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VOL. 37 NO. 6 June 2019 Your FREE Neighbourhood News from the Beach to the Rouge bluffs monitor photo illustration: John Smee The Young Family ; of Birch Cliff, as well as hundreds of other families enjoy the Victoria Day fireworks at Birchmount Park on Monday May 20th. Pyrotechnics in the Park By John Smee rains. Like it did this year and tions over to charity. And because sponsors so the church he attends thousand dollars, a few years ago; The spectacular fireworks everybody has to come back the food security is something that he (Fallingbrook Heights Baptist so no one has to be too close to the display put on last week at Birch - next night. But it was well worth cares about, Mathieu decided to Church at the Centre) said “that show. It also syncs the fireworks mount Park, for those of you who the wait. donate the funds to the Birch Cliff can’t happen, so they paid for to music. may not know, was because of the About 9 years ago (2010) Bluffs Food Bank. everything”. The church provided Yuill has his level one py - efforts of Birch Cliff resident Mathieu decided it would be nice Since 2017 the show has been $5000.00. A modest budget in the rotechnic certification - a basic Mathieu Yuill. to have a fireworks show for a few drawing about 500 neighbour - pyrotechnic world. safety and awareness course for “I love fireworks that’s my family friends. By 2012 his ex - hood residents. “That’s when it re - If you’ve ever ponied up, say, those lighting off consumer fire - main motivator, so if no one travaganza was drawing 100 peo - ally started to get attention” says $100.00 (or more) to buy a few works. Which is what Mathieu’s showed up, I’d still do it.” ple to the Birch Cliff Public Yuill. So much attention that the celebratory explosives you know show consisted of ... pyrotechnics Like most neighbourhood he - School yard. food bank entered into a sponsor - how quickly you can burn through that can be found in a shipping roes, Mathieu is quick to point out Around 2014 a new phenom - ship role with Yuill, as a result of your hard earned money. container in the Canadian Tire that the show could not go on enon caught him off guard. People the awareness and the revenue the Mathieu has learned a few parking lot or any store along without the help of approximately started handing over money as a show was generating for them. tricks of the trade over the years. Kingston Rd. 25 volunteers. People who set up way to show appreciation and say Up until that point he had Mostly from a “mentor” or “the In the end it’s his love of fire - the audio system, pick up the thank you. A little unsure what to covered the cost of the show, as guy I buy my fireworks from in works and contribution to his rental equipment, set up the screen do with the handfuls of change much as $3500.00, out of his own Richmond Hill”. community that burns brightly and the fireworks. These things that were coming his way some - pocket. He also purchased a Cobra within Mathieu Yuill. just don’t happen. And then it one suggested he turn the dona - In 2019 he couldn’t find any Remote Firing System, for several Y EARS 510 REALTY 510 BROKERAGE 416 • 510 • 2200 Save up to 75% WOW!!! TRIP Let 510 REALTY Buy or Sell your A FREE CASTLE and receive a free Vacation Tico # 50019887 Page 2 - June 2019 www.bluffsmonitor.com WEBSITE: www.bluffsmonitor.com CIRCULATION: 20,000 AD SALES / EDITORIAL [email protected] / [email protected] or to VOLUNTEER for DELIVERY 416-691-4085 UPCOMING DEADLINES In by: June 18th For: July 2019 Issue Delivery: Tues. June. 25th August issue deadline: July 24th Delivered: July 30th Sept. issue deadline: August 20th Delivered: August 27 th PUBLISHER / EDITOR: John & Glenda Smee Editorial Asst: Mary McIntyre Rafter Production: [email protected] bluffs monitor photo: Ciaran Ganley And So It Begins; Reporters: Derek Pinder Those seeking the beach and the water have begun their annual migration to Bluffers Park. Photographers: John S mee, Barry Schef fer, Ciaran Ganley Writers: Hillary Butler , Jules Delorme, Heather Anne Hunter, Hedy Korbee, Nick If the world was more like South Scarborough... Kossovan, Anne Megahy, Jim Sanderson, By Bret Snider the Queen’s York Rangers – Canada’s high-end mansions were located, they Bret Snider, Chelsea Ward My family has been in North Amer - oldest Regiment. pronounced it “Jaaarvis”. Given the ADVERTISING: [email protected] ica for ten generations, eight generations When we got back home, one of abundance we have here, when people ACCOUNTS: [email protected] in Toronto and five generations in the our neighbour’s daughters came to the now ask me where I live the bubble over Circulation: Joyce Dolmer Beach. Before moving to Scarborough, door and asked if it was “okay” if she my head says “South Scaaarbrough”. ten years ago, I always thought of it as took the dogs for a walk. She was also Think of a place with the amount of sub-Beach – not quite up to par. How - the ring bearer at our wedding, her sister cultural diversity. Think of: the green SUBSCRIPTIONS $36 /yr. 416-691-4085 ever, I’ve changed my mind and have made the place sitting cards and her fa - spaces and the large canopy trees; the THANK YOU to over 200 Volunteers who deliver to come to realize how truly wonderful ther was my best man and... we wore Bluffs and the lake; a place where you residences throughout Birch Cliff, Birchmount Park, Clairlea, Scarborough is and what it has to offer. kilts. can look in your back yard and see rab - Cliffcrest, Cliffside, Guildwood, Highland Creek, Oakridge, On Saturday April 27th five of us I made Lisa lunch and my parents bits, foxes and occasionally deer then Scarborough Village and West Hill communities. hit Birchmount Park with garbage and called. They wanted to know if they look up and see a hawk or a big red recycling bags. In two hours, on a very could bring over homemade cookies and woodpecker; the libraries, Variety Vil - Publisher's Liability: No part of this publication may be reproduced or dupli - cated without written permission of the publisher. All cold day, we pulled out seven bags of dad had another of his paintings for our lage, the Community Centres; the arts rights reserved. The publisher shall not be liable for slight changes or typographical errors waste and recyclable materials. Later house. facilities and the Guild; original settlers that do not lessen the value of an advertisement. The publisher's liability for other errors or omissions in connection with an advertisement is strictly limited to publication of the adver - that day, my wife Lisa and I went gro - In the late afternoon with the cat in homes and all of this... in an urban en - tisement in any subsequent issue or the refund of any monies paid for the advertisement. The publisher shall not be liable for unacceptable reproduction if the copy submitted by the ad - cery shopping and donated two bags of her chair and the dogs beside us on the vironment. I could go on. vertisers does not correspond to our requirements as spelled out under “Mechanical Require - groceries to the food bank. The food couch, I thought about the day and con - Scarborough was so named by ments ”, or for errors in the printed ad after the customer has proofread and o.k.'d the camera ready ad. Liability for colour reproduction rests in the hands of an outside press, so it cannot bank donation box was full to the brim. cluded that this was a pretty wonderful Lady Simcoe, the wife of our first Lieu - Bluffs Monitor be guaranteed by . As we left the store I gave a toonie to an place. tenant Governor, John Graves Simcoe. Please Note: • All editorial material subject to change by the editors. Air Cadet. The day before, we dropped For a few years I owned a restau - She was given a tour of what became off several bags of clothing to a local rant on Jarvis Street. It was in a house our Scarborough by boat because they charity. Something we do a few times a built by the Gooderham family, of couldn’t get through the dense forests. year. Gooderham and Worts fame, so we When she saw the bluffs and the trees it After the groceries were put away called it the Gooderham House. During reminded her of a place in England with we went to Legion Branch 13 on that period I learned a lot about the his - the same features called Scarborough in Kingston Road to participate in one of tory of Jarvis street. One of the things I North Yorkshire in the region of York - the Legion’s draws to help raise funds. remembered was a lecture from a histo - shire and the Humber with a UK parlia - They were also giving out guide books rian about the pronunciation of the street mentary seat called Scarborough and on art, history and nature in Scarbor - name. He said that in Toronto’s early Whitby. I think if the rest of the world ough. The mural on the legion depicts days if you lived on the southern section was like South Scarborough, the world the Scarborough Rifle Company . The of the street it was pronounced “Jervis”, would be a much better place.

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