Crews are working as late at 11 p.m. daily to replace pavement on both sides of St.Clair Ave E. from Inglewood Drive to Mt. Pleasant Rd. by a contract-finish date of September 24. The work has reduced traffic to one way in each direction all the way west to Avoca Ave. The job specifies new road first on the south side of St. Clair, then beginning next week, the north side. Find another way downtown.
The Toronto Police Service is now accepting applications for the position of Cadet-in-Training. The new recruits will support community-centric policing, diversity and inclusion. Job posting
Apple has unveiled an expensive new phone and other consumer-incentive products at a choreographed event that was not unlike the gathering of a cult It opened in a darkened auditorium in Cupertino, California with only the iPhones of those present visible in the murk. A message said “Welcome to Steve Jobs Theater.” Then came a voiceover from Jobs himself, Apple’s co-founder who died in 2011. Finally, there was the next guru of Appledom, CEO Tim Cook. “Not a day that goes by that we don’t think about him,” Cook said. “Memories especially come rushing back as we prepared for today and this event. It’s taken some time but we can now reflect on him with joy instead of sadness.” Even in death, Jobs was selling the iPhone it seemed. The world had to wait until after the revelation of the new iPhone 8 and a larger 8 Plus with upgrades to cameras, displays and speakers before hearing about the iPhone X. That’s “ten” to you in Roman numeral talk. Whether $999 US is a conscionable price for the phone is another question. It has no thumb button. Face recognition will open and close it. The screen bleeds to the outer limits of the phone so presumably the screen contains the casing.
A No to Brownlow yard sale will be held Saturday, September 23, 2017 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Soudan Ave. between Mt. Pleasant Rd. and Redpath Ave. near the site of the much-opposed rental development. It is a community yard sale with donated items from more than 15 households. The organizers are promising “treasures and bargains” the sale of which will raise funds to oppose 18 Brownlow. This is described as 25 and 20-storey towers rising from a shared podium fronting Soudan Avenue, replacing the low-rise homes currently occupying the site. An existing 19-storey slab apartment tower would be preserved if the project were built. The sale organizer ask for “no early birds please.” The rain date is September 24. Watch Twitter and Facebook. The South Eglinton Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association and the NO to Brownlow Community Group is organizing this community yard sale to raise funds for NO to Brownlow.
Here’s some adventurous flying, especialy for a 79-year-old. The Connecticut man is fine after his plane crashed into a tree Monday near Plainville, Conn. The tree cushioned the descent into a parking lot.
A woman, 39, was taken to hospital with a serious leg injury after she and her bicycle were pinned under a garbage truck at Donlands Ave. and Cosburn Ave. during rush hour Tuesday. She was trapped underneath the vehicle for a period of time and suffered bleeding, according to paramedics.
WOMAN’S REMAINS FOUND AT OSHAWA
Durham Police say a woman’s torso has been found in Oshawa Harbour Monday. Homicide detectives are on the job.
It’s started. We mean the polls that tell us how voters say they would cast their ballots now for the election which takes place more than a year from now. John Tory is shown as a big winner in a straight one-on-one contest against Doug Ford, according to a Mainstreet poll. A third well-known candidate like Ward 19 member Mike Layton would diminish Tory’s lead and possibly beat him — electing Ford. That may be a warning for Tory but it should be a don’t-go-there alarm for Layton whose constituency is pretty much South of Bloor.
Broadway Ave. between Mt. Pleasant Rd. and Redpath Ave is now open after Toronto Fire extinguished a smoky blaze at an apartment during the dinner hour. There were no injuries. Residents of the high-rise area tweeted their thoughts and one, Kathryn Laskaris, tweeted this picture.
Several hundred square feet of the parking lot at the SmartCentre on Laird Drive is being replaced in an apparent attempt to end chronic flooding in the lot when there is heavy rain.
New autumn foliage in the form of these delightful plants decorate the planter boxes on South Bayview. Debora Kuchme of the Bayview Pixies planters and protectors of the street says these are ornamental cabbages which will last right up until the switch to winter greens. She says they give Bayview an elegant country charm. Sweet.
Olivia Feather of Olde Yorke Fish and Chips on Laird Drive is looking for a website designer to create an updated website for the popular restaurant. Olivia’s parents, Peter and Anne Feather established Olde Yorke 20 years ago and have never looked back. Members of their loyal customer base can often be seen standing in line to get a table. Olivia posted to Leaside Community and told The South Bayview Bulldog that the firm needs a fresh look but nothing complicated.
