The South Bayview Bulldog

The informative Metrolinx meeting at Eglinton Public School Wednesday night saw a good crowd of residents asking questions about the Eglinton LRT construction. As is the format at these meetings, storyboards which told the story were placed around the room. Most importantly, this winter will see at least three months excavation on Eglinton and Mt. Pleasant as crews build the underground part of the Mt. Pleasant stop. This will mean the road will be narrowed and at some points vehicles will travel over wooden planks and concrete cover. Traffic at the intersection will be reduced to one lane north and south as well as one lane east and west. Only after the underground work is finished will the 1920 stones of the Imperial Bank bulding be put back together on the northwest corner to form the above-ground part of the main station. At present the long-time site of the bank is merely a hole in the ground. Large doors to accommodate heavy pedestrian traffic will be inserted on the Mt. Pleasant side but the gracious corner front door (Palladian style) will also be a working entrance with retail business of some sort inside. Nice. Below, a picture of the secondary entrance also on the north of side of Eglinton east of The Moore retirement home which is on the northeast corner.

At least three months of one-lane traffic here

Re-built 1920 bank will have doors on Mt. Pleasant for LRT riders

Secondary station entrance is east of The Moore retirement home

Aerial view shows added touches like canopies at the doors

The streets of Hamelin were no more vacant after the Pied Piper did his dirty work than are Toronto’s during a 4 p.m playoff game between the Jays and the Indians. This is the scene on Laird Drive Tuesday during rush hour as the home team got to work against Cleveland. Many would have been happy to stay off the roads for a week to see the Jays win this series but it was not to be.

Leonardo Cornacchia, a long-time friend and barber on Bayview Ave., has died at age 76. An obituary posted today says Leo died suddenly although it was known that he had reluctantly retired last year from the barber shop that he owned for decades at 1693 Bayview in the face of serious pneumonia and apparent related respiratory difficulties. His obit suggests donations to the Canadian Lung Association. Leo Cornacchia is survived by his wife of 53 years, Maria, and by daughters Paula (Rocco Volpe) and Fernanda (Paul Bertani), and by grandchildren Adrian, Juliana, Christian and Anthony. Visitation will take place at the Highland Funeral Home (3280 Sheppard Avenue East, 416-773-0933) on Thursday, October 20, 2016, from 2 to 4, and 6 to 9 pm. A funeral mass will be held at St. Lawrence Martyr Roman Catholic Church (2210 Lawrence Avenue East) on Friday, October 21, 2016 at 10 am. Entombment to follow at Highland Memory Gardens (33 Memory Gardens Lane) with a celebration of life to be held at Le Parc Banquet Hall (8432 Leslie Street, Leslie St and Hwy 7) at 1 pm.  Arbor Memorial

Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers carried a lot of magic for cheap pumps which were really just covered in red sequins. Eighty years later however they are falling apart and the Museum of Natural History in Washington (Smithsonian) has launched an online campaign to preserve them.

For those who still wish to punish themselves by hearing about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the last debate is tonight. This report seems to carry on the fiction that Trump could win. The instructive story of the migrant camp — 8,000 people who sneaked into France — goes on near Calais. Mastodons in Michigan — they find a lot of them there — is also part of Your World.

Jacqueline Grisé

Among the changes to the renovated Manor Road United Church at Manor and Forman Ave. is the Monarch Manor Nursery School in the renovated church basement. It is owned and operated by Jacqueline Grisé, who also has the Caterpillar and Company school in Etobicoke at 55 Chauncey Ave. The Manor facility is designed with age-appropriate accommodation from advanced infancy (9 to 18 months) toddler (18 month to two-and-a-half years) and pre-school. Rooms, furniture and playthings are part of the newly-built space at Manor Road. Grisé has installed modern amenities like the Watch Me Grow streaming video service that permits parents to see what’s happening at the school from anywhere. Food is catered from the well-known children’s food supplier Real Food for Real Kids. Facebook 

Monarch Manor

Reporting from South Bayview’s Starbucks yesterday, Angela Lam, of Stainton Murray & Lam at 1552 Bayview Avenue thought our readers would be interested to know why it appears that someone has painted the town… um, orange.  Literally.  A can of neon orange spray paint had been dropped on Bayview Avenue and when it got run over, it exploded neon spray paint all over the parked cars in front of Starbucks. A black Ford Explorer SUV got the brunt of it, and was decorated appropriately for Halloween. Angela did not get to see the reaction when they returned to their Jackson Pollack inspired new paint job, but we reckon they were not pleased.

https://twitter.com/TorontoLeaside/status/788502553789018112

The Toronto Blue Jays have won game four of ALCS best of seven series with a decisive 5-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians. Toronto’s offence came back to life and Aaron Sanchez pitched six strong innings in the win. And then there was Roberto.

https://twitter.com/JPBoutros/status/788518660478492672

Never doubt @RobertoOsuna1! See you tomorrow, Cleveland! #BlueJays #OurMoment #postseason #lovethisteam #OsunaMatata #Toronto #stillinit pic.twitter.com/oXODRL0AQp

— Jodie Rawn🎗 (@jodierawn) October 18, 2016

A Pickering girl has had a close call in a situation where everyone it seems might have paid closer attention. Little Rebecca Hillier got off the school bus near her home and for whatever reason doesn’t cross the street with the gang. The bus driver retracts the guard and, according to some, waves Rebecca across the street. You can see the girl pause before she crosses and she seems to be looking at the driver. Then she goes and that’s when a car comes out of nowhere and brushes her backpack as it passes. The driver seems most at fault. He absolutely should have come to a full stop. Listen to Rebecca’s mom in the video below. The actuality by the way comes from a camera on a neighbor’s house.

Melissa Hillier explains that she's angry after her daughter was almost hit by a car at a school bus stop pic.twitter.com/eYXAFvcdFQ

— NEWSTALK1010 (@NEWSTALK1010) October 18, 2016

Warm temperatures are lulling people into a shirtsleeves mood at what is normally a warm-sweater time of year. It is an October Surprise and it cannot last. It was 24 Centigrade in Midtown at 1 p.m. and some forecasts were suggesting a record-breaking 27 might be possible. The Weather Network predicted a possible high in that range but we shall see. That would be double the high of 13 expected this time of year. The WN predicts 19 for Wednesday.

Edward Rogers, Melinda Rogers and Guy Laurence

A story from the Business News Network (BNN) suggests that Guy Laurence might still be CEO of the Rogers empire if he had handled the Rogers heirs who sit on the board rather differently. The story quotes some saying Mr.Laurence is sometime too gruff. He is said to have upset in particular Edward Rogers and Melinda Rogers. BNN