The South Bayview Bulldog

The Toronto Fire Department has  been of service to South Bayview over the dinner hour Saturday night as it responded to a carbon monoxide alarm on Southvale Drive  between Rolph Rd. and Astor Ave. There was no medical emergency. And on Merton Street between Mt Pleasant and Cleveland St. firefighters responded to a report of someone needing help breathing. Meanwhile a little further east, there was a call to a home on St.Clair Ave East near Vicross  Rd. for smoke in the basement.

After what seems like a 100 years, the vacant 241 Pizza store at Mt. Pleasant Rd. and Soudan Ave. is gone. The address, 691 Mt. Pleasant, is now to become, for a while, a sales centre for The Distinction Condos being built at Yonge and Eglinton by the Lash Group. By the way, 241 Pizza has continued in business throughout the long vacancy on Mt. Pleasant. It is a franchise operation and it appears that 691 Mt. Pleasant was a franchise gone wrong. The likelihood is that someone has been paying rent for a long-term lease all these years.

Edward Domenico

Services were held this month for an area man, Edward William Domenico, 81, at the Mt. Pleasant Visitation Centre and Chapel  Mr. Domenico was known for his constructive interest in local baseball and was well-known as a willing volunteer. He died at  St. John’s Rehab Hospital on Sunday, January 17, 2016. Mr. Domenico was predeceased by his wife Lillian and is survived by his sons Dan, Steve and Ron, and by grandchildren Aaron and Ava.

Premier Kathleen Wynne (Don Valley West) continues her visit to India. The linked dispatch from NewsX  offers both reportage and insight into Indian news coverage and how some of India sees the Premier. This story from a major television news source notes first that Ms Wynne is “the premier of Canada’s Ontario province known for her support for gay rights.” It goes on to say that “Kathleen” was  dressed in a “firozi blue (turquoise) suit with her head covered with a dupatta (Punjabi-style stole).” It describes how controversy attended the visit.

SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar earlier said that the Canadian leader was welcome to offer prayers at the shrine but the SGPC would not honour her with a siropa due to her views on same-sex marriages. The SGPC maintained that the Sikh religion did not legitimise same-sex marriages. However, a major controversy was avoided as she was welcomed by SGPC officials, escorted to the SGPC information office, and presented with a gold-plated photo of the holy shrine.

Thus does the world differ.

Eight members of the Leaside Wildcats team were honoured Saturday night at Leaside Gardens as their days with the team dwindle down to a precious few. These stalwart teammates are off to university and in most cases university hockey. They are seen here with members of the Wildcats Novice A team (in red) who marked the occasion by giving each of the women a bouquet of roses. From left to right: Alex Woods, Siobhan Birch, Cynthia Cavanagh, Caitlin Heale, Danielle Toland, Bronte Mutukistna, Brooklyn Sarnovsky and Rachel Knee. Leaside 3, Devilettes 2 

Leaside Wildcats recorded a 3-2 victory against the London Devilettes Saturday evening and as the score suggests, the visitors put on a spirited performance. The battle at Leaside Gardens was only one of two triumphs for the Wildcats. The second emerged from inside the computer of the Provincial Women’s Hockey League  At the end the day, it found that the Wildcats had shoehorned themselves into second place leaving the Whitby Wolves in third. It is a fractional lead but part of a picture emerging in January of a Leaside team that knows how to win.  Durham West still tops the league. At the arena, Megan Pardy scored in both the first and second periods. What turned out to be the winning goal was also scored late in the second courtesy of Samantha Jones. A Leaside penalty to Emma Pye in the third gave London a chance to challenge and they did. Bryce Desa recorded the power play marker for the Devillettes. But that was all the scoring there was. Molly Jenkins faced 33 shots for London and the Wildcat’s Katie Mowbray, 27. Assists go to Emma Pye (twice) Cynthia Cavanagh, Caitlin Heale and Mariah Hinds. Standings

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Next Saturday there is a nice opportunity for children to participate in a Valentine’s Day card making drop-in class at Bamboo Bay, the arts, craft and play school in Leaside. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and pre-registration is recommended to make sure you get a spot. It’s $30 a child for 30 cards and envelopes plus card making supplies and materials. That’s Saturday, February 6, 2016 at Bamboo Bay, 1515A Bayview Ave Suite 200W. That’s at the corner of Bayview and Millwood Rd above Write Impressions. See poster enlarged 

With the three fatalities announced by the OPP overnight, the number of fatal snowmobile accidents in Canada is rising quickly. Known and widely reported cases seem to number at least 11 since New Year’s. Two men are reported to have died early today (Saturday, January 30, 2016) as a result of injuries received when their snowmobile crashed through ice on Go Home Lake near Georgian Bay west of the TransCanada Highway. Another died Friday night in an apparently similar way in the waters of Dark Lake in Haliburton. Yesterday, five snowmobilers died in an avalanche near McBride B.C. On the New Year’s weekend there were reports of deaths in King Township, Nova Scotia and during a Wilderness Adventure vacation on Blackcomb Mountain in B.C.

What’s in a name

Leaside Wildcats host the London Devilettes at Leaside Gardens tonight (Saturday, January 30, 2016). The opening face off is set for 7.40 p.m. The Devilettes sit in 11th place in the Provincial Women’s Hockey League. The Wildcats reside in third. The London ladies carry a saucy urban-slang name for sure. Fun. We will see how they are at hockey against the Wicked Leaside Wildcats tonight.

A man has changed his name so that it will appear as ZnoneoftheAbove on ballots in the Oshawa-Whitby by-election February 11, 2016. Sheldon Bergson has told the CBC that he’s trying to give an option to people who are fed up with voting over and over for the main parties and seeing nothing really change. Uh-huh.