The South Bayview Bulldog

Here are road closures planned for this weekend as issued Wednesday by the City:

Toronto International Film Festival – Festival Street
TIFF’s fourth annual Festival Street initiative will run from Thursday, September 6 through Monday, September 10. Festival Street events will result in the full closure of King Street West to traffic between Spadina and University Avenues from 5 a.m. on Thursday, September 6 until 5 a.m. on Monday, September 10. John Street between King Street and Wellington Street will also be closed during the five-day period. A map of the above road closures is available at http://bit.ly/RoadClosures_TIFF2018.

Information about TTC service changes for Festival Street is available at http://www.ttc.ca/Service_Advisories/Route_diversions/TIFF_2018.jsp.

Taste of the Kingsway
Bloor Street West from Prince Edward Drive North to Montgomery Road will be closed from Friday, September 7 at noon to Sunday, September 9 at midnight. A series of full and partial road closures will also take place in the surrounding area to accommodate this event. A map of the above road closures is available at http://bit.ly/RoadClosures_TFKW2018.

The Festival of Praise
The formation of the parade and festival area will result in all northbound lanes of Queens Park Crescent East being closed between College Street and Bloor Street West on Saturday, September 8 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. with southbound traffic maintained on Queens Park Crescent West. A map of the above road closures is available at http://bit.ly/RoadClosures_FOP2018.

The Cabbagetown Festival
Parliament Street from Gerrard Street East to Wellesley Street East and Carlton Street from Ontario Street to Exchange Lane will be closed in both directions from Saturday, September 8 at 6 a.m. to Sunday, September 9 at 9 p.m. A map of the above road closures is available at http://bit.ly/RoadClosures_CF2018.

Bang and Olufsen Yorkville 5K Charity Fun Run/Walk and Canadian 5K Road Race Championship
A series of road closures will take place in the area bounded by Davenport Road to the north, University Avenue/Queen’s Park/Avenue Road to the west, Dundas Street West to the south and Bay Street to the east on Sunday, September 9 from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. A map of the above road closures is available at http://bit.ly/CdnRoadRace2018.

Toronto 5k for Sick Kids Hospital Foundation
A series of road closures will take place in the area bounded by St. Clair Avenue West to the north, Christie Street to the west, Davenport Road to the south and Russell Hill Road/Boulton Drive to the east on Saturday, September 8 from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. A map of the above closures is available at http://bit.ly/TO5K_SickKids2018.

Campaign barbecue Sunday

Councillor Burnside

Jon Burnside and friend Charlene Kew in 2014

Councillor Jon Burnside has issued an invitation to his campaign barbecue Sunday, September 9. It will be held at 206 Parkhurst Blvd. east of Laird Dr. Mr. Burnside will run in the new Ward 15 against Jaye Robinson and Tanwer Khan.

The New York City mayor’s office says a plane has been quarantined amid reports of numerous ill passengers aboard a flight from Dubai that arrived at New York’s Kennedy Airport. The Emirates flight landed at about 9:10 a.m. Wednesday. Video from news helicopters showed the jet sitting on the tarmac surrounded by emergency vehicles and ground control personnel. One report said as any as 19 people may be sick.

All the passengers are off and have been evaluated. 19 sick. 10 to hospital and 9 refused medical attention. Health officials are processing tests now to determine the cause. Symptoms still pointing to the flu. https://t.co/ZWURgb68bJ

— Eric Phillips (@EricFPhillips) September 5, 2018

Elon Musk has once again attacked a British man who helped rescue a boys’ soccer team trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand, calling him a “child rapist.” In an email to BuzzFeed News, the Tesla chief executive launched a third attack on cave diver Vernon Unsworth, who called Musk’s idea to rescue the trapped boys and their coach with a miniature submarine a “PR stunt.” Musk accused Unsworth in the email of being a “child rapist,” in the strongest words the billionaire has had for the explorer since referring to him as a “pedo guy” in July. Last month, Musk tweeted that it was “strange” that Unsworth had not sued him for the July comments. Business links.

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Finally re-decorated thus year

Sitting room

Dining room

Family room

Kitchen

Master

2015

The 135-year-old pioneer home of the Elgie family at 262 Bessborough Drive has been placed on the open market with an asking price of $3.7 million. The agent is Jerry Hammond of Hammond International Properties. Those interested in such things will be able to calculate how builder Matthew Garnet has done. He purchased the home and land in 2013 for $2.5 million and subdivided the land to ultimately build a home on either side. The process was no doubt expensive. Preservationists objected to the new homes (they lost) and to moving the house closer to the street (they won). At the time, The Bulldog called this an odd bit of “heritage punctilio”  Thanks to Ann Brown of Leaside Chit Chat for bringing this to our attention.

It will be hot today — a predicted high of 31 C — and continue sultry into next week. The mercury was at 22 C at Pearson at 5 a.m. and it might exceed a 1945 high of 32. Of course that was measured in Fahrenheit degrees and there are 1.8 F degrees to each Centigrade degree so who can really be sure if a record is set.

Hailey Conroy back to school/supplied via East York Chronicle

Gerry Gershon/TDSB

111 Airdrie

Block Party

Seminars for seniors

Just Rexall Drugstore at Sunnybrook

325 Moore Ave.

Hailey Conroy entered Grade Six at D.A. Morrison Middle School on Gledhill Ave. Tuesday. This simple act carried out by hundreds of thousands of kids across Ontario represented a signal achievement for Hailey. She has finished nine months of intensive chemotherapy in her battle with leukemia and is now in a maintenance phase. The story of this courageous East York girl they call Haileybird is told today by Gary Webb-Proctor, editor of the East York Chronicle. To the right, TDSB Ward 13 Trustee Gerry Gershon has told The South Bayview Bulldog that she will retire from that post at the end of her present term. Gerri’s husband recently passed away and she wants “to put things in order and review my life. I loved being a trustee but it’s now time to seek another path.”  Back on the left, house proud landscaping is underway at 111 Airdrie Rd. Interesting plants. Below, mark October 13 for the Holland Bloorview Leaside Block Party in Trace Manes Park. To the right, September 27 is the start of a series of seminars for local seniors who want to stay abreast of services for them. Then at the bottom, McKesson Corp., the new US owners of Rexall Pharma Plus (2016) have decided to simplify the name of their stores. Here we see the work being done at Sunnybrook Plaza and at 325 Moore Ave. plaza. The new name is simply Rexall Drugstore.

A growing thread at Leaside Community Facebook Tuesday morning has a report and comments on a coyote seen this day on the Heath St. footbridge between Hudson Dr. and Brendan Rd. The post says in part: “Just a heads up to all the people that walk the ravine during the day with their dog(s) like me – today, 9:00am at the pedestrian bridge that crosses the ravine at Heath (so south of Moore) was a huge coyote. I had just got out of my car, a woman was walking towards me with her dog – and unbeknownst to her just 10 meters behind her she was being followed by a very large coyote. Coyotes have been spotted in the last couple of weeks throughout the ravine area – middle of the day – even when busy on weekends with people walking to the Brickworks.”

Police will no longer fill in for crossing guards

Neptune Security ad

The City has hired Neptune Security Services to provide “backfill” — the emergency replacement of school crossing guards — for the school system beginning this fall. A notice from Toronto Police tells of this change. It is related the reorganization of the TPS and the use of police officers elsewhere. Neptune guards will be screened and trained for the job. They will be identified by a card that will be present on the left chest and a vest that contains a “Neptune Security Services” logo on the left chest and the letters “Crossing Guard” at the back. For the 2018-2019 school year, TPS will continue to manage the administration of the School Crossing Guard Program. The School Crossing Guard program transitions fully to the City of Toronto, Transportation Services Division, in September of 2019.

A man has shot himself in the foot, according to police, and then tried to drive himself somewhere, maybe to hospital. Cops received a call from a bystander around 4 p.m. on Monday that a man’s gun went off inside a restaurant in Scarborough near Markham Road and Painted Post Drive. One comment called for him to receive the Darwin Award.

MOTORCYCLIST INJURED

Toronto paramedics say a motorcyclist has been rushed to a trauma centre after crashing in Scarborough. Emergency services were called to the scene at Sheppard Avenue East and Rouge River Drive just before 7 p.m. The man is believed to be in his 30s or 40s. He is badly hurt, they say.

St. Augustine’s BBQ Sunday

Eli of the Ritz and popular Lena Feng

Hillside Drive

Monarch loves polin-laden sunflower (Twitter / @DebLaceKelly)

Leaside won fair and square

Corn roast and Dog Show

Saint Augustine of Canterbury Anglican Church will have its annual barbecue Sunday. You must drop in. On Saturday, enterprising homeowners on Hillside Drive just across the Don will hold a street-wide garage sale starting at 8 a.m. You can bet some hunters will be flying around before that. Centre left, the midnight flit of Sport Clips from 1538 Bayview Ave. has permitted a modest barber shop shake up. Eli the barber at 1693A Bayview has posted a sign on the front of the Sport Clips storefront. Many men have taken their business to Lena Feng since the death of Leo Cornacchia last year. She’s in the little plaza at Millwood Rd. and Sutherland Dr. Bottom left, Deb Lace-Kelly snapped this Monarch butterfly hanging around a sunflower in her garden Sunday morning. Nice. At right, Deke Macdonald posted this 1964 clipping from the Leaside Advertiser telling of how private eyes were hired to make sure the Leaside hockey peewees had not cheated in their 11-0 thumping of Loretteville, Quebec. Very amusing. Finally, mark your calendar for the annual Rotary Club Corn roast. This year there will be a dog show too.

Greagan Geldenhuys , 7/Facebook

RCMP in Saskatchewan say they are treating the death of Greagan Geldenhuys, 7, as accidental. The lad’s body was found Sunday by a couple walking on the beach at a campground near Fort Qu’Appelle northeast of Regina. His mother, Tamaine Geldenhuys, was found dead, apparently washed up on a nearby beach, on August 24. The boy’s uncle, Darcy Pantel, posted the following to Facebook:

“There could be more details, but in reality, a mother and son perished after being at the beach on a windy, windy day. They were at the beach because they enjoyed being there together. Our plea to you is to love your children, teach them to be safe. Don’t turn our sadness into fear of the water, but rather to help them understand the seriousness of water safety,” he wrote, adding it’s also important to teach appreciation for first responders, police and firefighters. “I can’t think of any way that anyone could have been more supportive throughout the entire process. I could not have asked for more.”