Most restaurants will be open on South Bayview tomorrow, Canada Day. This is the custom and this year the day will see near perfect weather, sunny with an afternoon high of 27 degrees Celsius.
What will you do with your Yellow Pages?
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They were delivering the Yellow Pages on South Bayview today. You have to feel sorry for them. A lot of merchants say they don’t know what to do with them. Or that they’re simply going to throw them out. It’s an interesting comment on the times that the City of Seattle last year passed an “unnecessary phone book” registry in response to the Yellow Pages deliveries.
Desperate magazine photo-shops Diana
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They say desperate times require desperate measures. Newsweek was worth so little recently that someone was able to buy it for $1 (U.S. at that). The editor Tina Brown has to be given credit for guts. As Kate and William fly into Canada, Kate is shown on the cover of the magazine with her dead mother-in-law. Here is an excerpt from a TV interview in which Brown says essentially that any publicity is good publicity.
Thank you note from Maurice Cody School
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Here’s a nice thank you note to Homefront from Arlene Downey at Maurice Cody School. She was the silent auction coordinator for the Spring Fair. “It’s great to know that we can count on the continued support year after year from businesses along Bayview.” Our pleasure.
Melanie Aitken’s war on fine print
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You may not have heard of Melanie L. Aitken. She’s the Commissioner of Competition of the Federal Competition Bureau and she’s turning out to be one tough cookie when it comes to the asterisk and fine print in advertising. Aitken oversaw the recently decided case in which Bell Canada’s paid a $10 million dollar fine — the maximum — for what the bureau believes was misleading advertising. And those who follow the news will know that Aitken is writing a regulatory agenda that will impact a wide spectrum of businesses ranging from banks to credit card companies to real estate boards. Here is a very readable National Post summary.
The Yorkville Club wants you!
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That big pricey billboard at Bayview and Moore Aves. has been taken by The Yorkville Club, the image place in Hazelton Lanes. And Mr. and Mrs flush-at-the-bank South Bayview, The Yorkville Club wants you! There’s lots of time for you to zip down there for workouts. The list of clients includes Norman Jewison and Jeremy Irons, so who knows? There’s concierge service too (but he won’t pick up at Cumbrae’s or Alex Cheese). Or you can emulate the super affirmative lady polishing her right jab (above). Good for her we say. Why take any more static from those witches at the PTA. But really, we’re flattered that The Yorkville Club has chosen our little corner of the world, Hasty Market and all, to advertise.
Police issue warning about phone thefts
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Toronto Police have issued a warning this afternoon about a frequently seen crime in South Bayview and area The theft of cell phones, iPhone, players and smart phones is a well-known phenomenon in our area. The police offer some ideas which may be helpful in avoiding theft. Frequently thieves will approach the victim and ask the time. As the victim is checking, the thief grabs the device away. And the police are warning about the bad habit of showing your electronic device around, or being obvious with it in public. This is an obvious problem which the South Bayview Bulldog has warned about. Anyone behaving this way becomes a focus for possible thieves. Finally, the sympathy ploy in which the thief pretends to need a phone make an urgent call to make to his parents or someone else. Such fictional emergencies are usually easy to spot. One or two questions will soon put the thief off his game. If the police are required urgently, call them yourself at 911.
Comparing neighbourhoods now a science
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One wonders whether a new website permitting people to compare neighborhoods for everything from crime to playgrounds will create more dissension than enlightenment. Many may also conclude that they already know intuitively all the good and bad things about a neighborhood. But it’s an ambitious project.
Thorncliffe Girls Softball League
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Here is word of a very worthwhile plan to start an instructional summer softball league for girls in Thorncliffe and in Flemingdon. The volunteers need simple things, mostly used equipment. Geoff Kettel says in mail that the new Thorncliffe Girls Softball League is looking for equipment to start their instructional league for 40 girls on Sunday June 26. They need gloves, balls, bats, uniforms, bases and all the other necessities to get going. They also need jerseys. The following merchants can accept donations. Grilltime Gourmet Meat Shop(62 Laird Dr. at Kenrae, across from Telus bldg) Mountain Bean Coffee(Sunnybrook Plaza at Bayview and Eglinton) SupperWorks (105 Vanderhoof, behind Turning Pointe, across from Mercedes building)Van Nes Flowers (204 Parkhurst, just south of Eglinton on east side of Laird)
Butcher’s voucher offer a disappointment
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A voucher program can boomerang on consumers who think they’re going to get bargains. Ellen Roseman
Wacky Wednesday a door crasher event
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Back to the old fashioned door crasher specials at Moms-to-be-and-more. The dynamic baby store will have specials every summer Wednesday between July 6 and August 24, 2011. Take a look.
No contrition as Bell pays $10 million fine
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Bell Canada has agreed to pay a penalty of $10 million for making misleading advertising claims — but it insists that it has done nothing wrong. Bell has agreed to stop making claims which misstated fees for many of its services, including home phone, Internet, satellite TV and wireless.
