The South Bayview Bulldog

Ornaments from long ago. Price sticker says 57 cents

Posts at Leaside Community this Boxing Day carry a photo of an old box of Christmas ornaments purchased at the Jupiter variety store on Bayview Ave. in a long-distant past. One comment comes from a woman who recalls that she met her husband at the Jupiter when they both worked there. This store is said to have been located in the large space where Dollarama now lives. Many will recall that Shoppers Drug Mart lived there until it moved up to the former Bayview playhouse space in 2011. But the history gets murky when it comes to Jupiter, a 1960s era five-and-dime store which was associated with S.S. Kresge. Both are defunct now.

1961 depiction of a typical Jupiter store

It’s Christmas and time for our thoughts to again turn toward family and home. Here’s hoping that your Christmas is as warm and rewarding as your highest hope. At The South Bayview Bulldog we too will be with family and friends. But we will also reflect on the exceptional support The Bulldog has received from so many people. It is a labour of love to write the news of this community. To witness the decency of people and the culture of generosity here is an honour. The Bulldog is unabashedly proud to do its part in carrying the flag of the businesses and people in the place we like to call South Bayview. Thank you and Merry Christmas. Posting will resume Wednesday evening.

As Christmas approached 34 years ago, a Hong Kong mother and her young son found themselves lost at Pearson Airport. They had gotten off the plane in Toronto by mistake. The woman’s husband was waiting for them in Montreal. But good luck appeared in the form of a kind Air Canada flight attendant. She took them home with her for the night and helped them get re-booked. Now they’d like to find that woman of friendship and decency to thank her again for a very special welcome to Canada.

Thanks to all who participated in yesterday’s pageant and came out to 4th Sunday of Advent service. Today it’s #ChristmasEve!! and at #Leaside United a 4pm interactive service great for all ages & a beautiful 8pm service with choir, communion and Silent Night sung in candlelight pic.twitter.com/XKYMJz2TTO

— Leaside United Church (@LeasideUnited) December 24, 2018

Christmas gloom hangs over stocks Monday as markets extend the punishing losses of recent sessions to a seventh straight day. At 2.30 p.m. Christmas Eve the TSX was down 155 points and in New York the Dow Jones was down 653. CNBC

Tavares scores to tie game with eight second left in regulation time

Kasperi Kapanen scored 1:53 into overtime after John Tavares tied it with eight seconds left in the third period to complete a thrilling 5-4 win against the Red Wings at Scotiabank Arena Sunday. It was the fourth victory in a row for the Leafs and a bit of revenge for the 5-4 overtime loss to the same Red Wings team on December 6. Sunday’s game summary below at left, December 6 at right.

Suspect in assault with a car

Drove into crowd

Dispute inside bar

Police in Peel Region have released pictures of a man who they say deliberately ran his car into a crowd of bar patrons because of a fight he had with them while at a Mississauga restaurant early Sunday. CP24 quotes PC Sarah Patten as saying the suspect, seen above, was part of a group thrown out of the &Company Resto. He went to his car and in due course drove into those who had apparently offended him as they stood outside the place. Three women and two men believed to be in their 20s were injured, PC Patten said. One of the women, 23, was taken to a Toronto trauma centre with serious injuries but is expected to survive. Two other people were taken to a local hospital and two others were treated at the scene by paramedics. Patten said police are now looking for a suspect described as a black, around 35 to 40 years of age, driving a dark-coloured Acura with no front license plate. He is five-feet-six inches tall with a medium build and hair in braids. He was last seen wearing dark pants and a shirt with a heart symbol and eyes. Five people run down by runaway driver outside Missy bar

It is five years since the catastrophic ice storm of December 2013. Memories (bad ones) are no doubt vivid throughout the City. In a two-part package above City News has a primer in how to prepare for such unforseen weather and then, more interestingly, video recollections of the event. Below is a post published by the South Bayview Bulldog as the lights began to come back on Christmas Eve.

• Twinkling porch lights South Bayview’s best Christmas gift

Dozens of feet in the air after lifting off from sloped guardrail

Slovak police have released spectacular footage of a driver literally taking off as his BMW hits a “turned down” concrete guard rail as he approaches an underpass. The car flies like a jetliner until it hits the tunnel and falls to the road below. Amazingly, the driver survived.

Approximately 5 people run down by a fail-to-remain driver at the front entrance of &Company Restaurant Bar on Enfield Place in #Mississauga. @Peel_Paramedics set up triage and dispatched multiple units, along with @TorontoMedics. Injuries range from serious to minor. pic.twitter.com/5MuO5UeOmI

— Jeremy Cohn (@JeremyCohnTV) December 23, 2018

Five people were run down by a driver who then fled the scene in front of the &Company Resto Bar (sic) on Enfield Place near Burnhamthorpe Road and Hurontario Street. One party is said to have had serious injuries at the time. This occurred about 2.45 Sunday.

There was no winning ticket for the $7 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. There were five guaranteed $1 million prizes that were claimed by ticket holders in the Prairies, Ontario and the Atlantic provinces. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on December 26 will be approximately $9 million.

April 22, 1956 looking west on Eglinton from east of Brentcliffe

It stands today at Eglinton and Brentcliffe

The wide picture (left) taken by photo-historian James Salmon on April 22, 1956, shows the intersection of Eglinton Ave. E and Brentcliffe Rd. In the distance, on the right side of the photo, is the then new apartment building on the northwest corner. It stands today and is well-occupied. That’s it in a 2018 black and white rendering (right) from Google. The buildings on the south side of Eglinton seem to be industrial, probably WWII, which were demolished to make way for the commercial site known as Dawsco Plaza. It too has now been demolished to permit construction of 939 Eglinton. That huge development is being promoted this Christmas season door-to-door across South Bayview by mail as Upper East Side. It was first envisioned in March of 2018 as Upper East Village.

• Mocking fancified flyers for condos at Eglinton/Brentcliffe
• Lea Room meeting hears about downsized 939 Eglinton E