News Archives - Page 25 of 30

28 Sep 2012

St. Nick’s 100th birthday party

March 21, 2013
By Hedy Korbee
100th birthday, community picnic, St. Nicholas Chur

St. Nicholas Anglican Church is hosting a community picnic on Saturday to celebrate its 100th birthday and everyone’s invited. The south end of Manderly Street will be closed from 12 noon until 3pm to make...

25 Sep 2012

News

Big fire on Byng Avenue

September 25, 2012
By Hedy Korbee
Byng Avenue, fire

Sirens and helicopters have been heard pretty much non-stop for the last 45 minutes in Birch Cliff. If you're wondering what's going on, there's a three alarm fire on Byng Avenue, off Danforth Avenue just...

20 Sep 2012

News

Lost your dog?

October 19, 2021
By Hedy Korbee

Does this dog look familiar? The dog was found today near Birchmount swimming pool by one of our Twitter followers . If you know who it belongs to, please go to the home page and click "Contact...

19 Sep 2012

Flood Coverage, News

Flooding meeting tonight

October 19, 2021
By Hedy Korbee
flooding meeting, Gary Crawford, infrastructure, sewers, Toronto Water, Ward 36

Toronto Water officials will be on hand to answer questions about basement flooding at a meeting tonight hosted by City Councillor Gary Crawford. The meeting is being held at 7:00pm at the Scarborough Village Recreation...

18 Sep 2012

History, News

Library’s 50th today

Just a reminder that Taylor Memorial Library is hosting a celebration today in honour of its 50th birthday. The party is from 4 - 7pm and everyone in the community is welcome to attend If you...

14 Sep 2012

Flood Coverage, News

Anger in southwest Scarborough

The Scarborough Mirror has done a good story on the anger directed at the City of Toronto by flooding victims in southwest Scarborough. It features Melanie Slater, who used to live in Birch Cliff and...

14 Sep 2012

News

A milestone for Birch Cliff News

October 19, 2021
By Hedy Korbee
Birch Cliff News, milestone

There's cause for a little celebration here at Birch Cliff News. After less than three months online we've just passed the mark of 20,000 page views. It's an interesting statistic when you consider the neighbourhood only...

13 Sep 2012

News

Local EQAO results

September 13, 2012
By Hedy Korbee
Birch Cliff Heights Public School, Birch Cliff Public School, Blantyre Public School, EQAO, Immaculate Heart of Mary

The Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) has released the 2011/2012 results for standardized testing in public schools. The tests measure the reading, writing and math capabilities of students in Grades 3 and 6, as...

08 Sep 2012

News, Sports

Canada wins gold!

October 19, 2021
By Hedy Korbee
gold medal, Paralympics, Variety Village, wheelchair basketball

Canada's wheelchair basketball team has defeated Australia 64-58 to win gold at the London Paralympics. The team includes four athletes from Variety Village: Adam Lancia, Tyler Miller, Abdi Dini Fatah and Brandon Wagner. You can read about...

08 Sep 2012

News, Sports

Variety Village athletes go for gold

October 19, 2021
By Hedy Korbee
London Paralympics, Variety Village, wheelchair baseketball

It's a big day for Variety Village at the 2012 London Paralympic Games. Canada's men's wheelchair basketball team is competing against Australia in the gold medal game at 4:15pm Toronto time. The team includes four athletes...