Congratulations to the Wildcats PeeWee A (Harlow) champions of the East division with a record of 16-2-4. pic.twitter.com/ZYmJNvr7GY
— Toronto Leaside Wildcats (@TorontoLeaside) January 31, 2017
Congrats to the Wildcats PeeWee BB (Andy Kerr) Champions of Central East Division with a record of 16-3-3. pic.twitter.com/NeuZuWbCww
— Toronto Leaside Wildcats (@TorontoLeaside) January 31, 2017
CGS on Eglinton Ave. E. at Hanna Road held their first annual Alumni Open House last week and were thrilled to see so many familiar faces back at the school after so many years. The children were very happy to reconnect with each other and with their favourite CGS teachers. CGS is celebrating their 30th anniversary this year and has touched the lives of many students. A student from the first class has recently become a parent himself! Interested in joining the CGS family? Contact Kelly Scott, Director of Admission at 416 423 5017 or kscott@cgsschool.com. Grades are Preschool-Grade 3. Graduates move on to all of the top private schools in Toronto.
The last two weeks have been a roller coaster ride here at the South Bayview Bulldog. Due to server issues, the site has been up and down more often than we can count on our fingers and toes. We have taken steps to commence the migration of all of our articles over to a new home. We hope there will not be any down time, but if it happens, rest assured, we’ll be back up and running soon! For up-to-the-minute updates you can always check our Facebook and Twitter newsfeeds. Our new host, Bluehost, is rated among the most reliable of web servers and is the official WordPress recommended provider. We believe service will be more reliable and faster when the changeover is complete. We thank all our friends and followers in Leaside, Thorncliffe, Davisville, Sherwood Park, Moore Park, Deer Park, Rosedale, Lawrence Park and throughout Toronto for their kind understanding. — Publishers.
Mayor Tory is talking tough about the provincial government of Kathleen Wynne. He is demanding, more or less, that the Liberal government sit down with him and make a plan for funding now that the Premier has shut down Toronto’s plan for rod tolls. Tory said Monday he and Wynne spoke “constructively” about the issue during a meeting at Queen’s Park early in the day. Later he said the road tolls dispute had changed the dynamic of his conversation with the premier. “Last week, the nature of our City’s understanding with the province fundamentally changed. Those events meant that it couldn’t just be business as usual. Toronto City Council took a clear position on our chosen path forward and put forward a plan to pay for the projects our citizens badly need. Denied the power to make those investments, the province now needs to do more for Toronto and for its nearly three million citizens,” Tory said. Just what he can expect remains unknown. As generation Canadians learned in school: “The cities are the creatures of the provinces.” That sums it up. Ms Wynne can do — or not do — whatever she wants. There is political risk of course.
The first day of business at Jameson Watermulder’s new shop at 408 Summerhill Ave. in Rosedale has been busy. The style is much like Summerhill Market down the street where Jameson was chief cook for many years. The selections are different however. Certainly worth a visit.
Home Depot at 101 Wicksteed Ave. in Leaside will hold a job fair as it seeks new employees this Thursday, February 2, 2017 between 6 and 9 p.m. It is one of a series of events planned by Home Depot across Canada as it prepares to hire as many as 240 people. Home Depot is well known as an employer of able bodied senior people. Details on how to prepare are at this link.
Toronto is plunging into a deep freeze forecast to last at least a week. We will see a low of minus 10 Sunday night and comparable nighttime lows during the week.
The well-known resident of North Leaside, Sheila Attridge Burns (May 10, 1924 – January 24, 2017) has died. Sheila Burns was a teacher of English as a second language at Northlea Public School and a member of Northlea United Church where she was a member of the United Church Women and a dedicated volunteer. She was similarly generous with her time on behalf of Canadian Blood Services. A remembrance service will be held in Northlea United on Saturday, February 4th at 2 p.m. with visiting from 1 p.m. The full obituary may be read at the Humphrey Funeral Home site.
Dr. Janet (Jinty) McGoey (1918-2017) died peacefully on Friday, January 27. Her distinguished career as a physician, wife and mother began in the village of Aberfoyle, Scotland. She was encouraged by her family and a local physician to attend medical school at Glasgow University, a feat made possible by a Carnegie scholarship and her own determination. She completed her surgical internship in 1941 and was sent to Hairmyers Hospital in Lanarkshire. It was here she was thrown together by wartime chance with her husband-to-be Dr. Paul McGoey. He was senior intern of a Canadian medical unit sent to Hairmyers to help with the wounded. It is recorded that they married on May 10, 1943, with each returning to the operating room within hours of the ceremony. The family will receive friends at the Humphrey Funeral Home A.W. Miles – Newbigging Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue from 4 to 8 p.m. on Friday, February 3, 2017. A Mass will be held in ST. CHRISTOPHER’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, 1171 Clarkson Road North, Mississauga on Saturday, February 4th at 11 o’clock. Reception to follow at the church. If desired, in lieu of flowers, a memorial donation to The Compass Outreach Centre, 310 Lakeshore Road West, Mississauga, Ontario, L5H 1G8, may be made. Full obituary
A cheeky ‘super baby’ has caused a stir online after managing to climb over two stair gates meant to stop him from leaving his room. Leo Westlake, who is 21-months-old and lives in Falmouth, seamlessly scaled the two metal gates just 10 minutes after his mother put up the safety barrier. The tot was filmed using his arms and feet to pull himself over gate and cleverly placing his toes in between the railings to boost his stability.
A medal filled wknd with 13u boys& girls grabbing bronze, 17u girls earning silver premier and 14u girls taking gold in championship!
— Leaside Volleyball (@leasidevbc) January 29, 2017
