The South Bayview Bulldog

Filling potholes in Toronto is a lot like painting the Golden Gate Bridge. The job is never over. Saturday has seen crews hard at work in the third blitz this year across the City. It is said they were concentrating on the Don Valley Parkway and the Gardiner Expressway on Friday night. No mention of Balliol St. But hope is strong. Several more weekend repair blitzes are expected through April. Normally, the City has 25 crews regularly filling potholes and during a weekend blitz, that number usually doubles. This weekend, there are 90 crews filling holes across the City. Anyone can report potholes online or by calling 311, emailing 311@toronto.ca, or by using the 311 app. They say it may take four days for a crew to get there.

Eight-person folly about to collapse/Sarasota County Sheriff

Video has been released of the perilous stunts performed by Nik Wallenda and other members of the famous aerialist family. This eight-person folly is about to collapse. Then to the right, users are swooning over the prospect of a huge marijuana emporium in the former HMV store on Yonge St. The rent stopped Sunrise Records from taking it. Below that, the well-told tale of perhaps the largest methamphetamine seizure in GTA history. And lastly, cleaning up after a bus wreaks destruction on your home. Spare us all.

No winning ticket was sold for the $35.7 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. That means the jackpot for the next draw on Mar. 29 will be approximately $50 million, and there will also be two Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each up for grabs.

HAZARD:
Bayview Av + Pottery Rd
-Train crossing
-Lights flashing but barrier is up
-Cars are going through
-This is very dangerous train may come through at any time
-CN rail repair en route#GO521117
^dh

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) March 22, 2019

Marcella Zoia, accused of throwing chairs and other objects off a condo tower balcony in February. has lost friends and her place in a dental hygiene program since the incident her lawyer said at a court appearance Friday. Ms Zoia, 19, is seeking to avoid a trial and keeping low, he said. Nonetheless, she has gathered more than 14,000 followers on Instagram. The accused was remanded pending a decision on a criminal trial.

The truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos crash has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu of Calgary had pleaded guilty earlier this year to 29 counts of dangerous driving. He stood quietly and looked ahead at the judge as he was sentenced Friday. Judge Inez Cardinal told court in Melfort, Sask., that she approached the sentence knowing “nothing can turn back the clock.”

Baby comforts mom at dentist

Happy Wildcats Bantam B

Louis has closed on Danforth

Room 115 at Davisville Public School

Room 115 Little Artist

Caitlin is pampered

South Bayview Thursday is enchanted by the shot of baby comforting mom (upper left) at Country Dental at 1680 Bayview. Then at upper right, this happy Leaside Wildcats (Bantam B) puckster and her teammates will be present when the Toronto Marlies mark Women’s Hockey Day at 5 p.m. Sunday at the Coca Cola Coliseum. At centre right, a sad farewell after 48 years to Louis Meat Market and Souvlaki at 449 Danforth at Arundel Ave. The bailiff has closed in on some $30,000 in rent. Centre left, We Will Change the World is one of many inspiring messages ringing around Room 115 at Davisville Public. Little Artist below is also at Room 115. Finally at lower right, Caitlin A. Melvin has tweeted her approval of work done at the newly-opened Blo Blow Dry Bar at 1693B Bayview.

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We can all sympathize but police are asking anyone jammed into a subway with an unwashed commuter to refrain from pushing the alarm. This after a passenger was so revolted by the odour of a fellow “better way” rider that the system-stopping emergency button seemed like the only remedy. As reported by Global News, PC David Hopkinson said this occurred on the train at Queen subway station Thursday around 7:40 p.m. He said the details of the call were shared on Twitter in the hope of raising public awareness about the misuse of the alarm system. “It’s a teaching point now. ‘Hey, I know you’re uncomfortable. You have absolutely every right to complain, but using the passenger assistance alarm is not for that,’” Hopkinson said. “The alarm is for emergency use and this type of incident is not considered an emergency … With passenger assistance alarms, we assume that it’s an emergency — somebody is having a medical episode, their life is in danger, they’re being attacked, there’s some kind of accident in the station.” It’s not recorded if the offending passenger was wearing Rotting Carcass Cologne in order to obtain a seat or protect his space.

Air conditioning had just arrived at movie theatres

Set in 1936 Toronto

Maureen Jennings

Maureen Jennings will visit the Sleuth of Baker Street book store Saturday from 3 to 5:30 p.m. to launch her newest novel, Heat Wave. Many know Jennings from her Victorian character William Murdoch (Murdoch Mysteries) but the new book features his son, Jack, a Toronto detective in 1936 and his friend, a PI named Charlotte Frayne. Inevitably the notorious North American heat wave of 1936 forms the background. Sleuth of Baker Street is at 907 Millwood Rd. at Sutherland.

A 21-year-old man has been sentenced to five years in prison in connection with a 2017 impaired driving crash in East Gwillimbury that left a 28-year-old father dead. The sentence, which also includes an eight-year driving ban, was handed down to Tyler Neilsen in a Newmarket courtroom on Thursday. He previously pleaded guilty to driving a vehicle that fatally struck Stuart Ellis on Nov. 13, 2017 while having alcohol and four other drugs in his system.

APOLOGY

“I can’t imagine the pain and suffering I have brought into your lives,” he said in court to Ellis wife Justine. “I’m so sorry. The worst part of this whole accident is that I took a father away from his children. I will never be able to forget that. I am ready to accept the court’s punishment.”  Widowed mom counts cost as impaired driver makes bail

#BreakingNews Tyler Nielsen’s final taste of freedom before being sentenced to 5 years in a penitentiary & an 8 year driving ban for criminal negligence causing the death of Stuart Ellis in Nov 2017. Nielsen was impaired by alcohol & drugs & was driving recklessly, 200 km+ pic.twitter.com/NFViKcij3n

— Catherine McDonald (@cmcdonaldglobal) March 21, 2019