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Mud Creek Ravine. Staff Photo.
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Good times at Leaside’s wilderness parks

May 1, 2022 Terry Fallis

I have such fond childhood memories of time spent with family and friends at Wilket Creek Park and Serena Gundy Park, not to mention Sunnybrook Park and Ernest Thompson Seton Park. All four parks linked …more

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Terry Fallis

I’m finally ready to swing again

April 1, 2022 Terry Fallis

By the time you read this humble offering, I’ll be out of the country for the first time in, well, in a long, long time. My destination is not too exotic, though compared to where …more

Terry Fallis

Retirement? Not really, just switching jobs.

March 1, 2022 Terry Fallis

Thirty-nine years. That’s how long I’ve been getting up in the morning, working a full-time job, and coming home again. Thirty-nine years. I know what you’re thinking. When you gaze at my photo that usually …more

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Terry Fallis

Friday night free skate at Leaside Gardens

February 1, 2022 Terry Fallis

After nearly 60 columns in this august periodical, I’ve started to lose track of what I’ve written about. I come up with a topic and then have to scan the pieces I’ve already written to …more

Photo of Five Leacock Medal winners in Yale, B.C. L-R: Trevor Cole, Terry Fallis, W.P. Kinsella, Dan Needles, Joe Kertes.
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Thinking about Paul Quarrington

January 1, 2022 Terry Fallis

At this time of year, the melancholy part of my mind always turns to the great Canadian writer Paul Quarrington, who died too soon, 11 years ago this month. About 18 years before I began …more

Holiday Lights.
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Corona Christmas 2.0

December 1, 2021 Terry Fallis

Welcome to Corona Christmas 2.0. If you’d asked me a year ago whether our world would have returned to some semblance of normal for Christmas 2021, I would have said “yes.” I mean, who among …more

Hockey returns to Leaside Gardens. After the last 18 months of Covid, safely returning to boys and girls hockey at Leaside is a small light at the end of the pandemic tunnel.
Terry Fallis

Hockey returns to Leaside

November 1, 2021 Terry Fallis

Every year, early in November, my mind and memories turn to house league hockey at Leaside. After the last 18 months of Covid, safely returning to boys and girls hockey at Leaside is a small …more

Bessborough School.
Terry Fallis

I remember the Bessborough Halloween dance

October 1, 2021 Terry Fallis

With Grade 7 at Bessborough now 50 years in my rear-view mirror (ouch!), some of my experiences back then are obscured in the mists of history. But one aspect of my time in Grade 7 …more

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Terry Fallis

I’m suffering Olympics withdrawal

September 1, 2021 Terry Fallis

I knew it was coming. It happens every four years — or in this pandemic-delayed case — five years, which made it all the worse. On the big television screen, the flame is literally extinguished, …more

Godspell theatre poster.
Terry Fallis

Remember when Godspell reigned on Bayview?

August 1, 2021 Terry Fallis

Growing up just a block away, I couldn’t count the number of times I cruised up and down Bayview, usually on errands for my mother that almost always included buying milk or picking something up …more

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