The South Bayview Bulldog

Carolyn and Betty at bake table

Mona Piper Playground

Hamming it up at DPS Fun Fair

1 Randolph/Rudy Limeback@rudydotca

Motown Brunch

Dedication of park and playground

Upper left, the annual Manor Road United Church Rummage Sale was busy Saturday. The always popular bake table was staffed by Carolyn and Betty. They were offering excellent home-made confections including Lemon Coconut Tarts snapped up by The Bulldog. Upper right, is the scene next door (Manor and Forman) at the just-opened Mona Piper Playground. It was full of kids and parents. As seen in the poster below, the park and playground will be dedicated Sunday at noon. Moving down the right side, high-ranking school officials ham it up at the Davisville Public School Fun Fair. The school is set to be demolished this summer to make way for a modern new structure and community hub. Below that, Rudy Limeback snapped 1 Randolph Rd. and tweeted this picture. As we told you in January, the tumble down bungalow is set to be razed for a residence worthy of the neighborhood. Note the charming poppies blooming for the last time, memories of a long-since forgotten garden. Lower left, Ward 26 Councillor Jon Burnside and friends will be at the William Lea Room Sunday for his Motown Burnside Lunch. Tickets are $100 per person of which $75 is refundable.

Air under skin/Willows Veterinary Group

Trevor back to normal/Willows Veterinary Group

X-ray revealed problem/Willows Veterinary Group

Trevor lives with his family in Warrington, England where he has been saved from a unique crisis by a good veterinarian. The Dachshund developed a leak in his windpipe which permitted air to get under his skin. The process caused him to very quickly expand like a balloon. His astonished owners watched this occur over a short period of time at breakfast recently. At the vets, x-rays showed the hole and Trevor had emergency surgery. He is now back to normal. Dachshunds are a loveable breed but subject to spinal malfunctions from time to time. It is not clear whether this condition contributed to the hole in the windpipe.

157km/h #Hwy403 Mississauga
32 year old female from Oakville charged with stunt diving. #7DaySuspension#7DayImpound#SlowDown pic.twitter.com/cFzQxVk9pz

— OPP Highway Safety Division (@OPP_HSD) June 2, 2018

The OPP’s media face. Kerry Schmidt, is tweeting Saturday about the Oakville woman who will pay a big fine and lose her car and license for a week after her need for speed topped out at 157 km/h. Please don’t do that.

Once again the $60 million Lotto Max jackpot has gone unclaimed. No winning ticket was sold for last night’s big prize. The draw also offered 50 Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each, 33 of which were claimed by a total 45 winning tickets, meaning several will be shared. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on June 8 will remain at approximately $60 million, but the number of Maxmillion prizes will rise to 52 — CP

City News, which lives down there, has done a story (above) on the unsavoury (dangerous?) side effects of the safe injection site for drug addicts near Yonge and Dundas Sts.

Check the South Bayview Bulletin Board for events Saturday and Sunday.  There’s the Soudan Street Sale, Manor Road United Church Rummage Sale, Pape Village Summerfest, Riverside’s Eats & Beats Streetfest,Grand opening of new Cudmore Creek Park Mona Piper Playground and the Jon Burnside Still on Your Side Motown Brunch

The TTC has solved a signal breakdown at the Wilson Yard Friday that prevented trains from entering Line 1 at the start of service. Brad Ross of the TTC said a “loss of switches and signals” at Wilson Yard meant that most trains could not be sent out on time. He said the problem was solved by 7 a.m.

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The Globe and Mail reports on the sale of 139 Cottingham St. (just off Avenue Rd. at Sidney St.) which sold for $3,125,000 in February. That exceeded the asking price of $2,750,000 by a tidy $375,000. The condition was that the buyer had just two hours to think about accepting this offer for his century home. It seems to have been easy for him to accept this so-called “bully offer.”

139 Cottingham/Google

From Sidney St.

The US is bludgeoning its NA neighbors with stunning taxes apparently in a bid to force them to concede to weakened trade under NAFTA. The decision announced Thursday morning has infuriated Ottawa and triggered the announcement of new taxes on US goods. The US says such moves by Canada, Mexico and the European Union will represent a hit on only a fraction of the huge US economy. In the past however, the idea of punishing Canada has been denounced in many US northern states which rely heavily on trade with Canada. It is an issue that may have political blow-back among Republican voters in states like New York, Michigan, Wisconsin and others. U.S. tariffs on steel are ‘bad news’ for Hamilton, mayor says

Tanya Wiles-Bell/LUC

Manor Road United on Saturday

Lawn Summer Nights ambassador

Today’s Menu

LHS soccer champs

Canadian Legion Todmorden Branch 10

MGH Kick the Stigma tourney

Summer Kickoff

Her many friends in Leaside and at Leaside United Church are preparing to celebrate the years of good work by Tanya Wiles-Bell as she prepares to retire as LUC’s Christian Education Director. You may wish to be there on June 13. Upper right is a reminder of Saturday’s rummage sale at Manor Road United Church. Always fun. Below that a suspicious but somehow loveable fellow ready to growl about the Lawn Summer Nights hi-jinks at Leaside Lawn Bowling Club in July. It is an important event raising funds for cystic fibrosis research and offering hilarious posturing by young professional people in outlandish dress. We like it. Centre right is some yummy looking Lemon Cake available at Today’s Menu on Millwood Rd. Centre left, these shining faces belong to the Leaside High School soccer champs in the TDSSAA Senior Girls AA Division. Well done ladies. At the bottom, events from our friends in East York. Young skateboard fans will want to hit the East York Arena on Sunday for the Summer Kickoff. Canadian Legion Todmorden Branch 10 is running a fundraiser June 10 and bottom left is a preview of the September 22 MGH mental illness “Kick the Stigma” fundraiser, of which more later.

Property Brothers, Jonathan and Drew, with Dhaksha Hale

75 Parklea Drive

The Property Brothers — Jonathan and Drew Scott — will feature the home at 75 Parklea Drive on their popular program. This new home is both the first construction project and the current residence of the builder, Dhaksha Hale, her husband Allan and son Dylan, 5. Dhaksha is an enterprising woman who has followed an impressive career in finance and banking, working with firms like Price Waterhouse Cooper as well as both the TD Bank and Bank of Montreal. Rightly proud of the accomplishment, and with thanks to her husband, Dhaksha says she always straddled the world of Art and Business. Her career path led her from fine arts at York University to Business Management at Ryerson. She started Hale Property Development in late 2016. 75 Parklea Dr was purchased for her to design and build.  She told The Bulldog,  “I had all the flexibility and support I needed from my husband Allan Hale. A truly modern man and my biggest supporter. He believes in the entrepreneur, me and was willing to bet our savings on me.  In fact he left a business and a promising career in Trinidad to be with me in Canada after 6 months of knowing me..I thought he was crazy, what a romantic”.