Woman with stroller struck in Santa Claus Parade rush

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Footballer Mike Bradwell thanks Leaside for recognition

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Wildcats defeat Ottawa, Aurora for winning weekend

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Leaside Junior Wildcats defeated the Ottawa Lady Sens 2-0 at Leaside Arena Saturday night. goals came from Samantha Jones (unassisted) at 14.06 of the second and Kristin Dellas Rovere with help from Mary Bowal and Marley Van Den Oetelaar at 15.28 of the third. Shanna Dolighan got the shutout for Leaside. On Sunday afternoon, the Wildcats defeated Aurora Panthers 3-1 also at Leaside Arena.

Waxing sorrowfully about the end of neighbourhood plazas

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Finishing up the Sunnybrook Plaza in 1952

Angela Hennessey on the Post City site has waxed sorrowfully about the disappearing neighborhood plaza and strip malls along Eglinton Ave. and elsewhere. It is a theme known to the pages of The South Bayview Bulldog as well. The east side of Leaside seems alien without the “No Name Plaza” on the southwest corner of Laird and Eglinton.  Ms Hennessey speaks with a couple of well-known businessmen Richard Byford of Bonnie Byford Real Estate on Bayview Ave. and Malcolm Firkser, owner of the much-admired Home Hardware at Sunnybrook Plaza. It is a frequent guessing game for those who patronize this store where they might find it in a future time, or anything like a substitute. The coming re-development of the plaza is discussed in the Post article and indeed it appears, as reported in The Bulldog, that finishing touches are being applied to an agreement between RioCan, the City and the Leaside Property Owners Association. A more complete idea of what is to be done may come at the LPOA meeting this Tuesday, November 22, 2016. LPOA agenda to discuss Sunnybrook Plaza, Eglinton zoning. Post City 

Report of billboard about to fall at Yonge and Briar Hill

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Archive photo of Yonge and Briar Hill

No winning ticket sold for $9 million Lotto 649 jackpot

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There was no winning ticket sold for the $9 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. The $1 million guaranteed prize was however claimed by a ticket holder in Ontario. The jackpot for the next 649 draw on Nov. 23 will be $13 million.

What! Good chance of flurries at Santa Claus Parade

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merc-in-snow-2South Bayview awoke Sunday to the awful reality that the balmy autumn is over. Here’s a front window sight in Moore Park. There is said to be a 70 per cent chance of flurries on the Santa Parade.

Woman cyclist seriously hurt in hit and run in Scarborough

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A woman cyclist has been seriously hurt in a hit and run accident Saturday evening at Kennedy Road and McNicoll Avenue. So far there is no description of the vehicle.

 

Premier Wynne calls high electricity costs her “mistake”

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Premier Wynne went before the Ontario Liberal Annual General Meeting Saturday in Ottawa and called high electricity prices her “mistake.” Canadian Press reporter Allison James said Ms. Wynne sounded “a note of contrition” on the politically damaging cost of power in the province.  She called evidence of her of her personal unpopularity the “elephant in the room.” She is quoted as saying: “I think that people look at me and many of them think, ‘She’s not who we thought she was. She’s become a typical politician. She’ll do anything to win,”’ Wynne said. “Frankly, I may have and I think I sometimes have given them reason to think that.” Wynne said part of convincing Ontarians that she wants to do what is in their best interests is admitting when she has made a mistake.

Will he or won’t he? Mitt Romney meets Donald Trump

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The Saturday afternoon meeting of Donald Trump and Mitt Romney has taken place at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Listen to Romney after the meeting.

Leaside ROCs say hockey is “better than a book club”

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Magazine profiles women who shoot to score, it seems

An entertaining post on the Leaside Chit Chat Facebook page carries a photo (above) of the Leaside ROCs Women’s Hockey (ha) Instructional Skills Group. Go ROCs. The story is published in the Neighbors of Leaside and Bennington Heights magazine.

Rain drives crowds to Rosedale United’s Holly Berry Fair

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The wet weather Saturday seemed to drive local residents to the Holly Berry Fair at Rosedale United Church. The Bulldog looked in at shortly after 1 p.m. and found the lunch room hopping with plates of the fair’s trademark baked ham and egg salad sandwiches. A visit to the bake counter found some chocolate chip cookies for the office. But it was shoulder to shoulder in many rooms of the spacious old church at Roxborough Drive and Glen Rd.