The South Bayview Bulldog

Seen on Millwood Rd this week

Many comments can be seen at Leaside Facebook on the post of someone dressed as Spiderman and discovered this week on Millwood Rd. One person says the crime-fighter has also been seen on Bayview Ave. FB

• She finds Leaside never safer as Spider-Man joins dog walk

Jr. Wildcats coach Kim McCullough

One of 203 Zoom hockey training sessions

Toronto-Leaside U13 coach K-asaurus

Kim McCullough, coach of the Leaside Jr. Wildcats, has posted some summer adventures on Instagram. Above we see Kim in a distancing workout and a shot of a Zoom training session. At right is the coach of the Toronto-Leaside U13s. He worked with Kim and the kids all summer, promising them he would dress up as Coach K-asauras and cycle to the arena in (um) uniform if they met their targets. They delivered and so did the coach. Instagram

Fire leaps between roof tops on Buggey Lane in Ajax

A House fire on Buggy Lane in Ajax set other rooftops on fire from the hot ashes too nearby houses. Great work by @WhitbyFire and @PPFA_L1632 to help with mutual aid.
No injuries and one house is a total loss pic.twitter.com/wuteM22JSX

— Colin Williamson (@ColinWxchaser) August 31, 2020

Novavax laboratory in Gaithersburg, Maryland

Canada has signed a deal with the US vaccine developer Novavax for 76 million doses of a C-19 vaccine. Epidemiologist Isaac Bogoch tweeted “Good news. Fingers tightly crossed for successful Phase 3 clinical trials. Now we have vaccine agreements with Moderna, Pfizer, and Novavax.” Also Monday, Ontario counted 114 new cases of the infection and Toronto found 41 cases.

The weekend has seen everyday perpetrators in Toronto and Montreal use that “peaceful demonstration” excuse to damage things. Find deeper meaning if you can. Then, a woman in Coquitlam was able to escape the near and nasty embrace of a black bear as she jogged. Lastly, sculptor Lea Vivot laments the baffling theft of her work from the front yard of a Forest Hill family.

Bellamy Ravine Creek/Google

A cyclist in his 20s is in critical condition after police say he fell off a cliff in an area east of the Scarborough Bluffs on Sunday afternoon. Police, fire and paramedics responded to a call for reports of a cyclist riding near the edge of cliffs near Bellamy Ravine Creek and West Hill Creek who toppled over the cliff — 680 News

“I’m your friend,” says one of 750,000 genetically modified mosquitoes released in Florida

Genetically modified mosquitoes may cause some people to squirm, but scientists say they are an excellent way to save people from skeeter-carried diseases. Then, the tricky business of keeping kids safe from C-19 during after-school activity. Below that, an Alberta brewer has a new beer made from wastewater. Hmm. Finally, Canada’s year of the gas pedal as drag racers face the wrath of police.

Deep state of things at Rumsey and Hanna

Where the new storm sewer will live

Tight fit

The corner of Rumsey and Hanna Rds is the site of work to install a new storm sewer. It will replace a 30s era drain that has permitted the occasional flooded basement. Here’s hoping.

Closed to through traffic

York Regional Police have released the dramatic 9-1-1 call from a person on a capsized boat in Lake Simcoe. The exchange recounts how police found their way to the stricken vessel and rescued all three aboard. Listen hear.

The Secret Bench of Knowledge by Lea Vivot

Thieves struck early Friday to steal a 500-pound iron sculpture created by Czech-Canadian artist Lea Vivot. The sculpture, The Secret Bench of Knowledge, was in the front yard of a home at Spadina Rd. and Strathearn Blvd in Forest Hill. Police can only guess at how many perpetrators were needed to lift the work. The sculpture has many castings in Canada. Lea Vivot Wikipedia

Sad state of Toronto on Friday night

Toronto saw a sad Friday night of stabbings and shootings as the new normal of interpersonal and gang violence rolled on. Who can get used to this “normal”?  There was a stabbing near O’Keefe Lane at Yonge and Dundas in which a man of 20 was wounded. Earlier three people were shot outside an apartment courtyard near Crescent Town Road and Victoria Park Avenue, north of Danforth Road. It appears the injuries were minor.  And police are investigating a shooting in north Etobicoke Friday afternoon that seriously injured a man in his 20s. This occurred in the area of Steeles Avenue West and Gihon Spring Drive, just west of Kipling Avenue, around 5:53 p.m.