Storm chasers have captured menacing twin funnels of the powerful storm that ripped through northeast Nebraska yesterday (Monday, June 16, 2014). It destroyed half the town of Pilger, killing a 5-year-old child and injuring at least 19 people. The U.S. National Weather Service said dual twisters touched down within roughly a mile (1.6 kilometers) of each other.
Star story on Upper House condo on Laird Dr.
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This is a promotional story by writer Ryan Starr on the contentious and as yet unbuilt condominium at 2 Laird Drive. Story
“All-ages” public parties are deeply misguided
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Here’s the thing. Protecting children may well lie beyond the competency of Giorgio Mammoliti (Ward 7). He isn’t helping them by lashing out at sex offenders. Paedophilia is always despicable but it doesn’t have anything to do with why City Council, or anyone else, would permit children to attend Electronic Dance Music events at the CNE. Mammoliti is a ward politician who apparently thinks kids can be kept safer by fear-mongering about sex crimes. The South Bayview Bulldog sees a world gone mad where kids as young as ten or eleven (the age mentioned by Mammoliti) are allowed to enter boisterous parties where much older people are whooping it up. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out the so-called “all-ages” concept is deeply misguided. May parents get some sense. But all authorities need to re-address this matter. It is no doubt yet another out-cropping of the “rights” society. We do our children no favours by allowing them to attend such thrashes unsupervised. Very little is said or written about the rules, if any, at EDM parties. Where is the reportage? As we have said in previous posts, the media is sadly on vacation when it comes to a simple description of who and what is permitted at EDM events. Previous post
Bennington-Rolph Soccer League wants players
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Can we please get some European Football excitement in South Leaside? Please. Kids have got to be busting at the chance to get on the field this September in the Bennington Rolph Soccer League. We have a message that spots are available. The season runs for six weeks in the fall, starting the first week of school. A perfect league for those who spend summer out of town! A tournament is held for all but the youngest age group at the end of the season. Games are played once a week on the school fields at Rolph Road and Bennington Heights. Forms can be dropped off at the address noted on the registration form. Please contact benningtonrolphroadsoccer@gmail.com for more information and/or a Registration Form.Mail delivery could be an election issue cooking
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As Canada Post marches toward the cancellation of door-to-door delivery across the country, the new postal centre at 196 Wicksteed Ave. is preparing to open. The centre is a shining new structure, part of the Wicksteed Business Park, set deep among the mostly tired old buildings of the industrial district of Leaside east of Laird Drive. These pictures were taken by the redoubtable Rudy Limeback, local observer, naturalist, gadfly and friend of The South Bayview Bulldog. Many area residents will look at this fine facility and especially the shining lineup of new vehicles with a jaundiced eye. All across Canada, cities have been petitioning Canada Post to provide better answers to its slash and burn approach to home delivery. It is true the corporation is losing money. But there is reasonable belief that more limited delivery — even two or three days a week might be possible. Many municipalities insist that Canada Post has provided no adequate answer to how the millions of elderly and disabled people are going to get their mail. Nationwide, 70 cities have banded together to demand answers to how the boxes will possibly work in Canada’s winter. Writer Sandy Hudes said in the National Post recently: “As Canadians anticipate a future of slogging through snow, rain, heat and gloom of night to get their mail, they can take comfort in knowing their community mail boxes will continue to be stuffed with wads of postage-free political propaganda. And they can congratulate themselves that their tax dollars helped produce and deliver that junk mail.” It seems like a political issue incubating. It has more to do with why people vote in a given way than the Senate, environment or maybe even the economy.
Iran-Nigeria: “Can we send both teams home?”
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World Cup excitement slid to a new low this afternoon as fans on Twitter and elsewhere declared the game between Iran and Nigeria to be the most boring in the world. We’re told that Wild Wings on Bayview Ave was a stronghold of Iranian supporters. We can only hope they felt it was worth the trouble. The criticism extended beyond traditional “nil-nil” complaints to assertions that the teams were listless and incompetent. One tweet suggested fans pass the hat to send both teams home. Many posted pictures of people (and dogs) napping. A seriously staged picture depicted a man watching paint dry. The CBS Live Blog wrote “Sorry for the lack of updates, but I fell asleep.” And so it went. “Could both teams lose?” asked one dispirited footballer.
Zut alors! Quebec jail was warned of escape bid
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Holy mackerel, officials at Orsainville detention centre were told there was a plot to spring the three crime bosses who just a few days later escaped by helicopter from the jail courtyard. What bunglers. Between the warden and the judge who permitted the convicts to be relieved of their handcuffs, these guys could have called a cab to break out. Officials at Orsainville are said to have been told about a possible breakout attempt by the provincial police. Documents just released show the QPP had heard word that it might happen and told the prison brass. Yves Denis, Denis Lefebvre and Serge Pomerleau escaped from the detention centre in suburban Quebec City on June 7. The three men are now the subject of an Interpol alert list, which places the Quebec escapees among the world’s most wanted fugitives.
Two men sought in theft of 12 Jays jerseys
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Fan like this the Blue Jays do not need. Toronto Police Service is asking for the public’s assistance identifying these two men wanted in the theft of 12 Jay’s jerseys. It is alleged that on Monday, June 2, 2014, the two entered the Blue Jays Shop located at Gate #5 in the Rogers Centre and stole 12 Authentic Blue Jays baseball jerseys valued at over $3,000 Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-5200, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com, text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637), or Leave A Tip on Facebook. Download the free Crime Stoppers Mobile App on iTunes, Google Play or Blackberry App World. For more news, visit TPSnews.ca.
Call it a soccer rout: Germany 4 Portugal 0
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Germany whips Portugal 4-0. Tweets about “#GER vs #POR”
Michael Schumacher emerges from 6-month coma
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Formula One celebrity Michael Schumacher has come out of six-month coma. He is said to have left a French hospital where he had been receiving treatment since a skiing accident in December, his manager said Monday.
Greenpeace loses $5 million to rogue employee
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So it’s not just about saving the world and the whales at Greenpeace. Apparently they have to worry about saving their money too, much like the rest of us. Greenpeace has reported that a “rogue” employee cost the environmental body about $5 million by betting in the markets that the euro would not strengthen against other currencies. Guess what, it did. The man acted “beyond the limits of his authority” and was fired says Greenpeace.
Off-duty cop rescues man from blazing station
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Hair-raising video from CCTV in White Plains, N.Y., shows a car slamming into gas pumps at road speed and the following explosion. An off-duty New York officer who is filling his tank flees for his life but then quickly returns to drag the unconscious driver out of his car, unquestionably saving the man’s life. The officer, John Vesco, was injured after the pump fell on top of him. Despite his injuries, the cop was able to rescue the 69-year-old driver, who crashed as a result of diabetic shock. The video is quite gripping as the gasoline explodes shortly after Vesco completes the rescue.