Colle, Janet Davis, Glenn De Baeremaeker, Sarah Doucette, John Filion, Paula Fletcher, Norman Kelly, Mike Layton, Chin Lee, Pam McConnell, Mary-Margaret McMahon, Joe Mihevc, Denzil Minnan-Wong, Ron Moeser, James Pasternak, Gord Perks, Jaye Robinson, Karen Stintz, Kristyn Wong-Tam
No: 11 Raymond Cho, Gary Crawford, Vincent Crisanti, Frank Di Giorgio, Doug Ford, Rob Ford, Peter Milczyn, Cesar Palacio, John Parker (Chair), David Shiner, Michael Thompson
Absent: 11 Maria Augimeri, Michelle Berardinetti, Mike Del Grande, Mary Fragedakis, Mark Grimes, Gloria Lindsay Luby, Giorgio Mammoliti, Josh Matlow, Frances Nunziata, Anthony Perruzza, Adam Vaughan
22-11 vote to appoint Holyday replacement
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Toronto’s city council has voted 22-11 — a substantial majority — to appoint a replacement for Doug Holyday rather than hold a $250,000 byelection. The decision is being seen as a personal rebuff of Mayor Ford who wanted to see the replacement member of council elected. Today’s decision does not make an appointment, that will come later. The appointment is apparently conditional on the person chosen to refrain from running at the municipal general election on November 2014. Some are calling it a denial of democracy although it is entirely legal and thus cannot be construed too seriously. Eleven members of council were absent. The decision to appoint the replacement will be made in 60 days.
Warning of damaging wind, rain and large hail
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The cloudy gloom overhanging South Bayview and the city today comes with a warning of severe thunderstorms, damaging winds, large hail and heavy rain. .
Indy grocers to meet here Sept 30 and Oct 1
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Grocery Innovations Canada, the country’s largest grocery industry conference and trade show, will be held September 30 and October 1 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. They call it the “grocery store for the grocery industry” as an estimated 5,000 industry delegates and 260 exhibitors will attend. The event is organized by the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers, a body of more than 4,000 independent grocery retailers. It isn’t quite clear just how an independent grocer is defined but we assume it doesn’t include Galen Weston.
Atwood’s MaddAddam is a gloomy work
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Here is a review of the latest work by “Bennington Heights own” Margaret Atwood. It is called MaddAddam. The review itself is a workout for the mind with at least one detour to the dictionary to verify interiority. As a good teacher might now say: “Look it up”. In the most general of terms the review suggests that Ms. Atwood’s preoccupation with the future and further abuse of women continues to abide in her work. Tim Martin of The Telegraph gives it three stars out of five. 600 sq ft Broadway condo sells for $417,000
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For those who like to know, a 600-plus square foot condo at the corner of Broadway Ave. and Redpath Ave has sold recently for $417,000. The address is 88 Broadway Ave., the Suite # 1004. The previous selling price in 2009 was $360,000. The deal included one owned underground space and one owned locker with maintenance fees of $448.80 per month and taxes: $2,265 (2012). Toronto Star
Boy, 3, drowns in pool at Don Mills and Eglinton
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A three-year-old boy has drowned in a swimming pool in the Don Mils Rd. and Eglinton Ave. East area. The child somehow found his way into the pool at a moment when there was no supervision of kids in the enclosed pool at the condominium on Dallimore Circle. There was video surveillance of the pool and police were able to ascertain that the child was in the water for about three minutes before being noticed and pulled out. Police did CPR on the child and then took him to hospital where he was pronounced dead. They say the child’s mother had briefly stepped away from the area and left him in the care of another person at the time of the incident. “His mother was present. At some point she left the vicinity of the pool area, she went to the bathroom, returned and found her son at the bottom of the pool,” Sgt. Kirwin Marshall said. CPR was not performed until seven minutes, according to police. About seven people were in the pool at the time and no lifeguard was on duty.
Doctor forgets patient, locks up, goes home
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Longo’s marks first anniversary at Leaside Village
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Longo’s is celebrating the one year anniversary of the opening of its store in Leaside Village on Laird Drive. To mark the occasion there was cake at the store and later on Saturday some face painting for kids. Much good luck and congratulations to Longo’s.
Town Crier newspaper purchased by employees
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The Town Crier newspaper will begin publishing again this September in a limited fashion after a group of employees purchased the bankrupt paper. It was put into bankruptcy by publisher Multimedia Novus in May. The new editor, Eric McMillan, says in a news release that the paper continues to be supported by readers and advertisers. The first issue will be directed it is said at Leaside and Rosedale.
Mustard Academy to house 700 kindergartners
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When school begins in barely a week’s time, Thorncliffe Park will be the focus of one of the largest commitments to the education of kindergartners in the country. The new Fraser Mustard Learning Academy will have spaces for some 700 five-year-olds. It will be a congregation of races, religions and cultures seldom if ever seen in Toronto even for a city so famously pluralistic. The adjoining Thorncliffe Park Public School is said to embrace kids of 47 national extractions and we may be sure that the Mustard Academy will be no less varied. At the same time, the citizenship of the vast majority of all these children is Canadian. The large two-story building has been three years in the construction and is named after the distinguished physician and specialist in childhood education James Fraser Mustard. Dr Mustard died in 2011 at the age of 84. His roots were well established here. As a child he attended Whitney Public School in Moore Park. The academy is said to accommodate 28 full day kindergarten classes. It would no doubt please Dr. Mustard who strongly believed that a child’s first six years shape the grown-up-to-be for life. The academy is operated by the Toronto and District School Board.