Terry Fallis

This month, we celebrate the 110th anniversary of the founding of the Town of Leaside back in 1913. You’ll notice a number of articles in this issue commemorating this auspicious anniversary. So, in the spirit …more

If you’ve been reading this column for a while now, you’ll know that I attended Leaside High School for the requisite five years from 1973-1978. But not all of you may know that a much …more

I’ve already written in this space about school dances back when I was in Grade 7 and 8 at Bessborough Drive Public School. In hindsight, I considered those dances to be a significant rite of …more

I know I’ve written about my less than stellar minor hockey career before in this space, not to mention stories about Saturday afternoons spent swimming at the pool and Friday nights skating with my friends. …more

Last November, as part of my niece’s wedding celebrations, our families gathered in the Bessborough schoolyard for an hour or so of chucking the football, baseball, and frisbee around before digging into a takeout dinner …more

If you had told me back in late 2019 that in December 2022, we’d be approaching our third – yes, third – Covid Christmas, I’d have suggested you’d dipped into the spiked eggnog a little …more

As I write this, we’ve just arrived home from our traditional Thanksgiving weekend at the cottage – an annual affair we’ve enjoyed for more than… well… I’m just not up to the math right now, …more

It was sometime in the summer of 1965. I don’t precisely know the date or even the month. Let’s just say it was high tomato season. I was five years old. Perhaps predictably, my identical …more

Around the same time our family moved to Leaside back in 1965 or so, my grandfather built our family cottage on Twelve Mile Bay, which flowed directly into Georgian Bay. We knew how lucky we …more