Despite the handmade sign, wishes for a Happy Mothers Day are in vain at the East End Garden Centre. Soon “Mother” Tate’s 30 year old business will be facing a very closed Queen Street East. Crews are tearing up the road to replace streetcar tracks. “What am I going to do with all these plants?” she asked on TV news last night.
This has to be one of the worst possible times to hit her business with a road closure… right at the height of the planting season sales period.