by Mike Strobel | Mar 1, 2022 | Variety Village
TORONTO – Mike Strobel is a (kind of) retired Toronto Sun editor and columnist with 40-some years in the newspaper business who hangs his hat for a good part of the year in Kagawong these days. You might think all that time in the media business following stories in...
by Mike Strobel | Mar 1, 2022 | Variety Village
We did it. I mean, you did it. The Sun Christmas Fund has gone over $100,000 for the first time — and then some. To be exact, $117,124. That cheer you hear comes from the kids, and kids grown up, of Variety Village. “Wow! That’s a lot of money!” says Madison “Madi”...
by Mike Strobel | Mar 1, 2022 | Variety Village
Swimming was Vicki Keith’s life. In her storied career, she swam all five Great Lakes, including a double crossing of Lake Ontario, the English Channel, Juan de Fuca Strait, Catalina Channel and Sydney Harbour. I hear she even gazed at the Pacific Ocean with a glint...
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...
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