CBC Radio: Metro Morning: A Fishing Expedition
This has to be one of my favourite stories. I was sent to Scadding Court Community Centre, at Bathurst St. and Dundas Ave., to check out a unique program. The pool at the centre had been filled with fish, a thousand trout to be precise. This was no prank, rather an exercise to teach children — and grown-ups — how to hook, line and sink, even scale and prepare their catch to bring home for dinner.
I can still remember the scene. The kids were crowding around the pool periphery to check out the trout swimming in the pool. The room echoed with shrieks and laughter as participants tried to reel ‘em in.
I managed to get my mic in front a boy while he was desperately trying to hold on to the line.
