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EDITORIAL
4 Glebe Report March 10, 2017

Images of the Glebe Glebe comings

and goings

NEW TO ThE GLEbE
McDonald’s has come (again) to the
Glebe! It’s at the corner of Bank and
Fifth, 853 Bank Street, in the build-
ing that was rebuilt after the fire of
2015. As some of you may know,
McDonald’s is a fast food hamburger
and fries outlet, currently featured
in the movie The Founder (see Lois
Siegel’s review on page 16).

Crazy Pho You at 696 Bronson
(formerly the Caprese Ristorante
Italiano) is now open, featuring Viet-
namese cuisine.

Sweet Bite French pastry coming
soon to 769 Bank Street.

ChANGES AFOOT
Photo: Kerry smith 769 Bank Street. “Moving Out Sale,
Chocolaterie Bernard Callebaut,
this location only. Last business day
was February 23. Visit our other

(sign on the door) Coming soon:
Strollers taking over the Glebe Community Centre in February location at 314 Richmond Road.”
Sweet Bite French pastry
For every winter, a spring LCBO on the corner of Bank and

Powell has been leased. We await
news.
It won’t stay still – life, I mean. We all sentence, and now it’s not. Medical sci- have no inclination to learn to drive.
know about the demise of phone books ence has made great strides in many Cheque writing is an arcane bit of busi- GONE bUT NOT FOrGOTTEN
and now they’re discussing whether to areas including genetics and stem-cell ness unfamiliar and a little eccentric to Rogers, 690 Bank Street (corner of
get rid of public pay phones entirely. uses. On the other hand, now almost anyone born after 1990. Garbage and Bank and Glebe) is now closed.
Most people have smart phones that everyone you know has a food allergy of recycling has become a complicated
allow them to look things up, do their some sort and there are many kids with affair involving several bins, colour Contributors this issue
banking, take pictures and videos and autism. Asthma is resurging and ADHD coding, cooperation with neighbours
play games, all while standing in line. is commonplace. Cancer seems to be and a calendar of garbage events. Michael Abbey Christine McAllister
On the other hand, people now have to everywhere in its many forms. While Life is a moving target. On those Kathy Ablett Kate McGregor
stand in line to get a table at even the dentists insist that you should see them rare occasions when we hit the mark, Francisco Alvarez Diane McIntyre
most mundane of restaurants, at least every six months instead of the previous halleluiah! And when we miss by a Dijana Bate Ellen McLeod
for brunch on weekends. On the third nine months or a year, our teeth are in mile, well, something will eventu- Carolyn Best John McLeod
hand, no one lines up in a bank any- the best shape they’ve ever been. ally change and the chance will come
more. (What have they done with all Teenagers used to be anxious to learn around again in a radically differ- Gwendolyn Best Roger Mesley
those ropes marking off the line?) to drive so they could get their licence, ent form. Our job is to recognize and Micheline Boyle Karen Munro Caple
We’ve radically reduced measles and a marker of independence. Now, at embrace the spring when it comes. David Chernushenko Yasir Naqvi
mumps, formerly a rite of passage for least downtown, the urge has disap- Ash Abraham Coutu Al Patrick
every child. AIDS used to be a death peared and a number of young people –Liz McKeen Nadine Dawson Rafal Pomian

Joseph Federico Marisa Romano
Pat Goyeche Sheri Segal Glick
CONTACT US Louise Green Kristin Shropshire
Paul Green Lois Siegel
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