The South Bayview Bulldog

Good works

Leaside sisters Anna and Gemma Postill are profiled by writer Justin Skinner in the East York Mirror. These young women have been inspired by social issues in both South America and Africa to form a jewellery sales business with proceeds in aid of a rainwater harvesting system in Rwanda. Anna and Gemma are working in partnership with Compassion Canada, a London, Ontario based Christian charity. Compassion Canada says that in the current year 85.3 per cent of funds were used for program activities benefiting children. The remainder went to support the charity structure. Skinner quotes Anna as saying: “Both of us have travelled abroad and got to witness first-hand the conditions people live in third world countries. There’s a need there for health care (supplies) and clear water — you could see it when the volunteers were given bottled water instead of drinking the water the locals were drinking.”  The Postill sisters work out of their basement to create jewelry using materials from local shops. They photograph it and sell it online. Thus far, they have sold about $1,000 worth of jewelry, which equals around $600 toward their $3,000 fundraising goal after the cost of buying materials.

Anna and Gemma Postill

This thug is thoroughly hateful in an apparently motiveless decision to kick a woman in the back, sending her down a flight of steps in a Berlin subway station. Warning: the video is disturbing. In Cairo, an attack on a Coptic church has left 25 people dead. It is a reminder of the quite profound hatred that exists in that part of the world. And finally, here is Amnesty International, the people who used to worry about getting the persecuted out of jail, trying to block a hydro-electric project in British Columbia. It’s about a burial ground. This footnote to changing times recalls that to build the St. Lawrence Seaway they moved cemeteries to higher ground. That way, it was possible to ship German cars to Toronto really cheap.

Watch this thrilling video of the 4×200 metre relay at the International Swimming Federation competition in Windsor on Saturday as Penny Oleksiak and her teammates win gold for Canada.

It was an excruciatingly painful loss for Toronto FC against the Seattle Sounders. The teams played to a 0-0 tie at BMO Field with Toronto holding Seattle to an astonishing no shots on goal. But then the penalty shot sudden-death loss outcome  — 5-4 Seattle. CBC

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It’s okay

Isn’t it?

Click Environment Canada alert issued this afternoon to read the news. This could mean a white Christmas if that sort of thing interests you. No really we’re fine. (sob)

Residents Jan and Elliot

Santa set up at LCBO

Well loaded carriage

Fine steeds

Here we go

The much awaited horse-drawn ride for Bayview moms, dads and kids was a rousing success Saturday. To accommodate traffic, the ride followed a route along Davisville to Cleveland, north on Cleveland to Soudan and south on Bayview back to the LCBO south of Millwood. South Bayview Bulldog photos by Richard Byford

Leaside Jr. Wildcats defeated the Bluewater Hawks 4-2 in a rock ’em sock ’em home game that saw 15 penalties. Even so, each team scored only one power play goal and Leaside’s fourth marker came on an empty net play by Emma Pye with 18 seconds left in the game. Leaside and Bluewater stand 10 and 11 in the 20-team Provincial Womens Hockey League and it showed in the shots on goal — each fired 26 at the other. Box score.

Evergreen’s Winter Village: Dec10 to Jan 8. From Davisville station, take the 28 Bayview eastbound to Evergreen Brick Works.

— TTC Customer Service (@TTChelps) December 10, 2016

Cook likes new church kitchen

Heather Fogarty and Michael Schneider

Here’s what it’s all about

The Manor Road United Church Pancake Breakfast was a happy and tasty event Saturday. The church is celebrating its renovation and re-opening this weekend. There is a Christmas concert and carolling Saturday night and worship celebration Sunday at 10.30 a.m. followed by an open house at 11.45 a.nm.

A woman drove into the rear of a taxi on the Gardiner at the Spadina ramp early Saturday morning. Police say they suspect impaired driving. The cab flipped over but the occupants all survived with minor injuries. And .two men in their 20s have non-life threatening injuries after a stabbing encounter on Pembroke Street at around 1:15 a.m.