Lorna Krawchuk, Author at Leaside Life

Articles by Lorna Krawchuk

About Lorna Krawchuk

Lorna Krawchuk is publisher of Leaside Life. She is actively involved in St. Cuthbert’s Church. Her volunteer activities with the Leaside Property Owners’ Association led to her being elected a Councillor in the Borough of East York for 9 years before amalgamation in 1998. She also held a variety of volunteer leadership positions with the Girl Guides of Canada for over 30 years. Lorna has been a Leasider since 1968.

So you think you know Petra Grantham

February 1, 2015 Lorna Krawchuk

You may well have run into Petra Grantham at a Rolph Road school event, on a soccer field, or on Bayview, but you probably are not aware of what an extraordinary woman she is. Read …more

The Business Park business with two names

January 1, 2015 Lorna Krawchuk

To continue with our series on the Leaside Business Park, probably better known here as the industrial area, I decided to investigate a business that has two names: Parkhurst Knitwear and Dorothea Knitting Mills, on …more

Seniors beware: I don’t understand this either

December 1, 2014 Lorna Krawchuk

Technology in our local schools has come a long way since the 1970s. The East York Board of Education, which encompassed Leaside then, was advanced with PETs and Commodore 64s. The programs were loaded into …more

Volunteers make bike giveaway big success

November 1, 2014 Lorna Krawchuk

The Leaside Morning Glory Cycling Club organized its first bike give-away in 2011, intending to do it every other year. But the 2013 event was so successful it was organized for this year too. So …more

Who knew? Little Free Library all over

October 1, 2014 Lorna Krawchuk

Little did we know when we put a short article and photo of the Little Free Library on Southvale Dr. in our September issue of Leaside Life that it was not alone. In fact, there …more

The man behind those traffic signs

September 1, 2014 Lorna Krawchuk

One April day when Roger Cattell was walking his kids to Bessborough Public School, he noticed cars not stopping properly at four-way stops and racing to make a light. He wrote to his councillor, got …more

Leaside’s long connection with the Gurkhas

July 1, 2014 Lorna Krawchuk

Many different things show up in basements and garages. In Carol Burke’s home on Tanager Ave., where she’s lived for 47 years, you’d find the archives of the Gurkha Welfare Appeal (Canada). There is a …more

A tale of two (or three) tennis clubs

June 1, 2014 Lorna Krawchuk

When I was growing up after World War II in Virginiatown, a gold-mine company town in Northern Ontario, the mine directors saw fit to put in two sets of tennis courts, one for their use …more

The Little Paddle that just grew and grew

May 1, 2014 Lorna Krawchuk

In 1993, Leaside’s Adele Freeman was on staff at what is now the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, and really didn’t know what she was getting into when she was urged by Metro Councillor Joan …more

The little meeting place that nobody knows

April 1, 2014 Lorna Krawchuk

For a Centennial project in 1967, the Town of Leaside built the only stand-alone meeting/recreation building in Leaside and called it Trace Manes Centennial Building. It’s on that wedge of land that also houses the …more