The South Bayview Bulldog

The funeral  service for Donald S. Macdonald will be held Friday, October 19 at 3 p.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church at 78 Clifton Rd. It will take place at 3 p.m. A moving and extensive obituary has been published on the site of the Humphrey Funeral Home A.W. Miles-Newbigging Chapel. Previous

The annual free pumpkin giveaway at the Bayview Ave. Valumart will  take place Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The day will also be marked by a haunted house/cemetery outside the store and raffles of goodie bags. The event is sponsored by Valumart, Bosley Real Estate and Realtor Patrick Rocca.

Further polling by Mainstreet Research in the many wards where incumbants are opposing each other has revealed that Councillor Paula Fletcher leads Councillor Maria Fragedakis by 14.3 percent.in Ward 14 (Toronto-Danforth). A poll released Tuesday showed that Josh Matlow and Joe Mihecv are effectively tied.

#ICYMI: How bad is second-hand marijuana smoke? #marijuanafiles https://t.co/BPsfTO5lcj

— CityNews Toronto (@CityNewsTO) October 17, 2018

Whole Foods provided food as Leaside High students made breakfast Tuesday

Leaside High School students made breakfast and sold it to their classmates Tuesday as part of on-going fundraising program to help teens who are as fortunate. The program is called Feed Tomorrow and is sponsored by the Toronto Foundation of for Student Success. Looks good on you guys.

King St. at Parliament St./Kevin Misener 680 News

Kevin Misener 680 News

Kevin Misener of 680 News has found a condo building on Parliament where water from the overnight watermain break down the street has filled the entire underground parking garage. Residents cars are in Davy Jones Locker. Ouch.

A broken watermain swamped the basement parking garage of a condo building at King and Parliament. Up to 20 residents’ vehicles are now under water. pic.twitter.com/pDj9hqR42x

— Kevin Misener (@Kevin_Misener) October 17, 2018

Fish and Chip roofers/Bulldog

Churrasco

East York Farmers Market

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Bulldog photo

Here we go with a South Bayview medley that begins with agile rooters atop Olde Yorke Fish and Chips on Laird Dr. Tuesday. Tricky work. Then, Sarah Poole tells Leaside Community that Churrasco Chicken on Eglinton Ave. at Mt. Pleasant Rd. is open again after an enforced 18-month closure because of LRT work. At right, proud Leaside Wildcats medal winners pose. They are (top) the Atom AA squad (Silver) at the Etobicoke Pink the Rink Tournament and (bottom) the Bantam BB gang (Silver) at the tourney in Clarington. Great work all. Centre are shiny apples at Tuesday’s East York Farmer’s Market which will close this month for the year. At bottom, growing old gracefully on Bayview Ave. Tuesday is a 1986 Pontiac Parisienne. What a boat. It came from a long-since defunct dealer in Manitoba. Salut to whomever keeps it going.

For the first time since 2016, the Gardiner Expressway will be closed for a full weekend starting Friday, October 26 at 11pm until Monday, October 29 at 5am for maintenance and improvements. Crews will work all day and all night on things like sealing cracks, inspecting culverts and bridges, grinding and paving (a lot of grinding and paving), filling potholes, repairing guard rails and overhead signs — City of Toronto Instagram

Heather de Veber, Ruppen Seonis, Roula Panagiotopoulos and Ted Hanlan

Residents of Greektown north of the Danforth have formed a new residents’ association to provide a voice for homeowners and tenants separate from the powerful BIA which influences much of the decision-making on the Danforth. The Danforth Residents’ Association is the inspiration of Roula Panagiotopoulos, Heather de Veber, Ten Hanlan and Ruppen Seoni. Ms. Panagiotopoulos realized the need for an association as she struggled with zoning violations on Carlaw Ave. where she lives. “One person does not have a voice,” she says. The new association will represent those living in a snugly-defined area of common interest much like the next-door Playter Estates Residents’ Association. The association’s founders have a liberal view of their mission. Mr. Seoni spoke of the need to be representative not just of homeowners but tenants too. “We don’t want to just oppose everything, he said. The association website offers this mission statement.

If you are here you are concerned about your neighbourhood as much as we are. As the City is expanding, a group of us have decided to start a much-needed association to ensure that our neighbourhood community grows in a manner that is respectful to the owners and residents of this great community. Our hope is to provide, at least at the beginning, information about what is happening in the neighbourhood in terms of current and future development. This will also act as a community where you can reach out and find a resident that has experience in matters relating to this community.

A poll of 609 voters in Ward 12 (St. Paul’s) by Mainstreet Research suggests that Councillors Joe Mihevc and Josh Matlow are in a statistical tie in their bid for re-election in that ward. Mr. Matlow showed a slight lead of 1.8 percent but it is noted by the pollster that this was before Mayor Tory endorsed Mr. Mihevc.  Mainstreet boss Quito Maggi says that in Beaches-East York Tory’s endorsement of Brad Bradford gave the candidate a notable boost, though he still trails former MP Matthew Kellway by a substantial margin. Kellway, according to the poll, sits at 43.7 per cent support while Bradford has about 32 percent support. The poll, Maggi said, was conducted between October 10 and 11. “The Matlow campaign will carefully look at these results in Beaches-East York as they show the potential impact of a Tory endorsement. We didn’t list Bradford as an option in our last Beaches-East York poll and he could not have been this high if you look at the “another candidate” totals in our previous poll,” Maggi added. “Tory’s endorsement has certainly given Bradford a big boost, and could give Mihevc the win if there is a similar impact in Toronto-St. Paul’s.”