The Little Paper

It seems to stretch out before us like an enormous picnic blanket flung onto the grass and then, suddenly, it’s August and we can count the last weeks of summer on one hand. It’s time to make time for all the fleeting joys of this brief and beautiful season. Time for barbeques and late night ice cream runs, time to collect seaglass at Humber Bay, to ride your bike to the wading pool, get sticky with candy floss at the Ex, jump around with Jennielea at Kew Beach, shout into the wind on the ferry and make memories on the Centreville Carousel.

The parents of the Little Paper have collected some of our children’s favourites for your family – the new and the old, the must-do and the might-never-have-heard-of, the stuff of summer memories that last all winter long. You’ll find our picks on page 9 in a celebration of The Dog Days of Summer. We’ve gathered together all the information you’ll need to find a farmer’s market, try out a new ice cream stand, take in a movie under the stars and so much more.

There are wonderful activities springing up in parks all over the city and we hope that Happening in The Park on page 8 will help you take advantage of outdoor offerings like drop-in sing-alongs, local camps, community theatre and free yoga. On page 42 of this issue, we reprise our Get Wet Guide with updates gleaned from a month of splashing around town. And, as usual, we have camps, classes, weekly events and community resouurces and, for each neighbourhood, a special selection of events right in your own community.

All of us at The Little Paper hope you have a great month! We’ll see you in September – Vicki, Gillian, Christina, Pamela, Karen, Melisa and Reed