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Leaside in the really good old days
When Walter Naulls and his wife Evelyn decided to buy a house in Leaside, they figured that since the new homes in the town were all about the same price, why not take more than …more
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Longo’s site is older than Town of Leaside
While shopping at the new Longo’s on Laird, it’s hard not to notice that you’re in a restored heritage building. The store, in fact, used to be an old locomotive shop for the former Canadian …more
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Calendar – March 2013
Deadline to submit listings for April; March 11 SECOND CUP, 1595 Bayview, free concert Friday night, March 1, by guitarist Phillip Brown. LEASIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 670 Eglinton East, March Break Kid’s Club Tuesday-Thursday March 12-4, 9 a.m.– …more
Letters
Letters – March 2013
Nice photo but… That’s an interesting photograph last month of the first airmail delivery in Canada to the Leaside aerodrome. But there’s something about it that doesn’t ring right. The date in the paper is June …more
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So he had 57,000 pennies…
What would you do with 57,000 pennies? Until Feb. 5 that’s how many Eric Rosen, of Bennington Heights Dr., had stashed away. He’d been collecting them since 1986, just under seven a day for 27 …more
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Caught by the TTC gap
Michael Bell has lived happily at the corner of Bayview and Moore for the past 10 years, but recently has needed to get to Sunnybrook Hospital for frequent treatments. He has tried for five months …more
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Deadline News
From MP John Carmichael, to North Leaside residents who attended a meeting in his office last year: “… I am disappointed but I cannot say I am surprised that there is nothing in the… letter …more
Letters
Letters – February 2013
Do you know the right date? I always wait for a quiet time to enjoy Leaside Life, therefore it has taken me ages to read the December issue. The article on our growing flock of food …more
Stories
In our Hood
Leaside resident Rick Hutchings recently won a photo contest from Toronto Balcony Blooms, a group that inspires Toronto residents to create balcony gardens. After volunteering at Thorncliffe Park School, Hutchings received two trays of vegetable …more
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Our principals starting our new century
…continued from last month JEANNETTE PLONKA lives in the west end of Toronto, but there’s been a pull eastward to Leaside, where she’s been principal of Leaside High for nine years. Previously she had been …more