Inniskillin Winery in Niagara-on-the-Lake has a great reputation and was the first winery started here in Ontario after Prohibition. Its success is mainly due to one of the co-founders, Donald Ziraldo, who is a pioneer not only in the Ontario wine industry, but in Canadian ice wine as well. In 2006, the winery was sold […]
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Firefighters remember fallen friend from Main Street station
“All or nothing.” That’s how local firefighters remember Richard Eldon, whose name was among those read out at Toronto’s Fallen Firefighter Memorial Service earlier this summer. Eldon served as a firefighter for 18 years, first in East York, then at Station 226 on Main Street. He was only 46 when he died two years ago […]
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Local libraries are welcoming special guest performers in February to mark Black History Month. On Thursday, Jan. 23, at 6:30 p.m., the Beaches branch, 2161 Queen St. E., presents Toronto’s poet laureate, George Elliott Clarke, in Bards at the Beaches Library. Accompanying him will be Ayesha Chatterjee, Peter Norman and Anna Yin, reading their own […]