to Joan

Hi Joan,

I tried to answer your message but it bounced so am answering it here .....

 

Hi Joan,

I graduated in 1959 and had Miss McPhail in homeroom. I am in NDG, am divorced and went back to my maiden name. I get to Verdun every so often because my son is 6'5" and Grover's is about the only place we have found where we can get clothes that fit him! 

Nice to hear from you

Helen 

New to group

Hi there!  just joined--the messages bring back lots of memories.  I graduated VHS in  1961.  Left Verdun in 1967.  Would welcome any info regarding Linda Lee and Wendy Waters--both attended VHS in late 50's/early 60's. 

 

More to come!  Bill Kononetz, now in exciting Las Vegas, but I miss Verdun and the ol' VHS days.

VOTING DAY

To our brothers and sisters in Canada.  Don't forget to vote today. So  get out there and vote, and vote often. Winston

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Beaver Lake

Hi Les,  With all the talk about parks etc. nobody has mentioned Beaver Lake. When we were in Willibrord School they brought us there as outing. My cousin and I took off from the group and ended up locked up in the jail house until the class could come and get us. We got a good tour of the place and the rest of the kids got to see us in jail. Lots of good times up at the lookout and that walk up to the cross. Skating in the winter and taboganning. All the way up there on the bus caring the sled. And skies if you were rich. Dannyb

Michael Moore.

Michael Moore.

If you do not want to 'support' Michael Moore and you want to see the
movie anyway, buy a ticket for a different film showing at the same
time then jump theaters in a multi plex. Your money will go to another
movie maker. BTW, I own his other DVDs, and like them but this new one
is way too exploitive I think. Just a thought.
Aloha,
Bill

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It
is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a
worthy purpose."
- Helen Keller

Verdun YM/YWCA

Hanging in the Y in Verdun, several years ago, there were hockey photos and other sports photos hanging around.  I was wondering if they were moved to the new Y when it moved to its new location.  Does anyone have any recollection of these photos?

Sherill

Going the way of the Forum

Gardens ice melts away
Council endorses Loblaws conversion
Rink not
likely in supermarket plans

The only ice at the new Maple Leaf Gardens will likely be in the
seafood department. Yesterday, city council gave its blessing to convert the
former hockey shrine on Carlton St. into a Loblaws supermarket.

At the behest of Mayor David
Miller, council sought one last look at including a skating surface in the
project, but the chances were rated as slim.

"It's a very, very remote
possibility," said Robert Hunter of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment.

Councillor Kyle Rae said
he has tried since 1999, when the Toronto Maple Leafs moved to the Air Canada
Centre, to keep an ice rink at the Gardens.

Ottawa Senators owner Eugene
Melnyk had shown interest in the Gardens for junior hockey but that went
nowhere, said Rae (Ward 27, Toronto Centre-Rosedale).

Rae said proposals have included
an entertainment centre, a venue for Cirque du Soleil, condo towers rising
through the roof, a Home Depot and, finally, a supermarket.

"I would love to have an ice rink
on that site," Rae said. "It has always been on the agenda. Each of them has
gone away and looked at it and said it is far too expensive. I've been told four
or five times that it's not possible."

However, in talks with the grocery
giant, agreement has been reached to keep the exterior, including the marquee
and rooftop Maple Leaf logos, and to continue calling the building Maple Leaf
Gardens, he said.

Rae added the new development will
include not only a three-level supermarket and two levels of parking but a
fitness centre, liquor store and post office.

"It will be jobs back into the
neighbourhood. It will be services back into the neighbourhood. It will be more
people visiting the neighbourhood."

Hunter said Loblaws could start
work as early as September and open the supermarket 20 to 24 months later.

Hunter added he was "happy
and relieved" the five-year quest to find a new life for the building has been
endorsed by city council in a 25-1 vote.

The lone opponent was Councillor
Joe Mihevc (Ward 21, St. Paul's), who described the planned makeover as
inadequate for a building of such historic significance. "I don't think the
Loblaws proposal is the worst thing that could happen," Mihevc said. "However, I
don't think it's the best thing that could happen to Maple Leaf Gardens. I think
we could have done more."

all of US

O K , We shall go through the alphabet , saying one word about Verdun , I will start  with A    Auditorium    next   B , have a go  Jimmy

AS " EYE " see it

Being brought up in Verdun was a privilige.

 

My grandfather used .to make me follow the horse and wagon to pick up the manure for his garden .

 

The lanes were safe in my day , why , we did not even lock the doors .

 

Used to use old  magazines for shin pads to play hockey at willowbroad Park .

 

Remember the yo  yo   tournaments .         your turn  Jimmy

Beam me up

Oh Canada, Kaybec and Star Trek

 

Shatner and Leonard Nimoy
were interviewed just before Star Trek premiered in 1966. In the interviews,
they explained what was then the strange and exotic concept of the show to a TV
reporter see:

 

. http://trek5.com/video/1966_interviews/.