The South Bayview Bulldog

A 15-year-old mixed breed family dog has escaped a cold demise in Toronto’s Boxing Day storm.  Yebo is now back home with her owners. Margaret and Garth Jackson, of Lawrence Park. As told in the Toronto Star by reporter Alyshaw Hasham, lucky Yebo was found wandering in the snow by Guido Lenarduzzi and his wife Tammy Huot as they were driving on Lawrence Ave. E. The couple knocked on some doors to try to find the dog’s home but were unsuccessful. They took Yebo home with them and struck on the idea of posting a picture in the Kijiji Dog Found  classifieds. And it was here, the next day, that the Jackson’s daughter found the online posting and picture and called her parents with the news. It appears that Yebo got lost when she was let out into the Jackson’s back yard and then, instead of scratching at the door to get back inside, she decided to explore the snow on Lawrence Ave.

Shoppers were caught completely by surprise as a 30-ton aquarium full of  fish, turtles and sharks exploded without warning in a Shanghai mall earlier this month. The flying glass, debris and fishes injured more than a dozen people.  The drama was caught on closed-circuit television and posted to YouTube. It sent shards of glass flying at unsuspecting shoppers when the huge tank burst. On the left, a freeze frame milliseconds after the aquarium cracked open. The woman seen in the frame is apparently paralyzed in shock. The video shows onlookers get swept up in waves as the water gushes out of the aquarium. “There was no warning. Just a loud crack and it went. I’ve never been so scared,” a worker at the Shanghai Orient Shopping Centre said The glass was reportedly 15 cm thick. Some 15 people were injured, including eight shoppers and seven staff. 

This wonderful picture from April shows South Bayview dad Leo and daughter Juliet taking a stroll past Passion Fruit. We publish the picture because it is just great, but also because it’s been a long time since there have been any new postings to the enjoyable blog known as Days With Juliet, published by Juliet’s mom, Elise. Parents are, heaven knows, pretty busy so it’s not always possible to keep a blog up to date. But it would be nice for all those who know Juliet to see how she is coming along these many months later.