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People, not deer threaten bog – report

By JONATHAN SHER, THE LONDON FREE PRESS

For most of the past century, it’s been people, not deer, who’ve posed a threat to the bog environmentalists say is an ecological treasure and rarity in southern Ontario.

People drained the bog, flooded it, stripped its peat, cut its black spruce for Christmas trees, surrounded it with development and gravel pits and planted an invasive plant that’s likely its biggest threat, buckthorn.

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It’s an original peel!

A long-lost painting, likely by long dead London artist Paul Peel, was unveiled this month at Museum London. Now, long lost originals have been showing up out from under everyone’s bed

Hey! You wanna see a match?

My ass and my face!

Fire crews are at the Brunswick Hotel, where a massive blaze has destroyed the 153-year-old building. The building had undergone an unauthorized, partial demolition on October 19 but was shut down by an Ontario Ministry of Labour investigation on October 20.

Let’s play demo ball

It’s a game of push and pull.

Historic West Woodfield

Section of a proposed heritage building preservation area is torn out of the map.

Somebody save the Guy!

Heritage Theatre facade preservation

The timing sucks. Oh, well.

Last week there were a couple of good ideas. Alas, the Londoner only publishes weekly and one can only hope that the story keeps it’s legs. This is part of the cartoon I did Thursday evening for submission Friday, based on a story from November 17th’s London Free Press by Jonathan Sher;

City hall nemesis Allan Patton is threatening to go to the Ontario Municipal Board if his client, developer Vito Frijia, isn’t issued a permit to cut down most of a woodland. While Patton must wait until Dec. 1 to file an appeal, he says he’ll do so unless Frijia is given the green light to cut acres of trees that residents are fighting to preserve. “If the city doesn’t issue a permit by month’s end, the appeal will be in the OMB office in Toronto the next day by courier,” Patton said yesterday. As threats go, that’s a [concern] along Adelaide Street north of Windermere Road for residents who can’t bear losing a woodland that’s larger than 10 football fields. Many are chagrined Frijia plans to use the property for a driving range when there is one practically across the street.

Then this story; $700,000 deal may save woods shows up in this days (Friday’s) paper and spins a very different polish on the apple.

The fight to save a north London woodland from a developer’s axe and a future as a driving range took a major turn this week when city council voted behind doors to offer $700,000-plus to the developer

We’re not out of the woods and onto the green just yet. Alan Patton appears in  Developer Magazine debut and Vito Frijia in Mine! Not Yours! Mine!.