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...
by Mike Strobel | Mar 1, 2022 | Variety Village
Paralympics medallist Marissa Papaconstantinou signs my new book, Small Miracles: The Inspiring Kids of Variety Village this week. Marissa is in the book. She was born without a right foot and at age 12, on the Village track, she used a running blade for the first...
by Mike Strobel | Feb 17, 2022 | Variety Village
BLADE RUNNER: This young woman is going places — quickly. My Sun column on a former Variety Village kid who is conquering the...
by Mike Strobel | Nov 30, 2021 | Variety Village
Our Madi is growing up, and fast. Madison “Madi” Ambos, 8, returns this year as chairkid of my Sun Christmas Fund for Variety Village, which launches today. She will surely remain a reader favourite — but she’s a very different girl than the mighty mite readers and I...
by Mike Strobel | Nov 30, 2021 | Variety Village
In its half-century, the Sun has taken up many noble causes. There was the original Adopt-A-Family for Christmas, then food for starving Ethiopia, mittens for cold-averse quarterback Doug Flutie, myriad tax revolts by business editor Linda Leatherdale and a successful...
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