Hedy Korbee, Author at Birch Cliff News

29 Mar 2013

So what’s Target like?

April 7, 2013
By Hedy Korbee
retail, Shopper's World Danforth, Target

If retail’s your thing there was only one place to be on Thursday -- the soft opening of the new Target store at Shopper’s World, located at the corner of Danforth and Victoria Park. The...

28 Mar 2013

City Services, News

Major Kingston Rd construction

October 19, 2021
By Hedy Korbee
City of Toronto, construction, Councillor Gary Crawford, Kingston Road, revitalization

By Hedy Korbee The long-awaited reconstruction of Kingston Road is scheduled to begin next week and will turn the neighbourhood into a construction zone for the next 18 months. The City of Toronto is tearing up...

27 Mar 2013

News, Retail

Target opens March 28

Attention Birch Cliff shoppers - the opportunity has arrived to see if Target lives up to the hype. The local Target store has its "soft opening" tomorrow (March 28th) in the old Zeller's location at...

22 Mar 2013

News, Real Estate

Spring housing market

By Michael McCann We are officially into spring, so from now until June is traditionally the busiest real estate cycle of the year. The media have certainly been consistent in reporting that overall we are seeing...

21 Mar 2013

History

Birch Cliff P.S. History Pt. 5

October 19, 2021
By Hedy Korbee
Birch Cliff Public School, Gardens, Lorne Wideman, Morley's Field, Scarborough High School

This is part five of our series on the history of Birch Cliff Public School, written in 1966 for the school’s 50th anniversary. We're happy to report that we now know the author of...

18 Mar 2013

Photo of the Day

Photo of the day March 18 2013

October 19, 2021
By Hedy Korbee

Our photo of the day for March 18, 2013 is for everyone who is sick of winter. I went on a walk yesterday with my camera, actively looking for early signs of spring. I found these...

11 Mar 2013

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Mar. 11 2013

March 11, 2013
By Hedy Korbee

Is someone living in the Quarry? Journalist Ian Harvey was walking his dogs recently and used his phone to capture our Photo of the Day for March 11, 2013. It's a tent pitched in the southwest corner...

08 Mar 2013

News

Kayleigh Callaghan-Belanger

March 22, 2013
By Hedy Korbee
Accident, Cliffside, Kayleigh Callaghan-Belanger

Her name was Kayleigh Callaghan-Belanger. She was five-years old. And she was beautiful. Flowers, candles and teddy bears in honour of Kayleigh now line the corner of Cliffside Dr. and East Haven Rd. where she...

08 Mar 2013

Arts, Bluffs

Music video filmed at Bluffs

October 19, 2021
By Hedy Korbee
Ashley Ashbee, Jessica Stuart, Scarborough Bluffs, Winter Warm

By Ashley Ashbee When you see folk-jazz musician Jessica Stuart gazing awestruck over Lake Ontario by the Scarborough Bluffs in the music video for her new single Winter Warm, her expression is no act. She had heard...

07 Mar 2013

News

Tragic accident kills child

A terrible accident in Cliffside has taken the life of a five-year old girl. The little girl was struck by a garbage truck on Cliffside Drive, just south of Kingston Road at 3:46pm this afternoon. She...