The South Bayview Bulldog

The Women’s Network of St. Anselm’s Catholic Church Parish Spring Fling Craft Sale is tomorrow, Sunday, May 1, 2016.

This is graphic video of culverts being lifted up out of the road bed and washed aside by flood waters near Linedale Texas about 100 km from Dallas. The authentic Texas commentary that goes with it is entertaining too.

This car got away from someone in the Leaside Village at 85 Laird Drive Saturday morning and ploughed through a window at Tim’s. A man sitting at a corner table (below) where the car struck was showered with glass and shaken but otherwise unhurt. Best guessing is that the driver thought the vehicle was in reverse.

Or so says inveterate local explorer and outdoorsman Rudy Limeback in this Friday tweet.

#dlws a rare wind from the east, and i smell the Peek Freans cookie factory at O'Connor & Bermondsey, all the way over here in #Leaside

— Rudy Limeback (@rudydotca) April 29, 2016

St Cuthbert’s Anglican Church Spring Fair drew several hundred people Saturday and saw many sales among the count;ess personal, household and baked goods on sale. Lorna Krawchuk, whose many duties include keeping a count of those waiting for the doors to open at 11 a.m. recorded 200 fair-goers waiting this year. Many more came later. Through the doors of Lamb Hall onto St. Cuthbert’s Green, a two-barbecue- cooker lunch was well patronized. Tasty sausages on buns were sold for a mere $2.50 each. The pleasant weather, as seen in the video above, saw many people sitting at tables or on the grass as an energetic collection of children played. The Green is a nicely sheltered retreat. It is hidden behind the old stone wall that separates it from the traffic of Bayview Ave. Like St.Cuthbert’s itself, the Green is celebrating 125 years in 2016.

Alain Bellemare

Bombardier’s CEO Alain Bellemare is vowing to “fix the problem” on what he called “the train side” during a company news conference Friday. Many will wonder frankly if Mr. Bellemare truly knows what “the problem” is. The amount of time lost in the exquisite non-performance of his company might easily suggest that no one at Bombardier has a clue. Toronto’s streetcars are years late. Years. For Mr. Bellemare to say he will get “the problem” fixed without even pretending to explain it is feckless.

There has been a strange incident in the heart of Leaside where a man believed to be about 22 has been seriously injured when he fell off a vehicle from which he was hanging during an argument with his mother. It happened on Millwood Road west of McRae Drive, according to cops. They say they were called to the scene around 8:15 p.m. Friday night on reports that a man appeared to be car surfing. But the “car surfing” was more desperate than mere dangerous play. Police said that the man’s mother was “quite upset.”

WITNESSED BY MICHELLE DUBE

Witness Michelle Dube

It appears from reports that CTV Toronto news anchor Michelle Dube witnessed the incident. She says a jeep was heading westbound on Millwood Road near McRae Drive with a young man hanging off of the passenger side. Ms Dube said he fell off of the vehicle onto the sidewalk and was bloodied and bruised by the fall. The vehicle sped off but returned to the scene. A police constable identified as Allyson Douglas-Cook said it appear the injured man was in a dispute with his mother in the jeep and hung off the side of the vehicle during the dispute. Photographs taken by the South Bayview Bulldog suggest the man fell to the ground opposite Leaside United Church. He is at Sunnybrook Hospital for treatment. Millwood Road is closed from McRae to Hanna Rd for accident reconstruction.

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Workers laying pipes in a park in Seville have unearthed a trove of Roman coins weighing more than half a ton in what culture officials say is a unique historic discovery. The coins are said to date from 400 AD and were apparently kept in safekeeping below ground as a fund to pay soldiers and staff. Although aged and dirty the coins were newly-minted and had never been in circulation, experts say.

We love our zero tolerance. Even when it makes us look like jackasses. Shawn Soucy, an honour roll student at Heritage High School in the Quebec south shore community of St.Hubert near Montreal, has been permanently expelled, not suspended, because a pocket knife was in the bottom of his knapsack. Apparently a classmate reported him. Soucy claims he has never even had a  detention much less been in real trouble. Did he know the rules? The CBC story doesn’t say but Soucy says he needs the knife and uses if frequently for his work on his family’s farm. You be the judge.

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