This Remembrance Day, Hope Players at Hope United Church presents A War Time Radio Show, a trip back in time to 1944 when radio was king of the airwaves. Imagine you are sitting in the studio audience of the local radio station in 1944. What news, stories and music would you hear on the broadcast? […]
Tag: Remembrance Day
Malvern student made the ultimate sacrifice in Second World War air battle
Malvern Collegiate’s formidable rugby team of 1939 steamrolled its way to the city championships. Team members pledged to join the forces together to fight in the Second World War. Several didn’t return, but the memory of one lives on at Trenton Air Base. Born June 20, 1922, Kenneth Tutton grew up at 17 Firstbrook Rd., […]
Nine decades of life on Silver Birch
Bob Fraser has many remembrance days, some welcome, some not. At 91, Fraser is best known for his paintings – bright scenes of life in the Beach and along the boardwalk. But in the spring of 1944, Fraser was far from the Beach and his lifelong home on Silver Birch Avenue. He was a 20-year-old […]
Special ceremony planned to honour the start of the First World War
This year’s November 11 Remembrance Day observance will include a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War. Several thousand men and women from the Beach served in the military or were part of civilian home front efforts from 1914 to the war’s end in 1918. The ceremony will take […]
News Briefs
Candidates for the Ward 32 city council seat meet for a two-hour debate at St. John the Baptist Norway Anglican church, organized by Beach Metro Community News and Community Centre 55, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 7. The event will be moderated by Rob Granatstein, senior producer and director of canada.com. Questions for the […]
News in Brief
Cancelled. Variety Village has cancelled the mayoral election debate that was previously scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 11. ● Residents are invited to remember the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives in the 9/11 terrorist attacks this Thursday, Sept. 11 at 1 p.m. in the Millennium Peace Garden in Woodbine Park, just south of Coxwell and Eastern […]
Plans for Kew get public view
The plans to update the Queen Street edge of Kew Gardens were unveiled at an open house last week. The project was instigated by the Beach Village BIA, which hopes to draw more traffic up to Queen Street from the beach. Creating a better interface between the street and the north portion of the park […]
Front of Kew Gardens set for refresh
The Queen Street end of Kew Gardens is set for a facelift in the next year. The first of two planned public consultations took place on March 18, with about 75 interested parties crowding the gym at the Beaches Recreation Centre to offer their opinions on the possibilities for the small section of the north […]
Letters to the Editor for March 18
To submit a Letter to the Editor, email editor@beachmetro.com From our March 18, 2014 issue Now is the perfect time to consider a monumental addition Currently, Ward 32 Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon is encouraging discussion about refreshing and revitalizing a small and important portion of Kew Gardens. There is a war monument located in the area […]
Malvern grad returns to share Afghanistan experience
A piece of Kandahar, Afghanistan is now among the memorials at Malvern Collegiate honouring Canadian soldiers. It is a shard of rock that Major Rebecca Evans, a Malvern grad, kept from the base of a cenotaph that stood at Kandahar Airfield. “To you it may look like an insignificant rock,” she told Malvern students on […]
