The Elegant Garage Sale sign was taken down Tuesday night. It has hung over the door of the old bank building at 1588 Bayview Ave. for nearly four decades. With this movement, the many reports that the location has been leased seem correct. Elegant Garage closed last September, somewhat more than a year after the death in 2015 of founder and abiding presence Lynn Albert.
Don Beard of the Leaside Garden Society has written to mention the next meeting of the society will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday September 14 at the Leaside Public Library, 165 McRae Drive. Landscape Designer Wolfegang Bonham will speak about the Evening Garden. Then on Saturday, September 16, the LGS Annual Flower show will take place at the library between 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.
Three motorcyclists are dead in a series of accidents which began when one rider crossed the centre line on a curve on Highway 507 in the Kawartha Lakes township of Trent Lakes, OPP report. A fourth person is in hospital with grievous injuries. Police say Greg Campbell, 43, from Toronto, Mark Langhorne, 40, from Oshawa, and Scott Knill, 45, from Woodville, a village west of Lindsay, all died. Campbell and Langhorne were part of Nasty North Ryderz Evolution, a Toronto motorcycle club. OPP say one of the riders in a group of 11 northbound motorcycles crossed the center line on a winding portion of the road and collided with two southbound motorcycles which were part of a group of three. Soon after that, another northbound motorcyclist hit a car that had stopped at the scene and another northbound motorcyclist went off the roadway and into the ditch.
Friends and members of Leaside United Church are tweeting and no doubt offering personally their best wishes to and regret at the departure of Rev. Rose Ann Vita. She will leave LUC August 31 after yeoman work in the merging of the congregations of LUC and Presteign-Woodbine United Church Her new duties will be at Emmanuel United Church in Brampton. Thanks and much good luck Reverend. Then a peach of a reminder that this is market day at the East York Civic Centre. Below that, a vintage Hawker Siddely car for rail fans seen in 1997 at Davisville Station. Then, it may be a free plug but we can’t resist a good egg sandwich seen here as tweeted by Chef Mike of @6SideCatering in Thorncliffe Park. Finally, Speak Rover, and then get over to the Park and Bark Dog Show on Saturday, September 16 in the parking lot on Yonge St. just north of Davisville Ave.
The Globe and Mail will cease distributing the printed publication east of the Quebec border, Publisher Phillip Crawley has announced. No more Globe in St. John, Fredericton or Halifax. Nor St.John’s, Nfld. it seems. The Globe and Mail’s long history and eminent ownership places it among newspapers most reasonably capable of survival in the digital age. The Thomson family owns 85 percent of the paper. The decision to stop printing in Halifax “because of the cost” is really a statement about the permanently damaged model for advertising. It is the flight of ads to uncountable free alternatives and particularly of want ads, which have disappeared (along with their readers) to locations as far apart as Kijiji and neighborhood Facebook pages. CBC
East York neighbours and friends of the Matt Campbell family have raised $9,613 of a $10,000 goal on Go Fund Me by Tuesday morning. The family of four was burned out of their semi-detached home at Mortimer and Logan Aves. at 4 a.m. Monday. All escaped safely. Many heart-felt expressions may be seen at the Go Fund Me page. House fire overnight on Mortimer between Logan, Arundel
Oregon was the place to be this Monday as the full eclipse of the sun by the moon swept across the US beginning about 9.30 a.m. Pacific time. The tiny hamlet of Madras, Oregon welcomed thousands of visitors with all their paraphernalia for the moment. You can see the path of the eclipse in the NBC video below. The excitement of the full eclipse is heard and seen in the CNN video. In most parts of the upper Pacific, McDonald’s gave employees three minutes off (see sign) to watch the eclipse. A kind of McEclipse. Donald and Melania Trump were outside the White House with the necessary eye shades. Brides planned wedding events around the rare event. In Canada, a partial eclipse was visible in Vancouver but Toronto, where skies were to be somewhat darkened, it seemed way too normal.
Lena Badali
Friends of Lena Badali are invited to visit with family at the Humphrey Funeral Home A.W. Miles – Newbigging Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue (south of Davisville Avenue) from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, August 22nd. A Mass of Resurrection will be held at St. Anselm’s Roman Catholic Church, 1 MacNaughton Road on Wednesday, August 23. Please contact the Humphrey Funeral Home A.W. Miles – Newbigging Chapel for the time of the service. Obituary
Big Ben has fallen silent for a proposed period of four years while essential work is done to modernize and sustain the British institution. But the public is upset and politicians concerned.
Many thanks to Twitter shooters @MolsonIsMyDog and @hashtagvajana for this look at life when streetcars go nuts. This one, a no doubt much-loved 511 Bathurst, went off the tracks at King about 8 a.m. Monday
