The South Bayview Bulldog

UPDATE – COLLISION
SB Bayview Extension at Rosedale Valley Rd, CLOSED Rosedale Valley Rd, Park to Bayview #GO1687241 ^cb

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) September 17, 2017

Judy Weiss is urging supporters to keep momentum going for her petition to return the speed limit to 60 km from the present 50 on the Bayview Extension south of Pottery Road  Most interesting is her information that the change to 50 km on this part of the road was something like a thoughtless afterthought (our word). Judy says: “I have spoken to Councillor Jon Burnside of Leaside, who advised that this reduced speed limit to the Bayview Extension was added to a Publics Works committee vote in respect to 34 other problem locations noted in police collected data. He advised that one or more members of that committee added in to vote for standardizing the entire road of Bayview from the bottom of the extension all the way up to Steeles Ave to be posted at 50kms/hr with no data to back up this submission for a vote. The other 34 locations had problems noted in the police data. But Bayview was included in this vote with no data to support it being included. Let’s undo this bureaucratic mistake ” The petition has 640 supporters Sunday morning Change.org petition

Juggalos march

Kenneka Jenkins

NDP leadership

Followers of the band Insane Clown Posse have demonstrated in Washington because the FBI has declared them to be a gang. They’re called Juggalos and they paint their faces as above. Like we said, “who knew?” Then the heartbreaking story of a Kenneka Jenkins who died in an unlocked hotel freezer in Chicago after stumbling in there during a party. Then, if you’re following it, the NDP leadership campaign comes to an end Sunday. Watch it live if you want to know.  In video, did we say that social media has changed everything? Medical nursing specialist Ashley Shepherd learned this when prospective employers began targeting her cell based on her social media profile. To the right, the astonishing story of a woman who cannot go out in the sunlight because of a rare skin condition.

Ben Harrison/Twitter

A woman about 20 was seriously injured when she was struck and trapped underneath a streetcar at St.Clair Ave. and Yonge St. Saturday about supper hour. Police arrived and closed the intersection as emergency crews attended. A Twitter witness repeated a parent saying “this is why always we look both ways” to a young child. “Heartbreaking.”

Sorry officer/Sgt. Kerry Schmidt Twitter

An OPP officer has been treated for minor injuries after a car rammed the rear of his cruiser which was parked for an investigation on Highway 404 in Whitchurch-Stouffville Saturday night.

On sidewalk about to ascend to on high

New signage

Boo Boo & Lefty

Ron White showing these

A lovely day on South Bayview had many points of interest. Left, the unabashed butcher Cumbrae’s prepares to say so in signage at 1589-1591 where his stunning new business is about to open. Across the street, work proceeds inside 1588 at the new location of Boo Boo & Lefty interior design. Ron White was showing these pretty mid-heeled slippers

Little is known at posting time in the shooting death of a man near Gerrard St. East and River St. Saturday morning. Shots ere fired at about 1.30 a.m. and a second man is in serious condition. There are no names or information about whether a suspect is sought.

CAN’T STOP, PICKUP DRIVER BADLY HURT

A man driving a pickup truck rammed into the rear.of a transport truck on Highway 401 at Whitby late Friday. He is in grave condition in hospital. OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said construction delays in the area forced the driver of the transport truck to come to a stop in the middle lane of the highway.

Rookie says hello as only a Beagle can

You can’t sniff with us LOL

Publicity department

I’m not working too hard

But I love this stuffed toy my friend won

Pet me baby

Caplansky’s Bubby Doris

1973 Citroen coffee truck

Penny you showboat

The Park and Bark Dog Show was scheduled for Saturday at the parking lot on Yonge St. at Millwood Rd. north of Davisville Ave. The times are 9 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. The free show had a good turnout by 10 a.m. with dog lovers, their dogs, experts and exhibitors there to exchange information and sell. There was a Doggy Fashion Show and Best Dressed Dog Contest scheduled. Fine Grind Coffee arrived with the 1973 Citroen commercial truck which has had only two owners in Canada since it was imported in a tale lost in history for the moment. Fun.

Omar Khadr will not be permitted to have unsupervised visits with his sister, Zaynab, who is said to live “in the middle east” and has voiced support for al-Qaeda. That was the decision of an Edmonton court Friday even as it loosened bail conditions for the millionaire.  The judge granted Khadr greater access to the Internet as long as he stays away from anything to do with terrorism on the web. Upper left, a new trial has been ordered for Philip Grandine. He was convicted in the death of his pregnant wife Karissa Grandine, who drowned in a bathtub in 2011. The former pastor was having an affair with a parishioner. The Ontario Court of Appeal found the trial judge got befuddled by a question from the jury as to whether Grandine would be guilty if he simply knew his wife was drugged while in a hot bath. The answer opened up an avenue to conviction on terms that were never discussed at the trial. And finally, lower left, York Region school bus driver Ren “Jonathon” Zhang, 52, is in custody after allegedly chasing around after a 14-year-old girl with offers to take pictures of her.

Late Karissa Grandine and husband Philip Grandine

Ren “Jonathon” Zhang, 52

Omar Khadr

POLICE MATTERS REPORTED FRIDAY