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DeSantos Foundation’s fundraising walk from Toronto to Niagara Falls set to start

April 22, 2019

DeSantos Premier Martial Arts begins its annual fundraising walk from Toronto to Niagara Falls on Tuesday, April 23. The walk is a fundraiser for the non-profit DeSantos Foundations which supports a number of local and international initiatives including school breakfast programs, the Red Door Shelter, and supplies and scholarships for students in Guyana and the […]

Police in 55 Division looking for man in connection with series of assaults

April 22, 2019

Toronto police are asking for the public’s help in finding a man wanted in connection with a series of assaults. Police in 55 Division responded to four calls for assaults allegedly committed by one man over the past four months. Police are looking for Navardo Ingram 26, of Toronto in connection with the incidents. He […]

Beaches-East York Councillor Bradford to host community meeting at Naval Club

April 22, 2019

Beaches-East York Councillor Brad Bradford will host a community meeting on Wednesday, April 24, at the Naval Club of Toronto, 1910 Gerrard St. E. The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. On the agenda will be a session on “Planning 101”, and there will also be a question-and-answer period for those attending. For more information, please […]

Road closures today for Toronto Beaches Lions Club Easter Parade

April 21, 2019

Toronto police have announced a number of road closures in connection with today’s Toronto Beaches Lions Club Easter Parade. The parade is set to begin at 2 p.m. at Munro Park Boulevard and Queen Street East at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 21. From that point it will head west along Queen Street East to […]

Deja Views: The 1970s and Gregory’s Deli and Coffee Shop on Queen Street East

April 20, 2019

By DAVID VAN DYKE In the 1970s Ann Patterson ran a camera store on Queen Street East called Carter & Carter Photography. Many times, Ann would take her camera on her lunch break and shoot storefronts in the Beach. This image of Gregory’s Deli & Coffee Shop sits on the sunny side of Queen Street […]

Toronto’s 420 event set for Saturday at Woodbine Park

April 19, 2019

Toronto’s annual 4/20 event which celebrates cannabis is being planned by organizers to take place this year in Woodbine Park. The event is set for Saturday, April 20 and is being billed on Facebook as a celebration of cannabis, and this year the event will also celebrate the legalization of cannabis in Canada. The celebration […]

Artist John Kuna selected to create new Beach mural on Foodland store wall

April 19, 2019

Artist John Kuna has been selected to create the new mural which will appear on the wall of the Foodland grocery store on Queen Street East at Lee Avenue in the Beach. Mural Routes and Foodland are partnering on the plan to produce the new mural which is intended to be unveiled on July 27 […]

Women entrepreneurs celebrated at Danforth Avenue event

April 18, 2019

By RASHIDA POWANKUMAR Amanda Munday is aware of the systemic barriers of being a woman in business, and that’s why she emailed women who own and operate businesses in the Danforth community to join her on Monday, April 15, to talk about entrepreneurial experiences and opportunities. They gathered at The Workaround space at 2080 Danforth […]

Fundraiser in the Beach slated to help family of local six-year-old boy battling cancer

April 18, 2019

By RASHIDA POWANKUMAR Members of the Beach community are coming together to help a six-year-old boy diagnosed with brain and spine cancer and his family. In January, Cindi Shoot’s son Ethan was diagnosed and it changed the lives of the Main Street and Danforth Avenue area family. Ethan and his mom Cindi are at St. […]

Toronto East Bridge Club is launched in the Beach

April 18, 2019

By ADA SPANJAARD It is a fact: the ACBL (American Contract Bridge League) has granted the sanction to start a brand-new duplicate bridge club in the Beach, the Toronto East Bridge Club, serving the Beach area and surroundings. You may be thinking: “Do we need another bridge club?” The answer is: Yes! Even though there […]

No injuries after fire in ninth-floor unit at Main Square Apartments

April 17, 2019

No one was injured in a fire in a ninth-floor apartment at a building in the Main Street and Danforth Avenue area last night. Toronto firefighters were called to a building at 2575 Danforth Ave., Main Square, just after 10 p.m. on April 16 for reports of a fire in an apartment. When firefighters arrived, […]

In My Opinion: Beach Village BIA working hard on strengthening economic development

April 17, 2019

By ANNA SEBERT Issues like storefront closures are universal concerns not unique to Toronto nor to the Beach Village. That being said, at the Beach Village BIA we’re not sitting idly by or overlooking this hotbed topic, but rather taking aggressive and proactive measures to continue to strengthen the economic development of the area. When […]