Abe Hussein has been found safe at a hotel near the airport having checked himself in after arriving from Montreal Tuesday. There had been concerns for the man, 81, after he apparently missed a meet up with his family. Peel police Const. Harinder Sohi said that Hussein was found at a Mississauga hotel on Wednesday morning. Surveillance footage showed Hussein getting on a GO bus bound for the Yorkdale area leading to concerns he was lost in Toronto.
Bayview Leaside BIA held a lunch Tuesday to say thank you to Bayview’s Pixies, the volunteer group that keeps the street looking green and beautiful. The event was in the magnificent Davisville garden of Debora Kuchme, leader of the Pixies. The ladies seen above in the top picture from the left are Debora Kuchme, Carol Smith, Marilyn Cook, Janis Fertuck, Linda Fox, Helen Godfrey, Hannelore Mohring, Angela Fusco and Erica Wevanloon. Not present, Jo Ann Davis and Cate Gravely. A treasured thank you card signed by many merchants on Bayview Ave. was presented to those present by Cheryl Sims, co-ordinator of the BIA
A South Bayview medley with real style this Tuesday as Kate Wheeler (What She Said) posts some nice items for sale on the Leaside Community FB page. This antique pram is on FB Marketplace and might fetch $1,500. Lovely. Then, it’s a reminder that the South Leaside Monday Group of great moms is getting ready for a new season. Check in with them. Below that, a welcome new sign in the window at 1588 Bayview where Boo boo and Lefty, home furnishings and decor will be moving in. Looking forward. Few may remember the Plymouth, a Chrysler car from years past but Torontomobilia posts this from Leaside. The car was named after Plymouth Rock (pilgrims and all that). This Plymouth Rocks too. Finally, the Leaside Wildcats sitting up straight, or as the coach said in a tweet to #Leaside, learning how to sit in school now that they have to do that thing again.
With Parking Enforcement Officer (Bicycle) Erin Urquhart
“Group selfie”
Mayor with Councillor Burnside
New signs and lights
Mayor Tory marked the first day back to school in Flemingdon Park Tuesday morning with Councillors Jaye Robinson (Ward 25) and Jon Burnside (Ward 22) plus others (see below). They inaugurated a new more prominently marked school zone for Grenoble Public School. It is one of seven such new zones put into effect with the start of the school year. The City is introducing enhanced school safety measures as part of the so-called Vision Zero Safety Program. Ms. Robinson is chair of pubic works. Also present was Police Supt. Gord Jones and public health physician Sara Whitehead. The new zones feature safety signs with flashing beacons, school zone pavement stencils, “watch your speed” driver feedback signs and markings at school crosswalks.
The CBC says that OPP have closed Highway 6 at Caledonia as Six Nations persons encroach on Highway 6 near the town. At about 1:30 p.m. Monday OPP responded to reports that a group of individuals were blocking the route to Lake Erie communities. Police say in the interest of public safety, they have closed Highway 6 between Argyle Street North and Greens Road, and Sixth Line between Argyle Street South and Oneida Road.
The TTC has done away with away with the so-called two-hour transfer, the practice of letting riders hop on and off cars until the transfer expired. The reason for this is that motormen on the new Bombardier cars are enclosed in a compartment and unable to make contact with the pubic. A petition has been started to try to somehow get the transfers continued.
Posts to Leaside Community Facebook page tell of rowdy kids in numbers estimated at 200 roaming streets in South Leaside Sunday night. There was much disturbance and possibly damage done variously on Southvale, Bessborough, Sutherland, Leacrest and Rolph, to name five. Police had to be called to break up the carousing. One witness says it was “quite a mob scene at Southvale/Rolph and on Leacrest.” The post goes on: “I’ll bet the apologetic neighbour will be apologizing to his parents, bigly! It was a good learning experience for my tween to see what happens when this stuff gets out on social media. Michael Nourse said that 200 was not an exaggeration. Kate Craig wrote that on Friday “there was a car with about 30 kids sitting on top of it driving down Bessborough. Beer bottles in hands. Crazy.” Patrick Rocca said “idiots ran up the front hood of my convertible, literally, over the roof and down back..thank gawd no damage, just footprints…gonna check out my security camera film tonight..I know where the party was.” Vanessa Campbell agreed: “Yes crazy mob last night, I couldn’t believe how many kids were going into that house. I was curious if the party throwers themselves called the cops as it was getting too out of hand, and they needed help clearing all the people out!”
Donald Trump has tweeted a threat to cancel “all trade” with any country doing business with North Korea as the US throws everything short of war at nuclear adventurer Kim Jung un. Such a move would hit China’s economy like a hammer. It would not be easy in the US either, but the impact in Beijing would be near catastrophic. It seems both a sign of the Trump administration’s determination and desperation that it is discussing such an embargo. When asked about a preemptive attack yesterday Trump said only “We’ll see.”
CREATED BY SOVIET UNION, PROTECTED BY CHINA
Some say there is no living with North Korea because of the nature of its government. It is universally despised. In order to sustain the Kim family tyranny it must threaten the world and act illegally in a variety of ways. North Korea was created in 1945 by Stalin as his armies went about converting much of the world to Communism. During the Korean War, when the north invaded the south, Chinese dictator Mao Tse Tung saved the north as United Nations forces (including Canada) seemed set for total victory. Kim Jung un, grandson of Stalin’s puppet leader, owes his existence as a dictator to Stalin and to China, which has continued to protect the north.
Summerhill Market at 446 Summerhill Ave. and 1054 Mt. Pleasant Rd. are open Labour Day from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Most other grocery stores are closed. The shopping mall picture is divided. CF Eaton Centre is open, Yorkdale is closed. CBC story here is comprehensive.
Prince William and his wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, are expecting their third child, Kensington Palace said Monday. It was the difficult morning sickness known to afflict the duchess in previous pregnancies that forced the couple to make the announcement. Kate was not feeling well enough to attend an appointment Monday. She is being cared for at her Kensington Palace home in London. “The queen and members of both families are delighted with the news,” the palace said in a statement. William and Kate, both 35, already have two children: Prince George, 4, and Princess Charlotte, 2.
