By BERNIE FLETCHER The best movies tell good stories. Here’s one story I first heard by the Boardwalk one sunny day last fall. I’ll let local resident Wendy Massey tell her personal anecdote: “Many years ago I owned a pet store in a small town. I have some really wonderful memories from the eight years […]
By JAN MAIN Valentine’s Day comes as a welcome sparkle in the middle of the coldest month of winter. It’s a chance to say, “Let’s celebrate!” This year, try a 1960s favourite – fondue. Everyone participates to make their dinner which results in comradery and good eating. There are two fondues, a main course cheese […]
By GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE In his recent Letter to the Editor in the Jan. 10 edition of Beach Metro Community News, Indigenous Peoples Rights Advocate, Michael Cheena, spells out powerfully the history of the “nation-to-nation relationship” between Indigenous peoples and Canadian governments (of all levels). For far too long, that “relationship” has meant the imposition […]
By ANN BROKELMAN Well, the other day I was taking a stroll through a park near my house not looking for anything, but just adding to my kilometre total, I guess. The sun was shining, the paths were clear, and a lovely assortment of eastern grey squirrels were running about. By assortment, I don’t just […]
By ALAN SHACKLETON EDITOR, BEACH METRO COMMUNITY NEWS Everybody is being nice and saying all the right things about next month’s Winter Stations 2023 art installations planned for Woodbine Beach. So let me be the one to address the dead raccoon on the beach. Or lack thereof. Plain and simple, I think the Beach is […]
By MIMI LILIEFELDT The new year is often a time for reflection and resolution. As this month passed, I too thought about what sort of changes I wanted to implement in my life. It may sound cliché but pausing to take stock of your path is an important part of personal, social, and global development. […]
By REV. KATHERINE McCLOSKEY When I first arrived at Beaches Presbyterian Church, I was not sure of what to expect. I knew what I wanted to find there beginning with the fact that Beaches Presbyterian is in my favourite Toronto neighbourhood and wondered if it might become my home congregation. Beaches reputation for being a […]
By JAN MAIN The news is full of depressing information of rising grocery costs, as if we need to be reminded. Each shopping trip is a surprise. Each grocery bill reflects ever increasing costs. With that in mind, I turned to “experts” in keeping costs down, my grandmother Ada Cargill, a product of the depression […]
By BERNIE FLETCHER Queen Street is the beating heart of the Beach. Raise a New Year’s toast to three local favourites: the Fox Theatre, the Garden Gate Restaurant and Cobs Bread (great toasted or not). The Fox has a stylish new marquee, a sign our old friend is here to stay. To celebrate, general manager […]
By ALAN SHACKLETON EDITOR, BEACH METRO COMMUNITY NEWS I am sorry I have to start off the New Year complaining about the same thing I did to close out 2022. But if Mayor John Tory and some members of Toronto Council believe the anger and disgust over the Strong Mayor System is going to go […]
