By AMANDA GIBB Longtime Beach resident Dan Roitner has published his second book Best Mountain Bike Trails in Ontario: 55 MTB Locations, detailing off-road trails fit for an adventure. Roitner has been a biking enthusiast for many years and got into mountain biking with the Toronto Bicycle Network. “A group of us [from Toronto Bicycle […]
By ALAN SHACKLETON Beach resident Megan Coyle will be lacing up her soccer boots for the Sheridan College Bruins Women’s Varsity team next fall. Coyle, 18, has been playing high-level soccer since the age of seven as a member of a number of teams including Olympic Flame, Wexford T-birds, and North York Cosmos. She signed […]
As Beach Metro News celebrates 50 years, we spotlight one of the community’s longest-running beach institutions. The Balmy Beach Club was formed in 1903. Here is a look at the Club 50 years ago in the early 1970s. Times they were a changing… By MARY BETH DENOMY In 1970, seat belts were not mandatory. A […]
The Toronto Beaches Jr. A Lacrosse club raised more than $17,000 for local businesses at its recent Workout For Local event. Held virtually on Jan. 2, Workout For Local saw team members and officials take part in workouts in order to raise funds to help out East Toronto businesses that have been hard hit by […]
Members of the Toronto Beaches Jr. A Lacrosse team will take part in an upcoming fundraising event in support of small businesses in the Beach that have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Beaches Jr. A Workout for Local Businesses is set for Saturday, Jan. 2. All proceeds will be donated to local […]
By ALAN SHACKLETON Though delayed by a season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Beach resident Reilly Hunter is looking forward to starting her lacrosse scholarship at San Diego State University (SDSU) in 2021. Hunter, 18, was set to start her first year at the California university this fall but was that put on hold by […]
Local residents are coming together in a number of ways to help support Community Centre 55’s Share a Christmas campaign this year. With the COVID-19 pandemic making what are already difficult circumstances for many people much worse, the need for the campaign which helps out families in need over the holiday season is especially acute […]
Beach resident Russell Lavis will be taking on an ultramarathon run of 100 kilometres around the East Toronto area this Saturday, Nov. 7, to help raise funds for World Vision Canada. The run will take Lavis approximately 15 hours to finish. The route he will be running is a 20-kilometre loop centred around the Tommy […]
By ALAN SHACKLETON Beach soccer player Sam Gardner is playing professionally for FC Edmonton and competing in the Canadian Premier League’s Island Games which are taking place now in Prince Edward Island. A graduate of Malvern Collegiate, who grew up in the Pine and Silver Birch avenues area, Gardner , 23, signed with FC Edmonton […]
By AMANDA GIBB Accomplished tennis player Karl Hale recently became the founder and president of Premium Court, and is helping to promote sports and wellness locally and in Jamaica through his charitable actions. Hale was born in Falmouth, Jamaica, and has been a Beach resident for more than 20 years. Hale’s tennis career has lead […]
