Store fixtures for sale at Homefront Bayview

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Homefront at 1579 Bayview Ave will transfer all business to its store at 371 Eglinton Ave effective Sunday, May 27, 2012.  Between then and now, all merchandise is on sale at discounts of up to 50% off and all store fixtures are for sale. Tables, counters, display cases and shelves may be purchased for removal next Sunday and the end of the month.

This Saturday morning on Bayview Ave.

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This lovely Saturday morning sees a freshening up going on (above) at the Bayview Dental Clinic. The parking meters have also been freshened, it seems, because they’re taking coins again. Down at Millwood, some people are wondering about the renovation at Wild Wing. The sign on the door indicates the restaurant will re-open for business on Monday, May 21, 2012. That’s just two days hence. But there has been no discernible work done since the place was locked up some weeks ago. Who knows what that means.

Close call for pacemaker recipient on Bayview

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This column recounts a rather harrowing incident recently on the Bayview Ave. Extension at Rosedale Valley Rd. The London Ontario reporter, Glen Stone, survived a blackout while at the wheel. His story is recounted here with a link to the rest of the column down below.  If you happened to be driving down the Bayview Ave. extension in Toronto at 3:15 p.m. last Thursday afternoon, you would have seen a strange sight. A car came in from Rosedale Valley Rd., then suddenly accelerated across the curb lane and the gravel shoulder, heading straight towards the Don Valley itself. It plowed through the chain link fence that runs beside Bayview and took out an entire section of metal fencing that scraped the car like a badly peeled potato. The car kept going down into a swampy depression in the valley and halfway up the steep embankment on the other side. It came to rest at a precarious angle on the slope beside the valley’s railway tracks. Another few feet and the battered vehicle would have been laying on the tracks, waiting to be hit by a train. Now, if you saw all that happen, you may have wondered, “What in the world is that driver thinking? The answer is he was not thinking at all. He was unconscious. I know. I was that driver. If you’ve never passed out while driving, the experience is . . . interesting  Conclusion.

Sandra Zhang off to China, Hong Kong

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Customers will be interested to know that Homefront associate Sandra Zhang is off to mainland China and Hong Kong with her fiance Dennis Tsang for a one-month visit. Sandra and Dennis will first visit her parents in Beijing and then travel on to Hong Kong where Sandra will stand up with her friend Phoebe when she weds Tony. Sandra and Dennis are touched by both history and geography  as they embark. Dennis is Canadian-born and thus requires a visa to enter the mainland. As a foreign tourist, on the other hand, he can breeze right into Hong Kong. The reverse is true for Sandra. She needs only her Chinese passport to visit her mom and dad. But like most Chinese citizens Sandra had to obtain a highly sought-after visa to enter the special territory of Hong Kong.    

Buffalo Bills captain visits Deer Park School

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Deer Park Public School kids got a special thrill when Buffalo Bills Captain and starting Safety George Wilson visited them in April.  Mr. Wilson was part of the “NFL Canada -Take a Player to School Contest,” a sweepstakes that awards four national prize winners to take an NFL Player to school for the day and team merchandise for his/her family.  The program lets winners hang out with an  NFL player for the day, talking to the kids about topics spanning the importance of a healthy active lifestyle to goal setting and anti-bullying.  In this case, Deer Park’s Tikal Charles-Taylor, 12, seen in the Bills jersey left of Wilson, was given the chance to bring Wilson to school. The day started out at the Taylor residence, where Tikal’s mother June Charles made her signature “Breakfast of Champions” for Taylor and Wilson. The breakfast consisted of pancakes, bacon, sausage and fresh fruit. Tikal  and Wilson then took a chauffeured ride to the Deer Park School, where they greeted Tikal’s’s principal, classmates and teachers  — with Buffalo Bills news.  

Police seek phony Brinks collector

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Police are seeking the public’s assistance in catching a man posing as a Brinks employee. In December, he arrived at a Wal-Mart on St. Clair Ave. W. and attempted to obtain the day’s receipts. When the store manager asked the individual to show his identification, he said it was in his truck and would go to get it. He never returned. In February, the same man was successful in getting the day’s receipts from a Birchmount Ave. supermarket. He’s described as white, about 30 to 35 years of age, 5’8″-5’10”, 150lbs.-175lbs. with a medium to heavy set build. Police say the thief is arriving just before the usual pick-up that the Brinks truck would make. They are hoping that somebody who recognizes this individual will call the Hold-up Squad or Crime Stopper Police say it raises the question of whether this man is a former  employee or associated with a past employee. He wears a Brinks uniform, including a belt with a firearm and he knows the way to handle himself with the public in dealing with pick-ups.

Bayview meters good for holding refuse

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The upgrade of  parking meters throughout the City isn’t showing much in the way of an improvement on  Bayview Ave. Although technicians have been spotted quite a few times fiddling with the meters it is still not possible to get them to accept the new loonie or toonie.  Sometimes the coins just fall through. More recently the meters block coin insertion with a display to check the sign for regulations. Sure. Not much of a return on the $25,000 it’s supposedly costing to fix each machine according to some reports. Can this be right? Meantime, you had better bring your credit card to Bayview Ave. because the tickets are still being chain-written on our high street. For those who need it, the meters make a great place to leave your empty coke cup (right).  

Odd theft reported on Belsize Drive

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A rather odd theft has been reported on  Belsize Drive. A homeowner there says that  between December 1, 2011 and May 15, 2012 a quantity of cutlery was removed from the premises. It’s hard to know what to make of the rather long period during which this crime occurred. It’s unlikely the occupant had left the home vacant otherwise much more would have been taken. Best for police look to someone known  to the owner.