The South Bayview Bulldog

A door-to-door survey will be conducted at 71 Thorncliffe Park Drive beginning Monday (July 20, 2015) to make sure that window are properly installed with mechanisms to prevent children from falling. A 4-year-old boy tumbled from a bedroom window while playing with other kids in a bed on the 15th floor Saturday about 5.30 p.m. Police said parents were gathered in the living room on socializing on the final day of Ramadan, the Muslim holiday. According to the child’s uncle who was interviewed by CP24, the boy was playing with his mother’s cellphone when he climbed onto something in the bedroom and fell through the window.  Abbas Kolia, the president of the building’s tenants’ association, told CP24 that safety locks were installed on all the windows in the building two years ago. “It’s very sad news for our community,” Kolia said. He stressed that more vigilance is needed to make sure kids in the building are safe. “Parents must learn from this death today,” Kolia said. “It’s a very serious matter.” He said some residents may have removed the safety locks to add air conditioning to their apartments and said every unit will be inspected going forward to make sure that the safety locks are in place.

An unknown dream gardener in Swift Current was responsible for planting marijuana in municipal planters. Officials are busy removing it  “Somebody … dropped some seeds; that would be the most logical reason,” said Swift Current RCMP Staff Sergeant Gary Hodges. “We have no idea of who was responsible for it.”

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Terrified motorists abandoned their cars, walking and running away from a wildfire that engulfed the main route from Los Angeles to Las Vegas Friday afternoon. The dangerous, fast-moving wildfire spread through the Cajon Pass damaging homes, jumping the 15 Freeway and destroying some 20 vehicles stopped on the pavement. KTLA 

Carrie Laureola’s Bamboo Bay Art, Craft and Play School at Millwood and Bayview Ave. was on the sidewalk this warm Saturday. Carrie invited Glen Bratti to participate. Glen, right, is the owner of Brick Door, an instructional firm for Lego lovers and specializing in programs for schools, camps and parties. Glen built and brought with him the Pan Am Games mascot Pachi, made from Lego bricks. The helmet and torch are removable as the happy young man on the left demonstrates.  Brick Door

DOUBTFUL, SHY, HAPPY

Katelyn was there too. She opted for face-painting in the kitten face style. Here she is left to right: Doubtful as the work goes on, Shy about taking a picture but finally Katelyn has lots to smile about. Happy

MOTHER IN CHINA STOPS RESCUERS FROM FREEING CHILD

As one news agency put it, just when you thought you had seen them all, a woman in Yiwu, China has tried to stop rescuers from breaking into a her BMW to free her three-year-old son from the heat. She claimed the car had locked itself. After a few minutes of waiting, the firefighters simply went ahead and smashed the rear window, releasing the boy.  Unbelievably, this woman was motivated by the cost of fixing the car and said the kid could wait. .

Eric Stickney

A baseball clinic where local kids can learn the game and practice their batting will open this fall over Original’s Ale House at 1660 Bayview Ave north of Manor Road. It is the work of Eric Stickney, the youthful athletic director of the Leaside Baseball Association. Stickney, 29, is especially excited about training potential of the inside baseball cage which will be installed in the clinic. The Leaside native has been instrumental in the revival of baseball in the area. He re-established the Rookieball program in 2011 and shortly after brought the Leaside Leafs name back to prominence. It was a re-invigoration of a tradition dating back to he 1960s which had fallen on hard times. Mr. Stickney is a business graduate Guelph University and seems to eat, sleep and mostly live baseball. “I pretty much just sleep and do baseball,” he said. From April to September it is a 13 and a half hour day of planning, recruiting and coaching, both in practice and during the games.

ENERGY, COMMITTMENT

Stickney’s energy and commitment has driven the growth of the Leaside association into a dynamic part of Ontario’s large baseball network of volunteer coaches. Kids’ baseball throughout the province is administered by the Ontario Baseball Association, a body created by public-spirited parents. It is entirely unofficial and depends on the goodwill and interest of the those who love the game and want see their children learn from it. As well, of course, as create a lot of fun and socializing.

Head on over to 1661 Bayview Ave to check out the selection of shoes at “Stop N Shop Toronto”. Aasad tells The South Bayview Bulldog that he has discounted prices on European brands such as Peter Kaiser (England), Mam’zelle (France) and France Mode (France).  If you’re lucky enough to be size 37 then he said that there are approximately 400 samples just waiting to be snapped up by lucky South Bayview shoppers. He’s expecting to be on Bayview for 30 days.

Emily Overholt, Mauricio Fiol

There has been both heartbreak and disgrace in separate disqualifications at the Pan Am Games for very different reasons. Canadian swimmer Emily Overholt was told by judges right after her apparent gold-medal win in the 400-metre individual medley that she had not made contact with the wall with both hands at the same time. This must be very hurtful. It is known as a non-simultaneous wall-touch. Swimming Canada protested to the meet referee and then the jury of appeal, but Overholt’s disqualification was upheld. Emily is the  youngest swimmer on the Canadian team at 17. In a plucky response she said:  “It’s unfortunate, but I still did the swim, so I still know that I have it in me. It’s something to learn from.” Brave girl Emily.

DOPING DISQUALIFICATION

Peruvian swimmer Mauricio Fiol, Pan American Games silver medalist in the 200 meter butterfly, was disqualified after testing positive for the use of the steroid Stanozolol. Fiol announced the decision on Facebook but said he did not know what happened,

“Today is a very difficult day for me, because I just found out that I tested positive in the anti-doping test,” Fiol posted in Spanish on his Facebook page.

“I am very confused because I am always one who promotes the fair play, hard work, and with a lot of effort I get to my goals.

“I do not understand what happened. I apologize to the whole country, to my club, my family, my coaches, my sponsors.”