The South Bayview Bulldog

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A sad drama played out on South Bayview in the north block Saturday as a woman and her daughter parked to have lunch at Original’s. They caught the attention of the parking officer and made sure it was okay to park within the available space near the hydrant outside Puregress Med Spa. It was okay, he said. The women purchased two-and-a-half hours of parking and went to lunch. When they returned they found their car had been towed. Angry and upset they flagged down a parking enforcement car. The officer driving the car punched in the license number and told the women that the vehicle had numerous unpaid parking tickets. So the cost of the lunch and some carelessness with was an extra $150 or maybe more to retrieve the car and payment of the disregarded tickets.

Being Canadian

Sunday is voting day in the Kraft Hockeyville competition to win $100,000 in upgrades for a deserving arena. There are many places competing across Canada but there seems hardly any more worthy of this kind of boost than the Angela James Arena in Flemingdon Park. As the video below shows, this important hub of the Canadian sport for kids from Flemingdon and Thorncliffe Park is badly in need of roof repairs, decent dressing rooms, a simple water fountain and adequate heating. Sorry as its condition might be, the James arena has been embraced by immigrant boys and girls as a place to be more Canadian. Everyone who  can should go to the Hockeyville site and help them give this important place a facelift.

London Devilettes have eliminated Leaside Wildcats from further post season play with a 1-0 victory in London Saturday afternoon. The winning goal came at 8.22 of the first period from Lexie Adzija on a power play with assists from Emily Bowman and  Bryce Desa  Leaside was unable to score on London despite five power play opportunities. It is clear from the statistics that Leaside played hard. They fired 29 shots at Devilettes goal tender Molly Jenkins but she stopped them all. Katie Mowbray faced 22 shots in the Leaside net. The Wildcats had finished sixth in regular season play in the Provincial Women’s Hockey League. Their efforts earned them the best-of-five series against London which finished eleventh.

Equipment failure is being blamed for the power outage that placed many residents of Markham and Stouffville in the dark early Saturday. Powerstream says the service is now almost fully restored.   CBC

A nine-member team from Leaside United Church (LUC) is about to leave for Honduras where it will participate in charitable service work for the El Hogar project. The name means The Home and El Hogar has given thousands of Honduran children both a start in life and skills with which to make their way when they are grown. LUC members will.be accompanied by two additional members from Eastminster United Church. Team leader Neal Kelly has written to say that the team has been working for more than six months to raise money for their service  work — the  education of abandoned, orphaned and hopelessly poor children in Honduras. The remarkable decency of these volunteers starts when they pay their own airfare, which this year was $4,300 U.S. The LUC team will have two teens in its number. Members will arrive in Honduras on March 15. They are Lynda Miller, Darryl Bunt, Brenda French, Valerie Flynn,  Barbara Kinnear,  Carol Bennett,  Meleah Bennett, Sam Kelly and Neal Kelly

Leaside Junior Wildcats have suffered a heartbreaking 4-3 loss to the plucky London Devilettes Friday night in London. The loss puts Leaside just a game away from elimination in its best of five series against London in the Provincial Women’s Hockey League.  Leaside won the first game at home but has fallen twice to London, once at home and once in London. Friday’s game featured a back and forth struggle in which the teams traded the lead twice before London’s Emily Bowman scored the winning goal at 21 seconds into overtime. It means the Leaside ladies will have to take the fourth game on enemy ice Saturday if they hope to stay in the hunt for the PWHL trophy.  Box score 

Premier Wynne briefly addressed the Waterloo Ravens and Leaside Wildcats girls teams at Leaside Gardens today (Saturday, March 12, 2016) before their game. Then she dropped the puck in the ceremonial fashion. The under-nine aged girls “applauded” Wynne’s remarks with the well-known hockey stick racket. The game featured novice girls at the Leaside Wildcats March Madness Hocky Tournament. Jennifer Smith, president of Wildcats hockey, said the match saw girls in the novice development stream (DS) from Leaside against a DS team of Waterloo Ravens. The DS stream offers girls with talent and a desire to play competitively to move from house league to the “big time” of girls’ amateur hockey.

THUMP THUMP THUMP

Leaside Gardens was full Friday night as players came and went. Parents and kids talked in the hallways and checked out silent auction offerings in the William Lea Room. The social activity was punctuated by a  recurrent thump thump thump of hockey bags on wheels descending the stairs to the dressing rooms.  (You will hear one on the video below). Boisterous hockey dads cheered on teams as games were played one after another with just enough time between to flood the ice.

DEMOCRATIC  HOCKEY

The benefits of the hockey experience to a girl (or boy) is easily understood. Teamwork, strenuous effort, new friends and a new involvement with their parents But March Madness reveals the hockey rink as a social leveler for kids.  Girls on teams without fancy jerseys or socks can compete and win against those who may have better gear. When that happens, it’s a good lesson for both teams.

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Left-hand turn in front of an oncoming dump truck

A mother and daughter were hit by a dump truck as they tried to turn left onto Highway 27 at Albion Road Friday morning. They were struck by a dump truck. The daughter, said to be in her 20s, was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. The two were travelling in a Toyota RAV.  Firefighters had to free both women from the SUV. The mother was taken to local hospital with relatively minor injuries. The driver of the dump truck did not need hospital treatment.