Manor Road United Church will welcome the Rev. Dr. John Joseph Mastandrea to his new ministry on May 1. Rev Mastandrea has led the congregation at Metropolitan United Church at Queen and Church Sts.since 2000. He is also police chaplain at 51 Division. His dad was a police officer. Rev. John Joseph will replace the Rev. Roberta Howey who has been filling in after the retirement in June of MRU’s Rev. Debra Schneider. She had served for 12 years. Upper right is the Leaside Curling Club team of Jan Carwardine, Louise Germain, Judy MacLellan and Sandra Thain. They’ve just won the Ontario Masters Women’s Curling Championship. The team will go on to represent Ontario at the Canadian Masters Curling Championship being held April 1 to 7 in Saskatoon.Go ladies. Below that a reminder of St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church Potluck Dinner coming up on January 26. At bottom a lovely flash of colour from the Genus Hypericum seen at Longo’s and a shot of the flooding we told you about Sunday at Bayview and Davisville as recorded by Michael Shearer on Twitter.
