While the Deputy Mayor, Mr Kelly, is said to be pondering the possibility of asking for the help of the army to clean up the masses of tree branches around over Toronto, this happy white and black dog with winter foot wear does his bit by carrying home a freshly fallen stick with his master right behind. They were enjoying the sun but possibly not the cold as they trudged through the wide boulevard land of Glebe Manor Square East on Belsize Drive. At City Hall the deputy said he was thinking about how to perhaps use the manpower of the army to get the large job of brush removal finished sooner than the estimated eight weeks it will take for municipal workers to do it by themselves. 

Young Zoe and her letter

In 1990, 10-year-old Zoe Lemon threw a bottle containing a message from the deck of a North Sea ferry as she and her parents set off on a vacation to Germany. The family had their vacation, came home to Manchester, Zoe grew up, married and had children of her own and then — just before Christmas 2013 — Zoe’s parents received a letter replying to their daughter’s 23-year-old message in a bottle. It turned out to be from Piet and Jacqueline Lateur in the Netherlands. Piet was walking his dog in the Oosterschelde dykes, near where he and his wife Jacqueline live in Serooskerke, near Rotterdam, when he found the bottle with Zoe’s letter inside it. Zoe, 33, who is originally from Hebden Bridge but now works in a jewellery shop and lives in Pendleton said: “It’s been a bit crazy really. My parents came to visit on Christmas day and they had this letter from Europe addressed to my maiden name, Lemon. “The first thing I saw was my hand writing as a child and my little letter saying who I was and about my pets and my hobbies. It made me a bit emotional.” Mailonline

Thursday has seen a repeat performance of Tuesday’s enormous demand for the cards that provide free food. Lineups at the Golden Mile location were long this morning (Thursday Dec. 2, 2013)  and then the cards were gone with hundreds still waiting. Jenny Yuen  

Updating previous post:  As The Bulldog reported in January, the house on the hill at 4 De-Savery Crescent in what some call the Glebe was living on borrowed time. Now it’s gone and another single family home will take its place. De Savory is one of three or four pretty streets that curve between Manor Rd. and Belsize Drive west of Mt Pleasant Rd. Residents say the home came down in just two days and from the size of the new excavation, it’s replacement will be a big one. Like re-sale homes to the east, residences here are all subject to possible demolition. At 4 De-Savery there is a good-sized lot, one side of which runs along Thurloe Ave, As readers of the South Bayview Bulldog will know, this is across the street from the now vacant site of Glebe Presbyterian Church.  That property is slated, on approval, to see the construction of six town homes over a common underground parking garage. There are many older homes on these streets and the evidence of the pressure is seen by the development going on along Manor and especially at the corner of Redpath Ave. We continue to wonder about the future of the old apartments at the corner of Penrose Road and De-Savery. In the photos we see the scrambled remains of the corner steps to 4 De-Savery. Below, the same steps when they were cloistered by evergreen bushes on either side when the home was still inhabited.