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Sewage plant diverts more waste than ever
Whoever said money is like manure because it does a lot of good if you spread it around might have had a future in sewage treatment. More solid waste from the Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant is being directed away from landfills than ever before, largely because it is going to a wider range of users. [...]
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Balmy Beach paddlers reach World Cup podium
Paddlers at the Balmy Beach Canoe Club celebrated two of their own last week after kayakers Kathleen Fraser and Sam Roworth won second- and third-place finishes at recent World Cup races in Poland and the Czech Republic. In the two-person, 500-metre race – an Olympic event – Fraser and partner Genevieve Beauchesne-Sévigny took second in [...]
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Beach Arts Scene
Arts on Queen presents the work of Ann Shier, a Toronto-based artist specializing in encaustic painting, an art form that involves stirring pigments into molten wax and applying it to a surface (see photo at right). Shier trained as a graphic artist, studied fine arts and worked as a potter, all of which influence her [...]
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Walking for Jamaican schools
Eight years ago, Beachers Karl Hale and Geoff Bower hosted a small get-together that raised $500 for a school in a small Jamaican town. Today, the foundation they started has raised 1,000 times that amount, built six primary schools and funded training courses for the teachers who work in them. At one of the schools, [...]
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It’s best to just gin and bare it
One of my favourite warm weather sippers is a gin and tonic with lots of ice and fresh lime. This aromatic, citric cocktail really refreshes when the temperature rises. Gin is a very popular spirit and is consumed the world over. Gin was created in the 16th century by Dutch chemist Dr. Franciscus Sylvus, to [...]
