The South Bayview Bulldog

Tigers and Colts pay respect

Plant Milkweed for the Monarchs

MKRT Holiday Show and Sale

Mt. Pleasant Village Christmas Fair

Avenue Bistro on Bayview

A departing look at Remembrance Day as under-eight-year-old soccer players (Tigers and Leaside Colts) bow their heads ahead of a match at LHS field. Then below that, a reminder from SciComm, a group of self-described geeky volunteers, that the beautiful Monarch butterflies need the Milkweed plant to survive. It is essential to their nesting and feeding. SciComm geeks addressed a gathering at Leaside Library on McRae Drive Saturday. To the right, word of MRKT Holiday Show and Sale at All-Canadian Storage, 1 Laird, on December 2. Lower left is the poster for this year’s Mt. Pleasant Village Christmas Fair also December 2. Be there. And finally, Avenue Bistro at 1568 Bayview Ave. (formerly L’Avenue) posted this irresistible braised lamb shoulder on ratatouille with smashed fingerlings, cured black olive tapenade and “braising jus.” Yum.

Leaside Junior Wildcats split the weekend with a 3-0 win Saturday against Etobicoke at MasterCard Arena and a 4-0 loss at home Sunday against Burlington. The final goal Sunday was into an empty net as Leaside employed six attackers.  The Wildcats have been playing without forward Sarah Brooks who has been watching games from the gallery since taking a bump in a tilt against Bluewater Hawks October 30.

A day of important activity awaits for volunteers to the annual Seton Woods Tree Fall Planting Event Sunday beginning at 11 a.m. Arborist Stephen Smith will guide things under the auspices of the Leaside 132nd Scout, East York Kiwanis Club, TD Bank and Boston Green Consulting Team.

China, glass, art, toys

The Co-operators reminder

Holly Berry is coming

Silent auction in Lamb Hall

Canturbury Autumn Sale next Saturday

Friends and bargain seekers (and maybe one and the same) thronged St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church Christmas Sale Saturday. The doors to Lamb Hall opened shortly after 11 a.m. following a Remembrance Day service. Reverand Ian LaFleur, who was inducted earlier this year as the incumbent minister at St.Cuthbert’s, greeted every guest. To the right, a reminder from the Cooperators agent Alok Tomar at Leaside Insurance, 1820 Bayview, about the promise of male longevity and the masculine appeal of a mustache this Movember month. Thanks Alok. Then, two church fairs to keep in mind, Rosedale United Church and St. Augustine of Canterbury Anglican Church, both next Saturday.

TPS knocks down hanging shards at Dove Cleaners

A car jumped the curb and smashed into the Dove Cleaners storefront in the plaza at 325 Moore Ave about 9 a.m. Saturday. The driver, an older woman with a cane, apparently mistook the direction of the gear in which the car was engaged as she was leaving the plaza. She was reported trapped in the vehicle but was easily freed and did not go to hospital. She was examined by paramedics at the scene.

St. Cuthbert’s Christmas Fair will be held Saturday, November 11 in the church at 1399 Bayview Ave. Doors open at 11.30 a.m. It runs until 2.20.

OPERATION RAISE A FLAG

Sunnybrook veterans will awake Saturday to a sea of flags on the lawns outside the veterans hospital and home.

WHERE TO OBSERVE REMEMBRANCE DAY

• How and where to honour fallen soldiers in the GTA on Remembrance Day
• Remembrance Day weekend road and subway closures in Toronto

Justin Trudeau was a no-show at a meeting to discuss a trans-Pacific trade agreement in Vietnam today. It is said he does not want to ruffle Donald Trump unnecessarily at critical negotiations around renewing NAFTA. The US president has already pulled out of the TPP talks. The CBC wins a turn-of-phrase prize for Friday by saying that Trudeau was at his most Harperesque in staying away. The former PM, known for his stubborn tendency not to just do what others want him to do, might take it as a compliment. Trudeau, who knows? The City News wrap here covers the abuse Trudeau took from the Australians over this. On the right, Trump being Trump about trade at the same gathering.

Falling embankment on Rose Park Crescent

The Vale of Avoca is a Midtown ravine which sits so close to the lives of millions of residents that they hardly seem to notice it. That’s probably because it is “down there” for most of them as they ride over the St. Clair Ave. E. bridge coming and going from Yonge St. and the Line One subway. The Vale of Avoca was most recently in the news last May when large sections of the embankment behind homes on Rose Park Crescent fell away, threatening the stability of the homes. Now five residents association will ask the City next week to begin work on fixing the Vale of Avoca. It is said to be suffering from years of erosion and neglect. As reported by CBC writer Muriel Draaisma, the Deer Park, Summerhill, Moore Park, North Rosedale and South Rosedale residents associations will ask the City’s parks and environment committee at its November 17 meeting to develop a master plan and a working group for the ravine.

STABILIZE EMBANKMENTS

The spokesman for the association is John Bossons. His agenda is to clean up the Yellow Creek, which runs through the ravine, stabilize embankments and return the forest in the ravine back to a condition where there is undergrowth that will keep banks from eroding so quickly. Residents say the network of trails on the east and west sides of the ravines are not safe. Some like to dash across to Yonge Street from Moore Park by way of steps off Rose Park Crescent. But the steps are not sanctioned by the City and are considered to be built on unstable inclines. The name Vale of Avoca comes from the poem The Meeting of the Waters by Irish poet Thomas Moore. Landslide drops Rose Park backyards into Yellow Creek

Michael Cole/CBC

Michael Cole/CBC

Courtesy Syd@SydB29

Police report as many 70 collisions in the overnight and early morning hours as snow and ice make driving treacherous. There’s only one fix and it’s called drive slower. The photo at upper right shows a scene similar to that outside most Midtown homes Friday. The twitter bug who posted it is saying that Toronto isn’t in the snow belt. Really.  When did that happen?.

Bocce court take shape

Manor Rd. near Mt. Pleasant

Bocce balls

Mona Piper Playground schematic

Corner Forman and Manor

Work has begun on the two new parks on Manor Rd. east of Mt. Pleasant Rd. One is a trim field just off the business district where the former Glebe Manor Lawn Bowling Club was located. The original sign remains and presumably will be there in perpetuity as a reminder of the area’s history. Residents and visitors will sit or play bocce ball here. Photos at the top show work so far on the court. Down the street at Forman Ave (below) the beginning of a park for children can be seen. On the left is an early schematic of play areas and on the right these locations begin to take shape. The park sits beside Manor Road United Church, which sold the property to the City for this purpose.