The source for local news about Toronto’s Beach and surrounding areas.
By ALANA RAYMAN Riverdale Collegiate Institute is reaping the benefits of a grant received from Best Buy’s Social Impact Initiative program. The grants of up to $10,000 are awarded to Canadian secondary schools. The program was designed to help schools get funding in areas such as technology, laboratories, special needs areas and math programs. “Best […]
Bernice Carnegie, daughter of former hockey star and founder of the Future Aces organization Herb Carnegie, will speak at a Black History Month event planned for East York. The Celebrating Black History in Canada event is set for the S. Walter Stewart Libary on the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 28. Black History Month is celebrated […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE This delightful image was taken by photographer Chris Nicholls when he was a student in the mid 1980s. It’s on the shady side of Queen Street East on the corner of Kippendavie Avenue. You can just see the firehall tower peeking out on the right. Did you know that a very […]
By DAVID McCLEARY Happy New Year! My name is David McCleary and I am the pastor at Calvary Baptist Church. We are a historic convention Baptist church that has been trying our best, by the grace of God, to faithfully serve the Beach community for the last 125 years. We are grateful for the time […]
By GENE DOMAGALA There are great plans for our different transportation systems. The planners have great ideas for our subway systems, our roads, our bicycle paths, and don’t forget the trains on the railroad track system. I am not including air flights at this time, but who knows…one day. Our different governments have spent thousands […]
A New Year’s Levee hosted by Scarborough Southwest MPP Doly Begum is slated to take place this weekend. The levee will be on Saturday, Jan. 25, at the West Scarborough Neighbourhood Community Centre. The levee runs from 12:30 to 3 p.m., and will feature a free lunch and entertainment. In a Facebook post on Jan. […]
By AMANDA DA SILVA Local residents are invited to learn more about the City of Toronto’s Danforth Study at an Open House on Monday, Jan. 27, at Monarch Park Collegiate Institute. The Open House will take place from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Monarch Park Collegiate is located at 1 Hanson St. Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher […]
The Scarborough Young Bruins Atom AA hockey team recently brought home the championship from the International Silver Stick Tournament Finals held in Sarnia on the weekend of Jan. 16 to 19. Making the title win special was that it is believed to be a Silver Stick finals first as it saw the Young Bruins face […]
Anne Butler Swan, former Beach Citizen of the Year and founder of the Beach’s Bard in the Park Shakespeare festival, died late last year. Butler Swan died at the age of 83 on Dec. 29, 2019 at Michael Garron Hospital after a long struggle with a severe illness. She was a “legend” in the Beach […]
By AMANDA DA SILVA She showed up promptly at 11:30 a.m., walked in holding onto her great niece’s arm and made her way to the front of the hall. Eloise Chandler celebrated her 110th birthday at Harmony Hall, at 2 Gower St. in East York, on Wednesday, Jan. 22, surrounded by some family and staff […]
