The South Bayview Bulldog

Duke of Connaught Junior and Senior Public School on Woodfield Rd. was locked down Thursday after unspecified threats were made. In the end, police have searched the school and found nothing. No one was hurt. Because of this disruption Terry Fox events have been postponed to another day.

Collision: Overlea Blvd/ Thorncliffe Park Dr.. Cyclist struck. Unknown injuries. #GO1761050^adc

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) September 28, 2017

Friends and family of Paul Estrela

Honouring Vincey Angelone

Laneways near Woodbine and Danforth Aves. have been named to honour retired teacher Vincenzina (Vincey) Angelone and the late Paul Estrela, long-time retailer and founder of Royal Beef at 1968 Danforth. The laneways run between Woodmount and Glebemount Aves. and between Woodmount and Woodbine Aves. The naming ceremonies on Saturday were celebratory family events (as shown above) typical of the immigrant citizens who came, integrated and built the community. Ms. Angelone grew up on Woodmount Ave. and served as a teacher at St. Brigid Catholic School for 46 years. She continues to volunteer there. Mr. Estrela was a native of Portugal who learned both English and Italian as he found his way in Toronto. He opened Royal Beef in 1985 assisted by his wife Carmen. He died in 2004. He was committed to the community as a sponsor of children’s sports and schools.

Hazard: Old Colony Rd/ Bayview Ave.. water main break…water reportedly flowing into homes. Units are responding. #GO1759107 ^adc

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) September 28, 2017

Belgium is scandalized by the elaborate mobile billboard business designed to hook up Sugar Daddies with college girls. Then, WestJet will call its new cheapie airline Swoop. Why not Swipe? Down below, Saudi women are given the right to drive a car and Britain retires the venerable White Helmets, an army motorcycle team that has entertained the public for 90 years.

Avoca Chocolates

Merchants of Millwood Rd. east of Trace Manes Park will hold an Open House Day Saturday. It’s a day to shop Leaside because the Bayview-Leaside BIA is holding the first day of Apple Fest 2017. Check it all out.

Fire at Vaughan mansion causes estimated $10 million in damage https://t.co/JscWOXvyDB pic.twitter.com/vomnL51jbF

— CP24 (@CP24) September 27, 2017

Freakish bad luck seems to have led to the devastating damage at a mansion in Vaughan overnight when cell phones belonging to the occupants were re-charging in the kitchen where the fire started. The blaze, with damage estimated at $10M, sent a man and child to hospital. The three-alarm fire was finally called in when the homeowner drove to a decommissioned fire station on Islington Avenue and picked up a telephone with a direct line to 911, Vaughan Deputy Fire Chief Deryn Rizzi said.  It isn’t clear why the woman could not have called sooner from another source. Deputy Rizzi said one of the patients is suffering from “significant injuries,” but would not specify which one. Firefighters were called to the house on Ava Place in Kleinburg at 5:22 a.m. Rizzi said when firefighters arrived on the scene they saw “heavy flames” coming from the back of the house and the roof.

This weekend’s Bayview Leaside BIA’s Apple Fest will see their 1st Apple Chalk Art Competition! Come out Saturday, September 30th and draw your heart out for a chance to win the top prize of $200 cash!  Starting at noon artists will be picked on a first come first serve basis, with all chalk supplied. Be sure to come to the Bayview Leaside BIA tent that will be set up on the North West Corner of Bayview and Millwood to sign up, grab your supplies and be directed to your sidewalk area. Our judges, The Bayview Leaside BIA Pixies, will be announcing the winners at 4:30pm on Saturday.

Playing with water is good

Blood Clinic Oct 4

Milos Raonic at Leaside Tennis

WoodGreen Community AGM

A charming picture of the kindergarten kids at École Publique and Davisville Public School playing with — what else — water to stay cool. To the right, a visit to Leaside Tennis Club by Milos Raonic after that club won the Aviva Challenge Tennis Club Contest. The insurance firm is partnered with Tennis Canada and the Rogers Cup. Milos enthralled the fans and kids. Lower left, this poster is a reminder that the Leaside blood clinic at Northlea School is next Wednesday. That’s October 4. And finally, WoodGreen Community Services holds its 80th Annual General Meeting at East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell Ave. tonight.

25 households

120 volunteers

Checking the books

80 bottles of water consumed on hot day

Have a good day

The NOto Brownlow movement raised nearly $3,000 with its Soudan Ave. street sale on Saturday. Local residents and SERRA (South Eglinton Ratepayers’ & Residents’ Assocation) are fighting the outsized development proposed at 18 Brownlow. The money will be used to advance the SERRA opposition to this project at the Ontario Municipal Board. SERRA VP Jane Auster reports the multi-home yard sale took weeks of preparation and many hours tagging and sorting an eclectic collection of goods. “We set up on Saturday from 7 a.m. By 4:15 p.m. most of the “treasures” had gone to good new homes, and we had raised nearly $3,000,” she says. Also note the SERRA Free Tree offer to be had at the next Apple Tree Market at Davisville Park on Tuesday, October 3 (see poster above).

Ontario’s plan to drive the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2019 will cost the economy as many as 90,000 jobs by 2020, a report from the TD Bank says. It said an analysis reveals employers simply won’t hire the way they would otherwise have done in the short term. “It’s not that come Jan. 1 that there’s going to be 90,000 people laid off,” said TD senior economist Michael Dolega . “It’s that there would have been more jobs created had the economy expanded. Now, these jobs are potentially going to be taken by automation or there’s just going to be less impetus for hiring.”