The source for local news about Toronto’s Beach and surrounding areas.
Parents in Ontario: it’s time to wake up. Our own kids have started to lead the way. On April 4, more than 100,000 students walked out of more than 600 schools to protest recent education changes. Educators, support staff, and school board trustees have all been vocal about education cuts as well. On April 6, […]
Beach United Church was joined by members of the Pegasus Community Project last week to celebrate the installation of a pair of accessible planters at the Wineva Road church. The planters are designed so that people in wheelchairs are able to use them for planting flowers, vegetables, herbs or other plants. The wooden planters made […]
Back in 1954, 75 teenage girls celebrated their graduation from Notre Dame High School on Kingston Road, and 65 years later many of them gathered together for a reunion. The celebration was held at the Delta Toronto East Hotel in Scarborough on June 8, and 36 of the former grads attended, some coming from as […]
Beach guitarist and composer Mark Battenberg presents The Fable of Iris the Fairie as a celebration of the Summer Solstice this week. The free celebration takes place on Friday, June 21 at Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd. Doors will open at 7:30 p.m. and the concert starts at 8 p.m. Everyone is invited […]
By KATIE FULLERTON Upper Beach residents are now enjoying new floral displays along Kingston Road. On June 7, all 28 tree wells from Pickering to Victoria Park were planted with various pollinator friendly native perennials. The aim of this project is to both beautify and to provide additional habitat for native bees, birds and butterflies. The […]
By RICARDO VIGLIANO We all navigate uncertainties in our everyday lives. Most of us would take this idea metaphorically, but not those who live with a visual impairment. Alison Brown used to live in fear of bumping into people, falling over things, and hurting herself every single day that she went out. Her life outdoors […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE Another great submission from Chris Souwand, who, as a student, went around Queen Street East, capturing store fronts for a school project. This issue’s focus: Outrigger (on Queen and Beech). In 1985, it was the Baker Street Restaurant! As for me, this place of business will always be remembered as Quigley’s, […]
By MARY FRAN McQUADE Once upon a time, gardens were filled with bright flowering plants that bloomed their pretty heads off all summer long. Impatiens, tiny fibrous begonias, marigolds, geraniums, snapdragons and more covered garden beds, public and private. Then people caught on to the idea of perennials, and annuals were left behind in the […]
By JAN MAIN My rule is summer may officially begin once the first Ontario berries are ready for picking. Of course, this date varies a little from year to year with changing weather conditions. This year with the cool, rainy days strawberries are about a week later, from mid-June to July 1, just in time […]
A former member of the Royal Air Force who lives in Wales is hoping Beach Metro News readers can help him find more information on a Canadian pilot who was killed in a mid-air collision during the Second World War. Steve Jones, from Port Talbot, Wales, has done extensive research into the graves of numerous […]
