The long-awaited — three years actually — tree planting on the east side of South Bayview is underway today (Monday June 17, 2013). We knew those funny spray painted scribbles on the asphalt garden zones had some meaning. So far we have just the preparation phase. Fencing surrounds the tree zone. Be patient.
The innovative Bits and Bites on Bayview event is on this Friday and Saturday. You can taste many of the delectable foods offered on our main street for just $20 and do a good deed as well. You get 15 x $1 coupons (redeemable during Bits and Bites event) with a $5 charitable donation going to the Rotary Leaside Community Caring Fund. It’s a wonderful cause and you can buy your coupons at any of 20 locations on South Bayview Get them today and sample the Bits and Bites of Bayvew on Friday between 4.30 and 7.30 p.m. and Saturday between 12.30 and 7.30 p.m. Below, where to buy coupons
Absolute Beauty By Nancy Penny 1517A Bayview Ave
Academy of Culinary Arts 1703 Bayview Ave
Bank of Montreal 1670 Bayview Ave
Bell Jewellers 1597 Bayview Ave
CIBC 1529 Bayview Ave
DEW (Day, Evening, Weekend) 1553 Bayview Ave
Dolly Jewellers 1699 Bayview Ave
Hollywood Gelato 1640 Bayview Ave
Leaside Paint Centre 1525 Bayview Ave
Olive Oil Emporium 1707 Bayview Ave
Parallele Interiors 1717 Bayview Ave
Royal LePage Real Estate Services Ltd. 1213 Bayview Ave
Satay on the Road 1572 Bayview Ave
Sport Swap 1541 Bayview Ave
The Flower Nook 1542 Bayview Ave
The Mad Italian – Gelato Bar 1581 Bayview Ave
The Smokin’ Cigar 1540 Bayview Ave
Tony’s Barber Shop 1649 Bayview Ave
Vescada Salon 1661 Bayview Ave
Write Impressions 1515 Bayview Ave
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| George Stroumboulopoulos |
Maybe George Stroumboulopoulos always knew that his American debut would look like flat bread at a French Pastry contest. His somber demeanor seems no darker today than it has ever done, but if he had known that his CNN eponymous program would garner so few viewers, he might have called it something else. Eponymous means it was named after him. Eponymous is a useless word. Or take Andrea Horwath. Really. She thinks it is good to support the Liberal government so that “we can get the bottom of this scandal.” Earth to Andrea: We are at the bottom of the scandal. We know what they did. When a government smells like old fish you throw it out. You don’t dine on the fish. Or you can go to Kensington Market where there really are old fish. Mostly they are in the gutter but it still smells like Queen’s Park Crescent. Walmart wants to open a store there but the push is on to keep them out. Are you sure about that guys? What if Walmart promises to start a street cleaning division and scrub Kensingston Market pavement and sidewalks freshy fresh every morning? There’s still time.
One of the most famous December-May marriages in recent times has apparently come to an end. The 14-year match-up of media magnate Rupert Murdoch and his elegant young wife Wendi Deng will be ended quietly in New York’s no-fault divorce court with few details it seems from either side. For its prospects, Mr. Murdoch’s third marriage has lasted longer than most such unions and seemed to reveal a meeting of mature minds between the partners. Ms Deng’s casual introduction to Murdoch on an aircraft has been the stuff of dreams for many women of her modest background. Whether they happened to sit together by design or accident it is said that Ms. Deng charmed her older seat mate sufficiently during the flight that he was genuinely smitten when the plane landed. For her part, Wendi Deng adapted well to the privileged life of her tycoon husband, giving him two daughters and conducting herself with decorum. Chicago Tribune
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Ron Sloan’s Racquet Specialist Shop at 1491 Bayview has closed. Neighbors say the store has been vacant for about ten days and now there are signs up that the little premises where the firm has done business is for lease. It is certainly a notable passing. The sign suggests Ron Sloan has been at this location since 1975. There is no sign indicating where the business might be going. In 2009 Blog TO said “Ron Sloan goes baseline to baseline, er, with the Merchant of Tennis for tennis store supremacy in the South Bayview-Mt. Pleasant corridor. In addition to tennis gear, there’s also a good selection of squash stuff here.” It is to the point because Merchant of Tennis has a smart looking operation and local tennis players are not shy about critiquing the service they get. 
Bulldog Coffee at 55 Eglinton Ave. E. is now closed.
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| Charles Darwin |
Oh dear. Now it appears, according to busy fertility researchers at McMaster University that “men are to blame” for menopause occurring when it does because in their older years they prefer younger women to older ones. The idea seems to be that older women just give up and will their fertility to shut down. British researchers have called this odd view a load of codswhallop. Menopause, they say, is something that evolved through millions of years of very short life spans when women in their 30s did not live long enough to look after their later-born offspring. Happily they could assist in the care of children of younger women. The British experts insist that a man’s preference for younger women is a classic example of Darwin’s theory that those who are able to survive (the fittest) are the ones who in fact survive. Darwin had no time for the popular fear of “dirty old men”. There’s no way of knowing but he may have been one, purely in the scientific sense of course. BBC
