May 2015 - Page 2 of 3 - Leaside Life

In brief

May 1, 2015 Staff

Ten years of fundraising teaches you how to get better and better, as it has for Barry Samuel’s InsideOut’s Spring Into Action Walk & Run for diabetes. Since the Leaside event started it has raised …more

Prices still rising

May 1, 2015 Staff

North Leaside bungalows are still setting records as we head into spring. A recent bungalow sale was for $1,328,000. It was situated on a 37.4-foot (frontage) lot and sold for 11.69 percent over asking. So …more

We’re in good shape, up 6.9%

May 1, 2015 Staff

A lot’s happened since the last Leaside Stock Index report in the March issue of the paper so let’s get you up to speed on all the developments. The LSI finished the first quarter of …more

FREE BEER for a year

May 1, 2015 Staff

Beer, music, smoked meats, and an auction for free beer for a year – sound like fun? It’s the Leaside Smokedown at Amsterdam Brewery on Escandar Dr. on Thursday, May 28. It’s a fund-raiser for …more

The Durant Motors office building, at the bottom of this c. 1930 photo, is to be redeveloped. The building is on the west side of Laird Dr.

Big plans for the old Durant site

May 1, 2015 Geoff Kettel

The Durant Motors office building on Laird Dr., a listed heritage building, is proposed to be partially demolished and redeveloped as a seven-storey condominium with 109 units, linked to an eight-storey rental retirement home …more

John Naulls finds site of first home

May 1, 2015 Geoff Kettel

According to Jane Pitfield’s book, Leaside, the first settler, John Lea Senior, built the first brick house in York County here in 1829. John Naulls, a local historian, used his skills as a cartographer to …more

Horse’s head wins

May 1, 2015 Staff

What do a horse’s head, ivy leaves and flowers have in common? They were all part of the Leaside Garden Society’s winning entry, Horsepower, at Canada Blooms this past March in the Open Design category. …more

Trace Manes Park will be the future home of the The Georgia Walsh Memorial Playground. Staff Photo.

Finding winter beer bottles

May 1, 2015 Cheryl Vanderburg

At the end of March, with the much dreaded winter litter peeking out from melting snow banks, I donned rubber boots and gloves for my first spring clean-up of Trace Manes Park. I filled three …more

Free tour of our landscape architecture

May 1, 2015 Geoff Kettel

The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a Washington, D.C. based not-for-profit organization that raises public visibility of landscape architecture, has chosen Leaside for a walking tour on Sunday, May 24 as part of its Second Wave of …more

Going to bed with North Toronto Post

May 1, 2015 Michael Bliss

Welcome home Leaside Life. We hope you enjoyed your March break, somewhere in the south. We missed you. Leaside has survived without you, though not without difficulty. In the month you did not publish no …more