The South Bayview Bulldog

The fine-looking home at 316 Heath St. East between Hudson Drive and Welland Ave has been listed by Heaps Estrin for $3,850,000. It is an eye-popping number but not much above the going rate for slightly larger lots in the south end of Moore Park on streets like Inglewood Drive and Rosedale Heights Drive. This is a nice location, mere steps from the picturesque Cat’s Eye Footbridge which crosses to Bennington Heights and has rapid access in all directions via Mt. Pleasant Rd. and Bayview Ave. It also sits on the lot of the home of the late Peter Worthington. That Moore Park original sold for $1,440,000 in April 2014.

240 ROSE PARK DRIVE

The large home under construction by Metro Developers Group is giving neighbors a bit of distress because work came to halt for a few weeks in the Spring. Previously, there had been furious action. A stoppage isn’t the kind thing anyone wants (or deserves) and the outlook is not all that clear, according to residents. This property also replaces a Moore Park original at the corner of Rose Park and Welland Ave.

As many as 46,000 disabled poor people will get a debit card they can use to withdraw their government monthly assistance money. The cards will replace cheques which in many cases have been cashed at private payday cheque cashing stores at a costly rate. Toronto Star 

A man has escaped what seems like certain death in New York State because of his rule to avoid driving beside tractor trailers. In this case, Qing Chang slowed down to let the loaded truck get ahead of him, and then all hell broke loose.

Is it a 20-year breakthrough or the road to nowhere?  Whatever it is, the Toronto Raptors whipped the Miami Heat 116-89 Sunday night to advance to the NBA Eastern Conference finals for the first time in 21 years. “Just the things that we’d been through this year, and how hard we’ve worked,” Lowry said. “Just an emotional time, just being able to sit there and relax, and kind of breathe.” Now it’s on to another gruelling series with the Cleveland Cavaliers. If the Raptors can win that series, they get to compete for the NBA championship.

So proud of my daughter and the 14U Girls Leaside Lightning Volleyball team. They are Silver Medalists at the… https://t.co/zkD0rGmGWE

— Eleanor McCain (@Eleanor_McCain) May 15, 2016

The temperatures are flirting with freezing overnight Sunday to Monday after a day that could easily have passed for March 15 not May 15. But the forecasters at the weather network say we will dodge frost tonight, if by not very much. Two degrees is forecast in Midtown.

There has not been a girl born into the Ziobro family in New Jersey for 150 years. The last one was in 1860 in Poland. But now Eve, the daughter to Chris and Christine Ziobro, is here to start a new tradition. Quite a story.

Friends and admirers of the late Dave Stickney gathered Sunday in the lot of Gyro Motors at the corner of Laird Drive and the newly-named Stickney Avenue. Mr. Stickney (known to all as Sticks) was a friend, mentor and teacher to countless students at Leaside High School where he taught mathematics. The crowd heard from three members of the 11-person committee which was created to honour Stickney following his death last year while coaching a game in Goulding Park. Friends recalled the self-effacing nature the man. He once confided that he did not think he had accomplished much in life. His shocked friend set him right.

BURNSIDE REFLECTIONS

Other speakers were committee members Kevin Mark and Jim Wilson, a lifelong friend. The committee was thanked by Dave Stickney’s son, Eric, who spoke of how touched he and others in his family had been by the honours given to his dad.  Also present was Don Valley West MP Rob Oliphant and Ward 26 Councillor Jon Burnside. Burnside was taught by Stickney at Leaside High School and later recruited into community activities by his former teacher. (See video below). Also in the crowd was Patrick Rocca. The new Stickney Ave was previously Markham Ave., a short length of road from Airdrie Road to Laird. The Stickney committee has also placed a bench at the top of the steps leading down from Cameron Crescent to the Talbot Park baseball diamond. The balance of some $15,000 raised was directed to The Leaside Scholarship Fund. Members of the Remembering David Stickney committee are James LeNoury, Daryn Everett, Liz Everett, Sandy Creighton, Ann Brown, Neil Anderson, Jim Wilson, Nick Mitchell and Jim Grant.

A man was hit by a vehicle at the tricky corner of O’Connor Drive and Woodbine Avenue overnight. It appears that he may be okay.  He was said to be conscious and breathing when taken to hospital. This odd-shaped intersection has lots of places here drivers and pedestrians can get into trouble.

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