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Month: October 2017

The author, Terry Fallis, front row left, and his brother Tim, front row right, on a Leaside house league team with Stephen Harper, back row, left.
Terry Fallis

Harper always was a dedicated right-winger!

October 1, 2017 Terry Fallis

The summer is behind us and there’s that ever so slight chill in the air. Fall is here. And for hundreds of kids in Leaside, you know what that means. No, not the sugar rush …more

Leaside Memorial Gardens. Photo by Robin Dickie.
Sports

LMCG launches Leaside’s Hunger Games

October 1, 2017 Guest Contributor

On Sunday, September 24th, Leaside Memorial Community Gardens celebrated its 65th anniversary of serving the community. Working with our partner Sarah & Claire’s Food Drive, this celebratory event launched a friendly competition among the Gardens’ …more

People

Carol & Dave’s excellent Leaside adventure

October 1, 2017 Vicki Hall

Way back in January of this year, I began a series on health and wellness featuring two Leasiders – Carol Townsley and Dave Sparrow. Since many of us may be noticing the summer indulgences showing …more

People

Barb Gosse’s crusade to end human trafficking

October 1, 2017 Lorna Krawchuk

Barb Gosse’s route to becoming CEO of the Canadian Centre to End Human Trafficking was certainly not a straight one. The Airdrie Rd. resident was originally an urban planner who moved to Leaside with her …more

History

MacNaughton Road

October 1, 2017 Jeanne Hopkins

The Town of Leaside was laid out in 1912 as a railway town by entrepreneurs Sir William Mackenzie and Sir Donald Mann, owners of the Canadian Northern Railway. They had purchased 1,000 acres of land …more

Allan Gardens.
People

Curtis Evoy — Meet the man with two green thumbs

October 1, 2017 Lorna Krawchuk

For Grade 8 student Curtis Evoy, the class trip from Terrace Bay to Toronto, which included a visit to Allan Gardens, changed his life. When he finished high school, he enrolled at Seneca College in …more

Sports

Four new members to join the Leaside Sports Hall of Fame

October 1, 2017 Allan Williams

The Leaside Sports Hall of Fame will add four new members at its annual induction ceremony in November. Two of the new inductees were recently profiled in the pages of Leaside Life: distance runner Robert …more

Thanksgiving for Alhayak family
Community

Thanksgiving comes early for the Alhayak family

October 1, 2017 Ken Mallett

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and perhaps no one has more to be thankful for than Amjad Alhayak. Amjad is a refugee from Syria, newly settled in our community, and the first thing he …more

Apples
Gardening

The Leaside Gardener: A tribute to the Northern Spy Apple

October 1, 2017 Debora Kuchme

We have a wonderful history of apples here in Leaside thanks to John Lea and his son William, who dedicated most of their farmland to apple orchards. Not just any apple either, but the Northern …more

Principal DiPaolo
Schools

Meet the principals, Part 2

October 1, 2017 Janis Fertuck

Leaside has welcomed another new principal. He is Donato Di Paolo of St. Anselm Catholic School, who came from Canadian Martyrs Catholic School in East York, where he was principal for three years. Mr. Di …more

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John Naulls at the Layers of Leaside.
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Leaside 110 – Reflections on an archival exhibit

by Geoff Kettel in History

In last month’s Leaside Life we proclaimed “The Layers of Leaside are Redux!”  The Leaside 110 archival exhibit at Leaside Library, with maps, photos and artifacts displaying the history of the Town, plus three pop-up ...more
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