Events for March 2010.
Meet the Nurse Next Door
The Pink Patrol was out in full-force in late fall, handing flowers out to lucky seniors and balloons to the children along Bloor St in the Kingsway. It was all part of the launch ...more
Breakfast With Santa Claus
Locals infused with Christmas spirit flocked to Franklin Horner Community Centre on the morning of December 19th for the highly anticipated Breakfast with Santa Claus. As we all kn...more
WOTS - Kids
SNAP paid a visit to Cloverdale Mall this month and asked kids, "If you could be any animal you wanted, what would you be?...more
Burns Day Celebration
It was a toast to Scotland's favourite son at Scarlett Heights Retirement Residence on January 25th as they marked Robert Burns Day with a hearty affair. The national poet of Scotl...more
Family Literacy Day
Parenting and Family Literacy Centres celebrated Family Literacy Day on January 27th. Many schools throughout the TDSB observed this special event by hosting a series of book readi...more
Getting the Retirement You Want
Paul Sullivan of RBC held a financial workshop on January 27th at the RBC Queensway & Kipling branch. The seminar aimed to teach attendees how they could generate more retirement i...more
1st Annual ICARE Gala
The evening of January 28th was a truly memorable evening for patrons of the brand new state-of-the art continuing care hospital, Runnymede Healthcare Centre (RHC). The 1st annual ...more
TD Bakes For Haiti
On January 29th, the TD Canada Trust branch in the Kingsway Mills plaza at 4242 Dundas St. West held a bake sale in support of Haiti relief. Ryan, one of the bank's customer servic...more
Hope For Thomas
Thomas Bourke was diagnosed with cerebral palsy shortly after he turned one year old. Since then he has engaged in many forms of therapy, attended specialized nursery schools and c...more
Toronto Cyclones Host Speed Skating Meet
On January 30th, young athletes from around
the province converged on the MasterCard Centre for Hockey Excellence to compete in the host Toronto Cyclones' third annual speed skati...more
How To Not Make a Splash
Olympic and world championship medallists, Alexandre Despatie and Emilie Heymans, were here at the end of January to compete in the 2010 Winter Senior National Diving Championships...more
Jamming at Moksha
In an effort to make yoga practice more fun and family-friendly, Moksha Yoga Bloor West (MYBW) launched a live music class this past January, which will run on the last Saturday of...more
Sharpshooters Compete at Bishop Allen Academy
Steve Nash. Reggie Miller. Larry Bird. Ray Allen. Professional basketball players with a knack for shooting the free throw. If you make the mistake of putting these guys at the lin...more
Donating Much-Needed Blood
Approximately every minute of every day, someone in Canada needs blood. According to a recent poll, 52 per cent of Canadians have needed blood themselves or know a family member wh...more
The Human Library
They always say, you can't judge a book by its cover. But how about its face? Humber College's first ever Human Library engaged readers over two days in February. The initiative wa...more
Hands-on Woodworking
In early February the woodworkers from the Franklin Horner Community Centre paid a visit to Scarlett Heights Retirement Residence to set up a hands-on woodworking demonstration. Ab...more
Women in Community
St. Andrew's Church was busy on the afternoon of February 4th as a group of women gathered to discuss community safety, security and solidarity. Being that Valentine's Day was only...more
Tut Talks
Curiosity mongers joined University of Toronto PhD candidate, Christina Geisen, at Richview Library on February 4th to learn about the iconic boy king, King Tut, and his fellow pha...more
A Day in The Life...
SNAP attended the opening night of Etobicoke Collegiate Institute's newest homegrown musical, A Day in the Life, on February 4th. Written by and starring ECI students, the show too...more
Beating the Blahs with Laughter
M&M Meat Shops knows how dreary and cold February can be in our neck of the woods. That's why they launched a winter initiative to help patrons beat the frosty blues with a dose of...more
