It’s back! The second Leaside Halloween Home Decorating Contest begins Oct.18. Visit www.halloweencontest.org for contest details. People whose spooky creativity had entertained their neighbourhood for years appreciated the online recognition. The winners enjoyed prizes like …more
In September I will be a presenter at the Leaside High Class of ‘59 reunion. The time of Margaret Atwood, then known as Peggy. The cultural myth of that era told us that there was …more
When I was a child fathers worked 9-5 and read the Globe and Mail, mothers worked in the home making everything we needed appear like magic, and children spent summers at the cottage or at …more
Brooks was my neighbour. He was well known on Bayview for his Saturday visits to his favourite haunts while his owner, Susan, was busy shopping. His many friends were used to the dog with the …more
Demanding lives often reduce relationships with neighbours to hello, how are you? One group gets even less attention than this, even when its proclivity for jaywalking ends in tragedy, and that is our squirrel neighbours. …more
A few issues ago, Lorna Krawchuk reminisced about rain water running down the basement staircase of the old Leaside Library and flooding the community room. The mention of that room stirred a pleasant memory in …more
Last July as I watched the flooding in the Don Valley all the unease created by my decades of experience organizing relief projects rose with the water. I knew from what I heard climate scientists …more
How do you protect your (very small) street when you have little to fight with? I learned how when I moved back to Mallory Cres. in March 1989 and found the valley was under attack …more
The valleys and cliffs on three sides of Leaside make it a unique urban neighbourhood. My childhood street was Mallory Cres. on the edge of the Don Valley. My earliest valley memory was a …more
Princess Elizabeth visited Toronto in 1951. I was five as I sat at the corner of Bayview and Moore in my wagon holding a Union Jack as I waited to see her. That moment is …more
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