By RUSHANTHI KESUNATHAN The most popular attraction on Queen and Elmer streets isn’t the pizza parlour or nail salon, it’s a man. Toddlers to bus drivers stop to say “Hi,” and ask how he’s doing; kids run up to him for their morning fix of high-fives, and some adults give him spontaneous hugs. Paul Belyea […]
This wonderful photograph of Kew Gardens was taken in the summer of 1984 by lifelong Beach resident Norton Woo. Like many of our readers, I am so happy to have this park in our midst. Thanks, Norton, for sharing your image. Do you have a photograph of the Beach you’d like to share? Please email […]
While some locals like to flee to the cottage when things get busy on Queen East, others wait all year for the lively summer months and the countless ways to spend those hot summer days and nights in the East End. Not sure where to start? We’ve put together a guide featuring some of this […]
While Kew Gardens will be bopping on numerous occasions throughout the Beaches Jazz Festival, that’s not the only music that’s planned this year in the revamped park. The Beach Village BIA presents its 2017 Summer Music in the Park Series, free, select afternoons from 2 to 4 p.m. in the plaza, featuring performers from across […]
A sure sign that summer is around the corner, Bard in the Park returns for its 13th season this June, this year presenting its take on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Directed by Adrien Beattie, the Community Centre 55 supported event features a cast that “is a mix of familiar faces and newcomers,” said Beattie. “Some […]
Here’s what I think about the new Kew Gardens: The benches are uncomfortable, you can’t lean back, they face the wrong direction and what are those long concrete bunkers? Steps for the jolly green giant perhaps. It is all more suited as the front entrance to one of those new glass condos springing up on […]
As Kew Gardens reaches the end of its renovations, local councillor and parks chair Mary-Margaret McMahon says the price tag hasn’t changed since the million dollar contract was awarded. “The cost is finished but the work is not,” said the Ward 32 councillor, referring to numbers that were revealed in late 2015, and the handful […]
It’s beginning to look like a beautiful new addition to Kew Gardens. Many of us, but not all, agreed that something should have been done to help our tired entrance to our beloved park. Thank you for the newly appointed Beach BIA and Mary Margaret McMahon for seeing this through. It was wonderful to see […]
“The smell of the Sunset Grill, the sound of the streetcar.” Pete Conroy and Steve Watson, better known to many in the Beach as two of the four men behind the Beaches Lions Christmas Tree Lot at Kew Gardens, are getting nostalgic touching upon the seasons of memories they’ve amassed over the last 25 years. […]
Hello fellow Beachers, Now that spring is here we should all be reminded to keep our dogs leashed – as we should do all year long, except for designated off-leash areas. Areas such as Kew Gardens and especially Ashbridge’s Bay should be of extra concern. This time of year native animals such as squirrels, red […]
