If you are a Scarborough resident and have a dog, you should know the city is cracking down on off-leash dogs. But fret not, there are dog parks in the community. The parks are fenced in and the dogs can be off-leash and free to play without the fear of fines … or worse.
As a professor at Centennial College, a poet and the author of five books, John Oughton enjoys capturing the world through his camera lens. His photography exhibit, Interrogating the World, was launched at Progress Campus Library of Centennial College on April 4.
“Almost cut my hair, it happened just the other day,” sings Scarborough resident Larry Kosowan, playing with his acoustic steel-string guitar. Kosowan played the song Almost Cut My Hair by Crosby, Stills and Nash in the back of the Working Dog Saloon on Tuesday night.
Ironically, Kosowan did cut his hair. All twelve inches of his flowing, dark brown locks.
A Scarborough facility that caters to clients with mental health and substance abuse issues has moved to reassure residents of the Danforth and St. Clair Ave. E., area that it has been, and will continue to be, a safe, responsible neighbour.
It may have been a market, but according to many of the vendors there, their goal wasn’t to make money but rather to promote healthy foods and a healthy lifestyle to students.
In 2000, Carol Diefenbacher’s son Brandon Wagner was the only survivor of a car crash that left him paralyzed. “Brandon said after his accident, ‘You know mom, you’ve always taught us that everything in life happens for a reason,’ ” she recalled. “I felt like I had just been punched in the stomach.”
Margaret Grainger doesn’t mind the hour drive to visit Scarborough’s Pine Hills Cemetery, where her parents are buried. Her move from Scarborough to Richmond Hill in recent years has not impeded her monthly trips, during which she lays flowers on the graves of her loved ones and takes a moment of silence at Birchmount Road and St. Clair Avenue. The only inconvenient part of her visits is the fact that she feels unsafe coming alone anytime outside of busy, daylight hours.
Arts and crafts lovers united once again at St. Dunstan of Canterbury Anglican Church on March 23 for their Annual Spring Sale.
Mighty Scarborough is home to many areas of Mother Nature’s beauty. For animal lovers, there is the Toronto Zoo, but for those who appreciate landscapes and greenery, the Bluffs are Scarborough’s crown jewel.
Back in the sixth season of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson became a member of the Stonecutters, a secret society made up of ordinary Springfield residents. Although that was quite a long time ago, I can’t help but remember the Stonecutters’ chant, “We Do.” I fact, I often catch myself singing the lyric, “Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?”