The South Bayview Bulldog

Jacob Hodge was on his way to get the key to a new home for himself and his wife, Cayla, when he was involved in a collision on Highway 6 on Saturday that has left him in an induced coma. – GoFundMe

The Spectator is reporting Wednesday night on the heartbreaking accident that has gravely injured a young husband as he was on the way to get the key to the first home he would share with his wife. The injured man is Jacob Hodge, 23. His wife Cayla and her mother are said to have passed the head-on collision on Highway 6 just minutes after it occurred but did not recognize the car and “were spared seeing Jacob in that situation.” Spectator

Toronto Fire South responded to what is being called a grass/rubbish fire at Bayview and Hillsdale Ave. Wednesday shortly after 6 p.m. It was quickly dealt with by pumper 125.  

Kangol bucket hat and gold necklace. Cool.

Gift card suspect

He appeared at a store at Bloor St. and Ossington Ave. with a gift certificate that police say was “fraudulently obtained” Some would call it stealing. The certificate was exchanged for a card that was used to buy something unstated in the police release. No matter, they want to find him. This occurred on August 12, 2019 between the hours of 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. He is described as approximately 20 to 25 years old with a thin build, wearing a black Kangol bucket hat, thin gold necklace, a black T-shirt, navy blue shorts, a black backpack with a white handle, black Air Jordans with white soles, and a black bracelet on his right hand.

A student pilot in Australia is heard to complain that he doesn’t want to pay for the lesson after his instructor collapsed in the cockpit. Grim but funny. Then to Queen’s New York for a woman who angrily refuses to deal with a decade of garbage piled in her house. Below that, some 14 New Democratic candidates in New Brunswick have defected to the Green Party. The affinity seems clear. Finally, good samaritans from the Global Medic Rapid Response Team in Etobicoke will go to the Bahamas to assist in hurricane recovery.

The first day of the year at Toronto public schools brought the board’s new dress code to practical reality. Some have called it the “nipples, buttocks and groin” code. Only time will tell although the code states students cannot come to school dressed in underwear as outwear. Some of the requirements are below and much information is available here.

• Must wear a top and bottom layer of clothing of opaque material.
• May wear tops that expose arms, shoulders, stomachs, midriff, neck lines, cleavage and straps but must cover the nipples.
• May wear bottoms that expose legs, thighs and hips and expose straps and waistbands, but must cover the groin and buttocks.
• May wear any headwear that does not obscure the face.
• May wear dress requirements to support a creed practices and similar human rights accommodations.
• May not wear tops that expose nipples.
• May not wear bottoms that expose the groin and buttocks.
• May not wear any headwear that obscures the face.
• May not wear undergarments as outerwear.
• May not wear anything that promotes or symbolizes drugs, alcohol, illegal activity, hate or discrimination, profanity, pornography; or that incites violence or harassment; or threatens health and safety.

Lori Vaudry and (um) Spider-Man

Lori Vaudry posts to Leaside Community Tuesday night that she has moved back to Leaside. “So happy to be back. Was reassured to see Spider-Man on my dog walk today. Feeling very protected. Also! I joined the Leaside Property Owners Association Board. Happy to represent my new neighbours.” Leaside Community

A new season of Athlete of the Week with Rick Campanelli has begun on City News with a feature on Kate Kulchyski, 12, of the East York Gymnastics Club on Dohme Ave.

East side digging beside 1613 Bayview

Old Tru Value Hardware will be a restaurant

Traffic down to single lane with flag men and woman stopping cars

Gas line is on the west side

Bayview was reduced Tuesday to a single lane of stop and go traffic opposite 1613 Bayview Ave., the former Tru Value Hardware store that is slated to become a restaurant. The cause was substantial work required to bring a restaurant volume gas line from the west side of the street to the east side. Heavy digging was going on beside both curbs and just where else it might go is unknown.

White bread and chips

A teenager is believed to be the first in the UK to go deaf and blind due to his junk food diet, a report has warned. The 17-year-old lived off a daily portion of chips, crisps, white bread and processed meat for around a decade. His poor diet, which resulted in a number of vitamin deficiencies, led to the boy developing a condition called nutritional optic neuropathy (NON). More commonly seen in malnourished children in developing countries, purely dietary causes of NON are rare in the western world. It manifests in damage to the optic nerve, which leads to sight loss and if undiagnosed, blindness. The unnamed patient, from Bristol, also developed hearing loss and bone weaknes– London Telegraph 

The commercial diving boat the Conception was ravaged by flames under a dark sky before dawn on Monday near the coast of Santa Barbara, California. At least five crew members escaped, four bodies were later recovered and the other 29 passengers were feared dead. After five crew members managed to escape to a nearby pleasure boat, U.S. Coast Guard service members asked whether they could reboard the burning vessel to see if they could unlock the passenger compartment where 33 passengers had been asleep and appeared to be trapped. CBC

Boy purposely crushed behind Audi driver’s seat 

A court in London has heard how a man described as “deeply unpleasant” crushed a boy behind the driver’s seat of his Audi because he was annoyed at the lad’s crying. The boy was fatally wounded by the spiteful act.  ITV