Celebrated baseball writer Neil MacCarl is dead at age 83

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The celebrated baseball writer and long-time resident of the South Bayview area Neil MacCarl has died. He succumbed to pneumonia in Toronto. MacCarl had been a resident of Moore Park for decades and was always ready to chat as he walked his dog along Hudson Drive. Frequently, he would find his way to the leafy cul de sac down near Moo0re Ave and visit the privately maintained memorial to his wife Mary, who was also in previous times a Star writer. During the off season, when he was in Toronto, Neil was often seen shopping on South Bayview. He is shown inset on a visit to Badali’s. As re information provided by the Star, there will be a visitation Friday, Aug. 12 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at Humphrey Funeral Home, 1403 Bayview Ave. A funeral service will be held Saturday, Aug. 13 at 11 a.m. in the Humphrey chapel.

A month left to Pottery Road re-opening

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With less than a month to go to the scheduled September 5, 2011 re-opening of Pottery Road, there still seems to be quite a bit of work left to do. At left, new bridge abutments will make passing safer and at right is the excavation going on beneath the Don Valley Parkway underpass. It looks like the road will be widened to four lanes . Of course a closed road is a joggers paradise (center).

Stone front for 250 Sutherland Drive

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250 Sutherland Dr. is getting a nice stone front as work nears completion on the home. As many will recall, a fire at this address destroyed a previous house located here in January.

$2,100,000 on Inglewood Drive

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This handsome home on Inglewood Drive in Moore Park recently sold for $2,100,000, about $50,000 over asking.

Rioting. gasoline bombs, in a London street

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There’s been serious public unrest in London. The riots were apparently inspired among mostly young people by the shooting by the police of a man in the Tottenham area a couple of night ago. Gasoline bombs were thrown at buses. Videos from the BBC and Sky News

Where’s Sophie? Oh, that is Sophie

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Many readers of the South Bayview Bulldog will recognize Sophie, happy in the service of Second Cup. Except of course that Sophie has a new look which threw the customers today. Her fantastic blond coif is contrasted with the Sophie of a few weeks ago.

Meet the maple glazed doughnut cheeseburger

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Sure, it’s a publicity stunt but they’re actually going to feed these things to people. You are looking at a bacon cheeseburger between two maple-glazed doughnuts. It will be waiting for visitors to the Canadian National Exhibition. It’s from those crazy folks at Krispy Kreme. And some loopy kids will eat one (or more). There’s 1500 calories in it incidentally and a cholesterol count that is off the meter.

Developer solicits tenants on Laird where geese play in mud

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While Canada Geese live it up in the mud and water behind the hoarding at Leaside Village, 85 Laird Drive, the developer is busy with signs that are intended to find tenants for the new shops. The slick representation of how the finished development will appear shows every building with the generic “Signage” over the door. There’s only the slightest hint of the old railway building, seen at the edge of a picture with its arched window.

Valu Mart local mural “painted over”

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Staff at the Tremblelt’s Valu-Mart say the familiar mural depicting local scenes, including the old coal silos (inset) has been painted over and is gone for good. The mural hung on the north wall of the supermarket in the dairy department. Among the sites shown in the mural was the Dominion and Coal and Wood retail silos (picture inset) which once stood at Mount Pleasant and Merton Street.

Beth Tikvah synagogue defaced

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The Beth Tikvah synagogue on Bayview Ave north of Sheppard Ave. was defaced with black paint scrawls saying things like “Island will Rule”. Toronto Sun

Fewer services, or much higher taxes?

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Here’s a column that gets closer to the true issue before City Council. Do you want fewer service or some nice higher taxes. The writer suggests that Mayor Ford send a notice to each home showing what it will cost to keep all the things we have and asking taxpayers to agree to pay the estimated tax increases associated with each. The column.

Cadillac, Toyota RAV to be built in Ontario

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Both General Motors and Toyota have announced plans to assemble new vehicles in Ontario. GM will assign the Oshawa plant to make the anticipated new Caddy intended to compete with the largest models produced by BMW and Mercedes. Production will begin next year. Toyota said it will assemble its RAV4 crossover utility vehicle at its plant in Woodstock. The RAv4 has an electric car component. Toyota has obtained a $71 loan (repayable) from the federal government and grant of the same amount from Ontario. Together they cover about 25 percent of the cost of tooling up the Woodstock plant to assemble the RAV4.