By Mark Campbell The Toronto Police Service has recently started enforcing a new ticketing system for street parking in Scarborough. Traditionally, Parking Enforcement has operated on a complaints-based system. However, this will now be...
By Kimberly Roy Troop Scouter Ask any 2nd Highland Creek Scout about the highlight of the year, and the response you’re sure to receive is “Haliburton!” Haliburton is actually the Haliburton Scout Reserve, a...
By Karthiga Dharmananda To get a better idea about crime in the Centennial area, you can view crime data at: https://data.torontopolice.on.ca/pages/maps. The data through this site is quite interesting to look at. The auto...
An aerial shot of the jamboree’s opening ceremonies. . This summer there were camping experiences at local camps such as Camp Adventureland and Haliburton Scout Reserve and the 24th World Jamboree in West Virginia...
By Tracy Forsyth The 2nd Highland Creek Scouts e-waste fundraiser on April 27 was a huge success! We collected two large dumpsters of e-waste, two large dumpsters of scrap metal and more than 13,000...
Bruce Middleton and Glenda Samuels-Greenidge helped sort some of the stuff that was brought to Port Union C.C. for the Scouts’ recycling drive on April 27. By Denise Bacon CCRA, West Rouge Sports and...
From left: Sanjina, Ella, Olivia, Alex and Moorea were part of the student walkout on April 4. By Kathryn Stocks On April 4 at precisely 1:15 p.m., students at Mowat started pouring out of...
This map shows the proposed bike lane on Lawrence Ave. E. from Port Union Rd. to Rouge Hills Dr. By Rob Elbertsen One of the proposed projects in Toronto’s Cycling Network Plan will create...
Youth from the Tyler McGill Music Program will be performing at BluesLink on May 2 at the Guild Inn. By Kathryn Stocks BluesLink is happening on Thursday, May 2 at the Guild Inn Estate....
There was a crowd in the Riviera on March 2 for the barber shop’s anniversary celebration. Councillor Jennifer McKelvie, right, presented a commemorative certificate from the city. Photo: Don Lawrence The Riviera Barber Shop...
By Kathryn Stocks For Barb Tulk, co-operative housing is the best form of rental. She lives in the West Rouge Co-operative at 8 Clappison Blvd. near Port Union Rd., a neat little enclave of...
By Garrett and Ryan Allardyce The National Theatre School Drama Festival Ontario (formerly known as the Sears Ontario Drama Festival) is a province-wide competition that runs from the end of February to the middle...
By Tracy Forsyth The 2nd Highland Creek Beavers, Cub Scouts, Venturers and Rovers have been busy with weekly meetings, weekend camps and day events. The Scouts, Venturers and Rovers went camping at Cobourg Scout...
By Gerry Divaris At the CCRA executive meeting in February, we were honoured to welcome Jennifer McKelvie in her official capacity as our new City Councillor. She attended the meeting with City of Toronto...
By Lakshmi Anandaraj Sir Oliver Mowat’s robotics team, the Mowat Mustangs 7710, will be competing in the Canadian First Robotics Competition on March 3 and 15. The team consists of Calvin Boerner-Cabeceira, Grace Harrison,...
by Kimberly Roy For the 36th straight year, the Centennial community has demonstrated its commitment to helping those less fortunate through participation in the 2nd Highland Creek Scouting Food Drive, affectionately named “Scouting for...
By Garrett and Ryan Allardyce Sir Oliver Mowat C. I. is proud to present Mamma Mia! It’s the story of a 20-year-old woman named Sophie (Stephanie Hintermeister) determined to discover the identity of her...
By Tom Foulds Your community Cadet Corps, 2881 Queen’s Own Rifles RCACC (QOR Cadets), got off to a busy start this fall. Our Cadets manned an information booth at the West Rouge community Family...
Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and their leaders learned about water and canoe safety at an area canoe and paddling session at the Rouge Marsh.Photo: Krystle Forsyth,Colony and Pack Volunteer Scouter By Tracy Forsyth The 2nd...
By Gerry Divaris Three community drop-ins were held last month to focus on the future planning opportunities along the anticipated Eglinton East Light Rapid Transit corridor in Scarborough. The Eglinton East LRT team came...
By Ryan and Garrett Allardyce At the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year, Sir Oliver Mowat Collegiate Institute officially switched to a semester school system. This means that Mowat students take four out of...
Older Scout sections and Venturers went to Haliburton Scout Reserve this summer and had a great week of rappelling and rock climbing among other activities. By Tracy Forsyth Getting away and enjoying the outdoors...
By Eunice Chong A writer since the age of 10, Mowat student Madison Johnstone’s original play The Looking Glass garnered her praise for her “beautiful thoughts” from more than one adjudicator at the National...
By Tracy Forsyth Last month we reported about our recycling fundraiser on April 21. We didn’t have all the totals at that time so we would like to share them with the community now....
By Marilyn Hodge On April 12, 43 Division held the Community Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) meeting off-site at the Scarborough Village Community Centre on Kingston Road. The CPLC meetings are usually held at the...