Dear LEAF Volunteers, We are calling on every single LEAF volunteer to help rewrite the story of how Emerald Ash Borer will affect our city. This invasive insect is threatening 860,000 ash trees and we’re asking people to spend an hour or more of their time to become an EAB Ambassadors and help educate your […]
The Estates of Mimico Beach: June 19, 2012 A news update from the Long Branch Historical Society is available elsewhere on this site. Our next meeting is at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at the Long Branch Library at 3500 Lake Shore Blvd. West. The meetings are open to the public and there […]
Presented by Friends of Centennial Park Conservatory “Heritage Tree – Preserving Our Natural Roots” Guest Speaker: Edith George Edith George is an advisor to the Ontario Urban Forest Council and is a past director of the board of the Weston Historical Society. What is a heritage tree? “As more people learn about the importance of […]
We’re pleased to share with you the following information from David Juliusson: In partnership with the Lakeshore Planning Council and Cycle Toronto, the Etobicoke South Cycling Committee will be holding a meeting at LAMP on June 12 from 7 to 9 pm. We have two main issues to discuss. We will have successfully held the […]
Cycling is a fun, healthy, and eco-friendly way to view Toronto’s early history. On Saturday, June 9, 2012, David Juliusson, Program Officer at Fort York, will lead the annual Tour de Forts ride, now part of the new Heritage Rides series of bike tours in and around Toronto. Here are the details for the tour, […]
I’m really pleased I had the opportunity to attend the June 5, 2012 Mimico 20/20 workshop at the Large Gym at the Ken Cox Community Centre at 28 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive. The workshop had the same agenda and material as the May 29, 2012 workshop, which I had not been able to attend. […]
A blurb at the Toronto Public website notes that Wayne E. Lee, in this book published in 2011 by Oxford University Press, has concluded that: “In the end, the repeated experience of wars with barbarians or brothers created an American culture of war that demanded absolute solutions: enemies were either to be incorporated or rejected. […]
Lisa Wilder is National Coordinator for the Canadian Stuttering Association (CSA). She’s also editor of CSA newsletter and webmaster of the CSA website. Lisa has recently shared with me a PDf file of an article that I wrote about the May 6, 2012 South Long Branch Jane’s Walk: May 2012 South Long Branch Jane’s Walk. Photo credit: Peter […]