The Leaside Select Invitational Tournament 2017 at Leaside Memorial Gardens is happening this weekend. 2100 players, relatives & friends have descended upon the Leaside rinks (and area arenas too) for some great hockey, food (from Grilltime!) and fun! The The South Bayview Bulldog was there to check out the action.
Victor Dodig, CEO of CIBC, visited Kelly Dolson’s Core Body Science Pilates & Training Studio on Millwood Rd. near Rumsey Rd. in Leaside on Friday. He was on one of his regular tours to see personally the businesses of successful CIBC clients. Dodig was shown around the busy studio by owner Kelly Dolson, the former emergency room RN, who with her husband, has become a business anchor in the strip of stores on the north side of Millwood. He posed with Erika Topp and Kelly Dolson in the newly-added indoor cycling room, Leaside Indoor Cycling. Topp is a neighbour of Dolson’s and has taken the space for ten new Schwinn AC Performance Plus machines just delivered. The machines are said to mimic outdoor riding to give indoor rider an authentic cycling experience. Dolson says she is delighted with the addition to the complementary service provided at her studio
A bandit who police say is seen on surveillance captures here robbed the Bank of Nova Scotia on Thursday, November 17, 2016, at 2:45 p.m. and made off with some cash. He was disguised with a black wavy wig, dark sunglasses, and a baseball cap, he produced a hold-up note to the teller, indicating he was armed with a gun. He discarded an Exco Jean jacket as he fled east on Eglinton. It is further reported that on Thursday, December 1, 2016, at 7:10 p.m., the same man entered another bank in Leaside. He was disguised with a hat, hooded jacket and dark sunglasses and he again produced a hold-up note to the teller, indicating he was armed with a gun The man is described as 5’9″ – 6’, medium build. A security camera image is now available.
Skate Night is Coming Up! https://t.co/rZ686V3FKl
— Davisville Parents (@DPSParents) January 31, 2017
Some beautiful sunshine and light snow on the ground out there Leaside, so definitely a day to get out and about and breath it in 😀🌨☀️ pic.twitter.com/5m9BLj7M7d
— Leaside United Church (@LeasideUnited) February 1, 2017
Starbucks in the US (and probably Canada) will hire thousands of refugees in an apparent response to Donald Trump. Wow. The figure mentioned is 10,000 over five years. This is the most recent jab from Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz after his letter to Trump condemning the travel ban orders was met with the Twitter hashtag #BoycottStarbucks. Starbucks drinkers and friends hijacked the hashtag to reverse its intention.
ROLL UP THE RIM
This is non-political. Tim Horton’s has brought back the Roll Up The Rim contest. The coffee giant teased the return of the contest on Twitter on Tuesday, and made it official Wednesday morning. Those who purchase coffee or other hot beverages at participating locations will have the chance to win one of more than 49 million prizes. Prizing this year includes 40 grand prizes of the new 2017 Honda Civic Coupe EX-T, as well as 150 55″ LG 4K UHD Smart TVs, 100 $5,000 CIBC prepaid cards, 24,000 $100 TimCards and millions coffee and food prizes. Tim Horton’s also noted that Wednesday marks exactly 150 days until Canada’s 150th birthday.
ADS TARGETING KIDS?
And the Heart and Stroke Foundation is calling on the federal government to restrict online marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages aimed at children and teens, saying that high-volume promotional tactics are setting up young people for obesity and lifelong health problems. The foundation is calling for the elimination of marketing of all food and beverage products to children and youth under age 17.
The choice corner of Laird Drive and Wicksteed Ave. is the source of widespread local interest. For decades it was the junkyard and fix-it-up home of the venerable Ricci brothers, now moved to their alternative location on Canvarco Road where there is a grand selection of 70s cars. The property was sold last summer for $10.7 million to owners who are really not acknowledged anywhere. One principal is said to be a local man who attended Leaside High whose family business hopes to build a commercial-retail centre there. Further whispers say that among those who have sat at the table as prospective tenants in recent days are the Indigo Books operation and mattress bosses The Brick. Nothing is settled of course but in matters of enormous public interest people will be people and talk. They would like to know. Certainly an Indigo store would be an attractive addition to South Bayview. We can just see the sign on the corner. Nothing like a sign on the street to grab business. Indigo is operated by Heather Reisman, wife of Gerry Schwartz, the unimaginably wealthy (and philanthropic) owner of Onex, a private equity investment firm and holding company. They are Rosedale denizens. Indigo is, in a way, a gift to the community too because the perennially money-losing firm could not be sustained by just anyone. No doubt there are accounting considerations. We’re rooting for an Indigo.
There was an amazing turnaround in the plunge into privatized garbage collection for Scarborough at City Hall Tuesday. The seemingly unstoppable plan to put the job up for bidding which electrified local politics two weeks ago has been stopped dead. Instead, Mayor Tory and his supporters found that the likelihood of Council voting to approve the proposal passed by the Public Works Committee was very chancy. News stories Tuesday are vague about names but there is said to be resistance to privatization from both “left” and “right” supporters to privatization. The reasons may differ. Some just don’t like the idea of non-union service period. Some on the right are undecided over whether contracting out will really save money. The City has received reports which seem to contradict each other. One insight emerging today is that the union employees, member of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, have become more efficient since privatization of collection west of Yonge in 2012. It now seems this subject is dormant until after the 2018 election. Committee opens bidding for private collection in Scarborough CP24
Sometimes hope for the renewal of Spring hangs on little things like the disappearance of the For Lease sign in the former Tori and Cates shop in the 1500 block of Bayview Ave. We tried to chase down the landlord but no luck so far. Let’s hope.
There will be a “celebration dinner” for the Thorncliffe Park Ministry charity on February 23, 2017 at 6 p.m. at St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church, at 1399 Bayview Ave. It will be an evening of music, good food, silent auction and story telling. Tickets are $50 (a $25 tax donation receipt provided).
Beck Taxi, long at war with the Uber livery monolith, is finding new inspiration in a decision by Uber’s CEO to act as an adviser to Donald Trump and the subsequent anger over presidential travel restrictions orders. Beck’s Twitter account is now full of tweets like the one above lauding diversity in general and Beck’s multi-national makeup. @BeckTaxi
East York Historical Society meets in its regular last Tuesday of the month at the Walter Stewart Library at 170 Memorial Park Ave. tonight. The feast speaker is Dr. William Humber, director of Seneca College’s ECO-Seneca Initiative, the event will also include a performance by guitarist Rick Pearson and pan player Mervyn Charles. The meeting is billed as a chance to honour three great Canadians — but you will have to wait to see who they are. Meeting begins at 7.30 Information: email eyhs@eastyork.org, or call 416-429-7821..
