Yes, that's hail out there #Toronto! #leaside #davisvillevillage #thunderstorm pic.twitter.com/djbpv0t9qG
— SBayview (@SBayview) September 29, 2017
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Quite the hail storm in Toronto. pic.twitter.com/mrH2aM9pFP
— Lee Hillman (@leehillman) September 29, 2017
The mother of #hail storms just passed outside my window #Toronto #eastside @weathernetwork pic.twitter.com/CQeR4Eyi6X
— Eva Voinigescu (@EvaVoinigescu) September 29, 2017
Andy Elder, owner of the Grilltime Gourmet Meat Store at 67 Laird Drive, is inviting everyone to drop in Saturday for a sampling, a glass of cheer and some anniversary specials as he celebrates nine years in business.
This is a summary of traffic deaths in the past few hours from City News. Clint Stibbe, Traffic Services Media Officer, speaks the hard truth about the effort to save lives. Stibbe says “The government can’t do it by themselves.”
Former US president Barak Obama is giving a noon hour speech Friday at the Toronto Convention Centre. The Toronto Star is offering a tweet by tweet account.
Leaside neighbours and friends of the El Hogar charity in Honduras celebrated a sold-out evening at Amsterdam Brewery on Esandar Dr. Thursday. El Hogar (the home) is a residential and educational facility which continues to salvage and often bring great success to the lives of poor kids in that country. The dinner was catered by Andy Elder of Grilltime. Below that, Head Coach Kim McCullough and her Junior Wildcats dine on pizza a-la-dressing-room courtesy of Pizzaville after a 1-1 tie with the Whitby Wolves Wednesday. Eat up ladies, there’s a full season ahead in the Provincial Women’s Hockey League (PWHL). Lower left, grunt and groan in Greektown Sunday as impresarios Channing Decker and Trent Gibson stage this stupefying spectacle. Catch a nice review of these two written by the ever-reliable Joanna Lavoie of the Beach Mirror. All that said, you may prefer to attend the Bayview-Leaside BIA Apple Fest this weekend. See more here.
School staff and some parents from Davisville Public School have toured Vaughan Road Academy, 529 Vaughan Rd., to learn how the large now-vacant facility will accommodate the classes of Davisville school during construction of a new three-storey school at the Millwood Rd. site. This video is informative and we see Davisville principal, Shona Farrelly, in charge of the tour. Earlier this year the Toronto District School Board decided to retain VRA rather than sell it, and ultimately create a community hub of some sort there. The school has gained a certain mystique with the emergence of the rapper Drake, who attended there as a boy. Self-indulgent mid-century “launch pad” or simply stupid?
Police are holding a man or boy (they have not specified which) in the case of the threatening letter written to Duke of Connaught Junior and Senior Public School on Woodfield Rd. The nature of the threat was not revealed. Duke of Connaught School locked down after threat
The storm-aftermath crisis in Puerto Rico is finally hitting the world media. The slowness of news may well have been caused by the collapse of power and communications system. This excellent CNN report describes tons of supplies sitting on the docks in a land paralyzed by disaster. Then, Hugh Hefner and what he did to the way we think and act about sex. Beneath that, City News gets Jennifer Keesmaat on the record. She seems quite clear that she is not running for mayor. Queen’s Park anyone? And finally, someone has complained to City Hall about one man’s little front-lawn library. It seems about the same as dozens of others populating neighborhoods here. Go figure.
Two days of sewer replacement at the intersection of Laird Drive and Esandar Drive has left no way to enter Leaside Centre (Longo’s) from the north except by the little known “back door” detour down Industrial St. Esandar is closed at Laird. Traffic northbound may still enter at the turn into Leaside Village at the CIBC. It’s not clear just how long this work will take but men were filling a trench on Laird with concrete during rush hour Thursday. Maybe a good sign.
Eastbound Gardiner closed at Jarvis because of truck fire @QPCamera pic.twitter.com/R1HGa4vHcv
— CityNews Toronto (@CityNewsTO) September 28, 2017
A judge in the trial of two top advisers to former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty has ruled a key prosecution witness won’t be allowed to deliver opinion evidence in court because he’s not independent. CBC
Prince Harry made a surprise visit to Toronto #WEDay this morning! pic.twitter.com/voy15oZbXg
— The Prince and Princess of Wales (@KensingtonRoyal) September 28, 2017
Prince Harry has made a surprise visit to WE DAY events at the Air Canada Centre. Harry urged young people to work together and help one another in order to build a brighter future. “We are stronger when we work together,” he said. Rick Hansen, Canada’s Man in Motion, introduced the prince to a raucous reception, after touting the Invictus Games.
