The South Bayview Bulldog

Traffic lights at Bayview and Moore Aves. are back to normal Monday morning. The lights have been subject to on and off fits of flashing red for a few days. Let’s see how it goes. What’s wrong with the traffic lights at Moore and Bayview?

Memories of Hollywood at Bayview and Belsize

Morgan Passi high on Nashema Park

Off Chaplin Crescent

Saturday September 16 sees the Park and Bark event in the parking lot at 1930 Yonge

Revolution in Greektown? Why not

Kim McCullough with friends from Carleton Ravens

Upper left, Jessica Chastain is just able to get her head above the gaggle of media and autograph seekers at the Toronto Film International Festival where she will see the debut of her work in Molly’s Game, which filmed several scenes at Bayview Ave and Belsize Drive in January 2017 and November 2016. Upper right, Morgan Passi @cbcmorgsassi tweeted her four-year-old’s assessment of the state-of-the-art Nashemi Park on Chaplin Crescent. “What an awesome park,” she declared. Then, those woofers are here to remind all dog owners and lovers of the Park and Bark event next Saturday at the parking lot at 1930 Yonge St. north of Davisville Ave. Left down below, there will be a Revolution in Greektown come October. Count on it. And finally, Leaside Wildcats coach Kim McCullough posed with some pals from the Carleton Ravens team during Cats pre-season play.

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Ryan Yasin

Stretchy stretchy

An imaginative idea from a London design student, Ryan Yasin, is being both celebrated and criticized. He has created clothes which grow to fit the child. Yasin, a master’s student in the Royal College of Art’s Innovation Design Engineering program, was inspired by the challenge of getting something to fit his growing nephew. He started experimenting and realized that by pleating synthetic fabric in a particular pattern, it was possible for a piece of clothing to stretch in both directions. He sewed a prototype pair of tiny pants–and formed the pleats by heating up the fabric around a special mold in his oven at home. The prototype worked: It fit both his baby nephew and his two-year-old niece. The concept is called Petit Pli kids clothing. Among criticism is the concern that the fabric looks wrinkled.

Two persons of interest from June 16 at about 2 a.m.

Madidson and Bloor area

Man shot dead

Police are hoping to identify two persons of interest seen here as they try to solve a shooting in the Annex. They say it happened June 16 at 2:19 a.m. when a man was standing outside a vehicle in a parking lot at Madison Avenue and Bloor Street West. He “engaged in a verbal confrontation with two men” and was shot by one of the two. Both persons of interest fled the scene, southbound on Madison Avenue, in a dark-coloured SUV or mini-van.

Chronically flashing red

Whoops

Slow too

The traffic lights have been flashing red all day at Bayview and Moore Ave. Saturday. Well, they were okay for about ten minutes when a repair crew came and “fixed” them. Then they went right back to flashing red again. This is familiar to those using the corner. The lights were flashing red earlier this week until they were “fixed.” As we all know, drivers on a four-way red are supposed to stop and permit traffic to proceed sequentially. No traffic engineer wants to admit that this solution is actually no solution at a multiple lane corner. To work, drivers of as many as 12 cars at once must co-ordinate by some sort of telepathy.

The sale of the beloved Centreville carousel, an historic merry-go-round that has cheered Toronto children since the 1960s, seems to be in limbo this weekend. It is 110 years old this season. As explained by Shanda Walker, the director of marketing for Centreville, the agreement to sell the carousel to the City of Carmel, Indiana was always subject to a vote approving the $3 million price by Carmel City Council. Guess what? City officials are now in the middle of a public debate over whether the sale will require an increase in taxes. The agreement to sell needs final approval from the City by October 31 or Centreville is free to do what it wants. The decision to sell the carousel was made by Centreville’s owner, William Beasley Enterprises, to off-set the damaging cost of the rained out summer of 2017. Island flooding triggers sale of antique Centreville carousel

Volunteers from the charity GlobalMedic are on their way Sunday by Sunwing aircraft to St. Maarten with 1,500 hygiene kits and drinking water for the shell-shocked people of that island. This City News report was prepared Saturday night as they got ready.

Shirley Giles

A pioneer of Canadian banking, Shirley Giles, née Gib, has died at age 95. Mrs. Giles was the first woman appointed a bank manager in Canada. She was offered that position — and took it on the spot — by the Bank of Nova Scotia in 1961. She worked for Scotiabank for 43 years and enjoyed telling the story of how she thought she was merely being asked her opinion when the bank’s assistant general manager called her into his office. When asked if she wanted the position, Giles promptly said “I’ll take it.” Shirley Giles lived with her husband, the late Alan Campbell Giles, on Broadway Ave. in Leaside for more than 35 years. She was proud of her role. In a 2015 interview she said: “I never made a bad loan and I was a darn good lender.” A service will be held in the York Funeral Centre, 160 Beecroft Road, Saturday, September 16 at 11:00 a.m.  A reception will follow.  Condolences, photographs and memories may be forwarded through www.humphreymilesnewbigging.com. Obituary

Owner Alan Grant with MG TD

PC Mark Pillsworth and family

Leaside Garden to celebrate senior status

Kids soccer take over LHS field

Dads watch closely

The Bayview and Moore Petrocan had a visit Saturday from a local man, Alan Grant, in his MG TD sports car. MG stands for Morris Garages, a legendary place where William Morris built cars like these. Then to the right, 53 Division had a visit from Alberta RCMP officer PC Mark Pillsworth and his family. They are seen here with host PC Tim Somers who showed them around on this busman’s holiday. Down below we have a poster proclaiming that Leaside Memorial Community Gardens is 65. They will be celebrating Sunday, September 24 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and by the way, this event will also see the kickoff of the 10th Anniversary of Sarah and Claire’s Food Drive. Can’t wait. Bottom, a couple of shots of the Saturday fun as kids soccer took over the field at Leaside High School. Kick it Mary, kick it!

On their way

Settng off from City Halll

Mayor and friends

Schneider Electric Team

Thousands were up before dawn Saturday to participate in the Rexall OneWalk to Conquer Cancer starting out from Nathan Phillips Square at City Hall. This year a sum in excess of $6,000,000 is pledged to walkers to help the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation, financial arm of the famous hospital and research centre.

Fire (Residential) – Brendan Road b/w Burnham Road / Moore Avenue, East York (6 Trucks)

— Toronto Fire (@tofire) September 9, 2017

OTHER OCCURENCES

Also reported Friday, a gas main break on Randolph Rd. between Hanna Rd. and Rutherglen Rd and a personal injury accident at Bayview Ave. and Balliol St.