Starbucks at 1545 Bayview Avenue has closed their doors for a few days to perform some renovations. They’ll be closed from May 14th – 16th, 2018. Looking forward to seeing the “new look”!
Here’s some scandalous stuff for Monday including a place that feeds you food like the Bypass Burger. Yikes. Meghan Markle will conform to royal etiquette including rules for her lower limbs. And the guy in the Amazon camera is about to open the Amazon lock to deliver an Amazon package to you — the Amazon zombie. Enjoy
Also note the Friends of Toronto Public Cemeteries meeting Monday night. See full South Bayview Bulletin Board.
A Mother’s Day morning incident at the Don Valley Parkway and Eglinton East saw a naked man, said to be distressed, wandering in grass at the corner. It was, as the TPS Operations dispatch said, a visual distraction to motorists. They dealt with the matter.
EXPOSURE:
DVP + Eglinton Av
-On grass next to highway
-Naked man walking
-Appears to be in distress
-Providing visual distraction to motorists#GO861862
^dh— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) May 13, 2018
An area homeowner is appealing on Leaside Community Monday for ways to persuade raccoon babies to find another corner to sleep. The suggestions in a long thread span such things as the scent of Irish Spring, fox urine, a radio tuned to a news station, cayenne pepper and a hose. Two helpful people wrote “So cute.” Leaside Community
A pleasing glimpse of Toronto life is seen in City News video as a cop let’s a woman climb aboard for a piggyback Friday across a flooded gutter caused by a watermain break. It was on Sherbourne St. that the police officer noticed the woman wearing flip flops as she dithered about leaping over the water. There is an “awww” from someone as the cop sees his duty. Another pedestrian helps out by retrieving a lost flip-flop.
BOY HURT IN CAR-BIKE ACCIDENT
A young cyclist has been taken taken to hospital Sunday after being struck by a vehicle in Mississauga. Peel Regional Police say the child was on private property when the incident occurred in the area of Goreway Drive and Brandon Gate Drive just before 6 p.m. Police say the child suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries and that the driver remained on the scene. The Peel Major Collision Bureau has been called in to investigate.
Friends of Toronto Public Cemeteries will meet Monday, May 14 at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, 527 Mt. Pleasant Rd. at Belsize Drive, to continue the struggle to restore Mt. Pleasant Cemetery to public hands. The meeting is set to begin at 7 p.m.
Urban Toronto has published plans from an application to the City seeking rezoning to permit a proposed privately-operated assisted living home at 1365 Yonge Street, south of St. Clair. The plan from Welltower Inc. Canada proposes a 17-storey, 69.5 metre-high Turner Fleischer
Here we go with an upbeat Video Wheel on Mother’s Day. Netta Barzilai has sent her fans and all of Israel into paroxysms of joy by winning the Eurovision song contest in Lisbon. Then, three Meghan and Harry stories. “Do you Meghan take Harry…” etc. The wedding is May 19.
Television viewers have seen the Garden Court Apartments as transformed for the sinister world of The Handmaid’s Tale. The scene above aired May 6 on Bravo. The filming took pace last October as seen below
A man in his 20s is dead after he fell to the ground from an electrical tower early Sunday in Toronto, paramedics say. It occurred before dawn and was discovered by someone who found the body. There is speculation he may have been shocked or electrocuted on the tower. Paramedics said they were called to the scene near the intersection of Ronald and Castlefield Avenues at 6:15 a.m.
Sure, regular gas is running $1.39 a litre at Merton and Mt. Pleasant but when the Ford dealership sat at 55 (now 78) Pleasant Blvd. just east of Yonge St. in 1928 the cost of a tank was pennies. The pump was at the curb, an outrageously dangerous but common practice in those days. The Yonge subway was still unimagined by anyone. The approach to the lane leading to Rosehill Ave. can be seen in the foreground. Yonge St. was still under construction. The building on the west side of Yonge to the right is now replaced. There was open land to the south of it and anyone could stroll into St. Michael’s Cemetery. It still sits there hidden from the bustle of Yonge and unknown to many.
