by Mike Strobel | Mar 1, 2022 | Variety Village
Wee Willa Price is finally discovering a world of culinary delights that do not come from a feeding tube. So far, the five-year-old is partial to honey garlic chicken wings and the messier the better. “She can drain a pound of those things,” says her dad, Harold...
by Mike Strobel | Mar 1, 2022 | Variety Village
When you meet 12-year-old Kathleen McHardy, silent and slumped forward in her wheelchair, you can’t help but wonder what’s going on under that pretty auburn ponytail. Want to find out? Play her a song. Kathleen’s dad, Toronto jazz guitarist Chris McHardy, learned this...
by Mike Strobel | Mar 1, 2022 | Variety Village
There’s the Wayne Gretzky of Variety Village shredding another squad of able-bodied pushovers the other day. Actually, the visiting Scarborough Ice Raiders are powers on the ice of their east end league. But this is Volt hockey, using electric carts, and the young...
by Mike Strobel | Mar 1, 2022 | Variety Village
Every Wednesday, Anthony and Daniel Enright bring their kid sister to Variety Village. They call it “Nancy Day.” Nancy, her brothers in tow, blows in like a skinny hurricane through the sliding front doors of the Village. As regular readers know, this is an iconic...
by Mike Strobel | Mar 1, 2022 | Variety Village
The late, great legless golfer Eddie Urquhart inspired many, and his spirit was in full swing at Variety Village on the weekend. Big Eddie, of Courtice, once smoked a drive 347 yards at a Las Vegas meet. For most of us hackers, that’s a Big Bertha, a long iron, and...
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