By ALAN SHACKLETON Dawn Chapman, owner of Lazy Daisy’s Café on Gerrard Street East, will be throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at tonight’s (Tuesday, Aug. 31) Toronto Blue Jays game versus the Baltimore Orioles at the Roger’s Centre. Chapman has been asked by the Jays to do the first-pitch honours as a representative of […]
By ALEXANDROS VAROUTAS Stephanie Salazar, of Salazar Training, will be hosting a roller skating competition on Saturday, Aug. 28, at the Beach Skateboard Park. The competition will start at noon and be preceded by a free learn-to-skate clinic from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. There are only 20 spots for the learn-to-skate clinic so it […]
By ANSON WONG Balmy Beach Canoe Club member Andrea Nelson, will be representing Canada at the Tokyo Paralympic Games which begin this week. Nelson is a member of the Canadian parakayaking team, which also includes Brianna Hennessy and Mathieu St-Pierre. Her coach Ryan Blair will also be in Tokyo for the Paralympic Games which officially […]
Southwest Scarborough’s Variety – The Children’s Charity of Ontario and the Cathedral Bluffs Yacht Club are teaming up to co-host the third annual Golf Fore Kids Charity Golf Classic. The event takes place on Friday, Sept. 24, at the Remington Parkview Golf Club in Markham. The tourney will help raise funds for the work done […]
Bowmore Road Public School and Birchmount Park Collegiate grad Aaron Brown has won a bronze medal as a member of the Canadian men’s 4×100-metre relay race team at the Tokyo Olympics. The race took place at 9:50 a.m. Toronto time on Friday, Aug. 6 in The National Stadium in Tokyo. The gold medal was won […]
By ANSON WONG The Toronto Beaches Junior A Lacrosse team came up just short of qualifying for this season’s Ontario Junior Lacrosee League playoffs. The Beaches team finished third in the East Division after playing four regular games this past weekend, another four the weekend of July 24 and 25, as part of the OJLL’s […]
Beacher Penny Oleksiak is Canada’s most decorated Olympic athlete of all time. Oleksiak, 21, won her seventh Olympic medal on Saturday night in the Tokyo Games to set the record. Swimming the final leg of the women’s 4×100-metre medley race, Oleksiak helped the Canadian team win the bronze medal on the final night of swimming […]
Beach swimmer Penny Oleksiak has a chance to make Canadian Olympic history tonight. The 21-year-old Oleksiak is expected to swim the freestyle leg for the Canadian women’s 4×100-metre medley relay team on Saturday, July 31, night at the Tokyo Olympic Games. And if the Canadian women can reach the podium, Oleksiak will become the most […]
By ANSON WONG Toronto Beaches Junior A Lacrosse opened their Ontario Junior Lacrosse League regular season with two wins and two losses last weekend. Due to COVID-19, the 11-team league’s regular season game schedule has been condensed from three games a week to a pair of games a day over two consecutive weekends. All OJLL […]
Beach swimmer Penny Oleksiak has made Canadian Olympic history. By winning a bronze medal in the women’s 200-metre freestyle race at the Tokyo Olympic Games on the night of Tuesday, July 27 (the morning of July 28 in Japan), Oleksiak becomes the most awarded Canadian Summer Olympics athlete of all time. With four medals to […]
