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Trace Manes Park will be the future home of the The Georgia Walsh Memorial Playground. Staff Photo.
Leaside Litterati

Here’s to a cleaner future!

July 1, 2018 Cheryl Vanderburg

Four years ago, after quietly cleaning up Trace Manes Park for many years, I decided something bolder, more radical and more inclusive was needed. I took to Google to research how other cities were tackling …more

Trace Manes park entrance.
Community

Changes coming to venerable Trace Manes Park

May 1, 2017 Staff

The City of Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Department held a public information session at Trace Manes Community Centre on Monday, March 27, to discuss their plans for improving Trace Manes Park, and, as their …more

Georgia Walsh
Community

$900,000 to go for Trace Manes children’s playground project

September 1, 2016 Allan Williams

“We wanted to take Georgia’s loss and turn it into something positive to unite the community,” says Jillian Walsh, “something to celebrate play and also celebrate her life.” That something is the planned renovation to …more

Georgia Walsh
Community

The $1.2 million plan for a new Trace Manes park

June 1, 2016 Will Ashworth

Trace Manes’ playground will soon get a makeover, one that’s badly needed, and honours the memory of Georgia Walsh who was killed in July 2014 in a traffic accident at Millwood and McRae. It is …more

Trace Manes Centennial Community Centre
Community

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

Digital Edition

Come join in the community fun at the Leaside Community Corn Roast, September 17, 2023.
In the Spotlight

Join the munch bunch at the Community Corn Roast

by Lorna Krawchuk in Community

Between noon and 5 p.m. on Sun., Sept. 17, you’ll want to tuck in at Trace Manes Park (McRae and Millwood) for the 27th annual Community Corn Roast, put on by the Toronto-Leaside Rotary Club. ...more
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  • Rediscovering our backyard – the natural trails of Crothers Woods
  • Bayview and Eglinton development – getting down to serious business
  • Veterinarian Larry Tung’s animal magnetism
  • Celebrating Leaside girls’ league of their own
  • Welcome back, Halloween!
  • Fall means more traffic and noise mayhem
  • A (condo) garden grows in Leaside
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